Former WashBlade editor Chris Crain on Lane Hudson’s Civil Rights Act amendment strategy:
The fact is that the significance of such legislation would be largely symbolic. No one is marching in the street because we’re refused rooms at hotels, service in restaurants and lunch counters or seats at the front of the bus. Has anyone ever [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Nov 23
My suffering no more, no less – just different
Nov 23
Sibling rivalry
I’m hoping none of my four younger siblings turn out to be conservative activists. We might engage in sibling rivalry like these two. Thanksgiving and Christmas would never be the same.
Nov 23
Performing live: ‘acts’ of homosexuality
Students at Murray State University, the “public ivy university” of Kentucky, held a truly unique event recently.
In the campus “free speech zones” (something that’s likely totally unconstitutional, by the way), students involved with the campus’ LGBT organization hung out, read stories and chilled with friends during an event dubbed “Live Homosexual Acts.”
On Friday, members of [...]
Nov 22
Showing their true colors
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina vs. the poor and needy.
That’s what the recent decision to axe out a moderate Baptist fellowship really boils down to. At their most recent annual convention in Greensboro, N.C., delegates for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina decided to disassociate with the more moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. [...]
Nov 21
Prioritizing the movement
USA Today is reporting on the steps some LGBT advocates think should be taken to re-prioritize and focus our movement.
“There will be some hard questions asked about where marriage ranks on the list of possibilities and priorities” for the LGBT movement, PFLAGer Steve Ralls told the paper.W
Writer Clyde Wilcox (”The Politics of Gay Rights) [...]
Nov 21
Prop. 8 black blame
Pro:
I could go on about other demographic breakouts, but the conclusion is the same: No, of course AA voters aren’t the sole reason Prop 8 passed; some of the blame belongs elsewhere. But they’re a damned big part of the reason, and we shouldn’t try to paper over that fact.
Con:
Given that no other racial/ethnic group’s [...]
Nov 21
Nov. 15: Not the beginning
Gay columnist Richard J. Rosendall gives us some insight:
Some are claiming that the Nov. 15 protests across the country are the true start of the marriage equality movement, but that is false. The flashpoint of Proposition 8, like Stonewall before it, galvanized large numbers of people, but in both cases the movement’s pioneers began laying [...]
Nov 21
The South’s first snow = Freak out
The South’s first snow fell last night. Like less than inch of it. Hardly any on the roads. And schools are delayed. Gosh, I love how us Southerners flip out over just the simplest mention of snow flurries. I bet milk and bread sold out at grocery stores yesterday, too.
Photo: Screencap of my hometown’s Winston-Salem [...]
Nov 20
CRISIS and the N&O
Great feature piece on Mitchell Gold and “CRISIS” today in Raleigh’s News & Observer.
A self-made entrepreneur accustomed to making his way in the world, Gold recently launched an educational campaign called Faith in America to combat religion-based prejudice. The newest element of the broader campaign is a book, just published, that tells the stories of [...]
Nov 20
Sanford gay friendly? Yeah, okay.
From Bob Roehr’s 11/20 Bay Area Reporter story on Log Cabin Prez Patrick Sammon’s departure:
[Sammon] sees an encouraging sign in that the governor of South Carolina is talking about how the party’s position on gay issues is driving young voters away.
Umm… Did Sammon completely miss that whole “South Carolina is so gay” debacle over the [...]
