Outward Spiral to produce Mineola Twins
staff reports
Outward Spiral Theatre Company will open Paula Vogel’s The Mineola Twins, the first show of its 2004 main stage season ... more >>
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Feb 08, 2004 |
Psychedelic Furs, Sandra Bernhard to be featured at 2004 Block Party
news reports
GLBT Pride/Twin Cities has announced that the Psychedelic Furs and Sandra Bernhard will perform at the 2004 Official Pri ... more >>
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Feb 01, 2004 |
Out on the Mat
news reports
Sports entertainment promotion Midwest Pro Wrestling announced last week that one of its wrestlers, Tommy "The SpiderBab ... more >>
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Jan 01, 2004 |
Everything you wanted to know about the gay-marriage ruling in Massachusetts
DeAnna Miller
It was way back in March that the Massachusetts Supreme Court heard arguments on the issue of gay marriage. Generally th ... more >>
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Dec 01, 2003 |
 Yippee ki-ay, y’all
The contest was held Nov. 2 at the Gay 90s Show Lounge. Pictured above are winners Steve Kussatz and Lady Stevens, the n ... more >>
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Dec 01, 2003 |
 In Memoriam
The good people at ROR
In Memoriam
David P. Olds, co-founder ROR Financial Services, Inc., passed away unexpectedly October 27, 2003 at the ... more >>
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Dec 01, 2003 |
Who's down with OTB?
Mary Henry and Margaret Purcell
Once upon a time, back around the late 1980s, there were some local lesbians lamenting the fact that there was nowhere t ... more >>
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Dec 01, 2003 |
 Sing-A-Long Oz comes to Minneapolis
Karen Barker Crowley
If, like me, your hobbies include listening to show tunes, talking along with movie dialogue, and dressing up like Judy ... more >>
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Dec 01, 2003 |
2005 InterPride Conference to be hosted in Minneapolis
news reports
GLBT Pride/Twin Cities is pleased to announce that at the 2003 World InterPride Conference in Montréal it was selected ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
Brawl at Lucy’s & St. Paul Human Rights Commission hearing
news reports
Early Sunday morning, Oct. 19, a fight broke out between patrons at Lucy’s, a GLBT bar in St. Paul, and Jon Loretz, an ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
 Elegies performance to benefit MN AIDS Project, Mpls Musical Theatre
DeAnna Miller
Want to see Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens? You’ve got one chance.
Minneapolis Musical Theatre, a thea ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
 Lavender Road to Success: Career Guide for the Gay Community
Holly Dolezalek
At the business-to-business magazine where I work, I get to sort through all the books and decide which ones we should r ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
Nominations for 2004 Twin Cities Pride Grand Marshal and awards close November 3
news reports
At last, a chance to say “I appreciate you” in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
GLBT Pride/Twin Cities w ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
St. Paul’s Al Oertwig up for re-election to school board
news reports
Al Oertwig is St. Paul’s only openly GLBT elected official, and the only openly GLBT chair of a school board for a maj ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
 Sex and the kitty
Holly Dolezalek
The 19 bus route in Minneapolis is getting more interesting all the time. At the corner of Cedar Avenue and 35th Street, ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
 The SpiderBaby is ready to body-slam and pile-drive his way out of pro wrestling’s closet
news reports
Maple Grove-based Midwest Pro Wrestling has announced the debut of a wrestler with a difference: He’s as gay outside t ... more >>
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Nov 01, 2003 |
Get your pop-culture fix right here
DeAnna Miller
Ellen’s talk show launched a few weeks ago. Will & Grace premieres this week. Queer Eye looks like it’ll run as long ... more >>
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Oct 01, 2003 |
Remembering Paul Wellstone
Holly Dolezalek
On August 17, 2002, I met Paul Wellstone for the first and last time. My editor and I went to an ice cream social where ... more >>
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Oct 01, 2003 |
Stonewall DFL’s midlife crisis
DeAnna Miller
Stonewall DFL is going through a mid-life crisis.
“I wouldn’t call it a mid-life crisis,” says Alan Hooker, Sto ... more >>
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Oct 01, 2003 |
queue & A with writer/activist Joan Drury
Catherine Lundoff
Joan Drury’s novels include the award-winning Tyler Jones mystery series and Those Jordan Girls. She is the founder of ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
 Local sitcom Josh & Sandi develops queer following
DeAnna Miller
They may not all be GLB or T, but they’re all queer.
Josh & Sandi is a locally produced sitcom parody. It’s more ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
Open Door Conference in Rochester offers unique community ed
DeAnna Miller
Despite a parabolic rise in public awareness of issues facing the GLBT community—particularly this summer—there are ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
Oughta be a bestseller
Holly Dolezalek
How I Learned to Snap
by Kirk Read
Penguin Books
Paperback re-issue, 2003
www.kirkread.com
If you like a good mem ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
 Oughta Be a Bestseller (con't)
DeAnna Miller
Caring for Lesbian and Gay People: A Clinical Guide
by Allan Peterkin, M.D.,
and Cathy Risdon, M.D.
University of Tor ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
OutFront’s voter guide
news reports
OutFront Minnesota, a direct service and public-policy agency serving the GLBT community and allies will compile and pub ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
‘Day OUT at the Fair’ is Sept. 1
news reports
Day OUT is sponsored by OutFront Minnesota, Rainbow Families, and the Minnesota Freedom Band. This is their first attem ... more >>
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Sep 01, 2003 |
Fringe Festival
DeAnna Miller
Ten years. This is the tenth year the Minnesota Fringe Festival has created a ten-day maelstrom in uptown, downtown and ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
Hate literature inspires swell of support in St. Louis Park
DeAnna Miller
When Anthony Scalia read his dissenting opinion in the Texas sodomy case last month, he angrily spluttered that by legal ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
queue & A with sci fi writer Melissa Scott
Catherine Lundoff
Lambda Literary Award-winning author Melissa Scott will be in the Twin Cities August 8 – 10 at Diversicon, a local sci ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
“Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals:1933 - 1945” exhibit comes to Minneapolis
DeAnna Miller
While Minnesotans were condemning state Rep. Arlon Lindner’s (R-Corcoran) attempts in March to remove sexual orientati ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
The queue press Field Guide to Same-Sex Marriage
DeAnna Miller
What’s the big deal about same-sex marriage?
Marriage automatically provides you with—according to a 1997 General A ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
Two men, eight roles, and absolutely no redeeming social value at all
DeAnna Miller
“It’s the queerest show in town, and that’s including Naked Boys Singing,” says Park Square Theatre literary man ... more >>
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Aug 01, 2003 |
Fruits and vegetables
DeAnna Miller
Two years ago Gerry Tyrrell and his partner Kevin Ruther moved into the Corcoran neighborhood of south Minneapolis. They ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
Homos for harmony
News reports
Sprit of the Lakes Church in south Minneapolis, adorned with numerous symbols of LGBTST pride, provides the perfect back ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
Oz and Ends
Karen Barker Crowley
W hat is it with gay men and The Wizard of Oz?
Do an online search on the topic and you’ll find thousands of sites, ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
Playing Gay for the Summer
Joel Dossi
Last year, Bravo Cable Network examined what happens when gays and lesbians tangle with tradition and walk down the aisl ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
Soul Essence celebrates black GLBT pride
Stephanie Lackas Grey
Have you heard the old set up, “Which is harder, to be black or to be gay? Like an email joke you receive every few mo ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
What's Out There
Staff reports
She bops into the Twin Cities
Remember the first time you watched as Cyndi Lauper pulls off that hat to reveal that waf ... more >>
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Jul 01, 2003 |
Activism know-how and how-to
Holly Dolezalek
Ordinarily, I try to be evenhanded in my book reviews, but in this case I’m not going to bother. In fact, I could fini ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
Melville Slept Here
Joel Dossi
Richard Cook, Park Square Theatre’s artistic director, insists his newest production of Melville Slept Here isn’t a ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride
DeAnna Miller
On July 10, hundreds of bicyclists and crew will take off from the Twin Cities for the first Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride. ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
Progressive politics reloaded
Holly Dolezalek
No, not all queer folk are progressive, liberal, or even Democrat, but no one else has exactly thrown open the tent flap ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
The Minnesota Family Council and you ...
Minnesota Family Council
From: “Minnesota Family Council”
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:13:08 -0500
To: “Friends and Support ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
What's out there
Staff reports
Screw U
The University of Minnesota’s GLBT Studies program was dealt a serious blow last month. The GLBT Studies prog ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
Progressive Politics Reloaded
Holly Dolezalek
It goes without saying that this list of grassroots groups is not complete. But here’s a glimpse at some of the groups ... more >>
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Jun 01, 2003 |
Gardening 101
Mary Henry and Margaret Purcell
There is good news and bad news about gardening. The bad news is: It is a huge topic. There are libraries devoted to the ... more >>
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May 01, 2003 |
Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride
DeAnna Miller
On July 10, hundreds of bicyclists and crew will take off from the Twin Cities for the first Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride. ... more >>
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May 01, 2003 |
Operation Bootstrap: Queer artists are doin’ it for themselves, standin’ on their own two feet, and
DeAnna Miller
Like the Salvation Army in December.
Performance centers all across the Twin Cities—indeed, the nation—are watchi ... more >>
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May 01, 2003 |
Operation Bootstrap: Self-publishing a queer book
DeAnna Miller
Local writer Joe Babcock didn’t wait around for the publishing industry to regain its footing in this recession. After ... more >>
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May 01, 2003 |
The Flaming Film Festival strikes back
DeAnna Miller
It’s the little things that set the Flaming Film Festival apart from other film fests. The emphasis on including local ... more >>
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May 01, 2003 |
 BECAUSE conference and “The Art of Being Bi”
Catherine Lundoff
BECAUSE (Bisexual Empowerment Conference—A Uniting Supportive Experience), a conference for bisexuals and their allies ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
GLBT community represented well on library board
DeAnna Miller
With the closing of A Brother’s Touch—the 20-year “one stop gay shop” Twin Cities institution—scheduled for Ma ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
 Lobby Day: Hundreds protest anti-GLBT efforts at the capitol
News reports
About 2,000 people descended upon the state capitol March 6 to protest anti-GLBT bills and show their support for human ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
Local Digest
Staff reports
Six Degrees of Sensational
When Six Degrees of Separation was made into the 1993 movie with Stockard Channing and Donal ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride
DeAnna Miller
In the early 1980s, very little was known about AIDS. Rumors and urban myths about what caused and what might cure AIDS ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
Queer-friendly college conference to meet in Mpls
DeAnna Miller
If you work in student affairs on a college campus, you’re probably on your way right now to party with a bunch of que ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
 ’Tooning in with comic artist Robert Kirby
DeAnna Miller
Don’t think of it as a cartoon. Think of it as a novel with pictures. Curbside Boys: The New York Years is Robert Kirb ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
Where the girls are (they’re in New Hampshire)
Rudy Renaud
Picture this:You and your partner (or date, or flavor of the month, or whoever) are soaking in an outdoor Jacuzzi, under ... more >>
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Apr 01, 2003 |
It’s going to be a looooong session: Part I
staff reports
It’s enough to make you move to South Dakota. On Feb. 6, Minnesota Rep. Arlon Linder (R-Corcoran) introduced HF 341, a ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
It's going to be a looooong session: Part II
staff reports
Finally! An easy fix for the Minnesota state-budget crisis: Fire all the heterosexual state employees who get benefits f ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
 Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride
DeAnna Miller
On July 10, hundreds of bicyclists and crew will take off from the Twin Cities for the first Minnesota Red Ribbon Ride. ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
Outward Spiral engages the body politic with In the Heart of America
Joel Dossi
While American troops prepare for an all-out offensive against Saddam Hussein, concerned people around the world partici ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
 queue & A with Margaret Molinari
DeAnna Miller
Margaret Molinari is owner of Art in the Yard, a young Bloomington-based company that designs and builds outdoor furnitu ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall
Holly Dolezalek
As I write this, certain bitchy killjoys are trying to roll the state back to 1950 with HF 341, a bill to undo the 1993 ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
U of M GLBT Programs Director Beth Zemsky moves on
Holly Dolezalek
After almost ten years as the GLBT community’s most visible ally at the University of Minnesota, Beth Zemsky is moving ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
 Hanne Blank’s Unruly Appetites whets the appetite
Catherine Lundoff
Hanne Blank is an editor, author and size-acceptance activist. She was the guest of honor at the BECAUSE Conference, an ... more >>
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Mar 01, 2003 |
 Margaret Cho: Inciting Revolutions wherever she goes
Joel Dossi
I don’t have any aspirations about being a movie star, unless it’s doing my own show,” comedian Margaret Cho empha ... more >>
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Feb 28, 2003 |
