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A TRIBUTE TO JIM BAXTER The Front Page: 26 years of accomplishment from page in North Carolina stories about local and national news and arts and enter tainment. For Baxter, there have been a num ber of moments that have stood out in the history of the paper and the state’s LGBT community. “I think the first time we [covered] a statewide gay Pride march was the most memorable milestone for me. I knew then that we, as a community, had really turned a corner. “Back in the very early days, there wasn’t really much local news to cover and almost nobody to interview,” Baxter recalls. “I did try to do something special around the time of year when other areas were celebrating Pride, even if we weren’t doing anything here. One year it was an article about the Myrtle Beach Bitch, one of the earliest gay publications in the area, and another year it was the story of “I think that The Front Page’s era really ended before this, in the late 1980s or early 1990s, actually. Certainly those were thb peak years for the paper in terms of size and quality of content.” A committed community activist to the core — it’s easy to discern his rea son for the longtime dedication to The Front Page when he adds a few final thoughts about the early days. “l^en I started the paper, I thought of it as a community service that would, hopefully, pay its own way and not take away scarce fundraising dollars that were needed elsewhere,” he recalls. “That was certainly the only possible model for publishing a newspaper here, back when I started.” T Black Mountain College, a very liberal arts and educa tion experiment that took place in North Carolina. The school was remarkable and yet, for all its liberality, was really undone by its own homophobia. Historian Martin Duberman had published a book about it in the mid-seventies, and he agreed to be interviewed.” As for the final years of the publica tion, Baxter seems matter-of-fact about the eventual merger with Q-Notes. North Carolina Kodiaks Rugby Football Club JIM BAXTER one of the best gays in the village Recruiting Now! www.kodiaksrfc.org CONGRATULATIONS JIM BAXTER AND THE FRONT PAGE! Thank you for bringing 26 years of great news coverage to the Carolinas’ LGBT community. Carolines Black Pride Movennent [ North and South Carolina ) SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE SECTION .TRIBUTE TO JIM BAXTER &THE FRONT PAGE S-7
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