To the great dismay of the members and leader of the anti-gay, far-right Operation Save America — including a member once charged and convicted of sex offense — the annual Pride Charlotte celebration for LGBT and straight Charlotteans went off without a hitch. According to police estimates, a record-breaking 10,000 people attended the festival [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Jul 23
Pride Charlotte this weekend. Party time baby.
Originally posted at Q-Notes’ InsideSource blog
Pride Charlotte is this weekend. The Q-Notes staff and I are expecting to see you at the day festival on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Uptown’s Gateway Village. But did you know the weekend was full of partying, too?
Friday night beckons the beginning of the prideful weekend with [...]
Jul 23
DADT flashback: Greensboro 2006
Today Congress will hold the first hearing on the anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy since its passage in 1993.
The hearing is at 2 p.m. and can be watched live via the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website.
Until then, let’s take a trip down memory lane, to Sept. 21, 2006, Greensboro, N.C. (Click pic for PDF)
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Jul 23
We can do it, but you can’t
The religious right is good at two things. Mainly, they’re really good at twisting reality. They can make you believe almost anything as long as whatever they’re saying includes the words “God,” “Jesus,” “Christ” or “Bible.”
Secondly, they’re really good at bending the rules, applying them to everyone else or simply saying, “Rules? What rules? Oh, [...]
Jul 22
More details in ‘S.C. is so gay’ ad controversy - Brit execs say state officials are lying?
Yeah… it pretty much sounds as though British advertising execs Ian Johnson (Out Now Consulting) and Andrew Roberts (Amro Worldwide), who’ve spoken extensively with Q-Notes, are calling South Carolina government officials liars.
According to Q-Notes, Johnson and Roberts say that South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) officials made “knowingly incorrect statements” regarding the [...]
Jul 18
Ripped to shreads: Renzi gets Crain’d
I’ve always had a good bit of respect for Chris Crain, former Washington Blade/SoVo editor and partner in Window Media. Of course that isn’t saying I’ve always agreed with him, but I have had admiration for the part he played in creating a power-house of a media company.
Back in May, Crain had some criticism of [...]
Jul 17
BREAKING: S.C. Gov. issued directive for “SC so gay” ad cancellation, Brit ad exec speaks to U.S. media
QNotes (Charlotte, NC), the Carolinas’ LGBT multimedia news source (disclosure: I’m employed as editor) is reporting that the directive to cancel the “South Carolina is so gay” London gay pride advertising campaign came straight from the office of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford:
When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford learned that his state was being advertised as [...]
Jul 16
Denver Daily offers follow-up on anti-gay hit piece
I posted yesterday about The Denver Daily News‘ hit piece on gay parents and their kids. Denver’s gayzetteblog.com has done a great job covering the news. GLAAD and other gay groups jumped on it quick too.
From the follow-up article:
Denver psychologist Dr. Vivian Schaefer, who works closely with gay patients and is affiliated with GLBT studies [...]
Jul 16
NC & GA on SC ’so gay’
Spagnola, a conservative blogger from Greensboro, NC, with whom I often have my disagreements, had a hilarious post on the “South Carolina is so gay” ad flap:
I can see North Carolina calling up Georgia right now:
NC: “I heard that South Carolina stopped whistling Dixie and started singing Liza Minelli tunes.”
GA: “That South Carolina is SO [...]
Jul 15
Denver Daily publishes hit piece on gay parents, kids
Via gayzetteblog.com (Denver) we learn of an absolutely ludicrous, radical right agenda-laden hit piece on LGBT parents and their kids.
Entitled, “Gay parents = gay kids? Study: Kids raised by gay folks more likely to grow up gay,” The Denver Daily News article states:
As many as 21 percent of homosexually parented children become gay themselves, according [...]
