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he Pride Center at Equality Park released this past weekend one final, passionate pitch to win the support of the Wilton Manors City Commission for a planned, senior, affordable housing complex on the campus of the LGBT community center. The Wilton Manors City Commission was asked to vote on approval for the center’s Plat Amendment and Site Plan. The Commission provided members of the public three minutes to speak on the issue, which occurred as SFGN went to press this week. Read what happened online at www.SFGN. com or in next week’s newspaper. Claiming it “feels like Donna Summer’s ‘Last dance, last chance...for love,’” Robert Boo, the center’s CEO, sent out a press release urging community members to address the city commission in support of the project on Tuesday, September 11. “Join us and let your support be heard! The Residences at Equality Park will impact the most vulnerable in our community by providing affordable, safe and supportive housing for Seniors in the City of Wilton Manors,” Boo wrote. “Please consider
helping us by expressing how needed and vital this affordable housing community will be for our Seniors!” Last month, the Wilton Manors Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approved the site plan for The Residences at Equality Park. The room was packed with supporters wearing “I Support Seniors #ResidencesAtEqualityPark” stickers, despite numerous constituents asking the city not to take this path. The objections have been contentious. Some feel the project will dilute the efficacy of the Pride Center and diminish the neighborhood’s property values. Still, at the last commission meeting, the crowd was very supportive. “When the final vote tally was announced, the crowd broke into a roar of cheers and applause,” Boo wrote. Over 30 elected officials, residents, business owners, local organizations, community leaders and national nonprofits had sent “Letters of Support” to the commissioners. “We’re inspired by the depth, strength and diversity of the support for The Residences,” Boo wrote.
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Plaque Honoring ‘First Modern Lesbian’ Reworded to Include Her Sexuality York, England’s rainbow memorial plaque celebrating writer Anne Lister, known as the “first modern lesbian,” did not actually include the word “lesbian” — but after activist outcry, it will be replaced to include the term. An online petition to change the wording of the plaque, which described her as a “gender non-conforming entrepreneur,” received more than 2,500 signatures. “Anne Lister was, most definitely, gender non-conforming all her life. She was also however, a lesbian. Don’t let them erase this iconic woman from our history,” it read, reported the BBC. York Civic Trust, the group behind the plaque, have ultimately decided to unveil a new version of the plaque with the word “lesbian.” The plaque is on the side of the Holy Trinity Church, where Lister was unofficially married to her partner, Ann
Portrait of Anne Lister (1791-1840), by Joshua Horner, ca. 1830.
Walker, in 1834. Her diaries tell the story of her life and lesbian love affairs, and were recognized as “pivotal” historical British documents by the United Nations in 2011.
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California’s legislature has passed a resolution in favor of eliminating nonconsensual “corrective” surgeries on the genitals of intersex children. The surgeries are often medically unnecessary, and are framed as “social emergencies” when they’re physically and emotionally damaging instead, nonprofit organization interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth said. The legislature’s resolution called the practice a human rights violation, reported USA Today. Intersex patients are also often lied to
about the cause of their surgeries. Executive Director of interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth Kimberly Zieselman was told that she needed an operation to remove cancer at 15, but found out over two decades later when looking at her medical records that it actually was to remove internal testes. “It means for the very first time a U.S. legislative body has affirmatively recognized that intersex children deserve dignity and the right to make decisions about their own bodies – just like everyone else,” she said.
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EUROPE U.K.’s Chief Rabbi Publishes LGBT-Inclusive Orthodox Jewish School Guide Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, has released a guide encouraging staff at Orthodox Jewish schools to accept LGBT children. The guide is called “The Wellbeing of LGBT+ Pupils: A Guide for Orthodox Jewish Schools,” and claims that fighting homophobia is a “Jewish imperative.” Orthodox Judaism is the most traditional sect of the religion, and its practitioners have been known to put children in conversion therapy camps and encourage them to marry outside of their sexuality, Advocate reported. Censoring in education is common as well. London’s Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School received backlash from both school inspectors and human rights organizations earlier this year by
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blacking out LGBT content from their textbooks, reported the Guardian. “Our children need to know that at school, at home and in the community, they will be loved and protected regardless of their sexuality or gender identity,” Mirvis said.
Activism comes in many forms in Botswana, but Lesh Maseng’s show G.A.Y. is breaking society’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” attitude through contemporary dance. Maseng is from Gaborone, the capital where gay-friendly bars, restaurants, and nightclubs flourish. But Botswana still criminalizes gay sex, but the law has not been enforced since the late 90s. Society is silent about the community instead. Maseng wants to break this silence with honesty in “Give All Yourself,” a show about his life as a queer dancer in Botswana — and starting out on stage naked is one way he represents that. “Give yourself means giving my all to the audience, as a queer dancer and artist. Starting out naked is just a way of making that point in the most dramatic way possible,” he said to 76Crimes.
Lesh Maseng.
“G.A.Y. is meant to convince people it’s okay to be gay.” Other activism in Botswana includes LGBT rights organization LeGaBiBo and Batho ba Lorato, the first queer film festival outside South Africa on the continent.
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Malaysian Women Publicly Caned for Lesbian Sex
Brazil’s Leading Presidential Candidate’s ‘Moral Compass’ is Anti-LGBT
Two Muslim women from Terengganu, Malaysia were publicly lashed with a cane six times as punishment for sexual involvement, a crime in that country that both pleaded guilty to. This physical punishment is the first to be publicly displayed in the country, Terengganu state executive council member Satiful Bahri Mamat said. It was witnessed by 150 other Muslims in a courtroom to teach the rest of society not to follow the guilty party’s example, but has caught the attention and outrage of human rights activists. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, although not an LGBT ally, agreed that it was too harsh. “[The punishment] does not reflect the ideals of justice and compassion of Islam. As this was the first case for them,
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they should’ve been given advice and not punished … We need to show that Islam is not a ruthless religion that shames people with harsh punishments,” he said, reported News Channel Asia.
Jair Bolsonaro, who was an army captain under a bloody dictatorship and favors military rule, is leading Brazil’s presidential polls after former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was barred from running for money laundering. Bolsonaro is also vehemently anti-LGBT. The hate comments are both old and new, from a 2011 comment to Playboy that he’d rather his son die than be gay to a comment in Time last month claiming that he would punch two men kissing in the street. He has also linked homosexuality to pedophilia, and blocked anti-homophobic classes in Brazilian schools. “Look, you have to have some sort of moral compass bearing in your life. They want to reach our children in order to turn the children into gay adults to satisfy
Jair Bolsonaro.
their sexuality in the future. So these are the fundamentalist homosexual groups that are trying to take over society,” he said, PinkNews reported. Brazil’s presidential election is Oct. 7.
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This weekend the Southern Comfort Transgender Conference swept through Fort Lauderdale, bringing together the transgender and gender non-conforming community from around the country and even the world. SFGN contributed to the “FTM Night” by sponsoring a $50 gift card drawing to be used for a customized chest binder, one of the most notorious expenses for trans men who often require a flattened chest to feel comfortable. The staff of SFGN would like to congratulate the winner Lawrence (right), pictured here with Shane.
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India’s Top Court Decriminalizes Gay Sex in
Landmark Ruling Manveena Suri CNN
India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation.
The court announced the landmark verdict in Delhi on Thursday, as jubilant crowds cheered and rights activists hugged one another, overcome with emotion. Section 377, an archaic law imposed during British rule that penalized intercourse “against the order of nature,” had carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The decision to repeal the law is a major victory for India’s LGBT activists and supporters after years of determined struggle. “I can’t even explain how I am feeling right now. The long battle has been won. Finally we have been recognized by this country,” said Bismaya Kumar Raula, wiping away tears outside the court. Others gathered said that, while they had anticipated a positive outcome, the result still came as a shock. “It’s an emotional day for me. It’s a mix of feelings, it’s been a long fight,” said rights campaigner Rituparna Borah. “There was not enough media or society support earlier but we have it now. People will not be seen as criminals anymore.” Though the law was rarely enforced in full, lawyers argued that it helped perpetuate a culture of fear and repression within the LGBT community. A change in legislation will “create a space of freedom where you can start expecting justice,” Danish Sheikh, a law professor at Jindal Global Law School and LGBT advocate, told CNN.
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when the Supreme Court moved to uphold the constitutional right to privacy. The ruling, which declared sexual Thursday’s historic ruling is the culmination of a lengthy and often fraught orientation to be an “essential attribute of legal battle for equality in a country where privacy,” helped galvanize campaigners. “Last year’s ruling eviscerated the 2013 homosexuality remains taboo. In 2009, the Delhi High Court ruled that judgment,” said Gonsalves. “There is no issue the ban on consensual gay sex violated now. There is not much left to argue,” he fundamental rights. The decision, which added. Opposition to moves to overturn Section only applied to the Delhi region, was quickly overruled by the Supreme Court in 2013, 377 had rested predominately on religious following a petition launched by a loose and moral objections. In an interview earlier this year, lawmaker Subramanian coalition of Christian, Hindu and Swamy, a prominent member Muslim groups. of the ruling Bharatiya Janata In its 2013 ruling, the Party (BJP), described the Supreme Court said legalization of gay sex that only a “minuscule as a “danger to national fraction of the country’s security” and “against population constitute Hindutva.” lesbians, gays, bisexuals Hinduism has or transgenders” and traditionally maintained it was therefore “legally - Rituparna Borah a flexible, non-prescriptive unsustainable” to repeal Campaigner for view of sexuality. However, the act. LGBT Equality in recent years hardline During the latest hearings, Hindu groups have taken a more lawyers representing more conservative approach. than a dozen gay and lesbian Indians In the run up to the judgment, the BJP questioned the constitutional basis of that refrained from taking a public stand, earlier ruling. “It was a wrong judgment. It was not legal deferring instead to the court. and it was based wrongly on the tenets of the Dehumanizing colonial law constitution,” said Colin Gonsalves, one of the lawyers representing the current group Out of the estimated 48 former British of petitioners. That case was strengthened last year, colonies that criminalize homosexuality, 30
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still have laws based on the original colonial anti-LGBT legislation, according to Lucas Mendos, co-author of the 2017 International LGBTI Association “State-Sponsored Homophobia” report. In the case of India, the original British law had remained in place more or less unchanged since it was introduced by British colonizers in the 1860s. According to India’s National Record Bureau, more than 2,100 cases were registered under the law in 2016. India did not maintain a separate database of prosecution under section 377 until 2014. Arif Jafar, one of the current group of petitioners whose case the Supreme Court ruled on, was arrested in 2001 under Section 377 and spent 49 days in jail. Jafar now runs an informal support group in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The group, named “Trust,” provides counseling, support and sexual health services to gay and transgender persons. In his petition, Jafar described the experience as dehumanizing and a violation of his fundamental rights. He also alleged that he was beaten and humiliated every day because of his sexuality. Campaigners in India pointed out that the law didn’t only trap members of the LGBT community in the closet, it also invited other forms of discrimination, providing a cover for
blackmail and harassment. “The constant fear of 377 we have felt will not be there for the coming generation,” said Yashwinder Singh, of Mumbai-based LGBT rights group The Humsafar Trust. “Laws getting passed is one thing but changing the society is a big challenge,” said Singh of the court’s decision, Thursday. “Our work has started multifold now. We have to go and talk to people and change their mindset so that they accept every human as one.” Following the announcement Thursday, the Congress Party, the country’s main opposition, posted a message of congratulations on social media, welcoming the “progressive and decisive verdict” from the Supreme Court. As supporters celebrate the decision, activists will now be shifting focus to the broader issue of equality. “The next step is to start looking at issues of rights. Right now, it is just decriminalizing,” Anjali Gopalan, founder of the Naz Foundation, which has spearheaded the fight against Section 377, told CNN. “The right that every citizen of the country should have access to and should not be taken for granted. Like the right to marry, the right to adopt, the right to inherit. Things that no one questions and that are clearly denied to a certain section of citizens.” Photo credit: Getty Images, CNN.
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‘Wizard of oz’ Ruby Slippers finally recovered had been Stolen 13 years ago
The ruby slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in August 2005. Photo credit: Judy Garland Museum, CNN.
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pair of red sequined slippers from the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” has been found, 13 years after they disappeared from a Minnesota museum, law enforcement said Tuesday.
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But the investigation continues into who’s a vault each night because he didn’t want people responsible for the 2005 theft of the cherished handling the delicate shoes by moving them daily, piece of movie memorabilia. he said in the 2016 documentary, “The Slippers.” “We reached the first goal, the recovery, and it’s “But most importantly, I was assured that the a great day,” North Dakota United States Attorney museum had security,” said Shaw. Christopher Myers said. “But we’re not done.” A thief broke in through the museum’s back The slippers are one of four known pairs door, according to the Grand Rapids Police that actress Judy Garland wore in her role as Department. The perpetrator smashed a glass case Dorothy in the classic film. They in the museum’s gallery and stole disappeared in August 2005 from the slippers, which were insured for a museum dedicated to the actress “There’s a certain $1 million. The alarm did not sound in her hometown of Grand Rapids, to a central dispatch station and no romance in these fingerprints were left behind, police Minnesota. The theft sparked years of rumors types of schemes, said. and dead-end leads. Finally, a tip The theft was “the biggest last summer led law enforcement thing that ever happened to our sometimes outside Minnesota, and the FBI museum,” museum co-founder Jon sophistication, but Miner told CNN affiliate KQDS in got involved. This summer, the shoes were seized in an undercover 2015. “We were literally crying.” at the end of the operation in Minneapolis, the FBI Investigators had no evidence, said. aside from a single sequin that had day it’s a theft.” “There’s a certain romance in fallen off one of the slippers. As these types of schemes, sometimes the mystery deepened, museum - Christopher Myers sophistication, but at the end of the staff became the target of rumors ND State Attorney day it’s a theft,” Myers said. of an inside job, allegations they “These types of offenses not only vehemently denied. deprive the owner of their property, but all of “We’re the ones that want to find them because us,” Myers said. “This type of cultural property is they were entrusted to us,” Miner said in “The important to us as a society. It reflects culture, it Slippers.” holds our memories, it reflects our values.” Ten years after the theft, the museum teamed up with the Itasca County Sheriff’s Dive Team to ‘We were literally crying’ investigate the theory that someone had thrown the slippers into a nearby lake. During the 40th The long-lost slippers were shown to reporters Annual “Wizard of Oz” Festival, divers scoured Tuesday at the FBI’s Minneapolis headquarters in the depths of the Tioga Mine Pit lake but came up a news conference conducted in reverential tones, empty-handed. with repeated references to rainbows and the memorable quote “there’s no place like home.” Extortion investigation “They’re more than just a pair of shoes, the leads to shoes slippers. They’re an enduring symbol of the power of belief,” Grand Rapids Police Chief Scott Johnson Tips flowed in over the years but they led either said. nowhere -- or to reproductions. One week, they Memorabilia collector Michael Shaw loaned the were nailed to a wall in a roadside diner in Missouri, slippers to the Judy Garland Museum for Grand or resting at the bottom of a water-filled ore pit. Rapids’ annual “Wizard of Oz” festival in 2005. Would-be tipsters reported them on display at the Shaw rejected the museum’s offer to store them in Smithsonian, which was true -- “Yeah, we know
NEWS national that, that’s another pair,” Johnson said. “The thieves not only took the slippers, they took a piece of history that will be forever connected to Grand Rapids and one of our city’s most famous children,” Johnson said. A break in the case came in the summer of 2017, the FBI said in a statement. An individual approached the company that insured the slippers, saying he had information about the shoes and how they could be returned, and “it became apparent that those involved were in reality attempting to extort the owners of the slippers,” Special Agent Christopher Dudley, who led the investigation from the FBI’s Minneapolis Division, said in the statement. After nearly a yearlong investigation involving the bureau’s Art Crime Team, the FBI Laboratory, and field offices in Chicago, Atlanta and Miami, the slippers were recovered during an undercover operation in Minneapolis, the statement said. Jill Sanborn, special agent in charge of the Minneapolis division of the FBI, called the shoes’ recovery a “significant milestone.” But law enforcement is still seeking information about the 2005 theft, she said. “This is still a very, very active and ongoing investigation,” said Sanborn. Multiple pairs Over the years, the mystery of the slippers’ disappearance only seemed to enhance their reputation as one of the most coveted items on the Hollywood memorabilia market. Valued at $2 million to $3 million and thought to be worth as much as $5 million at auction, they would be hard to sell on the black market -- and even harder to hide. “Whoever has them, illicitly, has their hands full with them,” journalist Rhys Thomas said in “The Slippers.” “One way or another, over the course of time, the shoes will out you.”
“One way or another, over the course of time, the shoes will out you.” - Rhys Thomas Journalist
Thomas tracked down several pairs of the famed shoes for a Los Angeles Times article published in 1988. In the documentary, Shaw says he bought the shoes from a Hollywood costume designer who found them in MGM Studios’ backlot property in Culver City, California. As the story goes, Kent Warner found several pairs on a dusty shelf and took one to the famed MGM Studios auction in 1970. He kept the rest for himself -- the exact number is not clear -- selling them off to collectors, including Shaw. Meanwhile, a Tennessee schoolteacher won another pair in a contest in 1940. She sold them at auction in 1988 to a private collector for $165,000. Another pair has been on display in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington since 1979. In 2016, the organization launched an online campaign to raise money to restore their luster. In 2012, a group of actors led by Leonardo DiCaprio purchased a pair to be displayed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, set to open this year in Los Angeles. As Glinda the Good Witch says in the movie when she is describing the slippers’ appeal to the Wicked Witch, “Their magic must be very powerful, or she wouldn’t want them so badly.”
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NEWS miami-dade
19th Annual Aqua Girl is a Party For a Cause
The women’s charity event is coming to South Beach with new dates Cameren Boatner
- Lynn Bove iCandee Events Owner
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Sept. 22 7-10 p.m.: A Taste of Justice; VIP Cocktail Event featuring LGBTQ celebrity chefs at Sacred Space; $75
10 p.m.-4 a.m.: What’s Your Sign?; Elements themed kick off party at Cafeina; $10 in advance or $15 at the door.
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Dates, times and places of Aqua Girl events—all are 21 and over.
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t’s the largest party event week for women who love women, and it’s a party for a cause.
Aqua Girl is a charity event that benefits the Aqua Foundation for Women, a notfor-profit foundation that promotes the equality, strength, health, and visibility of lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer women. “Everyone who attends gets to enjoy themself and do good at the same time,” iCandee Events owner, Lynn Bove said. The foundation provides direct funding, support and programs for the LGBT community. They also give grants and scholarships to leaders in the LGBT community. Hosted at the oceanfront resort in the heart of South Beach, The National Hotel, Aqua Girl will be a week of parties and events, some offsite, starting at $155 a night. All events are 21 and over. This year, Aqua Girl has moved its dates to September 27 through October 1. “This year, we felt that there was a lot going on in April, May and June across the country,” Bove said. “One of the biggest reasons we get a lot of tourists is simply because of our weather. Having Aqua Girl in late September early October was going to generate more of an interest from all the snowbirds specifically on the east coast.” They are expecting over 5,000 women to attend for the 4 days of events. Aqua Girl is celebrating 19 years of giving
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Sept. 28 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Play; Pool party at the Aqua Girl host hotel, The National Hotel; free 10 p.m.-4 a.m.: Dulce; Latin and Caribbean dance party at the Pearl Lounge (2nd floor of Nikki Beach); $20 in advance or $35 at the door. Sept. 29 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Aqualicious Pool Party; The National Hotel; $25 in advance, $35 at the door or VIP $75 (VIP entry is limited). 10 p.m.-4 a.m.: GIRLTOPIA—The Future Is Female; Aqua Girl’s signature dance event at the Treehouse; $20 in advance or $30 at the door. Sept. 30 11 a.m.-7 p.m.: Evolution Tea Dance presented by IMPULSE; co-ed pool party with back to back DJ’s at The National Hotel; $10 in advance or $20 at the door. 9 p.m.-2 a.m.: Recovery; official Aqua Girl wrap party with karaoke and dancing at Sweet Liberty; $10 in advance or $15 at the door.
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back to the community, and Alison Burgos, founder of Aqua Girl said she is “elated to come back and bring old and new friends together to create a reinvigorated Aqua Girl festival that is modern, and fresh.” The inception of Aqua Girl started in 1999, with a slightly different concept. Burgos, along with Shescape, a women’s promotion company, held a fundraiser benefiting a notfor-profit organization providing support for people with cancer. Five hundred people showed up to the event, called Sweet Charity. After the event’s success, in 2000, Burgos and Bove wanted to create a longer event: a 5-day party called Aqua Girl, with proceeds benefiting different charities. In 2004, the Aqua Foundation for Women was born. “Our main event is the Aqualicious Pool party on Saturday afternoon. This year we are bringing in major staging and giving it more of a festival vibe. We also have a solid line-up of female DJ’s from across the nation showcasing their talent. You will also be able to ‘rub elbows’ with some of the most
popular LGBTQ influencers in the nation,” Bove said. If you book two nights at the host hotel, the pool parties are free. The lineup of performers for the event include Grammy nominated singer/writer Leslie Cartaya, YouTuber Amber’s Closet, and singer Madison Paige. “We would love to have Lady Gaga but it’s not in our budget,” Bove said jokingly. Other artists include Leslie Cartaya, DJ Citizen Jane, and Zheno. The talents are picked based on who “seem to be Aqua Girl favorites and other talent from around the nation that have a broad appeal and that are making a mark in the LGBTQ nightlife industry.” Another highlight of the events for the week is the co-ed Evolution Tea Dance on Sunday. Bove said it’s “great to see both the guys and the girls having fun with each
other.” This year, DJ/producer Cindel and DJ Whitney Day will be spinning. “We are so excited to be working with Aqua Girl again this year. We are always looking for new and exciting ways to elevate guests’ experiences while providing our own unique, fun and edgy advocacy, and I think us working with Aqua Girl on this event is a great place to do that,” said Eric Minor, Events Director at Impulse Group. Impulse Group is a volunteer coalition of gay men, dedicated to promoting the sexual health of gay men around the world, in collaboration with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The event will take place at The National Hotel, but if co-ed isn’t your style, there are plenty of other female-only events. “With nine cultural events, and parties to satisfy an array of tastes, everyone can join in the fun,” Bove said.
For tickets, visit www.aquagirl.org. For The National Hotel reservations, visit www. aquagirl.org, or call 305-532-2311 and use code “Aqua Girl18.”
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NEWS national “I love my country, and I take pride in serving her. But I cannot say that I love her
more or as well as Mark Bingham
did, or the other heroes on United Flight 93 who gave their lives to prevent our enemies from inflicting an even greater injury on our country.” - John McCain September 22, 2001
Pictured: John McCain in 2016. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore.
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didn’t know Mark Bingham. We met once briefly during my presidential campaign, yet I cannot say that I knew him well. But I wish I had. I wish I had. You meet a lot of people when you run for President. I was fortunate to have had the support of many Americans who were, until then, strangers to me. And I regret to say, that like most candidates I was pre-occupied with winning or losing. I had not thought as much as I should have about what an honor, what an extraordinary honor it was to have so many citizens of the greatest nation on earth place their trust in me, and use our campaign as an expression of their own patriotism. They were the best thing about our campaign, not me. I love my country, and I take pride in serving her. But I cannot say that I love her more or as well as Mark Bingham did, or the other heroes on United Flight 93 who gave their lives to prevent our enemies from inflicting an even greater injury on our country. It has been my fate to witness great courage and sacrifice for America’s sake, but none greater than the selfless sacrifice of Mark Bingham and those good men who grasped the gravity of the moment, understood the threat, and decided to fight back at the cost of their lives. In the Gospel of John it is written ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ Such was the love that Mark and his comrades possessed, as they laid down their lives for others. A love so sublime that only God’s love surpasses it. It is now believed that the terrorists on Flight 93 intended to crash the airplane into the United States Capitol where I work, the great house of democracy where I was that day. It is very possible that I would have been in the building, with a great many other people, when that fateful, terrible moment occurred, and a beautiful symbol of our freedom was destroyed along with hundreds if not thousands of lives. I may very well owe my life to Mark and the others who summoned the enormous courage and love necessary to deny those depraved, hateful men their terrible triumph. Such a debt you incur for life. I will try very hard, very hard, to discharge my public duties in a manner that honors their memory. All public servants are now solemnly obliged to do all we can to help this great nation remain worthy of the sacrifice of New York City firefighters, police officers, emergency medical people, and worthy of the sacrifice of the brave passengers on Flight 93. No American living today will ever forget what happened on September 11, 2001. That day was the moment when the hinge of history swung toward
a new era not only in the affairs of this nation, but in the affairs of all humanity. The opening chapter of this new history is tinged with great sadness and uncertainty. But as we begin please take strength from the example of the American we honor today, and those who perished to save others in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The days ahead will be difficult, and we will know more loss and sorrow. But we will prevail. We will prevail. Pay no heed to the voices of the poor, misguided souls, in this country and overseas, who claim that America brought these atrocities on herself. They are deluded, and their hearts are cramped by hatred and fear. Our respect for Man’s God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness assures us of victory even as it made us a target for the enemies of freedom who mistake hate and depravity for power. The losses we have suffered are grave, and must not be forgotten. But we should all take pride and unyielding resolve from the knowledge that we were attacked because we were good, and good we will remain as we vanquish the evil that preys upon us. I never knew Mark Bingham. But I wish I had. I know he was a good son and friend, a good rugby player, a good American, and an extraordinary human being. He supported me, and his support now ranks among the greatest honors of my life. I wish I had known before September 11 just how great an honor his trust in me was. I wish I could have thanked him for it more profusely than time and circumstances allowed. But I know it now. And I thank him with the only means I possess, by being as good an American as he was. America will overcome these atrocities. We will prevail over our enemies. We will right this terrible injustice. And when we do, let us claim it as a tribute to our liberty, and to Mark Bingham and all those who died to defend it. To all of you who loved Mark, and were loved by him, he will never be so far from you that you cannot feel his love. As our faith informs us, you will see him again, when our loving God reunites us all with the loved ones who preceded us. Take care of each other until then, as he would want you to. May God bless Mark. And may God bless us all. Thank you.”
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Reflections on 9/11
Ruminations Rambling inside My Head Norm Kent
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eptember 11 is a time to be reflective, particularly if you grew up and went to school in the shadow of the World Trade Center. They blew up the place I called home.
Years have passed, and I can’t help but think those frightening events on that day are lost to so many. I think about the fact that the average student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a victim of the Parkland massacre, was born three years after 9/11. Each generation has an event which shapes our lives. If you are pushing 70, as I now am, it was not the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1942. That was my dad’s. For me, it will always be September 11, 2001, when I was publisher of the Express Gay News of South Florida. I am grateful that I can still be publishing a newspaper in a digital age. I am humbled by the honors that Equality Florida is bestowing on me and SFGN, announced this week on our page 2. Most of all, I am proud that I can still illuminate the good work and bold deeds of the LGBT community every week. As a publisher, you have to deal with the fact that real news does not mean you support everyone around you. No. Your duty is to report on everything around you. That means not every story is pleasant, not every paragraph is proud. Look, it becomes newsworthy when the director of a pride organization steals money, and you have to report he has been arrested and jailed. But you never forget all the volunteers who put the event together. It’s just
that you don’t always write enough about the 99,000 pilots who fly around the pigeons and land their plane safely. You write about the plane that crashes because it hit those poor birds. Sometimes, newspapers are like critics, who can find a little bad in the best of things. You think we are promoting scandals rather than substance. But we were not the ones who hired sexual offenders to work at a pride center playground. We were unfortunately the messengers who had to write about the mess. Don’t let a little bad in the news interfere with the overall good in our lives. Don’t ever lose sight of the bigger picture, where we achieve and accomplish, live and love, making a difference in our world. Of course, we have our warts and our wounds, in the community, just like at home. Don’t beautiful rose bushes also have thorns? A little blister and bluster does not mean we don’t have our churches and temples, offering solace and spiritual strength to those of us who have suffered loss and are enduring sorrow. That does not mean we do not have our champions, volunteering time at HIV clinics or food banks, in bowling centers or at food lines. That does not mean we don’t have
You have to deal with the fact that real news does not mean you support everyone around you. No. Your duty is to report on everything around you.
The former Twin Towers. Photo credit: Carol M. Highsmith.
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Publisher's Editorial “Don’t let a little bad in the news interfere with the overall good in our lives. Don’t ever lose sight of the bigger picture, where we achieve and accomplish, live and love, making a difference in our world.” - Norm Kent
John McCain. Photo credit: Jim Greenhill.
youthful LGBT competitors in swimming and endure in my soul. Be not injurious to tournaments, raising money at weekend car others. Be truthful to yourself. The good you washes to pay their way to the competition. do comes back to you, but watch your ass. So With the midterm elections almost does the bad. upon us, we will tend to find ourselves On September 11, 2001, there were many decrying politicians and cutting down our heroes. One was a gay man that the late government. But the truth is whether you Senator, John McCain honored ever so are in the Dolphin Democrats or the Log gloriously, after his passing. His name was Cabin Republicans, you are not making Mark Bingham, and in taking down the last money. You are participating set of terrorists who sought in a process which makes to fly their plane into the our community better and Capitol Building, he called On September 11, democracy stronger. upon his passengers to 2001, there were As Barack Obama said last retake the cockpit. week, anyone who thinks His memorable and many heroes. voting does not matter final words were, “Let’s One was a gay ought to think about what roll.” Each of us, every day, has happened the past man that the late has that duty, as citizens. two years. We all make a America lost John McCain Senator, John difference in our own way. this past month. His words You don’t have to make in this week’s newspaper McCain honored headlines. You don’t have to why he should matter ever so gloriously, show get awards. You just have to to our gay community. make choices which make after his passing. He was a good man who your life and community the inherent His name was Mark recognized better along the way. decency and goodness of Bingham. Let us show up in great Americans. numbers this year, and “If Athens shall appear make the rest of our community stunned great to you,” the great orator Pericles once and blown away by the voting ratios of our wrote, “consider only that her greatness was gay community. Let the world know we are purchased by decent citizens simply doing a force to be reckoned with, at the polls, in their duty each day.” our schools, and in our social and political May you find that purpose and presence congresses. Let’s help Equality Florida shape in your own lives. Here at SFGN, our goal is equality in Florida. simply to shine a light upon it. Let me know For voting, for your own life, my advice if you think we can be doing more. is to follow the guides of constitutional And to my Jewish friends, Shanna Tovah, scholars I studied too many years ago, resting Happy New Year. I really did mean to go in books on the high shelves of my house I to Temple last week. But you know, the may never reach again. But their truth stands, Dolphins had this home opener…..OK it their words have withstood the test of time, lasted two days, but what a game.
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VIDACANN OPENS COUNTY’S FIRST DISPENSARY IN DEERFIELD BEACH, FL Sound bite q
Welcome to Sound Bite Q, the column that thanks advertisers who support SFGN. We invite you to support them, because without their outreach to us, we would not be here to reach out to you. More importantly, local papers only survive in our busy world because we are all connected to each other. For me, this column does more than encourage you to patronize one of SFGN’s advertisers. It lets you know a little more about our friends and enables you to feel a little more comfortable using their services with the limited dollars you have.
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s many of you now know, two years ago, Florida voters approved an amendment providing for the lawful distribution of marijuana for medical purposes. That was the good news back in 2016. Unfortunately, Florida legislators have purposely obstructed effective implementation of the law, and too few medical dispensaries have opened. But the walls are starting to crumble, as walls and obstacles are wont to do when faced with social realities. Let’s fast forward then to VidaCann, a leading provider of the safest and most effective cannabis products, which held a grand opening of its newest dispensary, and the first for Broward County, in Deerfield Beach last week. Located at 1101 S. Powerline Road, the VidaCann dispensary offers a wide range of premium cannabis products including tinctures, capsules, vapes and concentrate syringes. The dispensary is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and is closed on Sundays. Delivery is currently available in Union, Baker, Duval, Columbia, Clay, St. Johns, Nassau, Volusia, Flagler, Indian River, Brevard, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Palm Beach and Martin counties, with expanded delivery areas coming soon. SFGN is proud to welcome them to our pages, me particularly. I have a history of medical marijuana advocacy in conjunction with my law practice. So let me take a moment to say that it was 30 years ago last month that a Hollywood, a Florida woman was acquitted of growing marijuana in her backyard, based on medical necessity. After 23 cataract operations to cure her glaucoma, Elvy Mussika found out the best cure to reduce the intraocular pressure in her eyes was the use of cannabis and its main ingredient, THC.
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Thirty years was a long time ago. When Elvy went to court products available.” Let’s wish them luck. to assert her defense, she was facing jail time if she lost the VidaCann is targeting more locations soon in Fort case. Her courage yesterday helped create a new attitude Lauderdale, Miami, and West Palm Beach. You can follow towards medical marijuana in our state and nation. Now the dispensary on a host of social media sites, including Florida is amongst a score of states where you can begin to Facebook. Hopefully, you can also read more about them acquire marijuana to meet a variety of your medical needs. weekly right here at SFGN with its advertising. As a strong advocate and proponent of medical marijuana, Let me say to all the new dispensaries that are opening it is important to me that the cannabis products you acquire and will be opening soon in Florida, I know how much you commercially reach you safely. Therefore, I am ever so grateful have invested to get to where you are. I am so glad so many of that VidaCann has decided to embrace SFGN you, like VidaCann, have a social conscience as one of its advertising vehicles. and commitment to the community. It’s about VidaCann’s SFGN is proud to advertise VidaCann creating and distributing a product that will proprietary because its company is so reputable. It is on the enhance the lives of our citizens and our cutting edge of tomorrow, already following country. I am hoping all of you succeed, and organic strict security and operating procedures that your profits will be well earned and deserved. cultivation ensure purity and consistency for its products. From a business standpoint, I have to tell process alone VidaCann’s proprietary organic cultivation you there are few better places to advertise process alone guarantees that you as patients your product than the gay market. Here is guarantees that receive the highest quality and safest active something a lot of you don’t know. When you as patients cannabinoid products on the market. the vote tallies for the medical marijuana Additionally, VidaCann is also Florida’s receive the highest amendment in 2016 were counted, the exclusive provider of Stanley Brothers quality and safest highest percentages in the state favoring products, the creators of the well-known lawful medical pot were not in Key West, active cannabinoid but right here in the heart of Wilton Manors, Charlotte’s Web brand. It has partnered with Tikun Olam, a globally recognized supplier SFGN’s hometown. Surprised? Don’t be. The products on the and pioneer of modern medical cannabis. LGBT community has always known the value market. Products made using its six proprietary of medical marijuana. strains will be available later this year. That’s The war on marijuana is coming to an a healthy start. We are all still waiting on a Supreme Court end. City commissioners and cops are no longer debating ruling, which I expect will come this year, allowing for the methods of incarceration. We are discussing means of commercial sale and distribution of the flower. distribution. As dispensaries such as VidaCann open in your Stated Peyton Moseley, VidaCann’s vice president of cities, you will find them to be good neighbors, educating you Product Development, “Our goal is simply to reach every about cannabinoid therapy. Be not afraid of the future. Open patient across the state through our dispensary locations and your hearts and minds, and we will all profit from our new delivery services so that people are getting access to the best neighbors.
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he local gay softball league capped a successful week at the 41st Gay Softball World Series by bringing home three trophies. The Noize took third place in the B Division, the Silverhawks also nabbed third place in the lower Masters Division, and defending national champion Code Blue settled for fourth place in the upper Masters Division. Two other teams placed in the top 10: Alive and Kicking captured fifth in upper Masters, while the Hot Hitters finished ninth in lower Masters. A record 196 teams representing 46 associations competed at the event Labor Day weekend in Tampa. Just two other associations, Phoenix and Mid-Atlantic, matched Fort Lauderdale’s haul of three World Series trophies. The South Florida Amateur Athletic Association, which belongs to the North America Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, sent a city-record 11 teams and almost 40 percent
of its players to the GSWS. Also competing for SFAAA were the Demons in B Division; the Felicias, Supervillains and Stampede in C Division; and the Wolfpack and Sluggers in D Division. In all, every SFAAA team won at least two games in round-robin play before being ousted at various stages in double elimination. At Opening Ceremonies on Labor Day, Oakland Park City Commission candidate Robert Thompson carried the Fort Lauderdale flag. He, along with his husband, Michael Jacobsen, recently won the gold medal for the United States in doubles bowling at the Gay Games in Paris in August. SFAAA opens its fall season on Sunday, Sept. 16. All games are played at Mills Pond Park in Fort Lauderdale. The season concludes with the SFAAA’s annual national tournament, the Hurricane Showdown, over Thanksgiving weekend. The World Series will be held in Kansas City in 2019, and Columbus, Ohio, in 2020.
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On Saturday, Sept. 8, Poverello hosted its annual bowling marathon to raise funds for the Poverello Hunger Fighters. This year’s theme was Tahiti Splash! J.R. Davis The Broward House Team.
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From August 15 - 19, The hot Annual Key West Festival had everything from pool parties to musical entertainment! Larry Blackburn
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TACO TUESDAY
Rick Karlin
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aco Tuesday is ubiquitous, but did you ever wonder about its origins? Other than the alliterative nature of the phrase, why is it Taco Tuesdays and not Wednesday or Mondays? Taco Tuesday is almost as common as Happy Hour and varies as much in its offerings. Well, it turns out that “Taco Tuesday” is a hotly debated commodity. Taco John’s, a Wyoming-based fast food chain trademarked “Taco Tuesday” in 2009, which it had been using for about a year. In 2010, Taco John’s asserted its trademark, threatening a small taco chain in Oklahoma that was using the term. For a while the chain fought any use of the term, except against New Jersey’s Gregory’s Hotel in Somers Point which also held a trademark, that was limited to New Jersey. To confuse things further, the web address tacotuesday.com is actually owned by a different restaurant, Tortilla Flats, based in California. Taco John’s eventually realized that enforcing the trademark was giving them more bad press than what it was worth and allowed other companies and restaurants full use of the term. It turns out that “Taco Tuesdays” was in use long before Taco John’s trademarked it. In the early 1980s, David Olsen advertised the event for his Minnesota restaurant, but called it “Taco Twosday” and offered twofor-one tacos. The earliest documented use of the term has been found in an advertisement for a Tuesday taco special in the Oct. 16, 1933, edition of the El Paso Herald-Post. The White Star Cafeteria at the city’s St. Regis advertised that it sold three “Mexican Tacos” for 15¢ on Tuesday. The Zia Lounge in Albuquerque gave away free tacos on Tuesday in early 1949. Oliver’s in Green Bay, Wisconsin offered free coffee with every purchase on Tuesday at around the same time. In Minneapolis, the unfortunately named La Cucaracha, offered tacos as its “Tuesday special” in April 1965. The Rapid City Journal in South Dakota ran an ad for the Snow White Drive-In reading, “Stop in on Taco Tuesday.” Finally, Baker’s Drive-
Thru, which still operates in California, advertised a taco special on Tuesday as early as 1967. Its campaign included the following, “Why are Tuesdays special? They’re Taco Tuesdays at Baker’s.” They still advertise Taco Tuesday to this day.
El Camino
817 East Las Olas Blvd Fort Lauderdale 954-530-1188 elcaminoftlauderdale Among some of the local places offering Taco Tuesday specials is one of Fort Lauderdale’s newest spots on Las Olas. El Camino manages to look as if it’s been there forever and the menu is quite reasonably priced. We stopped in on Taco Tuesday, when all tacos are $2 each. When you order the dinner, the platters of three tacos are served with Mexican rice and a choice of pinto beans, smoky black beans or refried beans. On Taco Tuesdays the tacos are served a la carte, but rice and beans are available as sides and are portioned big enough for 2-3 to share for $4 each. This saves you a couple of bucks for a platter of three and shared sides. I was more interested in the star attraction and ordered five tacos a la carte. The meal, which cost only $10, was almost more than I could finish. Crispy fried fish got a nice kick from tomatillo salsa and chipotle mayo and a pleasing crunch from shaved cabbage. The Gulf shrimp were a tad small, but perfectly cooked and topped with salsa, charred tomatoes and guacamole. The spicy chicken lives up to its name with an achiote rub, arbol chiles and scallions,
The meal, which cost only $10, was almost more than I could finish.
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El Camino trio.
which are tempered by a healthy portion of cotija cheese. Barbacoa highlights meaty chunks of brisket with cilantro and queso fresco, while the carne asada pairs slices of steak with ranchero sauce and sweet corn. With the exception of the fish, all were served on corn tortillas. A large basket of chips and two kinds of salsa were more than worth the $3 charge and easily served four of us. Other taco options include; roasted cauliflower with pickled red onions, ground beef with co-jack, the all-cheese queso fundido, ancho chile-glazed pork belly with pineapple salsa and spiced peanuts, or choprizo with Oaxaca cheese and salsa verde. For those wanting to try something other than tacos, there are fajitas, burritos and enchiladas, as well as tamales and quesadillas. A full bar offers Mexican and American cocktails as well as imported and domestic beers and wine.
Hungry for more?
Here are some other local places offering Taco Tuesday specials.
Tatts & Tacos Beer Garden
3200 NE 12th Ave., Oakland Park 954-533-0907 tattsandtacos.com Taco Tuesday Special: $12.95 all-you-can-eat tacos, $15 Margarita pitchers and $3 beer specials.
Agave Taco Bar
2949 N Federal, Fort Lauderdale 954-530-9065 agave-tacobar.com Taco Tuesday Special: $12.99 for unlimited tacos or single tacos for $2.95 each, $9 agave Margaritas and $2 off tequila shots.
Quvo Tacos & Craft Beer
4354 N Federal, Fort Lauderdale 954-368-3664 quvotacos.com Taco Tuesday Special: $10 for 3 Tacos and a draft beer! $7 for any 3 tacos.
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Theater Charles Busch’s gender-bending dark comedy, “Die, Mommie, Die!,” opens tonight at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. in Fort Lauderdale, and runs through Sept. 30. Ed Sparan stars as the former songstress trapped in a bad marriage who takes matters into her own hands in this tribute to the campy 1950s and ‘60s films starring aging icons Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Ethel Merman. Tickets $30 at Eventbrite.com.
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theater Thinking Cap Theatre presents Catherine Trieschmann’s “Crooked” through Sept. 30 at the Vanguard Sanctuary for the Arts, 1501 S. Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. “Crooked” takes a look at the jagged intersections of faith, family and desire. In the end, everyone has a cross to bear in this critically-acclaimed drama that debuted in London in 2006. Nicole Stodard directs. Tickets are $40 at VanguardArts.org.
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“Now & Then,” a new musical by composer Dennis Manning and playwright Ronnie Larsen gets its world premiere at the Abyss Theater, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton Manors. This touching love story traces the relationship of two men over more than four decades and features a tuneful country music-inspired score performed by a talented cast of six portraying the same couple over the course of their affair. Through Sept. 30. Tickets are $35 – 50 at NowAndThenMusical.com. Photo Credit: Howard Solomon.
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British rocker Sting teamed up with reggae artist Shaggy on a new album and the unlikely duo are bringing their show to the Fillmore, 1700 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach, tonight at 8 p.m. They’ll perform island-flavored versions of their biggest hits, including “Every Breath You Take,” “Message In A Bottle,” “It Wasn’t Me,” “Mr. Boombastic,” “Angel” and more. Tickets start at $104 at FillmoreMB.com.
Disco is back, tonight at the “Classic 54” tea dance at Hunters Nightclub, 2232 Wilton Dr. in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors. D.J. Richie Rich will be spinning all your favorite dance classics from the heyday of the iconic Studio 54 in Manhattan. “Low T” begins at 7 p.m. but the action really gets started with “High T” at 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Enjoy drink specials all night long. More information at HuntersFortLauderdale.
“House of Cards” creater Beau Willimon is back with “The First,” a new drama about a crew of astronauts who battle peril and personal sacrifice as they race to become the first humans to set foot on the planet Mars. Sean Penn stars in the series debuting this weekend on the subscription service Hulu. Binge alert: New episodes are released on Fridays, so you’ll have to take your time. To watch, go to Hulu.com.
The Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce holds its monthly mixer tonight from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Rosie’s Bar & Grill, 2449 Wilton Dr. in Wilton Manors. Mingle with local business and community leaders while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and a complimentary cocktail from Reyka vodka. Valet parking is also complimentary. Free for members, $10 for future members. Register at GFLGCC.org.
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Four-year-old Tyson (ID 593887) has quickly stolen the hearts of our staff and volunteers. We cannot understand why he has been here so long! Admittedly, Tyson does take a little while to get to know you, but he warms up very quickly, especially if he knows you’re going to give him lots of attention. So, he’s been patiently waiting for a family who can be patient with him. Sweet Tyson loves taking baths, as well as playing with moving toys like balls and bits of string. He loves everyone and everything once he gets to know them. This little boy has won the heart of Terri S. who has generously sponsored his adoption fee, so you can take him home today for no fee. That leaves you more money to spoil him with toys from the Pet Boutique.
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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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Ed Sparan, center, directs and stars in Charles Busch’s “Die, Mommie, Die!,” opening this weekend at Empire Stage. Photo Credit: Chris Chavez.
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onning heels and a wig isn’t necessarily actor and director Ed Sparan’s idea of fun, but it’s a labor of love when it comes to one of his favorite playwrights, Charles Busch. Sparan is directing and starring in a new production of Busch’s classic “Die, Mommie, Die!” opening this weekend at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale. “I’ve always been such a big fan of Charles Busch and directed a lot of his plays when I was an actor in New York in the ‘80s,” Sparan said. “I fell in love with the Charles Busch style of theater.” “Die, Mommie, Die!” was first staged in Los Angeles in 1999 and has been produced Off Broadway and across the country. The satirical dark comedy pays homage to the “psycho-biddy” of the 1950s and 1960s that featured aging actresses like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Ethel Merman. Busch starred in a film adaptation in 2003 that is still available on streaming and movie rental services. Sparan hesitated to throw out any spoilers, but the plot goes like this: Angela (Sparan) is trapped in a bad marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor, Angela murders her husband with a poisoned suppository. Angela’s daughter, Edith, convinces her emotionally disturbed brother, Lance, that
they must avenge their father’s death by killing their mother. Lance, demanding proof, slips some LSD into her coffee. All hell then breaks loose as the family’s dirty laundry is eventually aired. “It is a challenge because I’m older,” reflected Sparan on his gender-bending role. “I don’t act that much anymore— I did ‘Muscle Bears the Musical’ last summer— but, I couldn’t find the right person I was looking for and I thought I might like to do this because it’s a role of the lifetime. It’s such a fun play and harks back to the old Shakespearean style of male actors playing the female role. It’s not really drag.” Sparan, a theater veteran, is willing to make sacrifices for his craft. The Connecticut native moved to New York while still a teen. Openly gay in the early 1980s, Sparan found plenty of roles in gay theater productions (“I wasn’t shy,” he said.) before landing a gig on Broadway in “A Chorus Line” as Gregory, the gay dancer. At the height of the AIDS crisis, few actors—gay or straight—were willing to take on a gay role. After moving to South Florida in 1990, he moved into writing, directing and education as artistic director of the PWA (People With AIDS) Theater. More recently, he was director of operations for the World AIDS Museum in Wilton Manors. “In some ways, I was still doing what I did 25 or 30 years ago,” Sparan reflected.
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La Cage Aux Folles
August 31 to September 23 at the Stage Door Theater, 3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill. Nightclub and drag show owner Georges is presented with the challenge of acting the part when meeting his son’s finances ultraconservative parents. When he fails to take on the role of masculine uncle, he takes more creative measures to meet the family. Tickets $48. Visit LPACFL. com or call 954-777-2055.
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.
The Big Show
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.
September 12 - September 18 broward county 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 *Brian Regan: Netflix Comedian
Thursday, September 29 at 8 p.m at the The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach. Last year’s Netflix special, “Brian Regan: Nunchucks and Flamethrowers,” is the first in a two-special deal with the streaming giant, putting the funnyman in the ranks of Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld. A Carnegie Hall veteran hailed as “the funniest stand-up alive” by Vanity Fair, Regan riffs on board games, underwear and other relatable family topics. Tickets start at $20. Visit kravis.org.
Second Annual Alumni Recital — Lynn University
Thursday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall. Come hear favorite performers who have gone out into the world of music and achieved success. This year American trumpeter Peter Pirotte ’12 is joined by Brazilian pianist Carina Inoue ’14, ’16 in a show-stopping program spanning
The Outdoor Music Series is every third Thursdays at the Perez Art Museum Miami, 101 W. Flagler St. in Miami. Photo via Perez Art Museum, Facebook.
three centuries of brass-keyboard repertoire. Free to attend. Visit events.lynn.edu.
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 561-2437922 or visit DelrayArts.org.
miami-dade county *Actors Playhouse Season KickOff Party
Thursday, September 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hotel Colonnade, 180 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables. Actors’ Playhouse cordially invites you to kick-off and celebrate the PreBroadway World Premiere of “Havana Music Hall.” Enjoy a live 23-piece mambo band, savory hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and more! $50 donation per person. This event will be held at the Hotel Colonnade’s Rotunda. Tickets $50. Visit actorsplayhouse.org.
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September 20 to October 21 at 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes. Enjoy the final show of the 2017-2018 season, a touching and hilarious story of unlikely friendship. Tickets $25 to $30. Visit mainstreetplayers.com
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The Casey Raines Band
Saturday, September 15 at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater, 8802 Boynton Beach Blvd, Boynton Beach. Performing some of the greatest country and southern rock hits! Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. Free admission.
Immigration and the First Amendment
Monday, September 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Pavilion, Student Union, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Maria Hinojosa will present a lecture titled “Immigration and the First Amendment: The United States and the Hispanic/LatinX Experience.” Free admission. Visit FAU. edu for more info.
*SHAMELESS Art Exhibit
September 8 to October 5 at the Claudia Castillo Art Museum, 2215 Wilton Drive. From the Blue Freedom Collection by Jessica Fox, renowned television & radio personality, actress, producer and creator. Call 954-274-7047 for details.
September 12 September 18 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 *SHAMELESS Art Exhibit
September 8 to October 5 at the Claudia Castillo Art Museum, 2215 Wilton Drive. From the Blue Freedom Collection by Jessica Fox, renowned television & radio personality, actress, pro-ducer and creator. Call 954-2747047 for details.
*Remember to React Art Exhibit
September 9 to November 18 at the NSU Art Museum, One East Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Representing various periods and developments in the history of art, Remember to React also traces the collection’s growth from its origins to today. Sections of the exhibition will change over the course of the year with installations of other core holdings, to reveal the nuances of the interrelated and reactive narratives among the works in the Museum’s unique collection.
2018 Florida Biennial
Friday, September 14 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Art and Culture Center, 1650 Harrison
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Street, Hollywood. The 2018 Florida Biennial focuses on exploring multicultural identities and relational aesthetics. The exhibition features 64 works by 30 artists. Tickets $10 for nonmembers. Exhibit open until October 21. Visit artandculturecenter.org for info.
Arts and Crafts Wednesday Happy Hour
Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Arts and Crafts Social Club in Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy a two-for-one ‘freestyle’ painting session with hands on assistance as needed. Tickets $20. Visit artsandcraftssocialclub. com
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
September 12 - September 18 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.
Life Coaching
Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Latinos Salud Clubhouse, 2300 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Get one-on-one life coaching from certified CRCS coaches. For guys living with HIV, their partners, and anyone who identifies as transgender. Free. Call 954-765-6239 or visit LatinosSalud.org.
Lauderdale Bridge Club Lessons and Games
Mondays at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 401 SE 15th St. in Fort Lauderdale. Join the club for bridge lessons and try your hand at some games. Cost $4. Call 610-4016475 or visit MarpleBridgeClub.com.
palm beach county *Coco Movie Night
Friday, September 21 at 7 p.m. at Lake Worth CRA, 1121 Lucerne Avenue, Lake Worth. Bring some chairs and a blanket and enjoy a free showing of Disney Pixar’s “Coco” under
the stars! Visit lakewortharts.com.
* Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Sculpture
September 29 to March 31 at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the thirty works by sixteen artists comprise the first-ever comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture. They have all been drawn from the Clark Collections at Mia, the only collection in the world to feature this extraordinary new form. Tickets $9 to $15. Visit morikami.org.
Family Nights with Food Truck Invasion
Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater, 8802 Boynton Beach Blvd, Boynton Beach. The event features rotating entertainment activities and a large collection of food trucks on site! Admission is free.
The Casey Raines Band
Saturday, September 15 at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater, 8802 Boynton Beach Blvd, Boynton Beach. Performing some of the greatest country and southern rock hits!
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. Free admission.
Immigration and the First Amendment
Monday, September 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Pavilion, Student Union, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. Maria Hinojosa will present a lecture titled “Immigration and the First Amendment: The United States and the Hispanic/LatinX Experience.” Free admission. Visit FAU.edu for more info.
Ladies Night Out at the Science Center
Friday, September 21 at the South Florida Science Center, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach. Drink, mix, mingle and explore the Science Center after hours at this 21+ event. Tickets $15 to $30. Visit SFScienceCenter.org/Ladies-Night-Out
miami-dade county *Jaguars of the Atlantic Forest
Saturday, September 29 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Miami Zoo, 12400 SW 152 St, Miami. Today, the forests of Brazil are being cut down, displacing thousands of animals
including the jaguar. With less than 300 individuals left in the Atlantic Rainforest, Project Jaguars of Iguacu seeks to protect this species. Hear the story of how a group of people seek to protect this beautiful animal. Tickets $5. Register at zoomiami.org.
Snorkeling Clinics with Zoo Miami
September 8 and 22 from 2 p.m, to 3:30 p.m. at Crandon Park, North Beach. Learn how to snorkel in this innovative nature play program designed to connect you and your family with the places our wildlife call home. Tickets $5. Visit zoomiami.org to register.
key west Taco Brunch and All Day Happy Hour
Every Sunday (opening at 8 a.m.) at Mellow Cafe and Gastropub, 1605 N. Roosevelt Blvd, Key West. Spend the day drinking and downing tacos at this all-day happy hour, each week on Sun-day!
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