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Volume 24 Number 07 August 8,2009
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Front Page
Columns:
Not without its controversy
01
Editor’s Note
04
Thousancis celebrate Pride
01
General Gayety
05
Articles: '
News Notes; Domestic
07
News Notes: Global
06
Coming out off screen and on
19
News Notes: NC
08
LOGO launches in Charlotte
10
Out and About
22
Smoking rates higher among gays
09
Out in the Stars
21
Syphilis on the rise
13
Two beaten in Wilmington
04
Q-Poll
04
Tell Trinity
20
Features:
Power child
15
Columns:
Editorial Contributors:
Drag Rag
14
Matt Comer, Robert Firpo-Cappiello,
Kevin Grooms/Miss Della, Charlene
Editor’sNote
04
Lichtenstein, Lainey Millen, David Alex
Nahmod, Leslie Robinson, David Stout,
Drag Rag
14
Trinity, Shane L. Windmeyer
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issue: 10-03 deadline: 09-23
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