MI Tech Graffitti Slide Show
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006Here’s a slideshow of the anti-gay graffitti at Michigan Tech.
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Real Stories, Real People, Real Messy
Friday, October 14th, 2005One of the things about blogging is that it’s so immediate. You hear about something, read about something, and you can post about it immediately. The problem is that real stories involving real people also involve complicated twists and turns that are revealed after some time passes. That’s been the case in two of the […]
False Hate Crime in Florida?
Monday, October 10th, 2005Ugh. I was afraid of this. Remember the gay couple in Florida whose house was torched and then robbed? I got a comment this weekend from someone named Anna, saying that Chris Robertson (one half of the couple) had admitted to torching the house himself, and that the aid fund started for the couple had […]
Shaq’s Got Our Back
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005As I’ve written here before, I’m not much of a sports fans. Rarely has ESPN been viewed on our television. I can’t’ even even tell you how many innings there are in basketball. Nonetheless, I have a new a favorite sports hero. It’s Shaquille O’Neal, who rose to his full height to stop a gay […]
Queer in Dubya’s America, Too
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005I wrote earlier about Paul Day and Christopher Robertson — a Florida gay couple whose home was torched and vandalized, apparently by anti-gay neighbors. Now there’s news that things have gotten worse. Now they’ve been burglarized.
The arson-burned home of a gay couple suffered its coup de grace when someone burglarized the place a second […]
Rape Charge Challenged in Hanging of Gay Iranian Teens
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005I’ve taken to not posting much in the evenings, but this is something I don’t think can wait until morning. I posted about the story of the gay teenagers hanged in Iran, response to the hangings, and the ensuing controversy around the rape allegations against the two boys. Now, Doug Ireland, who originally broke the […]
Queer in Dubya’s America
Friday, July 29th, 2005And Jeb’s Florida. It isn’t and easy place to be. Ask Paul Day and Christopher Robertson of Polk County, Florida, who returned home to find the place torched and an anti-gay epithet left behind.
Paul Day and Christopher Robertson knew life as gay men in Polk County could be rough. They had been called names […]