Headlines: Interview w/ ‘out’ Senate candidate, Clinton & those South Carolina queers

by Matt | November 7th, 2007 |

Headlines & snippets from the Nov. 3 issue of Q-Notes, your premier source of Carolinas’ LGBT news & views:

N.C. gay man campaigns for U.S. Senate
Jim Neal says he’s always been out, sexuality not an issue
by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — “If not now, when?”
That is the question Jim Neal asked himself when considering whether he would slip his name into North Carolina’s 2008 U.S. Senate race against the state’s first-term Sen. Elizabeth Dole.

Indeed, it is Dole’s abysmal track record that is giving Neal the push to run and win. He said he was at an event in California when he first heard the news that she had voted against a child health insurance bill, commonly known as S-CHIP.

“I heard that Dole had voted against the [bill] for our state’s 120,000 kids from working class families,” Neal told Q-Notes. “I didn’t get that. I found it repugnant. That is when I said, ‘File! Let’s go!’” READ MORE

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Q-Notes examines the candidates — Part one of a multi-part series
by David Stout . Q-Notes staff
Over the next several issues we’ll be handicapping the Democratic presidential candidates in preparation for primary season. The first Democratic primary occurs in Iowa on Jan. 3. South Carolina holds the earliest in the South on Jan. 26. The North Carolina Democratic primary takes place May 6.

In the Nov. 3 issue, Q-Notes Associate Editor David Stout takes a look at the campaign of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. READ MORE

A queer analysis of the S.C. gay rights movement
by John Dawkins & Melisa Harmon
Guest Commentary

It’s a trying time for the LGBT community. With the upsetting setbacks of last year’s election, the heinous murder of 20-year-old Sean Kennedy in early May, recent media hype surrounding supposed “gay ” politicians and the Labor Day blunders of Jerry Lewis, it seems that affronts and attacks on our people and identity are around every corner.

For many of us, times like these cause us to push ourselves further back into a comfort zone of protectionist actions and a self-defense mentality. We find comfort in community leaders who tell us that our day shall come soon. We shield ourselves from true action and find solace in the idea that we are just like them and that soon they will understand and accept us as the same. READ MORE

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Visit Q-Notes at www.q-notes.com to see all the other great stories. The next issue hits stands on Nov. 17.

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