Archive for June, 2007

NC Queen City listed among least friendly city for gays

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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 ...

Trans site seeks coming out stories

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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 ...

BTL follow-up: Whitney story sparks national debate

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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 ...

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

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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 ...

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

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

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 ...

Pen-pals needed for LGBTQI prisoners

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I got this from a friend and while I do not necessarily agree that we shouldn't be pushing for hate crimes legislation (as the email implies), I do think that offering people in prison friendship and a shoulder to lean on is something we should all consider. Christ said it best: ...

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

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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 ...

‘Homo Nest Raided’

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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 ...

Tonight: Matt @ the Guild

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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 ...

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

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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 ...