Archive for June, 2007

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Saturday, June 30th, 2007

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What I’ve been working on - Link to your blogrolls!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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 ...

HRC gets a blog?

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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 ...

Press Release: Winston-Salem, NC, protects gay & lesbian employees

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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 - ...

Attention minorities: You should be open to changing who you are

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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, ...

Reflections on Pride

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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. ...

Strange bedfellows, indeed

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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 ...

‘Student fights for gay rights’ student-journalist article in News & Record

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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, ...

LGBT North Carolinians making history

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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 ...

From mental disease to, well… you fill in the blank

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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 ...