Archive for January, 2006

Just a thought… on what the anti-gays really think

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I saw this interesting quote on the blog of 16 year old gay rights activist and personal friend Tully Satre: "We don’t believe they have the right to marry. In fact, we don’t think they have the right to exist." - Douglas Sadler, member of the Ku Klux Klan, in protesting attempts ...

More Upcoming LGBT NC events - EqualityNC

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Equality North CarolinaAccording to an website of EqualityNC some more LGBT events in and around NC are coming up pretty soon. One of them is tonight actually. Equality North Carolina will hold a screening of "Remembering Our Rights", a film described on the EqualityNC site as A film... celebrating Roe v. ...

ART to host YES! Weekly group interview on Brokeback Mountain TONIGHT!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

OUTGreensboro.comAccording to an email I received from our Vice President at Alternative Resources of the Triad (which runs the OUTGreensboro.com website and coordinates QCYNT, the Queer College & Youth Network of the Triad), YES! Weekly will host an interview for those people in the community who have seen Brokeback Mountain. ...

UNCG PRIDE! to focus on the “T” in “LGBT”

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Click to visit UNCG PRIDE!According to the website of UNCG PRIDE!, the group will hold a meeting to focus solely on transgender issues. On Thursday, January 26, 2006, UNCG PRIDE!, the LGBTQA student group at UNCG, will hold its meeting, entitled "Transgeneration". Two guest speakers will help to educate the group about ...

‘Will & Grace’ cancelled by NBC

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

According to an article published by United Press International, NBC has cancelled "Will and Grace", a sitcom surrounding two gay men and their two female friends. According to the article: The Emmy-winning comedy series "Will & Grace" will finish its eight-year run on NBC in May, the network announced Sunday. NBC Entertainment ...

Gay ex-Governor of New Jersey begins writing for blog

Friday, January 20th, 2006

According to an article published by 365gay.com, the openly gay former New Jersey Governor, James McGreevey, is now writing for the Huffington Post, a political blog. According to the article: Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, who resigned from office in 2004 after acknowledging a gay affair while married, has written ...

EqualityNC gets new website design; starts working toward 2006 mid-term elections

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Click to go to EqualityNCI was checking out the website of Equality NC today and after seeing it just a few days ago with its all too familiar design (the one they've had for years), I was a bit surprised when the page opened up. EqualityNC got a new website ...

Maryland judge rules in favor of gays seeking marriage

Friday, January 20th, 2006

According to an article published by the Washington Blade, a Maryland circuit court judge has today ruled that a 1973 Maryland law limiting marriage to unions of a man and woman only is unconstiutional. According to the article, Circuit Court Judge Brooke M. Murdock stated in her ruling: "Family law 2-201 violates ...

Civil Rights… beyond race

Friday, January 20th, 2006

The following is a letter to the editor written by 16 year old Tully Satre, Executive Director of Equality Faquier/Culpeper (www.efcva.org). I think his words are important and I congratulate him on his activism: Civil rights go beyond race Thursday, January 19, 2006 Culpeper Citizen Nearly 38 years ago, one of history's most well-known ...

Sullivan appears on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

From GAWKER: Andrew Sullivan Makes Sweet, Bloggy Love to Stephen Colbert Blogstar Andrew Sullivan — who’s now posting his blog on Time.com — took his funny accent to The Colbert Report last night, where pressing issues were deftly tackled: Colbert: So edumacate me here: A blog is what? I know the kids ...