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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Seth Crawford, a junior at Northwest Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC, wrote a great student journalism article and profile on me and my activism as a part of a multicultural journalism workshop with the Greensboro News & Record.
His article appears in today’s paper:
UNCG student fights for gay rights
June 26, 2007
Seth Crawford, Northwest Guilford
This article [...]
It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love every song you hear seems to say…
Boy am I glad this year is over.
2006 was full… chock full of issue after issue, controversy after controversy, work, work and more work.
But it was a good year, too.
So now… the top stories of 2006. They aren’t [...]
Over at Wikipedia, I’ve created an entry for the Right to Serve Campaign… Head on over, help to edit and grow it. While I know a bit about Greensboro (considering I was the City Organizer and all), I don’t know much about many of the other cities. For that reason, I haven’t put up any [...]
“First home-made movie” (with the horrible Windows Movie Maker) should be sign enough to know that it isn’t perfect, but I don’t think I did that bad of a job for a 20 minute scrape together project.
A couple days ago I wrote a little “campaign” piece for Soulforce, in Joe.My.God’s award for “Queer of the Year.” Soulforce quickly went up to number two, following Mike Jones. Soulforce is about to fall behind. It is still number two, but only by 20 or so votes. Soulforce is about 200 behind Mike Jones [...]
Joe.My.God is holding his “Queer of the Year” awards and I’m urging everyone to vote for Soulforce. No offense intended to any other person/group on the list. Hester, Hudson, Jones and others are definitely deserving of the award, but I just can’t help from placing my loyalty with Soulforce (www.soulforce.org)
So here’s my bit of campaigning… [...]
The Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign (past posts), which had its own action here in Greensboro, NC, has made the number 5 slot on SLDN’s year-end countdown of the Top-10 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” stories of 2006:
Photo caption: Supporters from local universities and schools staged a sit-in as Kamal Rashad Davis, Curt Peterson and Rhonda [...]
Today’s press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Matt Hill Comer
Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign
City Organizer – Greensboro, NC
336-391-9528
matt.hill.comer@gmail.com
http://www.soulforce.org
http://www.righttoserve.org
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ sit-in activists pleased with court agreement
Greensboro, NC, November 20, 2006 — The nine Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign activists arrested during a sit-in after four youth attempted to enlist in the Army as proud, able-bodied, openly gay [...]
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 [...]
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