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lthough you typically don't hear shoegaze, hard rock and folk on a bill together, all sorts of Tampa Bay musicians will gather this weekend at Shuffle for a good cause. In the wake of the possible overturning of Roe vs. Wade, the bar and shuffleboard court at 2612 N Tampa St. will host a ‘Friends 4 Reproductive Rights’ fundraiser on Saturday, June 25. This gig is from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. and asks for a suggested $10 donation at the door. Proceeds will be donated to the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund (TBAF). The eclectic lineup includes folky singersongwriter Deb Ruby, hard rocking Tension Electric, Dan Padilla, singer and guitarist, along with Marc Ganancias, shoegaze band Knife Rituals, and Steve Tedesco. In addition to the night of live music, there will also be a raffle and art auction to help raise more money for TBAF. You can also enjoy Shuffle’s indoor courts, a full service bar and late-night kitchen that dishes out tater tots, tacos, nachos, burgers, hot dogs and more. There are extensive details about abortion resources on Tampa Bay Abortion Fund's website, in addition to information about insurance, clinics and legislative updates. TBAF is a volunteer-run 501c3 nonprofit that relies solely on donations and has been providing vital services throughout the Bay since 2018. Visit abortionfunds.org to learn about the organization's lifesaving work and make a donation while. More information via @tampashuffle on Facebook.
Purple ones Tempus Gallery’s Florida Avenue location was always meant to be temporary, and the time has finally come to say goodbye. This concert from Tampa supergroup Purple Gurl is the last event at the gallery space inside the former Bali Bay Trading Company. Purple Gurl features drummer Natalie DePergola and and frontwoman Shevonne Philidor alongside Stephanie Perez and Juna Serita who came together over a love of Prince; they’ll help Selina Román close out her ”A Bad Batch: Beauty in the Breakdown” show with this living room concert. Read more about Tempus’ plans for a new gallery in Ybor City on p. 48. Thursday, June 23. 6 p.m. $10. Tempus Projects. 4220 N Florida Ave., Tampa. tempus-projects.com—Ray Roa Miles and exiles Author David Powell will discuss his new book, “Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles,” with St. Pete writer and journalist Craig Pittman. The book is a sweeping oral history of the migration of 600,000 Cubans who came to the U.S. within the first 15 years of Fidel Castro’s reign. Joining Powell and Pittman is Tampa local Jose E. Valiente, one of the book’s narrators. Tuesday, June 28. 7 p.m. No cover, RSVP encouraged. Tombolo Books. 2153 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg. tombolobooks.com—Caroline DeBruhl See more things to do via the event calendar on cltampa.com.
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Tampa City Council votes for ordinance that could create tenant advocacy office. By Justin Garcia The speakers were of all races and backgrounds, from the older generations to young people like Aaliyah Coleman, who addressed city council in a heartfelt plea. “Working here in downtown in this specific area, and I don’t know if you guys don’t see them, but I’ve seen plenty of people who are on the streets without housing, without food to eat and digging into trash cans and it’s quite sad to see,” said Coleman. “I don’t understand how you guys can stand to see it every day.” Elderly people on fixed incomes also spoke about how they keep getting their rents raised, with some receiving as little as three-day notice. All of the council members supported the motion to establish the Tenant Advocacy Office after hearing the people speak, with debate on how it will work exactly, and a desire to
make sure that the office is effective in how it assists tenants. “My expectation for this office would be to help people try to find the place they need to go before they run out of time,” councilwoman Lynn Hurtak said. “Do we need to do more? Absolutely.” Hurtak continued that for now, this office could be, “...an area that a space that a renter can go to see what their actual solutions could be.” City Attorney Morris Massey—sitting in for longtime City Council Attorney Martin Shelby while he is on leave—said that city staff should be there to discuss the details on Aug. 4 to discuss the potential ordinance. “I mean, we can certainly work on a draft ordinance, but the staffing and the budget for that, it’s going to take some cooperation with the
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administration,” Massey said. After Massey’s input, council invited staff to be there in August to discuss the issue. Councilman Bill Carlson encouraged the community to get involved to make sure that the cooperation from the administration does happen. “To the folks in the audience, we need your help with the other agencies like the mayor’s office, the housing authority, the state and federal government,” Carlson said, referring to rules that limit council’s power to address the housing crisis. “We need your help making sure the administration comes with an ordinance we can pass and with the money to approve this, because the two forms of government have to work together.” Also discussed at the meeting was a potential landlord registry that could make it easier for tenants to report issues with landlords; city staff said it would be back on July 14 to discuss that issue.
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ast Thursday, Tampa City Council voted unanimously to have city staff create an ordinance that could establish a tenant advocacy office. The vote came after outcry from several Tampa residents. City staff was asked to come back to council on Aug. 4 with an ordinance that could establish the office. The ordinance would need approval from council, which will hear input from city staff on how the office would work. Councilman Guido Maniscalco made the motion to bring the ordinance before council. City council suggested $400,000 be allocated for the office, which could potentially house two full-time employees to run the office. “We’ve heard from the public and they have asked for something like this,” Maniscalco said. “You know, we have everything here as MiamiDade has done it. I know we have a tenant’s Bill of Rights, we can include that in here.” In Miami-Dade County, which is the model that Tampa City Council is following, the office acts as a conduit that directs tenants to resources which help them deal with evictions, landlord retaliation and discrimination. Miami’s office launched in March and helps to hold landlords accountable to the Tenants Bill of Rights in the county, which defines rights for renters and says that they must have safe living conditions. Miami’s Tenant’s Bill of Rights prevents landlords from retaliating against a tenant for standing up for their rights by raising rent and other forms of retaliation. Tampa’s own Tenant’s Bill of Rights—which was enacted in March—also prohibits discrimination by a landlord toward tenants who use public assistance for housing. Tampa’s tenant advocacy office could break from the Miami model by removing the office’s responsibility to work on affordable housing options. City council members noted that affordable housing solutions are already being addressed across several City of Tampa departments. Leading up to council’s decision, several Tampa residents once again appealed to council to create the office. Many of the same residents have shown up for the past several months, first demanding rent control or stabilization. When council shot that down, residents pushed for other reforms like the tenant advocacy office.
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Ybor City citations increased 50% since free street parking was removed. By Justin Garcia
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reasoning behind removing the free street parking was to help ease traffic in the area. “This is going to be instrumental in stopping the constant traffic congestion Ybor City drivers are facing as drivers scan the streets for free parking,” wrote Fednet Revolte, Parking Manager for the City of Tampa. “We know this
drastically. Revolte focused on the supposed upside though, and estimated the project could reduce traffic congestion in the Ybor Business District by as much as 30%. “I haven’t seen it,” says DeGeorge of the traffic reduction. The City of Tampa’s communications team
will make it easier to find a parking spot and also provide additional free parking in our cityowned parking lots.” But the free city owned lots don’t have as many spaces as the street parking, which means that overall free Ybor parking has been reduced
said that the info on how the changes might have affected congestion in the area aren’t available yet. “As [far as] data on how the changes are working, we do not have official numbers yet,” the city wrote in an email. “However, the City
of Tampa is planning on conducting a city-wide parking study that will assess traffic congestion, best practices for paid parking and more. We are aiming to begin that study sometime in the next year.” In regard to the increase in tickets, the city wrote that, “The increased enforcement is expected the first few months to ensure people are parking per the new policy.” The city said that the parking changes are part of a strategy for long-term growth and follows best practices reiterated by sources including the Federal Highway Administration and Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The revenue from parking will be reinvested in mobility improvements in the area, including funding operations for the streetcar, the city wrote. The City of Tampa’s Parking Division will be meeting with community members at the next Ybor CRA and YCDC Board Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, June 28 at 4 p.m. to discuss the issue. DeGeorge said that because of Tampa’s lack of reliable public transportation, people are still driving to the district—and if they’re not, they’re using Uber or Lyft, which contributes to congestion on the street. “People coming to Ybor aren’t just coming from the Channel District and downtown, where the trolley runs,” DeGeorge said. “They come from all around Tampa Bay, and for better or worse in this area, that usually requires a car.” He thinks the changes are intentional. Beyond making the city more money off of tickets, DeGeorge says that the parking situation only hurts small business owners and workers in the area, while benefiting big monied interests. “I’m trying to tell people that there’s a process that you see with developers and areas they are gentrifying,” DeGeorge said. “When things get squeezed in an area and completely broken down for the people who are there, then it’s easier for developers to build the area back up, with their vision of what it should be.” ILLUSTRATION BY BOB WHITMORE
fter Ybor City’s free street parking was removed three months ago, the total number of parking citations has skyrocketed in the district. The removal of free two-hour street parking on March 14 slashed overall free parking in Ybor by 26%, a move which is now paying off for the city. According to city records obtained by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, there’s been a slightly more than 50% increase in overall parking citations issued since the change. Here’s how we got these numbers: From Jan. 1-Feb. 28, the two months before the parking changes, 2,747 citations were issued, resulting in an estimated $82,410 worth of fines based on the average $30 parking ticket. From April 1-May 27, the two months after the parking changes, 4,139 citations were issued, resulting in an estimated $124,170 in fines. That’s 1,392 more tickets than the city issued from Jan. 1Feb. 28, an over 50% increase. March numbers were omitted from the calculation because the city told CL it did not issue street parking citations, only warnings, in the two weeks after the parking changes took place in the middle of March. Still, the city did issue 1,460 citations that month. The citations are for a variety of infractions, including parking in freight or reserved spots, or not paying the parking rate at all. CL made its public records request on May 27, so May’s total number of citations were not in the city’s calculations. The number of monthly visitors in Ybor City fluctuates with the seasons, but the steep increase in citations still has Tom DeGeorge , owner of Crowbar live music venue, worried. He has been vocal about how the reduction of free parking could hurt the district and says that the increase in tickets is evidence of the harm. “I think it’s obvious that people aren’t as willing to go eat and play in an area after they get a parking ticket there,” DeGeorge tells CL. “I think it’s definitely hurt our lunch crowd, and over time, it’s going to hurt our nighttime business more and more.” In March, the city said that part of the
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At Tampa forum, Hillsborough school board candidate defends book bans and CRT while lacking evidence. By Justin Garcia
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“CRT is not taught at our schools,” Perez said to a round of applause. “It’s taught at universities, it’s taught to people getting their doctorate and at law schools. I just want to say that for the record CRT is not taught at middle school, high school or even elementary levels.” After DeSantis pushed to ban CRT in schools, reports surfaced which showed that the Board of Education already bans CRT from being taught in schools, making the hunt for CRT in school material seem to be a right wing boogeyman, at best. Legge, who has spoken next to Governor DeSantis in support of banning CRT in Florida,
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Legge’s other opponent for District 6, Roshaun Gendrett, said that one way to avoid complications with CRT in the classroom is to avoid teachers professing their personal opinion to students. “Whatever side you’re on on the issue, I don’t think it’s a teacher’s responsibility to insert their views,” he said. Other candidates present at the forum included Damaris Allen (District 2), and District 4 candidates Hunter Gambrell and Danielle Smalley. The primary election is set for Aug. 23, with a runoff on Nov. 8.
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Why does mainstream media repeat this right-wing myth? By Jeffrey C. Billman during the pandemic and sits near a 40-year low. Reported robberies and rapes have markedly declined over the last five years. In 2021, San Francisco had 56 homicides—about 6.4 homicides per 100,000 people. By comparison, Jacksonville, Florida, a Republican-run city with a long history of tough-on-crime politicians, had more than 12 homicides per 100,000 people last year. But San Francisco does have a problem with property crime, especially burglaries and
“war on police” on the West Coast, but also that Oregon’s decriminalization of small amounts of drugs is a “failure” that has turned downtown Portland into “an open-air drug market.” Oregon’s addiction rates have risen, but it has little to do with not incarcerating addicts. And, contra Fox’s dismissive “reporting,” supporters do not simply say the approach “needs more time.” Rather, they say—and many experts agree—that the state needs to improve its pathways to treatment, not lock people up. But nuance is the enemy of the narrative. And with the narrative set in, conservatives are seizing on concerns about urban crime to press
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t’s funny how narratives work. After San Francisco voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, Washington Post columnist James Hohmann called the vote “the latest wake-up call for Democrats, who have lost the public’s trust on criminal justice and play down voter anxieties about crime at their peril.” New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, who imagines himself a sensible progressive amid the left-wing rabble, wrote that Boudin “represents the long tail of a disastrously misconceived response by progressives to the problem of abusive and racist policing.” Days before the recall, Wall Street Journal writer Andy Kessler decried “filthy” sidewalks “filled with homeless tents and a god-awful smell.” Kessler wrote that he “almost tripped over a squatting man sticking a hypodermic needle between his toes,” and complained that the cops didn’t rush the inconvenient junkie into the back of the nearest squad car. Boudin, he concluded, is “a big source of the city’s current rot.” And so the narrative took hold: San Francisco is a dangerous, dystopian hellscape of thieves and homeless drug addicts, and Boudin’s soft-on-crime approach—eliminating cash bail, diverting low-level offenses, and ending sentencing enhancements—is to blame. If Democrats don’t condemn the other woke pantywaists in their midst, they’re doomed to Boudin’s fate. There are, of course, a few problems with that narrative. The first is that, on the national level, Democratic leaders have already condemned anything that faintly resembles “defund the police” at every given opportunity. ”I think the voters sent a clear message last night: Both parties have to step up and do something about crime, as well as gun violence,” President Biden, who has repeatedly called for more police funding, said after Boudin’s recall. Second, the political takeaway—reform plus crime equals defeat—gets muddled if you zoom out. Reformers in the nearby (and more populous) Contra Costa and Alameda Counties won their DA elections this month, as did Kimberly Graham in Des Moines and District Attorney Satana Deberry in Durham, North Carolina. Members of the pro-reform group Fair and Just Prosecution now represent one-fifth of the country. But most importantly, the claim that Boudin’s policies failed in San Francisco—and, ipso facto, that similar reforms will likewise fail—deserves scrutiny before it becomes conventional wisdom. San Francisco is not a violent city. Nor is it becoming a violent city. Violent crime decreased
by the pandemic, especially in the long-troubled Tenderloin district. But Boudin became a scapegoat for the city’s ill. The moderate mayor, London Breed, openly attacked him, as did police unions that did not appreciate the extra scrutiny. In a low-turnout election without an opponent to run against, Boundin lost to discontent. The more important point is this: There is no evidence that progressive criminal justice policies have led to increased crime. Across the country during the pandemic, homicide rates rose in jurisdictions with law-and-order prosecutors the same as in ones with reformers. And (liberal) urban areas tend to be significantly
IPSO FUCTO: Claims about violent liberal cities like San Francisco deserve scrutiny before becoming conventional wisdom. car thefts. And—probably more important to Boudin’s political fate—the city’s streets are rife with homeless camps, people battling mental illness, and drug sales. In other words, things largely outside of Boudin’s control. The city’s homeless problem is directly linked to a housing shortage driven by decades of extreme NIMBY policies that benefited wealthy white liberals and exacerbated
safer than (conservative) rural ones. Yet it’s become an article of faith on the right that liberal cities are debauched and violent—a myth that is too often repeated by mainstream sources. The other day, while getting a tire patched at my local garage, I caught a half-hour or so of Fox News’ afternoon—i.e., “news”—programming, in which I not only learned that there is a
their advantage. In California, Republicans are trying to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. In Pennsylvania, Republican lawmakers are talking about impeaching Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last year. Not coincidentally, the lawmakers fearmongering about unchecked crime in Philly live on the other side of the state.
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and they’re not crazy or weird, and they can be alive. Being a small part of that is so magical that I can’t even express it.” The MTV Moonperson from that night is currently in Todrick’s front room, visible but just slightly out of reach of visitors. “People love to touch it but honestly, between you and I, it’s not the most well constructed award I’ve ever received,” he confides. “It could easily be broken, but what it represents is really important to me.” In fairness that wobbly Moonperson isn’t the first time Todrick’s had to confront the fragility of success. Upon leaving “American Idol” in 2009 (after reaching the semi-finals, having initially auditioned with a song he’d written himself), he put his Broadway career on pause and moved to L.A., reasoning that it was there that he could QUARANTINE QUEEN: In response to lockdown, Hall came out with a new EP.
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e all respond to crises in different ways but when lockdown hit, Todrick Hall knew right away what he needed to do. Which of course was to buy a full-size, pink blue and yellow ‘80s “Ms Pac-Man” arcade machine and install it in his house. But there was something else he needed to do, too. On a Monday in April he decided to record a lockdown-themed EP, by Tuesday night he was recording the first songs, by Friday the whole thing was finished, and four days later the Quarantine Queen EP was streaming world- wide. “People tell me they see it as work ethic,” he says, “but I see it as passion. I wake up, and the only thing I want to do is create.” None of which might have seemed likely a few decades ago in the tiny Texas town of Plainview; a beautiful little place, Todrick remembers, if not a locale well known for its over-abundance of liberal views. “Back then there was no YouTube, no social media, no nothing,” he remembers. “I became creative out of pure boredom.” On Sundays he’d sing in church; every other day of the week he’d practice backflips in his back garden. An Easter Bunny-themed musical at elementary school led to classes at a local dance studio called Tip Tap Toes so, when the Nutcracker ballet came to town looking for auditionees, Todrick was ready. He was cast as a gingersnap. “I can still remember the feeling of my heart beating,” he says of his first big performance. “It was the biggest adrenaline rush. I could not believe I’d done it. It was a feeling I’d never felt before. I felt like I’d ridden the biggest rollercoaster in the world and in that moment I knew: I want to feel like this forever, no matter what.” Despite all that ambition, young Todrick would never have predicted the moment a couple of decades later when in the summer of 2019 he took to the stage at the VMAs with his friend (!) Taylor Swift, to accept the Video For Good award in recognition of his role in bringing the “You Need To Calm Down” video to life. “People I idolize were sitting feet away from me—it was the most insane thing ever,” he remembers. “Taylor putting that song on the radio is a huge part of the reason little gay kids who didn’t have anyone to look up to, and whose families tell them every day that they’re strange, can have three minutes where they feel like they’re OK,
In the short term things weren’t looking and with their chest not quite as far out, and with good. “I was super, super broke,” he remem- their head held not quite so high,” Todrick says. bers, adding that his saving grace was a song “But right now I’m celebrating falling on my face he’d recorded called “It Gets Better” which each and making huge mistakes—and I’m celebrating month sold well enough to pay his rent. (Needless realizing it’s okay to get right back up again.” to say, this was before streaming took hold.) “I It’s no coincidence that Todrick has become was performing in regional theater, dancing at one of the planet’s most inspiring LBGTQ+ role people’s birthdays and weddings, any- thing I models—and he’s seen first hand how powerful could do in entertainment. Any money I could such a popcultural presence can be for those make on the side, I’d use growing up like he once did, to throw a video together.” surrounded by people who Some of Todrick’s didn’t understand him. weekly YouTube videos “Sometimes a fan will St Pete Pride: Todrick Hall gained traction although, meet me after a show and w/Pussy Riot/more in fairness, others didn’t. they’ll whisper: ‘I’m here, Friday, June 24, 4 p.m.-10 p.m. $10 & up Spa Beach @ St. Pete Pier. stpetepride.org “I learned very quickly but my family doesn’t know that when you have a viral I’m gay,’” he begins. “The moment those moments are very, very short- next year I’ll meet them and they’re out of the lived,” he recalls. “I’d allow myself to be excited closet. A year on they’ll have their first boyfriend, for six hours and then I’d think: right, what are then they’re engaged, then they’re married, then we doing next?” they’re adopting kids. I’ve been doing this for 10 But there was always something next. There years and I’ve seen it happen again, and again, was his own MTV show, “Todrick.” It ran for pre- and again. I’ve watched people grow. I feel so privileged to see their entire auras change.” “It took me such a long time to say, as a kid from Texas: ‘I’m a proud gay man, I’m AfricanAmerican: this is me’,” he adds. “It’s not always accepted in the Bible belt where I’m from but now I’m so proud of all that, and I try to infuse those messages of self love and positivity and fierceness and feeling fabulous and being proud of who you are in every single thing I do. I don’t want to go around giving Miss America acceptance speeches but I really try to talk to people about real life. I want to give people the real tea.” Fame in the modern era is notoriously hard to define but whichever way you frame it, fame right now looks and sounds a lot like Todrick Hall. “The only time in my life I feel completely understood is when I’m performing,” he reasons. “When I’m making people smile and laugh it’s my food, my energy, my fuel, my drug, my everything.” And the next few years? You probably know Todrick well enough to realize you should never rule anything out, but he says his current goals involve a kids TV show, cisely one season, but then there’d be albums like a Netflix extravaganza, and his own Broadway Straight Outta Oz, Forbidden or Haus Parties production. He’ll make it up as he goes along, of 1 and 2, or a tour, or a scene-stealing “Drag course, and the results—spontaneous, joyous, Race” appearance. Eventually successes began real—will be all the better for it. to outweigh failures and in turn failures didn’t “When you’re younger you think you’re going really seem like failures at all. They were just to have it all figured out at some point,” he parts of the journey. smiles. “These days I’m realizing, you don’t need “Sometimes when people fall or hit a road- to have anything figured out. If you did, there’d block they strut with a little bit less confidence, be no point in living.”
raise his profile high enough to return to Broadway and land bigger roles. It was, he says, like playing chess: having to think at least three steps ahead, not to mention protecting the queen at all costs. “You have to find ways to be strategic about how you’re going to get to your end goal,” he says, “and my end goal is EGOT. Moving to L.A. was the only way I knew how to be able to come back to Broadway as a star.”
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odrick Hall and Pussy Riot are the big draws on Friday night, but Shaed will help parade goers close things out when the electropop trio plays the post-parade street party on Saturday, June 25. St. Pete Pride’s signature event starts at 4 p.m., but the party will get started on both ends of the route—Bayshore Drive from Vinoy Park to Albert Whitted Park— at 2 p.m. If you haven’t already, get to know some of the headlining entertainment for the final weekend of St. Pete Pride below. Get more information via stpetepride.org.
has spoken before the U.S. Congress, British Parliament, and European Parliament. She appeared as herself on season 3 of “House of Cards” and collaborated with Banksy on his Dismaland exhibition. Nadya is endorsed by Marina Abramovic and Ai Weiwei, has created an immersive experience in the Saatchi gallery in London, and published a book “Read and riot: Pussy Riot’s guide to activism.” Pussy Riot joined the NFT community in early 2021, cofounded UnicornDAO and formed UkraineDAO which has raised over $7m for Ukraine. Nadya is a PleasrDAO member, and a supporter of a stronger female representation in the NFT space. Pussy Riot stands for gender fluidity, inclusivity, matriarchy, love, laughter, decentralization, anarchy, and anti-authoritarianism.
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ride month wraps this week, and St. Pete Pride organizers are going out in style with a dramatic crescendo of events that kick off Friday night with the return of the Friday night concert. See a rundown of 2022’s last hurrah below. More information on all of these events is at stpetepride.org. St Pete Pride Friday Night Concert w/Todrick Hall/Pussy Riot The Friday Night Concert is back and bigger than ever! This year’s waterfront concert will feature international talent Todrick Hall, Pussy Riot, and some of the region’s top LGBTQ+ artists. Thousands of attendees will stroll the waterfront, enjoying vendors, food trucks, and participatory activities. This will be both Todrick Hall and Pussy Riot’s first time performing at St Pete Pride. Friday, June 24, 4 p.m.-10 p.m. $10 & up. St. Pete Pier waterfront, 600 2nd Ave NE, St. Petersbur.
’Pride In Grand Central’ presented by CAN Community Health St Pete Pride’s popular Sunday Street Festival will be reimagined as a carnival, bringing tens of thousands of all ages to the Grand Central District to enjoy block after block of entertainment, vendors, food, community partners, and interactive carnival games. With multiple performance stages, roaming street performers, and hundreds of participating businesses and organizations, there will be something for everyone. Sunday, June 26. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Grant Central District (Central Avenue between 31st Street and 22nd Street), St. Petersburg
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St Pete Pride Parade and Festival The parade marches again! One of the country’s largest pride parades will bring tens of thousands of marchers and attendees to the St. Pete waterfront to celebrate our community. The largest of St Pete Pride’s signature events, the parade brings together members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to enjoy the parade at a large- scale event. National musical artists will anchor a dynamic mainstage lineup that also features Florida’s most-beloved LGBTQ+ talent. Along with music, attendees will enjoy food, drink, and interaction with hundreds of participating vendors and organizations. This year’s event will begin with the annual Trans March and include a live stream of the parade to alternative viewing area, a 21+ pop-up nightclub, and unique VIP viewing opportunities. Saturday, June 25, 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Free. Bayshore Drive to Albert Whitted Park, downtown St. Petersburg
Transtastic Join us as we celebrate Tampa Bay’s Trans and Non-Binary community. A welcoming evening at the Museum of Fine Arts showcasing a variety of talent, artistry, poetry and more from our community. Guests will meander through both indoor and outdoor spaces enjoying appetizers and a cash bar. Tuesday, June 28, 6 p.m. $19. Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg
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lthough the infectious smell of fresh Cuban and the struggle to balance the bakery and fambread will still waft throughout Seminole ily time as the main reasons why she had to let Heights at any given time of day, Faedo go of her father’s legacy, although she says that Family Bakery’s neon “Hot Bread Now” sign the entire process has been no longer lights up the windows at 5105 N incredibly bittersweet for her. Florida Ave. “I would have loved to On April 26, the Faedo family officially sold continue running the family its bakery to the Moré family of La Segunda. By bakery to keep our traditions April 27, La Segunda’s Cuban bread was being alive, but it was just taking baked in Faedo’s former ovens. too much of a toll on all of us, ‘’ she says. “La “Located in Seminole Heights the Faedo Segunda has actually been approaching us for family has been (and still is!) a staple in the years about acquiring the space, and it finally Cuban bread community. As a fellow born and felt like the right time to go through with it.” bread’ multigenerational family, we are honored Michelle ran the front counter and manto carry on the tradition as well as extend our agerial operations for almost five years, business in Seminole Heights,” La Segunda’s alongside her brother who baked and her sons a n n o u n c e m e nt and nephews that reads. delivered Faedo Including its bread throughrecently-opened out Tampa. Since cafe and bakery its humble beginin St. Petersburg, ning in the 1980s, 107 year-old La their bakery has Segunda now has always been a famfour locations ily affair. throughout Tampa Besides the Bay. iconic “Hot Bread Although the Now” sign distransition might played in the have taken Faedo’s window, the loyal customers by Seminole Heights surprise, Michelle bakery was best Faedo Landis— known for three daughter of things: being original owner, 86 open 24-hours a year-old Mauricio day (six-and-aFaedo —tells half days a week ), Creative Loafing its cheap prices ($1 Bay that the deal for a small Cuban had been in the bread and $2.50 works for upwards CHANGE OF THE GUARD: Copeland Moré (L) for the longer loaf) of two years. and Michelle Faedo Landis. and it’s open floor Michelle—not plan, where guests to be confused with her cousin who operates could ogle at bakers pounding and shaping large Michelle Faedo’s Tampeño Cuisine—and another mounds of dough around the clock. Employees family member took over operations in 2017 said even former President Barack Obama tried when her father decided to retire after five the Faedo family specialty. decades in the business. She then changed the In addition to fresh Cuban bread baked name from Mauricio Faedo’s Bakery to Faedo almost 24 hours a day, Faedo also sold doughnuts, Family Bakery. She cites recent labor shortages apple fritters, and guava and cheese pastries
alongside other sweet treats. But the bread was always the star. “My dad originally learned how to make Cuban bread from my grandfather’s brother—my great uncle—who owned Joe Faedo’s Pastry Shop,” she says. “And then he went on to bake at La Segunda from 1963-1984— right up until he opened his own bakery.” Joe Faedo, Mauricio’s uncle, opened his bakery on Armenia Avenue in 1952, according to the Tampa Bay Times. It was a popular joint for cheap Cuban breakfast, as well as a gathering place for local politicians. “Her father used to work for my grandfather,” La Segunda’s fourth generation president Copeland Moré said about Michelle Faedo. “I think he actually helped build one of our ovens in Ybor back in the day. If you look at the bricks on that oven, you can still see his initials carved into it.” During Faedo’s hasty closure, almost the entire staff became La Segunda employees overnight. The longest bakers have been at Faedo for over 20 years, and it was a priority for both families to make sure that they were as comfortable as possible during the transition. As both Michelle Faedo and Moré explain, finding people willing to enter—and stick with— the Cuban bread trade is difficult. Postpandemic, Michelle struggled to find employees willing to work the graveyard shift, noting that the bakery had to shift to more normal hours during its last few months in operation. “To be a baker here— it’s not an easy thing. It’s a trade that not everyone can do. A lot of our bakers have been here for decades,” Michelle says. “These people are on their feet all day, working overnight shifts, it’s hot and you have to work with your hands— a skill set that’s being lost in America in general, I think,” Moré tells CL. “It’s truly a craft that’s not easily picked up by anyone.” La Segunda veteran bakers call it “having the blood” to enter the Cuban bread world. Made with very little equipment, simple ingredients, and techniques from the past, making authentic Cuban bread is no simple task. The mark of any true Cuban bread is the single palm leaf tucked about an inch deep on top of the dough, which creates the signature split down the center of the loaf. Michelle tells CL that both La Segunda and Faedo Family Bakery use the same ingredients to make its iconic breads, with slightly different continued on page 35
“It was just taking too much of a toll on all of us.”
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BREADY FOR MORE: 107 year-old La Segunda now has four locations throughout Tampa Bay. continued from page 31 measurements and methods. With the closure of her family’s bakery, she states that there are only two businesses in town that pump out authentic Cuban bread: La Segunda and Casino Bakery, which resides on the outskirts of Ybor City. And although the process of selling her family’s namesake was incredibly bittersweet for her, she’s happy that La Segunda is continuing the tradition. “Even though it’s technically one of our competitors, I have the peace of mind that at least it’s a similar concept to our bakery.” For now, La Segunda’s new Florida Avenue location will stick to selling fresh bread and pastries, but Moré tells CL that it absolutely has the potential to evolve into a full-scale cafe, due to the bakery’s high foot traffic. But first and foremost, its newest location will be a production facility for Cuban bread. “We’re dealing with an increased demand and growth outside of the city. It’s great to see Cuban bread, a true Tampa staple, become more accessible to folks throughout the country,” Moré says. La Segunda bread can now be found at 35 different Publix locations throughout Tampa Bay—a huge uptick in demand for the 107 year-old company—which is why the acquisition of another production facility was absolutely necessary. Much like the bakers at Faedo, La Segunda’s employees pump out Cuban bread almost 24 hours a day.
“It looks like we’re moving fast right now, but these things have been in the works for a long time,” Moré says. “I don’t see much more expansion in the near future, because we really want to focus on our new stores in St. Pete and Seminole Heights.’’ The large Faedo Family Bakery sign is still up on the building, marking the last step in La Segunda’s acquisition of the business. More says that new signage is on its way, and will say “La Segunda Seminole Heights,” instead of the expected “La Segunda Bakery & Cafe.” Although the transition has been poignant for Michelle and the rest of the Faedos, operations at 5105 N Florida Ave. still remain as much of a family affair as they did before. “We’ve always gotten along and there was always enough business to go around, so there were never any hard feelings or anything between the two families,” she tells CL. “I just didn’t want to sell it to whoever either. I wanted to find someone who would keep the tradition going. I didn’t want the space turned into apartments—although I know that’s a little selfish of me,” Michelle says with a laugh. And with the increase of apartments and commercial development replacing historical businesses in Tampa and beyond, it’s truly refreshing to see the Seminole Heights bakery keeping tradition alive—one loaf of hand-rolled, palm-indented Cuban bread at a time.
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Japanese-Brazilian fusion restaurant Sushi-Go opens in Tampa’s Channel District The largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan reside in Brazil, and Tampa’s newest fusion restaurant pays homage to this unique intersection of identities. Sushi-Go is located in Suite 155 at 1208 E Kennedy Blvd., inside of a large mixed-use building that also houses Maloney’ Local Irish Pub, Stageworks Theatre, and a Crunch Fitness. The JapaneseBrazilian restaurant celebrated its grand opening on Saturday, June 11, and is now open four days a week. With a small menu of both raw and cooked rolls, Sushi-Go offers dishes like its Hot Philadelphia roll—complete with
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panko-breaded hossomaki tempura, green onions and sesame seeds. The newly-opened restaurant shares a space with dessert cafe Gelato-Go—although we’re not sure how well raw fish and ice cream go together. A representative from Sushi-Go, Flabeano Castro, tells Creative Loafing in an email that all orders will be made to-go, to encourage guests to eat in the building’s outdoor courtyard. Castro also says that its current offerings will stick around for the near future, but he eventually hopes to add more Brazilian items to Sushi-Go’s menu. Beverage options are limited, but they do sell Guarana, a popular Brazilian soda. “Today, there are over 1.5 million
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n 2019, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay invoked Fatburger in a list of “25 fast-food chains that aren’t in Tampa Bay, but need to be” —and we’re just going to chalk this recent announcement up to manifestation. Last week, Fatburger’s parent company announced that the popular burger chain will head to Tampa Bay for the very first time. These locations will also boast a limited menu from its sibling brand, a wing-forward concept called Buffalo’s Express. A total of four locations will open throughout Tampa over the next three years, according to a press release. Whole Factor Inc.—the parent company of both businesses alongside a dozen other fast casual concepts—is currently working on opening several Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express locations throughout the greater Orlando area as well. While Fatburger is most known for its fresh, made-to-order burgers, other offerings on its menu include milkshakes, sides like fries and onion rings, chicken sandwiches, vegan options like it’s Impossible burger, and a keto-friendly bunless “skinny burger.” Its burgers are also extremely customizable—as customers can add a variety of toppings, from fried eggs to chili, onion rings and bacon. And in addition to bone-in and boneless wings, Buffalo’s Express’ menu offers various types of sauces like Blazin’ Jalepeño, Death Valley and Asian sesame that range from mild to medium to hot. The Buffalo’s Cafe full menu includes rice bowls, salads, tacos and wraps, but Tampa’s upcoming locations will only get the limited, wing-foward version of its menu. The first Fatburger opened in Los Angeles about 70 years ago, and now the international franchise has over 180 locations all over the world. Although it’s unknown when Tampa’s debut Fatburgers are slated to break ground, you can follow its Facebook and Instagram, both at @Fatburger, for the latest updates.
Sports-forward restaurant Walk-On’s now open in Midtown Tampa Run, don’t walk to Tampa Bay’s newest Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux. Under its motto of “Taste of Louisiana,” the national sports bar franchise Walk-On’s makes its latest Bay area debut Monday. Located at 1140 Gramercy Ln. in Midtown Tampa—on the intersection of Dale Mabry Highway and I-275—Walk-On’s is best known for its massive beer list, dinner menu stacked with American classics, plethora of TVs, and family-friendly atmosphere. Heavy hitters on its Louisiana-inspired menu include a fried catfish po’boy, blackened jumbo chicken “alfredeaux,” Mardi Gras mahi, hand-pattied burgers, voodoo shrimp and grits and Krispy Kreme bread pudding. Both local
FAT STACKS: Fatburger is finally coming to Tampa Bay. Brazilians who are of Japanese ancestry, making it the world’s largest community of Japanese descendants outside Japan. Brazil and Japan have a long-term relationship,” Castro writes to CL. “Sushi-Go Tampa is born out of the energy and spirit of these two cultures, a coalition that took root in the early 20th century when more than 200,000 Japanese citizens immigrated to Brazil in search of a new life and shared their rich gastronomy and culture with those who were already there.” For the latest on Tampa’s newest fusion spot, follow its Instagram at @sushigotampa. It’s now
ICYMI Tampa Theatre announces ‘Pee-wee Herman’ themed summer beer festival Hey beer-lovers with too-tight gray suits and red bow ties in your drawers: we’ve got an event for you. This summer, the historic Tampa Theatre is throwing a “Pee-wee Herman” themed beer festival with more than half-a-dozen of Tampa Bay’s best breweries. Tickets to Tampa Theatre’s “Pee-Wee’s Beer Adventure” happening on Saturday, July 30 are on sale now and start at $55. Limited premium sampling is available for a small upcharge, and ticket prices go up on the day but the event almost alway sells out. The event—set for 7 p.m.-10 p.m. at 711 N Franklin St.—will feature samples from breweries and restaurants listed at cltampa.com/ food, and a press release more are set to join in. Monies raised go towards educational and community programs at Tampa Theatre, plus continued preservation of the local landmark that escaped demolition in the ‘70s. Pee-wee Herman cosplay is encouraged, just don’t do the Paul Reuben at the movies bit, OK?—Ray Roa
and national beers will be available at this upcoming Walk-On’s, alongside expected craft cocktails and wines. There are a handful of Walk-On’s throughout Florida, including other Tampa Bay locations in Wesley Chapel and Lakeland. The national franchise—supported by athlete Drew Brees— is quickly spreading throughout the country, with 20 locations of Walk-On’s slated open this year alone. Follow the new Facebook for its Midtown Tampa location at @WalkOnsMidtown for the latest updates on Tampa Bay’s newest upscale sports bar.
A love letter to St. Pete dive bar Wilson’s, which closed last weekend after 50 years of service Beloved dive bars often share some overlapping characteristics—sticky floors, cheap drinks, windowless rooms, unchanging decor, decades of history—but each one feels unique in its own right. They’re where you go for a sense of the familiar, a fixture in your town that stands the test of time in an ever-changing landscape of high-rise developments and freshly-painted parking lots. Beloved dive bars have a crowd of regulars that bitch about drink prices going up a quarter or a digital jukebox getting installed; after all, it’s really the people who make any place special. And it’s never easy to say goodbye. One of my favorite dive bars, Wilson’s Sports Lounge, closed last weekend after about 50 years of business. The iconic teal building off 4th street and 30th Avenue North in St. Petersburg had its last call on Saturday, where patrons new and old gathered to swap stories one more time. I’m writing this to share my sentiments for Wilson’s and all the memories I have where the bar is simultaneously the backdrop and the main character. For those who never visited, allow me to paint the picture of all Wilson’s is (or was): the bright teal paint on the curved walls outside coated the wood panels inside, which made the sports memorabilia and alcohol posters pop in contrast. The floor was low-pile carpet that absorbed whatever spills happened. The bar itself was a stumpy, hollow L-shape with a few inches of padded vinyl lining its countertop continued on page 43
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7 1 8 S O U T H H O W A R D A V E N U E , TA M P A | 8 1 3 . 5 1 2 . 3 0 3 0 | A V ATA M P A . C O M WILSON!!! Wilson’s never tried to be a copy, it was wholly original. continued from page 40 perimeter for patrons to comfortably rest their arms. Smoking was allowed and the lighting was ambient. Several TVs were hung near the ceiling and a selection of snacks actually was hanging from the ceiling. There was always something to look at. As I said, though, it’s really the people who make any place special. The bartenders would juggle drink orders without a sweat and lovingly tell you to go to hell if the moment warranted; the regulars would make you feel welcome even if it was your first time there. Everyone was themselves, which is perhaps another overlapping qualifier for dives. There’s no need to masquerade as something you’re not—Wilson’s never tried to be a copy, it was wholly original. After years of growing up in St. Pete and driving past the building a million times, I finally made the move to check Wilson’s out in September. Wait, what? I’m writing this love letter to the place after only nine months of experiencing it? Such is the power of love, dear reader. My first night at Wilson’s was a Friday— karaoke night, of course. I didn’t know what to expect but I knew I could leave if I wasn’t having fun, which is good to remember for much of
life. I introduced myself as the real Slim Shady, made friends with some people sitting at the bar, chatted with the bartenders, and the rest is history. I never had a bad time at Wilson’s. Returning one final time this past Saturday evening felt surreal. This time around, I truly didn’t know what to expect and felt a small weight of nostalgia settle into my heart. Before I even reached the door, I was warmly welcomed by some regulars outside catching up and making plans for what the next regulars’ haunt would be. Upon entering, a couple sitting at the counter addressed me as “Love Shack Girl,” one of my favorite songs for karaoke, and we chatted for a little while. I went behind the bar and hugged the bartenders. Any notion of familiarity or recognition was sincerely shared and received at Wilson’s. There are a number of pithy cliches I’m tempted to insert here—all good things must come to an end, for example—but I’ll refrain and simply inadequately express my gratitude. Thank you to Cathy, Aubrey, Matt, Jeannie, Moon, Jenny, Charlie, Disco, Donald, Drew, Jeff and his dad Jeff, Chris, Rachel, Adam, Emma, Mark, Tiffany, Robin, and everyone else who made Wilson’s Wilson’s. I’m glad I got to be a small part of it.—SK West
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Come See Me: Tampa Bay Museums Tampa Bay is home to more museums than we can list. But whether you’re new to the area or just looking to reconnect with the gallery scene, here are some of the big’uns. Make sure to contact each museum to get the most updated health and safety protocols.
Hillsborough Florida Museum of Photographic Arts 400 North Ashley Dr., Tampa. fmopa.org Glazer Children’s Museum 110 W Gasparilla Plaza., Tampa. glazermuseum.org Henry B. Plant Museum 401 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. plantmuseum.com J.C. Newman Cigar Company 2701 N 16th St., Ybor City. jcnewman.com Museum of Science & Industry 4801 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. mosi.org Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water St., Tampa. tampabayhistorycenter.org Tampa Museum of Art 120 W Gasparilla Plaza., Tampa. tampamuseum.org Ybor City Museum State Park 1818 E 9th Ave., Ybor City. floridastateparks.org
Pinellas The Dalí 1 Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg. thedali.org Dunedin Fine Art Center 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin. dfac.org Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum 2240 9th Ave S, St. Petersburg. woodsonmuseum.org Fairgrounds 800 28th St. S, St. Petersburg. fairgrounds.art Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th St S, St. Petersburg. thefhm.org Great Explorations Children’s Museum 1925 4th St N, St. Petersburg. greatex.org Imagine Museum 1901 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. imaginemuseum.com The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art 150 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. thejamesmuseum.org Morean Arts Center 719 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. moreanartscenter.org Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement 355 4th Street N, St. Petersburg. museumaacm.org Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg 255 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg. mfastpete.org St. Petersburg Museum of History 335 2nd Ave NE, St. Petersburg. spmoh.com Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum 100 Beekman Ln., Tarpon Springs. tarponarts.org
Beyond Polk Museum of Art 800 E Palmetto St., Lakeland. polkmuseumofart.org Ringling Museum 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota. ringling.org Rollins Museum of Art 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. rollins.edu/rma
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New book by USF professor details forensic investigation at Dozier school. By Chelsea Zukowski
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House Boys, journalists, so many people involved,” Kimmerle said. “It does start to feel personal.” “In the forensics works…it’s always, for me, been very family-focused,” she said. “We do this work for the living. This is really about the survivors and the living people.” “We Carry Their Bones” is a poignant examination of Kimmerle’s work and the challenges she and her team faced. It points a spotlight on some of the infuriating and absurd excuses and obstacles she faced from authorities in Marianna, Jackson County and the state of Florida.
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or more than a century, a state-run reform school in the Florida panhandle was the site of horrific abuse of children. Dozens of boys died and were buried in unmarked graves at the 1,400-acre campus in Marianna. The school was shuttered in 2011, and from 2012-2016, forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle at the University of South Florida led a team of students, scientists, and law enforcement, in a project to find, exhume, and identify any undocumented graves at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. They found 55 burials that had no recorded information in state-issued plot maps or other documents. A decade after the start of this literal groundbreaking investigation, Kimmerle wrote an account of her experiences with Dozier titled “We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys.” “It was a challenge because there’s so much history,” Kimmerle said. “And it’s so intertwined in Florida history and civil rights history…and so many people involved. How do you tell that story…and how could I tell this story and reach the broadest audience possible? That was the goal.” The story of Dozier, the boys buried there and the men who now carry a lifetime of scars has been highly publicized in Florida and around the world. That includes the 2009 series of articles by Ben Montgomery and Waveney Ann Moore of the Tampa Bay Times—a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2010—and countless articles and TV pieces by outlets around the state. But Kimmerle’s book offers a unique perspective from the woman who had her hands in the north Florida clay, from which she and her team gently unearthed child-sized bones waiting decades to be identified. “When people were opposing the work, they would say, ‘You just want to excavate these remains,’” she said. “But it’s not what I want, I’m advocating for what the families want. It’s about trying to be a voice and make their voices heard.” Though a world-renowned forensics expert, Kimmerle’s book is more narrative nonfiction than academic report. It charts her personal and professional journey to help bring even the smallest bit of closure to families and survivors wracked by grief and trauma for decades. “It was such a long project; I got to know so many people—the White
residents, leaders and even local journalists dedicated to maintaining the manicured narrative, refuting the many allegations of abuse. Kimmerle questioned, “Why do we have to keep trying to convince people to do what’s right and definitely within our ability to do it?” “I think you see this a lot in different civil rights cases. It’s the same thing: suddenly the door closes,” she said. “For me it was the frustration and then the motivation. Hopefully that comes through in telling this story.” Kimmerle wrote in her book: “Anytime there’s an effort at truth and reconciliation in a small town where the bright light of publicity shines on some dark deed, the powerful people in town try to control their truth—or at least the thing that’s true to them.” Part of Kimmerle’s work included searching for
PLACE UNKNOWN: Contradictions of the official record are not uncommon. “The attitude that we encountered like, ‘This can’t be done; it shouldn’t be done; let the sleeping dogs lie,’” she said. “That was the biggest disappointment and frustration because it’s so much within our capacity. This was about the will to do it, not our ability to do it.” The book also examines the unsurprising pushback she and her team received from locals who had lived and worked in the small panhandle community for generations. Kimmerle wrote that some of the longtime residents worked at Dozier, had family and friends who had worked there, or were proud of the supposed “good work” and jobs the school brought to the area. She wrote of
any records about the history of the school, which had been named the Florida State Reform School, the Florida Industrial School for Boys, the Florida School for Boys and finally the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. When she met with an archivist in Marianna, Kimmerle wrote that she was “sharply corrected” in her use of the word children to describe those who were buried at the school. “They were inmates. Not children,” the archivist said, who also called the boys “throwaways.” The boys sent to the school had been as young as 5. Kimmerle wrote: “Throwaway children. That was the phrase used in the FDLE report. Whose
“We do this work for the living.”
narrative is this? I wondered. For the record: I do not believe we throw away children.” Like the years-long forensics work and calls for justice by hundreds of Dozier school survivors and families, Kimmerle’s book explores several issues at play. There were families of boys sent to the school who never knew where their brother, son, uncle was buried. Kimmerle and her team helped many get closure by identifying exhumed remains via DNA analysis. There are also groups of men who survived the school—named the White House Boys and the Black Boys of Dozier. To Kimmerle and others, they recounted the horrors inflicted on them: bloody beatings in the “White House,” Black boys suffering solitary confinement in sweat boxes, being forced to dig graves and bury their bunkmates and time spent in a dank basement they called the “rape room.” These boys, now men in their 70s and 80s, many of whom have died in recent years, sought apologies and reparations. An appendix in Kimmerle’s book lists the names of 46 boys and men that the team was able to positively and presumptively identify in the Boot Hill burial ground. Their work also provided circumstances for many of the boys’ deaths—the 1914 dormitory fire, “reported flu,” “accident,” blunt trauma and knife wounds. At least 21 remains of boys were given to their families for reburial. Some, like many from the 1914 fire, were reburied in their original unmarked graves. Kimmerle wrote there were several graves containing commingled remains, which made it impossible to determine who was buried there. The state of Florida agreed to pay burial costs to the families to reinter their loved ones. In 2017, the state formally apologized in a ceremony acknowledging the abuse at Dozier. “I don’t know that many of the men—the White House Boys and the Black Boys of Dozier—I don’t know collectively that they felt like it was enough,” Kimmerle said. “The acknowledgement from the state was very important…but in order for people to feel a sense of change, there has to be something a lot more transformative.” Kimmerle’s work and her book is arguably a large part of that transformation. Despite the pushback, obstacles, objections, the many closed doors, the lack of records and all the “reasons provided that we would fail, we did not fail.” “Hopefully it’ll be a good tribute to the families, all the people involved, the volunteers—I couldn’t name them all or include all their stories,” Kimmerle said. “Hopefully it reflects well on what we did.”
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Prima volta
Tempus Projects announces new Ybor City art gallery. By Ray Roa
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empus Gallery’s Florida Avenue location was always meant to be temporary, and the time has finally come to say goodbye. Selina Román’s “A Bad Batch” show—which runs through June 26—is the last exhibition at 4220 N Florida Ave., and a June 23 concert from Tampa supergroup Purple Gurl is the last event at the gallery space inside the former Bali Bay Trading Company. And as Tempus waits for its home at Ybor Heights’ forthcoming Crab Devil compound to open, it has big plans to move into a new space on Seventh Avenue in Ybor City. An opening date is a ways off, but Tempus founder Tracy Midulla told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that her art collective is moving into the historic Kress Building located near the corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street. The “Tempus Volta” windows will overlook Seventh Avenue. When complete, Volta will be one of five total galleries moving into the second floor of the annex to the historic building constructed in the 1920s. Neighbors on the second floor will include a micro-cinema and the studio for Tampa’s “Barely Legal” podcast. The building was last home to the U.S. Customs Service Office, but now belongs to Ybor City developer Daryl Shaw. Midulla would not disclose the details of her lease with the building’s landlord. She told CL that the landlord is also renting out Kress building artist studios, and added that details on those spaces would be available soon.
Shaw—who tore down the Tampa Park Apartments to make way for his Gasworx development—is also the owner of Ybor City’s Meatyard property, which could include more than 50 affordable art workspaces and a gallery. When the second floor is fully up and running, Tampeños will be able to browse multiple galleries and catch a movie in a singular space. The move is a big step for Tempus, which, like other small galleries in Tampa Bay, has endured the pandemic’s punch over the last two years— but the momentum doesn’t stop there for Midulla. Tampa art collector Stanton Storer recently donated $10,000 for a wine bar and “creative flexspace” that’ll open at Tempus’ Crab Devil home. Midulla’s gallery has also received $7,000 meant for the “Drift” independent curators space next to Tempus Volta. All that comes at the same time as a $30,000 donation from the Gobioff Foundation, a longtime supporter of Tempus, plus $19,000 from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Arts and Culture. Román’s June show—”A Bad Batch: Beauty in the Breakdown”—is an extension of the Tampa artist’s work documenting the city’s weird purple streetlights, which have gained a cult following. Purple Gurl, the band playing on June 23, features drummer Natalie DePergola and and frontwoman Shevonne Philidor alongside Stephanie Perez and Juna Serita who came together over a love of Prince and will help Román close out the show with the living room concert.
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SUMMER 2022 EXHIBITIONS PAUL JENKINS:
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VERDE: POETICS OF SHADE On view through July 24, 2022
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INTERVIEW Chicago and Brian Wilson
Tuesday, June 28. 7 p.m. $35.50 & up MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. 4802 U.S. Hwy-301 N, Tampa. livenation.com
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Son of the beach
Catching up with Al Jardine ahead of his show with Brian Wilson. By Josh Bradley
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ll three surviving original Beach Boys will be in their 80s by the end of the year, and it doesn’t seem like anyone is slowing down. Lead singer and lyricist Mike Love keeps the band’s legacy alive (and brutally murders it at the same time) by spending his twilight years playing U.S. county fairs, small venues, and trophy hunting fundraisers under the Beach Boys moniker, with semi-original member Bruce Johnston. The other two survivors—troubled musical genius Brian Wilson and rock and roll’s coolest rhythm guitarist, Al Jardine—also do an extensive amount of touring together, but in a more graceful fashion. In the last decade, the two have toured with Jeff Beck, collaborated on Brian’s 2015 No Pier Pressure album, and took The Beach Boys’ magnum opus, Pet Sounds all around the world, one last time. And with the recently announced yearlong celebration of the Boys’ 60th anniversary, the possibilities surrounding future projects are practically endless. A reunion tour with holograms of Dennis and Carl Wilson? One last studio record? Maybe a second SMiLE tour for Brian? But even the remaining members themselves don’t know what projects are coming. In the meantime, Wilson and Jardine—along with Beach Boys alum Blondie Chaplin—are back on the road, playing support Chicago’s latest run of shows. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay recently spoke over the phone with Al Jardine about what he hopes to play on tour, his time with Neil Young, and why he’s hesitant to get back into the studio. Read an abridged Q&A below and see the full interview below on cltampa.com/music.
Brian and Al thing with Blondie Chaplin. We’re two different acts, but who knows? Something might come up as far as an encore goes. Right now, we’re just doing the two independent shows in the same evening. Your Postcard From California album had a crazy lineup, and I think the biggest shock of all was that Neil Young was on it. Not that you don’t deserve it, but how in the world did you get him to guest on that album? I pestered him, and I pestered his wife. I had a song targeted for him. I knew the verse I wanted, and I knew he liked the lyrics. And he took a break from whatever he was doing at the time and you know what he said? “I remember having such a great time with you guys when we worked together,” because Neil was somehow involved in helping an act. I can’t remember how or what we did together, but we did something together. And he remembered us. He remembered the experience, and he kind of wanted to rekindle the relationship. He delivered a great verse. And [Stephen] Stills did two, by the way. Steve was great. His parting comment to me was “you know, we always wanted to be Beach Boys.” Isn’t that a great line?
life, too, especially so when you get both of those things going. Like, this tour with Brian that I’m doing right now, is going to be two months on the road, out of our lives. In this stage of our lives, that’s a long time. So, that’s got me a little nervous and I’m a little fidgety about it. But I know that once I get out there, I’ll enjoy it. Right on. Are there any songs that you would like to do on this tour that may not go over well with Brian or the band? No, no, I don’t believe so. I do want to add a few. It’s often hit-heavy, because of the nature of the
show, of the offering. But we’re going to do some deeper cuts if possible. “Add Some Music To Your Day” would be one I would like, and I’ve already expressed that to our music director. And I don’t think I really have a problem with that. We all love that one. And “Please Let Me Wonder,” that would be one I would want to do. And fortunately we all know them really well, so it won’t take long to polish ‘em up. And Brian’s still got a good voice. Recently on Disney+, there was that six hour Beatles documentary “Get Back.” With that continued on page 52
This is not going to be the first time that you’ve been on the same bill as Chicago. Do you have any memories of when The Beach Boys were on tour with them back in the ‘70s? Yes. I sang a lead with Robert Lamm on “Saturday in the Park.” That was my big deal. It was an encore, we did an encore together. But this time, we’re not doing an encore together that I know of. I think we’re two independents, it’s not The Beach Boys, to begin with. It’s more of a
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It’s no secret that you’re a huge fan of folk music, but with The Beach Boys, you kinda got sucked into rock and roll. Would you ever like to take on some folk projects? I love the stories. I love the kind of quintessential ones. It’s just one of those things, I guess. So, yes, I would. I probably should, but will I? I don’t know. Studio work is extremely highly focused, and if you’ve really spent a lot of your life in a studio, once you get going, you can’t quit. And I’m afraid that if I start up again, I might lose track of my family. But having said that, I do have a nice studio here, and I should probably put it to good use. So I might have one more in me. Awesome. Why not? See, you kind of get obsessed. It’s an obsessive compulsive thing. Touring starts to take up your
WILSON’S BROTHER: Al Jardine will hit the stage with his Beach Boy brethren on Tuesday.
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a crew up here and interview me, and that’s about it. And a lot will be supported by already existing biographical stuff. They’ll probably do a nice job, like with the Elvis Presley [“The Searcher”] special. You and Brian Wilson were both on the Hawthorne High football team back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Do you still indulge yourself in football? That is true! All the time. It’s hard to get out of your bloodstream once it falls in there *laughs*. I was just talking to my right tackle on our championship team at Hawthorne. We hadn’t talked for 50 years, and he called me to say he’s coming to the Brian concert in Phoenix. And we immediately started talking about the game. So yeah, I still think about it.
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She basically recorded the album live in Santa Monica with producer Butch Walker, a talented singer-songwriter in his own right who works out of his home studio. “I love Butch,” she says when asked about Walker. “He’s such a talent. He’s really diverse in his abilities. I’ve worked with producers who are so worried about hits; he’s not like that at all. I feel lucky that he decided to do the record with me.” Driven by spirited horns, the opening track, “Long Way ’Round,” starts the album off with a real bang. Jewel croons evocatively during the album’s soulful intro and sounds sultry as she muses, “Oh I went down the other day/See what the gypsy had to say.” “It started out as a folk or bluegrass song and morphed with time into this version [on the album],” says Kilcher when asked about the track. “That song just happened in the studio. We weren’t ready for a take yet. We were
just getting our sound down. I think it was a bassline that started, and I really liked it. I started humming. The drummer came in during a funny place, and I made up that whole first verse on the spot. I hadn’t cracked the code on the first verse yet. I was still writing it, and it just came together all of a sudden. Thank God that the engineer had pressed ‘record.’” The character studies found in fiction by writers such as Flannery O’Connor and John Steinbeck inspired the folknarrative “Half Life,” and the album features collaborations with Train and with singer-songwriter Darius Rucker. “I just thought it would be fun to have some collaborations on the album,” Kilcher says. “[The collaboration with Rucker] was the first song I wrote for the album. It was one of my favorites, and I thought I would see how it would go with Darius. I was pretty blown away. He gave an incredible performance.”
inger-songwriter Jewel Kilcher grew up For her new album, Freewheelin’ Woman, listening to a wide range of music. “I’m a Kilcher assembled close to 200 songs before music fan,” she says in a recent phone inter- whittling things down to the 12 that made view. Jewel hits the road with pop rockers Train the album. next month, and their tour comes to Tampa “I always have songs in my back catalog, on Saturday, June 25. “I grew up listening to but I didn’t want to do that for this album Johnny Cash and Loretta because I wanted to see Lynn and Marvin Gaye who I was now and come and Bill Withers and Joni up with something new Mitchell. I think that’s and fresh and interestTrain w/Jewel/Blues Traveler really normal. I found it ing to me creatively,” she Saturday, June 25, 6:30 p.m. $12 & up. confusing when I got into MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. 4802 says. “I don’t like repeatU.S. Hwy-301 N, Tampa. livenation.com the industry to see how ing myself, but the album rigid everything is. There also incorporates all my is a country label and a pop label. There are styles. There’s pop and country and Americana stations that are only this and that. I think and folk and an R&B or Muscle Shoals feel to that’s really weird. Every music fan I’ve ever the album as well.” talked to listens to multiple things depending on their mood.” Over the decades, Kilcher has embraced everything from country to electronica. “I was very confused by people’s reactions that my writing style would be influenced by my listening,” she says. “[The musical styles] all feel authentic to me. That’s the key. It has to be authentic to you, or it smells bad. I look at it like my closet. I have sweat pants and yoga pants and business suits and dresses. No one looks at me and says, ‘Jewel is no longer Jewel because she’s wearing yoga pants or a business suit.’ The music is a natural extension of that. Do I want to dress this up in a banjo or programmed drum loop? Who cares. To me, there is a natural consistency because I’m a singer-songwriter.” Though she started out in the folk-pop genre, the singer-songwriter that Jewel has become certainly can’t be pigeonholed. Last year, as a contestant on “The Masked Singer,” she sang a bit of everything, including Édith Piaf’s “La Vie En Rose,” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Bishop Briggs’ “River.” And she pulled it all off with ease. “‘Masked Singer’ was two things,” she says when asked about the show. “I thought it would let me do something artistically, which I’ve never done, which is to just focus on my technical ability as a singer, which was really fun for me. These songs are the ones that taught me to sing. I got to pick them and arrange them. I love the songs. I think they’re heroic. And the other reason was pure strategy. I had an album coming out, and I’m a mom. I can’t go on the road for a year and do two months of promo like I used to. You just make different choices. It’s such a silly show, but I had a really authentic experience. It was nice being stripped of my identity, and as dumb as it sounds, showing my heart.” FREEWHEELIN’ WOMAN: Over the decades, Jewel has embraced everything from country to electronica.
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Crown The Empire w/DRUGS/The Word Alive/Until I Wake When you’re labeled the “Backstreet Boys of the metal world” anything can happen, and that’s why we’re watching what goes down with this show from Crown The Empire. The group is supposed to play the new location of Orpheum, which recently moved from Ybor City to north Tampa. But shows there have been relocated as of late while the venue puts the finishing touches on renovations at the new venue and awaits a certificate of occupancy. Find this post on cltampa.com/music to get the latest.
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The Fixx Friday, Sept. 16. 8 p.m. $39-$59. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
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We Became Romans w/Like Moths To Flames (opening for Architects) Saturday, Oct. 1. 8 p.m. $34.50. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
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Tampa miniFEST feat. Erok Mule/Chris Manings/Jollykush/Misstrr Ghore/ one2cee/Erica Mason/Burnie Beretta/ more Saturday, July 30. 5:45 p.m. $20. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
Whitney Saturday, Oct. 15. 7 p.m. $25. Orpheum, Tampa
Discord Theory w/Hollyglen/Felicity/ Mak/Up From Here Thursday, Aug. 4. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City
Yung Gravy w/bbno$ Thursday-Friday, Nov. 10 & 11. 7 p.m. $42.50-$87. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
GG Magree Friday, Aug. 5. 10 p.m. Free, or $10 for guaranteed entry. The Ritz, Ybor City
Origami Angel w/Pool Kids/ Insignificant Other Friday, Nov. 11. 6 p.m. $18. Orpheum, Tampa
Haliene Saturday, Aug. 20. 10 p.m. $10$100. The Ritz, Ybor City PM Tiger w/Filthy Royalty/Bargain Bin Heroes/Oceans End Saturday, Aug. 20. $10. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa Ybor City Rock Ska Mash Up feat. Roxx Revolt and the Velvets/Sick Hot/ Bargain Bin Heroes Saturday, Sept. 3. 9 p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City Giveon w/Fana Hues/Saleka Sunday, Sept. 4. 8 p.m. $34.99. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
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Movements w/Angel Du$t/One Step Closer/Snarls Thursday, Sept. 29. 6:30 p.m. $22. Orpheum, Tampa
Blitzkid Sunday, Nov. 6. 6 p.m. $15-$50. Orpheum, Tampa
Rocks The Cure feat. Better Than Ezra/ First Of The Day Friday, Nov. 18. 6 p.m. $30-$75. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg Tom Rush and Matt Nakoa Thursday, Feb. 2. 8 p.m. $25-$50. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater Cancellations/reschedules Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band at Ruth Eckerd Hall, June 26 Rescheduled to Friday, Sept. 16
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Pride and preference By Dan Savage
I’m taking a week off, so this week’s “Savage Love” is a reprint of a column that was originally published on January 13, 2016. I hope everyone has a happy and safe Pride. Please be careful out there. —Dan As a queer man of color—I’m Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out, too. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I’m six-footone, 160 pounds, fit, and very good-looking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk.—Enraged Dude Details Infuriating Experience
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“I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here,” said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn-based writer and comedian. “The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it.” Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: “Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society,” said Chu. “Many of us who are Asian American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we’re either fetishized or ignored. Many times I’d go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads—with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay. Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam.” Chu feels there’s plenty of blame to go around for this sad state of affairs. “It’s the gay media,” said Chu. “It’s Hollywood. Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of Asian American ones? It’s that LGBT-rights organizations still haven’t diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it’s all of us, when we’re lazy and don’t confront our own prejudices.” Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices.
Ugh, “just my preference” gays. JMPGs pop up everywhere, of course, but they’re thicker on the ground in more conservative areas. And while you can find examples of white gays in their 30s and 40s (and older) doing this kind of crap, it sometimes seems to be more prevalent among younger gay white men. These young guys—often recently out and from overwhelmingly white areas—get online and start saying dumb, racist shit. So long as they stay in Kansas or Utah, GEAR, they don’t get a lot of pushback. But once a JMPG moves to Chicago or Los Angeles, they suddenly encounter pushback. Other gay men… reformed JMPGs or never-ever-were JMPGs… start to get in their faces about how unacceptable and harmful this shit is. Decent gay men of all ages and races despair over this “just my preference” crap because it never seems to stop. But that’s not true; it does stop. After gay people who know better (and are better) get in the face of a JMPG, his latent moral imagination can kick into gear. The JMPG starts to think about how it would feel to be on the receiving end of this shit, maybe he recalls the Golden Rule back from Sunday School, perhaps he makes a few non-white friends and listens to them. Maybe he even starts to question his own precious preferences. (Are they his actual preferences? Or did he mindlessly adopt preferences assigned to him by Hollywood and porn?) And then maybe— hopefully, ideally—he stops being a JMPG. Even if he figures out that, yes, he’s primarily attracted to other white guys, he realizes he can act on his preferences—he can fuck the guys he wants to fuck—without needlessly disparaging anyone along the way. What happens next... well, what happens next is kinda depressing. Another young and/or dumb JMPG moves to town and the whole someone-needs-to-get-in-hisface process starts up all over again. So, when you see a JMPG with “no Blacks” or “no Asians” or “no fats” or “no femmes” in their profile, GEAR, push back. Tell him he’s being an asshole. Getting through to JMPGs is slow, one-dudeat-at-time work, but you can be part of the solution. Send mail to questions@savagelove.net, listen to the Savage Lovecast and follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter. Columns, podcasts, books, merch and more at savage.love. JOE NEWTON
Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!), and looks (VGL!) as proof you’ve faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, average-looking/unconventionally-attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean, or conventionally hot, just as you’ve faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys—duh, obviously.) “As a stereotypically short Chinese guy, my first reaction to reading EDDIE’s letter? Damn, he’s six-foot-one! I’m jealous,” said Chu. “And that’s also part of the problem. I, like many others, have internalized an ideal: tall, gym-perfected, blah blah blah—and, above all, white.” Booster was also struck by your stats. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around any sixfoot-one, fit, VGL guy having trouble getting laid,” said Booster. “On paper, this is the gay ideal! I don’t really consider myself any of those things—and I have a perfectly respectable amount of sex.” Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York’s “whitepainted gay community,” had some practical tips for you. “EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative,” Booster said. “If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great. There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league—truly where gay Asian men thrive—or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city. They’re out there.” Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. “I’ve been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit, and less good-looking, and somehow I found a husband,” said Chu. “The monastery wasn’t my calling, and I suspect it’s not EDDIE’s either.” A quick word to gay white men: It’s fine to have “preferences.” But we need to examine our preferences and give some thought to the cultural forces that may have shaped them. Do yourself the favor of making sure your preferences are actually yours, and not some limited and limiting racist “preference” pounded into your head by TV, movies, and
porn. And while preferences are allowed (and gay men of color have them, too), there’s no excuse for littering Grindr or Tinder or Recon—or your conversations in bars—with dehumanizing garbage like “no Asians,” “no Blacks,” “no femmes,” “no fatties,” etc. (But “no Republicans” is fine.) The last word goes to Booster: “A note to the rice queens who will undoubtedly write in about this man: We like that you like us. But liking us solely because of our race can be uncomfortable at best, and creepy as hell at worst. In my experience, it’s perfectly OK to keep some of those preferences behind the curtain while you get to know us a bit as humans first.” Follow @ihatejoelkim on Twitter. Jeff Chu is the author of ”Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America”, follow @jeffchu.
I recently moved to the South, and on Grindr I’m noticing a lot more racist messaging in profiles, sometimes as overt as “no Blacks” and “no Asians.” I’m wondering what I can (or should) do as a chat user? Is it sufficient just to block these people? Should I flag their profiles? Or should I message them and ask them to change their profile?—Grinding Endlessly Against Racism
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