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 a terribly sad story over [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Aug 31
Lovers’ triangle murder-suicide connections to McHenry?
Aug 31
Feeling some sympathy…
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 is a bit belligerent during [...]
Aug 31
Iowa couples rush to marriage…
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:
A county judge struck down [...]
Aug 30
I’m movin’ to Polk County!
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 from entering into a civil [...]
Aug 30
Ex-gay? Fine by me; just leave me alone while you do it
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 to coerce me into doing [...]
Aug 30
First Post: Larry Craig and the 24-hour Newscycle
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. I’m excited at this oppurtunity [...]
Aug 30
New contributor: Brian Murphy
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 commentary. I know he’ll be [...]
Aug 30
Candidate declines LGBT questionnaire
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 going to have to respectfully [...]
Aug 30
UNC paper: Abstinence-only doesn’t work, gay students need better sex-ed
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 everyone and defining words such [...]
Aug 30
Craig: ‘Any less disgusting’ if a liberal?
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 topics and points, but what [...]
