Archive for the ‘Triad’ Category
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 »
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I'm sure we have all heard of the "theory" that says all people are connected to each other within six degrees of separation.
From Wikipedia:
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one "step" away from each person he or she knows and two "steps" away ...
Posted in Charlotte, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | 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 »
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Updates at the bottom of post
Today, after seven years of attempting to build the courage and strength, I finally went back to my childhood Baptist church - the place where the stench of hatred, bigotry and oppression was, and still is, thick in the air. Grapevine Baptist Church in Lewisville, ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | 19 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 »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Focus on the Family's "Love and Respect Marriage Conference" is coming to my hometown of Winston-Salem, N.C. this weekend, October 12-13.
This particular conference isn't necessarily one that deals with me or one that is totally, outrageously anti-gay, but the organization and church which are sponsoring it are those things (not ...
Posted in North Carolina, Religion, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
According to the Greensboro News & Record (h/t Doug Clark, Off the Record), Guilford College in Greensboro, NC has added gender-identity and expression to its non-discrimination policy.
The effort to add the terms was spearheaded by senior David Norton (pictured right - past posts), an active and vocal part of the ...
Posted in College/University, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Triad, United States | 1 Comment »
