Archive for the ‘Triangle’ Category
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Yeah... a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.'s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
From The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.):
The abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina named a new executive director Monday.
Sean Kosofsky, a fellow with the Center for Progressive Leadership, succeeds Melissa Reed, who left the job in April.
Kosofsky served on the board of the Equality Federation, an advocacy group for ...
Posted in Health, LGBT, North Carolina, Raleigh, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The last couple days have been so hectic. It is funny how life has a tendency of just dumping everything on you at once.
On Monday evening (my birthday) my old Cadillac broke down. One of the transmission lines burst and had to be fixed the next day (we also had ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, 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, 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 »
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
I had the chance to ask a few questions of an InterstateQ.com reader and Duke University student, after the debates and discussions over the removal of a transgender woman from a dormitory at Duke (past posts).
On Sunday, September 16th, I'll be at Tate Street Coffee to meet with other InterstateQ.com ...
Posted in College/University, Durham, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Soulforce and Atticus Circle have teamed up to present Seven Straight Nights, a week-long series of events, actions, protests and vigils across the nation led and organized by straight allies.
The actions and vigils are planned to be held at state capitols, legislative buildings and governors' mansions.
In North Carolina, the Reverend ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Community Events, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
ANNOUNCEMENT: Join Matt, InterstateQ.com readers and other community members for a community discussion, forum and general time of learning on trans issues at Tate Street Coffeehouse in Greensboro, NC, 6:00pm, September 16, 2007. More info here.
Lee Chauncey, the Duke University father who caused quite a bit of a stir in ...
Posted in College/University, Durham, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Media, North Carolina, Triangle, United States | 38 Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Last fall students at NC State University became embroiled in a bitter dispute and campus debate over a proposal to create a center for LGBT students.
In numerous posts I profiled the anti-gay statements, some of them quite extreme in their verbally and physically violent nature, from a Facebook.com group named ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Raleigh, Triangle, United States | 5 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The Daily Tar Heel, the award-winning daily newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a staff editorial on sex education on Tuesday.
In it, the staff said that sex education in North Carolina should be expanded and that abstinence-only education doesn't work:
The idea of teaching tolerance of ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Sexuality, United States | 1 Comment »
