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		<title>Change tackles the rugby world</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/7672/change-tackles-the-rugby-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
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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>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>
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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>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>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>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>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>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>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>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>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>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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		<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>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>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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		<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>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>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>The senator makes the grade</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4277/the-senator-makes-the-grade/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4277/the-senator-makes-the-grade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People in the public eye who utter inanities about gays keep me busy. I regularly poke into the verbal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer snub</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/4051/soccer-snub/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/4051/soccer-snub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A soccer team in suburban Paris doesn’t play well with others.
The Creteil Bebel club refused to play a match against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the young folks apart</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3969/keeping-the-young-folks-apart/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3969/keeping-the-young-folks-apart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his New York Times Magazine column called “The Ethicist,” Randy Cohen recently tackled a modern dilemma.
A mother wrote in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside whose mind?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3742/inside-whose-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3742/inside-whose-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You remember Mark Foley. How could you forget him? It was just three years ago that the Republican Congressman from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the right thing</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3625/doing-the-right-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3625/doing-the-right-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Utah it’s legal to fire someone for being gay. The state’s new governor has served notice he’ll change that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The school of hard knocks</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3502/the-school-of-hard-knocks/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3502/the-school-of-hard-knocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a lot of respect for teachers. But not for two public high school teachers in Minnesota. I’d like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another one bites the dust</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3358/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3358/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we can call it official. Along with death and taxes, there’s something else we can always count on: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Episcopal Agenda</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3288/the-episcopal-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3288/the-episcopal-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Episcopal General Convention, Episcopalians effectively lifted their temporary ban on gay bishops. They also chose to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashing their independence</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3149/flashing-their-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3149/flashing-their-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today [as I write this] is the Fourth of July. As fireworks boom outside in celebration of Independence Day, I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the circus came to town</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/3011/when-the-circus-came-to-town/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/3011/when-the-circus-came-to-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Phelps came to town and I missed him. I could just spit.
To be precise, the Rev. Fred didn’t actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bird’s eye view</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2885/the-bird%e2%80%99s-eye-view/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2885/the-bird%e2%80%99s-eye-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stories about the two gay male penguins that are raising a chick in a German zoo have included quotes from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the good fight against DADT</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2787/fighting-the-good-fight-against-dadt/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2787/fighting-the-good-fight-against-dadt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It feels like a whole lot of nothing is happening in Washington to rid us of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cluster of firsts</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2610/a-cluster-of-firsts/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2610/a-cluster-of-firsts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of 2009 has brought a happy helping of lesbian firsts. Early in the year Johanna Sigurdardottir became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The news we use</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2517/the-news-we-use/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2517/the-news-we-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve decided that it’s time. Time to test your knowledge of recent LGBT news. Print out and circle the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage: Which state is next?</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2390/marriage-which-state-is-next/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2390/marriage-which-state-is-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa is the first state in the American heartland to legalize same-sex marriage. Vermont is the first state to allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida flush</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2274/florida-flush/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2274/florida-flush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Comer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days when I think of Florida, I don’t think of Walt Disney World or spring training or the Everglades. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prom fashion fray</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/2067/prom-fashion-fray/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/2067/prom-fashion-fray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At this time of year, the thoughts of high school seniors all across America turn toward the prom. How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rocky time in the Rockies</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1919/a-rocky-time-in-the-rockies/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1919/a-rocky-time-in-the-rockies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[State senators in Utah and Colorado delivered hugely homophobic rants lately. It seems this country is suffering an outbreak of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A womyn&#8217;s diary</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1815/a-womyns-diary/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1815/a-womyns-diary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently ran a story about Alapine, a lesbian community in rural Alabama. Home to 20 women [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The leading lesbian</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1719/the-leading-lesbian/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1719/the-leading-lesbian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a tough name for non-Scandinavians to pronounce or spell, but I promise to learn it. Cross my rainbow heart.
Johanna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sculpted stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1611/sculpted-stereotypes/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1611/sculpted-stereotypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the only person who could antagonize most of Europe at once was George Bush. Now a Czech artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught by my own web</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1492/caught-by-my-own-web/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1492/caught-by-my-own-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a technophobe.
I’d be a card-carrying one, if I knew how to make a card on my computer.
My inability [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rick Warren’s invocation options</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1400/rick-warren%e2%80%99s-invocation-options/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1400/rick-warren%e2%80%99s-invocation-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Rick Warren. After President-elect Obama selected the evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, gays and liberals [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s an off-the-wall world</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1318/its-an-off-the-wall-world/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1318/its-an-off-the-wall-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As 2008 winds down, the worldwide wackiness level jumps up.
In Paris, armed robbers made off with $100 million worth of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Signs of the times</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1231/signs-of-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1231/signs-of-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After California voters passed the odious Proposition 8, gays took to the streets to protest. In the process America’s gay [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The emotion roundup</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1145/the-emotion-roundup/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1145/the-emotion-roundup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m mad.
I’m angry that Proposition 8 passed. I’m mad that Californians voted to ban same-sex marriage. They kicked gays and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Access denied</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/1082/access-denied/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/1082/access-denied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My girlfriend Anne recently took a business trip to South Bend, Ind. While staying at a Hyatt, she decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crazed Christian candidate</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/984/crazed-christian-candidate/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/984/crazed-christian-candidate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it seems like the USA is saturated with Christian fire-and-brimstone folks categorically consigning gays to hell, take heart: other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health minister’s removal the right Rx</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/905/health-minister%e2%80%99s-removal-the-right-rx/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/905/health-minister%e2%80%99s-removal-the-right-rx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hours after taking office, South Africa’s new president announced he was removing Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as health minister.
At last, Dr. Beetroot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Like oil and holy water</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/830/like-oil-and-holy-water/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/830/like-oil-and-holy-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the sort of math I understand: Pope Benedict XVI + gays = a hoo-hah.
Europe offers two recent examples of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Farewell to Del</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/749/farewell-to-del/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/749/farewell-to-del/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Del Martin died an honest woman. After five decades of living in sin, of shacking up, of living outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doom for marriage and the family</title>
		<link>http://goqnotes.com/677/doom-for-marriage-and-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://goqnotes.com/677/doom-for-marriage-and-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Gayety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You never know what strange things you’ll find when you snoop.
My girlfriend is away for several weeks, so I’m staying [...]]]></description>
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