Archive for November, 2006

My Blog’s Christmas Wish List

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

While I haven't really stopped to think about what I want personally for Christmas (my mom has asked numerous times already in the past few days), I do have a few thoughts as to what I would like to see for my blog. So here goes... My blog's Christmas wish list ...

Pam creates a new ‘Blend’

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Pam Spaulding, a good blogging buddy of mine here in North Carolina, has launched her "Blend 2.0" Pam's blog, Pam's House Blend, has become a very popular and nationally well-respected LGBT and progressive blog. In 2005, she won the Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog. She has been nominated again this ...

T.W.O. condemns ex-gay youth camp

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Ignite Student Outreach, the possible ex-gay program running a possible ex-gay camp I first posted about on Friday, has now been condemned by Truth Wins Out (TWO), an organization founded by long-time and well-respected gay activist Wayne Besen: Truth Wins Out strongly condemned a new "ex-gay" Summer camp today as possibly ...

Yay! It’s Hate Mail Day!

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

New mail in the inbox: To: matt.hill.comer@[edit].com From: georgepigfooker@[edit].com Subject: please... take me seriously -- Nov 25, 2006 3:27 PM You stupid faggot. No one takes you seriously. No one likes a gay boy. Didnt you learn that in boyscouts? Just because the other reindeer used to laugh and call you names ...

Anti-gay protests of Wal-Mart flop

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Operation Save America, a radical, right-wing Christian group based out of Charlotte, NC, and run by the Reverend Flip Benham, had billed the protests as a huge, nation-wide action involving hundreds of churches, entitled as Save WalMart. They were protesting Wal-Mart's association with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce ...

Ex-gay Summer Camp: I should go

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Nah... not really. Just joking there. BUT... you do have to wonder what they were thinking when they sent the invite to go (pictured right, click to enlarge) to me. Why in the world would I sign up to go to a summer camp put on by a group who has the ...

NC State rears its ugly anti-gay face #10

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I'm fair. I'm nice. I'm compassionate. I report things just the way they are, when they are. I really do. I try not to be too biased, unless of course I'm deliberately trying to give my opinion on a specific subject. Here now, is one of those many times where I ...

Why all the fuss?

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Winston doesn't have this problem. Forsyth County doesn't have this problem. I can remember only ONE TIME in my life that I have seen the City Councilmembers in Winston get a little out of hand in how they related to one another and that was quickly settled (as the voters ...

Real World: Davis Mallory

Friday, November 24th, 2006

So I'm back. Thanksgiving was great. It really was good just to sit back and do nothing. On Wednesday I sat down to watch the premiere of Real World, Denver on MTV. I hope you got the chance to watch it. Despite the fact that the guy I think is the ...

A Gay Thanksgiving for you!

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

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