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The City of Atlanta also recently hired Bergthold to go after one of their clubs, Tokyo Valentino Erotique. But after Bergthold’s anti-LGBT record came to light, their City Commission fired him. Project Q, an LGBT publication in Atlanta, first reported on Bergthold’s past conduct, revealing his long history of anti-gay activism. They covered the story extensively. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also uncovered Bergthold’s past professional practices. They wrote that “Bergthold, a 1997 grad of evangelist Pat Robertson’s Regent University School of Law, has worked for years in conjunction with the Alliance Defending Freedom, the de facto legal squad for the religious right.” According to Project Q, ADF gave more than $213,000 in grants to Bergthold’s law office between 2010 and 2016. The media outlet also reported Bergthold’s many donations supporting measures to ban same-sex marriage in California.

Project Q revealed that Bergthold, whose law practice is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had supported city ordinances banning transgender people from using bathrooms associated with their gender. According to Project Q, Bergthold also once claimed that AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases are the results of “America’s moral decay.” Members of the City Council in Dallas, Texas once objected to Bergthold working on behalf of their city. According to the Dallas Observer the city still voted to keep Bergthold on its payroll. “If this guy was an Aryan leader, we’d be having a totally different conversation,” the Observer reported council member Mark Clayton saying. “But because he doesn’t like gay people, we are where we are.” SFGN left a voicemail for Lauderhill’s city manager and emailed the city’s mayor. Neither acknowledged SFGN’s messages by publication time.

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he City of Lauderhill has retained the services of an infamous attorney with an anti-LGBT record to litigate its case against an adult entertainment club in the city. According to a public records request obtained by SFGN, the city has already paid $81,788 to the Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold. The attorney, Bergthold, is renowned for using his law office as a vehicle to target, sue, and try to shut down adult entertainment establishments across the country. The 23-year-old Lauderhill club he has been hired to go after is Vegas Cabaret, located at 5428 N University Drive. It has been a nightclub for many years. “We believe the city’s code is unconstitutional. Their definitions and application toward our clients are unconstitutional,” said Danny Aaronson, the attorney representing Vegas. “We believe any clothing that a female wears today under the ordinance would be considered partially nude. The only way to comply with it is basically to wear a burqa.”

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Valkyrie confirmed as Marvel’s first bisexual superhero Tessa Thompson’s character Valkyrie will be the first LGBT superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 2021 film, “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Thompson has said in the past that her character is bisexual, but at the San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, she said that in the next film, Valkyrie, who was crowned king of Asgard, “needs to find her queen,” according to International Business Times. President of Marvel Kevin Feige even confirmed Valkyrie is LGBT in an interview with Collider: “Yes that’s the case, and will be the case not just with [Valkyrie] but with other characters in some of the movies we talked about today,” he said. Feige said along with Valkyrie being the first bisexual superhero, there will also be an LGBT character in the 2020 film, “The Eternals.”

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Trans woman’s killer dodges a hate crime Islan Nettles, 21, was walking home in Harlem in 2013 when she ran into James Dixon. Dixon began flirting with her, but once he realized she was transgender, he pushed Nettles, she pushed back, and he punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground, causing a brain injury that later killed her. But while Dixon was charged with first and second-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault, he dodged a hate crime, thanks to the “gay and trans panic defense,” which sums the defendant’s actions up to be a result of the victim’s gender or sexual orientation, according to VICE News. “Lawmakers have to understand that this is a defense that devalues the lives of LGBTQ+ people,”

Delores Nettles, the mother of Islan Nettles, holds up her daughter’s picture. Photo via Facebook.

Director of Development for the National LGBT Bar Association Seth Rosen told VICE. On June 19, New York legislators voted to ban the panic defense, making it the sixth state to do so.

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Asexual teen murdered one day after coming out Bianca Devins, a 17-year-old Instagram influencer, came out as biromantic asexual to her followers during a Q&A. One day later, she was murdered. Brandon Andrew Clark, 21, partially decapitated Bevins with a knife and called 911. He then proceeded to stab himself in the neck, take pictures of her body, and post them online, according to Out. “I have seen the pictures. I will FOREVER have those images in my mind when I think of her. When I close my eyes, those images haunt me,” Kaleigh Nicole, Devins’ stepmom, wrote on Facebook. “Imagine sitting there, in disbelief and praying to God that this is all some mistake and that your baby will walk through the door any minute. Now imagine seeing those pictures and having everything in you break. Imagine not

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Polish Gay Pride march met with violence, protest

Gay man challenges gay sex ban in Dominica

The Polish city, Bialystok, held its first ever Pride march Saturday, drawing about 1,000 attendees, protected on both sides by police. But the parade also drew anti-gay protestors, throwing flash bombs, rocks, and glass bottles at the crowd, according to CNN. There was also an outdoor prayer vigil and a picnic to “defend Christian values.” Some activists think the backlash against the march has to do with politicians and other prominent figures in Poland using anti-LGBT speech. “We are in the middle of an ongoing wave of hateful propaganda, which is fueled by both the state and the Catholic Church,” Hubert Sobecki, co-president of LGBT organization Love Does Not Exclude, told CNN.

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The police deployed stun grenades and pepper spray to disperse the farright, violent protestors, and the march ended soon after.

A gay man in Dominica, an island in the Carribean, filed a legal claim challenging laws that punish gay sex with prison and psychiatric confinement. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network told the Thomson Reuters Foundation the man is trying to prove that the law violates Dominican people’s constitutional right to privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom from degrading or inhumane punishment. Gay people are considered criminals in Dominica, and when the man who filed the lawsuit faced violence, police didn’t step in. “He has suffered extreme abuses ... including being attacked in his own home, and the police did nothing about it,” Morice Tomlinson, senior policy analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal

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Network told the Reuters. Gay sex is currently punishable with up to 12 years in prison in Dominica.

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Two suspects arrested in Malaysian gay sex tape scandal

Activists ‘mortified’ at appeal against legalizing gay sex

A gay sex tape leaked last month, rumored to show Malaysian Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin, and police have confirmed they’ve made two more arrests in connection to the video. Gay sex is illegal in Malaysia, and can land you in prison for 20 years, according to Gay Star News. Since the video came out, Azmin denied being one of the men shown having sex, and police have accused the video’s distributors of creating a scandal to end his career. “We will investigate who is behind this ... it is understood that some of suspects’ remand would end soon but we would apply for an extension to enable us to investigate further,” Police Inspector General Abdul Hamid Bador said, according to Channel News Asia. Bador said police found that the

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video is most likely authentic, but facial recognition couldn’t identify the individuals in the tape.

Botswana’s High Court ruled to outlaw colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex last month, but the attorney general decided to appeal the ruling. While the laws are rarely enforced, rights groups say they promote discrimination against the LGBT community, according to VOA News. And while gay communities find hope in the initial ruling to overturn the laws, activists say the appeal is a step in the wrong direction. “My heart was saddened by that, I felt mortified. We were moving forward; we were making progress, but now it is like we are two steps back,” Botswanan musician, and one of the country’s few out public figures, Motswafere Sithole said, according to VOA News. A date for the hearing has yet to be set

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to review the High Court’s judgement.

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controversial Pete Buttigieg op-ed Mariah Cooper Washington Blade

he New Republic, a magazine that New Republic editor Chris Lehmann covers art and politics, has retracted claimed to CNN that the op-ed was intended a controversial op-ed about Pete to be taken as satire. Buttigieg written by openly gay literary critic “The New Republic recognizes that this Dale Peck. post crossed a line, and while it was largely NBC News reports that the op-ed, titled intended as satire, it was inappropriate and “My Mayor Pete Problem,” references the invasive,” Lehmann told CNN’s Brian Stelter. South Bend, Indiana mayor However, Peck shared the as “Mary Pete” throughout story on his Facebook page “The New Republic and appeared to indicate that the article. Peck also refers to Buttigieg as “the gay equivalent the story wasn’t meant to be recognizes that of Uncle Tom.” satirical. this post crossed Peck questions Buttigieg’s “So I took your all’s advice a line, and while ability to be president because and made my view on Mary Pete Buttigieg came out later on in public. I guess I’m not going to it was largely life. get a cabinet position now. Or intended as “The last thing I want in an NEA grant. Or be honored at the White House is a gay man the Carnegie Center and get to satire, it was staring down 40 who suddenly have my Aretha moment where inappropriate and realizes he didn’t get to have all I drop my mink on the stage. invasive.” the fun his straight peers did But maybe if I’m lucky I’ll still when they were teenagers,” get to make a president cry,” - Chris Lehmann New Republic editor Peck wrote. Peck wrote. “(Entre nous: The In another part of the opNew Republic went with the ed, Peck writes that the difference between nice title. My suggestion was ‘Basic Bitch.’)” Buttigieg and the other “well-educated Despite the publication’s apology, the reasonably intelligent white dude who wanna magazine suffered at least one sponsorship be president is what he does with his d—.”‘ hit. The League of Conservation Voters has The article was published on Friday and cut ties with an upcoming climate change by Saturday, it had been taken down by New forum co-hosted by the New Republic. Republic after it was slammed on social “The offensive piece by this author, and media for its offensive content. the choice to run it, are inconsistent with Editor-in-Chief Win McCormack issued an our values and LCV is withdrawing our apology to Buttigieg and to New Republic’s participation in the presidential primary readers. candidate climate forum previously “I want to extend our sincerest apologies announced in New York City on September to Mayor Buttigieg, as well as to our readers 23,” LCV’s President Gene Karpinski said for an article that was inappropriate in a statement. “We will remain focused on and offensive,” McCormack said in the the important work of elevating the climate statement. “We have high standards at The crisis in this election and encouraging all the New Republic, but sometimes we fall short. candidates to be prioritizing solutions.” Yesterday we made a mistake, but we remain Buttigieg commented on the controversy, committed to honoring the tradition of high telling the Associated Press, “I appreciated standards and journalistic integrity that have that [the] article was taken down. I don’t been the hallmark of The New Republic for think it really reflects the New Republic that more than 100 years.” I know.” Washington Blade courtesy of the National LGBTQ Media Association.

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A Plan For Your Pet What happens to them if something happens to me?

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ost people don’t want to think about it, let alone know what their options are. That is: what will happen to their pet after they die or can no longer provide adequate care.

But according to Sue Martino, it’s a scenario to be considered sooner rather than later. Martino, the executive director of the Pet Project for Pets, said the wheels started turning for her after attending “Coffee and Conversation” events at The Pride Center at Equality Park. Those sessions are part of the center’s senior services activities, and often include topics about financial planning, wills and other end of life issues. Martino has spoken at Coffee and Conversation about the Pet Project, too. “On numerous occasions people have come up to me afterwards and said, ‘What happens to my pets if something happens to me; what program do you have?’” she said. The Pet Project — which provides pet food and other services for economically challenged clients — didn’t have such a program, so Martino started to develop one. One of her previous volunteers who is now on the board, Rex Vacca, helped to establish the Pet Legacy Program. Vacca had worked for the Neptune Society, which helps people plan for cremation services. Martino also made inroads with representatives of Our Fund in Wilton Manors, and after a year of research and conferring with two veterinarians, the Pet Project started to offer the Pet Legacy

Program to its clients. Participants are expected to set aside $10,000, whether through a will, life insurance, real estate, or stocks or gifts from a retirement plan. The commitment can be managed through Our Fund or the Pet Project. The Pet Project option also offers a life insurance package. Martino said 10 individuals have signed up in a little more than a year. “What a lot of pet owners don’t think about are the potential costs that can arise with their pets, whether it’s cancer or diabetes treatment,” Martino said. “It’s important because people have to be responsible for their animals if something happens to them.” She said that while family and friends often pledge to take care of a pet if something happens, it doesn’t always work out. “They’ll say that, but it’s a burden; maybe because they have other animals already and then your animal comes in and disrupts everything or maybe the animals don’t get along. It’s a lot to expect or ask from someone,” she said. As part of the program, the staff members at the Pet Project take a detailed profile of the pet so that when the time comes they can find a home that is most closely associated with the pet’s lifestyle. Site visits

“On numerous occasions people have come up to me afterwards and said, ‘What happens to my pets if something happens to me; what program do you have?’” - Sue Martino Pet Project Founder

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Sue Martino. Photo by Sergio Tirado.

are done and all the needs and services are provided for the pet, Martino said.

assist pet owners living with HIV. “[Those living with HIV] were saying, ‘Our social workers, our people are telling us we can’t afford to keep our pets, what do Furry mission we do?’” Martino said. “Some people had no family, everybody turned Martino, 64, has been at away. All people had was their the Pet Project since 2007. animal.” “My passion has She was named one of SFGN’s The Pet Project places pets always been for “Out 50” this year, dubbed in foster care if someone is in animals and people the hospital and in permanent “The Pet Rescuer.” Before landing in South homes when someone dies. who are seniors. Florida as a real estate agent, It’s not a shelter, but Martino My mom had she operated one of the first has developed relationships [multiple sclerosis]. with the Humane Society of lesbian bar-clubs in New York City. She is married to Maggie Broward County and Broward I know what Martino, the hotel manager County’s Animal Care and disability is, so I at Aqua Hotel at North Beach Adoption Center to provide Village in Fort Lauderdale. have a soft spot for vaccines and other services (like spaying/neutering, In case you were wondering, those things.” heartworm tests, flea and tick the couple has three cats and medication) for those who two dogs. - Sue Martino qualify. The Pet Project operates out Pet Project Founder “We give [clients] food, of a building at 2200 NW 9th Ave. in Wilton Manors. It runs a thrift shop we help with vet care, we are a unique and a warehouse — where clients come on organization. We keep pets in their homes the first Saturday of the month to get pet with their families. We give the people what food and supplies, as well as referrals for they need,” Martino said. As HIV diagnoses have transitioned out reduced cost veterinary services. The nonprofit was founded in 2002 to of being a death sentence, particularly since

NEWS local the late 2000s, the Pet Project expanded to help people with any disability or illness who are financially strapped. Today it serves more than 1,500 clients and pets between Broward and Miami-Dade counties. About 95 percent of clients are part of the LGBT community. Prequalified clients pick up a two to three month supply of pet food and supplies. For those in Miami-Dade, a box truck is used to distribute the food. Clients qualify by providing a Social Security or disability award letter. Martino said she will also help people who are temporarily out of work. “My passion has always been for animals and people who are seniors,” she said. “My mom had [multiple sclerosis]. I know what disability is, so I have a soft spot for those things.”

Furry opportunities Martino said that while the thrift store provides some funding, at best it is about one-third of the budget. Another third comes from writing grants to foundations and corporations and the final third comes from hosting events, like the “Bowl-a-Thon”

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(July 27) and “Pushups for Pets” (Nov. 23). Martino said the Pet Project is always in need of pet food, donations and volunteers. There is a large backyard at the facility where she needs volunteers to help with pet parties on the weekends. “We want to let the community know we have this space. You want to do your dog’s birthday party: here you go, we’ll give you a couple little swimming pools, we have doggie toys, we have a BBQ grill, you know, knock yourself out, rent the backyard,” she said. “It’ll help us with pet food and it’s a great thing for the community. The community can come anytime actually.” For more information, to qualify, donate or volunteer, go to ThePetProjectfl.org or call 954-568-5678.

Bowl-a-thon for Pets The 4th annual Bowl-a-Thon takes place July 27 at Manor Lanes in Wilton Manors, located at 1517 NE 26th St. Registration is from 9-9:45 a.m. and bowling begins at 10 a.m. The event serves as one of the Pet Project’s main fundraisers of the year. Those interested in participating can register online to start or join a team. As part of the registration, you can

Can five-year-old Maxie

set a fundraising goal. The Pet Project is hoping to raise $20,000 during the event. The entry fee is $50. Those who can’t attend can donate to the event online as well. Participants can expect door prizes, a raffle and an after party at Smarty Pants in Fort Lauderdale, located at 2400 E. Oakland Park Blvd.

Food in Pet Project’s warehouse. Photo by Sergio Tirado

the company of other dogs, but will do best in a home without felines since she likes to chase them. Maxie enjoys going for walks, is alert and potty-

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trained. Stop by to meet her and she might be your perfect match.

The adoption fee for dogs over 6 months is $100 and felines over 6 months are $30. When you adopt from the Humane Society of Broward County the dogs and cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, receive preliminary vaccinations, cats are feline leukemia tested, and dogs over 7 months are tested for heartworm. They also receive a flea/tick preventative, a 10-day limited health care plan from VCA Animal Hospitals, 30 days of Trupanion Pet Insurance and a bag of Purina ONE pet food. The HSBC opens daily at 10:30 and is located at 2070 Griffin Road, a block west of I-95. For more details call 954-989-3977 ext. 6. To see who else is looking for a home visit www.humanebroward.com.

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nother two lawsuits were filed last significance of the liability that they are facing week in California against the U.S. based on their conduct,” which could amount pharmaceutical company Gilead to billions of dollars, he said referring to Sciences, Inc. by several dozen patients who Gilead. claim the company withheld from the market “And second of all is simply to plant the for more than a decade a drug for treating HIV idea in Gilead’s mind that ultimately the best that it knew was safer and more effective than resolution of this is to compensate the people the drug it promoted during that period. who were harmed,” Weinstein said. The two personal injury lawsuits accuse “For years, Gilead represented its TDFGilead of intentionally continuing to promote based medications as safe and effective, the HIV medication tenofovir disoproxil misleading Plaintiffs, their doctors, and the fumarate (TDF), which was known to cause medical community into believing that no serious kidney and bone damage, so it could safer alternative design existed that would profit from the drug before its patent on the have saved Plaintiffs from TDF’s dangerous medication was to expire in 2015. effects,” says one of the two lawsuits filed July At the same time, the lawsuits charge, Gilead 12 in Alameda County, California, Superior withheld from the market a far Court. safer version of the drug called “Indeed, it was Gilead that tenofovir alafenamide (TAF), discovered and helped develop which it knew would more the safer design around the effectively treat HIV without same time it developed TDF causing any of the serious side in the mid to late 1990s,” the effects caused by TDF. lawsuit says. “Gilead, however, The lawsuits charge that shelved TAF, the safer design, many patients taking one of in 2004. Gilead marketed and five Gilead HIV drugs for which sold only the dangerous and TDF was a key component less effective design – TDF and needlessly suffered debilitating TDF-based combination pills – and sometimes fatal kidney and for approximately 15 years,” the bone damage as well as damage lawsuit continues. to their teeth. Also adversely “Then, when its monopoly impacted by TDF, the lawsuits on those TDF drugs was about - Elizabeth Graham claim, were HIV-negative to expire, Gilead sought and Personal Injury Lawyer people taking the Gilead drug received approval from the U.S. Truvada, which contained TDF, as part of the Food and Drug Administration to sell, and HIV prevention regimen known as PrEP. market TAF-based drugs, allowing it to extend In response to these and as many as a dozen its exclusivity on tenofovir and keep its HIV or more similar lawsuits filed by HIV patients drugs branded and priced high to increase its and PrEP users in state and federal courts in profits,” the lawsuit says. California over the past two years, the AIDS A spokesperson for Gilead Sciences didn’t Healthcare Foundation on Monday called on immediately respond to an email and phone Gilead to create a $10 billion fund “for victims message from the Blade asking the company harmed by its TDF-based drugs.” to comment on this and other similar lawsuits Michael Weinstein, executive director of filed against it during the past two years over AHF, the nation’s largest AIDS advocacy and the TDF and TAF drug allegations. HIV/AIDS patient care organization, said a Gilead’s attorneys disputed the allegations large compensation fund would benefit both that the company failed to adequately alert Gilead and the more than 1,000 patients that patients and doctors of the adverse side are plaintiffs in the multiple lawsuits against effects of TDF in a July 10 motion filed in the Gilead over the TDF issue. U.S. District Court for the Northern District “We had two goals in putting this out,” of California in a motion calling for the court said Weinstein. “One was to underline the to dismiss yet another lawsuit filed against it

“Gilead owed its consumer patients the safest possible drug, but opted to withhold that drug from the market in the name of profit.”

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over the TDF-TAF issue. That case, Adrian Holley, et al vs. Gilead Sciences, Inc., was filed in March 2018 and is one of several TDF-related cases filed against Gilead in federal court in California. In its motion to dismiss, Gilead argues that plaintiffs have failed to provide sufficient evidence that “newly acquired information” surfaced that would have allowed Gilead to “strengthen warnings contained in TDF medication labeling after 2008.” Gilead has stated in the past it has included warnings about possible harmful side effects of TDF for people who have a history of kidney or bone-related ailments. The lawsuits, however, have charged the company with failing to issue an alert that TDF could cause serious kidney and bone damage for people who did not have a history of kidney or bone-related problems. “Plaintiffs still have not alleged, inter alia, facts supporting when they or their doctors were exposed to any alleged misrepresentations, what misrepresentations they or their doctors were exposed to, or if or how their or their doctors’ conduct changed based on any such misrepresentations, as required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures 8(a) and 99(b),” Gilead attorneys state in their motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit. The motion to dismiss makes no mention of the other key allegation in this and the other lawsuits — that Gilead withheld the release of the safer HIV drug TAF to enable it to reap its profits from TDF until its patent on that drug expired in 2015. The lawsuit filed on July 12 in Alameda County, entitled Gary Smith, et al vs. Gilead Sciences, Inc. includes 41 plaintiffs who are seeking financial compensation for damages

of an as yet undeclared amount on grounds that Gilead violated “Strict Products Liability – Failure to Warn” requirements; engaged in “Negligence and Gross-Negligence—Design Defect and Failure-to-Warn” related to the harmful effects of TDF; Fraud; and “Breach of Express and Implied Warranty.” The Smith v. Gilead lawsuit was filed five days after a separate lawsuit accusing Gilead of the same allegations of failing to adequately alert patients to the harmful side effects of TDF and withholding the release of the safer drug TAF was filed in San Diego County Superior Court under the case name Timothy Williams, et al vs. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. “This case is a shocking example of corporate greed,” said Elizabeth Graham, one of the lead attorneys with Grant & Eisenhofer, an Oakland, California-based law firm that filed the San Diego case on behalf of the plaintiffs it is representing. “Gilead owed its consumer patients the safest possible drug, but opted to withhold that drug from the market in the name of profit,” Graham said in a statement. Liza Brereton, an attorney with HIV Litigation Attorneys, a law firm created to focus on personal injury and class action lawsuits filed against Gilead related to TDF, said judges with the multiple California state courts in which the pending lawsuits against Gilead have been filed have scheduled a hearing in Los Angles for July 30 in which the cases were expected to be consolidated into one large case. “So it’s taken a while but pretty soon we’ll be all in front of one judge in one court and things will be moving pretty quickly,” Brereton said. She said the cases in federal courts will continue as separate cases.

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South of the Border Part 2 Rick Karlin

Skip the Tex-Mex, and try out these authentic Latin American cuisines.

ast week, the opening of Almacen de Empanadas prompted a look at the varied cuisine of Mexico’s different regions. Empanadas can be found in almost every other country in Central and South America. The cuisine of these countries differs as much as the terrain, weather and natural resources do. Some of the countries still show strong influences of their indigenous peoples; others still hold on to the traditions of the Spanish colonists while some have been heavily influenced by other European and Asian settlers.

s you head south from Mexico and rice is still a staple, and black beans are enter Central America, Honduras, predominant. Arepas, a pancake made Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica of cornmeal, accompany many meals in and Panama, have, for the most part, more Venezuela and Colombia while potatoes in common with Caribbean are ubiquitous in Ecuador countries than they do with and Peru. Peruvian cuisine Mexico, showing much also exhibits strong Asian Colombia, more colonial European influences from early influences. The one Venezuela, Ecuador settlers coming over from exception to this is Mexico’s Japan and China. and Peru tend neighbor Guatemala, which Southern South America to have wider, features more extensive use (Chile, Argentina, Paraguay of chilies in its cuisine. The and Uruguay) are among the open fields and fertile farmland in Central countries with the highest consequently, America, combined with per capita consumption of temperate weather, makes cattle are easier beef in the world. The sole it an area rich in produce. exception is in Patagonia, Plantains, whether sweet or to raise, so you’ll the southernmost region starchy, accompany almost of Argentina and Chile, find beef used every meal. While tortillas the Andes Mountains more extensively. where are used, pupusas, a thick ramble down to the coastal corn meal cake often stuffed areas. The scrublands here with cheese, vegetables and meat, are also are more conducive to the raising of lamb popular. Pork is the predominant meat. and goat. Seafood dishes also abound in Northern South America, Colombia, Argentina and Chile, with each country Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, tend to having large coastal borders along the have wider, open fields and consequently, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. cattle are easier to raise, so you’ll find Again, the influences of European beef used more extensively. Seafood settlers mingle with those of the dishes are also prevalent, especially in indigenous people to create a vast and the coastal areas of Peru and Ecuador, varied cuisine. In this part of South where ceviche-style dishes are common. America, you’ll find many dishes using Vegetables such as bell peppers, onions, legumes, pumpkin and olive oil. Chile tomatoes and garlic (often referred to as and Argentina are also renowned for “sofrito” when together) are the seasoning their vineyards which produce some of base for many dishes and recipes. White the best wines in the world.

So, where can you sample some of the diverse foods of South and Central America? While there are many Latin fusion restaurants in the area, the following places serve up the real deal and are either owned or operated by natives of the countries listed. I’ve limited the list to independently operated places serving authentic food. A few of the countries are not represented by restaurants in this area.

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El Tamarindo, 712 Atlantic Shores Blvd., Hallandale Beach; 954-456-4447; eltamarindocafe.com

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La Costa Honduran Cuisine, 1855 S. State Rd. 7, Fort Lauderdale; 954-626-0714, lacostafl.com

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Viva Chile Lindo, 4950 S. State Rd. 7, Hollywood; 954-327-2888, vivachilelindo.com

Pinolandia,1290 N. Military Trail, West Palm; 561-429-4620, facebook.com/ pinolandiawpb

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Las Colinas, 2724 N. Andrews, Wilton Manors; 954-390-7410, lascolinaslatinfood.com

Bravo Peruvian Cuisine, 2925 NE 6th Ave., Wilton Manors; 954-533-4350, facebook.com/bravoperuviancuisine

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La Casserola, 6941 SW 196th Ave, Pembroke Pines; 954-470-5021; lacasserola.com.

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Reminiscing with Surprises Brian McNaught

e laid on our backs on the raft, with the slight breeze off the mountains gently rocking us in Tupper Lake. Lincoln chose the cool, soft pine needles on the shady point instead. We began to reminisce. It’s a luxury of one’s post-retirement years. My mind is free of work-related details, so I get to focus keenly on Ray. It’s fun to try to recall the beginning of a conversation. Ray was talking about how thin he was in the photo of him kissing me in my dashing Zorro costume. For several years, I dressed up for Provincetown’s Carnival parade. I was Merlin, the Maharishi Yogi and Rafiki, the wise baboon in “The Lion King.” “I was really sick that summer,” said Ray. “I spent most of it in bed. You were out on the boat every day. “I know. I had a great summer, riding the wakes of the ferry and whale watching boats. Did that upset you, or hurt you that I wasn’t around?” I asked, hoping to be assured “no.” “It was a really hard summer. I was lonely, and I thought you were angry at me,” he replied. “I wasn’t angry with you.” “It felt like it. I think it was that summer that turned me off on Provincetown.” “I’m sorry,” I said, and I was. “But you didn’t want my attention when you were sick.” “No, you’re right. I didn’t want you around, fussing over me, but I missed you.” We stayed silent then as we rocked in the hot sun. I was both glad to know about his feelings and sad. But, I’d rather know than not know. There is more than one behavior I regret. The same is true of Ray. Sometimes we talk about the wounds of coping with the other’s failings, but we mostly spare the other from feeling any further guilt about it. And the number of failings, though remembered, were few, and far outweighed by the extraordinary feelings associated with deep, abiding love. Tonight, Ray and I walked in the dark down the grassy hill to the dock, naked and holding hands so that neither fell. Lincoln didn’t go into the water, but watched anxiously as we each swam in different directions, I to the raft and back, and Ray close to the dock’s ladder. “I think this is one of my favorite things to do in life,” I told him, “skinny dipping with you in the dark, cooling off before we go to bed.” “Me too,” he said as he handed me a towel. “I know we don’t have a lot of physical contact, but what’s your favorite form of it?” I asked him. “Yes we do,” he protested, “but I’d say it’s our kissing.”

Acceptance of the other, as they are, unless it impacts your life negatively, such as with abuse, is key to a relationship lasting.

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“I love our hand holding,” I told him, “like walking down the hill together.” “I like taking your arm,” he said. I want answers to all of the questions that pop into my head about Ray. I’ve been with him for 43 years, but so much of that was spent being busy, and creating patterns of living that facilitated our busyness. The busyness has ended not only because we’re no longer at a job, but also because I’ve let go of the need for everything to be perfect and under control. I no longer jump up and down to straighten this, and fluff that, so I now have time to get to know my husband better. Doing so means talking, asking questions, listening to the answers and reflecting on what I’ve heard. Having deeply intimate relationships in our lives is a privilege denied to many others. I don’t want to take any of mine for granted. That’s why I ask. “You’re a much deeper thinker than I am. You’re a great observer. You don’t miss a thing,” said Ray. “I just don’t think that way.” Many of us are frustrated in politics that the other side doesn’t see things the same way we do, or communicate in the same way. But the same frustration, to varying degrees, can exist in a marriage, and if we don’t allow for it, we suffer.

“Why can’t you be more direct?” “Why can you say things less harshly?” “Just say what you want. You always think something better is going to come along.” “There are better choices than pulling into the first fast food restaurant we see.” “I don’t want to talk anymore about it.” “How can you just fall asleep without reconciling? I’ll be up all night.” Acceptance of the other, as they are, unless it impacts your life negatively, such as with abuse, is key to a relationship lasting. You shouldn’t stand for unrepentant drug abuse, but failing to talk with the same gentle nuance is not a reason to call it quits. Ray is far less a romantic than I am, but we make room for each other’s difference in thinking, seeing and feeling. We may not share the types of men we find attractive, but we share values. We prioritize loving kindness over financial gain, freedom of spiritual beliefs over adherence to tradition or dogma and fairness over personal or national advantage. I’m enjoying these reflections, reminiscences and expressions of appreciation and joy. Life is constantly changing. I want to be prepared for the changing ending my chance to better know my best friend.

Brian McNaught has been a leading educator on LGBTQ issues globally since 1974. He has made his many books and DVDs available for free at Brian-McNaught.com. The New York Times named him “The Godfather of gay diversity training.”

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Concert In the mood for a concert tonight? Jennifer Lopez will be playing to tens of thousands of fans July 25 – 27 at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. Meanwhile, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Carly Rae Jepson will be performing her biggest hits in the Jackie Gleason Auditorium. Tickets for both concerts are pretty hard to find, but where there’s a will, there’s a way! Tickets at Ticketmaster. com.

Thursday 7/25

Circus

Cirque du Soleil returns to South Florida with its hit arena show, “Corteo,” playing at the BB&T Center in Sunrise through Aug. 4. “Corteo,” Italian for solemn procession, is a joyous event, a festive parade imagined by a clown. Featuring the Canadian troupe’s unique blend of the artistic and athletic, the show transports the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. More information at CirqueDuSoleil. com. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com. Photo credit: Cirque du Soleil..

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Don’t be a square, man! Experience a new musical in the works: “Orange Juice the Psychedelic Musical” will be performed in concert on Friday and Saturday in the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale. Afterwards, share your thoughts with the show’s writers. The show features colorful hits from famous bands who didn’t make it to Woodstock. Tickets are $10 at BrowardCenter.org.

Michael Aman’s world premiere comedy, “Looking for Dick, Finding Jane,” runs through Aug. 4 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. in Fort Lauderdale. The two smart one-act comedies offer a look at what makes a family a “family,” and include a clever whodunnit and some gender-bending fun, too. Michael Bush directs and local favorites Sharyn Peoples and Harry Redlich star. Ticket are $35 at EmpireStage.com.

It’s Movie Monday and this week, we’re headed to the local cineplex for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a washed up actor and his stuntman struggling to adapt to industry changes in 1968 Tinseltown. Did we mention that Sharon Tate is their nextdoor neighbor and Charles Manson makes a cameo? Check local listings for theaters and show times.

“Orange is the New Black” returns for its seventh and final season on Netflix this weekend. Tonight, binge on this critically acclaimed and beloved series about the experiences of the colorful inmates at a women’s minimum security prison in Connecticut. Netflix’s most watched original series made history with the casting of transgender actress Laverne Cox and non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon. Watch at Netflix.com. 7.24.2019 •

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Greta Schiller, John Scagliotti and Robert Rosenberg, right, pictured in 1984, chronicled early LGBT culture in the Emmy Awardwinning documentary, “Before Stonewall.” A remastered version is currently screening at local theaters. Photo via First Run Features.

s the LGBT community continues to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a 1984 documentary screening in local theaters reminds audiences that gay and lesbian community and culture didn’t spring up overnight. The film, “Before Stonewall,” co-directed by Miami director, producer and film distributor Robert Rosenberg, traces LGBT visibility and identity as well as homophobia in America in the decades leading up to the landmark riots. Rosenberg, a New York native, was a young gay filmmaker living in the city in the early 1980s. He had become acquainted with John D’Emilio, a doctoral student at Columbia University who was completing his doctoral dissertation on LGBT history, and thought the subject was perfect for a documentary. “I was curious and thought it could be a great movie,” recalled Rosenberg, who enlisted friends director Greta Schiller and producer John Scagliotti to join the project, which took nearly four years to fundraise, research, film and edit. “Of course, we didn’t have the internet and LGBT studies were just beginning to become a ‘thing’ in colleges.” Rosenberg and his colleagues placed ads in gay newspapers seeking photos, home movies and people with stories to tell. They networked at gay and lesbian community centers and sought commentary from the leading activists, journalists and artists of the day. The film includes interviews with Ann Bannon, Martin Duberman, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Gittings, Harry Hay, Mabel Hampton, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, Audre Lorde, Richard Bruce Nugent and Jose Sarria. More than three decades ago, a documentary about gay history only screened

in large, cosmopolitan cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. “The reviews were very positive. When the New York Times review came out, we were so relieved,” he said, but regardless of the reviews, audiences responded enthusiastically to the landmark film. “I still remember people standing up during Q&As and crying. Older people said they never thought they’d ever see the story of their younger days on a movie screen.” Rosenberg, who went on to found the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now OUTshine) and direct the Coral Gables Art Cinema, still feels “straight America” is surprised to learn that there was a thriving LGBT community in many cities before the summer uprising in 1969. “It’s still big news. You can’t say that we didn’t come from nowhere. The opponents to gay rights will always argue [homosexuality] is abnormal, but we show that at least through the 20th century, LGBT community and cultural activity was bubbling up,” he said. In conjunction with the Stonewall observances this year, the film was digitally remastered and re-released nationwide, including in theaters in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. This week, the film begins a week-long run at the Classic Gateway Theater in Fort Lauderdale. “Even though there have been many, many books and films since, [ours] is still extremely relevant and we need to preserve these voices,” Rosenberg added, noting that more than two dozen of the people interviewed for the film have since passed away. “These are important stories that still deserve to be told.”

“Before Stonewall” is screening on July 26 at the Movies at Delray, 7521 W. Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach; July 26 – Aug. 2 at the Classic Gateway, 1820 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale; and July 28 at Tower Theater, 1508 S.W. 8th St. in Miami. Rosenberg will conduct Q&A sessions following the Delray Beach and Miami screenings and on July 27 in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, go to FirstRunFeatures.com. 7.24.2019 •

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broward county Looking for Dick, Finding Jane

July 11 to August 4 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr, Ft Lauderdale. Let’s return to those great American traditions of drugs, sex, porn, transsexuals, nudity, camping and deer hunting! This entertaining and slightly disturbing comedy combines them all for your entertainment — just please don’t bring the kids! Tickets $35. Visit EmpireStage.com

This Is India!

Sunday, August 11 at 6 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs. The award winning Abhinava Dance Company and its 1- members will deliver a passionate performance with dazzling costumes and beautifully choreographed accompanied by global music. Tickets are $35 to $125. Visit thecentercs.com

Friday Night Sound Waves Music Series

Fridays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hub, Las Olas Boulevard and A1A in

Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy live, outdoor music spanning genres and tributes every Friday evening through November. Free. Visit FridayNightSoundWaves.com

palm beach county Jill & Rich in Concert

August 3 and 4 at the Don & Ann Brown Theater at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. The dynamic duo—along with some special surprise guests—will pay tribute in word and song to some of their favorite Great American Songbook artists, including a centennial celebration of the legendary Nat King Cole. Tickets $35. Visit PalmBeachDramaWorks.org.

Free Friday Concerts

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

miami-dade county Men on Boats

July 19 to August 11 at Main Street Players, 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes. In 1869, under the guidance of John Wesley Powell, one-armed Civil War veteran and personal friend of President Grant, ten explorers set off to chart the Green and Colorado rivers. As boats capsize and supplies are lost, as belts

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tighten and nerves fray, the company draws together as a band of brothers. Tickets $25 to $30. Visit 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 305-3753000 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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