Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Very early in the morning hours today, after I got done Christmas shopping, I made short post on a yet-to-be-finalized court settlement between White County Schools & a gay-straight student group established by Advocate Person of the Year 2005 Kerry Pacer.
Well... Friday, December 22nd, must have just been "LGBT Youth ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Finally, after weeks of alluding to the addition of a new contributor, we are now announcing it.
Everyone welcome Brandy Daniels!
Brandy is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University. She is a wondeful straight ally who not only wants equality for all, but who is also actually doing something to work toward ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
In a pending settlement between the White County school district in Georgia and student members of a gay-straight alliance, represented by the ACLU, $168,000 has been awarded to cover the students' legal fees and court costs, plus $10,000 awards for each student represented in the case.
The student member who originally ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
A new poster and billboard campaign is hitting New Zealand.
A group called Godmarks is spreading messages that they hope will promote Christianity in a new way "that make people laugh, twist their perceptions and deepen their thoughts."
One of their many messages includes one about gays:
"Contrary to popular belief, I don't ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
The University of Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions will be starting up a study examining the links between and the effects of alcohol use and abuse within the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
According to an article from 365gay.com, the study is considered to be one of the largest of its ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
I noticed something wierd with my site today. I was looking at the site traffic statistics and somebody (don't worry, I won't give out any information that would identify any individual person) tried to visit a post from a while back. They were using GMail, from Google, and the address ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
The Independent Weekly in the Triangle area of North Carolina has released its "Top 10 Strangest Political Tales" of 2006.
Vernon Robinson made the top spot:
1. Vernon Robinson
Can there be anything stranger than a sex-obsessed candidate who sends out fund-raising letters implying that his opponent is having a gay affair with ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
According to an Associated Press article (via News 14 Carolina), the gay penguin children's book, And Tango Makes Three, is headed back to the shelves in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County Schools.... at least for the time being.
Yesterday, the news of the book's ban in Charlotte, NC, spread like wildfire across the nation ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
"First home-made movie" (with the horrible Windows Movie Maker) should be sign enough to know that it isn't perfect, but I don't think I did that bad of a job for a 20 minute scrape together project.
Posted in Boy Scouts, Civil Rights, College/University, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Greensboro, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, Triad, UNCG, Winston-Salem | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
A couple days ago I wrote a little "campaign" piece for Soulforce, in Joe.My.God's award for "Queer of the Year." Soulforce quickly went up to number two, following Mike Jones. Soulforce is about to fall behind. It is still number two, but only by 20 or so votes. Soulforce is ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Media, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Soulforce/Equality Ride, Soulforce/Right to Serve, United States | No Comments »
