Sing with me… It’s that time of year, when I sit at my desk and research the year, sifting through… o-old stories of important ga-ay news!
I was in the office late last night putting our Dec. 12 print issue of Q-Notes to bed. I wanted to get in the office and start work on our [...]
Tag Archives: LGBT Youth
Confusion or coercion?
Anti-gay researcher and Regent University prof Mark Yarhouse is at it again. He’s released several studies and what not exploring “ex-gays” and human sexuality. His most recent release is a survey of 104 “sexual minority” youth at Christian colleges.
In a “study” of the (extremely undersampled) surveys, Yarhouse (and a host of other researchers: Stephen Stratton, [...]
Creating change through film
LGBT filmmaker Debra Chasnoff speaks with The Windy City Times:
We asked who they most admire, and a lot are saying they admire the transgender student at the end of the film. I was in North Carolina at a screening and I sat behind three male, teenage students. The film started and they were giggling making [...]
New LGBT coalition should be model for community
A handful of local, state and regional LGBT organizations have come together to form a single coalition-level organization, according to The South Florida Blade.
The new coalition, Organizations United Together (OUT), “will act as a network of myriad local GLBT groups and allies to address equality issues throughout the state and attempt to bring increased visibility [...]
Randy Thomas and ex-gay disingenuousness
In response to a recent Dan Savage column, ex-gay Randy Thomas, an official with Exodus International, wrote (h/t Ex-Gay Watch):
For the most part, we are intelligent, balanced, stable, tolerant of what we may not personally accept and loving. We looked at what identifying as gay and all of the predetermined relational options of what that [...]
Campus Crusade to work with gay group on HIV/AIDS?
In my hometown paper’s weekly religion section last Saturday, an article profiling a Florida Campus Crusade leader noted the leader’s initiative to start an HIV/AIDS outreach group with a campus LGBT student organization:
Josh Spavin knows the stereotypes about evangelical Christians — judgmental, sanctimonious, narrow-minded. He may not buy into the image, but he knows how [...]
Headlines: At the week’s end
A re-cap of the last week at InterstateQ.com and around the blogosphere.
OutGayLife.com, a website network based in Bloomington and Edina, Minn., was caught red-handed stealing copyrighted content from several LGBT blogs and news publications, as well as from mainstream media outlets and The Associated Press. (Jan. 5-6, InterstateQ.com)
InterstateQ.com reader Paul McNeal contributed two guest pieces. [...]
Activist doesn’t like ‘eSpin’ Founding Father make out comment
An activist and former member of the Soulforce Equality Ride 2008 is claiming homophobia on the part of social networking site eSpin.
[Ed. Note -- I have been involved in several Soulforce activities.]
A friend of activist Zak Rittenhouse of Lynchburg, Va., wrote eSpin administrators after “spinning the bottle” on the site and receiving this response:
55 dudes [...]
