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Cue marks

The late, great film critic Roger Ebert often described movies as “empathy machines,” allowing us to understand different hopes, aspirations, dreams, and fears. I can’t think of a better explanation of the film medium’s unique ability to make us identify with another human being, putting us completely in their shoes. But that machine only works […]

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LGBT grants

Funding is a serious challenge for many of the region’s nonprofit organizations. But Rochester’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community got a boost recently from an organization that, in a unique twist, comes from the LGBT community. | For the first time, the LGBT Giving Circle of the Rochester Area Community Foundation provided grants to […]

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ImageOut 2012

Over the course of 10 days, October 5-14, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival will celebrate two decades of bringing to this city the world’s finest films about the ever-evolving lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender experience.

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Metro Ink – 12.07.05

Duffy starts his move The Duffy administration is starting to take shape — by deletion, more than by addition, at this point. Five senior City Hall administrators have been told that they won’t have a job when the new mayor takes over in January: โ€ข Community Development Commissioner Linda Stango; โ€ข Economic Development Commissioner Fashun […]

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