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Anyone reading about issues affecting the queer community will come across numerous acronyms used to refer to people from sexual and gender identity minorities. These typically begin with LGBT (standing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, respectively), but can vary depending on the context and author.

Emmy Award-winning actor who has played a role on the television series, Hill Street Blues and would later co-star in City of Angels and have a recurring role in Soul Food. He was an All-American basketball player at UCLA and led the team to a national championship.

Born. To Fred Astaire, 36, cinemas No. 1 hoofer; and Phyllis Livingston Baker Potter Astaire, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. Name: Fred Jr. Married. Maria Iturbi, 18, daughter of Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor; and Stephen Hero, 20, concert violinist, Iturbis protege; in Bedford Hills. N. Y.

Anika, 28, has always been someone her friends and family could count onfor sound advice. Whether itwas relationship troubles, career dilemmas, orjust the daily struggles oflife, Anika was there tolisten and guide. But she never imagined that one day, shed bethe one seeking advice, grappling with asituation that shook her tothe core.

Returning to territory he knows well, Ken Loach is in exceptional form with "Sweet Sixteen," a slice of working class social realism in a tough Glasgow district, rendered deeply moving by the director's peerless capacity to combine humor and compassion with honesty and despair. Should be one of the director's more widely embraced entries.