Archive for the ‘Western NC’ Category


Reel them in…

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

From the day job blog... For a man who still cries when he hears the national anthem, I’m livid someone would question my patriotism based solely on my sexual orientation and party affiliation. My 80-year-old, heterosexual, U.S. Marines WWII/Korean War veteran, Old South, Democratic grandpa would kick your ass if he ...

Jim Neal wins Western N.C. straw poll 54%-46%

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

NEWTON, N.C./InterstateQ.com -- Just slightly over three weeks until North Carolina's highly anticipated May 6 primary, openly gay U.S. Senate candidate and Chapel Hill businessman Jim Neal won a Western North Carolina straw poll on Saturday, Apr. 12, in the 10th District town of Newton. U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Neal (right) ...

InterstateQ.com featured in OutInAsheville Spotlight; coverage of Montreat Equality Ride visit

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

That's right. I feel honored. Not only is InterstateQ.com featured in this month's OutInAsheville Spotlight, we are also featured right along side such well-known sites as my friends at Pam's House Blend and PageOneQ, as well as 365gay.com and Chris Crain. Here's what writer Maxwell Powell says about us: InterstateQ.com serves as both ...

See… I’m not the only one questioning McHenry’s “relationships”

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Please see this important post: An interesting take on Lay, the facts as I know them and a 'mea culpa' Somebody's in trouble (can't you just hear me singing that to some childish little tune? lol): There are legal questions, too, about his relationship with at least one man who votes in ...

T.W.O. condemns ex-gay youth camp

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Ignite Student Outreach, the possible ex-gay program running a possible ex-gay camp I first posted about on Friday, has now been condemned by Truth Wins Out (TWO), an organization founded by long-time and well-respected gay activist Wayne Besen: Truth Wins Out strongly condemned a new "ex-gay" Summer camp today as possibly ...

NC GOPers want to keep students from voting

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Well. Really... what do you expect? Younger voters are more likely to be Democrats. More voters who are younger means less of a chance a Republican will win. Check out this video of Republican NC State Senate District 45 candidate David Blust tell Appalachian State University students they shouldn't be able ...

A closet homosexual who hates gay people

Monday, July 24th, 2006

This has got to be the most hilarious and creative and just downright hilarious (did I say that already?) political ad I have ever heard in my entire life (yeah, I know... all 20 years of it). Charles Taylor has got to be livid. Here's the full version and here is the ...

Asheville UMC paster quits in opposition

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

A United Methodist Church minister in Asheville, NC, is stepping down and resigning from his ordination in the UMC in protest to the church's opposition to recognizing marriages for same-sex couples. According to an article in the Asheville Citizen-Times, the Reverend Howard Hanger, pastor of the Jubilee! Community, is resigning from ...