I spoke to Mark Binker at The News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.) on Wednesday regarding Rep. Virginia Foxx’s “hoax” comments regarding Matthew Shepard. Speaking about her district, I said:
“She’s not going to have any blow-back there,” Comer said. “More than likely, there will be a lot of people who agree with her.” Most of the [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apr 30
Virginia Foxx’s backlash: How wrong I was
Apr 30
Fessing Up: Promiscuity & Unsafe Sex
This is the second installment of the five-week commentary series, “Fessing Up: exploring the dirty little secrets of the gay community.” The purpose of the series, will be to open community discussion with frank and honest thoughts and debate. Ignoring problems that exist inside our community and among some of our LGBT siblings is dangerous. [...]
Apr 23
Fessing Up: Substance abuse
This is the first installment of the five-week commentary series, “Fessing Up: exploring the dirty little secrets of the gay community.” The purpose of the series, announced last week, will be to open community discussion with frank and honest thoughts and debate. Ignoring problems that exist inside our community and among some of our LGBT [...]
Apr 23
I love college Charlotte
Just had to share… hilarious, silly, over the top… yeah
I’d heard the song on a local radio station days ago. Didn’t know there was a video. (h/t CLTBlog)
Apr 17
Definition of ‘right-wing extremism’ dangerously broad
Much has been made of a new report from the Department of Homeland Security concerning the rise of right-wing extremism.
I have no doubt that right-wing hate groups are on the rise. Recent reports from the Southern Poverty Law Center tracking the creation and spread of these groups give credence to DHS’ worry over right-wing extremism [...]
Apr 15
Conservative ‘Tax Day Tea Party’ is disingenuous
Americans across the country today will organize locally to produce “Tax Day Tea Parties” in cities large and small.
On organizing website after website, conservative grassroots activists cry and gnash their teeth over the stimilus bill and other Congressional actions to get us out of our economic mess. They throw out words like “socialism” and scarey [...]
Apr 14
Fessing Up: exploring the ‘dirty little secrets’ of the gay community
In the coming weeks, InterstateQ.com will publish a five-week, in-depth commentary series, “Fessing Up: exploring the ‘dirty little secrets’ of the gay community.”
The purpose of the series, written by me and other contributors, will be to open community discussion with frank and honest thoughts and debate. Ignoring problems that exist inside our community and among [...]
Apr 07
New Media: Moving small and regional LGBT news-media outlets forward
It has been a year, this month, since my day job, Q-Notes newspaper, upgraded its website from a mis-matched collection of simple, static HTML pages to a fully automated content management system (CMS). In the year since, I’ve learned a lot about new media and how it complements and improves traditional news-media, including the gay [...]
Apr 06
89-72
Oh, don’t worry. Still not a sports person. Tar Heel pride is showing through tonight (and the boys are cute). So wishing I were on Franklin Street right now.
Apr 04
InterstateQ has changed…
Notice something different? Yeah, well… InterstateQ has changed; as if that weren’t obvious enough.
This change will be more than just a redesign, though. Gone are the days of multiple posts each day (unless I’m feeling generous). As my life gets more and more busy and hectic and as I pick up more and more responsibilities [...]
