Five Equality Riders and one Baylor University student were arrested today on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
In years past, an underground gay-straight student group at Baylor University attempted to “chalk” the sidewalk with meeting times and dates like most other student organizations on campus. Baylor immediately washed off the gay-straight alliance’s messages. [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Mar 20
Six arrested at Baylor; will be kept in jail overnight
Mar 20
Clinton, MS, police attempts to deny Soulforce Constitutionally protected assembly/speech rights
Please see bottom of this post for an IMPORTANT UPDATE on the situation in Clinton, MS.
On March 22nd and 23rd, the Eastbound Soulforce Equality Ride bus is scheduled to stop in the City of Clinton, Mississippi, in order to visit the campus of Mississippi College, a private Baptist college affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
In [...]
Mar 20
Equality North Carolina Lobby Day
North Carolina’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, EqualityNC, will hold their Lobby Day on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at the North Carolina Legislature.
Be sure that you sign up to attend.
There is no greater way to create change than to share YOUR personal stories with those persons charged with creating the laws and policies which affect all [...]
Mar 20
Fight anti-LGBT hate violence; take action with HRC
This year, our Democratic-controlled Congress is coming closer than ever to passing comprehensive legislation which would protection individuals against hate crimes and hate violence motivated due to a person’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender-identity.
Now is the time to take action.
This week, InterstateQ.com is running an ad from the Human Rights Campaign asking for [...]
Mar 18
Last week’s column: Showing Our Strength
Yeah, I forgot to post it. With all this Equality Ride stuff, I’ve just been way too busy. Here it is, as published on Tuesday, March 13, 2007:
Showing our strength
HRC Carolinas dinner shines bright
by Matt Hill Comer, Don’t Ask (I’m Telling)
Issue date: 3/13/07 Section: Opinions
No amount of protest could stop it. No amount of outcry [...]
Mar 18
In Waco tonight, Baylor on Monday & Tuesday
So we pulled into Waco, TX, late tonight. We are visiting the campus of Baylor University on Monday and Tuesday.
I expect that this trip will go well, despite the OVERWHELMING fear and deep, deep closets which exist here in the LGBT Waco community.
We’ll be on campus Monday and Tuesday starting at about 9:30am. On Monday [...]
Mar 18
Video: Oklahoma Baptist Day One, rejected from Worship
Three more OBU videos coming tonight and in the morning: Rider reflections, OBU Day Two & Community Rally/Picnic.
Mar 17
We are not “protesters,” “squads” or “comrades’
The Waco newspaper, The Waco Tribune-Herald, published an article today (Saturday, March 17, 2007), detailing the Equality Ride East Route’s visit to Baylor University on Monday, March 19, 2007.
Talk about twisting and spinning; They make us sound like militant commie homos.
The key spinned words, you ask? “Protesters.” “Squads.” “Comrades.” “Band [of activists].” “…an 8-week [...]
Mar 17
North Carolina a wonderful place to live, WashBlade reader has it wrong
I found this in the Washington Blade’s “SoundOff” section from March 16, 2007:
Gays should boycott
North Carolina
Re: “Rally seeks vote on gay marriage ban” (washingtonblade.com, March 7)
Just another reason to never go to North Carolina — another state crossed off my list to ever visit. Being gay, my America shrinks again.
The majority of people should not be [...]
Mar 16
Julia Boseman speaks to Triad Business Guild
Darn it. I missed it. But I’m on the Equality Ride, so that’s cool.
Last night State Senator Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover), pictured right, spoke to the monthly meeting of the Triad Business & Professional Guild in Greensboro, NC. Senator Boseman, the first and, as of now, only openly LGBT member of the North Carolina General [...]
