Chapel Hill NC Gets a Gay Mayor in Kleinschmidt

Pam Spaulding has tweeted that Chapel Hill, North Carolina now has a gay mayor.

She writes that Mark Kleinschmidt won the race by 101 votes.

Check back to Advocate.com tomorrow for more on this race.

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