Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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," ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party, United States | 7 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
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. ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | No Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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:
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Health, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, United States, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, LGBT, Media, North Carolina, Religion, Sexuality, United States | 5 Comments »
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Misc | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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.
Posted in Misc | 3 Comments »
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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 ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Republican Party, United States, Western NC | No Comments »
