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Case Dismissed Against Two Pleasure Emporium Defendants Jason Parsley
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udge Ginger Lerner Wren ruled against the state on Thursday in the Pleasure Emporium case where at least 19 men have been arrested this year for sex in a public place and “exposure of sexual organs and/or unnatural lascivious acts.” The judge dismissed all the charges against two of the defendants. The state had argued that an unsuspecting patron of Pleasure Emporium could accidentally observe the sexual activity. “The Court finds that the Pleasure Emporium is not a public place under F.S. 800.03 where the patrons who access the private viewing theaters where consensual sexual activity occurs in the presence of other consenting adults objectively and subjectively possess a reasonable expectation of privacy,” Judge Wren wrote in the ruling. The Hollywood police conducted two undercover stings at the Pleasure
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Emporium this year — in February and served,” said Rhonda F. Gelfman, an July — that resulted in the arrests of 19 attorney who represents one of the men. defendants. The Pleasure Emporium is an adult Some of the defendants, however, have store that has two small already pled guilty, which theaters in the back of the would leave them with few business for the viewing of options. pornographic videos. One Gelfman said it would of the theaters is marked difficult to get their guilty “straight” and one “gay.” The pleas thrown out but it’s not entire video viewing area is impossible. only accessible by those who “We may be able to assist pay a $25 fee at the front area, them,” she said. which includes a retail shop Russell Cormican, who section with various items for also handled motions to sale. dismiss for one of his clients The judge noted that that were exonerated, added, Pleasure Emporium has “the court did a thorough - Rhonda F. “several levels of barriers” in review of the existing laws in Gelfman Attorney place to keep unsuspecting place and properly concluded patrons away from the sexual there are certain places where activity. citizens can have an expectation of privacy “We are quite pleased with the court beyond which government cannot reach.” ruling, and justice was appropriately
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alloween at the Addison returns this year with the theme “The Silver Scream” on October 31 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $250. The price includes entry, food, open bar, and entertainment. The annual event is a fundraiser for Slow Burn Theatre. This year’s theme will pay homage to the 1930’s classic horror icons: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Werewolf of London, and the Mummy. The party will also feature a haunted walk-through, themed rooms, live music and entertainment, food and an open bar. The event is partly underwritten by the
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Bisexual Republican politician switches parties to stand with LGBT community Meagan Simonaire came out as bisexual when Maryland was debating whether or not to outlaw gay conversion therapy, and her father was one of the main proponents. Simonaire is now leaving the Republican party and joining the Democrats because of President Trump’s attacks on minorities, women, and his opponents, reported LGBTQ Nation. “I am leaving the Republican Party today because it is important for me to stand with a party that is fighting for equality for all Americans. Minorities, the LGBTQ community, victims of gun violence, immigrants, women, Americans of all faiths, and communities being affected by climate change,” she said. She helped Maryland pass the conversion therapy ban by coming out in a speech in front of the statehouse.
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Out Democratic Legislator Bonnie Cullison said the speech was “one of the bravest moments I have ever witnessed in the legislature.”
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By Cameren Boatner Intersex
Medical experts advise against operating on intersex children Doctors in the past have done invasive genital surgeries on intersex children to “normalize” them as soon as possible. But European medical experts have set new guidelines that advise against operating on intersex children until they’re old enough to consent, according to Care2. “For sensitive and/or irreversible procedures, such as genital surgery, we advise that the intervention be postponed until the individual is old enough to be actively involved in the decision whenever possible,” the consensus statement in the guidelines says. The new guidelines reflect what intersex people and their advocates have been asking for for years, according to Human Rights Watch. “Intersex people… don’t need to be fixed,” Belgian intersex model Hanne Gaby told INTO. “We need to fix the binary. What’s not broken doesn’t need to be fixed.”
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Trans rights to be voted on in Massachusetts
Nicole Talbott.
Massachusetts will vote on whether to keep the law that allows transgender individuals to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity, and protects against discrimination. The question will be on the Nov. 6 ballot, and is the first ever statewide referendum on transgender rights. Nicole Talbot, 17, is the poster child for the campaign against repealing the law, which was passed in 2016. She
transitioned in seventh grade, according to Associated Press. “It allows me to live as who I am and have every right that every other person in the state has,” said Talbot. But Republicans are saying that men are using the law to prey on girls by claiming to be transgender women, according to AP. The AP requested records of complaints relating to the law, and found no alleged predation in bathrooms or locker rooms.
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Exploring LGBT News Events Across the Globe
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Cuban churches campaign against gay marriage
Australia to ban schools from expelling gay students
Evangelical churches in Cuba are collecting signatures to petition against a constitutional amendment that would redefine matrimony as gender neutral, allowing for gay marriage. The campaign is particularly strong for a non-governmental political campaign. Cuban evangelical leaders expect 500,000 signatures against the amendment, called Article 68, reported Reuters. Cuban Evangelical League Church President Alida Leon Baez told Reuters there would be consequences if the amendment was signed into law. “If the topic of matrimony is not modified in the constitutional project, we will all vote against it,” said Leon Baez. “If this is approved, our nation is going to total destruction.”
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Polish police used tear gas to protect Pride parade from right-wing extremists
Gay student in Jerusalem sues pizzeria for refusing service
Right-wing protestors were blocking the first ever pride parade in Lublin, Poland. They threw flaming bottles and stones at the guests. Less than an hour into the march, the police used tear gas, concussion grenades, and water cannons to shut down the 300 protestors, according to the New York Times. The 1,500 LGBT activists attending the march over the weekend proceeded without interruption, and they praised the police for their action against the protestors. The Mayor tried to ban the parade from happening, citing security concerns, but it was overruled by Lublin’s Court of Appeals. “It is deeply depressing that we keep having ... the same conversations about
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LGBT activists have been running a counter-campaign on social media, but they argue the government doesn’t recognize independent activists. This means they can’t run larger campaigns like Cuba’s churches.
A leaked report revealed private and faith-based schools have been discriminating against students based on their sexuality, according to Agence France-Presse. The report favored writing the practice into law, but after a public outcry, Australia will ban schools from expelling these students. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who opposes gay marriage, insisted the review was “misreported,” but after the public outcry, he said he would rule against sexuality-based discrimination. “I will be taking action to ensure amendments are introduced as soon as practicable to make it clear that no student of a non-state school should be expelled on the basis of their sexuality,” Morrison told TIME.
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Poland,” Kristine Garina, president of the European Pride Organizers Association, told TeleSur. “Right-wing and homophobic city officials like Mayor Zuk must realize they cannot stand in the way of LGBTI people’s human rights.”
An American student studying in Israel is suing a Jerusalem pizzeria after they refused service to him because he’s gay. Sammy Kanter, a rabbinical student, came to the pizzeria with a group of his friends when the man behind the counter asked “Atah Homo?” meaning, “Are you gay?” He replied, “Yes,” and the worker ordered him and his classmates to leave, reported Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Today, for the first time in my life, I was denied service at a pizza store for being who I am,” Kanter wrote in a Facebook post. Refusing service due to a customer’s sexual orientation is illegal in Israel, so Kanter filed a lawsuit for about $9,100. The owner of the pizzeria refused to negotiate outside of court after being told the customer’s rights, according to JTA.
Sammy Kanter, via Facebook.
The case will go to small claims court Jan. 31, 2019, and Kanter suggested that the money will be donated to Jerusalem LGBT rights organizations.
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magining a world without Uber & Lyft is almost like imagining a world without smartphones. How did humans survive before we could simply enter a little data on a smartphone and pull up a map showing cars swarming around nearby waiting to escort us around town? While the public has embraced the convenience and cost savings of the new rideshare services, taxi companies have not been as fond of their emergence. This is certainly understandable and justified as city and county regulations have not always been equally applied to or enforced upon Uber & Lyft. That issue aside, taxi companies have been taking increased measures lately to compete with Uber and Lyft and are determined to earn your business. That is certainly the case with Yellow Cab of Broward County. Over the past several months I decided to split my rides equally between Yellow Cab, Uber & Lyft, in order to compare their services and rates. As a frequent Uber & Lyft user, I can attest that my Yellow Cab experiences were thoroughly pleasant and paralleled the convenience of using Uber or Lyft. To begin with, the RideYellow app is as easy and quick to use as the Uber/Lyft apps (RideYellow app shows the cab locations nearby and gives you a guaranteed fare). To my surprise, the Yellow Cab fares were competitive with Uber/Lyft fares. And I found the Yellow Cab cars to be cleaner than most Uber and pretty much all Lyft cars. Most importantly, when you chose Yellow Cab you are choosing SAFETY- all
Yellow Cab drivers are finger printed and background checked by the FBI, something that is not required of other forms of ground transportation. In addition, there are cameras in all Yellow Cabs and a 24/hour call center, in case a passenger leaves any personal belongings in a car, all making Yellow Cab the safer option. In certain locations a Yellow Cab is much faster to grab than an Uber or Lyft. Leaving from the Fort Lauderdale airport I was able to jump in a Yellow Cab curbside and not have to wait 15 minutes or more for an Uber or Lyft driver to circle all the way around the airport. Better yet, the Yellow Cab fare from the airport to my house is the same as an Uber fare. Even for short trips around town I found Yellow Cab to be competitive with Uber & Lyft on price. And, if you are old fashioned and prefer to call a cab instead of using that fancy app, you still are given guaranteed rate over the phone. And best of all, with Yellow Cab there is NO SURGE PRICING. EVER! But don’t take my word for it, try Yellow Cab for yourself. Right now Yellow Cab is offering you $10 (or free if under $10) off your next ride. Simply download the RideYellow app and enter code “BOATSHOW18”. Take Yellow Cab to the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show or to Wicked Manors on Halloween and avoid the stress of parking. Or just try them on your next ride around town. I’m certain you will be as happy with their service as I am and will find yourself opening the RideYellow app all the time.
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Let’s Get Wicked Annual Halloween event returns; this year’s theme is 'Game Night' Damon Scott
“Let the games begin.” That’s the message from organizers of the 2018 version of Halloween in Wilton Manors, not the opening to the Olympics. This year, “Game Night” is the theme of the 12th incarnation of “Wicked Manors.” More on that later. Wicked Manors has evolved into one of, if not the largest, Halloween street party/ festivals in South Florida. The event is always held on Halloween, no matter what day of the week it falls on. This time around, October 31 falls on a Wednesday. Wicked founding Doug Cureton is Wicked Manor’s event chair and one of the original cofounders, along with Bobby Kyser. He’s been the Wicked Manors event coordinator nine out of 12 times. He said the event was initially set up to help give Wilton Manors a name. “We wanted people to come and see what our little city is about,” he said. “And it’s become one of the major fundraisers for the Pride Center so they can do all the great work they do.” The event joined forces with the Pride Center at Equality Park from the get-go, Cureton said. In addition to the Pride Center,
“... It’s become one of the major fundraisers for the Pride Center so they can do all the great work they do.” - Doug Cureton Event Chair
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partnerships include the city of Wilton Manors and its police force, Broward County and Fort Lauderdale law enforcement, and other support personnel. “That’s how we provide the level of security we have. We also have major sponsors donating and helping to cut the costs. Hunters Nightclub is a major sponsor,” he said. (There are many other sponsors, too.) The city of Wilton Manors has designated staff and has provided volunteers for the event. They try to waive permit fees when possible as well, Cureton said. “They understand the benefit to the city. It’s been a nice collaborative effort,” he said. Cureton is an educational consultant and has owned several small businesses in Wilton Manors, including a gelato shop and flower store. “We got a group of fellow business owners together and created it. We wanted a major event to showcase the city and our businesses. Nobody was doing anything in Fort Lauderdale at the time, although Key West and Miami Beach had something,” he said. Speaking of security Security costs for large events like Wicked Manors have increased significantly over the years, especially after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016. Cureton said 12 years ago the main concern of event organizers was making sure everyone had a good time. The concerns now include security and other issues that come with large crowds – proper police, street barricades, emergency personnel, portable toilets and post-event trash clean-up. “Those costs used to be around $5,000 to $8,000,” Cureton said. “Security alone is now about $33,000.” Some enhanced security was put in place for Pride events in Wilton Manors after the Pulse shooting and has continued. Cameras were installed and dedicated lanes for security vehicles were instituted, for example, said Cureton. “[The Pulse shooting] has changed the face of this event,” Cureton said.
Two guests at last year's Wicked Manors dressed as Nintendo's Mario and Luigi. SFGN file photo.
Wicked themes Over the years, Wicked Manors has taken on different iterations and themes. “Hell on Heels” was the theme the first year. Cureton said he and his team were expecting about 1,000 people to show up that inaugural year. There were about 5,000 who came. One year the theme was “Heroes and Icons.” This year, the theme is Game Night, and between 25,000 and 30,000 people are expected, even on a Wednesday. “It’s up to 50,000 when Halloween lands on a weekend,” Cureton said. Cureton said organizers take to the Internet earlier in the year to ask people for theme ideas and to scour other events around the country for the best ways to do promotion. For example, when the TV series “American Horror Story” was buzzing, the theme was “Freak Show,” with many attendees wearing circus and freak-themed costumes. Game Night was chosen for people to
have fun with and be creative, said Cureton. “There are a lot of different ways to perceive it,” he said. “You could be a board game like ‘Clue,’ a game show host, video game character, or someone from ‘Game of Thrones.’” He said the main purpose of the theme is to help attendees generate costume ideas. Organizers try not to duplicate themes.
Details Attendees can expect music, prizes and four costume contests. Special guests involved in the event include radio producer and host Miss Bryan (Ryan Carstensen), DJ Kimmy B and performer Misty Eyez. While there isn’t a required admission to come to the event, Cureton and organizers are asking for a suggested $5 donation to help defer security costs. Cureton said he realizes many people don’t carry wallets while wearing costumes, so an advance donation can be made online as well.
For more information, to donate, sponsor or volunteer, go to WickedManors.org.
in memoriam
Todd Andrighetti’s
Life Celebrated
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hen Todd W. Andrighetti, 48 of Fort Lauderdale, FL, passed away from cancer on June 30, 2018, the gay community lost a popular spirit whose life motivated so many. The family planned a late October celebration in the Manors, and hundreds showed up Oct. 21 at the Manor venue on Wilton Drive to commemorate his magical life. Todd was born in Winsted, CT and was raised in nearby Torrington. He attended St. Peter’s School where he was an altar boy, and graduated from Torrington High School in 1988 where he was on the tennis and basketball teams. After high school he attended the University of Connecticut while working days at his father’s construction and paving company. He then moved to Westport, CT, to work for and live with friends at the Brook Café from 1989-1990. Todd moved to Florida in 1990 to work as the first mate bringing yachts from Lake
Michigan to Florida and subsequently, in 1995, obtained his Coast Guard Captain’s License for 100-ton vessels. Todd also worked briefly as a barista for Starbucks while studying for his Personal Fitness Trainer Certification and Reiki Master/Massage Therapy license. In late 2015, his work as a Fitness Trainer and Massage Therapist allowed him to pursue his education in Information Technology at Broward College. He was a sports enthusiast who also loved traveling, with a passion for Italy. A great dancer, who loved fast cars and motorcycles, he was an inspirational personality who taught selfconfidence to others. “Don’t cry because it is over, smile because he was here,” said one of his closest friends, at a special service that will leave memories cherished forever.
A longer version of this obituary previously ran in the Sun Sentinel on Aug. 3.
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Election Guide 2018 SFGN has compiled the endorsements from the three largest LGBT rights groups in South Florida – SAVE, Equality Florida and Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.
STATE RACES
SEAN SHAW (EqFL, PBCHRC, SAVE) Ellen Baker (PBCHRC)
Governor Andrew Gillum – EqFL, PBCHRC, SAVE
Attorney General Sean Shaw – EqFL, PBCHRC, SAVE
Amendment 4 YES, Restore the right to vote for people with prior felony convictions – EqFL, PBCHRC, SAVE
Amendment 6 NO, changes to the state’s law regarding the rights of crime victims – SAVE
Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Ring – PBCHRC, SAVE
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 120) Holly Rashein – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 118) Robert Asencio – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 116) James Harden – SAVE
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 115)
Nicole “Nikki” Fried – PBCHRC, SAVE
Jeffrey Solomon – SAVE, EqFl
Florida Senate (Dist. 30)
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 114)
Florida Senate (Dist. 40) Annette Taddeo
JEREMY RING (PBCHRC, SAVE)
James Bonfiglio – PBCHRC, EqFL
Commissioner of Agriculture
Bobby Powell – PBCHRC, EqFL
ANDREW GILLUM (EqFL, PBCHRC, SAVE)
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 89)
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 82) Edward O’Connor – PBCHRC
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 85) Ellen Baker – PBCHRC
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 86) Matt Willhite – PBCHRC, EqFL
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 87) David Silvers – PBCHRC, EqFL
Javier Fernandez – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 113) Michael Grieco – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 112) Nicholas Duran – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 108) Dotie Joseph – SAVE, EqFl
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 105) Javier Estevev – SAVE
Florida House of Representatives (Dist. 103) Cindy Polo – SAVE
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BROWARD
Judge Group 3
Wilton Manors Mayor
Judge Group 3
Justin Flippen – SAVE, EqFL
Wilton Manors Commission
Kevin Emas – SAVE
Gary Resnick (SAVE)
Ivan Fernandez – SAVE
Judge Group 3
Gary Resnick – SAVE
Norma S. Lindsey – SAVE
Wilton Manors Commission
Judge Group 3
Scott Newton– SAVE, EqFL
JUSTIN FLIPPEN (SAVE, EqFL)
SCOTT NEWTON (SAVE, EqFL)
Robert Luck – SAVE
PALM BEACH
Palm Beach Soil & Water Conservation (Group 1) Michelle Sylvester – PBCHRC
Circuit Court Judge (Group 18) Marybel Reinoso Coleman – PBCHRC
Palm Beach Soil & Water Conservation (Group 5)
Circuit Court Judge (Group 25)
Eva Webb – PBCHRC
Michael McAuliffe – PBCHRC
Board of Supervisors of the Northern PBC Improvement District (Seat 2)
County Commissioner (Dist. 2) MARYBEL REINOSO COLEMAN (PBCHRC) MICHAEL MCAULIFFE (PBCHRC)
Gregg Weiss – PBCHRC, EqFL
Jim Gibbs – PBCHRC
County Commissioner (Dist. 4) Robert S. Weinroth – PBCHRC, EqFL
County Court Judge (Group 4) Ashley Zuckerman – PBCHRC
MIAMI-DADE Judge Group 14 Renee Gordon – SAVE
Judge Group 46 Maria Weeks – SAVE
Judge Group 9 Corey Cawthon – SAVE
Mayor Cutler Bay Javier Giraud – SAVE
Cutler Bay Group 3 Roger Coriat – SAVE
North Bay Village Mayor
North Bay Village Harbor Island Marvin Wilmoth – SAVE
North Bay Village At-Large Julianna Strout – SAVE
Palmetto Bay Mayor Karyn Cunningham – SAVE
Palmetto Bay Group 1 Anthony Gorman – SAVE
Pinecrest Council Seat 4 Katie Abbott – SAVE
Pinecrest Council Seat 4 James Field – SAVE
COREY CAWTHON (SAVE) RENEE GORDON (SAVE) MARIA WEEKS (SAVE)
Brent Latham – SAVE
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Convictions
Guest Column
Vote YES On Amendment 4
The amendment is long overdue. In 1974, Florida lawmakers passed a bill to restore the right to vote. The state Supreme Court struck it down. Scott Greenberg
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n the ballot this November, Amendment 4 restores the right to vote to more than 1.5 million people in Florida with a felony conviction. One in ten people in the state are currently and permanently barred from voting because of a criminal record. If passed, the measure would be a civil rights triumph, particularly for the LGBT community. Mass incarceration disproportionately harms queer individuals, who are three times more likely to be imprisoned than heterosexual people. Every day, LGBT people, particularly transgender individuals, are jailed for sex work when they can find no other Mass employment. Queer youth are forced from incarceration home and arrested for sleeping in the street. The sweep is extraordinary. At some disproportionately point in their lives, half of homeless people are incarcerated and 70 percent of lowharms queer income LGBT people are homeless. individuals, who It inordinately impacts queer people of color. One in five black citizens in Florida are three times can’t vote and, like in other states, the state’s disenfranchisement is wrought and more likely to be rooted in Jim Crow-era voter suppression. imprisoned than governor and a clemency board where In 1868, Florida adopted a constitution around 3,000 people had their rights disenfranchising those convicted of heterosexual restored under Gov. Rick Scott in his felonies, with one delegate saying the two terms. Under Gov. Charlie Crist, constitution prevented Florida from being people. who served one term, 155,000 did. “niggerized.” The state also enacted Black Still, today’s political landscape Codes, levying draconian penalties for looks promising for the referendum, which excludes minor crimes like vagrancy and petty theft. It’s still part and parcel of Florida penal code. Trace those convicted of murder or a sex offense. Two polls drug possession, for example, is a felony in the state. put support at more than 70 percent, with 60 percent of Republicans in favor in one. Its backing is bipartisan, Sleeping on public property is a crime too. Only two other states, Iowa and Kentucky, with conservative Evangelical groups, Democrats and permanently disenfranchise those convicted of the Kochs’ political network behind it. Gubernatorial felonies. It’s the ugliest of politics – of racism and candidate Andrew Gillum is in support while Trumpvindictiveness, for votes counted and culled. A backed Ron DeSantis opposes it. The amendment is long overdue. In 1974, Florida federal judge recently declared Florida’s process of reenfranchisement unconstitutional, calling it arbitrary lawmakers passed a bill to restore the right to vote. The and discriminatory. An applicant must go before the state Supreme Court effectively struck it down.
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Now it’s up to us, and a win is far from certain. A third poll conducted showed only 40 percent support, with 43 percent undecided, but did not explain what the measure stood for. To your Republican or Democratic friends, straight and gay, please vote yes on Amendment 4 gives the right to vote to more people than any one measure since women’s suffrage. It’s historic, transformative and common sense. Permanent exclusion from this pillar of civic life serves no one. Scott Greenberg is the executive director of the Freedom Fund, a non-governmental organization that works to eliminate the mass jailing of people, particularly LGBTQ individuals.
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Election Guide 2018 SFGN has decided to reprint the endorsements of the League of Women Voters to help our readers wade through the many amendments on this year’s ballot, some of which are very confusing. For more information, including which groups support and oppose these amendments, visit www.LWVFL.org/amendments.
From the League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters of Florida is non-partisan and does not endorse political candidates, but we do take positions on education, the environment, and voting rights. These and other issues are reflected in this year’s slate of constitutional amendments, which is why the League’s positions are reflected in the amendment summaries found in this voter guide. The League’s position is based not only on our existing position on issues but also on whether a proposal belongs in the state Constitution, which should be a framework for government operations. For example, the League does not believe that tax and spending issues belong in the Constitution. Those are decisions the Legislature should make. The Constitution should not be burdened with a litany of amendments that often are driven by politics rather than governance. There are, however, some issues important enough to merit constitutional status. Offshore drilling is one example. While the League does not believe that bans on tobacco smoking and vaping should have a home in the Constitution, the protection of Florida’s waters and shorelines from pollution should. Because the Constitution Revision Commission chose to bundle multiple and unrelated issues into single questions, such as a vaping ban with a drilling ban, the League is recommending a yes vote on Amendment 9. The League does not take lightly the responsibility of supporting or opposing constitutional amendments. Nor should voters. These are complex issues, further complicated by the CRC’s bundling of multiple questions. I urge voters to use this guide and other sources of information to get informed and to vote on Nov. 6. Patti Brigham President League of Women Voters of Florida
Photo via the League of Women Voters in Broward County, Facebook.
Amendment 1
Amendment 2
Amendment 3
Grants an additional $25,000 homestead exemption for homes valued over $125,000. Owners of homes worth more than $100,000 would also receive an increase in their exemption.
Makes permanent what currently is a temporary cap of 10 percent on annual property value increases for vacation homes, apartments and commercial property, effectively limiting increases on tax bills.
Requires approval of any new casino gambling through a citizen-initiative constitutional amendment, effectively barring the Legislature from making those gambling decisions by passing laws.
Oppose. The League has a position that “no tax sources or revenue should be specified, limited, exempted, or prohibited in the Constitution.”
Oppose. The League has a position that “no tax sources or revenue should be specified, limited, exempted, or prohibited in the Constitution.”
Support. It restricts casino gambling and allows Florida voters to make any decisions regarding increases of casino gambling, consistent with League position against gambling. This amendment is also supported by No Casinos, Inc. and Disney. Continued on page 16
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Amendment 4
Amendment 7
Would restore the eligibility to vote to persons with felony convictions who have completed their sentences.
Creates a supermajority requirement for universities to impose new or increase existing student fees; enshrines in the Constitution guidelines for the State College System; mandates that employers or the state pay a death benefit to first responders and members of the military killed in the line of duty.
Support. The League was one of the sponsors of this initiative. Florida is one of only four states that permanently bars felons from voting after their sentences are completed. This restriction on voting is a vestige of Florida’s post-Civil War Constitution. Everyone deserves a second chance.
Amendment 5 Requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to approve any new or increased taxes or fees, rather than a simple majority. Oppose. This amendment does not include a provision that would allow for tax increases in times of emergencies (hurricane, floods, recession, etc.) and is an abrogation of the Legislature’s fiduciary responsibility to pass a reasonable budget.
Amendment 6 Vastly expands the scope of victims rights under the state Constitution; increases the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75; forces courts and judges to interpret laws and rules for themselves rather than rely on interpretations by government agencies. Oppose. Victims’ rights are already protected in the Constitution, and this amendment would eliminate an existing provision that victims’ rights do not interfere with the constitutional rights of the accused.
Oppose. We oppose a supermajority vote to increase fees or taxes. Family members of the military who die in the line of service are already compensated through the federal government.
Amendment 9 Prohibits oil drilling beneath waters controlled by Florida; prohibits the use of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, at indoor workplaces. Support. Our concern for the environment overrides our concern about putting vaping in the Constitution. We also believe that if this amendment doesn’t pass, it sends a signal to the federal government that Florida does not care about off-shore drilling.
Amendment 10 Requires the Legislature to hold its session in early January on even-numbered years; creates an Office of Domestic Security and Counterterrorism within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement; mandates the existence of a state Department of Veterans’ Affairs; forces all counties to elect a sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, supervisor of elections and Clerk of Circuit Court. Oppose. This limits the voters in local communities from deciding on the election of county officers. It adds an unnecessary provision as the Constitution already has the power to set dates during even numbered years. FDLE is already the lead agency in coordinating efforts to prevent terrorism, and the Constitution already has authorized the Legislature to create a Department of Veteran Affairs. This amendment is clearly an effort to restrict the powers of local government.
Amendment 11 Repeals the state’s ability to prohibit noncitizens from buying, owning and selling property; deletes a provision that forces the state to prosecute criminal suspects under the law they were originally charged under, even if the Legislature changes that law; deletes obsolete language having to do with high-speed rail in Florida. No position. Although we think that removing obsolete language is a good thing, there is a lot of other obsolete language that is not being addressed. Although the first issue regarding the ability of non-citizens to purchase and sell property cannot be enforced, the provision that requires criminal suspects to be prosecuted for an obsolete law should be changed.
Amendment 12 Expands ethics rules for elected officials and government employees, notably by expanding from two to six years the time that many officials would have to wait before they could lobby state government. No position. Although there is need for lobbying reform, we felt that six years might be onerous, and this amendment does not address the real issue regarding lobbying, which is the impact of money in political campaigns.
Amendment 13 Bans wagering on any type of dog racing, notably greyhounds, as of Dec. 31, 2020, while continuing to allow dog tracks to continue offering other types of gambling, including poker rooms. Support. This is primarily a gambling issue, and the League has held a consistent position against gambling.
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Matthew Shepard Finds a Final Resting Place at
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wenty years ago this week, Matthew Shepard died after being beaten, burned and left tied to a fence in Wyoming by two men who targeted him because he was gay. Since then, Shepard’s parents have spread his legacy by going around the world advocating for civic and LGBTQ rights. But they hadn’t found a place that felt safe enough to lay their son’s ashes to rest. Until now. On October 26, Shepard will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral, the Matthew Shepard Foundation said. “When Matt was taken from us, we hadn’t had any death or plots plans,” his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, said in an email. “We were living overseas at the time, and from a practical standpoint, we did not want our son to be put to rest on the other side of the world.” But burying him near home didn’t feel like an option either. “We didn’t want to leave him in Wyoming to be a point of pilgrimage that may be a nuisance to other families in a cemetery. We didn’t want to open up the option for vandalism. So we had him cremated and held onto the urn until we figured out the proper thing to do.” Now, the Shepards say they have found the right time and the perfect place.
The choice of venue The National Cathedral in Northwest Washington, D.C., has been a longtime supporter of the full inclusion of LGBT people in church and “considers LGBT equality the great civil rights issue of church in the 21st century,” its website says. It hosted its first same-sex wedding in 2010. The service will celebrate and recall Shepard’s life and will be presided over by Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church. “In the years since Matthew’s death, the Shepard family has shown extraordinary courage and grace in keeping his spirit and memory alive, and the Cathedral is honored and humbled to serve as his final resting place,” Very Rev. Randolph Marshall, dean of the Cathedral, said. Matthew Shepard and the National Cathedral.
“We didn’t want to leave him in Wyoming to be a point of pilgrimage that may be a nuisance to other families in a cemetery. We didn’t want to open up the option for vandalism.” - Judy and Dennis Shepard email press release
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The attack and aftermath Shepard, 21, a political science student at the University of Wyoming, died October 12, 1998, five days after he was severely beaten and tied to a fence near Laramie. Two 21-year-old men were charged with murder in the attack, which police say was motivated mainly by robbery. However, they say Shepard was singled out because of his sexual orientation. His death drew nationwide condemnation and resulted in a law that made it a federal
crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Shepard will be one of about 200 people that have been interred in the Cathedral in the past century, including President Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, and the US Navy Admiral George Dewey. “We’re comforted to know he will be among other Americans who have done so much for our country,” his parents said. “This is incredibly meaningful for our family and for everyone who has known him.”
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This article discusses the September 14 meeting of the South Florida AIDS Network (SFAN). SFAN advises the Ryan White Care (RWC) program of the Florida Department of Health in Broward (FL-DOH Broward). Broward County has a separate RWC program (Broward-RWC).
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osh Rodriguez, RWC-FL DOH Broward, spoke about ADAP’s new 90-day HIV medication dispensing policy. Eligible ADAP clients must meet the following conditions. They have picked up their medications in 11 out of the last 12 months. They had at least one viral load test in the last 24 months. That viral load test showed that they had less than 200 copies of the virus. Ineligible clients can appeal. Any Eligibility Worker can enroll an eligible client in this program. Once a client enrolls, they will remain enrolled. According to Rodriquez, 214 clients had enrolled in this program as of September 14, 2018. Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Ace (ACA) will soon begin. Rodriguez said that about 1,400 people will need to re-enroll. An unknown number of new people will have to enroll for the first time. The current administration has slashed funding for ACA navigators. The navigators help people identify which ACA plan they will need. People new to health insurance find navigators very helpful. The November SFAN meeting will focus on ACA re-enrollment issues. A great deal about what ACA plans for 2019 remains unknown. Agencies can use this time to verify and update relevant client information. Updating now should streamline re-enrollment. Rodriguez discussed online recertification in RWC-FL DOH. Clients have to email ADAP to begin online RWC recertification. ADAP will then send them an email about how to proceed. If an RWC client has no computer access, they can recertify online at the Paul Hughes Clinic, 205 NW 6th Ave, Pompano Beach. Clients can also enroll in the ADAP office. About 634 clients have already re-
enrolled as of September 14. Neil Walker, Broward-RWC, reported that the HIV Planning Council would soon have to reallocate funds. In the past, the HIV Planning Council has moved funds from underperforming RWC programs to over-performing programs. Test and Treat and other RWC programs have improved rates of retention in care. As a result more RWC programs are over-performing than are under-performing. Increased use of RWC programs, however, does not increase available RWC funds. Alisha Hurwood of Broward Legal Aid, reported on the free services that they provide to Broward County residents with incomes less than 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). For a single individual, that FPL level would be $36,420 per year. They provide legal services in discrimination cases. They deal with homeless, tenant, and homeowner legal issues, as well as legal issues surrounding immigration. Broward Legal Aid administers the RWC HIV Law Project. This project provides services to current RWC clients in Broward with incomes less than 300 percent of the FPL. It provides legal services to help clients access benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid as well as other benefits.
ANNOUNCEMENTS October 5: The Enhancing Prevention in Communities (EPIC) Summit 2018 conference will occur at Embassy Suites, 1100 SE 17th Street, from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. This free, interactive event will focus on information about PrEP. For more information, please visit, http://bit.ly/2pqqM7L. October 17: The Trans Pride planning meeting will occur at the Planet Printer office, 3401 N 29th Ave, Suite 101, Hollywood, form 7 to 9 p.m. Trans Pride will take place as part of Pride Fort Lauderdale on February 24, 2019.
Next SFAN Meeting: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at the Holy Cross Healthplex, 1000 NE 56th Street, Ft. Lauderdale. SFAN welcomes newcomers. Follow Sean McShee on Twitter @SeanMcShee
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HRC TO TRUMP: DO NOT ROLLBACK
Transgender Protections Eli Watkins CNN
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he Human Rights Campaign on Sunday called for the Trump administration not to go forward with a rollback of protections for transgender people, following a report in The New York Times on a draft proposal. “Setting a destructive precedent, the in a statement on Sunday that the proposal Trump-Pence administration intends to “defies the medical community, science, civil erase LGBTQ people from federal civil rights rights laws, the courts and the dictates of protections and eviscerate enforcement human decency.” of non-discrimination laws,” the group’s Gupta worked in the Justice Department’s president, Chad Griffin, said in a statement. civil rights division during the Obama HRC is among the nation’s most prominent administration, and in her statement, said LGBTQ rights groups, and its statement civil rights groups would use “every tool” Sunday called on Congress to pass legislation they could to counter the reported Trump enshrining protections it says administration move. are at threat should the Trump The report published administration go forward Sunday said the new with the reported plan. definition, if adopted, would The Times report said the erase federal recognition for Department of Health and the many Americans who Human Services is working identify as a gender different to define sex under Title IX as than the one they were “Defining ‘sex’ solely male or female at birth, identified with at birth. It with no room for change. also said the move would be in this narrow The proposal could formally relevant in particular to a pair language tailored of proposed rules, one from be presented to the Justice Department by the end of the the Education Department on to the talking year, sources told the Times. sex discrimination at schools points of anti“Sex means a person’s and colleges and another at equality extremists HHS on health programs that status as male or female based on immutable biological traits receive federal funding. is part of a identifiable by or before HHS spokesperson Caitlin deliberate strategy Oakley declined to comment birth,” the proposal says, according to The Times. to eliminate federal to CNN “on alleged leaked The move, if made documents,” and a statement protections for and followed through in from Roger Severino, the head coordination with other of HHS’ office of civil rights, LGBTQ people.” key federal departments, said HHS was following a would mark a major shift for court order blocking a rule on - Chad Griffin HRC President transgender rights under the gender identity. law and reverse course from “A federal court has the Obama administration, which expanded blocked HHS’s rule on gender identity and the legal concept of gender in several termination of pregnancy as contrary to instances to recognize gender identity as not law and infringing the rights of healthcare always matching one’s sex as determined at providers across the country,” Severino’s birth. statement said. “The court order remains in Vanita Gupta, head of The Leadership full force and effect today and HHS is abiding Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said by it as we continue to review the issue.”
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The Human Rights Campaign on Sunday called for the Trump administration not to go forward with a rollback of protections for transgender people, following a report in The New York Times on a draft proposal. Photo Credit: Bryan Smith/AFP/Getty Images, via CNN.
The Times report said HHS has argued privately that sex should not include gender identity “or even homosexuality,” and that the Obama administration was wrong to extend civil rights protections. It said additionally that HHS officials were looking to a 2016 federal court ruling on a provision of Obamacare, where Judge Reed O’Connor said, “Congress did not understand ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity.’” The draft proposal would be one of the latest attempts to push back against Obama administration policies on gender identity and LGBT rights, much of which has come
in contrast to President Donald Trump’s pledge during his 2016 presidential campaign to be an ally to the LGBT community. HRC described the news Sunday as “the latest effort in a consistent, multi-pronged campaign by the Trump-Pence White House over the past two years to undermine the rights and welfare of LGBTQ people.” “Defining ‘sex’ in this narrow language tailored to the talking points of antiequality extremists is part of a deliberate strategy to eliminate federal protections for LGBTQ people,” Griffin said.
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The Lives and Loves of a
Living Legend
Pompano Bill died last week at the age of 92. Below is a reprint of a story from Express Gay News in 2001. Ian Drew
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t was a quiet evening in June of 1946 when a striking young naval officer sauntered into the Old Crow Bar on a winding street in San Francisco. Officer Calcaterra was ready to relax after receiving an honorary discharge from the army upon his return from serving in the Philipine Islands during World War II. As he sat down and ordered a drink, his eyes slowly met with the surrounding atmosphere of the establishment. After coming to the not uncomfortable realization that he was, indeed, in gay hustler bar, his eyes soon transfixed on another young man at the end of the bar.
OUR MEMORIES WITH pompano BILL
It wasn’t just photos by Pompano Bill that flooded social media this week, in the words of our Publisher Norm Kent, it was photos with Pompano Bill. SFGN shares a glimpse at a community that stands together in remembrance.
John Gio Spano and Pompano Bill
“Rest in Peace Pompano Bill Calcaterra, you have been an icon in the community for as long as I can recall. Always happy, always flirty, always witty. Many will miss you...” - Gerard Delaney
Jimmy James Cohen and Pompano Bill.
“As a photographer, he was passionate, generous and always present at all the important events in our community. The photos he took are a time capsule of South Florida and anyone lucky enough to have had their photo captured by him was better for it.”
- John Gio Spano
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Sean David and Pompano Bill.
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Tiffany Arieagus, Pompano Bill and Gary Resnick. Photo via SFGN archive.
This handsome stranger’s name was Bud Porrman and it wasn’t long before he sidled down the bar to join the officer for a drink. The couple then went to the nearby Saint Francis Hotel for drinks and a sumptuous dinner in the Fairmont Hotel. Both men were 21-yearsold and solidified their immediate connection with one another by making love after dinner in Porrman’s apartment. After one more date the following night – a romantic excursion to see the scintillating Rita Hayworth in Gilda – the handsome officer returned to his home state of Michigan to begin a new life. Bud continued to write and pleaded with Calcaterra to return to San Francisco so that they could begin a life together. The officer, still confused about the brief lifestyle he had entered, decided to remain in his home state and attend college. His darling Bud remained his first true gay love experience only in his mind and he never saw nor heard from him again. Fifty-five years later, John William Calcaterra, known within the South Florida
community as Pompano Bill, still thinks about Bud from time to time with a tear in his eye. The experience he had in 1946 started a life knowing love for the local photographer and beloved community figure. He boldly emanates warmth and openness to everyone who crosses his path. Pompano Bill was born in Norway, Michigan in 1926. After graduating from high school in 1944, he entered the Navy where he was assigned as a radio operator on the U.S.S. Fentress bound for the Phillipines. Young Bill, who so far had been a self-proclaimed womanizer and had several flings with women, eventually returned to Michigan after the War and enrolled at Farris State University in Big Rapids. While working for a degree in business administration that he later received in 1951, Bill drove into Detroit on weekends to recapture some of the experience that he had had in San Francisco. The 10/11 Bar on Farmer Street became a favorite hangout and Bill eventually moved down the
It was [in Chicago] that Bill met what would become the true love of his life while sunbathing on Chicago’s Oak Street Beach.
street from the bar upon graduation after accepting an administration job in IBM’s Detroit office. He worked in the same capacity for the company until his retirement in 1987. His various roles brought him to work for IBM in cities across the nation. In 1953, Bill was promoted to work in Chicago where he discovered a new openness in his life as gay man. It was here that Bill met what would become the true love of his life while sunbathing on Chicago’s Oak Street Beach. Peter became Bill’s partner for four years and the two were inseparable when Peter moved to Los Angeles in 1957. Bill applied
for a similar job transfer to allow him to be with Peter but was instead transferred to IBM’s New York City headquarters. Bill was ready to quit IBM at that point to move to California so he could be with Peter, but Peter convinced him to stick with his chosen career path. Though eventually they separated romantically after Peter found a new lover in 1961, the two have remained best friends ever since and have spent vacations and holidays together every year. Moving to New York City’s bustling West Village in 1958 opened up a new life for Bill. The openness of downtown’s gay subculture and such hotspots as Aldo’s, Mary’s and the
“You were a pillar of our community. I will miss posing for your great pictures, hanging out with you at boring community events, gossiping and laughing. You will always be my ‘Peanut Butter!’ REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND!” - Mike Trottier
Kevin Clevinger and Pompano Bill
Deidra and Pompano Bill
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“I couldn’t resist with all of the beautiful sights. I just had to capture the scene and the people.” - Pompano Bill, speaking (with a wink) on why he picked up photography
Bird Circuit brought Bill a series of lovers and a time that he now refers to as his “glory days.” Two years later, he moved to suburban White Plains, New York where he remained with IBM until 1983. It was there that he began a torrid 19-year affair with a married man who also had children. The then 34-year-old Bill met 19-year-old construction worker Donald while leaving a downtown bank. The two continued to see each other once-a-week for evening sexual encounters. In 1978, Bill was sent to San Francisco on what he thought would be a six month temporary assignment to help with IBM’s legal battles against Memorex and Transamerica. The assignment ended up lasting over two years, during which time he was working eighty hours a week and had no time for more lascivious pursuits. Bill would sometimes spend the weekends with Peter and his lover in Laguna Beach, and once every month he returned to White Plains where he spent random evenings with Donald. Upon returning permanently to White Plains in 1982, Bill received a stunning announcement from IBM – they were finally transferring him to Los Angeles. Bill broke off the affair with Donald and moved to Los
Father Bill and Pompano Bill, via SFGN archives.
“Rest in Peace Pompano Bill. Through your gift of photography, you served as our community’s historian to document our journey as a community. Your passion inspired us all. You will be greatly missed. Rest with the angels dear friend.” - Patrick Rogers
Patrick Rogers and Pompano Bill
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Angeles where he continued his friendship with Peter, who by now was living with a new companion. Bill moved in with a friend in Los Angeles’ Silverlake area before retiring to a condo he owned in Pompano in 1987 shortly after turning 60 years old. Once in South Florida’s thriving gay community he began to enjoy his retirement. Bill started going to the Club Caribbean on Sunday afternoons. The sizzling scene around the resort’s pool and the boredom of retirement life got Bill, who had since been renamed Pompano Bill by friends to differentiate himself from another Bill in their circle, to pick up a camera for the first time. “I couldn’t resist with all of the beautiful sights,” Pompano Bill says with a
Diamond Dunhill (second to right) and Pompano Bill
NEWS pompano bill wink. “I just had to capture the scene and the people.” Brad Casey, publisher of the now-defunct Scoop Magazine, had an office at the Club Caribbean complex and asked Bill to shoot for the publication after Bill showed him his pictures. Since then, Pompano Bill is constantly seen snapping pictures at every party, gathering, benefit and event within his roving earshot. “I didn’t want to just retire and sit on the beach anymore. I love to be around people and am a naturally social person. I was moving around so much over the years that I am used to different people, although I think it is the main reason I also never had a longtime companion,” he says. Pompano Bill has continued his new career as a photographer for Outlook Magazine and The Express. He has become a fixture within the South Florida community and is perennially on the list everywhere in town. Pompano Bill continues to find love locally and still spends time with Peter, who now lives in nearby Naples. Although his newfound passion has found him in South Florida, he still looks back at a long life filled with love and void of regrets. Judging from who and where he is now, Pompano Bill has clearly lost nothing in the process.
A South Florida Legend Pompano Bill was named to SFGN’s annual OUT50 list in 2014. Below is what we wrote at the time. John McDonald Pompano Bill remembers when he arrived in South Florida. “There was no animosity,” Bill recalled, describing the attitudes at the time. “I gave people a kiss on the cheek and nobody cared. I gave my straight friends kisses too.” Bill, whose real name is John William Calcaterra, retired to Broward County after 36 years with IBM. He quickly became a familiar face among the paparazzi. “I never walk out the door without the camera by my side,” said Bill, who at 88, continues to work the crowds for just the right glamour shot. Bill’s photos have been published in magazines such as Scoop, Outlook, 411, Buzz and, currently, Hotspots (as well as SFGN). “When one magazine would end, I’d jump on another,” says Bill, always eager to provide content. Bill, a native of Norway, Michigan in the state’s upper peninsula, says he owns many pictures of celebrities, preferring to name former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as his most prized possession. He fondly recalled shooting the models at Fort Lauderdale Beach’s Club Caribbean during the 1990s. “There would be 1,500 guys there on Sunday afternoon … almost all with their shirts off,” Bill says. “That’s when I bought a zoom lens.”
“Rest In Peace Pompano Bill Calcaterra! A great roll model and friend in the community. We love you and miss you!” - Gloria Mercedes
“So sad to hear one of the longest living photographers of gay Fort Lauderdale has passed. Pompano Bill. He was a character. Oh to look through his photo archives he would have before the smart phone.” Daniel Curtis and Pompano Bill
Stephen Lang and Pompano Bill
- Terrence Smalley
“He introduced me to this community, and stood at my side for 2 decades +. I’m so grateful I was a friend, and got to know him.” Steven Shires (far right) and Pompano Bill (far left).
- Steven Shires
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Convictions
A Legend Moves On
The Passion and Pride of Pompano Bill
Norm Kent
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hen a man passes away at the age of 92, you don’t have to write about the cause of his death. You celebrate and commemorate the causes of his life. The thousands of hits online at SFGN. com and the hundreds of Facebook posts featuring Pompano Bill and his pictures are testimony to a glorious life, lovingly lived. The shoeboxes in John William Calcaterra’s home are filled with 30 years of photographs and film of your friends and neighbors in our gay community, maybe even of you. Bill snapped and shot day after day, and night after night, religiously — even when you were not looking. It was a passion that was not to be denied. Now, after these three decades in South Florida, these photos represent a journey well appointed. The pictures are a collage and collection of who we were and where we have been, from the late-night gatherings at the Copa to the Miss Florida contests at the Fontainebleau. From the original office of Scoop Magazine at Club Caribbean on North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, to AIDS memorials at the Pride Center at Equality Park, Pompano Bill’s pictures framed our lives in action, on the move, at work and at play. Abraham Lincoln once said that “I admire a man who is proud of his community. I admire even more a man whose community is proud of him.” William Calcaterra was such a person. His mission here in South Florida was to illuminate our lives in photography. Did he ever! His work and pictures filled the pages of Scoop, Hotspots, the Express, SFGN, and his living room. While capturing our celebrities and celebrations he generated such an infectious enthusiasm, he became one himself. There are none of us who did not consider him a special friend, because it was Pompano
Bill who made us feel so special. We became grand marshals of his parade. Attend an event on a Saturday night and your email box would fill up by Monday with pictures he took of you, not just the events he was supposed to cover. You see, Pompano Bill left time for us; each other. He built time within his own life to make time for ours. Go to Facebook today and along with hundreds of comments are thousands of photos of you, with him. Wake up on a Sunday morning in 2014, check your email, and there might be another photo he took of you, twenty years before at a charity pony race in Pompano Park. So, it came to pass that everyone wanted a picture not just by Pompano Bill, but with Pompano Bill. He became so very special, and thus, his loss, even at age 92, leaves us saddened. Pompano Bill selflessly recorded who we were; who we are. He captured where we were, and when we were there. More than just a photographer, he was truly Broward County’s own gay historian. The Stonewall Library can and should host an exhibit showcasing the photos stored in the closets of his home. SFGN therefore today celebrates his passing then, with Pompano’s own Playboy centerfold: a collection of your photos with him. He would love it, provided you are not holding a drink or cigarette in the photo. That is verboten! Pompano Bill had boundless energy, bringing sunshine not only to his life, but to ours. We saw him always with a camera and a smile, a grin and a nod, at one event after another, after another. As he aged with us, from his 80’s to his 90’s, we all asked, “How does he do it? How does he do it?” Bill’s time on Earth was generous, and he relished the ride. It was a path that saw a young man go to war in the
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Philippines in 1942, later finding rest and retirement in Pompano, Florida, by 1992. Along the way, from Norway, Michigan to White Plains, New York City; from Detroit to San Francisco, he found friends and family, and cherished partners in many routes and at many destinations. He found, and lost, like many of us, love. Forty-four years ago, in White Plains, New York, John Frasene was a young man living at home with his parents. He needed a place to stay with his partner. It was Pompano Bill who gave him and Michael Faye his living room couch. “We would wake up to a breakfast of Espresso and Sambuca, courtesy of Pompano,” Frasene said. “Of course, breakfast was at noon.” John, now a South
Florida resident, was with Bill when he passed away on Wednesday. “We had a family relationship,” Frasene commented, “I mean, he used to call us his kids. He was essentially our mother.” Indeed, Pompano Bill was a mother to many; a friend to all. Remember our friend then, if you will, with a song in your hearts and a smile on your lips. That’s who he was. That is what he would want. He did it his way. His friend Toni Barone, also with Pompano in his final hours, would tell you today, what Pompano Bill would say to all of us all the time: “Shake it easy, shake it easy...” So too will our friend, now, in that great green room in the sky.
SunServe - We Help People 2018 Report
These are the heroes of SunServe, the ones who hold hands and find housing, who listen to all the woes of the world, who support a youth when their parents won't, who smile, congratulate and facilitate a new name, who will explain and train others so society begins to understand why LGBTQ folks are just as good as everyone else, who take a busload of seniors out to lunch or to the movies and have a ball doing so! We are SunServe, We Help People.
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SunServe provides critical life assistance and professional mental health services to economically disadvantaged and marginalized LGBTQ youth, adults and seniors
Our Board of Directors Top left: Megan Whidmeyer, Lisa Colon, James Hipps, Emery Grant, Cassandra Evans Bottom Left: Rev. Durrell Watkins, Victor Warren & Mark Ketcham (Ex-Officio) Not in this photo: Nicole Saltzburg, Joe Sansone, Dr. Sasha Davidson & Ken Keechl
From Victor Warren, Board Chair As the current Board Chair of SunServe there are two things I am most proud of. The first being the diversity of our board and staff. This diversity is key to us accomplishing our mission in multicultural South Florida. The second is how we truly impact people’s lives. The story below is just one of the ways we continue to touch people’s lives. At a recent board meeting, one of our board members shared this story. Not too long ago, a local woman reached out to him for help. She had just been diagnosed as HIV+ and felt she had nowhere to turn. She had contacted some local agencies but no one was providing her with the information she needed. Our board member put her in touch with Mark. Two days later, this woman called our board member in tears--within 48 hours, a SunServe staff member had been in touch and had connected her to a whole range of services. Over the next few weeks, the SunServe staff member called periodically to check in and make sure the woman was receiving the help she needed. If you want to understand why anyone would serve on SunServe's Board it is to hear stories like this. These stories are fairly common. All of us—the staff and board--want you to know that SunServe will always be here to provide help to all community members in need, regardless of their background or their ability to pay. Thank you, Victor Warren
From Mark Ketcham, Executive Director As new employees join SunServe, they quickly learn that our motto “We Help People” is actually how we live. The only reason we exist is to help the LGBTQ and HIV+ community of South Florida. Each year as we grow, we are able to reach out and help more people, more than 5,000 last year—all through the innovative ideas of the staff. Our Women’s Services Department has tripled in size, a new Broward County grant is allowing us to help so many more youth, mental health continues to grow, case management is solid, our seniors are going on field trips(!) and our transgender services have grown by leaps and bounds. SunServe itself has grown stronger as an agency. Not only are our finances strong (very important when trying to raise funds and negotiate contracts) but our infrastructure has “grown up.” We now have a Director of Quality Assurance (make sure we are doing it right), Director of Human Resources (we have reached 40+ employees—it is time) and finally, a real live Director of Development who is helping us to reach out to the entire community to provide support for our mission. And to be honest, by my having help in these areas, I am able to work with staff and the community in developing even more quality programs. Nothing could be done here without the strong efforts of the incredibly smart and caring staff, our dedicated and visionary board and of course, you, the community. Without you supporting what we do by referring your friends, utilizing our services and supporting us with your resources—we would not be the community organization that we are. And for that, I am deeply grateful. Thanks, Mark SunServe - Social Services 2312 Wilton Dr - Wilton Manors, FL (954) 764-5150 info@SunServe.org www.SunServe.org 30
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How We Help... When someone comes to us for help, SunServe believes in person�centered planning. This process is directed by the person, so we can understand how they want to live and describes what supports are needed to help them move toward a life they consider meaningful and productive. The planning process empowers the person by building on their individual abilities and skills, building a quality lifestyle that supports the person in finding ways to live successfully and contribute to their community.
Kevin, Deborah & Don are the first smiling faces you will see when you arrive at SunServe's Main Office.
Housing Case Management HOPWA (Housing Opportunities for People with HIV) is an intensive case management program, where SunServe staff work with clients to secure long term and stable housing, while assisting clients to access support services like mental health and/or substance abuse counseling, job skill training, job placement and budgeting assistance.
Mental Health Services SunServe offers a full range of outpatient mental health services including individual, couples, family, group and substance abuse counseling. Services are provided on a sliding payment scale, with no one turned away due to lack of funds.
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SunServe Youth SunServe’s programs for youth include a youth lounge, community based-youth groups, mental health counseling, life coaching, family groups, social events and leadership programs. Our mission is to inspire LGBTQIA youth to identify their strengths, overcome their challenges and recognize the unique gifts they have to offer the world.
PARENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUPS SunServe offers monthly groups for families with transgender, gender variant, and gender non-conforming children to connect, share experiences and provide mutual support. Groups include: PFLAG (Support for Parents, Friends and Families of LGBTQ+ people); SOFFA (Significant Others, Family, Friends and Allies of Trans); and Different Drummer Family Group for families with young children who are transgender, gender variant, and gender non-conforming.
Transgender Services The Transgender Services department offers assistance to clients whether someone is just beginning to ask personal questions about gender or has transitioned years ago and needs help dealing with the challenges of day to day life. Staff help with name and gender marker change assistance, medical referrals, HIV testing and PrEP provider referrals, paperwork assistance to apply for SSI and food stamps, and sponsor Trans-focused support groups. A LETTER FROM A MOTHER & SON IN CARE SunServe Transgender Services have been a life saver for me and my son. When Myles came out to me as transgender last year, I wasn't sure where to turn. I found out about SunServe and all of its services. We started going to the Different Drummer support group for families and it's been amazing. I've also been so impressed by Santi, Director of Transgender Services, who has been a role model for Myles and a support for me. Santi helped fill out the paper work for Myles' name change and he calls all the time to check up on us. I love SunServe! - Jessica and Myles
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Noble A. McArtor Senior Center & Services SunServe reaches hundreds of LGBTQ seniors annually through programs such as The Noble A. McArtor Senior Day Center, SilverServe Luncheon, LGBTQ In-home Senior Care Management Program, day trips and counseling services. A LETTER FROM A SENIOR IN CARE FOR 10 YEARS I’m so grateful to The Noble A. McArtor Center. When I started coming here 10 years ago, I was lost. But now, I have a purpose and I have friends. The staff are always warm and welcoming. The Noble A. McArtor Center has saved my life! - Joyce W.
Women’s Services The Women’s Services department improves the well-being of local LBT women through dedicated health and wellness services, connection to community resources, social engagement, and networking. SunServe provides a safe and equitable space for women to feel loved, respected, and affirmed in their intersectional identities.
Training & Education Programs SunServe provides fee-for-service training to businesses and agencies to help them improve their cultural proficiency to more successfully interact with LGBTQ and Transgender clients. To find out more about educational programs at SunServe please visit: www.SunServe.org/Education
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Platinum Level $50,000+ Howard Greenfield Charitable Foundation ♦ Health Foundation of South Florida ♦ Community Foundation of Broward Funds- Richard Frisby and Edward Burkhart Fund; Gay and Lesbian Broward Community Fund; Loren R. Lyons Fund; Fred and Mary Ruffner Fund and Mary N. Porter Community Impact Fund; Alvin and Gloria Ross Community Care Fund; The Celia and Victor W. Farris Foundation Home Community Fund; Bank of America Unrestricted Fund; Frederick W. Jaqua Fund ♦ Our Fund
Gold Level $20,000+ AIDS United ♦ Anonymous ♦ Drial Foundation ♦ The 10% Lifeline of SMART Ride – Glen Weinzimer ♦ D.C. Allen & Ken Flick No Gay Hate Fund/Our Fund ♦ The Kenneth S. Hollander Charitable Foundation ♦ Joe Sansone
Emerald Level $10,000+ Jim Stepp & Peter Zimmer Fund/Our Fund ♦ Tuesday ’s Angels ♦ Dick Schwarz & Tom Massey ♦ Dr. Jay Roberts & Ray Bennett ♦ The Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation
Silver Level $5,000+ Carlos Aleman ♦ The Campbell Foundation ♦ Citrix ♦ Michael Czop ♦ Lynn McLaughlin & David Webb ♦ Ken Keechl & Ted Adcock ♦ Coleman Prewitt & Mark Conaghan ♦ Mark Ketcham & Werner Lutz ♦ Paul Smith & Gerald Kennedy ♦ Dick Schwarz & Tom Massey ♦ Paul Fasana ♦ South Florida Tennis Club SunServe - Social Services 2312 Wilton Dr - Wilton Manors, FL (954) 764-5150 info@SunServe.org www.SunServe.org 34
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Friend Level $1,200+ Bob Avian & Peter Pileski ♦ Joseph Dimino & Michael Guida ♦ The Daniel Fountaine Fund At Our Fund ♦ Charles V. Loring Charitable Fund/Our Fund ♦ Chuck Dinsmore and Mark Gruber ♦ Arthur Dochterman ♦ Fort Lauderdale Prime Gentlemen ♦ Dino Georgiou ♦ Georgina Goyer ♦ Tim Hart/R3 Accounting ♦ Stephanie J. Halmos Fund Gary Hensley & Bob Bernhardt ♦ Greg Kabel ♦ William Lewis & Manny Ravelo ♦ Kent McIntyre & John Tambasco Charitable Fund/Our Fund ♦ Memorial Health Care ♦ Dr. Chris Michaels & Aubrey Williams ♦ Lisa Peters ♦ Don Policastro ♦ Nicole & Mara Saltzburg ♦ Scandals Saloon ♦ Alan Sutcliffe ♦ B. Rodney White & Michael Williams ♦ George Zuber & Anthony Snyder Charitable Fund/Our Fund
Supporter Level $600+ Ameriprise- Tracey Cramer ♦ Tiffany Arieagus ♦ Bears of South Florida ♦ Scott Bennett ♦ Center for Spiritual Living ♦ Lyle Davis ♦ Philip Dearborn ♦ Joe Falk ♦ Gary Farmer ♦ Flip Flops Dockside Eatery ♦ Stuart Glazer & Barry Marcus ♦ Howard Grossman, MD ♦ Marc Grossman ♦ Hunters Night Club ♦ James A. Johnson Fund for Giving/Our Fund ♦ Tom Jones ♦ Juliana MacDonald ♦ Jim Lopresti & Andrew Fabricant ♦ Nikki Salzburg ♦ Steve Schauder ♦ Thomas Sheaffer ♦ Terry Stone & Mike Bush ♦ Chris Truster & Grant Lassiter
Government & Institutional Partners Aging and Disability Resource Center ♦ Broward Behavioral Health Coalition ♦ Broward County Ryan White Program ♦ Broward County Children’s Services Board ♦ Children’s Services Council of Broward County City of Fort Lauderdale/Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS ♦ School Board of Broward County
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Founded in 2002 as the first agency providing for the social service needs of the LGBTQ community of South Florida, Sunshine Social Services, Inc. (SunServe) has been advocates, allies and champions for countless individuals with little to no access to quality mental health care & social service support. Dr. James Lopresti
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Editorial Cartoon
Editorial Cartoon By Andy Marlette
column letters to the editor
Vote Yes on
Amendment 13
This letter remains unedited.
Absolute power corrupts Absolutely. Vote Blue on Nov. 6
As we approach another election season we have the chance of ending Greyhound Racing in Florida. For those of you who haven’t met a greyhound let me tell you they are elegant low-key dogs that make excellent companions. Here is the surprise – there are 11 Greyhound tracks left in Florida – most losing money but being forced to have live racing because the legislature has deemed that in order to have gambling that live racing must be taking place. What this has done is placed approximately 8,000 dogs in a life of being caged for 20 hours a day and 1 dying every three days according to the State of Florida. Racing costs the state of Florida over 1 million dollars a year to regulate and we still have many dogs testing positive for cocaine and other drugs. The dogs are let out for 20 minutes 4 times a day – the rest of their time is spent in cages where they can barely stand. They race 3 times a week and are then discarded by the time they are 5 years old. Adoption groups rescue the majority that make it through the racetrack system, but broken bones are common as well as death. These dogs deserve freedom. Please vote Yes on 13.
Maurice Mizrahi
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LGBT Our history matters • See more articles from this month at sfgn.com/2018historymonth
LesbianPartErasure Two
Victoria A. Brownworth
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xamples of lesbian sexuality are all over early American history. The 19th century saw a myriad of reasons why lesbianism was actually embraced, right up until the turn of the 20th century, when it wasn’t. If there are all these depictions of blissfully naked lesbians over centuries, why does anyone keep writing that, “We don’t really know if A and B who shared the same bed for 50 years were sexual?” They were. There is ample proof if we examine the confluent and overlapping milieux of women’s education and the suffrage movement, both of which opened up new vistas for women to examine their choices in society. One of those choices was lesbian relationships instead of marriage to a man and the constraints of a family. Raising children and running a household were restrictive of women’s time and energy and left little for the work of suffrage or social reform. Lesbian relationships bore none of the oppressive and repressive hallmarks of compulsory heterosexuality. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was married to a man and the mother of seven, but who had a long relationship with Susan B. Anthony, wrote of her same-sex relationship, “I prefer a tyrant of my own sex, so I shall not deny the patent fact of my subjection; for I do believe that I have developed into much more of a woman under her jurisdiction.” For her part, Anthony was clear: Men held women back. At 18 she had written in her diary, “I think any female would rather live and die an old maid.” Throughout her life as a suffragist she never failed to mourn the losses of other suffragists to the constraints of marriage and family which overrode their time and took them from the cause of women’s enfranchisement. The efforts to suppress women’s independence were hardly new. For millennia women’s lives had been controlled, particularly their sexual autonomy.
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How do we know women were engaged in sexual lesbian relationships? We know because teenage girls and young women were already having sex together at boarding schools and seminaries–why would they stop when they got older? When women’s education advanced past the local schoolhouse and became an acceptable option in the 19th century, same-sex seminaries–places for secondary education–began to evolve. One of the pressing concerns in the writings of the time was lesbianism. Young female students— most in their mid to late teens—were developing what were reductively referred to as “passionate” or “romantic” friendships. Mashes, crushes, smashes: these were all terms used to describe love affairs between young women at school in the late 19th century. At the same time, women’s education was becoming more of a concern as a masculinizing threat to feminine–and heterosexual–women. In 1874, Edward Clarke wrote of the dangers of these all-female environments turning women into men. Sex Education or a Fair Chance for Girls is one such exhibit of social fears. Too much education for women would be perilous, Clarke explained, repeating anxieties that women were both too limited to absorb education as men do and that if they were inculcated with too much knowledge, it would harm them irreparably by turning them into, well, lesbians.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony. Photo via the Library of Congress.
Clarke argued that studying hard in an all-female environment would do damage to women’s reproductive organs, tax their brains and cause hysteria “and other derangements of the nervous system.” Clarke evinced concern that if women became too educated and too independent they would also become masculine. Lesbianism was a significant threat, according to Clarke, and educated women had to be careful to “remain women, not strive to be men, or they will ignominiously fail.” Charles Thwing, warning of the lesbian takeover of women’s colleges, in 1894 in The College Woman, was succinct 20 years after Clarke: What if women became “brutes” at college and lost their femininity by behaving like men? Worse, Thwing asserted, what if educated women began to think that relationships between women were a substitute for heterosexual relationships? Against the backdrop of a burgeoning suffrage movement was this pulse of women educating themselves and becoming more and more independent of men. Thwing never mentioned moral objections to these lesbian
relationships within the confines of colleges, but he did believe their intensity—women being far more emotional than men—was dangerous to the young lovers’ health. “Many college friendships are exceedingly exhausting,” Thwing said. “Women give themselves up more readily than men to intimate relations. College officers are wise in cautioning students against too warm friendships, especially against forming them in the first year of college life.” The shift away from the embrace of these lesbian affairs that had once been seen as a means of keeping women’s sexuality in check occurred because fewer women were ready to marry once they had had an education. Lesbian relationships were fine as Freudian stepping stones to grown-up heterosexual relationships, but not as ends in themselves. All these fears about lesbians abounded, even as people were told that lesbian sexuality was actually a fiction. But was it? The most famous lesbian in America in the 19th century was suffragist Susan B. Anthony, whose affairs with women– the aforementioned Elizabeth Cady Stanton
history month national
Susan B. Anthony. Photo via the Library of Congress.
as well as Rachel Avery, Anna Dickinson, and Emily Gross--were well-known even at the time. Anthony was one of the most ardent and vociferous suffragists and as such was targeted by the media as a “manly,” which was the worst accusation that could be hurled at a woman. It was an accusation she refuted in a 1900 essay titled “The New Century’s Manly Woman.” Anthony believed strongly that women were damaged by their relationships with men, which she perceived as stifling a woman’s maids,” were in fact engaged in passionate talents and abilities beyond the maintaining of affairs that propelled them forward in their home and family. Ida B. Wells, the journalist, work for women. Throughout America there were lesbian suffragist and civil rights activist, complained that once she married and had her first child, couples at the women’s colleges and in the Anthony was annoyed with her, telling her various reform movements from abolition that she was too talented for marriage and to suffrage and then the rising social work and worker’s rights movements. The “Boston motherhood. In erasing the physical passion of the lesbian Marriage”–two women living together–was relationships among suffragists, historians miss desexualized specifically because men feared the importance that that sexual component those relationships and how they might spread, had for these women–the very reason their like a contagion. That fear is an undercurrent and thread heterosexual peers married: companionable, throughout Henry James’ classic novel The accessible, intimate sex. In her love affair with Dickinson, Anthony Bostonians, in which a romantic triangle wrote flirtatiously. But it had been Dickinson– includes Basil Ransom, a political conservative much pursued by other women–who had from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom’s cousin and a Boston feminist and suffragist; pursued the older Anthony. and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, She wrote, “I want to see young protégée of Olive’s. The you very much indeed, to hold The most famous entirety of the 1886 novel is a your hand in mine, to hear your lesbian in America battle between Basil and Olive voice, in a word, I want you — in the 19th century for the affections of Verena–as I can’t have you? Well, I will at was suffragist Susan well as for her personhood. That least put down a little fragment B. Anthony, whose Basil and Olive are presented as of my foolish self and send it to affairs with women– equal suitors for Verena’s love is look up at you.” indicative of how deeply lesbian the aforementioned Are we expected to believe relationships had penetrated these were sexless exchanges of Elizabeth Cady the Zeitgeist and how confused the mind only? That’s revisionist Stanton as well as and confusing it was for society nonsense. Whether or not these Rachel Avery, Anna in deciding what to do with women put the word “lesbian” Dickinson, and both the relationships and the to their relationships did not Emily Gross--were lesbians themselves. make those relationships any well-known even at They were there–from less fully lesbian–including the time. Sappho to Susan B. Anthony– sexually. these lesbians with their Anthony also wrote encouraging words to Dickinson, who was on passionate affairs and life-long partnerships. the front lines as well, noting, “Ah, Anna, your Nearly 400 years ago, Mary Hammon and mission will brighten and beautify every day Sarah Norman may have been the only lesbian if you will but keep the eye of your own spirit couple in America prosecuted for “being lewd turned within ... [where] that precious jewel upon a bed together,” but they were not the of truth is to be sought — and formed — And only lesbian couple being lewd upon a bed, nor darling — you will find it & speak it, and live kissing a girl and liking it. All history has an element of revisionism, but it — and all men and women will call you to revise the breadth of lesbian sexuality out of blessed.” The letters between the two are full of over- these relationships because they were in a time heated comments and sexy talk; these women before our own is to erase a significant part of who have been portrayed as “unsexed” or “old our history, and as such, ourselves. 10.24.2018 •
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Maurice Hines Legendary performer talks seven decades of keeping toes tapping Larry Nichols ut dancer, performer, was something about it. You and Gregory choreographer and actor loved doing it right away. You even loved the Maurice Hines has been in show learning process even though it was more business since he was 5 years old, which difficult for you.” Gregory used to get things means almost 70 years in the game. quicker than me. He would teach me and A New York City native, Hines has then he would forget the steps and then I’d seen and experienced a great deal of art remember them and I would teach him. So and history in his time, first performing we loved it from the beginning. That’s what I alongside his brother, the legendary really remember about the early years, how Gregory Hines, and then later on television fun it was. And it still is, maybe because it and theaters across the country and Europe was fun right from the beginning. as part of Hines, Hines & Dad. He continued his success into adulthood You started in tap but then making his big screen debut in Francis progressed into singing, Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” as well choreography and acting. Was that as directing and choreographing musicals a natural evolution for you or was like “Uptown… It’s Hot!” and a national it something performers of that era tours of “Satchmo” and “Harlem Suite” had to do to stay competitive? among other. He’s also recorded a couple of critically acclaimed We had to do everything. jazz albums, “Maurice: The main focus at the time, I’ve Never Been In Love we started as tap dancers. Before” and “To Nat Then we saw Sammy Davis ‘King’ Cole With Love.” Jr. at the Apollo and he sang. So, for LGBT History We used to sing around the Month, we reached out house to records and stuff to the acclaimed and but then people realized accomplished performer we could really sing. We to talk about his really could do it. Then we journey as an artist, his became more versatile. But perspective on life and it was Sammy Davis, Jr. that the fascinating things he really inspired us because - Maurice Hines has seen and done along he did everything and we the way. saw him at the Apollo where all the African American Did being immersed in show stars played a lot. There was a new show business affect your world view every week and we’d go and see these and what you were exposed to at great performers. We were inspired by the an early age? Lena Hornes and the Eartha Kitts and Ella Fitzgeralds. They all played the Apollo. We That’s a good question. What I remember saw the greatest of the great so we all wanted about it is I remember being extremely to do that. Everybody could do everything. happy. Both my brother and myself were Gregory and I never took any acting lessons. extremely happy. We were very lucky to get Gregory certainly did more acting than I teachers that were like that. Henry LeTang did. There are just people who can do it. was the one that discovered us and gave Gregory had a natural gift for it. We just us an act to put together and got us to the wanted to do everything. We didn’t like the Apollo Theater at a very young age, I think business end of it but we loved that actual at 9 and 11 was the first time we worked performing. To get to the performing was there with Dinah Washington. So by that the more difficult part and not a nice part, time we just loved doing it. I asked my and it still isn’t. It’s rougher now than it ever mother before she passed. She said, “There was. I evolved into choreography because
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"Can he throw me in the air? Can he catch me? That’s what dancers are about."
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we had a choreographer when we were the Hines Kids, and then we became Hines, Hines & Dad. The first time I choreographed something we were going to work the Americana Hotel, they had a nightclub in the Royal Box, and we wanted to do something different. We added two girls and we wanted to do a modern dance section. Our choreographer couldn’t do it so Gregory said to me ‘Maurice, you’ve been studying jazz, you do it.’ And I did. And I was good at it. We really loved each other’s talent. He was a fabulous actor and as a choreographer, then I started choreographing ballets. Alvin Ailey saw my work and said ‘Maurice you have the gift. Choreography is not just making up steps. Anybody can do that and you have the gift.’ And coming from Alvin Ailey I almost fainted because I loved him so and he’s one of the great choreographers of all time. So, I became a choreographer and I’m really, really, really good. I know my stuff. And I love it. You mentioned Sammy Davis Jr., a performer who broke down a lot of social and cultural barriers. Do you think you and your brother were at the forefront of helping to break those barriers or did you follow in the path Sammy helped to create?
We walked through the doors he helped to break down. There’s no doubt about it. He suffered a lot. A lot of people don’t know how much he suffered breaking those doors down, we knew because we knew him. A lot of those artists did that. Lena Horne did that. Ella Fitzgerald did that. We had the great honor of knowing both of those ladies. We owe everything to them. It’s sad that the kids these days really don’t know [what they did], and when you talk to them they don’t really have any interest to. There are a lot of dancers even now who don’t know what Katherine Dunham did in the concert dance world, when we were told we couldn’t do concert dance. We were just boogie woogie dances and the slings and arrows that she had to go through. In the school that I’m going to be running all that dance history will be there. We loved dance because we were so young and we were experiencing those first signs of racism. And in dance it was very clear to us even though nobody had to tell us that dancers had no racism. All they cared about is if you can dance. We weren’t exposed to a lot of racism until later. Ballerinas say “I don’t care if he’s Black, White, Hispanic or Asian...can he partner? Can he throw me in the air? Can he catch me? That’s what dancers are about. That’s why I loved living in that world.
history month entertainment That was also an era where people’s sexuality wasn’t talked about in the media or publicly. Behind the scenes, was that something that was known or did people not bring their sexuality up amongst their peers? No, no, no, no. There were no closets. I haven’t talked about it so much. I remember we worked in Miami with Cab Calloway. I was so young and quite a few of the chorus boys were gay. And my mother and father never had any stigma about it at all. And that’s the first time that I realized I was gay but I didn’t have a word for it. And because we lived in a world of total acceptance, I never had a world for it. I was Maurice. I wasn’t doing anything with anybody but I was discovering myself. My mother and father never said, “Don’t do this” or “Don’t act that way.” There was never any of that. They accepted me for who I was and they always did. And my brother too. And we were around people that were so open about everything. There was no stigma about anything. It was a great life. I’ve had a great, great life with fantastic people who nurtured me to be the man I am today. I’m so grateful for that life and those people that we met so young, especially those chorus boys because they were out, baby. They didn’t hide nothing. They weren’t lewd or nasty about it. They were just themselves. Do you think artistic communities are insulated from the often seismic shifts in social and political norms and perceptions of mainstream society? I think we’re insulated because show
business is a fabulous world. I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything. else. We are insulated, although we know what’s going on and when we don’t like it we speak up. We are not afraid. I find when I was growing up people wanted us to be quiet about stuff and Gregory and I came from another generation. Gregory and I were very outspoken. We both did things to hurt our careers. We talked about the racism on Broadway because it was there and we saw it and experienced it. We asked why aren’t there any black choreographers on Broadway? Why is that? Among the dancers and other choreographers, they were upset about it, but they weren’t putting the shows on. The producers were, and there was racism among them. With a career as long as yours, how much of a challenge is it to stay on top of your game and current in the world of dance? It’s very, very hard. Debbie Allen and I were talking about this the other day. You find your niche. That’s what I’m finding out now in this stage of my career. That’s what we have to find in order to give back what we have learned because they are not learning the same way we did or learning what we did. They don’t have to be as versatile as we were. They do something on a video and people think they can dance and when they get with us and Debbie does a combination or a step, they can’t do it. Not all of them but a lot of them feel like they don’t have to train. That’s the mindset now. But you have to produce. So, you don’t say it mean and then you encourage them to learn some ballet. Ballet gives you control of your body. Once you start telling them that, they start doing it.
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Congregation Etz Chaim 2038 N. Dixie Hwy (Pride Center Building B), Wilton Manors 954-564-9232 - etzchaimflorida.org RabbiNoahKitty@etzchaimflorida.org Friday Night Shabbat Service 8pm Holy Angels Catholic Community 2917 NE 6th Avenue Wilton Manors, FL 33334 954-633-2987 - HolyAngelsFL.net Sunday Mass at 11AM St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 1750 East Oakland Park Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale 954-563-5155 - saintmarksftl.com info@saintmarks.com Sundays: 8:00 a.m - HE Rite I, 10:00 a.m. - HE Rite II
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uring the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory’s recent annual convocation, I attended a series of workshops on Intersectionality and Gender Identity. In addition to being the Rector at St. Nicholas, I am a life-professed member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, a canonicallyrecognized, contemporary, non-residential religious community in the Episcopal Church (gregorians.org). Each year Gregorians gather from wherever we are in the world for convocation – a time of communal worship, prayer, and retreat programs. Our retreat program this past August was devoted to intersectionality and gender identity. During small group discussion, Br. Peter – a cisgender male – asked Br. Thomas, who is Gay, a pointed question. Before giving the question and answer, some context is in order. The Brotherhood was not founded as a Gay community, but its early membership was almost exclusively Gay; because the Brotherhood was a rare safe place. When Br. Peter entered the community he was only the second living cisgender male in the Brotherhood. In 2000, I became the third. So, during the recent retreat program, Br. Peter asked, “Was I a token?” In answering, Br. Thomas said: “No, but you need to understand that it was a time when we (Gay men generally) thought they (the entire straight community) hated us; so we were cautious. We quickly realized, however, there is genuine love.” Br. Thomas continued: “And that was very healing.” That’s what life in the Church is about. I know this message
may ring hollow for many who’ve been hurt by the Church. Speaking as a priest in Christ’s Church, I’m sorry. You’ll not only be welcomed but also accepted and affirmed by Gregorians and at St. Nicholas. You’ll also be loved (without a desire to possess or control) for who you are, a child of God. This is why it was important for the Brotherhood’s retreat program to explore gender identity affirmation. Our Br. Ciarán Anthony, Director of Transgender Medicine at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, kicked off the program with a biological description of fetal development of genitalia, with the point being we all have the same equipment. While development of genitalia proceeds along differing directions based on activation and repression commands, we do not have a clear understanding of how these changes are mapped in the brain. We also were joined for the week by Logan, a gender-affirmed male, and Joe, who shared his powerful story of under-going gender affirmation surgery while serving as a firefighter. Our time together was thought-provoking and transformational. An intellectual grasp of these issues is one thing, but experiential learning is much more valuable. Through common worship and fellowship over meals and during free time, we experienced love and mutual respect. In effect, we lived out our baptismal covenant to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbor as ourselves, while also striving for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being.
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OUTSHINE film FEstival OPENING It’s our history, our self-portraits, and our deepest desires on the silver screen! The 10th Annual Fort Lauderdale OutShine, from Oct. 18-28, saw the community storm into the aisles for their opening night. Visit mifofilm.com for more information on the festival. J.R. Davis Host of the afterparty Michael Corea.
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MODA presents a new Fantastique exhibition featuring Halloween revels and authentic Venetian masks by Balocoloc Artisans of Venice, beginning Saturday, October 27. Fantastique celebrates the enchanted world of ceramic art. From myths and monsters to fairies and fables, you will be spellbound by the European ceramic artists during the last two centuries. See fire-breathing dragons of the Dark Ages, mermaids and other wonders of the deep, and pixies, goblins, and other denizens of Fairyland. On the dark side, there are macabre witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls, while good angels and cherubs bring blessings from heaven and cupid’s arrow initiates love and new life.
Watch Matteo Montagner, from Balocoloc Artisans, paint authentic Venetian Masks in their Carnival & Cabaret exhibit. Discover how to make your own wearable glass mask for Halloween and Mardi Gras with artist Chelsea Rousso in our Chihuly Glass gallery. Snap up an understated Halloween costume in the Museum Shop from a great selection of masks – perfect for a party or smart disguise for Wicked Manors. Sensational Saturdays begin at WMODA this Saturday, October 27 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 481 S. Federal Highway in Dania Beach. Admission: Adults $10; Seniors $8; Free for children and students with ID.
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osting a get together at your house before heading out to the Drive for Wicked Manors? Here are a few cocktail and munchies ideas to get you in the mood.
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Bette Davis Eyes Martinis Here’s looking at you!
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1 can lychees fresh blueberries vodka or gin Directions
Drain lychee juice into cocktail shaker. Place one blueberry inside lychee (where the seed was removed). Add ice and vodka or gin to the cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into chilled martini glasses, add lychee “eyeball” as garnish.
Halloween Sparkler A festive holiday beverage.
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1 bottle Barefoot Bubbly Red Moscato 1 cup pomegranate juice ½ cup black cherry soda ½ cup pineapple juice orange, pineapple slices and gummi worms for garnish Directions
Mix ingredients with ice in a large pitcher. Pour into goblets and garnish with pineapple and orange slices and a gummi worm.
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Sparkling Green Goblin Go easy on the green food coloring or it will stain your teeth.
Ingredients
1/2 bottle Barefoot Bubbly Moscato 1/2 bottle Barefoot Brut Cuvée ¼ cup spiced apple cocktail mixer green food coloring green grapes on a skewer Directions
In a pitcher, mix first three ingredients. Add enough food coloring to tint light green. Pour into champagne flute and add grape skewer as garnish.
Mummy Fingers A party favorite, pigs in a blanket, gets an eerie holiday makeover.
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1 package hot dogs or smoked links 1 package filo dough Directions
Cut filo dough into ¼ inch strips. Cut hot dogs or links in half. Roll the link or hot dog in strips of filo dough to resemble a mummy’s finger. Bake according to filo dough package directions. Serve with spicy mustard dipping sauce or catsup “blood.”
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Pumpkin Cheese Ball A dish that’s also a centerpiece!
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1 bell pepper (red, orange or yellow) 4 (8 oz.) packages of cream cheese, room temperature 3 cups pepper-jack cheese, shredded ¼ cup chopped chives 3 cups cheese puffs Directions
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Cut the top off the pepper, retain stem. Mince remainder of pepper. Combine cream cheese, pepper-jack, chives and minced pepper. Place in bowl and chill 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grind cheese puffs in food processor. Remove cheese mixture from refrigerator, shape into a ball. Roll ball in cheese puff crumbs. Press down on the ball slightly to form a pumpkin shape. Add reserved pepper stem to top. Chill until 30 minutes before serving. Serve with crackers or sliced vegetables.
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Dirt Cake Graveyard Combine tira misu with a childhood favorite dessert to get this spooky concoction.
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lady fingers coffee liqueur 1 cup mascarpone 1 package instant cheesecake-flavored pudding 1 container frozen whipped topping (thawed) 1 package chocolate sandwich cookies package of shortbread cookies writing Icing Directions
Allow mascarpone to come to room temperature, beat lightly. Add pudding mix and fold in whipped topping. Empty container of sandwich cookies into food processor with metal blade and pulse until cookies turn into crumbs. Line oblong baking dish with lady fingers. Drizzle coffee liqueur over the lady fingers. Top with whipped topping mixture. Smooth surface and top with cookie crumbs. Refrigerate at least two hours or until ready to serve. Decorate shortbread cookies to resemble headstones using the writing icing to decorate with tombstone epitaphs. Decorate the top to look like a grave, with headstones and gummy worms crawling in the soil.
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Spiderweb Guacamole This is a recipe for those that can’t or don’t cook.
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2 cups store bought guacamole dip ½ cup sour cream tortilla chips
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is returning for its 21st year on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2019. The event will feature dishes from more than a dozen top local chefs, as well as wines, cocktails and an auction. The event, beginning at 6:30 p.m., will take place at the Paradise Plaza Event Space in the Miami Design District. Funds raised help support research, lead programs and provide education and advocacy so that every baby can have the best possible start. VIP tables for the event are $3,000. Individual tickets for the event are $150 per person. For more information visit signaturechefs.org/ miami or call 786-918-9930.
Check, Please! South Florida Tasting Tour will be held on Nov. 12 with 5:30 and 6:30 departure times. Taste some of the area’s freshest seafood on a culinary tour of Las Olas Boulevard and East Fort Lauderdale, including a ride on the water taxi. Stroll the streets to taste a variety of delicious food, wines, beers, and cocktails. Enjoy a memorable night out -- all while supporting the production of Check, Please! South Florida on South Florida PBS. Tickets are $150 each, go to wpbt2.org. Tastings at the Tiki on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. The $25 ticket includes one drink voucher, a drawing for special gifts, and a token to use for voting to select the winning restaurant. The event is a fundraiser for two local patriotic organizations: the HOW Foundation of South Florida and Project Holiday. Reservations can be made online at www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-best-bite-restaurant-competition-tickets-51482983991.
Directions
Place the guacamole in a bowl. Place the sour cream in a zip-lock bag. Cut the very end of the corner of the bag. Squeezing the bag, draw concentric circles on top of the bowl of guacamole. Using a toothpick draw lines from the center of the circle to the edge of the bowl. Garnish with a plastic spider.
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theater “Confessions of a Nightingale,” a new play about the life of gay playwright Tennessee Williams opens this weekend and runs through Nov. 11 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. in Fort Lauderdale. Christopher Dreeson stars in this fascinating interactive drama constructed by Charlotte Chandler and Ray Strickland from Williams’ own words, writings and interviews. Tickets are $30 at EmpireStage.com.
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concert The Master Chorale of South Florida celebrates the centennial of American composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth with concerts tonight at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Sunday at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton. The 120 singers and soloists will perform selections from “Chichester Psalms,” “West Side Story,” “Candide” and Bernstein’s Mass. Tickets are $35 at MasterChoraleOfSouthFlorida.org.
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The talented cast of Opera Fusion offer a special Halloween performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s two-act operetta “The Medium,” tonight at 8 p.m. at Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 S.W. 9th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale, and Sunday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 500 Spencer Dr. in West Palm Beach. This haunting tale of Madame Flora, a fake fortune teller who becomes unhinged when she actually meets up with the supernatural, is sure to be the highlight of your Halloween weekend. Tickets are $30 at OperaFusion.org. Photo credit: Opera Fusion.
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The official “RuPaul’s Drag Race” world tour returns with an all new show for 2018. Head down to the Olympia Theater, 174 E. Flagler St. in Miami, for “Werq the World,” hosted by celebrity judge Michelle Visage, with performances by Season 10 finalists Aquaria, Asia O’Hara, Eureka and Kameron Michaels, and fan favorites Bob the Drag Queen, Kim Chi and Violet Chachki. Tickets start at $49 at Voss Events.
“Drink your juice, Shelby.” The ladies of Truvy’s Beauty Salon are back in “Steel Magnolias,” opening tonight and running through Nov. 11 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Rd. in Jupiter. When the threat of tragedy begins to wilt their delicate Louisiana charms, the women reveal they are stronger than despair in this classic witty and heartfelt drama. Tickets start at $60 at JupiterTheatre.org.
Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth will cohost “A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway,” tonight at 10 p.m. on NBC. The televised concert will feature songs from the hit musical and showcase many special guest stars, including Ariana Grande, Pentatonix and the current Broadway company, to celebrate the show’s anniversary. Check local listings for channels and show times.
Rupert Everett is back on the big screen portraying controversial gay playwright Oscar Wilde in “The Happy Prince,” opening Oct. 26 in theaters. Set in a cheap Parisian hotel room where Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, “The Happy Prince” offers dark portrait of the genius who lived and died for love during the last days of the Victorian era. Check local listings for theaters and show times.
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A&E music Tony Awardwinner Levi Kreis will perform a benefit concert for ArtsUnited at the Sunshine Cathedral on Saturday. Photo Courtesy of Levi Kreis.
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ultitalented singer and actor Levi Kreis may have gotten his big break when one of his songs was featured on “The Apprentice” more than a decade ago, but in the era of President Donald Trump, the Tennessee native eschews politics. “My friends laugh at me because I’m so much like Dolly Parton. My job is to be a spiritual being who is empathetic to all, instead of choosing a team in the world. Compassion and unity are the things we need the most,” he explained. He was also notable as one of the few openly LGBT artists recording and touring the country in the early 2000s. “It was a big deal for an out artist to break on that show. I never met Donald Trump, never had any interaction with him. I thought it was interesting that NBC would take an out gay artist and give him the platform. It just wasn’t common in 2004.” Kreis’s music has since become a staple on television since that reality TV debut, providing soundtracks for “The Vampire Diaries,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Sons of Anarchy.” Just a few years later, Kreis would land a role on Broadway that cemented his place in showbiz, Jerry Lee Lewis in the hit musical “Million Dollar Quartet,” and earn him a Tony Award for best featured actor. He’s juggled an increasingly busy acting schedule ever since. He completed two feature films this year, including “The Divide,” which will premiere in Los Angeles on Nov. 5.
“I’ve been cast as the villain lately,” he said. “In this film, I play a bigoted pastor… I’ve been going to the screening, getting to know the people, especially younger [LGBT] people who have dealt with the situation in their own towns, being accepted as who they are.” Kreis will be returning to South Florida on Saturday, Oct. 27 to present a benefit concert for ArtsUnited, the local LGBT nonprofit artists’ collective. He plans to reprise many of the biggest hits from his 2017 album, “Broadway on the Keys,” a collection of standards reinterpreted as “vulnerable, heartfelt piano ballads, composed with that singer-songwriter approach.” “We’re so used to hearing Broadway in a polished, glitzy, glamorous sort of way. In these [arrangements], we reexperience them and appreciate the lyrical content, inspiring content. They’ve been around for so many years and it can be hard to strip away the familiarity, what we know about them and listen with new ears,” Kreis said of the album. What’s ahead for the handsome performer? “I feel like I haven’t even hit my stride yet. When I look at what I’ve done, I think I can always do better. I have a tendency to never stop thinking five years forward, even though I sometimes have to remind myself to stop and enjoy where I’m at,” he said. “I’ve been disciplined and I’ll always have my music. I’ve been on the road since I was 12 years old and, ultimately, I’m living the life I want to live.”
Tickets for “An Intimate Evening with Levi Kreis” on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. at Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 S.W. 9th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale, start at $35 at ArtsUnitedFlorida.com.
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oin Opera Fusion for two reimagined performances of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium, a haunting tale of Madame Flora, a fake fortune teller who becomes unhinged when she meets up with the supernatural. While the time and location of The Medium isn’t specifically noted in the score by Menotti, it has been assumed to occur a few years post WW II in or near Hungary, based on references made by Madame Flora. For these performances, Opera Fusion has decided to bring the setting to modern day Miami by modernizing the original opera to the underbelly of presentday South Florida. The eerie plot includes sham seances in which Madame Flora’s guests think they’re communicating with deceased loved ones, as well as a phantom, a drunken medium meltdown, a dark lullaby, a puppet theater, a confession and a shooting. Part of the long-standing interest audiences, singers, and producers have had with The Medium lies within the underlying psychological motivations of each of the characters and the questions they pose. It gives each production nearly infinite possibilities to explore. Madame Flora, or Baba as she’s called by Monica, has obviously been through and seen a lot in her life, always finding a way to get by, but maybe not always the most legitimate paths. Her youth and looks have
waned and now she’s passing herself off as a gifted medium to survive. Her alcohol abuse and questionable mental health make her a formidable presence. She refers to Monica as her daughter, which may or may not be the case. In the Opera Fusion production, Monica is a freshman majoring in theater at a local state school, viewing her participation in the fake seances as part of her training. There is also some question as to how and why Baba has taken in Toby, a teenage boy of the streets. Was it out of the goodness of her heart, or some more utilitarian reason? The attendees at the séances are often viewed as one-dimensional characters, but we see them has having complicated circumstances and ambiguous motivations. What are their reasons for coming to see Madame Flora? What answers and solace can she provide them? These are some of the reasons Opera Fusion was drawn to telling the story. Wrapping it around the mystique and allure of Halloween seemed like a natural linkage. And who doesn’t like a good ghost story? “I want everyone to take in a little musical Hitchcock meets Puccini, and just have a fun time.” said Birgit Fiorvante, Opera Fusion Executive Director. “Audience members are welcome to dress in Halloween costumes, and there will be a cash bar at Sunshine Cathedral”.
The Medium, an eerie operatic tale by Gian Carlo Menotti, presented in English, in two 30-minute acts Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m. — Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 S.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale (Reserved seating) Sunday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. — Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 500 Spencer Drive, West Palm Beach (General admission) Tickets: $30 via OperaFusion.org and at the door 10.24.2018 •
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October 27-28 at the Keith C. And Elaine Johnson World Performing Arts Center at Lynn University in Boca Raton. A world premiere by the winner of the 2018 Lynn Composition Competition, Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3, Organ Symphony and special violinist Carole Cole. Tickets $35 to $50. Visit events. lynn.edu
A Park in Our House
October 26 - 28 at Florida Atlantic University Studio Two, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. In this beautiful, lyrical play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, a Cuban family struggles under the difficult conditions of Castro’s Cuba in 1970. Tickets $5. Visit fauevents.com
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Tuesday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m at the Eissey Campus Theatre, Palm Beach Gardens. Have a haunting good time swinging to the sounds of three student jazz combos and the Tuesday Night Big Band. Tickets $10. Call 561-207-5900.
October 24 - October 30 broward county Freaky Friday
October 18 to November 4 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Disney’s Freaky Friday is a comedic musical based on the novel by Mary Rodgers and the Disney films that follows a mother and daughter who magically swap bodies for 24 chaotic hours. Tickets $47 to $60. Visit BrowardCenter.org.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
October 12 to November 4 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, 3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill. Based on the 1988 film of the same name, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers around two competing con men, living on the French Riviera. At first, the suave and experienced Lawrence Jameson takes the rookie con man, Freddy, under his wing. But soon Freddy is successful enough that he tries to compete directly with Lawrence. The competition comes to a peak when they agree that the first con man to extract $50,000 from the female heiress, Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town forever. Visit LPACFL.com
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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
The Lynn Philharmonia No. 2 will be at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson World Performing Arts Center at Lynn University from Oct. 27-28. Photo via Facebook.
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Sunday, November 4 at 4 p.m. at the Count and Countess de Hoernle International Center / Amarnick Goldstein Concert Hall at Lynn University in Boca Raton. Indulge in the deliciously diverse music of the 1920’s from around the globe. Tickets $10. Visit events. lynn.edu.
Church and State
October 18 - 28 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. Three days before his bid for reelection, in the wake of a school shooting in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, a Republican U.S. senator makes an off-the-cuff comment to a blogger that gets
leaked on “the Twitter,” calling into question the senator’s stance on guns and God. As his devoutly Christian wife and liberal Jewish campaign manager try to contain the damage, this look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion is simultaneously funny, heart-breaking, and uplifting. Visit lakeworthplayhouse.org
Sankofa Danzafro — The City of Others
October 27 to 28 at the Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Playhouse at the Kravis Center. Sankofa Danzafro hails from Colombia, the country with the second largest Afrodescent population found in Latin America. The company’s The City of Others is a work showcasing powerful Afro-Colombian and Afro-contemporary dance and hip-hop with live drumming and singing. This charismatic dance troupe examines diversity and the social issues affecting minority communities. Guests will receive a ticket voucher for one complimentary beverage. Tickets $32. Visit kravis.org.
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Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. at Just the Funny Theater, 3119 Coral Way in Miami. A collection of comedy mixing the likes of improvisation and sketches. Tickets $12. Call 305-693-8669 or visit JustTheFunny.com.
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A&E theater New World School of the Arts theater instructor Matt Buffalo returns to the stage in Island City Stage’s production of “Buyer & Cellar.” Photo Credit: Matt Buffalo.
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y day, 43-year-old Matt Buffalo is a theater instructor at Miami’s New World School for the Arts. But, beginning next weekend, the Off-Broadway veteran will offer a first-hand lesson in acting at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors. Buffalo is starring in Jonathan Tolins’ hit one-man comedy, “Buyer & Cellar,” the story of a young out-of-work actor who lands a job managing the miniature shopping mall built below Barbra Streisand’s Malibu compound. “I was living in New York when it was on Broadway. I wanted to see it and was never able. It closed before I was able to see it. I knew it was about Barbra Streisand’s basement and Michael Urie was in it and I should see it because it was a show I might be able to do in the future,” Buffalo recalled. The actor got his chance, thanks to Island City Stage’s artistic director Andy Rogow, who noted Buffalo was “absolutely perfect” for the part during an event earlier this year announcing the company’s upcoming season. “I really feel like I am the lead character, Alex Moore. I’ve always loved Barbara Streisand and her music. I had a great appreciation, but I was never a ‘Barbra queen.’ In doing the research and re-watching her movies and concerts and the way she speaks and her interviews, my appreciation has grown and I’m probably now a Barbra queen. The depth and precision and heart that she puts into everything is mind-boggling,” Buffalo said.
Throughout the 90-minute show, Buffalo must perform six characters, including Streisand. He explained, “She’s the hardest one for me. She’s an icon and people have definite thoughts and opinions about how she should be portrayed. Again, because I’m not becoming her, that relieves me of those expectation. The challenge is not to become a caricature and find the real person, the truth of what she wants. It’s definitely not a comic role, but the challenge is always to let their truth be told and then let the audience take it from there.” The biggest challenge for Buffalo is changing characters instantly, but he’s aided, he says, by Tolins’ well-written dialogue. “It’s still a challenge because you have to know what your focus is and then respond as a different character in the next second,” he said. “It’s like splitting your brain down the middle.” Buffalo is most comfortable when he addresses the audience, breaking that “fourth wall” of traditional theater. “They [the audience] are another character in the play. They don’t respond back to me, but they’re my friends who I’m sharing the story with throughout the show. They go along the journey with Alex Moore,” Buffalo noted. “He’s trying to find his place in the world and hopefully the audience will recognize the growth in him in the play.”
Matt Buffalo stars in Island City Stage’s production of Jonathan Tollins’ comedy “Buyer & Cellar,” Nov. 1 – Dec. 2 at Wilton Theater Factory, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton Manors. Tickets are $35 at IslandCityStage.org.
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Monday, November 12 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the NSU Art Museum, 1 Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale. Our Fund Foundation hosts a panel and multimedia presentation will feature the frontline lawyers and staff who advance key priorities and active strategies to defend and advance the rights of LGBTQ people. Free to attend.
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September 9 to November 18 at the NSU Art Museum, One East Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Representing various periods and developments in the history of art, Remember to React also traces the collection’s growth from its origins to today. Sections of the exhibition will change over the course of the year with installations of other core holdings, to reveal the nuances of the interrelated and reactive narratives among the works in the Museum’s unique collection.
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November 3-4 at the Keith C. And Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University in Boca Raton. 15 Broadway hits and counting… Blake reflects on his powerhouse career, from child actor—
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October 26 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall at the Kravis Center. America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere. Tickets start at $76. Visit kravis.org.
Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Sculpture
September 29 to March 31 at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the thirty works by sixteen artists comprise the first-ever comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture. They have all been drawn from the Clark Collections at Mia, the only collection in the world to feature this extraordinary new form. Tickets $9 to $15. Visit morikami.org.
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fresh food from local farmers, including fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, as well as chefs, live music, and cooking demonstrations. Tickets $45 to $75. Free. Visit ArshtCenter.org/en/Visit/Dining.
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October 27 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Main Street Players, 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes. Rich Purpura is ready to expand his one-man show “The Joke Jukebox” right here in Miami Lakes. Tickets $25. Visit mainstreetplayers. com
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ALL INCLUSIVE OFFICE - 2201 Wilton Drive address and mailbox, parking space, shared conference room, high speed internet, furnished. Monthly or Annual Lease available. Text 954.801.5850.
roommate wanted
Seeking Senior Roommate - who is trustworthy, serious minded, & easy to get along with. 2 bedroom home in Boca Raton. Must have car, Shared Cost,Low Total Monthly. Ages 65+ preferred. Contact Gary – 561451-0205
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