The LGBT Film Festival started with a bang of movies and hors d'oeuvres  at the University Of Louisville last night. The evening had a healthy turnout including LGBT Film Fest jurors like Angie Fenton and Dawn Josephine Wilson and actors like Jacob Newton (pictured).

A New Orleans native, when I first moved to Louisville I introduced myself to the neighbors by throwing a traditional crawfish boil for Mardi Gras. What I knew about Kentucky was basketball, horses, bourbon, and Ashley Judd (clearly I knew almost nothing). My first guest took one look at the giant pot of live mudbugs and boasted, “I don’t eat bait,” so off he went to get hot dogs for the grill. My very first Louisville lesson: we may share the fleur de leis as a symbol but what you think you know about a place or culture is way more dangerous than what you do not.

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People who love karaoke in Louisville, Kentucky should know one man: Larry Doyle. Larry runs a karaoke show known as Larry-oke all over the Kentuckiana area - at least five nights a week.  Larry-oke has been going on for nine years in Louisville. He really knows how to keep the karaoke crowd going, but is also