Raleigh safer than D.C.?
Yeah… a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.’s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ago, having lived in Boston and Raleigh, N.C. His experiences here, he says, indicate a level of entrenched homophobia he’s not experienced elsewhere.
”D.C. is very different,” says Hayes, recalling that he and three friends were recently taunted with shouts of ”faggot” by a passing Lincoln Navigator with Maryland plates as they neared Nellie’s, a gay sports bar, walking along 12th Street NW. ”Even though North Carolina has a reputation for not being as gay friendly, the big gay bar in Raleigh is right downtown. I’m not terrified, but I don’t have the level of safety that I felt in Boston.”
Hayes says he believes D.C. has a ”major problem with homophobia. I think it starts in schools and goes on up.”
I really don’t know how this can be. You’d think, stereotypically, that a larger city — and, in general, a more progressive city — would be a safer place for LGBT folks to live and work. Hayes definitely disagrees. His statement in the latest issue of Metroweekly comes right on the heels of the death of a supposed gay-bashing victim killed near D.C. gay bar BeBar. The Washington Blade has more.
The Winston-Salem Journal, my lovely hometown newspaper, 
Hot play, hot boy: [Sean] Knapp likes roles “where I don’t do what I’m supposed to do” and he sure has one in “Speech & Debate” at Southern Rep. He plays Howie, a character who’s been “officially ‘out’” since he was 10 years old, danced like George Michael at a Boy Scout jamboree, wants to form a Gay/Straight Student Alliance at the high school where he’s “the new kid” and has inadvertently gotten involved in an Internet sex scandal involving the mayor and one of his teachers. 
The Charlotte Observer today 
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