Monthly Archives: June 2007

NC Queen City listed among least friendly city for gays

Source: PageOneQ
PageOneQ and Raw Story captured the following segment off CNN’s morning news on Saturday, June 23, 2007.

I’m sure you noticed, just as well as I did, that Charlotte, NC, is listed among those cities least-friendly toward LGBT workers and citizens.
This doesn’t bode well for Charlotte’s future economic and political well-being if the results of [...]

Trans site seeks coming out stories

InterstateQ.com Network Affiliate, Trans Philly Youth, is seeking coming out stories to feature on its site:

Hello again!
I have started to add information to the Youth page, and I would like to feature some Coming Out Stories on that page. If you are a GLBTQI youth with an interesting coming out story, please e-mail me. Length [...]

BTL follow-up: Whitney story sparks national debate

Michigan’s Between the Lines has published a follow-up story on their original one reporting the coming out process of 18 year old Tyler Whitney, the webmaster for Republican Tom Tancredo’s campaign for the Presidency.
You can read the article here.
Some highlights:
When BTL published the story on Tyler Whitney’s coming out last week, it was to inform [...]

A victory for our youth & their future health & well-being: Abstinence-only funds cut

According to 365gay.com News, Congress has cut an approximate $28 million from the usual $50 million spent on abstinence-only sex education.
According to the article:
A controversial federal program that stresses abstinence outside heterosexual marriage has been chopped by $28. million.
Previously, under the Republican Congress, the federal government spent about $50 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education.
Participating [...]

Political Round-up: Elizabeth Edwards in SF Pride; GayPatriot on NC Rep. Womble’s hot new car

The lovely wife of my darling John Edwards will be speaking at the meeting of an LGBT Democratic Club in San Francisco, during the city’s Pride festivies, this Sunday.
There’s a good article at The San Francisco Chronicle:
Elizabeth Edwards’ scheduled appearance Sunday at a major San Francisco Gay Pride event represents a first for a major [...]

DailyKos: InterstateQ.com is a ‘right-leaning blog’

This is among some of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. And something that hits hard… and hurts.
Pico, a poster at progressive DailyKos (a site I actually read quite often), includes links to InterstateQ.com two times in a section on “right-leaning blogs” and “straw man arguments” in a post on the situation with Tyler [...]

‘Homo Nest Raided’

Part Three of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
It is the “reason for the season.”
When police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village on June 27 and 28, 1969, I doubt they thought that this time would be any different from any of the other times they successfully raided a gay bar in the [...]

Tonight: Matt @ the Guild

From The Winston-Salem Journal (src):
Out & About
Thursday, June 21, 2007
- relish staff report
Winston-Salem Journal
The Triad Business and Professional Guild meets at 6 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at the Airport Marriott in Greensboro.
The guild is a nonpartisan organization that works to promote business and social networking for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]

Friend of Tyler Whitney: Gays are “poor creatures [doing] Satan’s work”

I have it from a good source that “Saint Joe McCarthy” on the Michigan State University’s Young Americans for Freedom’s Spartan Spectator is actually Kyle Bristow, a good friend of Tyler Whitney.
Whitney, 18 years old, started coming out a few months ago and a report of his coming out process made it into the LGBT [...]

EqualityMySpace Blog Pride Month Contest

Over at the EqualityMySpace Blog, I’m holding a Pride Month Contest:
Contest: Submit your Pride stories
It is June and it is Pride Month!
So, we’re going to hold a little Equality MySpace Pride Month Contest.
And here are the guidelines:
Write a story, commentary or other piece explaining why you think it is important for the LGBT community [...]