Archive for the ‘Greensboro’ 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 »
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 »
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 ...
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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
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 »
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Here are three topics - none related - that have astonished me in the past two days.
KKK
Back in December 2005, I posted a snippet of a Fox WGHP story on the recruiting efforts of the Ku Klux Klan. It seemed that the KKK - the most dangerous hate and violence ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Boy Scouts, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Meeting in Greensboro, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has voted overwhelmingly to oust Charlotte's Myers Park Baptist Church over that church's public stand for the dignity and respect of LGBT Baptists.
Myers Park is the first church to be booted under a policy attacking gay-friendly Baptists passed by the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
On Monday, I posted about the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Writing about an article in the Greensboro News & Record I said it seemed as though the convention was finally moving on to something else other than us ho-mo-sek-shuls.
I was wrong.
Reader Big Daddy Weave pointed out that, once ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Ed Cone in the Greensboro News & Record on Jim Neal, Kay Hagan and the effort to oust missing-in-action Elizabeth Dole:
No matter how the Democratic primary between Greensboro's Kay Hagan and investment banker Jim Neal plays out, the general election between the survivor and Elizabeth Dole will see a notable ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Democratic Party, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
The Greensboro News & Record had an article Sunday on the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and their efforts to keep themselves from falling apart, literally.
According to the article:
Unlike meetings of the past, when cultural issues such as affirming gay Christians morphed into high-profile, heated debates, this year's ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Greensboro, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 2 Comments »
