Archive for the ‘Raleigh’ 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 »
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 »
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 »
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, May 10th, 2007
For two years, Sam Morris has diligently served the LGBT and straight allied student population at North Carolina State University. Through thick and thin, he has been there. As the Graduate Advisor for LGBT Programs, Morris has seen his share of controversy.
In Fall 2006, when the campus was abuzz with ...
Posted in College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Raleigh, Triangle, United States | 1 Comment »
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 »
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
[tag]The New York Times[/tag] has a wonderful little piece today, "Gay and Evangelical, Seeking Paths of Acceptance."
The article profiles numerous [tag]gay evangelical[/tag] [tag]Christians[/tag], many of which are from [tag]North Carolina[/tag] or living in North Carolina now; the profile of Raleigh native [tag]Justin Lee[/tag], founder of [tag]GayChristian.net[/tag], is the focus of ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Ex-gay, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Raleigh, Religion, Sexuality, Triangle, United States | 5 Comments »
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Someone grabbed hold of the issue of the proposed LGBT student center at NC State University and posted a little about it on The Data Lounge, a large, 10 year old, well-trafficked online forum for the LGBT community.
Someone else posted portions of my various posts on NC State and the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, Sexuality, United States | No Comments »
