Archive for December, 2007

Southern Utah responds to denial of transgender student housing

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Southern Utah University (SUU) responded via comment in a news report from KUTV CBS 2 on their denial of housing for a transgender student. InterstateQ.com originally reported on Dec. 14 that Kourt Osborn -- one of my many friends from the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride -- had been denied housing on ...

Update: Trans Utah student - Press release from Equality Utah and Utah Pride Center

Monday, December 17th, 2007

The following is a press release from Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center on the anti-transgender discrimination faced by Southern Utah University student Kourt Osborn, originally reported at InterstateQ.com on Friday: Utah Pride Center 355 North 300 West Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801.539.8800 www.utahpridecenter.org Equality Utah 175 West 200 South, Suite 3001 Salt Lake City, UT ...

Black activists should be ashamed for supporting discriminatory Boy Scouts

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

From News Blaze: "If the Boy Scouts were anti-God, championed homosexuality and were anti-establishment, I would venture to say they would find themselves welcome in Philadelphia. It's the fact that they stick to and seek to promote a responsible and reasonable code of ethics that makes them a target of the ...

BREAKING: Transgender student denied campus housing at public Utah college

Friday, December 14th, 2007

InterstateQ.com Exclusive (re-print permissions details at end of story) CEDAR CITY, Utah - Dec. 14, 2007 - Demonstrating the need for gender neutral and inclusive housing policies for public and private universities across the nation, a 22-year-old transgender student in Utah has been denied campus housing specifically because of his gender-identity and ...

‘Left’ coast Anglicans - um, not so much

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Below, an op-ed written by my good friend, fellow Equality Rider Vince Cervantes, in The Merced Times (no website): Through an unusual voting method, where organizers sent delegates who favored the idea to split away from the US Anglican Communion to one side of the room and opponents to the ...

Degrees of Separation

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

I'm sure we have all heard of the "theory" that says all people are connected to each other within six degrees of separation. From Wikipedia: Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one "step" away from each person he or she knows and two "steps" away ...

I’m back in business

Monday, December 10th, 2007

For all who saw the previous post about my phone theft... I'm back in business. I've got the same number, but unfortunately I didn't have insurance (stupid) on my stolen phone. Therefore... I have a cheap $20 replacement phone 'till I can get a better one. I guess any phone is ...

Updated: Rough night (a.k.a. I hate people)

Monday, December 10th, 2007

So I worked at the office, getting the paper together until 12:45 a.m. or so on Sunday evening (well, very early Monday morning actually). I left the office and realized I was almost out of cigarettes, so I stopped at a gas station that is on my way to my apartment. I ...

Excuse me?

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Yahoo! News has a story on a Rhode Island gay couple married in Massachusetts but now seeking a divorce. They tried to get a divorce in their own home state but were told by the Rhode Island Supreme Court: The court, in a 3-2 decision, said the state's family court lacks ...

Editorial: Sen. Stepdaddy gets ’stomped’

Friday, December 7th, 2007

From the Dec. 1 issue of Q-Notes, your premier source of Carolinas’ LGBT news & views. Sen. Stepdaddy gets 'stomped' Editor’s Note: Matt Comer It seems as though N.C. Sen. Martin Nesbitt (D-Buncombe) got “stomped” by his stepson, arch-conservative Republican Chad Nesbitt. Sen. Nesbitt is co-sponsor of a bill that would prohibit employment discrimination ...