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 [...]
Tag Archives: Durham
Trans Issues Q&A; Insight from a Duke student
I had the chance to ask a few questions of an InterstateQ.com reader and Duke University student, after the debates and discussions over the removal of a transgender woman from a dormitory at Duke (past posts).
On Sunday, September 16th, I’ll be at Tate Street Coffee to meet with other InterstateQ.com readers and community members to [...]
Montel & Trans issues; Duke father appears
ANNOUNCEMENT: Join Matt, InterstateQ.com readers and other community members for a community discussion, forum and general time of learning on trans issues at Tate Street Coffeehouse in Greensboro, NC, 6:00pm, September 16, 2007. More info here.
Lee Chauncey, the Duke University father who caused quite a bit of a stir in the transgender community after he [...]
Trans Duke U. student moved out of campus dorm
ANNOUNCEMENT: Join Matt, InterstateQ.com readers and other community members for a community discussion, forum and general time of learning on trans issues at Tate Street Coffeehouse in Greensboro, NC, 6:00pm, September 16, 2007. More info here.
According to ABC 11 (Raleigh-Durham, NC), Duke University has moved a male-to-female, pre-operation transgender student out of a dormitory for [...]
Gay students organize at NC black colleges
There was a great article in the UNC-Chapel Hill Daily Tar Heel yesterday, covering the organizing efforts of LGBT students on the campuses of North Carolina’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University are among many of North [...]
Pam Spaulding is going to jail!
No… NOT really… but anti-gay, religious right leader Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth has been in contact with the FBI and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina seeking to start a criminal investigation into comments made by a user on Pam’s website back in mid-January 2007.
Pam (pictured right at the NCDP [...]
Pam’s House Blend keeps ‘Best LGBT Blog’ title
The final results of the 2006 Weblog Awards have been released and our very own NC-based Pam’s House Blend is again the winner of the Best LGBT Blog Award. Pam won the title in 2005 and was able to keep it again this year.
With almost 41% of the vote and 2227 actual votes, Pam was [...]
Pam creates a new ‘Blend’
Pam Spaulding, a good blogging buddy of mine here in North Carolina, has launched her “Blend 2.0″
Pam’s blog, Pam’s House Blend, has become a very popular and nationally well-respected LGBT and progressive blog. In 2005, she won the Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog. She has been nominated again this year for the same award. [...]
WUNC ‘State of Things’ Interview
Viola! Here it is. My time with the wonderful Frank Stasio of WUNC’s “The State of Things.”
Matt Hill Comer
Monday, November 13 2006
At age fourteen, Matt Hill Comer was on track to become an Eagle Scout, but a run-in with his local Boy Scouts troop over homosexuality took his life in a new direction. Host Frank [...]
‘State of Things’ NC Public Radio Tomorrow
Thank the Lord it isn’t TV. I rather like radio interviews, at least from the ones I’ve done before. Except this time it isn’t early in the morning and I have to go the studios, which means I have to get dressed, but at least I don’t have to wake up so early. I guess [...]
