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Title: Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence
Post by: Shana A on February 24, 2009, 10:04:40 PM
Post by: Shana A on February 24, 2009, 10:04:40 PM
Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 24, 2009; Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022303105.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022303105.html)
Only the blogosphere, perhaps, has room for Pam Spaulding -- a black lesbian who lives in North Carolina, the only state in the South that has not banned same-sex marriage.
"California, Arizona and Florida all passed marriage amendments in November," says Spaulding, 44, an IT manager by day and a round-the-clock blogger. "All eyes are on North Carolina now." A few days ago, after reports that groups such as NC4Marriage and Christian Action League are organizing a rally in Raleigh to support "traditional marriage," Spaulding wrote on her blog, Pam's House Blend: "As predicted, the professional anti-gay forces plan to descend on NC." What she doesn't write is that, so long as she's blogging, what happens in North Carolina won't stay in the Tar Heel State.
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 24, 2009; Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022303105.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022303105.html)
Only the blogosphere, perhaps, has room for Pam Spaulding -- a black lesbian who lives in North Carolina, the only state in the South that has not banned same-sex marriage.
"California, Arizona and Florida all passed marriage amendments in November," says Spaulding, 44, an IT manager by day and a round-the-clock blogger. "All eyes are on North Carolina now." A few days ago, after reports that groups such as NC4Marriage and Christian Action League are organizing a rally in Raleigh to support "traditional marriage," Spaulding wrote on her blog, Pam's House Blend: "As predicted, the professional anti-gay forces plan to descend on NC." What she doesn't write is that, so long as she's blogging, what happens in North Carolina won't stay in the Tar Heel State.