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Experience the awe and wonder of light at the Botanical Gardens this summer. The Garden transforms at dusk with imaginative, luminous works of art. Arrive early to enjoy the daylight beauty of the Garden and stroll the newly developed Gardens of Storza Woods.

Enjoy an Intimate Evening With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. Join Cohen and Cooper for an unscripted, uncensored, and unforgettable night of conversation at the Cobb Energy Centre.

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You Are Cordially Invited to attend the Campaign Kickoff Event at Augustine’s at 6pm on June 25th for our own Josh Noblitt for State House District 59. Josh is a Marriage and Family Therapist and also serves on the Ministerial staff at Saint Mark United Methodist Church.

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FOR THE KID BEER BUST Join For the Kid in All of Us as they host a Beer Bust at Joe’s on Juniper, Saturday, June 20, 2015, from noon till 4 pm, DJ Sed of Blended Vibe DJs will be entertaining everyone with her high energy beats and you get to support a wonderful organization!

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BIANCA DEL RIO’S JOSH NOBLITT ROLODEX OF HATE CAMPAIGN COMEDY SPECIAL KICKOFF Atlanta, get ready to LOL! Here comes RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio with “Rolodex Of Hate” comedy special. Saturday June 20th, 8:00 p.m. at Center Stage Theater. Tickets start at $35

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PRIDE RUN 2015 The Atlanta Pride Run and Walk is an annual 5K race and walk organized by the Front Runners Atlanta running club. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. The primary beneficiary of this year’s Pride Run is Joining Hearts. Come out for this fun event!

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CHRIS KIDS: WHITE PARTY The White Party is known in Atlanta as one of the premiere social events of the summer season. Guests are dressed in crisp white comfortable fun or festive formal attire. White shoes, shirts, hats, and ties with an occasional splash of color. Just make sure to wear white and if you don’t, well, we told you so.

There will be exquisite food, creative cocktails, old and new friends, a silent auction,dancing with DJ Vicki Powell and special appearances by RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Pandora Boxx and Courtney Act. It will be fabulous, fun and for a great mission.

This year the spectacular event is being held at the new location of Mason Fine Art Gallery on July 11 from 6pm ­ 10pm.

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INTERVIEW

BY DUSTIN DEMMERS

VIOLET CHACHKI PRESENTS “BETTIE” FANS of RuPaul’s Drag Race delighted in watching Atlanta’s Violet Chachki grow as an artist, refining her performance and beauty into a spectacular persona that landed her as the top queen for season seven.

Now, Violet is taking her artistry to the next level, presenting “Bettie”, the first single from her album, GAGGED. “The album is dark, dance-y, fun but serious,” explains Violet Chachki of the five-track EP of hard-pounding, dynamic club tracks. “I wanted to create something as a sort of soundtrack to the visuals I create.”

She drew inspiration from her real life experience working in dungeons with songs that address gender roles and conformity, power play, exhibitionism, sex and confidence. “I worked for a mistress,” she reveals. “She was the dominant type, hired to humiliate subservient men. She’d have me dress the men in drag and parade them in front of her friends.”

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otherwise humdrum life.”

Violet Chachki’s love of fetish is featured in several tracks on GAGGED, including “Bettie” where she plays the straight-laced housewife who’s a lady in the street but a freak in the sheets.

The single is inspired, in part, by Bettie Page’s born again Christian past and the idea of leading a double life.

“It reflects on gender norms in mid century America,” adds Violet.

“Presentation verse reality.”

In another single, “Harlequin”, Violet plays the role of an intoxicating latex-wearing jokerdeviant. Violet Chachki is actually a collector of clown paraphernalia and other bric-a-brac, including vintage Avon bottles and poodle statues. It’s where the Chachki in her name comes from.

“I’m like the culmination of Bettie Page, Lady Miss Kier, Dovima, Thierry Mugler, and Pierre Molinier,” she explains. “I love glamour and excess.”

Violet is an Atlanta native. She has been doing drag professionally for nearly three years. At first, it was a way to justify her obsession with collecting vintage women’s

clothing. She has become known for sophisticated and thrilling performances that blend strip tease and fetish with acrobatics. Violet is an accomplished aerialist.

Her perfectionism and determination made her a fan favorite on this past season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

“The show forced me to grow in ways I didn’t even know were possible,” reflects Violet today. “I have a better understanding of how showbiz works. I’m a better communicator, a better drag queen and a better person. It was an extremely quick and intense learning experience.

She says it was Ru who inspired her to create music. “She is so smart and talented. I love how she presents the entire RuPaul experience. I want that for me.”

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For more information, visit Violet online at Instagram.com/violetchachki, Twitter.com/ violetchachki and Facebook.com/violetchachki.

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In addition to her new music releases, Violet Chachki has launched an online store at Shop.

VioletChachki.com where she sells playtime products with an adult twist, including her signature jawbreaker candy ball gag and her book of couture paper dolls, featuring her favorite runway looks from season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, illustrated by artist Donny Meloche.

INTERVIEW

BY PAUL HUTNICK

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With New Fighting Game, Gay Fighter Supreme With all the bitchy queens out there, why did it take so long for someone to create a gay fighting game?

“The idea arose from banter between friends discussing our mutual love for 90’s fighting games,” says Michael Patrick, Gay Fighter Supreme’s creator. “The characters are all influenced by dated jokes, pop culture icons, and camp. We wanted it to be like a pride parade gone rogue.”

The game is intended to be irreverent, satirical, fun spirited and ironic. Co-creator Melchor Cardenas says, “Anyone who mistakenly views the game as offensive or feels it perpetuates gay stereotypes is missing the point. It’s pure satire.

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In Gay Fighter Supreme, ten LGBT fighters are competing to win the title of Gay Fight champion. There’s drag queen Carrie Cupcake, Gogo boy Gary, lesbian Sappho Ethridge, twink Timmy Spears, and more – all competing to win the title of Gay Fight champion. Little do the fighters know, there is something ominous about the competition.

The League of Oppressive SelfRighteous Zealots (LOSRZ) are actually behind the tournament.

They have created it for two reasons: to make the LGBT community destroy itself and to brainwash the winner to carry out the League’s nefarious plans.

“We designed the game play to be fun and entertaining yet easy and understandable so that non-gamers can play”, continues Cardenas.

Game play is simple. At the bottom of the screen are six rainbow buttons that emit white lights. To execute an attack, the player must quickly tap the white light. Missing a light allows the

opposing character to attack. The game gets more challenging as lights move more rapidly, become multicolored, or even falling from the ceiling. New characters and special attacks unlock as the player continues to defeat the opposition.

There are twelve levels in all. The final three characters that must be defeated to win the game are the LOSRZ, including the evil Anne Paylin who bares a striking resemblance to a former real-life Vice Presidential candidate. Like Palin, Paylin is a notorious politician whose weapon of choice is an American flag which she uses to harpoon her most prized prey: gays!

To preserve the tongue in cheek nature of the game, no blood or gore is ever seen in Gay Fighter Supreme, only rainbows and unicorns.

“The message I would take from the game is that the LGBT family shouldn’t fight among each other,” concludes Patrick. “There are larger enemies afoot!”

For more information, visit GayfighterSupreme.com

Gay Fighter Supreme Patrick and Cardenas are releasing weekly comics and videos featuring backstories of the fighters in a series called “Handsome Women Explain It All�. In the comedic series, Patrick and Cardenas also reveal their own personal stories that inspired the development of the characters.

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The White Party

BY ANDREA DWYER

It’s time to pull out your whitest whites because the CHRIS Kids annual White Party is only weeks away!

This year the spectacular event is being held at the new location of Mason Fine Art Gallery on July 11 from 6pm ­ 10pm.

The White Party is known in Atlanta as one of the premiere social events of the summer season. Guests are dressed in crisp white comfortable fun or festive formal attire. White shoes, shirts, hats, and ties with an occasional splash of color.

Just make sure to wear white and if you don’t, well, we told you so.

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special appearances by RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Pandora Boxx and Courtney Act. It will be fabulous, fun and for a great mission.

The White Party has raised nearly one million dollars over the years and in addition to raising funds the party also introduces community members to what CHRIS Kids is all about: “Diversity, inclusivity, acceptance, and unconditional love. These are integral parts of CHRIS Kids founding philosophy, ethics and values.”

CHRIS Kids has been protecting and serving LGBTQ youth and all youth at home, in school, foster care, and while they reside in the juvenile justice system for over 30 years.

If you would like to help CHRIS Kids with their mission and

enjoy one of the best parties in Atlanta, purchase your VIP ticket online now. VIP admission gives you access to the exclusive VIP lounge, complimentary cocktails and buffet, professional photos of you and your friends and exclusive interaction with Pandora Boxx and Courtney Act. More importantly your VIP ticket will provide an LGBTQ homeless youth a warm bed, food and a safe place for 2 nights. A foster care kid without a high school diploma access to a GED prep course or a young teen mother a monthly Marta Card to get to work. The White Party reminds us all to continue to work together on diversity efforts.

To purchase tickets and find out more go to www. whitepartyatlanta.org.

A n A nnuAl C elebrAtion to S upport A tlAntA ’ S lGbtQ Y outh Join Us for an Evening of Food, Drink and Entertainment with special appearances by contestants from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Pandora Boxx and Courtney Act Enjoy the beats and playlist of DJ Vicki Powell all evening long!

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HEY GIRL HEY

HOLLER POODLES! After this weekends workout at the East Point Possums show, it is definitely time to get in shape. And here is my plan!!!

1. Lose weight! I don’t know about you but I’m carrying around about 300 pounds of deadweight and I’m ready to get rid of it all. Are you tired of some of the people in your life who are nothing more than blood sucking vampires who feed on your life force and leave you feeling like you need a blood transfusion? Well look out girls ‘cause I’m ready to lose this weight quickly. I’m talking Quick Weight Loss!

2. Eat Healthy! Clearly you look at my body and know it is a temple to be worshiped and adored. However, someone has forgotten to take out the trash. I make it a point to have a variety of fruits in my life but my doctor recently said I needed more protein in my diet.

Hmmmmmm, does anyone know a quick source of protein? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

3. Work Out! That’s right girls--Out! As in Out at Work!

Girl if you are still in the closet at work, come on out!

The water is fine. It’s gonna be 2016 soon and those closets have become awfully claustrophobic. Come out at work and let everyone know you’re a homosexual and that you’re proud to be who you are! Who knows, you may even change some minds along the way.

4. Watch less TV! Girl, I don’t know about you but I watch way too much TV. And what’s up with those damned so-called reality shows faking shit? Color me surprised! Well, I’m going to cut way back on TV. Except for a few select shows like Orange is the New Black, Project Runway (its the bomb) and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, I’m giving up reality TV. Well I have to watch Real Housewives of Atlanta so I can remain topical. But that’s it! Maybe Million Dollar Listing, Millionaire Matchmaker with Patty Stanger.

(Did you know she is my celebrity doppelgänger?) Put a black wig on my head and I look just like her! Wouldn’t she be horrified? Oh and I can’t miss Big Bang Theory!

But that’s absolutely it! Except for Hoarders, I think...

Love and lashes,

Mary Edith Pitts Mary Edith Pitts

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Gay News At A Glance THE MOST POPULAR SUMMER PARTY, JOINING HEARTS’ ANNUAL POOL PARTY IS A VENERABLE TRADITION IN THE GAY COMMUNITY. THIS YEAR THE HOST COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS HAVE PUT IN A LOT OF HARD WORK MAKING THIS YEAR THE BIGGIST SPLASH. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL SUMMERTIME TREAT AND WILL BE AT PEIDMONT PARK ON JULY 18TH 5 - 11 PM

This year is the 28th time Joining Hearts will throw their spectacular pool party making it one of gay Atlanta’s oldest summer traditions. However, despite the strong legacy the host committee aims to continually reach higher goals and to make this party the best ever. “Our expectation for the year is to raise more awareness and funds for our beneficiaries in addition to education the community not only locally but around world that the disease is still around and until there is a cure, our mission continues,” Joining Hearts’ Director of Marketing, Jerry Henderson, tells FENUXE Magazine, “ Joining Hearts is proud to bring to Atlanta International Headliner DJ GRIND with opening set by Miami’s DJ deanne and a guest performance by Debby Holiday.” The theme of this year’s party will be DIVE and true to form there will be lots of treats in store for all guests.

Every year the Joining Hearts Pool Party is one of the best summertime events in the city, and people eagerly look forward to it and mark their calendars well in advance.

All of that buzz also means that every year tickets sell out faster than the year before making admission to the summer

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splash the hottest ticket in town. If you’ve ever attended the Joining Hearts Pool Party you surely understand why: the beautiful pool back-dropped by Piedmont Park, the amazing lights that turn the blue water into a rainbow of colors as the evening turns to night, great music from top DJs, delicious drinks and food – and, of course, the throes of handsome men dressed in nothing but their swimwear! What’s not to like?!

New to the role of Marketing Director, “I am responsible for Joining Hearts’ marketing efforts and strategies for our events as well as raise awareness of what we do and whom we help. It is my job to introduce Joining Hearts to other segments that may not have heard of us to bring in potential donors in support of our mission to raise funds and awareness to provide housing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS in Atlanta. We are known “to create a home” in which we are expanding that to build upon that as “We Are Housing.” Jerry continues to tell Fenuxe Magazine, “This year we are growing more as an organization and partnering with other local charities to bring more awareness of our mission and raise more funds in hopes to guide our beneficiaries to expand their reach of service in providing housing assistance to those in need.”

It’s a fact that seems to resound with all the different groups and community members that attend the party. Last year Joining Hearts donated $195,000 to their beneficiaries AID Atlanta, Jerusalem House and The Living Room. It’s an impressive amount of money, which is well worth making a big splash for.

For more information and tickets check out joininghearts.org. 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales and tips are donated to JoiningHearts beneficiaries.

Article written by Mike Stone.

WHAT HAPPENS IF THE SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST EQUALITY? It’s an historic decision that is expected to come any day now before the end of June.At the heart of the question that will be answered by the U.S. Supreme Court: Is marriage a fundamental right afforded to everyone, gay or straight, under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?Oral arguments in April revealed a divide among the court’s nine justices. If the highest court in the land were to rule against same-sex marriage and in favor of upholding the existing bans already in place in several states, including Georgia, It could wreak legal havoc in what would become an extremely fragmented system.

“What would emanate from that is a somewhat chaotic situation in which you have many states that allow same sex couples to marry–and at least 13 that don’t–so you end up with a patchwork of laws,” said Connley Brame, a law professor at Georgia State.

If and when the Supreme Court ever makes a decision on an issue, there is no further opportunity to appeal it, which means the next logical step if the justices decide against same-sex marriage would be to take the issue back to voters, according to Brame.

“The court could say there’s no Constitutional right to same sex marriage and therefore each state can decide what they want to do,” she said. “Then those fighting for same-sex marriage would be left to the ballot box.”

Recent polling by the Freedom to Marry Coalition suggests a growing majority of Americans now say they expect the Supreme Court to rule in favor of allowing same-sex couples to wed.

But even if the court rules in favor of same-sex marriage, Brame said it could still open the door to several other questions., Brame questioned whether legally married gay couples would still face discrimination when trying to adopt.

Gay marriages already on the books are likely a safe bet to stay that way, Brame said. Likewise, states already allowing same-sex marriages would likely

continue business as usual.

Meanwhile, Christian leaders across the country are also preparing for the possibility the court strikes down same-sex marriage bans by promising ‘civil disobedience.’ “While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross,” according to a pledge from the national Defend Marriage campaign.

Any decision from the Supreme Court will hinge on whether the justices consider marriage to be a fundamental human right. “Is it like issues related to race discrimination where there’s no room for citizens of any state to vote on it, it’s just wrong,” she said. “Or are you going to treat it differently and say it’s not a right permitted in the Constitution, this is something people in the state have the opportunity to decide for themselves and that is historic and that’s what people are waiting for.”

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World’s Sexiest Prince ties The Knot

Band is Literally On Fire

Michael Clifford, lead guitarist for the band 5 Seconds of Summer, was set on fire at a concert when a fireball engulfed him on stage. The London concert included pyrotechnics where fire would shoot from portions of the stage. Michael was standing too close when a ball of flames lit his hair on fire, badly burning his face. The show had almost ended -- the band was about to do an encore - but the show abruptly ended and Michael was taken to the hospital.

Michael tweeted that his condition is stable, adding, “What the f***s up. sorry I couldnt finish the encore but at least I look like two face, thanks for worrying.”

Here’s the craziest part ... he says he’s feeling better and he’s going to perform next week! (pic below: Clifford on fire at concert

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It’s the stuff of modern-day fairy tales. The incredibly gorgeous Swedish Prince Carl is marrying his Cinderella on Saturday -- only this time, his bride-to-be is a former model and reality-TV star-turned-charity organizer. Prince Carl Philip, 36, who is third in line to the Swedish throne, will wed Sofia Hellqvist in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Palace of Stockholm. To mark their wedding, the prince and Hellqvist have set up their own joint charitable venture, the Prince Couple’s Foundation, again intended to help disadvantaged children, according to a palace news release. “We are looking forward to a summer wedding in the middle of June, when Sweden is extremely beautiful,” they were quoted as saying then in a press release from the palace. “This will be a big day for us, and we are absolutely delighted.” Way to go!

Leave Him!

She bolted to Vegas and married Jimmy Green -- who is wanted in Arizona for allegedly threatening to kill a man. Several members of Lark’s inner circle say they’re concerned she’s at risk.

They’ve told her to seek an annulment ... but Lark’s not having it.

Our sources say Lark claims Green told her all about his criminal past, and she believes he’s changed. She claims Jimmy’s trying to be a better man now, and she doesn’t intend to leave him.

Paging Tammy Wynette.

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Lark Voorhies (The former Saved by the Bell star) is putting her life in danger every day she sticks with her new husband ... this according to family and friends who are urging her to pull the plug on the marriage, STAT.

Her DNA... On Your Chest

A piece of Farrah Abraham can be yours … and we’re not talking about her ass -- the backdoor teen mom has put her DNA on the market. Abraham’s partnered with Celebrity Gene, a company that liquefies the DNA of celebrities -- usually extracted from hair -- and puts it in a vial you can wear around your neck. The jewelry vials go for $99, and it’s mostly for a good cause because 50% goes to the charity of the celeb’s choice – in Farrah’s case, it’s Operation Underground Railroad, which helps rescue kidnapped children from slavery. Abraham joins the ranks of Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, Elvis and Al Capone, who also have DNA for sale via the site ... so pick wisely.