Famed singer and conservative talking head Pat Boone has written a curious commentary at the rabidly anti-gay “news” website WND.com. In the “exclusive commentary,” entitled, “Are you ready for a gay America?”, Boone laments the loss of what he sees as his traditional America and the forthcoming “breakdown of society,” “last period of history,” “a [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Sep 23
Bailout must aid all Americans
A New York third party has laid out a bailout plan that would benefit all Americans, not just the Wall Street investors, financiers and bankers who got us in this mess to begin with.
I’m not a Wall Street or economic expert, but unlike John McCain, I at least know something about how our economy works. [...]
Sep 19
What’s wrong with Kansas?
My attention was drawn to an article from a Kansas TV station this morning while browsing The Washington Blade’s website. A teen in a small town of about 800 people was severely beaten inside his home by a classmate who had heard rumors he was gay. The rumor was false. The perpetrator also had with [...]
Sep 18
Raleigh safer than D.C.?
Yeah… a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.’s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ago, having lived in Boston [...]
Sep 18
NC Pastor: Stop condeming, start healing
The Winston-Salem Journal, my lovely hometown newspaper, published a great column by John Railey. Interviewing an African-American minister, Railey’s column delves into just some of the multitude of issues that make stopping HIV/AIDS difficult in black communities and in the black church:
Sep 17
This and that
Ditto: I stopped keeping up with media’s obsessive coverage of 22-year-old Lindsay Lohan a few years ago, just before she entered rehab for the first time. Sarah Warn, 365gay.com
Hot play, hot boy: [Sean] Knapp likes roles “where I don’t do what I’m supposed to do” and he sure has one in “Speech & Debate” at [...]
Sep 16
Charlotte pastor: ‘I don’t care about your pain’
The Charlotte Observer today published a front-pager on the new book edited by Mitchell Gold, featuring 40 stories of gay and lesbian people’s ordeals growing up gay in America and their experiences in the church.
“CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America,” to which I [...]
Sep 14
A Sunday reflection
A new verse for an old hymn (one of my favorites, actually)…
Come thou fount of every blessing,
Teach your children to love free,
Bringing in our outcast siblings, let us all be family,
From your love we learn compassion,
Your grace does forever lead,
Come thou fount of every blessing,
Seeing Christ in harmony.
Words: Robert Robinson, 1758; New verse: Matt [...]
Sep 14
New Kid on the Block
There’s a fresh face to Carolina gay blogging. Found it tonight… Sick -N- Tired is definitely a breath of fresh air to all of the LGBT community across the country. Unique perspective? You betcha. And, like me, this blogger’s a late-nighter. I like her/him already!
Check’em out.
Sep 14
Reel them in…
From the day job blog…
For a man who still cries when he hears the national anthem, I’m livid someone would question my patriotism based solely on my sexual orientation and party affiliation. My 80-year-old, heterosexual, U.S. Marines WWII/Korean War veteran, Old South, Democratic grandpa would kick your ass if he heard you questioning my love [...]
