Archive for December, 2007

InterstateQ.com’s top stories of 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The past year certainly has been an interesting one here at InterstateQ.com. From personal changes and trips around the country to website changes and the advancement of my professional career, this year has seen exciting progressions, some slight setbacks and history making occurances in my life, the life of the ...

Q-Notes, Carolinas LGBT newspaper, endorses John Edwards for President before S.C. January primary

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Q-Notes the premier LGBT news source of North and South Carolina, has announced that they will endorse former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards for President. From Q-Notes: Statement from the Editorial Board of Q-Notes: "After a series of meetings between the editors, the staff and the publisher, Q-Notes has endorsed John Edwards ...

Confused children…

Friday, December 28th, 2007

It seems as though former participants of the N.C. Governor's School have taken to attacking me on my public outspokenness against the anti-gay mother who claimed Governor's School turned her son gay. But I think they are confused. Their Facebook group, where one of my many Governor's School articles is linked, ...

Break forth

Monday, December 24th, 2007

The annual InterstateQ.com Christmas Eve post (one correction, 2012 year since Christ's birth): Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light December 12, 2004 Two thousand nine years ago a little baby was born. To Christians, such as myself, this little baby, born of ...

Off for the holidays… Merry Christmas

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

As of 10:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, I am off for Christmas. I was lucky to be able to get Sunday off. It is production weekend at the Q-Notes office. I guess it is a good thing our copy editor is Jewish? I go back to work shortly before noon on ...

An awkward ‘homecoming’ - Part Two - A Grapevine member’s response and my responses to him

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The choir director of my childhood church, Grapevine Baptist Church, has responded to my previous post, "An awkward 'homecoming,'" in which I describe portions of my childhood and my recent "homecoming" and confrontation at the church where I first learned the harsh lessons of hate, bigotry and exclusion in the ...

Early Guilford Green leader, philanthropist profiled in N.C. ‘Philanthropy Journal’

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Dawn Chaney, an early leader of the annual Greensboro, N.C. "Green Party" HIV/AIDS prevention fundraiser and, later, the Guilford Green Foundation, was recently profiled in a Philanthropy Journal article written by GGF Executive Director Cecelia Thompson. A local philanthropist, Chaney has raised money for and contributed to the Greensboro area LGBT ...

Senate candidate Jim Neal to contribute at ‘The Bilerico Project’

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal will now be contributing regularly to the LGBT-oriented news, commentary and blogging site The Bilerico Project. N.C. blogger Pam Spaulding introduced him on the site today: As a fellow native Tar Heel, I want to give a hearty welcome to North Carolina U.S. Senate ...

Re-design

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I'm going to make people mad again. I know, I always change my design when I get bored, but really, there is a reason this time. New design features: less bulky and large header, faster-loading pages, simpler and cleaner design, cool blue and gray colors, designated ad space outside of post ...

Transgender student files formal grievance, more response from Southern Utah

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Kourt Osborn, the 22-year-old transgender student denied housing at Southern Utah University, filed a formal grievance with the University on Friday, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Originally reported on InterstateQ.com on Dec. 14, Kourt's experience with discrimination at the University has now reached into the mainstream press. According to The Salt ...