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April 4, 2012 • Volume 3 • Issue 14

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Gay Traveler? Miami Beach Wants You

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Readers Respond to Publisher’s 3/28 Editorial

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Queer Queens of Comedy in South Florida

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Hep-C Unmasked

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LGBT Ally Dies in WPB

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ongtime West Palm Beach Commissioner and LGBT advocate, Bill Moss, 67, died last week, two weeks after winning a tough re-election campaign. “Commissioner Moss was a strong advocate for the LGBT community in our community and put his words into action,” said supporter Rick Rose, co-owner of Grandview Gardens in West Palm Beach. “West Palm Beach was one of the first cities to offer a domestic partner registry for same sex couples AND offer benefits for same sex partners of city employees. Commissioner Moss was one of the main supporters of these initiatives.”

ChamberChat Monthly Column From the Miami Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

Miami Beach Launches Gay Friendly Hospitality Program

Pink Flamingo hospitality program caters to LGBT travelers By Steven N. Adkins

here is no denying that tourism is the market driver of our South Florida economy. The loyal global LGBT market has continued to prop up our tax receipts and estimates project that we will spend in excess of $1.7 billion locally this year soaking up the sun and reveling in all great things our destination has to offer. The Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (MDGLCC) in partnership with the GMCVB, MBVCA, GMBHA, and the LGBT Visitor Center (sponsored by MetLife) have created the Pink Flamingo Hospitality Certi-

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Steven Adkins fication Program to ensure we do our best for our LGBT visitors. The Pink Flamingo Hospitality Certification Program will be conducted by MDGLCC partner, YES Institute, the industry source for knowledge on gender and orientation. YES institute will provide one-hour educa-

tional workshops for hoteliers that address fears and misinformation that lead to discrimination by using a unique discussion method designed to turn “us vs. them” into just “us,” so no one is seen as an outsider. So as several hoteliers across the country are presenting deals to lure gay newlyweds, Miami Beach hotels who are members of the MDGLCC will be taking it one step further. Several of them will be offering love birds complete gay-friendly packages that can guarantee no questions asked when guests show up for their king-bedded suite and no raised eyebrows for holding hands poolside. Any demands to make their guests feel at home will be met. Once certified in the Pink Flamingo Hospitality Program, hoteliers will be promoted on the MDGLCC website as a recommended stay for LGBT travelers and will receive tokens that guests can redeem for a gift bag at the LGBT Visitor Center. In exchange for the gift bag, visitors are asked to fill out a brief survey about their travel opinions. With the recent surge in gay marriage, Miami Beach hoteliers understand the many benefits of certification. For more information on the The Pink Flamingo Hospitality Certification Program or to become a member of the MDGLCC please contact us at 305-673-4440, mdglcc@bellsouth.net, or www. gaybizmiami.com

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Local News

Philadelphia Gay News Publisher Donates Artifacts to Stonewall

Matt Rourke

he publisher of Philadelphia Gay News, Mark Segal, has pledged to donate several LGBT historic artifacts from his personal collection to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale. Some of those items include a 1970 sticker from the “June 28th March and Gay In” organized by the Christopher Street Liberation committee to commemoPhiladephia Gay News Publisher Mark Segal rate Stonewall which later became Gay Pride Day; first high school newspaper in the nation to headline “gay activist;” four newsletters; an autographed script of the film Philadelphia; a pink triangle from WWII; Hundreds of LGBT buttons from 1969 to the 1980s; the first letter written by a presidential candidate on gay rights, Jimmy Carter, 1976; a signed copy of Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp’s executive order in 1975 (first in nation) banning discrimination against “sexual minorities;” a program from the NY Ringling Bros Circus performance for AIDS, which was the first major benefit of its type; and the first real demographic study of the LGBT community.

Sawmill Celebrates Anniversary

oin Logo TV and Sawmill Campground, America’s First Gay Community, and help them celebrate Sawmill’s Anniversary Weekend Part 2 April 5th to the 9th. The celebrity packed weekend will include Glenn Packard’s Boots N’ Boys - America’s 1st All-Gay Male Review on Friday and Saturday, 1 Girl 5 Gays Live – featuring Reichen, Rodiney, Glenn & more Saturday April 7th recreating the USA’s first live version as a tribute to the show, A-List New York Dance Party – starring the cast of Logo TV’s A-List on Friday, and Mike Ruiz Model Search Live – Win $1,000 cash on Saturday , April 7th, the winning model will be featured on the cover of What’s Happening Magazine. Register online at www.FLSawmill.com

For more information visit www.FLSawmill.com or call 352-583-0664. Sawmill is a 120 acre, not for profit gay community located between Orlando and Tampa.

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Like HIV, HIV-related excess belly fat is a chronic condition. In clinical studies: • People who used EGRIFTA® continuously for 1 year maintained their results over this time period • People who stopped taking EGRIFTA® after 6 months had their HIV-related excess belly fat come back EGRIFTA® is believed to work with your own body to produce natural growth hormone to reduce your excess belly fat. Indication: EGRIFTA® is a daily injectable prescription medicine to reduce the excess abdominal fat in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy. Limitations of use: • The impact and safety of EGRIFTA® on cardiovascular health has not been studied • EGRIFTA® is not indicated for weight-loss management • It’s not known whether taking EGRIFTA® helps improve compliance with antiretroviral medications • EGRIFTA® is not recommended to be used in children Important Risk Information Do not use EGRIFTA® if you: • Have pituitary gland tumor, pituitary gland surgery, or other problems related to your pituitary gland • Have active cancer (either newly diagnosed or recurrent) or are receiving treatment for cancer • Are allergic to tesamorelin or any of the ingredients in EGRIFTA®, including mannitol or sterile water • Are pregnant or become pregnant Before using EGRIFTA,® tell your healthcare provider if you: • Have or have had cancer • Have diabetes • Are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed • Have kidney or liver problems • Have any other medical condition • Take prescription or non-prescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements EGRIFTA® may cause serious side effects, including: • Serious allergic reaction. Stop using EGRIFTA® and get emergency help right away if you have any of the following symptoms: rash over your body, hives, swelling of your face or throat, shortness of breath or trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, feeling of faintness or fainting • Swelling (fluid retention). EGRIFTA® can cause swelling in some parts of your body. Call your healthcare provider if you have an increase in joint pain, or pain or numbness in your hands or wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome) • Increase in glucose (blood sugar) intolerance and diabetes

• Injection-site reactions, such as redness, itching, pain, irritation, bleeding, rash, and swelling. Change (rotate) your injection site to help lower your risk for injection-site reactions The most common side effects of EGRIFTA® include: • joint pain • numbness and pricking • pain in legs and arms • nausea • swelling in your legs • vomiting • muscle soreness • rash • tingling • itching EGRIFTA® will NOT cure HIV or lower your chance of passing HIV to others. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Please see Consumer Brief Summary of EGRIFTA® on following page.

Ask your healthcare provider if EGRIFTA®, the first and only FDA-approved medicine for HIV-related excess belly fat, may be right for you. For more information, visit www.egrifta.com or call the AXIS Center at 1-877-714-AXIS (2947).

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Consumer Brief Summary for EGRIFTA® (tesamorelin for injection) EGRIFTA® (eh-GRIF-tuh) (tesamorelin for injection) for subcutaneous use Read the Patient Information that comes with EGRIFTA® before you start to take it and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This leaflet does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about your medical condition or your treatment. What is EGRIFTA®? • EGRIFTA® is an injectable prescription medicine to reduce the excess in abdominal fat in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy. EGRIFTA® contains a growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) • The impact and safety of EGRIFTA® on cardiovascular health has not been studied • EGRIFTA® is not indicated for weight-loss management • It is not known whether taking EGRIFTA® helps improve compliance with antiretroviral medications • It is not known if EGRIFTA® is safe and effective in children. EGRIFTA® is not recommended to be used in children Who should not use EGRIFTA®? Do not use EGRIFTA® if you: • have pituitary gland tumor, pituitary gland surgery, or other problems related to your pituitary gland • have active cancer (either newly diagnosed or recurrent) or are receiving treatment for cancer • are allergic to tesamorelin or any of the ingredients in EGRIFTA®. See the end of this leaflet for a complete list of ingredients in EGRIFTA® • are pregnant or become pregnant. If you become pregnant, stop using EGRIFTA® and talk with your healthcare provider. See “What should I tell my healthcare provider before using EGRIFTA®?” What should I tell my healthcare provider before using EGRIFTA®? Before using EGRIFTA®, tell your healthcare provider if you: • have or have had cancer • have diabetes • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if EGRIFTA® passes into your breast milk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that HIV-infected mothers not breastfeed to avoid the risk of passing HIV infection to your baby. Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby if you are taking EGRIFTA® • have kidney or liver problems • have any other medical condition Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. EGRIFTA® may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how EGRIFTA® works. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list with you to show your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. How should I use EGRIFTA®? • Read the detailed “Instructions for Use” that comes with EGRIFTA® before you start using EGRIFTA®. Your healthcare provider will show you how to inject EGRIFTA® • Use EGRIFTA® exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider • Inject EGRIFTA® under the skin (subcutaneously) of your stomach area (abdomen) • Change (rotate) the injection site on your stomach area (abdomen) with each dose. Do not inject EGRIFTA® into scar tissue, bruises, or your navel • Do not share needles or syringes with other people. Sharing of needles can result in the transmission of infectious diseases, such as HIV What are the possible side effects of EGRIFTA®? EGRIFTA® may cause serious side effects including: • Serious allergic reaction. Some people taking EGRIFTA® may have an allergic reaction. Stop using EGRIFTA® and get emergency help right away if you have any of the following symptoms: – a rash over your body – hives – swelling of your face or throat – shortness of breath or trouble breathing – fast heartbeat – feeling of faintness or fainting

• Swelling (fluid retention). EGRIFTA® can cause swelling in some parts of your body. Call your healthcare provider if you have an increase in joint pain, or pain or numbness in your hands or wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome) • Increase in glucose (blood sugar) intolerance and diabetes. Your healthcare provider will measure your blood sugar periodically • Injection-site reactions. Change (rotate) your injection site to help lower your risk for injection-site reactions. Call your healthcare provider for medical advice if you have the following symptoms around the area of the injection site: – bleeding – redness – rash – itching – swelling – pain – irritation The most common side effects of EGRIFTA® include: – joint pain – nausea – pain in legs and arms – vomiting – rash – swelling in your legs – itching – muscle soreness – tingling, numbness, and pricking Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of EGRIFTA®. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. To report side effects, contact EMD Serono toll-free at 1-800-283-8088, ext. 5563. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. Keep EGRIFTA® and all medicines out of the reach of children. General information about the safe and effective use of EGRIFTA®: Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Patient Information leaflet. Do not use EGRIFTA® for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give EGRIFTA® to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them. Do not share your EGRIFTA® syringe with another person, even if the needle is changed. Do not share your EGRIFTA® needles with another person. This Patient Information leaflet summarizes the most important information about EGRIFTA®. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about EGRIFTA® that is written for healthcare professionals. For more information about EGRIFTA®, go to www.EGRIFTA.com or contact the AXIS Center toll-free at 1-877-714-2947. What are the ingredients in EGRIFTA®? Active ingredient: tesamorelin Inactive ingredients: mannitol and Sterile Water for Injection

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Tired, but Inspired: Reflecting on Pride 2012 By Julie Seaver

ow that PrideFest season is over in South Florida, I must be honest. With no pun intended, I am straight up tired. March is a lot like boot camp for gays around here and my body feels like it was run over by a rainbow-sequined truck. For me, out of this feeling of tired, always comes inspiration. From permit applications to PBSO, and from posters to post-Pride bliss, most organizers begin the planning process for next year before the event has even popped its first cork. After the pictures are posted and the last drop of aloe is used, each muscle ache and sunburnt nose is worn like a badge of honor. So who are we and why do we this to ourselves each year? We are the hardworking staff, volunteers and supporters of Compass, Pride South Florida and Pride of the Treasure Coast. We believe in the power of grassroots organizing and paying it forward to each oth-

er with donated booths so the next event can be successful for no other reason than maintaining unity in the community. We are the partnering financial and media sponsors who support the vision and give back to the communities we live, work and play in. We are the non-profits, the for-profits and the community churches who return year after year as vendors, ensuring the LGBT community knows who supports them and their families throughout the year. We are the generations of people, young and old, straight and gay, who march in one parade and celebrate in one park, knowing that producing parties is not activism, but parties with a purpose create a quality of life worth fighting for. Each year, many community members are overwhelmed for the wish of this feeling of Pride to last longer than March. I feel so blessed in working with people who have become a family and I’m here to tell you that

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Volunteers of Compass in Lake Worth feeling can last all year. Spending time being yourself, giving back, living openly and loving who you want, is both liberating and empowering. Individuals, supportive elected officials and effective organizational leaders are sometimes mistaken for visionaries. Perhaps some would consider them to just be recipients of great luck. In reality, everyone who creates Pride in their communities, are just people. People, with goals and aspirations, strengths and weaknesses, who help create the quality of life we all enjoy in South Florida. They are great by choice and share a commitment and passion for discipline. That’s right, discipline. For without discipline, there would no chance to be creative or do great work.

So through this next year, while entertainers practice dance moves and songwriters of tomorrow hone their gift of voice, please remember this feeling you have right now. To those who came and celebrated, this feeling you have is our one wish for you as a gift to carry with you all year. To my fellow partners in Pride and soldiers of social justice, I salute you. The tents may be packed up, the fence and floats may be torn down, but somewhere out there is a young person, putting their rainbow socks neatly in the bottom of a drawer, just waiting for next year. Julie Seaver is the Director of Development for Compass Community Center in Lake Worth, FL and can be reached at julie@compassglcc.com.

PRIDEFEST OF THE PALM BEACHES Photos by Jason Parsley and Mike Trottier

Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich Dies

ANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Adrienne Rich, a fiercely gifted, award-winning poet whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82. Rich died last week at her Santa Cruz home from complications from rheumatoid arthritis, said her son, Pablo Conrad. She had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s. Through her writing, Rich explored topics such as women’s rights, racism, sexuality, economic justice and love between women. Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems “Diving into the Wreck’’ in 1974, when she read a statement written by herself and fellow nominees Alice Walker and Audre Lorde, “refusing the terms of patriarchal competition and declaring that we will share this prize among us, to be used as best we can for women.’’ According to her publisher, W.W. Norton, her books have sold between 750,000 and 800,000 copies, a high amount for a poet. She gained national prominence with her third poetry collection, “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,’’ in 1963. Citing the title poem, University of Maryland professor Rudd Fleming wrote in The Washington Post that Rich “proves poetically how hard it is to be a woman — a member of the second sex.’’ She was, like so many, profoundly changed by the 1960s. Rich married Harvard University economist Alfred Conrad in 1953 and they had three sons. But she left him in 1970 and eventually lived with her partner, writer and editor Michelle Cliff. She used her experiences as a mother to write “Of Woman Born,’’ her groundbreaking feminist critique of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976. Unlike most American writers, Rich believed art and politics not only could coexist, but must co-exist. She considered herself a socialist because “socialism represents moral value — the dignity and human rights of all citizens,’’ she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005. “That is, the resources of a society should be shared and the wealth redistributed as widely as possible.’’

ANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union said last week it has settled a lawsuit with a central Missouri school district whose Internet filtering software was blocking access to nonsexual websites about LGBT issues. The ACLU said the Camdenton R-III School District has agreed to stop blocking the sites, submit to monitoring for 18 months to confirm compliance and pay $125,000 in legal fees and costs. Joshua Block, the staff attorney for the ACLU’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project, said the Camdenton school board has approved the consent agreement that was filed with the court Wednesday, where it is awaiting a judge’s signature. As part of a national campaign, the ACLU sued the district last summer in federal court in Jefferson City on behalf of organizations whose websites had been blocked. The blocked organizations include the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays National, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group. Block said no one want to expose schoolchildren to sexually explicit content. He said the problem was that the Camdenton district used filtering software to block purely educational sites. “Our allegations were never that the school from Day One put this system in place with the premeditated desire to discriminate,’’ Block said. ``But once the censorship was brought to their attention, we allege that they did refuse to fix it because they didn’t want to be sort of accused of making gay websites more available.’’

Republican Ally bolts GOP as Mayoral Race Nears

AN DIEGO (AP) — California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher says he’s leaving the Republican Party to become an independent barely two months before voters in the nation’s eighth-largest city decide whether to elect him mayor. The move may raise Fletcher’s pro-

SoulForce Rides Into Okla. School to Protect LGBT Students

file in the hotly-contested race with a crowded Republican field, in a city where Democrats hold a clear advantage in voter registration. Fletcher has lagged in recent polls that show a large number of undecided voters. The 35-year-old has broken ranks with Republicans several times since joining the Assembly in 2009 and said he struggled with his party affiliation during his two terms in Sacramento. Fletcher backed Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s failed attempt to end a tax break for companies based out of state and was the only Assembly Republican to back a bill to require that gay history be taught in public schools. The Iraq combat veteran gave a passionate speech on the Assembly floor last year to argue that the military should end its policy of prohibiting gays from openly serving.

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Witness: Philadelphia Priest Stalked, Undressed Me

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HILADELPHIA (AP) — A witness in the Philadelphia priest-abuse trial says a priest stalked and undressed him at his Catholic high school before a knock on the door saved him. The 36-year-old man is the first accuser called to testify in the landmark trial of Monsignor William Lynn. Lynn, the former secretary for clergy, is charged with endangering children by helping the church hide abuse complaints. The witness testified Wednesday that the priest first saw him at a gay bookstore in 1991 wearing a Saint John Neumann jacket, and later showed up at the school. A 2005 grand jury report says the archdiocese knew of his complaint and others, and moved the priest six times to new parishes. The report says the priest was removed from ministry in 2003 amid the criminal investigation.

HAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Activists pushing for the safety and acceptance of LGBT students at conservative universities held a demonstration and met with students and officials last week at Oklahoma Baptist University. Six members of Soulforce’s Equality Ride demonstrated near a chapel at the university before an official asked them to move. They joined the rest of the group of 15 on public property and spoke with students about the Bible and sexuality. The group also contends that anti-gay campus policies encourage suicides by gay students and hate crimes. The activists left a message in chalk on the sidewalk reading, “God loves and affirms lesbian, gay, bi and trans people without reservation.’’ Three activists met with administration officials to encourage the organization of a campus group for LGBT students and their allies. Martin O’Gwynn, associate vice president for university advancement, told The Associated Press the university does not anticipate any policy changes, and he doubts the university would allow a Gay Straight Alliance or a Queer Straight Alliance. He said the private, Christian institution sets “Biblically based standards.’’ The trip was Equality Ride’s the third to Oklahoma Baptist, O’Gwynn said. In 2007, members were arrested for attempting to attend services at a chapel on campus.

Anchorage Equal Rights Supporters Denounce New Ad

NCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Proponents of an Anchorage ballot initiative seeking equal protections for gay and transgender residents are slamming a new ad by opponents. The ad by Proposition 5 opponents — Protect Your Rights,Vote No on Prop 5 — says the measure would make it illegal for a day care center to refuse to hire a transvestite. Supporters with One Anchorage, the group behind the initiative, denounced the ad Tuesday at a news conference. Former Gov. Tony Knowles, co-chair of the One Anchorage campaign, says the ad is “intentionally stigmatizing’’ and should be scrapped. The opposition group did not immediately return a call for comment. The measure goes before voters next week. It aims to add sexual orientation or transgender identity to the list of groups protected by the city’s anti-discrimination law.

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Maine’s Gay Marriage Group Names Campaign Manager

ORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The newly named manager of a campaign seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine said he expects the campaign to spend more than $5 million ahead of November’s election. The Maine Freedom to Marry Coalition announced Tuesday it has created a political action committee called Mainers United for Marriage to spearhead the campaign in favor of a referendum asking voters if they favor legalizing gay marriage. Matt McTighe, who was named campaign manager, expects supporters will have to raise at least $5 million. Gay marriage advocates spent about $5 million in 2009, when residents rejected a statewide gay marriage referendum, he said. McTighe said the campaign will focus on talking to Mainers one-on-one, in person and by phone, to make the case that gay marriage is about giving “loving, committed couples’’ the right to marry, just like heterosexual couples.

South Bend Council Approves Gay Rights Ordinance

OUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — South Bend City Council members have approved an ordinance extending employment and housing discrimination protection to gays and lesbians, with supporters saying the move will improve the city’s business prospects. The council’s 6-3 vote last week came after nearly five hours of debate and public testimony about the proposal.The ordinance exempts churches and other religious organizations, but opponents argue it should also exempt individuals and business owners who believe homosexuality is immoral, the South Bend Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/GSet9W). Democratic Mayor Pete Buttigieg told council members he believed the city should join others across the country with similar measures. He said the council’s vote was a test of how well Indiana’s fourthlargest city handles diversity. “In today’s economy and today’s competition for talent — if we fail that test, if we remain outside the American mainstream any longer — South Bend could be typecast as a prejudiced and backward-looking com-

munity and our economic comeback will be that much harder to bring about,’’ Buttigieg said. The South Bend council defeated similar proposals in 2006 and 2010. The council’s action will make it illegal in South Bend to deny people access to education, employment, housing and public places based on their gender identity or sexual orientation, and allow the city’s Human Rights Commission to hear and investigate those types of discrimination claims.

Mich. Lawyer’s Firing Over Anti-Gay Remarks Upheld

ANSING, Mich. (AP) — A state hearing officer has upheld the 2010 firing of an assistant attorney general who was accused of harassing the gay student government president at the University of Michigan. William Hutchens of the Michigan Civil Service Commission says Andrew Shirvell was justly dismissed. He says the attorney engaged in “hate speech’’ on a blog and “physical and mental harassment.’’ Shirvell was fired by then-Attorney General Mike Cox in November 2010. He appealed, saying his conduct toward Christopher Armstrong was protected by the First Amendment. But the hearing officer says Shirvell’s actions, even in his off hours, put his office in a bad light and could have discouraged people from working there. Hutchens’ decision is dated March 21. Shirvell’s lawyer says the decision will be appealed.

the university,’’ Blanton said. The issue arose last week when the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization filed a discrimination complaint with the city’s Human Rights Commission. The group alleged that Hands On Originals had submitted a bid to produce T-shirts for the festival but, upon being told it had been selected, refused to fill the order “because we’re a Christian organization.’’

Far-right Serb Jailed Over Threats Against Gays

ELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A farright Serbian leader was convicted and sentenced last week to 10 months in prison for making death threats that led to the cancellation of Belgrade’s 2009 gay pride march. Belgrade’s district court ruled that Mlad-

en Obradovic, the leader of the extremist group Obraz, or Honor, made the threats ahead of the planned march. His group incited discrimination with graffiti that read “Death to gays’’ and “Blood will flow, there will be no gay parade.’’ Lazar Pavlovic, a leader of a Serbian gayrights group, said he is not satisfied with the length of the sentence because such charges should carry prison terms of up to three years in prison. “We expect that the prosecution will lodge an appeal and we will continue to follow this case,’’ he said. Obradovic has been sentenced in a separate case to two years in jail on charges that his group incited violence during a gay pride march in 2010 that left scores of people injured. He is currently a free man while appealing the verdicts.

Ky. School District Puts Hold on Shirt Purchases

he Lexington school district has temporarily halted purchases from a local T-shirt company accused of discriminating against the organizers of the city’s gay pride festival and both the city and University of Kentucky are reconsidering whether to use the company in the future. Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent Tom Shelton told the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/HgQagv) all purchases will be stopped until the issue between Hands On Originals and the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization is resolved. University spokesman Jay Blanton said Hands on Originals has been one of three vendors for shirts and been paid about $200,000 since July 2011, but whether the school will work with them in the future remains uncertain since the contract expired. “Given the complaint, we are reviewing whether a (request for proposal) should be issued in the future for a third vendor for

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National News

Equality Ride Makes Way Around Country Soulforce hopes to open minds one college at a time By Gideon Grudo

he wasn’t pleased. The administrators at the Moody Bible Institute were hearing her, but she saw they weren’t listening, nor did they seem to care. “As we asked questions, they refused to answer, but smiled the whole time,” Crystal Cheatham said. “The whole idea of the Bible is to be authentic, and they were completely inauthentic.” Cheatham is a community developer with Soulforce’s 2012 Equality Ride, whose purpose is laid out simply enough on the national event’s site. “We aim to visit the hundreds of schools in the United States that openly discriminate against [the LGBTQA community] through their policies and practices,” the site reads. “On these campuses, LGBTQA students and faculty are forced to suffer in silence.” As community developer, Cheatham helps add cities to the route between those that the “riders” choose, among other duties. Each of the 18 riders on this year’s journey get to pick a school, which the group tries to visit several times in a two or three day stop. Over the span of two months, Equality Ride will hit 12 cities and visit between 15 and 20 schools. The idea is to have a conversation with ad-

ministrators and students, and to find out what resources the school does or does not offer to LGBT students on campus. All of the schools that Equality Ride hits are religious. Those schools, Cheatham explained, are the only ones who still have policies against homosexuality. “Most of the problems come from religious concepts. Part of what we do is have deep theological conversation with administrators about why we feel that we, as LGBTQA people, have God’s love,” Cheatham said. ”[Jesus’s] love is given to each of us. No stipulations.” Cheatham said the Equality Ride is an effort to revise the schools’ policies or even add new ones. The organization has succeeded in doing so in eight of the more than 80 schools it’s visited to date. Cheatham believes it’s an important struggle for the LGBT community. “It hurts the LGBT community because religion is the final frontier when it comes to achieving equal rights. People intrinsically believe that being gay is wrong,” she said. “It’s important to have this discussion because there are students who don’t have safety. There’s no policy that will protect them.” Religious schools’ oppression of LGBT students breaks both religious and nationalistic ideals, said Jason Conner, Soulforce’s direc-

tor of programs and co-director of the 2012 Equality Ride. “They were called by Christ to accept everyone,” he said. “And while it’s legal to discriminate, it’s not right. It’s about human life and it’s about human dignity.” To be part of the Equality Ride, hopeful riders had to be apply by September of last year and whoever was chosen began training in January. The training involves Soulforce’s motto and overall mission. That is, to make change through “relentless nonviolent resistance,” according to their site. The first week of training was in Miami, but the Ride won’t be stopping in South Florida this year. Conner explained that before taking off, the group contacts a long list of schools. Of those who bite and accept the riders to come visit and talk, a map is made to create the most efficient round trip. That’s where people like Cheatham come in. This year’s cities include Philadelphia; Atlanta; Nashville, Tenn.; Chicago; Minneapolis; Oklahoma City; New Orleans; Dallas; Denver; Salt Lake City; Portland, Ore.; and San Francisco. Of those schools that do not wish to have a conversation, the riders will sometimes stage non-violent protests. This year, with the

schools that complied, a stop in South Florida was a bit unrealistic, Conner said, but emphasized that Soulforce will be holding a few educational symposiums in the region later in the year. But they have visited South Florida in the past Most notably in 2008 when they traveled to Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA), a religious school in West Palm Beach, with more than 3,200 students. Administrators at PBA first refused to meet with the riders, but later agreed under staunch conditions. The Equality Ride did not accept the restrictions that would have been placed on them, so they refused and attempted to attend a worship service. Officials at PBA warned them that if they came onto the property they would call the police. Six of them did so anyway and were arrested. Before ever joining Soulforce, Cheatham was raised in church, and was groomed to one day become a church leader, on the basis of her singing talent. But when she came out, her grooming was put on hold and told her progress would be halted because of her sexual orientation. She would quickly find herself working on independent projects for the sake of the LGBT community and eventually founded Soulforce. Conner, who joined the organization in 2006 (after a pact to come out to his family if his application was accepted, which it was), sees the work that they do as a way to keep similar stories from happening. It all boils down to the schooling, he said. These students are the future of this country, and one day they will be anything from political leaders to church leaders. By getting through to them now, Conner hopes, Soulforce is getting the country to a brighter future. For more information and a schedule of Equality Ride’s upcoming stops, go to www.soulforce.org.

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Daniel Zamudio: Chile’s Matthew Shepard By Federico Quilodran Associated Press

ANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Prosecutors in Chile asked for murder charges Wednesday in the death of a young gay man whose attackers brutally beat him and carved swastikas into his body. Daniel Zamudio died Tuesday night, 25 days after he was attacked. The case has prompted a national debate in Chile over hate crimes, with President Sebastian Pinera saying from Asia that his government won’t rest until a proposed anti-discrimination law is passed. Four suspects have been jailed on attempted murder charges, some of whom already have criminal records for attacks on gays. Hours after Zamudio’s death, prosecutor Ernesto Vazquez formally requested that the charges be changed to premeditated murder, carrying maximum life sentences if convicted. He said the attack was clearly motivated by homophobia. Gay activists weren’t satisfied. The leader of Chile’s Gay Liberation and Integration Movement, Rolando Jimenez, said the suspects should be charged with torture as well. Zamudio, a clothing store salesman, was attacked in a park in Santiago on March 3. The suspects allegedly beat him for an hour, burning him with cigarettes and carving Nazi symbols into his body. The second of four brothers, he had hoped to study theater, his brother Diego said. “He was very loving, an excellent person and that’s

why it’s so hard to believe that they attacked him with such hate,’’ he told reporters. Hundreds of people had been holding vigil outside the hospital where Zamudio lay braindead, building a shrine on the sidewalk. Many whistled and booed when Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, the acting president while Sebastian Pinera is traveling in Asia, arrived to share condolences Tuesday night. The commotion ended only when Zamudio’s father appealed for them to maintain respect. “We are going to work tirelessly in our Congress to pass our anti-discrimination law as quickly as possible,’’ Hinzpeter said to reporters outside the hospital after visiting the family Tuesday night. An ample Senate majority passed the law in November, but seven years after it was first proposed, it has yet to come to a vote in the lower house. Lobbyists for evangelical churches said it would be a first step toward gay marriage, which Chile forbids and which is not explicitly included in the measure. It would describe as illegal discrimination “any distinction, exclusion or restriction that lacks reasonable justification, committed by agents of the state or individuals, and that causes the deprivation, disturbance or threatens the legitimate exercise of fundamental rights established by the constitution or in international human rights treaties ratified by Chile.’’ Attorney Gabriel Zaliasnik told the Cooperativa radio station Wednesday that if the

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Neo-Nazi killing of gay man moves Chile toward new anti-discrimination law

Top Right: Photo of swastika carved into Zamudio’s body. Above: Chileans demonstrators rally for LGBT equality. law had been passed, the attack on Zamudio might have been avoided. Pinera tweeted from South Korea that the “brutal and cowardly attack of Daniel Zamudio wounds not only his family but all people of good will.’’ “His death will not remain unpunished, and reinforces the complete commitment of the government against all arbitrary discrimination and for a more tolerant country.’’ The jailed suspects are Raul Alfonso Lo-

pez, 25; Alejandro Axel Angulo Tapia, 26; Patricio Ahumada Garay, 25; and Fabian Mora Mora, 19. They remain in preventive detention after blaming others in the group for the attack. Lopez allegedly told police that he saw Angulo and Ahumada carve three swastikas into Zamudio with a broken pisco sour bottle. Ahumada’s public defender, Nestor Perez, said his client wasn’t involved in the attack and isn’t a neo-Nazi.

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The Transvestigator

Transgender Equality 2012 — Progress in Florida & Nation By Victoria Michaels

JR Davis

ntil recently, the struggles that trans- access to quality health care, fighting HIV, gender individuals face in both pub- ending anti-transgender violence, improving lic and private institutions have the lives of transgender older adults, and inbeen discussed primarily in the LGBT com- cluding transgender people in federal surveys. munity, but not by the wider public. The reports also list key needs for the trans According to a study conducted in Novem- community such as educating TSA workers ber 2011 by the Public Religion Research In- to ensure safe traveling, equal access to pubstitute (PRRI), though, it lic programs, immigration found that a majority of reform, prison and detenAmericans now support tion reform for transgender strong rights and legal propeople behind bars, open tections for transgender inmilitary service, family and dividuals. relationship recognition, This positive change in and advancing global hupublic opinion proves peoman rights. ple’s hearts, minds and atJodi Ihme of The Brotitudes towards the trans ward Health Department community are changing. and founder of TransgenIn addition to showing der Health In Action has broad support for transbeen a great supporter and rights, the PRRI study also advocate for the transgender found that an overwhelmcommunity. On March 16 ing majority of Americans and 17 she and others hosted polled felt that they had the 2nd annual “Transgena solid understanding of der Medical Symposium” Jodi Ihme transgender rights and 75 which also included presenpercent had a solid understanding of what tations by The Center of Excellence for Transthe term “transgender” means. gender Health-UCSF, Community Health About 11 percent reported that they had a Center, NY and the University of Miami. close friend or family member who identifies The symposium consisted of 3 concurrent as transgender. tracks addressing medical, mental health and In March The National Center for Trans- HIV workshops. Attendance was overwhelming. gender Equality released a new “Blue Print Experienced medical presenters provided eduFor Equality” that outlines 99 steps that could cation in all of the workshops. The success of be taken to advance the lives of transgender this symposium coupled with the attendees’ Americans. The report highlights various ar- desire to be educated works to continue to eas of concern for transgender people and the strengthen our commitment to provide basic, ways policies do not currently ensure trans- easy to understand and culturally sensitive gender protection: information to our community. Organizers Some of the categories in the report in- are excited and look forward to providing conclude: economic opportunity, housing and tinued comprehensive educational experienchomelessness, safe and supportive schools, es at next year’s event. “It was an amazing opportunity to equip licensed professionals, medical providers, nurses, students and clinicians with important tools to assist in eliminating barriers to care [for] so many transgender individuals experience,” Ihme said. “Sadly this year’s symposium was so filled that we had to turn people away, but already we are seeking a bigger venue in the years to come to meet the public’s thirst for education. We are excited and look forward to providing continued comprehensive educational experiences at our 3rd Annual Transgender Medical Symposium in 2013.”

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SFGN Editorial

April 4, 2012

Ports of Hate Don’t Deserve Your Dollar Norm Kent, Publisher

he debate over last week’s editorial went viral, and few stories we have ever published have drawn more of a response. First, two men, one a retired police officer, were caught having sex on the balcony of their room on an Atlantis Events cruise ship while in port in Dominica. Second, the two men were removed the cruise ship, jailed, and then charged with buggery. After a day in jail, their charges were reduced; they paid a fine, and were released. Third, I wrote an editorial last week calling for gay men of conscience to conscientiously boycott Atlantis Cruises. As the debate crystallized, in print, online, and in bars, dozens of callers and letterwriters expressed their viewpoint, not only on our site, but also at Queerty.com. Last week, the editorial was carefully worded to state that sex does not belong in public places. It was clearly negligent for those men to have sex in open view on a cruise ship in a foreign country. But the point of the editorial, was not then, and is not now, about their grossly careless acts. I stand behind my editorial on the principle that the LGBT community has no business supporting a cruise ship cartel that carries its gay passengers to homophobic ports of call. We don’t see Jewish tour groups heading to Iran to read the Koran. So get over the fact that these two guys had sex in a wrong place. The story is not about them or what they did. The editorial is about the American gay community, enriched with political power and economic force. The story is about us mattering, as people, and counting as citizens of the world. The story is about us being equal and an important part of our country, not apart from it. If you are a freedom fighter, the love you fight for, should be as equal and acceptable in Kentucky as in Kenya. Sadly, the love you live and the life you lead is prosecuted and persecuted in Dominican islands and ports of call where these cruise ships make money; empowered to do so by gay men and women giving them our money. To boot, we not only enhance the stature of the cruise ships financially, we enrich the homophobic communities with our LGBT dollars. Looking to lynch me? Here, let me help find a rope and show you how to tie a knot. The Nazis had really good bakeries in Ger-

many 70 years ago. But I am guessing homosexuals in drag did not openly patronize their cafes. How you spend your money is your choice, but it is not sensible to give it to countries and communities where the people hate who you are and what you do. In 2011, this newspaper gave its ‘Person of the Year’ Award to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Amongst other things, it was because she went to an international human rights convention in Geneva, and devoted her entire talk to advocating equal rights for LGBT communities around the world. She called for acceptance and equality everywhere from Uganda to Mississippi. If we embrace our freedom, it should be more than with a Lake Worth city ordinance protecting domestic partners. It should not only be in our own community, but also on every continent. The world is now but a tweet away. Refuse to isolate yourself. Partner with friends across the pond and gay prisoners in Jamaica. Lend your voice to freedom for LGBT people everywhere. If your secretary of state can, so can you. The next time you think of going on a cruise, review its itinerary and course. Let the cartels running the ships know that you will not secure a reservation for a business enterprise that is willing to enhance the financial wherewithal of countries that discriminate against homosexuals. In the workplace, the gay community in America has helped further a world where our corporations embrace diversity, cultivate a social conscience, and offer benefits commensurate to gay men and women that are already offered to straight employees. At play, on cruise ships sailing around the world, we can correspondingly demand that the ports of call we visit are not harbingers of hate, and that has nothing at all to do with two guys getting it on aboard a ship. It has to do with whether we want to hold our heads up with pride, or shame ourselves buying cheap trinkets and getting a good tan in a land that hates who we are and what we do. Keep your pride, and stay off those boats. Let the world know that the LGBT community is about pride and professionalism, passion and caring, humanity and worldwide concern- and that we will not use our dollars to enrich those lands and countries that don’t accept us. It’s their loss, not ours.

Guest Rebuttal Column By Malcolm Neitzey Cruise Director, Atlantis Events

fter reading your article and proposed boycott off Atlantis Events, I would like clarify a few points.

On a recent cruise to the Caribbean, two of our guests had public sex on their stateroom balcony 100 yards from shore in full view of fellow guests and citizens of the town. It was 9 am and many people were on their way to work or vendors waiting for guest to arrive. Pictures and video were taken of their actions. Public sex is illegal in every country gay or straight. Local police came on board, interviewed the men with Celebrity and Atlantis representatives present. The same way a US Coast Guard ship can board any ship in US waters, any country can board any ship in their waters. Dominica had Jurisdiction. Cruise ships are not embassies. They were taken in to the local jail accompanied by Atlantis and Celebrity representatives. While yes they could have been charged with a serious crime, the sentence was reduced to indecent exposure. This was due in large part to Celebrity and Atlantis contacting the Local Embassy in Barbados, a Congresswoman as well as the Celebrity main office in Miami. They were fined and released the next day and flew to San Juan. From that point on they claimed they never had sex, were arrested and taken off the ship because they were gay. I am here to tell you, they were having sex, there are pictures. If they were arrested solely because they were gay, why did the police come on board to get them when there were plenty of other gay guests

in town they could have easily arrested. I have no doubt their experience was scary and spending the night in a Dominican Jail was very unpleasant. However, they claim they did nothing wrong and no one helped them, this is untrue. The story is simple. Two people had public sex, were caught, arrested, charged, then sent home. If two people, gay or straight were seen having sex in Disneyworld in front of the guests they too would be arrested and most likely yelled at by people who saw it. Now, why did we go to Dominica, it a beautiful island. A poll taken by the national paper just after the incident showed 71% of Dominicans were in favor of Gay Tourism. Yes they have some antiquated laws on their books but they apply to straight people too. We have been to several countries that may not be the most gay friendly, Egypt, Russia and Tunisia for example. We have had no problems there because everyone respected local customs, saw the sights and went home. Sometimes visiting a country can change that country. The Cayman Islands in 1998 barred Atlantis from coming to their country. In 2008 we went back. There was a small protest, but also many people welcoming us. The following year, there were rainbow flags in the shops welcoming us. No protests. Moral of the story, respect local customs and rights when visiting a country and you just may change minds. Have sex in public in that country and you’ve just set back gay rights back to the 60’s. Atlantis is an amazing vacation experience, over 100,000 gay, lesbian, transgender and straight guests will attest to that.

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corruption, Atlantis needs to get its act together, I find their response to the matter alarming and unacceptable. Once they start losing money they will change their ways.

A witness’ snapshot of the controversial act

Jeff: I must offer my thoughts on your editorial in the March 28 issue of SFGN. By way of business as well as personal travel, I have had the opportunity to visit 14 countries on 3 continents as well as at least a dozen islands in the Caribbean. The first lesson I learned many years ago was that I am a GUEST in another country and should conduct myself accordingly. I have been to some places gay friendly, and many more not so. I never found myself arrested, fined or imprisoned because I respected local laws and/or customs. Yes, I visited gay bars and clubs... but I did not have sex on the balcony of my hotel or cruise ship in even the most gay friendly locale. For you to trivialize this act and instead lay the blame squarely on the government of Dominica is ridiculous. Having sex in public, whether gay or straight, when it can be witnessed by others, especially (but not limited to) children is completely unacceptable. I fully understand that SFGN is a gay newspaper with a primarily gay readership. In fact, I have been a faithful reader from the first issue and am also a long time advertiser. However, you are playing the “gay card” here. I am reminded of an incident that occurred at my Oakland Park condo a few years back when I was president of the board. I received a complaint and in turn wrote a letter to a couple of male residents who were lying on top of each other on a chaise at the pool, humping each other. Their response was, “it’s because we’re gay.” No, it’s not. This is not acceptable behavior, gay or straight, in a family community. Where I do agree with you is in the opinion that Atlantis, a gay cruise company, should do it’s best to avoid blatantly homophobic islands.Then again, that would eliminate all but a small handful. However, your suggestion that the cruise ship company should defend the “rights”

of these passengers is no more valid than suggesting the cruise ship company defend the “rights” of those on last year’s cruise who were arrested for dealing drugs. It was unfortunate indeed for Hart and Mayer to have been treated harshly, but it is perhaps a learning experience for them and everyone else. Stewart: First and foremost what were the guys thinking doing whatever they were doing on the balcony in port? Come on show some adult responsibility and remember whatever your sexual orientation is you are governed by the laws of the country you are in and it is up to responsible adults to know about the laws, don’t expect someone else to tell you. Get caught doing it in public in the US and you would end up on the “sex offenders” list for life. Don’t try to blame someone else for your own stupidity. Steve: I totally agree with you Norm, Atlantis has an obligation to plan trips to places that are gay friendly, if they can’t understand that then I say don’t support them. Is Atlantis even gay owned anymore? Who is the CEO and who sits on their board? I say we bombard them with the message that until they stop going to these 3rd world hell holes, we are not going to cruise with them. Given the things I have seen on the gay cruises I went on a few years ago, I’m surprised they didn’t arrest half the guys on the ship. Drugs, sex parties, it can get down and dirty on those things and if they are watching the balconies and windows from shore then who would be safe? We were planning a cruise in October, we have cancelled it, I’m not going to risk being held captive, killed or tortured just to go on a cruise. I’d rather go on the Alaska cruise anyway, the islands are just a sess pool of

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Mark: I agree with Norm Kent. I would not spend my money in homophobic countries nor on cruises that go to them. Gay cruises have a responsibility to avoid them.Yes, the passengers got frisky in an inappropriate place, but the punishment was way overboard, no pun intended. Locked up abroad is terrifying. And the owner’s flippant attitude of what his passengers went through is disappointing. Marvin: Norm - right on! There’s one point I’d like to elaborate on. They were not charged with buggery, only indecent exposure. The people on the dock who supposedly saw them “in the act” have not surfaced. There is no proof that they were having sex on their balcony. No matter what - the shame is not on these guys, but on Atlantis for going to Dominica and not protecting their guests and on Celebrity who literally kicked them off the ship, telling them that they could face up to 14 years in jail. Justin: “Why the hell is a cruise ship company catering to the LGBT community running cruises to islands that openly and brazenly discriminate against gay populations?” Because Rich Campbell is making piles of money off of it. I’ve had many personal interactions with him and he always thinks the passenger is wrong. No matter what, Rich will continue to pursue the almighty dollar to fund his extravagant party lifestyle. Johnny: I agree with Norm Kent. What are we doing putting money into the economy of homophobic places such as those islands in the first place? I refuse to pay them to promote homophobia. I won’t be giving my business to Atlantis or RSVP until they wise up. Matthew: I politely disagree with boycotting the ship or Atlantis. I’ve been on both Atlantis and RSVP vacations and had a blast. I’ve known when it was good idea or not to get frisky on the balcony. The best time is when the ship is at sea. Calling for a boycott over something that could have been 100% prevented is not the answer.

Letter to the Editor

Fort Lauderdale Coming Around to Raise the Rainbow Flag with Pride By Michael Emanuel Rajner, BSW

n Tuesday, Feb. 21, the South Florida Gay News ran my letter to the editor “Commissioner Rodstrom, Pick up the Flag and Carry it with Pride!” The letter created critical dialogue that identifies issues of public policy on which the Fort Lauderdale City Commission must act. Last week, I attended the city commission meeting to speak about an agenda item concerning vendor preference. The proposed item contained no provisions Michael Rajner to address inequities many LGBT-individuals face in the workplace. I requested that the commission amend the proposed ordinance to include an Equal Benefits Ordinance (EBO), similar to the one adopted last year by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners. An EBO would require vendors with contracts of $100,000 and over to extend health coverage to the domestic partner of a vendor’s employee should the vendor provide such coverage for an employee’s married spouse. If the vendor does not provide the coverage, then it must provide financial compensation (equal to the amount of the cost of the health coverage) to the employee with a domestic partner.Vendors with less than 5 employees, religious organizations, and contracts with other government entities are exempt pursuant to a current county ordinance. I also urged the city commission to adopt an LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policy. Currently, Fort Lauderdale has no policy on non-discrimination, and by default adheres to the federal and state statutes whereby sexual orientation and gender identity are not included. I additionally requested the agenda item be amended to require vendors doing business with the city to adopt the same, or a more expansive, policy on non-discrimination. When Commissioner Rodstrom asked why such requirements were not part of the ordinance before them, the city attorney explained that the public hearing for the ordinance, as amended, would need to be re-advertised. Sadly, once again the LGBT-community is waiting for the city commission to vote affirmatively on policies providing parity and equity in the workplace. The commission then approved the vendor ordinance without the requested amendments. On the upside, the majority of the commission signaled that they would be supportive of these policies if they were to come before the commission again, and Mayor Seiler suggested that the city charter be revised to include non-discrimination language. Commissioner Roberts later gave his commitment as an LGBT-advocate to bring forward an ordinance to establish an LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes and which requires vendors to adopt this minimum standard. As a community, we are often absent from City Hall and other places where public policies that impact our lives is being debated. If we are to be an authentic, more inclusive society, then we must make the effort to immerse ourselves in the dialogue and debates that impact our lives. I’m pleased that the Fort Lauderdale mayor and commission vocally support the advancement of these ordinances. The have begun to unfold the rainbow flag and preparing at City Hall to hoist the flag with pride. submitted photo

Letters on Publisher’s 3/28 Editorial ‘Boycott Atlantis Cruises’

Queer Queens of Comedy By J.W. Arnold

he Queer Queens of Comedy will be holding court in South Florida this week with performances in Hollywood, Miami and West Palm Beach. Outrageous lesbian comedians Poppy Champlin,Vickie Shaw and Barb Neligan will have audiences laughing for equality, thanks to a new partnership with the Human Rights Campaign. Producer Champlin has been organiz-

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ing “Queer Queens” tours for six years. “The whole thing got started because I wanted to fill some big rooms, but my name wasn’t big enough, so I got the best of the lesbian comedians on the circuit….that weren’t Kate Clinton or Suzanne Westenhoefer,” she admits with a chuckle. “I choose from my friends who I work with and respect their work.” For this southern tour of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, Champlin tapped Texan Shaw and

Tennessean Neligan. Shaw has been seen on Comedy Central, her own Logo TV special, and is a favorite entertainer on Olivia Cruises. A mother and grandmother, Shaw is quick to boast, “I’m from Texas, where the speed limit is a suggestion.” Neligan, the newest “Queen,” was formerly a writer for the CMT network and likes to tell stories about growing up gay in a traditional Irish family in the deep South. She’s also been known to include a couple musical selections on her banjo because, “I’m from Nashville. It’s the law!” A Yankee who grew up in Rhode Island, Champlin knew she would stick out like a sore thumb on a southern tour. “It not that Florida IS the South, but it kinda is below the South, so I’m bringing my friends.You don’t want to bring too many Yankees and get people nervous,” she says. But Champlin is not just a Yankee, she also claims to be a Pilgrim—a direct descendent of Richard Warren, who made the famous journey aboard the Mayflower—and isn’t afraid to point out just how gay they really were. “They landed in Provincetown, after all,” she jokes. “And look at those outfits, it’s like ‘Queer Eye for the Colonial Guy’. I think they wore all that black because it is slimming.” Champlin is particularly excited about her new relationship with HRC: “We’re

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fighting for our rights and laughing at the same time. I especially enjoy that component of the show.” Times have certainly changed, the comedian points out. When she first took the stage in 1982, gay comics—and lesbians, in particular—were trailblazers. Gay-friendly venues were far and few between and audiences didn’t know how to react. “They were rude, misbehaved, shouted things out and you had to deal with it over and over,” she recalls. While Champlin watched many gay male and straight female comics wither under the assault, audiences soon learned not to mess with funny lesbians. “We’re tough,” she insists, but in the end, the jokes rule. Champlin is thankful for a great sense of humor. “I think my brain is wired to think ‘funny’ on whatever I see. I have a cartoon for a brain, it always finds the funny. I’m fortunate that way,” she concludes.

Queer Queens of Comedy Poppy Champlin,Vickie Shaw and Barb Neligan April 8, Fort Lauderdale Improv, Hollywood April 9, Miami Improv, Miami April 10, Palm Beach Improv, West Palm Beach For more information and showtimes, go to QueerQueensofComedy.com

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Theater

And the Award Goes to… By J.W. Arnold

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he Maltz Jupiter Theater and Palm Beach Dramaworks cleaned up at the 2012 Carbonell Awards ceremony on Monday, April 2 at the Broward Center. Maltz’s dazzling production of Crazy For You took home trophies for best musical, director, musical direction, choreography and actor, while Dramaworks captured best drama, director and actor awards for its revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Mosaic Theatre in Plantation took home

the ensemble prize for The Irish Curse, a play about members of a support group for men with diminutive male “members.” And celebrated playwright Michael McKeever will be adding another Carbonell for best new work to his shelf for Stuff, produced by the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. The Carbonell Awards are considered the Tony awards for South Florida theaters. Visit CarbonellAwards.org for more information or for the complete list.

Winner of the 2012 Carbonell Awards: Best production of a musical Crazy for You

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Palm Beach County

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Theater Broward County

Harvey

Palm Beach State College will present Harvey from April 12 through 14 at 8 p.m. at Stage West, located at the college’s Lake Worth campus. Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey. His sister, Veta, finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing and decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter Myrtle Mae from embarrassment. Tickets are $12 and $5 for students with ID. Call 561-868-3309, or visit https://web. ovationtix.com/trs/pr/897225

*Leslie Jordan & Varla Jean Merman

An evening of comic disproportions! Leslie Jordan returns to the Parker Playhouse with his all-new, laugh-filled show. Whether you know and love him from his appearances in Will & Grace or Sordid Lives, you can be guaranteed an evening of heartfelt reminisces and hilarious stories based on his life and career on April 7 at 8 p.m. Visit BrowardCenter.org

*South Pacific

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. At the Broward Center on April 10 to 22. Visit BrowardCenter.org

Unable to be with the man she loves and forced to marry someone she detests, Lucia slowly becomes unhinged and is driven to murder. Culminating in opera’s most famous mad scene, this psychological thriller is not to be missed at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall. Visit Kravis.org

*Into the Woods

The Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus Presents: “Comedy Tonight” The Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus will present their 2nd concert of their 26th season April 27 & 28, at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale at 8 p.m. Tickets are $40 and $25. Visit TheFortLauderdaleGayMensChorus.org

*Patti LuPone-The Gypsy in My Soul Courtesy of Thomas Barker

Into the Woods will be at Slow Burn Theatre from April 13 to 22, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Journey into the dark side of happily ever after. Visit a twisted fairy tale land deep in the world of Sondheim’s popular musical – complete with dead giants, less-thancharming princes and one particularly ambivalent witch. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Visit Slowburntheatre.org

The two-time Tony Award winner will sing songs that have been associated with her Broadway career (from such shows as Gypsy, Anything Goes and Oliver!) as well as some of her personal pop favorites at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall on April 4 at 8 p.m. Visit Kravis.org

*FestOval of Dance

O Dance will thrill audiences April 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Playhouse. Presenting an exceptional roster of international guest artists and professional dancers. Abounding with passionate imaginative dance, this performance is not-to-be-missed. Odance.org

The art of Tom of Finland comes to the World Erotic Art Museum

Miami-Dade

Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, screens films and videos in locations throughout Miami-Dade County. The 14th Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival will run Friday April 27 until Sunday May 6. Visit MLFF.com

Key West

*Sidelines 2012 Florida AIDS Kick-Off Beach Party

Sidelines Sports Bar will be transformed into a beachthemed, tropical haven with funky music in the air, specialty drink & shots and sexy guys & girls clad in tropical beach attire and even swim wear! Come to this awesome beach themed party on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. No Cover Charge. Visit Sidelinessports.com

*Rest Your Mind: Meditation After Work On Mondays from 6-6:30 p.m. there will be Guided meditation w/ western Buddhist teacher Gui Passow. Looking for a way to rest and re-charge before starting your evening? Come in for a free guided meditation to clear your mind at the end of the day. This class is free at Drolma Buddhist Center. Call 954-537-9191 or visit meditationinfortlauderdale.org

*Buddhist Meditation Classes Happiness from a Different Source: Exchanging Self with Others

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy. By abandoning self-centered thoughts and replacing them with the belief that others are important, we will overcome our suffering and find true happiness inside our own hearts. $10/class or $30/series includes vegetarian food after class. Call The Drolma Buddhist Center at 954-537-9191.

*Intimate Partner Abuse Group

SunServe is offering a new weekly support group for LGBT people that are experiencing abuse in their intimate relationships, or have just left an abusive intimate relationship. Abuse includes: name calling, put downs, slurs, humiliation, isolation, being kept from friends and family, economic deprivation, threats, intimidation, violence, sexual coercion, and sexual violence. Call 954-764-5150 extension 104.

*Jim Bobick

Jim Bobick’s first solo art exhibition will be at Gallery 101 in Fort Lauderdale from April 7 through May 4. The opening reception is on Saturday, April 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. Inspired by the work of the color field painters of the 1960’s and armed with a keen interest in the romantic landscape paintings of the 19th century, Jim’s canvases seeks to simplify the patterns of a traditional landscape in a way that transcends the physical and draws us into the spiritual. Call Jim Bobick at 212-463-7047

*Lambda United’s Car Wash

Money will be used to throw a gay prom! Any kind of help is appreciated and Lambda hopes to see you all at Georgie’s Alibi’s on April 7, from noon to 4 p.m. Call Frank Gorritz at 954990-3061or email fgorritz@fau.edu.

The Look of Love: Carmen Sings Burt Bacharach

*Lambda United’s LGBTQA Prom

Red Barn Theatre presents: Match

*Mack Power Lunch at The Capital Grille

Carmen Rodriguez, Key West’s own conch diva (along with guest stars Bobby Nesbitt and Danny Weathers) will deliver music from the legendary composer/lyricist, Burt Bacharach. Saturday, April 21 at the San Carlos Institute. Visit Waterfrontplayhouse.org This Broadway hit stars like the hysterical Tom Luna as Tobi Powell, an eccentric and endearing dancer, choreographer and teacher. A married couple arrives at Powell’s apartment to interview him about his life, but it is soon evident that their agenda is as multi-layered as Tobi’s life story. Call 305-2969911 or Email: info@redbarntheatre.com

Key West Pops presents: Kiss Me Kate

The annual musical-in-concert features Cole Porter’s production starring Susan Powell and Richard White. This classic from the Golden Age of Broadway musicals is pure entertainment gold with hits songs and great dance sequences. The guest artist roster is to reflect the Pops’ usual practice of bringing together out-of-town artists and Key West favorites. Starts at 7:30 p.m. and is at the Tennessee Williams Theatre. Call 305-296-6059 or Email: info@keywestpops.org

*A Night in Rio

Limited tickets. International music legend Sergio Mendes brings his sizzling samba sound with jazz roots, filling the Knight Concert Hall with his signature mix of bossa nova and percussion accents along with the distinctive pop instrumentation that have defined Brazilian music around the world. Catch this amazing concert April 13 at 8 p.m. at the Knight Concert Hall. Visit Arshtcenter.org

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Be encouraged to make or wear whatever kind of costume you want as long as you include a mask and we can make this the most unique masquerade dance that Lambda has ever held! There will be awards for monarchs of the prom and many festivities. Held on April 27 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Call Frank Gorritz at 954-990-3061 or email fgorritz@fau.edu.

Networking is one of the most proven means of developing leads, referrals, and valuable future alliances. This is where power lunch has made an entrance for almost four years. Come to The Capital Grille on Tuesday, May 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Visit Mackplanet.com

*Dream Car Classic

Every Sunday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pre-1980s classic cars, modern classics and custom cars from 19812012 will be showcased. $10 car registration from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Show Car Entrance: 20th Avenue & Tyler Street). People’s Choice Award - 2 Classes; Top Ten Vehicles Award. Call 954-214-2457

Team Sidelines Takes a Stroll Down the Beach Sidelines Sports Bar is proud to once again announce its sponsorship of the 2012 Florida AIDS Walk. Team Sidelines, a group of the popular gay sports bar’s patrons, staff, friends, family, sports team members and selected vendors will take to Fort Lauderdale Beach on May 20, to help in the fight to stamp out HIV/AIDS. This will be Sidelines’ fifth year as sponsor and participant in the annual walkathon. Visit SidelinesSports.com

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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. *Ultimate Easter Gospel Brunch and Dinner with the Divas

Lips, the ultimate in drag dining, will celebrate Easter with a special Sunday gospel brunch unlike any other. Brunch menu will include a three-course meal with a Caesar salad; choice of entrée honey glazed country ham, beef bourguignon over Orzo, pesto salmon or chicken marsala and pineapple/ coconut layer cake for dessert. Includes unlimited mimosas, champagne and bloody marys. $23.50 plus $5 show cover charge per person. The first seating is at noon and a second is at 2:30 p.m. Email Michael@bitnergoodman.com

*Living Healthy

Fusion in Wilton Manors will be having a free workshop on healthy choices, and healthy living on Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This workshop provides interactive learning, practice and mastery techniques for a healthier and more active life, and positive changes for quality of life. Call 954-630-1655

*Gay and Lesbian Lawyers Network Fundraiser

The Gay & Lesbian Lawyers Network presents its inaugural fundraiser benefiting The Pride Center at Equality Park and The National Center for Lesbian Rights on April 29 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Hugh’s Catering located at 4351 NE 12th Terr., in Oakland Park. Tickets will be $20 until April 1, and after $30. Space is limited. All donations go to The Pride Center and NCLR. Contact gllnboard@gmail.com.

Designing a Nature Scape for Wildlife Presented by the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club

Diana Guidry Diana Guidry, Naturescape Broward Outreach Coordinator will present a program on “Designing a NatureScape for Wildlife.” Diana has been teaching environmental programs for over 11 years and is the only National Wildlife Federation host in SE Florida. Also a horticulture lesson: “Fragrant Plants in the Garden” by Ann Schandelmayer. Join the Ft. Lauderdale Garden Club on April 13 at the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club. Contact: Pam Schrimsher, publicity chair 954683-3271or Email FLGardenClub@gmail.com

Community-Wide Weight Loss Challenge Set

This is a community-wide eight-week weight loss program aimed for people ages 15 to 80 to shed excess weight. The “Body Beach Challenge” will take place from April 7 to June 2. Part of the proceeds will benefit the 2012 Florida AIDS Walk and Music Festival. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. Cost is a $25 registration fee. Participants will receive a body transformation guide with weight loss and healthy living guidelines as well as a spiral bound daily exercise and nutrition guidebook. The individual with the most dramatic improvement will be declared the winner. The grand prize includes a $400 personal training package at Push Fitness. Visit PushFitnessFTL.com.

Fort Lauderdale Garden Club Presented “America Celebrates with Song” This event is a standard Flower Show, and a plant sale on April 21-22 at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. Free admission to show and sale, park has entrance fee. Email FLGardenClub@ gmail.com or call the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club, Inc at 954-561-8475.

Lloyd Meeker

Wilton Manors resident Lloyd Meeker will be speaking about trends in gay literature and reading from his recent novel, Traveling Light at the Stonewall Library on Saturday, April 7 at 3 p.m. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served. Meeker joins local colleague and wTell-known mystery writer Neil Plakcy, who launches Zero Break, his most recent novel in the Mahu series, at this event. Call 954-655-582.

The Chubs in Paradise

This event is a gay men’s gathering for chubs, chasers and bears oh my! This event will take place at the Shubert Resort, which is also the host hotel on April 12, 13, and 14. If you like them big hairy and sexy this is one event that you will not want to miss. Chubs in Paradise Nightly Room Rates are: $99 Small Room, $109 Kings Suite off Pool, $119 King Suite Pool Side. Chubsinparadise.com/index.html

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Life Coaching program

SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch

Sex and Love Anonymous

Young Adult GLBT

Latinos Salud’s Life Coaching program is for Latino gay/bi guys ages 18-44. Come by Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for free one-on-one life coaching with certified CRCS coaches. Set your goals, and meet action steps to make them come true. Stop in for more info at 2330 Wilton Drive or call 954-765-6239. Visit Latinossalud.org S.L.A.A. believes that sex and love addiction is a progressive illness which cannot be cured but which, like many illnesses, can be arrested. It may take several forms -- including, but not limited to, a compulsive need for sex, extreme dependency on one or many people, or a chronic pre-occupation with romance, intrigue, or fantasy. Meets at The Pride Center at Equality Park in Bldg A, Room 200 Fridays 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit Slaafws.org

A Survivor Support Group

A Survivor Support Group is being held on the first and third Wednesday of each month at the 211 Community Center, 250 NE 33rd Street, in Oakland Park. The Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention (FISP) is sponsoring this free support group and is open to all family members and friends of those who have died by suicide. Call 954-384-0344 to register. Meets from 7-8:30 p.m. Visit Fisponline.org.

Eating Disorder Support group

Meets Friday evenings from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. At Sun Serve’s Wilton Manors location at 2123 Wilton Drive, second floor. A “drop-in” psycho-educational support group. Free. No registration required. Donations welcome. Call 954-764-5150

Boardwalk Friday Fest

Come out to Hollywood Beach Theatre East of A1A at Johnson St and the ocean. Admission: Free every Friday of every month. Live jazz, blues, pop and everything in between along Hollywood’s signature 2.5 mile boardwalk. Charming oceanfront cafes and restaurants serve up delicious innovative cuisine while you enjoy the best array of live music and tropical ocean breezes. Visit Hollywoodfl.org or call 954-924-2980

First Sunday of every month. An ideal way to relax and enjoy Fort Lauderdale’s scenic Riverwalk. Live, outdoor concert series bringing the area’s best local jazz artists. Listen to the soulful sounds on four different stages. Well-behaved, leashed pets welcome. Plenty of room for chairs, blankets and picnic baskets. A social group open to all LGBT people ages 18-35. Meets Fridays at the Pride Center in Wilton Manors from 7:15-9 p.m. Meeting starts with a discussion on current events followed by introductions and then a group activity. Visit PrideCenterFlorida.org/contact-us

Grief Support Group

Meets every 3rd Tuesday at American Burial & Cremation Center @ Jennings Funeral Home 1801 E. Oakland Park Blvd. from 2-4 pm. Call 954-731-4321.

Toastmasters

Most Toastmasters meetings are comprised of about 20 people who meet weekly for an hour or so. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. Toastmasters meet at the GLCC/Pride Center Monday at 7:15 p.m. Call Ted Verdone at 954-599-7916 or email: Tedverdone@comcast.net

Safe “T”

Safe “T” is a support group for gender variant adults. Meets Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at Sunserve’s Wilton Manors location at 2312 Wilton Drive, second floor. A “drop-in” psycho-educational support group. Free. No registration required. Donations welcome. Call 954-764-5150.

Gay Male Empowerment Group

Topic discussions include issues and concerns about being a gay man in South Florida. Meets Thursdays at the Pride Center from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Call 954-353-9155 or email info@ sunserve.org

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GreenMarket Pompano Beach

At the corner of Dixie Highway and Atlantic Blvd. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Includes the freshest fruits and vegetables, juices, baked goods, seafood, gourmet teas and coffees, as well as orchids, plants, and health-related products and services. Held every Saturday through April 28. Also features art shows, antique automobile shows, and environmental exhibits. Visit GreenMarketPompano.com

Alternative MC Tuesday Night Eatin Meeting

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

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. Starts at 7 p.m. Call 954-630-1655.

Tuesday Night Eatin’ Meeting will be held at The Alternative MC Clubhouse at 4322 NE 5th Ave in Oakland Park. Fun, food, and fellowship. There will be hamburgers, hotdogs, all the fixins, cold drinks, desserts, and snacks. Meeting begins at 8 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. Visit Alternativemc.com/events/ florida-events

Man2Man Discussion Group

Gay Men’s HIV+ Long Time Survivors’ Group

Palm Beach County

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. Meets on 1st and 3rd Thursday at SunServe 2312 Wilton Drive from 6:30 – 8 p.m. No cost. Donations welcome.

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

Women4Women Personal Growth Support Group

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 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the New Sun Serve Building at 2312 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Call 954-764-5150

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Man-2-Man talk is an informal discussion group of gay men, with all age ranges and backgrounds welcomed. Bldg A, Room 206. Visit Glccsf.org/calendar/

Victory after Party

Dinner and dancing, featuring renowned DJ, Adam West, at the Victory After Party to celebrate the International Gay Polo Tournament sponsored by The Rotary Club of Wellington at Graffito at 3410 Equestrian Club Road, Wellington, FL. on Saturday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 each and include a two-hour open bar, buffet dinner and fun. Contact: Maggie Zeller at 561-715-9262 or go to Wellingtonrotary.com

Deerfield Beach Wine & Food Festival

The 2nd Annual Deerfield Beach Wine & Food Festival is back April 27-28. Held at Quite Waters Park in Deerfield Beach. Friday night features two events, the VIP dinner under-thestars; 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. which is an intimate 4 course wine and food pairing dinner with your own personal chef and wine sommelier, and the Grand Tasting Launch Party; 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., with gourmet food tastings, wine and spirits, with live entertainment. Saturday begins with the Jazz Blues Brunch from 10 a.m. to noon, with plenty of Bloody Mary’s & mimosas and that evening, 50 chefs converge for the Grand Tasting event; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visit DeerfieldBeachWineAndFoodFestival.com

Gay Polo Tournament in Wellington Gay Polo Tournament

The Third Annual Gay Polo Tournament will be held April 14 at the Grand Champions Polo Club located at the corner of Lake Worth Road and South Shore Boulevard in Wellington from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event will feature top polo players from the Gay Polo League (GPL). Visit GayPoloTournament.blog.com/ tickets/ or call 561-753-3389. Cost: $20 General Admission. Please provide own chairs. $175 Tailgate space – Includes eight general admission tickets & one tailgate parking space.

Palm Beach International Film Festival

New Alternatives

Social group with regular outings and social mixers for LGBTQ ages 18 to 30. This meeting will take place at The Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Palm Beach County. Email matthew@compassglcc.com or Visit Compassglcc.com.

Sober Sisters AA

Support group is dedicated for lesbians who are recovering from alcoholism. Meeting happens every Monday at 7 p.m. at Lambda North Clubhouse. Visit LambdaNorth.net

Opening Night Film & Party (Muvico CityPlace, West Palm Beach, FL), Private VIP Party, Closing Night Film & “It’s A Wrap” party with filmmaker awards (at the luxurious Two City Plaza in West Palm Beach, FL) all of this and more at this year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival being held April 12-19. Visit Pbifilmfest.org/index.html

PBC Gender Support Group

Victory After Party

Good Orderly AA

Dinner and dancing, featuring renowned DJ, Adam West, at the Victory After Party to celebrate the International Gay Polo Tournament sponsored by The Rotary Club of Wellington at Graffito at 3410 Equestrian Club Road, Wellington, FL. on Sat. April 14 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 each and include twohour open bar, buffet dinner and fun. Contact: Maggie Zeller at 561 715- 9262. Visit Wellingtonrotary.com

All ages support group dedicated for transgender individuals. This meeting happens the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:30 pm. These meeting will take place at The Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Palm Beach County. Visit Compassglcc.com These meetings now take place at Lambda North at 18 S. J Street, and geared toward recovering alcoholics. Every Tues. and Thurs. at 7 p.m. and on Sat. at 5:30 p.m. These meetings will help recovering alcoholics cope with the stress of everyday life without the use of alcohol. Email tcamie@aol.com

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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. Seniors vs. Crime

Seniors vs. Crime is a free service that provides help to seniors who have been victimized by businesses or service providers and need assistance. This event will take place at Mae Volen Senior Center at 1515 W. Palmetto Park Road. By appointment only so call 561-736-3820 or 561-395-8920.

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. Classes are Wed. at 9 a.m. Cost is $20 and RSVP is suggested. Call 561404-2011. 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

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

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. Bring blankets, chairs, and coolers or purchase 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

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

Miami-Dade

*Mega-Mixer Networker

Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce: Spotlight Mega-Mixer Networker on Tuesday, April 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Poolside of the Shore Club located at 1901 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Unveiling and distribution of our ”membership directory & resource Guide”, the “Pride” themed clarity business magazine & the official 2012 Miami Beach Gay Pride’s guide. Raffle of great prizes: 6 month membership and 1 trainer session @ Steel Gym, Lucky Strike Lanes bowling party for 8, gift certificates (restaurants, retailers, spa treatments), and a chance to ride in the MDGLCC’s float at the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade. Complimentary admission for MDGLCC members. $10 general admission. RSVP requested at mdglcc@bellsouth. net or 305-673-4440.

*Award Winners Show their Stuff

ArtsUnited’s award winning artists will be showing their work at the LGBT Visitor Center in Miami Beach from April 9 to April 27. The show will coincide with Miami Beach Gay Pride celebrations. ArtsUnited is a gay and lesbian arts organization founded in 1999 and is based in Fort Lauderdale. Its mission is to use the arts to break down historical barriers preventing lesbians and gays from contributing fully and openly to the cultural, social and economic success of South Florida. Call Frank Crowley 954-764-6638 or email crowleyfrank@comcast.net

*Business Builders Luncheon

MDGLCC presents its monthly networking program held on the last Thursday of each month. Next one is April 26. City Hall, The Restaurant, 2004 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-764-3130. Registration 11:30 a.m. with luncheon/networking from noon to 1:30 p.m. Cost: MDGLCC members ($30), Potential Members ($40, $10 applied to new MDGLCC membership). Includes seated style lunch limited to 25 persons. Please bring a friend. RSVP requested: 305-673-4440 or mdglcc@bellsouth.net.

Women’s Empowerment Luncheon

MDGLCC’s popular Women’s Empowerment Luncheon series continues at the Sanctum Room of the Epic Hotel (270 Biscayne Boulevard Way), with special guest speaker Cristina Serralta, CEO of Amazon Services Inc. speaking on “Small Business Ownership from the LGBT Perspective.” 11:30 a.m. Registration; Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch at Epic Hotel. Cost: MDGLCC Members ($35), Potential Members ($45, $10 applied to new MDGLCC membership). A full sit-down luncheon with a Q&A to follow. Co-Sponsored by Aqua Foundation & NCLR. Visit mdglcc@bellsouth.net

*Aqua girl 12 VIP Reception presented by Mercedes-Benz of Coral Gables

April 21 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. If you are a woman of sophisticated taste and love the fusion of art, food & culture, then our fabulous VIP Kick-Off event is for you. Join Aqua Girl as they celebrate their 13th Anniversary featuring a unique live auction, entertainment, and recognition ceremony. Featuring: Citizen Jane. $85 in advance / $95 at the door Members: $75 in advance. Visit Aquagirl.org/events

*Gay & Lesbian Walking Tours of South Beach

Gay & Lesbian Walking Tours of South Beach – South Beach – April 28. The MDGLCC, Greater Miami Convention Visitor Bureau (GMCVB), and the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL), present a ninety-minute guided Gay & Lesbian Walking Tour of South Florida. Tour starts at 5 p.m. and departs from the MDPL Art Deco Welcome Center at Ocean Dr. and 10th St. Miami Beach. No reservation needed. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased at MDPL’s Art Deco Welcome Center. Free to MDPL and MDGLCC members. RSVP to 305-672-2014.

*MGLFF Centerpiece Women’s Film and After Party

May 2 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight at the Film Screening at the Colony Theater 1040 Lincoln Lane. After-party at the Shore Club 1901 Collins Avenue Aqua Girl and the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival join forces to bring you girl trash, the soon to be released lesbian film that will be the centerpiece of the annual Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival along with a chic afterparty at the chic Shore Club. Tickets include the screening, the after-party and a complimentary cocktail. $30 in advance / $40 at the door Members $25 in advance. Visit Aquagirl.org/events

*Business Builders Luncheon — Coral Gables

MDGLCC presents its monthly networking program held on April 5 @ Anacapri Restaurant, 2530 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables. Registration 11:30 a.m. with luncheon/networking from noon to 1:30 p.m. Cost: MDGLCC members - $30 per person Potential Members - $40 per person ($10.00 applied to new membership). Includes seated style lunch limited to 20 persons. RSVP requested: 305-673-4440 or via email to: mdglcc@bellsouth.net

Aqua Girl 12

There will be 14 diverse events for everyone to choose from. There is something for everyone including dance parties, a comedy show, live music, pool parties, a bowl-a-thon, a jazz brunch, a dine-out event, a VIP reception, and celebrity meetand-greets. From May 2 through 6 in South Beach.

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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.

AFTER DARK Wednesday April 4 eorgie’s Alibi of Wilton Manors will be having comedy night on Wednesday April 4 with Cashetta and VJ Barry Browder for some of the funniest videos around! Every Wed. night from 9 p.m. to close along with $2 Domestic Longneck Beer and $1 Schnapps Shots! Visit Georgiesalibi.com

Saturday April 7 he New Moon patio is going to the dogs! That’s right, it’s a Saturday “Yappy Hour” benefiting Be Kind To Animals Rescue at the New Moon Bar at 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bring your leashedwell-behaved four legged friends for an afternoon of live music, raffles and 2-4-1 drinks. Visit Newmoonbar.com

Thursday April 5 Sunday April 8 his Thursday come to Georgies Alibi he Palace has something for everyfor the World’In’Famous tea party. one on Sundays. From Divas on the Get the best tasting long island ice teas Floor with performances by Alissa Lords, for $3 all night T.LO ivy, and Melissa Hilton, to their long. Georgies T-Dance at 4pm with DJ Just Oliver. Alibi is the right Also on Sundays the palace has place at the right BruChic at 1130am hosted by Noel time located Leon with 31.95 bottomless Mimoin the heart of sas.Visit Palacesouthbeach.com Wilton Manors. Monday April 9 This bar has it amRod’s Bear Night is hosted all from a video By Chad Bush and Chance bar to a cafe and Taffer and has gained popularity sports bar all Chad Bush at Ramrod very quickly. Lots of hot, hairy men in one location. and a relaxed environment makes What more could the RamRod the perfect hang out to meet hot stud need then to be cooled down with your friends or meet someone new. this thursday for ice tea thursdays at the $3 SKYY drinks and $8 draft beer bust. Georgies Alibi. Visit Georgiesalibi.com Visit ramrodbar.com Friday April 6 ubble Gum Fridays at Epic NightTuesday April 10 laneta Macho, the hottest Latino club this Friday is going to be party in Miami beach will be at amazing. You will be able to pose for a professional photo with the Easter Bunny. Score nightclub in Miami Beach. Come After you get your picture taken with the see these super-hot hunks on the second floor strutting their stuff. Hosted by Easter Bunny come to the main room Teresita “ La Caliente” with special perwith DJ JPS spinning the hottest tracks around. DJ Daisy D will be mixing it up in formances by Miami’s Queen of comedy Mariloly and DJ George Ferrero will be the Hip-Hop Room. There will be special ripping up some of the hottest tracks at $100 Eristoff Vodka bottle specials all Score. Visit Scorebar.net night. Visit TheManorComplex.com

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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. Galla Luncheon Networker @ Morton’s Steakhouse

MDGLCC/GALLA presents its monthly networking program tailored for attorneys, judges and legal professionals held on Wednesdays. New location: Morton’s Steakhouse, 1200 Brickell Avenue, Miami. Networking from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with networking and a full sit-down lunch. Cost: MDGLCC members ($35), Potential members ($50, $10 applied to new MDGLCC membership). Visit mdglcc@bellsouth.net

Business Builders Luncheon

MDGLCC presents its monthly networking program held on the last Thursday of each month. This month it will be at City Hall the Restaurant. Registration at 11:30 am with luncheon/networking from noon to 1 p.m. Includes seated style lunch limited to 25 people. Please bring a friend. RSVP requested: 305-673-4440 or mdglcc@bellsouth.net

Lambda Dade Clubhouse

A meeting place for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender communities and friends in recovery. Hosts Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Al-Anon, Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA), Debtors Anonymous (DA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA), meetings. (305) 573-9608. 212 NE 24th Street. Miami. Visit Lambdadadeclubhouse.org

Boardwalk

1721 N. Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311. (954) 4636969. 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 9 p.m. $3 U-Call-It Shots

Clubhouse II

Key West

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.

On June 6 - 10, come show your pride in our tropical paradise, and you’ll find yourself in the midst of a celebration unlike any other. From the opening party to the closing parade, you’ll discover quickly that the best place to show your pride is on an island whose official motto is “one human Family.” The welcoming island invites you to join us at Key West Pride! Visit Gaykeywestfl.com

Corner Pub Bar

17th Annual Hospitality Open Golf Tournament

823 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 7289001. 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 drinks 9 p.m. to close

Key West Pride

One of the longest running golf tournaments in the Florida Keys, the event supports scholarships for Florida Keys students in the hospitality and culinary fields of study. Just $100 per player includes greens fees at Key West Golf Club, goodie bag, food (Breakfast and Lunch), drinks, hot dog stand, Mimosas and Bloody Marys and much more! Team up with four of your friends or sign up individually. Call 305-2964959 or Email: executiveoffice@keyslodging.org

nightlife Broward County

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) 565-2526. Fort Lauderdale’s best & longest happy hour. Wednesdays $2 Domestics & $1 Schnapps after 9 p.m. 1116 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, (954) 5225931. Monday Dragon with TP Lords, Daisy D. and DJ Rob Sky Some of the hottest guys around with great happy hour drink specials. Bring all your friends to this sexy Bar.

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, Friday and Saturday night live DJs. 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 9 p.m. $10 Miller Lite Beer Bust Bathhouse. 110 NW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL, (954) 5253344 Good. Clean. Fun. 1/2 price rooms...Tuesday Nights and 1/2 price Lockers. Thursdays Nights. Always busy.

Cubby Hole

Johnny’s

321-Slammer

The Club Fort Lauderdale

1915 N. 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.

The Manor

2345 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, FL 33305 (954) 626 0082 - Come Dine, Dance, Drink, Mingle and of course Relax. 2 for 1 happy hour Tues-Friday 3-9pm. Indoor/Outdoor Dining. Dance the night away Thursday through Sunday. Live music Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun - Visit themanorcomplex.com FOR MORE DETAILS.

Matty’s on the Drive

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.

Mona’s

502 E. Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 5256662. 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

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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. 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 Fort. 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

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.

Scandals Country Western Bar

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

Sidelines Sports Bar

2031 Wilton Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305, (954) 563-8001 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 County The Cottage

522 Lucerne Ave, Lake Worth, Fl, 33414. (561) 586-0080 Great Service, Great Food, Full Stocked Bar, Great Professional Tea-Dance every Sunday

Fort Dix

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.

H.G. Rooster

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.

The Lounge

1132 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth FL $3 Drinks No Cover open till 5AM New location Better than Ever.

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.

The Bar Lake Worth

2211 North Dixie Highway Lake Worth. (561) 370-3954 Thebarlakeworth.com. Men and women share this mostlylocals space as a calm and friendly watering hole. The bar often features live music which can be a nice break from thumping bass.

Miami-Dade 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

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.

Score

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.

Swinging Richards

17450 Biscayne Blvd, N Miami Beach, Fl 33160 954-357-2532 Tuesdays-Saturdays from 6p.m. to 6 a.m. Come and enjoy fully nude guys dancing to the best music in South Florida.

Twist

1057 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, Fl, 33139. (305)5389478. 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 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.

The Bourbon St. Pub

724 Duval St. (305)296-1992. Key West’s premier video bar with LIVE DJ’S nightly. A taste of N’Awlins in the heart of Old Town – Enjoy Key West’s hottest music videos on the large screen while the boys entertain on the bar. No Cover.

La Te Da

1125 Duval St. 305-296-6706 Fun Gay-Friendly atmosphere. Cabaret entertainment during season including Randy Roberts and Chris Peterson. Enjoy great live music Tuesday thru Sunday with Lenore Troia. Cover charge may apply. Great outside bar if you just want to enjoy a cocktail and chat while people watching on Duval Street.

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

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 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

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The Rare Reporter

Hep C: The New Epidemic By David Webb

fter the emergence of HIV and the devastation it caused in the 1980s, the identification of yet another deadly virus about the same time went virtually unnoticed by the general public. News and concern about Hepatitis C understandably took a back seat to HIV, and so the liver disease apparently grew exponentially because it was a slower killer and asymptomatic. Spread mostly by blood-to-blood contact, HCV is now thought to infect as many as 170 million people worldwide, many or most of whom are unaware of their status because of the absence of any symptoms they are ill. Often people do not become aware of their infection until significant damage is done to their liver, cirrhosis or cancer develops and a transplant is necessary. Now, more people die from HCV-related illnesses than those associated with HIV, according to Center for Disease Control officials. CDC officials warn that Baby Boomers, anyone born between 1945 and 1965, should get

a test to determine if they are infected with HCV. Federal health officials estimate that two-thirds of the people infected with HCV are in this age group, and that half are unaware of it. Medical researchers and practitioners theorized since the 1970s that another hepatitis virus existed in addition to Hepatitis B because some patients who no longer exhibited traces of HBV in their blood continued to show similar signs of liver malfunction. Finally, in 1989 Hepatitis C was proven to exist, and widespread testing of blood for the virus since 1997 has revealed its frightening spread. Many people in the LGBT community were unaware of the existence of HCV and only learned about if someone they knew was diagnosed with it or, God forbid, learned they themselves had contracted it. After missing the HIV bullet and vowing not to place themselves at risk of contracting it, many people no doubt were shocked to learn there was yet another virus they could have contracted

through blood transfusions, shared intravepositive illustrate just how widespread the vinous drug use and sexual activity. rus could ultimately be. One individual was a What’s worse, there are concerns that the gay man who was a former heavy intravenous transmission of HCV might occur more easily drug-user and HIV-negative, but nonetheless than HIV through unsterilized a member of a high-risk group. medical and dental equipment, The other was an older married body piercings, shared personfemale who didn’t even drink, al items such as razors, toothlet alone do drugs or engage in brushes and manicure tools sex with multiple sex partners. and no telling what else. In She would surely be considered contrast, HIV is thought to be a member of a low-risk group, less-easily transmitted. and I suspect she contracted The possible presence of the virus in a hospital setting HCV was sometimes detected long before the virus’ existence in the early 1990s among pawas known. tients who got annual physiThere are treatments availcals because routine blood able for HCV, but they unfortutests revealed irregularities in nately have different levels of liver enzymes. Further testing effectiveness among patients, to identify the cause could reare expensive and can be intolveal the presence of HCV when erable to some people. Both of The new ribbon patients were in the care of the people I knew were unable doctors who stayed abreast of the medical deto tolerate the treatments. The heterosexual velopments. female has died, and I have lost contact with It became clear HCV would become a chronthe gay man I knew who was HCV-positive. ic infection for most people who contracted The last time I talked to him he had been deit, and that it would eventually lead to severe clared disabled because of his HCV infection health problems or death. Only a few peoand the damage it had done to his liver. ple would contract the virus and overcome In both cases, the months-long treatments it through the body’s natural processes, as is that included injections and oral drugs caused thought to be the case with some people who flu-like symptoms and severe depression. are exposed to HIV. They both abandoned the treatments. Two people whom I have known were HCVFortunately, other people managed to survive the treatments and the combination of drugs apparently eliminated HCV from their blood. The very fortunate discovered the infections and received the treatments before irreversible damage was done to their livers as was indicated by biopsies. At the time the two people I knew tried the available treatments it was when only a combination of pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin was available. Those treatments initially were prohibitively expensive, but they are considered less costly now. Today, there are new protease inhibitors available for treatment showing promise, but the cost is astronomical. The new drugs, Victrelis, at $1,100 per week, and Incivek at $4,100 per week, must be taken for months, and they also can cause hideous side effects. It’s an agonizing situation, but most people are willing to spend whatever it costs if they can and endure whatever pain comes along in an effort to survive. That’s why it’s so important to get tested for HCV and to determine whether treatment is needed before it’s too late. For others who are uninfected, don’t go there in the first place. Know how HCV is spread and avoid any possibility that it can imperil your life. David Webb is a veteran journalist who has covered LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative media for three decades. Contact him at davidwaynewebb@hotmail.com

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Queer Speak 21st Century Quotes on Gay Rights

Pat Robertson

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“The world today says ‘OK, so you are gay, you want to have affairs with men -- that’s cool. You have an absolute right to do that, why not?’ “That’s not the right attitude. The attitude is that this is sin. It’s wrong. And [this man] realized it was wrong but couldn’t control it. But that type of conduct is wrong… he is obsessed. He has a compulsion. I would think that it is somehow related to demonic possession…” -- Pat Robertson on why a man “trolled the streets” for seven years looking for “cheap sex with other men” while his wife sat at home “completely clueless.”

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App Developers Cashing in on the LGBT Community A guide to LGBT friendly apps and their myriad of uses

By Charles Pratt Introduction:

inding it hard…no pun intended… to find a date these days? Well it’s time to move into the new age of mobile dating. Just as digital dating sites like America Online 15 years ago revolutionized the way gays meet, date and hook up, mobile dating is doing it again. America Online introduced us chat rooms; sites like Manhunt and Adam4Adam introduced us to cruising online; now apps are once again changing the way we meet, date and hook up. SFGN decided to highlight some of the most popular, most obscure and most recent apps to pop up.

Grindr:

f you’re a gay guy with a smartphone and you haven’t heard of the ever so popular Grindr you’ve been living under a rock in Afghanistan. But for those technologically challenged here’s a quick overview. It’s a free app available on Android, Blackberry, and the iPhone and has 3 million users worldwide. All versions of Grindr allow for a seamless transition that allows you to have the same profile on multiple devices such as an iPhone and iPad. For $2.99 a month you can purchase Grindr Xtra, which allows you to view up to 200 guys at a time, removes ads and allows for push notifications. Be careful though on what you post. Grindr recently fell victim to a major cyber attack, which took advantage of flaws in the mobile app’s security. The hacker used those flaws to access the service’s user accounts, and posted account information online. The attack mostly targeted Australian users. It was reported that apparently the hacker spoofed several accounts in Sydney, Australia and sent messages and changed profile photos to graphic images without the real user’s knowledge. On the other hand, Grindr recently won the TechCrunch’s 2011 Crunchies Award for “Best Location Application” and took home two additional awards. The

app won “Best Mobile Dating App” at the 2012 iDate Awards and “Best New Technology” at the 9th annual Dating Industry & Internet Dating Conference.

graded version costs $1.99 for 30 days, $5.99 for 90 days, and $22.99 for a year. Visit GuySpy.com for more information.

Jack’d

Visit Grindr.com for more information.

Spartacus:

ll of the apps listed in this spread are all about finding guys. Spartacus, however, is an app for the iPhone, that helps gays search for bars, clubs, saunas, and hotels in 2,580 cities and 143 countries. Spartacus also allows a user to “mood search” which includes the most suitable places to dance, drink, eat, meet, sleep, shop and even to have sex. A subscription costs $14.99 for the world, and $8.99 for America, Africa, Asia and Oceania for a year. The app also features articles by the editors on the local political situation of the LGBT community as well as local sights, other highlights and a global event calendar listing Pride events around the world.

Visit SpartacusWorld.com for more information.

GuySpy:

f Grindr is too mainstream for you, check out GuySpy which is a free app on Android, and iPhone, and also has a web-based interface. Members are displayed on a grid similar to Grindr but also offers a map on the iPhone and Android. Voice and video messages can be sent in chat as well. Their tagline is “Anytime, Anywhere and Any Way.” In addition to the app they have a fairly expansive blog that ranges from interviews with porn starts to political activists. The app was also featured in the 2011 movie Judas Kiss. There’s also a premium version, GuySpy+, which gives users access to more features including travel mode and HD video messaging. The up-

ack’d is a free app for the iPhone and Android. It offers push notifications, a match finder, and multiple profile pictures along with unlimited message exchanges. Unfortunately Jack’d is notably buggy with one Android user saying, “I LOVE this app, its way better than Grindr and Adam4adam but the new updates are dumb to me. I can’t use my auto-correct when I’m typing messages (very dumb!) And my radius got smaller (dumber!) Please fix this and once again this app will be my favorite :).” Visit Jackd.mobi for more information.

Hornet:

rindr watch out. So far few apps have been able to put a dent into Grindr’s market share of gay dating and hook up apps, but this is one to watch for. Hornet may be just the one to finally challenge Grindr. It’s a free app for the iPhone and Android. It allows users to upload multiple private and public photos. Another neat feature is the notes feature, which allows a user to keep track of information about the guys you’ve talked with. It includes an explore feature which allows a user to find guys in other areas that they may be traveling to. One iPhone user stated “Hands down better than Grindr. No annoying ads, fast photo approval and friendly customer service.” They also offer a stealth mode. Another feature they’ve incorporated into their app is “Know your Status” (KYS). In their profile, posi-

tive or recently tested guys will get a special marker, so that users are prompted to enroll in a voluntary campaign for a safer environment. Once a test comes up for renewal, Hornet will remind users to get tested again, or their KYS status lapses to unknown. Other features include stealth mode, forwarding profiles and extensive filters so you can focus on what you do want to see. Visit GetHornet.com for more information.

Scruff:

ooking for a man’s man? Well look no further, Scruff is the app for you. It’s free on both the iPhone and Android. The app is targeted towards the more rough and tumble guys. In an interview with FrontiersLA co-founder Johnny Scruff stated, “The guys on SCRUFF are definitely what sets us apart! All kinds of guys use SCRUFF—servicemen, firefighters, jocks, bears and lots of everyday guys. We have an inclusive community that welcomes all kinds. On that note, I love that we have famous drag queens on SCRUFF!” Scruff allows for a user to purchase messaging pro for $4.99 and browsing pro for $3.99. Credits can also be purchased which allow users to send and store hi-res photos. Visit ScruffApp.com for more information.

Daddyhunt:

f the Scruff men are too young for you then perhaps Daddyhunt is the app for you. As the name suggests it’s for older gay men and the guys who love them. There’s a website and their app version on Android and iPhone is called Mister. Among the features in the app a user can “man grind” and “grope” fellow users. Daddyhunt operates a blog called Age Appropriate that covers a gambit of topics including dating, health and politics. Mister allows for up to 10 profile pictures and offers free push notifications.

Visit DaddyHunt.com for more information.

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Adam4Adam:

Rentboy:

dam4Adam is a free web based site, however offers an app called Radar on both the iPhone and Android. The app allows for users to be sorted by both location and latest login. Supporters, or users who donate to Adam4Adam, receive various upgrades such as unlimited conversation length, more pictures, and allows for conversations to be increased from 40 messages to 200 messages, costing $10 for one month or $25 for three. Pro accounts are available to massage therapists, personal trainers and photographers. Adam4adam also offers an online adult toy store selling various products, live cameras and a payper-view porn site. The company also has a fairly risqué Tumblr and Twitter feed. Visit Adam4Adam.com for more information.

GaysAroundMe:

aysAroundMe is a new product for the iPhone from the company SinglesAroundMe. The app is free, however requires a premium account to send messages or respond to messages. The premium account cost $2.99 for one month or $19.99 for one year. Existing SinglesAroundMe users simply sign into GaysAroundMe to access their profile. “With a half million downloads worldwide we are extremely excited to be able to offer a dedicated, sophisticated product for single gay men,” said Christopher Klotz, CEO of SinglesAroundMe in a press release. “In counterpoint to other gay dating apps such as GuySpy, Grindr and Maleforce, GaysAroundMe offers a classy platform through which to meet other gay singles. It also allows users the opportunity to choose to display their location on a geographical map, which means it’s easier to meet up in real time.”

Squirt:

hile some of the other apps may pretend to be “dating” apps Squirt. org has no such identity crisis. It’s for hooking up, plain and simple. Their tagline says it all – “Gay Sex Cruising Hook Up Site.” But sorry guys there’s no app as of yet. The website offers access to popular cruising locations and multiple ways to find men. There’s a free basic membership and a premium membership where members can view unlimited cruising listings, pictures, print out directions to the location and comment about the location. It also allows members to upload videos. Visit Squirt.org for more information.

f you’re still having trouble finding a date, or maybe just want a night with no hang-ups, there’s always Rentboy, a web based escort service. The website allows for searching by city, specific sexual position, cock size and even obscure fetishes like sneakers, PnP and diapers. The website is free to browse for customers. Escorts and massage therapists, however, have to pay. Rentboy also has adult toy store and pay-per-view porn. Creators Jeff Davids and Sean Van Sant created the International Escort Awards known as “The Hookies.” The website though is most notable for its controversy involving the case of anti-gay activist George Rekers who hired a man from Rentboy for a ten-day trip to Europe as a “travel assistant.”

file viewing and saved searches. Unlimited membership can be purchased for $7 for a week, $30 for 90 days, and $99 for a year. Visit ManHunt.net for more information.

FuckedApps:

hat if you can’t find a dick or date for the night, but still need something to keep you…well, occupied? There’s always FuckedApps — a free Web based app for the iPhone and Android that allows you to download other web based apps to watch porn. You won’t find this naughty little app in any official app store. Instead you’ll have to download it as a Web app, which means you’ll only be able access it via the Internet. Some of the Web apps it gives you access to include Gay Bear XXX, MaleSpectrum, OfficeCock and Sausage Party. Don’t worry though whatever your taste may be, you’ll definitely close this app feeling satisfied. Visit FuckedApps.com for more information.

Visit RentBoy.com for more information.

Manhunt:

anhunt is probably the longest established dating site opening in 2001. The site is free. However, in the mobile world they lag behind without an app. Manhunt has over four million profiles worldwide. They offer mail and video chat to communicate with other users. Unlimited membership offers unlimited messaging, unrestricted pro-

Websites: SilverDaddies:

ike Daddyhunt, SilverDaddies is for older men and the guys who love them. It was originally created to share photos, but has recently expanded into social networking after requests according to the site creator Dennis. The basic features on SilverDaddies are free. They include photo galleries, profile creation and profile searching. The premium features include a list of profiles who have visited your profile, favorites, unlimited messaging, access to profile galleries, blocking, access to profile videos and the ability to keep profile notes. SilverDaddies is only accessible via the web. Premium service costs $15 for 3 months; $30 for 6 months; $40 for 9 months; and $50 for 1 year. Visit SilverDaddies.com for more information.

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McNaught’s Notes

inner voice that pulls us out of our closets of fear. The second half of our life’s work is to embrace the rainbow connection between everyone else in the world who is struggling to do the same thing. I don’t know why it surprised me so much that our French friends shared the Muppets with us By Brian McNaught as a childhood experience. I’m now more aware that the Jewish children who were just killed in mother and sister who still live in the area. At France watched the same television programs the same time, I received a request for help from that Muslim children do. They sang the same a friend who had been asked to testify against songs. They laughed at the same funny stories. a coach who openly harassed gay Why is it that Fozzie Bear makes athletes and students. Immediateall of us smile, but other human ly after watching the film, I got anbeings can make us so angry and other e-mail regarding a gay man hateful that we kill them? who was being discriminated The New Hampshire Legislaagainst at work because he made ture just voted to continue to alothers feel “uncomfortable.” low Kermit and Miss Piggy to get Where is the disconnect bemarried. “Oh, no,” you might protween children across the world test, “the vote was about homosinging The Rainbow Connection, sexuals.” Technically, that’s true, Kermit the Frog by Flodger but not seeing that the black, but in reality it was about allowJewish, gay, Latino, and transgender people ing characters who are different from the mawho upset them are just Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, jority to enjoy the same joys as the majority. Animal, the Swedish Chef, Kermit, and Miss The fear of difference didn’t dominate the day. Piggy, all hoping to find in life what they’re If you told the lone gunman in France supposed to be? that he wasn’t killing Jewish children, but Even if they have never seen the Muppets, rather that he was killing the muppet Gonor heard Kermit sing The Rainbow Connection, zo, would his reaction to his actions be difthere’s not a person in this world who hasn’t ferent? The college coach who says that the heard the voice that calls them to be him- or only people who are upset by her homophoherself. Half of our life’s job is to follow the bia are racists and gay people, seems never

The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me

our gay men in their forties and sixties, from the U.S. and France, sang in our living room with Kermit the Frog, “Someday we’ll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.” Jean-Marc and Patrice had watched the Muppets as children 30 years ago in eastern and southern France. As they sat with Ray and me, with bowls of homemade popcorn, they excitedly named the characters as they appeared in the film, The Muppets: Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, and Swedish Chef. Ray and I were delighted to share that experience which transcended language and culture. Patrice, being a song and dance man, knew all of the lyrics to Kermit’s closing song: “I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it. There’s something that I’m supposed to be. Someday we’ll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.” That morning, Patrice was horrified to learn that a gunman had killed Jewish children near the town in which he had watched Sesame Street. He had been on the telephone with his

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to have found The Rainbow Connection. None of us have the ability to avoid the harsh realities of life that exist outside of a children’s television program or film. Almost everywhere we look, and almost everything we hear in the media, creates in us the feeling that we are not safe. That is why we are made nervous by the presence at work of someone who is different. Ignorance is the parent of fear. Fear is the parent of hatred. We constantly are called upon to fight off the instinct to fear, and to hate. And more of us succeed than don’t. Given all of the challenges we each face daily to be open to new interactions with people who are different from us, I feel that most people throughout the world do a pretty good job of seeing The Rainbow Connection. We have our moments when we want to lash out and punish the people who frighten us, but we’re held back by our memories of bears, pigs, frogs, chickens and other assorted characters loving each other, and being happy. “The lovers, the dreamers, and me.” We live and work everywhere. Brian McNaught was named “the godfather of gay diversity training” by The New York Times. He works with corporate executives globally, is the author of six books, and is featured in seven educational DVDs. He and his spouse Ray Struble divide their year between Fort Lauderdale and Provincetown. Visit Brian-McNaught.com for more information.

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