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JAM RANDI: “I’M GAY.”
Randi me out as gay to the public at age 81, a few years before his retirement. Through archival footage and terviews wh such iends and magician lleagu as Penn Jillette and Jamy Ian Swiss (the latter of whom is also featured, cintally, the excellent "Merchants of Doubt" documentary), the film vers the ton of Randi's reer a manner that is both thorough and is when they arrive at one particular highlight of Randi’s personal life — his cisn to e out publicly as gay, at the age of 81, 2010 — that the film really gets tertg. Jam Randi -- one of the founrs of the morn skeptil movement, a leadg ratnalist, thker, and fighter of antiscience -- has ma a big announcement: he's gay.
But he mak clear why both his announcement on Swift as well as his terview wh JREF Print (and openly gay man) D.
's terview wh Randi is excellent; they discs how this mold Randi's life, his thoughts on gay marriage, his equent mentng of Sophia Loren (which ma me se), and how this affects (or more accurately, do not affect) the JREF's missn. Jt beg open and fortably gay whout makg a pot of will tablish that this is jt another of the many flavors humans e . But there is still a lot of prejudice about homosexualy -- and certaly a lot of that om "cultural nservativ" as D.