Freedom to Marry, a national advocacy and education organization on marriage equality issues, is saluting North Carolina’s Triad Equality Alliance for their media advocacy efforts. The organization has funded several LGBT awareness building billboards in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
Freedom to Marry writes:
Freedom to Marry salutes the Triad Equality Alliance for their brilliant work in delivering effective [...]
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Nat’l org salutes Triad Equality Alliance
Virginia Foxx’s backlash: How wrong I was
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 [...]
America’s Test Market
Allow me to elaborate. You know how towns like Greensboro, North Carolina will have weird shit on their McDonalds menus that the rest of the nation doesn’t? Like the McOstrich Deluxe or the Samurai Grimace Wasabi Shake or whatever? That’s because Greensboro is a test market, a.k.a. a geographic area specifically chosen to assess the [...]
DADT flashback: Greensboro 2006
Today Congress will hold the first hearing on the anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy since its passage in 1993.
The hearing is at 2 p.m. and can be watched live via the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website.
Until then, let’s take a trip down memory lane, to Sept. 21, 2006, Greensboro, N.C. (Click pic for PDF)
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Gay leader caught embezzling sales tax
John Worth Johnson (Credit: N.C. Department of Revenue)
As reported by Q-Notes, John Johnson, a former board member and officer of Alternative Resources of the Triad/OutGreensboro.com, was charged with embezzling North Carolina state and Guilford County sales tax this week:
John Worth Johnson, 38, formerly of 111 W. Washington Street, was originally arrested last week by Myrtle [...]
Progressive workplace: N&O profiles Replacements
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) profiled Greensboro, N.C.-based Replacements, Ltd. in an article Sunday.
Replacements, a glassware, china and dinnerware specialty company, is one of many businesses nationwide scoring a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. CEO Bob Page, his partner Senior Vice President of Product Services Dale Frederiksen and [...]
N.C. Republican in Democratic clothing stumps on anti-gay, anti-immigrant issues
Johnny Carter, a Summerfield, N.C., resident running for the Sixth Congressional District (pictured right), looks and sounds more like a right-wing evangelical, arch-conservative Republican. Believe it or not, however, Carter is straight-up Democrat.
The race for the Sixth District will shape out to be an interesting one. Congressman Howard Coble, 76, has been in the office [...]
Early Guilford Green leader, philanthropist profiled in N.C. ‘Philanthropy Journal’
Dawn Chaney, an early leader of the annual Greensboro, N.C. “Green Party” HIV/AIDS prevention fundraiser and, later, the Guilford Green Foundation, was recently profiled in a Philanthropy Journal article written by GGF Executive Director Cecelia Thompson.
A local philanthropist, Chaney has raised money for and contributed to the Greensboro area LGBT community and GGF for over [...]
Astonishing: KKK, Boy Scouts, Sin alert
Here are three topics – none related – that have astonished me in the past two days.
KKK
Back in December 2005, I posted a snippet of a Fox WGHP story on the recruiting efforts of the Ku Klux Klan. It seemed that the KKK – the most dangerous hate and violence filled group in the history [...]
Update: Myers Park Baptist ousted from N.C. Convention
Meeting in Greensboro, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has voted overwhelmingly to oust Charlotte’s Myers Park Baptist Church over that church’s public stand for the dignity and respect of LGBT Baptists.
Myers Park is the first church to be booted under a policy attacking gay-friendly Baptists passed by the Convention in 2006.
From the Charlotte [...]
