Archive for the ‘College/University’ Category
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
In a campaign modeled after the 2006 Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign (I was the Greensboro City Organizer for the Soulforce action), students from Harvard University have set out upon their journey toward creating discussion and bringing attention to the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" gay ban of the U.S. ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, Dont Ask Dont Tell, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 7 Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Soulforce Q, in partnership with SoulforceNYC, PlanetOut/Gay.com and Young People For, presents an exclusive benefit concert for the 2008 Equality Ride, which will take 20-some young adults to Southern Christian colleges and universities that discriminate against LGBT students and faculty.
Award-winning recording artist Ari Gold will perform with special guests including ...
Posted in College/University, Community Events, LGBT, LGBT Youth, New York, Soulforce/Equality Ride | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
The chair of the Michigan State University Young Americans for Freedom chapter, the first student group nationwide to receive status as a hate group from the Southern Poverty Law Center, has new leadership this today.
Kyle Bristow, who has proven to be quite controversial in local and state politics there, has ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
In the fall of 2006, I followed closely the debate over a proposed LGBT student center at N.C. State University in Raleigh. The sheer amount of bigotry, prejudice and ignorance exposed during that time was astonishing.
The university's campus paper, The Technician, reports that the LGBT center has now had its ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I don't have much time this morning, so here is a quick run-down:
"The Fighting Words of Michael Brown" -- David Rattigan over at Ex-Gay Watch profiles Dr. Michael Brown. The esteemed doc responds throughout the 250-post long comment thread. David says: "Brown’s disclaimer is that [his movement] is “a non-violent ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, Ex-gay, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Kourt Osborn, the 22-year-old transgender student denied housing at Southern Utah University, filed a formal grievance with the University on Friday, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Originally reported on InterstateQ.com on Dec. 14, Kourt's experience with discrimination at the University has now reached into the mainstream press.
According to The Salt ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Southern Utah University (SUU) responded via comment in a news report from KUTV CBS 2 on their denial of housing for a transgender student.
InterstateQ.com originally reported on Dec. 14 that Kourt Osborn -- one of my many friends from the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride -- had been denied housing on ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 17th, 2007
The following is a press release from Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center on the anti-transgender discrimination faced by Southern Utah University student Kourt Osborn, originally reported at InterstateQ.com on Friday:
Utah Pride Center
355 North 300 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
801.539.8800
www.utahpridecenter.org
Equality Utah
175 West 200 South, Suite 3001
Salt Lake City, UT ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 4 Comments »
Friday, December 14th, 2007
InterstateQ.com Exclusive
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CEDAR CITY, Utah - Dec. 14, 2007 - Demonstrating the need for gender neutral and inclusive housing policies for public and private universities across the nation, a 22-year-old transgender student in Utah has been denied campus housing specifically because of his gender-identity and ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 21 Comments »
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
See the Q-Notes Nov. 17 issue for the editorial: "Oral Sodomy & Tennis."
A member of the North Carolina State University tennis team has been charged with 'crimes against nature' after allegedly performing oral sex on a sleeping team mate.
Nineteen-year-old Dejon Bivens (pictured right), a freshman and graduate of Charlotte Country ...
Posted in College/University, LGBT, North Carolina, Raleigh, United States | 4 Comments »
