I’m sitting now watching the web cast of the New York State Court of Appeals hearing on cases regarding marriage equality for same-sex couples. The hearings occured earlier today.
I’ve only watched so far as to see two of the attorneys arguing for marriage equality. In what I have seen, marriage equality has gotten a beating. [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
May 31
Marriage Equality gets a beating
May 31
Catawba LGBT Center draws ire from Fred Phelps
The Catawba Valley LGBT Community Center in Hickory, NC, (http://www.gayhickory.com) has drawn the ire of the Reverend Fred Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church and www.godhatesfags.com in Topeka, Kansas.
According to an community update from the Catawba Valley Center, Rev Fred Phelps has sent them a letter in regard to their outspoken support of ending [...]
May 31
Anti-Gay Politicians Watch 17: Robinson intent on personal attacks against Miller
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) published an article yesterday on the race for the 13th District. The Democratic incumbent Brad Miller is facing the infamously anti-everything Republican Vernon Robinson.
Only days ago, I put up a post directing my readers to another blogger’s investigation of illegal cash donations to the Robinson campaign. Because of that [...]
May 31
My 1000th post - Cool
Yesterday I reached my 1000th post here on my blog. This post marks 1001.
Yesterday’s post number 1000 dealt with Pride Charlotte. The funny thing is, I didn’t even notice is was post number 1000 until today… oh well.
That is kind of awesome though. 1000 posts and still going.
My one year blogging anniversary comes [...]
May 30
Pushed back into the grave? I don’t think so.
After all the controversy surrounding the cancellation of Charlotte’s LGBT pride festival, the harsh, religiously-motivated prejudice and spiritual violence spouted off from Operation Save America and the eventual announcement that Charlotte would, after all, have a LGBT pride festival, things have finally started to cool off.
I haven’t heard much from Operation Save America (take a [...]
May 30
NC Advocacy Coalition’s new domain up & running
We finally got it! Our permanent domain name for the North Carolina Advocacy Coalition is now up and running. You can check out the new political action committee’s website at www.ncadvocacycoalition.org.
The domain name was given to us as an in-kind donation from our supporter and friend Joshua Henson. Mr. Henson has been made NCAC’s first [...]
May 30
Anti-LGBT amendment now in NC House
According to an action alert from EqualityNC, 56 Representatives in the North Carolina House of Representatives submitted their version of an anti-LGBT marriage amendment.
The first action was taken on the first day of the 2006 “short session” in the North Carolina Senate, where Senator James Forrester (R-41) and 18 other Republicans submitted Senate Bill 1228. [...]
May 30
NC HIV Advocacy Day
May 30, 2006 9am - 3pm
Location: NC General Assembly Building in Raleigh
For more information and to register to go, please visit: http://eqfed.org/equalitync/ncaan.html
NC HIV Advocacy Day is a joint project of the NC AIDS Action Network and EqualityNC. Help these groups lobby our state legislators to provide more funding, resources and support for those affected by [...]
May 29
A Learning Moment
There is a heart-felt comment I left over at Chip Atkinson’s blog. Including an apology for the harsh way I have treated Chip in recent days, especially in what some could definitely see as some harsh comments (in my opinion, from both sides of the debate) on my post regarding the anti-gay decision of the [...]
May 28
Random, non-gay, Sunday post b/c I’m bored
When I started blogging I swore up and down that I would only post on serious issues and speak out on important topics. I told myself that I would never let my blog be like one of those stupid and lame MySpace or LiveJournal blogs where people ramble on and on about when they got [...]
