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       Updated December 20, 2008         Written by Mike Fitzpatrick
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 Mike Fitzpatrick's "Reality Check" column originally was published in the Wisconsin InStep for four years prior to the paper's untimely folding in December, 2003.  The column's "queer take" on LGBT news of national and state interest was one of the paper's most widely quoted features. Mike's work has appeared over the years in Ron Geiman's original IN Step, The Wisconsin Light, and currently can be found in Quest , where he serves as news editor. That paper's job demands have not permitted time for a lot of extended commentary. However, Quest remains the only true, statewide news and entertainment guide as it continues in its fifteenth year of uninterrupted publication.
About Mike
Though born and raised in the New York City metropolitan area, Mike has called the Midwest and Wisconsin his home since the Sixties.
  While many may be familiar with his more than 22 years of work in HIV/AIDS or his long time LGBT political activism, many may not realize Mike has over forty years of writing experience as well. His first paid piece appeared in the Winona Daily News in 1965. His first feature to appear in a national publication was in the The Advocate, a quarterly journal of the National Association of Student Council Advisors, in 1973.
  In the last 15 years, besides his work with the Wisconsin's statewide LGBT press, Mike has edited the Positive Voice Newsletter and the Green Bay Area Unitarian Universalist  Fellowship's GBAUUF  NewsNotes.
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