That's not true. Somebody at Time Out Youth didn't know what they were talking about.
From QNotes, again (this time, the editor's blog):
TOY featured in Observer
by Matt Comer {sodEmoji.|} June 17th, 2008
Time Out Youth's new Tim and Neil Griffin Scholarship fund was featured in Monday's edition of The Charlotte Observer:
But he is $2,500 closer this week, thanks to an unusual new Charlotte-based scholarship dedicated to students who have come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Called The Griffin Scholarship, it is believed to be the first college fund in the Carolinas awarded on the basis of sexual orientation. Yeah
