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Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:59pm

The annual OutRaleigh street festival happened today for only its second time. Though it looked a lot like the annual pride events over in Durham, I felt that it took on special significance given the looming amendment vote on Tuesday. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

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Wilson March & Rally

Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:09pm.

Went to and spoke at a march and rally in Wilson yesterday:

The performance was by Lauren Dossett with an anti-amendment protest song she wrote. You can hear it here:

Vote Against Display in Raleigh

Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 8:12pm.

I know I'm going to make this blog entry take a while to load, but I feel like what has been accomplished across this state in the last several months needs to be documented and shared.

Apparently 5000+ people took part in this.

10,000 people turnout for OutRaleigh

Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 12:46am.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/11066439/

About 10,000 people filled Fayetteville street during the OutRaleigh festival, many of them hoping the large turnout Saturday would translate on Tuesday when polling sites open across the state. Volunteers with blue shirts carrying signs on street corners asked people if they had voted and offered to take them to Wake County Board of Elections headquarters down the street.