Archive for the ‘Editorial’ Category

Archive for Matt’s editorials in every issue of Q-Notes, your premier source for Carolinas LGBT news and views. Every other week, Matt will feature his Q-Notes editorial here on InterstateQ.com and direct you to the Q-Notes website for further reading.

Q-Notes Investigates: Gay youth org CEO under scrutiny

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Q-Notes June 14 issue contains an investigative piece on the Charlotte, N.C.-based Time Out Youth, written by staff writer Jack Kirven and Associate Editor David Stout. Founded in 1991, Time Out Youth is an LGBT youth support, education and advocacy organization that serves teens and young adults ages 13-23. Their CEO, ...

Q-Notes releases N.C. primary ‘endorsement’

Friday, April 18th, 2008

We've released our North Carolina primary endorsement. Well -- it isn't quite an "endorsement." Over the last few weeks, we have been contacted by numerous parties representing the Democratic presidential contenders. They want to know if Q-Notes is making an endorsement for the upcoming N.C. primary, slated for May 6, and, ...

Editorial: A plea for Scouting’s true ideals

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

My Editor's Note from the March 22 issue of Q-Notes, the leading LGBT news source of the Carolinas. A plea for Scouting's true ideals by Matt Comer . Editor, Q-Notes In my last Editor’s Note (“Perry, Huckabee and the piss-me-off meter,” 3/8/2008), I wrote briefly about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s new book, “On ...

Editorial: Perry, Huckabee and the piss-me-off meter

Monday, March 10th, 2008

My March 8 editorial from Q-Notes, the premier LGBT news source of the Carolinas: Perry, Huckabee and the piss-me-off meter by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff Even though anti-gay conservatives say a lot of stupid things on an almost daily basis, there have been a couple of recent situations that really sent the ...

Editorial: “Holy war: ‘a cause worth dying for’”

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

My editorial from the Jan. 26 issue of Q-Notes, your premier source of LGBT news and views in the Carolinas. This editorial comes just a couple weeks before Michael Brown will be holding a series of lectures prior to the HRC Carolinas Gala in Charlotte, N.C. On Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008, ...

Editorial: Sen. Stepdaddy gets ’stomped’

Friday, December 7th, 2007

From the Dec. 1 issue of Q-Notes, your premier source of Carolinas’ LGBT news & views. Sen. Stepdaddy gets 'stomped' Editor’s Note: Matt Comer It seems as though N.C. Sen. Martin Nesbitt (D-Buncombe) got “stomped” by his stepson, arch-conservative Republican Chad Nesbitt. Sen. Nesbitt is co-sponsor of a bill that would prohibit employment discrimination ...

Editorial: Oral Sodomy & Tennis

Monday, November 19th, 2007

From the Nov. 17 issue of Q-Notes, your premier source of Carolinas' LGBT news & views. Oral Sodomy & Tennis Editor's Note: Matt Comer Athletes. Alcohol. Oral sodomy. Yeah, I don’t think that mixes too well, either. It certainly hasn’t for one student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Dejon Bivens, a 19-year-old ...