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A PARK FOR JUSTIN FLIPPEN? SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS

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WILTON MANORS CONSIDERS RENAMING PARK IN HONOR OF JUSTIN FLIPPEN

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popular downtown city park will likely be renamed in honor of the late Mayor Justin Flippen, pending a Sept. 22 public hearing.

Flippen, 41, died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm on Feb. 25 en route to a City Commission meeting.

Under the proposal, Jaycee Park at Wilton Drive and Northeast 21st Court would be renamed “Justin Flippen Park” in the late mayor’s memory.

The burly, ever-smiling mayor was a big presence on the Commission and his absence has left a noticeable gap.

“The one thing that was so great about Justin is he just made everyone feel like you were one of his very best friends. He did this for large numbers of people,” said Acting Mayor Tom Green, his voice cracking with emotion. “He did love our city very much and loved parks very much.”

Commissioners voiced unanimous support for the renaming but didn’t agree about when it should take place. Commissioner Gary Resnick wants the city to delay the renaming until Flippen’s birthday on May 6 so the issue doesn’t become politicized before the Nov. 3 election. In Wilton Manors, the mayor’s seat and two commission seats are up for grabs. Resnick also believes the city could more easily hold a dedication and

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Justin Flippen during the swearing in ceremony in 2018. Photo via the City of Wilton Manors, Facebook.

celebration at the park in May in light of the ongoing pandemic.

Green and Vice Mayor Julie Carson disagreed that the renaming might become politicized.

“I think it is absolutely not a political issue. If you want to poll everyone who is running for office, I think everyone is in support of it,” Carson said. “I am stunned that Commissioner Resnick would say that we need to wait to do it.”

Residents sent in more than a dozen emails supporting the renaming, with a few exceptions. One resident called it “fitting.”

Another called it “appropriate” and “truly splendid.”

“We definitely feel Jaycee Park ought to be renamed in honor of and in remembrance of our deceased and much loved Mayor Justin Flippen,” wrote Roger Wilson and Maurice McDonald in an email. “He loved our city and hosted many festive holiday events at the park that should be renamed after him.”

But not everyone was so enthusiastic.

Aimee Ballantyne, CEO of Friends In Stitches Recovery, sent a scathing email to the city saying she would “emphatically vote against this proposal.”

“He led the city in a purely gay-centric direction, not spending enough time on the nuts and bolts issues which would have made our city cleaner, safer, more grounded in reality and better prepared for the future,” Ballantyne wrote.

The park was named after the Jaycees in the 1950s because the organization took over maintenance of the park at the time. The name stuck long after the organization had relinquished its park maintenance duties, said City Manager Leigh Ann Henderson.

Stephanie A. Flippen-Chandler, Flippen’s mother, said the park renaming would honor her son’s life of service.

“I believe this will further and positively memorialize Justin, his work and his memory which are all rooted in strong public service to the City of Wilton Manors,” his mother wrote in an email.

COVER: Rolando Chang Barrero (left) with Pete Camacho, volunteering with the Palm Beach Democratic Hispanic Chapter to help register voters at Ceasar’s Famous Ribs. Photo via the Palm Beach Democratic Hispanic Chapter, Facebook.

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ndrew Gillum revealed he is bisexual.

Gillum, the former Tallahassee Mayor, CNN analyst and Florida Governor runner-up, gave an interview to talk show host Tamron Hall, in which he said he drew a distinction in his sexual orientation.

“The answer is I don’t identify as gay but I do identify as bisexual,” Gillum said. “And that is something that I have never shared publicly before.”

Gillum and his wife, R. Jai, took part in Hall’s interview, which aired Monday on MSNBC. R. Jai told Tamron bisexuality is too often misunderstood.

“Bisexuality is just something different,” she said. “I just believe that love and sexuality exist on a spectrum. All I care about is what’s between us and what agreement we make.”

Gillum recently took to his Instagram account to tell followers he was “suffering in silence.”

“I was perfecting what it meant to wear the mask,” Gillum said.

In March, Miami Beach police found Gillum in a hotel room in an “inebriated state.”

Emergency workers had been called to treat another man suffering from a suspected drug overdose. Gillum was in town for a wedding.

Gillum lost the Governor election by a mere 32,000 votes to Republican candidate Ron DeSantis. He went on to form a voter

“THE ANSWER IS I DON’T IDENTIFY AS GAY BUT I DO IDENTIFY AS BISEXUAL. AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE NEVER SHARED PUBLICLY BEFORE.” - Andrew Gillum FORMER TALLAHASSEE MAYOR

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registration campaign through Forward Florida Action, a political action committee.

At the time of his Miami Beach incident, he was considered a rising star in the Democratic party.

Reaction to Gillum’s latest revelation was met with love and support from fellow Democrats.

“This interview is the reason 2020 why @AndrewGillum is my brother and friend, and have been for over 18 years,” tweeted Florida Senator-elect Shevrin Jones. “Brother, live your TRUTH, FREE yourself, and give others permission to do the same.”

“It’s not easy being your authentic self, but I’m glad @AndrewGillum is telling his truth,” tweeted Florida Representative Carlos Smith.

“Wishing him, R. Jai and his family the best!”

“I’ve been proud to be a supporter of @AndrewGillum everyday since we met in 2017,” tweeted Broward young progressive Elijah Manley. “I’m so glad that you’ve found peace to share your identity on your time. Got your back.”

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Bree Black. Photo via Facebook.

TWO MONTHS LATER, STILL NO LEADS IN BREE BLACK HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION Christiana Lilly

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ore than two months have passed not received any type of information from since Bree Black was killed the community. No calls, no tips, no support in Pompano Beach, and law in this particular investigation.” enforcement still needs help from the public Law enforcement has also not found any to solve her murder. solid motive for her killing.

“As of this date, we are still asking for Unfortunately, Black is one of the alarming the community’s help and number of transgender people our homicide detectives are who have been killed this year. still working on the case,” This summer, the number of Sgt. Donald Prichard, a public trans people killed in 2020 information officer with the already surpassed all of 2019, Broward Sheriff’s Office, said in according to the National Center for Transgender an email to South Florida Gay Equality.

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“Oftentimes stories like this Black, a Black trans woman don’t get the coverage that is who also had the nickname needed to bring awareness,” “Nuk,” was shot and killed Tatiana Williams, the coclose to her home July 3. People founder and executive director were congregated due to the of TransInclusive, said in an holiday weekend, but few have - Tatiana Williams email. come forward with information CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE She added that Black’s family on what they saw. By the time DIRECTOR OF TRANSINCLUSIVE has not been comfortable police arrived, hundreds of speaking with the media, but people were in the street, “are grateful for the work we are doing to according to BSO. At the beginning of August, a reward for help find her murderer.”

Williams added: “The father stated he information leading to the arrest of her killer was increased to $8,000. The news was made has been threatened due to this ongoing during a press conference hosted by Broward investigation and the family is trying to put Sheriff Gregory Tony, who said, “We have this behind them.”

“OFTENTIMES STORIES LIKE THIS DON’T GET THE COVERAGE THAT IS NEEDED TO BRING AWARENESS.”

If you have information that could be helpful to the case, call Det. Louis Bonhomme at 954-321-4377. To remain anonymous, you can also contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or visit browardcrimestoppers.org.

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.S. Congresswoman Val Demings is Current FDA policy allows for a threeintroducing a bill that lifts the ban month deferral period on blood donations on gays, lesbians, bisexuals and by men who have sex with men (MSM). In transgender people from donating blood.

1985, amid the global AIDS pandemic, the The Science in Blood Donation Act, FDA issued a broad ban on blood donations introduced by Demings (FL-10) and by MSM. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-5), calls on Jones moderated a panel Saturday for the the Food & Drug Administration to revise Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus. The outdated guidance. theme of this year’s summer conference was To reduce the risk of HIV transmission “It’s In Your Hands.” Jones, on the cusp of by blood and blood products, the Demings/ becoming Florida’s first Black gay Senator, Quigley bill asks for a shift in focus on spoke with SFGN this week about the panel. individual assessments of “This year has taught me how donors and modern testing to be a better leader,” Jones said. capabilities instead of relying on “It’s taught me how to lead from “archaic rules and ideologies” a room and to build coalitions.” around sexual orientation and On Jones’s panel were gender identity.

Representative-elect Michele Demings, the former Orlando Rayner and Lake Worth Police Chief, said the needed Commissioner Omari Hardy. revisions “strikes a particularly Rayner, a civil rights attorney personal chord here in Orlando.” from House District 70, is the Orlando, Demings said, knows first queer Black woman elected the pain and discrimination to the state legislature. from these policies.

Jones said he “feels great” In 2016, following the Pulse and is “trying to bypass all the - Shevrin Jones Nightclub massacre, LGBT hatred and bigotry” from a FLORIDA SENATOR-ELECT people were turned away from hard-fought primary victory in donating their blood plasma.

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Demings said her bill would “end the longJoe Biden, Jones said, is the “only saving standing discrimination against LGBTQ+ grace we have now to deal with what’s going blood donors.” on in our country and the economic collapse In August, Florida Senator-elect Shevrin that we’re seeing.”

Jones was turned away from donating On Wednesday, Jones thanked Demings plasma at the OneBlood donation center in for her advocacy and bold leadership.

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“Thank you for fighting to eliminate this “Saving a life shouldn’t be prevented antiquated rule set by @US_FDA, which because of who you love,” Jones tweeted. is nothing but discrimination against the “The @US_FDA should look at this LGBTQ community,” Jones tweeted. antiquated policy and do away with it.”

“SAVING A LIFE SHOULDN’T BE PREVENTED BECAUSE OF WHO YOU LOVE.”

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t’s Saturday morning at the corner of US-1 and Oakland Park, and there are flags waving, cars honking and signs thrust into the air. At first glance, it seems the tea party has returned to its spot at Coral Ridge Mall — but drive up closer to the crowd, and the corner has taken a 180-degree turn.

It’s a rally for Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris. “[I’m] thinking of my children, of wanting someone that can speak truth, that can speak coherently and create full sentences,” laughed Leonard Heal-Rodriguez, the founder of the rally. “All it takes is one action, and how amazing it is that not only have we taken that one corner, we’ve taken all four corners.”

A month ago, the escrow accountant for a law firm decided he had enough of hearing his Democrat friends complaining on Facebook about the state of the country. He made a post that he would be at the corner to show support for the Biden-Harris ticket and invited whoever else wanted to join.

“I just thought if two people show up, that’s wonderful,” he said. “I had all intentions of being out there with a couple of my friends and that’s how it started.”

More than two people showed up the first Saturday. By the third Saturday, the crowd had grown to 62 participants. Heal-Rodriguez purchased 15 more flags and had more posters printed for the influx. The group is now expanding to other corners at Coral Ridge and will be adding a caravan to drive to the beach and back.

This isn’t the first time the LGBT community

has taken over the corner. In 2016, after the Pulse shooting, a local gay lawyer started weekly Love Always Wins rallies that drew hundreds of attendees.

Stephanie Steinberg found out about the rally on Facebook and joined. Now, she has her own rallies scheduled in Deerfield Beach on Sunday mornings from 9:30 - 11 a.m.

“We get honking constantly, waving, thumbs up the whole time,” she said. “It’s very rewarding as a Biden-Harris supporter to see other BidenHarris supporters interacting with each other, even if they’re just driving by.”

Steinberg retired after being an advocate for banning indoor smoking in Colorado. When she moved to Florida three years ago, she was shocked by the political culture — she remembers seeing the Confederate flags flying in North Florida, the road rage in South Florida, and the seeming lack of interest by the people around her to recycle properly or be eco-conscious.

“We need to be here,” she said. “We have to be in places where no one is speaking up, where people are being silenced, and you have to be out in public and let people at least hear you, that you’re present in your life.”

Both Steinberg and Heal-Rodriguez plan to keep up their rallies every weekend until the election, weather permitting. Heal-Rodriguez

MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE SHOWED UP THE FIRST SATURDAY.

BY THE THIRD SATURDAY, THE CROWD HAD GROWN TO 62 PARTICIPANTS.

Supporters rally at the corner of US-1 and Oakland Park. Credit: J.R. Davis. To see more photos, turn to page 24.

is also adding voter awareness to his mission, as the Coral Ridge Mall is a popular early voting location. He’ll be spreading the word about early voting and mail-in ballots as alternatives to in-person voting on Election Day, for those who are interested.

“We can’t continue this for another four years. This has united us and this is what

our country is about, was about, and will continue to be about once we elect Biden into presidency,” Heal-Rodriguez said. While John Ramos, a co-organizer of the event, added: “The bottom line is by doing these rallies we’re hoping to increase the enthusiasm level, increase voter turnout, and motivate people.”

The Fort Lauderdale rally is Saturdays from 9 - 10:30 a.m. at the corner of US-1 and Oakland Park Boulevard. Visit TRUTH OVER LIES - Biden Harris 2020 on Facebook for more information. The Deerfield Beach rally is Sundays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. by the CVS at 2 S. Federal Highway.

Visit Patriots for Biden by the Beach on Facebook for more information.

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RUNNERS OF THE DARK LGBT running group goes virtual for pandemic Christiana Lilly WHEN THE CORONAVIRUS PUT A STOP TO LIFE AS WE KNOW IT, SOCIAL GROUPS HAVE GOTTEN CREATIVE TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN STILL BE CONNECTED, EVEN FROM AFAR.

work through everything you went through in the day, you think about what you’re going to do tomorrow,” Hedlund said of the night runs. “It’s like meditation and relaxing.”

In 2019, Night Runners WPB officially incorporated as a 501c3, On Mondays and Thursdays, up to 70 people were joining in on runners throughout West Palm the runs, and the group received a Beach and beyond lace up their grant from Brooks Running to host shoes and run alone, then take a its first Pride 5K in March 2020. sweaty selfie. In a collage of smiles, Unfortunately, it was scrapped due the runners’ photos are featured on to coronavirus. But the board of the Night Runners WPB Instagram directors didn’t want to completely page. give up on running, so they shifted “There’s more motivation when to virtual runs and kept the end-ofyou know someone else is running run group photo going, albeit a little or walking and it’s not just you,” said different.

Rudolph Galindo, the founder of the Participants are encouraged to running group. go on their own runs — any time The group got its start in December of the day is fine — every Monday 2016 when Galindo and three friends and Thursday and send in an afterhad the idea to start a twicerun selfie. At the weekly running group in West end of the day, “WE’VE ALWAYS Palm Beach — an alternative all the selfies are BEEN A to other LGBT social groups combined into a NONCOMPETITIVE that would typically meet up group collage to go at bars. Every Monday and with the group’s new GROUP, AND WE Thursday night their running anthem, “Running WAIT AT THE crowd grew, but it doubled Apart Together.”

FINISH LINE UNTIL Each night, about 30 when they added a walking EVERYBODY route six months in. people participate It became a tradition that in the runs.

FINISHES, at the end of every run and And that 5K WE CHEER walk, the group would take they had planned EVERYBODY ON.” a photo together to post on for March, it’s Instagram. been revamped - Rudolph Galindo “We’ve always been a and rescheduled FOUNDER noncompetitive group, and for Dec. 4 - 6 as we wait at the finish line a virtual 5K, “Our until everybody finishes, we cheer Pride is Stronger Than a Pandemic.” everybody on,” Galindo explained.

Runners or walkers can do their Leo Hedlund, 28, joined the 5K at any time during the three-day running group after he moved to period, and everyone will receive Florida from Minnesota a few years a t-shirt and medal. Time will be ago. Looking for a change, he was recorded by an app to allow everyone in a new city with no friends, but to participate in some friendly the Night Runners WPB became his competition for the fastest time. second family.

Hedlund was training hard for the “You get that last little bit of time 5K, and was “devastated” when it to focus on yourself, and you get to was canceled. He took some time

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Runners and walkers take a selfie after their route, then share it with Night Walkers WPB to be uploaded into a group collage on Instagram. Photo courtesy of Rudolph R. Galindo.

off from running, but now that it’s been rescheduled, he’s back on track to make his personal goal of running the 5K in less than 20 minutes. So far, he’s joined by another 150 people who are registered, and proceeds will benefit the Compass Community Center in

Lake Worth.

“Our vision is you see people running and walking throughout the community wearing these shirts announcing night runners and showing how proud they are of their pride,” Galindo said.

To learn more about the Night Runners or to join in, visit them on Instagram @nightrunnerswpb_ or Facebook.com/nightrunnerswpb.

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WEST PALM BEACH CITY COMMISSIONERS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION TO CREATE PALM BEACH COUNTY’S FIRST LGBT PRIDE RAINBOW CROSSWALK. The crosswalk will be located in Northwood Village at the intersection of Northwood Road and Spruce Avenue. The pavers will be painted with the six colors of the rainbow flag: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, according to the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.

The resolution was introduced by City Commissioner Kelly Shoaf at the request of PBCHRC’s President Rand Hoch. Shoaf’s district includes Northwood Village.

In August 2018, Wendy Morse, who then served as the Manager of the Office of Public Engagement, informed the city’s Art in Public Places committee that crosswalks throughout the city that needed to be refurbished could use some artwork, according to PBCHRC. Hoch, an AiPP member at the time, immediately requested a rainbow crosswalk.

“Several cities have installed crosswalks painted with the colors in the rainbow flag to recognize their LGBTQ residents,” Hoch told the AiPP members, according to the press release. “Let’s make it happen here.”

U.S. cities with rainbow crosswalks include Albuquerque, Atlanta, Gainesville, Key West, Miami, Minneapolis, Missoula, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San

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Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, West Hollywood, and Washington, D.C. Following the AiPP meeting, PBCHRC reached out to the LGBT community via Facebook seeking recommendations for the best location for the crosswalk.

Matt Chambers and Will Davis, local business leaders who were the first gay couple in West Palm Beach to be married at City Hall, suggested the intersection of Northwood Road and Spruce Avenue.

“When installed we can turn this into a great community event,” said Chambers in 2018, according to PBCHRC. Hoch contacted Shoaf last month asking if the City would hold “a socially-distanced ceremony” following completion of the project.

To date, no decision has been made concerning a dedication ceremony.

Although the former Mayor of West Palm Beach Jeri Muoio agreed the location was ideal, it took until this summer for city staff to initially approve the crosswalk project.

While the city selected Shamus Paving of Deerfield Beach to manage the project, Trinity Striping will do the pavement marking.

The project will cost less than $4,000.

Installation is expected to be completed within 40 days, according to PBCHRC. Future upkeep is expected to run approximately $5,000 every five years. The costs will not be paid by the taxpayers, as maintenance is to come out of AiPP provided by developers, according to the press release.

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FGN publisher Norm Kent celebrated political leaders, including candidates for the first anniversary of his radio show office. On Thursday’s show, Kent hosts this week, but not with the party of Broward County Mayor Dale Holness guests he hoped for and wanted. to discuss the opening of local bars and “I was going to hold an indoor rally for nightclubs. all my guests this past year,” Kent said, “but “The Norm Kent Show” has also been a unlike our president, I don’t want to kill my forum for local journalists to talk about the friends.” stories they have been working Kent kicked off “The Norm on and published, with over “IF WE COULD Kent Show” last year after 16 reporters from Sun Sentinel building a radio studio in the and Miami Herald and local TV HAVE HAD AN offices of SFGN in Wilton stations having appeared on the ANNIVERSARY Manors. However, since the show. start of the global pandemic, A long-time advocate for the PARTY, I WOULD the show has been produced legalization of cannabis, at 4:20 HAVE DISTRIBUTED p.m. Tuesday Kent featured author remotely, from what he calls his “man cave at home.”

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While Kent’s show has been “COVID-19 Kent kicked off the anniversary week’s centric” since the start of the pandemic, he show by declaring that Trump should be said the next few months will be politically charged with “criminally negligent homicide” driven with the presidential election coming for his political gatherings that defy his own up in November. administration’s CDC guidelines.

“There is a virus in the White House, and Featured guests on the radio show every person in America has to help remove have included contemporary local and it,” Kent added.

“The Norm Kent Show” airs at 4 p.m. weekdays on WWNNRadio.com, and the website is NormKentShow.com.

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WEEKLY TRACKING OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH FLORIDA Sean McShee

CUMULATIVE KNOWN COVID-19 CASES IN THREE SOUTH FLORIDA COUNTIES: Cumulative Known COVID-19 Cases in Three South FloridaSEPTEMBER Counties: 15 SEPTEMBER 9 THROUGH

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Percent Increase in cumulative COVID-19 deaths from 9/9 to 9/15 Percent Increase cumulative COVID-19 cases from Palm Beach 3.2%,inBroward 3.5%, and Miami Dade 6.79/9 % to 9/15 Palm Beach 2.0%, Broward 1.3%, and Miami Dade 1.4 % 162,433

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MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS CALL GAY CANDIDATE ‘PEDO SEX POET’ John McDonald

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epublicans in Michigan are attempting The district, which former President to label a gay congressional candidate Barack Obama won in 2008, is viewed as a pedophile. trending more Democratic this cycle.

Jon Hoadley, the Democratic nominee “Because of 150,000 deaths from COVID in Michigan’s 6th Congressional District, and a collapsing economy, Congressman is under attack by GOP groups about blog Fred Upton’s chances of getting reelected are posts from his past. The National Republican drowning so quickly that the Republicans Congressional Committee has have mistaken bad college taken to referring to Hoadley, poetry for a life preserver,” a a state representative from spokeswoman for the Hoadley Kalamazoo, as a “pedo sex poet.” campaign told the New York “We have seen more of these Post. homophobic attacks this cycle The Log Cabin Republicans than any of the last three cycles,” told the Detroit News Hoadley declared the LGBTQ Victory “knows better than to describe Fund in a press release on children and women so Thursday. “The need to call out dismissively.” these attacks as well-beyond the “That ‘catty gay’ trope normal politics of destruction is does nothing but continue essential. Falsely claiming an to embarrass the LGBTQ openly gay candidate for public community,” Charles Moran, - LGBTQ Victory office is a pedophile is abhorrent managing director for the Log Fund — especially from the main Cabin Republicans, told the PRESS RELEASE campaign arm of Congressional Detroit News.

Republicans.”

Hoadley would be the Michigan’s 6th Congressional District first openly LGBT Michigander elected to sits southwest of Grand Rapids and across Congress. He apologized last month for the a great lake from Chicago. Fred Upton, 67, is blog. the incumbent representative, first elected “I said things 16 years ago that I would in 1987. never say today. That are not reflective of Upton has said nothing of the attempts to who I am,” Hoadley said. “For folks that I tarnish Hoadley’s character. hurt with my words, I’m sorry.”

“WE HAVE SEEN MORE OF THESE HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS THIS CYCLE THAN ANY OF THE LAST THREE CYCLES.”

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ADAM LAMBERT TALKS POLITICS WITH PETE BUTTIGIEG ON INSTAGRAM John McDonald

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ock singer Adam Lambert interviewed former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg on his Instagram channel on Thursday.

It was a 30-minute Q&A segment between the 38-year-old gay men. Both have fully endorsed the Biden/Harris presidential campaign.

“This is your moment of maximum power,” Buttigieg told Lambert’s audience.

With the general election rapidly approaching, Buttigieg said he is having conversations with Republicans ready to jump ship and others considering if voting even matters. If every LGBT and pro-equality voter votes it would be “an unstoppable force,” Buttigieg said.

“We get to decide how 2020 ends,” Buttigieg said. “I think 2020 could actually go down in history as the beginning of a different kind of decade. That the 2020s would be remembered as the decade when, frankly, America got its shit together and started moving forward.”

Lambert gained fame through “American Idol” and went on to sell millions of albums and songs with a theatrical style often dubbed “Glambert.” He said the realities of dealing with a pandemic have been intense and the world has experienced a consciousness shift.

“Being humble enough to wear that mask when you go outside to protect the community,” Lambert said. “[COVID-19] has been a reveal of the fact that we might have some selfishness to deal with.”

In 2018, Lambert took to the stage in London with legendary rock band Queen for a performance of “The Show Must Go On.”

Adam Lambert (top) speaking with former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Photo via Adam-Lambert.org.

The performance is part of a concert album, Live Around The World, scheduled for an Oct. 2 release.

“We can’t wait to get back to work,” said Lambert, expressing a desire he said from many unemployed artists.

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SOUTH FLORIDA LGBT ORGS DETERMINED TO HAVE BIG IMPACT IN ELECTION ‘In a state where [...] a race was called by 10,000 votes, [...] 566,000 pro-equality voters can change everything’ Steve Rothaus

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n the final weeks of Campaign 2020, South Florida’s largest LGBT political groups are pushing hard to make sure gay voters and their allies are registered, and know how to cast their ballots.

“Vote like your life depends upon it,” said Nik Harris, vice president of the Dolphin Democrats political club.

Harris, who is also LGBT consumer advocate for Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, said it’s essential that equality voters do not sit out this election.

“A ‘no’ vote is a vote. That’s the truth. Right now we’re talking about peoples’ lives.”

Most major LGBT political groups — with the exception of Log Cabin Republicans in Washington, D.C. — maintain that four more years of a Donald Trump presidency would jeopardize the many political gains won by gay people this past decade.

“Once again, Trump is trying to distract from his failure to lead, this time by advertising a list of individuals he hopes to appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Human Rights Campaign (HRC)President Alphonso Davidon Sept. 10, a day after the president presented his list of 20 conservative potential justices, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

“And, if the past is prologue, [Trump] may once again nominate people who would deny legal protections for LGBTQ people, take away the health care provided by the Affordable Care Act, undermine the fundamental right to vote, erode core civil rights laws, and fail to value the lives, needs and Constitutional rights of the LGBTQ community,” said David, whose Washington-based group is the nation’s largest gay-rights organization. “We must not let this happen, and it starts by denying Trump a second term.”

Locally, both partisan and nonpartisan rights groups say they are working hard to ensure a high turnout this election by LGBTQ voters and their allies.

“It’s important not to assume that people are registered to vote. And even if they’re registered, how do we get them out?” said Harris, who recently helped 10 members of a single Broward family become voters.

It began when a Haitian-American worker at Harris’s Fort Lauderdale apartment building overheard a conversation about voter registration.

“She said, ‘I’ve always wanted to know how to vote, but I was too embarrassed [to ask],’” Harris recalled.

Soon after, the woman’s husband, mother, father and other relatives were registered. “They’re all going to be

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Rolando Chang Barrero (left) with Pete Camacho, volunteering with the Palm Beach Democratic Hispanic Chapter to help register voters at Ceasar’s Famous Ribs. Photo via the Palm Beach Democratic Hispanic Chapter, Facebook.

first-time voters,” Harris said.

N. Dixie Hwy. in Lake Worth. A second voter drive will Florida voter registration for the November general happen Sunday, Oct. 4, at the parking lot between H.G. election continues through Monday, Oct. 5. Vote-by- Roosters and Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Rd., West Palm mail requests end Saturday, Oct. 24, and all ballots must Beach. be returned to county elections departments by 7 p.m.

The Compass drive is nonpartisan. The drive outside Nov. 3, Election Day. Early voting dates vary throughout Roosters and Box Gallery “will be a major outreach to Florida, but must run at least eight Hispanic Democrats in the area,” Barrero days, from Saturday, Oct. 24, through said. “It’s sponsored by the Palm Beach Saturday, Oct. 31.

County Democratic Chapter, part of the state Two LGBTQ voter drives are Democratic Party hierarchy.” scheduled in Palm Beach County, Barrero said his group regularly organized by a group of local gay encourages people to vote, but that this year businesses including the Box Gallery of COVID-19 has changed how they do it.

West Palm Beach, Mad Hatter Lounge “A lot of us have been making phone calls of Lake Worth Beach and Penny’s at the because of the quarantine. Usually we go out Duke bar in Lantana, according to gallery door knocking. This year, because of COVID, owner Rolando Barrero. everything was stunted,” he said, adding that In addition to registering voters, the there is also a big push for vote by mail. business group is “celebrating” the 37th “A lot of people won’t go to the polls anniversary of H.G. Roosters bar in West because of COVID,” he said. “Our elderly Palm Beach, which has been closed since community is one of the biggest voting - Rolando Chang an accidental fire in May, Barrero said. blocks.”

Barrero Roosters, which won’t reopen The Black Lives Matter movement will OWNER, THE BOX GALLERY until sometime after Election Day, has also be a big factor in driving this year’s temporarily converted its website (www.

LGBTQ voter turnout, Harris said. roosterswpb.com) into a voter registration and turnout “Ordinarily, we take Black Democrats for granted. site.

And I’m a Democrat — a proud Democrat. We are the Barrero said the first voter drive happens Saturday, most reliable Democratic block. Suddenly Trump has Sept. 26, at Compass LGBTQ Community Center, 201 challenged that,” she said. “I don’t think that Dems have

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ALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, announced their picks for top television series, movies and performers during a virtual, livestreamed event on Sunday, Sept. 13.

Hosted by talk radio personality Charles Karel Bouley on Revry, the LGBT streaming service, the two-hour event recognized unique contributions in mainstream TV and featured a slate of A-list Hollywood stars, including Hugh Jackman, Regina King, Laverne Cox, John Oliver, Janelle Monáe and Billy Porter.

“The presenters and winners really outdid themselves with their virtual appearances,” said GALECA Executive Director John Griffiths. “And our host Karel did an amazing job, especially considering he was flying virtually. He’s such a genuine, enthusiastic fan, and that makes an awards show much more fun. He also gets how much power TV has in transforming and uplifting lives. That makes the viewing experience more meaningful.”

Referring to the new era of social distancing, Karel said, “There are people in the Trump administration that’ve gone to jail and gotten out sooner than we have from our lock-up!”

“Killing Eve” (BBC America) and “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop) were named best TV drama and comedy, respectively, while best LGBT TV show also went to Dan Levy’s sitcom, which won numerous accolades during the evening, including the Wilde Wit award, honoring a performer whose observations “both challenge and amuse,” and best actor.

Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy also earned awards for best actress and supporting actress.

Thanking GALECA’s 250 members (including SFGN’s Arts & Entertainment Editor J.W. Arnold), Levy said, “It is a great honor to be recognized by all of you, because, let’s be honest, you got good taste.”

HBO’s alternate universe fantasy series “Watchmen” was awarded best limited series and most visually striking show.

Accepting the awards, creator Damon Lindelof said, “I know the Dorians celebrate all kinds of film and TV shows that don’t necessarily need to be LGBTQ-themed, but we take particular pride in the fact that there is a queer character at the very center of ‘Watchmen.’”

Lindelhof continued, “We started this story

S O U T H Canadian sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” was the big winner in the 2020 Dorian TV Awards, judged by LGBT entertainment critics. Credit: Pop.

by asking a simple question, ‘Why would a superhero need to hide their face?’ If they were truly fighting for justice, the answer seemed obvious: Because the world wasn’t ready to see who they really were. And so ‘Watchmen’ became this story about unmasking, about understanding the pain and trauma caused by ignorance and hate.”

Hugh Jackman won best TV performance for his role in HBO’s “Bad Education” as real-life figure Frank Tassone, a school superintendent who was imprisoned for embezzling over $11 million in 2004.

Campiest TV show went to “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” the Netflix docuseries that became a social media sensation in the early weeks of the pandemic shutdown. The series tells the true story of zoo owner and controversial personality Joe Exotic, who was embroiled in a murder-forhire plot and subsequently imprisoned.

Director/producer Rebecca Chaiklin told viewers Joe Exotic (Joseph Allen MaldonadoPassage) — who is gay and recently sent a letter to Donald Trump asking to be pardoned for charges of murder for hire and animal abuse — sent his gratitude.

Rounding out the Dorian winners were “What We Do in the Shadows” (FX), best unsung TV show, and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO), best current affairs program.

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veryone has a story that helps explain, not excuse, why they think the way they do. Taking the time to listen to another’s tale is a gift to them. Having them take the time to tell us the what and wherefore of their lives is a gift to us. If we take the time to listen, we will never be the same. If they take the time to tell us, nor will they be.

I love hearing people’s stories, particularly when their lives have been, and are very different from my own. I always learn something important when I ask, “What was it like growing up for you?” The stories that are told are oftentimes sad. The person with whom I’m talking sometimes had to deal with unimaginable challenges. They had polio, or some other debilitating childhood disease. Their father took his life when they were young. Their mother was mentally ill, and mistreated them. They were sexually abused. They were poor and went to bed hungry.

Some stories speak of privileges unimagined by me, such as grandmothers who took them as children to Europe, of going to private schools with the children of movie stars and old world HAVING A nobility, and of having horses, private MOTHER WHO planes, and chefs.

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ILL DOESN’T would seek to dismiss them. The opposite is true. In my experience, telling your MEAN THAT YOU story liberates and empowers you. You ARE UNLOVED, home, and Ray became a much loved son-in-law. the enemy. But, as understandable as it is that we do it out of increase the odds of feeling understood.

ANY MORE It seems to me that hearing that I was loved by fear, it is foolishness that says far more about us than it does Other people fear that listening to a story, my family connected me to those in the audience about them especially from someone more privileged, THAN GOING for whom family was important. It made me less I’ve done it my whole life. I’ve done it to feel stronger, will diminish them in the eyes of the other, TO PRIVATE foreign, and perhaps envied by those who didn’t dominant, unafraid. People were “homophobes.” They were make them feel “less than,” or unfairly experience love and acceptance despite them “Right Wing, Fundamentalist fanatics,” or, “Conservative treated by life.

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Republicans.”

Quite the contrary, story-telling can be YOU FEEL LOVED. Many people over the years have told me how The same was done to me. I was dismissed as a “coward” the equalizer, for when all of the hard luck impactful it was for them to hear my story, how it for being a conscientious objector, and “an avowed and good luck elements are told and out helped them understand what it was like growing homosexual” for coming out as gay. In the gay community, of the way, you eventually get to the most up with a secret I didn’t understand, and was afraid to tell I was dismissed by some as “an assimilationist” for being basic criteria for happiness, “Did you feel loved?”

Catholic. Just as the labels used with me foolishly missed the Having a mother who is mentally ill doesn’t mean that you anyone.

From my perspective, being invited to tell my story over and basics of who I am, my labels of others did the same. are unloved, any more than going to private schools makes This may not be easily accomplished at this politically you feel loved. And you needn’t be poor to feel disadvantaged, over again, hundreds of times, maybe thousands, was a gift that allowed me to continually discern what was important, divisive, quarantined time in history, but before we die and lonely.

Many of us don’t arrive at that truth until we’re older, not just to the audience, but to me. The more I spoke, the thinking we’ve got it all worked out, we should start asking but that’s often because we didn’t take the time, or have the more confident I became, not just as a speaker, but as a gay others to tell us about themselves. “What was it like for you opportunity, to hear someone speak of experiences very man who truly was fortunate to have experienced love as a growing up?” grandchild, child, brother, nephew, friend, and neighbor.

If we truly listen, we’ll learn a whole lot about life that we different than our own.

It’s easy to put labels on other people, to put them in hadn’t imagined, and we’ll eventually get to the thing that One question that I always got when I spoke to college and corporate audiences about growing up gay, was, “How did boxes. That’s what’s done when they’re deemed a threat, or, connects us all, “Did you feel loved?” your parents react when you told them?”

Fortunately, I was able to say that my parents accepted me, and never stopped loving me no matter how much public attention I brought to them with my well-publicized civil Brian McNaught has been a leading educator on LGBTQ issues globally since 1974. He rights case with the Catholic Church. has made his many books and DVDs available for free at Brian-McNaught.com. The Once out, my boyfriends were always welcome in our New York Times named him “The Godfather of gay diversity training.”

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