New Anti-LGBT Law Now An Election Issue in North Carolina's Governor's Race (Video)

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New Anti-LGBT Law Now An Election Issue in N.C.'s Governor's Race
This fall, voters will choose between a Republican incumbent who stopped local governments from protecting its citizens and a Democrat Attorney General who calls that law an "embarassment."
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          Mar 29, 2016
          
        
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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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New Anti-LGBT Law Now An Election Issue in N.C.'s Governor's Race

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New Anti-LGBT Law Now An Election Issue in N.C.'s Governor's Race

This fall, voters will choose between a Republican incumbent who stopped local governments from protecting its citizens and a Democrat Attorney General who calls that law an "embarassment."

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The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview.

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The unsolved murder, dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia,” was cracked wide open by filmmaker Rachel Mason.

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