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Alfred ‘Chad’ McMurray was killed in August 2010; case still unsolved for about a year, and Prewitt felt he had met the love of his life. McMurray was passionate about cooking and was completing a culinary degree at Le Cordon Bleu inMiramar. After the slaying, though, it became apparent the success McMurray had in pursuing his passion did not carry over into another area of his life: his battle with drug addiction. Detectives have said they think more than one person was involved in McMurray’s slaying, and that the killers had some connection to drugs. Prewitt, a web developer, was out of town on business the night it happened. He said he called McMurray and they chatted about the night’s TV lineup. By Sofia Santana, The two planned to talk after dinner, Sun Sentinel but when Prewitt called McMurray’s AKLAND PARK— nA year cell phone later that night, the call after his partner was murdered in their Oakland Park went straight to voicemail. Prewitt said he sensed something home, Shannon Prewitt is looking for was wrong and asked a friend to stop answers, even though some things he has learned have not been easy to take. by the couple’s house in the 1300 block of Northeast 34th Street to He ended up moving away from check on McMurray. South Florida, to heal. But this month “My friend went up to the door and he returned for a visit to dive back into then was, like, ‘I need to call you back,’” the traumatic August 2010 murder of Prewitt said. “I knew something had Alfred “Chad” McMurray, 31. happened.” “They didn’t just kill one person. The next day, McMurray’s silver They killed a part of me, a part of Toyota Tacoma, stolen after the killing, his friends, a part of his family,” said was found parked at the Brampton Prewitt, 39. He and McMurray had been together Court apartments in Lauderhill.
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The complex, in the 1900 block of Northwest 43rd Terrace, is in a neighborhood with a reputation for streetlevel drug-dealing, in recent years the site of a string of shootings and at least three homicides. Detectives have gotten few tips from people in that neighborhood — or elsewhere — about McMurray’s killing. “This is a hard case as far as leads go,” said Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide Detective Luis Rivera. Prewitt and some friends, though, hope someone will come forward. They are offering a reward through Broward Crime Stoppers for anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest. The reward stands at $5,000. Prewitt, who moved to Atlanta six months after the murder, plans to return to South Florida next month, to repeat the painful process of examining details of the case with detectives. He wants to make sure no one forgets Chad McMurray. “I’ve been grieving for him longer than I got to know him,” Prewitt said. Authorities ask anyone with information to contact Detective Luis Rivera at 954-321-4210 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-4938477. SFGN and Sun-Sentinel are media partners.
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The Gathering
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ome of South Florida’s Spiritual Teachers and Ministers will be shedding a new light with the launch of The Gathering at Wilton Drive’s newest addition Global Vibes, 2161 Wilton Drive, on Sunday’s from 3-5 p.m., and began on October 2. Global Vibes is a new holistic and spiritual center owned by Lillie Harris. The purpose of The Gathering is to empower attendees to ask what do we fall back on when we hit bumps in our spiritual journey? When we are thrown back into people,
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places, and things we know will not work for us, how do we fall back on what strengthens and empowers us? The weekly series is, in part, the work of local theologian Bishop S.F. Makalani-MaHee. “This is a taste test, a buffet of spirituality,” said MaHee recently. “We know people are facing a lot of challenges right now and what we hope to do is discuss forms of spiritual understanding which will bring comfort to the distressed.” The first incarnation of the series is entitled “Fall Back,” and will examine how people maintain spiritual connections in the midst of daily challenges. Each Sunday a teacher will share their experiences at The Gathering. Cynthia Segal led the first session on Oct., 2, speakers have been appointed for each following Sunday of the month. A donation of $10 is suggested. Visit BishopMaHee.com to contact the “Bish” as she is known and learn more information.
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ep. Jared Polis of Colorado has announced the birth of a son, making him the only openly gay member of Congress to be a parent. The Democratic congressman’s press office made the announcement that Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, had become the proud dads of Caspian Julius, who was born
last Friday and weighed in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces. The announcement asked wellwishers for “nice thoughts for Caspian, humankind, the planet and the universe.” It was unclear whether the baby was adopted or born through a surrogate. Polis is one of three openly gay members of Congress. He’s serving his second term in office.
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Virginia Exec’s Murder Still A Mystery One Year Later Crimestoppers raises reward money
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little over a year has now past since the body of murder victim Sam Del Brocco, the CEO of Alexandria-based PCI Communications, was found in his million dollar condo located at 1770 Bay Drive in Pompano Beach. But Broward Sheriff’s office deputies have recently advised that a one time stalled investigation now has “new legs.” Del Brocco, raised in South Florida and a graduate of Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory in Hollywood, had at different times in his life also been a school psychologist and part time entertainer. The BSO announced that the reward money for his killer’s capture has now been raised to $25,000. The slain businessman’s body was found September 12, 2010, not long after he was last seen having dinner alone at Kelley’s Landing in Fort Lauderdale. There are reasons to believe that the killer was another male, who he may have invited into his home for a spontaneous, late night hookup. Detectives investigating Del Brocco’s past found out that he kept many of these possible homosexual alliances private and hidden, leading a different life in Alexandria, Virginia, where his known associations featured a long-time female social companion. However, the bulk of Del Brocco’s estate, it
turns out, was in left in trust for a younger, male business associate at his company. PCI Communications is now represented by his successor, Robert Sprague, who said at the time of Del Brocco’s murder “Sam built PCI into a great company filled with talented and committed people. While his death represents a huge loss, we know that he would want us to carry on.” Del Brocco lived on Windsor Avenue in Alexandria for many years, where he was very popular with his neighbors. Prior to his death, he had just bought a home in the Fort Hunt neighborhood of Fairfax County and moved there. During his life, he recorded three record albums; made dozens of national television appearances, and performed live with his eight-piece band in hotels and resorts from Miami’s Fontainebleau to Caesar’s in Atlantic City. He co-founded PCI Communications in 1986 with his then-musical director/keyboard player Bob Sprague. “It may have been a random act, or something more than that. We are continuing to investigate the killing,” says BSO homicide investigator Tim Duggan. “If you have a lead, we want to know.” Duggan can be reached at 954-321-4210. Read SFGN next week for more on this developing story.
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Moot Suit Gets Boot
Log Cabin Republicans denied in court over DADT Lisa Leff
enact don’t ask, don’t tell,” the judges said. “We can only specAssociated Press ulate, and our speculation canAN FRANCISCO (AP) not breathe life into this case.” A federal appeals L og Cabi n Republ icans court refused ThursExecutive Director R. Clarke day to decide the constituCooper said he was disaptionality of the military’s nowpointed, noting that the favorrepealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” able ruling his group obtained policy banning openly gay in the lower court played a matroops, saying the issue has jor role in persuading policy been resolved since Amerimakers to repeal “don’t ask, cans can enlist and serve in don’t tell.” the armed forces without reR. Clarke Cooper “Log Cabin Republicans v. gard to sexual orientation. United States said more than A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ should be repealed it Francisco tossed out a lawsuit that had stood for the fundamental constitutional challenged the military policy as a viola- rights of service members not to be discrimtion of gay service members’ civil rights. In inated against by the nation they serve,” doing so, the appeals court also dismissed Cooper said. “This decision by the 9th Cira Southern California trial judge’s year-old cuit denies more than 14,000 discharged gay and lesbian service members an imruling that the policy was unconstitutional. The gay rights group Log Cabin Republi- portant means of obtaining justice for the cans filed the lawsuit in 2004 challenging wrong perpetuated against them under the the policy. The group’s lawyer, Dan Woods, ban, and leaves open the possibility of fusaid he would ask the full 9th Circuit to re- ture violations of service members’ rights.’’ view the panel’s decision. The group recently argued the lower court ruling, which also barred enforcement of “We cannot say with virtual “don’t ask, don’t tell” should remain in effect certainty that the Congress despite this month’s repeal because future that passed the Repeal Act – administrations and lawmakers could reinor a future Congress… will troduce a ban on gay service. The three judges strongly disagreed in reenact don’t ask, don’t tell” their Thursday opinion, saying the case is moot because there is nothing left to chal– 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lenge regarding the policy enacted as section 654. One of the three panelists, Judge Diar“This suit became moot when the repeal of section 654 took effect on Sept. 20,” the muid O’Scannlain, went out of his way in a ruling said. “If Log Cabin filed suit today concurring opinion to dispute that either seeking a declaration that section 654 is the U.S. Constitution or the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional or an injunction against interpretation of it provided “a member of its application (or both), there would be no the armed forces (with) a constitutionally Article III controversy because there is no protected right to engage in homosexual acts or to state that he or she is a homosexusection 654.” The panel specifically rejected Log Cab- al while continuing to serve in the military.’’ O’Scannlain also criticized the lower ins’ assertion that the appeals court should decide the underlying constitutional issues court judge who invalidated “don’t ask, don’t to prevent future limitations or outright tell” last year, U.S. District Judge Virginia bans on military service by gay and lesbian Phillips. He accused Phillips of willfully failing “to apply established law” so she could Americans. “We cannot say with virtual certainty that issue a ruling “that invalidated a considered the Congress that passed the Repeal Act or a congressional policy and imposed a wholly future Congress whose composition, agenda, novel view of constitutional liberty on the and circumstances we cannot know, will re- entire United States.”
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Census Fails Math Test Same-sex couples scored inaccurately
Top Ten Same-sex Couple States
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he Census Bureau on Tuesday released a new estimate for the number of same-sex couple households in the United States in 2010, and it is almost 40 percent fewer than it actually counted. But it’s 80 percent higher than the number counted in the 2000 Census. And the number of same-sex couple households represented less than one percent of all households in the United States. These were some of the conclusions reported by Census Bureau officials in a telephone press conference with reporters September 27. The data is based on the Bureau’s own analysis of responses to household types on the 2010 Census from 50 states, the District of Columbia, but an analysis deemed credible by the Williams Institute. According to the data, the Census Bureau counted 901,997 same-sex couple households in the 2010 survey, but it believes only 646,464 of those are really same-sex couples. The other 255,533, said Census Bureau official Martin O’Connell, are heterosexual couples whose Census forms inadvertently misidentified the gender of one of the partners. O’Connell said the Census Bureau based its “preferred” estimate on a complicated analysis of the first names of the partners in same-sex couples. If both partners in a couple had very clearly male or very clearly female names like Thomas and John or Deborah and Elizabeth the same-sex couple designation was considered very reliable. But if one partner or spouse in a same-sex couple had a name like Leslie or Jessie, the same-sex designation was considered unreliable and the couple was re-classified as a heterosexual couple. That’s because the Census Bureau discovered there were a great deal more unreliable gender-name designations on forms that were filled out by in-person “enumerators” Census representatives who visited households that failed to mail back their standard Census form. The form used by these in-person enumerators, said O’Connell, were problematic and contributed to the likelihood that the enumerator might check off the wrong gender box while filling out the form. “We only used names where 95 percent or more of the time that name was associated with being either a male or female,” said O’Connell, “so we tried to limit those
he following states have the highest percentage of same-sex couple households compared to the total number of households in the state. The number represents the percentage of same-sex couple households in the state based on a corrected, or “preferred,” estimate calculated by the Census Bureau from Census 2010 data. The District of Columbia, a city that has a population that exceeds that of several states and which is often regarded as a state-like territory, had a percentage of 1.929. New York came in 12th with 0.892 percent. Florida ranked 14th with 0.884 percent. Georgia ranked 16th with 0.832 percent. Illinois ranked 28th with 0.671 percent. North Dakota ranked 50th with 0.396 percent. The U.S. average was 0.773.
1. Vermont 2. Massachusetts 3. California 4. Oregon 5. New Mexico 6. Delaware 7. Maine 8. Hawaii 9. Washington State 10. Nevada
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[uncertain] areas by basically taking a very conservative aspect by only removing from the same-sex couple universe those names which had an extremely high probability of being of a sex that was opposite of what they reported.” Responses reporting gender were considered most accurate in 12 states and the District of Columbia. Those 12 states included Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, and New York. They had “inconsistent name-sex reporting” in 6 to 26 percent of same-sex couples. Eight states had the worst accuracy (between 38 and 50 percent inconsistencies), including Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana, Wyoming, and South and North Dakotas. The correction process had a dramatic effect on the number of same-sex couple households counted in many individual states. For instance, California’s original data count was 125,516 same-sex couple households, but its corrected, or “preferred,” estimate totaled only 98,153 a loss of 27,363, or almost 22 percent. Massachusetts’ number dropped from 26,049 in raw numbers to 20,256 in corrected numbers a loss of 5,793 couples, or 22 percent. Florida dropped from 65,601 to 48,496 a loss of 17,105 couples, or 26 percent. New York dropped from 65,303 to 48932 a loss of 16,371 couples, or 25 percent. Georgia dropped from 29,844 to 21,318 a loss of 8,526 couples or 28.5 percent. Michigan dropped from 21,782 to 14,598 a loss of 7,184, or 33 percent. Texas dropped from 67,413 to 46,401 a loss of 21,012 couples, or 31 percent. The Census Bureau used data from Texas to illustrate how well first names corresponded with the gender identification and, therefore, how reliable the designation of same-sex couples held up. Of 31,763 households designated originally as a male-male couple, only 14,439 (45 percent) qualified as including “highly likely male” that is, both partners or spouses had first names that are almost certainly male names, such as Thomas or John. O’Connell said the problem with the inperson form wasn’t discovered until late in 2009 too late for the Census Bureau to correct and print out new forms in time for use in 2010. Gary Gates, a respected expert in LGBT demographics at the Williams Institute, said the Census Bureau’s procedures are both “credible” and “substantially more accurate” than the numbers released on a state-by-state basis over the summer. “I was part of a team that identified this continued on page 32
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Mombian
Helping Aging LGBT Parents By Dana Rudolph
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ow do we help our parents as they age? For adults with non-LGBT parents, there are plenty of resources on how to help parents through the various legal, financial, and emotional issues of growing old. Search the Web or your favorite online bookstore for “aging parents,” and you’ll be swamped with results. For adults who wish to help their LGBT parents, however, the resources are far fewer. And while many of the issues older LGBT and non-LGBT people face are the same, some are not. Let’s not forget: LGBT parents have been choosing to have children together for over 30 years. Those who had children in previous non-LGBT relationships may have had them even before that. Those “children” now in their 30s or older have parents who, if not in their “golden years,” are at least starting to turn silver.
Scott French, program manager for the Caring and Preparing program of Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), said one of the most important things adults with LGBT parents can do is “to have conversations about making sure that your parents have a health-care proxy, a power of attorney, a living will,” and a document (called by various names) about what they want done with their bodies after death. “These are important for everyone, but they’re really important for LGBT older adults, especially if they’re partnered,” he said. Unlike opposite-sex spouses, “there is no person who automatically gets to make those decisions” for LGBT older adults. He also encourages people to talk with their parents about a will. Many people think they don’t need a will if they aren’t wealthy, French said, but noted, “Wills aren’t predicated on somebody who has wealth. They’re
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essential to be able to dictate what you want to happen to your possessions, whatever they may be.” And for people in same-sex couples, “you don’t always have the same protections, so it’s always better to have it in writing.” Children of LGBT parents should also discuss with their parents how the finances will be distributed in the will and whose name they are in now, he said. He suggested talking with a lawyer and/or a financial planner “to ensure that if they’re partnered, the surviving partner is taken care of, because inheritance rules oftentimes don’t apply.” Pensions and other items that naturally transfer to an opposite-sex spouse may not transfer to a same-sex one, or may not do so without a financial penalty, even if they are legally married or have a civil union or domestic partnership. Attorneys and financial planners may be able to set up trusts or recommend various other strategies to protect assets and avoid taxes. SAGE encourages people to complete the above documentation even if they are legally married or in a civil union or domestic partnership. French explained, “You never know what you might run into or if you’ll run into a service provider who isn’t aware of what the laws are.” He noted, however, that many people “are very unprepared,” even though most of the documents are “very simple.” All except for a will “can be done without a lawyer,” although some may still need notarization. Another big concern for the elderly is long-term care, which could include nursing homes, in-home care, or other care options with varying levels of assistance. For those with LGBT parents, French said, “I think the biggest concern is fear of discrimination.” He suggested, “If at all possible, partner with your parents to try to find a place, and go with them on visits to places, because you both are going to want to be comfortable.” The federally-funded National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, which SAGE manag-
es, offers various tips on how to find LGBTfriendly care, including looking for places that advertise in LGBT publications, have LGBT people represented in their materials, or have been recommended by friends. Children of LGBT parents may also encounter problems working with service providers if they are not the legal children of one of the parents. Single parents with non-biological/non-adoptive children should consider naming them in documents such as a power of attorney, health care proxy, living will, and the like, French said. As for when adults should raise any of these issues with their parents, French advised, “Sooner rather than later.” “While the initial conversation might be uncomfortable,” he said, “it’s actually much easier to have these conversations when there isn’t a crisis,” such as a heart attack or diagnosis of an illness. That way, “you aren’t then tying these things directly to mortality.” A better approach, he said, is having an everyday conversation and asking, “I’m just wondering, do you have stuff in place, in the event that there might be an emergency down the road?” And while LGBT parents should have their documentation in place as soon as they have children, if not before, French said, “that’s not the way it really happens” in many cases. All adults should therefore have a conversation with their parents “just to see if they have things in order.” Additional resources to help caregivers assist LGBT elders are on the SAGE Web site (sageusa.org), the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (lgbtagingcenter.org), and the AARP LGBT portal (aarp.org/ pride). The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has additional information on policy issues affecting LGBT elders (thetaskforce.org/issues/aging). Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (www.mombian.com), a blog and resource directory for LGBT parents.
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Symposium on Aging: Exploring the Needs of LGBT Seniors By Jesse Monteagudo
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ur society is youth-oriented and the LGBT community is even more so. This is equally true in South Florida, which has a large population of retirees of all sexual orientations and gender identities. The Miami Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (MDGLCC), in collaboration with Community Partners, hosted its first Symposium on Aging in Miami on Sept. 24 to educate and explore the issues related to LGBT seniors. “One of the least addressed or understood demographics is our older adult population,” said Steve Adkins, MDGLCC President. “The Symposium on Aging seeks to open a discussion and create an understanding of the needs and expectations of this powerful and growing segment of the LGBT community.” “Because of the growing aging population we needed to do something to address our specialized issues in addition to the regular issues of aging that we all face,” says Vicki Brail, geriatric care manager (GeriatricCareMiami.com) and Chairperson of the Symposium on Aging. “The purpose of this Symposium is to bring knowledge to the community so they can begin planning to take care of themselves and their families as they age.” In his opening remarks, Adkins struck a similar note: “This Conference will assist in creating the kind of dialogue necessary if we are to create a place where the needs [of LGBT seniors] are met,” he said. Though the Symposium on Aging was the work of professional members of MDGLCC, the event itself was open to the public. As a result, many of the 75 attendees were concerned community members. Speakers addressed important issues of concern to LGBT seniors in a series of sessions on “Health Care Continuum;” “Estate, Trust & Tax Planning;” “Out and Aging;” and “How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old.” The Keynote Speaker was the famed attorney Richard C. Milstein, who warned his listeners to “Plan . . . or Else.” In his address, Milstein spoke about the legal issues that he specializes in, including guardianship,
trust, probate matters and elder abuse. Another speaker was Michael Adams, Executive Director of the LGBT senior advocacy group SAGE (SageUSA.org). Founded in the 1970’s as Senior Action in a Gay Environment, SAGE now stands for Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders. “Aging is an issue that has not received the attention that it deserves in our community. So it is so inspiring to see Miami leaders stepping up to the plate,” Adams said in his address. “This Symposium is perfectly timed because the country is aging at an extraordinarily rapid rate. This demographic change means that we as a community are facing a challenge of historic proportions, not only because there are issues and difficulties that in general come with aging, but because LGBT older people face a particularly acute set of challenges as we age. And those challenges are what SAGE is all about and, I think, what this program is all about.” Adams continued: “a population that, because of historic stigma and discrimination, is largely closeted and came of age at a time when it was much more difficult to be LGBT.” This is “an elder community that is twice as likely to be single and living alone and four times as likely to be aging without adult children,” which means that LGBT se-
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niors often lack care givers. Furthermore, “the law, public policy and aging policy in this country does not treat LGBT older people fairly in a whole variety of respects.” According to the SAGE report, “Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults,” which was the basis of Adams’s speech, gay seniors are less financially secure, find it more difficult to achieve good health and health care, and are more likely to face social isolation. Adams compared a straight married couple to a lesbian couple with similar income to show how their prospects differ as they got older. Not wanting to end his remarks on such a negative note, Adams went on to talk about what SAGE and its partners are doing to meet those challenges, and to “improve the lives, the prospects, and the opportunities of LGBT Seniors.” In addition to the speakers, the Symposium on Aging offered businesses and non-profit organizations an opportunity to promote their products and services. Alternative Home Health Care (AlternativeHomeHealth.com) is one such organization. According to Belinda Paez, Director of Community Relations and Marketing, “Alternative Home Health Care is a private duty, custodial care service. We provide home health aids in private homes, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities.”
LGBT seniors, Paez continues, have “special needs that we have the capability to address. It is understanding a lifestyle. It is being respectful of that lifestyle. It is incorporating the greater community to build the relationships that benefits our clients.” Also present at the Symposium was Robin Korth. Publisher and Creator of Insights on Aging (InsightsOnAging.com): “Insights on Aging started out as an online magazine and has since become a philosophy for living,” Korth says. “Think about it: What’s the one thing we are all doing? We are all aging. What’s the one thing none of us are doing well? Living. So I am all about living with your heart and soul wide open, kicking ass and taking no prisoners and learning how to live really well.” Korth conducts “workshops and seminars where I talk about the fact that we can change our lives by simply changing the way we think and the way we come at life.” This is good advice, no matter how old you are. Vicki Brail hopes that this Symposium on Aging will “be an annual event. We are working with the University of Miami to do surveys on the aging population and we hope that this will be a part of it.” Visit GoGayMiami.com for more information about MDGLCC and its programs.
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History Month An “iconic” project that will feature LGBT role models
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habits that suggest his true orientation. And we showcase another gay president — and his partner. And then there’s the gay man wrote the drill book and maneuvers that brought order to a rag tag Revolutionary Army and led us to victory. This project has been a labor of love and our writers from across the country deserve our gratitude. So, next week and all through October, read PGN’s salute to our community’s history and take pride that your community was among those who founded and kept this country together.
Uncovering America’s gay history By Mark Segal
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ext week’s PGN (The Philadelphia Gay News), along with 30 newspapers across the country, will begin to celebrate October’s as Gay History Month. This is the largest gay history project of any type, anywhere ever: Our combined print run alone is over 650,000. The 30 newspapers and magazines are in every major city in America and, with our web traffic, the numbers are staggering. Our newspaper has been involved with this project since the beginning and, each year, I sometimes feel that the community doesn’t really care. But all of a sudden this year, there is enthusiasm like I’ve never seen before. And that is borne out with those numbers. And with what the writers discovered. We clearly make the case that historians have hidden — closeted — the LGBT community’s contributions to building and preserving this country. This year, there are no living celebrities involved with the project. In past years, we’ve had exclusive interviews with Sir Elton John, Congressman Barney Frank, tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Billy Jean King, along with a guy by the name of Barack Obama. This years theme is “We are America,” how the LGBT community and its allies founded a nation. That’s the U.S.A. we’re talking about. And can bet Rick Perry a three-dollar bill that, after reading this series, you’ll never allow a conservative to say “Our Founding Fathers did not have gay people in mind when they formed this country.” The Founding Fathers very much knew of — even recruited — those who
Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. He can be reached at mark@epgn.com.
pushed the boundaries of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Here are some humorous examples from the series — all true. You’ll discover, starting next week, Benjamin Franklin was the first U.S. military recruiter who enlisted a gay man into the Revolutionary Army. George Washington in all probability was the first American to offer domesticpartner rights. He gave housing to a known homosexual couple when housing was a premium at Valley Forge. And when faced with a homosexual scandal at Valley Forge, he took the least harmful course of action and embarrassed the officer accused of sodomy rather than giving him the death sentence as Thomas Jefferson demanded. How about the African-American gay man who lead a troop of black men in the Revolution? Or the women who dressed as men to enlist in the Colonial Army? After the war, when they could have taken off the drag, some chose to live out their lives as men. Do you know the lesbian who wrote one of the country’s most patriotic songs, “America the Beautiful”? You’ll also read about the ongoing debate of whether President Lincoln preferred men over women. Many historians have clearly held a biased view of Lincoln, dismissing
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Dustin Lance Black Screenwriter b. June 10, 1974
“I heard the story of Harvey Milk and it gave me hope that I could live my life openly as who I am.”
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ustin Lance Black is a screenwriter, director and producer. In 2009, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for “Milk,” about openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. Black grew up in a devout Mormon household in San Antonio, Texas. After his mother remarried, he moved to Salinas, California. As a young boy, Black knew he was gay. He believed he would be “hurt and brought down” because of it and that he was going to hell. He says his “acute awareness” of his sexual orientation made him gloomy and sometimes suicidal. In high school he fostered a love of the dramatic arts and began working on theatrical productions. He enrolled at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and graduated with honors. In 2000, he wrote and directed two gaythemed films, “The Journey of Jared Price” and “Something Close to Heaven.” Black was the only Mormon writer for the HBO series about polygamy, “Big Love,” for which he received two Writers Guild of America Awards. Captivated by the story of Harvey Milk, Black researched Milk’s life for three years, culminating in a screenplay. Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant signed on with the project. In 2009, “Milk” received eight Academy Award nominations and won two. Black received an Oscar for his screenplay and Sean Penn won for best actor. Black’s recent works include the screenplay for “Pedro,” profiling AIDS activist and MTV personality Pedro Zamora. He is the screenwriter for “J. Edgar,” a film about FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2009, Black topped The Advocate’s list of the “Forty under 40” most influential openly gay people. He is an outspoken LGBT activist, serving on the boards of The Trevor Project and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Black frequently speaks about gay rights to college students across the country. He resides in Los Angeles.
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LGBTMonth History
Alison Bechdel
John Ashbery Poet b. July 28, 1927
Cartoonist b. September 10, 1960
“The [comic] strip is about all kinds of things, not just gay and lesbian issues— births, deaths and everything in-between happen to everyone.”
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lison Bechdel is a celebrated cartoonist and author of the long-running comic strip, “Dykes To Watch Out For.” Her groundbreaking graphic memoir, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” was awarded the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book. A native of central Pennsylvania, Bechdel and her siblings grew up in a small town. Her parents both taught at the local high school and her father, the subject of her first memoir, was the town’s mortician. Bechdel attended Oberlin College, where she graduated with a B.A. in 1981. “Dykes to Watch Out For” was published in 1983 and became a syndicated comic strip in 1985. With her signature subtle wit, Bechdel took on the complex and often stereotyped world of lesbian relationships through her comic alter ego, Mo. The strip has become a cult classic. In the late 1990’s, Bechdel began work on her first graphic memoir about her family, “Fun Home.” The memoir focuses on her relationship with her father and his death. Time Magazine honored “Fun Home” as No. 1 of the 10 Best Books of 2006, calling it “a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.” The book won a Lambda Book Award, an Eisner Award and the 2006 Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. It was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. “Dykes to Watch Out For” continued production for 25 years. In 2008, Bechdel suspended work on the award-winning comic strip to create a graphic memoir about relationships. The same year, Houghton Mifflin published a complete collection of her work, “The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.” Bechdel resides outside of Burlington,Vermont.
“My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.”
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ohn Ashbery is one of the most successful 20th century poets. He has won almost every major American literary award, including the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Ashbery graduated from Harvard University, where he studied English and served on the editorial board of the Harvard Advocate. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University. After graduating, Ashbery spent three years in publishing before moving to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. Returning to the U.S. in 1957, Ashbery attended graduate classes at New York University. Thereafter, he returned to Paris, where he supported himself as an editor. He eventually moved back to the U.S. to become the executive editor of ARTNews magazine. Ashbery’s success began with frequent publication of his poems in magazines such as Furioso and Poetry New York. While in France, his book “Some Trees” won the Yale Younger Poet’s Prize. He has won many awards, including the Bollingen Prize and the McArthur Foundation’s “Genius Award.” His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” which also won the National Book Award and the National Critics Circle Award, is unique for its triple prize status. The poem pulls together his favored themes: creating poetry and the influence of visual arts on his work. Ashbery’s career has been marked by controversy. Response to his poetry ranges from praise for his brilliant expressionism and use of language to condemnation for his work’s nonsensical and elusive nature. A prolific writer, he has published over 20 books of poetry, beginning with “Tourandot and Other Poems.” His work has been compared to modernist painters such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Critics assert that he is trying to translate visual modern art into written language. Since 1974, he has supported himself through teaching positions, the last of which was as the Charles P. Stevens, Jr. Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College. He lives in upstate New York, where he continues to write poetry.
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LGBTMonth History
By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
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illiam Rufus DeVane King, the 13th United States vice president, has the distinction of having served in that office for less time than any other vice president. He died of tuberculosis on April 18, 1853, just 25 days after being sworn into office on March 24, 1853, according an official biography of King prepared by the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Senate. Other historians have speculated that King holds yet another distinction — the likely status of being the first gay U.S. vice president and possibly one of the first gay members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. King (1786-1853) served in the House of Representatives from North Carolina for six years beginning in 1811 and later served in the Senate from the newly created state of Alabama from 1819-44, when he became U.S. minister to France. He returned to the Senate four years later, in 1848, where he served until December 1852, when he resigned after winning election in November 1852 as vice president on the ticket of Franklin Pierce. A lifelong bachelor, King lived for 15 years in the home of future U.S. president James Buchanan while the two served in the Senate. Buchanan, also a lifelong bachelor, is believed by some historians to be the nation’s first gay president. “They certainly didn’t have the word gay back then,” said Paul F. Boller Jr., professor emeritus of history at Texas Christian University and author of several books on presidential politics, including the book “Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush.” In a telephone interview, Boller said Washington insiders at the time speculated over whether King and Buchanan’s wellknown close friendship had evolved into a romantic relationship. “I don’t think the word homosexual was used either,” Boller said. “So they’d sort of use the term ‘a little feminine’ and all of that.” Boller and historian Jean H. Baker, professor of history at Maryland’s Goucher Col-
lege and author of a biography of Buchanan, each cite reports that President Andrew Jackson referred to King as “Miss Nancy” and “Aunt Fancy.” Aaron V. Brown, who became U.S. postmaster general while Buchanan was president, reportedly referred to King as Buchanan’s “wife.” Baker reports in her Buchanan biography that King’s and Buchanan’s nieces reportedly destroyed their uncles’ correspondence with each other, fueling speculation that the two men were in a gay relationship that their families wanted to conceal. In one letter that survived, Buchanan expressed sadness over King’s departure from his house in 1844 to become the U.S. envoy to France. “I am now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me,” Buchanan wrote. “I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.” King’s relationship with Buchanan, who was from Pennsylvania, could have been a factor in Buchanan’s sympathy for the South during Buchanan’s tenure as a senator and later as president from 1857-61. Most accounts by historians of King’s political career portray him as a moderate southerner who supported slavery while emerging as a strong unionist. King voiced opposition in the Senate to calls by some of his fellow southerners for the South to secede from the United States during the tense decade prior to the Civil War. “From such a calamity may God in His mercy deliver us,” King wrote in expressing opposition to the growing calls for secession. King was born in 1786 in Sampson County, N.C., to a family of wealthy planters. His father owned more than two-dozen slaves, the Office of the Senate Historian reports in its biography of King. It says King attended an elite preparatory school before attending the University of North Carolina, where he studied law. Following a legal apprenticeship, he was admitted to the state bar in 1805 and began a legal practice. He served in the North Carolina Legislature from 1808-09 and won election in 1810 to the U.S. House and began serving as a congressman in 1811 at age 25. He resigned from the House in 1816 to enter the world of diplomacy by taking
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a job as legation secretary for William Pinkney, who was appointed by President James Monroe as U.S. minister to Russia in St. Petersburg. King returned to the U.S. in 1818, when he moved from North Carolina to the territory of Alabama, becoming one of the leaders of the Alabama statehood movement. The Senate historian’s biography says King purchased 750 acres of land in Alabama and established a plantation. He later joined others to form a land company that founded the town of Selma, which King reportedly named. In December 1819, he became one of Alabama’s first two U.S. senators. As a moderate Democrat, King became an early supporter of Andrew Jackson’s quest to become president, the Senate biography says. It quotes an unnamed critic of King as describing him as a “tall, prim, wig-topped mediocrity,” noting that King wore a wig “long after such coverings had gone out of fashion.” The biography quotes a fellow senator as having this to say about King: “He was distinguished by the scrupulous correctness of his conduct. He was remarkable for his quiet and unobtrusive, but active practical usefulness as a legislator … To his honor be it spoken, he never vexed the ear of the Senate with ill-timed, tedious or unnecessary debate.” The Encyclopedia of Alabama reports in
a 2003 article that rumors circulating in Washington about King’s sexual orientation increased as his close friendship with Buchanan became widely known. “Neither man ever married, and by 1836 they were sharing a residence in Washington,” the encyclopedia article says. “Any negative reactions to their relationship appear to have had little effect, and the men continued with their living arrangement and their work as legislators.” By 1840, newspapers in Alabama supportive of the Democratic Party, of which King was a prominent member, promoted King as a vice-presidential running mate for incumbent President Martin Van Buren. Although King received little support outside Alabama for the vice-presidential nomination, he continued to position himself behind the scenes as a possible vice-presidential candidate for the next two decades, the Alabama Encyclopedia reports. The Senate biography of King says President John Tyler interrupted King’s vice-presidential ambitions in 1844 when he nominated him to become U.S. minister to France and the Senate quickly confirmed the nomination by a lopsided margin. The bio says King succeeded in his main mission to persuade France not to oppose U.S. plans to annex Texas, which the U.S. acquired following the MexicanAmerican War. King returned to the Senate in 1848, two years after completing his service in France. In July 1850, King became the defacto U.S. vice president when President Zachary Taylor died in office and then Vice President Millard Filmore became president, leaving the office of vice president vacant. King’s Senate colleagues responded by unanimously selecting him as president pro tempore of the Senate, which normally would have placed him third in line to become president. With the vice president’s post vacant, King emerged as first in line to become president if Filmore were to die in office. In 1852, after years of vying for the vice-presidential nomination, the constellations appeared to be in perfect alignment with Democratic Party politics for King’s longtime dream. After nominating Franklin continued on page 32
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LGBTMonth History
James Buchanan: America’s First Gay President? By Timothy Cwiek
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ore than 150 years before America elected its first black president, Barack Obama, it most likely had its first gay president, James Buchanan (1791-1868). Buchanan, a Democrat from Lancaster County, Pa., was the 15th president of the United States, and a lifelong bachelor. He served as president from 1857-61, tumultuous years leading up to the Civil War. Historian James W. Loewen has done extensive research into Buchanan’s personal life, and he’s convinced Buchanan was gay. Loewen is the author of the acclaimed book “Lies Across America,” which examines how historical sites inaccurately portray figures and events in America’s past. “I’m sure that Buchanan was gay,” Loewen said. “There is clear evidence that he was gay. And since I haven’t seen any evidence that he was heterosexual, I don’t believe he was bisexual.” According to Loewen, Buchanan shared a residence with William Rufus King, a Democratic senator from Alabama, for several
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years in Washington, D.C. Loewen said contemporary records indicate the two men were inseparable, and wags would refer to them as “the Siamese twins.” Loewen also said Buchanan was “fairly open” about his relationship with King, causing some colleagues to view the men as a couple. For example, Aaron Brown, a prominent Democrat, writing to Mrs. James K. Polk, referred to King as Buchanan’s “better half,” “his wife” and “Aunt Fancy … rigged out in her best clothes.” In 1844, when King was appointed minister to France, he wrote Buchanan, “I am selfish enough to hope you will not be able to procure an associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation.” Loewen also said a letter Buchanan wrote to a friend after King went to France shows the depth of his feeling for King. “I am now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me,” Buchanan wrote. “I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to
some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.” Loewen said their relationship — though interrupted due to foreign-service obligations — ended only with King’s death in 1853. In the late 1990s, Loewen visited Wheatland, the mansion in Lancaster, Pa., where Buchanan spent his later years. Loewen said he asked a staffer at Wheatland if Buchanan was gay, and the reply was: “He most definitely was not.” Loewen said the staffer pointed to a portrait of Ann Coleman, the daughter of a wealthy iron maker, whom Buchanan was engaged to briefly 1819 — shortly before she committed suicide. However, Loewen scoffed at the staffer’s suggestion that the brief engagement to Coleman proved Buchanan was heterosexual. Loewen said Buchanan showed little interest in Coleman, appeared more interested in her fortune, and possibly contributed to her suicide due to his emotional detachment. Patrick Clarke, the director of Wheatland, said the staff now takes a neutral stance on Buchanan’s sexual or affectional preference. “There’s no solid proof that Buchanan was heterosexual, nor is there solid proof that he was homosexual,” Clarke said. “If we ever come up with a smoking gun that proves it one way or the other, I would definitely encourage our staff to share it with the public.” But, he said Ann Coleman’s portrait no
longer is displayed at Wheatland. The tours focus mainly on the mansion’s décor and activities that took place there during the later years of Buchanan’s life, he added. Wheatland also has about 45 volunteer tour guides, and to Clarke’s knowledge, none of the guides is openly gay. “The volunteer guides who we train to share the history of James Buchanan’s life and times are directed to take a neutral stance regarding [his] sexual preference,” Clarke said. But Clarke said he wouldn’t object if a volunteer offered a personal opinion that Buchanan was gay, if asked by a visitor. “When you have 50 minutes to take people through a nine-room house, there’s only so much you can discuss,” Clarke said. “But if the question is raised, the guide may express a personal opinion.” Loewen said many historians rate Buchanan as one of the worst U.S. presidents. Buchanan was part of the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic Party, and corruption plagued his administration. But Loewen said those flaws shouldn’t discourage members of the LGBT community from acknowledging Buchanan’s status as a gay man. “Lots of gay people have been exemplary,” he said. “Let’s look at Walt Whitman. For my money, he’s the best poet in the history of the country. But we also have to acknowledge the failures. If we only admit that really great people are gay, what kind of history is that? And how is that believable? It’s ridiculous. We have to tell it like it was.” As a heterosexual male, Loewen added, he has no hidden agenda in outing Buchanan. “I’m not gay,” Loewen said. “I don’t run around trying to find gay folks or black folks underneath every rock. But I’m not going to ignore clear evidence.” Timothy Cwiek holds a bachelor of art degree in U.S. history from West Chester University. He has written for Philadelphia Gay News since the late 1970s and written freelance articles for numerous publications on topics such as the Lincoln assassination, the Kennedy family, the shootings at Kent State University, first ladies and the macrobiotic movement in America.
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SFGN Editorial
Obama Resonates Yet Disappoints at National Dinner
Norm Kent, Publisher
positions. He won’t enforce DOMA, but he won’t go beyond civil unions for now. That is too bad, because with the bully pulpit on his side, the president can speed the change, which will surely come anyway tomorrow. America sides with those who endorse amplifying liberties for all. Public sentiment is moving in the direction of supporting gay marriage, with most polls showing people are now about evenly split or narrowly in favor. Gay marriage is on the right side of history, a slowly evolving process that will be law in America one day down the road. Even without Obama’s backing, a few states have passed legislation legalizing gay marriage; New York was the most recent. Politicians leap on trends and statesman help create them. We call on President Obama to be the statesman for gay marriage that he was for gay soldiers. You have done too much for us for you to lose our support. We applaud the achievements of your administration. Don’t stop now. The battle is still not won. You can be more than our partner. You can be a leader. Take the next step, and endorse the justice we still wait for.
President Barack Obama greets people on the street in Decorah, Iowa, August 16, 2011
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resident Obama’s appearance before the Human Rights Campaign last Saturday night in Washington, D.C., came less than two weeks after the military ended its ban on openly gay service members. Obama championed that change, and celebrated his victory before 3,0000 enthusiastic supporters, which included Lady Gaga, at the dinner. Having now won the right for gay soldiers to serve and die for their country, many gay leaders were quietly hoping that the President would take the next step and support same-sex marriage. Many were thinking the HRC dinner would become the platform in which he would do it. They were disappointed. It was not to be. The president circumvented the issue. In politics, perfect is the enemy of good. You sometimes have to accept incremental steps. So it is with gay rights in the Obama Administration; so it has been with civil rights in America. When you are being wronged, no time is fast enough to correct the injustice and repair the wounds. The president has taken us farther than most, with over 200 LGBT appointees to federal
Letter to the Editor To the Editor: It is time for our Community to look forward to the elections in 2012. Our apathy has resulted in us being represented in Congress and the Governor’s office by the anti-gay Tea Party. Is this what we want? I hear, “Oh, politics don’t interest me.” Well, guess what, you had better get interested or we will never achieve the goals so important to our survival as citizens with equal rights afforded to every other group. I would suggest that businesses in our area supported by the Community such as bars, restaurants and stores hold political rallies and voter registration drives like they sponsor fundraisers. They could invite various candidates to speak and tell us exactly what they will do for us. We can become a powerful voting force with just a little effort. Last, but not least, get off your Butts and vote.You will be glad you did. Robert Gotcher Oakland Park, FL
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President Obama: Stand by Me
On Oct. 1, President Obama delivered the Keynote Address at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner in Washington, DC know that the President and the First Lady is standing right by them every inch of the way. I want them to know that we love them and care about them, and they’re not by themselves. That’s what I want them to know… …We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders – one of whom could end up being the President Barack Obama President of the United States – being silent tapes the weekly address, when an American soldier is booed. We don’t believe in that. We don’t believe in standing silent when that happens. We don’t schools your children go to. You’re also partners. Because nobody should have to students figuring out how to pay for college. believe in them being silent since. You want produce a legal contract to hold the hand of the person that they love. We got that done. You’re also folks who are worried about the to be Commander-in-Chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who economy and whether or not your partner I said that we would lift that HIV travel ban – we got that done. We put in place the or husband or wife will be able to find a job. wear the uniform of the United States, even when it’s not politically convenient. And you’re Americans who want this counfirst comprehensive national strategy to We don’t believe in a small America. We try to succeed and prosper, and who are fight HIV/AIDS. tired of the gridlock and the vicious partisan- believe in a big America – a tolerant America, Many questioned whether we’d succeed a just America, an equal America – that values ship, and are sick of the Washington games. in repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell.” And, yes, the service of every patriot. We believe in an Those are your fights, too, HRC. it took two years to get the repeal through America where we’re all in it together, and So I’m going to need your help. I need Congress. We had to hold a coalition towe see the good in one another, and we live gether. We had to keep up the pressure. We your help to fight for equality, to pass a reup to a creed that is as old as our founding: peal of DOMA, to pass an inclusive employtook some flak along the way. But with the help of HRC, we got it done. And “don’t ask, ment non-discrimination bill so that being gay E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. And that is never again a fireable offense in America. includes everybody. That’s what we believe. don’t tell” is history. And all over the world, That’s what we’re going to be fighting for… there are men and women serving this coun- And I don’t have to tell you, there are those …It’s progress led not by Washington but who don’t want to just stand in our way but try just as they always have – with honor by ordinary citizens, who are propelled not and courage and discipline and valor. We got want to turn the clock back; who want to just by politics but by love and friendship and return to the days when gay people couldn’t it done. We got that done. All around the a sense of mutual regard. It’s playing out in serve their country openly; who reject the world, you’ve got gays and lesbians who are progress that we’ve made; who, as we speak, legislatures like New York, and courtrooms serving, and the only difference is now they and in the ballot box. But it’s also happening are looking to enshrine discrimination into can put up a family photo. No one has to around water coolers and at the Thanksgivstate laws and constitutions – efforts that live a lie to serve the country they love. ing table, and on Facebook and Twitter, and I vowed to keep up the fight against the so- we’ve got to work hard to oppose, because at PTA meetings and potluck dinners, and that’s not what America should be about. called Defense of Marriage Act. There’s a bill We’re not about restricting rights and re- church socials and VFW Halls. to repeal this discriminatory law in Congress, It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t stricting opportunity. We’re about opening and I want to see that passed. But until we reach that day, my administration is no longer up rights and opening up opportunity – and just love his daughter, but also her wife. It happens when a soldier tells his unit that he’s defending DOMA in the courts. I believe the treating each other generously and with gay, and they tell him they knew it all along and law runs counter to the Constitution, and it’s love and respect. And together, we also have to keep sending they didn’t care, because he was the toughest time for it to end once and for all. It should join “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the history books. a message to every young person in this coun- guy in the unit. It happens when a video sparks a movement to let every single young person try who might feel alone or afraid because So, yes, we have more work to do. And know they’re not alone, and things will get they’re gay or transgender – who may be after so many years – even decades – of inbetter. It happens when people look past their action you’ve got every right to push against getting picked on or pushed around because they’re different. We’ve got to make sure they ultimately minor differences to see themselves the slow pace of change. But make no in the hopes and struggles of their fellow huknow that there are adults they can talk to; mistake – I want people to feel encouraged here – we are making change. We’re making that they are never alone; that there is a whole man beings. That’s where change is happening. And that’s not just the story of the gay real and lasting change. We can be proud of world waiting for them filled with possibility. rights movement. That’s the story of AmerThat’s why we held a summit at the White the progress we’ve already made. ica – the slow, inexorable march towards a House on bullying. That’s why we’re going to And I’m going to continue to fight alongmore perfect union. You are contributing to side you. And I don’t just mean in your role, continue to focus on this issue. This isn’t just “kids being kids.” It’s wrong. It’s destructive. It’s that story, and I’m confident we can continue by the way, as advocates for equality. You’re never acceptable. And I want all those kids to to write another chapter together… also moms and dads who care about the
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ow, I don’t want to give a long speech. Cyndi Lauper is in the house. I can’t compete with that. But I wanted to come here tonight, first of all, to personally thank Joe for his outstanding years of leadership at HRC. What he has accomplished at the helm of this organization has been remarkable, and I want to thank all of you for the support that you’ve shown this organization and for your commitment to a simple idea: Every single American – gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition. Now, I don’t have to tell you that we have a ways to go in that struggle. I don’t have to tell you how many are still denied their basic rights – Americans who are still made to feel like second-class citizens, who have to live a lie to keep their jobs, or who are afraid to walk the street, or down the hall at school. Many of you have devoted your lives to the cause of equality. So you know what we have to do; we’ve got more work ahead of us. But we can also be proud of the progress we’ve made these past two and a half years. Think about it. Two years ago, I stood at this podium, in this room, before many of you, and I made a pledge. I said I would never counsel patience; that it wasn’t right to tell you to be patient any more than it was right for others to tell African Americans to be patient in the fight for equal rights a half century ago. But what I also said, that while it might take time – more time than anyone would like – we are going to make progress; we are going to succeed; we are going to build a more perfect union. And so, let’s see what happened. I met with Judy Shepard. I promised her we would pass a hate crimes bill named for her son, Matthew. And with the help of my dear friend Ted Kennedy we got it done. Because it should never be dangerous – you should never have to look over your shoulder – to be gay in the United States of America. That’s why we got it done. I met with Janice Langbehn, who was barred from the bedside of the woman she loved as she lay dying. And I told her that we were going to put a stop to this discrimination. And you know what? We got it done. I issued an order so that any hospital in America that accepts Medicare or Medicaid – and that means just about every hospital – has to treat gay partners just as they do straight
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Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Lights! Cameras! Action!
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he Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival returns to Wilton Manors next weekend and organizers are promising the best ever. According to Executive Director Franc Castro, the festival, which runs Oct. 13-16 at The Manor, will feature 17 films, additional award-winning shorts and special appearances by filmmakers and actors. The festival got its start as an adjunct to the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, but in recent years, the organization has worked to grow the Fort Lauderdale festival as its own full-fledged event. “We were showing 40 films in Miami and only five in Fort Lauderdale,” explains Castro. “We listened to the feedback we got from Fort Lauderdale audiences who were looking for more.” Organizers moved the Fort Lauderdale
festival to the fall three years ago and this is the second year the films have been screened at the Wilton Manors nightclub, The Manor. Castro cites the support of The Manor as key to the success of the festival: “Ticket sales only cover 20 percent of our costs when you factor in venue rental, film rental, technicians, marketing, ticketing costs….” Castro explains. “The Manor, which is donating the space, and corporate sponsors such as the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau are crucial to growing the festival. It’s definitely scaled down (compared to Miami), but the potential is there.” He also encourages film fans to consider purchasing a $50 festival membership, which not only supports the non-profit organization, but also comes with perks such as discounted tickets and special events throughout the year. The festival opens Thursday, Oct. 13 with the South Florida premiere of “Dirty Girl,”
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which was screened at the Toronto gay film festival and was immediately picked up for distribution by The Weinstein Company, the company that released the Oscar nominated, “The Kids Are Alright.” Castro is particularly excited because the movie will be shown on 35mm film, an increasing rarity as many independent filmmakers move to video. Other highlights include “Kink Crusaders,” a documentary about the leather community and the International Mr. Leather competition in Chicago. The film, which will be shown on Saturday night, Oct. 14, will be of particular interest to local audiences because of a cameo appearance by the 2007 Mr. Ramrod, Scott Melton, who finished third. One of Castro’s favorites is a double feature on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 3:30 p.m. of “The Grove” and “Life at the End,” two thoughtful films that look at the AIDS National Memorial in San Francisco and end of life issues. The
movies will be followed by a panel discussion with attorneys and caregivers to explore the issues raised in the documentaries. The festival is offering a special $5 ticket price for the film: “We wanted to make sure these films are sold out, as we’re coming up on the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus and it’s just hard to fill seats on anything about AIDS anymore,” Castro says. A number of filmmakers will also be appearing, including J.C. Calciano (“eCupid”), whose family resides in Coral Springs. “A film festival isn’t a film festival unless you have the filmmakers there,” notes Castro. Fans can learn more about the festival at the gala pre-party tonight, Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Atlantic Hotel, 601 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visit FLGLFF.com for more information and a full schedule of films.
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Another Month, Another Holiday
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e love the fall. There’s a federal holiday every month, ensuring a big party weekend in South Florida. Last month, we had Labor Day. This month is the salute to Christopher Columbus, which happens to fall on Monday, Oct. 10. In honor of the contributions of the discovery of the New World, the area’s clubs and bars have a special three-day weekend planned. Here’s a lot at some of the highlights: Wednesday, Oct. 5
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eeling lucky? Play that hand of Texas hold ‘em tonight at Scandals Saloon, 3073 NE 6th Ave. in Wilton Manors. The bar’s poker tournament kicks off at 7 p.m. on the dance floor bar with Peter. It’s gonna be a great night and we’re not bluffing! Thursday, Oct. 6
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n Miami, you’ll find plenty of hot men at the new Johnny’s, 62 NE 14th St. Thursdays are Latin Nights with shows by Teresita La Caliente and the bar is serving up free Cuba Libre from 10 p.m. to 12 p.m. In Fort Lauderdale, there’s no denying that the Alibi in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors must be a stop on your evening’s itinerary. Enjoy their famous iced teas—traditional Long Island or electric Long Beach—in the signature mason jars. The drinks are just one reason why The Alibi is such an institution in the Fort Lauderdale area. Friday, Oct. 7
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n holiday weekends, Boardwalk owner Victor Zepka always has a surprise. Tonight and Saturday, the first 50 people each night after 9 p.m. at the Andrews Ave. club will receive a free Jet Set men calendar. Take home more than memories from your visit to the Boardwalk. Miami nightclub Sugar kicks off the holiday weekend with 2-4-1 drinks until midnight. Resident DJ Jarell will be in the booth and don’t miss shows by T.P. Lords and Sasha Lords. Host Alex Infiniti has giveaways and specials all night long, also.You’ll find the party at 2301 SW 32nd Ave. in Miami. Saturday, Oct. 8
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Noche Latina Room. Best of all, there’s no cover. The Manor is at 2345 Wilton Dr. in Wilton Manors. Wet Bar in Miami hosts O Saturdays with DJ Lazaro Leon playing house, tribal and anthems all night long. In addition to sexy dancers, stop by for the 2-4-1 drinks at 1728 SW 8th St. Doors open at 11 p.m. and the action continues to 5 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9
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amrod, South Florida’s leather/Levi/ uniform bar hosts its annual Mr. Ramrod contest. It’s not too late to compete for the title and, of course, the winner will represent South Florida at the annual International Mr. Leather Contest next spring in Chicago. The show begins at 10 p.m. Ramrod is located at 1508 NE 4th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Celebrate Columbus Day poolside in South Beach at the Lords South Beach, 1120 Collins Ave., beginning at 4 p.m. DJ Juan E will be spinning and there will be punch bowl specials while you work on your tan. Afterwards, head over to Edison Farrow’s new event, Chalet Sundays at Treehouse, 323 23rd St. There’s no cover to this cool party and free vodka drinks from 10 p.m. to midnight. Monday, Oct. 10
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Theatre Broward County As Bee’s in Honey Drown
As Bee’s in Honey Drown is a comedy about the pitfalls of the unquenchable hunger for fame. A gay writer meets his Auntie Mame meal ticket (or so he thinks) in this delicious and breezy comedy. Sept. 9 to Oct. 9 Fri, Sat at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m. Tickets $35. Visit Risingactiontheatre.com
Rain- A Tribute to the Beatles
Come see a band that has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance in this multi-media concert, that’s as infectious as it Is transporting. This adoring tribute will take you back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends. Don’t miss this tribute band Oct. 4-6 at the Broward Center. Visit BrowardCenter.org
Arts Ballet Theatre - Harlequinade
Originally made into a ballet in 1900, by Marius Petipa, with music by Riccardo Drigo, Harlequinade follows Harlequin, and his lover, Columbina, as they outwit Columbina’s father, Cassander. Subscribe by Oct. 9, and get 15 percent off of all three magical performances in the Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida’s upcoming season in the Amaturo Theater. Visit BrowardCenter.org
*Paula Poundstone
The Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, FL presents comedian Paula Poundstone in concert Saturday, October 22. It’s impossible to attend a Paula Poundstone performance without marveling at her ability to interact spontaneously with audience members in conversations bound to garner riotous laughter. Visit Playmardigras.com
Beauty and the Beast
The most beautiful love story ever told comes to life at the Broward Center on Nov 15-27. Based on the Academy Award winning animation feature film, this eye popping spectacle has won the hearts of over 25 million people worldwide. Visit BrowardCenter.org
Palm Beach
Turn off the TV Theatre: The Good Life!
Every Saturday at The Luna Lounge in Lake worth for an evening of community Theater featuring burlesque, variety, comedy, and entertainment. Turn off the TV Theater hosts an evening of entertainment in downtown Lake Worth Florida! The dinner theater offers a 3-course meal and two shows every sat night. Dinner at 8:30 p.m. and shows at 9:30 p.m. Visit Turnoffthetvtheater.com
K.D. Lang and the Siss Boom Bang
Throughout a career that has encompassed styles ranging from country to pop to classic torch songs, Lang’s musical journey has been distinguished by one unique component: a truly singular and beautiful voice that makes any song, in any style, truly identifiable as a K.D. Lang performance. Come to the Kravis Center on Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. for this great stand up and sing performance. Visit Kravis.org
Sesame Street Live/Elmo’s Super Hero’s
Calling all super heroes! Come help Elmo and friends get his super-ness back. In West Palm Beach Elmo and friends will sing, dance, and exercise their way thru important life learning lessons. Come join Sesame Street friends at the Kravis Center on Oct. 15 for a great experience for adults and kids alike. Visit Kravis.org
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THEATRE SPOTLIGHT
To Submit Listings Email: Brian at Calendar@sfgn.com Fax: 954-530-7943. Please include a brief description, address, phone number, date, time and cost. The Brundibár Experience
Ms. Weissberger will speak about her experiences as a young Jewish girl coming of age in 1940’s Czechoslovakia as a prisoner in the Terezin concentration camp, Hitler’s “Model Ghetto.” Ela was chosen to play the role of the cat in Hans Krása’s children’s opera, Brundibár, performed over fifty times by the children of Terezin. Her insightful and poignant presentation will set the stage for Insight through Education, Palm Beach Opera, the Young Singers of the Palm Beaches and the Kravis Center’s performances of Brundibár on Oct. 22. Visit Kravis.org
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! Is the ultimate feel-good show. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the Greek island they last visited 20 years ago. The storytelling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship to a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget. Relive the fun … again! Sponsored by Carolyn and Richard Sloane, Annual Friends Members Dessert Reception at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25. Visit Kravis.com
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
This morality play about the cost of lying and the price of truth telling, examines a troubled family and a father who placed duty to his family above the lives of others, and now must face the consequences. This play is showing at The Palm Beach DramaWorks Clematis Theater Nov. 12 through Dec. 11. Visit PalmBeachDramaWorks.org
Miami Hairspray
Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. A joyous tribute to the ‘60’s, this intelligent and hilarious musical has the best Broadway score in recent years. Come to the Actors Playhouse Oct. 12 through Nov. 13 for 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” Visit Actorsplayhouse.org
Broward Center’s Pride Series By J.W. Arnold
August: Osage County
In Key West at the Waterfront Playhouse on Dec 20, it’s August in Oklahoma. A father is missing, a mother is in the grip of addiction, a marriage is unraveling and lies are being exposed. You are cordially invited to one bitch of a family reunion. This raucous dark comedy transforms one family gathering into an evening filled with sex, secrets, and really inappropriate behavior. One of the most lauded plays of the decade, August: Osage County is a can’t-miss hilarious and stinging look at the American family. Visit WaterfrontPlayhouse.org
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
Get ready for a holiday treat Dec. 7 through Jan. 1 at the Actors Playhouse. Move over Scrooge, it’s time for Jacob Marley to tell his story! Join Marley and his heroic behindthe-scenes effort to save old Scrooge’s soul - and in the process save his own, in this delightful gem of a show. Filled with laughter and terror, redemption and renewal, this wonderful play is irreverent, funny, and a deeply moving twist on Dickens’ classic, told with warmth and infectious zest. Visit Actorsplayhouse.org
Community Calendar Broward
*Gay Men’s HIV+ Long Time Survivors’ Group This is a support group that gives men who have been HIV+ for a long time (5 yrs +) the opportunity to give and receive support around topics of interest and issues for concern that are raised by the members. This group meets on 1st and 3rd Thursday at Sunserve 2312 Wilton Drive from 6:30 – 8 p.m. There is no cost, but donations are welcome.
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or 2011-12, the Broward Center offers a special Pride Series for the LGBT community. The first production is Jon and Juan’s Wedding, Oct. 12 to 23. The boys are getting married and you’re invited to the flamboyant and dysfunctional ceremony. Be careful what you wish for because these boys don’t know what they’re in for. Oy Vey….In a Manger! The second performance in the Pride Series features the Kinsey Sicks, the twisted “dragappella”
*Gay Male Empowerment Group
Topic discussions include issues and concerns about being a gay man in South Florida. Meets on Thursdays at the Pride Center from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Call 954-353-9155 or e-mail info@ sunserve.org.
*PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Meets on the 2nd and 4th Tues. of the month at the Sunshine Cathedral at 1480 SW 9th Avenue to support the parents of LGBTQ youth in Broward. No charge. Visit community.pflag. org/pflagfortlauderdale for more information.
*SunServe Therapy Groups
Provided for the LGBT community at SunServe on a regular basis. Groups require an intake interview. Call the Intake Coordinator at 954-764-5150 to learn which therapy groups have openings. Visit SunServe.org
*Substance Abuse/ Use Recovery Group
Weekly group designed to support one another, share struggles of recovery, and find different ways to maintain sobriety. October 5, between 7 and 8:30 p.m. There will be a mental health professional to facilitate the group and participants will gain an understanding about substance use/abuse, treatment, and recovery. Visit SunServe.org
Fort Lauderdale Ghost Tour
The 60- to 90-minute walking tour of the ghosts of historic Fort Lauderdale begins on Southeast Sixth Ave. and Las Olas Blvd. and ends near the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In the process of ghost stalking, tour guide John Carr also reveals the history of Fort Lauderdale and the stories of pioneers such as Ivy and Frank Stranahan and the Philomen Bryan family. These Ghostly adventures begin Fridays and Sat. at 8:45pm. $20 for adults; $15 for children under 10; and free for children 5 and under. Visit Fortlauderdaleghosttour.com
vocal group, in a special holiday concert that is certain to entertain and horrify audiences at the same time. Catch their act Saturday, Dec. 3. And don’t forget to mark your calendars next year for an appearance by Leslie Jordan (“Will & Grace,” “Sordid Lives”) and fabulous female impersonator Varla Jean Merman on April 7. Visit BrowardCenter.org for more information. Peter Frampton
“Frampton Comes Alive! 35th Anniversary World Tour” Grammy winning celebrated artist Peter Frampton will bring his “Frampton Comes Alive! 35th Anniversary World Tour” to Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on October 9 at 7:00 p.m. He will perform the legendary platinum-selling album Frampton Comes Alive! In its entirety. Tickets on sale now. Hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com
Pumpkin Patch Time
The time for carving pumpkins are back and better than ever at Kiwanis Club. Come to this great pumpkin patch in Wilton Manors at five points and 26th St. The opening day is October 9, so come get your mini pumpkins, corn stalks, Indian corn and a limited supply of White Pumpkins. Don’t forget to bring your kids, pets and camera so that you can creat lasting memories at their beautiful fall photo display set. For more Information call Randy Comer 954-303-3565
The Village of Horrors
Come to the War Memorial Auditorium on Oct 13, 14,15th and experience some of the Scariest Haunted Houses in Ft. Lauderdale. The story of Cross Town runs deep in history rich with tales of murder, greed and debauchery. Once a bustling town with flourishing businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs, the thirst and hunger for power, lust and money really drove this quaint town of South Florida into a now deserted and barren village – A village cursed by murderers, thieves, demons and the paranormal – A Village of Horrors. Villageofhorrors.com
Fusion Wilton Manors - Connections
Gay men’s group discussion. Different subject every week. Dr. David Fawcett, a gay therapist, who has been in private practice in Fort Lauderdale for the last ten years, leads the event. No charge with no commitment to attend every week. Starts at 7 p.m. Call Fusion Monday-Friday at 954-630-1655.
GLBX Luncheon Keynote Address:
Domestic Partnership Benefits in Business October 13, 2011 Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Riverside Hotel 620 E Las Olas Blvd Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Contact: Drew Miller Phone: 954.817.3021 Email: drew@ftlchamber.com Tickets will not be sold at the door due to limited seating!
GLBX Is Proud To Announce Our First GLBX Luncheon Sponsored by: Orkin Pest Control
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To Submit Listings Email: Brian at Calendar@sfgn.com Fax: 954-530-7943. Please include a brief description, address, phone number, date, time and cost. Meth911
Group is held Mondays at the Pride Center at Equality Park between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. This is a free, weekly, drop -in group for confidential, non-judgmental information and support regarding gay men, substance abuse, and wellness. The key focus of the group is meth. Call 954-548-4602.
*Gender Benders
Support Group for Youth who cannot-will not-choose not-do not confirm to gender “norms.” This group meeting is held 7:00pm-8:30pm on Monday night’s at SunServe’s Youth Room at 1480 SW 9 Ave in Ft. Lauderdale.. Call 954-764-5150
*Women4Women Personal Growth Support Group
This is a safe and loving place to explore all the concerns and topics raised by group members. This open drop-in meeting is held Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the New Sun Serve Building at 2312 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Call 954-764-5150
Halloween Fetish Ball 2011
This Halloween party is a tour-de-force of fetish clubbing featuring a huge multi-room space transformed into the most elaborately decorated fetish nightclub beyond your wildest imagination, filled with a fun and playful crowd. In years past, this party has been known to draw more than 2,000 fetishfrenzied partiers in a single night. The Halloween Ball takes place Saturday Oct. 29 and will be held at the incredible Exit 66 Nightclub on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Visit Fetish-Factory.com
Beach Boot Camp with The Health Colonel
Thinking of dropping a few pounds…The Health Colonel is here to help you keep in shape. Come to Fort Lauderdale Beach Monday and Wednesday at 7 p.m., and Saturdays at 8 a.m. Individual classes are $15. Every session incorporates three elements – cardio, strength, and flexibility. As you might expect, the man named The Health Colonel knows a thing or two about fitness. “The real issue,” he says, “has nothing to do with food -- or exercise for that matter. It has everything to do with how you think.” Visit NoMoreCryBabies.com
Cardio Strip & Pole Dancing Class
Every Thursday at The World Fitness Association grab that brass pole and shake that cellulite away. Cardio Strip & Pole Dancing Classes are fun from beginning to end. Wrap your thighs around a stiff pole and sweat those pounds away. The best thing about these classes is that your first one is free. Call 954-564-6743
Butterfly Gardening Workshop
Learn how to start your own butterfly garden, how to identify and attract local butterflies. Workshops are held indoors, at Butterfly World’s Grand Plaza, 3600 W Sample Rd. in Pompano Beach. This workshop is free with paid admission. Only one date left Oct. 8. Call 954-977-4434 or email gardens@butterflyworld.com
The Clubhouse II
Is a great spot for bi and gay men. On Tuesdays, there is “Leather Night,” which Clubhouse claims is the largest leather party in town. You get $4 off admission if you’re in leather, and it’s an open bar. Along with Tuesdays and Thursdays, the bar is also complimentary on Fridays and Saturdays. Pay $35 for a six-month membership. For a one-day pass, add $10 to your purchase of a room or locker. Lockers are from $13 to $19. The new Sunday special is $13. Rooms cost $24 and $30 for VIP. Clubhouse II is open 24 hours. Visit ClubHouse2.com
Palm Beach *Mack Mixer
MACK coined the term ‘Gay Owned. Straight Friendly.’ by launching their first business networking groups for the South Florida business community in March 2005: Power Lunch and Mack Mixer. Five years later, MACK continues to be a trusted name for the gay and lesbian business community and its supporters. Come to Maggiano’s Little Italy on October 5 for a great networking experience. Visit Mackplanet.com
*Latin Night Against HIV/AIDS for National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
On Oct 15 at 9 pm come to The Coco Cabana Bar & Grill for The Comprehensive AIDS Program of Palm Beach County provides and promotes education, advocacy, and compassion to individuals and families infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in Palm Beach County. CAP has been conducting its Community Promise program within the Hispanic community to hinder new infections among Hispanics. Call Hernminia Mercedes at 561-472-2466 ext. 133.
*Denim & Diamonds
On October 14, from 7pm-11pm come to Out of the Blue located on the waterfront in Jupiter at the Jonathan’s Landing Country Club Marina. Tickets are $40 and include a lip smacking’ good dinner, dancing’ the night away, a silent auction, and rip roaring’ good time. There’s a cash bar and don’t miss taking a stroll along the waterfront and enjoy the evening breeze. Call Michelle at 561-301-3818
Yoga On The Waterfront
Lake Pavilion at 101 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL / Yoga On The Waterfront in downtown West Palm Beach on Wednesday Evenings at 5:45 PM. Residents $40 per 8 week session, Non-Residents $50 per 8 week session, Drop-ins $10 per class. To register, please call 561-804-4902.
YOGA Among the Orchids
It’s time for Yoga Among the Orchids at the American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. Relax and replenish the flower inside with an hour of breathing exercises, toning, and yoga poses under a canopy of lush orchids. This is orchid headquarters so pick up a few pointers from the pros in between sun salutations. Classes are Wed. at 9 a.m. Cost is $20 and RSVP is suggested. Call 561-404-2011. Visit OrchidWeb.org
Jazz on the Palm
Jazz on the Palm - Downtown West Palm Beach Waterfront - Gather with friends and family to enjoy the diverse vibrant sounds of jazz under the stars every 3rd Friday of month at the new Downtown West Palm Beach waterfront concert series. Free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visit Wpbgo.com/2010/06/jazz-on-the-palm
Sunday on the Waterfront
Sunday on the Waterfront is a free concert series, which takes place the third Sunday of most months in the beautiful downtown West Palm Beach Waterfront area. This familyfriendly event is the perfect way to unwind this weekend with good times and great entertainment for all ages with plenty of free kids’ activities. Guests are welcome to bring blankets and chairs and can bring coolers or purchase tasty treats at the concert. Free parking in all city lots and at city meters. 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. May through October. Visit OnTheWaterFront.com
BrothasSpeak
This group is a black gay men’s discussion group that is held at the Compass in West Palm Beach. Every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. this group will be directed toward issues for and about black men. Visit Compassglcc.com
Paths
Paths is a social/discussion group held at Compass in Lake Worth. This men’s group takes place every Monday from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Paths men’s group will be discussing relationships, coming –out, safer sex issues and more. Visit Compassglcc.com
Yoga
Yoga with Deborah will change your life. Bring a mat and get ready to stretch the stress away every Tuesday at The GLCC in Palm Beach from 6 to 7 p.m. This yoga experience will uplift and transform your life. $6 Entry Fee. You must bring your own mat. Visit Compassglcc.com
Living Buddhism
On the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. Compass in Lake Worth will be holding a discussion group for overcoming obstacles and obtaining happiness. This group is great for getting internal enlightenment. Release your inner stress, and become free. Visit Compassglcc.com
Good Orderly AA
These meetings take place at Compass, and geared toward recovering alcoholics. Every Tues. and Thurs. at 7 p.m. and on Sat. at 6 p.m. These meetings will help recovering alcoholics cope with the stress of everyday life without the use of alcohol.
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Dine Out Lauderdale
Dine Out Lauderdale, a six-week celebration of the area’s top restaurants, chefs and cuisine. From October 1 through November 10. Greater Fort Lauderdale restaurants are offering specially-created, three-course menus at a $35 fixed price. Enjoy the very best restaurants set amid a tropical backdrop of turquoise waters, golden sands, emerald palms and sun kissed skies. Visit Sunny.org
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Fantasy-Fest By Brian Swinford
13th Annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
This year the IGFA inducts the 13th class into the Fishing Hall of Fame on October 25th. John Chibnall, Al Lindner, Allen and Buddy Merritt, Frank O’Brien, Jr., and Paxson Offield will join the ranks of fishing’s luminaries at the annual induction ceremony, emceed by 2004 Inductee Mark Sosin. Next to the privilege of having a great fish on the line, the event is one of fishing’s highest honors. Igfa.org
Dolphins Cycling Challenge 2011
All rides carry a registration fee of $150. The ride will be Nov 5-6. This registration fee is non-refundable and DOES NOT count toward the rider’s fundraising minimum. Registration fee includes: in-ride and post-ride food, beverages, medical supplies, mechanical assistance, Dolphins Cycling Challenge ride jersey, commemorative water bottle, two (2) tickets to the Miami Dolphins DCC celebratory game on December 4, 2011 versus the Oakland Raiders, etc. An on-field ceremony will be held to at this game honoring cyclists and participants in the DCC. Visit Miamidolphins.com
*GALLA Networking Luncheon
GALLA (Gay & Lesbian Lawyer’s Assn.) - Luncheon – Downtown - MDGLCC/GALLA presents a networking luncheon tailored for attorneys, judges and legal professionals on Wednesday, August 10th. Guest speaker (TBD). Truluck’s Restaurant at 777 Brickell Avenue, 305-579-0035. Parking $6 on adjacent structure. Registration 11:30am with luncheon/ networking from noon to 1:30pm. Limited to 20 persons. RSVP requested: 305-673-4440 or mdglcc@bellsouth.net.
*Business Builders Luncheon
Coral Gables – October 5 - MDGLCC presents its monthly networking program held on the 1st Wednesday of each month at Seasons 52 Restaurant, 321 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, 305-442-8552. Registration 11:30am with luncheon/ networking from noon to 1:00 pm. . Cost: MDGLCC members ($30), Potential Members ($40, $10 applied to new MDGLCC membership). Includes seated style lunch limited to 25 persons. Street parking or $7 valet
Theater Night “Hairspray” Florida Regional Premiere
MDGLCC, in association with the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, presents Theatre Night at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Mile Theatre (280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables) on Thurs., Oct. 13. There will be a pre-performance reception with wine & hors d’oeuvres in the theater lobby at 7 p.m. $30 - Reception and Performance. Hairspray is Broadway’s hottest musical-comedy phenomenon and a joyous tribute to the ‘60’s. The show has won 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical. RSVP Required: mdglcc@bellsouth.net, 305-673-4440
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Save Dade Presents Hellrotika: Seed of the Beast
Hellrotika: Seed of the Beast, SAVE Dade’s 17th Annual Halloween event, to be held Saturday Oct. 29, 8 p.m. at Jungle Island’s Sabal Palm Courtyard. Last year the event brought out 1,200 partygoers, and more are expected to attend this year’s celebration, which is praised as the “premier” Halloween event in South Florida. The VIP experience includes premium open bar and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are $125 in advance and $150 after Oct. 21 and at the door. Free valet parking. All VIP ticket holders will also receive a special gift bag. Visit Hellrotika.com
80’s Baby
Come to Badrutts Place every Tuesday and re-visit the days of bad fashion-sense and egos bigger than baggy pants. Happy hour is on Tuesday nights. European tradition and cuisine, with an 80’s twist, meet for a night that’s a bit more tasteful than acid-washed jeans. DJ Lenym plays 80’s favorites and there’s half off drinks from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Ladies drink complimentary cosmos until 10 p.m. Visit Badrutts-place.com
The Incredible Dog Show
See canines perform Frisbee tricks, dog diving, run through an obstacle course, weave through poles and leap, jump and bark for the audience. Show features professional dog actors that have appeared in movies such as “Water for Elephants” and “Life is Ruff.” The show begins September 28 at Bicentennial Park. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; 3:30 p.m. Saturdays; Noon, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 24. Call 1-787-331-0696 or visit TheIncredibleDogs.com
Ability Explosion Blast-Off
The Ability is kicking off the 2nd annual Ability Explosion on Oct. 19, a 5-day series of events helping to create awareness and improve the lives of people living with disabilities. The Blast Off Party will be held in the Banyan Room at the beautiful Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. The festivities include a performance by acclaimed singer/songwriter/actress, Maryel Epps. Also in attendance will be Mayor of Miami Beach, Matti Herrera Bower. All proceeds benefit Access Now/Ability Explosion and will help people living with disabilities. Visit AbilityExplosion.org
Miami to Key West Ride
This coming Nov. 18 and 19 will be the Miami-Key West Ride for Charity. Every year, the SMART Ride donates 100 percent of donations to benefiting agencies. Not only that, you decide which agencies receive the funds you’ve raised. Visit TheSmartRide.org
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antasy-Fest is back and better than ever. From Oct. 21-30 come to Key West and enjoy Fantasy-Fest Aquatic Afrolic. The street festival, which is known nationwide, will be held on Duval St. on Oct. 28. The street festival will be featuring arts and crafts, food venders, lively libations and costumed frivolity. Halloween is the busiest day of the year and the week of Fantasy Fest brings in more revenue than any other week. With costume contest, parades, and some many vendors you wont know what way to turn. This year’s Fantasy-Fest will be one to remember for years to come.
Key West
*Goombay 2011 Black Tie Banquet
Come to the Southernmost on the Beach at 8pm for this “over the top” Headdress Contest that includes an extravagant and entertaining show with lots of Key West razzle dazzle! You never know what’s going to happen next at the Headdress Ball. This is an official event of Fantasy Fest October 25. Visit Gaykeywestfl.com
*Fantasy Fest Street Fair
*Headdress Ball
*DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE
In a quiet cafe a cell phone rings. And rings. The stranger at the next table has had enough. She confronts the owner of the cell phone, but, well...he’s dead. She begins to answer his calls and suddenly finds herself enmeshed in his life and family. Unfortunately, the dead guy has quite a number of shady loose ends. This plays opening night is Feb 2 at The Waterfront Playhouse at 8pm. Visit Waterfrontplayhouse.org
On Oct 1 come to The Doubletree Grand Key Resort in Key West for Key West Legends Men of Soul Concert Honoring the one and only “Mr. Lofton “Coffee” Butler. For ticket information please contact Melissa at (305) 293-2339 or (305) 294-1296. Join most of Key West for Duval Street’s mile-long entertainment extravaganza, featuring arts and crafts, food vendors, lively libations and costumed frivolity! The Street Fair is on Friday, October 28, 2011 from 12 pm - 10 pm For more information Visit Fantasyfest.net/street-fair.cfm
*SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival
On Oct 13 come to Tropic Cinema at 416 Earton Street in Key West .Wild & Scenic Film Festival is where filmgoers are transformed into a congregation of committed activists, dedicated to saving our increasingly threatened planet. Festival Films illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. Visit Web.keywestchamber.org
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DRINK/DANCE/ PLAY Broward 321-Slammer
Bathhouse. 321 W Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33311. Slammer sex club the best place to cruise for the hottest gay men. Thursday’s is leather night, fri-sat night live dj’s. Monday & tuesday -- $9 entry fee
Atomic Boom
2232 Wilton Drive ,Wilton Manors, FL 33305, (954) 630-3556 Best Sound & Light Show in Broward County. Mondays Porn Bingo with Desiree Dubois. $3 Margaritas, $1 Draft
Bill’s Filling Station
2209 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, (954) 567-5978. Large Bar/ Nightclub, Amazing. Drink Specials in Wilton Manors. Wednesday’s After 9pm $10 Miller Lite Beer Bust
Boardwalk
1721 North Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311. (954) 463-6969. A Cute Little Hangout in Fort Lauderdale Pool-Room/Game Room on One Side and a Bar-Strip Club on the other. Mondays $3 Well & Dom, after 9pm $3 U-Call-It Shots
The Club Fort Lauderdale
Bathhouse. 110 Northwest 5th Avenue,Fort Lauderdale, FL ,(954) 525-3344 Good. Clean. Fun. 1/2 price rooms... Tuesday Nights and 1/2 price Lockers. Thursdays Nights. Always busy.
Clubhouse II
Bathhouse. 2650 E. Oakland Park Blvd , Fort Lauderdale, Florida (954) 566-6750. A Private Club for Bi/Gay men. Bear and Cub Thursday $4 Off For Bear & Cub. Tuesday Leather Night - $4. off wear any type of leather.
Matty’s on the Drive
H.G. Rooster
Mona’s
The Lounge
2426 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305 (954) 564-1799. Matty’s is one of the few bars in Wilton Manors that’s just that –a bar. Wild Wednesday’s $.75 Drinks, 13 Drinks for less than $10. 5 p.m. 502 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 525-6662. The eclectic décor and a friendly staff makes. Mona’s a great place to have fun in Fort Lauderdale. Thursday’s College Boy’s Night 8pm Enjoy College Boy’s Choice 2 for 1
Monkey Business
2740 North Andrews Ave, Wilton Manors, FL 33311, (954) 514-7819. The Monkey Business Bar is a Small Outdoor Bar Among The Shops Just off Marina Blvd. No Frills But Comfortable and a Great Place to Stop and Meet Good People. Happy Hour 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Naked Grape Wine Bar
2039 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, (954) 563-5631 A Casual, Hip, Fun Experience and if You Have a Taste for Deliciously Unique Wines, You Need to Make This Your Next Stop! Happy Hour All Night on Thursday
New Moon
2440 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, (954) 563-7660 Your neighborhood lesbian bar in the heart of Fort Lauderdale and just minutes from Ft. Lauderdale Beach. Wednesday All the fun, half the price 2-4-1 All Day, All Night
PJ’s Corner Pocket
924 North Flagler Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 533-0257. One of The Most Diverse Bars in Fort Lauderdale. $2 Drinks Every Wednesday, Spades Every Thursday
Ramrod
1508 NE 4th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 763-8219 South Florida’s Leading Levi, Leather and Uniform Bar/Club. Every night is Bear Night. Bear Happy. Hour Every Thursday. Caged Hunks Sat Night
1915 North Andrews Ave, Wilton Manors, FL 33311, (954) 564-7335. Redefining What a Bar Should Be. Thursday’s Margarita. Madness $4, Monday’s Underwear Night. 2 for 1 until 9:30 p.m.
Cubby Hole
823 North Federal Highway ,Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 728-9001. The Cubby Hole is one of Fort Lauderdale’s Most Unique and Popular Neighborhood Bar for Men. Underwear Wednesday’s. Boxers n’ Briefs get 2 for 1 on Drinks 9 p.m. till Close
The Depot Cabana Bar and Grill
2935 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 5377076. Voted the “Friendliest” Gay Bar in Fort Lauderdale. Monday’s $1.99 Drinks and $.50 Wings Open to Close
Georgie’s Alibi
2266 Wilton Drive ,Wilton Manors, FL 33305 ,(954) 5652526. Fort Lauderdale’s Best & Longest Happy Hour. Wednesdays $2 Domestics & $1 Schnapps after 9 p.m. Wednesdays
Johnny’s
1116 West Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, (954) 5225931. Monday Dragon with TP Lords, Daisy D. and DJ Rob Sky No cover, drags/trans drink free 10 p.m. to midnight . Everyone else gets $3 drinks all night!. Finally something fun to do on Monday 18+
The Manor
2345 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305 (954) 626 0082 - Come Dine, Dance, Drink, Mingle and of course Relax. 2-4-1 Happy Hour Tues-Friday 3-9pm. Indoor/Outdoor Dining. Dance the night away Thursday - Sunday. Live Music Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun - Visit themanorcomplex.com FOR MORE DETAILS.
517 Clematis St, West Palm Beach, FL 33401. (561) 655-9747. The most unpretentious South Beach styled lounge in West Palm Beach. Great Drink Deals Tues-Thurs 9 p.m. - 3 a.m.
The Mad Hatter
1532 North Dixie Hwy ,Lake Worth, FL 33460. (561) 547-8860. Cheap drinks, friendly bartenders, and free pool SundayThursday. Stop by and relax at this no-attitude haunt.
Tag Bar
25 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483 954-8013247. Delray Beach’s only Gay Bar. Mon - Sun: 4 p.m. - 2 a.m. Awesome Drink Specials
Miami
Club Space
34 NE 11th St ,Miami ,Florida, 33132,(305)350-1956 Space Miami Voted Best U.S Club IDMA 2011. The go-to venue for any nightlife enthusiast in the nation,The club is proudly marching on into its second decade of operation.
Club Sugar
2301 SW 32nd Ave, Miami, Florida, 33145,(305)443-7657. All the Sweetness you’ll need in one Club. Every Thursday Drag Wars with TP Lords. $5 House Drinks & $4 Domestic Beers all night
Discotekka
950 NE 2nd Ave, Downtown Miami, Florida 33132,(305)3509084 One of the Best Night Clubs In Miami. Every Saturday The Hottest DJ’s from the Top Performers. Drink Special Every Saturday
Johnny’s
Rosie’s Bar and Grill
2449 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, (954) 567-1320 Wilton Manor’s Best Burger in Town. Try the Fat Elvis. Happy Hour 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Miami 62 NE 14 Street Downtown Miami Florida (305)640-8749 No Cover 7 nights a week. The hottest men in the universe strip shows nightly from 6 p.m. Sexy from Wall to Wall. Saturday SEPT 3 in Miami FIRE & ICE at the SPOT…The Hottest POP, Hip Hop and Latin alongside the COLDEST Electro and House Beats. all on Miami’s Best Sound System.
Scandals Country Western Bar
Score
Oakland Park, FL 3334, (954) 567-2432. Scandals Gay and Lesbian Country Western. Dance Bar in Wilton Manors. Tuesdays Pool League, and Free Dance Lessons
Corner Pub Bar
823 BELVEDERE ROAD, WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA 33405, (561)-832-9119. H.G. Roosters is West Palms oldest gay club. Sunday’s Complimentary BBQ 5pm, Hot Male Dancers 6 p.m., Karaoke 11 p.m.
Sidelines Sports Bar
2031 Wilton Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305, (954) 5638001 Sidelines Sports Bar and Billiards is a unique, friendly, And accepting place to relax with a cold beer, great drinks and Martinis. Happy Hour M-F 4pm to 2am
Smarty Pants
3038 North Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306, (954) 561-1724. Great Local Hangout in Fort Lauderdale with Great Drink Specials. Saturday’s Free Breakfast to Order – 8 a.m.
The Stable
205 East Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park, FL 33334, (954) 565-4506 A neighborhood bar with a different theme every night, from drag shows and bingos, to bears and underwears.
Torpedo
2829 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, (954) 587-2500. Your Dance Destination Till Dawn. Open Late for You To Devour The Night. Open 7 nights a week till 4 a.m.
Palm Beach The Cottage
727 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, Florida, 33139,(305)561-5521. Score is located in the heart of South Beach, In the thriving and infamous promenade, Lincoln Road. Bigger Saturday’s Sexy Male Dolls
Twist
1057 Washington Ave, Miami Beach , Florida , 33139, (305)538-9478 Never a Cover…Always a Groove. Resident star DJ Mika spins tribal. Every Saturday TWIST is full of the hottest men in Miami. Muscle boy dancers taking it off in the Bungalow Bar.
Key West
801 Bourbon Bar
801 Duval St. , Key West, Florida,(305)294-4737 Cabaret shows upstairs with nightly performances by famed performers Sushi, Kylie, RV Beaumont, Margo, and others. Happy Hour specials daily from 11a.m. – 8 p.m.
Club Aqua
711 Duval St.,Key West, Florida,(305)294-0555 Monday’s Dueling Bartenders. Your Bartender’s sing, shake, and stir their way through happy hour 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Kwest
705 Duval St. , Key West, Florida,(305)292-8500 Key West All-Male Strip Club. Daily Happy Hour from 3-8 p.m., And a piano sing-a-long every Wednesday night.
Pearl’s Patio Bar
522 Lucerne Ave, Lake Worth, Fl, 33414. (561)586-0080 Great Service, Great Food, Full Stocked Bar, Great Professional Tea-Dance every Sunday
525 United Street, Key West, FL(305)293-9805 ext. 156 Pearl’s Patio is a great place to enjoy a drink and relax. Happy Hour – every weekday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday’s are Extended Happy Hour 5pm-9pm
Fort Dix
Virgilio’s
6205 Georgia Ave, West Palm Beach, Florida 33405 Directions, (561)533-5355. Mostly local crowd looking to mingle and relax. Place rocks with a Fabulous DJ on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday T-Dance.
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524 Duval St, Key West ,Florida, (305)296-8118 Classic Cocktails, Italian Cuisine ,Live Music. $5 Martini Mondays, Late night dancing in Their Garden Bar Setting.
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Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Lesbian Vampires, Bondage, and a Love App All Featured at This Year’s Event By J.W. Arnold
female-to-male transgender winners. The contest also attracts straight fans, mostly women, and heterosexual competitors, too. There are still plenty of “Tom of Finland” types, but Skiff devotes most of the film to the diversity the contest welcomes and the personal journey participants undergo through the competition. Kink Crusaders offers up plenty of titillation, but it is also an educational film for anyone whose only exposure to the leather community is the spectacle that seems to attract the news cameras at your local Pride parade.
The Grove Sunday, Oct. 16, 3:30 p.m. The Manor – Ivy Cinema
s a gay man in his early 40s, I have only hazy memories of the AIDS epidemic that rocked the gay community during the 1980s. As a teen in the Midwest, barely in touch with my own sexuality, I remember the news reports of a gay “cancer” that was killing thousands of people far away in gay meccas like San Francisco. With the advent of anti-retroviral therapies and the tireless efforts of activist and philanthropists alike, HIV and AIDS are, 30 years later, seemingly manageable chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma. For those people who buried their friends and lovers, the darkest days are still fresh memories and in San Francisco, many find solace in the AIDS Memorial National Grove, a serene — if little known -- corner in Golden Gate Park dedicated to the memory of their loved ones and all who fell to the disease. The Grove, a beautifully crafted documentary by Andy Abrahams Wilson, reminds us of the fear and loss experienced by the gay community in San Francisco with jarring archival footage and sentimental interviews, but then explores the politics of remembrance. Few know of the existence of the memorial grove, visitors often stumble upon it while seeking the Japanese tea garden and other areas of the park. Members of the memorial’s board of directors sought to raise the profile of the site with a worldwide design competition that would transform the quiet grove into an international monument to the victims of the epidemic. Wilson effectively explores these aspirations of a truly national landmark while contrasting the heartfelt, personal objections of those survivors who successfully fought change in the effort to hold on to the reverent memories of their loved ones.
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Scene from We Are The Night
We Are the Night Friday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. The Manor – Ivy Cinema
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ampires are cool and they always have been — from the campy early films with Bela Lugosi to Anne Rice’s romantic novels, the Twilight series, The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. We Are the Night, director Dennis Gansel’s contribution to the genre, takes audiences to the gritty underground world of Berlin where a pack of glam lesbian vampires terrorize the back alley nightclubs. Louise, the leader, has been looking for love for centuries and finds it in Lena, a street-smart pickpocket. Police detective Tom is searching for Lena, perhaps offering salvation to the newly lost soul. The problem with We Are the Night is we’ve seen this movie before — many times.There are few fresh ideas or plot twists in this boringly predictable story. From the first scenes, it’s obvious that Lena will struggle to hold on to her humanity and Louise will jealously target Tom, her rival for Lena’s affections.
What Gansel does offer is a fast-paced trip through the darkest corners of
Berlin with well shot street chases and excellent special effects, including a final fight scene worthy of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise. Kink Crusaders Saturday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. The Manor – Ivy Cinema
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ome snarky queens will insist, “Leather or feathers, it’s all drag,” but Michael Skiff’s documentary aims to dispel the stereotypes of the LGBT leather community with this behind-the-scenes look at the 2008 International Mister Leather competition in Chicago.
Through a series of interviews with past winners and contestants, he explores fetishes ranging from leather and BDSM (that’s bondage and discipline and sadomasochism) to puppy and pig roleplaying. To many, these lifestyles are mystifying and outrageous, but Skiff reveals a lot of heart in the individual members of the community and from unusual sources. In recent years, IML has crowned its first African-American, disabled and
eCupid Saturday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m. The Manor – Epic Cinema
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riter/director J.C. Calciano follows up last year’s festival circuit favorite, Is it Just Me, with another romantic comedy, “eCupid.” Marshall is a cocky ad agency executive whose relationship is in a rut and his 30th birthday is rapidly approaching. When he downloads a mysterious app, eCupid, that guarantees true love, his life takes series of unexpected turns as the program goes haywire and sabotages his career and his seven-year relationship with Gabriel.
Unlike many of the more serious selections at the festival, eCupid offers a lighthearted story that South Florida audiences will be able to relate to—especially the seven-year itch part and the fear of complacency. It’s not thoughtprovoking and not especially original, but an entertaining diversion. In the straight cinema, Calciano’s film would be a perfect vehicle for Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd or even Adam Sandler, and Houston Rhines (Marshall) and Noah Schuffman (Gabriel) offer strong performances in the lead roles. Look for a cameo from ‘80s primetime soap siren Morgan Fairchild, who also lends her voice to the eCupid app, which can be downloaded on iTunes.
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MOVIE REVIEW
Film Director Comes Home with New Film W
hen J.C. Calciano comes to Fort Lauderdale for the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival screening of his new film, eCupid, it will be a homecoming of sorts. The 47-year-old, Los Angeles-based writer and director’s parents moved to Coral Springs when he was in his 20s and he’s been bouncing back and forth between South Florida and Southern California ever since. “I have lots of family and friends in Florida, so that’s why I was excited to come down to the festival,” he admits, and he’s looking forward to crashing with his parents. Filmmaking was a natural fit for Calciano, who got his start in Brooklyn with “a little camera my grandfather gave me,” producing Super 8 films and simple animations. “When video cameras became more accessible, my dad bought this giant video camera and that became what I used all the time,” he recalls. By age 16, he built a successful business
ence is particularly satisfying videotaping weddings in the ‘80s. for Calciano, who devotes Then MTV came along. more than eight months to “I thought to myself, how cool each film project. The scripts was that? I eventually started to typically take two to three do music videos for MTV,” says months to write and polish, folthe New York University film lowed by pre-production work school alum. and two weeks on an intense His latest film, eCupid, is his filming schedule. He must also second feature. The first, Is It secure funding—his first film Just Me? a gay romantic comedy J.C. Calciano had a $40,000 budget and the became an audience favorite on second nearly $75,000—to get the project the gay film festival circuit last year and is completed. now being released on DVD by TLA. “By the time you’re done, you’re pretty “I do enjoy romantic comedies and comexhausted,” he says. “I have scratched my edies. My inspiration is my own life and my head and wondered just what the hell did I own friends and observing situations that just do!” other people are in,” explains Calciano. “I Calciano is grateful for the support of his make my films for myself and the audience. They appreciate stories that reflect our lives own partner of 13 years, who must also put up with the grueling schedules. and our community with good messages.” “Every time I write a script, he’s the first He adds, “You can rent them on a Friday one to read it,” says Calciano. night with boyfriend or friends and really His latest film is a story about a restenjoy a fun, light entertaining positive film.” less ad executive who begins to question Watching the final project with an audi-
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his seven-year relationship and downloads an app promising true love, which led to a funny conversation with his partner. “Is this how you really feel? Are you trying to tell me something?” Calciano says. “This movie cost me a couple of days of dialogue [with my partner], but I think it’s a universal story and everybody who’s in a relationship for a couple of years wonders if they’re with the right person and if the grass might be greener.” In addition to the movie, Calciano and his production team created an actual eCupid app that fans can download at iTunes that includes a “Love Tester.” “There are a lot of cool toys that come with the experience,” he concluded.
eCupid Saturday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m. The Manor – Epic Theater 2345 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors Tickets $9-11 in advance at FLGLFF.com or $10-12 at door
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The A-List: Dallas Rides Into Town with A Fort Lauderdale Cowboy in the Saddle. By Tony Adams Photo by Tony Adams
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t the world premier of Logo TV’s new gay reality series The A-List: Dallas, a Manhattan audience of screaming twinks oohed, aahed and squealed with delight at the size of the McMansions of the cast, the size of the drinks they knock down, the size of their hair or their Stetson and the repeated allusions to the size of their penises—or in the case of the lone female—at the size of her breasts. This is, they say, the essential upper crust of gay Texas, and The A-List franchise, having sought a second home outside New York City, could not have chosen a more pleasing locale for its audience. The Technicolored cast includes Phillip, 23 and a stylist and sharply fanged butterfly, who says he is blessed to be able to touch the designer goods he pushes on his clients; Ashley, 25 and a gorgeous photographer who loves her gays, her husband and her Jesus; James, 25 and a trust fund baby who is looking for love in a double Martini, often for breakfast; Taylor, 27 and an unapologetic Republican/Christian fundraiser who has the bible downloaded on his iPad; Chase, 27 and an investment banker who sounds more like a bank teller trainee and says in the first episode “People really do
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A-List Dallas Cast envy my life. It has everything to do with my hair.” Lastly there’s Levi Crocker, a familiar face in Fort Lauderdale where he spends the winter months tending his growing retail business, Inchwear, and mingling with the cowpokes and horsemen at the Bergeron rodeo grounds in Davie. Levi is destined to be the heartbreaker of the show, not just because he is the only real cowboy in the cast, but because speculation and reports about the size of his endowment constitute a good portion of the script. He is also a sly charmer who, in the course of our meeting, told me much about his life while diverting my eyes by stroking his large brass steerhead belt buckle.
Born in Oklahoma 25 years ago, Levi has lived in Dallas for 7 years, moving to South Florida to start and develop Inchwear with two friends. Inchwear is an 18-month-old company that retails gear referencing the measurement of the wearer’s endowment, real or otherwise. How did Levi get tapped to join the cast of The A-List: Dallas? He says, “My name came up at the dinner table apparently. They were looking for a serious cowboy. I grew up on a horse ranch in Oklahoma. For years, I was the director of operations for a huge rodeo. Rodeo is in my blood. I broke my back about 7 years ago. My orthopedist said to quit jumping off horses,
and to keep my boots on the ground. That’s when I got into rodeo management. Now, I’m getting involved with the IGRA [International Gay Rodeo Association].” I asked him to describe his character on the show and wondered if he could be compared to anyone on The A-List: New York. He said, “You can’t make comparisons to the other cast. I watched the first episode for the first time just a few hours ago. It was stressful going in to finally see it. I was pleased with how I came off. I was flabbergasted. I was definitely worried about it. I’ve been working so hard on this for the past 4 months, and I left with a smile on my face after watching the first episode. After the A-List, Levi intends to remain involved in rodeo and to focus on developing Inchwear. This means he and his endowment will continue to be Fort Lauderdale fixtures. When I asked Levi if he was having romance in his personal life, he said, “You know I keep lookin’, lookin’, lookin’…tastin’, tastin’ tastin.’” It is safe to assume he is single and available. After the world premier screening, during the Q&A with the audience, the cast received a question from a fan who wondered how the Dallas cast would be different from the cast of the New York show. Taylor, the gay Republican/Christian snapped, “We’re younger, hotter and have less wrinkles.” Half of the Manhattan audience responded with an ecstatic scream while the other half hissed. Them’s fightin’ words, cowgirl. The A-List: Dallas airs Mondays at 10 p.m./9c on Logo. The series premiere is at a special time, Monday, Oct. 10 at 11 p.m./10c on Logo.
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First-Ever “Celebrate Orgullo” showcased LGBT Hispanic Pride during Hispanic Heritage Month Saturday, October 1, in Lummus Park on Miami Beach. “Orgullo” is Spanish for “Pride.”
The show opened with dancers in traditional, Bolivian costume and dance.
Edward Nunez, Mr. Noche Latina 2011, stood proudly during the event. For this title, he had competed earlier in the year against seven other hunks.
Eddie, 23, and Bryan, 27, with Yo Love Miami, attracted guests to a raffle supporting the “Miami Beach Life Concept.”
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Yessenia Phillips, Miss Jamboree 2010, walked on the scene with a smile and a crown that never moved.
Bryan, a Hot Jam model for the Chispas Marketing Group, was strutting his stuff, to the delight of all. This marketing group will make “an everlasting impression” at any of your events. Find them at www.hotjammiami.com
Liza Santana, the Master of Ceremonies for Orgullo, was making the rounds while toughing the heat.
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TRY THIS EXERCISE: Single Arm Neutral Grip Dumbbell Row Unilateral exercises, like this one, are important because they allow you to work each side of your body separately and correct any muscle imbalances which may exist. This exercise targets the muscles of the upper back.
➊ Standing with your feet shoulder-
width apart, hold a dumbbell in one hand
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with a neutral grip (your palm should be facing your body).
Big Difference Between Weight Loss and Fat Loss Q: I’m a 45-year-old man and have been trying desperately (and unsuccessfully) to lose 20 or so pounds in excess weight. I have tried every diet known to man and have been doing cardio at the gym two times a week but can’t seem to lose more than a pound or two here and there. Then I turn on the TV and see contestants on “The Biggest Loser” dropping 12 pounds or more in a week! What are they doing that I’m not? A: I appreciate your frustration, but please don’t confuse “Reality TV” with real life! First of all, the dramatic weight loss you see on weekly episodes of “The Biggest Loser” do not take place in a week as episodes are filmed over a longer period. Secondly, I believe the practices used on the show generally amount to dangerous, unhealthy and unsustainable weight loss – and the fact that the contestants invariably regain most or all of their weight after the show ends seems to confirm this. It’s extremely important to understand the difference between weight loss and fat loss. Our weight is basically made up of water (55-78% of the human body) as well as blood, bones, muscle, fat and tissues. A certain amount of fat is necessary for our bodily functions, but excess fat leads to stroke, heart disease, hypertension and a host of other illnesses. Therefore excess body fat – not weight – needs to be our focus. Unfortunately, the focus on “The Biggest Loser” is weight loss rather than fat loss, which is a slower process and less dramatic. Dropping weight so quickly is simply dangerous to your health. It has been well documented that contestants on “The Biggest Loser” are made to do eight hours or more of cardio daily and many literally starve and dehydrate themselves to drop weight rapidly. They end up losing a lot of water weight in the process and also break-down calorie-burning muscle tissue (which slows their metabolism and burns fewer calories and less fat in the long run).
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➋ Bend your knees slightly and lower
your upper body until it’s almost parallel with the floor.
➌ Relax your shoulder and let the
dumbbell hang loosely from your shoulder.
➍ Raise the dumbbell while keeping your Steve Wetzler demonstrates the Single-Arm Neutral Grip Dumbbell Row. (Photo by Toby’s Photos) A condition called ketosis in which the body breaks down muscle for energy often results.You will notice there is little or no strength training on the show to build muscle; having contestants build muscle, which would be healthy, would not lead to the jaw-dropping weight loss numbers on which the show thrives! When these contestants return to the real world where it’s not practical to do eight hours of cardio a day, eat specially-prepared, low-calorie meals and have their every move monitored by a coach, the weight returns. There is no magic pill or diet to lose body fat. In the end it comes down to learning how to eat the right foods in the correct portions and engaging in regular exercise comprising both cardio and strength training. Start by determining exactly how much fat you need to lose. If you are a male weighing 200 pounds and your body fat measurement is 30 percent, you are carrying around 60 pounds of fat. At aged 45, a body fat measurement of 14-17 percent would be healthier, so this means you would need to lose about 30 pounds of fat. A pound of fat equates to approximately 3500 calories, so burning 500 calories more than you eat each day (500 x 7 days = 3500) will lead to a pound of fat loss in a week. Health professionals advise against losing more than 1.5-2 pounds of fat per week. My advice to you would be to set reasonable goals for yourself, pay attention to what you are eating, how much you are eating and how many times a day you are eating (five to six small meals are recommended), increase your cardio
elbow close to your side. Alternating sides, do three sets of
12, 10 and 8 reps,
increasing the weight with each set.
and strength training routine to jumpstart your metabolism, avoid alcohol, drink lots of water and get plenty of sleep. Healthy fat loss is a process that takes time, so be patient with yourself.
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problem with Census Bureau data collection procedures more than seven years ago,” said Gates, “and it is a positive step to see the Bureau release these new estimates.” Of the 646,464 that the Census Bureau counts as same-sex couples, 514,735 (80 percent) were unmarried partners and 131,729 (20 percent) were married spouses. In 2000, the Census Bureau’s “preferred estimate” of same-sex couple households
was 358,390, meaning the number of samesex couple households increased by 80 percent in the past decade. Of the 358,390 same-sex couple households identified in 2000, 88 percent identified as unmarried partners while 12 percent identified as married. Same-sex marriage did not become available anywhere in the world until 2001 (in the Netherlands). It became available in the U.S. (in Massachusetts) in 2004. Using the uncorrected counts, the num-
ber of same-sex couple households increased by almost 52 percent between 2000 and 2010. There were 594,391 same-sex couple households counted in 2000, compared to 901,997 counted in 2010. In the 2010 preferred data, the state with the highest percentage of same-sex couples in relation to the total number of households in the state was Vermont, with 1.091 percent. Massachusetts was second, with 1.023 percent, and California was third with 0.998 percent.
Gates said the 2010 effort, while credible, is only a “temporary solution.” “Ultimately, they have to change the way the questions are asked in order to minimize these types of errors in the data,” said Gates. “Canada and the UK use procedures known to substantially minimize the problems observed in U.S. data. The Census Bureau has tested these possible revisions and should move quickly to change current surveys and collect more accurate data.”
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Pierce for president on the 49th ballot, the Democratic Convention, convening in Baltimore, nominated King as Pierce’s running mate. In the ensuing months, King campaigned aggressively for the Pierce-King ticket, playing some role in Pierce’s victory in November 1852. But biographers report that King’s coughing spells became increasingly frequent and painful, leading to a diagnosis of tuberculosis. By December 1852, King described himself to friends as “looking like a skeleton,” the Senate biography reports. Later that month he resigned from the Senate and made arrangements, at the advice of his doctor, to spend the winter in Cuba, where the warm, tropical climate would hopefully help him regain his health.
In early February 1853, King realized his condition was getting worse and he would not be well enough to travel to Washington in time for the March 4 inauguration ceremony. Upon learning of King’s deteriorating health, Congress took the unusual step of passing a law allowing him to take the oath of office for vice president on foreign soil. “On March 24, 1853, near Matanzas, a seaport town 60 miles from Havana, the gravely ill statesman, too feeble to stand unaided, became the nation’s 13th vice president,” his Senate biography says. King boarded a ship to return to the U.S. in April 1853 and arrived home at his Alabama plantation on April 17. He died one day later at age 67. David Durham, a University of Alabama professor of law and history, said in a Sept. 9
interview that it remains an open question whether King was gay. Durham said it’s also uncertain but a strong possibility that King played a role in shaping Buchanan’s policies and views on the issue of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. “I don’t think anybody can prove it one way or the other,” he said in discussing King’s sexual orientation. “A lot of the speculation comes from misinterpreting, I think, 19th Century lifestyles, where men commonly slept in the same bed and thought nothing of it,” Durham said. “And the kind of terms of affection used in letters and correspondence between males — in our society now it’s like, umm, that’s very interesting. But they thought nothing of it and it didn’t mean there was some kind of romantic attach-
ment,” he said. “But that’s not to say that there wasn’t,” Durham added. Lou Chibbaro Jr. has reported on the LGBT civil-rights movement and the LGBT community for more than 30 years, beginning as a freelance writer and later as a staff reporter and currently as senior news reporter for the Washington Blade. In 2011, Chibbaro became the first reporter from the LGBT press to be inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists D.C. Professional Chapter’s Hall of Fame and received the Justice for Victims Crime Award from the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1998. He received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in biology and political science from the State University of New York at Brockport.
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Part One: Facing life senza paura
By A. Sebastian Fortino
LGBT-Italians, however, are working to ensure Italy is gay-friendly. Tassini, Regina talian singer Ornella Satariano, and Vigni run the Vanoni recently released first website for gay tourists a song, Senza Paura, in to Italy, founded by di Giorgi English, Without Fear and and Satariano. The website’s deals with facing life’s unslogan “In Tuscany not evcertainties unafraid. Last erything is straight,” is reinMay, SFGN had the pleasure forced by curvaceous images of meeting with four gay of il Davide’s bum, and the activists from Tuscany, in Tower of Pisa which histown for the International Regina Satariano torically hangs to the right. Gay and Lesbian Tourist Astalian LGBT activist The charming quattro resociation convention. “It’s difficult to be gay, but we’re out, we side in Viareggio, Tuscany, near Italy’s most don’t have problems being ourselves. It was popular destination for gay tourists, Torre del easier for me. I have an older gay sister and Lago. The lakeside city has a popular street of older bisexual brother, so it was no surprise LGBT venues, comparable to Wilton Manors. “In 1998 I started the first and only LGBT for my family,” Lorenzo Tassini stated. Then chamber of commerce in Italy,” Satariano laughed, “I came out at 12!” Italy’s family-oriented, Mediterranean cul- stated proudly. “We have fifty members now.” Yet, no national force unites gay or gayture, is made further conservative by the Vatican. Italians are increasingly secular, friendly businesses. Italy, in terms of LGBT but il papa wields influence even on parlia- issues vacillates back and forth between mentary decisions affecting LGBT citizens. their rich past and the present-day. If MichelThis even after very Catholic Spain granted angelo, da Vinci and Caravaggio, are known homosexuals, a proud part of their history, same-sex marriage. Over lunch I noticed Tassini and colleague why do Italians still live in the shadow of the Mirko Vigni grow excited when a song from papal…tiara? The question is complex. “Berlusconi isn’t very homophobic. We Glee played. When asked if the show is popular back home, despite gay subjects, Vigni smiled. cannot get married, yet if you want to change “Kurt inspires young gays in Italy. When your sex you can for free,” said Satariano, Will & Grace first came to Italy people would with an ironic smile. Sartorini is transgender, her openness as change the channel,” he said. “Now people an activist for trans and gay rights is rare in don’t care as much.” Despite gay characters on television, Italy Italy. In addition to work with the tourism lags behind in LGBT-support. All countries website she founded the only transgender bordering Italy recognize same-sex partner- organization in the country. “In Italy, the biggest problem is a lack of ships. In Italy, however, such unions are only activism,” she said and hopes for change. recognized by individual municipalities. Recently, Satariano did indeed make strides “From the point of view of gay rights, Italy is much more like Eastern Europe than the for the LGBT-community in the gay enclave West,” said Alessio de Giorgi, who is proud of Viareggio. Our nuovi amici new friends were even profiled in L’espresso, one of to be a gay activist, especially in his native Tuscany. He is engaged to Tassini, hoping Italy’s most prominent newsweeklies. Next for marriage rights. “In some Italian cities week SFGN will highlight their recent work there is a unique reality, and gay commu- in honor of Columbus Day. nity,” added de Giorgi. “We have that in the north in Torre del Lago, in Milan and Rome Please visit & Turismo.InToscana.it – there is there is a certain acceptance. In the south an English link. To try it in Italian go to Gay.it however, there is very little visibility of the which links to GayFriendlyItaly.com to learn gay community.” more about LGBT-life and travel in Italy.
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