Seeding Spartanburg

Woohoo!!! Go Hub City Bookshop! So exciting for Downtown. Can't wait. Wednesday, June 30th. 10am. 186 W. Main Street. You can even buy your books online and keep the money in the local economy! Thanks Betsy, Erin and the rest of the HC Bookshop team for working so hard to bring this to our community! [...]

I’ve been a horrible follow-up blogger lately. I apologize. It’s been a pretty incredible time here in ole’ Sparkle City over the past month. The Pride parade was a huge success and, like last year, my family proudly marched with our friends and neighbors but at the same time, it was hard for me to [...]

You were awesome! The SHJ article today said that more people attended here than in the one in Charleston a couple of weeks ago. Woohoo. I knew yesterday that it was 3x more people than last year!! Yay! Can't wait until next year!!! xoxo, t Thanks to the Spark for this video footage!  Check out Mayor Junie White's [...]

Spartanburg's gay pride festival is making the rounds. Peter Greenberg, America’s most recognized, honored and respected front-line travel news journalist, mentioned it in a recent column. 5 Unexpected Gay Pride Festivals 1. Tijuana, Mexico 2. Spartanburg, SC 3. Istanbul, Turkey 4. Sligo, Ireland 5. Columbo, Sri Lanka Spartanburg, SC?!?! Really? Awesome. Yes, a gay pride [...]

Why can't I get you to grow? My tomatoes…doing good. Peppers. Good. Blueberries. Check. Green beans, cucumbers. Even my strawberries despite the fact something takes a bite of them before I can but they are growing and the few we've had…yum (note to self: cover them next year). But, squash…nothing. And everyone says you're so easy [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about oppression this week. And how and more importantly why people seek to justify oppressing other people. I can’t help it with all that has gone in Sparkle City this week. Why are there people that are so anti-gay people? I just can’t understand it. Why? You hear simple arguments [...]

Wow. Y'all just keep getting lower and lower. Not to mention…y'all look ridiculous.   Senator Refers To GOP Candidate As 'Raghead' “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.” What a loser. At least it has been a good week in Sparkle City… Happy Friday all! t

I woke up this morning to text messages. A few folks had texted me, 'WOW…did you read Junie's piece?" "Go Junie." "WOOOHOOO!!" etc. As I made my daughter's breakfast, the hubby read it outloud. It was a pretty incredible, emotional moment as what we were reading hit us…the realization of what we were witnessing for a [...]

JUST kidding. I'm a girl. So who would believe that? I thought about claiming that I had an affair with Andre Bauer just for the hell of it because that seems to be all the rage these days…claiming to have slept with a gubernatorial candidate….but ewwwwwwwwwwwww. Regardless, I'm not a man…so no one would buy [...]

I'm always open to posting your voice if you don't have venue…just drop me an email. Here's one from my friend Steven. By Steven Ashley As June approaches and the start of pride month begins, it is important to reflect on the reasons for pride and to thank our predecessors for the work towards equality [...]