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February 10, 2009
AfterElton: Demetri Martin “Taking Woodstock”
Demetri Martin is 35?!?!
(Demetri) Martin’s profile will rise even higher next August when he stars in Ang Lee’s new film Taking Woodstock. Martin isn’t just in the movie – he is the movie, appearing in virtually every scene as Elliot Tiber, the gay man who inadvertently helped launch the Woodstock concert in the summer of 1969.
via Exclusive: Demetri Martin takes on “Taking Woodstock” | AfterElton.com.
4:34 pm AfterElton, Ang Lee, Demetri Martin, Elliot Tiber, Woodstock
(Be the first to comment)Stick-figure dancing
Get your stop-motion on…
4:21 pm Stick-figure, Time Out, video
(Be the first to comment)Doctors without closets
When Dr Justin Varney started out in his medical career he was advised to become a GP, not because his skills were better suited to this particular branch of medicine, but because he was gay.
His tutors felt that a career in paediatrics, the area he was interested in at the time, would be inappropriate because of his sexuality.
Tutors said parents might not like him working with their children, nor might other staff.
Today, more than a decade later, attitudes have changed greatly and Dr Varney is a consultant in public health medicine with responsibility for the health of 40,000 children in the Barking and Dagenham area of London.