Archive for the ‘Chapel Hill’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
On the day of the HRC/Logo Presidential Forum (I missed it somehow), the Edwards campaign announced the addition of more LGBT leaders to its growing list of supporters.
According to the campaign:
Senator John Edwards' campaign to transform America continues to gain momentum in the LGBT community. For the third time this ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
The News & Observer down in Raleigh published a great article July 11th on The Chapel of the Cross, the historic church that was the beginning of what we now know as Chapel Hill, NC.
From the N&O:
CHAPEL HILL -- At a time when women were often denied positions of authority, ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
In the Life (ITL), (www.itl.tv) a national LGBT television newsmagazine syndicated to PBS stations across the country is slowly making its debut in North Carolina.
Last month, ITL debuted on UNC-TV's channel 4 (serving Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham areas). UNC-TV has yet to put ITL on all of its transmitters ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Saw this on a LiveJournal blog. Thought it might be something folks want to know about:
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Subject: Traveling Anti-Gay Preacher Alert!
Hello from Texas!
I am speaking for GLOBAL, the GLBT organization at the University of Houston. Our university was recently visited, for the second year in a row, by a religious group ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Chapel Hill, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Raleigh, Religion, United States | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
There was a great article in the UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel yesterday, covering the organizing efforts of LGBT students on the campuses of North Carolina's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Chapel Hill, College/University, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, United States, Winston-Salem | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
I'm sure that many of you will remember back to this past December (if you read my blog then) when I posted a simple holiday greeting to you all from the UNC Men's Swimming Team and Athletics Communications director David Lohse.
Oh... you don't?
Refresh your memory...
Well... you see, the message on ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Judy Shepard, the mother of anti-gay hate crime victim Matthew Shepard, who passed away in October 1998, will be speaking on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Shepard's presentation at Chapel Hill follow's the group's "Ally Week" January 22-27, 2007.
The ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, Civil Rights, College/University, Community Events, Hate Crimes, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, United States | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Happy... very happy... Holidays to you. Love, the hot guys of the UNC-Chapel Hill Swim Team.
Actually... the real greeting message was "Hope your Xmas packages are as festive as mine!" in a funny, light-hearted Christmas joke-card sent out by openly gay UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Athletics Director Dave Lohse (the guy ...
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