Wow. I am a slacker. Matt has clearly been on top of things with his blogging today. Look at me, the new girl who is already slacking.
Warning. I may be slacking for the next few days, due to extended travel and being at places with little or no internet access. While normal people spend time [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Dec 28
I Am A Slacker… + some news
Dec 28
InterstateQ Presents: Genderblind Housing on College Campuses
Back on December 16th, we put up a digital recording of a full segment from the Fox News Channel’s Heartland show with John Kasich. The debate was on genderblind housing policies on college campuses (see Greensboro, NC-based genderblind.org for more detailed information).
InterstateQPresents now brings you a new video with clips from the Fox News show [...]
Dec 27
Knoxville WVLT news corrects unfair ‘homosexual population’ report
See… respect, civility and kindness does work.
Would it have been easy to shoot off an angry email chastising reporter Whitney Daniels for being anti-gay in her report on the arrest of 15 men engaging in illegal public acts of sex? Yeah… it would have, but Ms. Daniels wasn’t doing that. It was nothing more, as [...]
Dec 27
Gay student body prez denied in blood drive
Seventeen year old Ronnie Childers, the student body president of a Santa Cruz high school who helped to organize & volunteer at his school’s Red Cross blood drive and later stood in line for three hours in order to give blood, was later turned away because of his past sexual history as a gay man.
Although [...]
Dec 27
Knoxville WVLT news unfairly portrays ‘homosexual population’
UPDATE: Please see this most recent update regarding a revision & correction made on the news story commented about in this post.
In a recent story from WVLT Volunteer News in Knoxville, TN, reporter Whitney Daniels reported on the recent arrests of 15 men found by police to be engaging in public sex at a local [...]
Dec 27
Log Cabin praises Ford after his passing
The president of the Log Cabin Republicans, Patrick Sammon, released a statement today praising the late Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, after his passing today.
The Washington Blade:
Ford praised for backing gay equality
Former president joined board of gay GOP group
LOU CHIBBARO JR. | Dec 27, 3:39 PM
A gay Republican leader praised former [...]
Dec 26
Happy Holidays, from the hot guys of Carolina
Happy… very happy… Holidays to you. Love, the hot guys of the UNC-Chapel Hill Swim Team.
Actually… the real greeting message was “Hope your Xmas packages are as festive as mine!” in a funny, light-hearted Christmas joke-card sent out by openly gay UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Athletics Director Dave Lohse (the guy pictured in the center). He [...]
Dec 26
Merry Christmas… Gifts Received & Those Yet to Be
Merry Christmas everyone.
A little glimpse of history. On this day, in 1950, Time magazine ran its first article on homosexuality (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859060,00.html …I am still learning html and didn’t have time to figure out this linking stuff today. My apologies).
Fifty-six years ago, the popular news magazine discussed how homosexuals should not work in security jobs because [...]
Dec 25
A Little Bit About the New Girl
I have always wanted to be like Carrie Bradshaw (Sex & the City) and write my own column. Granted, I am not writing about my (non-existent) sex life, I do not look like Sarah Parker, and I certainly could not afford a pair of beautiful Manolo Blahniks. Nonetheless, as I sit writing this blog, I [...]
Dec 24
And in His Name all oppression shall cease
So, at 3:30am, as I head to bed after another late night of Christmas shopping and wrapping, I wanted to go ahead and post my Christmas thoughts. I have a busy day tomorrow: Church with the family at First Wesleyan (my mom has returned to the church she used to go to years and years [...]
