An Army of 1 in 10

As part of the upcoming one-year anniversary of An Army of 1 in 10, and an attempt to get back into the swing of blogging, I am starting a new weekly feature: The Blog of the Week. The criteria for being named as Blog of the Week are entirely subjective and dependent on my mood as I traverse the net throughout the week.

This week, the honor of the first Blog of the Week goes to Matt Hill Comer.

Matt is a student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is active in politics, student activism, education, and working to end anti-gay sentiment. At the age of fourteen, he came out as being gay and established the second Gay-Straight Alliance in his school district the following school year as a freshman. He joined his local Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network chapter soon afterward and was invited to become a member of its board of directors. His outspokenness and activism soon led to his expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America, and he has since been involved in the movement to end discrimination against gay scouts in the BSA.

Some of the awards he has received for his work include:

• The Inclusive Scouting Distinguished Service Award
• The Nancy Anne Harris Greenfield Community Award
• Finalist, 2004 Nancy Susan Reynolds Award in the area of Advocacy
• 2004 and 2006 HRC Carolinas Gala Youth Dinner Scholarship

You can read more this extraordinary young man on his About Me page. I can think of no better blog to select as my first Blog of the Week than Matt Hill Comer’s, considering all the hard work he has done in the past six years for gay rights.