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		<title>Gay Republicans: Lost in the Twilight Zone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man it is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity it is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man&#8217;s fears and the summit of his knowledge this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitchell Gold in Hickory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday I had the chance to travel up to Hickory, N.C., for Mitchell Gold&#8217;s appearance at Lenior-Rhyne University&#8217;s Visiting Writers Series. Gold, editor of &#8220;CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing up Gay in America,&#8221; to which I contributed a chapter, was interviewed on stage by CNN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good. Evil. Neither?</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4074/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love debating. It really is too bad my high school didn&#8217;t have a debate team. I would have excelled. Plus, I&#8217;d probably be a better debater now.
Over dinner one night recently, as our food digested and we finished our drinks, a good friend and I spent about 40 minutes trying to decide if humanity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Defender of true marriage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4067/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the LGBT community ever hopes to win equality on issues such as marriage, we will have to start facing the issue of religion and using to our advantage.
That&#8217;s the gist of what I wrote back in November on Bilerico.com, in a post entitled, &#8220;For marriage victories, we must face and use religion.&#8221;
For a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: The year that was (or wasn&#8217;t)</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4057/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bay Windows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cleve Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year has come and gone. Since I began blogging, first on Blogger, then my own hosted blog and then here at InterstateQ.com, I&#8217;ve always done a year-end recap of my biggest stories of the year.
This year&#8217;s rewind is kind of sad, to be honest with you. As the economy continued to falter and challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte O&#8217;s social media conference</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4054/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the media world has definitively changed when the local daily newspaper announces its hosting a social media conference.
The Charlotte Observer will host their day-long conference on Jan. 23 at Queens University:
Throughout the day, you&#8217;ll hear from some of the most forward-thinking social media gurus in the region, including Jeff Elder, Lisa Hoffman, Crystal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did that week really just fly by?</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4050/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[domestic partners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened to last week? A full five work days felt more like two. And, I was doing so well on posting here at the old personal pad again. Can&#8217;t control the news cycle, or the news makers, it seems.
Last week kept me busy at the day job, reporting on Mecklenburg County&#8217;s decision to extend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Militant Charlotte pastor has &#8216;concerns&#8217; over anti-gay Ugandan law</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4046/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Michael Brown, founder of several Charlotte-area ministries including the activist Coalition of Conscience, says he has &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the anti-gay Ugandan law that would punish homosexuality by death.
His statement was emailed to me as I was writing an article on the subject for Q-Notes. Despite his &#8220;concern,&#8221; his statement falls far short of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-gay pol to step down in N.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4036/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Gay Politicians Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian Palmquist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Carolina state Sen. David Hoyle (D-Gaston) announced Dec. 9 he&#8217;d step down at the end of his term in 2010. Hoyle, chairman of the Senate&#8217;s Finance Committee, had been considered the third most powerful member of the Senate&#8217;s leadership, after President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight and former Majority Leader Tony Rand.
One advocate thinks the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public prayer losing ground in North Carolina?</title>
		<link>http://www.interstateq.com/archives/4002/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[County commissioners in the sleepy, liberal town of Asheville, N.C., have made a &#8220;consensus&#8221; decision to end public prayer at their meetings.
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners are set to bring the topic up for official discussion on Jan. 5. They&#8217;ll likely vote to stop opening board meetings with prayer. The move comes after a [...]]]></description>
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