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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Jun 30
Like we already didn’t know this…
Jun 29
What I’ve been working on – Link to your blogrolls!
Okay… I absolutely love it and wish I could have had this setup when I started InterstateQ.com.
A new LGBQI news portal focusing on politics, activism, youth, culture & arts…. IQN theINTERSTATEQ.COMnetwork.
I hope you’ll check it out. I hope you’ll link to it in your blogrolls and I hope it actually goes somewhere.
I’m also offering free [...]
Jun 29
HRC gets a blog?
So, it seems as though the Human Rights Campaign has gotten itself a blog.
I guess it is too bad they are about two years (or more) behind everyone else.
I wonder if HRC really thinks its new blog is going to help them out. If we can use past HRC actions as any indicator as to [...]
Jun 28
Press Release: Winston-Salem, NC, protects gay & lesbian employees
From Activate! – The North Carolina Advocacy Coalition (original story):
Click to download in PDF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 28, 2007
Contact: Matt Hill Comer
Executive Director
Phone 336 391 9528
ncadvocacy@gmail.com
PO Box 24972
Winston-Salem, NC 27114
Phone 336 391 9528
ncadvocacycoalition.org
Winston-Salem City Council protects gay & lesbian employees
Gay and Lesbian advocacy group praises decision; calls for more
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Members of Activate! – The [...]
Jun 27
Attention minorities: You should be open to changing who you are
A community member in Mankato, Minnesota, writes a letter to the editor on the Soulforce Equality Ride visit to Bethany Lutheran College.
He makes the argument that Soulforce “should be more open to change,” for our “viewpoints” and our “lifestyle:”
Was SoulForce just as willing to become less liberal and more conservative, to change not only their [...]
Jun 27
Reflections on Pride
Kevin Jennings, the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), writes a reflection on his first Pride experience:
I couldn’t help but think back to 1986 and my first time marching in the Boston Gay Pride Parade, at age 23. My excitement and nervousness was palpable. My Harvard classmate Trey [...]
Jun 26
Strange bedfellows, indeed
As I have continued to get myself involved in situation after situation and controversy after controversy, I have increasingly realized that sometimes, taking a stand on a certain issue puts you into bed with some strange allies.
I first learned this lesson while working with the Student Government Association at The University of North Carolina at [...]
Jun 26
‘Student fights for gay rights’ student-journalist article in News & Record
Seth Crawford, a junior at Northwest Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC, wrote a great student journalism article and profile on me and my activism as a part of a multicultural journalism workshop with the Greensboro News & Record.
His article appears in today’s paper:
UNCG student fights for gay rights
June 26, 2007
Seth Crawford, Northwest Guilford
This article [...]
Jun 25
LGBT North Carolinians making history
Part Five of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
North Carolina certainly may not be like the hot-beds of LGBT community, life and activism like San Francisco or New York City, but we still have plenty of history makers and leaders to be proud of!
From politicians to activists, authors to bloggers and community leaders, philanthropists and community organizations, [...]
Jun 25
From mental disease to, well… you fill in the blank
Part Four of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
Before 1973, LGBT people were considered to be mentally diseased, sick or ill. Even today, people still believe it.
But history would be made in 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its lists of mental diseases contained in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).
For [...]
