Archive for the ‘Triad’ Category
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, ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
WFMY News 2 (Greensboro) did a wonderful story (video here) on my two good friends and mentors Gary Trowbridge and Frank Benedetti, a couple whose been together for decades. They are looking forward to a legal wedding in California. The state started legal marriages for same-sex couples yesterday at 5 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, LGBT Families, North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | 4 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A pastor at a Southern Baptist Church in Lewisville, N.C., a suburb of Winston-Salem, is one of six candidates for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Les Puryear, who worked as a telecom executive for 25 years, has been a pastor since 1996; this is his third ...
Posted in North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
John Worth Johnson (Credit: N.C. Department of Revenue)
As reported by Q-Notes, John Johnson, a former board member and officer of Alternative Resources of the Triad/OutGreensboro.com, was charged with embezzling North Carolina state and Guilford County sales tax this week:
John Worth Johnson, 38, formerly of 111 W. Washington Street, was originally ...
Posted in Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Triad, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The Advocate compiled a list of "potential" Obama/Clinton Presidential appointments.
Hometown boy Kevin Jennings, native of Winston-Salem, N.C. and GLSEN founder, made the list for possible Obama appointments.
Do I sense a "Secretary of Education Kevin Jennings" in the air?
Oooo. Awesome.
Past posts.
Posted in Democratic Party, LGBT, New York, North Carolina, Politics, United States, Winston-Salem | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) profiled Greensboro, N.C.-based Replacements, Ltd. in an article Sunday.
Replacements, a glassware, china and dinnerware specialty company, is one of many businesses nationwide scoring a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. CEO Bob Page, his partner Senior Vice President of ...
Posted in Charlotte, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
From Box Turtle Bulletin (emphasis added):
And most importantly, ONE quickly became a voice for thousands of silent gays and lesbians across the U.S., many of whom wrote letters of deep gratitude to ONE’s editors. But in a sign of those times, all letters to the editor were published anonymously — ...
Posted in Civil Rights, LGBT, Media, North Carolina, Politics, United States, Winston-Salem | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Johnny Carter, a Summerfield, N.C., resident running for the Sixth Congressional District (pictured right), looks and sounds more like a right-wing evangelical, arch-conservative Republican. Believe it or not, however, Carter is straight-up Democrat.
The race for the Sixth District will shape out to be an interesting one. Congressman Howard Coble, 76, ...
Posted in Anti-Gay Politicians Watch, Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Democratic Party, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, United States | 8 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The choir director of my childhood church, Grapevine Baptist Church, has responded to my previous post, "An awkward 'homecoming,'" in which I describe portions of my childhood and my recent "homecoming" and confrontation at the church where I first learned the harsh lessons of hate, bigotry and exclusion in the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | 76 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Dawn Chaney, an early leader of the annual Greensboro, N.C. "Green Party" HIV/AIDS prevention fundraiser and, later, the Guilford Green Foundation, was recently profiled in a Philanthropy Journal article written by GGF Executive Director Cecelia Thompson.
A local philanthropist, Chaney has raised money for and contributed to the Greensboro area LGBT ...
Posted in Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, United States | No Comments »
