Archive for the ‘Durham’ Category


Trans Issues Q&A; Insight from a Duke student

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 ...

Montel & Trans issues; Duke father appears

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 ...

Trans Duke U. student moved out of campus dorm

Wednesday, August 29th, 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. According to ABC 11 (Raleigh-Durham, NC), Duke University has moved a male-to-female, pre-operation transgender student ...

Gay students organize at NC black colleges

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 ...

Pam Spaulding is going to jail!

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

No... NOT really... but anti-gay, religious right leader Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth has been in contact with the FBI and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina seeking to start a criminal investigation into comments made by a user on Pam's website back in mid-January 2007. Pam ...

Pam’s House Blend keeps ‘Best LGBT Blog’ title

Monday, December 18th, 2006

The final results of the 2006 Weblog Awards have been released and our very own NC-based Pam's House Blend is again the winner of the Best LGBT Blog Award. Pam won the title in 2005 and was able to keep it again this year. With almost 41% of the vote and ...

Pam creates a new ‘Blend’

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Pam Spaulding, a good blogging buddy of mine here in North Carolina, has launched her "Blend 2.0" Pam's blog, Pam's House Blend, has become a very popular and nationally well-respected LGBT and progressive blog. In 2005, she won the Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog. She has been nominated again this ...

WUNC ‘State of Things’ Interview

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Viola! Here it is. My time with the wonderful Frank Stasio of WUNC's "The State of Things." Matt Hill Comer Monday, November 13 2006 At age fourteen, Matt Hill Comer was on track to become an Eagle Scout, but a run-in with his local Boy Scouts troop over homosexuality took his life in ...

‘State of Things’ NC Public Radio Tomorrow

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Thank the Lord it isn't TV. I rather like radio interviews, at least from the ones I've done before. Except this time it isn't early in the morning and I have to go the studios, which means I have to get dressed, but at least I don't have to wake ...

UNCG police search for murder suspect

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Important news... important enough for me to provide a link over to the post at UNCG Campus Watch: http://uncgcampuswatch.blogspot.com/2006/10/be-on-lookout.html Police are looking for a murder suspect on campus and have issued a "BOLO" or "Be on the lookout" alert for students at UNCG. More details at UNCG Campus Watch.