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ast Tuesday, SAVE! held a Meet the Candidates night at their offices in downtown Miami. The event featured many of the local Miami-Dade

Congress people, legislatures and judges giving them a chance to meet with their constituents.

On Thursday, The World AIDS Museum hosted their anniversary party at ArtServe and gave out awards and gave the latest news regarding the museum and the directions they are going. Seen there were representatives from Latinos Salud, CAN, Broward House and Mayor Dean Trantalis. Last Wednesday, the MDGLCC featured “Foundation for Success in Miami's Real Estate Market" EXPOsure Luncheon 10 | Hotspots.LGBT

presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co. at the Intercontinental at Doral Miami. The panel consisted of Phil Guarco (Global Investment Specialist at JPMorgan Chase & Co.), Seth Gadinsky (Seth Gadinsky Real Estate), and Peter Ortega PA (Productivity Coach at Keller Williams Realty, Inc.) who addressed issues and solutions affecting the current state of the real estate environment in Miami. Miami Herald reporter Steve Rothaus moderated this engaging discussion, where I learned a tremendous amount about the Miami Real Estate Market and real estate as a whole. Congrats to the MDGLCC for another successful and informative luncheon!

Starting Wednesday and going through Sunday, Georgie's Alibi/Monkey Bar st celebrated their 21 birthday

with many special events and they gave out the commemorative 21st anniversary T shirt all 5 days. Congrats to Johnny, David, Rick and the entire staff on 21 years!!

On Friday, Celebrate Orgullo held their Anniversary and Celia Awards Gala at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami. The night was filled with Celia Cruz including a sneak peek into the new collection of Celia Cruz's life and outfits/wigs. Marytrini received the UC|CU's Legends Honors Award, for her service to Unity Coalition and the community. Seen there were: former Miami Beach Mayor Matty Bower, Care Resource's Jonathan Welsh, Prideline's Victor DiazHerman, Commissioner Michael Gongora, SAVE!'s Tony Lima & "Love & Hip Hop" star Amara La Negra. Congrats to Herb and his team on a fabulous event! On Sunday, the Florida Grand Opera (in conjunction with

Everything you need to plan your week tickets online at BrowardCenter.org SAGE) held a preview party at The Pride Center. There were several singers on hand giving notes and telling the stories of the operas that will be part of their upcoming season: La Boehemme, Frida, The Marriage of Figgaro are just a few coming this Winter through Spring

Stonewall National Museum – Wilton Manors (2157 Wilton Drive) presents Nightbirds: Photos of NYC's Dynamic Club Culture Personalities 1986-1995. The stunning

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Hailed by The Washington Post as “a polished, peppy, modern fairy tale,” the southeast regional premiere of Disney's Freaky Friday opens Slow Burn Theatre's season in the Amaturo

Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts from today until Sunday, November 4. Based on the novel by Mary Rodgers and the Disney films, this classic story of a mother and daughter who magically swap bodies for 24 chaotic hours has been given a contemporary spin with a hilarious new book and pop score by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Tickets are $47–$60. Buy

photos of Michael Fazkerley depict portraits of nightlife's wildest club life setting trends in fashion, style, performance art and music in New York City. The VIP Stonewall Society preview reception will be at 5pm, at 7 p.m. is the public opening, which is free to attend, with a suggested donation of $5, and at 7:30 pm they feature an exhibition talk with photographer Michael Fazakerley. Refreshments provided courtesy of Barefoot Wine & Bubbly. u FRIDAY OCT 19

Coral Springs Center(2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs) presents World of Dance Live at 8 pm. This show will feature the best dancers from across all genres incorporating both local and national talent as well as top talent from NBC's World of

Dance. World of Dance Live consists of engaging and interactive 90-minute dance showcases that include the hottest stars and dance icons from Youtube and television, a signature WOD host, talent meet-and-greets and autograph sessions. At press time confirmed to be on the tour is: Michael Dameski, Charity & Andres, and BDash & Konkrete, plus many more! Tickets start at $39.22 The Ramrod presents their monthly Mandance event starring DJ Herbie James. u SATURDAY OCT 20

The Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) will host An Evening in the South Pacific Gala presented by PNC Bank. Guests will enjoy a formal South Pacific themed

evening complete with dining and dancing at the Museum located at 401 SW Second Street in Fort Lauderdale. For more information about this year's event including tickets, sponsorship opportunities and donations please contact Hillary Wallace at 954.713.0918 or hillary.wallace@mods.net Hotspots.LGBT | 11

Georgie's Alibi/Monkey Bar presents their monthly Beast: Fetish and Gear Party starring DJ Mike James. The Pride Center at Equality Park presents their 9th annual Boomer/Senior Health Expo from 10am to 2 pm with free admission, free coffee and goodies and free lunch. The expo provides lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults with a unique, comprehensive overview of community healthcare resources. Exhibits will reflect health, finance, insurance, travel, entertainment, retirement and a number of helpful community organizations. For more information, go to: PrideCenterFlorida.org.

a sold-out event, so get there early! Also, today, Sunday and Monday (Labor Day Weekend) they feature a poolside luncheon at 1 pm.

The Manor WORLD presents “Brazil” with DJ/Producer Lucas Franco (Rio De Janeiro) in the ballroom. The night will feature circuit productions, star dancers and a massive stage design. Inside the Ivy Dance Room and Patio, Noche Latina Saturday's will be giving away 10 tickets to Brazilian Fest in Pompano (Sun, Oct 21) and features special guests Kalah Mendoza (Miss Florida F.I. 2017) and Taina Norell along with guest DJ Larry Larr and sexy Latin Go-Go Papi's. Saturdays at the Manor is from 11pm to 4 am and feature NO COVER before midnight (FL Res) and only $7 The Club Fort Lauderdale st features their bi-monthly (1 for members after midnight and 3rd Saturday of the month) and $10 for non-members (18Res-Erection Naked Blackout 20 – $12 all night). event at 10p.m. This is always

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If you haven't seen Dancing Queens yet, which premiered on Netflix on October 5, run, don't walk to see this Kiki starring the one and only (Ru Paul Drag Race's and Ru Paul's All Stars) Alyssa Edwards. Dancing Queen is a hilarious and heartfelt docuseries set in the dancing, prancing, world of the multi-talented, multi-layered Justin Johnson - aka Drag Superstar Alyssa Edwards - as he juggles his dance life, drag life, family life, and love life. Filmed in Justin's hometown of Mesquite, Texas,

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Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film “Paper Dolls” 7 pm (Sunday) at the Berlin International Lewis Black Comedy favorite Lewis Black Film Festival, and there meets returns with his The Joke's On a man who will change his life. This 48-hour love affair US Tour. Student tickets develops into a significant available at the box office window with a student ID or relationship between Tomer and Andreas Merk, a German over the phone with a valid dancer. When Andreas college email address. decides to move to Tel-Aviv, Tickets start at $52.47; he not only has to cope with a Student Tickets: $23.32 Note: Front row orchestra seats new partner, but to manage the complex realities of life in available at Israel and his personal www.fanasylum.com connection to it as a German citizen. Tickets are $10 at Congregation Etz Chaim stonewall-museum.org. (2038 N Dixie Hwy, Wilton Refreshments provided Manors) in association with Stonewall National Museum courtesy of Barefoot Wine & Bubbly. Snacks provided. & Archives and the Jewish Federation of Broward The Ramrod presents their County presents I Shot My Love (part of the Gay Jewish monthly E.D.C. (Enforced Dress Code) on the patio Film Series) from 4-6pm. from 9pm to 12 am hosted by Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi the new Mr. Ramrod Germany to Palestine, Israeli Elimination Onyx. documentary director Tomer u SUNDAY OCT 21

Dancing Queen goes behind the makeup and into the drag performer's highly competitive Beyond Belief Dance Company as he prepares a young class for an intensely competitive season. Check it out at: www.netflix.com/dancingqueen

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36th Annual

Headdress Ball In Key West

ombining entertainment and creative rivalry, Key West's Headdress Ball typically dazzles audiences with contestants' lamboyant masks and outrageous headdress regalia. The 36th annual ball is set for 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Key West Amphitheater at Truman Waterfront Park. The gala is the premier LGBTQ event of the subtropical island's 10-day Fantasy Fest celebration. More than 25 entrants wearing masks and headgear constructions — many decorated with feathers, sequins, unique accessories or even moving parts — are expected to vie for cash prizes including a irst-place award of $3,000. While some competitors wear full costumes, the panel of VIP judges evaluates ensembles only from the shoulders up. The ball is produced each year by the Key West Business Guild, one of the United States' oldest LGBTQ business organizations, and serves as a major fundraiser for it. “The Headdress Ball will be an evening of creativity, fun and surprise guest entertainment taking place during the competition — something you won't want to miss,” said Dan Skahen, the guild's executive director. The celebrity lineup includes master of

ceremonies Tom Luna, DJ Rude Girl and renowned female impersonator Christopher Peterson opening the show. Talents including Broadway veteran Terri White and female impersonator Randy Roberts are to oﬀer top-class entertainment between headdress performances. Gates open at 6:30 p.m., providing opportunities for attendees to enjoy food and beverages oﬀered for purchase by local vendors before the show. Spectators also will have ample time for mingling and photo ops with the headdress entrants. General admission tickets are $30 per person, with reserved tables for four people starting at $250. Reserved table holders may pre-purchase food and refreshments to be delivered to their table during the evening.

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ACTRESS - SALLY FIELD The beloved actor has charmed the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV show at the age of 17 as “Gidget.” Her many roles include “Sybil,” the Academy Award-winning “Norma Rae” and the First Lady in “Lincoln.” She discusses her memoir “In Pieces” with journalist Ana Veciana-Suárez as moderator of the conversation. Mon, October 22, 7:30 pm: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami) Tix: start at $46: (ArshtCenter.org) THEATER - PIRATES OF PENZANCE Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical farce is both an adventure and a love story, filled with bumbling constables, swashbuckling pirates and beautiful maidens. Thurs., October 18, through Sun, November 11; The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum (7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton); Tix: $75-$85; TheWick.org HEE HAW - BRETT ELDREDGE The country singer/songwriter is touring in support of last year’s self-titled release, featuring the single “The Long Way.” A favorite at South Florida’s Tortuga Music Festival, he is joined by Devin Dawson Fri, October 19; 7:30 pm; Mizner Park Amphitheater (590 Plaza Real Boca Raton) Tix: $25- $127; myboca.us/826/ Mizner-Park-Amphitheater. TOUR - WORLD OF DANCE NBC’s summer dance competition series presents its second annual touring show featuring local and national multi-genre dancers. The 90‐minute dance showcase includes stars from the television show as well as YouTube dance icons. Fri, October 19; 8pm; Coral Springs Center (2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs); Tix: $40-$135; thecentercs.com. SINGER - J QUILES The Puerto Rican reggaeton singer is also an accomplished songwriter, having penned hits for J Balvin, Lil Jon, Maluma and Yandel. Sat, October 20: 8pm; The Fillmore (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach); Tix: $48-$108; fillmoremb.com. Hotspots.LGBT | 25

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COMEDIAN - LEWIS BLACK The Grammy-winning stand-up comedian, actor and author broke through in 1996 with his appearances on “The Daily Show.” He followed that with comedy specials on HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime and Epix. In 2001, he won Best Male Stand-Up at the American Comedy Awards Sun, October 21; 7pm; Coral Springs Center for the Arts (2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs); Tix: $53-$74; thecentercs.com. BRAZILIAN FESTIVAL – IN POMPANO BEACH After seven years of unmatched success, the Largest Brazilian Festival in the SE Coast of the US is back on. This festival is a showdown of multiculturalism with iconic international stars, 200 exhibitors, food vendors, arts & crafts, kids zone, performances, and local bands. Sat & Sun, October 20 and 21; 11am; Pompano Beach Community Park (850 NE 18 Ave Pompano Beach); Tix: start at $5 with VIP available; brazilianfestpompano.org. MOVIES - HALLOWEEN Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This iconic Horror/Thriller sequel stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and James Jude Courtney Opens Friday, October 19; Rated R; 106 min. THEATER - FREAKY FRIDAY Broward Center and Slow Burn Theatre Co present this funny show based on the novel by Mary Rodgers and the Disney films. Hailed by The Washington Post as “a polished, peppy, modern fairy tale,” this classic story of a mother and daughter who magically swap bodies for 24 chaotic hours has been given a contemporary spin by “a driving pop and rock score” by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Oct 18 - Nov 4; Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 Southwest 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale); Tix: start at $47: BrowardCenter.org

HISPANIC CULTURAL FESTIVAL – IN CORAL GABLES This annual festival celebrates with local and international artists, musicians, businesses and designers to promote their work and showcase the diverse and unique flavors that the Hispanic community and all cultures from around the world bring to the South Florida region. Delight your taste buds with tastes of cultures at the Festival park. Fair food and cultural delicacies to satisfy your cravings. Sat and Sun, October 20 & 21; Between Biltmore Way & LeJeune Road, Coral Gables; Free; Gableshispanicfestival.com.

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Witch at a loud party and navigate a sea of drunk people, or sit on your couch, horde Reese's Cups for your own use, and watch NBC's A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway. The more comfortable option seems clear – we'll be enjoying network television, complete with commercials, and hanging with Elphaba and Glinda, sister witches whose pre-Dorothy drama is the story of the smash hit Broadway musical. Hosted by original cast members Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, this new concert special will feature songs from Wicked performed by them, as well as by the show's current Broadway cast, Ariana Grande,

Sandra Bernhard will regularly strike a Pose Nurse Judy is back from her break and she's still not having any of your nonsense. Oh, wait, sorry, have you caught up on the first season of Pose yet? Not yet? Then drop what you're doing and watch, because not only is it historymaking, featuring the largest transgender series regular cast, as well as the largest LGBTQ cast ever for a scripted series, and not only is it coming back for a second season, but season one guest star Sandra Bernhard – as the tough nurse whose lonely job is caring for a hospital wing's worth of young gay men with AIDS – is coming back as a series regular. The amplification of this storyline 32 | Hotspots.LGBT

on the show was inevitable, of course, as the series is set in the late 1980s when HIV/AIDS had already devastated a generation of queer people. And the casting is nearly perfect, since Bernhard has been a fixture – now legendary in her own right – of LGBTQ culture since that time. But as long as we're being given the gift of Miss Bernhard, we'd also love to see Nurse Judy moonlighting as a cabaret singer in her off hours. Listen, honey, you don't get if you don't ask.

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Pentatonix, and others still to be announced. Now, if this were an old school TV special, those “others” would wind up being some sort of professional sports figure who can't sing, a comedian who can't sing, and a puppet. Aren't you glad you live in 2018 where it'll most likely be a synergistic appearance by Kelly Clarkson or a cast member from This is Us? You are. Romeo San Vicente is always happy when Hollywood Actors come out!

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Screen Queen Fall 2018

By Chris Azzopardi

Won't You Be My Neighbor? For over 30 years, national treasure Fred Rogers welcomed kids who felt diﬀerent to his “neighborhood.” Maybe you were there, enchanted by the trolley and talking puppets. Maybe you, like me, felt like you didn't it in with the other kids, and maybe, again like me, Mr. Rogers made you feel more at home in this big, scary world – for 30 minutes every day during his longtime PBS children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, anyway. Uncertain, divisive times like ours call for another soulsoothing balm, and documentarian Morgan Neville, who rightfully won an Oscar for 20 Feet From Stardom, delivers just that with his Rogers-centered doc Won't You Be My Neighbor?. Perhaps most surprising to those

watching his show as a child: Rogers was a quiet gay and civil rights activist,

demonstrated by the casting of gay, black actor François Clemmons, who portrayed Of icer

Clemmons. In the doc, Clemmons extols Rogers' no-barriers-for-love inclusiveness and compassion for everyone, recalling his special bond with Rogers, whom he considered a father igure. Beyond interviews with Neighborhood cast members and Rogers' kin, as well as archival conversations with Rogers himself, vintage footage dating back to the show's 1968 premiere is featured, including an early episode with Rogers as his alter-ego cat puppet, Daniel Striped Tiger, expressing through song feelings of inferiority. It'll wring your eyes dry, but save some tears for the rest of this moving trip down memory lane, a tightly constructed tribute to Rogers' philosophies on love and kindness for a world still trying to grasp both.

live in many of the same rom-com conventions as any Sandra Bullock or Jennifer Garner lovefest. And on that same massive level, in wide release on the big screen, where gay teen Simon miserably navigates out-gay life at high school as he searches for “Blue,” an unidenti ied, closeted schoolmate he's con ided in through an emotionally invested email exchange. The proceedings are richly gay and heartwarming and nostalgic: a Whitney Houston musical number, a shamelessly '80s-by-way-of-John Hughes sensibility and an af irming tearjerker of a mom speech from Garner herself. I cried lots, and its cathartic sweetness – being the great love story it promised to be – charmed me and the Simon I once was. A deleted scene featuring actorslash-dreamboat Colton Haynes is among the Blu-ray's special features, which also includes more deleted scenes, a Berlanti commentary and a book-to-screen featurette. Also Out

Love, Simon You can think Love, Simon isn't enough because it isn't. Not yet, anyway. Gay culture has long reveled in queer art- ilms with niche-queer narratives, where societal pressures befell closeted cowboys in Brokeback Mountain, and where homosexuality and blackness intersected in Moonlight. Comparatively, Love, Simon is one serviceable but slighter-in-scope pop bop. But if you saw it in a theater with crying teens and their crying moms, like I did, then you know the movie's banality alone – inally, gay people get their John Hughes ilm – is groundbreaking. Directed by Greg Berlanti from a script based on 2016's young-adult bestseller Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agend_, I didn't expect Love, Simon to deliver high-brow gay cinema – not if its irst order of business was to let queerness

A Raisin in the Sun Even after Lorraine Hansberry adapted her 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun – the irst play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway – for the silver screen, the 1961 ilm, directed by Daniel Petrie, preserved the theatrica l simplicity of the source material. The story's familial and racial tensions also remained fraught with complications: A money-strapped black family, the Youngers, living in close quarters in the Chicago slums

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in the 1950s contend with how to best spend a $10,000 life-insurance check – their chance at

a fresh start. That fresh start looks diﬀerent for single mother and grandmother Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil), her daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands), her son Walter (Sidney Poitier), plus his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) and their son Travis (Stephen Perry). Tremendous performances – particularly Poitier and McNeil as the family's willful rock, which she inhabits with true grit and grace – are the touchstones of Hansberry's moving portrait of a black family hoping to rise above the economic and cultural forces against them, and the irsthand destruction it causes when they can't. But joy – ind it, the ilm suggests, even if the world won't let you have it. Criterion Collection's Bluray restoration of the classic gleans an array of well-rounded supplemental material, including interview features with Hansberry and Petrie.

Blockers Here's what the Blockers trailer tells you: three teenagers are on a mission to get laid on prom night and their parents are freaking out. What it doesn't tell you is that one of those, Sam (Gideon Adlon), is a closeted lesbian. Cue

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the supportive dad, Miles (Ike Barinholtz), who suspects his daughter will be the only boy-averse girl of that girlfriend group, while the other parents, Lisa (Leslie Mann) and Mitchell (John Cena), have a parental meltdown and embark on a mad chase to cock-block their kids. Desperate to shut down their impending sexcapades after decoding a series of suggestive emojis, which is funny because watching parents try to igure out modern-day technology will forever be funny, Lisa, Miles and Mitchell go to raunchy extremes to save their children's virginity. I laughed plenty at the ridiculous gags (one involving Gina Gershon playing naked Marco Polo with her husband), but what threw me was the ilm's sweet, emotional through line, set in motion in the beginning when

Mann, perfect in scenes where heart and humor collide, desperately tries to pretend to be OK with her college-bound daughter leaving the nest. Something else to celebrate besides Mann: sex comedies with high schoolers where one just so happens to be a lesbian. Yes and thank you, Hollywood.

As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyonce. Reach him via his website at http://www.chris-azzopardi.com and on Twitter (@chrisazzopardi).

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Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County are proud to present An Evening with Sally Field. The legendary awardwinning actress will discuss her forthcoming book In Pieces at the Center's John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall on October 22, at 7:30 pm. Miami-based author and journalist Ana VeneciaSuarez will moderate the conversation. In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, Sally Field tells her story for the irst time – and in her own gorgeous words – about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her ind her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than ive decades, beginning with her irst TV role at the age of seventeen. From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Field has stunned audiences time and time again with her artistic range and emotional acuity. Yet there is one character who always remained hidden: the shy and anxious little girl within. With raw honesty and the fresh, pitch-perfect prose of a natural-born writer, and with all the humility and authenticity her fans have come to

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expect, Field brings readers behind-the-scenes for not only the highs and lows of her starstudded early career in Hollywood, but deep into the truth of her lifelong relationships-including her complicated love for her own mother. Powerful and unforgettable, In Pieces is an inspiring and important account of life as a woman in the second half of the twentieth century. “I knew I had a story to tell. It's incredibly personal for me, things I never thought I'd say out loud. But, I needed to put all the pieces in front of me so I could see what picture they made. Maybe others will recognize some of the pieces in themselves,” says Field. Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winning actor who has portrayed dozens of iconic roles on both the large and small screens. In 2012, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2015 she was honored by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts. She has served on the Board of Directors of Vital Voices since 2002 and also served on the Board of The Sundance Institute from 1994 to 2010. Tickets to An Evening with Sally Field are $46* and include an autographed copy of her memoir In Pieces. All tickets may be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center Box Of ice by c a l l i n g ( 3 0 5 ) 9 4 9 - 6 7 2 2 , o r o n l i n e a t arshtcenter.org

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Elizabeth Birch

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HRC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BORN: SEPT 2, 1956) Elizabeth Birch is a prominent LGBT activist. From 1995 to 2004, she served as executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest LGBT organization in the United States. Under her leadership, the HRC's budget quadrupled and its membership increased more than tenfold. Born at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, Birch was the daughter of a Canadian Air Force officer. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and earned her J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law. Birch began her law career as an associate attorney at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. She joined Apple Inc. in 1989 as the worldwide director of litigation. Birch's activism began when she joined the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, an LGBT political action group in California. She went on to serve as chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1992 to 1994, before accepting the position as the HRC's executive director in 1995. With Birch at the helm, the HRC dramatically expanded in size and visibility. During her nineyear tenure, she helped increase membership from 100,000 to more than 1.1 million and helped grow the budget from $6.5 million to almost $30 million. She built a 100-person staff and launched key initiatives such as the HRC website, a magazine and youth outreach programs. Birch spearheaded the effort to establish the first major LGBT headquarters in

“It's all about coming out.” Washington, D.C. The HRC opened the doors to its own building in 2003. Birch has represented the HRC on television programs such as “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “Crossfire” and “The Today Show.” In 2000 she became the first leader of an LGBT organization to address a U.S. political convention, when she delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention. After Birch left the HRC in 2004, she launched her own consulting firm. The same year, she became the first recipient of the Elizabeth Birch Equality Award. Presented annually by the HRC, the award honors an individual or organization that has made a significant national contribution to the LGBT community. Birch and her former partner, Hilary Rosen, are the parents of adopted twins (a son and a daughter).

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JONATHAN T. CAPEHART

PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALIST BORN: JULY 2, 1967

Jonathan T. Capehart is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and a member of The Washington Post editorial board. Capehart was born in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Saint Benedict's Preparatory School and graduated with a degree in political science from Carleton College in 1989. Before joining The Washington Post, Capehart was a researcher for NBC's “The Today Show.” He went on to the New York Daily News (NYDN), where he served on the editorial board from 1993 until 2000. There, Capehart was a key contributor to a 16-month series that helped save the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The project earned the NYDN editorial board the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Best Editorial Writing. Capehart left the NYDN for Bloomberg News and served as policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg's successful campaign for New York City mayor. Capehart returned to the NYDN in 2002 as editorial page deputy editor. He left in 2004 to join the global public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton as senior vice president and counselor of public affairs. In 2007 Capehart became the youngest member ever to join the editorial board of The Washington Post. His opinions focus on the intersection of social and cultural issues and politics. He hosts his own podcast, “Cape Up,” and is a contributor to MSNBC, regularly serving as a substitute anchor on programs such as “The Cycle” and “Way Too Early.” He has appeared on ABC News' “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Reporters Roundtable, and in 2018 he became a guest host of New York Public Radio's “Midday on WNYC.”

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Capehart often speaks publicly about issues of equality and social justice. He has moderated panel discussions on these topics for the Center for American Progress, the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Ideas Festival and The Atlantic's Washington Ideas forum. Among other recognition, Capehart was named a 2011 Esteem Honoree—a distinction bestowed on individuals who have made a positive impact on both the African-American and LGBT communities. In 2017 Capehart married his longtime partner, Nick Schmit, the assistant chief of protocol at the U.S. State Department. The New York Times covered the ceremony at which former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder officiated. The couple lives in Washington, D.C.

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t has been a strange week. For starters, Donald Trump announced that, after an on-again, off-again rollercoaster relationship, he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are officially an item now. "I was really being tough and so was he," Trump told a rally of supporters in West Virginia. "And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters.” Isn't it romantic? Or, at least, it would be if Trump knew how to read. Boy, are Republicans going to be mad when they learn that Trump is gay! I'm kidding, of course. Well, kind of. It's striking that Republicans would probably freak out if Trump came out as gay, but they have no problem with him embracing authoritarian dictators who murder and starve their people. #SquadGoals In other words, in Republicanica being gay is bad, but being a murderous dictator shows that you're a macho man who gets things done! This is an important distinction given the news that the Trump administration has begun “denying visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees, and requiring those already in the United States to get married by the end of the year or leave the country,” according to foreignpolicy.com. Now, on the surface this might not seem like a big deal. I mean, opposite-sex couples can't get visas for their partners if they're not married, and marriage equality is the law of the land in the U.S., so this change just makes everything equal right?

OF THE WEEK BY D'ANNE WITKOWSKI

Wrong. We're talking about the most antiLGBTQ administration since Stonewall here, so let's not kid ourselves. Former U.S. Ambassador to UN Samantha Power Tweeted on Sept. 28, “Needlessly cruel & bigoted: State Dept. will no longer let same-sex domestic partners of UN employees get visas unless they are married. But only 12% of UN member states allow same-sex marriage.” Only 12 percent. That's, um, really low. If a doctor told you that your chances of survival were 12 percent, you'd better have all of your affairs in order. But these same-sex couples can just get married in the U.S. where it's legal, right? No big deal, just take the “I do” plunge! Except it's not that easy. Not only do most United Nations countries not allow same-sex couples to marry, but, according to Fortune, “in more than 70, same-sex relationships are punishable by law.” According to Akshaya Kumar, the Deputy United Nations Director at Human Rights Watch, in these 70+ countries, “homosexual conduct remains illegal and in many, anyone found 'guilty' can be sentenced to harsh punishments including years in prison or even public caning.” Morocco, which has thrown gay men in prison, and Malaysia, where a lesbian couple were recently subjected to a public caning, are just two examples. "The U.S. government should recognize, as it had for almost nine years until today, that requiring a marriage as proof of bona fide partnership is a bad and cruel policy, one

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Not only do most United Nations countries not allow same-sex couples to marry, but, according to Fortune, “in more than 70, same-sex relationships are punishable by law.” that replicates the terrible discrimination many LGBT people face in their own countries,” writes Kumar, “and should be immediately reversed.” This policy, writes Kumar, “may make it impossible for some LGBT UN staff to live together with their partners in the United States.” Not that the Trump administration cares about keeping families together. “Bad and cruel” policies are the administration's specialty. After all, the U.S. is still keeping immigrant children away from their parents, warehoused in tent cities. Something that should be a five-alarm outrage receiving wall-to-wall coverage, but has to compete with the nonstop barrage of scandals coming from this administration. Not to mention the gross inequities in our criminal justice system that tears and keeps families, a vast proportion of which are racial minorities, apart. Which makes it easy to overlook something

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like discrimination against LGBTQ United Nations staff disguised as a benevolent push toward equality. Getting married for some of these couples is not a safe option. A legal, public marriage might put them in real danger. The kind of danger that same-sex couples in the U.S., though certainly facing backlash under the Trump regime, don't have to worry about. This is the kind of move you'd expect to see in a place like Vladimir Putin's Russia. Then again, Trump has declared his love for him, too. It's an alarming pattern. Vote on Nov. 6 like lives depend on it. Because they do.

D'Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer, and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. You can follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

Opera Fusion to perform Menotti's “The Medium” in Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach Join Opera Fusion for two performances of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, a haunting tale of Madame Flora, a fake fortune teller who becomes unhinged when she meets up with the supernatural. The eerie plot includes sham séances in which Madam Flora's guests think they're communicating with deceased loved ones, as well as a phantom, a medium meltdown, a dark lullaby, a puppet theater, a confession and a shooting. The opera, sung in English, has two 30minute acts. For added fun, the company invites guests to come in their favorite costume or mask. At a post-show reception of wine and nibbles, Madame Flora will foretell and proclaim a costume contest winner; the prize will be two tickets to a future Opera Fusion show. Birgit Djupedal Fioravante, soprano and 72 | Hotspots.LGBT

executive director of the South Florida Company Opera Fusion, will star as Madame Flora. Singing the role of her daughter, Monica, will be Kyaunnee Richardson, a soprano and veteran of many Opera Fusion performances. The other artists are: Toby: Brayan Quevedo (a silent role); Mrs. Gobineau: Sandra Marante, soprano; Mr. Gobineau: Matthew Bischoff, tenor; and Mrs. Nolan: Shanna Nolan Gundry, mezzo-soprano. Music director for The Medium is Gordon Roberts, and the stage and set/lighting designer is Ardean Landhuis. Fioravante made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York singing Fricka in scenes from Wagner's Ring Cycle before moving to Florida to raise her two daughters. She has continued to perform in opera, concerts and recitals, appearing on radio and television. She has been a guest soloist with symphony orchestras and opera companies including Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Menotti (1911-2007) wrote both the words and music for The Medium. His many other works include Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street and Help, Help, the Globolinks!

Opera Fusion was born in 2014 to fill a void in the arts community in South Florida — to provide high-quality opera at an affordable price, featuring local artists. It aims to build new audiences by introducing new generations to the beauty and expressiveness of the human voice and the operatic art form in all its many facets.. Performances of The Medium will be at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 S.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 500 Spencer Drive, West Palm Beach. Tickets, at $30 for either show, are available at OperaFusion.org and at the door.

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29 Temple text 30 Just watched 32 She plays Lena's wife on The Fosters 33 Aerosmith's "Love ___ Elevator" 36 Diana's accessory 37 Shower rod? 42 Sized up 43 Parting words, old style 45 Cuts Leaves of Grass? 46 Self-contradictory bra size? 47 Time of Camelot 48 Big e-tailing season, for short 49 Cole Porter's "You'd Be So ___ to Love" 50 Skye of Say Anything 51 Skin designs, briefly 52 Pianist at Rick's Cafe American 55 The "L" of L.A.

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It's a No-Brainer: Dumbbells Are Your Smartest Choice!

‘ve never understood why they call them “dumbbells”. These little bars that come with plates secured to the ends of them in various sizes and weights are the most practical and efficient way to work out any muscle group in the body. Whether you're in a crowded gym, or at home on the couch, you can do a simple, quick set of curls, extensions or raises anytime. You can keep your sophisticated health club machines, I'll stick with the basics. Here's why dumbbells are your wisest choice in workout equipment. Dumbbells force you to use better form. Working with expensive specialized equipment doesn't necessarily guarantee you a successful workout, especially if your form sucks. With a dumbbell in each hand, you can better feel the impact of the weights on individual muscles. You can also get a better perception of whether you are executing each

rep of each set properly. Dumbbells are great for basic exercises as well as isolation movements where you want to target a specific muscle. Sure, if you're an Olympic power lifter requiring hundreds of pounds to lift, dumbbells may not suit you, but I'd say 90% of all fitness enthusiasts can do everything they need with dumbbells.

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rest to keep that heart pumping. Anyone who does circuit training where you combine cardio with weights will tell you how invaluable dumbbells are to their program!

Dumbbells are more practical and cost efficient. If you're working out at home all you need is an adjustable bench and a few sets of dumbbells. Cost: $100 or less if you find a decent used set. You can store them under a bed or in a closet easily and whip them out at any time for quick access. In a crowded commercial gym, all you need is to grab your dumbbells and find a small space or corner to do your thing.

Using dumbbells can give you a great cardiovascular workout. Yes, if you use lighter weights and do faster reps, you can easily get your heart rate up into the target zone. Once you get it there, go from set to set with little

With dumbbells you are capable of anything because they are really versatile! If it's shoulders you're working, try dumbbell military presses and front and side raises. You can perform many different types of curls and extensions for biceps and triceps. Any chest or back workout should include flat and incline dumbbell bench presses and one arm dumbbell rows as well as shrugs. There are also myriads of different kinds of squats and lunges you can perform with dumbbells for butt and legs.

Tom Bonanti is a certified fitness trainer and licensed massage therapist with his own gym and studio, Pump'n Inc. (pumpnincgym.com), in Ft. Lauderdale. You can contact Tom at trainertomb@aol.com with questions or to schedule a free consultation. 78 | Hotspots.LGBT

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City Of Fort Lauderdale Approves Pride Parade, On A1A Along The Beach On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission approved Pride Fort Lauderdale’s proposal to hold a Pride parade on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. The parade is part of an expanded schedule of events during the organization’s 2019 festival, Feb. 21 - 24, and will be the irst in history to be held on State Road A1A, according to city of icials. “We’re grateful to Mayor Dean Trantalis, our city commissioners and administrators, and most importantly, the local businesses and neighborhood association for their support of Pride Fort Lauderdale,” said Pride Fort Lauderdale president Miik Martorell. “The parade will truly be historic, the irst ever to be held on A1A along the beach.” The theme for the festival will be “Carnaval” and the parade will be presented in the lively style of Carnaval season celebrations from the Caribbean and Latin America. The parade is planned for 5:30 p.m., allowing units to incorporate lights on their loats and vehicles during the cooler twilight hours of the day. “It’s going to be a magical evening,” said Martorell, “as the sun sets on our beautiful beach and lights begin to shine along A1A. I’ve been to 50 Pride festivals around the world and we have one of the most stunning locations for a parade.” All entries will be encouraged to incorporate the Carnaval theme and Pride Fort Lauderdale will be hosting free workshops to assist entrants with loat decorating, costumes and choreography. Organizers are also working with businesses and hotels along the route to begin the festivities

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