Like so many people in this state and across this country, I have not gotten over my funk regarding the rise of Trump and the subsequent train wreck of his presidency.
...Dr. Charles Beem
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Like many progressive North Carolinians, the election of Donald Trump last November rocked my world to its core, and not in a good way. First came shock and disbelief, which was followed by a rage that was hard to shake over the holidays. But I finally did it, resuming the normal patterns of my life – until the dystopian nightmare of the Inaugural Address, which made it abundantly clear that this is a President only interested in playing to his base, with no thought to the rule of law, or the need to be truthful to the American people.
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Recently, I attended a wedding in Lumberton. The two grooms had been together thirteen years, and it was time for them to make ...
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Comments Off on Happily ever after? A marriage equality advocate worries about the Supreme Court
(Editor’s note: Yesterday, in just the latest in long and growing line of such decisions, a federal judge in Texas struck down that ...
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Comments Off on Mildred Loving and marriage equality
It seems increasingly to be a world turned upside down these days in the nationwide quest for marriage equality. This is true even ...
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Comments Off on Watch the dominoes fall: The Utah case and marriage equality in North Carolina
Like millions of other gay Americans, I celebrated the recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning key sections of the Defense of Marriage ...
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Comments Off on The marriage haves and the have-nots
One of the funny things about being gay, as opposed to being a member of other socially constructed groups like ethnic minorities, is ...
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Comments Off on Civil rights? That’s so gay!
Like many other North Carolinians, I was saddened and shocked by the outcome of May’s primary election, in which 61% of voters approved ...
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