Special Features Meth, Myth & America, by Bob Roehr, p. 7
September 2,2005
Volume 26, Number 18
rServing the Carolinas For Over 25 Years!
NC Pride 2005 Set for September 24
Organizers Expect "Big”
Parade; Asheville Grand
Marshal Completes the
MCircle of Pride**
DURHAM - The annual North
Carolina Gay Pride Parade will take
place on Sept 24, 2005 at Duke
University East Campus. Pointing to
years of increasing success and pop
ularity, organizers expect thousands
of participants and attendees from
across North Carolina and from well
beyond state borders.
"Holding the parade annually in
Durham has a lot of logistical and
organizational advantages, but it
; means we have to work intelligently ';
to ensure that die parade pulls the
entire state's LGBT community into
a circle of pride," says Keith Hayes,
spokesperson for the Pride
Committee of North Carolina. This
year, we're delighted to announce
that Ira Schultz, publisher of Out in
Asheville, is our grand marshal. We
hope the entire Asheville family
shows up for the weekend!"
The NC Pride Parade has taken
place for six consecutive years in
Durham, the longest period that the
parade - which used to travel the
state - has stayed in one place.
During that time, grand marshals
have come from Raleigh, Charlotte,
Greensboro, Wilmington and, in
2005, from Asheville.
In 2004, an estimated 10,000 'peo
ple from across North Carolina,
across the Southeast and as far away
of Ohio, New York and California
attended PrideFest activities.
PrideFest weekend activities and
attendance numbers are expected to
match or exceed those of 2004.
Ihe weekend's events continue to
firm up, but will indude:
* Pride Parade Rally and \fendor Fair
-1030 am - 5 pm. Sept 24, Duke
University East Campus
Bisexual Trangbudb^ed Evbyt
* Pride Parade - 1:00 p. m. - 2:15
p.m., Main St and Campus Drive
through Ninth and Broad Streets,
Durham
* NightFest - 7:00 pan. - 4:00 a an.
- Hargett Street area of Raleigh,
including "Embrace" parties at
Raleigh's nightclubs, Tne Capital
Corral (CCs), Legends, View and
Flex.
- Many local organizations events to
be co-sporisored by NC Pride
- Other performances and art events
to be announced . at
wwwaicpride.org.
"The North Carolina LGBT Pride
Parade is a force that can unite all of
the gay communities in North
Carolina more than just once a year/'
says Grand Marshal Ira Schultz.
"The spirit, optimism and commit
ment each of us takes away from a
pride parade is one of the things that
carries us through our work and
lives long after the event September
24 will be a great of day of Pride
unity for North Carolina this yeaj;
and I'll do all I can to keep that sense
of Pride unity strong and construc
tive in Western Norm Carolina until
foe pride parade of 2006."
National Sponsors; Whole Foods,
Mitchell Gold, USAirways,
AdamMale, Adam and Eve, ID
Lubricants and Budwjeser/BudLite
continued page I
Court voids consensual oral
sex conviction but refuses to
Invalidate law
RALEIGH — North Carolina Court of
Appeals ruled on August 16 that a hetero
W sexual man's conviction for engaging hi
; ;. oral sex with a woman must be set aside '
because of the US. Supreme Court's ded
, sion in Lawrence v. Texas, but that the 2003
high court ruling does not require thyub^
right invalidation of die state's
against nature" criminal statute.
■ According to a report in Gay City'Nnos
125105), the man was dwr$ed widjM
ree sexual offenses, including a "crime
jgf^airist nature," tot attempting intercom
and performing oral sex on a woman.
' These events occurred m May 2004
. more than a year before Lawrence, which
declared unconstitutional the Texas
Homosexual Sodomy Law. The Supreme
Court found that foe right of consenting
adults to engage in oral or anal sex in pri
vate was part erf the liberty protected by
foe 14th Amendment's due process clause.
. The man was not prosecuted until after
foe Lawrence ruling and was charged with
first degree rape, first degree sexual
,f offense, and a crime against nature. The
defendant moved to dismiss all the
charges against him, contending that the
sexual acts, which he’did not deny, had
been consensual and thus not unlawful.
-" . The trial fudge denied his motion, but
i' reduced foe first two charges to second
rape and second degree sexual
The judge instructed foe jury that con
3%
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sett was an issue on the rape and sexual
Offense charges, but not on the crime
against nature charge, which was a correct
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Get all the latest Pride info at www.ncpride.org