Author Archives: David

Good job, Mr. Person

Loudoun Times-Mirror February 16, 2005 Stone Bridge High School Principal Jim Person must have known he was putting his neck on the block when he approved a student theatrical production that employed the reality of homosexuality to take a good, … Continue reading

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House’s ”crazy” ideas doomed in Senate

The Virginian-Pilot February 15, 2005 By Warren Fiske RICHMOND – The world-famous “droopy drawers” bill soon may have company in the graveyard of high-profile bills that were born in the House of Delegates and shot down in the state Senate. … Continue reading

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A PLEA TO SIGN THE LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CHRISTIANS

In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade … Continue reading

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PLAY CONFRONTS HOMOPHOBIA AND YOUTH VIOLENCE

For Immediate Release Monday, February 14, 2005 Contact: David Weintraub, Equality Loudoun: 540.822.4814, or Vincent Worthington, Trumpet Vine Theatre Company: 703.642.1997 Equality Loudoun is delighted to announce that Trumpet Vine Theatre Company has agreed to perform the inaugural project of … Continue reading

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Gay-bashing strikes real parents, real lives

The Virginian-Pilot February 13, 2005 By Margaret Edds AS MOST OF America knows, Vice President Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter. And he doesn’t support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Discrimination sits a little sourly on the stomach when … Continue reading

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Stone Bridge Play Offends Some

Loudoun Connection February 10, 2005 By Suzannah Evans A student-written, student-directed play that was part of Stone Bridge High School’s “Postcards from Paradise” collection of one-act plays that premiered last weekend has got some people steamed. The play, “Offsides” by … Continue reading

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Beware a Bigoted Legacy

Washington Post Loudoun Extra February 10, 2005 At a crucial time in American development, Virginia was the birthplace of freedom. Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others equally important, if less well-known, contributed the words and the actions that … Continue reading

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