Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
From my fellow Equality Rider Kyle Devries at BlogActive:
When we win anti-discrimination laws, have a GSA in every school, an out politician in every statehouse, marriage equality in every state, the fight, for me, will have just begun. Legal recognition is the least of the battles. The greater battle has ...
Posted in Civil Rights, College/University, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Loads to do today, considering that I also have loads of assignments to finish up for class and I have to write a column.
1:00pm - Meeting with my Independent Study professor
2:00pm - Meeting with Isabell Moore, a fellow activist and one of those arrested during the anti-war demonstration in Downtown ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
According to a release and action alert put out today by EqualityNC, our state's premier LGBT advocacy organization, State Senator Jim Forrester (R-Gaston) today re-submitted the anti-gay marriage amendment bill.
For the past three years, the LGBT community in North Carolina, along with the help of our allies in the State ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, North Carolina, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
According to an article from The Union-Tribune (San Diego), a federal judge has ruled in favor of high school administrators who disallowed student Tyler Chase Harper (who has now graduated, although his sister, Kelsie Harper, is still at the school) from wearing an anti-gay T-shirt during the Alliance Defense Fund's ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Ex-gay, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Politics, Sexuality, United States, Western U.S. | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Fellow Equality Rider Stephen Krebs sent this to all the riders as a demonstration of a bit of an opposing view (and by opposing view, I mean extreme opposition). He found it on the Washington Blade website.
I could barely believe it when I saw it, and I am sure you ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Ex-gay | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
I realize that this was a blog title from not too long ago. I sense a trend. Matt the overachiever, and Brandy the serious slacker. Yes!
But to my defense, my internet has not been working. I have, at most, been able to get on for five minutes before I get ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Announced today, the special appearance and performance by the Triad Pride Men's Chorus at An Evening at the Biltmore, a social benefiting the Soulforce Equality Ride, Hosted by Eastern Bus Rider Matt Hill Comer.
The Triad Pride Men's Chorus (www.triadpridemenschorus.org) will perform an approximately 20-30 minute set including songs from their ...
Posted in Community Events, Soulforce/Equality Ride | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
This week has unofficially been announced as "Let's All Bash Matt Hill Comer Week," but I still got to insert my two cents...
My column from this week's issue of The Carolinian (UNCG):
It's like puberty all over again
by Matt Hill Comer, Don't Ask (I'm Telling)
Issue date: 1/23/07 Section: Opinions
Nonviolence: I have ...
Posted in Don't Ask (I'm Telling) | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
All in one issue... all in one fell swoop. Two guest columns this week in The Carolinian, one focused on the evil of homosexuality, the other in response to one of my previous columns.
The first, written by a former member of the UNCG College Republicans states that I am a ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, College/University, Don't Ask (I'm Telling), LGBT, LGBT Youth, Media, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, UNCG | 37 Comments »
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Judy Shepard, the mother of anti-gay hate crime victim Matthew Shepard, who passed away in October 1998, will be speaking on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Shepard's presentation at Chapel Hill follow's the group's "Ally Week" January 22-27, 2007.
The ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, Civil Rights, College/University, Community Events, Hate Crimes, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, United States | 1 Comment »
