Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
A North Carolina blogger at Pat Go Bye-Bye has turned up some interesting tid-bits on a gay lovers' triangle involving Republican operatives and officials in Florida.
Interestingly, the two who were shot and the one who killed himself may have connections to Republican Representative Patrick McHenry (NC-10).
From Pat Go Bye-Bye:
Buried in ...
Posted in Anti-Gay Politicians Watch | 4 Comments »
Friday, August 31st, 2007
I'm in the midst of listening to the police interrogation audio tape with Senator Larry Craig. I've posted on the situation once, as well as Brian.
To be honest, listening to the tape, I'm starting to feel some sympathy for the guy. His voice just sounds so lost and while he ...
Posted in Politics, Sexuality, United States | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Brian reported on it just one post previous to this... The Iowa District Court which struck down the state's Defense of Marriage Act.
Today, at least six gay couples or mroe have rushed to marriage offices in order to receive licenses and more applications are expected Friday, according to USA Today:
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Posted in Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Politics, United States | 7 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
A district court in Iowa declared today that the state's law barring same-sex couples from civil marriage is unconsitutional and said that:
"Couples, such as Plaintiffs, who are otherwise qualified to marry one another may not be denied licenses to marry or certificates of marriage or in any other way prevented ...
Posted in LGBT, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
I'm pretty sure I've said it here on the blog before, and I know for certain that I've said it publicly in conversations with friends and colleagues:
If you are gay and want to change your sexual orientation to straight, fine by me... so long as you don't force or try ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Ex-gay, LGBT, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Matt, Thanks for the introduction. My personal blog has been mainly to keep my friends updated during Equality Ride and then I as continue to meet new people across the country--and continue to move around the country--it helps to stay connected with the people I'm no longer geographically close to. ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Politics, Sexuality | 12 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
A good friend of mine from the SoulforceQ Equality Ride and the Right to Marry Campaign in New York has joined InterstateQ.com as a new contributor.
Brian Murphy is 22, living in New York City and originally from the D.C.-area in Maryland. I'm glad he'll be contributing his thoughts, musings and ...
Posted in Blog | No Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
I received an email today from City Council candidate Kevin Green, who is running for an At-Large position:
Thank you for the email regarding the questionnaire you are sending to all the candidates for this year's elections. I commend your advocacy efforts on behalf of the LGBT community but I am ...
Posted in Greensboro LGBT Vote 07 | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The Daily Tar Heel, the award-winning daily newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a staff editorial on sex education on Tuesday.
In it, the staff said that sex education in North Carolina should be expanded and that abstinence-only education doesn't work:
The idea of teaching tolerance of ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Sexuality, United States | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Last night on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Gary Bauer, the founder the conservative group American Values, was brought in to talk about how the Larry Craig scandal might affect the GOP and "value voters."
You can see the video here.
In the course of the conversation, Bauer covered a lot of ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Politics, Sexuality, United States | 2 Comments »
