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A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Matt Comer currently lives in Charlotte, N.C., where he serves as the editor of Q-Notes, the LGBT newspaper of North and South Carolina.

Since his first foray into activism at age 14, as a freshman at R.J. Reynolds High School, Matt has gone on to create a nationally-respected blog and commentary website at InterstateQ.com, participate in several national LGBT activism movements and become a respected and outspoken advocate on important LGBT, political and social issues in the Carolinas and nationally. In September 2008, Matt appeared as an author in "Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay In America," edited by Mitchell Gold.