I'm headed later today down to Raleigh/Durham for what will be the last book trip for quite awhile (and it'll be fun to celebrate my birthday tomorrow in a great town). I chatted with Matt Comer yesterday, a good friend of Adam's and the editor of Q-Notes, the Carolinas' LGBT newspaper, to discuss the upcoming trip and prospects for LGBT rights in the next several years.
I'll be speaking at the NC Policy Watch "Crucial Conversations" luncheon tomorrow at noon (lunch served at 11:30). They've had some pretty excellent programs and speakers in the past, including Rep. Brad Miller recently, so I'm pumped. You can RSVP for lunch (cost is $10) here.
Tomorrow night I'll be speaking at Regulator Bookshop in Durham at 7 PM, sponsored by Traction, the Durham-based political social networking group (they used an interesting model- fun- for social engagement, and quite successfully). You can check them out here. Our friends Lanya Shapiro and Cara Wittekind of Traction (who did me the great honor of doing a lot of the research for the book while interning here in DC), are very kind to have us down there.
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