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ven with the growing support given to the transgender community, there are still many misconceptions and a panel at Barry University hopes to educate the public. Hosted at the university’s Center for Human Rights and Social Justice, four community experts and leaders will discuss the special needs and struggles of the transgender community and how to improve them. The center focuses on human trafficking, sexual abuse, creating inclusive communities for LGBT people, trauma and marginalized communities. “The new administration is a wake up call for us and I think it reminds us that we have to protect one another,” said David Jobin, the president of the Our Fund Foundation. “I think you’re only as strong as the most vulnerable in your community and I think that it’s our responsibility to make certain that transgender people and rights are protected.” The panel participants are Dr. Ashley Austin, a distinguished professor at the center and an associate professor of social work who focuses on the transgender community; Masen Davis, senior director of special projects at the Gill Foundation focusing on the advancement of transgender people; Mara Keisling, the executive director of the
National Center for Transgender Equality; and Mona Pittenger, the co-executive producer of the documentary “Just Gender” and the cofounder of the Tulsa Girl’s Art School. “The needs and experience of trans people are different from the needs and experience of LGB people,” Austin said, citing legal and physical transition, the cost of transition, social and mental health services, and health issues. “I think there continues to be a lack of awareness about trans specific needs and trans specific experiences even in the broader LGB community … much of society remains uninformed, misinformed.” This misinformation has lead to a lack of empathy in a part of the gay and lesbian community, Jobin said, when the transgender community is in its greatest need. In the panel, he hopes that people will learn more about why it’s important to lend a helping hand. “There was a time when the LGBT community — and predominantly the gay male community — started to step away from funding for HIV/AIDS when the face of that MEMBER disease started to look like something other than what they were. We fear that,” Jobin said. “I’ve heard people in the LG world say they’re not certain why the T is included. It’s MEMBER
because they’re about sexuality and not about gender, and I don’t think they understand the connection between those two.” With the panel, Austin also hopes guests take away the reality that the transgender experience is all encompassing and needs to be acknowledged in all parts of life. With a child recognizing his or her gender as young as 3 years old, pediatricians, educators, and parents need to be educated on what it means to be transgender. “We think [the transgender community] is getting a lot of attention because there's a couple shows or a couple documentaries, but it's just the tip of the iceberg,” she said.
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Conservative Group Files against Jacksonville human rights Law (EDGE) On Thursday, Liberty Counsel filed a motion for Summary Judgement in a lawsuit to invalidate Jacksonville, Florida's recently adopted Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to groups protected from discrimination for public accommodations, employment and housing. The motion follows Wednesday's filing by the city of a Motion to Dismiss the hate group's standing lawsuit against the pro-LGBT ordinance. The city filed to Dismiss on the grounds that Liberty Counsel's plaintiff lacks the legal standing to file a lawsuit because he has no "special injury." Liberty Counsel, gained national prominence by defending Kim Davis in 2015, and has twice gone up against prior versions of the HRO, which they claim violates Florida and Jacksonville law. "The violations of Florida and Jacksonville law
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by the HRO authors and sponsors are so clear that no trial is necessary," said Liberty Counsel's Assistant Vice President of Legal Affairs, Roger Gannam, a former long-time Jacksonville resident. "City officials were wrong to choose the radical LGBT agenda over the rule of law and the fair and honest people of Jacksonville. This law deceptively and unnecessarily puts women in harm's way, by opening their facilities to men, and forces Jacksonville's businesses and citizens to celebrate the same-sex relationships of others under threat of fines and even loss of their businesses," said Gannam. In February, the Jacksonville City Council voted 12-6 to expand the Human Rights Ordinance to include the words sexual orientation and gender identity to the existing HRO which prohibits discrimination for public accommodations, employment and housing.
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pponents: arkansas exposure Bill Targets Transgender people
(AP) An Arkansas lawmaker wants to expand the state's indecent exposure in a move that opponents say could criminalize transgender people's use of bathrooms. Republican Rep. Bob Ballinger's proposal would make it a crime for people to knowingly expose their sex organs to someone of the opposite sex in a public place under circumstances likely to cause alarm. Ballinger said the measure was needed to protect children in situations such as when a father takes his daughter into the men's restroom. The bill would make it a crime for the men to deliberately expose themselves to the child. But American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas legal director Holly Dickson says laws already are in place to address people acting with criminal intent in public restrooms. Dickson says Ballinger's bill is just a way to make it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. "This bill is intimidating. It can lead to increased harassment. It will chill transgender people's participation in public life," Dickson said. She noted the impact statement attached to the proposed measure, which says there were only seven convictions for violations of Arkansas' current indecent exposure law from 2013 to 2015. "It is creating problems where there are no problems," Dickson said.
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(AP) Montana's chief economic development officer warned Thursday of dire economic consequences if lawmakers entangle the state in a national debate over bathrooms and transgender people. A conservative group seeking to preserve traditional family values is pushing the Legislature to let voters decide whether people should only use the bathroom or locker room that matches their biological sex. Both sides sought to persuade lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee, with one side arguing in favor of limits by asserting privacy and safety concern and opponents dismayed about being forced to redefine their gender identity. But Ken Fichtler, the governor's chief adviser on economic development, defined the issue in economic terms. "This bill is clearly counter to the economic interests that your constituents sent you here to grow and defend," Fichtler told lawmakers. Fichtler pointed to North Carolina as a prime example of the negative repercussions that could arise from the debate over who can legally use gender-specific bathrooms. Some businesses cancelled expansion plans in North Carolina because of a law that requires people to use the bathroom that matches their biological sex. The Montana Family Foundation is pushing the Legislature to place the matter before voters in 2018. Dubbed the "Montana Locker Room Privacy Act," the measure would define sex as "a person's immutable biological sex as objectively determined
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by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth." Rep. Carl Glimm, a Republican from Kila, carried the bill on behalf of the foundation. If placed on the ballot and approved by voters, the measure would affect how public schools and universities, as well as other government agencies, accommodate transgender people. Facilities such as locker rooms designated for use by one sex must provide privacy from the opposite sex.
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klahoma avoids Boycotts by derailing antiGay Bills
(AP) Two bills that opponents say have led to boycotts in other states and could jeopardize Oklahoma's ability to attract major sporting events have been derailed in the Oklahoma Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate voted 25-18 on Thursday against a bill that would have prohibited cities and towns from enacting ordinances that protect gay people from discrimination in housing and employment. Coalgate Republican Sen. Josh Brecheen wrote the bill and says it was intended to protect people's sincerely held religious beliefs. After the bill failed, the author of a second measure to allow businesses to discriminate against gay people withdrew his proposal. The director of the gay rights group Freedom Oklahoma praised the Senate for its vote. Troy Stevenson said similar bills have led to boycotts in North Carolina and Indiana.
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iami Beach Gay Pride is handing its grand marshaling duties over to an intern. Ross the Intern to be exact. The Miami Herald is reporting Ross Mathews — best known for flamboyant, campy bits on the “Tonight Show” — is one of four marshals for the 2017 Miami Beach Gay Pride parade. NBC 6 South Florida is also reporting Mathews is working with Miami Beach Pride this year. The annual event, in its ninth year, is scheduled for April 7 to 9. The parade on Ocean Drive is set for Sunday, April 9. Mathews is not the only marshal of note, the Herald reports. Three other individuals: “Uncle” Johnny Pool and Liebe and Seth Gadinsky are also serving as parade marshals, according to the Herald. The 37-year-old Mathews has appeared on numerous television shows, ranging from “Celebrity Fit Club” to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to “Chelsea Lately.” He recently was the target of an insult from former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. In his resignation speech, Yiannopoulos said he gets letters from parents thanking him for
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he U.S. Secretary of Energy is accused of bully tactics at – of all places – his alma mater. “It takes a lot of nerve for 67 year old @SecretaryPerry to bully a college junior for fairly winning an election #TXLege,” tweeted Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD, on Thursday. In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle, Perry wrote that he is “deeply troubled” by the election of Bobby Brooks, 21, the first openly gay student body president in Texas A&M history. Brooks won the election after his opponent, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified for failing to disclose campaign expenses. McIntosh is the son of a prominent Republican fundraiser from Dallas. “It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for ‘diversity’ is the real reason the election outcome was overturned,” Perry wrote. “Does the principle of ‘diversity’ override and supersede all other values of our Aggie Honor Code?” A&M election officials caught McIntosh via a campaign video in which glow sticks
were used but never reported on financial documents. “The desire of the electorate is overturned, and thousands of student votes are disqualified because of free glow sticks that appeared for 11 seconds of a months-long campaign. Apparently, glow sticks merit the same punishment as voter intimidation,” Perry wrote. Perry went on to question if McIntosh would have been disqualified had he been a “minority student.” A Texas A&M graduate and former Texas Governor, Perry campaigned for U.S. President in 2012 and 2016. In 2012 he filmed a campaign video blasting the Obama administration’s decision to lift the ban on openly gay people to serve in the military. Brooks has not responded to Perry’s oped, but Ellis is furious. “As a mother who works daily to protect children, I am disgusted that a father like @SecretaryPerry would stoop this low,” Ellis tweeted, adding “Some advice for @ SecretaryPerry: Kids like Bobby Brooks are the future, and should be encouraged and not harassed.”
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LGBT Groups Challenge Gorsuch Appointment
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n Tuesday, March 14 President Trump announced that his replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia would be Neil Gorsuch, a justice who has served for ten years as a George W. Bush-appointed judge on the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of appeals. Since the announcement, LGBT groups have come together to express their opposition to Gorsuch’s appointment. Many of Gorsuch’s past rulings are in support of religious freedom in cases involving access to contraception, transgender protections and more. “We strongly oppose this nomination,” Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights said in a statement.
"His record demonstrates that, if confirmed, he would rely on his conservative, originalist philosophy to overturn critical precedents and to disregard the rights of everyday Americans while bolstering protections for corporations and special interests." - Jerrold Nadler
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“Gorsuch has embraced extreme positions far outside the mainstream of most jurists, including a dangerously radical view of religious liberty that would undermine antidiscrimination protections for LGBT people and others.” President Trump compared Gorsuch to the late Judge Scalia, telling his audience in the East Room of the White House on the night of his decision that “the image and genius” of the late justice “was in my mind throughout the decision making process,” according to the Washington Blade. LGBT rights supporter Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, did not take the comparison lightly, saying, “Judge Gorsuch is Justice Scalia on steroids. His record demonstrates that, if confirmed, he would rely on his conservative, originalist philosophy to overturn critical precedents and to disregard the rights of everyday Americans while bolstering protections for corporations and special interests.” During his decade on the bench in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Gorsuch joined a ruling against transgender rights in 2015 with the case Druley v. Patton. The courts rejected arguments stating the Oklahoma Department of Corrections violated a transgender inmate’s constitutional rights by denying her hormone treatment and demanding that she wear masculine clothing. According to the Washington Blade, this case asserts that transgender people do not belong to “a protected suspect class for purposes of Equal Protection Claims.” Gorsuch has stated in the past that he opposes the use of courtrooms by civil rights groups to achieve progressive policy changes and protections, even writing an opinion piece in 2005 that argues, “judges are viewed
and treated as little more than politicians with robes.” “American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private school education,” Gorsuch wrote in his 2005 opinion piece ‘Liberals & Lawsuits.’ “This overweening addiction to the courtroom as the place to debate social policy is bad for the country and bad for the judiciary.” Sarah Warbelow, the Legal Director of the Human Rights Campaign sent out an email to supporters on March 20 arguing that legal victories are crucial to social progress. In the email she asks supporters to mobilize against Gorsuch, including examples of his rulings such as the decision to side with discrimination in ‘Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius,’ which allowed corporations to deny health care services based on religious beliefs. “So much of our progress has been made through narrow Supreme Court victories,” Warbelow wrote. “We know the future progress will also hinge on the courts — whether it’s healthcare, workplace protections, the rights of transgender youth and more.” Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, has joined the LGBT voices rising in opposition to the Gorsuch nomination, stating: “The Supreme Court has played a central role in advancing the promise of equality for LGBTQ Americans, and Judge Gorsuch’s anti-equality record — from opposing crucial medical treatment for a transgender person to supporting a license to discriminate for private corporations — makes him unfit to sit on the nation’s highest court,” Griffin said. “We cannot afford a justice who will roll
back our rights, or who will be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s unconstitutional actions,” Griffin continued. “America cannot afford to have Judge Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. We oppose this nomination.” The Gorsuch nomination has not only received negative feedback, however. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council has stated that Gorsuch’s religious freedom rulings are reason to support his appointment. “Judge Gorsuch’s record over the last 14 years, especially on religious liberty, gives Americans every reason to believe he will make a fine Supreme Court justice,” Perkins said. “His reputation as a judge with integrity and dedication to the Constitution should be an encouragement to all Americans.” Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin Republicans said marriage equality is not being threatened by this Supreme Court appointment and thus refuses to join the rising LGBT opposition to Gorsuch. “Marriage equality is here to stay, and the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch — or any conservative justice — will not change that,” Angelo said. “Log Cabin Republicans continues to review the case history of Judge Gorsuch and welcomes confirmation hearings in the United States Senate to explore his perspective on the relevant issues facing LGBT Americans today.” Many LGBT organizations disagree, however, and see this nomination as one of many instances of rising LGBT discrimination coming from the White House. “The stakes couldn’t be higher for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people,” Warbelow wrote. “With all of the chaos and discrimination coming from the White House, more than ever we need a Supreme Court justice who will defend ALL of our rights.”
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LGBT Elders Erased From National Survey
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.S. Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) blasted the Trump administration on Monday for removing LGBT designations in a national health survey. The annual National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants (NSOAAP) will not seek to identify individuals based on sexual orientation or gender identity, the Administration on Aging revealed this week. “The Trump Administration has decided to try and pretend LGBT older Americans just do not exist,” said Deutch, LGBT Aging Issues Task Force Chair. “Removing LGBT people from this survey means the administration doesn’t care about the plight of LGBT elders, who face higher levels of poverty and typically have less familial support. Programs supporting LGBT elders are literally lifesaving, and LGBT people deserve to have their voices heard.” Conducted by the Administration on Community Living (ACL), the NSOAAP is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Older Americans Act Title III programs. Survey results determine billions of dollars of funding for programs assisting older Americans including senior centers, home-
delivered meals, family caregiver support, and transportation. Deutch said LGBT older Americans face higher levels of economic insecurity, social isolation, and discrimination including having particular difficulty accessing critical aging services and supports. The South Florida Democrat is not alone in his rebuke of the government’s new survey. Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD, released the following statement: “The Trump Administration is literally attempting to erase the LGBTQ community from the fabric of American history. Our LGBTQ seniors, many of whom survived the HIV and AIDS epidemic, do not deserve to have the government once again brush them off from obtaining transportation services, caregiver support, and even delivered meals that fit their needs. Access to these services is an American right, and this heartless move proves how antiLGBTQ the Trump Administration has always been from Day One,” Ellis said. The ACL oversees the Administration on Aging and operates within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Former U.S. Congressman Thomas Price of Georgia is the Secretary of the HHS.
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Broward Activist Confronts Governor Scott John McDonald
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roward County human rights activist Michael Rajner confronted Florida Governor Rick Scott last week in Tallahassee over the Governor’s failure to mention the LGBT community in his annual State of the State address. Rajner videotaped his exchange with Scott on March 21 outside the Capitol building. “I’ll try to do better,” the Governor says before shaking Rajner’s hand and walking away. Scott addressed the Pulse Nightclub tragedy in his speech to the legislature but did not specifically mention the LGBT community or Latinx community. In his exchange with Rajner, Scott does state he believes the massacre was a hate crime. Rajner told SFGN he intends to follow up and write Scott a letter requesting an executive order for statewide LGBT protections. Rajner said he spoke with the Governor last year at a Jewish Federation of Broward County event
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in Davie and asked him to sign an executive order to include LGBT employees in Florida’s anti-discrimination laws. “Governor Rick Scott could demonstrate his sincerity by immediately enacting an executive order to protect LGBT state workers and contractors from discrimination,” Rajner said.
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est Palm Beach has declared itself a “Welcoming City” for immigrants. West Palm city commissioners on Monday unanimously passed a resolution intended to reduce undocumented immigrants’ fears of local police. The resolution states that city employees — including police — cannot investigate someone’s citizenship status. Nor may local authorities disclose someone’s citizenship status to others, unless the law or a warrant requires it. And when West Palm police ask for proof of identification from an immigrant with no state-issued ID, they may use ID from their home country instead. Since the election of President Donald Trump, immigrants without papers have become nervous as the new president has pledged to increase deportations. “We wanna make sure people know that they are safe here in West Palm Beach,” said Mayor Jeri Muoio, “This is a place where we want them to be.” Two pro-immigrant-rights groups originally planned to protest the commission’s decision to vote on a resolution instead of an ordinance. A resolution states the rules city employees must follow, while an ordinance is city law. Members of Women’s March Florida’s West Palm Beach chapter and South Florida Activism did not protest outside city hall. They instead joined dozens of residents to tell city officials they support the resolution, and hope the commission will pass an ordinance in the future. “We believe that the city of West Palm
Beach can and should lead the way with the passing of this resolution,” said Alex Newell Taylor, captain of the West Palm chapter of the Women’s March. Speaking for her chapter, she added “we would like to see this become an ordinance eventually if possible.” Most of the 100 or so people in the audience cheered Newell Taylor. At least eight booed. One of those who booed was Lake Worth resident Mary Kelly. She later told SFGN that her problem is not with all immigrants, just those who move here without getting the right papers. When asked to elaborate on her views, she mentioned, “I’ve had a home invasion by three Hispanic men. I didn’t have the chance to get their ID cards,” so she does not know if they lived in the U.S. illegally. She said she employs a foreign yard worker, who she would not report to law enforcement if she found out he was here illegally. When someone is arrested by city police, they are booked into Palm Beach County jail, which is run by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. If ICE asks PBSO, without a court order or warrant, to hold a detainee longer than local police need to, PBSO does not have to honor that request. But if sheriff’s deputies arrest an undocumented immigrant, PBSO reports it to ICE. Commissioner Sylvia Moffett hopes other South Florida cities will follow West Palm’s example. “I think this is a great first step,” she said, “And I hope that other cities will take up the challenge and take up their own resolutions and realize that it’s not our police people’s job to go out and round up people.”
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‘How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted Out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia informants in FBI History’
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If you were ever a child, that whine is familiar to you. It indicated a tattletale nearby, a secret spilled to Mom, and somebody about to be in trouble. Whatever. Annoying as it was, “I’m telling” never hurt much more than your pride then. Today, as in the new book “Scores” by Michael D. Blutrich, serious snitching could get a guy killed. How does it happen that a gay man would own a mainstream strip club? It was, says Michael Blutrich, a long story that started after he opened his law firm and, in search of an investment, purchased an L.A. nightclub. Believing that the success of his California business could transfer to New York, he recalled the excitement of a private banker who claimed he’d always wanted to own an upscale strip club. Being a closeted gay man, that wasn’t exactly Blutrich’s dream but the idea niggled at his brain. Partnering with the banker and others, they began looking for a building and batting ideas around. Scores was born, with a planned opening on Halloween night, 1991. “And then the mafia arrived.” In order to operate, the partners were told, they would need “protection,” which would involve some of New York’s biggest mafia families in a sort of symbiotic relationship, plus a grand-a-week kickback. It would also involve skirting Big Apple laws for as long as possible, because Scores would be the city’s “first and most notorious upscale gentlemen’s club” and there were rules against what a customer would find inside those Upper East Side doors. Because of the novelty and the entertainment it offered, Scores was successful – more
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s of March 24, I’ve been on testosterone therapy for three years. Among my friends, I like to refer to this as my Manniversary – that is, the date that I celebrate the beginning of my transition. For myself and many others who correlate a specific date to the beginning of their transition, I celebrate it like a second birthday. But this year, I want to dedicate a column to the one who stuck by my side the whole time. A year before I came out, I was in what you call the perfect relationship. I was in college, had a secure place to live, and was fairly popular. Yet deep down, something still felt wrong… something was missing. So I talked my partner into getting a puppy. We found Willow on Craigslist, listed by a family who was allergic but loved her dearly. When we went to meet her, she immediately jumped into my arms and I was certain my life was finally complete. There was no way for me to know how wrong I was. In my mind, this precious nine-month-old Papillondachshund mix was the last accessory needed for me to feel happy as a woman. She’d come with me everywhere with her pink collar, pink dress, and sparkling brown eyes. But she didn’t act like a girl at all. As my first dog, I was shocked by her tendency to roll in dirt, eat vomit, and lunge at bigger dogs during our walks. In a way, she was relatable. I remember watching her hump a toy one day, thinking whimsically to myself, ‘If only I could be that unapologetically authentic.’ My new dog was imperfectly perfect, and to be honest I was a little jealous. It didn’t take much longer for the rest of my life’s perfect façade to begin crumbling. A number of things led me to rediscover the other feelings I had buried during my childhood. But once I came out, it became a household joke. I began to cross dress in the car before driving to school, then changed back when I got home. But even on the days I forgot to de-masculinize before I went upstairs, my little dog loved me all the same. As bad went to worse, my relationship finally
no matter How Hard i broKe down at nigHt, it was always my little dog willow wHo stayed by my side.
crumbled. We decided it was for the best that I head in my own direction, and I was sent packing. Shortly after, I dropped out of school. But you know who stayed with me? My little dog Willow. I was battling with emotions that had been buried for almost a decade. Once I found roommates who would take me in, I began fighting to get into a therapist and begin testosterone therapy to see if that would help ease the feelings I had buried for so long. Yet no matter how hard I broke down at night, it was always my little dog Willow who stayed by my side. Once I started hormone therapy, the results were slower than I hoped for at first. I was frustrated, still a long way off from any of the surgeries I needed, and struggling to find a job. There was one night in particular that dysphoria was at its worst. I got home after a long night of panic attacks only to sit down with my eyes fixated upon a can of paint thinner, wondering how bad it could really taste. Then a little dog jumped in my lap, suddenly as eager for attention as the day I first brought her home. She didn’t care what my name was, what gender I was, or where we were in this wild ride called life. All that mattered is we were together, and her reminder brought me back to Earth.
It’s been three years, and Willow still jumps into my arms every time I get home. Whenever I feel trapped in an impossible situation, whether or not it has to do with my transition, I know Willow will still be by my side. A lot of people have gotten to know her and have asked, “Does she treat you any differently now than she used to?” Yet like me, she knows that I’m the same person, just happier on the inside. And I think she is too. After all, little Willow helped me in this journey… and I'm pretty sure she knows that. I even got top surgery last year, resolving one of the most uncomfortable things that still plagued my transition. And besides my mom, you know who else refused to leave my side during those two weeks of recovery? My little dog Willow. Brendon Lies is a 26-year-old trans man originally from Fargo, North Dakota, and the current Art Director of South Florida Gay News. Ever since he began his transition in 2014, he has been using art in every form to express and share his journey with others.
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Two-time Tony Award-winner (and five-time nominee) Andrea Martin is the latest star to take the Parker Playhouse stage in Fort Lauderdale as part of Mark Cortale’s Broadway Series. She’ll be joined by Sirius XM host Seth Rudetsky for an evening of music that should not be missed. She sings some of her favorite songs from “Pippin,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Oklahoma” and more. Tickets start at $37 at ParkerPlayhouse.com.
The South Florida Symphony concludes its season tonight at FAU in Boca Raton with “Untamed Spirit,” featuring music by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn and a special performance by pianist Jeffrey Biegel in P.D.Q. Bach’s “Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra.” The program will be repeated on April 5 at the Arsht Center and April 6 at the Broward Center. Maestra Sebrina Maria Alfonso conducts. Tickets at SouthFloridaSymphony.org.
The annual Carbonell Awards ceremony, affectionately known as South Florida’s “theater prom,” will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale. The awards, equivalent to Broadway’s Tonys, recognize the best in professional regional theater and the red carpet always draws actors, designers, directors, technical professionals and lots of “insiders.” Tickets are $25 at BrowardCenter.org.
If you missed the Broadway smash, “Jersey Boys,” when it last played the Arsht Center in Miami six years ago, here’s your chance to relive the unbelievable musical story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The score features the group’s timeless hits including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” Playing through Sunday, April 9. Tickets start at $29 at ArshtCenter.org.
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A&E theater The interactive comedy, “Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man,” is playing at the Broward Center through April 9. Submitted photo.
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ey gay guys: If you really want to do your BFF a favor, get her a little drunk before taking her to “Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man,” currently playing in the Broward Center’s Abdo New River Room. Based on the 1997 book with the same title, the interactive comedy is set in the auditorium of Fort Lauderdale Community College where the English Department’s monthly “meet the author” lecture, “Rendezvous with Alternative Authors of the Modern Era” (RAAME – pronounced “ram me”) is about to begin. Bookish teaching assistant Robyn (Jacklyn Collier) rushes in to announce that Professor Marilyn Branecki has suddenly died. With the assistance of hunky A/V assistant Stefan (Brooks Christopher), she will be forced to interview the author herself. But, flamboyant Dan Anderson (Sean Hankinson), author of “Sex Tips for Straight Women from Gay Men,” has other ideas, turning what could have been a tedious lecture into an effervescent game show with contestants pulled from the audience (this is where the drinks will come in handy). The first game is “Name that Penis,” in which audience members suggest the moniker that will be used to refer to the male member for the remainder of the show. At this performance, “baloney pony” narrowly edged out “skin flute,” “custard launcher” and “Louisville slugger.” While helping Robyn unleash her inhibitions, Anderson demonstrates various chapters from the book, appropriately named, “Women Need a Reason, Men Just Need a Place,” “Foreplay is More Play,” “Manual Labor” and “The Answer, My Friend, is Blowin’ in the Wind.” Understandably terrified volunteers are brought up to the stage—again get that girl
a drink—where they are taught the proper methods to jack their men off and a juicer and fresh fruit are used to demonstrate the steps to the ultimate blow job. Hankinson (Dan) is likeable and relies on crack improvisational skills throughout the show, responding to the unwitting volunteers’ flustered comments and actions. A 1 p.m. Sunday matinee is not necessarily the best time to see this show, unless the audiences has been downing mimosas at brunch, but he adapted quickly and kept the pace moving with a largely sober (and obviously church-going) audience. Collier has the most difficult role, walking the fine line between a prim and proper teacher who must become the student and eventually ditch those deep-seated inhibitions. Her shtick gets lots of laughs. Cut, muscular Christopher is delicious as the earnest assistant, an Eastern European graduate student who dreams of going to space. Be sure to stick around to the end of the show (not everyone in the audience did) where he eventually has the audience seeing stars with a cosmically-inspired strip tease number. “Sex Tips” is a silly, entertaining trifle, best suited for the type of “Off Broadway” venues where it became a late-night hit. Unfortunately, the cocktails at the Broward Center are just a little too expensive to ply the audience properly during the show. If you’re going to take your best girlfriend, make sure to make a pit stop somewhere in the gayborhood, where the cocktails are strong and 2-4-1 most nights. Not only will your wallet thank you, but she’ll be more appreciative, especially if she winds up on stage. And, if she thinks she really needs some help in the bedroom, you’d better buy the book.
“Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man” plays in the Broward Center’s Abdo New River Room in Fort Lauderdale through April 9. Tickets are $45 at BrowardCenter.org.
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Adam Pascal, center, stars as Shakespeare in ‘Something Rotten,’ currently playing at the Broward Center. Credit: Joan Marcus.
‘someThinG roTTen’ is a Gay oLde Time!
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e know that musical theater is a gay pastime, but is it possible for a show to be “too” gay? “Something Rotten,” the smash Broadway hit now playing at the Broward Center, takes audiences back to the “gay ‘90s”—the 1590s. From the opening fanfare of “Welcome to the Renaissance,” the show is a campy ode to Broadway musicals and the gay men who love them, so, no, it’s not possible for a musical to be too gay. Two brothers, Elizabethan playwrights Nick and Nigel Bottom (Rob McClure and Josh Grisetti), struggle to create a hit. Stymied by the egotistical “rock star” William Shakespeare (Adam Pascal), Nick seeks out a soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus (Blake Hammond), who tells him the future of theater involves acting, singing and dancing—all at the same time! Nostradamus breaks out into song and dance to demonstrate the power of a musical in a breakneck number that momentarily evokes or outright quotes great works from “The Music Man,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Annie,” “Cats,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Rent” and a dozen other iconic shows. The theater queens in the audience quickly caught the joke. Realizing “this bottom’s gonna be on top,”—and yes, the double entendre is intended, bringing giggles from the hundreds of gay men in the Au Rene Theater audience— Nick sets out to win over his brother. Unfortunately, their first attempt is a disastrously perky number about the plague, “Black Death.” When asked to hint about Shakespeare’s next hit, Nostradamus
strikes out, suggesting a show named “Omelette” (instead of “Hamlet”). Along the way, the talented and thoughtful poet Nigel captures the heart of the lovely Portia (Autumn Hurlbert), daughter of the limp-wristed Puritan inquisitor, who is gay as a goose and seems to lay a few eggs of his own. The biggest treat of the evening was the rare opportunity to the see many of the last Broadway cast members on the Broward Center stage (McClure, Grisetti and Pascal), along with the original costumes and most of the set pieces, designed by Gregg Barnes and Scott Pask, respectively. (The Broadway production closed last fall.) Pascal, who got his big break as the original Roger in “Rent,” is a steamy Shakespeare, especially in the rock concert number, “Will Power,” and “It’s Hard to be the Bard,” backed up by a quartet of equally sexy chorus boys in “guyliner” and codpieces. The fast-paced plot gets a little bogged down in the second act as Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell’s book weaves together the requisite historical facts and actual Shakespeare plays. Once the cooking is complete, the show comes to an explosive climax—not the only one—with a chorus line of dancing eggs. It’s hard to imagine a much gayer show and, in the hands of Broadway director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw and a talented cast of seasoned professionals, “Something Rotten” is easily one of the most entertaining shows to leave the Great White Way and land in South Florida in some time.
“Something Rotten” is being performed at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale through Sunday, April 2. Tickets start at $35 at BrowardCenter.org.
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Send in the Queens
March 31 and April 1 at 8 p.m. at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. In its 10th year, the annual drag show benefits the playhouse. Tickets $35. Call 561-586-6410 or visit LakeWorthPlayhouse.org.
Drumline live
April 2 at 7 p.m. the Pembroke Pines City Center, 601 City Center Way in Pembroke Pines. Created by the teams behind the movie “Drumline,” a showstopping night of marching, dancing, and drumming seen at historically black colleges and universities. Tickets $37.50 to $75. Call 800-745-3000 or visit PembrokePinesCityCenter.org.
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Through April 9 at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. It’s 1964 and America is at the cusp of a major change — unrest in Vietnam, the Civil Rights bill is struggling to be passed, and President Lyndon B. Johnson is at the center of it all. Tickets $40 . Call 305-444-9293 or visit ActorsPlayhouse.org.
broward county The Jason Bishop Show
that tests their relationship. Tickets $35. Call 954-519-2533 or visit IslandCityStage.org.
The Bitch is Back: Joe Posa as Joan rivers
Through April 9 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Posa teams up with comedy writer, Tony Tripoli, in a tribute to the late, great Joan Rivers. Tickets $35. Call 954-678-1496 or visit EmpireStage. com.
Sex Tips for Straight women From a Gay man
Through April 9 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. A local university has invited author Dan Anderson for a sex tip seminar. Tickets $45. Call 954462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.
Friday night Sound waves music Series
Fridays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hub, Las Olas Boulevard and A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy live, outdoor music spanning genres and tributes every Friday evening through November. Free. Visit FridayNightSoundWaves.com
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March 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The band begins its leg of American tour dates in Miami. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.
Third Thursdays at the Perez Art Museum Miami, 101 W. Flagler St. in Miami. Come out for live music from DJs and musicians by the bay. Drink specials available. Free with museum admission. Call 305-375-3000 or visit PAMM.org.
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The Big Show
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March 30 to April 16 at the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. A man invites a homeless man to his flat after a bar fight, and learns there is much more to this stranger than he thought. Tickets $50. Call 305-949-6722 or visit ArshtCenter.org.
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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Through April 9 at the Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE Second Ave. in Miami Shores. Follow the pink elephant’s journey, teaching the audience a lesson about diversity. Tickets $25. Call 305-751-9550 or visit MTCMiami.org.
March 31 to April 30 at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre, 201 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. Traveling through the 19th and 20th centuries, a mystery occurs at Sidley Park on the property of the Coverly family. Tickets $66. Call 561-514-4042 or visit PalmBeachDramaworks.org.
Big river
April 8 to May 7 at Island City Stage, 2304 N Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. On the morning of his mothers’ wedding, the son of a lesbian couple discovers an accusation
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Through April 1 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Christine is a rising star in the haunted opera theatre, and mysterious teacher is determined to ruin the show. Tickets $31 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.
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Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Enjoy live music from the comfort of your picnic blanket or lawn chair every week, for free! Returns in October. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org.
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March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, in Coral Springs. The record-breaking illusionist makes guests float in the air and items appear as if from nowhere. Call 954-344-5990 or visit CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com. Through April 2 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Based on the novel by Mark Twain, Huck Finn helps his enslaved friend, Jim, to freedom on the Ohio River. Tickets $47 to $60. Call 954-4620222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.
Free Friday concerts
April 7 to 9 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Frederic completes his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, releasing him from a band of pirates. Now free, he falls in love with Mabel — until he realizes he was born on Leap Day and is technically not 21 yet. Tickets $20 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.
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April 1 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. A celebration of the diversity of the transgender community. Come dressed to impress! Tickets $20, $30 for two. Call 954-258-6830 or 954-6752524.
Glln annual Gala
April 2 at The Venue, 2345 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. The Gay & Lesbian Lawyers Network hosts its sixth annual gala, benefiting The Humanity Project and Sunserve. Tickets $80 to $125. Visit GLLN.org.
* Pride (Poets) light The night
April 6 from 8 p.m. to midnight at The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. As a tribute to Pride and the lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting, poetry readings by CubanAmerican poets Richard Blanco and Carlos Pintado. A dozen other poets will be highlighted at the hotel’sm Art Deco wing. Free. Visit TheBetsyHotel. com.
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Mondays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at SunServe Campus, 1480 SW Ninth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. A group for LGBT youth 13 to 21 to discuss gender, gender expression, binary systems, friendship, family and whatever else comes up! Free. Visit SunServeYouth. com
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Tuesdays in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Southwest Ranches. A support group for parents of LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and locations.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays in Fort Lauderdale, Southwest Ranches, Coral Springs and Hollywood. A support group and night of fun for LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and times.
Survivor SuPPorT
First and third Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Broward Health Imperial Point Hospital cafeteria, 6401 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. Find support from counselors and peers who have lost loved ones to suicide. Call the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention at 954-384-0344 or visit FISPOnline.org.
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March 29 at 7 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A conversation about the HIV rate in black women, black MSM, and the down-low myth. Call 954-463-9005, ext. 306, 308, or 309 or visit PrideCenterFlorida.org.
what’s Going on: marvin Gaye’s america
Through March 30 at the Miramar Cultural Center Arts Park, 2400 Civic Center Place in Miramar. An exploration of how the Motown pioneer influenced music and and society. Guests are invited to bring a photo of themselves from the ‘70s and a reflection of how life has changed since then for the “My 70s” portion of the exhibit. Call 954-6024500 or visit MiramarCulturalCenter.org.
* Broward’s Best Bite
April 1 from noon to 4 p.m. at DC Alexander
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* Fort lauderdale Pizza Festival
April 1 from 1 to 6 p.m. at War Memorial Auditorium, 800 NE Eighth St. in Fort Lauderdale. Local and national pizza restaurant will be showcasing their pies with local art, entertainment, live cooking demonstrations, a kid zone, and pizza eating competition. Tickets $30 to $75. Visit FortLauderdalePizzaFestival.com
* Fancy Jeans Party
April 1 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Revolution Live, 100 SW Third Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The annual fundraiser returns to raise money for childhood cancer with food and drinks, raffle, silent auction, fancy jeans contest, and crazy hour. Dress code is fancy jeans or
marCh 29 - apriL 4 nightclub chic. Tickets $100 in advance to $250 benefiting the Jessica June Children’s Cancer Foundation. Call 954-712-6322, email info@jjccf.org, or visit JJCCF.org.
* inaugural Pride center run/ walk and Free Breakfast
April 8 at 7:30 a.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. The Front Runners & Walkers celebrates moving its weekly runs to the Pride Center with breakfast and a run/walk. Free. Call 954-2478642 or visit FrontRunnersFortLauderdale. org.
* SaGe Book club: “a Book of revelations”
April 8 from 11 a.m. to noon at the Stonewall National Library & Archives, 1300 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. A discussion of A.C. Burch’s collection of eight short stories. Free. Visit Stonewall-Museum.org.
* The way we worked
Through May 6 from noon to 8 p.m. at Art Gallery 21 at the Woman’s Club of Wilton Manors, 600 NE 21st Court in Wilton Manors. The traveling Smithsonian exhibit comes to Wilton Manors, featuring videos,
interviews, and photos from the last 150 years showcasing how Americans of all backgrounds work. Free. Call 954-661-4740, email artgallery21wcwm@gmail.com, or visit http://bit.ly/2ko5Ahl.
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Through April 1 at FAU’s Schmidt Center Gallery, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. Daniel’s multimedia exhibit explores the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. Free. Call 561-297-2661 or visit FAU.edu/galleries.
* hatsume Fair
April 1 and 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road in Delray Beach. In welcoming spring, two days of crafting, games, live entertainment, costume contest, fashion show, anime, and Japanese street fair. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the gate. Call 561-495-0233 or visit Morikami.org/ event/hatsume-fair.
chinese lantern Festival: The wild
Wednesdays through Sundays from 5:30 to 10 p.m. through April 9 at Sunset Cove Amphitheater, 20405 Amphitheater Circle in Boca Raton. Be mesmerized by more than 800 lanterns in the shape of animals from around the world. Tickets $22 for adults, $25 at the door. Visit ChineseLanternFestival. com.
Street Photography: candid Portraiture
April 22 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Old School Square Crest Theatre building studio 5, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Russell Levine leads a walk through the streets of Delray to instruct students on candid street photography. Fee $75. Call 561-243-7922 or visit OldSchoolSquare.org.
* women musicians Through Time
Through April 28 at FAU’s Wimberley Library. 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. The exhibit explores the history of women in music with photos and sound archives spanning genres. Free. Call 561-297-0080 or visit FAU.edu.
miami-dade county * miami Beach Gay Pride
April 7 to 9 throughout Miami Beach. A celebration of pride with a beach party, festival, and parade. See the full schedule at MiamiBeachGayPride.com.
arsht center Farmers market
Mondays from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. Purchase fresh food from local farmers, including fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, as well as chefs, live music, and cooking demonstrations. Free. Visit ArshtCenter.org/ en/Visit/Dining.
yoga
Tuesdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Jose Marti Park, 362 SW Fourth Ave. in Miami. Yogis 18 and older of all levels are invited to a practice lead by a certified instructor. Bring your own yoga mat, water, and towel. Free. Call 305358-7550 or visit BayfrontParkMiami.com/ Yoga.html.
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uniTeD realTy GrouP - $149,900 2 bed 1 bath-1 block to the drive. Low maintenance-NO RENTAL RESTRICTIONS! DuPlex $349,000 Quiet street Both 2 bed 1 bathHuge Yard Call for details Michael Tublin 561-703-5533 3.29.2017 •
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