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We’re certainly not trying to claim that our Gaypril line-up is perfect, nor do we expect every event to please everybody. This will have been a successful Gaypril if, at the end of the month, supporters know how much we value their support, and all students will have had a forum in which they could feel proud of their sexuality and gender. Have a wonderful Gaypril, and we hope to see you around...

Author: By Michael A. Feldstein, | Title: Gaypril Comes Again | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...Kaffeplantagen, tel: (45) 3536 2232, a caf?-cum-flower-shop that opened in early 2004. Norwegian owner Henriette Arff had already decided to sign the lease on a flower shop with her Danish business partners when she realized that she wasn't getting anywhere in her search for the perfect cup of coffee. The solution was to merge the flower business with her vision of a decent caf?that means Kaffeplantagen's customers can purchase a potted azalea along with kaffe og kage (coffee and cake). Best of all, because of the plants, Kaffeplantagen is smoke-free?a rarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee, Tea or Laundry? | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

While the high visibility of my public life has not always brought me personal peace and happiness, it has lent a certain universal quality to my various metamorphoses. Because I believed that to be loved I had to be perfect, I moved "out of myself"--my body--early on and have spent much of my life searching to come home ... to be embodied. I didn't understand this until I was in my 60s and started writing this book. I have come to believe that my purpose in life may be to show--through my own story--how this "disembodiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...Perfect body notwithstanding, Carol joined me in having major body-image issues. It was she who introduced me to bingeing and purging, what we now know as bulimia. She said the idea came to her in a class on the history of the Roman Empire. She read that the Romans would gorge themselves on food during orgiastic feasts and then put their fingers down their throats to make themselves throw it all back up and start over again. The idea of being able to eat the most fattening foods and never having to pay the consequences was very appealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

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