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While liberals and progressives might think that the NC legislature couldn't possibly bother with any more anti-gay hate legislation after the passage of Amendment One, I'm sure the Carolina Taliban has a few more ideas up their sleeve.

Q: What made you decide to join the military?
Mazzone: I started on active duty in 2000 to pay for college. I was deployed [to Iraq] at the end of the contract…After deployment I got out and started school, but I missed the military so I started part time in the national guard. Currently I have 11 more months in the national guard.

Q: Why did you miss the military after you left the first time?
Mazzone: The military makes you feel needed, and many civilian jobs don’t provide that. I provided communication for infantry, so if I failed, people would die. Being needed like that filled a void in me.

Q: As a gay man, what was it like in the military when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) was in place?

In a first we now have a sitting congressman Barney Frank openly gay and just married to his partner James Ready. Good on ya boys and good luck in the future with your bold and historic union.
With a little luck this news may cause a few gay bashing, vagina probing right wing neanderthal bigots to spontaneously combust...hide the extinguishers.

Today was National Coming Out Day. An event that was started over 2 decades ago. Today at NCSU hundreds of students got their I <3 Diversity shirts from the NCSU GLBT CA and about 100 of them came over to my Democracy NC table and registered to vote. The free expression tunnel was painted in recognition of this event. There are a whole week of celebratory events. It was a good day for democracy and equality.

National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an internationally observed civil awareness day celebrating gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, etc. people and communities. The name coming out describes their process of publicly identifying their sexual orientation. It is observed annually by members of LGBT communities and their straight supporters on October 11.

The annual North Carolina Pride Parade happened today as it has now for many, many years. In addition to the celebration of the diverse community that Pride always represents, there was also a special urgency created by the recent passage of a bill to put the marriage discrimination amendment on the ballot this coming May. This was a moment to both enjoy how far we've come, and organize for the challenges ahead.

You'll be glad to know that Art Pope is not gay. Neither is Tom Fetzer. And just to say it, teh Google never lies. What else you got for us today?

(Cross-posted from InterstateQ.com)

The National Organization for Marriage, an anti-marriage equality organization, bussed into Raleigh from out of state today for a summer afternoon protest. I imagine they were surprised to find they were in the minority here in NC when they held a rally that almost no one showed up to. The counter-demonstration however had a little over 200 people.

Most of this insider audience on BlueNC has already heard the story of Dr. George Rekers.

But Dr. Rekers fought back against the naked display of his blatant hypocrisy by saying Jesus would do the same.

That was enough for Colbert to weigh in and make Dr. Rekers his Alpha MaleDog of the Week.

Time to laugh! And dance!

Come out, come out wherever you are...