With the primaries on Tuesday, May 2nd and the campaign season for November’s General Election fast-approaching, I announce the soon-to-come Q-vote 2006 awareness and education campaign for MattHillNC.com | The Q-triad Blog.
Q-vote 2006, which will have its own page here on the site, will promote LGBT inclusive, positive and supportive candidates and politicians. The purpose [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Apr 30
Coming Soon: Q-vote 2006
Apr 30
Students of UNC System make gains for LGBT students
In the last week two campuses in the UNC System made news for the events they held for LGBTQ and straight allied students. The Day of Silence at UNC-Charlotte on April 26 and the Lavender Graduation at UNC-Chapel Hill on April 28 wrapped up a school year full of activism, awareness and education on LGBTQA [...]
Apr 30
Update
The new blog design and implementation is all done. I’ve yet to decide, however, between all of the color options. I’m stuck between the current color of the darker blue/bue-grey that you see now and the purple or light blue.
Post number 872, “PRIDE! and Paranoia” has been made private and can no longer be accessed. [...]
Apr 29
Anti-Gay Politicians Watch 14: Vernon Robinson insinuates Brad Miller is gay
Yes, folks… Vernon Robinson has finally hit it: The Inner-Most Circle of Hell.
If you think the negative, bigoted campaigning of Vernon Robinson, candidate in the race for the 13th Congressional District, was already bad enough… you might just want to hold your breath: Robinson is getting worse.
According to DailyKos, In a mailing sent out to [...]
Apr 29
PFLAG Winston-Salem hosts LGBTQA youth prom
PFLAG Winston-Salem hosted the fourth annual Alternative Prom for LGBTQ and straight allied high school students in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System last night.
The event was a blast with almost 200 students attending. Some students even travelled from surrounding counties and school systems to join in on the festivities.
With DJ OutStreet playing the hottest hits [...]
Apr 28
Matt Hill Comer is a ‘Homosexuality promoter & general sexual deviance advocate’?
Well… that is what at least one person thinks of me.
Conservative columnist David Yeagley, a self-described conservative “American Indian Patriot,” posted a writing on the Collin Finnerty and Duke Lacrosse situation on his website yesterday.
In it he states:
Homosexualty (sic) promoter and general sexual deviance advocate Matt Hill Comer nevertheless posted a “hate crime” accusation (or [...]
Apr 28
SafeSchoolsNC releases results of LGBT student study
SafeSchoolsNC, a statewide advocacy, research, training and student support organization working on LGBTQ youth issues, released on Wednesday, the results to their recent study on homophobic language and verbal harassment in North Carolina schools.
The group surveyed 904 students in six high schools in Durham, Orange and Wake Counties, North Carolina.
Important results from the study include:
68.9% [...]
Apr 28
Illegal Alien?
I found this wonderful post by Jeff Thigpen today (emphasis added):
I was listening to Talk Radio this morning and heard a blatantly negative, misleading, disrespectful and distasteful radio ad by Vernon Robinson, candidate for Congress in the 13th District.
Aliens, flag burning, gay marriage and homosexuals, (oh yeah-even foreign homosexuals), ultra liberal, amnesty, free give aways [...]
Apr 28
Howard Dean in North Carolina
According to the Charlotte Observer, Howard Dean will be in Charlotte, NC, today and tomorrow in order kick off the Democrats’ national canvassing campaign:
Howard Dean to speak at park tonight
Jim Morril, April 28, 2006
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean will help kick off a national canvassing campaign Saturday by knocking on doors in east Charlotte.
His [...]
Apr 27
Equality Ride makes last stop at West Point
The Soulforce Equality Ride made its last stop in its nation-wide tour of religious and military colleges and universities yesterday. The group stopped at West Point where, according to an article on 365gay.com News, the United States Military detained 21 participants after they entered the grounds of the military school.
The Equality Ride was at West [...]
