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 to rest a dispute between [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Jan 31
Washington DC gets permanent LGBT Affairs office
Jan 31
Anti-gay bill banning gay-straight student clubs passes Virginia House
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 but later died in the [...]
Jan 31
Charlotte gay youth perform stories of discrimination, coming out, family issues
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 education group based in Los [...]
Jan 30
Graffiti Ads & ART ad controversy may be heading to press
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 from a reporter at Q-Notes. [...]
Jan 30
Gay North Carolina couple refuses to pay taxes in protest to gay marriage ban
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 worth of stock sales and [...]
Jan 30
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser stands in support of GLBT-SA & ‘Ally Week’
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 is holding events this week [...]
Jan 30
University compares homosexuality to smoking and tobacco use
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 code of behavior that no [...]
Jan 29
Fort Bragg begins investigation into possible gay porn participation by NC soldiers
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 to Fort Bragg.
According to the [...]
Jan 29
Killian makes a great point on civil rights and business
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 the threat of diminished revenue [...]
Jan 28
Quick update on Graffiti Ads’ anti-gay discrimination
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 he sent it to. I [...]
