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dining Out fOr life returns april 27 Last year the event raised $26,000
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ining Out For Life is back. That means you can eat to your heart’s content and finally feel good about it. Just make sure you visit one of the participating restaurants Thursday, April 27. It’s simple; Just dine at one of the 3,000 participating restaurants in more than 50 cities across North America and that restaurant will donate a generous portion of the day's proceeds to fund HIV/AIDS care, prevention, education, testing, counseling and other essential services in their city. That’s it. Locally, 2017 marks the fifth consecutive year that Broward House will be the local host/ beneficiary organization of the Dining Out For Life fundraiser event. Broward House is Broward County’s longest-serving and largest HIV/ AIDS service organization, and routinely had over 8,000 contacts with individuals through their prevention/education, testing, case management, assisted and independent living programs and their counseling and substance abuse treatment programs in 2016 alone. Rob Bullock, Director of Development at the Broward House, explained how funds raised through Dining Out For Life impact Broward House, and what his organization is most
looking forward to during this year’s event. “What we are excited about is having restaurants in a bit wider geographic area this year for folks to choose from.” Bullock said. “We have participating locations from Pompano Beach to Oakland Park, in Wilton Manors and in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The great thing about Dining Out For Life is that the only thing people have to do is show up and eat, the restaurants do the rest since they are donating a portion of every check that day.” In 2016 Dining Out For Life raised a lot of dough – more than $26,000 to be exact. “The money we raise from this event is so important to use because it is unrestricted support. It helps us cover those things that of our grants do not. Recently we had a fire in one of the apartment buildings that we own and clients who qualify financially live in. The insurance deductible for the damage is something we can cover out of these funds,” Bullock said. Another example Bullock gave was that their industrial washer and dryer they use at their Assisted Living Facility gave out after 18 years. The new machines will cost us $17,000. “We estimate that we did about 92,000 loads of laundry for clients who were staying in the ALF while they were getting their health back MEMBER
and on the road to self-sufficiency, Bullock said. “Grant dollars will not pay for that kind of expense but dollars from an event like Dining Out For Life can.” According to Bullock, it’s not too late for restaurants to hop on the fundraising event that is sure to increase their traffic on the events day. Restaurants have until about two weeks before the event to sign-up and lock in their donation rates. In a press release, Broward House President and CEO Stacy Hyde states, “We invite everyone to go out and eat at one of our generous restaurant partners on April 27th and support our mission to provide care and prevent HIV. We currently have 21 committed and invite more restaurant to participate” Guests looking for a complete list of restaurants participating in this year’s Dining Out For Life can visit the Broward page on the Dining Out For Life website. Most of the restaurants are donating 25 percent on that day, but Alibi’s and Wilton Creamery stepped it up a notch and have committed to 50 percent. Each restaurant has restrictions so it’s important to check out the website. For instance, Alibi’s is only participating from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Openly Non-Binary Actor Challenges Emmys on Binary Acting Categories Brittany Ferrendi
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he first openly non-binary actor in a major television series has challenged the Television Academy on the Emmy Awards’ male and female categories. Asia Kate Dillon plays Taylor Mason in Showtime’s “Billions,” a character that also identifies as non-binary. Showtime chose to nominate Dillon for an Emmy Award, but were not sure whether to submit them for “best supporting actor” or “best supporting actress.” When Showtime reached out to Dillon to see what they preferred, they wrote a letter to the Academy for more information. "I'd like to know if in your eyes 'actor' and 'actress' denote anatomy or identity and why it is necessary to denote either in the first place?,” they wrote in a letter according to Variety. “The reason I'm hoping to engage you in a conversation about this is because if the categories of 'actor' and 'actress' are in fact supposed to represent 'best performance by a person who identifies as a woman' and 'best performance by a person who identifies as a man' then there is no room for my identity within that award system binary. Furthermore, if the categories of 'actor' and 'actress' are meant to denote assigned sex I ask,
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respectfully, why is that necessary?" The Academy responded, stating "anyone can submit under either category for any reason," meaning that they do not “check” the gender identity or sex of the nominee. Ultimately, Dillon chose the supporting actor nomination. "Given the choice between actor and actress, actor is a non-gendered word that I use," Dillon said. "That's why I chose actor." "We are happy with our productive dialogue with Asia based on their very thoughtful letter," a TV Academy spokesperson told Variety. "The Television Academy celebrates inclusiveness, and as we discussed with Asia, there is no gender requirement for the various performer categories. Asia is free to choose the category they wish to enter."
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Millennials Are Getting Gayer
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LAAD, the LGBT media advocacy group, has just released their 2017 Accelerating Acceptance report and it shows that more Millennials are coming out of the closet than any generation before them. The survey explains that people ages 18 to 34 are significantly more likely to identify as LGBT openly when compared to older generations, and suggests this could be because there is a rise of increasingly accepting environments — for many, family rejection is less frequent, job security is less at risk, and overall safety is less of a concern when coming out. “Without question, the past few decades have yielded remarkable progress for the LGBTQ community in the United States, with historic advancements achieved for both legal equality and cultural acceptance,” the report reads. “Today, more Americans than ever before support and accept their LGBTQ family members, coworkers and neighbors.” The online survey was administered from November 2-4 to 2,037 adults over the age of 18, 1,708 of which self-identified as heterosexual. Of the heterosexaul participants, it was found that far more heterosexual and cisgender Millennials consider themselves to be allies to the LGBT community than preceding generations. Sixty-three percent of Millennials (ages 1834) considered themselves to be allies with the LGBT community, and only 14 percent claiming to be resistant to or uncomfortable with LGBT-related situations. Generation X (52-71) heterosexual cisgender people were found to be comprised of 53 percent allies, with Baby Boomers (35-51) coming out to 51 percent. Millennials are more than twice as likely to identify as LGBT than Baby Boomers and 56
percent more likely than Generation X. Twelve percent of Millennials identify as transgender or gender nonconforming — meaning their gender identity is different than the one they were assigned at birth or does not fit in with conventional expectations of masculinity or femininity, according to the report. This is double the figure of Generation X individuals who identify similarly. “In the face of this new political reality, GLAAD’s Accelerating Acceptance 2017 survey reveals a remarkable new era of understanding and acceptance among young people who increasingly reject traditional labels like ‘gay/ straight’ and ‘man/woman,’ and instead talk about themselves in words that are beyond the binary — they are, in essence igniting an identity revolution,” the report reads. Millennials are much more likely to identify outside of established gender and sexuality norms — instead of identifying as male or female, gay or straight, more Millennials than any generation before them recognize that they fall somewhere on the spectrum in between. “GLAAD’s Accelerating Acceptance 2017 survey shows acceptance of LGBTQ people has reached historic levels, particularly among Millennials,” reads the report. “Perhaps because acceptance is more common than ever before, young people are now more likely to openly identify as LGBTQ while also rejecting traditional labels and seeing the world in terms that are beyond a binary.” The report continues, “This ‘identity revolution’ is likely spurred by increased cultural understanding and acceptance also indicates that many young people today feel freer to be themselves and thus likely to lead happier lives.”
You can find the entire Accelerating Acceptance 2017 report online at www.glaad.org/files/aa/2017_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf.
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acqueline Luongo is guilty of killing her roommate. Guilty of hiring a hitman to take out her girlfriend and guilty of tampering with witnesses, a Broward County jury determined on Wednesday. Luongo, 46, of Deerfield Beach now faces the death penalty. “I stared right into her eyes,” said Eddie, a dismissed juror who gave only his first name. Luongo had a team of four defense attorneys against two prosecutors. “It was a real evil look she gave me. I just looked away.” “The judge kept grilling me,” Eddie said. “Asking me if I had proof of my cruise ticket. I was glad I got off of it (the jury). I was a bit shocked.” Eddie’s pending vacation got him off jury duty. On Wednesday, Luongo was found guilty of the premeditated murder of her roommate, Patricia Viveiros. With circuit court judge Dennis Bailey presiding, jurors also convicted Luongo on attempting a contract killing of her ex-lover, Maria Calderon. Prosecutors said Luongo hired an undercover detective to kill Calderon.
The motive in Viveiros’ death, prosecutor Sharon Tate said, was a $50,000 life insurance policy. Luongo, allegedly, cashed out the policies – in a wig – following Viveiros’ demise. Eddie called the case “bizarre” and said he is glad he was released before jurors were selected. “Why (Luongo) she gave me that stare?...she was trying to psych me out,” he said.
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transgender university employees sue Over insurance cuts (AP) Two transgender University of Wisconsin employees are suing the state's insurance board and the UW System after it stopped covering sex reassignment procedures. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Wisconsin on Friday filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of anthropology graduate student Alina Boyden and cancer researcher Shannon Andrews. The plaintiffs, who both identify as female and receive health insurance through their jobs with the university in Madison, argue that their insurance unfairly deprives them of care for gender dysphoria, a documented medical condition in which a person feels trapped in the body of the wrong sex. They allege not providing the benefits amounts to discrimination based on sex and transgender status.
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(AP) Sean Smith and his husband paid more than $20,000 for a fertility procedure when they decided to have a child using a surrogate mother. They did not know at the time that if they were a heterosexual couple, they might have saved that money. Now, Smith and other members of Hawaii's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are lobbying for equal access to the financial help married, heterosexual couples enjoy under state law. They are pushing legislation that would require insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization for more couples, including making Hawaii the first state to require the coverage for surrogates, which would help male same-sex couples who must use a surrogate. "Now that marriage equality is the law of the land and is accepted, now let's turn to family building, and let's figure out how we fix all these inequities that exist," said Barbara Collura, president and CEO of Resolve, a national organization that advocates for access to fertility treatments. Hawaii is one of eight states that require insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization, a costly procedure where a doctor retrieves eggs from a woman, combines them with sperm from a man and then implants an embryo into a woman's uterus. But Hawaii's mandate applies only to married heterosexual couples because it covers the medical intervention only if a woman uses sperm from her spouse, leaving the LGBT community and single women behind. The measure pending in the Hawaii Legislature removes requirements that the egg and sperm come from a married
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"Too many transgender people continue to face discrimination in all facets of life, including health care access, and so I felt compelled to stand up and try to do something about it," Boyden said in a news release. The insurance board last summer added the benefits, which a consultant estimated could account for between $100,000 and $150,000, around .01 percent of annual state premiums. But board members voted 7-2 in December to drop the benefits days before they became effective after the state Department of Justice asked them to reconsider. The justice department wrote in a memo to the board that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rules unlawfully interpret Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to cover gender identity. A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice didn't immediately return a message.
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ebraska supreme court strikes down Ban on gay and lesbian foster parents
(AP) The Nebraska Supreme Court says a former state policy banning same-sex couples from serving as foster parents or adopting wards of the state was akin to hanging a "Whites Only" sign on a hiring-office door. The court on Friday ruled that a judge's 2015 ruling striking down the policy will stand. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by three same-sex couples in 2013. A judge ruled in the couples' favor, declaring as unconstitutional the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services policy. The state's high court rejected state attorneys' arguments that Lancaster County District Judge John Colburn's finding should be reversed because DHHS had quietly stopped enforcing the ban in 2012, making the matter moot. Its ruling slammed the 1995 administrative policy, which remained on the agency's website until February 2015, as evidence "that 'heterosexuals only' need apply to be foster parents." "It is legally indistinguishable from a sign reading 'Whites Only' on the hiring-office door," Justice John Wright wrote. The court also upheld an order for the state to pay nearly $174,000 in plaintiffs' legal fees. "There are tens of thousands of LGBT people who call the Cornhusker State home and thousands of Nebraska children in need of a foster care placement," said Danielle Conrad, executive director of the Nebraska American Civil Liberties Union, which was among the groups representing the couples. "This victory means that Nebraska's motto of 'Equality
before the Law' rings out more truly for all in our state." Asked why the state appealed if it wasn't seeking to reinstate the ban, the Nebraska Attorney General's Office replied in a written statement that "there were legitimate jurisdictional questions that needed to be considered by the court. The court has ruled." It did not elaborate
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men found guilty of running hungarian fla. 'gay sex slave ring' sentenced
(EDGE) Two Hungarian men who were found guilty in February of forcing young gay men into a sex slave ring were each handed a 30-year prison sentence from a Florida judge last week, the Miami Herald reports. Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki were sentenced after being convicted of human trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering. The men's victims were young gay men who were lured from Hungary to the U.S. and then forced into prostitution. In another case, a third man involved in the sex ring, Andras Janos Vass, was sentenced to over 11 years in prison, the newspaper reports. Acs and Berki met two of their victims via the dating website GayRomeo.com, prosecutors said. Another victim was "living with gypsies" as a prostitute and met Acs through Facebook. The three men testified in court and said they were flown to New York City under the belief they were going to work for a legal business in the U.S. Once in New York City, the men, who are in their early 20s, were then sent to Miami and "forced to live in cramped conditions while performing sex acts around the clock, sometimes with johns, other times on live web cameras, prosecutors said. The three were given little food and threatened with violence if they left," the Miami Herald writes.
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wo Hungarians will spend more than two decades in prison each for forcing young gay men into sexual slavery in Miami, a judge ruled on Friday. In a human trafficking case hailed as a major victory for Florida prosecutors, Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki will spend 25 years in prison each for forcing young gay men into human slavery. Acs and Berki were convicted of human trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering back in February. The two could have been sentenced to spend the rest of their lives behind bars. A third man, Andrew Vass, was previously sentenced to 11 years in prison for his part in the scheme. Vass’ punishment marked the first prison sentence in Florida for someone convicted of the human trafficking of gay men. Florida’s tougher human trafficking law went into effect in 2012. Prosecutors say Acs and Berki found two of their victims on the website GayRomeo. com and another on Facebook. The victims were young gay men, lured to the U.S from
Hungary and promised they would make up to $5,000 a month for legal escort work. Once they arrived, they were forced to prostitute themselves for months back in 2012, first in New York and later in Miami. The victims told investigators that the suspects "used various techniques to keep them enslaved, including isolating them from others, withholding their travel and identification documents, and using financial manipulation to keep them in constant debt. According to court reports, the pimps confiscated the victims’ passports and threatened to hurt their families back in Hungary if they disobeyed their orders. One victim, Mario Balog is pleased with the sentencing. His husband, Brian Suthers told SFGN Balog looks forward to putting the entire ordeal behind him. “He wants to learn to deal with the trauma,”Suthers said. “He still has panic attacks from the PTSD which get in the way of work and other everyday activities. But he’s in better spirits now that this is over.”
A third mAn, AndreW vAss, WAs previously sentenced to 11 yeArs in prison For his pArt in the scheme.
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Gays detained; killed
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his year’s World OutGames Miami 2017 will include a special Pulse memorial. The event, which is billed as a celebration of sports, culture and human rights across the globe will last 10 days starting May 26. On June 1 OutGames will present “Pulse Points” from 6 to 10 p.m. at the New World Center in Miami Beach. According to a press release, the interactive memorial will include dance, visual arts and poetry through 49 different artistic expressions. The number 49 signifies the 49 lives lost during the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. “World OutGames celebrates unity and inclusiveness, and we are proud to present Pulse Points as an artistic tribute to a tragic time in history,” World OutGames Miami Director of Cultural Arts Carol Coombes said in a statement. “This will be a space free of racism and bias that will transform negativity into a courageous forward direction, sending a global message of compassion, hope and love.” “Pulse Points” will include up to 200 artists, including the Orlando Gay Chorus, Ray Sullivan, Dance NOW! Miami, Miami Gay Men’s Chorus and more.
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here are reports of gay genocide in the Russian Republic of Chechnya, located in the North Caucasus region. On Friday, the U.S. State Department said it was concerned by reports of detentions and deaths of LGBT individuals. “We are increasingly concerned about the situation in the Republic of Chechnya, where there have been numerous credible reports indicating the detention of at least 100 men on the basis of their sexual orientation,” reads a press release by acting U.S. spokesman Mark C. Toner. “Some reports indicate many of those arrested have been tortured, in some cases leading to death. We categorically condemn the persecution of individuals based on their sexual orientation or any other basis.” Prior to the State Department’s statement, OutRight Action International condemned the situation and called for a stop to the “killings and persecution of gays in Chechnya.” “The perpetrators of this malicious campaign must be held accountable for the systematic detention, torture and killings of innocent men in Chechnya,” said Jessica Stern, executive director of OutRight Action International. “No government should get away with such wanton human rights violations.” Stern’s group cited reports in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta of more than 100 men, sources say, who have been arbitrarily detained and three who have
been executed for “non-traditional” sexual orientation. A former Soviet satellite nation located in the north caucasus region, Chechnya claims to be a republic independent of Moscow rule. However, there is no entry for Chechnya in the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook list of countries. Ramzan Kadyrov leads Chechnya, according to Wikipedia. In its statement of concern, the U.S. urged Russian officials to speak out. “We are deeply disturbed by recent public statements by Chechen authorities that condone and incite violence against LGBTI persons,” said the State Department. “We urge Russian federal authorities to speak out against such practices, take steps to ensure the release of anyone wrongfully detained, conduct an independent and credible investigation into these, reports and hold any perpetrators responsible.”
those who may be in distress or in need of help within Chechnya are encouraged to reach out to the russian LGBt Network at 8 800 555 73 74 (the call is free within russia). Additionally, anyone with information on the current situation in Chechnya can confidentially contact ILGA-europe at +32 2 609 54 10 or info@ilga-europe.org.
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all-girl party in palm springs draws 20,000
By Jillian Melero
(SFGN) The Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend brought more than 20,000 women to Palm Springs to party pool-side over five days last weekend. Performers included Lizzo, Cece Peniston, Margo, and comedy sets from Gina Yashere, Julie Goldman and more, the Daily Mail reports. Previous performers have included Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, The Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor, and Ke$ha. The SoCal festival, and precursor to Coachella, is named after singer and stress Dinah Shore, who founded the Kraft Nabisco Championship Golf Tournament in ’72. And
while not her doing, the party evolved after the golf tournament, taking Shore’s name. Now in its 27th year, the Dinah is considered one of the world’s largest parties for queer women. 'There is a unity here and a solidarity here — a belief in the collective expression of who you are,' party promoter Hanson told BuzzFeed. 'You are accepted here and celebrated here.' Sunday night’s celebrations also included” Party with a Purpose” and guest speaker Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
(SFGN) Hip-hop artist Taylor Bennett, released “Restoration of An American Idol,” his third album since 2013 in February. Over dinner at VYNL, New York on Thursday, Bennet spoke to Billboard about owning his identity as an artist, developing his sense of style, and on coming out as bi on Twitter last year. Bennett said coming out was about being open about who he was to his fans. I was about to be 21, I felt like I'm black, I'm a rapper -- there's a persona. You don't want to do anything that makes your fans not like you, but I realized, 'F--- it! You got to
be yourself; that's what my parents have always told me. The only people I felt like I deserved to tell was my fans because if your fans don't know you, how can they support you?” Bennet hopes his music can have a unifying effect on fans as he dreams about selling out huge shows. “…[The fans] see that there's black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor people all around them and just realize they're all here for music and that there's nothing different. I think that's the power music can have. Just reminding people that we're all human at the end of the day.”
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(AP) An LGBT rights group has filed a federal lawsuit demanding that Puerto Rico let transgender people correct the gender listed on their birth certificates. Lambda Legal says the territory's birth certificate policy is at odds with a law that allows people to change the gender indicated on drivers' licenses. It also says that violates the right to free speech under
the First Amendment. The lawsuit was filed Thursday, the same day that a group of transgender people interrupted a legislative hearing in Puerto Rico to protest a bill that would eliminate the rights of transgender employees of Puerto Rico's Senate to choose the bathrooms and clothes according to the gender with which they identify.
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Mormon Leader Asks Religion to Accept People of Different ‘Sexual Attractions’ Brittany Ferrendi
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top leader of the Mormon faith said there is room in the religion for those with non-heterosexual “sexual attractions” as long as they love God. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s semi-annual general conference, Jeffrey Holland told the crowd there was “room” in the faith for LGBT people, people of different cultures, with other family structures or those questioning their faith. “There is room for those with differing sexual attractions. In short, there is a place for everyone who loves God and honors his commandments,” he said. “When we disparage our uniqueness or try to conform to fictitious stereotypes — stereotypes driven by an insatiable consumer culture and idealized beyond any possible realization by social media we lose the richness of tone and timbre that God intended when he created a world of diversity.” According to KTVB.com, Holland is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, one of the top governing bodies of the LDS church. A newer member of the Apostles also encouraged tolerance in the Mormon religion.
Bill to Modernize HIV Criminalization Makes Progress Laws clears Florida Senate committee
Sean McShee “We must not be guilty of persecuting anyone inside or outside the church,” said Dale Relund. “Church history gives ample evidence of our members being treated with hatred and bigotry. How ironically sad it would be if we were to treat others as we have been treated.”
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n March 21, the Criminal Justice Committee of the Florida Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 628 (SB628). This bill would align Florida’s HIV criminalization laws with current science, modernizing them. The Health Policy Committee of the Florida Senate will vote on this bill next. Three other Senate Committees and the Florida House still have to approve it, before it becomes law. SB628 brings Florida’s HIV criminalization laws, written in the '80s, into this century. It requires proof of intent to infect and reduces the maximum sentence. Gender neutral, it replaces “sexual intercourse” with “sexual conduct.” SB628 treats HIV as one among many sexually transmitted infections. A conviction under current law results in a felony with five-year maximum sentence. Under SB628, a conviction would result in a misdemeanor with a one-year maximum sentence. SB628 requires proof of intent to infect. Use of a condom or compliance with a prescribed treatment would disprove intent to infect. As SB628 requires proof of “a substantial risk of transmission,” it would exclude spitting. SB628 replaces the term “sexual intercourse” with the term “sexual conduct.” Sexual conduct would include both mixed- and same-sex sexual conduct. The bill defines sexual conduct to include anal intercourse, vaginal intercourse, and oral sex, including “rimming.” This bill “normalizes” HIV as one of many bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic sexually transmitted infections. SB628 adds human papilloma virus and hepatitis to these infections. Kamaria Laffrey, Florida Community Organizer for Sero Project, an HIVcriminalization reform group, defined modernization as “making the laws current “ She referred to a growing consensus that people with a suppressed viral load cannot transmit the virus. She stressed the importance of keeping “your message clean and relatable to the legislators in your state.”
Some people associated with Black Lives Matter have criticized modernizing HIV Criminalization Laws. They charge that lawmakers, police, prosecutors, and judges target Black people for excessive punishment. They cite racial differences in mass incarceration and police violence as evidence. Even modernized HIV criminalization laws could still leave Black people vulnerable to police and prosecutorial excess. As a woman of color, Laffrey understands this criticism. She, however, remains focused on what can work to improve people’s lives now. The first step to viral suppression consists in knowing one’s HIV status. Laffrey described HIV criminalization as punishing “those that know their status and privileging those that are ignorant.” As such, these laws discourage HIV testing. Laffrey lauded SB628 as a bi-partisan effort. Rene Garcia, a Miami-Dade Republican has sponsored this bill. Daphne Campbell, a MiamiDade Democrat, has cosponsored it. Laffrey described Garcia as “very straightforward on what’s possible and what’s not.” They have been able to talk about necessary compromises, but have focused on modernization. She said, “We really lucked out with Garcia.” He has a history of supporting HIV issues in Florida. Garcia also chairs the Miami-Dade “Getting to Zero” Task Force. That group advises that county how to control HIV. Laffrey also praised the Florida HIV Justice Coalition, the activists behind SB628. She described them as, “A passionate bunch of people that are excited about this process happening in Florida. Watching reform happen in Iowa and Colorado, I was on the edge of my seat wondering when this would happen in Florida. They’re just an amazing group of people that are in it for the long haul.” The Florida HIV Justice Coalition meets once per month via webinar. Between meetings, people communicate via email. If someone wants to know more about this group, they can email Laffrey at Kamaria.laffrey@seroproject. com. If they would like to join, they can ask Laffrey to add them to the list serve.
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City. Every year, it seems that a very diverse group leaves the Prayer Breakfast motivated, excited, and energized to assist others and build community.” On the event’s website, FTLpray.org, Alan Pratt, lead architect for Church United describes the organization’s mission in a promotional video: “We recognize that we are part of a reality that is very broken.” The National Christian Foundation of South Florida is sponsoring the breakfast, which also features comments from Brad Formsma of ILikeGiving.com and Immaculée Ilibagiza, a publisher author from Rwanda, Africa. Church United’s mission is to “unite and encourage our community in fellowship and prayer,” reads its website. “Together we can change the context of Broward County,” said Pratt in a video. Single seat tickets cost $50. The breakfast is from 7 to 9:30 a.m. A representative for the National Christian Foundation of South Florida told SFGN on Monday the prayer breakfast is open to people of all religions. “From communications with a host committee member since this objection to Mr. Daly was first raised last week, I am led to believe that Mr. Daly's message will be about diverse groups working together, building partnerships for the benefit of the community, and uniting and encouraging our community in fellowship and prayer,” Seiler wrote. “Finally, I would hope that everybody (including all the organizers, speakers and attendees) will focus on all that lifts us up and unites us, rather than a few issues that divide us. Now, more than ever, we need to treat others like we would like to be treated.”
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en’s designer Andrew Christian will be stopping in Fort Lauderdale on his national book tour of SEX = POWER = FREEDOM, a book that shows underwear models in their natural habitat and is filled with messages of LGBT empowerment. SEX = POWER = FREEDOM is more than just a collection of pictures. Christian said that he started the book to be sexy and provocative, but that as he wrote it he began to incorporate more and more positive messages to the LGBT community. “When I went out to do this [book] I did so to let LGBT people know that they are not alone all around the world,” Christian said. “[This book] has inspired people and given them hope.” The book is 200 pages of glossy black and white photos that, according to the book’s description, “will push the limits of sexuality, create conversation, and stir quite a bit of controversy.” “Creating this art and coffee table book has been an endeavor into bringing positive awareness about LGBT empowerment about LGBT empowerment and how it relates to political freedom in the USA around the world,” the description continues. “This coffee table book features the Andrew Christian
Trophy Boy pushing the limits of sexual desires and what that means for everyone in modern society.” Christian has been to a lot of gay pride events all over the world, and he noticed that while American prides tend to be celebrations, pride events in other parts of the world tend to be political movements. “There are a lot more closeted people in those communities, and there are courageous people who are out and proud and have to deal with the ramifications of that,” Christian said. Christian submitted the book for print back in October, but said he rescinded the copy and rewrote much of it following Trump’s presidential win. “It is remarkable how our community always comes together, we have been through hard times before and we are going through hard times now, but we will get through them,” Christian said. If you want to get a signed copy of SEX = POWER = FREEDOM and meet Andrew Christian, come to the Pride Factory, located at 850 NE 13th St in Fort Lauderdale on April 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be a limited number of gold collector's books that will be raffled off during the event.
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his year's Miami Beach Pride celebration Of course, on the beach boardwalk was marked by perfect sunshine shirtless gay men and bikini-topped women weather, and rainbows in the forms were commonly found. The beach itself was of flags in a sea of thousands of LGBT South packed as well with those who wanted to Florida locals, out-of-towners and community really take advantage of the sun and sand. allies. On the actual day of the parade, the streets "I actually moved back to Miami from were lined with twinks, bears, muscle guys, Orlando today, and the Pride is the best drag queens, androgyny, flamboyance; as welcome back to this city. I love the energy well as lesbians and members of the trans that comes from the LGBT community — all of which community here in Miami. were diverse in race, It can't be replicated," said ethnicity and age. Johnathan Navedo, 24. The parade started on Fort Lauderdale resident 5th Street and Ocean Drive Janae Sweet, 23, was at the and traveled north to 15th event with friends. Street. There were 70-plus "It's a really just a day to parade floats, convertibles, get together with friends, marchers and motorcycles. have some drinks, have some Palace Bar, and others, were laughs and just be part of this packed tightly with thirsty - Ross Mathews community," she said. patrons. Grand Marshal Pride Week began on Friendly and flamboyant Monday, April 3, with the media personality Ross rainbow flag raising ceremony at City Hall Mathews was the parade's grand marshal. in Miami Beach, followed by the Miss Miami "We love this city. We love the people. And, Beach Pride Pageant and silent auction. The I love our community," Mathews said in a new title for Miss Miami Beach Gay Pride retweeted video Celebrity Cruises, a sponsor transitioned from last year's winner Kalah of Miami Beach Pride, posted on its Twitter Mendoza to this year's winner Joanna James. page from April 7. On the day of the parade, One key event was every evening from Mathews tweeted, "Extra proud today!" Thursday through Sunday in which "Pride Established by former Miami Beach Mayor, Lights the Night" paid tribute to the victims Matti Bower, as an initiative of the Miami of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Buildings Beach Gay Business Development Council, throughout the area lit up in the colors of the Miami Beach Gay Pride is a not-for-profit rainbow flag. organization that produces free, safe, quality The festival was host to a beach party, DJs, mass-appeal events that are open to all, and exhibitors, community booths and more. that include the Parade, Festival, Expo, and Signage included promotion of Madrid Pride, adjunct, officially sanctioned Miami Beach which takes place June 24 through July 2. Gay Pride events.
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he Florida House of Representatives, in a yes or no vote, declined to mandate ridesharing companies initiate antidiscrimination policies. Representative David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) forced the vote through the amendment process last week in Tallahassee. Richardson’s amendment would have prevented companies such as Uber and Lyft from discriminating against drivers and riders on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, handicap, age, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity. Ultimately, house bill 221 failed on a 70 to 44 vote on April 4. “Once again, Miami’s own State Representative David Richardson shows what it looks like to be a champion of #equality, just in time for pride week,” read a Facebook post from SAVE Dade, a South Florida human rights organization. Richardson told the Tampa Bay Times those who identify as LGBT have no statewide protections in using a transportation network company. He took to Facebook to express
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disgust with his house colleagues who voted no on the anti-discrimination amendment. “A fair question to ask : Are they only supporting the CWF bill because they know it will not be heard in any committee in the Florida House of Representatives? Now we know which members are with us, and which members oppose extending full rights to the LGBT community. The fight continues!,” Richardson posted.
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SFGN’s “Speak out” is a weekly feature giving a regular voice to South Florida LGBt leaders.
What's an LGBT related story or issue you'd like to highlight this week?
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I think now more than ever an issue that I'd like to highlight is the lack of intersectionality in our community. Queer and Trans people are monolingual in many languages, and represent a huge diversity of physical ability and can be found in every race, but most mainstream LGBTQ organizations and spaces aren't built for the people at the margins.”
— Gabriel Garcia-Vera, Community Activist/ Organizer
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The 9th annual Miami Beach Gay Pride parade took place this past Sunday along Ocean Drive which was a day for South Florida’s LGBTQ community and its allies to comes together to celebrate. This year, to ensure a safe environment, many Miami Beach businesses also displayed rainbow stickers indicating they’re safe places for anyone experiencing harassment.”
— Michael C. Gongora, former Vice Mayor of Miami Beach
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An excerpt from an article in the NYT: “that the United States Court of Appeals, for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights act protects gay workers from job discrimination, expanding workplace protections in the landmark law to include sexual orientation. This raises the chances that the politically charged issue may ultimately be solved by the Supreme Court.”
— Paul Smith, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel & retired Clinical Social Worker
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I was recently telling an associate there are 2 groups of people that get shit done - veterans and lesbians/gays. Not to single out the other group, yet, as a community member I can't help but notice the determination and organization the groups have in carrying out missions. Maybe it is because of the underlying challenges or "we are all in this together attitude" that brings passion that nurtures the mission to completion. There is something special about us. We are world change.”
— Sonya Pressley, BLAST Assistant Organizer
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Ray and I have an LGBT Historical Collection at the Stonewall National Museum. We've purchased a handwritten note from Tennessee Williams, on a Marriott note card, in which he talked about his lover's need for psychiatric help; a handwritten note from Bill Tilden, the most famous athlete in the first half of the 20th Century, from prison, where he was placed for allegedly touching a male hitchhiker; and a handwritten note from Maurice Sendak, with a drawing of his creature in "Where the Wild Things Are." They are all part of history, each with its own important story.”
— Brian McNaught, noted columnist, author and LGBT activist
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ntersectionality. Storytelling. Skill building. Those part in the two-day event. Most of the participants were were just some of the topics and themes at this year’s journalists from LGBT publications, or journalists who LGBT media conference. cover the LGBT community for traditional or mainstream The 8th annual LGBT Media Journalists Convening was outlets. Lizz Winstead, creator of the “The Daily Show,” held in Orlando March 23-26 at the Orlando Rosen Centre. emceed the event and provided comic relief throughout “This convening really opens my eyes to the many gender the two days. identities and lives we are leading that are sometimes Everyone SFGN interviewed hailed it as a success. foreign to one another,” said Mark S King, an "This was by far the most diverse of the attendee and author of the blog, My Fabulous three convenings I've been fortunate Disease. “I always learn something from to attend, and one of my main this event and go away with a dozen takeaways was the importance of “ONE OF MY story ideas. More importantly, I have understanding intersectionality MAIN TAKEAWAYS conversations with people who teach and why it should matter to WAS THE IMPORTANCE me through their lived lives.” today's journalist,” said Dawn OF UNDERSTANDING The event was presented by the Ennis, assistant news editor at INTERSECTIONALITY AND NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Q.Digital. Journalists. It has been funded and Some of the sessions WHY IT SHOULD MATTER sponsored by the Evelyn & Walter included: Objectivity is TO TODAY'S JOURNALIST.” Haas, Jr. Fund since its inception. Dead; International News This year the Arcus Foundation also Coverage Begins at the - dawn Ennis sponsored the event, which allowed Source; Visual Storytelling; aSSiStaNt NEWS EditOR organizers to add an extra day. Covering Transgender People at Q.diGital “I’ve been going to the convening for of Color; LGBTQ Equality and three years and this year's had a lot of new Religious Freedom; Covering Pulse; blood that really reinvigorated the trip for Intersectionality and Storytelling; Social me. There were more journalists from local LGBT Media and Social Justice Ethics; and Creating outlets that helped bring local color to the event,” said and Owning a New Beat. Mathew Rodriguez, a staff writer at Mic. “Also, this year's Participants were encouraged to tweet during the event felt like people were able to discuss the pressing need for using the hashtag #LGBTmedia17. As could be expected diversity in LGBTQ media. As a queer journalist of color, I the tag quickly drew a handful of trolls. really appreciated everyone's buy-in on the topic.” “#LGBTMedia17 ALL I can say is God is against it and no More than 70 journalists around the country took matter how you try to convince yourself that it is right, it's
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not. 1 Cor 6:9–10,” @lyan118 tweeted out. Being held in Orlando the Pulse shooting was naturally a big part of the discussions that took place. For many, emotions ran high during the event. There was a panel of journalists who spoke about covering the massacre, a survivor of the tragedy who spoke about his experience, and an organized trip to the Pulse nightclub. “Hearing a Pulse survivor talk about the emotional pain caused by exploitative journalism in the wake of the tragedy was made all the more real when we visited Pulse later that evening” said Daniel Villarreal, editor at UnicornBooty.com. “Most of us had never been to Pulse and the emotional scene really bonded us together. Someone read the victims' names aloud at the site, while others just quietly wept or reflected.” The Pulse visit inspired Villarreal. “It reminded us of our obligations to truth, queer communities of color worldwide and to each other as queer siblings and colleagues,” he added. “Journalism can feel very competitive much of the time; the convening and experiences like that remind us what's really at stake.” Another attendee, Curtis Wong, senior editor of Queer Voices at The Huffington Post, added “The significance of having the 2017 event in Orlando less than a full year after the Pulse tragedy can't be overstated. Hence, hearing directly from survivor Ricardo Negron-Almodovar, as well as journalists and historians who witnessed the devastation firsthand, was a significant moment for me personally and professionally." For freelancer writer Elizabeth Daley, who wrote profiles of each of the 49 victims after the tragedy for the Advocate, the Pulse visit was especially meaningful.
FEatuRE lgbt media conference “It was really powerful to visit the site of the pulse shooting after writing about it from a distance,” she said. Daley said the session helped her see how the Pulse shooting intersected with undocumented immigrants and gun control. “It was also powerful to hear from a shooting survivor about the fact that some undocumented pulse survivors are having trouble obtaining visas which are generally afforded to victims of violent crimes. These visas would enable survivors to work legally and without them the victims are stuck,” she said. “The Pulse shooting is one incident where the struggle for LGBT equality is linked with the lack of gun control and the struggles of undocumented immigrants. It's an important reminder that human rights issues are LGBT issues and LGBT issues are human rights issues.” Another moment that stood out for some of the attendees was not a session or panel, but a minor controversy that erupted during the event. the convening requested one of the public bathrooms be gender neutral and it was marked as such. Some guests though from another conference at the hotel harassed attendees of the convening outside of the restroom. The hotel quickly intervened and handled the situation. Later they addressed the attendees emphasizing ignorance would not be tolerated at their establishment. "To no one's surprise, our conference's 'All Gender Bathrooms' did cause a scene,” said Leo Duran, a radio/multimedia journalist for KPCC Southern California Public Radio. “But to my surprise, it got handled before we got to it.” Convening organizer and editor of Q. Digital Media, Bil Browning added, “While there were some hiccups with transphobic guests attending another conference, the response from the Rosen Centre was not only quick and determined, they went the extra length to make sure the group knew we were a priority and any behavior that wasn't welcoming wouldn't be tolerated. The entire staff went well beyond
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normal hospitality to ensure the event wasn't just successful, it was a positive experience for everyone.” Going forward Derrick Clifton, a freelance writer and leader of a breakout session on intersectionality, feels hopeful. “In the era of Trump, and moving forward, we need intentional focus on building networks of support solidarity. I felt that beginning to blossom amongst members of the LGBT media during the convening. We need each other and we need intersectionality to get this right, and we can use our platforms and our influence to put the needs of the LGBT community's most marginalized people up front and center. Because in fixing the problems for those most in need, we fix them at the grassroots for everyone." Clifton’s session was a highlight for Trish Bendix, editor in chief of GO Magazine. “It was a really conversational and still informational sharing of thoughts, ideas and tactics that everyone in the room benefitted from, myself included,” she said. For others it was the networking opportunities that they enjoyed most. “It was a great chance to network, and it gave me a chance to start writing on a wider variety of topics by helping me make connections with the right outlets. I think that this sort of cross-pollination makes for a stronger, and more vibrant media environment,” said transgender activist and freelance writer Brynn Tannehill. While Dino-Ray Ramos, another freelance writer added, “as a first timer to the event it was enlightening and insightful to be around and hear from like-minded voices furthering the conversation on LGBTQ issues.” Organizer Bil Browning is already looking forward to next year’s event while everyone SFGN interviewed appeared to be inspired from the convening. “It was great for me to get out of my own bubble and hear about the struggles that journalists from around the country are dealing with. It really helps with my own job to understand what I can learn from them, and what I can teach them as well,” said Leo Duran, radio/multimedia journalist. While Lynnette Beth Mcfadzen, bisexual activist and host of The BiCast, added, “I feel the groundwork for powerful change will come from it.”
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ecently, the trans community increased visibility and acceptance of trans celebrated one of our very few people in modern American culture. annual holidays, the International At the same time, increased visibility and Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s a day to acceptance also makes trans people bigger recognize and celebrate trans people and and more attractive targets to those who raise awareness of anti-trans discrimination. hate us and oppose our right to be seen as It’s important to understand, however, that equals by our fellow citizens. visibility can be a double-edged sword for Violence against trans people is on the trans people. rise, particularly against When I came out trans women of color. It i’ll never hide twenty years ago, coming seems like every red state out publicly as trans and in the country wants to Who or WhAt i starting to transition was deny us the use of a public Am, But At leAst tantamount to willingly bathroom, and despite putting an end to your career his campaign promises the people i or at least your current job, not to, President Trump interAct With in doesn’t seem to have met almost as a matter of course. Strong marriages, families, the course oF my an Obama-era regulation or and romantic relationships executive order protecting dAily liFe treAt ended. Responsible tenants trans people that he doesn’t were evicted. Good students me liKe A lAdy. in want to weaken or repeal (if were expelled. In many he hasn’t already). the end, thAt’s cases, the start of a new life While a political solution reAlly All i’ve in a new gender role meant may still be years or even the immediate and complete decades away, there’s an ever WAnted. end of the old one. effective social solution to Things are different now. the problems which come Employers are more supportive of their trans with being a member of the minority group employees, families are more likely to stay that’s the current right-wing political, and together after a family member transitions, all too often literal, punching bag. The and trans students are more likely to problem is that not all trans people can take continue to be welcome and accepted at their advantage of it. schools. About half of the population of the We used to call it “woodworking” back in U.S. lives in jurisdictions where trans people the day, and for those who of us can pull it are protected by law against discrimination. off, it’s pretty easy to do. All that’s required All of this progress is a direct result of the is for a trans person who isn’t visibly trans
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to shut up, live their life quietly as the person they are, and not do or say anything which would identify them as trans. I’ll admit to finding the prospect tempting. Years ago, as a newly-out trans woman, I looked pretty good and rarely got hassled. As time, age, and the inability to consistently afford Premarin caught up with me, my masculine physical traits resurfaced, and hence, I became more visible as a trans woman. Job opportunities dried up. I became the target of jokes and casual mistreatment. I was noticed more and welcomed less in public spaces. Life became more of a struggle just in general. After several years, I was able to get back on estrogen, this time on much more effective injectable estradiol. When I had gender confirmation surgery a couple of years ago, the hormones became even more effective. Sometime between then and now, I noticed something interesting: I’ve become invisible as a trans woman. It was the little things that first clued me in.
I no longer experience harassment in places I once expected to. Without exception, people now refer to me as “she” and “her” without having to be prompted. Men hold doors open for me. “Yes, ma’am,” “No, ma’am,” “Thank you, ma’am.” I’m not ashamed to admit that I love it. I’m also fully conscious that I’m very lucky in many respects. I’m just a hair over 5’10” – slightly tall for the average woman but not enough to raise any eyebrows. I’m overweight, which helps to soften my facial features. I’m in my mid-50’s, no longer the object of sexual interest I once was. I probably have more estrogen in my body than most natal women my age, and that helps too. I’m also white, and I know that makes a difference in how I’m perceived as well. It would be so easy. I could do it, and yet, I know I never will. There’s still too much to fight for, too much to do. I’ll never hide who or what I am, but at least the people I interact with in the course of my daily life treat me like a lady. In the end, that’s really all I’ve ever wanted.
rebecca Juro is a nationally-published freelance journalist and radio talk show host who is the Media Correspondent for the Advocate website. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, the Washington Blade, Gay City News, the Albany times union, and the Advocate magazine, among others. rebecca lives in Philadelphia and shares her life with a somewhat antisocial cat.
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n increasing number of states are risking harm children in foster care by allowing discrimination against LGBTQ people and others who wish to foster or adopt them. South Dakota on March 10 enacted a law stating that no child-placement agency may be required to provide service that conflicts with its “sincerely-held religious belief or moral conviction,” even if they are receiving public funds or tax benefits — a move widely seen as targeting LGBTQ prospective parents. The Alabama House advanced a similar bill March 16, Georgia did so the next day, and others are pending in Oklahoma and Texas. Michigan, North Dakota, and Virginia already have such laws in place. Unlike the public outcry when Indiana and North Carolina passed anti-LGBTQ laws in 2015 and 2016, respectively, the public response to the latest bills seems tepid at best. “There’s not the same level of mobilization,” said Emily Hecht-McGowan, chief policy officer of Family Equality Council, in an interview. Part of this may be because of a misconception about which course of action better serves children. Proponents of the child-placement bills say that forcing agencies to close rather than to comply with nondiscrimination laws causes harm by reducing the number of agencies available to serve children. They point to agencies affiliated with Catholic Charities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., which closed rather than comply with state laws saying they must not discriminate against same-sex couples. Hecht-McGowan asserts, however, that the closing of these agencies has made “no discernable impact” on children finding homes. First, these agencies did not make that many public placements to begin with. Catholic Charities’ own annual surveys showed that nationally, they finalized 2,000 to 2,500 adoptions per year between 2008 and 2011 (when they stopped reporting this data), only about four percent of all adoptions. Yes, it is troubling if even one child in need
does not find a home. The providers that closed, however, transferred all their cases to other agencies. In fact, when Illinois cancelled its contract with Catholic Charities in 2012, the percentage of adoptions performed by public child welfare agencies in the state went up four percent. The reasons why are unclear, but the data argues against the idea that shuttering discriminatory agencies reduces the number of placements. It is the current crop of bills, not their absence, that is harmful, Hecht-McGowan said. “All this does is target children. The problem is lack of families, not lack of social service providers.” The need for families is urgent. There are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States, with 103,000 of them awaiting adoption, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Of those, 26 percent wait more than two years and six percent wait more than five years before finding a permanent home. Between 23,000 and 24,000 foster children turn 18 each year without ever finding one. Children who lack permanent homes have added risk of major difficulties in transitioning to a healthy adulthood, the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) reminds us in its recent Issue Brief, “License to Discriminate.” And on an economic level, the longer children are in care, the greater the costs to the child welfare system. MAP tells us, too, that “States consistently report that one of the biggest obstacles to placing children is finding interested, qualified families.” LGBTQ people play an important role in addressing this. Samesex couples are four times more likely than married different-sex couples to be raising adopted children and six times more likely to be raising foster children, with an estimated 16,000 same-sex couples raising more than 22,000 adopted children in the U.S. as of 2013, per UCLA’s Williams Institute. While LGBTQ prospective parents in some
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locations may simply be able to go to agencies they feel will not discriminate, this is harder in places where there are fewer agencies to choose from, Hecht-McGowan noted. Youth in care, moreover, don’t get a choice of agency or caseworker, she added. Under the new legislation, agencies could cite religious beliefs to place LGBTQ children into homes where the parents might try to “pray away the gay” or force them to undergo the discredited practice of conversion therapy. The danger isn’t just for LGBTQ children, either. HRC noted on its blog March 16 that this legislation means that agencies could refuse to place foster children (of any identity) with LGBTQ relatives, even though placement with extended family is “often considered to be in the best interest of the child.” LGBTQ people aside, MAP adds, “A child who just lost both his or her parents could be denied adoption by an aunt who is an unmarried mother.” What to do? Family Equality, HRC, and the
ACLU are among the organizations variously testifying in state hearings, identifying local families who can testify to the negative impact of these bills, and working to raise awareness. Individuals in any of the states with pending legislation should call (don’t just e-mail) their legislators, Hecht-McGowan says. If a bill passes, call the governor and ask for a veto. MAP has also created a guide for “Talking About Religious Exemptions and Adoption Discrimination,” which may be helpful to those advocating with either legislators or neighbors. Read it at lgbtmap.org. If you are a former foster child, an adoptive child, or a foster or adoptive parent, HechtMcGowan advises, “Tell your story. When people learn an issue impacts someone they love, it changes minds.” And everyone should help spread the word. “Laws like this help no one,” Hecht-McGowan affirms, but adds, “We need public outrage and momentum and energy” to stop them.
Dana rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Media Award-winning blog and resource directory for LGBtQ parents.
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haring politically-charged articles on social media is one form of social activism, but it’s clear many women in South Florida want to do more. That’s the reason more than a hundred women and a handful of men gathered at the Pride Center on Thursday, March 16 for Nasty Women – Women’s Activism 101. Those in attendance heard from several speakers on a panel: Equality Florida’s Cindy Brown, Planned Parenthood’s Carly Cass, Community Advocate Jessmarie Gonzalez, Educator T Peña, Spoken Word Performer May Reign, Community Organizer Jasmen Rogers and Social Justice Educator Lutze Segu. The Pride Center’s Roya Amirniroumand moderated the discussion.
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The goal of the evening’s discussion was to talk to women about the various strategies available to help them become involved as activists in meaningful ways. What took place was a free wielding conversation about women’s rights, oppression, trans rights and race. The conversation kicked off with the panel giving advice on how to start as an activist. “Know who your elected representatives are,” said Cindy Brown of Equality Florida. “Know their position and how they voted. The most effective way to reach out to your representative is face to face. Visit them in their offices in Tallahassee or Washington, DC.” Community Organizer and Black Lives Matter Activist Jasmen Rogers advised women to find their focus by asking themselves what they feel compelled to do. “A lot of people want to join us,” she said. “We need writers, cooks, photographers, journalists and more. “We need a lot that doesn’t involve civil disobedience. Ask yourself, ‘what can I do? What do I want to do? That will help you figure [out] how you can contribute.” Educator Lutze Segu told the audience to think locally. “Give money to grassroots, local organizations,” she advised. She also encouraged new advocates to revisit past movements of activism. “Queer women, trans folks, black and brown women have always been resisting. Just because you are waking up to it, doesn’t mean it’s new.”
Educator T Peña says new activists should start small. “It’s easy to get overwhelmed,” Peña said. “Figure out what you're passionate about. Break that down to a molecular level.” One main message that was in the undertone of the evening – there is universal experience of womanhood. For example, Cindy Brown suggested attendees should not unfriend those on social media who may disagree with them politically. “It’s important for us not to shut ourselves off to the opposition,” she advised. “Understanding where the opposition is coming from can help us have a conversation.” But Lutze Segu disagreed. “We don’t need everyone to get it,” she countered. “Some people are going to be bigoted and homophobic. Peace to them – most Americans are mainstream and can be converted.” Guidance on ways to deal with the onslaught of social media opinions came up a lot during the conversation. “Sometimes I shut out social media to avoid burnout,” T Peña said. “The constant barrage of news can put you in a depressing place.” “I take a day out of the week that I spend with my son,” Jessmarie Gonzalez said. “Surround yourself with a great group of friends for support.” Planned Parenthood Organizer Carly Cass relies on her friends but offers this advice. “When you are with that group of friends, limit the venting.”
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The conversation eventually moved to the future with the panel discussing their goals for the next year. “My goals are to inspire the youth through literacy,” said Author, Entrepreneur and Spoken Word Artist May Reign. “Activism does not look like anything. It doesn’t wear a head wrap. It doesn’t wear a leather jacket with an afro. We need people in the control room, the boardroom and on the block.” Carly Cass plans to invest in grassroots candidates. Lutze Segu wants women to spend the coming months reading and studying other social movements. “If we know our history,” she told the audience, “We know we can survive Trump.” Race was another recurring subject that came up often during the discussion. Cindy Brown asked what she could do to be better advocate for people of color. Lutze Segu responded. “I think white folks need to do a reckoning,” she stated. “You are complicit in white supremacy. You benefit from white supremacy. You don’t want to make a black or brown person your cultural tour guide. Talk to other white people about oppression.” Other topics included ways cis women could be more supportive of their transgender sisters and supporting organizations like Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter, Miami Workers, SAVE and The Pride Center. Audience members said they supported having regular meetings to discuss activism – the question is will it help everyone get on the same page.
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hicago’s gay community lost a giant last week with the passing of Sidetrack bar manager Chuck Hyde. He was 55. “You can’t mention gay Chicago without mentioning Chuck,” said Mark Hunter, co-owner of Hunters Nightclub. “He was a fixture in the community. A real icon.” Hyde passed away on April 6 from complications following open-heart surgery, Hunter told SFGN. A celebration of life tribute to Hyde is in the works for next month at the Wilton Manors boutique nightclub. “We’re all in shock,” Hunter said. Hyde had moved from Chicago to South Florida and was helping the crew at Hunter’s. Mark Hunter described Hyde as a gentle and confidant man. “Chuck was power with grace tempered by humanity,” Hunter said. “He had a great sense of humor, was funny and handsome. He was one of those rare people who seemed to have it all.” Hyde went to work at Sidetrack, a popular video bar on Halsted Street in Chicago in 1982 and eventually rose to co-owner status. He is survived by his husband, Randy D’Agostino. The men married three years ago in Palm Springs, California and were nearing 24 years together as a couple.
“He was my husband, my best friend,” D’Agostino told the Windy City Times. “We traveled, and had adventures. We appreciated our friends very much.” Hyde was inducted into the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2001. He had a reputation, friends say, of putting together successful fundraisers for various organizations ranging from Equality Illinois to Frontrunners Chicago to AIDS Legal Council of Chicago to the Gerber/ Hart Library and Archives. Hunter said Hyde was a humble man who preferred staying out of the “limelight” and did his best work behind the scenes. Sidetrack, a staple in Chicago’s “boystown” neighborhood, posted a tribute to Hyde on its Facebook page on Friday, saying Hyde “influenced much of what Sidetrack has done as a business.”
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Inside The Leather On Cooper Hipp
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ooper Hipp was inside the gate watering his garden when I arrived. Was this a domestic tableau framed for my benefit? Wouldn’t be the first time I’d arrived to conduct an interview at the subject’s home to be greeted graciously but with premeditated expression. No problem. That’s what I’d do if I were under the scope. Once inside their classic Florida ranch, I am introduced only in passing to “the husband” who looks up from his work desk with a brief smile. So it’s to be one of those “husband within earshot in the next room” interviews. Wouldn’t be my first. There was Ray Boltz, Chuck Nicholls, Carlo Infante, Dermot Meagher, Brian McNaught, Mark King and John McNeill to name but a few. It’s what I’d do with my husband. Keep him in the kitchen cooking something aromatic rather than risk him jumping in to correct my tailored narrative. Hipp is wearing a tight gauzy tee shirt bearing a faded HRC logo, displaying both his activism and his fine physique. Smart dressing for the work at hand, a profile of a complex man who has continuously stepped out of his shell to embrace newly discovered realities within himself. Earlier in my car, I thought he’d probably present himself in biker gear, but other than a mismatched leather belt (brown) and braided bracelet (black) he was embraced by just the more common “cotton, the fabric of our life.” We sat down in shade by the pool, where I began to unpack the questions that would introduce you to a man who fascinated me and had an unusual story. That is, after all, why I had asked for this. Over glasses of chilled water (I laughed when he disclosed that he had poured himself a drink of something stronger before my arrival.) we began to sort out the deceptions from the truth, placing each in its separate pile on the table between us. He spoke as if shuffling a deck
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of tarot cards, turning over only those to which I pointed, revealing startling and sometimes painful images. With luck and a little skill, Cooper Hipp would be surprised by what his own hand revealed. That is what happened. If not, you wouldn’t have this to read. He tells me that he grew up in comfortable circumstances and was afforded a private school education that seeded within him a sense of propriety. “I was always a pleaser. I’ll be whoever you want me to be. Right schools, right MBA, right jobs, all early in life. At 28, I was the largest video game buyer in the world. I played by the rules. I fell in love by the rules. I was already out and living in Japan when I met the woman who became my [now ex-] fiancé,” he said. “I was out in a very sophisticated way. I remember a moment in Japan when an elderly lady dressed in a traditional kimono walked up to me and placed her hands on my shoulders. I asked my translator what she said. He told me she said, ‘You are like water in a stream filled with rocks. You move around them.’ I didn’t know what it meant at the time. Now I do.” In Kentucky, he came out to his father who was on his way to go duck hunting. He accepted his son’s truth. His mother later told him that his father had then gone to meet his buddies at the duck blind where he said to them, “Coop just told me he is gay. Let me tell you this. If he has any trouble from anyone in this town, they will have to answer to me.” “But there is a bad update to that story. During all the years since I had since I came out, I always dated only the ‘right’ guys. Prominent men, actors. But when I told my father I was getting married to a man, no response. He wouldn’t talk to me for many months,” Hipp said. “And then, I
found out my father contracted cancer. I reached out to him. Still no response. Both my brother and my mother had died young. Then I found out that I had gotten cancer from the common HPV virus. I finally got through to my father and said, ‘Listen, we have only each other left. You have cancer, I have cancer, we have to get through this together.’ That did it.” Hipp was never sure why his father had shut him out. He thinks that perhaps it was because in announcing his marriage to a man, he was stepping out of his “well managed gay persona” and entering his own skin. He was breaking the rules. “My father could deal with the theoretical gay me, but not the real one,” he said. “And, certainly not the one with a closetful of hidden leather gear!” Hipp breaks the narrative to recall an earlier gay lover of six years who cheated on him relentlessly but was full of hostile accusations about imagined infidelities. That lover accused Hipp of bringing crab lice into their bed when it was actually the other way around. Hipp had been 100 percent faithful. A subsequent horrendous relationship of ten years was sexual for only the first few. Hipp again explains that he had a vision of expectations defining a relationship as a structure in which one keeps up appearances. The first relationship had been very abusive. Hipp said that in the course of the second one, “I seemed to hit rock bottom, to use the terms of AA. I had gotten my father through treatment for alcoholism, and through the sudden death of my mother by stroke and the sudden death by heart attack of my brother who had severe psychological problems, holding my mother hostage at one point. I had trusted my second partner financially and he had abused that trust. I had literally no money despite
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having an excellent job. I didn’t see what was happening to me. I kept up the façade. I had to sell stuff on eBay just to buy a plane ticket to escape to Florida. “I met my husband, Mick, on an app called RECON. I had dipped a toe into the leather world when I had lived in LA. I used to wear the gear only for myself, in private. RECON is a leather community,” he said. “Mick was sexpositive instead of sex-shaming about leather. I had never before had that experience. He gave me freedom without judgment. I did a photo shoot for “Leatherwerks” in gear! I was openly in leather. I was finally writing my own book. I was a runner-up in the Lambda Mens Calendar contest! My Facebook page is now fully reconciled with everything I am.” “I remember the first time I looked at myself in the mirror in full leather. I loved what I felt. So liberating. I was seeing my real self enhanced. I wasn’t just Cooper. I was Neon Cooper, a long way from where I was. I was no longer stuck. Now, I get into my gear to celebrate myself and my victory over cancer and shame. I hear from so many men who still feel stuck and need to find their way out. It wasn’t an easy road for me. I remember when my father told me he had found my leather gear in my closet. I felt like a child punished.” How did Hipp overcome his terrible challenges? He doesn’t know. “Boy, did that Japanese woman call it,” he said. He plans to start a venture in which he would help men become “unstuck.” He is often contacted by men from all over the world who have read his story online and want to know the keys to his survival. He is just 47 years old. He has not yet looked at all the cards in his hand. Some of them will bring happiness to himself and others.
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PRIDE FACTORY TURNS 21 The Pride Factory celebrated their 21st anniversary on April 2nd, 2017. Everything in the store was 21% off. raffle took place around 6 p.m., where almost every single customer went home with goodies. Carina Mask
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It’s true: you’ve outgrown your favorite sweater, your best shirt, and all your summer shoes. The only thing that fits is a pair of trousers that were once too big – but in the new book “The Pants Project” by Cat Clarke, you might have to fight to wear even those. The first day of middle school stinks to begin with, but it was worse for Liv. It wasn’t just the newness that bothered her. It wasn’t that Bankridge Middle School was bigger. The thing she dreaded was that the school had a dress code, which meant wearing a skirt. Liv hadn’t worn a skirt in years. This was going to be horrible. But okay, admittedly, the first day didn’t kill her, though she learned fast that Bankridge had its share of Mean Girls. The boy she had to sit next to in homeroom, Jacob, was cool (she’d rather’ve sat with her best friend, Maisie). And PE class wasn’t bad, as long as Liv changed before everybody else got to the locker room. Changing clothes in a crowd of loud girls made Liv uncomfortable. That’s because she knew she was transgender, a boy in a girl’s body. Being trans was the Secret she wished she could tell somebody, but she was afraid. Her moms would probably understand but Liv wanted to wait, for many good reasons. She’d tell when the time was right; until then, she’d endure sixth grade. Except life took a turn for the worse. Maisie started hanging with the Mean Girls, and she didn’t want to be Liv’s best friend
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t’s an oft-quoted line; “Cooking is art and baking is science.” Alton Brown proves that it’s all about the science! The Food Network host and resident food nerd brings his one-man show, “Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science” to the Broward Center on Apr. 19. With a perfect blend of science, food and music in two hours of pure entertainment, James Beard Award-winner Brown dishes out exciting experiments, sizzling puns and delicious delicacies, combined with interactive fun that gets audiences members involved. Tickets range from $45 to $125. Beehive Kitchen recently opened at 6312 N. Andrews near Cypress Creek. The casual restaurant features bowls filled with an array of vegetables, grains, proteins and sauces. Diners create their made to order meal by choosing a base ingredient, such as lemon basil quinoa or sweet potato glass noodles and choice of proteins such as; ahi tuna poke, soy charred steak, or almond crusted chicken and vegetables. The menu offers a variety of gluten-free options and also features fresh, cold-pressed juices, prepared daily in-house. In addition to the Cypress Creek location, Beehive Kitchen plans to open locations in Coral Springs and on Las Olas. For more info go to beehivekitchen.com or call 954-541-8787.
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So much for, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”! Long named as one of the best restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, the popular Beauty & The Feast in The Atlantic Hotel, will change its name, menu and brand image. The hotel’s management has taken over management and ownership of the dining space, dumping its former operator. The new name is the imaginative, Atlantic Grill. The new menu demonstrates an equal lack of creativity. Among the items being touted on the “new” menu are such tired and clichéd dishes as; coconut shrimp, seafood pasta and lobster mac & cheese. The one smart idea that has been retained is that Sunday brunch will continue to feature a bottomless supply of champagne, mimosa, Bellini, Prosecco, bloody Mary and screwdriver cocktails for $18. For more info, go to the hotel’s web site, atlantichotelfl.com or call 954-567-8020. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, where my sister spent most of her high school years getting stoned, has a new restaurant, which she would have appreciated when she got the munchies! Park & Ocean, sits amid a shady grove along A1A, and features its own in-house brewery, Shady Brewing. The brewery will begin by offering cold-brewed
coffee, teas and will soon introduce craft beer. The Park & Ocean menu features twists on classic bowls and salads, such as the Superfood salad made with quinoa and kale and the Acai Bowl topped with gluten-free granola, honey drizzle and shaved coconut. The menu also boasts a variety of handheld treats including tacos, gourmet grilled cheese and burgers. The extensive bar list will include beers, cocktails, wine and frozen drinks. For more information, check out ParkAndOcean.com or call 954-3572606. SuViche, the Peruvian-Japanese fusion restaurant, is introducing a new bar concept and revamped menu. The restaurant has introduced 15 new craft cocktails and shots, at both its Wynwood and Las Olas locations. New cocktails include the Lucid Dream with gin, anise macerado pisco and mint, and the Twisted & Bitter, which combines reposado tequila, Amaro Lucano, Campari, Lillet Rouge, chocolate and orange. Six new dishes, all inspired by the restaurant’s Japanese-Peruvian roots, have been added to the menu. Camote, a specialty sushi roll includes torched sweet potato, fresh tuna and cucumber. Those not fond of raw fish will enjoy the Butcher’s Roll, which features juicy steak with a
touch of garlic cream cheese. Among the entrée options are causa saltado; crispy panko breaded causa paired with choice of chicken, shrimp or steak, and salmon Nikkei which stacks seared salmon on a bed of mixed quinoa and vegetables with rocoto pepper vinaigrette. For more information, go to suviche.com. Remember that episode of Golden Girls where they attend a murder mystery dinner? Here’s your chance to do your best Blanche (or Dorothy or Rose or Sophia, whomever you identify with). The Embassy Suites at Miami International Airport will host a series of murder mystery dinners on Saturdays, Apr. 22 and May 6 and 13 which feature a seated four-course dinner. The event starts out with a reception featuring tray-passed hors d’oeuvres, followed by the meal, which includes salad, an entree and dessert. The top sleuth wins a prize package at the end of the evening. For more information call 866-496-0535. A Fort Lauderdale landmark since its opening in 1957, Ernie’s Bar-B-Q, 1843 S Federal, closed after being sold and its future is uncertain. A handwritten sign posted on the door read, “Closed for repairs.” Orange traffic cones blocked the parking lot entrance at 1843 S. Federal Highway.
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“Kinky Boots,” the tony Award-winning Broadway musical by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, finally makes a tour stop this week at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. the heartfelt story of a struggling shoe manufacturer who saves his company with the help of a sassy drag queen and her fabulous designs will have you laughing one minute and tearing up the next. tickets start at $27 at Kravis.org. Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy.
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Panic! At the Disco concludes their “Death of a Bachelor” tour tonight at 7 p.m. at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. The Las Vegas-based band will sing many of their hits inspired by 1960s boy bands like the Beatles, Zombies and Beach Boys. (An added bonus: Lead vocalist Brendon Urie is quite the heartbreaker.) The band will share the stage with MisterWives and Saint Motel. Tickets start at $35.25 at Ticketmaster.com.
It’s Easter. Go on an adult egg hunt along Wilton Drive this evening and don’t forget to pull out your glamorous Easter bonnets. Make like Judy Garland in the classic film, “Easter Parade,” and you just might win prizes in one of the contests at local bars. If you happen to see a giant bunny and you haven’t had a shot or two, it’s probably a “furrie” who got lost looking for one of those kinky animal sex parties.
One night only! Island City Stage, 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors, will present a staged reading of Michael Aman’s new play, “Stalker Bob and His Mother” at 8 p.m. A married couple, Jim and Jimmy, have retired to Florida and are thrown into a madcap escapade when a trick turns out to be the son of a career criminal who uses her son’s charm to lure victims. Free, donations accepted. Info at IslandCityStage.org.
“Rocktopia,” tonight at 8 p.m. at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, is a revolutionary concert celebrating the fusion of classical music with classic rock featuring five world-class vocalists, five top notch rock musicians, an orchestra and choir, performing music by Queen, Mozart, Journey, Handel, U2, Tchaikovsky, Heart, Beethoven, Styx, Foreigner and more. Tickets start at $30 at BrowardCenter. org.
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Neil David Seibel, star of “Normal Giant,” is one of the independent artists featured during the Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival, April 20 – 23. Submitted photo.
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roward College will host the third annual Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival, April 20 – 23. The festival will feature dozens of experimental performances by emerging artists in sometime unconventional venues. According to festival director Brad Beckman, fringe festivals got their start 70 years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the international theater festival. Artists who were not a part of the festival would set up performances in storefronts and church basements on the “fringe” of the city center surrounding Edinburgh castle. The concept of a festival of inexpensive, impromptu performances soon spread around the globe in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. The oldest festival in Florida was established 26 years ago in Orlando. “Today, ‘fringe’ tends to refer to edgier, experimental works,” explained Beckman, an adjunct theater professor at the college, who is directing his first festival in Fort Lauderdale. The festival kicks off on Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Bailey Hall, on the college’s main campus in Davie, with the film, “Hunky Dory.” The feature chronicles a glam rock dilettante’s experiences caring for his 11-year-old son after his ex-girlfriend disappears. Beginning on Friday evening, dozens of performances move to venues in downtown Fort Lauderdale, including the Broward Center’s Abdo New River Room, Stache Drinking Den and the Fort Lauderdale
Historical Society. Most are repeated multiple times over the weekend. Among the festival highlights Beckman suggested are: “Normal Giant,” by writer/performer Neil David Seibel, a tall tale about a race of giants living outside of the Midwestern town of Normal, Ohio, at the Broward Center. “Scarevan,” a sort of offbeat “Carpool Karaoke,” in which performer Madame Peevira, known as the “Fringy Mime Queen,” takes a load of passengers around downtown Fort Lauderdale for a killer 1990s sing-a-long. “Lady Macbeth and Her Pal Megan,” standup comedian and playwright Megan Gogerty’s show about her perfect dream role—or is it?—also at the Broward Center. “Pillow Talk” at Stache, featuring two guys, one bed and a night full of surprises. “The Complete History of Drag and a Few Mo’ Mo’,” David LeBarron’s outrageous oneman comedy set in the dressing room of a North Hollywood drag club, playing at Stache. For younger audiences, Enchanted Three Theater will present, “The World is Sick,” a children’s show about Earth Day and what we can do to save the planet at the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society. Music lovers can take in jam sessions by the Broward College Jazz Combo on the Broward College plaza and performances by BMI recording artist, singer/songwriter Richard Allen Rappaport at the Broward Center. In keeping with fringe festival tradition, Beckman said artists keep 100 percent of ticket sales.
Broward College hosts the third annual Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival, April 20 – 23, at multiple venues in Davie and Fort Lauderdale. Admission is $42 for a weekend pass, $27 for a day pass and $7 – 12 for individual performances. For a complete schedule and tickets, go to FortLauderdaleFringe.com
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a&E theater Arlette Del Toro and Elizabeth Price star in the world premiere production of James L. Beller’s “Son” at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors. Credit: Art Pollack.
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udiences at LGBT-centric theater company Island City Stage were treated to another world premiere last weekend, James L. Beller’s “Son.” Like many new works, the powerful drama shows promise—with a little more work and a whole lot of editing. Day (Elizabeth Price) and Jean (Arlette Del Toro) are a longtime lesbian couple who find their eagerly anticipated wedding day disrupted when their 15-year-old son, Perry (Gabe Vasquez), is arrested for sexual assault. Over the course of more than two hours and two acts with 29 scenes, the couple’s relationship is tested and broken. They must all come to terms with the “family” they forged over 12 years and the revelation of the traumatic sexual assault that left Jean pregnant with a son. Director Michael Leeds makes the most of the wealth of material, drawing raw, emotional performances, especially from Del Toro. Newcomer Vazquez, a local high school student, is obviously a natural as the evasive, temperamental teen Perry. But, the story could be so much tighter. Many of the scenes seem superfluous. Jean and Day’s friends, Margaret (Sabrina Lynn Gore) and Lisa (Erynn Dalton) make appearances at the beginning of each act to establish the lesbian “bona fides” of the play, but then disappear. Even the arrest scene, dominated by
an especially stiff cameo by Juan Alberto Perez as the police officer, just doesn’t seem necessary to advance the wrenching drama. Some of the blackouts lasted longer than the scenes that followed, perhaps an attempt at a cinematic feel that never successfully translates to the stage. Each of the main characters is also given a suitably wrenching, spotlight-lit monologue, a device that could be further explored. The Island City Stage team puts forth a firstclass effort: Michael McClain transformed the Abyss Theatre into a handsome lesbian household somewhere in the suburbs of Annapolis, and effectively lit by Travis Neff, despite a couple of miscues on opening night that will inevitably get worked out. Sound design is often an afterthought at some other local theaters, but David Hart’s effects are natural throughout the play (cellphone notifications, video games, rainfall), even if the incidental music feels somewhat clichéd. The sold out opening night audience of mostly gay men and straight allies—Island City’s core demographics—seemed engaged throughout this wrenching story of a lesbian family, but the unasked (and politically incorrect) question also remains whether the lesbian community will embrace a play about lesbians written by a gay man. That may ultimately present a bigger challenge than a few rounds of rewrites.
Island City Stage presents James L. Beller’s “Son” through May 7 at Abyss theatre, 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. tickets are $35 at IslandCityStage.org.
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rnest Olivas and John Foxx are working to make sure older gay men don’t have to go back into the
closet. Olivas, who owns Emerald Elite Senior Home Care, provides male home health aides to gay seniors who want to retain their independence and live at home. The aides, who can work hourly or do live-in care, can provide medication and care management, bathing, dressing, ambulating, light housekeeping, and drive clients to the doctor’s office for appointments. So far, Olivas has 40 male home health aides who are vetted, bonded, licensed, and trained. “Our clients are terrified of female health aides . . . and healthcare is traditionally female-dominated,” said Olivas. Many of those female health aides, he said, come from foreign countries with conservative religious backgrounds and they often try and proselytize to their gay male clients. That kind of non-gay friendly environment, which can also be found in some retirement or assisted living facilities, can force many gay men to go back into the closet and hide who they are. “What I found, when I started Emerald Elite four years ago, was the need,” said Olivas, who also serves on the board of directors for The Pride Center. Olivas only takes cash payments and private insurance and recommends gay men of working age now prepare to take care of themselves by getting long term care insurance. To help seniors now who can’t afford
a home health aide, Foxx runs Home Essentials. Located in Wilton Manors at 2212 N. Dixie Hwy. in Antique Alley, Home Essentials is similar to Goodwill and Poverello. Items can be donated to the thrift store and the profits from their sale go to help seniors with a financial need. Foxx said some of the money goes to help seniors pay for a home health aide through Emerald Elite. In essence, donors can help needy seniors stay out of the closet by emptying theirs. “There’s an overwhelming amount of stuff here in South Florida. The stuff comes flying in. We get really beautiful, high-end things. Several well-known shops get stuff from me,” Foxx said. “The community has been overwhelmingly generous.” There’s art, mirrors, dishes, coffee mugs, glasses, furniture, lamps, and other items for the home – ranging from 25 cents to $650. Foxx jokes that the unofficial name for his store is “Homo Depot.” Foxx and Olivas admire the work done by organizations like Poverello but hope to provide help in an area that isn’t being well-served at this time. They also hope to become a part of a network of organizations providing a wide variety support services for the LGBT community in Broward County. “All of us are going to have to band together. The need is only going to get bigger. If I’m seeing one senior there’s 10 I’m not seeing,” Olivas said. “I don’t want to see somebody fall through the cracks,” Foxx said.
The hours of Home Essentials are Sunday and Monday by appointment only, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Thursday from 12 to 6 p.m. Call 954-651-7407 for more information or visit wmhomeessentials.org.
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Kinky Boots
April 18 to 23 at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Charlie Price’s family shoe business is failing, until the eccentric Lola comes in requesting a pair of stiletto shoes. Tickets $27 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.
Panic! at the Disco. Photo: Facebook.
palm beach county They’re Playing our Song
retiro
Through April 22 at the Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE Second Ave. in Miami Shores. A part of the “Mujeres” series, the first segment is about aging as a woman, following the lives of women in Miami, Puerto Rico, and Quebec. Tickets $15 to $25. Call 305-751-9550 or visit MTCMiami.org.
Son
Through 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 that tests their relationship. Tickets $35. Call 954-519-2533 or visit IslandCityStage.org.
broward county Panic! at the Disco
April 15 at 7 p.m. at the BB&T Center, One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. The band comes to South Florida in support of its Death of a Bachelor Tour. Tickets $35.25 and up. Call or visit TheBBTCenter.com.
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
April 13 to 30 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. A composer teams up with an aspiring lyricist and as their work together grows, so does the relationship. Tickets $38. Call 561-586-6410 or visit LakeWorthPlayhouse.org.
arcadia
Through 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.
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The Big Show
Through 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 305-9496722 or visit ArshtCenter.org. Through April 23 at GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave. in Coral Gables. A comedy of the people behind the changing economy. Tickets $45 to $60. Call 305-445-1119 or visit GableStage.org.
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. 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.
Free Friday concerts
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.
miami-dade county * marjorie Prime
April 14 to May 7 at the Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main St. in Miami Lakes. Marjorie is deteriorating, much to the dismay of her daughter and son-in-law. However, a holographic duplicate of Marjorie’s husband keeps her memories alive. Tickets $30. Call 305-558-3737 or visit MainStreetPlayers. com.
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top picKs Kerowacked multimedia Fest
April 16 from noon to 10 p.m. at ActivistArtista Gallery, 402-422 W. Industrial Ave. in Boynton Beach. In its sixth year, the street festival celebrating the spirit of democracy with street painting, live music, open studies, open mic, food trucks, and more. Call 786-521-1199 or visit boyntonbeachartdistrict.com.
home: Documenting our home life
Through May 7 at the Stonewall National Museum — Wilton Manors, 2157 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. An exhibition examining safe spaces and what we call home. Free. Visit Stonewall-Museum.org.
Free rapid hiv Testing
Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Latinos Salud, 555 Washington Ave. Suite 235 in Miami Beach. Receive the results of your free, confidential HIV test in minutes. Call 305-397-8967 or visit LatinosSalud.org
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BroWArd support services GenDer BenDer youTh GrouP
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
PFlaG
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.
SunServe youTh GrouP
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 954384-0344 or visit FISPOnline.org.
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rest your mind
April 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Learn the ins and outs of Medicare to make an informed decision about the program. Free. Call 954-463-9005, ext. 113, email maturingtogether@pridecenterflorida.org, or visit PrideCenterFlorida.org. 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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Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Latinos Salud Clubhouse, 2300 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Get one-on-one life coaching from certified CRCS coaches. For guys living with HIV, their partners, and anyone who identifies as transgender. Free. Call 954-765-6239 or visit LatinosSalud.org. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at Kadampa Meditation Center, 241 W Prospect Road Ste. B in Fort Lauderdale. Start your week with relaxing meditation to center yourself. Free. Visit MeditateinFortLauderdale.org.
man2man Discussion
Mondays 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A weekly informal discussion group among gay men of all backgrounds. Contact
april 12 - april 18 John Beuscher at 954-319-4292 or email johnnybushwick@aol.com.
Toastmasters
Mondays 7 to 9 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Learn the art of public speaking with positive reinforcement and encouragement from your peers. Call Ted Verdone at 954-566-2074 or email tedverdone@comcast.net.
Proud Speakers
Mondays from 7:15 to 9 p.m. at The Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Join the Toastmasters to work on your communication and leadership skills. Call Jose Antigua at 954-594-0634 or visit 2266.toastmastersclubs.org.
Transgender advisory Group meeting
First Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at various locations. The Florida Department of Health in Broward County meeting of the Transgender Advisory Group which is part of the Broward County HIV Prevention Planning Council. Call 954-467-4700, ext. 4991 or visit browardgreaterthan.org/broward-countyhiv-prevention-planning-council-bchppc/
palm beach county * andrew reid: Public art/ Private works exhibition
spanning genres. Free. Call 561-297-0080 or visit FAU.edu.
demonstrations. Free. Visit ArshtCenter.org/ en/Visit/Dining.
Sue latta Sculptures
Book Study
Through April 30 at The Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. The mixed media artist artist and her wife were co-litigators in one of the court cases fighting for marriage equality. Donations benefit youth programs at Compass GLCC. Visit TheBoxGallery.info.
April 17 to May 20 at The Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. Once moving to South Florida, the illustrator has made a name for himself as a large-scale artist and and one of the forefathers of the mural craze. Email PalmBeachFineArtGallery@ gmail.com
Transcendence
Street Photography: candid Portraiture
Meets at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. A closed transgender youth support group for teens ages 12 to 19. For more information, email youth@compassglcc.com.
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.
miami-dade county arsht center Farmers market
women musicians Through Time
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
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
Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Drolma Kadampa Buddhist Center, 1273 Coral Way in Miami. Buddhist monk, Gen Kelsang Norbu, will lead classes on learning the foundations of Buddhism. Call 786-529-7137.
key west aqua idol
Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Aqua Key West, 711 Duval St. in Key West. Support your local artists and vote for your favorite! Benefits Waterfront Playhouse. Call 305294-0555 or visit AquaKeyWest.com.
hot naked hump Days
Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Island House, 1129 Fleming St. in Key West. Relax in the middle of the week with two-forone drinks, free shots, videos and music, giveaways, and naked boys at the pool. Call 305-294-6284 or visit IslandHouseKeyWest. com
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accomodations aPril SPecialS From $595/weeK PerFecT For vacaTion & relocaTion Beautifully Furnished & Fully Equipped Studio & One Bedroom Apartments w/Full Kitchens in Gay Tropical Resort Setting, Incl. Wi-Fi, free laundry, private parking, utilities, prem. cable. Central to Haulover Nude Beach & Wilton Manors. Located just south of the Airport in Historic Dania Beach. Longer term Monthly rates available for 3 months+ Stays. Pets Always Welcome. Call Joe or Jack at (954) 927-0090 or visit www.LibertySuites.com
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harry’S elecTric reSiDenTial & commercial - Additions, renovations, service upgrades, breaker panels,FPL undergrounds, code violations, A/C wiring, ceiling fans, recessed, security & landscaping, lighting, pools, pumps, Jacuzzis, water heaters, FREE PHONE ESTIMATES 954522-3357 Lic & Ins. www.harryelectrician.com
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huSBanD For renT - Is he procrastinating home repairs? He says he will do it tomorrow?? After the football game?? We fit right in - in the house or the yard, small or big jobs: tile, dry wall, paint, plumbing, roof leaks, broken furniture, irrigation, fences, and more! It doesn't cost to hassle us to see the work - so why wait? Neat, clean work for a reasonable price. Call Haim at 954-398-3676, sidnalll@yahoo.com emeralD iriSh cleaninG - Established for 30 years. 3 hours of cleaning for $75.00. Mention this ad and get $15.00 off the 75.00.Use time as you wish. English speaking *hand-scrub floors* Cleaning supplies included. Service guaranteed 954-524-3161’’
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eDucaTeD/arTiculaTe/Savvy - We are an international auto dealer specializing in purchasing new luxury vehicles for our overseas clients. Looking for well spoken, educated, successful and savvy individuals to assist with purchasing of these vehicles. Pay is great from $2-$5000 per unit for what is usually only five hours of your time. For further information please inquire and call 1-844-397-6785. To apply go to http://careers.fleetexport.com J. marK'S reSTauranT now hirinG - Line cooks (Saute, Grill, Salad), Servers, Front Desk & Busboys. Apply in person Mon - Fri: 1490 NE 23rd St, Pompano Beach or 1245 N Fed. Hwy, Fort Lauderdale cheF wanTeD - Tropics Restaurant in Wilton Manors is looking for a new chef. Searching for a competent, creative chef that understands the restaurant business. Must be able to run the line during busy shifts. Passion for food and a good attitude are a must. Holidays, nights, and weekends are required. Competitive wages. Apply in person at 2000 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors. The cluB ForT lauDerDale now hirinG We are looking for a few good men to join our team. Verifiable customer service experience is required. MUST PASS A DRUG TEST. The position entails a LOT of cleaning during your shift. We are open 24/7, so you must have a flexible schedule. We offer competitive wages and excellent health benefits. Submit your application and resume to the front desk. 110 NW 5TH Ave Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33311 – (954) 525-3344 www.clubft.com
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licensed massage maSSaGe By DenniS - $60 per 90 min-Out calls higher. Swedish, Deep Tissue, manscaping available. All clients and Body types welcome, Reflexology and Feet. Couples Discounts. Delray Beach. 22 years’ experience. MA18563 Call Dennis 561-502-2628.
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GreGG'S PainTinG - I paint both interior and exterior. Great rates, free estimates. I am detailedoriented, friendly, reliable, punctual, and neat. No job too small. Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Call Gregg at 617-306-5694 or 954-870-5972 Email: gmanbenn44@gmail.com
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cool PoolS- reliaBle Pool Service Professional pool service.Covering Wilton Manors, Lighthouse Point, and eastside of Pompano Beach. 15 years experience. Licensed and insured.Free estimates. Call 954-235-0775.
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miKe The renTal Guy - NE Lauderdale/Wilton Manors/Oakland Park-1/1 from $990, 2/1 from $1140. Victoria Park-1/1=$1090.00 cable included. Credit & Income Requirements-Pets okay with restrictions Call for Details Mike 561-703-5533 or miketherentalguy@aol.com
rentals fort lauderdale TroPical SinGle Family home - Won't Last Long 1489 sq. ft. 3 bedroom/2 bath. Cherry Wood/ SS Kitchen. Bath with Jacuzzi Tub. Fenced yard with tropical setting and carport. Pet Friendly! $2300.00 F/L/S & background required. For more info contact Kimberly (Sky Beach Realty)@ 754-204-0535.
real estate oakland park SleePy river acreS waTerFronT home - Come live in the best neighborhood in Oakland Park-This 2 bedroom/ 2 bath home sits on two sides of the waterfront on an over 16,000 sq ft lot. Build your dream home surrounding $500,000 plus home or live comfortably in this one! $325,000 Brian Bedigian, PA Coral Shores Reality. 954-2055275, realtorbrian@aol.com
real estate wilton manors 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 4.12.2017 • 4 . 5. 2 0 17 •
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