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Mike Ruiz, the celebrity photographer you know and the man you don't

Mike Ruiz seems to be everywhere these days: Playing judge on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and Tyra Banks’ “America’s Next Top Model,” shooting celebrity photographs, or starring in a reality-TV show on Logo.

Ruiz comes across as a cuddly muscle bear, with scruffy good looks, a smoldering smile that would win over any critics, and a heart of gold. He gives back to the LGBT community that adores him, and his philanthropic work is extensive.

COMMENTARY: Aung San Suu Kyi - The Nobel speech 21 years in the making

On June 16, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi finally delivered an acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed on her 21 years ago. To her people, Suu Kyi has long been the symbol of the freedom movement against Myanmar’s military dictatorship. Her push for democracy and iconic status as daughter of General Aung San, an independence hero of the country, led to her being kept under house arrest for many years. Becoming one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners, she won the Nobel award in 1991. But Suu Kyi was detained and unable to accept the prize.

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COMMENTARY: Shocker! Meet the bisexual Gandhi none of us knew

It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India, and the bevy of hagiographies on him are now being replaced with truth-telling biographies on the Gandhi nobody knew.

The most recent one is titled "GREAT SOUL: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India” by Joseph Lelyveld.

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