Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
According to an article published by the Washington Blade, legislation which makes permanent the mayor's LGBT Affairs office has passed the Washington DC City Council and has been signed by the mayor.
According to the article:
His decision to sign the bill, introduced by gay Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), put ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
According to an AP article published by the Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA), a bill which would ban all gay-straight student groups from Virginia schools has received approval from the Virginia House of Delegates.
The bill, sponsored by Delegate Matthew Lohr, follows a similar bill which easily passed in the House 95-0 ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
According to an article published by CRN Interactive, ten gay youth in Charlotte performed stories of discrimination, coming out and dealing with families. The performance was held at the Actor's Theatre of Charlotte.
According to the article:
The script was created in workshop as collaboration between Fringe Benefits, a theatre ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
I got an email today from a reporter at the News and Record about the recent Graffiti Ads/ART advertising controversy. Apparently, she had been trying to get in touch with me all weekend but for some reason the N&R email servers kept messsing up.
Last week, I also received an email ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
According to an article published by 365gay.com, a same-sex couple in Hendersonville, NC, is refusing to pay Federal and North Carolina State income taxes in protest of bans against marriage for same-sex couples.
According to the article:
Merrill, a 71-year-old artist and gay activist says the protest will involve about million dollars ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
I just received an email containing a letter to the editor of The Daily Tar Heel. The letter was published today and was written by UNC Chancellor James Moeser.
In the letter Chancellor Moeser stands in support of UNC's LGBTQA student group, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender-Straight Alliance (GLBT-SA). The group ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
According to an article published by 365gay.com, a small, Christian university is comparing the expulsion of a gay student to a hospital asking a smoker to leave.
On January 13, John Brown University expelled Michael Guinn for violating "campus lifestyle guidelines". Guinn says that he was required to abide by a ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
According to an article published by CNN, Army officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina have begun investigations in regards to allegations that members from the celebrated 82nd Airborne appeared on a gay porn website.
The military-themed porn website belongs to a registered owner living in Fayetteville, NC, the city next ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
In a comment to the prior post (http://www.onlinegreensboro.com/~matthillnc/?p=578), Joe Killian (visit his blog at joekillian.blogspot.com), makes a great point concerning Mr. Zimmer and his letter written in support of discrimination:
In my opinion Zimmer seems like a nice guy who means well but has bought into the idea that controversy and ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Sue has posted a letter from an employee of Graffiti Ads, LLC.
The employee says he is a gay man and he tries to defend the actions of his company.
At first I wasn't going to post about this... I did receive his email as one of the first groups of people ...
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