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A group of members from the South Florida Amateur Athletic Association (SFAAA) toasts the Marlins victory last friday at Gay Pride Night.
Gay Softballers Celebrate Pride with Marlins Victory Norm Kent
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he Marlins held their annual LGBT ‘Pride at the Park’ event last Friday night, June 29, and christened it with a victory over their arch-rival, the New York Mets. It was an evening which marked the major league debut of Sandy Alcantara, one of the Marlins’ prized prospects. He was the winning pitcher. It also marked the debut of Pride goer Michael Beachboard, a 27-year-old bartender at the Corner Pub in Wilton Manors. The baseball game was the first major league game he has ever attended. Beachboard got to see the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida perform the national anthem from center field to start the game. “It was incredibly inclusive, totally entertaining, and I am so excited to be here,” he said, adding, “I have had so much fun.” Many more Pride goers had a history of supporting the Marlins. Austin Charles of Hollywood, 30, said, “They are my hometown team. I love them. I have been going to their games since I was a child,
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from the team’s very first year.” The Marlins are celebrating their 25th anniversary this season, and have won two world championships, in 1997 and 2003, since their inception. Under new ownership, this year they are in last place in their division, the National League East. Their status did not curb the enthusiasm of gay fans last week. The ‘Fish,’ as their fans affectionately call the Marlins, first held a gay pride and HIV awareness night in 2002. One of the persons at that first event was back at the park Friday, George Foley. He is a founder of the local gay men’s softball league and an enthusiastic baseball fan. “I have been to many ballparks over many years,” said the 57-year-old yachting salesman, who plays for the Alibi Angels, the longest sponsored team in the league. “Some years the Marlins have played well. This year they are going with prospects,” Foley advised, explaining their poor results. Still, he recommends the gay pride nights to friends. MEMBER He was joined by many, including David Aho, 54, who said he was a “veteran of MEMBER
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Pride nights at the park.” The scorekeeper and self-acknowledged “Bench Queen” of the Alibi Angels, Aho said pride nights are “spectacular. You have a wonderful time, everyone treats us great, and the Marlins give us a brand new hat with the team logo in rainbow colors.” “It’s a very unifying and encouraging night,” added the softball league’s Hall of Fame chairman, Edward ‘Wanda’ Sawyer,60. “You are with friends, there’s food, alcohol and fun. It’s a celebration of togetherness, showing we are proud of who we are,” he added. Many of the Pride goers to the party celebrated in the ‘Clevelander’ section, which has its own private swimming pool, together with a comfortable chaise lounge seating section and wait service in centerfield. “Not sure whether to focus on the food and booze, the boys in the pool or the balls in play,” one participant joked. Whatever he chose, if he was like scores of others who showed for Pride night, he got to see a winning game and had a great time.
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rittany Ferrendi, SFGN’s digital content director, has accepted a job offer at Discord, a tech company based in San Francisco that specializes in text and audio communication between users in a chat channel. “We’re sad to see Brittany go. She’s been an integral part of our team for the past several years,” said SFGN Executive Editor Jason Parsley. “She’s increased our online content, which in turn, has increased our web numbers tremendously since coming on board. We wish her the best of luck. Discord will be lucky to have her on their team.” Ferrendi’s new job title will be Trust and Safety Analyst where she will write and enforce guidelines, remove problem content, and take care of bad user experiences to help people feel safe. In addition to Ferrendi leaving her position Sallie James covered her first Wilton Manors commission meeting last week taking over for Michael d’Oliveira, editor of the Wilton
Manors Gazette, SFGN’s sister publication. “We’re excited to bring Sallie on board here. She brings a wealth of experience in community journalism,” Parsley said. James has decades of experience covering municipal government. In the past she’s worked for the Sun Sentinel and Palm Beach Post. She currently freelances for multiple publications, is a blogger for the automotive industry, and a writer for Miami Jewish Health.
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A former athlete at Lourdes High School in Minnesota said she was not allowed to coach at the school due to her sexuality. Katie Erbe-Shea had inquired about the job coaching junior varsity and freshman basketball but was told her “lifestyle choices” would not allow her to be hired, according to the Rochester Post-Bulletin. She had previously played basketball at the school in the 1990s,
graduating in 1995. “My personal life would have nothing to do with what kind of coach I would be and how I’d coach those girls,” ErbeShea said. “This just hit me like a ton of bricks.” Erbe-Shea said she did not apply because of this conversation. The school said that they could not comment on the situation because there was no application made.
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Issa Rae had some people on social media negatively respond to a new show she’s working on. Rae, the creator of HBO show “Insecure,” had some Instagram users call her new show “Him or Her” an unwelcome representation of black males, according to NewNowNext. The show, which she is working on with “Daily Show” writer Tavon Free, centers around Free’s experiences with being a
black bisexual male. “I remember just being pissed all day,” she said to Deadline. “Sometimes you live in a bubble, you live in a liberal bubble where you think that everyone is open, and in my eyes progressive in a way where there are so many human experiences, black experiences, gender experiences.” Rae will serve as the executive producer on the show, which is still being produced.
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Jared Polis Wins Colorado Primary He could be the first gay person elected governor
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.S. Rep. Jared Polis won a “comeback kid” victory last week, winning the Democratic nomination for governor of Colorado, just two months after losing to his chief opponent at the state Democratic assembly. He’ll now face Republican state treasurer Walker Stapleton in the general election in November. If elected, Polis will become the first openly gay person to be elected governor of any state. Annise Parker, head of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, called Polis’ primary win a “huge victory.” “While it is a historic and promising night for the LGBTQ community, primary voters chose Jared not because he could be a historic first, but because of his unquestionable integrity and positive vision for Coloradans,” said Parker. Polis was one of three openly gay candidates in gubernatorial primary races Tuesday. The other two did not advance. Best known to the LGBT community as the most senior of six openly LGBT members of the U.S. House, Polis is best known in Colorado as a wealthy businessman with a strong interest in improving public education and the use of renewable resources. Polis, an early developer of internet-based businesses, funded his campaign primarily through his own funds - reportedly more than $6 million. Polis had a tough race on his hands. At a statewide Democratic convention April 14, his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, former state treasurer Cary Kennedy won 62 percent of the delegates, to Polis’ 33 percent. The Denver Post reported that some participants in the assembly were afraid that Polis’ being gay could “make Polis a harder sell to more conservative voters in November.” But Polis doubled-down, running more than 3,000 television ads and spending more than all the other candidates combined. Polis will go up against a pro-Trump Republican in November, seeking to replace Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper, who is term-limited. Four out of the last five governors have been Democrats. And in 2016 voting, Colorado voters preferred Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump. One of its two senators and three of its seven U.S. representatives are Democrats.
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In Other Elections Around The Country: Openly gay gubernatorial candidate Rich Madaleno has come up short in his bid for the Democratic nomination in Maryland. A state senator, Madaleno made his being gay a prominent part of his campaign. He ran a political ad in which he kissed his husband as an example of his willingness to “stand up to Trump.” He and his husband also did a campaign video reading out loud many of the anti-gay messages Madaleno received as an openly gay candidate. But Madaleno’s biggest challenge was his competition. He was up against better known figures, including former president of the NAACP Ben Jealous, who appears to have won the nomination.
In Oklahoma, exotic animal zookeeper Joe Maldonado came in third out of three candidates seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for Oklahoma governor. Oklahoma news media depicted Maldonado as a somewhat exotic political candidate, noting that he sported a halfbleached blond hairstyle and six earrings in his campaign photo. He also expressed a desire to pardon all people convicted for non-violent marijuana crime.
Chelsea Manning, who made a long-shot bid for U.S. Senator, came up with only five percent of the votes against popular pro-LGBT incumbent Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin. Manning was best known for having been convicted of leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks.
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hange could come to Washington after the congressional mid-term elections in November, and the bid of Gina Ortiz Jones to represent Texas’ 23rd congressional district certainly represents that possibility. Jones, who recently emerged a victor in the Democratic primary after a run-off in May, is a lesbian first-generation Filipino-American who served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force in Iraq under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Jones told the Washington Blade her campaign is an effort “to protect the opportunities that allowed me to grow up healthy, get an education and serve my country.” “My own story: I’m a first- Gina generation American, I was raised by a single mother, I know what it’s like to need a little bit of help,” Jones said. “Reduced lunch, subsidized housing — I know why those are important because I actually needed those investments, and those allowed me to get an education.” Jones also acknowledged her race has
significance for the LGBT community. If elected, she’d be the first openly gay person elected to Congress from Texas. “I’d be honored to be the first, but it is more important that I am not the last. And that’s what this race is about,” Jones said. “It’s about protecting all the opportunities that allowed me even just to get to this place, right? So, we are overdue in terms of representation, and I think we’re seeing every single day just how quickly the progress that we fought for can be ripped away from us if we don’t stand up.” Jones is among the women politicos set to speak Monday at the annual LGBT gala in New Ortiz Jones York City hosted by the Democratic National Committee, an event she said she’s planning to attend because “now is the time to ensure that your voice is heard.” “That is a gathering of people who know exactly about the moment of time that we’re in,” Jones said. “Many people in the
“I’d be honored to be the first, but it is more important that I am not the last. And that’s what this race is about.”
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room have fought so hard for our rights, for our equality. And so, that makes me able to share my own story and talk about what’s going on in Texas and what I’m looking to fight for, and certainly, on behalf of the LGBT community and the opportunity that we have.” Lucas Acosta, LGBT media director for the Democratic National Committee, said Jones is the right candidate for the LGBT community facing continued hostility from the Trump administration. “In the face of sustained Republican efforts to roll back the progress we’ve made, leaders within the LGBTQ community, and LGBTQ women of color in particular, are stepping up, running for office and fighting back,” Acosta said. “Ortiz Jones will be a strong advocate not only for her constituents, but also for the LGBTQ community and for all queer women of color, who deserve a voice in Congress.” Jones had stern words for Trump, whose administration has worked to roll back LGBT rights despite his promise during the election to be a friend to LGBT people. “He’s anything but a friend. I mean, with friends like that, who needs enemies?” The anti-LGBT rollbacks in the Trump
administration have included a transgender military ban the courts have blocked the Pentagon from enforcing, executive actions for “religious freedom” seen to undermine LGBT rights and exclusion of LGBT people from the enforcement of federal civil rights laws. “For this administration to deny Americans ready and willing to serve our country, willing to die for our country and this administration has made policies essentially based on nothing but bigotry to deny those people the opportunity to serve in our military,” Jones said. With the Trump administration’s separation of migrant families seeking to enter the United States as a result of its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, Jones — who’s running in a border district – also criticized the administration on that front. “I think it’s a travesty, it’s inhumane, it’s unjust and we have to get these families united as quickly as possible,” Jones said. Asked what the policy should be for migrant families seeking to cross the border, Jones cited problems with changes in how immigrants can seek and be considered for asylum, a backlog in judgment of those cases and the access of legal resources to asylees.
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“That’s very concerning that people who include a prohibition on discrimination may have legitimate cases are not even being on the basis of sexual orientation and able to make the case, right?” Jones said. transgender status. “That’s not the kind of country we are. So we “I think every single day that this need much greater clarity on why people are administration is intent on rolling back not able to make their case.” those protections, and they want to leave Jones’ opponent in her race is Rep. Bill Hurd it up to states to decide, but that’s not how (R-Texas), who was the first black Republican this discussion needs to happen, right?” elected to Congress from Texas. He worked Jones said. “Americans deserve to have equal for the Central Intelligence Agency between access to health care, equal opportunity to 2000 and 2009. serve their country and equal opportunity In the previous Congress, Hurd was a co- to provide for themselves and their families.” sponsor of the First Amendment Defense Act, This Texas race isn’t the only one of a federal “religious freedom” legislation seen importance to LGBT people. U.S. Rep. Beto to enable anti-LGBT discrimination. Last O’Rourke (R-Texas) is seeking to unseat year, Hurd also voted on the floor in favor Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has built a of an amendment that would have barred substantial anti-LGBT record that includes the U.S. military from paying for transition- introducing a constitutional amendment related care, including gender reassignment against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in surgery, for transgender troops. favor of same-sex marriage nationwide. Jones criticized Hurd for voting for the On whether O’Rourke would prevail in his anti-trans amendment, citing it as hypocrisy race and defeat Cruz, Jones said she’s hopeful on the basis he claims to her fellow Democrat support national security would prevail and defeat “and then takes votes the anti-LGBT senator. like that that undermine Jones also had high military readiness.” praise for Lupe Valdez, “As someone that’s the lesbian former Dallas served in the military and County sheriff who’s under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t seeking to defeat Texas Tell,’ I know that if one Gov. Greg Abbott in his person on that team is not bid for re-election. Like 100 percent, that unit is Cruz, Abbott has an not 100 percent and the anti-LGBT record that mission is at risk, so this includes signing antiis now an issue of military LGBT “religious freedom” adoption legislation, readiness,” Jones said. urging the Texas Supreme Jones also said Hurd Court to undermine is “certainly no friend to marriage equality and the LGBT community” calling for a special because he hasn’t spoken session of the legislature out against rollbacks of to pass anti-trans LGBT rights under the bathroom legislation. Trump administration. “For the LGBT “In these times, when community, I think that you are silent as the - Gina Ortiz Jones would actually be more most vulnerable in our important,” Jones said. community are targeted “And so, again, we’re and their rights are stripped from them, you are silent when certainly hopeful we’ll have change at that those you need you the most, that’s just as level as well. And so, we can do this if we work together, and I think we have to, again. telling,” Jones said. If elected to Congress, Jones identified the One in ten kids in the country goes to school reversal of Trump’s transgender military ban in Texas, so there’s a lot at stake and we need as a priority in her effort to advance LGBT representation that is going to fight for our rights as she recalled her own time in the kids, not against them.” With the changing demographics in Texas, military having to serve under “Don’t Ask, political observers have predicted the state Don’t Tell.” “When I think of national security, I don’t will soon become “purple” and maybe even just think of Iraq and Afghanistan and China, a “blue” Democratic state in years to come. “What we need to work on is actually voter Russia, I think about the pipeline of talent in the interest of national security, and that turnout. Folks are registered,” Jones said. “So certainly includes members of the LGBT it is, in fact, about turnout, so this is not a red community who are, again, ready and willing state, it’s a non-voting state, and once we get people voting, this is, I think, a safely blue to serve,” Jones said. Also on Jones’ priority list is expanding state. But we just got to get people voting.” federal non-discrimination protections to
“Americans deserve to have equal access to health care, equal opportunity to serve their country and equal opportunity to provide for themselves and their families.”
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or the second year in a row, President the virus to Acquired Immunodeficiency Trump has issued a statement Syndrome (AIDS),” Trump said. recognizing National HIV Testing Day Trump also promoted HIV testing by that omits any mention of the vulnerability pointing out new medications are helping of LGBT people to the disease. people with HIV/AIDS “live longer and The lack of LGBT inclusion in statements healthier lives.” Alluding to PrEP, Trump on HIV/AIDS has been a consistent noted the Food & Drug Administration theme from Trump, who last year issued approved medication dramatically reduces a statement on World the risk of HIV infection in AIDS Day that also failed the first place. to mention LGBT people Although Trump being disproportionately doesn’t mention LGBT impacted by the disease. people in his statement, To be fair, President Trump does mention the Trump did mention LGBT high number of youths vulnerability to the disease who are contracting the in other statements, disease. including his final “Despite this progress, proclamation on World in 2016, nearly 40,000 AIDS Day. people were diagnosed The White House didn’t with HIV in the United respond to a request States,” Trump said. - Carl Schmid for comment on LGBT “People between the ages deputy executive director of omission from the National of 20 and 29 received the AIDS Institute HIV Testing Day statement. more than a third of those Trump in his statement diagnoses. Even more lauded “the great progress we have made” troubling, 44 percent of people living with against HIV/AIDS, including national efforts HIV between the ages of 13 and 24 were “to spread awareness about the importance unaware that they were carrying the virus.” of getting tested.” Trump concludes that National HIV “Early detection of HIV — using a Testing Day is “an important reminder” for simple and routine test — is instrumental those who are unaware they are carrying in helping contain the advancement of the disease and are the “most at risk for
“And I was thinking, gee, we did a statement, and I didn’t mention LGBT in ours either.”
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inadvertently infecting others and missing out on potentially life-saving treatments.” “As we observe National HIV Testing Day, we celebrate the advancements we have made in medical science, and I encourage all Americans to invest in their health and be aware of their HIV status,” Trump said. “Through greater awareness and education, we can all do our part to lead healthier and longer lives.” Carl Schmid, deputy executive director of the AIDS Institute, said he was “happy” with the statement despite the LGBT omission. “It doesn’t mention any of the groups,” Schmid said. “And I was thinking, gee, we did a statement, and I didn’t mention LGBT in ours either. We just focused on the number of people not being tested and the importance of testing.” “I think we should give him credit for issuing a statement,” Schmid said. “I didn’t know they were going to do it, so I’m
pleased. It shows that they are providing attention to HIV.” Although Trump doesn’t mention LGBT people in his National HIV Strategy, a recently released report from the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of HIV/AIDS & Infectious Disease Policy, which adopted Obama-era goals in confronting the disease, did include statistics on the vulnerability of gay and bisexual men, as well as transgender women, to the disease. Schmid acknowledged the lack of LGBT mention on HIV/AIDS — as well as other populations — has been a theme from Trump, and said identification of youth as a vulnerable population is important because most of them are LGBT. “I hope that he will address LGBT — particularly youth — and black and Latino gay youth as well, but I give him credit for issuing this, and I think we should,” Schmid said.
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ovelist and Miami Herald columnist who, “believed in the mission and the craft of Carl Hiaasen’s brother was among hometown journalism.” those killed Thursday in a newsroom “He was doing what he loved to do shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, his family which was put out a paper for the people of confirmed. Annapolis,” he said. Rob Hiaasen was assistant managing editor Five people were confirmed dead and two and a columnist at The Capital newspaper suffered superficial injuries, Acting Anne where he was hired in 2010. He was 59. Arundel County Police Chief William Krampf “There was no finer human being, there told reporters at an 8 p.m. news conference. just wasn’t,” Rob Hiaasen’s widow, Maria, “This was a targeted attack on The Capital said Thursday night, her 58th birthday. “And Gazette,” he said. certainly no finer father, and he was a damn “He went into that building to kill people,” fine journalist too.” Lt. Ryan Frashure, of the Anne Arundel A birthday package from her husband still County Police Department, said. awaited her, Maria Hiaasen said. Rob Hiaasen The gunman, a Maryland resident identified had asked her if she wanted to open her gift as Jarrod Ramos, 38, has been taken into Thursday morning, but she told him she’d custody and is currently being questioned but rather wait until he got home from work. is not cooperating with authorities. He had a He never made it back home. The shooting long-running dispute with the paper. on the first-floor of the newspaper’s building Investigators are looking into social media occurred at about 2:40 p.m. The couple had threats that “indicated violence” sent to the celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary six newspaper possibly by the shooter as recently days earlier. as Thursday afternooon, Krampf said. The Hiaasens grew up in the Fort Tweets from a crime reporter at the paper, Lauderdale area. Rob graduated from Phil Davis, put the terror into first-person. Plantation High School before “Gunman shot through attending the University of the glass door to the office Florida. He previously worked and opened fire on multiple at the Palm Beach Post and for employees,” he tweeted. “Can’t 15 years at the Baltimore Sun. say much more and don’t want This last spring the father of to declare anyone dead, but it’s three taught his first reporting bad.” course at the University of In another tweet Davis Maryland’s journalism school. said: “There is nothing more He looked forward to the fall terrifying than hearing term, Maria Hiaasen said. multiple people get shot while “I just want people to know you’re under your desk and what an incredibly gentle, then hear the gunman reload.” generous and gifted guy my Rob Hiaasen’s current brother was,” Carl Hiaasen and former co-workers told the Washington Post. “He remembered him as a lanky, - Michael D. Bolden was an unforgettably warm endearingly goofy storyteller, knight Journalism fellow and uplifting presence as a committed to both the father and brother. But he also had dedicated reporting and narrative writing ends of his his whole life to journalism.” profession. In a Facebook posting mourning the loss of “He could be deadly serious about doing his brother, Carl Hiaasen wrote, “We called investigative reporting, but he also had a soft him Big Rob because he was so tall, but it was side,” said Tom Marquardt, former editor and his remarkable heart and humor that made publisher of the Capital Gazette. “He had a him larger than all of us.” special insight into people’s lives and their On Friday morning, Carl Hiaasen told CNN character.” his brother was, “the rock of our family,” As a writer, he was drawn to quirky stories,
“... An attack on them and the free press is an attack on each one of us and the democratic values we cherish.”
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A memorial formed outside of The Capital Gazette. Photo credit: Jamie Velasquez/Instagram.
and had a unique way of telling them, with wry asides and internal and imagined dialogues. “Feel free to disagree,” he wrote in a recent column in which he listed the best 10 songs about rain. “Feel free to be wrong. (Yes, we’re cranky. Aren’t you in all this slop?)” Marquardt said Rob Hiaasen was hired to add a more human dimension to news coverage, and indeed became known for stories about people and community life. As someone who lived a “multi-faceted life,” Hiaasen was particularly helpful to less experienced journalists. Rob Hiaasen, a lover of narrative and features writing, relished working with cub reporters at The Capital, Maria Hiaasen said. “He was a great mentor to younger reporters,” Marquardt said. Tina Reed, a former Capital reporter, was one of those reporters. “He was a philosopher and a poet,” Reed, 33, said. “He was a coach, and he was a mentor. He wanted to teach young journalists to be better.” He had a serious side as well, and earlier this year the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association awarded Rob Hiaasen first place in a feature column category for a piece about only realizing as a grown-up that the Fort Lauderdale beach at which he spent many a happy childhood day was segregated.
“Is there a statute of limitations on childhood naivete? On adult un-education?” he opened the column. He went on to detail “wade-in” protests staged by the NAACP and, in other towns, the firebombing of the home of civil rights activists, lynching and other violence — none of which he knew about as he was growing up. “Little did I know,” he concluded, sadly. In 2004, Rob Hiaasen was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. His colleagues there lamented Rob Hiaasen’s death and the vilification of the media. “Our hearts are broken by the senseless shooting at the Capital Gazette,” said Michael D. Bolden, the fellowship’s managing director. “Journalists like Rob do essential work in each of our communities, and an attack on them and the free press is an attack on each one of us and the democratic values we cherish. “We stand with the victims in Annapolis, with Rob’s family, and with journalists everywhere whose work makes our society better — on this sad day and every day.” The Capital is owned by the Baltimore Sun, a sister paper of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Reporter Wayne K. Roustan contributed to this story. SFGN and Sun Sentinel are media partners.
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Capital Gazette Victim Once Worked in South Florida Covering the AIDS Epidemic Graham Brunk
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ften the topics I choose to write about prove difficult to research, but sometimes I find myself with too many directions to turn in. That was the case when last year I did a story about Dr. David Acer, the Jensen Beach dentist that allegedly infected several of his patients with HIV in the late 1980s. There are 3 books and many newspaper articles about the case but the single most resourceful piece I found came from Rob Hiaasen’s award winning investigation into the matter that was published over the course of a few days in The Palm Beach Post in 1991. The CDC was quick to blame the alleged infections on Dr. Acer after he died of AIDS in 1990, but Hiaasen’s investigation was unbiased and informative and it pointed me to all the right sources. It never implicated Dr. Acer simply because of his sexuality or his life choices. It was Hiaasen’s story that truly sealed the case as a complete mystery. Hiaasen was one of the 5 people shot and killed on Thursday June 28 in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the older brother of Florida Author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen. He was born in Fort Lauderdale and a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. He once lived in Delray Beach and was a regular feature writer for The Palm Beach
Post in the late 80s and early 90s mostly covering local politics. He left the area in 1993 to work for The Baltimore Sun. There he wrote more on true crime and even penned a short story titled “Over My Dead Body,” published in “Baltimore Noir” which was a collection of stories written by several journalists for the newspaper. True journalistic talent gone to another mass shooting in America. Rob was only 59 years old and leaves behind a wife, Maria, whom he married in 1985 and 3 children.
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2015 along with her partner Penny Johnson, owner of Penny’s at the Duke in Lantana. “We are excited about the possibilities and growth of this next generation,” Michael Grattendick, chair of Compass’ board of trustees, said in a prepared statement. “We believe Julie is poised to take the organization and its mission to our next level of success.” Compass, the LGBT community center of Palm Beach County, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Visit CompassGLCC.com to learn more about the organization.
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resident Trump has nominated a former head of Log Cabin Republicans to a senior position at the State Department for political and military affairs. The White House announced on Thursday the designation of R. Clarke Cooper, who’s gay and led Log Cabin from 2010 to 2012, as assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. The announcement also included news for two other unrelated nominees. The position of assistant of secretary of state for political-military affairs is charged with linking the Defense Department with the State Department in areas such as international security, military operations and defense strategy. Tina Kaidanow, a career foreign service officer, currently holds the position in an acting capacity. Under Cooper’s tenure at Log Cabin, the organization oversaw a lawsuit challenging “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and assisted with legislative effort to convince Republicans to vote to repeal the military’s gay ban. Under Cooper’s leadership, Log Cabin also endorsed
Mitt Romney for president in 2012 after he met with Cooper and gay former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe at a Virginia farmhouse. According to a White House bio, Cooper currently serves as director of intelligence planning for Joint Special Operations Command’s Joint Inter-Agency Task Force in the National Capital Region. A combat veteran and member of the U.S. Army Reserve, Cooper’s active duty assignments include tours with United States Africa Command, Special Operations Command Africa, Joint Special Operations Task Force Trans-Sahara, and Special Operations Command Central, according to his bio. Cooper also served in the Bush administration in the State Department as U.S. Alternate Representative to the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Delegate to U.N. Budget Committee, senior advisor in Near Eastern Affairs Bureau and advisor at U.S. EmbassyBaghdad from 2005 to 2006. Nowhere does the White House bio mention Cooper’s tenure at Log Cabin Republicans.
Under Cooper’s tenure at Log Cabin, the organization oversaw a lawsuit challenging “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
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ready to open tomorrow but it looks really good for Thursday July 5,” stated a recent post on the venue’s Facebook page. Scandals is located at 3073 NE 6th Ave., just south of East Oakland Park Blvd in Wilton Manors. The operation closed in late May after a 13year run under the ownership of Ken Kelley. SFGN previously reported Kelley said he had a “heavy heart” when he decided to close. He said health issues, increased bar competition and having to install valet parking all led him to close the bar. There was no immediate word on what parking options would be once Scandals reopens. Overall reaction on social media has been very positive. Comments ranged from “Looking forward to going home again,” to “Yippee!” and “Can’t wait!”
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Using Art to Combat Stigmas of HIV/AIDS Damon Scott It’s well documented that new cases of decrease the stigma around the disease. HIV/AIDS are rampant in South Florida. One way to do that, said board president The region often ranks at the top, per Will Spencer, is to challenge local artists capita, for new infections nationwide. to create work that speaks to the stigmas The latest data from 2016 also shows that surrounding HIV/AIDS, and the hope that minority and disenfranchised populations the disease can be mitigated and eradicated are most at risk. one day. Those in the community who work in “Stigmas stop people from getting tested testing and education say and going for proper care it’s sometimes hard to and treatment,” Spencer impress on the younger said. “And that allows generations just how the disease to continue devastating the epidemic to be transmitted in our was in the 1980s and early community.” 1990s. Coupled with Stigmas include the the arrival of new and idea that you can get effective drugs, there are the disease just by being some in the community around someone with it; who think the disease that a person will surely has been “cured,” even die from it; and that it is though there is no cure only a result of risky or - Will Spencer World AIDS Museum and for it. immoral behavior, (or only Educational Center Board One of South Florida’s transmitted through sex President HIV/AIDS resources is and so on). in Wilton Manors – the The museum and World AIDS Museum and Educational its partners, including the Community Center – located at 1201 NE 26th Street. Foundation of Broward in Fort Lauderdale, The museum opened in 2011, and what the organized an artist showcase to help board and its volunteers try to do sounds combat some of the stigmas through art. simple enough: increase awareness and The first of two such events took place at
“They created their visions of hope related to those living with HIV.”
Museum founder Steve Stagon among some of the art at the event. Photo by Sergio Tirado.
Artist Rebeca Pinto Bottone stands below her piece that was displayed at the exhibit. Photo by Sergio Tirado.
the museum June 29. Dozens of artists – students and residents of Broward County – showcased their original artwork at the event. The second exhibit is scheduled to take place later this summer. “They created their visions of hope related to those living with HIV,” Spencer said. Rebeca Pinto Bottone is a Venezuelanborn artist now living in Pompano Beach who created a piece for the exhibit. She
said her artwork, which includes one of her signature eyes, was inspired by a female friend who has been living with HIV. She said the opportunity to showcase her work at the exhibit was intended to be a message of positivity for those who endure the complications and stigmas surrounding the disease. Spencer said some of the artwork will eventually be selected as part of a permanent installation in Broward County.
Artists who are interested in submitting for the second exhibit later this summer can call 954-390-0550 or email admin@worldaidsmuseum.org for more information. The museum’s website is at WorldAIDSmuseum.org.
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The Most Dangerous Man in America is Still Donald Trump Norm Kent
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Donald Trump appears to mock x the disability of Serge Kovaleski, a reporter who happens to suffer from a chronic muscular disease that affects arm movement. Credit: Reuters.
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s 2017 came to an end, I wrote a year-end editorial about Trump’s verbal assault on a free press. This past week, the president’s hateful words contributed to the murder of five journalists in Annapolis. My prophecy from the past has become the reality of the present. My fear has become fact. The most dangerous person in America is no terrorist, immigrant or child of immigrants. It’s the president of the United States, Donald Trump, kidnapper and now killer. As we celebrate July 4, under Trump’s president, not support him. Fox News may watch, journalists are being buried. Only days choose to become state sponsored media, before this mass shooting, he stood at a rally regurgitating White House press releases. We calling the press ‘an enemy of the people.’ No, choose not to be a tool of the dictatorship. we are not. He is. Most of America’s free press has not. It is a sad day for America. Thousands of A newspaper’s task is to report and reveal. immigrant children are illegally incarcerated in Sometimes, a story will celebrate a pride concentration camps. Trump is getting ready festival. At other times, it will tell you the to appoint a second Supreme Court justice, name of the person who stole from it. You one who can potentially roll back decades of don’t roll over because a charlatan is running progressive advances in equal rights for all. rampant in the White House. You run him out. The challenge today is for America’s free Dissent can be the highest form of patriotism. press to remain independent, not supplicant; In this era, with this president in power, it has to print real news, not government Pablum, become so again. whether you are the Wilton Manors Gazette From community weeklies to national cable or the Capital Gazette. We choose to question shows, a free press represents the liberties and authority, not bow down to it. rights of America. Every day, every week, our It’s no coincidence either papers protect and preserve that the leaders Trump cuddles freedoms. Trump’s White up to represent ruthless House poisons and perverts dictatorships that govern their them. countries with unchecked Even before he was power. It’s no coincidence, elected, Donald Trump either, that those countries, engaged in a war on the from North Korea to Russia, do press. Once, here in Palm not have a free press. Freedom Beach, a local Sun Sentinel interferes with self-celebratory journalist, Mike Mayo, fascists. encountered it first-hand, A free press will never be surrounded by a crowd of this president’s friend. He Trump supporters accosting lies, conceals, and hides too him with intimidating much. A free press is supposed threats. to disclose and expose, not Mr. Trump’s cruel celebrate and coronate. and callous attacks on Whether we are students America’s free press have or football players, we are been incessant and for not supposed to kneel to two years now. He has - Former President presidential power. induced violence with his George Bush Our duty as members of viciousness. Playing to the November, 2017, commenting about Trump’s America. the press is to report on the crowd is more important
“Bigotry seems emboldened, nationalism has become distorted into nativism, and political statements have been subject to outright fabrication.”
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to him than keeping the peace. As a result, the president’s followers are encouraged to ridicule journalists at his public rallies. Trump was astute enough to know the media would hate him for his never-ending duplicity. He was a man who lived by lies and now was facing a stronger microscope. Thus, from the outset of his campaign, he devised a plan to undermine the press. Trump conspiratorially orchestrated, devised and engineered a plan to make the media a tool of scorn and derision. He anticipated his legions would join in his campaign. Remember he could ‘shoot someone on 5th Avenue’ and would not lose supporters. He was right. His minions were mastered. They have followed him like sheep,
and the nation has suffered as a result. Two years later, Trump has had his way. He created the term ‘fake news,’ something that did not even exist in our lexicon 24 months ago. Today, at every opportunity, Trump derisively mocks the press, demeans our reporters, and scoffs at our work. He has called us an ‘enemy of the people,’ and now journalists have been murdered. After the bloodbath, Trump released a statement saying how sorry he was. Please, that is hypocrisy in its highest form. Yes, and there were ‘good people’ on both sides of the racist march in Charlottesville. As far as I am concerned, it was Trump who primed the pump. He might as well have loaded the gun. Lock him up. Take America back.
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Trump in Florida:
A Wake-Up Call Jesse Monteagudo
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recent poll of Florida voters conducted by Morning Consult for Politico news site and the AARP reveals that Donald Trump is more popular in this state than South Florida progressives would like to believe. According to the poll, 48 percent of Florida voters approve of Trump’s job performance while only 49 percent disapprove. (Nationwide voters are 45 percent for Trump and 51 percent against him.) Men are more approving (53 to 45) than women (43 to 52); Republicans are more approving (87 to 12) than Democrats (11 to 85); and voters over 50 are more approving (52 to 44) than voters age 30 to 44 (47 to 49). (I saw nothing about race in this poll, though I presume whites are more approving than people of color.) All in all, this Florida poll suggests that the “blue wave” that we hope to arrive in November might be harder to come by, at least in the Sunshine State. It certainly was a disappointment for the AARP which tends to take a progressive stand on issues of importance to the elderly. Though the Politico/AARP survey might be an outlier, the fact remains that Trump enjoys a lot of support. While some principled conservatives - John McCain, Ana Navarro, Steve Schmidt, George Will and the Bush family - have criticized the president, most Republicans are devotees of Trump. Evangelical Christians, who are quick to attack sexual or gender diversity or a woman’s right to choose, are in thrall to a president who has no morals: a narcissist, a bully and a pathological liar who would not know the truth if it sat on his face. Many Trump supporters love Trump almost
as much as he loves himself; and flock to his rallies with cult-like devotion. Some of those deplorables share in the president’s prejudices; and hate anyone who look, think or love differently than they do. Others, however, support Trump for more complex reasons. I must admit that I found the Politico/AARP survey startling, since I spend my life in Florida’s most progressive bubble. I live in Broward County; have progressive friends; belong to progressive groups; listen to progressive talk radio (primarily Sirius XM Progress); read progressive blogs and news sites. I have nothing to do with Trump supporters who live in north or central Florida. And they have nothing to do with me. By the same token, liberal Jewish retirees who live in Century Village have little in common with conservative Christian retirees who live in the Villages. (Though both groups support Israel, Social Security and Medicare.) This political and social segregation is at the heart of the virtual civil war that has divided our country as it hasn’t been divided since slavery split us apart in 1860. I am not trying to reunite America Red and America Blue; a task that I fear is nearly impossible. Nor do I think it would be possible to separate Florida in half between a conservative north and a progressive south. But I would like to know what Trump supporters think. What is it about Donald J. Trump that appeals to his devotees? There might be some good reasons to support this president, though they seem to escape me at the moment. If you, my reader, think Trump is doing good for our country, please let me know.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” The words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, a message obviously not read by Donald Trump. - Norm Kent
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Fresh Fish, Sizzling Grille and Server Shawn News and Notes of the Deeds and Doings of our Emerging LGBT Community
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Sean Bombarding the Courtyard From the ‘I Guess You Just Can’t Find Good Help Anymore’ Department, the new waiter at the Courtyard Cafe on the Drive who seems to be very familiar, and other than the co-owner himself, Shawn Bombard, whose business partner at ‘the very best secret on the Drive’ is Nick Berry. Explains the ‘Bombardier,’ “I have not worked the floor in 8 years. It’s good to work the floor, get back to your roots, and have daily contact with your customers.” “Not to mention,” he added jokingly, “I am making really good tips, which I am not sharing at all with Nick.”
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Trantalis Law Offices Hosts Judge Robert Lee Re-Election Party Broward County Court Judge Robert Lee, one of the first open and out LGBT jurists in South Florida, has drawn an opponent for the first time in his 21 year tenure. Fort Lauderdale’s newly elected Mayor, Dean Trantalis, no stranger to running campaigns, hosted a re-election kick off party for dozens of supporters last week at his law offices on Wilton Drive. The nonpartisan judicial election will be held on August 28. Judge Lee, you may remember, rose to national prominence for his role as an arbiter in the ballot counting disputes between George Bush and Al Gore in their closely contested 2000 presidential race.
The Grille Sizzles on the Drive
Not only has the Grille swept the Manors by storm with a wholesale physical restoration and renovation of the old Tropics Restaurant with a five course meal for dinner, it’s providing an array of entertainment options for customers. Pianists and singing performances by soloists have showcased even Broadway talent on Thursday and Sunday evenings. Their Sunday afternoons feature an extraordinary 24 item selection for every item you can imagine, from steak tenderloin to omelet stations and fresh salmon, to go along with their full liquor service. And the club has added valet parking, so it’s easier to find the space to park as well as eat. With the Manor on one side of the Drive and the Grille on the other, owner Paul Hugo has cemented himself as a major player in the Manors. He and his husband Danel are going to stay busy at the Grille, that’s for sure. Interestingly, despite the venue’s huge crowds indicating enormous customer satisfaction, the social media service Yelp seems to be downplaying their popularity, often wrongfully downplaying positive reviews as ‘not recommended.’ Seems like business interference to me, purposely
discounting and sabotaging good reviews but lending credence to bad ones. What’s up with that, Yelp? Sure you are not pay to play?
Paul Hugo with his husband Danel Valero.
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David Richardson Will be the Gun Reform Champion Florida Needs
His actions forced an impassioned debate about government ethics, human rights, and the fundamental values we hold as a society.
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lorida has become ground zero in the gun reform debate. From the Pulse massacre nearly two years ago, to the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting a few months later, to the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, guns are front and center on the public’s mind, and on policymakers’ agendas. Some lawmakers are new to the issue and are now repositioning themselves and their relationship with the NRA in the media spotlight. Yet other legislators have always been on the right side of gun reform, fighting for the safety of the community regardless of the press attention they receive for it. That’s why Pride Fund to End Gun Violence endorsed State Representative David Richardson in his run for Florida’s 27th Congressional District. After the Las Vegas massacre, Richardson filed a bill banning bump stocks and co-sponsored bills banning assault weapons and large capacity magazines (those that can fire more than 10 rounds). Even after the Parkland shooting changed the course of the gun debate, the Republican-controlled House refused to hear the bills in any House committee, effectively blocking the legislation despite it securing 22 co-sponsors. And while the Legislature ultimately passed a gun reform bill signed by the governor — the first gun reform
bill passed in decades — Richardson opposed it because it tied his bump stock ban language to a bill that kept assault rifles on the streets and armed teachers. (After that bill passed, Pride Fund noted the same concerns but felt it was a significant first step given the nascent gun reform movement that was growing due to the activity of the Parkland students.) Richardson wanted that bill to do more, and we agree that it’s time to demand universal background checks and increase resources for mental health, among other commonsense solutions to gun violence. On this and so many other issues, David Richardson has been a leader for all of Florida. As the first openly gay member of the Florida Legislature, Richardson has provided a voice and a visible presence for Florida’s LGBTQ community since he was elected in 2012. He’s sponsored bills banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as bills honoring Pulse victims. He also worked on reforming Florida’s corrupt, broken, for-profit prison system, exposing barbaric practices and harrowing conditions at facilities across the state. His actions forced an impassioned debate about government ethics, human rights, and the fundamental values we hold as a society. It’s that outlook that will set him apart in the race for Florida’s 27th district in Congress. He’ll fight for
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the principle that healthcare is a right for all, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy. He’ll battle the Trump Administration’s dangerous retreat on environmental safety. And he’ll continue his crusade to protect and expand the rights of women, Hispanics, African Americans, the LGBTQ community, and other persecuted groups. Richardson’s race is one of the most-watched in this election cycle. It’s at the top of every pundit’s Red-to-Blue list. Despite a well-funded opposition, David Richardson’s commitment to the district through his years of service makes him a standout. Pride Fund supports candidates who will be advocates for the LGBTQ community and those seek to end gun violence. For those reasons, David Richardson is one of our proudest endorsements.
- Jason Lindsay Jason Lindsay is founder and executive director of Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, a political action committee (PAC) that supports state and federal candidates who will act on sensible gun policy reforms and champion LGBTQ equality. Lindsay is a seasoned political operative with 14 years of experience working in politics, government, and campaigns. He also served for 14 years in the U.S. Army Reserve and was deployed to Iraq in 2003.
To get involved, volunteer, or donate to help enact real gun reform, visit our website at www.PrideFund.org.
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Candidates Qualify for City Elections Justin Flippen will face long shot Boyd Corbin for mayor, while Gary Resnick gives up the mayoral seat to run for commissioner By Sallie James A city activist once accused of assaulting a drag queen, a sitting mayor and two incumbent commissioners are among six candidates who qualified to run in the November 6, 2018 municipal election. Up for grabs are the mayor’s seat, a two-year post currently held by Gary Resnick, 58, and two at-large, fouryear commission seats held by D. Scott Newton, 60, and Justin Flippen, 40. Incumbents Resnick and Flippen are seeking to flip-flop their seats and Newton is hoping to be reelected as commissioner. The slate also includes a political newcomer and two activists who both ran and lost in 2016. Known as the “second gayest city” in the U.S., the upcoming election in this quirky, upscale bedroom community of nearly 13,000 residents looks to focus on everything from strategic growth and water quality to parking and fiscal responsibility. Flippen is currently serving as the city’s vice mayor, an honorary title bestowed by the City Commission. He faces Boyd Corbin, 50, an outspoken city
Gary Resnick via Facebook
activist who previously ran for office twice and lost, in his quest for mayor. The four-way race to fill two commission seats includes incumbent commissioner Newton, a longtime Oakland Park business owner; Resnick, the city’s current mayor and an attorney with 20 years on the commission; political newcomer Katharine “Kat” Campbell, 43, a licensed clinical social worker and mother of one; and Paul Rolli, 67, a city activist and retired IRS director. Corbin, a flamboyant personality who regularly speaks at City Commission meetings, is running on a platform of less crime, lower taxes and sensible parking. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2014 and 2016. He’s hoping the third time’s a charm. His claim to fame is a 2012 altercation with a drag queen while dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes during the Wicked Manors street party. The confrontation involved a 5-foot cross, a lit torch, high heels and various stories about what actually transpired. Corbin was exonerated. A page on his election
The [commission] slate also includes a political newcomer and two activists who both ran and lost in 2016.
website notes the arrest with the title, “False arrest - this could only happen in Wilton Manors.” “Why am I running? We are running our city financially into the ground. We are doing six percent annual city raises for eight years in a row. It’s incredible. We need changes there,” Corbin said. He’s against converting Wilton Drive to a two-lane road and is extremely critical of the city’s Police Department. He believes the city could save tons of cash by dumping the outside company it uses to read parking
meters and put police officers on the streets to do the job instead. He’s also concerned about the quality of the city’s water and the price it pays to Fort Lauderdale to provide it. His opponent, Justin Flippen, is running on a platform of experience, fiscal responsibility, inclusive community values and protecting the neighborhoods’ small town feel.
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Double Standards The Pride Center should not be given preferential treatment
July 4, 2018 • Volume 5 • Issue 12 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943
By Sal Torre
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The mission of our Code Enforcement Department is to maintain the highest quality of life possible for our Island City residents. They do this by ensuring healthy and safe neighborhoods through the enforcement of our Municipal Code and addressing issues that have been identified as a public nuisance. Residents should expect everyone to be handled equally and in the same manner. Unfortunately, residents who happen to be neighbors of the Pride Center along Dixie Highway might feel otherwise. These residents have had to endure years of the Pride Center not controlling or properly monitoring parking issues when hosting large events such as Yard Sales and Plant Sales. Residents upset and overrun with people parking on their properties, damaging their lawns, blocking right of ways are usually met with a condescending attitude by Pride Center management who claim they have no control over such issues. Then there was the Children’s Playground debacle. The same blasé attitude and claims of ignorance of the law when forced to deal with having a sexual predator on staff offers no comfort to city residents. But wait, there is more. Now an illegal business is operating on the Pride Center campus. Noise complaints by neighbors were initially met with contempt and mockery by the business operators and patrons. The Pride Center claims no responsibility, blaming the lessee (the business owner). Once again, the CEO of the Pride Center has failed to acknowledge his responsibilities when legal matters are concerned. Current plat restrictions on the Pride Center property specifically ban operation of a commercial business. In addition, all commercial business must be licensed by our city. None of which seems to matter to the Pride Center and their commercial business tenant. I find myself pondering the question, “Which is a better indicator of a person’s true character, their actions or their words?” Well, we know by now that the words of the Pride Center are very different than their actions. Their press releases state that they value their relationship with the city and with their neighbors. Their claim to be the best community players under the sun might be of news to those living near and around the Pride Center Campus. Their actions leave a lot to be desired. The playground issues, ongoing parking issues, and now the illegal gym with noise complaints over the past year are just a precursor to the issues that will arise with the proposed low-income supportive housing development on the Pride Center Campus. Can we expect anything different from the Pride Center management if this project goes ahead? Will they just throw up their hands and tell city residents the issues are neither their fault nor their problem, and blame Carrfour, their partner and operator of the proposed facility? Our city commission does not currently entertain taking any action on code lien reductions or granting variances or other decisions unless the entity in question is current on all code violations and has satisfied all liens owed to the city. How is it then that the Pride Center, with outstanding code issues and an illegal commercial business operating on their campus, can continue moving ahead with their planned partnership with Carrfour and
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the planned low-income, supportive housing complex for their campus? To add insult to injury, Commissioner Carson announced at last week’s Commission meeting that the Pride Center and Carrfour are looking to get their hands on the city’s Affordable Housing Fund in the amount of $200,000.00. That money was previously earmarked by our City Commission to offer various means of assistance to Island City residents in need of affordable housing solutions. Our City Manager was instructed by Commissioners to formulate a plan for our residents in need, such as down payment assistance, rental subsidies, and other assistance. Now it seems like that plan has just been thrown out the window, and the dais will soon be lining up to give the money away to the Pride Center and Carrfour instead. That money should be used for our residents, not for Carrfour, a non-profit based in Miami-Dade County whose CEO makes over $160,000 a year. It might appear to some that a band of carpetbaggers have come to town looking to scheme and shyster their way into the pocketbooks of residents with false promises, hypnotic trances, and snake oil, eventually leaving town with residents holding the tab for many years to come. Residents need to start asking their elected officials some serious questions and start paying closer attention to how this deal continues to develop if we want to keep life just better here for all our residents. WMG
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Our Resilient Future By James Oaksun Well folks – it’s election season. It’s also hurricane season, which means the King Tides will be here soon. In the last few days we have seen more articles in the press about the rising sea levels that, if true, could bring an end to the lifestyle we have all come to enjoy. (Coincident with this, and election season, is another reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program - a fine opportunity for Congressmen and Senators to get some campaign contributions from builders and Realtors. You can refer to my columns last year for my thoughts on that.) As many of you know, I wear multiple hats in my role as a real estate broker. One such hat is serving on the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council (South Florida Region). I’m also a candidate to earn “Green Associate” and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Homes Accredited Professional certifications from the Council. Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, one of the major learnings from
the last couple years is that we should not necessarily look to either Washington or Tallahassee to solve our problems. Local action is often (though not always) the best action. We can make individual decisions, here in our own communities, to try to stem the tide (literally). When I was in college (which was some time ago) we had a campus speaker who said the solution to our energy issues as a nation was to “stop driving Petro-Pigs and stop living in sieves.” Well to some extent, we still do. However, today more than ever, there are opportunities for improvement. We can start with what is possible in our homes. And that’s where my journey with all of you will begin, as well. How can we reduce our carbon footprints? Can some short term costs lead to massive long term savings? Is it possible to live in South Florida “off the grid?” From there we will expand outward to the larger structures where we work and gather, and finally into the community itself. What would
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a sustainable South Florida community look like, and can we achieve it – and do so ourselves? On an occasional basis over the next several columns – interspersed with the statistics and charts that you may have come to expect – I will be discussing actions that property owners in our region can take beginning immediately to do our part to build resiliency. As appropriate, I will loop in local experts to share locally relevant options to consider – whether you own a house, a condo, or an investment property.
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Finally – and to coincide with a King Tide, so the issue will be top of mind for people – I am planning an early October public event as a capstone to this dialogue and information sharing. Look forward to seeing more in the near future. WMG James Oaksun, Florida’s Real Estate Geek(SM), is Broker-Owner of New Realty Concepts in Oakland Park. In addition to having degrees from Dartmouth and Cornell, he is a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI).
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Candidates Qualify for City Elections Continued from page 1 Justin Flippen via Facebook
Resnick, who served as commissioner A project manager with the Greater Fort Lauderdale Conventions and Visitors from 1998-2008 and mayor from 2008 to Bureau, Flippen grew up in Wilton Manors. present, is Florida’s longest serving openly He’s served six years on the commission — gay elected official. He is hoping his switch from 2008-2010 and 2014 to present. His from mayor to commissioner will mean top priority is fiscal responsibility and he victory. “I’ve been mayor for 10 years. I decided wants a chance to continue guiding the city that was enough as mayor. from the mayor’s seat. Obviously I still love the “The single most important city and would like to help issue the city deals with is move it forward. Serving as our budget. Maintaining a commissioner would be the balance between the millage best route right now to still rate and services is probably be able to serve the city,” the biggest balancing act we Resnick said. strike every year,” Flippen His focus is economic said. development, specifically He also wants to strengthen bringing in businesses that public safety, protect the will sustain the city’s daytime city’s neighborhoods and economy as opposed to more find new ways to lower night-time entertainment water rates. Flippen touts businesses. The narrowing his longtime ties to Wilton of Wilton Drive to two lanes Manors and his lifelong - Justin Flippen is also a priority because it connection to Broward will affect local business, he County as reasons to elect said. him mayor. When he ran for Resnick, on the board of the national office in 2014, he positioned himself as “The People’s Commissioner,” because of League of Cities, recently traveled to his grassroots approach to public service, Little Rock, Arkansas to push for more federal dollars for infrastructure for local popular appeal and city connections. The four-way field for the two at-large government. “We have 12 bridges in Wilton Manors, commission seats pits two incumbents against a political newcomer and a city most of which are owned by the city. I think the one in my neighborhood is 80 years activist.
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old,” he noted. He says the relationships he’s developed over time give him an edge over his opponents. Newton, who served as mayor from 2004-2008 and commissioner from 20002004 and 2010 to present, is running on a platform of experience. A 56-year resident of Broward County, Newton’s re-election website describes him as “a leader who is known for his integrity and success in bringing us together for the common purpose of improving our community.” “I plan to continue to use my community experience and commitment to make a difference in public safety, economic development and the overall quality of life we have all come to enjoy in Wilton Manors,” says a quote on his website. “ I am a proud longtime resident of our city. I understand where we come from and where we need to go.” Newton’s website touts his service, leadership and experience. Campbell and Rolli both want a chance to make a difference by relying on their own unique world views. Retaining Wilton Manors’ small town atmosphere is important to Campbell, the mother of a 10-year-old girl and a clinical social worker who specializes in counseling and consulting services for the LGBT community. She supports responsible development, a sustainable economy, an engaged community and environmental innovation. Campbell would also like to see more kidfriendly amenities in a city that is primarily geared toward adults. She says the city’s homey atmosphere is one of the main reasons she considers Wilton Manors such a great place to raise a child.
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“I think it’s OK they don’t have a huge number of activities for kids but I also think we could do a better job of engaging our children and families with kids,” Campbell said. Rolli, who attends every city commission and planning and zoning meeting, is a focused retiree who believes his extensive experience in federal government and his personal activism qualify him for commission. He ran for commission in 2016, narrowly losing to Julie Carson. Rolli served as director of overseas operations for the IRS and has broad government management experience in terms of programs, policies and overseeing large numbers of employees, he said. “I had more employees under me than are in the city of Wilton Manors,” Rolli said. “I would like to be part of the next generation of leadership. I want to listen to the residents - what is it the residents want and what do we need as a city? I would like to guide it where we want it to go. I would like to be pro-active in guiding the city as opposed to being complacent and letting developers take over.” Smart growth and water quality will be key issues as the city moves forward, Rolli said. “I think the city basically does a good job running (things) on day to day operations. But I don’t think they are structured or staffed properly to deal with future challenges that involve smart development and smart growth,” Rolli said. “Development is going to come whether we like it or not. We want to guide the development so we can have some say in it.” Water quality, sea level rise and salt-water intrusion will also pose challenges in the future, Rolli noted. WMG Paul Rolli via Facebook
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Pedestrian Struck by Vehicle After Stonewall Event By Damon Scott
Public safety was top of mind for event organizers and law enforcement who were patrolling and assessing multiple activities up and down Wilton Drive June 16. To mitigate potential issues, a long stretch of Wilton Drive was closed to traffic, for the safety and logistics of the parade and for exhibitors and attendees. But while there were no “major incidents” reported during the “Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade & Festival” – which hosted about 40,000 people – there was a nearby incident involving a pedestrian. A woman was hit by a vehicle going northbound in the 2900 block of NE 6th Avenue in Wilton Manors at about 7 p.m. on June 16, according to the Wilton Manors Police Department. “The driver of the car remained at the scene and was fully cooperative during the investigation, which was conducted by [the Broward Sheriff’s Office] Traffic Unit,” Wilton Manors Police Chief Paul O’Connell said in an
email to SFGN. O’Connell said there were no signs that the driver was impaired. “The pedestrian was transported to [Broward Health Medical Center] and spent the next 48 hours in ICU (intensive care unit). She was transferred out of ICU on [June 18] and [is] progressing well last we heard,” O’Connell said. Jennifer Bickhardt, the community policing officer and public information officer for the Wilton Manors Police Department, added that officers were unaware of any citations that were issued in relation to the incident. “From my understanding the driver and pedestrian involved in this incident are doing alright,” Bickhardt said. The location of the incident is about a half mile north from where Pride festivities were taking place, near the NE 6th Avenue bridge. The ages of the individuals involved in the incident were not immediately known. WMG
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By Sallie James A K-9 handler who sharply yanked his dog’s leash during a traffic stop has been cleared of wrongdoing in the May 6, 2018 incident. But not before more than 100 people emailed the city to complain after a social media video went viral. Wilton Manors K-9 Officer Robert Ferguson told investigators his Belgian Malinois Diego “was not paying attention” and “did not feel like working,” when he yanked the leash as a correction. The pair were on an “open sniff” traffic stop to determine if narcotics were in a stopped vehicle. The city was flooded with accusations of animal cruelty. “I was inundated with emails accusing the officer of animal cruelty and asking that he be criminally charged and fired,” said Wilton Manors Police Chief Paul O’Connell. “I was surprised at the intensity [of] the comments.” A former K-9 supervisor and trainer for the New York Police Department and a retired Broward Sheriff’s Office K-9 Officer each reviewed dash cam video and audio from the traffic stop and said in sworn statements
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that Ferguson’s actions were justified and reasonable. A veterinarian also examined Diego and found no evidence of injury and bodily harm. The motorist who videotaped the dog declined to speak with investigators. “There is a difference between a work dog and a pet,” O’Connell said. “Diego is [a] work dog and he wasn’t doing his job and the officer administered a correction which is standard in the police K-9 industry.” Ferguson, who has worked for Wilton Manors Police for six years, has been a K-9 handler for three years, O’Connell said. “He is one of our most reliable police officers in the department,” O’Connell added. WMG
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Should City Fund Pride Center’s Affordable Housing Project? Commissioner proposes $200,000 earmark, but recent controversies put the money in doubt By Sallie James Should the city allocate funds for affordable housing for seniors on the campus of a popular LGBT community center that’s plagued by allegations of mismanagement? Commissioner Julie Carson on June 26 requested the city earmark $200,000 for the nearly $15 million project proposed by Carrfour Supportive Housing Inc. to be built at The Pride Center at Equality Park, at 2040 N. Dixie Highway. Carson told commissioners the county is expected to contribute $900,000 towards the project. She said Wilton Manors could allocate funds from its Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which contains $306,265. “The city has never spent any money out of our trust fund,” Carson said. She asked that the commission consider allocating the funds at its next commission meeting. But recent controversy surrounding the
Pride Center’s management has raised questions. Parents whose children use the facility’s playground were outraged when they learned that a longtime janitor there was a registered sexual predator. Pride Center CEO Robert Boo was aware of the man’s past but allowed him to work there until a parent complained, setting off a firestorm. The man was terminated. The Pride Center has also been criticized for leasing property to an unlicensed gym at 2036 N. Dixie Highway. The tenant, Challenge Fitness, has been cited for noise violations. The city can’t issue the gym a business license because the property isn’t mapped for commercial use. An attorney for the gym has said the issue is a technical matter that is being addressed. Wilton Manors Commissioner D. Scott Newton said he needed more information
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on the affordable housing project before bedroom and three-bedroom apartments of varying sizes. moving forward. • The project would include a clubroom, a “I am not going to just give $200,000 without seeing some type of plans that have library/computer room, a gym, laundry and an administrative office. some type of stipulations on • The main lobby would them,” Newson said. “They physically connect with the main have a gym right now that “We don’t want Pride Center building. is actually working without • The development would a business license so there something else be managed by Crossroads are some problems … that when you’re Management LLC. need to be straightened out. An integral part of the Pride We don’t want something not even Center’s services and activities are else when you’re not even offered to seniors, including its conforming to the city laws conforming to weekly Coffee and Conversation now.” the city laws events with over 200 LGBT Carrfour has been seniors attending wellness building affordable housing now.” workshops, exercise classes and in Florida since 1993 and job skills courses. The addition currently oversees more - D. Scott Newton of a senior living component to than 1,700 housing units in CITY COmmissioner the Pride Center is a logical next Miami-Dade County. The step in progression, according to proposed project at the Pride Center would be its first in Broward County, Coviello’s letter. The project will include low-income said Roberta Moore, director of community housing tax credits from Florida Housing services for Wilton Manors. The Carrfour proposal includes 48 Finance Corporation, already secured by affordable senior housing units, of which 34 Carrfour. Information gathered from seniors who use would be set aside as housing for disabled seniors. All units would be affordable and Pride Center services indicates LGBT adults available to adults age 55 or older, according face higher rates of discrimination in securing housing and “encounter bias and sometimes to a letter from attorney David J. Coviello. • The 48-unit, four-story building would be hostile treatment from landlords as well as constructed on 5.16 acres on the northwest fellow tenants,” Coviello’s letter states. “This Project attempts to address some of corner of the property, with parking. • Units would include a mix of studio, one- those challenges,” Coviello said. WMG
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By WMG Staff The Wilton Manors Gazette recently launched a Facebook group to keep readers up to date with the latest happenings and news in the city and to distinguish itself from its parent company, South Florida Gay News. “What started out as a supplement to SFGN has really taken on a life of its own. Because of that we felt the Gazette needed a voice of its own, separate and apart from SFGN,” said Publisher Norm Kent. “We realize there is a community here in Wilton Manors that does not necessarily want all of SFGN’s news, from around South Florida and the world, so the Gazette will focus on just hyper local news.” By targeting just the Wilton Manors community SFGN’s staff will be able to highlight even more relevant news, stories and events geared towards locals. For instance, the city recently stopped live streaming its commission meetings over concerns about a lawsuit happening elsewhere in the state.
Should businesses with child-friendly amenities like playgrounds have to perform background checks on their employees before obtaining a business license? That’s a question Commissioner Julie Carson wants to answer. Protecting children from sexual offenders became a hot topic in this city earlier this year after it became public that a registered sex offender was employed at The Pride Center at Equality Park. The facility has a playground that is frequented by children. The community center at 2040 N. Dixie Highway was built to provide same sex couples a place for their children to play. The facility serves the LGBT community. The commission will likely discuss the topic at its next meeting. “A number of people have spoken to me on how we can ensure our children are protected in Wilton Manors. The only way I have determined that we might be able to do it … is to tie the issuance of a business license or business tax receipt to background checks of employees and volunteers,” Carson said at the June 26 commission meeting. Former Pride Center employee Clarence Charles Collins, 63, was fired earlier this year after news of his arrest for the rape of an 11-year-old girl got out. Collins was arrested in 1995 and later confessed to raping the girl and threatening her with a gun if she told anyone. He had been employed as a janitor at the Pride Center for years and sometimes worked near children. State statutes prohibit sex offenders from
working around children. Pride Center CEO Robert Boo fired Collins in mid-March after a parent implored him to take action. At the time, he claimed ignorance of the law. The Florida Department of Children and Families requires employees and volunteers who work at daycare facilities, camps, and mental health facilities that serve children to undergo background checks. But the status of the Pride Center — because it is not a preschool or camp — is less clear. “My concern here is while there are many people that do follow the law and understand the law as far as protecting our children, we have seen recently that that may not be the case,” Carson said. “I would like to have the city manager consider if there a way we can tie business licenses to criteria for background checks.” Under Florida law, a sex offender whose victim was under 18 years old cannot live within 1,000 feet of schools or places where children congregate. Vice Mayor Justin Flippen said the issue should be researched. “State law currently requires many childoriented businesses to conduct background checks and to not hire employees or to separate from employment those who fail these background checks,” Flippen said. “Whether there is a need for local cities to mandate background checks beyond those required by state law … is something we can collaboratively determine as a city commission.” WMG
The Gazette decided to start uploading the meetings to its YouTube page and posting a link to it in its Facebook group so readers will still be able to have easy access to the city’s meetings. In another hyper local example the Gazette recently assigned a photographer to capture the city’s annual canoe race. An event like that would not appeal to the broader SFGN audience and so the Gazette would not have assigned it. But the Facebook group gives the Gazette a place to highlight local events such as the canoe race. “We hope this Facebook group will provide a new way for readers and residents to interactive with our newspaper and their community,” Kent said. WMG
Visit Facebook.com/groups/WMGazette to join the discussion. The Gazette welcomes feedback for its new community initiative. Email Jason.Parsley@sfgn.com with comments, suggestions, etc.
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Dan and Phil, the Interactive Introverts, are bringing their world tour to the Broward Center tonight at 7 p.m. The duo that gained fame on YouTube promise a theatrical stage show with hilarious anecdotes, sketches, lots of audience interaction you’ll probably regret, a loose story tying it all together and some zany surprises the audience will never see coming. Tickets start at $34.75 at BrowardCenter.org.
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’ll never forget the first time I saw the 1978 French film, “La Cage aux Folles.” I was 12 or 13, sneaking a peak on “The Movie Channel,” the first premium cable channel available in the rural Missouri town where I lived. Maybe I was sheltered—I wouldn’t be able to log on to AOL for another 15 years—but, I was certainly confused. I could have sworn that the “mother” in that family was really a man! I’m pretty sure the English subtitles didn’t aid my comprehension, either. Now, jump forward 40 years. New Yorkbased playwright S.P. Monahan likens their new comedy “Aunt Jack” to a 21st century take on that classic gender-bending tale. The play will receive its world premiere at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale, opening July 19. “It’s about the 21st-century LGBT family,” Monahan said in a telephone interview. “I’m in my twenties, so I’ve come of age in a more accepting time…or so I thought.” The protagonist in Monahan’s story is Norman Sable-Church. After breaking up with his longtime boyfriend, Norman moves across the country, leaving his fathers, George and Jack, in a tizzy. Months later, after Norman learns that George, a prominent gay activist and historian, is in failing health, the young man returns home to make amends and introduce his parents to his new partner, Andy. In a crucial twist to the “La Cage” archetype, Jack, a well-known drag performer and Phyllis, Norman’s mother, become dismayed to discover their son is not quite the man they had hoped to raise. Tensions quickly build into an intergenerational confrontation over sexuality, identity and monogamy. One of the biggest influences on Monahan’s career, has been a long association with playwright and female impersonator Charles
Busch, who Monahan describes as “my Auntie Mame.” At the age of 12, Monahan was first cast in Busch’s holiday show, “Times Square Angel.” Busch has since served as a mentor, helping guide Monahan to acclaim with “Diva: Live from Hell,” a one-man show that eventually evolved from a 45-minute sketch comedy into a full-fledged hit Off Broadway musical. Monahan identifies as nonbinary. “I’m not sure how prevalent that is outside of places like New York. I’ve lived in a bubble. When you grow up in an environment like I have, gender was always something that was an open question. I identified with being a boy when I was boy, but I never really identified with manhood, yet I don’t identify with transgender or wanting to transition to a woman. Someone told me you don’t have to be one or the other, but as both,” Monahan explained. Monahan penned the first draft of “Aunt Jack” four years ago. While attending a writers’ retreat, the young playwright met director and dramaturg Michael Bush, now a South Florida resident, who quickly recognized Monahan’s talent and offered notes. After a friend suggested Monahan mount the premiere at Empire Stage, it was the intimate theater’s director, David Gordon, who suggested Bush direct the show, bringing that relationship full circle. It will be a big weekend for Monahan, as a second theater company in Vermont mounts its own production of “Aunt Jack,” opening one night later on July 20. While the writer has been participating in rehearsals in Fort Lauderdale, Monahan has not lent input into the other production. “It will be interesting to see both,” commented Monahan. “One I had a hand in and the one I didn’t.”
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*Leg Up
July 3 to 5 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. A lifelong horse rider falls victim to an injury requiring amputation. This powerful film shows the physical and emotional determination-filled process of overcoming the obstacles necessary to once again live one’s passion. Tickets $7 to $8. Call 561-296-9382..
*The Lion King Jr
Friday, July 7 and Saturday, July 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hollywood Central Perfoming Arts Center, 1770 Monroe St, Hollywood Fl. The spectacular Broadway favorite performed by Broadway Actors campers. Tickets $10 for adults and $8 for children. Visit ArtAndCultureCenter.org.
Cabaret
July 6 to July 22 at the Studio One Theater, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. A raucous musical that comes roaring to life in the infamous Kit Kat Klub where some of Broadway’s most memorable songs spill onto the stage. Tickets $25. Visit fauevents.com
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broward county *The Lion King Jr
Friday, July 7 and Saturday, July 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hollywood Central Perfoming Arts Center, 1770 Monroe St, Hollywood Fl. The spectacular Broadway favorite performed by Broadway Actors campers. Tickets $10 for adults and $8 for children. Visit ArtAndCultureCenter.org.
*Aunt Jack
July 19 to August 12 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr., Fort Lauderdale. This part comedy, part coming of age story follows a multigenerational family of prominent gays as they learn about love, acceptance, identity and sexuality. Tickets $35. Call 954-678-1496.
Mr. Parker
June 16 to July 15 at the Island City Stage, 2304 N Dixie Hwy, Wilton Manors. Suddenly single at 54, Terry Parker is having a midlife crisis and struggling to keep up with the world around him, until he wakes up one morning in bed with a 28-year-old man he met the night before. Tickets $35. Call 954519-2533 or visit islandcitystage.org
United States Navy Band Cruisers 2018 National Tour
Sunday, July 8 at 2 p.m. at Bailey Hall, 3501 Davie Rd, Davie. Free concert showcasing a wide-range of music including jazz, rhythm & blues, classic rock and contemporary pop. Call 954-201-6884 to RSVP.
palm beach county *A Kid Like Jake
July 3 to 5 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. Jake is a gender-nonconforming four year old with loving parents who soon discover his identity could be the key ingredient in navigating New York City’s hypercompetitive private school system. Emotional and ethical turmoil ensue. Tickets $7 to $8. Call 561-296-9382.
*Leg Up
July 3 to 5 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. A lifelong horse rider falls victim to an injury
requiring amputation. This powerful film shows the physical and emotional determination-filled process of overcoming the obstacles necessary to once again live one’s pas-sion. Tickets $7 to $8. Call 561-2969382.
*Woody Guthrie’s American Song
July 13 to August 5 at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach. A show featuring music inspired by America and the people who fought to find meaning in their lives. Call 561-514-4042.
miami-dade county Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
July 20 to August 12 at Main Street Players, 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes. An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing. Tickets available at MainStreetPlayers.com
Outdoor Music Series
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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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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‘Villa Rosa’ with Cuban filmmaker Lázaro González
Tuesday, July 10 at 7 p.m. at the Stonewall National Museum, 2157 Wilton Drive. Through a combination of fiction and documentary, “Villa Rosa” addresses sexual diversity, gender identity and the culture of LGBT resistance in a seemingly macho town that has become a place of greater acceptance of sexual diversity in Cuba. Suggested donation of $5, refreshments provided. Visit stonewallmuseum.org
*‘Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945’
May 7 through May 25 at ArtServe, 1350 East Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. This multimedia exhibition explores the many ways in which art heals the soul and rejuvenates the spirit. Admission to the gallery is free. Visit artserve.org
E4 Life: Green Health & Wellness Expo
July 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the STEN Studio, 1209 Main St. #112, Jupiter. Learn more about healthy living, sustainable initiatives, and environmental conservation. Food vendors, workshops, environmentally conscious shopping and more. Call 561-8321988 for more info.
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
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.
Survivor Support
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.
broward county *‘Villa Rosa’ with Cuban filmmaker Lázaro González
Tuesday, July 10 at 7 p.m. at the Stonewall National Museum, 2157 Wilton Drive. Through a combination of fiction and documentary, “Villa Rosa” addresses sexual diversity, gender identity and the culture of LGBT resistance in a seemingly macho town that has become a place of greater acceptance of sexual diversity in Cuba. Suggested donation of $5, refreshments provid-ed. Visit stonewallmuseum.org
*‘Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945’
Thursday, July 19 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Stonewall National Museum, 2157 Wilton Drive. Through reproductions of historic photographs and documents, the exhibition explores the rationale, means and impact of the Nazi regime’s persecution of homosexuals, which left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more. Suggested
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*‘Paragraph 175’
Thursday, July 26 at 6 p.m. at the Stonewall National Museum, 2157 Wilton Drive. Weimar, Germany was a homosexual Eden in the 1920s: gay and lesbian nightclubs and magazines flourished, the first homosexual rights movement was born...and then the Nazis came to power. Suggested donation of $5, refreshments provided. Visit stonewallmuseum.org.
*‘In Motion’ Art Exhibit Reception
Saturday, July 14 at 6 p.m. at the Claudia Castillo Art Studio, 2215 Wilton Drive. A thought provoking exhibition exploring people’s connection through motion by Evelyn Walg. Exhibit showing through August 10. Visit claudiacastilloartstudio. com.
July 4 - July 10 Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos
Thursday, July 12 at 7 p.m. at the Stonewall National Museum in Wilton Manors. A live reading of poetry cultivated from 50 LGBTQ poets who came together in the spirit and solidarity of peter at its finest — and fiercest. Suggested donation of $5. Refreshments provided courtesy of Barefoot Wine & Bubbly. Visit stonewall-museum.org
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Lunch With Art
Every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 pm at 41 NE st 33060, Pompano Beach. Indulge your creative side in this free hands-on program. Bring your own lunch or grab a bite to eat at the in-house cafe.
Voices of Pride
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.
palm beach county *High Gloss 2018: The Art of Fashion and Design
Saturday, July 14 at 7 p.m. opening reception at The Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach. An exhibition of fine art photography, wearable art, and lifestyle accessories. Showing through August 10. Suggested donation of $10. Call 786-5211199.
Brain Sparks — Neuroscientists
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July 7, August 4 & 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the STEM Studio, 1209 Main St. #112, Jupiter. Learn about neuroscience and brains from FAU neuroscientists. Register at sfsciencecenter.org/brain-sparks
E4 Life: Green Health & Wellness Expo
July 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the STEN Studio, 1209 Main St. #112, Jupiter. Learn more about healthy living, sustainable initiatives, and environmental conservation. Food vendors, workshops, environmentally
conscious shopping and more. Call 561-8321988 for more info.
LGBTQ Teen Support Group
Tuesdays from 6 pm to 7 pm at the Falk Center for Couseling, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton. Join experts in a support group that addresses discrimination, coming out, depression, PTSD and how to deal with these stresses as an LGBTQ teen. Call 561483-5300 to register in advance.
miami-dade county 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.
POZCONNECT Support Group for Gay and Bi Men
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.
Arsht Center Farmers Market
Mondays from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. Purchase fresh food from local farmers, including fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, as well as chefs, live music, and cooking demonstrations. Tickets $45 to $75. Free. Visit ArshtCenter.org/en/Visit/Dining.
key west The Tea Dance After Party
Sundays from 7 p.m. until close at Mangoes, 700 Duval St. Upstairs Ricky Ricardo Room. Boogie the night away with a little help from delicious drinks, great music and free admission.
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