Archive for August, 2006
Monday, August 28th, 2006
Cara Michelle at Chosen Fast has posted about the grand opening of Joseph's House, a new facility to help homeless teenagers in the Greensboro area get a footing for their life, offering them a home and a sense of family and belonging.
I hope that the new facility has policies and ...
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
The anti-gay Called2Action group, based in Raleigh, is gearing up again this year to challenge the Wake County Public School System on books they find "objectionable" due to vulgarity and sexuality... books like The Color Purple.
Called2Action, which has supported a number of blatantly anti-gay efforts in the past (including the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, Sexuality | No Comments »
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
I've uploaded some photos of my family's mountain property in Lambsburg, Virginia (Carroll County). My family had gone up there for the weekend and my mom wanted me to come up after getting back from Charlotte, so I headed up there late Saturday evening.
It wasn't a very long trip and ...
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
The Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign has put up a media page where they have listed some of the many news stories and media reports done on the events around the country.
Here ya' go.Â
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
I've finally got the Pride Charlotte pictures uploaded to the InterstateQ.com Photo Gallery.
The festival was extremely fun and although part of it was work (for NC Advocacy), we managed to have a little time to view the drag show and the other sites.
Click here to view the album.
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Ah... the family mountain. Good times.
As I usually do every morning when I'm up here, I get up, get some coffee put my shoes on and head down the hill to pick up a copy of The Winston-Salem Journal (yes they deliver here) at the old Lambsburg, VA, post office ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Boy Scouts, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Media, North Carolina, Winston-Salem | 2 Comments »
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Just got back to my house in Winston-Salem. I spent the whole day in Charlotte for the Pride Charlotte festival. We had a success with the NC Advocacy table and I took a bunch of great pictures, including some of the crazed, religious fanatics from Operation Save America who stood ...
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
I'm off at the Pride Charlotte festival!
I hope that I'll see some of you there. For most of the day, most likely, I'll be "person-ing" the NC Advocacy Coalition info table as well as handing out info and spreading the news on the Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign.
I'll be sure ...
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
According to the Durham Herald-Sun, the Duke University Center for LGBT Life will hold an open house and celebration of its recent top, number 2 listing on the 100 best LGBT-friendly college campuses in the nation.
Duke received the number 2 spot in the recently released Advocate College Guide for LGBT ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Chapel Hill, Civil Rights, College/University, Community Events, Durham, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Sexuality, UNCG, United States | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Put together and sponsored by the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Community Center, the Pride Charlotte Festival will be held tomorrow, Saturday, August 26, 2006, at Gateway Village in Charlotte. The events start at about 11am and last all day.
There will be plenty of great and fun things to do. You ...
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