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		<title>It&#8217;s getting harder to be patriotic</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7664/its-getting-harder-to-be-patriotic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capstones of history</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7492/capstones-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7492/capstones-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks, we’ve celebrated two important dates. First, we remembered the Stonewall Riots on June 28. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Our Mayor&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7282/our-mayor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two decades, Susan Burgess was part-and-parcel of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s public life. First, as a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QC leaders take note</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7153/qc-leaders-take-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our May 29 print issue, I took Charlotte’s city leadership (if you can call it “leadership”) to task for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political courage? Not in the QC</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6971/political-courage-not-in-the-qc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s curious that we call our elected officials “leaders,” because the truth of the matter is that most of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency: Most Carolinas LGBT orgs get  it</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6716/transparency-most-carolinas-lgbt-orgs-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6716/transparency-most-carolinas-lgbt-orgs-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time back, I’d noticed a set of great articles in the D.C. LGBT newspaper, Washington Blade. The paper had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMPD liaison conversations are needed</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6473/cmpd-liaison-conversations-are-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6473/cmpd-liaison-conversations-are-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this issue, we’ve got quite a bit of coverage on the April 3 murder of transgender Charlottean Toni Alston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simple request, and a final warning</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6296/a-simple-request-and-a-final-warning/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6296/a-simple-request-and-a-final-warning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of journalism there are a few things you just don’t do. You don’t fabricate stories. You don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The more things change…</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6161/the-more-things-change%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6161/the-more-things-change%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Come this fall, it will have been 10 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough. James must go.</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6041/enough-is-enough-james-must-go/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6041/enough-is-enough-james-must-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blacks and gays. If it isn’t one group, it’s the other. All of Charlotte’s — indeed, the nation’s — problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte is asking and telling</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5764/charlotte-is-asking-and-telling/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5764/charlotte-is-asking-and-telling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a year now, I’ve been involved with a newly established LGBT grassroots group in the Queen City. The Charlotte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Panhandling League</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5602/christian-panhandling-league/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5602/christian-panhandling-league/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep your friends close and your enem…I mean, friends with whom you simply disagree…closer. How many anti-LGBT groups’ email lists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope in Hickory, and for the nation</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5397/hope-in-hickory-and-for-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5397/hope-in-hickory-and-for-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In small town America the LGBT community isn’t often given the chance to see its stories and lives held up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LGBT community helping Haiti</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5093/lgbt-community-helping-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5093/lgbt-community-helping-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to miss the aid commercials from the First Lady, television networks and other companies and non-profits. Relief for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte leadership: Curiously silent</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4805/charlotte-leadership-curiously-silent/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4805/charlotte-leadership-curiously-silent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curiously silent. That’s what describes the Charlotte LGBT community’s official response to Republican Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James — the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions and well-wishes</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4671/resolutions-and-well-wishes/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4671/resolutions-and-well-wishes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year has come and gone. A new year and a new decade are upon us. How appropriate a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I should have been a lawyer</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4523/i-should-have-been-a-lawyer/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4523/i-should-have-been-a-lawyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics has always interested me. So has the law. Ask any of my friends and they’ll tell you I’m quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot guys, lesbians and football</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4409/hot-guys-lesbians-and-football/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4409/hot-guys-lesbians-and-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports. Not really my thing. I don’t understand any of the games or their rules. I don’t know what shot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte, here’s your chance</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4268/charlotte-heres-your-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4268/charlotte-heres-your-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a month before this year’s elections, my Editor’s Note column asked for two things: First, I implored our community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer ban not a Free Speech issue</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4044/singer-ban-not-a-free-speech-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4044/singer-ban-not-a-free-speech-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 19, Q-Notes picked up the story of a popular, regional Country singer in the Piedmont and southwest Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End the embarrassment, get with the game</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3956/end-the-embarrassment-get-with-the-game/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3956/end-the-embarrassment-get-with-the-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bessemer City: 5,119. Boone: 13,843. Carrboro: 16,782. Charlotte: 687,456.
Population isn’t the only fact or figure separating these three small towns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Boy Scout, and I&#8217;m here to recruit you</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3599/im-a-boy-scout-and-im-here-to-recruit-you/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3599/im-a-boy-scout-and-im-here-to-recruit-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most folks have heard me rant and rave at least one time about the Boy Scouts of America and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$30k for toilets?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3496/30k-for-toilets/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3496/30k-for-toilets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue’s cover story documents a debate brought to the forefront of LGBT activists’ minds as Equality Across America plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia and Henry sittin’ in a tree</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3353/julia-and-henry-sittin-in-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3353/julia-and-henry-sittin-in-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last issue, the QLiving feature story, “Power child,” explored the creation of the hit film “Julie &#038; Julia,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q-Notes&#8217; office has moved</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3282/q-notes-office-has-moved/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3282/q-notes-office-has-moved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back on the couple days I spent moving furniture and old files from our old offices on Independence Blvd., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newcomer Guide and QGuide team up to serve you</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3168/newcomer-guide-and-qguide-team-up-to-serve-you/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3168/newcomer-guide-and-qguide-team-up-to-serve-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Q-Notes staff is so excited about this special issue and our first ever LGBT Carolinas Newcomer Guide. We hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Perdue appointment cause for concern?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2993/conservative-perdue-appointment-cause-for-concern/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2993/conservative-perdue-appointment-cause-for-concern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 30, N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Judge Eric Levinson to the seat of Resident Superior Court judge for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History will see to it</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2881/history-will-see-to-it/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2881/history-will-see-to-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A century from now, the American people will look back at the beginning of the 21st century. They will see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ketner&#8217;s &#8216;outing&#8217; spree</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2777/ketners-outing-spree/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2777/ketners-outing-spree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reported originally at Q-Notes Online on June 3, news of Linda Ketner’s so-called “outing” of three Palmetto State Republicans spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sticky issue</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2596/a-sticky-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2596/a-sticky-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s up? Not much. Bored. U lookin’?
Oh, uh… hi. Didn’t see you there. Let me close my laptop. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2513/ode-to-09/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2513/ode-to-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 21:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Class of 2009, now is your time to shine.
As you mark your final days of college and walk across that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Compromise&#8217; bill leaves much to be desired</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2381/compromise-bill-leaves-much-to-be-desired/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2381/compromise-bill-leaves-much-to-be-desired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 16, the North Carolina House approved HB 88, the Healthy Youth Act. Advocates had hoped the bill would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New AIDS campaign is just the beginning</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2272/new-aids-campaign-is-just-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2272/new-aids-campaign-is-just-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this issue, Q-Notes reports on the new HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness campaign unveiled by the White House Office of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying faith</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2058/dying-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2058/dying-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month, a lot has been made of religion and its place in America. While the religious right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.C.’s religious right: Digging their own graves</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1917/nc-religious-right-digging-their-own-graves/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1917/nc-religious-right-digging-their-own-graves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks we’ve seen North Carolina’s religious right (I like to refer to them as “Rabid Righties”) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1808/february-extravaganza/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1808/february-extravaganza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queer February. It happens every year. There&#8217;s always so much to do and so little time with which to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t look at me. I don’t have an opinion.</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1711/dont-look-at-me-i-dont-have-an-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1711/dont-look-at-me-i-dont-have-an-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came out at the end of eighth grade, one of the first LGBT organizations I learned about was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the jury reached a verdict?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1606/has-the-jury-reached-a-verdict/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1606/has-the-jury-reached-a-verdict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[n the Jan. 10 issue, two opinion pieces appeared regarding the writings of gay prisoner Joseph Urbaniak. In a guest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting our past could help us now</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1481/revisiting-our-past-could-help-us-now/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1481/revisiting-our-past-could-help-us-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In doing research for this issue’s cover story, “Culture War (reprise),” I found myself browsing through the Q-Notes archives. Being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoner is just the messenger, try to see the message instead</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1390/prisoner-is-just-the-messenger-try-to-see-the-message-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1390/prisoner-is-just-the-messenger-try-to-see-the-message-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q-Notes readers have voiced their concerns about our editorial decision to publish a limited-run column from a gay North Carolina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s anti-gay preacher problem</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1300/obamas-anti-gay-preacher-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1300/obamas-anti-gay-preacher-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in January, before the 2008 primaries, The Advocate interviewed the president of Charleston, S.C.’s Stonewall Democrats chapter, Keith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reframing, moving forward</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1212/reframing-moving-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1212/reframing-moving-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first weekend in December, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate gifts</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1143/the-ultimate-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1143/the-ultimate-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue, Q-Notes rolls out its annual holiday gift guide. Most likely, we’ll include some treats in the Dec. 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nomenclature: What really matters</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/899/nomenclature-what-really-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/899/nomenclature-what-really-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of September a South Carolina gentleman sent out a letter to local LGBT leaders and news publications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina’s on the right track</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/829/south-carolina%e2%80%99s-on-the-right-track/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/829/south-carolina%e2%80%99s-on-the-right-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina. The land of the Dixiecrats. Strom Thurmond and the Confederate Flag. The KKK and a “House of Homophobia.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New HIV numbers should spark action</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/747/new-hiv-numbers-should-spark-action/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/747/new-hiv-numbers-should-spark-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding new estimates on yearly HIV infections and transmissions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Q-Notes?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/675/where-is-q-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/675/where-is-q-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, an email landed in my inbox asking a very simple question: “The mainstream media is there. Where is Q-Notes?”
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False idols and the death god</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/610/false-idols-and-the-death-god/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/610/false-idols-and-the-death-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s something strange in the air. Do you smell it? Can you taste it? Christianity is changing, my friend. Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open interaction is the key to change</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/541/open-interaction-is-the-key-to-change/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/541/open-interaction-is-the-key-to-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every Thursday a group of co-workers and I steal away from the office for about an hour or so. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanford is so stupid</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/502/sanford-is-so-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/502/sanford-is-so-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent flap over the “South Carolina is so gay” British ad campaign has left the heads of LGBT citizens [...]]]></description>
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