All posts by Randy Shulman
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Reel Affirmations 18
Welcome to Metro Weekly's guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2008. There's more than 60 presentations of film and video shorts this year...
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Ball Bearing
''It's a lot easier to get stuff made for TV than it is for movies,'' says Alan Ball. And he should know: The screenwriter of...
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Fall Arts Preview 2008
James Davis as Juliet (Photo by Todd Franson) When I was a young lad, my father sat me down, looked me squarely in the eye...
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Laugh Attack
Humor is subjective. What strikes me as funny may not be funny to you. There are, however, plenty of crossover areas that make us all...
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Green Bay hosts its first gay pride
“We’ve been planning for 10 months and we’ve received nothing but positive response from the city, from leaders, businesses. The major reaction that we get...
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Rubyfruit Bar and Grill owner laments imminent closing
“I feel it’s bittersweet. It’s sad to see it go because it was so important, so necessary at one time. Yet if we’re liberated now...
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Gay Police Officer Settles Lawsuit
“They really relentlessly harassed and ridiculed him. They made his life miserable and he couldn’t tolerate it anymore.” — James Trout, speaking about his client,...
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When a Penis is Considered a Birth Defect
“She had a birth defect, and we call it that. I can’t think of a worse birth defect, as a woman, than to have a...
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Phill Wilson addresses ongoing AIDS crisis
“When you see a 15 percent yearly increase, that is an epidemic that is out of control. And yet we don’t see a response that...
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Michele Obama speaks at DNC GLBT Fundraiser
“We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect...
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MInneapolis gay pride service disallowed by Archbishop
“ didn’t overreact. He said, ‘Tell them they can’t hold that on church property.‘” — Dennis McGrath, spokesperson for the Twin Cities Archbishop John...
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Boy George refused U.S. visa
“At the moment, Boy George cannot come to the United States of America because he has been refused permission to enter by the USA Administration.”...
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Pride 2008
It was raining much more than men at the 33rd Annual Capital Pride Parade last Saturday, June 14. A large crowd -- estimated to be...
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Whiplash
Recently, I happened to catch Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Sci Fi channel, which, in the weeks leading up to the highly anticipated...
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Cold Wheels
It's been almost a week since I saw Speed Racer and already I can't remember a thing about it. I vaguely recall it being comprised...
