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 the SUU campus based only [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Dec 18
Southern Utah responds to denial of transgender student housing
Dec 17
Update: Trans Utah student – Press release from Equality Utah and Utah Pride Center
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 84101
801.355.3479
www.equalityutah.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December [...]
Dec 15
Black activists should be ashamed for supporting discriminatory Boy Scouts
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 anti-family left that tends to [...]
Dec 14
BREAKING: Transgender student denied campus housing at public Utah college
InterstateQ.com Exclusive
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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 expression.
Kourt Osborn (pictured right, during [...]
Dec 12
‘Left’ coast Anglicans – um, not so much
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 other side, it became visually [...]
Dec 11
Degrees of Separation
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 from each person who is [...]
Dec 10
I’m back in business
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 better than none at this [...]
Dec 10
Updated: Rough night (a.k.a. I hate people)
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 got out of the car, [...]
Dec 08
Excuse me?
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 the authority to grant the [...]
Dec 07
Editorial: Sen. Stepdaddy gets ’stomped’
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 based on sexual orientation for [...]
