Good As You: Tennessee Roundup
05/25/2011
Video: Hey, Tennessee: Stop the needless bias, stop exporting your LGBT people!
I was born in Donelson hospital. Spent my summers on Old Hickory Lake. Played baseball at Mount Juliet Little League. Got my stories from local news diva Demetria Kalodimos. I even graduated high school on the stage of the Grand...
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05/10/2011
Conservatives try to repeal Nashville nondiscrimination; 'Ahhh, that takes me back'
I spent seventeen years and eleven months in Mount Juliet, TN. Graduated from Mount Juliet High School. Came of age at the Mount Juliet Little League Park. Ate my weight in scattered, smothered, and covered hashbrowns at the Mount Juliet...
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03/21/2011
Audio: Urinal retentive: Focus, SBC fret over peeing privilege
Focus on the Family and their allies/donor base at the Southern Baptist Convention are yet again taking an ordinance solely designed to prevent discrimination and hardship for the public and making it all about them. This time it's in Nashville,...
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01/13/2011
Music City seeks greater harmony; state rep hums discordant tune
Nashville, TN, city council members are considering a bill that would require contractors doing business with the city to comply with local non-discrimination policies pertaining to gay, lesbian and transgender employees. In short: You profit from a city contract, you...
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11/11/2010
'Divisive and problematic': The denial, not the club
As a native Nashvillian, this writer knows that Belmont university is widely recognized for its music programs. As a gay man who left red Tennessee in part because of policies regarding LGBT people, this writer knows that this kind of...
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09/13/2010
One in TN: Matches and spray can vs. peace
A Tennessee couple's benign existence earns them an unsolicited, unprovoked, unoriginal, unbelievably cruel paint job and bonfire: VONORE (WATE) - The home of Carol and Laura Stutte on County Road 320 in Vonore was destroyed by fire last Saturday. The...
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07/27/2010
The far-right's 'right' to wrong us
Another day, another anti-equality faith leader making it all about his fight and his supporters. This one comes from Focus on the Family: The Rev. Alton Williams, senior pastor of World Overcomers Church in Memphis, said passing one [nondiscrimination] policy...
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03/29/2010
Ooh fun, a coloring book. Thanks, FRC.
Tonight in Memphis, TN, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins and Stand For Marriage D.C.'s Harry "Armageddon" Jackson will be speaking at something called: [Stand For The Family flyer (pdf)] Which seems annoying. Though if one looks between the lines...
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11/30/2009
Video: So simplistic. So deleterious. So proud of it.
This Nashville, TN, church is a stone's throw away from where this writer grew up. Which is a fitting setup, considering that thrown-stones are the brand of Christianity at hand: Maury Davis - Cornerstone Church 10/29/09 [YT]
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11/12/2009
Well both did put forth 'Toxic' ideas
You might remember Tennessee State Representative Stacey Campfield (Very Far R-Knoxville) as the guy who, over the past couple of years, has tried to ban the word "gay" from public schools. It is the very kind of attention-grabbing antic that...
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09/27/2009
Video: ♪'Walking with my feet ten feet off of...'♪ -- whoa, look at that billboard!
Forgive us, social conservatives, for not being sympathetic to your constant "gays are militant!" cries. But it's just that we have a hard time lending a sympathetic ear to your assessments, considering we live in a world where people go...
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04/16/2009
Video: www.ThisTeenRocks.seriously
Yesterday we told you about a case involving the ACLU, Tennessee, and unfair 404 errors. Now we have video of the brave Volunteer State youngster who brought the matter to legal light: Someone done been teachin' that boy right. ACLU...
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04/15/2009
http party: ACLU defends sanctity of gay URLs
This writer runs a non-adult LGBT information site. This writer is a product of Tennessee public schools. That is why this writer cares so much about this new ACLU case: The ACLU LGBT Project, ACLU First Amendment Working Group, and...
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03/27/2009
Give it arrest: TN 'marriage protector' busted
In 1996, former Tennessee state senator Jeff Miller defrauded equality when he successfully pushed the state to adopt a Defense of Marriage Act. In 2005, he ripped off equal protection when he successfully sponsored a state marriage amendment. Today there...
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03/19/2009
Video: But teachers will still be free to teach Gaelic. We think.
Would you believe that in 2009, a lawmaker would still propose something called the "Don't Say Gay" bill? No, neither would we. Yet that is exactly what's happening in the Tennessee legislature: Legislation Aims to Ban 'Gay' From School [News...
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01/14/2009
Video: Mint on the pillow, harassment on the job line
An update on the Tennessee hotel firings. This From WMSV, Nashville's NBC affiliate: I have women working for me? That is part of this dude's "I'm not anti-gay" defense -- that he willingly hires females? What's his next line of...
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01/12/2009
Do not disturb (our heterosexuality): Nashville hotel forcibly checks out gays
We've been meaning to get to this story for the past few days but we've been getting sidetracked. The gist: Nashville, TN Two gay employees. Fired from their jobs at the ARTE' Hotel. Their gayness seems to be the reason....
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07/29/2008
A booked killer's booked world
So what was on the anti-gay, anti-liberal Tennessee shooter's reading list? Well, this from Knoxville News-Sentinel: [Knoxville Police Department Investigator Steve Still] seized three books from Adkisson's home, including "The O'Reilly Factor," by television commentator Bill O'Reilly; "Liberalism is a...
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07/28/2008
For peace, for Zac, for Knoxville -- I'll say a prayer
While a college student in Knoxville, TN, this writer was quite the fan of the city's surprisingly bountiful nightlife offerings. On any given Friday or Saturday night, you can find me out with a smile on my face, a drink...
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05/27/2008
Ninth life for Vol State hate
We've told you before about Neal Anthony, a Tennessee man whose property has been repeatedly attacked with anti-gay graffiti and vandalism. Well over the weekend, Mr. Anthony saw his property targeted for the ninth -- NINTH! -- time, with the...
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05/02/2008
The principal issue: Did she 'out' or not?
And now in "widely conflicting accounts of what went down during two gay dudes' school days" news: We have a followup to the situation in Memphis in which a high school principal is being accused of outing and harassing two...
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Queer in Big Orange Country: Still a little Rocky
This humble scribe spent his college years in the rolling hills of Knoxville, TN. And while I'd be lying if I said I'd found K-town free from the same perils and trappings that are all-too-common among southern American cities, I'd...
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04/29/2008
As if being a gay teen weren't tough enough
The ACLU is coming down on Memphis, Tennessee's Hollis F. Price Middle College High and its principal, Daphne Beasley, for (allegedly) violating the privacy of two male students by publicly identifying them as gay. The claims, which sound more like...
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03/10/2008
One man's 'heartening' is another man's 'heartless'
Responding to some new polling data that shows a majority of Tennesseans are still opposed to marriage equality, Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston today makes the following statement: “It’s heartening to know that, despite years of rhetoric by gay...
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One man's 'heartening' is another man's 'heartless'
Responding to some new polling data that shows a majority of Tennesseans are still opposed to marriage equality, Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston today makes the following statement: “It’s heartening to know that, despite years of rhetoric by gay...
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02/28/2008
Hey, David: Adopt inclusion, don't foster bias!
David Fowler of the Family Action Council of Tennessee has written a commentary defending the adoption statutes that have historically prevented gay and unmarried couples from adopting in the Volunteer State. Here's a snippet: We must understand that adoption is...
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02/19/2008
Harvey Milk not banned from TN schools
You remember that legislation we told you about that would ban all types of gay-centric discussion in Tennessee's public schools? Well we're happy to report that a House subcommittee today killed Rep. Stacey Campfield's disturbingly backwards bill: House subcommittee kills...
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02/13/2008
TN Rep: Ignore the gays behind the curtain
We recently told you about Tennessee State Rep. Stacey Campfield and the legislation he is pushing that would ban the LGBT community from being mentioned in any capacity in the state's public schools. Well today we stumbled on an updated...
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02/05/2008
TN: Jackson gets anti-gay training
What if we were to tell you that In Jackson, TN, the city council has just voted to give $16,000 to move a historic railcar from Ohio to their city? And what if we went on to tell you that...
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02/01/2008
Tennessee: Please stop driving your gays out of the state!
Oh, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee. Yesterday came word that two state lawmakers were proposing a ban on adoption for gays and unmarried heteros. Now comes the frustrating news that Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has filed a bill that would bar public...
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01/31/2008
TN: Two dudes try to adopt bigoted baby
Two Tennessee lawmakers, Rep. John Deberry (D-Memphis) and Senator Paul Stanley (R-Memphis), have filed bills that would prevent gays and unmarried cohabiting heteros from adopting children: Anti-gay adoption bill filed in Tennessee [Clarksville Online] Because in case you weren't aware,...
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01/14/2008
Gays can be trusted with kids, just not rings
Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen (D) may have thrown his weight behind a 2006 historical misstep that wrote anti-gay discrimination in the Volunteer State's most precious governing document. Though while he sees no problem with keeping gay couples legal strangers, he...
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