Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Scouting for All, the Petaluma, CA-based organization fighting discrimination against gays and atheists in the Boy Scouts of America, has started its annual fundraising drive.
Below is a letter from one of Scouting for All's co-founders, 21 year old, straight, Eagle Scout Steven Cozza:
To Our Scouting for All Supporters / ...
Posted in Boy Scouts, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
According to an article this morning in The Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WSFCS) Attorney Doug Punger retired last week, after serving 32 years of "service" to the school system and Board of Education.
The Journal's article is laden with high praises of Punger's work and of how well he did ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Coming soon... the stories of 2006 and a year-end recap. Now is the time to voice your opinion and be heard.
What do you think were the stories of 2006 covered here? What deserves to go into the year-end recap.
Speak. Be Heard... or forever hold your peace (until the end of ...
Posted in Blog | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
I am keeping my word on being a slacker prior to the New Year.
Have had limited internet access... finally found a connection tonight for more than five minutes. Yet, it is quite late, and I have had one too many Cosmopolitans ;). Just wanted to let the world know ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Pam Spaulding asks the question in a brilliant way:
Visit Pam for more.
Posted in Civil Rights, Democratic Party, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Politics, Republican Party, United States | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Over at Wikipedia, I've created an entry for the Right to Serve Campaign... Head on over, help to edit and grow it. While I know a bit about Greensboro (considering I was the City Organizer and all), I don't know much about many of the other cities. For that reason, ...
Posted in Soulforce/Right to Serve | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
When I instituted this website's Privacy Policy (viewable at the very bottom of each page on this site, as well as being provided at the end of this individual post), I made sure to leave an exception for revealing information as it relates to publicly-owned (a.k.a. owned by "The People") ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Ex-gay, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Friday, December 29th, 2006
In less than a week, I head down to Austin. I'm hoping all holiday travel and all this nasty weather stuff is over by January 3rd... the day I leave here for almost a week worth of training, fundraising, community building and friend-making with the rest of the folks going ...
Posted in Soulforce/Equality Ride | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
This just in, via press release from Onyx Marketing in Atlanta, GA:
ONYX MARKETING GROUP PRESIDENT CHOSEN AS CONTESTANT FOR NBC'S "THE APPRENTICE," PREMIERING SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
Atlanta’s businessman Carey Sherrell competes to become the next “Apprentice”
ATLANTA (Dec. 12, 2006) – Handpicked by Donald Trump, openly gay Atlanta resident and ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, United States | No Comments »
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
In my work during the past 6, almost 7, years on LGBT issues and activism, I've run across numerous numbers purporting to be the "true" or "most accurate" percentage of the U.S. population which is either gay or lesbian.
Those numbers have ranged from 2% all the way up to an ...
Posted in LGBT, Politics, United States | 13 Comments »
