GLBT DIGEST February 1, 2008

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NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-milk.html?_r=1&sq=gay&st=nyt&oref=slogin&scp=7&pagewanted=print

"Milk" Biopic Brings '70s Vibe to San Francisco

By REUTERS
February 1, 2008
Filed at 2:57 a.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you happen to be doing a littleshopping on Castro Street in San Francisco and notice that the stores seemto be a bit more psychedelic than usual, fear not. You're not having an acidflashback or entering a time warp; you're on the set of "Milk."

In mid-January Gus Van Sant began shooting his biopic about America's firstopenly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who wasassassinated in 1978 along with Mayor George Moscone by recently resignedSan Francisco Supervisor Dan White. Sean Penn is playing Milk, and JoshBrolin plays White in the Focus Features/Groundswell production.

Milk operated a camera store on Castro Street and was known as the Mayor ofCastro Street, a roughly two-block shopping district in the San Francisconeighborhood of the same name. The production has taken over the area,turning back the clock to represent the years of the 1970s, when the Castroshifted from being a hippie hangout to a gay mecca. The production hasmeticulously re-created signs from the area, and even the garbage cans arefrom the time period.

"We've done an enormous amount of research to ensure that we are only goingto have a sign for a business that was open in the year the scene takesplace," said Dan Jinks, one of the film's producers.

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The production hunkered down in San Francisco's Gay and Lesbian Archives andtalked to plenty of people from Milk's world. They even hired a formeremployee from Milk's camera store, Daniel Nicoletta, as a consultant; he notonly worked with Milk but also took "tons" of photographs of the activistand the neighborhood.

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WashingtonPost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013103048_pf.html

He Is Some Body: Lyle Ashton Harris's Enigmatic Self-Portraits

By Jessica Dawson
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, February 1, 2008; C02

Yes, artist Lyle Ashton Harris packed his current solo show with pictures ofLyle Ashton Harris. But don't expect Oprah-caliber self-revelation.

The artist's images of himself, on view at Adamson Gallery, don't add up toself-portraits in the straightforward sense. Sure, Harris is present inbody, but the artist's body acts as a canvas on which he conjures psychicstates -- rage, rapture, eroticism.

These theatrical pictures, each with its own pulse and vitality, documentHarris assuming a variety of roles. Here he's a boxer; there he's BillieHolliday; here, a transvestite prostitute. As such, they are portraits ofvarious selves, which many of us may be able to identify with, but selvesthat may or may not be part of the real Lyle Ashton Harris.

And it's these not-really-self-portraits, with their gorgeous colors andsometimes disturbing themes, that carry his show.

Harris is African American and gay. Since his student days in the late 1980sand early 1990s, he has mined those aspects of his identity. Early effortsincluded posing in whiteface, often graced with false eyelashes, mascara andlipstick. Straddling both gender and race, the works reflected the concernsof the artist and of the times -- it was in those years that identitypolitics ruled art. (Thelma Golden included Harris in the Whitney Museum's1994 show "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in ContemporaryAmerican Art," one of the era's formative survey exhibitions.)

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Teen sues over gay rights
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Northwest Florida Daily News
Feb 1, 10:38 AM
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Gay Republicans flock to McCain on Giuliani exit
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New York Sun
Feb 1, 10:28 AM
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Michael Savage on AIDS and Africa
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801310003
Media Matters
Jan 31, 2:53 PM
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HIV touches many U.S. households
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World Captivated By US Election
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(New York City) America's extraordinary presidential campaign has captivatedpoliticians and ordinary people around the globe. With so much at stake inthe race for the White House, the world is watching with an intensity thathasn't been seen since the Clinton era began in 1992.
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Clinton Campaign Also Took Money From Rezko
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(Los Angeles, California) Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair ofHillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, banked at least $1,500 inpolitical donations from an indicted Chicago businessman whose pastconnections to Barack Obama have been used by Clinton to criticize herrival's judgment and ethics.
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Few Sparks As Clinton, Obama Debate
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(Los Angeles, California) Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clintonsparred, for the most part cordially, over immigration, health care and thewar in Iraq in their first one-on-one debate on Thursday as they facedhigh-stakes Super Tuesday contests that could go a long way towarddetermining the party's presidential nominee.
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Kentucky Bill Would Ban Domestic Partner Benefits
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(Frankfort, Kentucky) Kentucky Gov. Gov. Steve Beshear (D) says he will vetoa bill that would bar state funded agencies or colleges from offeringdomestic partner benefits if the measure arrives on his desk.
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Judge: Gay Union Assets Must Be Equitably Divided
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(Woodbury, New Jersey) In what is believed to be the first case involvingthe division of assets when a domestic partnership ends in New Jersey ajudge has ruled that property must be divided between each partner.
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Politician In Scandal After Discovery He Had One Son, Boyfriend Of Other OnGovernment Payroll
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(London) A Conservative Party member of Britain's House of Commons has beencensured, banned from the House for ten days and ordered to repay taxpayermoney he used for salaries for one of his sons and the boyfriend of another.
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Lawsuit Claim: Anything Gay Illegal In School
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(Ponce De Leon, Florida) A Florida high school is "trampling the FirstAmendment rights of students who support equal rights for gay people",according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by the American CivilLiberties Union.
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Questions Raised About Safety Of Unprotected Sex
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(Geneva) Swiss AIDS experts said Thursday that some people with HIV who meetstrict conditions and are under treatment can safely have unprotected sexwith non-infected partners.
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Scientists Test Drug On HIV Fortresses
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(Washington) The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system thattoday's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIVbuilds one of those fortresses.


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