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f 26 National Q^NOTES * MAY 8.2004 WOO ...Levi/Leather Club 4000 S. 1-85 Service Rd. • Charlotte, NC 704.394.1712 www.woodshedlounge.com EVENTS: Wednesday Pool Tournament $2.00 Domestic Beers First Saturday Fetish Night Third Friday Country Night • Best Beer Selection • Best Juke Box • Best Country Music as named in The Charlotte Observers annual Best of Charlotte! SPECIALS: Monday $5 All You Can Drink Beer Tuesday ^ $3 Call Liquors, $2 Beer Wednesday Pool Tournament • No Entry Fee • $50 to the Winner Thursday $1 Domestic Beer Friday $2 Smirnoff Ice, $3.00 Malibu Rum Saturday $2.00 Corona, $3.00 Jim Beam Sunday $2 House Drinks * Free Buffet at 6:30 pm Unexpected anti-gay efforts at Marshall Park from page 3 the others. The incident left me a bit shaken, to be honest. 1 glanced around the area and suddenly became very suspicious of everyone that didn’t look queer enough. How could you really tell them apart from the LGBTfolk? As the day wore on 1 heard several sto ries of other people having similar experi ences throughout the park. HOURS: 5 pm - 2 am - Six Days a Week • Sunday - 3 pm - 2 am Patio Bar Open Friday, Saturday & Sunday! Sunday Buffet at 6:30 pm end, individuals from the undercover OSA booth, the numerous stealth invader youths and a few dark suited men had regrouped on a hill overlooking the stage. Barred from re-entering the park, they simply stood by a giant cross and occa sionally engaged passersby in politely confrontational conversation. On a more pleasant note, Charlotte Pride was a huge success — with the largest atten dance ever'to date. And don’t get me wrong — even though I’ve devoted a lot of space to my thoughts about anti-gay efforts that took place during the event, there was so much that was beautiful and fantastic: the over- the-top costuming worn by the performing drag queens and live musical performances by Mark Weigle and Sister Funk and the shared camaraderie by all the queers in attendance, no matter what their back ground (note to all Anti-gay stealth protestor being escorted from park by police After a nod and a smile an attractive young man was approached by another — the single gay man looking for the possibility of a new encounter or a potential relation ship. Upon striking up a conversation the initiator rattled off the usual rhetoric; “You don’t have to be this way. God loves you.” A younger lesbian 1 met recalled her conversation with a group of the youth as she entered the park. “They wanted me to listen to what they had to say but they certainly weren’t interested in anything 1 had to say back.” Eventually police began ejecting the harassers and limiting them to the side walk area outside the park bordering Third St — at one point more than 20 had been forcibly removed. The group with the booth, it turned out, weren’t who they said they were. They had broken down their booth and left — but not before it was determined that they were part of Operation Save America. Near afternoon’s in attendance at Charlotte Pride; support your South Carolina LGBT brothers and sisters — attend S.C. Pride in Columbia May 15). it’s clear that all hate-mongers aren’t just uned- Mark Weigle sang abaut bears and brotherhood. Despite a brief rainstorm. Sister Funk still captured the crowd's attention. ucated rednecks anymore. Some of them — it would seem — are quite clever about the efforts. Obviously it’s something the LGBT community needs to be aware of and prepared for. Keep your ^es peeled for that mutated fourth finger. — David Moore, Editor Connie J. Vetter Atunney and C^^ounsclkn* at Law Legal Services for Our Community 704^567^5530 ; _ ^' y arnadore Buil J ii ig T. 4037 E,-independence Boulevard ' . . Charlotte, MC 28205
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