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An historic number of openly gay and lesbian candidates are running for the North Carolina General Assembly this year. One is guaranteed victory. Two others have faced conservative opponents.
There’s plenty of election night watch parties for your viewing and partying pleasure. Whether you’ll be celebrating or mourning, these parties won’t disappoint.
Many North Carolinians, particularly those Charlotteans who remember a kindler, gentler Pat McCrory, are expected to cast their vote for him today. It will come with a cost.
Polls consistently show Republican Pat McCrory leading Walter Dalton in the gubernatorial race. Republicans are likely to keep the legislature. Some Republicans could land in state secretary positions. But it is Linda Coleman, former state House member and former director of the Office of State Personnel, who might find herself the lone Democratic officer among a sea of Republican lawmakers.
Polls are open Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Learn more about statewide and local LGBT-friendly endorsements in North Carolina.
Three LGBT rights groups have released their endorsements for this fall’s general election on Nov. 6.
An openly gay political operative who has worked on several Republican campaigns in Buncombe County used an anti-gay slur on Twitter on Thursday to describe an openly lesbian North Carolina House candidate.
Openly lesbian N.C. Senate candidate Deb Butler is defending her use of a “transvaginal wand” in a campaign ad against Republican incumbent Thom Goolsby. News video below: The report above follows controversy over an ad in which Butler criticized Goolsby for his support of new restrictions on abortion rights. See that ad below: Stay tuned: …
A local LGBT rights group is questioning The Charlotte Observer endorsement of anti-gay Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James.
Members of the Mecklenburg LGBT Political Action Committee, or MeckPAC, will hold a special reception for Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners candidates on Wednesday evening.
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