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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Franklin Graham

...not poverty, gun violence, climate change or war [Franklin] Graham, apparently God’s spokesperson, wants people to know that love, mutual attraction, honesty and happiness are intolerable to the Almighty. And, he seems to think that is a compelling case for embracing said psychotic deity. I don’t know what’s wrong with Mr. Graham, but I am certain his neighborhood pharmacist has the cure for it on the shelf. Meanwhile, not poverty, gun violence, climate change, or war...but marriage equality is his biggest concern. I believe that officially qualifies him as a terrible person. – Rev. Dr. Durrell Watkins, senior pastor of The Sunshine Cathedral,

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Hillary says she gets it

This Christian baker believes love is love It doesn’t bother me one bit or another. It’s a wedding cake, and if they feel like they love each other and want to get married, more power to them. As Christians, I think that we should be kindhearted and show the love of God to people, not to be judging what they’re doing. – Christian baker Ron Zammit, in Sarasota, Fla., interviewed on ABC TV affiliate WWSM.

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By Adam Cohen WHAT IS HUCKABEE’S PROBLEM? Why is Mike Huckabee absolutely obsessed with gay people? I mean over-the-top obsessed? Kim Davis, Rainbow Doritos, yada, yada, yada... is he hiding a secret? I mean, I’ve seen photos of his wife, and she could totally be smuggling a penis under those Dress Barn off-the-rack suits... SOUR GRAPES Have you noticed that ugly people are the ones against same-sex marriage?

TOO HOT 2BSTR8 God, I’ve been watching Jerry Maguire on TV and sometimes you forget what a good-looking talented actor Tom Cruise was before Scientology took over his life and he married that transgender man, Katie Holmes, in that big Italian castle. JUST CALL IN SICK AGAIN I’ve achieved the perfect nirvana – the layering of comforters and sheets on my bed feels like my fat a** is sleeping on a cloud, made of feathers from the wings of angels. I don’t wanna get up to face the world! GOOD TIMES Sometimes a song in the bathroom at a restaurant just takes you back...in my case it was Boyz 2 Men’s “End of the Road” in the bathroom at Bimini Twist. It was like 10th grade all over again. BLOODY HELL You know your week is off to an awesome start when you cut yourself shaving and draw enough gushing blood to expect an appearance in your bathroom by David Caruso (Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami), putting on his sunglasses and saying some cheesy, cringe-inducing line in the background. GONE IN A FLASH A.C. Slater is hawking toenail fungus medicine? Morgan Fairchild pushing online burial plots? My childhood is dead. THAT’S KINDA HOT Wow! I am getting so old. I had to borrow somebody’s readers to read some of the small print on the screen. I look like the lesbian love child of Jamie Lee Curtis and Harry Potter!

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Hillary Clinton

We’re going to face some ridiculousness, especially from our friends in the GOP... I want you to know that I get it, I see the injustices and the dangers that you and your family still face, and I’m running for president to end them once and for all. – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, addressing the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) annual gala in Washington, DC. She warned that progress on equal rights can be undone.

I usually keep my opinions off of Facebook, but not today. I am so angry I am in tears about this latest mass murder. There is no reason anyone needs to own a semi-automatic gun unless you are in the military or law enforcement. I don’t care abouit your rights – they need to be taken away from everyone. Those guns are designed for one thing only: murder! I want all guns registered just like your car. Boo hoo if you think I’m wrong. When the Constitution was written, they had muskets. They could not [have foreseen] what horrible ways of murder were in the future. – David Schock Fort Lauderdale

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Same-sex marriage is a sin. God made us male and female, and then to say that marriage is between two men or two women, this is sin and the Obama administration is celebrating sin and they are pushing sin. –Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, telling The Blaze that same-sex marriage is the issue that concerns him the most in the U.S. today.

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COVER STORY

OFFICIAL PROGRAM GUIDE FOR THE 38TH ANNUAL PRIDE FORT LAUDERDALE Surprise Street Party Sets Event Mood

or the 38th year, Pride Fort Lauderdale will bring out the crowds and the crazies, outﬁtted or undressed, in a mélange of vendors, seminars and food trucks. The two-day event takes place on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11 at the War Memorial Auditorium and Holiday Park, plus an additional surprise street event in Himmarshee Village on Sunday night.

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Thousands are expected to take part in the festivities, an annual celebration and tribute to the LGBT community and its unique culture. As a non-proﬁt organization, Pride Fort Lauderdale donates 100% of the proceeds to qualifying local organizations in the form of grants. Become Pride, the ofﬁcial Closing Party of Pride Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, October 11 will feature an array of entertainment and family-friendly fun from 6 pm until midnight, courtesy of the Downtown Himmarshee Village Association. This street festival under the stars in historic Himmarshee includes live performances, dancers, DJs and a Pub Crawl. Jazz Jennings, reigning Miss Teen Pride USA, Transgender Activist and TLC’s Reality TV Star, will crown the Fort Lauderdale Teen Pride USA winner at 7:30 pm. The main stage will be located at 200 SW 2nd Street.

Tickets include parking and are $10 for Saturday and $15 for Sunday, or purchase online in advance, tickets for $20 for a twoday pass. A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $50 for each day, which includes admission to Pride Fort Lauderdale, access to the VIP tent next to the stage, complimentary soda, water and mixed drinks all day while in the VIP tent, special front stage viewing area (standing room only) and complimentary parking. A maximum 120 “Meet & Greet” tickets for Sunday, October 11 are available for $75 each, which includes admission to Pride Fort Lauderdale, a Meet & Greet with Aubrey O’Day and Shannon Bex of Dumblonde, along with other performers and complimentary parking. Pride Fort Lauderdale’s two-day center of activity takes place on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11 from 11 am till 7 pm at Holiday Park and the War Memorial Auditorium, 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale. For information, visit www.PrideFortLauderdale.org or call (954) 751-6305. To purchase tickets, go to or www.pridefortlauderdale.org/ buy/ticketsnow.html.

Holiday Park / War Memorial Auditorium 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale Noon

12:00PM 12:15PM 12:45PM 01:15PM 01:30PM 02:00PM 02:30PM 03:00PM 04:00PM 04:00PM 04:00PM 04:30PM 05:30PM 06:00PM

DJ Stage Noon 02:00 PM 04:00 PM

National Anthem Jennifer McClain Host: Electra (Host) Cindy Curtis Church of The Holy Spirit Song Choir Jessie Lawrence DJ Tatiana Kitty Meow (Host) Shadina DJ Citizen Shane Daisy Deadpetals (Host) Tiffany & Oreana (Host - Fox TV show Home Free) Angelina Joni Taryn Manning Candice Trina DJ Jared Curry DJ Jalil Z DJ/Producer Mark DeMarko

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 CONCERT SCHEDULE

Holiday Park / War Memorial Auditorium 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale

Main Stage Noon Noon 12:15PM 01:15PM 02:00PM

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DJ Joshua Atom DJ Alex Ramos DJ Deanne

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 BECOME PRIDE

Main stage: 200 SW 2nd Street, Fort Lauderdale Live performances, dancers, DJs and more!

Himmarshee Street Stage: 06:00PM: Welcome by MC Lucille Ball Dopplegänger Alexis Couture and introduction of international DJ Andrew Gibbons 07:00PM: Thank you to National Coming Out Day supporters including: Mayor Tim Ryan, Commissioner Dean Trantalis, TLC Teen Star Jazz Jennings & Family, School Board Member Heather Brinkworth, Commissioner Julie Carson, Jared Leshner and many other community leaders 07:30PM: Crowning of Teen Pride USA Pageant Winners 08:00PM: Forever Young (90’s Cover Band) 09:30PM: Drag Performance by ViXen

America’s Backyard Stage: 08:00PM: Doors open at America’s Backyard for GBTQ youth beneﬁt concert 08:30PM: VIP Open Bar and VIP Meet & Greet with Steve Grand begins 09:00PM: Opening Act: Wilton Drive Band 10:15PM: Steve Grand Live in Concert

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National Anthem Nikki Adams (Host) Pride Wind Ensemble DJ Lady Bunny Serena Cha Cha (Host-RuPaul’s Drag Race) Winstar Scarlet Santana George Lamond Shadina Tiffany Fantasia (Host - Best Drag Queen 2015) Fantine Lillie Nicole McCloud (Special Guest Performance)

DJ Stage

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 CONCERT SCHEDULE

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PRIDE FORT LAUDERDALE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Jaclyn St. James: A Champion for Change

By Diego Wyatt as well known as some of them. I’ve worked very hard to be who I am in this community with no help from anyone. I have supported local businesses, promoted clubs, promoted myself, reinvented myself, carried out fundraising for events and tried to change laws. If this girl can do it, just think if they all got together and fought for our community. The drag world, I feel, has gotten very selﬁsh since its beginning and I see more and more negativity among other drag queens as well as other people within the gay community. We need to come together and stop ﬁghting against each other. We can do so much good for everyone this way.

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THE AGENDA INTERVIEW

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Known as the FIrst Lady of Wilton Manors, female impersonator Jaclyn St. James has devoted her life to empowering the LGBT community. We caught up with the community-minded diva and host of her very own YouTube show to discuss her local activism, the role of drag artists today and how female impersonation has changed her life.

ST. JAMES: I recently went full force in getting pride banners for our town’s Stonewall Event. I wanted rainbow banners and fought with the city to have that for pride. After the banner was designed, I pushed the limits by contacting everyone in City Hall as well as the mayor of St Petersburg to find out how or through which channels I needed to go to make this happen. I wasn’t going to stop until I had them up waving proudly. Not only was my one voice heard by hundreds, it was heard by thousands. I got the banners raised announcing the city’s event and I had pride flags along the street. I have never gotten any kind of recognition from anyone other than my community, but I wasn’t looking for that. The pride I got on my way back and forth to work every day was enough. I saw those pride flags waving and the main flag at City Hall. I know I was responsible for that.

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AGENDA: You’ve been responsible for a lot of amazing changes locally. Can you tell us about the achievement you’re most proud of?

Q:What local changes would you like to see happen next? A: I would love to see pride ﬂag banners up year round, being that many of the businesses here are gay-owned and operated in the downtown area. And it is inexcusable that the main pride ﬂag at City

The drag world, I feel, has gotten very selﬁsh since its beginning and I see more and more negativity among other drag queens as well as other people within the gay community. Hall has been taken down. What are our ofﬁcials thinking? We should be proud of being ranked top 5 in the US for gays per capita and we should show our spirit. I wish the community would start taking action instead of waiting for others to do something. I would like to see the drag community out there doing more with the community. I also would love to see more fundraising for issues other than HIV/ AIDS, pets and SunServe. Moreover, we need to address the safety issues of Wilton Manors, such as crosswalks and police patrol. Q: What role do you feel drag artists play in the LGBT community—on stage and off? A: I feel that the local drag queens have a louder voice than me and can do more with it than I can. Don’t get me wrong, I have a voice but I am not

Q: How has female impersonation changed your life? A: I have always been that shy guy just waiting for my time to shine. When I am Shawn, I am very timid, meek and quiet. I hate that about me, but I can’t seem to change that. Nobody saw Shawn, he was just there. When I became Jaclyn, I completely changed. I am more open to people and I have enjoyed being the center of attention at times. I never really let people into Shawn’s life, but Jaclyn lets everyone in. When Shawn walks into the club, he walks in. That’s it. When Jaclyn walks into the club, heads turn, my name is called out, people come up to me, kiss me and take pictures with me. It’s like a red carpet affair and who wouldn’t love that? It’s a feeling of being a celebrity. This is Shawn shining through the lip gloss. Drag has made me come out of my shell even more and now I can be that social butterﬂy I’ve always wanted to be. I just do it in a dress and a lot of accessories. Q: What inspires you to continue doing female impersonation? A: At ﬁrst, it was our recently departed Sal DeFalco from Hunters Bar and Studio 54. I walked into the bar back in 2009 and Sal automatically became a friend. He loved Jaclyn. I really can’t explain the bond we made after these years of promoting Club Boom and Hunters. It was a relationship, a mutual understanding of one another and a love of drag and celebrities. Sal always made Jaclyn feel like a celebrity in Wilton Manors. He encouraged me to continue when I was down and pushed me to put on my big girl panties and get going. ‘The world needs Jaclyn,’ he’d say. After his death, I didn’t think I could do it anymore. I attended his funeral as Jaclyn, not for the attention but because I felt he would have loved that. I made that my tribute to him. Along with that, it’s the passion for making a change in my community. Jaclyn’s known and wanted and she can make a difference in people’s lives—everything I strived for when I was creating her.

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Pride: The world is watching

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This weekend, Fort Lauderdale and adjacent Wilton Manors are celebrating their second Pride event of the year.

es, we have a lot to be prideful of, and certainly an equal amount for which to be thankful. The bounty of legislative victories was, of course, topped off by the Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country last June. For many, that moment remains a pinnacle of celebration and achievement. And while we in By the LGBT Richard community have every Hack right to rejoice in this our moment of triumph, we must continue to realize those victories come at a price. The world is watching us with intense scrutiny, waiting for our mascara to smear in the true light of day. It’s rather amazing how well gays and lesbians and the transgendered among us have performed in the limelight. Other than the occasional stumble-down drunk, and the isolated live assassination of a news reporter and cameraman on television by a disgruntle ex-employee/ hustler, the LGBTs has shown themselves to be strong, intelligent, concerned, and articulate.

Perhaps for that reason, we’re being given a lot of credit these days. Take Bryan Fischer for example. The member of the hate group American Family Association said that he felt that gays were responsible for causing all the rain we’ve been experiencing lately in this country. Speaking of flooding in the Longhorn State, Fischer said on his radio show, “If you’re going to attribute the flooding in Texas to some kind of supernatural cause, you can make a geographical connection between the flooding and the practice of the occult and witchcraft and the embrace of homosexuality. That’s where the disaster is being felt the worse. Sodom and Gomorrah – it was a natural disaster, but it was very localized. It wiped out those two towns, it didn’t wipe out the entire region, it just wiped out those two cities where homosexuality had been embraced.” Ahhh, Sodom and Gomorrah. Forget that it wasn’t rain that destroyed both Biblical cities. According to the book of Genesis, that distinction belongs to “fire and brimstone.” But no matter, just the mention of Sodom and Gomorrah is enough to give anyone cause to pause. Lawmakers in Blount County, Tennessee, had the cities on their minds as well. They petitioned the eternal Almighty this week for compassion and restraint for fear that God would destroy the world now that same-sex marriage is le-

gal. It made perfectly good sense to Blount County commissioner Karen Miller in her attempt to condemn judicial tyranny. “We adopt this Resolution before God that He pass us by in His coming wrath and not destroy our county as He did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities. . . We adopt this resolution begging His favor in light of the fact that we have been forced to comply and recognize that the State of Tennessee, like so many other God-fearing States, may have fallen prey to a lawless judiciary in legalizing what God and the Bible expressly forbids”—i.e., same sex marriage, but don’t say the words out loud, or, at least not in Tennessee. The “God Hates Fags” church— Westboro Baptist—brought the Almighty into the picture as well as it announced its intention to picket the National Weather Service. The very same weather service that’s had it hands full the past week with Hurricane Joaquin. If you can believe Westboro Baptist, we’ll see a whole lot more of those ‘caines, thanks to gays. “America crossed the Rubicon when, by force of law, [they] permitted same-sex marriage.” This in turn apparently upset the “weather rules,” which in turn caused extra work for the NWS. “Westboro Baptist Church will picket the National Weather Service to remind them that ONLY by God’s mercy and power do you

gather intelligence on His weather.” Like the idiots they are, this group is planning on protesting in Norman, Oklahoma, at the National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma. While it is a local branch reporting to the NWS, it is not its headquarters, which are located in Silver Springs, Maryland. It’s not even a regional headquarters. One of those is in Kansas City, which is a whole lot closer to Westboro’s home town of Topeka, Kansas, than Norman, Oklahoma, ever is. But let’s be clear, the picketers from Westboro Baptist don’t care about the weather as much as they care about publicity. They are picketing in Norman to attract attention from the Society of Environmental Journalists who are having their 25th annual convention there. Ultimately, it will all come back onto the shoulders of the LGBT community who have, after all, brought it on themselves with all this celebration of pride and redemption. So please rejoice this weekend in Fort Lauderdale. We’ve earned it. And should it by chance rain? Well, that’s why God created rainbow umbrellas. Just ask the National Weather Service. Richard Hack is the award-winning author of 26 books, and the Vice President of Content for Multimedia Platforms’ publications.

une 26, 2015, a little more than three short months ago, was the very tight 5-4 Supreme Court ruling which made it possible for same-gender couples to marry no matter where they live in the United States. It BY REV. is pretty incredible to think we as JOEL gays and lesbians SLOTNICK were ruled equal in all of America to stay and/or get married to the one we love and want to spend the rest of our life with. It appears a good portion of Americans feel the same way. Heaven knows, many of us have fought to be accepted and treated equal - not just in marriage, but in everyday life. Why doesn’t all of America feel that way? Why shouldn’t we be accepted by ev-

eryone to be who we were created to be; who we are - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer. One reason, we have people like the infamous Kim Davis. She continues using religious freedom to the point it is giving (many) people of faith a ﬁeld day to be “anti”, and those who have a disdain for religion, it pushes them further away. Most recently, was Kim’s behind closed door meeting with the Pope. After his whirlwind touring in parts of the USA, the meeting has for all intents and purposes, nulliﬁed any positive feelings they may have had for him. Personally, though very disappointed in the meeting and having a very different outlook on the issue than many I know, I haven’t totally lost faith in some of the intentions the Pope has. But how did this woman come to have this meeting when there are so many others who are truly more deserving of such an audience. Since the Vatican doesn’t comment on behind door meetings such as this, I also have great reservation when it comes to believ-

ing anything Kim tells the media as to what actually happened. After all, who is going to either conﬁrm or deny what she’s saying? There are both people I know and have been reading about who are fuming at the mixed messages the Pope is sending. Some have gone to great lengths to call him a variety of names to prove their upset, confusion, hatred or whatever you want to call it. Yes, he is supposed to be a person we put in a higher standard and expect more from, but it also brings a question to mind: Do we put our friends or those we associate with; people who directly impact our lives, to that same high standard? It is natural for people to stand up to their personal beliefs and principles. Some do it at any cost. Places like Chik-Fil-A, Barilla, Auto-Zone, Cracker Barrel, Domino’s, Dish Network and WalMart (to name a few) in some way or another have voiced their anti-gay message whether it be in word, hiring practices, lack of beneﬁts or by supporting anti-gay organizations.

Yet, we all have friends or know people we associate with who are patrons of these businesses - even work for them and we accept all of them in our lives and seem to overlook it. Why? Why do we “blow it off” when it comes to the people in our lives who may go against what we believe is right or stand for in principle, yet, want to call out people like Kim Davis, the Pope or any other person(s) for going against the very same things? Do we need to step back and take a look at our reactions before we go after another for theirs? We wouldn’t want to accuse someone of having double standards if we leave ourselves open to being accused of doing the same thing. After all, actions speak louder than words.

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Rev. Joel S. Slotnick is an ordained Interfaith minister and full time digital court reporter for the state Florida.

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CAPITOL BEAT STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS FROM HILLARY CLINTON Politicians who are running for president come under considerable scrutiny for what many niche audiences suspect could just be lip service.

ARE THEY PLAYING TO THE CROWD OF THE HOUR JUST TO GET OUR VOTES? DO THEY REALLY MEAN IT?

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WHERE DO THEY REALLY STAND? IS THAT PLACE DIFFERENT PRIVATELY THAN IT IS PUBLICLY?

o candidate has had to confront this accusation quite as often as Hillary Clinton. As someone with a genuinely meaty political track record, there is plenty of material for opponents to seize upon. The recent ﬂurry of emails that revealed her earlier more BY cautious views LINDA on LGBT PENTZ have been brandished by rivals as further evidence of her alleged lack of integrity on the issue. Never mind that those emails were from 2011 and that it’s where she stands now that matters. “Everyone evolves,” said an eager supporter awaiting her speech Saturday morning when Clinton appeared before a packed crowd the Mayﬂower Hotel here in Washington, DC. There at the invitation of the Human Rights Campaign, Clinton took ownership of her personal right of passage during a 27-minute speech before HRC staff and supporters, many of them chanting her name and sporting stickers with her logo. “You’ve helped to

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change a lot of minds, including mine,” she said, “and I am personally very grateful for that.” Clinton also addressed the issue of tokenism, of treating LGBT voters as if their lives “are just a political bargaining chip,” as she referred to the practice. But she assured her raucously enthusiastic audience that “those of you who know me know that’s not me. I’ve been ﬁghting alongside you and others for equal rights and I’m just getting warmed up.” If Clinton is only in the warm-up phase of her LGBT advocacy, then it’s an evolution that should not be dismissed. After all, rather than get down on people when they ﬁnally come on board, shouldn’t we welcome them with a glass of champagne? However, while Clinton is clearly an ally, some have worried that she is too tepid, too lacking in proLGBT zeal compared to would-be candidate Joe Biden and fellow Democratic contenders, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, who have proven and longer-standing track records of LGBT support. As commentator Michealangelo Signorile wrote in August, Clinton needs to speak “forcefully and passionately to the issues.” On Saturday, Clinton came as close to forceful and passionate as she’s been on LGBT rights.

It’s a delicate dance for women who, when trying to be forceful can instead be labeled “shrill.” If we are passionate, then we are too “emotional,” which can be code for “unbalanced.” Women are not given the same leeway as men when they stand on a public platform. It’s not fair and it’s not right, but it’s a reality. And, as a colleague who has covered many presidential campaigns over the years, told me, Hillary is a policy wonk. She’s a serious stateswoman, not a showoff. Trump, she most deﬁnitely isn’t. So what we got on Saturday morning might not have been rabble-rousing, but to most ears at least it sounded genuinely sincere, her words coming from the heart, not just the script. In fact, there was no script. Clinton spoke directly to her audience unprompted and she knew exactly what she wanted to say. “I see the injustices that you and your families still face,” she told the crowd, “and I am running for president to end them once and for all.” As president, Clinton said, she will “push to cut off federal funding for any public child welfare agency that discriminates against LGBT parents. There is no excuse, none, for hurting children and families like this.” She will restore honorable

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and I hope many of you will be with me when I sign it into law.” But of course, as Clinton reminded us, “we’re not there yet. There are still public officials doing everything in their power to interfere with your rights,” she said, pointing her finger most directly at Mike Huckabee who she lambasted as “a Republican candidate for president standing in the courthouse door in Kentucky calling on people to join him in resisting the Supreme Court ruling, celebrating a county clerk who’s breaking the law by denying other Americans their constitutional right.” There was some humor too, even if it came at the expense of two of the easier GOP targets. “We’re going to face some ridiculousness especially from our friends in the GOP,” said Clinton. “In fact it’s already begun. Ben Carson says that marriage equality is what caused the fall of the Roman Empire,” she said, making a puzzled emoji face to peals of laughter. On a roll, she went on: “Ted Cruz slammed a political opponent for marching in a Pride parade. He clearly has no idea what he’s missing. Pride parades are such fun. I’ve been marching in them since I was First Lady. You should join us sometime, senator!” As her remarks concluded I turned to one supporter next to me. “So is Hillary Clinton the LGBT candidate of choice?” I asked him. Affirmative. “Even if Biden runs?” Still affirmative. And what, I asked him, is the over-riding reason? His answer was short, and not about LGBTQ rights at all. “Because,” he said, “I think we’d really like to see a woman become president.”

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discharges to the “more than 14,000 men and women who were forced out of the military” for being gay. (Later that evening, Joe Biden avowed that the Obama administration was already moving on this.) She will “take on the drug companies,” so that no one has to go bankrupt to pay for the HIV drugs they need to survive and stay healthy. “We’ve got to address the growing crisis of transphobic violence,” she said. “We need to say with one voice that transgender people are valued, they are loved, they are us.” Even though we have come a long way and there is much to celebrate, Clinton shares our concerns about the storm clouds of backlash that are gathering in the GOP camp. If the Republicans claim the White House, “heaven forbid” as she said, then all of the victories are under siege. We could even lose the Supreme Court. That could roll the clock right back to the Middle Ages although there is some justification for wondering whether we aren’t still living there. After all, as Clinton pointed out, “it’s outrageous that in 2015 you can still be fired for being gay, you can still lose your home for being gay, you can even be denied a wedding cake for being gay,” she said. “And this kind of discrimination goes against everything we stand for as a country.” Change is still needed. One way to achieve it, Clinton said, is through legislation. “Congress must pass the federal Equality Act,” she said. “That law would finally outlaw discrimination against LGBT people basically everywhere, in employment, housing, public education, public accommodations, access to federal funding and credit, and in the jury system. It’s a great, noble piece of legislation, and it deserves to become the law of the land. As president I will fight for it

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Linda Pentz is the Washington correspondent of the Florida Agenda. She can be contacted at lindapentz@mmplgbt.com. Follow her on Twitter @CapitolAgenda

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CREEP OF THE WEEK By D’Anne Witowski

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The 2015 Values Voter Summit — an annual event where conservatives gather round to bitch about abortion, big government and gays — has come and gone. Many delusional and hateful things were said about LGBT people. Complaints about God smiting the United States over marriage equality was a popular theme. Hitting all the big themes was Star Parker, the founder of Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), which pushes for “free market solutions to poverty.” According to Parker, fighting poverty is “not to be the work of the state, but the work of the church.” “We have 500,000 orphans in our foster system,” Parker said. “Most Godfearing Christians don’t even know we have an orphan system, but those homosexuals know because now that they’re married, that’s where they’re going to get their children, right out of our foster system!” Okay, wait. Star Parker Slow down. What? Is she really saying that the majority of Christians in America have no idea that this country has so many children in the foster system in need of care? How on earth do they not know this? Were those thousands of people Parker was addressing at the Values Voter Summit just learning about this for the first time? According to Parker, homosexuals know all about the foster care system and they’re taking in and adopting children. But Christians (who are never gay, obviously) have no fucking idea? Clearly Parker is trying to scare folks by claiming that homosexuals are snatching kids out of the foster system, as she’s implying that said homes have some kind of nefarious purpose for doing so, which is bullshit.

The truth is that there are plenty of lesbian and gay couples who are, in fact, foster parents or who have adopted kids from the foster system. A great example: April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, whose legal challenge to Michigan’s anti-gay marriage law made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where they won. The reason they were suing Michigan in the first place was over what was in the best interest of their children. Under Michigan law, they could foster jointly but could not adopt jointly. Wanting their children to have a legal relationship with both parents, they sued. This country’s foster care system is a mess. There are hundreds of thousands of kids and not nearly enough foster families. Kids are bounced from home to home, many until they turn 18 and age out of the system, at which point they’re basically told, “See ya. Good luck.” Spoiler alert: many of these adults have a very hard time making photo: sodaheads.com it once they’re on their own. So forgive me if I find it odd that right-wing Christians know where every Planned Parenthood facility is and have plenty of time to harass women going in for pap smears, but are apparently unaware that there are so many children who have already been born who desperately need help. Even if they are aware, they’re not stepping up to do it. If ever there was evidence that the people at the Values Voter Summit have an incredibly warped sense of values, this is it. Then again, under the rightwing demands for small government, foster kids are just a bunch of takers who, according to Parker, just need some “free market solutions.” Just make sure they aren’t taken in by gay and lesbian couples and they’ll be fine.

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NATION GAY STATE REP. BRIAN SIMS RUNNING FOR FED CONGRESS PHILADELPHIA – On Tuesday, Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims announced his candidacy for Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District. Sims, an attorney and civil rights advocate in Center City Philadelphia, has spent his career as a relentless advocate for social, racial, and economic justice. Sims is the first openly gay person elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. “I’ve spent my life taking on big challenges in order to do what’s right,” said Sims. “Whether tackling gender and pay equity as a civil rights attorney, or standing up for justice reform in Harrisburg, I’ve never backed down from the big fights. And I never will.” “Brian is a ferocious advocate for the people of this community,” said local activist Andrea Sanders. “When it comes to fighting for the people he represents, there is no one more dedicated or tenacious than Brian. He’ll make a great Congressman.” Congressman Chaka Fattah currently represents the 2nd District. “We need a progressive Congressman who will stand up for opportunity and justice for everyone, not just those at the top,” said Sims. “In Congress, I’ll fight to invest in our kids and our classrooms, create real economic fairness and opportunity, and stand up to the NRA

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to get the guns off our streets.” Brian Sims is the son of two retired Army Lieutenant Colonels. Prior to law school he was a standout Division II college football player at Bloomsburg University. After graduation Sims became a distinguished civil rights advocate and attorney at the Philadelphia Bar Association, taking on issues ranging from gender and pay inequity to environmental protection. Elected in 2012 to the State Legislature,

Sims spent his time in Harrisburg working to strengthen and protect public education, preserve critical services for seniors, expand civil rights for all Pennsylvanians, protect funding for Planned Parenthood, and create good local jobs by investing in alternative energy. He’s won numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including being named a “Champion of Choice” by NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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Chicago priest removed after ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ CHICAGO (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago says it has removed a Roman Catholic priest because of an “inappropriate relationship with an adult man.” A statement Sunday says the Rev. Marco A. Mercado was removed as rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. The brief statement provided no details. It says Archbishop Blase Cupich knows the disclosure “will be difﬁcult to hear” and the archdiocese “is committed to ensuring those serving ... parishioners are ﬁt for ministry.” The Chicago Tribune cites a statement from Mercado saying his priority has always been “the work of the gospel and the struggle for immigrants and the most vulnerable.” He says he prays “this issue is resolved soon” and he apologized if the “scandal has caused any hardship to the faithful.”

County wants God’s mercy after gay marriage ruling MARYVILLE, TN (AP) - An East Tennessee county had planned to consider a resolution last Tuesday asking God for mercy as it is forced to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide. The resolution says Blount County must comply with the ruling by issuing and recognizing marriage licenses for same-sex couples. But the resolution asks state ofﬁcials including the governor and attorney general to protect “natural marriage” from “lawless” court opinions and defend moral standards. It also appeals directly to God. “We adopt this resolution before God that He pass us by in His Coming Wrath and not destroy our County as He did Sodom and Gomorrah,” the resolution states. The resolution was proposed by Blount County Commissioner Karen Miller, who did not imme-

diately return a call and email from The Associated Press on Tuesday morning. Gwen Schablik is a Blount County resident who is active in the gay-rights organization Tennessee Equality Project. She said residents she has spoken with find the resolution embarrassing. “I’m saddened that this resolution was introduced and definitely shocked that it was introduced in my county,” she said. She was even sadder when officials for the county adjourned the meeting without taking action on the resolution. Wednesday’s sudden adjournment shocked the 150 citizens who packed into the meeting room. Some of the attendees expressed their disbelief by shouting “Cowards!” and “You’ve got to be kidding me!” Miller said she “most likely” would try to reintroduce the measure.

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NATION LAW FIRM LABELED HATE GROUP LEADING KIM DAVIS’ CRUSADE LOUISVILLE, KY (AP) - Kim Davis’ lawyer stood onstage in a Washington D.C. hotel and pointed to a photo on the screen. It showed 100,000 people packed into a Peruvian soccer stadium, Mat Staver told the crowd, all there to pray for the Kentucky clerk battling against gay marriage. Staver’s ﬁrm, the Liberty Counsel, which revealed Davis’ secret meeting with Pope Francis, has been accused by advocacy groups of peddling misrepresentations in the past. Yet it has become the main source of details about the controversial pope meeting. Online sleuths quickly debunked the Peru story Staver told at the Values Voter Summit, a conference for the conservative Family Research Council. The photo was from a year-old gathering unrelated to Davis, who spent ﬁve days in jail for defying a court order and refusing to license gay marriages. Staver could provide no evidence of a massive Davis rally. On Monday, he called it a mistake and blamed miscommunication with the Peruvian authorities who gave him the photo.

The next day, the firm dropped a bombshell. It said Pope Francis, on his celebrated visit to America, secretly met with Davis. The pope hugged her, thanked her for her courage and told her to “stay strong,” Liberty Counsel said. The Vatican on Friday said the pope had a brief meeting with Davis that should not be seen as support for her stance. Many on the religious right hail the Florida-based Liberty Counsel, which bills itself as a non-profit committed to “restoring the culture by advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the family.” “They’re willing to stand up for our rights under the Constitution, they’re not backing down,” said Nick Williams, a probate judge in Alabama who has also pledged never to issue a marriage licenses to a samesex couple and sought guidance from the Liberty Counsel. Williams compared the federal court system to the tyrannical kings in the Bible: “I’m glad we have a law firm willing to stand up to the kings of our time.” But critics watched in exaspera-

tion as the organization rocketed to national celebrity alongside Davis. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Liberty Counsel as an antigay hate groups for spreading false information. “A group that regularly portrays gay people as perverse, diseased pedophiles putting Western civilization at risk are way, way over the line,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the center. The Liberty Counsel has connected homosexuality to higher rates of promiscuity and incest, Potok said, despite scientiﬁc evidence to the contrary. The ﬁrm opposes laws banning hate crimes and supports discredited conversion therapies that purport to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals. Staver once declared that the Boy Scouts would become a “playground for pedophiles” once it allowed gay troop leaders. Staver, his hair bright white and his ties usually red, contends his quotes were taken out of context and he has legal arguments for the rest: hate crime laws infringe on free

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speech, he believes, and gay conversion therapies should be available to those who want them because he believes in “personal autonomy.” “It is irresponsible and reckless to call someone a hate group because you disagree with them,” he said. He added that he can’t be considered a hater because he loves all of God’s creation.

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SUPPORTERS, CRITICS OF TRANSGENDER BILLS CLASH AT HEARING BOSTON (AP) - Critics of Massachusetts proposals to extend non-discrimination protections to transgender people in restaurants, schools or any place that accommodates the public said the state should instead focus on the privacy rights of children and women. At a Statehouse hearing Tuesday, Andover Republican state Rep. James Lyons said the bills could allow a 14- or 15-year-old boy to decide he is female and walk into a girl’s locker room. “What about those parents who are concerned?” Lyons said. Supporters of the measures - including Attorney General Maura Healey, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy and dozens of lawmakers - said transgender individuals are far more likely to be on the receiving end of discrimination. Brandon Adams, a 14-year-old

Framingham resident who testified alongside Kennedy, spoke to the Judiciary Committee about the challenges of transitioning from a girl to a boy. “I asked to use the boy’s bathroom because that’s where I felt safe,” Brandon said. When school officials refused, Brandon drank less water - ultimately feeling dizzy and dehydrated - to avoid using the bathroom while at school. The bills would expand a 2011 law that already banned discrimination against transgender people in the workplace and in housing by also banning discrimination in other public accommodations. Healey said her office has received seven complaints this year from transgender individuals facing discrimination in public places. She said that while it’s illegal under state

law for a restaurant to discriminate against a transgender individual when hiring, it’s not illegal for restaurants to refuse service to transgender people. “Discomfort is not a reason to perpetuate discrimination,” she said. Opponents said the bill would endanger the privacy and safety of women and children in public bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms, and allow sexual predators to claim confusion about their gender in order to gain access to private areas. “The legislature must understand that we are dealing with two conﬂicting rights here - the right of a grown man to fully ‘express himself’ as female versus the right to privacy of my young daughter and millions like her,” Massachusetts Family Institute President Andrew Beckwith said.

Healey said the law doesn’t mean that men can dress up like women to walk into a woman’s room. She said she wasn’t aware of any such cases. She also said that illegal activity would still remain illegal under the law. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley and Police Commissioner William Evans also testiﬁed in favor of the bill. Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday that he doesn’t want anybody discriminated against and supports the 2011 law but has concerns about moving away from the current law. “We should never discriminate against anybody, and people should be protected. That’s absolutely my view,” Baker said, adding that when it comes to specific legislation “the devil’s always in the details with respect to this sort of thing.

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SUNSHINE STATE Owners race to save Parliament House from auction gavel ORLANDO—According to court documents, Parliament House, Orlando’s longest-running gay club, will be sold at a foreclosure auction the morning of Nov. 2, unless a last minute loan is approved in the weeks ahead. The venerable institution on North Orange Blossom Trail has been on shaky ﬁnancial ground, despite having successful emerged from bankruptcy this year in February. According to Orlando bankruptcy attorney R. Scott Shuker, who represents Parliament Partners Inc., the corporation is in the process of getting an additional $3.5 million in ﬁnancing as part of an overall debt restructure being negotiated. Sources tell the Agenda that this loan is likely to be approved this coming Friday, October 9, giving the resort’s longtime owners Don Grantastein,

president of Parliament Partners Inc.; Gerald Cadesky; and the Gardens LLC., some needed breathing room to repay debts surmounting $13 million. Should that loan not materialize, the property will be sold to the highest bidder on November 2. The once-neglected gay resort, originally built in the 60s, has recently gotten a face lift, although much work still is needed on the property. Its red-lettered sign on the Trail just west of downtown Orlando, has stood the test of time, announcing fund-raisers and concerts and other community events for four decades. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the resort’s recent ﬁnancial woes began with its failure to repay $6.9 million in principal and more than $4 million in interest to a group

headed by investor Kenneth J. Johnson of Torrance, Calif., according to the judicial ruling ﬁled last week. In addition, the club and its nearby timeshares owe the taxpayers of Orange County about $1.9 million in property taxes going back to 2006, according to the county tax collector. Despite past ﬁnancial struggles,

Shuker said he was “very conﬁdent” another loan would be approved prior to the November deadline. He was unable to say what group was considering making the loan. About half of the 10-acre site is usable and includes the club, a pool and a 1960s hotel with 111 units. The property is valued at $4.3 million on the tax rolls.

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Celebrate in Orlando with Come Out with Pride ORLANDO--Come Out with Pride, the annual celebration of the LGBT community, will be held this coming weekend October 10 and 11, highlighted by the “Most Colorful Parade,” sponsored by Macy’s. The parade takes place at Lake Eola beginning at 4 pm. on Saturday. On Thursday at 7pm, the pride festival will kickoff with a launch party at The Veranda, 111 N Summerlin Ave., featuring music, entertainment, mingling and a silent auction. Friday at 8 pm Pride on Church Street takes over Hamburger Mary’s, 110 W. Church Street. The event is admission free. Enjoy live entertainment from Amy & Freddy, NYC’s Red, Hot & Funny Bob the Drag Queen, Beth Sacks, and our very own Ginger Minj & The Minx! Music beats to play till 11:30P will be from Orlando’s DJ JB Burgos.

On Saturday, The Big Gay brunch is the pre-parade must-go event, held at The Abbey, 100 S Eola Dr. Priced at $35, The Big Gay Brunch featuring an amazing brunch spread from Tim Webber Events, bottomless mimosas and a Bloody Mary bar, plus DJs and live performances. Club H2O takes over the Lake Eola International Bridge where, for $10, you can view the fireworks at 9 pm. Feeling a little more elegant? For $75, you can add dinner to the mix with five gourmet courses. It’s all on the Promenade. The official After Party begins at 10 pm at the Parliament House, 410 N Orange Blossom Trail, with DJ Brianna spinning the hits. Footlight Players take to the stage at 10pm & 12am with special guest Mimi Marks. All for $10 before 11 pm, or $15 is you’re late to the party.

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INTERNATIONAL DONALD TRUMP: WORLDWIDE EMBARRASSMENT HIS IS CLEARLY A RECOGNIZED NAME WORLDWIDE, WHICH IS NOT TO SAY IT’S A BELOVED ONE. GREGORY KATZ & PAUL KELBIE Associated Press Photo: pagesix.com)

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epublican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is well-known in this serene coastal section of Scotland, where shimmering golden sand dunes meet the iceblue North Sea and people play on his golf course. He’s known in the Himalayas, too, far from any sign with his name on it. And in the Middle East, Africa and beyond. His is clearly a recognized name worldwide, which is not to say it’s a beloved one. In Balmedie, the real estate mogul is both praised and blamed for building a deluxe international golf course in a previously pristine spot. Some believe he’s delivered the jobs and beneﬁts he promised; others think American voters should beware a fast-talking scoundrel. “He is a strange ﬁsh,” said Susan Munro, a shop worker who has lived on land adjacent to the new Trump resort for more than 35 years. “If he doesn’t get his own way, he just loses it.” As she sees it, “He would be a disaster for everyone.” In diverse parts of the world, many see the ascendant Trump candidacy with a mixture of bemusement, astonishment and alarm. It’s striking how many people know of him at all. In the Himalayan hill town of

Dharamsala, Tibetan Buddhist monk Tenzin Damchoe, 39, said Trump is “making a lot of noise to be noticed.” Trump “must remember that the U.S. does not belong to white people, they themselves were once immigrants,” he said. In the northern India city of Lucknow, Sharmila Krishna, 40, praised Trump for bringing life and color to an otherwise dim campaign. “Political experience is not mandatory to run a country,” she said. “Barack Obama has not done anything great.” Many opinion-leaders and ordinary people are, though, concerned about a political novice as U.S. president. It is the bluster and the “make America great again” talk that has shaped this view. Also, his swagger from “The Apprentice” TV show, the easy-to-caricature hairstyle and his inﬂammatory comments, spread worldwide, about immigrants. Meantime he’s done little to reach out to the rest of the world. In South Africa, for example, Trump angered many with a series of harsh tweets, including one during Nelson Mandela’s 2013 funeral service in which he called the country “a crime ridden mess that is just waiting to explode.” J. Brooks Spector, a retired U.S. diplomat who writes a column on

American politics for The Daily Maverick, a South African news and opinion site, said Trump conﬁrms the stereotypical view of Americans as loud, boisterous and arrogant. Pearl Pillay, a policy researcher who spent time in the United States as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, said U.S. diplomacy would “crash and burn” if he takes power. Trump’s self-presentation as a political renegade is, however, getting a sympathetic hearing from some people. And he seems to have support among Russia’s emerging ﬁnancial elite, many of whom are billionaires themselves. Russian tycoon Aras Agalarov told the Russian press he was impressed with Trump when he met him in Moscow two years ago during the Miss Universe beauty pageant. “He said a lot of good things about our country, our culture, our people,” Agalarov said. In India, many younger people in the high-tech center of Bangalore take a dim view of Trump’s candidacy, in part because he is perceived by some as racist. “Any attempt to ‘Make America Great’ will require somebody with an agenda that will include people of all ethnicities and religious

backgrounds,” said Shreya Shetty, a 29-year-old engineer. Namratha Srirangapatna, a 33-year-old interior designer, said Trump is a “lightweight who believes his money can get him the presidency. God help America.” It is Mexico that has borne the brunt of Trump’s rhetoric. He has characterized Mexican immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally as “rapists” and “criminals,” and pledged to build a “beautiful” wall on the Mexican border to keep them out. Some Mexicans have reacted with anger, others shrug him off. “Don’t take him so seriously, for God’s sake, we’re Mexicans, we make fun of death,” said Jorge Suarez, whose company has released a new video game in which players can throw soccer balls, cactus leaves and tequila bottles at a cartoon image of Trump. Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Miguel Basanez, told Mexicans that Trump is simply playing politics during the primary campaign. “He knows very well that what he is saying is false,” the ambassador said. “He knows very well he will apologize to Mexicans.” That would be one side of Trump that few if any have seen one who says “sorry.”

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YOUR LIFE: AN OWNER’S MANUAL

Who am I? The words people speak over you shape your life. Perhaps you have a parent, teacher, or friend who has encouraged you and those words have molded you into the individual you are today.

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his also works in the reciprocal. People can speak words of discouragement, put negative labels on you, or hinder you from reaching your full potential. What you internalize into your life becomes your identity. If you were to strip away your external identity, your relationship status, work title, socio-economic By status, etc., what James would be left? Miller What descriptors would you use to define who you are? If an outsider were to hear your internal dialogue what would they hear? Would you speak words of affirmation or words of defeat and self-loathing? During those times when you make mistakes, or are

embarrassed about something you’ve done, do you tell yourself you are dumb, stupid or berate yourself? The word choices you use during these times are your actual core self-beliefs. There is nothing wrong with struggling with your identity, but if you continue to use these negative labels then you will never rise above your current level of development. The goal is to change your core belief by catching yourself when you use these words of self-defeat. Acknowledge the perceived failure but immediately follow it up with what you learned and how you will be more cautious in the future. Remember, you would show mercy and speak words of compassion if someone else were to make these same mistakes. Why wouldn’t you speak those same words to yourself? Affirmation is one of the best selfhelp tools you can practice. Make a

list of positive attributes you possess that you can verbalize each morning. This list can affirm personality attributes, physical characteristics, or behaviors that you are proud of. It can also be a list of reassurances in areas upon which you will (future tense) improve. If you struggle with developing a list, then write down what positive things others have said about you. Once you have completed this list, it is vital for you to read it aloud. As you read each one, take a moment to look in the mirror and say the affirmation to yourself. You may be surprised at how difficult it is, or how you may blush as you give yourself a compliment. Remember, your mind will often tell you this is silly, or what you are saying is not true. This is when you have to choose to believe that what you are saying is true even if it doesn’t seem like it at the moment. When you practice this on a daily

basis, your core belief start to change and those negative self-labels morph into something beautiful. Negative events in your life are not who you are, they are simply something you went through. You have developed and blossomed into an amazing person who is embraced by many friends and family. It’s time for you to acknowledge this person and use your internal dialogue to speak life and encouragement. No one can love you as well as yourself. James Miller is a licensed psychotherapist who resides in West Palm Beach, FL. He is currently known for his website: JamesMillerLifeology.com where he gives daily advice in ways to simplify and transform one’s life. He virtually launched James Miller | Lifeology Academy where his students can take his first course: Spirit, Mind, Body – The Perfect Triad.

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FAST FIT

A good general rule of thumb has us eating at 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and 10pm— but the precise time is not as important as the space between meals. Eat half of your current portion size, but twice as often consuming it at a slower pace, and you will lose weight.

Walk one mile a day and you will be taking about 2,000 steps in the process. This is no small achievement, particularly when you consider that the average sedentary adult is likely to take only 2,500 steps during the course of an entire day.

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In theory, all of us should receive ample amounts of calcium that is found in milk, cheese, yogurt, tofu, leafy vegetables, broccoli, almonds, and canned sardines. In actuality, according to the National Academy of Sciences, 50% of us don’t get nearly enough.

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By Richard Hack and Andy Kress from their book Baby Boomers’ Guide to the Fountain of Youth

Start drinking more water on a consistent basis throughout the day. As your cells are plumped, the ﬁne lines and wrinkles on your face and hands will seem to magically disappear.

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LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH TRANSGENDER FORWARD As the gay and lesbian community celebrates marriage equality across the United States, the transgender members of the LGBTQ community continue to work diligently to place their civil rights front and center, as we move into the next chapter of LGBTQ equality. To many, it seems as if the transgender movement has come from nowhere in the last decade, but the reality is that transgender Americans have been ﬁghting for civil rights right along with the lesbian, gay and bisexual members of our community for decades. Here are a few key high- lights of transgender people within the tableau of American LGBTQ civil-rights history:

1800 - 2000 1800: “WOMAN CHIEF” BARCHEEAMPE A leader of the Crow nation, the “woman chief” was known for her war exploits and had several wives.

1871: WE’WHA #1 Two-spirit Zuni Native American who was born male but lived as a woman. An ac-complished weaver and potter, in 1886 the six-foot Zuni maiden met President Cleveland, who was unaware that she was two-spirit. 1952: CHRISTINE JORGENSEN #2 A trailblazer who was the ﬁrst person in America to receive sexualreassignment surgery, Jorgensen, a former GI, became a household name and put the issue of gender identity in the American conscience.

1957: BILLY TIPTON JAZZ ALBUM Renowned Jazz musician lived his life as a man and “married” several women. He was discovered to be biologically female upon his death.

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1965: DEWEY’S COFFEE SHOP PROTEST One hundred and ﬁfty “non-conforming” people protested Dewey’s Coffee Shop in Philadelphia because it refused service to young people who were dressing in clothing that did not conform to their gender. The protest led to an end of the discriminatory policy.

1966: “TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON” PUBLISHED Dr. Harry Benjamin published a seminal work that described the medical transition for transgender people. Benjamin helped Jorgensen in her transition and acknowledged her in the preface of the book: “Without Christine Jorgensen and the unsought publicity of her ‘conversion,’ this book could hardly have been conceived.” 1969: STONEWALL RIOTS #3 The legendary seminal event of the LGBT civil-rights movement included members of the transgender community. The LGBT community resisted police abuse on the night after Judy Garland’s funeral, which many attribute for the frayed nerves. 1970: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES (STAR) Started by transgender legends Sylvia Rivera and Marsha Johnson, STAR was an advocacy group for transgender people. Both Rivera and Johnson were rioters at the Stonewall Inn and helped usher in the tepid acknowledgment of transgender Americans as part of the gay civil-rights movement. 1975: MINNEAPOLIS PASSES TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION Minneapolis becomes the ﬁrst city

1 to pass an anti-discrimination law protecting transgender people. That’s right, Minneapolis, in 1975. 1977: RENÉE RICHARDS The next transgender icon who pierced the American consciousness. Richards was an eye doctor who became a professional tennis player and challenged a ban that prevented her from playing in the U.S. Open as a woman. The New York Supreme Court overruled the ban, making Richards the catalyst for a landmark decision concerning transgender rights. 1986: FTM NEWSLETTER Lou Sullivan published the FTM newsletter, which was later transformed by Jamison Green into FTM International, the world’s largest information and networking group for female-to- ale transgender people and transsexual men. Sullivan is credited with bringing female-tomale transgenderism to the forefront. 1991: RIFT WITH MICHIGAN WOMYN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL Nancy Burkholder was removed from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival when she was discovered to be transgender. The removal led to an annual protest by the transgender community, which continued through this year, when the festival ceased.

2 1993: BRANDON TEENA Teena, a transgender man, was murdered in Nebraska. The story of his journey and death was later chronicled in the Oscar -inning film “Boys Don’t Cry.” 1995: GENDERPAC FORMED Transgender activist RiKi Wilchins formed the first advocacy group dedicated to gender identity and expression. The organization ushered in the period where the national transgender movement took hold. 1999: FIRST TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE The first Transgender Day of Remembrance honored those who have died due to anti-transgender violence. The commemoration was a direct result of the murder of Rita Hester in Massachusetts. TRANSGENDER PRIDE FLAG CREATED Monica Helms created the transgender flag, saying, “The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional color for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional color for baby girls. The stripe in the middle is white, for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, in our lives.”

EXPANSION OF SAN DIEGO ANTIBIAS LAW The San Diego City Council added gender identity to the city’s antidiscrimination ordinance, the Human Dignity Ordinance, with a unanimous 7-0 vote. 2006: CALIFORNIA’S GWEN ARAUJO JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS ACT AB 1160 passed into law prohibit the use of so-called “panic strategies” in criminal defenses. The legislation was named in the memory of a transgender teenager from Newark, Calif., who was attacked and killed in 2002. The law proved ineffective when tested during the murder trial for Larry King’s killer. FIRST TRANSGENDER PERSON #4 ELECTED TO STATEWIDE OFFICE Kim Coco Iwamoto was elected to statewide ofﬁce in Hawaii as a member of the Board of Education.

2014: LAVERNE COX ON TIME #9 The “Orange is the New Black” star made headlines as the ﬁrst transgender person to be featured on the cover of Time.

FIRST TRANSGENDER JUDGE #7 IN AMERICA Victoria Kolakowski became the ﬁrst openly transgender judge in America, elected by the voters of Alameda County in the Bay Area.

GENDER IDENTITY PROTECTED IN FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT The Department of Labor issued a rule banning discrimination based on gender identity in federal employment.

NEW PASSPORT POLICY The U.S. State Department announced a new policy eliminating the requirement for surgery to update gender markers on passports.

SURGERY COVERED BY MEDICARE The Obama administration lifted a decades-old ban on using Medicare coverage for gender-reassignment surgery.

2011: FIRST NCAA TRANNNY #8 Kye Allums became the ﬁrst openly transgender athlete to play in the National Collegiate Athletic Associate.

2015: CAITLYN JENNER DEBUTS #10 The former Olympic athlete and reality star came out as transgender, going on to be featured on the cover of Vanity Fair.

CALIFORNIA’S GENDER NONDISCRIMINATION ACT AB 887 passed into law, expanding the state’s nondiscrimination laws to protect transgender people by including discrimination based on “gender identity and expression” as a type of “gender” discrimination. NEW VETERANS POLICY Veterans Health Administration (VHA) establishes a policy of respectful delivery of healthcare to transgender and intersex veterans. 2012: ‘MATRIX’ DIRECTOR TRANSITIONS Lana Wachowski came out as transgender while promoting her new movie “Cloud Atlas.” She is most noted for the “Matrix” trilogy created with her brother. 2013: OFFICIAL DEBUT OF ‘GENDER DYSPHORIA’ The American Psychiatric Asso-

WOMEN’S COLLEGES OPEN DOORS Mills College and Mount Holyoke allowed transgender women to enroll at their female-only institutions.

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FIRST TRANSGENDER NATIONAL #11 ANTHEM SINGER Breanna Sinclaire? became the first transgender person to sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event at the Oakland Coliseum before the A’s game with the San Diego Padres. PENNSYLVANIA GETS TRANSGENDER PHYSICIAN GENERAL Pennsylvania made U.S. history with the appointment and confirmation of Dr. Rachel Levine as the nation’s first openly transgender state physician general. WHITE HOUSE APPOINTMENT President Barack Obama appointed transgender attorney Shannon Price Minter to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Minter was the lead attorney arguing before the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8.

2009: CHAZ BONO TRANSITION #6 Child of celebrities Sonny and Cher, Chastity Bono, transitioned to become a man. He chronicled his transition in a documentary, then went on to become a contes-

2010: FIRST TRANSGENDER PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES President Obama appointed the ﬁrst two transgender people in history. Amanda Simpson was appointed as senior technical adviser in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, and Dylan Orr was appointed as special assistant to the Department of Labor Assistant Secretary.

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2008: FIRST TRANSGENDER #5 MAYOR IN AMERICA Stu Rasmussen became the ﬁrst openly transgender mayor in America in Silverton, Ore. Rasmussen previously had served as the mayor prior to coming out as transgender. He prefers male pronouns but dresses as a woman.

ciation debuted the term gender to describe those who deem themselves transgender.

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2003: NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY ESTABLISHED Activist Mara Keisling, with the support of other transgender activists, founded the organization dedicated to advancing the civil rights of transgender people.

tant on “Dancing with the Stars,” as well as a transgender activist and spokesperson.

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2002: TRANSGENDER LEGAL-AID ORGANIZATIONS ESTABLISHED The Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York and the Transgender Law Cen ter in San Francisco were created to advance transgender civil rights using the legal system.

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Welcome to the 2015 MiFo LGBT Film Festival By Victor Gimenez Executive director, MiFO

The 7th Annual Fort Lauderdale Edition As you may have heard, we have combined the names of the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals into MiFo LGBT Film Festival, with the Fort Lauderdale Edition opening its seventh year on Friday October 9 at 8 pm with the ﬁlm Fourth Man Out from director Andrew Nackman. MiFo is a special organization, in which we bring together the best in LGBT ﬁlms of the year to foster a sense of community. Laugh, cry, and learn with old friends and new.

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This year’s theme is United We Film—united in our love of film, united in our community, and united in the stories we want to watch, learn and feel. We are also united as a Festival family: members, audience, filmmakers, community partners, volunteers, board, staff and sponsors. I’m Victor Gimenez, the new Executive Director of the Festival. And I’m looking forward to spending time with and meeting each of you during the festival. Whether you have been a part of the family for a while or you are a new member attending your first festival, welcome to the reunion that is the MiFo LGBT Film Festival.

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SCREEN SAVOR

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BY GREGG SHAPIRO

 The Fort Lauderdale segment of the 2015 MiFo LGBT Film Festival The Miami portion takes place in April, held over the course of two weekends, October 9-11 and October 16-18, showcases more than 50 films. The following Screen Savor column features reviews of select films from the festival’s vast programming schedule. For the complete listing of screenings and festival events, visit http://www.mifofilm.com.

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Fourth Man Out is turning out to be a popular title at LGBT film fests. It helps that the lead cast includes hot guys such as out actor Evan Todd as Adam, Parker Young as Chris, and Chord Overstreet (less hot under a beard) as Nick. The script has plenty of funny and touching scenes, although it’s a little hard to believe the people living in the Albany region of upstate New York would have difficulty dealing with a gay friend or neighbor. At 24, car mechanic Adam (Todd) has yet to come out to his best friends Chris (Young), Nick (Overstreet) and Ortu (Jon Gabrus, who plays the character as an unfortunate amalgam of Jack Black and Josh Gad). Nevertheless, Adam has decided it’s time to come out. Needless to say, it doesn’t go well. Somehow the guys find it within themselves to rise to the occasion, with Chris taking the lead. After all, he and Adam have been friends since childhood. When the unexpected conflict of a perceived attraction between Adam and Chris arises (and who could blame Adam?), Fourth Man Out takes a dramatic turn. But you know right from the start that a happily-ever-after ending is in the offing (or should that be outing?).

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There’s a lot of stuff in writer/director Suzanne Guacci’s Stuff (Aspire). Married lesbian moms Deb (Yvonne Jung) and Trish (Karen Sillas) are going through a rough patch in their relationship. Stay-at-home mom Deb takes care of the house and daughters Sam (Brianna Scudiero) and Suzie (Maya Guacci). Dentist mom Trish is the breadwinner. Both women are stressed out by their responsibilities, but that’s the least of their stuff. Five years after her beloved father’s passing, Trish still hasn’t properly dealt with her grief. Even worse, her cold and stubborn mother Ginger (Phyllis Somerville) is holding Trish back by simply refusing to have a headstone placed on the grave. Meanwhile, Deb strikes up a friendship with Jamie (Traci Dinwiddie), the tattooed apprentice tattoo artist mom of Joey (Vincent P. Colon), an autistic boy in Sam’s pre-school class, which stirs all sorts of stuff within her. Of course, there’s stuff with the kids, including Suzie’s determination to get a part in the school play. Not quite stuffed to the gills, Stuff does want you to keep track of a lot of stuff, but it does so without belaboring the point.

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A bit of a strange selection as LGBT film festivals go, Coming In (WB/Summerstorm) is a German language rom-com about a gay hairdresser and trendsetter who discovers that he is in love with a woman. Directed and co-written by gay filmmaker Marco Kreutzpaintner, Coming In is as romantic as it is comedic. Tom (Kostja Ullmann) has the most successful men’s hair salon in Berlin. His gorgeous boyfriend Robert (Ken Duken) helps him run his business and keeps it a profit making entity. Tom is also highly respected in the gay community, not just for his business success but for his philanthropic work for gay youth, as well. In an effort to make things right, Tom secretly helps Heidi out at her shop. Of course, that only confounds the situation. After spending a lot of time together, an attraction develops into something more than just a phase. Funny and sexy, is a rom-com that has earned the designation.

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Docs about porn stars (That Man: Peter Berlin and Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon) and porn ﬁlmmakers (I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakeﬁeld Poole) are all the rage. Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (Naked Sword), the cleverly titled doc about the late gay porn entrepreneur Chuck Holmes, co-founder of Falcon Studios, is as sexy as it is informative. Indiana-native Holmes, considered to be the gay Hugh Hefner. A collector of 8mm porn loops, Holmes came out fast in San Francisco. The landmark 1969 Supreme Court obscenity ruling paved the way the birth of the mail

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order porn industry. Holmes found good gay ﬁlmmakers, as well as better models and locations, allowing the genre to evolve from badly produced loops to full-length features, while celebrating the new gay freedoms of a post-Stonewall world at the same time. Writer/director Michael Stabile’s feature-length doc debut is a respectful and respectable portrait of Holmes. Stabile’s interview subjects, including porn legend Jeff Stryker, Jake Shears, Chi Chi LaRue, John Waters, Steve Scarborough (Falcon VP from 198693), actors Tom Chase, Jim Bentley and Steve Cruz, John Rutherford (Falcon VP from 1993-2002) and many others go a long way in illuminating the story of Holmes and Falcon.

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The extremely intimate Like You Mean It (Breaking Glass) starring, written and directed by Philipp Karner is an emotional journey through the end of a gay relationship. Struggling actor Mark (Karner) and musician Jonah (Denver Milord) have dinner with straight and engaged couple Nicole (Gillian Shure) and Craig (Adrian Quinonez) during which the soon-to-be-wed duo announces that they are taking a brief hiatus from each other in advance of their big day. This news seems to trigger something in Mark who is already struggling with a number of issues. His acting career has stalled. His sister in Austria keeps leaving him voice mail messages that he chooses to ignore. He goes off of his anti-depressants. Last, but not least, he feels himself growing apart from Jonah. This is not an easy movie to watch and it is heartbreaking almost right from the start. Nevertheless, Kanner’s well-written screenplay and his performance, combined with that of Milord’s, make Like You Mean It mean something.

Those People (Little Big Horn), the feature film debut by out director and co-screenwriter Joey Kuhn, feels like one of those LGBT film festival flicks that could easily have crossover appeal. Spanning a three-month period, from September through December, the people in Those People include Charlie (Jonathan Gordon), a gay MFA student in painting with “Jewish stomach” issues, and his childhood best friend Sebastian (Jason Ralph), a spoiled gay Upper East Side rich kid. There is also Ursula (Britt Lower), straight bartender Wyatt (Chris Conroy) and London (Meghann Fahey). A night out at a piano bar for Charlie’s birthday results in a flirtation between Charlie and experienced piano man Tim (Haaz Sleiman). A street confrontation with paparazzi also hastens Sebastian’s downward spiral. Caught between his unrequited love for Sebastian and the promise of a new and romance with Tim, Charlie is forced to make difficult decisions about himself. Those People has a lot going for it, including strong performances from lead actors Gordon, Ralph and Sleiman and a solid supporting cast. Kuhn also proves his mettle as a writer and director, one who shows great promise.

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In what could be a setup to a joke, a gay couple, a lesbian couple and a straight couple go to Fire Island for a weekend in late September in That’s Not Us. Jackie’s (Nicole Pursell) aunt Linda has offered her and her girlfriend Alex (Sarah Wharton) use of her house. They are joined by Alex’s BFF James (Mark Berger) and James’ boyfriend Spencer (David Rysdahl), as well as Alex’s sister Liz (Elizabeth Gray) and her boyfriend Dougie (Tommy Nelms). In what is something of a familiar device, all six characters will learn something new about themselves and each other over the course of the weekend. For example, Spencer has been accepted to grad school in Chicago, which means that he will have to leave New York and James in order to attend. In the case of Jackie and Alex, the dreaded lesbian bed death has set in. Interestingly, Dougie’s secret – he can’t ride a bike! – is the least traumatizing. Add in Spencer’s persistent mother a neighbor with a lost dog, and a case of mistaken house identity, and you have plenty of opportunities for conﬂict and comedy. That’s Not Us is a sweet, if forgettable, movie.

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10/10 Gay Pride

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10/09 Death Grips

The experimental group Death Grips combines hip hop, industrial music, and noise music into an interesting mélange praised by critics. The single “I’ve Seen Footage” has been their most acclaimed to date, routinely considered one of the best songs of the current decade. Their newest album The Powers That B is a double album and has received their usual strong critical acclaim.8:00 p.m. Culture Room. 3045 N. Federal Highway. Fort Lauderdale. 33306.

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By Patrick Robert

Broward County’s large gay population results in two pride events occurring each year. June’s Wilton Manors Pride Parade closed down The Drive and culminated in a festive parade. The annual Pride Fort Lauderdale takes place at Holiday Park and War Memorial Auditorium, where local businesses set up tables and various entertainers perform on stage. This year’s line-up includes Trina, Shadina, Fantine, Kitty Meow, Lady Bunny, Taryn Manning, and Dumblonde. 11:00 a.m. Holiday Park. 1000 Sunrise Blvd. Fort Lauderdale. 33301.

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10/14 New Found Glory Last year’s One Direction single “Steal My Girl” sounds very similar to New Found Glory’s punk-pop classic “It’s Not Your Fault.” It’s no wonder the producers of that single would rip-off New Found Glory—the band has been creating radio-friendly pop punk for almost two decades. Formed in Coral Springs in the late 1990s, New Found Glory garnered a cult following and critical acclaim with such albums as Nothing Gold Can Stay and From the Screen to Your Stereo. 6:30 p.m. Revolution Live. 100 SW Third Ave. Fort Lauderdale. 33312.6.

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THE WEEK: MIAMI

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10/11 III Points

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OIII Points Preset is committed to pairing vanguard talent, nontraditional venues, and artist installations to create a unique experience that melds various artistic expressions. Their threeday living installation III Points Music, Art, and Technology Festival brings together Miami’s talented local acts, vendors, artists, thinkers, and dreamers for a cutting edge experience. Today’s concert includes Ghostface Killah, The Martinez Brothers, Life on Planets, and Jess Perez, among others. 5:00 p.m. Mana Wynwood Production Village. 318 NW 23rd St. Miami. 33127.

Cirque Eloize’s current production iD transports audiences to a vibrant urban streetscape filled with acrobats, break dancers, and contortionists, performing in front of a kaleidoscope of eye-popping video projections. This entire production culminates to a one-of-a-kind video trampowall. Jean-Phi Goncalves and Alex McMahaon have created the energetic soundtrack. 8:00 p.m. Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. 1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami. 33132.

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The king of MTV’s Spring Break program during its 1990s heyday, Pauly Shore returns to Florida to tell jokes at Magic City Casino. Shore’s career was catapulted by his surfer vernacular, “weasel”-esque behavior, and classic catchphrase “Hey, BU-DDY.” Although his recent self-titled TV show didn’t live up to expectations, Shore is back to his ﬁrst love— stand-up. 9:00 p.m. Magic City Casino. 450 NW 37th Ave. Miami. 33125.

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10/09 Beauty and the Beast

The classic Disney ﬁlm is transformed to the stage for this elaborate musical. Belle, a bookworm and alienated villager, is trapped by a cursed prince and his eccentric, enchanted household. The prince must rid himself of his selﬁsh ways and, in turn, win Belle’s love in order to reverse the curse before the townspeople destroy him. Songs “Be Our Guest,” “Gaston,” “Something There,” and the title track have become contemporary classics. 8:00 p.m. Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts. 300 Water St. Jacksonville.

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By Patrick Robert

Lavell Crawford might be known best as “Luell”—the overweight, affectionate bodyguard for Saul Goodman on AMC’s wildly popular Breaking Bad. With the end of that show, Crawford is out pursuing his other career—that as stand-up comedian. Crawford has also appeared on the TV shows It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Tosh.0 and his comedy has been featured at such popular clubs as the Comedy Store, the Improv, and the Comedy House Theatre. 8:00 p.m. Florida Theatre. 128 E. Forsyth St. Jacksonville. 32205.

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10/10 Monica “The Boy Is Mine” singer Monica may have fought with Brandy over the affections of a cheater, yet the R&B songstress is just as good as singing about true love as catﬁghts. Songs like “Don’t Take It Personal” and “Before You Walk Out of My Life” hit the Top Ten in the late 1990s. The new millennium has included a string of successful albums and a BET reality TV series titled Still Standing. 8:00 p.m. Florida Theatre. 128 E. Forsyth St. Jacksonville. 32205.

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THE WEEK: ORLANDO

Some of the most memorable films of the past twenty years have been made by Pixar. Films like Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Up are critical and commercial smash hits with beloved characters and, most importantly, beloved scores. This high-definition, multimedia family show includes memorable clips from Pixar’s fourteen films along with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra playing some of the company’s best loved songs. 3:00 p.m. Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. 445 S. Magnolia Ave. Orlando. 32801.

Canadian actor Charles Ross Is best known for creating infamous encapsulations of long series like One Man Lord of the Rings and tonight’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy. The show attempts to retell the entire Star Wars trilogy in one night by one man. Ross has been praised for the show and even performed it at Lucasﬁlm’s ofﬁcial movie release convention for Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. 7:30 p.m. Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. 445 S. Magnolia Ave. Orlando. 32801.

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10/12 Rick Springﬁeld FImmortally etched into American pop culture as a quintessential “one hit wonder,” Rick Springﬁeld has done more than just create the song “Jessie’s Girl.” He was once a member of pop group Zoot and had hits like “I’ve Done Everything for You,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers” and “Affair of the Heart” following the pop phenomenon of “Jessie’s Girl.” Tonight he performs the hits at Epcot Center’s Eat to the Beat series. 10:00 a.m. Epcot Center. 200 Epcot Center Dr. Orlando. 32821.

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10/11 Pixar in Concert

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10/09 Pablo Francisco

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10/08 Judy Tenuta

Outrageous redheaded comedienne and early LGBTQ-rights activist Judy Tenuta began her career in the 1980s alongside such up-andcoming comics as Ellen Degeneres and Paula Poundstone. Known for her coarse voice, accordion-playing, and raunchy humor, Tenuta promotes The Power of Judyism—her own religious concept explicated in a book and comedy CD released in 1991. She has been nominated for two Grammys and has had numerous specials on HBO, Showtime, and Lifetime. 8:00 p.m. The Palm Beaches Theatre. 262 S. Ocean Blvd. Lake Worth. 33462.

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The off-the-wall comedian Pablo Francisco has been featured on a bunch of popular TV shows for up-and-coming stand-ups, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Howard Stern’s radio show. His two Comedy Central specials They Put It Out There and Ouch! are two of the most popularly requested specials on the channel. 8:00 p.m. Palm Beach Improv. 550 S. Rosemary Ave. West Palm Beach. 33401.

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10/10 Swede Fest Palm Beach

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While most film festivals attempt to showcase the talents of little known filmmakers and their labor-of-love projects, swede fest Palm Beach shifts the narrative and, instead, showcases no-budget, laughably bad remakes of hit Hollywood films. The fourth annual swede fest in Palm Beach features three-minute swedes created by local filmmakers. The winner receives a luxury stay at Crane’s Beach house. 7:00 p.m. The Palm Beaches Theatre. 262 S. Ocean Blvd. Lake Worth. 33462.

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Perhaps one of the greatest voice artists of our generation, Gilbert Gottfried is a multitalented comedian, actor, and public ﬁgure. He has voiced such cartoon characters as Aladdin’s Iago, Cyberchase’s Digit, and the Aﬂac Duck. Lately, Gottfried has been a popular member of a series of Comedy Central Roasts, showing off his acerbic wit. 8:30 p.m. Side Splitters Comedy Club. 12938 N. Dale Mabry Hwy. Tampa. 33618.

As founding members of Monty Python, Cleese and Idle introduced the world to a satirical brand of humor that is both wacky and smart. Their newest production Together Again At Last…For the Very First Time blends scripted work with improvised bits of storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage, aquatic juggling, and an extended audience Q&A. 7:30 p.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall. 1111 N. McMullen-Booth Rd. Clearwater. 33759.

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10/09 Tampa International Film Festival

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Over twenty-ﬁve years ago, TIGLFF began as a three-day offshoot of Tampa’s Gay Pride Parade. Since then, it has tripled its length and become its own popular festival, screening 87 ﬁlms from 25 countries. Special guest actress Lea DeLaria from Orange Is the New Black will be on hand for the festivities. 7:00 p.m. Catherine Hickman Theater. 5501 27th Ave. Gulfport. 33701.

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