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ov. 3 is a big day for the nation — Americans will take to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the White House.

It will also be 100 years and one day from the woman, who was given such a prominent first time that women in the U.S. were allowed spotlight, has openly said she believes in headto participate in a presidential election. Perhaps of-household voting. even more serendipitously, Florida’s primary Back in May, she tweeted a question to her elections on Aug. 18 coincided with the 100th followers: What’s the most controversial thing anniversary of the ratification of the 19th you believe? She answered her own question, Amendment, which gave (some) women the saying she believes in head-of-household voting. right to vote. She then explained that means one vote per “If a woman was single, she probably was household. paying taxes but still wasn’t allowed to vote. When criticized for her belief, she replied, Whereas if she was married you essentially “Yes. So shocking! A husband and wife who didn’t have any rights,” said are in agreement and a wife who Monica Elliott, the president of honors her husband as the head the League of Women Voters of of the home. Gasp!! What a weird, Broward County. biblical concept!!” Women having the right to (How this idea would play out vote was a radical idea — women for same-sex couples is yet to be weren’t seen as educated or seen.) emotionally stable enough to do Ann Coulter, a far-right pundit something as important as vote. and author, has also shared her Plus, they had their husband to wish that the 19th Amendment speak for them, so why would had never happened. In more they need to vote anyway? than one interview, she has made The 19th Amendment was jokes about how the Republicans a major moment in women’s would be a shoo-in if women - Monica Elliott suffrage, but it was just the weren’t allowed to vote. PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE beginning. Women of color would “If we took away women’s OF WOMEN VOTERS OF BROWARD COUNTY have to wait a few more decades right to vote, we’d never have to until they could vote, and even worry about another Democrat today there are still less obvious barriers keeping president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal people from casting their vote. fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to However, even 100 years after the first big happen,” she said in 2007. “And it is a good way step in women’s suffrage, there are those who of making the point that women are voting so think that maybe we had it right back then — stupidly, at least single women.” including women. In 2012, during an interview with the Jackson During the second night of the Republican Free Press, Central Mississippi TEA Party National Convention in August, the GOP gave President Janis Lane scorned the day women got the stage to Abby Johnson, a woman who left the right to vote. Planned Parenthood in 2009 and has been “Probably the biggest turn we ever made was fighting against abortion ever since. This same when the women got the right to vote,” she said,

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Abby Johnson, who advocates for head-of-household voting, spoke at the Republican National Convention this year. Photo via the Republican National Convention.

then explained, “0ur country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women. They are diabolical in how [they] can skewer a person. I do not see that in men. The whole time I worked, I’d much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you never can trust them.” These women join the ranks of generations of women who are against equality and women’s suffrage. While suffragettes marched, smashed windows and made bombs, other women stood up to say they didn’t want the right to vote — they were too busy running the household to keep up with politics. You can even buy a shirt on Amazon to show your disapproval of the 19th Amendment (although, there are complaints about the quality of the fabric). “This isn’t the first time that we’ve had to deal with this,” said Elliott from the League of Women Voters. “I’m of a certain age where I remember Phyllis Schlafly and her argument against the Equal Rights Amendment, which we still don’t have passed.”

A noted conservative activist who died in 2016, Schlafly opposed feminism and proudly stopped the adoption of the ERA, which would have put men and women on the same plane in legal matters. She believed that it went against gender roles that benefited society and protected it from “homosexual privileges” and abortion. “News flash: one reason a woman gets married is to be supported by her husband while caring for her children at home. So long as her husband earns a good income, she doesn’t care about the pay gap between them,” Schlafly said in 2015. Today, these women’s beliefs seem outlandish, and frankly, they’re in the minority. However, they’re loud members of a minority who are consistently given megaphones to espouse these views. Unfortunately for them, American women voters tend to turn out to vote at higher rates than men. At the local level, there are 643,730 women registered to vote in Broward County, out of the 1.2 million total — that’s more than half. Nov. 3, here we come.

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.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the justice with the most pro-LGBT voting record in the history of the court, died Friday following a long struggle with cancer.

As hundreds of people gathered on equal rights for women. After a 96 to 3 vote the steps of the Supreme Court building of the U.S. Senate, she became the second in Washington, D.C. Friday night, two woman to become a member of the nation’s large rainbow flags were at the center of highest court, joining Justice Sandra Day the crowd, a symbol of how important O’Connor. Ginsburg’s 27 years of work on the high court While Ginsburg had already established had supported the rights of LGBT people. herself as a defender of equal rights for Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, women, on the Supreme Court, she quickly who successfully argued the landmark Title proved herself to be a friend and ally of the VII case before Ginsburg and the court last LGBT community. Her voting record was October, said: “It was in no the most consistently pro-LGBT small part due to attorney and record of any justice on the “SHE WAS OUR Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s bench. efforts to combat sex-based “As a Supreme Court CHAMPION AND THE stereotypes — and as she justice, she authored key sex ARCHITECT OF AN wrote in the VMI case, to show discrimination decisions that EXPANSIVE VISION OF that the law ‘must not rely paved the way for the Court’s GENDER EQUALITY on overbroad generalizations embrace of equality for sameTHAT WAS BROAD about the different talents, sex couples in Obergefell and for AND CAPACIOUS capacities, or preferences of LGBT workers in Bostock,” said ENOUGH TO INCLUDE males and females’ — that Minter. “She was our champion LGBT people could win that and the architect of an expansive LGBT PEOPLE.” case today.” vision of gender equality that - Shannon Minter “While Justice [Anthony] was broad and capacious enough LEGAL DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CENTER FOR Kennedy authored the most to include LGBT people.  Without LESBIAN RIGHTS important LGBT rights her influence and legacy, none of decisions, Justice Ginsburg those landmark decisions would was the most important voice for LGBT have been possible.”  people on the Court,” said Shannon Minter, In the 15 LGBT-related decisions before the legal director for the National Center for the U.S. Supreme Court during her 27 years Lesbian Rights. there, Ginsburg voted in favor of equal rights for LGBT people 13 times. THE GINSBURG LEGACY Ironically, her first vote on an LGBT case was joining a unanimous decision in Former President Bill Clinton appointed 1995, Hurley v. Irish American, to allow Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993, organizers of the Boston St. Patrick’s Day after establishing an already impressive parade to prohibit an LGBT contingent from record as a civil rights attorney of fighting for participating. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s official 2016 portrait. Photo via the Supreme Court of the United States.

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NEWS NATIONAL The only other case in which she voted observed that the Court had ‘declined to against the position taken by LGBT attorneys distinguish between status and conduct’ in was in 2011 with Snyder v. Phelps. the context of gay people, referencing the In that case, the court voted 8 to 1 that famous rule from Bray v. Alexandria Women’s the Westboro Baptist Church had a First Health Clinic, ‘A tax on wearing yarmulkes is Amendment right to picket a soldier’s a tax on Jews.’” funeral with signs saying “Fag troops” and Ginsburg provided the pivotal fifth other anti-gay messages. vote in several LGBT victories, including But just one year later, she was part of Hollingsworth v. Perry, which led to a 6 to 3 majority led by Justice Kennedy, California’s allowing same-sex couples to in Romer v. Evans, to rule that Colorado’s marry in 2013, and U.S. v. Windsor, which anti-gay Amendment Two violated the U.S. struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Constitution’s guarantee of Act that same year. She was equal protection. also the fifth vote on Obergefell IN DISCUSSING In 2000, she was part of v. Hodges in 2015, which struck the dissent to the 5 to 4 ruling down state bans on marriage THE WINDSOR in Boy Scouts v. Dale. While for same-sex couples. DECISION IN 2014, the majority ruled that the And most recently, in June GINSBURG SAID Boy Scout Association could of this year, she was one of six SHE HAD NEVER deny membership to a gay justices to rule, in Bostock v. person, Ginsburg joined both Clayton, that the language in SEEN A SOCIAL dissents that argued it should Title VII of the federal Civil CHANGE AS RAPID not be allowed to violate New Rights Act that prohibits AS THE ONE Jersey’s state law against sexual discrimination in employment AROUND MARRIAGE “on the basis of sex” also covers orientation discrimination. The first LGBT case in discrimination based on sexual FOR SAME-SEX which Ginsburg authored orientation and gender identity. COUPLES. a majority opinion came in In discussing the Windsor 2010 with Christian Legal decision in 2014, Ginsburg said v. Martinez, asking whether a California she had never seen a social change as rapid college’s Christian student group could bar as the one around marriage for same-sex LGBT students from membership. For a 5 couples. She added that she thought it was to 4 majority, she wrote that the Christian “just great that people who for years have student group was trying to circumvent been disguising what they were are now free the college’s non-discrimination policy by to be what they are.” claiming “a preferential exemption” from a During oral argument on this year’s Title legitimate policy. VII case, Justice Ginsburg’s questions and “Justice Ginsburg gave that [Christian comments were pointedly helpful to Karlan student group’s argument] the back of and the attorneys arguing in favor of Title her hand with a phrase that immediately VII covering discrimination based on sexual became our go-to silver bullet against these orientation and transgender status. arguments,” recalled Jennifer Pizer, senior She prompted Karlan to address the counsel for Lambda Legal. “She simply chief arguments of those who want to limit

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, photographed in 1977. Photo credit: © Lynn Gilbert.

the reach of Title VII — including that Congress never intended, when it passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, to cover sexual orientation. “Justice Ginsburg’s was the first question out of the box at the oral argument in Bostock v. Clayton County earlier this year,” recalled Karlan Friday night. She noted Justice Ginsburg began, “Ms. Karlan, how do you answer the argument that back in 1964, this could not have been in Congress’s mind ...” The question gave Karlan the opportunity to refute claims by some that Congress never intended Title VII to protect LGBT people. Ginsburg also undercut the opposing side’s claim that firing a male employee for being gay would not be sex discrimination because the employer would fire a female employee for being gay. As Ginsburg pointed out, “There’s nothing in the record as far as I can see that there was a policy on the employer’s

part of discharging lesbian women.” And she said, in the transgender case, that “the object of Title VII was to get at the entire spectrum of sex stereotypes.” Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also wrote a blistering dissent to the court’s ruling in 2018 in Masterpiece Cake v. Colorado. Ginsburg said the gay couple that sought a cake from the Masterpiece Cakeshop “simply requested a wedding cake: They mentioned no message or anything else distinguishing the cake they wanted to buy from any other wedding cake [the baker] would have sold” to a male-female couple. “What matters,” wrote Ginsburg, “is that Phillips would not provide a good or service to a same-sex couple that he would provide to a heterosexual couple.” The gay couple, she said, was “denied service based on an aspect of their identity that the State chose to grant vigorous protection from discrimination.”

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y editor Jason Parsley asked me to write a lead-in for the food/dining section of our “Best Of” issue. Luckily, he asked me to write commentary for all the nominees in a category, because picking my favorite Wilton Manors dining establishment would be like Sophie’s Choice.

Granted the consequences aren’t so dire; no one’s going to die but picking a favorite from this group would be impossible. First, they are so disparate, not only in cuisine, but in atmosphere, price point and levels of service, that it’s impossible to compare them on a level playing field. About the only thing they have in common is being welcoming, safe spaces for our community. I can, instead, tell you what I love about each of them. BONA ITALIAN RESTAURANT Owner Glen Weinzimer continues to exhibit that sense of community that has been a hallmark of Bona’s since he took over a few years ago. He still donates a portion of the profits from his Monday night business to local charities, many of which have also been impacted by the pandemic. His charitable endeavors aside, Bona’s is under consideration for Best Restaurant for one main reason; the food is damn good. My favorite dishes? Palm chicken: boneless chicken sautéed in with mushrooms and hearts of palm in cream wine sauce, or the shrimp and scallop scampi. I can’t comment on the desserts because I’ve never made it to that course, main dishes are too filing. ETHOS GREEK BISTRO What is the attraction of this charming dining spot smack in the center of town? Could it be the perfectly prepared Mediterranean fare? Certainly, but it could also be the beautiful atmosphere (even the indoor dining spaces feel as if they are

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Traditional and special sushi creations share the menu with classic Thai food. Among the more unusual dishes worth trying are the crispy, duck topped with a pineapple, cashew nuts and sweet bell peppers or the pad Thai lobster, which upgrades the classic Thai pasta dish with two sauteed lobster tails. TROPICS GRILLE Known more as a hang out space for more mature gentlemen, Tropics has revamped its menu and now offers first class dining. The menu, as you might guess from its clientele, skews more toward the classic meat and potatoes fare; steaks chops, chicken and a hella good meat loaf. The brunch menu offers everything from biscuits and gravy to a lobster roll. And, of course, they have the sweetest server in Wilton Manors named Jamie! Entertainment is presented most nights

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mong the many compelling reasons to make sure that President Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not reelected on Nov. 3, perhaps the 26 most compelling are the transgender Americans — most of them trans women of color — known to have been murdered this year.

We needn’t be simple-minded in making this argument. Trump and Pence did not pull the trigger, and those who did must, of course, bear the consequences for their horrific acts. But the all-too-toxic environment which too many of our transgender siblings have endured in their lives has gotten immeasurably worse over the past four years. For this reason and many more, in an historic move, the 12 newspapers of the National LGBT Media Association (NGMA), which represents the nation’s oldest and most established LGBT publications with a combined circulation of more than one million readers, are issuing this joint endorsement of the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket this week. From the start, Donald Trump has used the trans community as a punching bag to prove his toughness to his socially conservative base hungry for a strongman willing to turn back the clock. He has denied trans folks the ability to serve openly in the military, sought to strip them of nondiscrimination protections in healthcare, worked to rob trans youth of dignity in their schools, and

battled to take away the right of student athletes to compete in sports. And against the trans community as well as lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans, Trump’s administration fought tooth and nail to prevent the pivotal advance we won at the Supreme Court in June — the recognition that we enjoy employment nondiscrimination protections thanks to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Still, Trump and his see-no-evil GOP Senate allies refuse to move the Equality Act, which would extend those nondiscrimination protections across the board in areas like housing and public accommodations. For them, the nation’s most embattled minority are bigots who want to enshrine their right to discriminate under the cloak of “religious liberty.” As in every other aspect of this endorsement, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offer a stark and redemptive alternative. After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denied former President Barack Obama federal judicial appointments in his last year in office, he and his colleagues have rubber-stamped an unprecedented

number of judges — many of them viciously right-wing, others lacking in even the most elementary judicial qualifications — whose influence will last for decades to come. The cornerstone decision in protecting reproductive freedom — Roe v. Wade — may already be doomed by the Trump court’s configuration. Give him another chance or two to name a member to the high court and the ball game will definitely be over. Trump’s governing has been much like his court appointments — where he is not cruel, he is merely incompetent. Mexican and other Latin American immigrants have been slurred in overtly racist terms, and their children have been caged. Muslim newcomers to America have also been stigmatized where they have not been blocked outright. The damage is not limited to the newcomers. Latinx and MuslimAmerican citizens have faced increasing Joe Biden spoke at the 2018 HRC National Dinner in levels of hostility and hate crimes. Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Ted Eytan, via Flickr. Trump saw “very fine people, on both sides” during the 2017 neo-Nazi invasion racial justice to healthcare policy, economic of Charlottesville, but he’s been snide inequality, and climate change action. in reacting to the Black Lives Matter Those are all areas on which debate is movement, telling Bob Woodward, in legitimate, indeed needed. But here’s the response to a question about why he can’t thing: With four more years of Trump, there bring himself to empathize with African- is no real consequential venue for having American citizens, “You, you really drank those debates. Trump and his enablers are the Kool-Aid, didn’t you?” draining the oxygen out of our democracy. The coronavirus’ most recent surge Debating between left and center in the — in the Midwest — and the wild fires House of Representatives is no substitute raging through wide swaths for regaining the White House of the West are only the most and the Senate. Only then can IN ALL OF THE calamitous indicators of we have our debates, lick our Trump’s refusal to accept the wounds, and set a course for a BATTLEGROUND basic facts of science, a posture better tomorrow. STATES, LGBT at one with his hostility to factThis election will be decided based discourse on almost any in a small number of states — ACTIVISTS AND public policy issue. as many as a dozen, OUR PROGRESSIVE perhaps It’s no surprise that the more likely just a handful. ALLIES ARE ON THE In all of the battleground nation’s free press and the unfettered right of Americans GROUND WORKING states, LGBT activists and our to vote — the twin jewels of progressive allies are on the TO ELECT JOE American democracy — are, ground working to elect Joe in his mind, enemies of the Biden and Kamala Harris. BIDEN AND people. Especially in a year when KAMALA HARRIS. Meanwhile, Trump is most at much of the campaign will ease with fellow authoritarian be carried out on the air and figures around the globe, whether Russia’s online rather than in person, all of us — Putin, North Korea’s Kim, Turkey’s Erdoğan, everywhere across the nation — can pitch or Brazil’s Bolsonaro. in to help in those states where a boost for Since Hillary Clinton lost the presidency Biden is most needed. Grab a bucket, adopt a in 2016 even while winning almost three state, and dive in to the battle. million more votes than Trump, the Democratic Party has undergone an internal None of us should wake up battle of sorts for its soul, pitting insurgent, Nov. 4 wishing we had left-leaning candidates, many of them young newcomers, against more moderate done more. establishment figures — on issues from

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s the old adage goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Take Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play, “The Boys in the Band,” as an example. Set at a birthday party in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the festivities take a nasty and revealing turn as a group of friends become increasingly inebriated as the evening progresses. The men are gay archetypes, familiar today: Michael, the host, an alcoholic and lapsed Catholic; Donald, Michael’s ex, who has spurned the gay lifestyle, left the city and seeking therapy; Hank, the former family man, who now plays house with his lover Larry, a photographer with a wandering eye; Emory, the flamboyant interior decorator; Bernard, the African American who still pines for the handsome scion of a white family his mother served; and Bernard, the birthday boy who mourns the loss of his youth. The party culminates with a game in which each must call someone he has loved and tell them about it. The drama is complicated by the presence of Alan, Michael’s former college roommate, who may or may not have outed himself in the process. In the five decades since the drama’s premiere Off-Broadway, LGBT people have come far, winning marriage equality, workplace protections and most of the rights and privileges of society taken for granted by heterosexuals. But, is “Boys” strictly a period piece, a look at a particular moment in time seemingly long ago, or a more revealing examination of gay culture that endures, regardless of those advances?

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“The play is important because it was the first to put a community of gay men on stage – unapologetically and without a veil of disguise. These were men who weren’t all ‘pansies’ or psychologically debilitated. They were simply human,” said Andy Rogow, artistic director of Island City Stage in Wilton Manors. Rogow added, “It’s withstood the test of time AS a period piece. I don’t think it’s a play anyone would want to make contemporary. The gay community has moved beyond the selfloathing that is felt by the characters in the play. We’re less marginalized than those men were.

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We’re proud of our relationships, contributions and our visibility in broader society.” Carbonell Award-winning playwright Michael McKeever concurred, “It is most definitely a period piece. Gay culture has evolved since this play first premiered. The characters in ‘Boys’ deal with a lot of selfloathing and insecurity … The closet doors are shut tight. Gay men today are much more comfortable with themselves and the lives we can openly and proudly lead.” To celebrate the play’s 50th anniversary in 2018, Joe Mantello directed a Tony Awardwinning Broadway revival, pulling together an A-list Hollywood cast of gay actors including Jim Parsons (Michael), Matt Bomer (Donald), Tuc Watkins (Hank), Andrew Rannells (Larry) and Zachary Quinto (Harold). That same cast was reunited by Mantello and Executive Producer Ryan Murphy for a film adaptation premiering on Netflix on Sept. 30. Playwright and local independent Producer

Ronnie Larsen was in the audience at one of those sold out performances. “When I saw the Broadway production I felt like I was watching a period piece … not a bad thing, just how I was experiencing the play. But, I just saw the movie trailer and it felt incredibly new to me, so I’m very excited about this. I’m also a Ryan Murphy/Joe Mantello fan, so there’s that,” Larsen explained. Both Larsen and McKeever urged LGBT audiences to watch the new film. Larsen said, “Before the ‘60s, you just didn’t see gay lives portrayed in theater. It’s like we didn’t exist, so ‘Boys in the Band’ was a huge announcement declaring we’re here and it’s time for us to be in the spotlight.” “It is a fascinating look at what it was like to be a gay man living in New York City [at the time]. The characters are interesting and the humor – and there is a lot – is biting and very funny. As I said, experiencing it as a period piece is the only way to watch it,” McKeever said.

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istrunk Marketplace, which formerly housed the Eli Witt Cigar & Tobacco company, is now a 4,000 square foot food hall, mixed-use event space and retail concept. While up-scale stand-alone food courts are becoming more and more popular throughout the country, Sistrunk Marketplace is the first of its kind in Fort Lauderdale. While now might not be the most opportune time to open such a business, Sistrunk Marketplace is doing quite well, although on a limited schedule; Thursday through Sunday at limited capacity. The fact that it borders the hip, Flagler Village Arts District is definitely in its favor. Among the myriad of food vendors are: • Bronte Cafe is an Aussieinspired coffee house with a laid-back vibe offering coffee and matcha beverages. • Hot Lime, influenced by Miami’s diverse Latin cultures, focuses on craft tacos, ceviche and burritos in a repurposed VW van.

• Poke OG specializes in make-yourown bowls, Poke OG allows the diner to select the base (usually fish) vegetables, sauce and toppings. It also features five signature dishes such as a vegan watermelon poke, traditional Hawaiian poke, and a lobster poke with a truffled white soy.

OSOM crepes. Courtesy of the Sistrunk Marketplace.

THE FACT THAT IT BORDERS THE HIP, FLAGLER VILLAGE ARTS DISTRICT IS DEFINITELY IN ITS FAVOR.

• Senbazuru features bento boxes, ramen, and Asian fusion tapas from around the world. • Needa’ Pita offers authentic Mediterranean dishes, including authentic spit-roasted gyros and chicken shawarma. • The Chop Shoppe is as if your neighborhood butcher combined with a sandwich shop. Locally sourced meats, house made sausages, aged sirloin steaks, lamb chops, pork tenderloin and made to order burgers.

• The Empanada Bodega features classic flavors as well as inventive combinations in this staple in Latin cultures.

• Kasai & Koori dishes up traditional Asian sweet treats including Japanese kakigōri, Taiwanese shaved ice, taiyaki waffles and Korean bingsoo, giving all a distinctly American twist.

• Fuoco, where a wood-fire oven is the heart of a simple and classic Italian menu. Crispy eggplant with mozzarella, tomato and arugula, meatballs and, of course, Roman styled, wood-fired pizzas.

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Poke OG. Courtesy of the Sistrunk Marketplace.

• Osom Crepes wraps up savory to sweet combinations in freshly made crepes.

• Heavenly Raw specializes in vibrant, high-nutrient, plant-based, wholesome fare.

Sistrunk Marketplace & Brewery exterior. Courtesy of the Sistrunk Marketplace.

• Nellie’s specializes in classic Southern cuisine. There are several private and shared event spaces; a DJ and production music academy, and the SistrunKollective, a co-op style retail boutique. Khoffner Brewery, and Shady Distillery will also be opening sometime this fall. A large, full-service wine and liquor bar is located in the center of the food hall. In accordance with CDC guidelines, and

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under Florida’s current Phase 1 guidelines, Sistrunk Marketplace is operating with limited capacity (half of its 565-person capacity). Reservations must be made in advance and masks and social distancing are required. Waitstaff verify reservations at the entrance and direct guests to the tableside online ordering app. After ordering on the app, food is delivered to the patrons’ tables. Group limitations are in effect.

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makers as to the needs of LGBT patients. And so the seeds were planted for “Bodies and Barriers.” The book begins with an insightful introduction by Rachel L. Levine, who writes eloquently of the disparities that LGBT people face, and of the importance of creating policies which address the needs of

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LGBT patients. The book is divided into four sections, youth, young adults, middle-aged adults and older adults. Each section is divided into chapters in which a different author addresses a specific health issue as it relates to the LGBT community. Topics include providing proper care and support to transgender youth, creating tobacco free spaces in the LGBT community, (tobacco is the leading cause of death among LGBT people, according to Shanker) HIV stigma, caregiving for older LGBT adults, giving intersex youth autonomy over their own bodies, breast cancer and gender, and even little discussed issues such as anal health. “I came up with the title ‘Bodies and Barriers’ because our queer bodies deserve

health equity,” Shanker told SFGN. “Health equity being the dream that all people have the ability to attain the highest level of health care. Our queer bodies are often left behind because of barriers to care, literal stumbling blocks that keep us from achieving the dream of health equity.” Shanker said that some of those barriers to care are clinical and that some are structural, while others are societal. Promoting the book, in particular making health care professionals aware of it, has been challenging amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Shanker has been able to conduct a number of virtual trainings and presentations for health care professionals as well as participating in virtual conferences, and doing podcasts. “This book has received critical acclaim

A&E ENTERTAINMENT since the beginning,” Shanker said. “As a “Without sounding cliché, it’s about result, it’s already started to make an impact shining a light where the sun doesn’t in the health care space. It’s really important shine,” he said. “Every person has a need to that health care professionals hear stories consider anal health, and yet there are very from LGBTQ patients, so I’m working really few doctors that will talk about it, especially hard to continue to spread the word that when you leave the major metro areas.” health care in America is not really working Shanker’s own doctor told him that there for LGBTQ people, and one of the best ways were no guidelines for talking about anal we can make a difference is for LGBTQ people health. to tell our stories.” “How come under the He pointed out that issues Affordable Care Act cervical pertaining to LGBT health pap tests are covered as an “HEALTH CARE are much broader than most essential health benefit, and PROFESSIONALS people realize. anal pap tests are not when it’s “I wanted to present literally the same procedure?” CAN DO BETTER. this book in a way that Shanker asks. POLICY MAKERS demonstrates that our health The book concludes with CAN DO BETTER. challenges are pervasive an afterword by Kate Kendell, throughout our lives,” he said. former executive director ALL OF US CAN “So it starts with youth and of the San Francisco-based DO BETTER.” ends with older adults. It’s National Center for Lesbian structured to try to take people Rights. Kendell points out that, - Kate Kendell on a journey of queer people’s in spite of the gains that have FORMER EXECUTIVE lives, even though all of us been made, the community DIRECTOR OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BASED have different experiences has a long way to go. She NATIONAL CENTER FOR throughout our lives.” notes that some obstetricians LESBIAN RIGHTS Some topics in the book deal still refuse to treat lesbians, with issues that people would and that gay men can still be expect to hear about, while others are topics ridiculed for wanting a prescription for the which might surprise people to learn about HIV prevention drug PrEP. how they relate to the LGBT community. “Health care professionals can do better,” In the chapter Gender, Cancer and Me, Kendell writes. “Policy makers can do better. author Liz Margolies writes about how breast All of us can do better.” cancer is a gendered cancer in the way that “When we talk about queer health we’re people interact with breast cancer survivors, not talking about something that’s esoteric breast cancer care, breast cancer support, or niche,” Shanker said. “All queer people breast reconstruction, the “pinking” of breast have had experiences accessing health care cancer (forced optimism expressed with pink at some point in their lives. For many of us ribbons and pink teddy bears) as a barrier for those experiences have not been positive all lesbians, bi women and trans men. the time. It’s essential that we tell our stories Shanker himself wrote the chapter on anal to help to improve care for all of us, and that’s health. what this book does.”

“Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists On Health,” edited by Adrian Shanker.

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