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Earl Plante recently sent me a link to a wonderful feature article in the Washington, D.C.,MetroWeekly about his move to Los Angeles, where he has become chief development officer for the Trevor Project. Named for HBOs 1994 short film, Trevor, the Trevor Project operates the only national, 24-hour crisis/suicide-prevention hotline for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/ transsexual (GLBT) or questioning youth. One of his main responsibilities there will be raising the organizations annual budget of $2.1 million.

Earl moved to Los Angeles from Washington, D.C., where he had been the chief operating officer at the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a national nonprofit GLBT organization. There, he oversaw the organizations $1.3 million budget and managed finance, technology and human resources. He also served for a time as its board president. Before joining NBJC Earl worked as the development director for the D.C.-based National Minority AIDS Council. Previously Earl also held senior management positions at Union Settlement Association, Gay Men of African Descent and Funders Concerned About AIDS.

The very moving, in-depth feature article (along with a wonderful cover shot of Earl) is up at www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=3689

Betsy Bennett wrote to tell me that she and husband Oliver Weir welcomed their second son, Ash, in August. "Ash joins big brother Graham. We are living in San Francisco, where I work for Genentech and Oliver works for Restoration Hardware."

Dominique (Ellner) Goldstein and husband Dan also announced the birth of their daughter Juliette Rose Goldstein in London on September 13. And I'm happy to announce that my old film department chum Courtney Fitzgibbons and husband Michael King welcomed twin girls Olivia and Charlotte on November 5. Can't imagine they'll be up to making the trip east anytime soon, but when they do I can't wait to meet their double bundles of joy.

And speaking of film...I received a tip that the very-hard-to-find Rich Molson has been up to some fabulous things. The reason he's hard to find, it turns out, is that this N.Y.C.-based filmmaker has been making his movies under his childhood nickname of Moon Molson rather than Rich. After participating in the Sundance Institutes (as in Sundance Film Festival) June Directors Lab, Rich was one of only seven filmmakers selected to be a 2008 Annenberg Film Fellow. Established five years ago, the fellows program provides filmmakers with direct financial support, including a stipend for living expenses, to help them develop and produce their projects. Rich was chosen for his script Meadowlandz. His short film PopFoul has played at more than 75 film festivals worldwide and has won more than 30 international film festival awards, including the Panavision Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Palm Springs ShortFest, the REEL Shorts Jury Prize at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival, the HBO Short Film Award at the 2006 American Black Film Festival and the 2006 Student Academy Award. Very, very impressive indeed and worth every moment of sleuthing to be able to report.

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