Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Here is this week's column from The Carolinian (UNCG):
Testing our equality - 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
by Matt Hill Comer, Don't Ask (I'm Telling)
Issue date: 9/26/06 Section: Opinions
"Matt, is this fair?" That was the question asked of me by Caron Myers, a reporter from Fox 8 WGHP, as I was led ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Don't Ask (I'm Telling), Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve | 2 Comments »
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Over at Ed Cone's blog there is a loooong comment thread dealing with the recent Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign events in Greensboro, North Carolina (official site, my blog site, media & blog coverage).
A couple of folks commenting over at Ed's blog keep making an issue of whether or not ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, United States | No Comments »
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1975 Guilford College graduate Jim Baxter will be doubly-honored on Saturday, September 30, 2006, first at his alma mater in Greensboro, and then later that same day, during the after-march festivities at NC Pridefest in Durham.
Guilford college's Alumni Association presents Alumni Excellence Awards every year during homecoming festivities. ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Durham, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh | No Comments »
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Here are screen shots of the Daily Tar Heel print edition (available in a PDF here) of their September 22nd story on the Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign arrests in Greensboro on Thursday, September 21, 2006. I had a chance, actually, to talk for a short while with Erin France, ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
This, an awesome post, from Caron Myers' Fox 8 WGHP staff blog:
Today four Greensboro college students attempted to break a barrier. Has a familiar ring, doesn't it?
Only this time the barrier wasn't color, rather the issue was sexuality in the service. Homo-sexuality, that is.
The four young people were well-dressed, well-spoken, ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
As of 2:00pm, September 28:
Fox 8 WGHP Noon broadcast September 21
Fox 8 WGHP 6:00 broadcast September 21
News & Record September 21 article and mid-afternoon update
News & Record September 22 article
365Gay.com News (national LGBT news)
WFMY News 2
Pinknews.co.uk (Great Britain)
UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel, September 22 (related MattHillNC.com post)
UNC-Chapel Hill Daily ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve | 18 Comments »
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
On Thursday, September 21, 2006, in Greensboro, NC, the birth-place of the Civil Rights sit-in movement, four students attempted to enlist in the US Army as proud, patriotic, willing and able-bodied Americans. These four students are also openly gay and unwilling to lie about their lives as a condition of ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Update from the News & Record (afternoon, September 21):
GREENSBORO — Openly gay students Jessica Arvidson, Matt Hill Comer, Alex Nini and Stacey Booe tried to enlist in the U.S. Army this morning in an effort to challenge the 13-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy as part of a 30-city project ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve | 7 Comments »
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
While that may be true of the national Fox news network, I don't ever want to hear someone say that about our local affiliate, Fox 8 WGHP (which is a corporate station, by the way - owned by News Corp.).
They have, out of all the news stations in the Triad, ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
The Daily Tar Heel (UNC-Chapel Hill) has two good articles out in today's edition.
The first reports on UNC-CH's recent listing in the top 100 best colleges for LGBT students in The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, authored by Charlotte native Shane Windmeyer.
The second is entitled "UNC gay life changing." ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina | No Comments »
