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NC Governor's School under pressure from anti-gay group

Topix Gay News  6 hours ago

Each summer, 800 of North Carolina's most talented high school seniors attend the country's oldest Governor's School, a prestigious six-week residential program with campuses in Winston-Salem and Raleigh.
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Gay Scholarship Rights Institutional Wrongs

Queerty  Jun 16 08

We’re not sure if you’ve heard, but college can get expensive. Thus, it should come as no surprise to hear that thousands of high school graduates opt out of higher education to focus on stuffing their coffers for future academic endeavors.
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Gay Fathers Making It Big

Queerty  Jun 16 08

Some gay daddies got editorial love in North Carolina this weekend. Rather than focusing on “mainstream” paternalism, The Asheville Citizen-Times used its front page to feature “unconventional” fathers, like queer couple Brian Alexander and John Brock, who adopted 18-month old Eric after becoming his foster parents: The couple decided their best route to parenthood was becoming [.
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Kennedy Released from Hospital

Rod Online  Jun 09 08

Good news to start off Monday morning. Within the last hour, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy flew home to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts after recuperating from brain surgery at Duke University in North Carolina.
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Dem Convention's Gay Blog Selection Raises Eyebrows

Queerty  May 30 08

They may not know who will be their nominee, but the Democratic National Committee has already started compiling their press for this summer’s convention.
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The Future Supercar?

Just Beautiful Men  May 29 08

Not that I wasn't already keenly aware of the staggering rise in gas prices... but having traveled last weekend, has really made the point hit home.
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A climate of violence against gay people

Topix Gay News  May 29 08

WINSTON-SALEM - Recently a woman reported that she was brutally raped at her home in Charlotte. Now an anti-gay marriage amendment has been introduced in the state Senate.
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News: Provincetown, Derek Jarman, Sao Paulo, Diet Coke, Birmingham

Towleroad  May 27 08

Two men charged for sodomy using "crimes against nature" law in North Carolina. Did Al Reynolds, Jr. get some new Manhunt shots? Cleveland-bound pilot sees "an object with a flaming tail and a trail of smoke" fly past cockpit shortly.
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Chickens, Roosts II

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  May 22 08

Because it appears we have to remind some people: Hours after Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina agreed to sign a loyalty pledge put forward by party officials in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada.
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Calif. Ruling Pushes Conservatives To Push Two States On Gay Union Bans

365 Gay News  May 16 08

(Washington) Conservative lawmakers in Arizona and North Carolina are using Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage to press for amendments to their state constitutions to prevent similar rulings.
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Gay candidate reflects on loss in N.C. Senate race, faultsfundraising failure; others criticize HRC

Topix Gay News  May 14 08

Jim Neal ran himself ragged during his bid to win a U.S. Senate seat. The 51-year-old gay man said he subsisted on caffeine and sugar as he crisscrossed North Carolina, shed 15 pounds he didn't have to lose and allowed himself only a few hours of sleep each night.
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Gay candidate reflects on loss in NC Senate race

Google Gay News / Washington Blade  May 13 08

Gay candidate reflects on loss in NC Senate raceWashington Blade, DC - 3 hours ago The 51-year-old gay man said he subsisted on caffeine and sugar as he crisscrossed North Carolina, shed 15 pounds he didn’t have to lose and allowed himself .
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Just Not This Woman

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  May 12 08

North Carolina's voters are comfortable voting for female candidates: Eleven women were on the ballot last week running in primaries for statewide elective office.
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Dramz On The Set

Perez Hilton  May 10 08

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel have been ordered by the Screen Actor's Guild to walk off the North Carolina set off their new movie, directed by the cantankerous David O.
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Lawrence Webb is Virginia's first openly Gay Black Elected Official

Topix Gay News  May 10 08

The Victory Fund reports: "Last night, while most political onlookers were watching the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Indiana and North Carolina, a Virginia resident quietly made history as he became the state's first openly LGBT African-American elected to public office.
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The presumptive Democratic nominee

Bilerico  May 08 08

It's Barack Obama. I know because anyone who's anyone has already told me - Hillary, post Indiana and North Carolina - has no chance at winning.
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North Carolina Appeals Court Upholds Joint Custody for Separated ...

Google Lesbian News / Lifesite  May 08 08

North Carolina Appeals Court Upholds Joint Custody for Separated ...Lifesite, PA - 1 hour ago Tuesday's ruling is shaping legal precedence to give lesbian partners the same parental status granted to other third parties, such as stepparents of the .
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Hillary Clinton's Next Step?

Rod Online  May 08 08

Hillary should do whatever she wants. She has earned it. After Tuesday's night's resounding and racially polarized win in North Carolina, the Democratic presidential nomination is within the grasp of Barack Obama.
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Quote For The Day

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  May 08 08

"Pennsylvania was an election of people thinking about yesterday, North Carolina was sort of a future vote, that that is a vote for the future, you know a tomorrow type vote, a tomorrow type electorate," - Chuck Todd.
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My Turn To Vote

Bilerico  May 08 08

Now that North Carolina and my neighbors across the Ohio in Indiana have cast their ballots, the scene shifts down I-64 to West Virginia.
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