Archive for the ‘Soulforce/Right to Serve’ Category


DADT flashback: Greensboro 2006

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Today Congress will hold the first hearing on the anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy since its passage in 1993. The hearing is at 2 p.m. and can be watched live via the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website. Until then, let's take a trip down memory lane, to Sept. 21, 2006, Greensboro, ...

‘Student fights for gay rights’ student-journalist article in News & Record

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Seth Crawford, a junior at Northwest Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC, wrote a great student journalism article and profile on me and my activism as a part of a multicultural journalism workshop with the Greensboro News & Record. His article appears in today's paper: UNCG student fights for gay rights June 26, ...

The stories & issues: the year that was 2006

Monday, January 1st, 2007

It's that time of year, when the world falls in love every song you hear seems to say... Boy am I glad this year is over. 2006 was full... chock full of issue after issue, controversy after controversy, work, work and more work. But it was a good year, too. So now... the top ...

Right to Serve Wiki Page

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Over at Wikipedia, I've created an entry for the Right to Serve Campaign... Head on over, help to edit and grow it. While I know a bit about Greensboro (considering I was the City Organizer and all), I don't know much about many of the other cities. For that reason, ...

LGBT Youth Activism in NC: My 1st home-made movie

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

"First home-made movie" (with the horrible Windows Movie Maker) should be sign enough to know that it isn't perfect, but I don't think I did that bad of a job for a 20 minute scrape together project.

Don’t forget: Vote Soulforce, Queer of the Year

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

A couple days ago I wrote a little "campaign" piece for Soulforce, in Joe.My.God's award for "Queer of the Year." Soulforce quickly went up to number two, following Mike Jones. Soulforce is about to fall behind. It is still number two, but only by 20 or so votes. Soulforce is ...

Queer of the Year - Vote for Soulforce

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Joe.My.God is holding his "Queer of the Year" awards and I'm urging everyone to vote for Soulforce. No offense intended to any other person/group on the list. Hester, Hudson, Jones and others are definitely deserving of the award, but I just can't help from placing my loyalty with Soulforce (www.soulforce.org) So ...

Right to Serve makes number 5, out of 10

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

The Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign (past posts), which had its own action here in Greensboro, NC, has made the number 5 slot on SLDN's year-end countdown of the Top-10 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" stories of 2006: Photo caption: Supporters from local universities and schools staged a sit-in as Kamal Rashad ...

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell sit-in activists go to court

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Today's press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Matt Hill Comer Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign City Organizer – Greensboro, NC 336-391-9528 matt.hill.comer@gmail.com http://www.soulforce.org http://www.righttoserve.org ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ sit-in activists pleased with court agreement Greensboro, NC, November 20, 2006 — The nine Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign activists arrested during a sit-in after four youth attempted to enlist in the Army ...

WUNC ‘State of Things’ Interview

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Viola! Here it is. My time with the wonderful Frank Stasio of WUNC's "The State of Things." Matt Hill Comer Monday, November 13 2006 At age fourteen, Matt Hill Comer was on track to become an Eagle Scout, but a run-in with his local Boy Scouts troop over homosexuality took his life in ...