Archive for December, 2008
Online Extra Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of desalinization of ocean water for drinking, what do we know about the impacts this might have on climate, ocean salinity and other natural processes? — Fred Kuepper, via email Due to its high cost, energy intensiveness and overall ecological footprint, most [...]
Dear Trinity, Recently, my 18-year-old boyfriend and I (21 years old) were in bed together when his narrow-minded, ex-marine father, whom he lives with, caught us in his bed and threatened to kill me. Now, I have not heard from my boyfriend for days. I’m going insane! What can I [...]
It’s been a bumpy ride kids, but hold on a little longer and be patient. 2009 may finally delivery a soft landing. Pluto moves into practical Capricorn and makes sterling aspects to Saturn and Uranus. Wisdom has come dearly but now we can catapult to the next big thing. Just [...]
Given the market’s recent volatility, it is natural for most investors to wonder when to invest in the markets. The answer is anytime, provided you do it on a systematic basis using a time-tested strategy — dollar-cost averaging. After all, it’s not about timing the market, it’s about time in [...]
CHAPEL HILL — An associate professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has been awarded the 2008 Marty Prairie Award. Presented to Peter Leone, M.D., by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch, the Prairie Award honors individuals or organizations whose work [...]
CHARLOTTE – The Carolinas Black Pride Movement is opening casting and audition calls for its March play, “Before it hits home.” The play is directed by Jermaine Nakia Lee and jointly produced by CBPM and the Afro-American Cultural Center. A synopsis of the play reads, “Wendal Bailey is an African-American [...]
Which holiday will you be celebrating this winter season? Hanukkah Christmas Kwanzaa Winter Solstice Yule Other (tell us in the comments, or add an answer!) Add an Answer View Results And, don’t forget our Nightlife poll! Click here!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule and Solstice. And I’ll bet you didn’t know there are many more holidays just like those. It’s true — the holidays are upon us. No matter how long you’ve tried to put off shopping or visiting that [...]
If you’re closeted to anybody in your life, Harvey Milk wouldn’t just want you to come out and see the new biopic about him — he’d want you to see the film and then come out. In 1977, 47-year-old Woodmere, NY-born Harvey Milk became the nation’s first openly gay man [...]
Online Exclusive Like the man whose life story it portrays, Gus Van Sant’s biopic “Milk” is already achieving legendary status. Small wonder: the story of Harvey Milk (1930-1978) is like no other. Milk was only 48 when he died. Until he was 42, he was, by his own admission, little [...]
[Ed. Note -- After Q-Notes press time for the Dec. 13 issue, staff learned that the gay nights at George's Italian Bar had ended. We're sorry to learn of the development so soon after the publication of our story. An update will be published in January.] SALISBURY, N.C. — Stuck [...]
Kevin Grooms, otherwise known to Q-Notes readers as our “Drag Rag” columnist Miss Della, is just one of hundreds of thousands of people who regularly donate to Children International, a worldwide child poverty and humanitarian aid organization based in Kansas City, Mo. He jokingly says that the agency “pulled a [...]
CHARLOTTE — Gordon Roqué (Marcelo) left Charlotte as a well-known and committed community leader more than two years ago. Now he returns a rising Nashville star, just in time for the holidays. Roqué, a former Q-Notes staff member, lived in Charlotte during his coming out process in the late 1990s, [...]
TORONTO — A new study released by researchers at the University of Toronto finds that gay men’s risky sexual behavior can be linked to feeling sexually undesirable. The study’s results appeared in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and also found that many of these [...]
[Ed. Note — Joseph Urbiniak is an inmate at Harnett Correctional Institution in Lillington, N.C., and is the plaintiff in a pending lawsuit against the N.C. Department of Corrections to secure the right of LGBT prisoners to possess non-sexual, LGBT-themed books, newspapers and magazines. Q-Notes is publishing a collection of [...]
During the first weekend in December, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative summit in the very beautiful (but very cold) nation’s capital. Queer bloggers known around the world and those just getting their start joined to discuss how the LGBT blogosphere [...]
I keep hearing all of this nonsense about us LGBTs attacking people, about us using intimidation and violence to oppress people, about us somehow being ugly aggressors. Newt Gingrich (who wrote the book on deceptive messaging during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives) actually accused us of being [...]
After California voters passed the odious Proposition 8, gays took to the streets to protest. In the process America’s gay community not only helped itself, it helped me. No need for me to make the funnies this time around. I couldn’t do one giggle better than the protesters who carried [...]
This concludes a four-part series on the DSM, gatekeeper mentality, reparative therapy and other fallacious theories, such as autogynephilia. Conformity to a rigid and myopic world structure, viewed through the lens of patriarchy, found its zenith in the male dominated professional clinics that first set out to define and understand [...]
BUJUMBURA, Burundi — International LGBT advocacy organizations are expressing outrage and concern over Burundi’s decision to criminalize homosexuality. The National Assembly of the small African country, bordered by Rwanda to the north and Tanzania to the South, passed a law on Nov. 21 making same-sex acts punishable by between three [...]
