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	<title>Generational Heat: Christian Taboada discusses his televised &#39;&#39;spring break with senior citizens&#39;&#39;</title>
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TV: &#39;&#39;I didn&#39;t think we were going to have to battle with and learn from all these older people&#44;&#39;&#39; says Christian Taboada&#46; &#39;&#39;I didn&#39;t know it was spring break with senior citizens&#46;&#39;&#39; That is essentially the basis for the new reality TV series Forever Young&#46; Co&#45;produced by Ashton Kutcher&#44; the show plays up what its voiceover announcer calls the &#39;&#39;ever&#45;expanding chasm between generations &#91;that&#93; threatens to tear a hole in the social fabric&#46;&#39;&#39; Five people under 30 and five people over 70 spend a week together in a manse&#44; with scripted games&#44; activities and discussions to provoke drama&#44; all while the cameras roll&#46; Christian Taboada &#40;center front&#41; with cast of TV Land&#39;s &#39;&#39;Forever Young&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Fight Back&#58; &#39;Vito&#39; on HBO: A documentary as vibrant and argumentative as its subject</title>
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TV:Some people are lucky enough to make a small difference in the world they live in&#46; And some people are stubborn&#44; angry and committed enough to make a huge difference in the world we all live in&#46;Vito Russo was the second type&#44; a dynamo of gay activism who cut his teeth in the political world of post&#45;Stonewall New York and went on to write the groundbreaking study of gays and lesbians in film&#44; The Celluloid Closet&#46; That book was translated into a stellar documentary that helped a new generation of LGBT people understand their own history in our nation&#39;s most popular form of entertainment&#46; Now&#44; with Vito&#44; we have a companion documentary that tells the story of Russo himself&#46;Vito Russo ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Review&#58; Game Change: Frankenstein Unbound&#58; Get ready to feel more sympathy for Sarah Palin than you expected&#44; even if that glint in her eye is still a scary thing to behold</title>
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TV:You know the difference between Sarah Palin and Frankenstein&#39;s monster&#63;Neck bolts&#46;&#39;&#39;Game Change&#39;&#39; with Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>The Melancholy Sadness: Ren&#233;e Richards changed the world &#45;&#45; and paid a price</title>
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TV:Women&#39;s professional tennis has been a hotbed for social change&#44; from the hear&#45;us&#45;roar launch of the women&#39;s pro tour in the 1970s to the emergence of openly lesbian tennis stars&#46; Decades later&#44; Martina Navratilova is a beloved figure and the U&#46;S&#46; Tennis Association renamed its flagship New York facility the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center&#46;But as Ren&#233;e reminds us&#44; not every story of change had such a fairy&#45;tale ending&#46;Renee Richards ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Role Model: Sajdah Golde moved from D&#46;C&#46; to Hollywood and found herself in the middle of a reality series</title>
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TV:By day&#44; Sajdah Golde is a field organizer with the L&#46;A&#46; Gay &#38; Lesbian Center&#39;s Vote for Equality initiative&#44; canvassing neighborhoods that voted for California&#39;s anti&#45;gay&#45;marriage Proposition 8 in 2008&#46; Sajdah Golde &#40;Photo by Julian Vankim&#41;&#39;&#39;They call it homophobia&#44; as if folks fear gay people&#44;&#39;&#39; says Golde&#46; &#39;&#39;When you think about any other fear&#44; you&#39;re taught to face your fears&#46; So if we meet someone who&#39;s homophobic&#44; we stand right in front of them and tell them about what life is like to be an LGBT person and our desire to marry&#44; and we talk to them about their own experiences with LGBT people and their experiences with marriage&#46; We have a truly grounded conversation&#46; It really helps them to be more supportive of same&#45;sex issues as a whole&#46;&#39;&#39;Golde&#39;s activism is a direct result of living in D&#46;C&#46; for four years through last summer&#44; as she earned a bachelor&#39;s degree in political science and business administration at Howard University&#46; &#39;&#39;I&#39;m an East Coast girl&#44;&#39;&#39; laughs Golde&#44; who grew up in Raleigh&#44; N&#46;C&#46; &#39;&#39;I didn&#39;t move to Hollywood and lose my mind&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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