Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Charlotte/Metro Area, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Charlotte, LGBT, North Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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, ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Greensboro, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, Soulforce/Right to Serve, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Politics, Religion, United States | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, Politics, South Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Friday, July 18th, 2008
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, ...
Posted in LGBT, Media, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, Media, South Carolina, United States | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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 ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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: ...
Posted in LGBT, Politics, South Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, LGBT Families, LGBT Youth, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 4 Comments »
