Of course that broad brush isn't true. On my own time and dime I've spoken to high school GSAs, participated in NC lobby days, etc. And tonight you can catch me participating in a Talk Back with attendees of Duke University Theater Studies production of The Laramie Project @ Sheafer Theater (Bryan Center, West Campus), directed by Jeff Storer. It runs April 14-16 at 7:30PM, April 10, 17 at 2PM.
The Laramie Project from Alex Maness on Vimeo.
While we'll discuss the play and its relevance today, we will take up some of the sobering stats from the 2010 State of Higher Education report from Campus Pride, and the state of LGBT rights in NC. Hope to see you there tonight at 7:30 PM.
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If you're within a hop of Charlottesville, Virginia, you can meet up with me there because I've been invited to keynote UVA's Proud To Be Out Week, on Monday April 18th, 6-7:30 PM, sponsored by its LGBTQ advocacy group, Queer & Allied Activism. The university also has a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center.
More below the fold -- the promo piece.
One of the presidents of Queer & Allied Activism, Seth Kaye, sent out this promotional piece for my appearance. I always laugh when I see stuff like this because it makes me think "Did I really accomplish all of that?" - you know, the Imposter Syndrome kind of thing.
Pam Spaulding
LGBT Political Blogger and Accidental Activist
Monday April 18th, 6-7:30pm Nau 101
Sponsored by: Queer & Allied Activism
Cosponsored by: Minority Squared, the LGBT Resource Center, the Office of African American Affairs, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, and the Office of Diversity and Equity
with support from the Studies in Women and Gender Program and the Department of English
Questions? email: here
Pam Spaulding will be the keynote speaker for this semester's Proud To Be Out Week. Her talk will cover her life, her blogging, what it means to be a married queer person of color in the South - and be political, how she became an "Accidental Activist," and how you can be too!
Pam Spaulding is the editor and publisher of www.PamsHouseBlend.com – with 300,000+ monthly visitors. The Blend launched in July 2004 as a personal response to the anti-gay state of the political landscape. As a Southern, black, married lesbian, with a family history steeped in NC politics, Spaulding and The Blend's various "baristas" bring unique voices to the LGBTQ blogosphere directly addressing race and class issues within the LGBTQ community. Always steamin’ – The Blenders go where other blogs and news sources dare not go promptly serving up the news and poignant commentary earning Pam the title of “Lesbian Blog-Stremist” from anti-gay groups. A Durham native, Pam lives in the Bull City with her wife Kate; they legally married in Canada in 2004.
Pam has been twice honored as Best LGBT Blog in the annual '05 and '06 Weblog Awards. Spaulding has guest blogged on Firedoglake, for Glenn Greenwald on Salon, the Bilerico Project, and Americablog. Spaulding has provided commentary on CNN during the 2008 presidential election cycle and was also credentialed as part of the general press pool to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In 2009 she was named one of Huffington Post's Ultimate Game Changers in Politics, received the Women's Media Center Award for Online Journalism, and was named one of OUT Magazine's OUT 100 for 2009. In 2010 Pam also landed on Politics Daily's Top 25 Progressive Twitterers list, as well as ranking in the Top 50 Women's Blogs. She was a panelist at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference speaking about her activism. In the summer of 2010, Spaulding was invited to a White House to cover the first ever LGBT press briefing with the Obama administration. Pam's House Blend was nominated for the inaugural Best Blog prize at the 2011 GLAAD Media Awards.