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Boca Allies Run City Hall Conversion therapy for minors banned Jason Parsley

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ive years ago this month the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council launched the Boca Bigots Run City Hall campaign to bring attention to what they perceived to be 20 years of slights against the LGBT community.

This week the city banned conversation therapy for minors with the PBCHRC singing the City’s praises. Boca Raton joins a growing list of cities around the state that have enacted similar ordinances.

What a difference five years can make.

"So much has changed in Boca Raton regarding LGBTQ issues,” said Rand Hoch, president of PBCHRC. “Five years ago, it took almost two full years for us to convince the Boca Raton City Council to enact four ordinances providing LGBTQ rights and benefits. In contrast, thanks to Mayor Susan Haynie, the ordinance to protect LGBTQ youth by banning conversion therapy was not even perceived as controversial. It sailed through the city council in less than two months. That's progress!"

Indeed.

Five years ago the assistant city manager at the time went so far as to compare LGBT rights to that of pet owners.

“What’s to keep other groups from wanting to be protected?” he said. “How about me? I’m a pet lover. I think [they] should be included in your anti-discrimination law. Someone who has dogs should not be discriminated against either.”

That was then. This is now.

“Every study documented that there is a significant potential for children undergoing conversion therapy to be harmed psychologically," Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie was quoted as saying in a press release from PBCHRC. "While banning conversion therapy does not appear to be a priority action in either Tallahassee or Washington, DC. tonight Boca Raton took another step to protect LGBTQ youth in our city from the harms of conversion therapy.”

Haynie is the only person still on the council from that time period. Back then she was Deputy Mayor.

Other cities that enacted bans on conversion therapy for minors include West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Riviera Beach, Miami, Wilton Manors, Miami Beach, Bay Harbor Islands, El Portal, Key West, Wellington, Tampa and Greenacres. Meanwhile Oakland Park is expected to enact a similar ban on October 18.

In most of the above cities the vote was unanimous. The notable exception was Wellington where 2 of the 5 council members voted against it. Meanwhile Miami-Dade became the first place to reject a ban when the commissioners voted 7-4 against it.

“In this case, my problem is with the rights of parents,” Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, who voted against it, told the The Miami MEMBER Herald. “If you make a decision about your children that, in the end, is wrong, that’s your

responsibility … I think government has to be respectful of that right.”

In many cases the opposition has framed the argument around infringing upon the rights of parents.

One opponent told the Wellington Council: “A ban on conversion therapy on unwanted homosexual feelings or gender dysphoria would, in fact, be child abuse. How can you take away the rights of children and their parents to their freedom of speech?”

Hoch disagrees: “Parents’ rights are not unfettered. We have laws that prevent parents from giving their children certain prescription drugs because they have been proven harmful to children. We have laws that prevent parents from serving alcohol to minors, because alcohol have been shown to be harmful to children,” Hoch said. “Additionally, there are many other laws that must be adhered to regardless of the views of parents, such as compulsory education.

So, there is no merit to the arguments that parents should be allowed to subject their children to harmful conversion therapy.”

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Dolphin Dems Host Sheriff Scott Israel

White supremacists, Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, among topics discussed Jesse Monteagudo

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roward County Sheriff Scott Israel was the main speaker at the Dolphin Democrats’ October 11 General Membership Meeting, held at the main meeting room of the Pride Center at Equality Park.

Sheriff Israel was introduced by Dolphins Board member Tim Hart. The Sheriff spoke about his achievements regarding non-violent offenders, juvenile offenders and bringing diversity to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. He also gave his views on White Supremacist Groups, the recent Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, and gun control. Sheriff Israel ended by urging those present that if they “see something, say something” and report all suspicious activity.

Members and guests of the Dolphins also heard from two speakers chosen to observe National Coming Out Day. Hayley Davidson, once a professional golfer and now a Human Rights Campaign activist, spoke about her transition as a transgender woman. Lillie Harris, a retired City of Miami Police Captain and former Dolphins Board member told her coming out story, her upbringing in the Pentecostal faith and her relationship with her parents. Though Harris and her parents, now deceased, had a

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falling out because of her lesbianism, they later reconciled.

President Scott Herman chaired the Dolphins’ well-attended meeting. Herman asked for a moment of silence in memory of Diane Glasser, the long-time DEC member, who recently passed away. He invited past presidents Michael Albetta and Ron Mills to say a few words. Michael Albetta and Mitch Weisbrot spoke about the Dolphins’ November 26 fundraising “Gayla” at Café Vico, an event that will honor 15 LGBTA Pioneers. The assembly also heard from former State Rep. Chris Smith, who spoke about the Florida Constitutional Revision Commission, School Board member Patti Good, and R. David Walker, a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture and Len Leritz, Broward Democrats’ Training Director, who spoke about Canvassing Training.

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Somewhere In The Middle Securing Genderqueer and Nonbinary Identities Tucker Berardi

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evin Kantor is a professional actor who has traveled across the United States and is currently starring in “The Legend of Georgia McBride” at a local theater in Gainesville. Throughout the play Kantor plays both a manly married man and a sassy young drag queen, slipping between masculine and feminine identities from scene to scene.

Kantor’s co-stars don’t miss a beat as they address Kantor’s characters with their appropriate male or female pronouns.

Offstage however, Kantor is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns — which the other actors, and most other people, seem to have a hard time remembering.

“Even in this space, I know that every single person I work with knows that I’m genderqueer and use they/them/they’re pronouns, but I give them a D minus in how often they actually call me by my correct pronouns,” Kantor said.

“I don’t correct them because I don’t have the time to.”

Kantor came out as genderqueer when they were 23 during a tour of the country as a spoken word poet, in which they educated students on queerness, rape culture, survivorship and toxic masculinity.

During that year on tour, Kantor was faced with their male identity — they spoke of male survivorship from an experience of past abuse, but the constant alignment with that male narrative began to wear on Kantor.

“It was constantly having my maleness and that identity for an entire year that I began to realize that there wasn’t an identity that I aligned with,” Kantor said. "It wasn’t until being hit in the head with the binary that I realized I existed outside of it.”

Kantor is a member of the genderqueer community, a term coined in 1990 used to describe “those who ‘queered’ gender by

defying oppressive gender norms in the course of their binary-defying activism,” according to slate.com.

The genderqueer community recognizes gender to be a spectrum instead of a binary, and those who identify as genderqueer simply exist along that spectrum.

Jordan Miller, a grad student in Atlanta who uses the pronoun ‘zirself’ said, “Genderqueer is about acknowledging that gender expression and identity is not binary, that there are more than just two genders.”

There are countless terms associated with gender — masc, femme, agender, bigender, pangender — and that doesn’t include unique pronouns.

Though the genderqueer and gender non binary communities open up the possibility for a plethora of new identities, accommodating those new identities shouldn’t be difficult or complicated. All it takes is the patience to understand someone's identity. And while it can be easy to slip into the male or female pronouns we are familiar with, our grammar should not dictate someone’s identity.

“Explaining pronouns should be common practice. I think everyone should introduce themselves with their preferred pronouns, it’s only polite,” Kantor said. “My life matters more than your grammar.”

The LGBT community is certainly familiar with opposing expectations and securing unorthodox identities, and genderqueer and nonbinary identities fit right in.

“The reason I like genderqueer is because it lets you break the rules. It’s my way of telling people that I see the rules of gender and I am actively subverting them,” Kantor said. “They are rules that have been invented by society and we are not bound to them. Placing value along those lines gets in the way of equity.”

For more information on genderqueer and nonbinary identities, as well as discussion spaces and resources visit http://genderqueerid.com/.

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Amazon studio head suspended following sexual harassment of Lesbian producer Roy Price (left) and Isa Hackett.

Amazon executive Roy Price was suspended indefinitely after he had allegedly pressured a lesbian producer for sex and made lewd comments to her.

Man in the High Castle Producer Isa Hackett, who is the daughter of the book’s author Philip K. Dick, said she was harassed by Price in 2015 shortly after San Diego Comic-Con. According to LOGO’s NewNowNext, Price told Hackett “You’d love my dick,” and attempted to proposition her for sex while in a cab ride to an afterparty.

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Hackett said she told Price that she had a wife and kids and made clear she wasn’t interested. Hackett told some coworkers after the encounter occurred, but said she came forward after the news of multiple sexual assaults by hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.

“As somebody with some power, I feel it is imperative for me to speak out,” she said.

“I want to call out [Price’s] behavior and also hold myself to a certain standard.”

Amazon has not said how long Price’s suspension will last.

For Alex G, revealing her sexuality in a video on National Coming Out Day was a long time coming.

The 25 year old singer songwriter knew her sexuality since she was 13, but said her family never talked about the subject and she thought it was just a phase. According to Autostrattle, Alex G was moved to talk after seeing a video of actress Evan Rachel Woods speaking on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign.

“Seeing Evan Rachel Wood talk was the

first time I had seen myself in someone else who claimed bisexual as their identity,” she said in her video. “And I was like, whoa, I guess it’s like, okay to say that I’m bisexual?

That makes sense to me. This makes sense for who I am.”

With her announcement to her 1.5 million subscribers, Alex G will become one of the top 10 LGBT Women on YouTube by subscriber count. Currently, bisexual YouTuber Eva Gutowski tops the list with 7.2 million subscribers.

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Congress Members demand proof Trump had Pentagon support on Trans Troop Ban

114 members of congress pushed for evidence from President Donald Trump that he has support from head military officials on his ban of transgender military members.

Trump had made the claim over Twitter earlier this year that he made the decision “after consultation with my generals and military experts.” According to Pink News, insider officials said that Trump did not consult the Pentagon and instead made the move to please anti-LGBT Republicans.

“Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in

the military would entail,” he tweeted.

The letter sent by congressional democrats asks for any correspondence between the executive branch and Pentagon on the ban. No Republicans signed the letter.

Currently, five active duty servicemembers who are transgender are suing Trump in court. None of the plaintiffs have been identified to protect them from being taken out of service.

“The categorical exclusion of transgender people from military service lacks a rational basis, is arbitrary, and cannot be justified by sufficient federal interests,” their lawsuit claims.

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This week’s ‘Coffee and Conversation’ at the Pride Center John McDonald

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mboldened by a check presentation, Pride Center Chief Executive Officer Robert Boo implored Tuesday morning’s senior program to help end breast cancer.

“What I’d really love to see is for the men to come out and support the women,” said Boo, noting it was the women who came to the aid of many gay men during the AIDS crisis.

Boo said the center is entering a “Pride Rack Pack” team in an Oct. 28 breast cancer awareness walk. He asked attendees of the center’s coffee & conversation group to consider joining and raising money for the team.

Before his comments, Boo was presented with a $500 check from Sage of South Florida.

Patrick Vida, President of Sage of South Florida, said the center had helped “enrich the lives of seniors.”

Boo said the Sage donation would go into the hurricane relief fund and informed the audience three of the center’s four air conditioning units had been repaired.

Elsewhere, Pride Center Development

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Pride Center CEO Robert Boo receives a $500 check from Sage of South Florida. Pictured from left to right are: Emmanuel Solarte, CarePlus, Robert Boo, Pride Center, Bruce Williams, Pride Center, Patrick Vida, Sage and Carl Barton, Sage. Photo by John McDonald

Director Roger Roa asked for volunteers for Wicked Manors, the center’s Halloween event.

Roa said the center is looking for volunteers to carry donation buckets from 7 to 11 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Tuesday morning’s program was sponsored

by CarePlus Health Plans. Maria Fernandez, a sales representative, said CarePlus is a Medicare HMO and will be a vendor at Saturday’s health expo to answer questions about open enrollment.

Next week’s sponsor is Florida Medical Center. For more information, contact Bruce Williams, Senior Services Coordinator at 954-463-9005, ext. 109.

DC’s Television Roster Welcomes Another LGBT Hero Brittany Ferrendi

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t’s confirmed. Constantine is coming to Legends of Tomorrow. This time, he’ll be as bisexual as he was in the original DC comics.

“As for the character of Constantine, we knew that an alienated, chain-smoking, bisexual, world-weary demonologist would feel right at home among our Legends,” show producer Phil Klemmer said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

Constantine will be a part of several episodes in the current third season of the show. The first episode premiered on Tuesday.

Matt Ryan claims the role of Constantine, after playing him in television show ‘Arrow’ and the character’s namesake show ‘Constantine’ which ended in 2015 after a 13-episode run.

This isn’t the first time a DC television series has included an LGBT character.

In “Gotham,” Oswald Cobblepot “The Penguin” realized he was in love with fellow villain Edward Nygma “The Riddler.” The actor who plays The Penguin, Robin Lord Taylor, pushed back against fans displeased with the character’s sexuality.

"I just want to address the people who say, you know, 'I have no problem with him being gay or queer or anything, I just have a problem with you guys changing or altering the canon.' And I have to say that that's a bunch of horseshit,” he addressed at Rhode Island Comic Con. “You can’t say that to me if you also didn’t have the same amount of consternation about Batman ‘89, where the Joker killed Batman’s parents. That’s a total departure from the canon characters.”

He continued: “You come to me and you say to me that 'I'm OK with you being queer, but I'm upset that you're changing a canon character,' what you are saying to me is 'I am homophobic and I am afraid of gay

people and queer people.'”

Other LGBT characters in live-action DC shows include Sara Lance “White Canary,” Nyssa Al Ghul and Curtis Holt “Mister Terrific” of “The Arrow” and “DC Legends of Tomorrow” series.

The CW has even launched its own DC animated series featuring a gay main character. “Freedom Fighters: The Ray” features main character Raymond ‘Ray’ Terrill, a gay man who takes on light-based powers — and the superhero alias The Ray. And when it comes to comic books, DC has tried to make new additions to be LGBT-inclusive. In August they planned to introduce Doctor Endless, DC’s first genderfluid character. The character was set to appear in “Suicide Squad: The Black Files” — that is, until the comic was postponed a week before its release.

According to DC Comics News, the company intends to re-solicit the series, but it will not be released until November at the earliest, if ever.

However, DC Comics has had some success in LGBT inclusion. Following the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando which took the lives of 49 people and injured 53 others — many of who were LGBT and Latinx — DC teamed up with IDW Publishing to release a “Love is Love” comic anthology with proceeds benefitting the victims.

The 144-page comic book sold for only $10 a piece, with over $200,000 going to Equality Florida to help victims since its release in December of last year.

“The book has taken a life of its own and every penny generated will go towards different LGBT charities over the years,” project organizer Marc Andreyko told SFGN in June. “I never would have imagined that this project would not only raise so much money, but touch so many lives.”

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“We need meaningful change. I Trantalis, who was a change, not superficial change. commissioner from 2002 to promise to be I promise to be the people’s 2006 and 2013 to now, has the people’s mayor.” made infrastructure one of The city’s municipal primary mayor.” the issues he promises to fix election will be held on if elected. The issue is aging Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. If one - Dean Trantalis water and sewage pipes of the mayoral candidates gets Commissioner which have caused numerous 50 percent of the vote plus 1, flooding issues throughout he or she will be elected mayor. the city. City officials have been accused of If not, a run-off of the top two vote getters diverting funds meant to maintain those will be held during the municipal general pipes on other budget items, including new election on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. parks.

Mayor Seiler has had a contentious Rodstrom and Roberts have also made relationship with the LGBT community. infrastructure part of their platforms but LGBT activists have criticized the mayor Trantalis has been much harsher in his over the years for not supporting marriage criticism of the city. “We don’t need to look equality and more recently for attending a far to see the poor stewardship of our city prayer breakfast that featured an anti-LGBT these last few years,” he said in a statement. speaker.

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LGBT History is Important

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s our community moves through its LGBT history month, there are three local events of interest worth noting, even though, shockingly, none of them were my birthday today.

First, let’s talk about the Pride Center and where we have been. There was a time not too long ago in South Florida, when gay men and women met in dark alleyways, not in Cadillac dealerships along Federal Highway. Your willingness to stand up and be counted as conscientious citizens, not closeted queers, has built new lives for countless generations of gay men and women.

Our legacy tomorrow and our history today has been written by your courage, and don’t let anyone ever take that away from you. It was not always an easy road. Wilton Drive was no rainbow. When people like Charlie Bado came on a radio show to talk about his new organization, in the 1980’s, Gays United Against Repression and Discrimination, (GUARD), Fort Lauderdale was not issuing proclamations. They were raiding gay bookstores and bars, arresting gay men at every turn.

The South Florida gay community has grown from fringe groups with bullhorns standing on the corner of the streets to owning them. At the end of this month the display of gay humanity celebrating Halloween in Wilton Manors will be nothing short of remarkable. For the Pride Center: it is demonstrative proof that our community has leadership which embraces and enhances our lives, making us players who are a part of our cities, not apart from them.

There is a second group of people to celebrate and call attention to during this history month, and though they did not make our cover this week, they are all cover girls. Apparently, this is the first time the Miss Florida International Pageant is being showcased in Broward County.

Like the transgender Southern Comfort Conference, or Pride Fort Lauderdale’s noble bid for World Pride, our area codes are moving up in the LGBT universe. We are not just 305 anymore; 954 matters.

Hey, there is a reason I have been successfully publishing the Express Gay News, and now the South Florida Gay News,

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since 1999. It’s because you have made our community consequential. Whether it is gay professionals expanding their law firms, or LGBT guest houses lining our beaches, the greater Fort Lauderdale Gay business community is drawing national attention and international tourism.

We are fortunate to have the backing and the bullhorn of the Broward County Convention and Visitors Business Bureau behind us. Thank you, Richard Gray.

All of you have played a part in being stakeholders in our lives. Be proud of your role in building our corner of the world, whether you boldly advertised yourself as the first openly lesbian candidate for office or the first gay realtor to lead the Fort Lauderdale board. Maybe, like George Castrataro, you have used your firm to advocate civil rights.

We each do our part.

You see, you bucked the tide, you dealt with adversity, and now you are entitled to an ice cream cone from the Wilton Manors creamery- because the two proud gay parents who own that place are only there today because of what you did yesterday. With every gay dentist that opens and advertises his practice in Oakland Park on the pages of SFGN, you lend authenticity to our lives and advocacy to our cause. You become our history.

The Miss Florida Pageant celebrates years of hard work by courageous performers whose cutting edge politics paved the way for our progress today. When the gay community needed voices to speak out or fundraisers to generate revenues for HIV patients, they were our first responders. The Miss Allyson’s of our world have done so much for so many with class and distinction; grace and honor along the way. Can’t say enough about our ladies in lace.

Long before there were Pride centers, there were Tiny Tina’s amongst us donning the mantle of activism to fight for our rights- to pave the way and set our course. Before there was an Our Fund to raise monies to seed our

legacies, drag queens were our soldiers, albeit dressed in uniforms much more lavish than some of our own. They put themselves out there when a lot of us were still afraid to do so.

Last week I was thinking how far the gay community has come in my own lifetime. I remember 40 years ago standing with Dean Trantalis, Bev Cothern, Tom Bradshaw, Robin Bodiford, Gary Steinsmith, Jamie Bloodworth and a few others, creating a little group of activists called United Citizens for Human Rights. We were all outsiders looking in. Not any more.

I remember Alan Schubert pitching a shovel of dirt to kick off the groundbreaking of a new Pride Center on Andrews Avenue. I remember Alan Terl and Brad Buchman arguing for domestic partnership legislation in the 1990’s at the Broward County Commission meetings, and Dennis Delia protesting Reverend Kennedy and the Coral Ridge Church’s opposition to anything gay. I remember when the LGBT community was an afterthought, heck, an after birth. Not any more.

I saw last week that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has led a charitable endeavor to bring relief, supplies and sustenance to our friends and families in Puerto Rico. Not too many years ago, Father Bill was pleading with cities to allow us to open food banks for people living with HIV in South Florida. Not any more. Now we have men like Michael Weinstein at AHF stewarding worldwide

The Miss Florida Pageant celebrates years of hard work by courageous performers whose cutting edge politics paved the way for our progress today.

non profits which enable relief efforts for the needy around the globe.

I saw a new gay kickball league being founded and written about in our newspaper last week. I wondered if they knew about the gay softball league so many guys like myself, Jim Stork, Stan Butler, Dave Liddy and a score of others provided the impetus for 35 years ago. Go to the Village Pub and read the plaques saluting those pioneers. It’s our history, and whether you were a plumber or a painter, you helped color our lives, Jerry Polis.

We can’t and all won’t make headlines. But we can all make and have made headway. It’s not just gay ‘history’ month. It’s a celebration of how far we have come from being ‘Boys in the Band’ to the leaders of it. We are architects of the new tomorrow. We tear down closets.

We don’t build them. Not any more.

Our community has gone from dark alleyways to civic celebrations and block parties closing down streets and opening doors. We are about social organizations, charitable ventures, and community involvement. Our paper and community now celebrates businesses who make a difference.

You want press? Tell us about the pet project you sponsor, not just the 2 for 1 special you are promoting this weekend.

To those who are 20 and struggling with who you want to be and where you want to go, let me share this about gay ‘history’ month. What matters most is not where we have been. Don’t worry about me reminiscing about what happened once before.

What matters most is where you want to go, and the history you want to create. To thine own self be true. Be who you are. Become all you can be. Make that happen and you will write your own history.

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Our History Matters • See more articles from this month at SFGN.com/2017Historymonth

New Doc Explores Mysterious Death of a

Mother of the Trans Community Jen Colletta

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lmost 23 years to the day after helping to lead the seminal uprising against police at the Stonewall Inn, Marsha P. Johnson was reported missing.

The trans woman was a well-known figure in New York City’s LGBT and HIV/ AIDS communities, an organizer and activist whose contributions to social change persisted long after the Stonewall riots subsided. She and friend and fellow activist Sylvia Rivera founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries to provide resources, care and advocacy for homeless queer youth.

The two are credited with encouraging the development of a trans community, separate from the larger LGB community, yet with attention to intersectional issues like racial justice, homelessness and criminal-justice reform.

Her contributions were cut short, as Johnson’s body was found in the Hudson River on July 6, 1992. The death was quickly ruled a suicide but a number of friends blasted that finding, especially considering a head wound Johnson suffered, a report she had been harassed near the river and a witness who claimed overhearing a man bragging about murdering “a drag queen named Marsha.”

Twenty-five years later, a new documentary is seeking justice for Johnson. “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” directed by David France, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2012 AIDS documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” follows the AntiViolence Project’s work to gain traction for a new investigation into Johnson’s death. With archival footage, the documentary brings to life one of the trans community’s earliest pioneers, using Johnson’s life and death to speak to systemic issues like ongoing violence against trans women of color.

France spoke to Philadelphia Gay News about the historic yet timely film.

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PGN: What brought you to this story?

DF: I knew Marsha personally from her role in gay life in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. She was widely known and widely celebrated, in part because she was a central figure in the Stonewall uprising. But the exact details of what she had done and what she had accomplished politically were largely lost to time. I knew enough about her that I knew that a story that excavated her political contributions would be really important.

PGN: How did you get connected to the Anti-Violence Project’s Victoria Cruz?

DF: Marsha died in 1992 and it was a terrible year for crime in New York. I was reporting for the Village Voice at the time and covering this wild uptick in anti-LGBT crimes. I knew that at the time the police department was not responding adequately to the epidemic, nor were politicians or newspapers, but the AntiViolence Project — which is a 30-year-old initiative to advocate for LGBT crime victims — was very aggressively investigating cases in a way to force police to take crimes against us seriously. So when I began my work on the documentary, I turned back to the AntiViolence Project to ask if they would go back to this old case with me. They assigned me Victoria Cruz, which was like incredible luck to find somebody who was so gorgeous and compelling to follow. But also somebody who had a great personal connection to the case and to the history of Marsha and Sylvia Rivera.

PGN: I understand there were roadblocks throughout the process of getting access

Photo courtesy of PGN. Marsha P. Johnson.

to files and records. Do you think that was connected to anti-trans bias?

DF: We went back to the people who were working on the case 25 years ago and their biases from the time seemed to remain fully intact. To them, Marsha was an insignificant victim of crime, a person whose case could be easily dismissed or glossed over. There was no appetite on their part to look back on her case, although they remembered it. One officer Victoria talked to immediately remembered the name Marsha Johnson and that she was a trans woman found in the river. It’s not that it was a small case in their mind but they

treated it as though it was a meaningless case, and continued to. Certainly they didn’t want Victoria stumbling into discovering things they should have discovered or discovering things they knew about and buried. And that’s why she hit obstacles there. Victoria proves that it was a massive cover-up. And that it was a cover-up of the death of a significant historical figure just adds to the tragedy of it.

But hers was one of, I’m sure, scores of cases that year alone that were covered up.

To read the rest, visit SFGN.com/2017Historymonth

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Broward’s Gay History Jesse Monteagudo

Gay Political Life before the Dolphin Democrats

This is the second of a two-part article first published in 1994 as part of a series about South Florida LGBT history written for Miami’s The Weekly News (TWN). Part one was about Broward County’s queer social life. Part two looks at the rise of the LGBT rights movement at a time when most of us were still in our closets. ay politics in Broward dragged County activist Bob Kunst for the creation of behind the bar scene. There were the BCCHR. Kunst, Silber recalled, “got a lot individual acts of resistance. The of support from Bill Hovan” who, as owner late Jerry Mitchell recalled being part of a of the Marlin Beach Hotel, had some stake short-lived group, the “Purple Panthers,” that in the matter. Mitchell, another founder, fought antigay harassment on Dania Beach in recalled that the BCCHR “met the first time the summer of 1962. Broward County’s oldest at Tangerine’s in Fort Lauderdale. Then we LGBT political entity was the Gay Community started meeting at the Marlin and then we Services of Broward County, which flourished moved away from meeting at bars.” For a while in 1973. Though the GCS did not live to be a (1977-78) the BCCHR rented office space at the year old, it led, through the efforts of member Las Olas Building before moving its meetings, Mark Silber, to the creation of the Stonewall in Mitchell’s words, to “the place Buddy Library.

Markwell had.”

The next chapter in Broward’s gay history “Markwell’s place” was Common Ground, began in January of 1977, and the catalyst was itself a landmark in Broward gay history. The E. Clay Shaw, then Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. late Buddy Markwell, whose Den of Antiquity The late Tom Bradshaw, speaking before the shared space with Common Ground, called Stonewall Library, noted that Shaw “wanted it “a meeting place for people.” “It wasn’t a grand jury investigation of the relationship religious, Markwell told me in 1994. “It wasn’t between the Marlin Beach Hotel and hustlers a bar. It was a common ground where people on the Strip, on A1A and on Birch Road. And could get together and share ideas. Out of there we got the Hotline, he went further than that. which started in 1978 and He said, I don’t just want the “Gay and lesbian ran until two years ago.

Marlin Beach closed, as a There were several things public nuisance, but I want all people began that got started from that gays out of Fort Lauderdale. to organize. concept and developed We want this to be a family And there into other things.” A community!” was born the predecessor of the “All of a sudden (recalled Broward County Pride Center, Common Bradshaw), an incredible burst Coalition for Ground, located on the of energy occurred, seemingly south side of the railroad out of nowhere. Gay and the Humanistic track at Andrews, was, in lesbian people began to Rights of Gays.”

Williamson’s words, “the organize. And there was born first attempt to create the Broward County Coalition - Tom Bradshaw something that was for the Humanistic Rights of remotely a community Gays.” Richard Sedlak, who served as president of the Broward County center” in Broward County.

I became involved with the BCCHR shortly Coalition for Human Rights (BCCHR) from 1979 to its demise, remembered at the time. after I moved to Broward in 1978, and served “A lot of people began to flex their muscles. as secretary from 1979 until that group’s These people were gay and proud and willing demise. Meetings at Common Ground drew to stand up for their rights.” Broward activists a small number of people, mostly young, were inspired by the Dade County Coalition white, male and economically challenged. for Human Rights, which was then fighting to “On the average,” Williamson said, there were “about 15 people, about 90% men.” “Buddy preserve that county’s “gay rights” ordinance.

According to Josephine Williamson, an Markwell had a few people,” recalled activist early member of the BCCHR, the group “Joe Bell,” who went over a few times. “But “started out as a bar owners’ group.” Silber, they didn’t seem to have too many people one of the founding members, credited Dade there. Buddy tried hard but it wasn’t a big

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membership and to do anything you have to have a big membership.”

What the BCCHR lacked in money and numbers it tried to make up with enthusiasm.

According to Williamson, “the Coalition at the time was the only really out organization so it attracted people who could afford to be out and who didn’t have any money. The Coalition never had any money and was always beholden to any bars that would hold fundraisers. When I joined the Coalition it had this huge, unwieldy Steering Committee that consisted mostly of bar and business owners.

I was at the meeting when we sacked the Steering Committee.” I was also present at that meeting and, innocent of politics, I supported the “sack.” Now I realize it was the beginning of the end. Having lost its base of support, the BCCHR limped along before it faded away in the early 80’s.

The BCCHR was not without its achievements. Mitchell remembered that “we were instrumental in getting the first few gay pride parades down here and getting people to go and march in the parades. One of the things we did one year (1979) was make what we called a ‘Drag-a-pillar.’ It was made on the order of a Chinese dragon so that closeted people could march under it and not be seen.”

Though Pride South Florida began in 1979 as an arm of the DCCHR, by the early 80’s it had effectively become a Broward organization.

“The BCCHR’s biggest accomplishment,” Markwell recalled, “was the education that we did at the time. A lot of people were educated as to the contributions of the gay community.”

In addition to the Broward Hotline, the BCCHR, in Mitchell’s words, “was a spawning ground for the Florida Task Force,” which

held its annual conference in Broward under BCCHR auspices (1979). Finally, Williamson noted, “the people there had a good time.

The fellowship in the organization was more important than we realize. If you can’t find a way to get on with your life and have some fun while you are trying to change things, you burn out.”

By the late seventies, the Tuesday Night Group (TNG) had emerged as Broward’s leading LGBT rights group. “Joe Bell,” the businessman who founded the Group, dated its beginnings back to 1973-74. “A friend of mine who came down from New York was entrapped and as a result was put in jail and treated very badly. A week later he hanged himself. Because of that I was really shocked and that's when I started the group.”

The Tuesday Night Group soon attracted an affluent, professional membership that wouldn’t be caught dead at BCCHR meetings.

“In the early days,” Bell told me, “we used to meet on Tuesday nights (of course) in apartments and had 65 people over. Then when it got so big we went to the old Unitarian Church located across from the Courthouse on S.E. 3 Avenue. And when we had our cocktail parties we had over 800.”

Those of us who ran the more upfront BCCHR thought that the TNG, also known as “Closet Clusters,” was too timid for its own good. Edmund White, in his book States of Desire (1980), described “Closet Clusters” as “a fundraising chain of groups for prominent gays who do not want to be publicly identified.” “The Tuesday Night Group at that time was fairly closeted,” admitted the late Karl Clark, who joined the group in 1979.

“They only knew people by their first names

history month local and they didn’t publish a newsletter. The Andy Eddy, “stealth” candidates from the only time you would know about a meeting Group got themselves appointed to both is when they would announce it.” the Democratic and Republican Executive “The BCCHR was a kind of ‘in your face,’ Committees. (Being in the closet has its right in front of the papers kind of thing, advantages.) During the Briggs Initiative of kind of like ACT-UP,” recalled Markwell. 1978, Fort Lauderdale, through the Tuesday “The Tuesday Night Group was a behind the Night Group, raised more money than any scenes, pseudo-closeted thing.” “To me it other city outside California. The TNG was was a little bit too closeted,” Silber told me, also the first group in Broward to address the while nonetheless admitted that he “liked AIDS issue, long before Center One. the concept of meeting at upscale places.” I In 1982 Karl Clark, D. Lynn Mattingly and remember attending a posh TNG reception other TNG members formed United Citizens in which Bell never used the “G word,” opting for Human Rights (UCHR). The UCHR, Clark instead for the more discrete “community noted, was “the open political arm of the person.”

Tuesday Night Group. We were out of the Bell defended his use of language. “I felt closets and our names could be used in the it was derogatory the way they were using paper and so on. We met with the politicians it and I did not want to use it. I did not want on a one to one basis.” In 1982, which Clark any names attached to the TNG.” I suspect called a “watershed year” in Broward politics, Bell knew what he was talking about. Unlike “Anne MacKenzie, Peter Deutsch, and Peter the BCCHR, the TNG was able to reach, in Weinstein accredited the UCHR and the gay Sedlak’s words, “the powers that be, the community for their victories.” moneyed, influential people.” “The Tuesday One of the losing candidates that year Night Group was considerably more funded was Dennis Foley, who ran for the Florida and polished than the BCCHR,” Williamson House of Representatives against Debby admitted. “It took a long time Sanderson. According to but we got the bar owners Clark, “Dennis was the together and we got the president of what was then “We were business people together for the Democratic Club of out of the the first time,” Bell proudly Wilton Manors. After the closets and agreed. election was over Dennis According to Joe Bell, the asked me to take the our names TNG avoided the pitfalls that charter and revitalize the could be used doomed many a group. ”The Club. In November of 1982 in the paper TNG was informal. We had no we held an election and board, so to speak. Everyone I was elected president. and so on.” had free speech. There were Then we went to John no egos and we all worked Lomelo, who was the - Karl Clark very hard together.” Unlike chair of the Democratic other groups, the TNG drew Executive Committee, and a large number of women. “The men used to told him we wanted to change the name to avoid the women and the women felt badly the Dolphin Democratic Club of Broward about it. We were the first to get the women County. He had no problem with that and involved with the men. We encouraged the so we became a county-wide club.” Lomelo women and that broke the ice.” also persuaded Clark and other Dolphin Finally, TNG avoided the financial Club members to run for and serve in the controversies that destroyed other Democratic Executive Committee - as openly organizations. “We had an attorney put our lesbian or gay people. money in escrow and we accounted for every Though the Tuesday Night Group broke penny that the TNG had. We had no problem up in the mid-eighties, its influence on our with any kind of finances because we had community is still felt today. Meanwhile complete and full disclosure.” the Dolphin Democratic Club, now 35 Thanks to the Tuesday Night Group, years old, continues to represent Broward’s Broward’s LGBT community became a LGBT Democrats. The emergence of LGBT political force. The Group, Joe Bell said, people as a force in Broward County politics “broke the ground to educate the politicians in the early 1980’s was a turning point in and the police as to what the community our community’s life, and not even the was really like and not what they thought AIDS epidemic could keep us from moving they were like. According to TNG member forward.

Jesse Monteagudo is a freelance writer and journalist.

He has been an active member of South Florida's LGBT community for more than four decades and has served in various community organizations.

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‘Gypsy’ the musical is LGBT history?

Mark Segal GBT history can be found in every aspect of our lives. Sometimes it just comes as a surprise to learn that something, or someone, you’ve known about was gay.

Given the title of this column, you may think this is going to be about the lyricist of “Gypsy” — my favorite Broadway composer, Stephen Sondheim, who’s gay — it isn’t. And if you think it’s about another member of the production company of that original Broadway bombastic hit — so many of them were gay — again, it isn’t.

It’s about one of the real-life characters on whom the musical is based. “Gypsy” tells the life story of Gypsy Rose Lee and her stage mother — the stage mother of all stage mothers, Momma Rose, played in the original production by Ethel Merman and since by Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone and Bernadette Peters, and in the film version by Rosalind Russell. As you can see, it’s one hell of a classic and beloved Broadway musical.

That character played by all those famous actresses, Momma Rose? Guess what? She was a lesbian. How do we know that? From good research by Carolyn Quinn, who took her fascination with Gypsy and her family and wrote a book that, by any description, could be called a page turner.

If you’ve seen the musical film or stage version of “Gypsy,” you should know that the character of Momma Rose was sort of “cleaned up for public consumption.”

She was more outrageous than the script could have shared with America in the 1950s.

Here’s what we know from the script: Momma Rose was born Rose Thompson.

She had several marriages but eventually gave birth to two daughters and became a stage mother. Both her girls went on to fame: Gypsy Rose Lee as a stripper, author and talk-show personality, and June Havoc as a film star. But what happened to Momma Rose?

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She ran several schools for children, a chicken farm, a summer camp — oh, and she was tried for murder. In a nutshell, here are the facts: Rose was running a boarding house in New York, referred to by sources at the time as a “seedy boarding house for lesbians,” where she also lived.

During this time, Gypsy paid a visit to the house and for some reason a young woman who has been described as Momma Rose’s lover at the time didn’t know Gypsy was her daughter and mistakenly thought Gypsy was making a pass at Rose. Rose and the woman reportedly had a vicious fight and Momma Rose shot the woman.

I think this gives a whole new meaning to the climactic song by Momma Rose, “Momma’s Turn.”

There are several other lovers mentioned in Quinn’s book, and it’s a great read.

It’s LGBT History Month and you’ll never know where our history is and what surprises you’ll find when exploring it.

LGBT history is fascinating.

Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. His recently published memoir, "And Then I Danced," is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or at your favorite bookseller.

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Wilton Manors Gazette

Community

Ideas for City Grant Money Floated at Meeting Irma influences discussion

By Michael d’Oliveira In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, city item to spend the grant on because multiple commissioners want Community Development items are more complicated when it comes to Block Grant [CDBG] funds to be spent on items successfully applying for money.

Mayor Gary Resnick suggested the money that will help after the next hurricane hits might be used to improve drainage and reduce Wilton Manors.

Every year, the city is awarded CDBG funds flooding. He also suggested a generator at Mickel Park to operate the free from the federal government.

WiFi system that was recently The money is supposed to be installed there. The next park spent to improve areas that Mayor Gary to be wired for free WiFi will be have been designated as having Island City Park Preserve. blight. The Highlands, the Resnick Resnick said the city directs neighborhood which is north suggested the people to places with power and of Northeast 26 Street between WiFi after a storm, but the city Five Points and Northeast 6 money might be should have its own “solution” Avenue, and the area west of used to improve for residents to charge their Andrews Avenue qualify as drainage phones and connect to WiFi. areas that can benefit from the Commissioner Julie Carson said funding. and reduce she’d like the money spent on This year, the city has been flooding. solar lighting. awarded $65,000 to be spent Rather than a generator, in 2019. Once the commission Commissioner Tom Green has voted on how to spend the money, city staff will fill out the application. suggested smaller solar-powered seating The deadline to apply is in December. In kiosks, which contain electrical outlets, previous years, the grant funds have been would be a lower-cost way to provide power used for a parking lot next to Island City Park for residents who need to charge their smart Preserve, park fencing, park fitness stations, phones. DeJesus said it would be better to sidewalks, a drainage system, solar lighting, purchase those items with city funding. Using the money to replace lost trees on city property landscaping and street resurfacing.

Todd DeJesus, special projects and grants was also suggested and DeJesus suggested using manager, said it’s easier if the city chooses one the Tree Trust grant program instead. WMG

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Build that wall!

By Sal Torre

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We hear the chanting. We hear the rhetoric. We are beginning to realize the need and the importance. We are beginning to understand that to do nothing is no longer an option. The problem is on the rise.

The invaders are causing havoc and destruction. The chanting is growing louder and louder, Build the Wall, Build the Wall.

No, I am not at a Trump rally along the Southeast border, I am sitting right here in Wilton Manors and wondering how our island paradise will deal with the growing problem of sea walls that surround our Island City. Area sea walls are under attack and without any programs at the county and state level, we will see the deterioration continue and will reach a crisis level in the near future. The need to build walls right here in Wilton Manors should be a major concern to all our residents.

The problem has two main culprits, rising water levels and iguanas. Reports have been hitting the press about regional concerns due to climate change, with the need to raise our area sea walls by at least a foot in height. That’s one problem dealing with the tops of the walls, the other is devastating the bottoms. Iguanas, love them or hate them, are destroying sea walls throughout our area and their growing presence as an invasive species needs to be dealt with on a regional and state level.

Here in our Island City, over 90 percent of the sea walls that surround the city are on private property and are the responsibility of the property owner. Unfortunately many property owners here in Wilton Manors and throughout the region lack the ability to deal with the need to raise the wall, to rebuild the walls from the destruction caused by iguanas, or to replace aging infrastructure.

Senior citizens, residents on fixed incomes, those who never recovered from the financial collapse, and those left behind earning low wages in our two tiered national economy are just getting by as it is. My neighbors across the way, both senior citizens on a fixed income have approached me on numerous occasions asking if I knew of any assistance with the iguana problems they are dealing with.

They know that the iguanas are destroying the sea wall on their property, along with their neighbors up and down the waterway. The only answer they get from their inquiries to government agencies is that they could hire a trapper for the iguanas, but make sure you deal with them humanly, and that the sea wall is the property owner’s responsibility. Not much help when you are dealing with just getting by each month, paying rising utility bills, insurance bills and so many other costs.

Last year our Assistant City Manager, along with our Utilities Director,

successfully worked with State Senators and State Representatives to get funding for a sidewalk program in our neighborhoods. Unfortunately the program did not survive the veto power of our governor’s office.

Perhaps this year our city staff and others should start to lobby our representatives in the upcoming legislative session to allocate funding that will assist property owners in dealing with these two growing problems.

To deal with flooding issues and other related problems from rising sea levels, many communities are requesting that sea walls be raised up to an additional 12 inches. The cost of adding a cap on top of the existing seawall is about $10,000. However many seawalls due to age and deterioration will not be able to handle the cap and would have to be replaced all together at a much higher cost.

Add to that the burden of the growing iguana menace, and things are not looking good for our residents along the waterways that define our island paradise.

Not much help is on the horizon concerning the iguana population either. For many years most county and state officials looked at the iguanas as a pest in our gardens. Unfortunately these pests are destroying our seawalls at an alarming rate along with doing great harm to local plant life and more.

The advice coming out of the state mainly deals with living with the growing menace and how to minimize the damage to your property.

Nothing is being done to minimize the growing population as with other invasive species such as the python snake in the Everglades.

With warmer winters and their ability to lay up to 70 eggs, this pest in our garden has become a major environmental problem that our state officials need to have a more aggressive action plan to deal with.

Residents of our island city can call on their state representatives and request action be taken. We can also hope for a week long cold spell in the coming months. A few days of near freezing weather will do wonders for decreasing the iguana menace, and would temporarily trick us into thinking that global warming is just a hoax as the tweets from our President have stated.

Back in the real world, residents of our Island City need to deal with the problems caused by climate change, but it cannot be done solely on the backs of individual property owners. We must demand regional and state-wide solutions to these growing problems and by doing so keep life just better here. WMG

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The Future Is Now

By James Oaksun

Sometimes, the columns just write themselves.

I walk around town, talk to people, read, think, and then I have to sit down and write them out. But the recent events we have all experienced, and about which I have written in the last couple columns, make this piece both inevitable and self propelled.

As a Realtor-leader, I have a responsibility to change people’s lives for the better, and do what I can to make the world (or our corner of it, anyway) a better place. It’s not all about the quartz counter tops and the size of the master bathroom, after all.

Here in South Florida, we are dealing with the after-effects of two major hurricanes. We took a hit from Irma which could have been worse but was plenty bad enough. And many of our family members, friends and fellow citizens remain in dire straits after Maria.

Somehow I doubt that if a state like Iowa or Arkansas were decimated, 90 percent without electricity, potable water a rarity – that we would be hearing pronouncements from “High Places” about the Federal Government’s loss of patience. And everyone knows this. Humanitarian aid and relief must remain the top priority for some time, contrary to 45’s opinions.

But like many of You-Know-Who’s tweetstorms, there is a kernel of truth. Yes that truth is surrounded and drowned out by copious amounts of baloney, but there is a question hiding in the muck, and it is the question I have been asking in the last couple columns: What can we do to mitigate risk in the future and ideally build a better society in the process?

It is not just a question for the Islands. It is salient here on the mainland also. Many have asked, for example – rightly, in my opinion – just why is it that in a hurricane prone region, the vast majority of the electric lines are not buried?

Online petitions are circulating, politicians are opinionating.

At least we have a window where people’s attention is focused (until the next season of Real Housewives, anyway). But while interest is piqued, let’s look at the bigger picture, here and in the Islands, and apply a bit of common sense and a lot of vision.

Everyone knows it would cost a fortune to bury all the power lines in Florida. I have not found an estimate; however, the state of North Carolina (which is about 20 percent smaller than Florida) looked into this and determined that in their state it would cost about $40 billion (with a B) and take decades to accomplish.

That this has not happened already, is such a catastrophic failure of leadership and vision that everybody who has been involved in state government over the last 20 years has some Serious Explaining to do. As the climate goes through a period of change, as sea levels rise, our quality of life here (as well as our property values) are placed into jeopardy. And, regardless of whether you are a Realtor, nobody got time for that!

Yet amplifying a mistake with another mistake will not be a cure. We have a glorious opportunity here to look beyond the present circumstances and ask ourselves what kind of future we want to have. Instead of spending $50 billion or more to bury existing lines and perpetuate the current structure, why not spend those billions to leapfrog past today into the future – with distributed energy generation, vast increases in efficiency, and use of renewable sources like solar, wind and waves?

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the Republicans (and yes, regrettably, even the Democrats) in Tallahassee – beholden to every special interest lobby imaginable – to be thinking this way?

The same principle applies to Puerto Rico and the Islands. No, Mr. Trump, we should not be there forever. But let’s consider the opportunity beyond the crisis. I have called for the creation and capitalization of an Islands Corporation. Instead of restoring the status quo ante to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other places, let’s turn them into shining cities on a hill, with the best infrastructure and new construction techniques – places where people will want to relocate to instead of flee from. Already Elon Musk of Tesla (and other ventures) is discussing this new future with the local government in Puerto Rico. More leaders must join him., It will take vision, optimism, political will, hard work and financial capital. Transformation is never easy, but we have to start somewhere. What leaders on the local, state and national level are willing to take a stand, and say the future is now? Do you really think Donald Trump and Rick Scott will be among them? WMG James Oaksun, Broward's Real Estate Geek(SM), is BrokerOwner of New Realty Concepts in Oakland Park. In addition to having degrees from Dartmouth and Cornell, he is a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI).

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Community

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Shop & Play Rescheduled Because of Irma

Public to Vote on Wayfinding Signs

By Michael d’Oliveira

By Michael d’Oliveira

Photo credit: Steven Shires.

Photos courtesy of Wilton Manors.

Commissioners will seek public input on the design choice for the city’s wayfinding sign program.

At the Oct. 10 commission meeting, Todd Mayfield of Axia Creative, the firm hired to help the city with the program, estimated the signs would be installed in 12 to 18 weeks. But before that, he said a number of steps would have to be completed, including the city choosing a final design and finding a firm that wants to build and install the signs. About $86,000 has been budgeted by the city.

The purpose of the wayfinding signs is to direct visitors to certain destinations, including business districts, parks, and government buildings. Places like The Pride Center and Art Gallery 21 will also be on the signs. Each sign will be under 15 feet

high and will include the city’s logo and tagline – “Life’s Just Better Here.”

City commissioners said they will narrow down the number of designs and present multiple choices for members of the public to vote on. Commissioners will meet again at least once more to discuss the which designs will be offered up for a vote, but when that meeting will take place has not yet been announced.

“I’d like to have more input from the community,” said Commissioner Scott Newton. He added that the design should be voted on but that the colors chosen should be left up to city officials because there are too many for people to feasibly vote on.

City Manager Leigh Ann Henderson said that an online poll would be created when the city is ready to present the choices.

Mayfield presented five designs, each with multiple variations, and commissioners received them with generally favorable comments. Mayfield said that the designs were uniquely created for Wilton Manors.

“We try not to replicate what we’ve done in other communities.”

“I do like the fact that these are noticeable,” said Commissioner Tom Green. “I do like the brightness,” said Commissioner Julie Carson. Wilton Drive business owner Nick Berry said he likes the proposed designs because they will catch people’s attention as they come into the city. “You’re going to wake up and see it.”

Vice Mayor Justin Flippen said he hopes the process does not take “too much longer.” WMG

An event originally designed to help small to them, have signed-up and he expects as businesses deal with slumping summer sales many as 60 will have done so by the time of has been rescheduled and repurposed to help the event. The list of participating business those same businesses recoup some of the will be published by Hotspots the week of the event. sales they lost because of Hurricane Irma.

In his presentation to commissioners at Shop & Play was originally supposed to be held on Wilton Drive Sept. 13 through 20 and their Oct. 10 meeting, Clark asked that the feature discounts provided by participating city make parking free on Wilton Drive and businesses. But when the storm had passed in the city lots for two hours on Saturday, and cleanup efforts began on Sept. 11, Wilton Oct. 28 – from 6 to 8 p.m.

Commissioners approved Drive was still days away from his request. having power restored.

“There’s a lot of businesses The new dates are hurting. It’s a great idea,” Wednesday, Oct. 25 to said Mayor Gary Resnick.

Tuesday, Oct. 30.

City Manager Leigh Ann “We understand the stresses Henderson praised Clark we’re all going through. The and the other organizers for concept is to bring people working with the city on the to The Drive. This is out of event rather than just asking necessity. They’ve lost two the city to do something for weeks of business,” said Peter - Gary Resnick them.

Clark, publisher of Hotspots, Mayor Business owners can which has partnered with sign-up at the website to the Wilton Manors Business become a participant. Those Association, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Chamber who do will receive a decal they can place of Commerce to put on the event. “Let’s bring in their storefront window to let customers some excitement back to The Drive . . . bring know they are participating. It’s up to each individual business owner to decide what The Drive alive.”

Clark said Wilton Drive is more than just kind of discount they want to give.

Only customers wearing Shop & Play its bars and restaurants. It's doctor’s offices, retail shops, professional offices, thrift stores, Wilton wristbands will be able to receive and more. Saturday, Oct. 14 marked the discounts, which can be obtained at ribbon cutting of the new Wilton Drive office participating businesses. WMG of the South Florida Symphony Orchestra.

“You name it, we have it,” said Clark.

Visit shopplaywilton.com for He said 20 business owners, at no cost more information.

“There’s a lot of businesses hurting. It’s a great idea.”

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Wicked Manors Returns Flash mob resurrected for annual event; still time to sign up

By Michael d’Oliveira

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After an absence at last year’s Wicked Manors, the flash mob will return for this year’s Halloween festivities.

The organizers of Wicked Manors, The Pride Center, are looking for volunteers for the event – Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 7 to 11 p.m. Wilton Drive, from Five Points to Northeast 21 Court, will be closed from 1 p.m. on Halloween and reopened at 2 a.m. on Nov. 1. Roger Roa, Pride Center’s director of development, joked that people should take Wednesday off to recover.

This year’s theme is Heroicons, a combination of heroes and icons. The event is free and open to the public.

Those who want to become part of the flash mob must attend at least two of the three remaining rehearsals at

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The Pride Center – Oct. 22 and 28 from 1 to 3 p.m., and Oct. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Participants are asked to bring their own costume for the performances, which will take place at all three locations – Progress Bar, Hunters, and the HITS 97.3 stage. To sign-up, visit wickedmanors.org/contact-us/flashmob.

There will also be four costume contests, including one for children.

Along with the contests and entertainment, there will be designated three clusters of event bar areas and Wilton Drive restaurants and bars will be open for the event.

“It’s the largest Halloween event in the Southeast United States,” Roa said.

About 20,000 people are expected to attend.

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Taste of the Island tickets on sale Tickets for Taste of the Island are on sale online and in Wilton Manors at the Hagen Park Community Center, the Richard C. Sullivan Public Library, and Sterling Accounting. Taste of the Island is an annual event where local bars and restaurants provide food and beverage samples. Tickets are $30 before Nov. 1 and $35 after. The number of tickets is limited. The event is on Monday, Nov. 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Richardson Historic Park and Nature Preserve, 1937 Wilton Drive. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to the Kiwanis Club of Wilton Manors, the Wilton Manors Historical Society, Wilton Manors Development Alliance, and the Wilton Manors Leisure Services Department. Visit tasteoftheisland.org to buy tickets or for more information. WMG

Prescription Drug Take Back The Wilton Manors Police Department will observe National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by asking residents to donate expired or unnecessary prescription medication. Unused medication is sometimes abused by individuals, and flushing pills down the toilet has been shown to negatively impact drinking water quality and the environment. To prevent both of those outcomes, police ask that medication be donated so it can be properly destroyed. Police will be collecting prescriptions on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hagen Park, 2020 Wilton Drive. WMG

Neighborhood Block Party Wilton Manors’ second Neighborhood Block Party will be held on Monday, Oct. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the Richard C. Sullivan Library, 500 NE 26 St. Games, activities, refreshments, tables, and chairs will be provided. Those who attend are asked to bring food to share with others. The idea for having block parties came from Mayor Gary Resnick who said that he wanted to encourage people to reduce their social media usage in favor of more face to face contact. WMG

City spends $903,000 to replace water pipes At their meeting on Oct. 10, commissioners approved $903,498 to pay Murphy Pipeline Contractors to replace two water lines under Wilton Drive and Northeast 21 Street. The lines will be replaced with a method called pipe bursting, whereby new pipe is threaded through the old pipe. It removes the need to dig long trenches.

Wilton Manors piggy-backed off an existing contract the City of Altamonte Springs has with Murphy Pipeline Contractors. “This is incredibly important to our infrastructure. Yes, we do pay attention to our infrastructure,” said Commissioner Julie Carson.. WMG

Art Gallery 21 new hours Wilton Manors’ Art Gallery 21, located in the Woman’s Club of Wilton Manors, 600 NE 21 Ct., has new hours of operation – Friday and Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Visit artgallery21.org for more information.. WMG

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dance Miami City Ballet opens its 2017-18 season this weekend at Miami’s Arsht Center with George Balanchine’s epic three-act ballet, “Jewels.” The ballet premiered 50 years ago and features music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The program will be repeated at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, Oct. 28 – 29, and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Nov. 17 – 19. Tickets at MiamiCityBallet.org.

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Get into the Halloween spirit with a fright-filled silent movie classic, “The Phantom of the Opera,” accompanied live by organist Timothy Brumfield at St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, 100 N.E. Mizner Blvd. in Boca Raton. Experience the chilling power of an organ right in the room with you during this spooky Halloween treat beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 at StGregorysEpiscopal.org.

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The Broward Art Guild, the oldest local organization of working artists, invites you to the opening night gala for Jeff Larsen’s new show, “Abstraction of Street,” tonight at 6:30 p.m. at their gallery, 3280 N.E. 32nd St. in Fort Lauderdale. Larsen’s abstract photographs of roadways and street signs offer unique and fascinating perspectives of these familiar, everyday sights. On display through Oct. 27. More information at BrowardArtGuild.org.

“The Drowsy Chaperone,” opening this weekend and running through Nov. 12 at the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum, 7901 N. Federal Hwy. in Boca Raton, is a loving send-up of the classic Jazz Age musical. Winner of five Tony Awards including best book and original score, the show features one showstopping dance number after another.

Don’t forget to tour the costume museum while you’re there. Tickets start at $85 at TheWick.org.

Churchill’s, 5501 N.E. 2nd Ave. in Miami, is the place to go for live jazz on Monday nights. The music starts around 9 p.m. and includes performances by the Fernando Ulibarri Group, Mike Wood Trio, and surprise guests. Out on the patio stage, it's open mic with the Theatre De Underground. Bring an instrument or just hang out and listen to music. Oh, and be sure to order a cocktail or beer, too. More information at ChurchillsPub.com.

Tune in to “At Home with Amy Sedaris” on truTV, premiering tonight at 10:30 p.m. The comedian cordially invites you into her home, where she will show off diverse but necessary homemaking skills, from creating popsicle-stick buddies and gutting a fish to making raisin necklaces and entertaining businessmen. Martha Stewart had better watch out because this series is a game changer! Check local listings for channels and show times.

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an McArt, affectionately known as “Florida’s First Lady of Theater” and head of theater development at Lynn University in Boca Raton, is a godmother of sorts for promising new plays.

For the past five years, she has guided her namesake Jan McArt New Play Readings Series, refining new works through staged readings at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Series.

These readings offer playwrights the rare opportunity to collaborate on their plays with an all-star cast of regional actors, seasoned directors and, most importantly, a live audience at the end of the grueling five-day process.

“If there’s one thing I enjoy, it’s developing new work and I’m working as hard as ever to make that happen here at Lynn,” she said in a statement announcing the 2017-18 season.

“I love it because it’s creative and I’m making things happen.”

McArt certainly has a track record for “making things happen.” Michael McKeever’s “Daniel’s Husband” was premiered at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors and swept the 2016 Carbonell Awards before an Off Broadway production at New York City’s Primary Stages. Dan Clancy’s “Middletown” received a critically-acclaimed world premiere at West Boca Theatre, while Island City Stage offered the world premiere—and another critical success—of Stuart Meltzer’s “The Goldberg Variations.”

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actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and her entourage are celebrating New Year’s Eve 1953 in Las Vegas.

The play, written especially for and starring McArt, offers a look at a bygone era of minks, champagne and men. The cast also includes Mia Mathews, Alex Alvarez, Jeffrey Bruce and Michael McKeever.

On Monday, Jan. 22, “Starmaker” by Michael Leeds and directed by Island City Stage’s Andy Rogow will be staged. The drama is based on the true story of Hollywood superagent Henry Willson and his relationship with his star client, Rock Hudson, as told by Henry and accompanied by a Greek chorus of his other famous clients. Dominic Servidio, Lindsey Corey, Clay Cartland, Larry Buzzeo, Jordan Armstrong and Sean Davis star.

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by Michael McKeever, will be presented on Monday, Feb. 12. This comedy asks two questions: Is it acceptable for a married woman to make love to a preacher, a car salesman and a mysterious hotel guest who keeps changing his identity? And, if a bellman has an affair with a guest, is it reasonable to still expect a tip? McArt also stars with a cast to be announced.

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by John Tolley. The author of the riveting “The Timekeepers,” spins the story of the Reddington family—father, mother, daughter, son—tracing the family history over a period of 60 years. Although the action takes place in the family's Brooklyn brownstone, their story will resonate with audiences from all walks of life. Casting has yet to be announced.

Tickets for the Jan McArt New Play Readings Series at Lynn University in Boca Raton are $10 at Lynn.edu/Events. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

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White Boy

Through Oct. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Midwestern boy Patrick moves to Los Angeles to get away from the small town life, when he encounters race and cultural differences when he falls in love with Lobo, a Chicano gang member.

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Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the BB&T Center, One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. The husbandand-wife country music team celebrate the 10th anniversary of their record-breaking “Soul2Soul II” tour. Tickets Tickets $65 and up. Call 954-835-7000 or visit TheBBTCenter. com.

* Tarzan the Stage Musical

Oct. 19 to Nov. 5 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Based on Disney’s rendition of the classic, the story of a boy raised in the jungle is told through music

by Phil Collins. Tickets $47 to $60. Call 954462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* Halsey

Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at the BB&T Center, One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. After her album debut made it to number two on the charts, she was nominated for a Grammy for her collaboration with The Chainsmokers for “Closer.” Tickets $30 and up. Call 954-8357000 or visit TheBBTCenter.com.

Hook Ups Vol. 1

Through Oct. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The short plays return, exploring what happens when gay men look for love online. Contains male nudity and explicit sexual situations. Tickets $35. Visit RonnieLarsen.com.

The Sound of Music

Through Oct. 22 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the nun Maria when she becomes a nanny to the von Trapp children. Tickets $30 and up. Call 954-4620222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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 The Little Foxes

Oct. 18 to Nov. 12 at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. It’s 1900 in Alabama and sisters REgina and Birdie are ruthless to get what they want.

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La Cage aux Folles

Through Oct. 22 at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. After

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The cover of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's new album. The two will be performing at the BB&T Center in Sunrise on Oct. 19 to celebrate the 10th annversary of their recordbreaking "Soul2Soul II" tour. Photo courtesy of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

20 years together, Georges and Albin are shocked when Georges’ daughter (from a onenight-stand) is marrying the son of a bigoted politician. Tickets $45 and up. Call 561-8327469 or visit Kravis.org.

show filled with music, dance, and theatrics.

Tickets $125 and up. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

The Under Pants

Through Oct. 29 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. It’s the ‘60s and Conrad is about to be drafted, but not before he gets a kiss on live television.

Tickets $35 and up. Call 561-586-6410 or visit LakeWorthPlayhouse.org.

Through Oct. 22 at the Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main St. in Miami Lakes. In this adaptation

by Steve Martin, Louise goes outside to see the king in a passing parade when her underpants accidentally fall to her ankles. Suddenly two men are fawning after her, to the dismay of her husband. Tickets $35 to $30. Call 305-5583737 or visit MainStreetPlayers.com.

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Bye Bye Birdie

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

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Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The 24K Magic World Tour lands in Miami with for a

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.

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