Archive for December, 2006

I Am A Slacker… + some news

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

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. ...

InterstateQ Presents: Genderblind Housing on College Campuses

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

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 ...

Knoxville WVLT news corrects unfair ‘homosexual population’ report

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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. ...

Gay student body prez denied in blood drive

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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 ...

Knoxville WVLT news unfairly portrays ‘homosexual population’

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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 ...

Log Cabin praises Ford after his passing

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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 ...

Happy Holidays, from the hot guys of Carolina

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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 ...

Merry Christmas… Gifts Received & Those Yet to Be

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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 ...

A Little Bit About the New Girl

Monday, December 25th, 2006

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 ...

And in His Name all oppression shall cease

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

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 ...