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SAVE CEO Looking Ahead to Organization’s Future in 2018

Tony Lima reflects on nonprofit’s 2017 accomplishments, sets lofty goal to advance LGBTQ agenda Jose Cassola

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Francis Suarez and Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber; reaching thousands of South Florida voters through SAVE’s Prejudice Reduction Initiative; and adding hundreds of local small businesses to SAVE’s Business Equality Network, an initiative that educates and recruits businesses to stand up for nondiscrimination policies in the workplace.

SAVE’s goal is to raise $25,000 by year’s end to help “continue to fuel SAVE’s efforts as we work hard to defend LGBTQ rights across South Florida.” The organization’s budget for 2018 to carry out this mission is more than $800,000.

On the agenda are: to endorse more than 75 local and statewide political candidates who pledge to protect LGBT rights and who will represent the community’s interest as representatives; provide training to new activists and volunteers; offer programming, MEMBER

seminars and more to educate and empower the community on transgender issues; expand the Business Equality Network and create new educational opportunities for participating businesses to promote equality and anti-discriminatory practices; and widen the new “Safe Place” initiative to extend to the City of Miami Police Department and Miami Mayor Suarez.

“Safe Place” originally launched as a pilot program in Miami Beach alongside the Miami Beach Police Department and the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

“Despite our best efforts, the road to equality remains a long and treacherous one. Our future depends on you. Will you help me keep the fight alive in 2018?” Lima said. “Please consider making a contribution today.”

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AVE CEO Tony Lima said his nonprofit “made a great deal of progress in 2017,” but the organization is looking to accomplish so much more in 2018.

Lima sent a message to subscribers of his newsletter, reflecting on the year’s biggest milestones and looking ahead to the organization’s future.

“Where did this year go? It seems as if it was just yesterday that the new administration settled into the White House, unleashing a wave of chaos and uncertainty across the nation,” Lima said. “Although a scary time for most, the team at SAVE viewed this as an opportunity to unite, organize and push back harder than ever before.”

As bad as 2017 was for victims of natural disasters and gun violence, it was a great year for SAVE, which helped do a number of things to advance LGBT rights in South Florida and nationwide. The organization’s list of accomplishments include: banning conversion therapy in six municipalities; supporting and helping elect nine proequality leaders such as City of Miami Mayor

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In adults with HIV on ART who have diarrhea not caused by an infection IMPORTANT PATIENT INFORMATION This is only a summary. See complete Prescribing Information at Mytesi.com or by calling 1-844-722-8256. This does not take the place of talking with your doctor about your medical condition or treatment.

What Is Mytesi?

Mytesi is a prescription medicine used to improve symptoms of noninfectious diarrhea (diarrhea not caused by a bacterial, viral, or parasitic infection) in adults living with HIV/AIDS on ART. Do Not Take Mytesi if you have diarrhea caused by an infection. Before you start Mytesi, your doctor and you should make sure your diarrhea is not caused by an infection (such as bacteria, virus, or parasite).

Possible Side Effects of Mytesi Include:

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Mytesi is a prescription medicine that helps relieve symptoms of diarrhea not caused by an infection (noninfectious) in adults living with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Important Safety Information Mytesi is not approved to treat infectious diarrhea (diarrhea caused by bacteria, a virus, or a parasite). Before starting you on Mytesi, your healthcare provider will first be sure that you do not have infectious diarrhea. Otherwise, there is a risk you would not receive the right medicine and your infection could get worse. In clinical studies, the most common side effects that occurred more often than with placebo were upper respiratory tract (sinus, nose, and throat) infection (5.7%), bronchitis (3.9%), cough (3.5%), flatulence (3.1%), and increased bilirubin (3.1%).

Should I Take Mytesi If I Am: Pregnant or Planning to Become Pregnant?

• Studies in animals show that Mytesi could harm an unborn baby or affect the ability to become pregnant • There are no studies in pregnant women taking Mytesi • This drug should only be used during pregnancy if clearly needed A Nursing Mother?

• It is not known whether Mytesi is passed through human breast milk • If you are nursing, you should tell your doctor before starting Mytesi • Your doctor will help you to decide whether to stop nursing or to stop taking Mytesi Under 18 or Over 65 Years of Age? • Mytesi has not been studied in children under 18 years of age • Mytesi studies did not include many people over the age of 65. So it is not clear if this age group will respond differently. Talk to your doctor to find out if Mytesi is right for you

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If you are taking any prescription or over-the-counter medicine, herbal supplements, or vitamins, tell your doctor before starting Mytesi.

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You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

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ill the next Disney princess have a Disney’s first Polynesian princess, who the damsel of her own? Disney directors directors describe as a “badass.” The pair say it’s possible. also directed “The Princess and the Frog,” In an interview with the Huffington Post, which made Tiana the first black princess in “Moana” Directors Ron Clements and John the Disney movieverse.

Musker bring hope to LGBT However, PinkNews points fans wishing for representation out that an LGBT princess may “I would by an official Disney princess. be a long ways away. say we “It seems like the possibilities “Industry insiders say the are pretty open at this point,” likelihood of prominent gay haven’t ever Clements said when asked characters appearing in Disney really [had] about future plans for an LGBT or Marvel films is remote for restrictions princess. financial reasons, rather than placed on what creative ones,” they wrote.

Musker added: “It would be driven by a director or a “As Disney blockbusters we’ve done.” directorial team that really and related merchandise - John Musker wanted to push that and if are marketed across the Co-director [Disney Animation’s Chief entire world, they must pass Creative Officer] John Lasseter compliance standards in liked the idea, but I would say we haven’t countries with homophobic laws that ban ever really [had] restrictions placed on what any depiction of homosexuality.” we’ve done.”

Live-action Disney film “Beauty and the He mentioned that the two directors have Beast” had a “gay moment” which prompted no control over what Disney does, but the markets around the world to threaten to ban pair is known for exploring “new territory.” the film, most notably Kuwait and Malaysia “Moana” was a new twist on the classic which followed through with their bans.

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App Allows Patients to Access PrEp Through Their Phones David-Elijah Nahmod

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lushCare, a new app that allows gay men to access the HIV prevention drug PrEP through their phone, promises to revolutionize HIV prevention and care. Currently the app is available in 31 states including Florida. There are plans to roll the app out into the remaining states in the near future.

James Wantuck, PlushCare’s chief medical officer, and Ryan McQuaid, the company’s CEO, spoke to SFGN about the services the company provides and why the app is needed.

“In San Francisco most doctors know about PrEP,” said Wantuck. “Outside of the city doctors may not know about the latest treatments—they could be biased against prescribing PrEP.” Wantuck noted that PrEP was approved by the American Medical Association in 2012. “It usually takes 18 years for an approved treatment to become standard practice,” he pointed out.

McQuaid explained how PlushCare works. “Just download the app and put in your insurance information,” he said.

“Then you book an appointment with the doctor of your choice.”

For the uninsured, the cost to use the app is $99.

The appointments are conducted via video chat as though they were a regular doctor visit. The doctor orders lab work and makes a determination whether

PrEP is right for the patient. Lab work is conducted by Quest and Labcorp, which are nationally renowned labs, and can be conducted at local hospitals.

“The doctor has to be licensed in the state where the patient lives,” McQuaid said. “We follow CDC recommendations on how often people on PrEP get lab testing and follow-up visits.”

So far PlushCare has over 50 doctors in their system—and not all the patients they see are PrEP patients. “We started doing urgent care treatment for colds, flu, and pink eye,” McQuaid said. “It’s only in the last six months that we’ve expanded to PrEP. 80% of urgent care can be done via telemedicine. We emphasize on having the highest quality providers.

We take what we do extremely seriously.

Our doctors are from the top fifty ranked medical institutions—we have a pretty rigorous interview process.”

“We are in market with most of the major insurance carriers,” added Wantuck. “We are working to get even more so everyone can have access to the service.”

McQuaid noted that while there was an overall decline in new HIV infections from 2008 to 2014, there was a 35 percent increase in infections among 25 to 34 year olds for the same period. “This shows the importance of informing people about PrEP,” he said.

To download and access the app, visit www.PlushCare.com.

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Prime Gentlemen Form In Fort Lauderdale Local group cuts ties with national organization John McDonald

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s social groups go the Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen got their act together.

The group broke away from Prime Timers Worldwide earlier this year and have not looked back.

“We needed a change and we wanted to go on our own,” said President of Board of Directors of Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen Henry Penas.

The Fort Lauderdale chapter of Prime Timers Worldwide had grown so large that membership voted to cut ties with national and chart a new course. Penas said Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen are 591 members strong and “completely self-sufficient.”

Dues are $30 annually and meetings are held on the first Sunday (2 p.m.) at Pride Center at Equality Park in Wilton Manors.

There mature men and their admirers gather to extend support, cultivate friendships, offer companionship, share a meal, laugh, cry and more.

“Everything we do is to get members out of the house and engaged,” Penas said.

Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen are a

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Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen meet the first Sunday of every month at Pride Center in Wilton Manors. Courtesy photo.

social club, 501(c)7 organization. Dues and donations are not tax deductible. Penas said the organization purchased an overhead projector and donated to the Pride Center and has made similar in-kind donations to programming at SunServe.

Penas, a retired educator from New York, recently spoke at a Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida concert on behalf of the upstart Prime Gentlemen.

“I love this organization,” Penas said. “Every one of our members will tell you it has improved their lives.”

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Bisexual Boxer from 1960s to Be Subject Of Feature Film

Photo: Dawn Adams, courtesy of the Dawn Adams campaign.

Despite winning a heavily conservative area, Dawn Adams is not facing any negative responses to her sexuality.

Adams, who was the first openly lesbian woman to be elected to Virginia’s General Assembly, has faced little attention after winning her spot, according to the Washington Post. Her victory comes as several LGBT people took elections across the US, showing a change in a way members of the community are perceived.

“People have understood it’s not an issue that’s going to play well if you try to demonize people just because of who they love,” executive director of Equality

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Virginia James Parrish said to the Post.

Adams will join three openly gay representatives when she takes office in three weeks. Her win joins Seattle’s first lesbian mayor, California’s first lesbian state chamber leader and Oklahoma’s first lesbian representative in the state’s house.

“It is encouraging to see candidates like myself being elected in the commonwealth of Virginia and beyond, not because of the color of their skin, their gender, their religion or their sexual orientation, but because of their substantive ideas for dealing with the issues,” Adams said in a statement.

Photo: Emile Griffith, courtesy of Youtube.

Director Lenny Abrahamson will be making a new movie about Emile Griffith, a bisexual boxer who once killed a homophobic opponent in a 1962 match.

The Griffith movie will be produced in 2018 and will come out either later that year or in 2019, according to the Hornet. Part of the movie will center around his match with Benny “The Kid” Paret, a cuban fighter who called Griffith a Spanish homophobic slur and died 10 days after their bout.

“There was a gentleness and innocence about him, and he never seemed conflicted about his sexuality; indeed he found joy in it,” Abrahamson said to Deadine.com. “He inhabited two worlds – the underground gay scene in New York in the ‘60s and the macho world of boxing.”

Griffith died on July 23, 2013 after suffering later in life from dementia brought about by his boxing career.

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Transgender Man’s Case Against Starbucks Reinstated A Minnesota man’s discrimination case was resurrected after another court threw out the charges earlier this year.

Paul Bray said that allegedly Starbucks employees in Eden Prairie and Edina had treated him differently due to his transition, according to PinkNews. Bray claims workers at both locations changed how they served him after he revealed he was transgender, including one employee allegedly saying he was “not a real man.”

Bray later sued the company in 2014. According to PinkNews, Bray claims that Starbucks is a public place and that the employees violated state laws with their treatment of him.

Bray had his case thrown out in Hennepin County District Court earlier in 2017 because the court claimed he did not have enough

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“There is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether Starbucks discriminated against Bray because he was transgender,” Larkin wrote in her ruling.

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LGBT Rights in Palm Beach County A year in review

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Take a look back at LGBT progress throughout Palm Beach County over the past year.

December 2017 Palm Beach County becomes the first county in Florida -- and the largest county in the United States -- to enact a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

October 2017 The City of Boca Raton enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

September 2017 Former PBCHRC Vice President Deidre Newton is appointed to the Palm Beach County Fair Housing Board.

August 2017 The City of Greenacres enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

June 2017 The City of Palm Beach Gardens passes a resolution opposing conversion therapy for minors.

The Village of Wellington enacts a ban on conversion therapy on minors.

May 2017 The City of Delray Beach enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

The City of Riviera Beach Beach enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

The Harvey Milk Foundation presents its Diversity Honors Award to PBCHRC Treasurer Dan Hall.

April 2017 The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners updates the definition of “sexual orientation” in county ordinances from “male or female homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality, by preference or practice” to “heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality or asexuality, whether actual or perceived.”

January 2017 The City of Lake Worth enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

The City of Boynton Beach enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

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What is TRUVADA for PrEP?

Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP?

TRUVADA for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a prescription medicine that is used together with safer sex practices to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex.

This use is only for HIV-negative adults who are at high risk of getting HIV-1. To help determine your risk of getting HIV-1, talk openly with your healthcare provider about your sexual health.

Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to prevent getting HIV. Always practice safer sex and use condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with body fluids. Never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fluids on them.

Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you: ® Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status. If you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other medicines with TRUVADA to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. ® Also take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B infection.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include: ® Kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment with TRUVADA. If you develop kidney problems, your healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA. ® Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious but rare medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, stomach pain with nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a fast or abnormal heartbeat. ® Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain. ® Bone problems, including bone pain, softening, or thinning, which may lead to fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your bones.

Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach-area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away.

What is the most important information I should know about TRUVADA for PrEP? Before taking TRUVADA for PrEP: ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP. You must get tested to make sure that you do not already have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confirmed to be HIV-negative. ® Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently become infected. If you have flu-like symptoms, you could have recently become infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider if you had a flu-like illness within the last month before starting or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin.

While taking TRUVADA for PrEP: ® You must continue to use safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP may not keep you from getting HIV-1. ® You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP: ® Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months. ® If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider right away. ® To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1: ® Know your HIV status and the HIV status of your partners. ® Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections make it easier for HIV to infect you. ® Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior, such as having fewer sex partners. ® Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase your risk of getting HIV-1 infection. ® If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time.

TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: ® Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you have HBV and stop taking TRUVADA, your HBV may suddenly get worse. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without first talking to your healthcare provider, as they will need to monitor your health.

What are the other possible side effects of TRUVADA for PrEP?

What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking TRUVADA for PrEP? ® All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis. ® If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking TRUVADA for PrEP, talk to your healthcare provider to decide if you should keep taking TRUVADA. ® If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed. If you become HIV-positive, HIV can be passed to the baby in breast milk. ® All the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact with other medicines. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. ® If you take certain other medicines with TRUVADA, your healthcare provider may need to check you more often or change your dose. These medicines include certain medicines to treat hepatitis C (HCV) infection.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page.

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I know who I am. And I make choices that fit my life.

TRUVADA for PrEP™ is a once-daily prescription medicine that can help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 when taken every day and used together with safer sex practices. ® TRUVADA for PrEP is only for adults who are at high risk of getting HIV through sex. ® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP.

Ask your doctor about your risk of getting HIV-1 infection and if TRUVADA for PrEP may be right for you.

Learn more at truvada.com

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IMPORTANT FACTS

This is only a brief summary of important information about taking TRUVADA for PrEPTM (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 infection. This does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your medicine.

(tru-VAH-dah) MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TRUVADA FOR PrEP Before starting TRUVADA for PrEP: • You must be HIV-1 negative. You must get tested to make sure that you do not already have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confirmed to be HIV-1 negative.

• Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has recently become infected. Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include flu-like symptoms, tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin. Tell your healthcare provider if you have had a flu-like illness within the last month before starting TRUVADA for PrEP. While taking TRUVADA for PrEP: • You must continue to use safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP may not keep you from getting HIV-1.

• You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you think you were exposed to HIV-1 or have a flu-like illness while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. • If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time.

• See the “How To Further Reduce Your Risk” section for more information.

TRUVADA may cause serious side effects, including: • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you have HBV, your HBV may suddenly get worse if you stop taking TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without first talking to your healthcare provider, as they will need to check your health regularly for several months.

ABOUT TRUVADA FOR PrEP TRUVADA for PrEP is a prescription medicine used together with safer sex practices to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex. This use is only for HIV-negative adults who are at high risk of getting HIV-1.

• To help determine your risk of getting HIV-1, talk openly with your healthcare provider about your sexual health.

Do NOT take TRUVADA for PrEP if you: • Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status.

• Take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B infection.

HOW TO TAKE TRUVADA FOR PrEP • Take 1 tablet once a day, every day, not just when you think you have been exposed to HIV-1.

• Do not miss any doses. Missing doses may increase your risk of getting HIV-1 infection.

• Use TRUVADA for PrEP together with condoms and safer sex practices.

• Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months. You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP.

POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF TRUVADA FOR PrEP TRUVADA can cause serious side effects, including: • Those in the “Most Important Information About TRUVADA for PrEP” section.

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• Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious but rare medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of breath or fast breathing, stomach pain with nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a fast or abnormal heartbeat.

• Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get these symptoms: skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain.

• Bone problems.

Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP include stomach-area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight.

These are not all the possible side effects of TRUVADA. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any new symptoms while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. Your healthcare provider will need to do tests to monitor your health before and during treatment with TRUVADA for PrEP.

BEFORE TAKING TRUVADA FOR PrEP Tell your healthcare provider if you: • Have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis.

• Have any other medical conditions.

• Are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.

• Are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed. If you become HIV-positive, HIV can pass to the baby in breast milk.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take: • Keep a list that includes all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements, and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist.

• Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist about medicines that should not be taken with TRUVADA for PrEP.

HOW TO FURTHER REDUCE YOUR RISK • Know your HIV status and the HIV status of your partners.

• Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections make it easier for HIV to infect you.

• Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior, such as having fewer sex partners.

• Do not share needles or personal items that can have blood or body fluids on them.

GET MORE INFORMATION • This is only a brief summary of important information about TRUVADA for PrEP. Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist to learn more, including how to prevent HIV infection.

• Go to start.truvada.com or call 1-800-GILEAD-5 • If you need help paying for your medicine, visit start.truvada.com for program information.

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Educators Split on Transgender Student Bathroom Use Brittany Ferrendi

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he survey that revealed nearly half of district leaders support teachers coming out also showed a divide on transgender restroom use among students.

Led by Educator Political Perceptions, the survey asked 902 K-12 teachers, school employees and district leaders which restrooms transgender students should use.

The survey revealed 51 percent believed transgender students should be “allowed to use the school restrooms and locker rooms of the gender with which they currently identify.”

Associate Head of School at Oakwood Friends School Anna Bertucci believed the bathroom debate isn’t that important compared to the other struggles of trans students.

“We worry about the bathroom because we’re so worried about genitalia,” she said.

Though she believes students should be able to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity, “we should be looking at

depression and suicide rates of transgender students.”

On the other side, 49 percent believed they should be “required to use school restrooms and locker rooms of the gender they were born into.”

Jason Tackett, teacher at Herald Whitaker Middle School, sided with the 49 percent.

“Because I’m a conservative, to me it’s common sense,” he said. “If you have a boy body part, you should use the boy bathroom.”

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Azucar Nightclub Launches New Thursday Talent Show, Event “Azucar’s Got Talent” open to anyone who can sing, dance, play an instrument, perform drag Jose Cassola

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ot on the heels of its Drag Wars season talent? Do you sing? Do you dance? Well, finals, Azucar Nightclub launched a this is your chance to make some money, get new weekly competition last week on all of your friends to come out and support Thursday night called “Azucar’s you. The winner is chosen by Got Talent,” a talent show on audience applause.”

Angel Hernandez on the scale of “America’s Got “This contest Facebook wrote: “Wonderful Talent,” only with drag queens is not only concept and way to show and more. inclusion of everyone. You go, The contest is open to all for drag acts, not just drag queens, such queens but TP!” Lords encourages anyone as musicians, singers, dancers, for anyone with a talent to share and post etc. Audience applause will the event on their social media dictate the winner every week. who has and promote themselves as a Contestants will compete for a talent... men, contestant to help their chances $100 cash prize.

Legendary drag queen TP women, drag of winning.

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Lords, who will serve as emcee, queens.”

I’ll be waiting,” Lords said. said for the new Thursday Efrain Robinson Reyes will contest, she and Azucar owners - TP Lords be promoting “Azucar’s Got and management staff wanted Drag queen Talent” every week. Entrance is to include everyone. $5 for everyone all night long.

“This contest is not only for drag queens but for anyone who has talent... Message him on Facebook for a chance to get men, women, drag queens,” Lords wrote on on the guest list for free entrance.

“Save your $5 by hitting me up,” Reyes Facebook, soliciting contestants. “Do you play an instrument? Do you have a special said.

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ith the goal of helping organizations wrote David Jobin, Our Fund president dedicated to the LGBT community and CEO. The Campbell Foundation gave a $5,000 and anyone with HIV/AIDS, Our Fund and the Campbell Foundation “holiday hug” to ten organizations, totaling handed out $145,000 in grants in $50,000, working on issues involving HIV/ December.

AIDS: AH Monroe, AIDS Service Association Under its Fall 2017 Grants, Our Fund of Pinellas, Broward House, Children’s divided $95,000 among 13 organizations Diagnostic & Treatment Center, FoundCare, working on LGBT causes and programs: Latinos Salud, McGregor Clinic, Poverello seniors, youth, HIV/AIDS, culture, and Center, SunServe, and Tuesday’s Angels. transgender issues. The organizations are With budget cuts, natural disasters, the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeast and increased demand for services from Florida, Aqua Foundation, Broward individuals living with HIV/AIDS, the Education Foundation, Compass, The Campbell Foundation said it was very Extended Remix, Hearth Health & Healing important to help these organizations serve Ministries, Maven Leadership Collective, those they try and help.

Miami Children’s Museum, OUT Miami, “When people think about those with Pioneer Winter Collective, The HIV/AIDS, they often think SMART Ride, and SunServe. about their health-related The Campbell Our Fund declined to name concerns. However, many Foundation how much money each group patients and their families received. gave a $5,000 require assistance in other “In our seventh year, areas such as housing, food, “holiday Our Fund’s impact on the counseling and education,” hug” to ten community continues to grow wrote Ken Rapkin, Campbell as we activate and direct LGBT organizations, Foundation executive director. totaling philanthropy toward a variety “The funding that we provide of causes. A wide variety of to these organizations through $50,000, organizations from across our end-of-the-year ‘holiday working Miami-Dade, Broward, and to hug’ program goes toward on issues Palm Beach County represent helping them fulfill their involving an expanding impact that Our mission of providing such HIV/AIDS. Fund has in our community,” critical services.”

in memoriam John Emmet, Stork’s Employee, Remembered for

Always Having a Smile On His Face Michael d’Oliveira

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here were a few times when Peter Dekaj would want to “beat” John Emmet. But the feeling never lasted long.

Now, Dekaj wishes he could feel that way again.

Emmet, a native of New York, died on Dec. 23. Dekaj said the cause was heart failure.

“He was here one minute, and the next he was gone. He was very friendly. He knew how to talk to people . . . always had a smile on his face. He made this a better place,” said Dekaj, owner of Stork’s. Emmet worked as Stork’s general manager and was called the “driving force behind” its catering department and had an extensive background in restaurants in New York City before coming to South Florida in 2011.

But, to Dekaj, Emmet was more than an employee.

“He was part of my family. My kids call him ‘Uncle John.’”

To many, he was also more than a friend, and they were quick to share their grief on social media upon learning of his passing.

“I have been speechless and lost for words! Knowing I can’t ever see or speak with you John! I’m super sad, I want to hold you and not let go, but your physical self is gone but your spiritual self will always remain in my heart! When I gave you this bracelet engraved [Spiritual buddies and soul mates forever] I truly meant that, I will never ever let you go! You will always remain in my heart and in my memories . . . as I’m writing this I can’t believe you’re gone! If I could I’d give you a big kick up the ass! All the times you were there for me! Thank you buddy! Love you friend,” wrote Zoren Ray Mckiernan.

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Hundreds more comments on Facebook were made by people who said they were shocked and stunned at Emmet’s passing, and would miss his sweet, kind, and friendly attitude. Greg Giancola added “happy, loving, and kind” person, one who “shared his love for physical fitness” and was a hard worker who made Stork’s his “pride and joy.”

Giancola told SFGN that those comments on social media were exactly reflective of the friend he knew for 10 years. “He was phenomenal. He had such a huge heart. He was just a very good friend, very supportive. He was always there for me . . . there for anyone. He will be very missed.”

A viewing hosted by Emmet’s family will be held Wednesday, Jan. 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The McLoughlin & Mason Funeral Home, 8 109th St., Troy, New York.

Dekaj said Emmet’s friends and coworkers are organizing a memorial for sometime in mid-January, but no date has been set yet.

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Publisher's Editorial

Convictions

Anderson Cooper is the

SFGN Person of the Year Norm Kent

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“Excellence,” wrote Aristotle, “is not an act. It is a habit.”

This year, SFGN names as its Person of the year an individual whose career and credentials have been marked and modeled by accumulating a resume of accomplishments.

We choose Anderson Cooper. His life and legacy are a testimony to LGBT success in a straight world.

Bucking the tide and standing up to the status quo, a willingness to shatter taboos and break new ground is always a consideration for candidates who are nominees for persons of the year. But our choice must do more than recognize singular deeds. We want to celebrate the person as well.

When our paper selected Peter Thiel last year, it was not because we particularly liked hims politics. It was because we discovered in his history not just a singular worldview, but an honorable entrepreneurial career of supporting noble and sometimes unpopular causes.

In a year marked by political indecency at the national level, complacency at the local level, it occurred to me that the individual celebrated as our ‘Person of the Year’ need not necessarily have won a marathon, been elected to office, nor have garnered Oscars.

A fundamental principle of my life that I have so often advocated is to pay homage to the value of hard work and commitment.

These are values and standards I discovered years ago reading the works of ancient Greek and Roman scholars. They bear truth still today.

“If Athens shall appear great to you,” wrote Pericles, “consider that her glories were won daily simply by good men doing their duty.”

Then there was my buddy Archimedes, always bold and confident of his future, who authored the line, “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.”

So, it is in a year where national figures from Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer to Donald Trump have been shamed by wrongfully concealed acts of sexual harassment, that I

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think our nominee ought simply to be a gay man or woman whose career has been marked by class, not crass; credibility and consistency, not indignities or embarrassment.

The LGBT community today has many known national figures. Their sexuality is not hidden, but their worth is known by their work and good deeds. These fine people are recognized for being outstanding jurists, distinguished broadcasters, recognized professionals, and prominent athletes. Their status is a reminder to everyone that we are a part of our community, not apart from it.

So let me ask you this. Who quietly jumps out at you as a symbol of LGBT stature more than Anderson Cooper?

Here is a man who was a war correspondent years ago now with the versatility to host CNN New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Who represents perseverance and versatility more than Anderson Cooper? He can host an interview of a worldwide leader in a studio one night, and then go out a day later during a 165-mph hurricane to interview a family that just lost their home.

Who more than Anderson Cooper shows that a gay man, with a simple microphone and compassionate voice, can distinguish himself with his clothes on, as a spokesperson of responsible journalism, exposing a world full of discrimination and inequality?

You know, I don’t need to do an interview with Cooper to make this choice, but I will put it on our agenda for this year.

What I do need to do is say here is a man, who when he came out of the closet, did not need to hold a party. All he needed to say, and did, back in 2012, when he wrote that now famous letter to Andrew Sullivan on the Daily Beast was that; “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”

Anderson Cooper did not hit any special home runs in 2017. But once again he did his

job every day, and he did it well, enhancing not just his stature but also that of the gay community. He proves we can all meet challenges, overcome obstacles, and be who we are, along with what we want to be, simply by being ourselves.

For Cooper, he seems as comfortable making jokes with Andy Cohen as he does washing rescued elephants in Myanmar. He is just a good and gracious man who we welcome into our homes daily. I can’t wait to hear what he says from Qatar at the Olympics. Boy, are they in for a surprise.

In a year where the American community had too few role models, Cooper remained one. It should be special to us, because he is our role model, a 50-year-old gay man who showcases his talents on 60 Minutes and CNN; who won an award for exposing famine in Somalia in 1993 and hosted a presidential debate in 2016.

Cooper’s career narrative has won the test of time. He has authored books, narrated documentaries, hosted syndicated radio shows, and won awards for his work in the fields, like the specials on the earthquake in Haiti back in 2009.

The CNN Heroes Award every year is just another vehicle where he illuminates the good lives and deeds of others, using his talents

to showcase daring accomplishment over adversity.

Just a few years ago, GLAAD recognized him with their Vito Russo Award. Today, he gets a classy statue from SFGN, with us not knowing if he has ever picked up our paper. But we like to think we are doing what he does – our job well.

Thus, as we close the door on 2017, a year that will live in disgrace for men and masculinity, we celebrate the life and career of a distinguished gay journalist who fulfilled the admonition of Rudyard Kipling- he has given the unforgiving minute sixty seconds worth of distance run.

We start 2018 by recognizing Cooper’s achievements and accomplishments over time, helping make him one of the most prominent and distinguished gay men in the world.

Anderson Cooper is our 2017 Person of the Year, an honor he richly deserves for a career well performed, a character worth emulating, and a community well-served: our own.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of our nation. Anderson Cooper, a gay man, has added to ours, because excellence is more than an individual act you win by a singular deed. It is a habit, and you win it by being tested over time.

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Seeing In The Dark

Workplace Diversity Gap Affects LGBT and Disability Communities Belo Cipriani

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hile the meaning of diversity has morphed as much as the world around us in recent years, and some may even believe it has become a corporate buzzword, the truth of the matter is many employers are failing the LGBT community and people with disabilities by not properly defining diversity in their initiatives.

According to a 2017 report by Out and inclusive are 72 percent more likely to Equal Workplace Advocates, a nonprofit attract allies as employees and increase that tracks employment statistics for the productivity.”

LGBT community, 1 in 4 LGBT employees “SAP is an active member,” Castro report experiencing employment continued, “in recruitment and discrimination in the last 5 years. Likewise, technology fairs targeting the LGBT and transgender people face double the rate of ally community across the globe, with unemployment as the overall population, examples like Lesbians Who Tech in San and nearly 1 in 10 LGBT employees have Francisco, and Sticks & Stones and #UNIT left a job because the environment was in Berlin.” unwelcoming.

In addition to having LGBT-focused The Bureau of Labor initiatives, SAP also has a Statistics (BLS) states in division that actively recruits “it is proven 2015, only 17.5 percent of and supports people with that companies disabilities. SAP’s “Differently people with a disability were employed — a steep contrast Abled area” is lead by Stefanie that are LGBTto the 65 percent of ableNennstiel, and the unit runs inclusive are bodied individuals who were programs such as the world 72 percent employed that year. renowned Autism at Work, more likely to And just last week, which helps people with attract allies Consolidated Edison autism enter the workforce, as employees Company of New York, Inc. as well as SAP Software (Con Ed), the utility company Accessibility, which ensures and increase that provides New York City the highest levels of access productivity.” and Westchester County with guidelines are enforced across electrical and gas services, products.

- Miguel Castro Global Lead for was fined $800,000 by the Although some Culture and EEOC for not hiring applicants organizations are thriving Identity at SAP with disabilities. as a result of their diversity While some industries and strategies, there are far more places struggle more with diversity, such that are simply worsening when it comes as high tech and television writers’ rooms, to integrating inclusivity into their day-tothere are some organizations that are day operations. definitely hitting the diversity mark at the Tammie Stevens, Daily Living Skills workplace.

Trainer and Vocational Assessor for the Miguel Castro, Global Lead for Culture Center of Vision Enhancement (COVE) in and Identity at SAP, shares LGBT people Merced, CA, a training facility for blind have a lot to offer to employers. or visually impaired people, believes “In today’s world,” he said, “we know a companies that struggle with diversity commitment to inclusion is much more are organizations that have an antiquated than a cultural ‘nice to have.’ In fact, it is perspective on diversity. proven that companies that are LGBT“Businesses focus so much on race,” she

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said, “that they leave everyone else out of the conversation. They don’t engage the communities they want to hire from and, instead, make assumptions on what will work.”

“For people with disabilities,” she continued, “this means that companies draw to conclusions on what we can or cannot do.

They don’t realize that having a disability means being creative and resourceful on a daily basis, because we constantly have to adapt ourselves to our environments.”

As the definition of diversity continues to change, organizations that routinely reposition their inclusivity goals will find themselves at the heart of innovation.

Belo Cipriani is a disability advocate, a freelance journalist, the award-winning author of Blind: A Memoir and Midday Dreams, and the spokesperson for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Learn more at www.belocipriani.com.

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Humanity is Not Binary as Catholic Bishops Would Have You Believe

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Reader responds to “Catholic Bishops Encourage Parents to Reject Their Transgender Children”

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read the article about Catholic Bishops sending out letters telling parents to disregard Transgender children. That is disgraceful for any religious belief let alone for the Catholic Church.

Although I follow the Catholic belief I have turned away from some of the Catholic Doctrines. One thing no Church has talked about is the fact that there are many different genders all of which fall under the umbrella of transgender. All the churches talk about Binary Genders “Male and Female.”

What about Intersex people for instance. We are swept under the rugs and hidden from society like we don’t exist. It is time the Church, all Churches wake up to the fact that the Human is not Binary. Humans like all Gods Creatures fall within a wide spectrum between male and female. I for instance was born XY male but am female. Stop looking at the Genitalia between the

legs. That doesn’t prove we are male or female.

Many of us have both tsetse and ovaries and some of us have both a Penis and a Vagina. It is how the hormone triggers are sent during the many staged of development. Some hormones are sent and received properly and children are born as anatomical Male or Female but many hormones are not sent or received properly according to the “Binary Rule” this is natural not something to sweep under the rug or something that can be changed by Corrective surgery or Social Gender control.

Stop trying to make the world Binary. Inform the world we are all loved by Jesus and Our Lord and so should be loved by all.

Reader responds to “George Carlin Can Now Add Fetus to His Dirty Words List”

Joni Sarah Duflo

Trump is the Most Dangerous Man in America

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our column “The Most Dangerous Man in America is Donald Trump” about how Trump is paving the way for his autocratic success in becoming the despot American never envisioned was on point. It’s scary. But Trump holds even greater risks for people overseas, representing the United States.

I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa in the 1970s under Jimmy Carter. I was a diplomat at the State Department under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.

Not to be overly dramatic, but I fear that the current administration is making it impossible for people to want to serve the United States. Imagine you’re a Peace Corps volunteer, somewhere in some small village in the world, and suddenly Trump tweets something about that nation’s lack of support for some U.S. initiative. Your life is now at risk, as locals perhaps decide “We don’t like Americans at this moment.”

Imagine you’re a diplomat serving somewhere in the world, and you are making demarches to the local government about some vote coming up at the U.N. Then Trump tweets something contrary to that position, and you’re left holding the bag.

I have never feared for the future of our country as I fear now, that the damage Trump is doing (by hollowing out the State Department, for example)

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will endure for a century to come.

The only thing that gives me some solace is that journalists--like you--are keeping up the fight to shine a light on what the current administration is inflicting on the country. I encourage you to keep at it, and perhaps the president’s conflicts of interest will eventually force him from the scene.

Sincerely Michael Varga Wilton Manors

We Need More George Carlins!

Dear Editor, I had a friend in the 1980s who often channeled George Carlin! Dale was the master of taking a blithe slang term such as “whatever” to the outer limits of impact by exclaiming instead, “What the Shit Fuck Ever!” To cut to the chase Dale would say, “Fuck the Dumb Shit!!” Mae West exclaimed, “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often!” The GLBT community grasped this concept at Stonewall! The people being dragged out of the bar in handcuffs were kicking and screaming, “DO Something!” The crowd without hesitation began pelting “New York’s Finest” with bottles, pennies and whatever else they could find and shouting phrases like “Gay power!” and singing “We Shall Overcome.”

Like Hitler, Donald Trump uses his guttural style to encourage his otherwise unwitting power base to marginalize, demonize, and discriminate against every minority in our country and around the world to respond with acts of violence!

The only way you can overcome a bully is by getting in their face and not backing down! We once again, as we have often done in the past, need to pick up our Rainbow Nation’s flag and march gaily forward to combat our common enemies.

There are two kinds of people in our world.

My kind of people and assholes!

Have I got your attention now!

Respectfully submitted, David Ferebee Wilton Manors

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Keep Up the Good Work SFGN To the Readers of SFGN, Norm Kent and Jesse Monteagudo have done an awesome job at covering Donald Trump! Both articles, “The Most Dangerous Man in the World is Donald Trump” and “The First Trump Year” by Kent and Monteagudo respectively, are two pages that perfectly state how I feel and think about Mr. Trump. I would characterize my negative feelings of Mr. Trump as visceral. I think it is the first time I have felt anything about a politician.

Both articles nicely state the reality of a world where the President of the United States is not a patriot.

Mr. Kent’s quoting of George W. Bush pointedly shows how a Republican former president realizes Mr. Trump’s behavior as antithetical to that of all our previous presidents. Maybe we did not agree with all our previous presidents, but I never remember going to bed thinking the president might inadvertently blow us all up!

Now, take a stand. I, too, was sickened daily for the first one year plus of tweets etc. coming from Mr. Trump. They were hard to ignore. But now, after reading SFGN I am feeling more like Clint Eastwood with Trump. “Go ahead, make my day!” Our country is great because, as Ronald Reagan liked to point out (from the Preamble to the Constitution) our

country is “We the people…”. However imperfect, this is a country of laws we ALL are obliged to follow. It is a country of respect for all people, while imperfect, where we grow toward ideals. We as the GLBTQ community know this better than many! It is a country of immigrants, seeking refuge or just a better way of life.

Next, take action! When election time rolls around I encourage everyone to vote! Obviously, elections do make a difference.

Elections in the U.S. are not fraudulent exercises as Mr. Trump would have us believe. Act now by helping your neighbor, and in discourse in our common places continue to be civil even when in protest, now even more so, and show who We the People truly are! The roots of this democracy run deep, and counterintuitively roots are strengthened by attempts to tear pull them from the ground. The antics of Trump, and any other who impishly challenge the fiber of our country will soon learn what We the People have to say, and it will always be so! I can sleep nicely with this thought!

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The Dolphins’ event attracted over 60 community members, 15 of which joined or renewed their membership. In addition, 30 toys were donated for the Dolphins’ holiday toy drive.

The Dolphins’ main purpose at the meeting was to allow Club members to make endorsements for next month’s mayoral and city commission elections in Fort Lauderdale.

Dolphins members voted by acclamation to endorse City Commissioner Dean Trantalis, a former Club president, for the position of Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. Things were not so simple in the race for City Commissioner, District 2, which is being contested by three gay or gay-friendly candidates: George Castrataro, Steve Glassman and Chad Maxey.

Dolphins members voted twice but no candidate received the 2/3 vote he needed to receive the Club’s endorsement. In addition, Commission candidate Tim Smith addressed the group but did not make the deadline needed to be considered for endorsement.

At the Dolphins’ December meeting,

public officials and community activists had an opportunity to address the Club.

Michael Rajner reported on the move to have the Broward County Commission ban conversion therapy. The group also heard from Broward Sheriff Scott Israel and three representatives from the City of Wilton Manors: Mayor Gary Resnick, Commissioner Tom Green and Police Chief Paul O’Connell.

But the Dolphins’ evening was not all work and no play. Once the meeting was over, members and friends proceeded to party, enjoying good food, drink and fellowship.

Two days after the Dolphins’ meeting/ party, the Club held its second Membership Mixer at Rumors Bar on Wilton Drive.

Organized by Membership Chair Alfredo Olvera, the Mixers are a successful way to reach out to Community members who do not wish to attend Club meetings at the Pride Center. As a result of the Mixer, the Dolphin Democrats gained 7 new members and collected over a dozen toys for the toy drive.

The Dolphin Democrats meet at the Pride Center on the second Wednesday of each month. The evening starts with a brief social period at 7 p.m., with free pizza and sodas, followed by a business meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Local activists and political figures often address the meetings.

Jesse Monteagudo is a freelance writer and journalist. He has been an active member of South Florida's LGBT community for more than four decades and has served in various community organizations.

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Robert Sorrell, Jeweler Of The Imperial Court Tony Adams

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here do they all come from? No, I am not talking about the queens who grace the stage at the annual New York City charity extravaganza “Night Of A Thousand Gowns.”

I am talking about the dazzling tiaras, crowns, necklaces and brooches gracing these royals. It is said that a real lady looks in the mirror before going out, and removes one article of jewelry. The opposite holds true for the Imperial Court of New York, and when an insufficiently bejeweled queen needs more bling, whom does she call?

They all call Robert Sorrell, the imaginative jewelry designer and fabricator who is largely responsible for the blinding brilliance of the Imperial Court and of rival courts across North America and beyond.

Sorrell has drenched a thousand gowns with a million rhinestones and has had a career extending far beyond the glamour of the Imperial Court.

We were introduced by chanteuse Robin Kradles, who was Empress XIX of the Imperial Court, and is still a renowned queen. Sorrell told me his story during a visit to his boutique at The Showplace, 40 W25th Street in New York City.

His artistry may scream, but Sorrell himself is a soft-spoken and thoughtful man with a dry sense of humor, and much wisdom acquired from long stints in window-dressing, restaurant service, Broadway, ballet and runway.

His creations have adorned everyone from RuPaul to Madeleine Albright! Born and raised in New York City into a family of modest means, Sorrell understood the equation between hard work and success.

He says he never felt deprived as a child, but going to a classmate’s penthouse home gave him his first glimpse of the Manhattan world of wealth.

“That apartment had a huge rooftop terrace, two sofas in the living room and in her mother’s bedroom, a skyline of perfume bottles on the dressing table, and boxes from Saks Fifth Avenue heaped upon

the bed. My mother bought one new dress each year, and it wasn’t from Saks,” he said.

“My parents paid $75 monthly rent. When I got my first place on the Lower East Side, I paid the same. I got my first job at a crummy department store through a friend who worked there. It was a Christmas seasonal job selling nativity sets. I couldn’t sell one of those things, so they moved me into the production shop where I learned to use power tools for making window displays.

Next, I had a job at an art framing shop where I learned that you can’t measure after you smoke a joint.”

The first key to Sorrell’s success is to believe him when he says that he never interviewed for a job. Friends with ventures would call him up, asking him to wait tables at their new Sunday brunch venue, to run a Fire Island restaurant, to manage a fledgling shop (that grew into the empire known as Pottery Barn) or, to deliver jewelry in New York’s “diamond district” where it wasn’t long before his boss gave him castoff beads to string.

Sorrell eventually taught himself how to assemble jewelry using solder and metal components. The second key to Sorrell’s success is had when he says that in every job he ever held, he’d rise to the top because he understood the value of showing up and solving problems. He also admits to losing a few jobs because he would make decisions that countered his boss’s wishes if he knew that his way was better.

“That’s what they were paying me for, right?” Never mind, he has always managed to land on his feet.

Sorrell remembers retrieving cryptic messages on his landline many years ago.

A strangely accented voice said, “You are the one I want to do my jewelry….runway…

Paris…my next line…call me…Thierry.”

Sorrell kept deleting the messages and said

“... whenever someone asks you if you can do something, always say yes. Even if you’ve never done it before. Say yes, and then figure it out.”

- Robert Sorrell

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he eventually asked a friend, “I keep getting these weird messages from someone named Thierry Mugler. Have you ever heard of him? My friend almost screamed and said, ‘Oh darling, don’t you know? He is just the most fabulous designer in the world and he has the biggest dick in Europe!’ Well. I called him back. A few days later, he gets out of a limo in front of my building and I’ve got Thierry Mugler sitting on the bed, leafing through photos of my work, and telling me the concept for the Paris show debuting his next collection. He really was hot and I kept shoving to the back of my mind what my friend had said about him, thinking I need to focus on his words.”

Ever the professional, Sorrell was able to focus on those words, with Mugler describing his need for a jeweled headpiece for supermodel Linda Evangelista made to look like Marilyn Monroe’s classic coiffure.

He wanted to know if Sorrell could make that.

“One thing I’ve learned is that whenever someone asks you if you can do something, always say yes,” he said. “Even if you’ve never done it before. Say yes, and then figure it out.”

Before long, Sorrell found himself in Paris with the requested headpiece and enough spare jewels, components and a soldering iron to handle any mishap. This wise bit of precaution served him well because those entrusted with the other jewelry pieces had botched their assignments, but Sorrell was

able to reconfigure what they had provided, cementing his trustworthy reputation. He has worked with Mugler on several shows, including a Cirque de Soleil show for which he provided three complete sets of jeweled jock straps.

“All the fittings were done over the phone and via mail. They’d say, ‘Make it bigger here, tighter there. Difficult process,” he said.

When a friend wanted to do drag at an Imperial Court event, he asked Sorrell to create the necessary bling. Within a year, Sorrell himself was presented at court and was on the board of the Imperial Court. He says, “Empress Jose Saria gave me the title ‘Official Court Jeweler.’ At his funeral, many queens wore my tiaras over their black veils.

For ten years, I was the minister of protocol for the Court. I wrote the rules. Don’t show up drunk. No lewd behavior. Also, I put an end to all those lengthy speeches that made the events go till 5 a.m. I told them, “Even Wagner can’t hold an audience that long.”

Robert Sorrell is a man of quiet mirth and quick wit who has managed to chart a course for himself, sidestepping a treacherous world of egos, reputations and unhealthy temptations. He’s a New York City boy who has seen it all, and has lived to tell. He continues to create beauty and sparkle in the city he loves.

Online: www.sorrelloriginals.com

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Welcome to Fairyland New book of Miami’s early queer history Graham Brunk

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ulio Capó Jr’s new book “Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940” takes on the very difficult task of chronicling Miami’s queer history prior to 1940. Until now, little has been written about Miami’s gay history except perhaps a few sporadic pieces in LGBT publications from the past that have been published here.

In fact much of that history is pretty recent. It’s easy to write about very contemporary LGBT history since topics like AIDS, gay marriage, and gays in the military for example remain topical. It’s much harder to write about LGBT history early in Miami’s history since homosexuality is not a topic that was commonly discussed in recorded history.

While academic in presentation, the newly published book reads very easily to anyone interested in local gay history, a goal Capó tells me he set out to accomplish when he first conceived the idea for the book.

Today we know Miami as the “magic city,” but the term “fairyland” as described by Capó was a colloquial term used to describe the Miami area in its earliest days. Likely derived from the known queer urban archetype used to describe individuals as being “gender introverts,” Capó says early on he knew the term likely meant different things to different people and wrote each chapter to reflect a “different dimension of the term, describing how each group of people navigated fairyland in radically different ways.”

Capó’s extensive research begins describing Miami’s “queer frontier.” Less than 10,000 people lived in Miami in its first few decades and the city mostly consisted of working class men who spent the better part of their free time in some of Miami’s rough saloons that dominated the northern part of the city; drinking and gambling.

Despite a majority amount of people settling in Miami from the north, Capo shows us that Miami was indeed

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the colonial intersection between the Caribbean and the U.S. even then, and it was those immigrants (legal or not) that helped define the queer landscape in the area.

Some of these early settlers all roomed together with other men and sexual encounters among them were not all that uncommon.

In great detail, Capó showcases some rare water-color works of early Miami settler John Singer Sargent. An alleged lover of Vizcaya estate owner James Deering and now remembered for his water color paintings, Sargent painted several explicit images around Vizcaya during

Photo: Don Ramey Logan.

its contraction of nude men resting on sand bars along Biscayne Bay. Capó goes on to note the surprising detail Sargent gave to the physic of the men, their muscle tones, and other features. In further discussion of Vizcaya there is great detail into the homosexuality of James Deering and his various relationships.

Additional research Capó shares in the book details written accounts of young gay men who arrived in Miami in the 1930s offering great insight to the world of prohibition and how it impacted the gay community.

One example even describes one young man’s various sexual encounters with men as he shared them with a psychiatrist.

Perhaps one of the most astonishing mentions in the book is the in depth discussion of the sexuality of early Miami settler, feminist, and environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. She was a strong opponent of having a dominating male partner, unlike most women at the time, and her writings indicate she was sympathetic of many alleged gay men of the time.

The book finishes off with Capó describing the gay scene after prohibition when it began to take shape to the way we know it today including the beginning of drag shows in Miami and the strong activism South Florida has come to be known for in regards to homosexuality.

For any history buff, Capó’s book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in our state’s history that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit.

Capó is a native Floridian and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He will be a visiting professor in early 2018 at Florida Atlantic University, where he will teach about LGBT history. He will also give several lectures about the topic open to the public at both Florida Atlantic and Florida International Universities.

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This is your last chance to see Young Jean Lee’s critically-acclaimed statement on privilege, “Straight White Men.” Featuring local favorites Jim Gibbons, Tom Anello, Noah Levine and Clay Cartland, this comedy will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about—you got it—straight white men!

As the nation confronts widespread misogyny and racial tensions, Lee offers an enlightening perspective. Tickets at VanguardArts.org.

In the world of classical concert organists, Cameron Carpenter is a rock star. The flamboyant artist will perform an eclectic program including works by Bach, Messiaen, Bernstein and an original organ symphony of his own improvisations tonight at 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.

Arrive early for a conversation with Carpenter about the organ and his art at 6:45 p.m. Tickets start at $25 at Kravis.org.

“Welcome to the ‘60s!” The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Rd. in Jupiter, presents the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical “Hairspray” tonight through Jan. 28. Slick back your hair or spray up that big bouffant, because this tuneful commentary on segregation in Baltimore will have you tapping your toes and maybe dancing in the aisles. Based on the classic John Waters film. Tickets start at $58 at JupiterTheatre.org.

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A&E theater Internet sensation Randy Rainbow will make his first South Florida appearance on the Outlandish comedy series. Photo courtesy of Randy Rainbow, Facebook.

Outlandish Comedy Series Returns to Sunshine Cathedral J.W. Arnold

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att Farber is bringing his hit Outlandish comedy series back to the Sunshine Cathedral this winter with six returning and new performers.

Farber, a founder of Logo TV, promises lots of laughs from a line-up that is “provocative, slightly left of center with a gayish appeal” and including “men, women, men dressed as women, lots of jokes and music, too…Last year’s series was so successful, we knew we had to make it bigger and better this year.”

The series opens on Saturday, Jan. 20 with actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman in “What Ever Happened to Jackie’s Emmy?”

Hoffman is best known for her criticallyacclaimed performance last year as Mamacita, Joan Crawford’s loyal maid, in FX’s mini-series “Feud: Bette and Joan.”

“Most people don’t know that she is an iconic cabaret and Broadway performer,” Farber said. “This is her moment now and her first time playing her show in South Florida.”

Rounding out the series lineup are: Internet comedy sensation Randy Rainbow, a South Florida native, returns home for two shows on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26 – 27 with “Randy Rainbow Live!,” a multimedia showcase including his hilarious musical YouTube videos lampooning politics and politicians.

Miss Coco Peru, returning after a sold-out performance last year, will debut a brand-new act, “The Taming of the Tension” on Saturday, Feb. 17.

When Peru, the alter-ego of Clinton Lineup, is feeling tense, she likes to invites friends over for tea and “a good, old fashioned bullshitting session.” In this new show, she invites the

audience to her place for some of her favorite stories, songs and more, all with the goal of melting those tensions away.

Filmmaker and author John Waters, creator of cult films “Hairspray,” “Polyester,” “Pink Flamingos” and “Serial Mom,” will take the Sunshine Cathedral stage on Saturday, Feb. 24 with his one-man show, “This Filthy World 2018,” a vaudeville act that celebrates the film career and obsessive tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.”

Promotional materials describe the show as a “joyously devious and continuously updated monologue (that) is a rally cry against the tyranny of good taste and serves as a call to arms for filth followers everywhere.”

Be sure to have your checkbook handy on Saturday, March 3 because the genderbending Tupperware saleswoman Dixie Longate will probably try to sell you some handy plastic household aids. She’ll also help audiences make sense of the world in “Dixie Longate Has No Instructions.”

Longate pointed out, “Life was easier when things came with instructions. When you woke up from behind the dumpster after a healthy night of drinking, you knew what to do because things were laid out for you. Now, as the world gets smaller and life gets bigger, there seems to be no guidebook for how to get through.”

Miss Richfield 1981, a perennial favorite, wraps up the season on Saturday, March 17 with her new show “Born Again.” The former beauty queen has found religion finally and is determined to bring the world together with a program of new songs, videos and audience activities. And, atheists are invited, too.

Outlandish comedy series performances will be presented at the Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 SW 9th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Tickets for individual performances start at $40 each.

Discounted series passes are also available at OutlandishFL.com.

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A&E theater Tim Acito’s “Zanna Don’t” was a breakout hit at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Photo Credit: MGA Academy of Performing Arts.

Island City Stage Tackles First Musical, Feel Good ‘Zanna Don’t’ J.W. Arnold

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udiences at Island City Stage are accustomed to seeing thoughtprovoking LGBTQ-themed comedies and dramas. On Jan. 11, the Wilton Manorsbased theater company will present its first musical, Tim Acito’s “Zanna Don’t.”

The show is set in a parallel universe somewhere in middle America where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is taboo. When the new quarterback of the football team and the captain of the girls’ intramural mechanical bull-riding team discover feelings for each other, the school matchmaker, Zanna, must spring into action.

Acito got the idea for the show while listening to a country song on the radio nearly two decades ago.

“I thought it would be great to hear a song sung by one man for another without any condescension,” recalled Acito in a phone interview from his New York City apartment.

“That idea sort of stuck. Beyond the bubble gum-flavored songs with an LGBTQ context, it’s important not only to address the big injustices we face, but also the small ones.”

If “Zanna Don’t” sounds like a play off the title of the ‘80s disco movie (and later Broadway hit) “Xanadu,” it may be, although Acito no longer remembers the exact source of the “fuzzy etymology.”

“I wanted to fill the show with as many direct or indirect pop culture references as I could. ‘Xanadu,’ itself, when you get past all of the camp and the questionable choices the (filmmakers) made, they were ultimately trying to create this artistic sanctuary, where you could be anything you dreamt,” explained Acito. “It may be an ironic appropriation of terms, but ‘Zanna Don’t’

was also my own little attempt to create a teeny tiny version of a place where LGBTQ people would not have to explain who they were.”

Since its premiere, “Zanna Don’t” has been produced by regional theaters across the country and international festivals, including the famed Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Acito reworked his script in recent years to address contemporary political developments, but Island City Stage artistic director Andy Rogow will be mounting the original version for its inaugural musical.

“Zanna Don’t” was the perfect fit, according to Rogow.

“It is a lot of fun, a feel-good show and, when the cast sings together, it sounds terrific,” he said. “We tend to tackle a lot of serious material, so it will be different. I’ve always loved the score.”

That doesn’t mean the show won’t be challenging. Rogow noted the show requires several changing sets, the cast is relatively large and then there is the issue of performing music. Due to a lack of space, Rogow tapped Carbonell-winner Manny Schvartzman to create and record accompaniment tracks and veteran musical director Michael Ursua is directing the musical performances.

Rogow pointed out that actors at the intimate Dixie Hwy. theater are also not used to performing with microphones, an added complication for the company’s design team.

“We won’t even know until tech week how that works out,” Rogow said of the busy final week of rehearsals when lighting and sound effects are added and refined.

“It’s a peppy, cheerful show, it’s perfect,” he promised.

Island City Stage presents Tim Acito’s musical “Zanna Don’t,” Jan. 11 – Feb. 11 at the Abyss Theatre, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton Manors. Tickets are $42 at IslandCityStage.org.

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Solomon’s Cannoli, Latkes, and Guilt: The Therapy Continues

Jan. 6 and 7 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188 St. in Aventura. In a one-man act, Steve Solomon will have you rolling in the aisles as he tells the story of his parents moving from Brooklyn to a retirement home in South Florida.

Tickets $45 to $49. Call 877-311-7469 or visit AventuraCenter.org.

One Night in Memphis

Jan. 9 at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. It was Dec. 4, 1956, the first and only night when musical greats Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash taped a jam session. Tickets $29. Call 561-8327469 or visit Kravis.org.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Jan. 9 to 21 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale.

Monty Navarro is ninth in line to a family fortune, so he works his way up the ladder by ridding the family of the heirs above him. Tickets $30 and up. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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Jan. 5 to 7 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. On its 20th anniversary tour, the troupe celebrates Irish culture through traditional Irish dancing, music and song. Tickets $30 and up. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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* Chris MacDonald’s Memories of Elvis

Jan. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at The Center, 2855 Coral Springs Drive in Coral Springs. In honor of The King’s 83rd birthday, MacDonald performs a tribute to Elvis Presley, from his early career to the flash ‘70s Las Vegas concerts. Tickets $28 and up. Call 954-3445990 or visit TheCenterCS.com.

* CSNsongs

Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, 3800 NE 11th Place in Lauderhill. A Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young tribute band, the group will perform the band’s favorite hits. Tickets $22 and up. Call 954-777-2055 or visit LPACFL.com.

Friday Night Sound Waves Music Series

Fridays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hub, Las Olas Boulevard and A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy live, outdoor music spanning genres and tributes every Friday evening through November. Free. Visit FridayNightSoundWaves.com

palm beach county * Finding Neverland

Through Jan. 7 at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach.

A struggling playwright is stumped on writing his next piece, when he meets a widow and her children and is inspired by their make-believe games, leading to the creation of “Finding Neverland.” Tickets $28 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

* “Raise the Roof” Benefit Concert

Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 390 Sequoia Drive South in West Palm Beach. Singers and instrumentalists perform musical theater, opera, and tunes from The Great American Songbook in a concert benefiting the church rebuild.

Tickets $30 for open seating, $50 reserved seating with hors d’oeuvres, wine, and artist meet-and-greet reception. Call 561-686-8128 or visit MIWPB.com.

Free Friday Concerts

Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Enjoy live music from the comfort of your picnic blanket or lawn chair every week, for free! Returns in October. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org.

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Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. at Just the Funny Theater, 3119 Coral Way in Miami.

A collection of comedy mixing the likes of improvisation and sketches. Tickets $12. Call 305-693-8669 or visit JustTheFunny.com.

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Third Thursdays at the Perez Art Museum Miami, 101 W. Flagler St. in Miami. Come out for live music from DJs and musicians by the bay. Drink specials available. Free with museum admission. Call 305-375-3000 or visit PAMM.org.

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Top Picks Art Explosion Kick Off Reception

Jan. 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bona Italian Restaurant Art Gallery, 2468 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. The two-week art affair begins with a showing of work by celebrity photographer, Bob Deutsch.

Visit ArtsUnitedFlorida.com.

January 3 January 9 Broward Support Services PFLAG

Tuesdays in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Southwest Ranches. A support group for parents of LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and locations.

SunServe Youth Group

An Evening With Ta-Nehisi Coates

Tuesdays and Thursdays in Fort Lauderdale, Southwest Ranches, Coral Springs and Hollywood. A support group and night of fun for LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and times.

Sober Sisters

First and third Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Broward Health Imperial Point Hospital cafeteria, 6401 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.

Find support from counselors and peers who have lost loved ones to suicide. Call the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention at 954-384-0344 or visit FISPOnline.org.

Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus’ Chapman Conference Center. WLRN reporter Nadege Green moderates a talk with Coates on his latest work, “We Were Eight Years in Power.” Tickets $30. Visit booksandbooks.com.

Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Lambda North, 18 S. J St. in Lake Worth. A support and discussion group for female recovering alcoholics. Visit LambdaNorth.net.

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Jan. 4 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Tee Jay Thai Sushi, 2254 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. The Gay & Lesbian Lawyers Network is hosting a social luncheon open to the public. Cost $30 for members, $35 nonmembers. Visit GLLN.net.

* Holiday Hangover

Jan. 4 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Historic Stranahan House Museum, 335 SE Sixth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Ring in the New Year with food and drinks from local restaurants, live music, and more. Tickets $50. Visit tinyurl. com/Hangover18.

* Rummage Sale & Flea Market

Jan. 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Check out an assortment of used goods available for purchase at the center’s warehouse. Call 954-463-9005, ext. 306 or visit PrideCenterFlorida.org.

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* Imperial Sun Empire of All Florida Monthly Meeting

Jan. 6 at 1 p.m. at the the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A new charitable nonprofit serving the LGBTQ community, the group will be discussing fundraising, membership, and an upcoming imperial adornment. Free. Email Czarina Barbie LaChoy at lachoy37@yahoo.com.

* Art Explosion - Tedd’s Art Works Gallery Reception

Jan. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Tedd’s ART Works, 2422 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A part of Art Explosion, a display of work by ArtsUnited members. Visit ArtsUnitedFlorida.com.

A Community Responds: Our Response to HIV/AIDS

Through Jan. 7, 2018 at the Stonewall National Museum - Wilton Manors Gallery,

January 3 - january 9 2157 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. An exploration of the response to HIV/AIDS over time. Free to attend, suggested donation $5. Call 954-763-8565 or visit StonewallMuseum.org.

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Positive Connection

Mondays at 7 p.m. at Lambda North, 18 S. J St. in Lake Worth. A support and discussion group for LGBT recovering addicts. Visit LambdaNorth.net.

Meets at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. Join the Gay Men’s Chorus as they practice every week. Free.

Call 561-533-9699 or visit CompassGLCC. com for rehearsal details.

Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. Men who are HIV positive are invited to come together for support, education, and advocacy.

Closed group. Call 561-324-1626 or visit CompassGLCC.com.

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Bisexual Support Group

Meets at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. A closed transgender youth support group for teens ages 12 to 19. For more information, email youth@ compassglcc.com.

Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth.

Share your thoughts with other members of the bisexual community, discuss issues, and address concerns in a safe environment.

Email marissa@compassglcc.com or visit CompassGLCC.com.

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Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at MCC of the Palm Beaches, 4857 Northlake Blvd. in Palm Beach Gardens. AA for the LGBT community. Free. Call 561-775-5900 or visit MCCPalmBeach.org.

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Visit ArshtCenter.org/en/Visit/Dining.

POZCONNECT Support Group for Spanish Speakers

Mondays 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Pridelines, 6360 NE Fourth Court in Miami. A support group for HIV+ people, in Spanish. Free.

Call Eddie at 305-571-9601, ext. 105 or visit Pridelines.org.

Yoga

Tuesdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Jose Marti Park, 362 SW Fourth Ave. in Miami. Yogis 18 and older of all levels are invited to a practice led by a certified instructor. Bring your own yoga mat, water, and towel. Free. Call 305358-7550 or visit BayfrontParkMiami.com/ Yoga.html.

Tuesdays from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Pridelines, 6360 NE Fourth Court in Miami. A gay and bi men’s roundtable HIV+ support group. Free.

Call Eddie at 305-571-9601, ext. 105 or visit Pridelines.org.

Book Study

Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Drolma Kadampa Buddhist Center, 1273 Coral Way in Miami. Buddhist monk, Gen Kelsang Norbu, will lead classes on learning the foundations of Buddhism. Call 786-529-7137.

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Saturdays at 4 p.m. meeting at 628 Duval St. See the gay side of Key West on this trolley tour. Tickets $25. Call 800-535-7797 or visit GayKeyWestFL.com.

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“The Travelin Bum encourages everyone to step out of their comfort zone, take a chance, and believe they have the strength to overcome anything,” reads a press release.

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