Archive for August, 2005
Sunday, August 7th, 2005
According to an article published by Carolina Rainbow News (CRN Interactive), the Lesbian and Gay Community Center ("The Center") of Charlotte, NC, has named a new Executive Director.
The Lesbian & Gay Community Center’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Laura Kane-Witkowski has been hired as the new executive ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2005
According to an article published today in The Winston-Salem Journal, Mayor Allen Joines will run unopposed for his second term as Mayor of the City of Winston-Salem.
No challenger had filed to run by the deadline.
In his first term, Mayor Joines has guided the City of Winston-Salem through great gains and ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
According to an article by the Raleigh News and Observer and posted on the website of the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments (www.uncasg.org), a provision which would have been harmful to the UNC System has been taken out of the proposed North Carolina budget. The full text ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
I was reviewing some of my old writings while posting some of them in the "Essays/Longer Writings" section of the side bar here on the blog and ran across a citation in one of my papers.
The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
I discovered a blog post on the Gay Religion News Blog (http://religion.gaynewsblog.net).
An Episcopal priest of the Eastern Diocese of the Episcopal Church in Michigan has been defrocked due to his opposition of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America's stance on homosexuality and the appointment of The Right ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
According to an article published August 3, 2005, on the website of the UNCG newspaper, The Carolinian, Jackson Library is beginning to construct an online database of Civil Rights Movement records and documents.
The Jackson Library, located at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, received a $10,000 grant from the ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
August 5, 2005
Scouting for All
ACCEPTING APPLICANTS FOR
SCOUTING FOR ALL – SOUTHERN REGIONAL DIRECTOR
POSITION
Scouting for All is announcing that Mark LaFontaine, of Fort Lauderdale, FL, will be resigning his position as the Southern Regional Director effective September 1, 2005. ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
According to an article published today in The Winston-Salem Journal, North Carolina's original copy of the United States Bill of Rights has been returned to the state after 140 years of being gone.
The copy of the Bill of Rights, one of only 14 made by George Washington's clerks, was originally ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2005
Equality NC, North Carolina's statewide LGBT rights advocacy and lobbying group, will hold a fundraising reception in Greensboro, NC, on Saturday, August 20, 2005.
For more information:
http://www.equalitync.org/events/events.shtml
PFLAG Winston-Salem will hold its first annual Kaleidoscope Awards Banquet in Winston-Salem, NC, on Thursday, September 8, 2005, at the Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. The ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2005
According to an article on www.ssonet.com, a push has begun in AUstralia to get the Australian Red Cross to rescind its ban against donated blood from gays.
Hip Hip Hooray!!! We need something like that in America. There is absolutely no reason for donated blood from gays to be banned. If ...
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