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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>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7664/its-getting-harder-to-be-patriotic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>Change tackles the rugby world</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7672/change-tackles-the-rugby-world/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7672/change-tackles-the-rugby-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things do change.
Consider the case of Gareth Thomas, an international rugby star. The Welshman is 6’3” and a muscular 225 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solis: Interpreting families</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7692/solis-interpreting-families/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7692/solis-interpreting-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>QNotes Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest Commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Hilda L. Solis, U.S. Secretary of Labor
It’s been 17 years since Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 years from now: wishful thinking?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7697/20-years-from-now-wishful-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7697/20-years-from-now-wishful-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded this morning: the wheel turns slowly for trans individuals. My legal name has been changed for over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A note on gender-neutral pronouns</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7494/a-note-on-gender-neutral-pronouns/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7494/a-note-on-gender-neutral-pronouns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this issue, we explore LGBT and queer youth, their thoughts on our community and the ways they are helping [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>DADT: Truth and sense gone AWOL</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7507/dadt-truth-and-sense-gone-awol/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7507/dadt-truth-and-sense-gone-awol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The things they say.
Politicians and advocates opposed to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) have provided a chain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Our Mayor&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7282/our-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7282/our-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>Lit and flicks sustain the newly out</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7291/lit-and-flicks-sustain-the-newly-out/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7291/lit-and-flicks-sustain-the-newly-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I asked my friend Louisa about her weekend plans. She said she intended to cozy up with a lesbian romance.
It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No ENDA in sight</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7314/no-enda-in-sight/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7314/no-enda-in-sight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What’s happened to ENDA?
Many had surmised that a Democratic president, Senate and House would mean much of the legislation, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QC leaders take note</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7153/qc-leaders-take-note/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7153/qc-leaders-take-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>A well-earned comeuppance</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7172/a-well-earned-comeuppance/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/7172/a-well-earned-comeuppance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since entering Congress in 1994, Indiana Republican Mark Souder focused on changing America’s moral direction.
Now we know whose moral direction [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6971/political-courage-not-in-the-qc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>George Rekers&#8217; European vacation</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6986/george-rekers-european-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6986/george-rekers-european-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a Baptist minister, a co-founder of the Family Research Council and a board member of the National Association for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of fear and the ‘ick factor’</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6992/the-politics-of-fear-and-the-ick-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6992/the-politics-of-fear-and-the-ick-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What drives people to inhuman behavior?
Hate and violence are usually a product of fear and ignorance, which often manifest in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>Fences</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6750/fences/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6750/fences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poet Robert Frost, playwright August Wilson and novelist Mark Twain got literary mileage out of fences. Now, instead of writing [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>Gay news that’s fit to print</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6483/gay-news-that%e2%80%99s-fit-to-print/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6483/gay-news-that%e2%80%99s-fit-to-print/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m doing your research for you.”
Anne was all smiles, but her words had made me all nervous. Someone choosing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Point: Counterpoint</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6503/point-counterpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6503/point-counterpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month’s column addressed suicide and the sense of victimization that is often associated with it. This is not the [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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 lot of the LGBT elder</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6304/the-lot-of-the-lgbt-elder/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6304/the-lot-of-the-lgbt-elder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As if arthritis and profuse nose hair weren’t enough. Aging is already loaded with physical and emotional challenges. Now we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for the right party</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6167/fighting-for-the-right-party/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6167/fighting-for-the-right-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The month of March has come to mean one thing to me: prom struggles.
Last year, I wrote about a lesbian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough love or tough luck</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6184/tough-love-or-tough-luck/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6184/tough-love-or-tough-luck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that people who post trans blogs and commentaries — me included — are always writing about discrimination, hate [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>Generously running interference</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/6055/generously-running-interference/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/6055/generously-running-interference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time, the Navy will let women serve on submarines.
Personally, I’d sooner serve on a garbage barge than [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>

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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>Joint crusade</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5774/joint-crusade/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5774/joint-crusade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Online readers of Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper spotted an apparent show of brotherhood, a photo of a Christian leader and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why ENDA matters…revisited…again</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5799/why-enda-matters-revisited-again/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5799/why-enda-matters-revisited-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My experiences have not been unusual. Sadly, they are more common, by far, than those whose personal experiences have not [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Matching the words with the LGBT world</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5614/matching-the-words-with-the-lgbt-world/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5614/matching-the-words-with-the-lgbt-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Word Warriors website, a project of Wayne State University, aims to retrieve expressive English words from obscurity. Hoping to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>Talkback: Pride Charlotte and Flip Benham</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5433/talkback-pride-charlotte-and-flip-benham/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5433/talkback-pride-charlotte-and-flip-benham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>QNotes Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[talkback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Letters to the editor and comments from goqnotes.com. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation.
As a past Task [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When things go bad</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5413/when-things-go-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5413/when-things-go-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour in the dentist’s chair yesterday, getting shots and enduring drills.
I’d rather do that again today than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What being transsexual means to me</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5437/what-being-transsexual-means-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5437/what-being-transsexual-means-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think one thing many will agree upon is the critical need for change — personally, publicly, politically and socially. [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>The day things change</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/5124/the-day-things-change/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/5124/the-day-things-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>QNotes Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow the news, you know that Jan. 1 was a big day in New Hampshire.
That’s the day recreational [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>Homo stupidicus</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4812/homo-stupidicus/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4812/homo-stupidicus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard of Peking Man and Java Man. Now meet Mecklenburg Man.
This prehistoric specimen, Bill James, is a Mecklenburg County [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Transgender, Transsexual and Intersex</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4830/transgender-transsexual-and-intersex/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4830/transgender-transsexual-and-intersex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the issue of nomenclature and labels, there are many opinions on this particular subject. Invariably, few agree. I suggest [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Triad]]></category>

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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>The rainbow and TV icons</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4677/the-rainbow-and-tv-icons/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4677/the-rainbow-and-tv-icons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meredith Baxter’s announcement that she is a lesbian has put a — you should excuse the expression — kink in [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte]]></category>

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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>The turkey count</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4537/the-turkey-count/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4537/the-turkey-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year when we think about turkey. Or, in my case, turkeys. In honor of the season, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I hardly knew her</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4549/i-hardly-knew-her/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4549/i-hardly-knew-her/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, it’s Saturday of Thanksgiving Day weekend — the so-called beginning of the holiday season. People are [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Note]]></category>

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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>Waiting on the outcome</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4424/waiting-on-the-outcome/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4424/waiting-on-the-outcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My girlfriend Anne and I reached the point in our relationship where we wanted to make it official. Also, her [...]]]></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>Exciting changes for Q-Notes</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4279/exciting-changes-for-q-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4279/exciting-changes-for-q-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Yarbrough</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Q-Notes staff is excited to announce two new changes we hope will streamline your experience as a reader and [...]]]></description>
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