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[edit] About Matt Hill Comer

Matt Hill Comer, June 2006.

Matthew Morrell Hill Comer (known as "Matt Hill Comer"), is an journalist, activist and youth advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. He currently lives in Charlotte, N.C., where he is employed as the editor of Q-Notes, the leading LGBT news source of North and South Carolina. He is 2004 graduate of the Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC (see Richard Joshua Reynolds) and attended The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he studied history, with some course work in political science and religious studies; he continues to pursue his degree. Matt changed his legal last name from "Hill" to "Comer" on February 3, 2006. Taking his mother's family name was inspired by his grandfather, W. Morrell Comer.

Since publicly acknowledging his homosexuality ("coming out") at age 14, Matt Hill Comer has worked with various community, state and national organizations in the effort to create social awareness on LGBT issues and make his community, state and nation a more accepting and equal place for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. At the age of fourteen, as a freshman at the R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC, Matt founded SPEAK (formerly known as the Gay-Straight Alliance) and as a result was dismissed from Scouting in December 2000 for being an "avowed homosexual." On the campus of UNCG, he worked with the UNCG Student Government Association and was involved with various community organizations such as the Triad Business & Professional Guild and EqualityNC. In the past, Matt has worked with UNCG PRIDE!, Alternative Resources of the Triad & its Queer College Youth Network of the Triad (QCYNT), Triad Equality Alliance, GLSEN Winston-Salem, GLSEN Youth, Scouting For All (based in Petaluma, CA), the Burke Park Neighborhood Association and the Women's Health Center of Excellence of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Guilford Green Foundation, one of the largest LGBT non-profit charitable organizations in the Carolinas.

In the spring of 2007, Matt was a Rider in the second Soulforce Equality Ride. In the fall of 2006, Matt served as a City Organizer for Greensboro, NC in the Soulforce Right to Serve Campaign.

Matt Hill Comer (center), Triad Scouting For All Protest of the Boy Scouts of America Membership Policies April 4, 2004.

For more about Matt Hill Comer, please visit his website at www.MattHillComer.com, where you can find out more about him on and read his blog.

For more information concerning Matt Hill Comer's experience with the Boy Scouts of America, visit http://boyscouts.InterstateQ.com and click on "History."