Monthly Archives: January 2007

What a week

Yea, so I am a liar. I say I am back in action, but than I am not. Oops. Perhaps some day I can redeem my honor and keep my word.

For some more ex-gay news. Ex-gay watch reports:
Remember Tyler Chase Harper and anti-gay T-Shirts? Harper is the blond teen ADF model/activist-in-training who sued the Poway [...]

Michigan college prepares for Equality Ride stop; refuses campus welcome

From the Cornerstone University Herald:
CU community prepares for Soulforce
Luke Stier 30.JAN.07
Following the peaceful example set by Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, Soulforce will visit Cornerstone in late April to spread their message of freedom for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people.
Thirty-four different institutions will be visited this year on Soulforce’s “Equality Ride 2007.” At [...]

Local PFLAG group praises NC Episcopal parish

The Winston-Salem, NC, chapter of PFLAG is offering “kudos” to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem for offering an in-depth LGBT-focused workshop series to its parishioners.
The group’s “kudos” was featured on the front page of their website, www.pflagwinstonsalem.org, where they also provided a link to the parish’s website section on the LGT workshop.
St. Paul’s, traditionally [...]

The other (nude) side of Harry Potter/Daniel Radcliffe

From the Equality MySpace Blog w/ Matt Hill Comer
January 31, 2007
See Post
Harry Potter… All grown up!
According to an article from London’s The Daily Mail, Daniel Radcliffe, the 17 year old British actor made most famous by his character Harry Potter, is scheduled to appear in the play Equus on a West End stage in London.
The [...]

Winston-Salem City Councilman announces bid for North Carolina Lt. Governor seat

Democrat Dan Besse (pictured right), the Winston-Salem City Council member who represent’s Winston’s Southwest Ward (my City district) announced Tuesday his 2008 bid for the Lt. Governor’s seat of the State of North Carolina (h/t BlueNC.com).
Besse has long been a progressive, Democratic voice in the politics of Winston-Salem, Northwest North Carolina and the state as [...]

Judy Shepard - ‘A S.I.C. World’

Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, the victim of a horrendous anti-gay hate crime in October 1998, spoke Tuesday evening to a group of hundreds of students and community members from across the state at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her main message of the night: “Tell your stories and just be who [...]

Judy Shepard tonight!

So… I’m off… Judy Shepard tonight at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Great Hall in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, 7pm.
More info: www.unc.edu/glbtsa
Expect photos in the InterstateQ.com Photo Gallery.

The Nation: ‘Solid South’ fantasy

I received an email earlier today from Nick Jahr, a blog reader and staffer at The Nation. He points me to their most recent cover story:
In the article, Bob Moser, one of our contributing writers, makes a really compelling argument that the ’solid South’ is a Republican myth that the Dems need to see through. [...]

New Photo Gallery changes & new album links

I’ve spent this morning installing the new gallery on this new domain and transferring just some of the old albums into the new one.
The new InterstateQ.com Photo Gallery web address: http://photos.interstateq.com
The old gallery is still up but will be taken down part by part as I need to.
Here are the links to the new albums [...]

Sorta Southern: Oklahoman on the Equality Ride

Wow… I guess this is when the media circus begins.
I’ve posted news pieces on my fellow Southern boys, Georgian Joey Heath and Arkansas kids Adam Britt and Jeremy Gabbard. Entering stage right… Greg Johnson, from Oklahoma State University:
The ride will have an Oklahoma representative onboard with Oklahoma State University student Greg Johnson.
“I became interested in [...]