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October 10, 2012 • Volume 3 • Issue 41

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UFC President Says Gay Slur Was his Biggest Mistake

hat $65 million offer by a Hong Kong billionaire to find the man who could woo his lesbian daughter seemed like something out of a movie.Well, soon it could be. According to Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen has started working on a new film based on Cecil Chao, the 76-year-old Chinese shipping industry tycoon who recently offered a fortune to try to get his lesbian daughter, Gigi, on a straight path. The offer made international headlines. Cohen’s film is tentatively titled “The Lesbian.” Despite what many may think, Gigi Chao said she wasn’t upset with her father for making such public offer. “I’m actually on very, very loving terms with my father. We speak on a daily basis. He just has a very interesting way of expressing his fatherly love,” the 33-year-old told the Associated Press. Gigi is married to her wife in France. According to the Telegraph, she has also dated men in the past. Not a whole lot more in known about the movie, other than that Cohen is expected to act in it.

ltimate Fighting Championship President Dana White has come out saying the biggest regret in his 12-year career in the UFC has been using the word “faggot” in a 2009 video blog. “That’s the only thing throughout the 12 years of running the UFC.The way I came off in that thing, people still think I’m some kind of homophobe, and I’m not.That still bothers me,” White told MMA Mania. White erupted after an anonymous source criticized his management style in a 2009 article on a mixed martial arts website. He called the source in the story “a pussy and a fucking faggot,” for remaining anonymous. White apologized to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation the very next day, saying he “never intended to hurt the gay community,” but he still regrets those words. Last year, White defended the LGBT community, saying he wished there were openly gay fighters in his MMA competition after a Brazilian fighter said he wouldn’t train with a gay man. “I could care less if there’s a gay fighter in the UFC. There probably is and there’s probably more than one. I mean, it’s 2012. Give me a break,” he told MMA Mania. Dakota Cochrane, an MMA fighter competing in this year’s Ultimate Fighter series, the reality TV spin off of the UFC competition, disclosed that he had

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op singer Pink says her physical Andrea Dulanto appearance and attitude may have Contributing Columnists. . . Wayne Besen lead some people to believe she was a Brian McNaught Victoria Michaels lesbian; either way, she doesn’t care. Leslie Robinson “I should be gay by the way that I look and Dana Rudolph the way that I am. I just happen to not be. But David Webb it just makes perfect and complete sense,” Health Columnist. . . . . . . . . Peter Jackson Finance Columnist. . . . . . . . Ric Reily she said in an interview with The Advocate. Trans News Editor. . . . . . . . Victoria Michaels Pink, who’s currently promoting her latest album, The Truth About Love, also said her Calendar Editor. . . . . . . . . . Brian Swinford gay and lesbian fans are “my honesty in an Editorial Cartoonists. . . . . . . Karl Hampe ocean of bullshit.” Darryl Smith In the interview, she also recalled her Staff Photographer. . . . . . . . Dani Justice stint as an “honorary lesbian” when she first moved to Los Angeles, a time when she said Sales she had more than one sexual encounter Marketing Director. . . . . . . . John Fugate Sales Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Trottier with other women. Sales Associates . . . . . . . . . . . Edwin Neimann Justin Wyse “I loved my little girlfriends and we kissed Ryan Dixon and we had a great time and we held hands,” she told The Advocate. National Sales Representative . . . . . . . Rivendell Media “When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was todd@rivendellmedia.com an honorary lesbian of Los Angeles. I wasn’t Distribution Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . JR Davis South Florida Gay News.com is published weekly on gay, but all my girlfriends were. So no, it Wednesdays. Our paper is a member of the Associated Press. wasn’t a big deal for me, but when [a tabloid] The views and opinions expressed within this publication, in columns, stories, and letters to the editor are those of the comes out and says, I just said I was bisexual, bylined writers expressing them. They do not represent the opinions of it’s like what? That wasn’t my truth, and I like South Florida Gay News.com, Inc., or the Publisher. They are included to promote free speech and diversity of thought. truth. I like absolute truth.” You should not presume the sexual orientation of individuals

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Loud Mouth Everett Now Slams Gay Marriages By Sergio Candido

MORE WEBites Gay Prides Allowed in Russia ay pride parades will be allowed in Russia following a decision by the country’s Supreme Court that said the demonstrations do not violate “gay propaganda” laws. According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, the court made the ruling in August, but was not made public until this week. This new ruling makes illegal the “direct promotion of homosexual relation,” but not pride events or public discussions of gay issues. It is unclear how this decision affects Moscow’s banning of gay pride parades for the next 100 years.

Tea Party Congressman Pro-LGBT? hifting from the political foundation of the grassroots conservative movement, Republican Congressman Scott Tipton, a Tea Party-backed politician, said he would support the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, a bill that would make it illegal to fire someone for being gay. “I don’t believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives,” the Colorado Republican told ThinkProgress. Tipton added: “I’m a businessman. When you walk in the door, if you’re able to do the job and you’re focused on your job, that’s all that’s important.” The comments were made right after

“All the queens out there now have it in for me. I’m loathed by them,” he said. “I’m having to take evasive action.” Photo Courtesy of Vicki Neave

ay British actor Rupert Everett is not afraid to voice his opinion: Just two weeks after saying he can’t think of “anything worse than being brought up by two dads,” he has added he thinks gays wanting to get married is “beyond tragic.” In an interview with The Guardian, the actor said: “It’s just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster.” And he added: “For me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that’s where my problems in this particular area come from. But that’s me, just me. I’m not having a go at gay couples who do.” Everett told The Telegraph that he received hate mail and death threats after his comments on gay parenting, but that doesn’t seem to have silenced the “My Best Friend’s Wedding” star.

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the Romney/Obama presidential debate on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Teen Kills Gay Man and his Cat, Films Everything n 18-year-old in Wales is undergoing a trial after killing an elderly gay man and his cat, and then boasting about the crime on video. Wales Online reports that Bleddyn Rees King met 63-year-old that David Evans online and arranged to go to the man’s home, where the incident occurred. The prosecutor, Michael Mather-Less, believes King committed the crime to rob the man and videotape it to scare off others who may have owed him money. “We say it was a plain and simple premeditated robbery with extreme violence contemplated,” Mather-Less said. The Welsh newspaper also reports that Evans’ body had 72 injuries, including multiple stab wounds. King set Evans’ house on fire after murdering him to try to cover the evidence, the prosecutor said. “This was brutality of the extreme kind and after he was dead, the defendant videoed his body while giving a dialogue of what he had done and why he was doing it. It was because he was short of money,” the prosecutor told the jurors. For his part, King defended himself saying the older man sexually crossed the line and he “lost control and beat him in a fury.” The case is ongoing.

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COVER STORY

Australian Rugby Joins Fight Against Homophobia By Ryan Dixon

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ports in the United States have been making strides, albeit small ones, in combating homophobia inside the lines. On another hemisphere, Australian rugby has been proven a leader in acceptance and respect — both athletically and socially. Australian Rules footballer Jason Ball was the spearhead for change when he became the first player in his sport to come out of the closet. Ball said the homophobia he heard and saw from teammates was a result of them thinking there was no way a gay man would be on their team, let alone play rugby at all. To his surprise, Ball was met with open arms instead of the hostility he assumed he would get from telling his teammates he was gay. “It was the one place I never thought I’d jason ball be able to come out. Ever. It just felt like a really hostile environment. I worried I’d be bullied, maybe I’d get kicked out of the side, maybe the opposition would treat me differently or I’d get abuse [from supporters] over the fence,” he told The Sunday Age. ”I didn’t know any footballers who were gay, so I could only assume the worst, and it scared me.” Ball urged the Australian Football League to screen antihomophobia ads, and to stage a gay pride round, similar to the league’s multicultural and indigenous rounds. League boss Andrew Demetriou told 3AW that the league was looking into the possibility. “If we get behind something we genuinely believe in and if it’s something that we think we can help raise awareness and shift attitudes then we would support it,” he said.”We would consult with experts in this matter and get the best advice to see how we can address this issue properly like we did with illicit drugs. I want to make sure then if we do go down this track we do it properly.” Ball’s petition garnered more than 26,000 signatures through social change movement www.Change.org. He told The Age he was delighted by the development. “The fact that the AFL is considering a pride round, amongst a host of other options, is amazing news. Nothing would send a better message to gay players and fans that they’re welcome and included in this game we love,” he said. The Australian Football League (which is governed by rules that are different from traditional rugby; for the difference between the two, see side bar) has started to run anti-homophobia ads from No To Homophobia before matches starting with their Grand Final matches earlier this month. The No to Homophobia Campaign challenges homophobia, biphobia and transphobia wherever it occurs in the community, including in sports. There are strong links between harassment and health issues like anxiety disorders, depression and even self-harm and suicide. “Sadly, in many sports – particularly male sports – homophobic insults and abuse are commonplace and

directed towards both players and umpires,” said No To Homophobia coordinator Daniel Scoullar. “The AFL is the most influential sports organisation in Australia and it has a huge leadership role in the community. They would be the first to admit that there hasn’t been enough work done to stamp out homophobic harassment and vilification in football, but we are impressed with their initial commitment to making up for that by partnering with us over the next year and beyond.” The AFL and No to Homophobia are still working out the details that would include public initiatives such as the AFL’s letter of support and playing the anti-homophobia ads at football stadiums before games. It will also involve grassroots education and enforcement of anti-vilification guidelines throughout the sports code starting with junior leagues and continuing right up to the elite level. No to Homophobia will be speaking to other sports organizations, as well, over the next year. The organization’s leadership hopes to use the progress they’ve made with the AFL and the excellent work already done in Australia by Hockey Victoria and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (through its Fair Go, Sport initiative) as a model for how sporting codes can make sure they are safe and welcoming places for everyone in the community. For more information on how No To Homophobia and the AFL are working together, go to www.notohomophobia. com.au.

Australian Rules Football Vs. Australian Football League Traditional rugby and Australian Rules Football (which guide games from the Australian Football League) have some differences that few know about, according to Daniel Scoullar. While both use an oval ball similar in size, the traditional ball is thinner, closer to an American football. Tackling above the knees and below the shoulders is allowed by both. And here are the differences: Traditional Rugby Rectangular field 15 players Two 35 minutes halves Players must stay onside 2 vertical goal posts and a crossbar which the ball must pass through and over to score. Australian Rules (AFL) Oval field 18 players Four 20 minute quarters No offsides 4 vertical goal posts with no crossbars, Ball passes through outer post for 1 point and between inner posts for a 6 point goal

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NATIONAL NEWS

National Coming Out Day Profiles LGBT Visibility By Holly Grigg-Spall, EDGE

his month sees two national events encouraging openness in showing support for LGBT Americans. The Human Rights Campaign-organized National Coming Out Day is on October 11 and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Spirit Day falls on October 19. Both initiatives are looking to expand their participant base via social media and by widening the definition of what it is to “come out.” “Coming out isn’t just for the LGBT community. You can come out as the sister or the parent of an LGBT person,” said HRC spokesperson Candace Gingrich-Jones. “This is a unique opportunity to express being an ally to all LGBT people. It’s about speaking your mind. And in this election year, we’re asking people to come out and vote because there’s a lot at stake for LGBT Americans and where we really need to be visible is in the voting booth.” The HRC’s Coming Out for Equality Facebook appprovides the opportunity to give an endorsement for equality by sporting an equality badge on personal social networking sites. National Coming Out Day was inspired by the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights and it has since attracted the advocacy of many LGBT and ally public figures. It is primarily a grassroots campaign with celebrations taking place on a local level, albeit simultaneously. Spirit Day has a shorter history but has made a big impact since it began in 2010. That year, 15 year-old high school student Brittany McMillan decided to create an event in her community to show support for LGBT youths. “We wear purple for spirit; it’s what the color represents on the LGBT flag,” said McMillan. “It started with just me and my friends at school and then GLAAD saw my Facebook event and took it up for a national campaign.” Brittany’s efforts were in response to the number of young LGBT people that she became aware of through Tumblr who had committed suicide. Last year saw top daytime TV shows’ hosts, musicians and actors go purple for the cause. Corporations such as AMC, Warner Bros and Yahoo encourage their employees to participate. The White House showed its support in 2011 by changing the backgrounds on its website and social media sites to purple.

This year Ambassadors include blogger Perez Hilton, Nickelodeon’s Avan Jogia, “Pretty Little Liars” star Shay Mitchell, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, TV icon George Takei and daytime talk show host Wendy Williams. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, will participate by sharing information about Spirit Day with students. Many national landmarks including the LAX Pylon Lights and the JFK traffic tower will turn purple. “I love how excited people get about Spirit Day. The pictures of celebrities wearing purple, they keep popping up throughout the year and that keeps the message going,” said McMillan of the ongoing effect of her inspiring idea. Jordan Addison recently became an Internet sensation as he documented his experience of bullying and harassment on his college campus in Virginia. When students vandalized his car a local repair shop owner provided, for free, $10,000 worth of work to bring the car back to better than new. Addison is now an ambassador for Spirit Day. “I’ve struggled with bullying and in high school I attempted suicide. We need to, as a society, take active responsibility for the welfare of LGBT youths,” said Addison. “It makes my heart swell up with emotion to see the support Spirit Day has gained. I’m in a conservative Southern state and even my local TV station went purple.” Across the country, plans are being put into action for rallies, parties and the building of creative closets from which the LGBT and their supporters can literally come out. Activists are taking to the Spirit Day website to pledge to turn purple. “More young people are coming out younger and younger and they need our support. This generation is not willing to not be themselves and they believe that they as individuals are worth fighting for,” said Gingrich-Jones. “When National Coming Out Day was founded, the LGBT population was not as visible as it is today,” she continued. “It’s important to someone coming out to not feel like you’re the only one. The public is generally much more supportive today but we need to put a face on that majority of supporters. We must all speak up so that others know how we feel about this.” EDGE Media is a media partner of SFGN

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STATE NEWS

Anti-Gay Law Costs Jacksonville Dearly J By Sergio N. Candido

acksonville is seeing the fruits of its opposition to an anti-discrimination ordinance that would have granted protections to LGBT workers. A recent letter to the Florida Times-Union explains why a “multimillion-dollar company” decided not to move its business to the city because of the anti-gay climate. “Jacksonville lost this company because of the results of the anti-discrimination bill vote … When religious beliefs and convictions are infused into the responsibility of creating public policy, the resulting sad consequences are totally predictable,” wrote Marianna S. Smith, who identifies herself as an attorney in the letter. According to Equality Florida, Ordinance 2012-296 was amended with a substitute bill that removed the gender identity and expression provisions but left in the “sexual orientation language.” That bill was

Here’s Smith’s full letter to the Florida Times-Union: To build a business, you need more than just land; you need a favorable environment for employees. Let me tell you a story. I am a member of the board of directors of a rapidly growing, multi-million dollar international company. We employ chemists and engineers, marketers/ sales staff plus a full manufacturing and distribution facility. The company is located in a landlocked city and wishes to move to a city with a port, rail and truck service. I have strongly advocated Jacksonville as our future business home. Unfortunately, the CEO came to evaluate Jacksonville when the letters and comments of hate were in our paper opposing the proposed changes to the Jacksonville anti-discrimination ordinance. The CEO was shocked and said any determination about Jacksonville would not occur until after the bill was voted on by the City Council. I sent articles from city leaders supporting the bill, but that was not enough. The CEO has determined this

defeated by a vote of 10-9 back in August. Then the original bill was overwhelmingly rejected by a stunning vote of 17-2. If passed, the measure would have allowed to sue for money damages if LGBT people felt they were being treated unfairly in workplace, housing and or public accommodations. At the time, Equality Florida blamed the Florida Family Policy Council for lobbying to get the bill killed. FFPC “marshalled tens of thousands of emails and phone calls to the Councilmen offices. The FFPC also launched radio ads, automated calls, and media interviews, created coalitions and organized church leaders to education and influence the City Council,” the group wrote in a press release. Smith wrote the company will move its business to Savannah, Charleston and the ports in Virginia.

community will not be a good a fit for our company. Jacksonville lost this company because of the results of the anti-discrimination bill vote. I have served as a director on other international boards, and I can promise you that those companies would also decline Jacksonville as a headquarters home in view of the way our council and some citizens responded to a call for equal rights. This is not the result of unforeseen consequences. No, this result is highly foreseeable. When religious beliefs and convictions are infused into the responsibility of creating public policy, the resulting sad consequences are totally predictable. Where was strong, wise and meaningful leadership when we needed it? If I ever questioned the wisdom of separation of church and state, that doubt has been completely erased by this event. I am saddened to have my home city of Jacksonville defined in this manner. My company is now investigating Savannah, Charleston and the ports in Virginia. Marianna S. Smith, attorney, Jacksonville

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Swinging Richard’s Wins Stunning Victory G By Jason Parsley

ay, nude male dancing will From the outset, the club caused no continue in North Miami Beach problems, but other gay clubs complained for quite a while. they were getting an unfair advantage in The city council of North having nudity. Miami Beach has voted unanimously to However, the premise of the litigation he grandfather in nude dancing for Swinging filed against the city is that while an antiRichard’s and the two straight clubs nudity ordinance was in place since 1994, involved in the brouhaha, Dean’s Gold and it was never enforced against the straight G5. clubs in town. In exchange for dropping their lawsuit As published in SFGN months ago, one against the city, of the points made Swinging Richards has by the club’s lawyers procured from the city a was that the city was new license, specifying targeting and singling the right to maintain out homosexuality for nudity while serving prosecution. alcohol. In fact, a report from The city commission the police department vote in effect on the Federal ‘grandfathers’ in these Highway establishment three establishments, indicated that there but inhibits new was no significant licensees from securing crime coming out of the same privilege, the clubs. absent their own “I appreciate the city litigation contesting the recognizing that we constitutionality of the males have the right to ordinance prohibiting dance nude also,” Jones nudity and alcohol. stated. cb jones - owner of swinging richards Stated CB Jones, the Jones added that he owner of Swinging hoped resolution of the Richard’s, also based in Atlanta, “All parties dispute would generate more business for concerned thought that the lawsuit was his club. strong enough to prevail. It was a better “We recognize that because of the move to rewrite an old ordinance into a controversy or possible raids some better ordinance which is more in step with customers may have been disinclined to modern times.” enjoy the Swinging Richard’s experience,” Jones continued: “Even the Mayor wanted Jones stated. “But now they should know this issue settled. We were not causing a our doors are wide open, and there are problem, but giving people a good time.” dozens of dancers, great entertainment, He applauded the city for “resolving the and good clean fun inviting them into our issue without going to a lengthy trial that beautiful venue.” would have been costly for both sides.” But A constitutional rights lawyer himself, in fact Jones has had to engage considerable Jones has fought for gay rights for decades, expense in filing a case against the city representing once in 1984 a Carte Blanche both in federal and state courts, before employee dismissed for being gay. “This eventually prevailing. ¬¬ too,” he added, was “fundamentally a civil “It isn’t really a victory when you just win rights case, more about equal protection for what you should have had in the first place,” gays; that if girls can dance nude and the Jones said. police allow, so can gay men.”

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LOCAL NEWS

ChocoCrazy!

Festival of Chocolate Hits South Florida

or the first time in their eight-year existence, The Festival of Chocolate will bring its award winning show of everything and anything chocolate crashing down on the Nova Southeastern University Arena Oct. 13-14. Named one on the top 10 chocolate festivals in the country, The Festival of chocolate has catered to the heart of chocoholics all over Florida including those in Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach and finally Fort Lauderdale. Chocolate in every form from cupcakes, cookies, fudge and truffles to BBQ sauce, balsamic vinegars, coffee and wine – there is something for every chocoholic. Featuring local and regional companies, if you like chocolate then you will truly be a kid in a candy store. Event Producer Aileen Mand (who was named the 2011 Event Producer of the Year by BizBash Magazine) is looking forward to taking Fort Lauderdale by chocolate storm. The self proclaimed “Chief Chocolate

Chic” said there literally is something for everyone to do at the Festival of Chocolate. “People will have the opportunity to play with chocolate, to learn about, to be awed by it. When we say you’ll be able to taste, drink and even touch everything chocolate, we mean it,” she said. At the ChocoLand Chocolate Museum, event-goers will discover the rich history of chocolate: understand where and how the cacao bean actually grows, learn some chocology and uncover the steps and scientific process of turning a cacao bean into a chocolate bar. There will be demonstrations by worldclass pastry chefs who will be doing everything chocolate, from creating the perfect truffle to learning the history, technique and then getting a taste of the French macaroon. Chocolate lovers will learn up close and personal from top artisans including Executive Pastry Chef Jordi Panisello of

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event-goers will indulge in chocolatey favorites ranging from cupcakes to illustrious, decked-out creations — and even wine.

Fountainebleau Miami Beach and Executive Pastry Chef Devon Baston of Seminole Hard Rock and Casino. Plus, Master Chocolatier Bernie Schaked will open up fresh cacao pods and whip up Mayan style hot chocolate. The Cocoa Couture Fashion Show will play host to 16 up-and-coming designers who have sewn, stitched and eaten their way to the creation of couture designs and accessories — using candy bar wrappers. Models wearing dresses and embellishments will walk The Festival of Chocolate “Yumway” on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. Designs will be on display throughout the weekend and guests can cast their vote for the fan favorite. One designer has even made a fabric out of cocoa powder to give the illusion of leather. The Festival will also introduce the Icing On the Cake accessory line that is also made completely out of candy wrappers. Chocolate isn’t just to be eaten at the festival. Kids will be able to engage their minds with Chocolate Brain Games, learning all about Chocolate in the Chocolate Charlie Chase and even work out their muscles in the Chocolate Marshmallow Catapult 3000. Kids will be the kings and queens of their own Chocolate Kingdom at The Festival of Chocolate. For those who want to be more hands-on with their chocolate, you’ll be able to make your own chocolate lip balm. With a little bit of science, a dash of apothecary and a

healthy spoon of fresh cocoa, guests can make their own fresh chocolate lip balm. Adventurous chocoholics can get a little daring as they try out Armpit Fudge, too. Sounds gross, but allegedly tastes amazing! And, for a calming experience, try out Mocha Manicures or a Cocoa Rub Hand Massage. Competitive chocoholics can try their luck and show off skill in hopes of beating a Guinness Book of World Record — all you have to do is move 25 colored M&M’s into colored bowels in less the 20.8 seconds (using chopsticks). Tickets for the event are $12 for adults and just $8 for children 12 and under. For more information, visit www. festivalofchocolate.com.

If You Go When: Saturday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 How Much: Adults, $12 Children (12 and under), $8

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LOCAL NEWS

Local university starts October with pride parade and festival By Dylan Bouscher

ene Perez was marching down a sidewalk on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca campus.

He was chanting: “Stomp on homophobia!” The 19-year-old Spanish major was surrounded by members of Lambda United — the university’s gay/straight alliance — when the club kicked off LGBT History Month with a parade. Some waved rainbow flags, others held signs and yelled, “We’re queer with no fear.” It was 11:30 a.m. when the group started marching from the student union to the center of the Boca campus, where they set up tables with free food, music, condom key chains, dental dams, lubricant, equality stickers, and, of course, rubber ducks and beads. “This is our history. Let’s celebrate it,” Perez said.

Hundreds of students flowed in and out of the “mini pridefest,” as Dani Guevara, Lambda’s president and a psychology major at FAU described it on the group’s facebook page. Emily Calfo — the university’s LGBTQA Resource Center specialist — helped organize this year’s pridefest. “I got all the vendors here,” Calfo said. “It’s been amazing.” This was the second annual history month kickoff, but last year’s lacked the music, food and dancing. “We had a kickoff, but it was different,” Calfo said. “We’re trying to have a tradition of starting a pridefest every year.” Last year, students and administrators spoke about the university’s antidiscrimination policy, which didn’t protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders back then. Now transgenders are the only group still unprotected.

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“There’s a lot of work we need to do,” Guevara said. And Bri Sgro, English major and the founder of FAU’s newest women’s club — Women Organizing Women — agrees. “It makes me feel a little ashamed,” Sgro, 20, said. “We always boast about how diverse we are, but we’ve still got a long way to go here at FAU.” Sgro is referring to the university’s ranking as the 27th most diverse campus in the nation, according to this year’s U.S. News and World Report. Meanwhile in the center of the plaza where the kickoff was held, Rene Perez danced for over an hour before Dani Guevara joined in for a few minutes. “Homophobia, we step on it,” Perez said. “That’s how we do it here.” “We’re going to keep fighting until we get it,” Guevara said.

Photo By Ryan Murphy

History Month Kicks Off at FAU

rené perez, a sophomore spanish major, dances to the music provided by owl radio at wednesday’s lgbtqa history month kick-off.

PASSAGES

Local Real Estate Agent and Community Activist Dies By SFGN Staff

33304. The Pride Center at Equality Park posted this message on Carpenter’s Facebook page: “The Pride Center is deeply saddened to learn that we have lost one of our long time community leaders. Jan was the beloved partner to Dale Russell, former Board President. Jan also served as the Project Manager for the Center in 2009 during our transition from the Andrews Avenue location to the Dixie Highway campus. Jan was very skilled in project management and our community benefitted greatly from his expertise and generosity. Jan was involved in several organizations in the area and will be missed. Our thoughts go out to Dale during his time of loss.” Photo Courtesy of FaceBook

ocal real estate agent Jan Carpenter suddenly passed away last week from a heart attack. He was 63. He worked for Atlantic Properties with his long time partner Dale Russell. There will be a Sunday Champagne Celebration honoring his life 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Pride Center at Equality Park, 2040 N. Dixie Hwy in Wilton Manors. Please RSVP to Deemart25@yahoo.com by Oct. 24. At the event there will also be a microphone for those wanting to speak. Carpenter’s partner Russell and the Bears of South Florida have already introduced The Jan Carpenter Memorial Fund, in his honor. A press release announcing the new organization reads: “Philanthropy was a very important part of Jan Carpenter’s life. He served on Boards of Non Profit Organizations, most recently serving as Vice President of The Bears of South Florida, a local charity that raises funds to donate to other local LGBT charities.” People are being asked to donate to this new Fund and then each year a donation will be made to a local LGBT charity in the name of Jan Carpenter. Checks can be sent to the Bears of South Florida notating the Jan Carpenter Fund in the memo line. Mail to BOSFL at 1170 N. Federal Hwy., #401 Fort Lauderdale, FL

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LOCAL NEWS

Broward House Announces Red Ribbon Award Honorees By SFGN Staff

roward House, South Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS community service organization announced the list of recipients who will be honored Wednesday, October 31 during a luncheon at the Hyatt Regecy Pier 66 as part of the annual South Florida Red Ribbon Awards. This year’s honorees include: •George Castrataro – Community Activist and Attorney •Carol Moran – Business Owner and Community Activist •Susan Renneisen – Vice President Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino •Jasmin Shirley – Vice President of Community Health Services, Broward Health •Dean Trantalis – Former Ft. Lauderdale

Vice Mayor, Community Activist and Attorney Director of Development and Public Relations for the Broward House, Terry DeCarlo, said in a prepared statement. “We are very happy to have such a distinguished list of individuals this year. All of these individuals have gone above and beyond in their efforts to secure the lives of those in South Florida living with or at risk for HIV/ AIDS and we are proud to recognize their efforts” The Awards Luncheon will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will consist of a three course gourmet lunch, a pre–lunch meet and greet, a silent auction, and a special guest speaker. Tickets are $40 per seat, and named tables of 10 are available. Visit BrowardHouse.org/ ribbon.html

Carol Moran. Owner of New Moon

George Castrataro, Lawyer/Activist

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Dean Trantalis. Lawyer/Activist

LOCAL NEWS

United They Stand

Pride South Florida Forms Partnership With Stonewall Summer Pride By Jason Parsley

or the first time Pride South Florida and Stonewall Summer Pride, in conjunction with the Rainbow Business Coalition of Greater Fort Lauderdale have decided to form a partnership called Pride United of Broward. “We are very excited about working with Pride South Florida. Working together on projects and events we can bring a

of Pride South Florida went on to say: “We have so much more to celebrate and remember beyond the Stonewall Riots, like the repeal of DADT, our ability to now adopt here in Florida, Marriage in some states, yet we still have so much further to go. I sometimes feel like the old man in the community when I say that the LGBT youth sometimes takes for granted the “Freedom” of walking hand-in-hand with their partner down Wilton Drive. They don’t realize the difficulties the LGBT community has had to endure to get this far. The challenge today for us all is to walk any Main Street in America hand in hand, like any loving couple, without fear of being physically attacked or verbally abused. If we would ALL just come together like Pride South Florida and Stonewall Summer Pride are in the process of doing, then our community would be an unstoppable force.” More joint events will be planned in the future.

unified voice that has been long absent in pride organizations in Broward County,” said Greg Hardy board member of Stonewall and The Rainbow Business Coalition. Their first joint venture took place this weekend at Oktoberfest in Oakland Park. Marc Hansen, president

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LOCAL NEWS

Betty James - After Three Husbands She Figured it Out By Donald Cavanaugh

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e sure to tell the folk that read your paper that the church (MCC of the Palm Beaches) has more love and generosity than any place else I know,” said 85-year old Betty James at the end of her interview. “They visit me and help me when I need it. They’re really my family.” Betty James knows family. The oldest of seven children of tobacco farming sharecroppers in Horry [pronounced Orr ee] County, SC, James married at 16 “to get out of that place as fast and far as I could.” But she never lost touch with her parents and over the years she worked to help her siblings get out of Horry, too. “Mostly I was close to my mother,” she said. “Daddy had issues with alcohol and could be really mean sometimes, but my

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met and fell in love with Linda Porter with whom she lived with for several years. “That let me know that I was a lesbian for sure,” she said. That was also when she came out to her siblings. “I was 55 years old,” she said. My father was dead so he never knew and my family kept it from my mother so she never knew, either.” When the Crane’s Nest lost its lease she opened Adam’s Attic on Dixie Avenue in West Palm Beach. Operating both bars gave her insight into the dark under belly of gay life with all the kids who’d come to the door seeking a hand out or other assistance. “There were lots of kids on the streets. It was sad,” she said. “We also did a lot of fund raising when AIDS hit us. We worked a lot with CAP which was just down the street.” She then closed the Attic and semi retired, taking up flea market sales. She bought her home in the tiny town of Cloud Lake where she settled in as an open lesbian. The town is located just west of I-95 on Southern Blvd. It’s only .1 square miles, and with only 135 residents it’s Palm Beach County’s smallest municipality. After the mayor of Cloud Lake resigned with 7 months left, James was invited to serve out his term. She subsequently served from 2007 to 2011 when she had Cloud Lake Florida Mayor Betty James with Mark Foley at a 2011 to resign due to ill health. Christmas party see more photos at sfgn.com/photos During her tenure, she was mother and I were close until she died.” the oldest elected official in the state and the James and her husband moved to Brooklyn, first openly gay elected official in Palm Beach NY where she became a cocktail waitress in County. order to “make a lot of money fast.” She met For the last 20 years she has been in a her second husband in Brooklyn and they relationship with Judy Tarlowe although adopted a son and bought a couple of houses they no longer live together. “She had to together. move away to take care of her elderly mother That marriage ended when James took and she just never came back, but we’re still her son and moved to Florida leaving her a couple,” James said. “She comes to visit and husband asleep in his bed. “Well, he said he we’re very close. didn’t want to move to Florida and I told him Although James attended the 1981 opening I was going. And I did,” she said, matter-of- of the MCC in 1981, she has only been factly. regularly attending services for the past She married her third husband in Florida dozen years or so. and bought a hotel on Southern Boulevard in “It takes a while to get back to church West Palm Beach. When that marriage ended, when you’ve been mistreated at the hands she got the hotel and he got the house. of the religious,” she said. “Like so many of She sold the hotel and opened a lesbian us have been. But this is a good church to bar called the Crane’s Nest where she also choose. We welcome all.”

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LOCAL NEWS

Reverse Quincinera Photo and Story By Steven Shires

ulian Cavazos and SunServe hosted the inaugural Reverse Quincinera Pageant and show on September 29 to benefit SunServe. The event was so named as this was the celebration of Julian’s 51 birthday. Attendees were treated to a show that was tongue-in-cheek all quincinera. Mexican décor filled the room and a silent auction was amazing. “I was thrilled to be able to have so much fun with so many friends and raise money for an amazing organization,” said Julian Cavazos. Over 200 people attended the sold out event and dates have already been placed on next year’s calendar. Be sure to look out for the Sept. 28 event next year, and again all proceeds will benefit SunServe and the extensive work they do with LQBT Youth, those in need of mental health and all

SunServe holds fundraising birthday

seniors through outreach and day care. Making the performance a success were Julian Cavazos, Geph Scarr, Kip Reynolds, David Cook, Michael Papandrea, Chris Caputo, John Gugliemi, Chris Caputo, Michael Wilson, Michael Faerber, Don Donahue, and Chad Thilborger. The winner of the pageant was Miss Allota Pinata — she will be a host for next year’s event, as well. “It is because of the generosity and creativity of people like Julian that this event could be such a success,” said Chad Thilborger, SunServe’s director for institutional advancement. “The overwhelming generosity from such a wide swath of the community is truly inspirational and makes me proud to work for SunServe.” reverse quincinera, or a

51st birthday party for julian cavazos — another successful party with SunServe.

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in the workplace, in the media, and in the courtroom. There are a lot of battles that still need to be fought, but it’s okay now for those of us who have been in the thick of the cultural war for most of our lives to stop, look around, and say, “Well done.” High fives for all of the gay senior citizens and our allies who endured the full wrath of an uneducated public in order to enable a kid from Grand Blanc to marry his male soul mate and have it announced in the New York Times. And it’s not just heterosexual attitudes toward gay people that have changed. So, too, have the attitudes of gay people toward ourselves and toward our heterosexual neighbors and colleagues at work. We’re happier and healthier, and we trust straight

The Last Gasp of Homophobia

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friends visit and decide to stay. The T-shirt shops have been replaced by those of Marc Jacobs and John Derian. There’s still salt water taffy, but high end restaurants are more the scene. Additionally, Provincetown is no longer one of the few places that LGBT people feel safe and valued. We can go to half the states in the country and know that our civil rights are protected. Many major cities advertise in our community By Brian McNaught periodicals urging us to come and vacation there. I haven’t yet seen an ad for Grand hile on a ferry from Fire We have, needless to say, come a long, long Blanc, but one of these days I might. Island last summer, I met a way in my lifetime. While I worked hard Feeling the new freedom to be in the very happy, proud, young, with many others to make this day happen, I world in a more relaxed and natural way, gay man from Grand Blanc, didn’t imagine we would ever actually see it. Ray and I are moving our summer residence Michigan. To understand my excitement Regrettably, many of my friends didn’t live to Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks, and in learning that we lived in the same place long enough to do so. intend to become active in the building during our childhood, you need to envision When the Pope and the President of Iran of that struggling town’s me as a terribly confused, community. While I’ve shameful, gay youngster going offered to do free training on through puberty in what LGBT issues at the schools, was then an impoverished police stations, and among countryside, chasing goats hospital personnel, what and sheep, and secretly really excites me is helping hoping that the older kid bring back the movie theater who lived with his mom in and train station. I want to the trailer in the woods might sit in the diner with local initiate me into male intimacy. people who are struggling Located between Flint and to rejuvenate their town so Detroit, Grand Blanc had yet that their children don’t feel to become the wealthy town forced to leave in order to it is now, and, of course, I find work. I want to find out assumed I was the only boy from them what I can do. in the world who had pictures For the first time in nearly of nearly naked wrestlers on 40 years, my life efforts the walls of his bedroom. The don’t need to be gay- and name Grand Blanc conjures up transgender-related, and I a treasure trove of feelings of needn’t worry about being youthful preoccupation with harassed for being gay. Most my sexuality. gay and transgender people The twenty-something, who have chosen to be gay man from Grand Blanc happy can tell similar stories was with his boyfriend on about how their focus in He then added: “Marriage and the family are Pope Benedict XVI and President Mahmoud something ugly, and others do not accept your the ferry, returning from the Ahmadinejad of Iran may be of different cultures institutions that must be promoted and defended behavior, that they’re denying your freedom? If a life is changing. We can be wedding I had officiated. and faiths, but they stand united one issue: gay from every possible misrepresentation of their group recognizes an ugly behavior or ugly deed as The Pope recently told French Bishops they true nature, since whatever is injurious to them legitimate, you must not expect other countries or less cautious, suspicious, and When we discovered where we rights. must resist gay marriage as it “threatens” society. is injurious to society itself.” While President other groups to give it the same recognition.” defensive. were both from, we excitedly He implied gay people aren’t fully developed human Ahmadinejad recently told Piers Morgan: “Do see more photos at sfgn.com/photos I’ll continue my work you believe that anyone is giving birth through beings. He also said: “The family is threatened asked each other about people in many places by a faulty conception of human homosexuality? Homosexuality ceases procreation. with the Stonewall National and places, such as Fr. Bush at nature.” Who has said that if you like or believe in doing Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Holy Family Church, Warwick people more than ever before. seeking to find, preserve, and tell the stories Hills, and Peter Dam. Peter was my boy say the same thing about homosexuality, and For the past twenty years, Ray and I of our community’s history and culture. I crush. He was handsome, funny, smart, and the pockets of oppression against gay people have spent our summers in Provincetown, want the children that may be raised by the also Catholic, and we had sleep-overs during are located in the most uneducated areas Massachusetts, the last sixteen of which gay guy from Grand Blanc to understand which I lay awake much of the night. This of the world, you know that homophobia were in our own home in the West End, next how we got to where we are. But it feels young man knew the whole Dam family, but is gasping for air. That is not to say that to Captain Jack’s Wharf, where Tennessee very good to know that it’s okay to relax. he didn’t know what happened to Peter. gay kids won’t be bullied in some places in Williams often stayed and wrote. In that Homophobia is gasping for air, and I can Last Sunday, I saw a photo of the young, North America for many years to time, we’ve seen P-Town finally breathe. gay couple in the wedding announcements come, or that it may be ‘Homophobia is change dramatically section of the New York Times. The short a while until we have from being a funky, Brian McNaught was named “the article said one of the men’s mothers lived an openly gay U.S. gasping for air, and I can seaside fishing godfather of gay diversity training” by The in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Try to compare President, but, for the finally breathe’ community in which New York Times. He works with corporate my Grand Blanc mother’s concern about most part, the cultural young, gay men spent their executives globally, is the author of six my friendship with the Protestant, older war has been won. summers four to a room, waiting tables books, and is featured in seven educational boy who lived in the trailer in the woods, That doesn’t mean that we should during the day and searching for impersonal DVDs. He and his spouse Ray Struble divide with the pride of this young man’s Grand stop working hard to create a world in sex at night, to a sophisticated, well-run their year between Ft. Lauderdale and Blanc mother seeing her son’s smiling face which every LGBT person feels safe and high-end town where lesbian and gay Provincetown. Visit Brian-McNaught.com as part of a same sex-couple fifty years later. valued at home, in school, in the churches, parents bring their children, and straight for more information.

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Opinion

‘Many Gays Will Vote for Republican Mitt Romney’ voter bloc. Despite Obama’s historical 2008 election as the first African-American President, one-out-of-three Gays voted for John McCain, according to the venerable New York Times post-campaign analysis. The same proportion of Gays voted Tea Party/ Republican in the 2010 mid-term elections that helped the GOP win the most-ever House seats in the history of mid-term elections. Consequently, Gay Republicans are likely to flex their growing political muscles in 2012, and possibly approach 40 percent of Gay American ballots cast for Mitt Romney in the Presidential race. This should be of no surprise to astute electoral demographic observers who study exit polling. After all, many Gays were loyal Republicans during the Nixon, Reagan, George H. W. Bush Administrations, and the Gingrich Congress when slightly over 40 percent voted with the GOP -- a stunning rebuke by unservile Gay Republican voters to the Gay Media and leftist Ruling Class dominated by Far Left editorial and news reporting; and such supposedly revered groups as the Human Rights Committee, Gay Victory Fund and ACT-UP -- who assume complete thought control and hegemony of everyone in LGBT America. The reason for such independence among a large segment of Gay Republican voters is simply that they identify strongly with the pro-capitalist, small business-oriented, and investment advocating GOP. Fiscal conservatism and discomfort with the excesses of the Welfare State and the national scandal of government waste, fraud and abuse also cause many Gays to find a hospitable partisan home among Republicans. Few people in a GOP established in any metropolitan area -- among them Broward and Dade Counties, Rush Limbaugh and GOP guru Karl Rove -- completely oppose Gay people in their ranks. And most genuinely support some compromising

form of Gay marriage, i.e. Civil Unions or Domestic Partnerships; job protections, hospital visitation rights, and anti-bullying attitudes. With our current bleak economic condition causing $5 trillion in massive foreign borrowing by President Obama, the lowest number of Americans participating in the American work force and a record number of women plunged into poverty, it is difficult for many Gays to view themselves or their fellow citizens as better off than four years ago when a charismatic “Savior” was elected. And despite the glorification of the Obama coalition -- Blacks and young

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hile Gay Republicans are certainly a minority bloc, they are not an inconsequential minute

By Matthew Veritas Tsien

to Investors Business Daily. And many Americans will see their 2013 post-election income tax rate go up 30-50 percent, which means a person previously at the 10 percent rate will see their income tax rate rise to 15 percent; taxpayers at the the 20 percent rate will inherit a rise as high as the 30 percent rate -- unless President Romney and a GOP Congress can dismantle the most destructive elements of Obamacare. None of this should be a shock to Gay sensibilities. After all, US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts joined a 5-4 liberal majority decision that validated Obamacare as “a tax” -- albeit, the Harry Reid/Princess Nancy Pelosi Congress strenuously denied such GOP assertions. Obama’s “Affordable Health Care” was all a stupendous and fraudulent prevarication by the Obama Democrats. The realistic outcome of Obamacare flies in the face of the strutting 2008 Presidential candidate who relentlessly promised that he would never raise taxes “one-dime” on people making less than $250,000; and later as President, Mr. Obama said that “Obamacare” would “not cost taxpayers one

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people -- that set in motion a parting of the ocean toward the path of “Hope and Change” -- both of these groups have unemployment rates double the national average; most college students experience what home mortgage owners suffer -- massive loan debts with no job opportunities to pay them off, similar to “upside down mortgage balances. Furthermore, despite Mr. Obama’s most heralded accomplishment: “Obamacare” -health care premiums have risen $3,065.00 per American; yet Obama vowed that they would drop $2,500.00, according

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cent”. One can still hear the pulsating echo of reflexive Gay Democratic activists wildly and thoughtlessly cheering Obama’s “cool” but deceitful salesmanship, but “cool” has its limits some Gays determine. And there is another terrific 2013 postelection surprise from Obamacare that will certainly disturb most Gay soldiers and veterans. In 2013, all active duty military members and dependents, along with all military retirees, will see their co-pays, deductibles, and premiums for surgeries, drugs and appointments go up 40-300 percent, while the civilian federal work

force and retirees are totally exempt from one penny of increase. “Surprise, Surprise !!!” as Gomer Pyle used to say: the sexual orientation of a Gay soldier or veteran does not exempt one from this financial reaming. Bend over, Troops !!! What a wonderful way to reward the young combat men and women who spent the last 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not all Gay voters are pleased with this situation. In November, Gay voters are going to split into two camps that will determine which party they will vote for -- an economic rationale that compels Gays to vote Republican, and an emotional rationale that compels a majority of Gays to vote Democrat. In all likelihood, at least 60 percent of Gays will vote for Mr. Obama, yet a large minority will reject the empty promises of Big Government and the seduction of class warfare. The Gay Right minority will vote for more “Fat Cats” to exist. Ostensibly, because they know that the rich can only buy so many homes, cars and steak dinners. The Gay Right knows what the 99 percent don’t realize, that they are better off with more fat cats, not less. David Koch, of the infamous right-wing Koch Brothers who fund the Tea Party, gave $100 million for cancer research at MIT. Bill Gates, joined George W. Bush’s historical efforts, and gave $28 billion to fight AIDS and save nearly 6 million lives in Africa. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg g,ave $100 million to revitalize public education in New Jersey. The Gay Republican young man who created the PayPal credit card, also gives enormous sums to charity. And of course, Mitt Romney gave one-third of his 2011 income, or $4 million to charity -- despite accusations that he only cares about rich people. Wherever we look, Gay Republicans witness, the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college, you’ll see libraries, dormitories, faculty and buildings that are a result of the generosity of fat cats. Simply put, we will not have a revitalized, robust, and prospering middle class without the indispensablepresence of job-creating rich people. Such perspicacity is growing the Gay Republican vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, and will likely cancel out at least half the Gay votes for Mr. Obama. Matthew Veritas Tsien is the former national director of ex-President Reagan’s lobbying organization, and a member of the Broward Republican Executive Committee.

Guest Column

First Presidential Debate By Ric Reily

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Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight. Parsing Obama is a hazardous task. He is known for taking the big picture view, seeing much more of a situation than others do. Neither this debate, nor the others, will determine who wins the election; debate outcome rarely has any direct affect on the election. Perhaps his big picture here is to help Romney look better to Republicans who will spend more on him and leave the Democrats to focus resources on congressional seats. Then it didn’t really matter to me that Romney was apparently coached to be aggressive and did that regularly by interrupting the President midsentence and speaking over the moderator. Neither are characteristics of one who is familiar with negotiating and getting along. Romney was simply taking advantage of the format and weak moderator. Along with his aggressive style he continued the regular flow of myth and falsehood. Too bad I wasn’t counting. I tried hard to take a pearl of policy from

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he general consensus seems to be that Gov. Romney outperformed President Obama with his readiness and ability to challenge Obama’s policies and results. But Romney accomplished this by repeatedly deceiving. He spoke for 38 minutes and told a litany of untruths. Watching the first Presidential Debate on a split screen I started to cringe early on with Romney’s frozen smirk appearing to look at the President all the while he spoke. Not long after I found myself listening closely to the President and becoming disconcerted with Obama’s overall performance, particularly the seeming limitation of his grasp of the details he was trying to communicate. Perhaps he was not on his best game. This is not the President we all know, and he started out so nicely wishing Michelle a happy anniversary. Then the bell went off for me. He was laying back. Obama wasn’t even trying. Even though he was not a star in prior debates, he is the President today.

Romney, yet there was none to grasp. He simply will not say in definitive terms what he will do once elected past repealing Obamacare and Wall Street regulations; neither of which he can actually do as a practical matter. He is clear on his policy toward the LGBT community though that didn’t come up; as a practical matter there is much he as president can do to make gay lives miserable. Regardless of what other policies Romney would or would not implement he can not be president of all the people. He said so and Obama didn’t bring that up. Always keep some powder dry. Every good performance needs some comic relief and Romney delivered when he fired Jim Lehrer, and the Muppets; after his spiel on education I couldn’t help wonder if perhaps he doesn’t realize that PBS is educational TV. Romney is a master at telling others how they don’t fit into the plans he won’t divulge. I can’t help but smile at the response of the typical Republican press, ecstatic and apparently completely unaware of a bigger picture about to fall on their heads. Don’t forget Obama’s basketball game; he is known to goof off in the beginning and press hard in the end. Remember what he did to Hillary in 2008. Obama looked and sounded like he was holding back - like a Ferrari in a school zone with a hockey mom on its tail. At the End School Zone sign, bye bye.

barack obama stopped in terre haute, in on sept 6, 2008. he talked to wabash valley voters at the fairgrounds

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Off The Wall — Rebuttal

Veteran Speaks Up By Bruce Bant Last week I decided to republish an article from 2010 supporting President Obama as my ‘Off the Wall’ column. I received the below letter in response. And to be fair I wanted to give the other side a chance to voice their opinion. – Piero Angelo

read last week’s “Off The Wall” article with some interest and great amazement. I cannot remember a newspaper article with such hatred and bigotry. The author obviously hates everyone who doesn’t toe the line and agree with him. Disagreement isn’t necessarily a sign of “uneducated reactionary white rubes” and “evangelical gay hating flakes.” If he really believes that who, I ask, is the uneducated reactionary and the hater? I was also amazed that SFGN republished this article. Readers should keep in mind that the original piece was written in 2010 when the President and the House and the Senate were in all in Democrat hands. The article states that the right wing haters would join together to do everything they could do to stop “an uppity black man from succeeding.” Who but a left wing dunderhead would use the phrase “uppity black man.” In case everyone forgot President Obama won with 365 electoral votes and more than 69 million popular votes. There aren’t enough blacks, Hispanics and gays to get to that point. There had to be an awful lot of whitey votes involved. The article also pointed out that the country was ideologically divided into two countries. I agree with that, but I don’t hate all of folks who I didn’t agree with and I don’t hate any of them because of their political views. No one since Abraham Lincoln has done more to divide this countrythen the current president. He has pitted blacks against whites and rich against the poor. He created and promotes a group called African Americans for Obama. Explain to me how this pulls this nation together as one. Suppose Romney created a group called Caucasians for Romney. There’d be hell to pay! Obama did unite us in one way though, he proved that a black president can be every bit as inept, dishonest and dangerous as a white president. President Obama inherited the worse economic crisis since the depression. Yes

he did...and he made it worse. There was no end to the criticism of President Bush’s deficits. President Obama tripled them. No one criticizes because it wasn’t his fault. He didn’t know how bad things were. Of course he didn’t. I wouldn’t expect a neighborhood organizer to understand the workings of a national economy. As a senator, Mr. Obama stated the Bush’s deficits were unpatriotic. Based on his record over the past three years his deficits are down right treasonous! He inherited a country that water boarded terrorist prisoners. Yes he did. So he put an end to it. Now they take no prisoners, they just blow the terrorist heads off. I think if you ask any civilized person which is the most inhumane I’m betting they’d chose water boarding. The article claimed that the health in the United States is a disgrace. I disagree. But that’s one man’s opinion. Now we’re getting Obamacare. I can’t argue for or against it. Both sides make so many claims and counterclaims it’s hard to tell who, if anyone is telling the truth. We do know though that nobody is totally sure what’s in, what it’ll cost, or what it will do to the country’s health care. Conveniently it doesn’t go into effect until 2014. He did continue draw down the “misbegotten” war in Iraq and he did so on the exact schedule established by the Bush administration. In congress he voted against “the surge” that Bush requested he said it was “unwanted and unwise.” When he and his regimes took office they requested and got a “surge” for Afghanistan in almost the exact scheme requested by Bush in Iraq. In his campaign he became the first candidate to visit 57 states. He said one of the first things he would do was to close Guantanamo. One of the first things he did was to end a program that allowed poor black students to escape D.C. schools (among the most costly and least effective public school districts in the world) and attend the same school his daughters attend. He really isn’t the education president, he’s the teachers union president. He sad he wouldn’t hire lobbyist. Within a month he had 18 on staff. He said if he couldn’t improve the economy in three years he would be a one-term president. I think he got that one right! In the article it stated he restored America’s image around the world. It’s a good thing that piece wasn’t written last month. He took credit for killing Bin Laden.

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It’s true that his regime was in power when Bin Laden was killed (not water boarded) and he gave the go ahead. The search had been going on for 10 years. That’s like giving Richard Nixon credit for putting a man on the moon. It happened while he was president and he gave the go ahead. And there was “Fast and Furious.” That was a plan where the Justice Department provided Mexican drug dealers with a supply of lethal weapons to track where they ended up. Well at least one ended up killing a federal agent. Congress investigated and was told that the president and attorney general knew nothing of the plan. Congress requested more information and the administration stone walled them. When the congress threatened contempt of congress the president evoked Executive Privilege. The question is if the president and the attorney general never knew or spoke of “Fast and Furious,” how does executive privilege apply? Just asking. Let’s just talk about the past year it was very eventful. During the Bush years we were told that it was Bush and Cheney who were responsable for the rise in gas prices. Gasoline price have more than doubled during the Obama regime and now were told the president has no control over gas prices For three and a half years the president opposed gay marriage. In April, the middle of an election year, he decided gay marriage was okay. If a Republican had done the same he would be accused of flip-flopping. In any case the president’s approval and $5 will get you a nice cup of coffee at Starbucks. Marriage is a state issue, not a federal issue. Four months before the elections he finally approved an arms deal with Israel. At the same time refused to meet with the Israeli prime minister. In a carefully worded press release the president said there was never a request for a meeting in Washington. That was correct. The request was for a meeting in New York at the United Nations. Two years ago he said he was unable to do anything on the “Dream Act” until the congress acted. Five months before the election he went ahead with the Dream Act provisions without the congress’s approval. Dangerous! The regime requested funds to buy a newly completed, vacant prison in Illinois. The congress denied the request. On October 2nd, the Justice Department bought said prison for $165 million ignoring congressional concerns. Dangerous! The man is dangerous. Recently he signed into law a bill that allows U.S. citizens to be arrested and held indefinitely without the knowledge of family, friends or the benefit of an attorney. Dangerous! Last month some of our “Arab Spring “ friends in the Middle East had a field day attacking our embassies. In Libya, where we were instrumental in toppling the previous government, it was extremely bad. The

consulate in Benghazi was burned and four Americans, including the ambassador were killed. Within hours everyone in the intelligence community knew it was a terrorist attack. Obama and his lackeys for almost two weeks denied it. I ask you, was it ineptitude or dishonesty? He has no respect for congress and very little respect for the constitution. He made recess appointments when there’s no congressional recess. His friend Harry Read, Senate Majority Leader and a Mormon lets him get away with it setting a terrible precedence. He doesn’t like the constitution because in general it tells government what it can’t do. Dangerous! I saved the best for last. For most of President Obama’s the unemployment rate has been over 8 percent. Miraculously, a month before the election the rate dips to 7.8 percent. This happened in spite of the fact the that we only added 114,000 new jobs. It truly is a miracle...or is it as my Jewish friends would say “Chutzpah!” Bruce Bant is a retired Army Sergeant Major with 22 years of service, including nearly four years in Vietnam. His final assignment before leaving the Army in 1980 was with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars, The Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service medal, three Joint Service Commendation medals, and four Army Commendation Medals.

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How to Vote

LGBT in Florida United States Palm Beach Human Rights Campaign

U.S. House of Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (District 20)

President Barack Obama

U.S. House of Representatives Joe Garcia (District 26)

U.S. Congress (District 18) Patrick Murphy U.S. Congress (District 20) Alcee Hastings

Tri County LGBT groups give their endorsements By Gideon Grudo

ome are allies and some are LGBT. The common denominator among the candidates we’re listing is their endorsement by major LGBT advocacy in Florida. The endorsements come from the Palm Beach Human Rights Campaign, the Equality Forum Action PAC, and SAVE Dade. PBHRC focuses most of its efforts on Palm Beach County, while SAVE Dade focuses its energies within Miami-Dade. Equality Florida is a state-wide organization. All together, their endorsements give a good

picture of LGBT-supported candidates in Florida (and nationally) as the Nov. 6 election draws nearer. We’ve broken up the endorsements into South Florida’s position (see South Florida), the national positions (see United States), state-wide positions (see Florida State), and positions in local Florida provinces outside of South Florida (see the side bar). Under each geographical designation are endorsements denoted by the group that made them.

Palm Beach County Commissioner (District 5) Mary Lou Berger

Broward County School Board At Large (9) Robin Bartleman

Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District (Group 2) . Drew Martin

Broward County Commission (3) Stacy Ritter

Retain Florida Supreme Court Justices: R. Fred Lewis - YES Barbara J. Pariente - YES Peggy Quince – YES

Miami-Dade County Commission (3) Audrey Edmonson Broward County Commission (7) Tim Ryan

U.S. House of Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (District 27) U.S. Congress (District 22) Lois Frankel

SAVE Dade President Barack Obama

Broward County School Board-At-Large (8) Franklin Sands

U.S. Congress (District 21) Ted Deutch

U.S. Senate Bill Nelson

Palm Beach County Commissioner (District 1) David J. Levy Palm Beach County Commissioner (District 3)Rochelle “Shelley” Vana

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SAVE Dade Miami-Dade County Commission (5) Bruno Barreiro & Luis Garcia *Double endorsement

South Florida Palm Beach Human Rights Campaign

Miami Dade County Commission (5) Luis Garcia

Miami Dade County Commission (3) Audrey Edmonson

Miami-Dade County Court Judge Greer Wallace Katherine Leach Broward County School Board (District 4) Shelly Solomon

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Florida State Palm Beach Human Rights Campaign

State Senate (District 25) Joseph Abruzzo

ELECTIO State House of Representatives (District 91) Irving “Irv” Slosberg

State House of Representatives (District 49) Joe Saunders

State House of Representatives (District 68) Dwight Dudley

Equality Florida Action PAC

State House of Representatives (District 53) John Paul Alvarez

State House of Representatives (District 69) Joshua Shulman

State House of Representatives (District 63) Mark Danish

State House of Representatives (District 86) Mark Pafford

State Senate (District 8) Frank Bruno State Senate (District 9) Audrey Gibson State Senate (District 12) Geraldine Thompson

State House of Representatives (District 81) Kevin Rader State House of Representatives (District 85) David Lutrin State House of Representatives (District 86) Mark S. Pafford

Senate State (District 27) Jeff Clemens Senate State District 33 Eleanor Sobel Senate State District 34 Maria Sachs Senate State District 35 Gwen Margolis

State House of Representatives (District 90) Lori Berman

State House of Representatives (District 89) Bill Hager (R)

State Attorney Dave Aronberg

Senate State District 39 Dwight Bullard

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Gay Marriage Elsewhere Thirty-one states have banned gay marriage. Six states have legalized it including Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont as well as the District of Columbia.

What the Polls Say Six different national polls taken this year have shown more than 50 percent of Americans now believe gays and lesbians should have the right to wed.

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State House of Representatives (District 98) Katie Edwards

State House of Representatives (District 102) Sharon Pritchett

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State House of Representatives (District 104) Richard Stark

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State House of Representatives (District 112) Jose Javier Rodriquez

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State House of Representatives (District 120) Ian Whitney SAVE Dade State House of Representatives (District 120) Ian Whitney

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Florida

State House of Representatives (District 117) Kionne McGhee

In February of this year, Maryland signed a bill into law leaglizing gay marriage. Opponents, though, gathered enough signatures to place referendum Question 6 on the ballot, leaving it up to the voters.

State House of Representatives (District 35) Gwen Margolis State House of Representatives (District 39) Dwight Bullard State House of Representatives (District 112) Jose Javier Rodriguez State House of Representatives (District 115) Jeffrey solomon

Districts Outside of South Florida Equality Florida Action PAC Alachua County School Board (District 4) Leanetta McNealy Alachua County Commission (1) Mike Byerly Alachua County Commission (3) Robert Hutchinson Alachua County Commission 5 Charles Chestnut Hillsborough County School Board (District 7) Carol Kurdell Hillsborough County Commission (6) Kevin Beckner Leon County Commission At Large (1) Akin Akinyemi Brevard County Commission (3) Joe Pishgar Sarasota County Commission (3) Jennifer Cohen North Port City Commission (3) Rhonda DiFranco Volusia County Council (2) Josh Wagner Pinellas County Commission (District 3) Charlie Justice Tallahassee City Commission (2) Andrew Gillium Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demmings Orange County Commission (3) Lui Daminani

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ChamberChat Monthly Column From The MDGLCC

LGBT Visitor Center Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary By Karen Brown

he LGBT Visitor Center (Sponsored by MetLife) located at 1130 Washington Avenue is proud to be celebrating its 2nd Year Anniversary this month. The Visitor Center has grown to become the epicenter for the LGBT community serving visitors and locals alike. Many community organizations have used the facility for meetings, training and receptions including: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Aqua Foundation, Miami Beach Pride, The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, YES Institute and many others. Most recently the Miami Center for International Visitors utilized our space for LGBT Human Rights activist panels bringing in representatives from 9 countries in Latin America. The tours and attractions section has expanded and offers

all kinds of entertaining activities to do while in town and the Center also welcomed a new art installation as part of “Art at the Center”, featuring Latino LGBT Artists with mixed media pieces. A portion of sale proceeds will go to support the Visitor Center. In just 2 years, the Center has gone from a venue geared toward tourists to an inclusive community type hub serving a wide variety of consumers and interests. During this period the LGBT VC got its very own website, www.GoGayMiami.com that also includes a community events calendar to help those planning trips to our area as well as a go to spot for locals. All non profits are encouraged to contact the center so that they can contribute to this active calendar resource for events.

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The Office Depot Foundation, Best Buy and the MDGLCC completed its strategic partnership with the Office Depot Foundation’s successful “Sack Packs for Kids” program. The LGBT Visitor Center became an assembly line operation filling up the sack packs with valuable supplies for needy kids. The completed sack packs are currently being presented to Miami-Dade Public Schools. There is so much history already packed in the first 2 years of existence but we see so much potential for growth, so it is with great excitement that we announce the 2012/2013 Annual Giving Program for the LGBT Visitor Center (Sponsored by MetLife). What started out as the vision of a few people has now become a destination for tens of thousands of individuals in Miami.

The LGBT Visitor Center will launch its campaign in October in an effort to further strengthen and solidify the programs and offerings of this unique and special place. Your contribution in support of the LGBT Visitor/Community Center through the MDGLCC Foundation will be tax deductable to the full extent of the law. Any contribution received will help to ensure this safe space continues to act as a resource for the many incredible organizations that we work with. For more information on the above mentioned initiatives, on the LGBT Visitor Center activities and programs or to become a donor member of the MDGLCC please contact us at 305-397-8914, karen@ gogaymiami.com or www.gogaymiami.com

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commitment ceremonies. In 2010, Hawaii became the seventh U.S. state to legalize civil unions. The amazing coastline is one of the main reasons to visit Maui and Little Beach is the most popular gay beach on the island. You’ll find this nude beach in Makena State Park, South of Wailea at the end of Wailea Alanui Road. You’ll have to walk past the Big Beach and over the lava-flow trail to get there. It’s a great place to meet and greet the local gay set and gay tourists from all points. After a day of fun in the sun, you’ll want to experience the local gay nightlife. Don’t expect to a wide variety of dance clubs and other gay venues like you’d find in Honolulu, but you’ll definitely have a great time. One of the most popular bars for gays and lesbians on the island is Ambrosia. Named by Maui Time Weekly as best bar (two years in a row), Ambrosia offers daily entertainment and eclectic décor. If you want to try some exotic local drinks, you’ll fall in love with Ambrosia. Their wide varieties of specialty martinis are extremely popular and are the perfect way to cap off an adventurepacked day. There are also great drink specials and a happy hour every night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Betty’s Beach Café is also a great place to eat, drink and be Mary! Their Sunday brunch is out of this world, featuring amazing omelets, egg scrambles and signature cocktails. No trip to this tropical venue would be complete without trying one of their “Betty” drinks. From the Bettie Paige (red wine, peach schnapps and pineapple) to the Betty Rubble (a Blue-beri Hawaiian), there’s truly a vice for everyone. Happy hour is always a blast at Betty’s. Every afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. enjoy $3 Mai Tais and $4 Longboard Kona Beers.

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’m not much of a sports fan. I grew in a sex marriage, he wrote a blog titled “Same Big Ten Midwest college where most fall Sex Marriages: What’s the Big Deal?” for Saturdays we hiked out to the University the Huffington Post. Although some of his football stadium to cheer on the home teammates avoided him after that, he was team. I also played sports in high school- always willing to have an open and honest -that’s what you did growing up in central conversation with his teammates about the Illinois. But after I left the Midwest and issue. started to come out, I lost interest in sports, His support of same-sex marriage, particularly professional sports. It seemed however, became a bigger public issue money and media trumped sportsmanship when earlier this year, now playing for the and team playing. And besides, I found the Baltimore Ravens, he filmed and posted hyper-masculine, heterosexual, steroidal, a YouTube video endorsing a Maryland testosterone-driven culture too laughable to ballot referendum enacting a state sametake seriously. sex marriage law. He also wrote op-eds and But recently I found myself paying appeared in ads in favor of the measure. attention to some sport stories that seemed His public support irritated Emmett C. to turn my ideas about professional sports on Burns Jr., an African American minister and their head. Maryland state delegate. A major opponent The first involves 6’1”, 238-pound NFL of the same-sex marriage initiative and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon a Raven’s fan, Burns wrote a letter in late Ayanbadejo. Before the Ravens, he played for August to Ravens’ owner Steve Bisciotti. the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins and He insisted, “that you take the necessary went to the Pro Bowl three times. Born action, as a National Football Franchise in Chicago to a Nigerian Owner, to inhibit such father and an Irishexpressions from your “Differences American mother, and that didn’t matter, because we employee he spent his early [Ayanbadejo] be years growing up ordered to cease and all had struggles” in a drug-infested desist such injurious housing project in Chicago. actions.” His parents separated and his mother took Both owner Bisciotti and NFL Players him, his sister and his brother Obefemi Assn. President Domonique Foxworth (also later a pro-football player) to live in publically rejected Burns request with strong California. statements of support of Ayanbadejo’s right From a very early age, as a bi-racial child, to speak his mind on public issues. Ayanbadejo was very aware of the struggles Here the story could have ended, maybe of the people around him. not a big score for same-sex marriage, but at His family settled in Santa Cruz where least a solid hit for free speech. he went to high school and starred on the But now it gets better. The publicity about football team. Ayanbadejo and Burns caught the attention However, he wasn’t the typical high school Chris Kluwe, a Minnesota Vikings punter jock. He acted in theater, skateboarded and with prom king good looks. He also had a gay befriended many of the openly gay students. brother-in-law. On the sports blog Deadspin, He was a star linebacker at UCLA. But, he posted an open letter to Burns. This was while there, he also got involved in a number no polite, respectful, “I beg to differ with of social causes. He worked to publicize you” response. Giving vent to all the bottledhow the passage, in 1998, of California’s up aggression that all punters feel, Kluwe anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 ripped Burns a new one. decreased the number of minority students Regarding Burns’ dismissal of Ayanbadejo’s at California’s universities. First Amendment rights: “It baffles me that Although Ayanbadejo pursued his a man such as yourself, a man who relies professional football career after college, on that same First Amendment to pursue he never stepped back from his concern for your own religious studies without fear of social causes. He created something of a persecution from the state, could somehow minor flurry in 2009 when, frustrated with justify stifling another person’s right to President Obama’s hesitation about same- speech. To call that hypocritical would be

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know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayanbadejo is doing’ and shove it in your close-minded, totally lacking in empathy piehole and choke on it. Asshole.” The letter went viral, but because of its raw language, most news outlets could only paraphrase it. Nonetheless both Ayanbadejo and Kluwe received massive support. The New York Times ran two major stories on the incident, highlighting Ayanbadejo’s continuing strong support for same-sex marriage and the changing culture of the NFL. Now there were no jokes in the Baltimore locker room. “A bunch of my teammates were men about it, and they had real, honest conversations with me,” Ayanbadejo said. “That had never happened before.” Kluwe received over 6,000 votes of support on his Twitter account and was interviewed Photo Courtesy of Keith Allison

to do a disservice to the word. Mindfucking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit.” In his letter to Bisciottie, Burns claimed that “Many of your (Raven) fans are opposed to such a view (in support of same-sex marriage) and feel it has no place in a sport that is strictly for pride, entertainment, and excitement.” Kluwe responded: “ Holy fucking shitballs. Did you seriously just say that, as someone who’s ‘deeply involved in government task forces on the legacy of slavery in Maryland’? Have you not heard of Kenny Washington? Jackie Robinson? As recently as 1962 the NFL still had segregation, which was only done away with by brave athletes and coaches daring to speak their mind and do the right thing, and you’re going to say that political views have ‘no place in a sport?’ I can’t even begin to fathom the mental gymnastics your brain has to tortuously contort itself through to make such a preposterous statement are surely worthy of an Olympic gold medal (the Russian judge gives you a 10 for ‘beautiful oppressionism’). And finally Kluwe targets the real issue behind Burns’ letter: “How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you’ll start thinking about penis? ‘Oh shit. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!’… I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won’t come into your house and steal your children. They won’t magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won’t even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights… You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?” In closing: “I hope this letter, in some small way, causes you to reflect upon the magnitude of the colossal foot in mouth clusterfuck you so brazenly unleashed on a man whose only crime was speaking out for something he believed in. Best of luck in the next election; I’m fairly certain you might need it.” “P.S. I’ve also been vocal as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you can take your ‘I

which works to ensure athletes are treated the same regardless of sexual orientation, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In addition he will join in an educational outreach program to promote tolerance based on sexual orientation. Also Kevin McClatchy who, at the age of 33 in 1996 became the youngest owner of a major league baseball team (the Pittsburgh Pirates), came out of the closet. From 1996 to 2007, as the Pirate’s CEO, he was the public face of the team. However, in 2007, he stepped back and just a few weeks ago gave a tell-all interview to the New York Times. “I’m sure people will criticize me because I came out later, and I should have come out while I was in baseball and in the thick of it.” But, he continued, “there’s no way I want to go into the rest of my existence and ever have to hide my personal life again.” It seems that the hard homophobic, heterosexist shell of professional sports has cracked. Now we wait and see what (and who) comes out. I think I’ll start watching Monday Night Football again. For a timeline of LGBT progress in sports see: http://bit.ly/Th4HF2 Fred Fejes is Director of the Broward County LGBT Community History Project. He is a Professor at Florida Atlantic University and author of Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America’s Debate on Homosexuality.

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on MSNBC. On the other hand, Delegate Burns quickly beat a fast retreat with his tail between his legs, telling reporters, “Upon reflection, he has his First Amendment rights. And I have my First Amendment rights. … Each of us has the right to speak our opinions. The football player and I have a right to speak our minds.” And these changes are not only occurring in football. In the last few weeks there were some eye-opening stories from professional baseball. Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar received a three game suspension for wearing eyeblack tape during a recent game on which he had written a gay slur in Spanish. The suspension will cost him $83,000, to be contributed to the You Can Play project (www.youcanplayproject.org),

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Jean Paul Gaultier

Fashion Designer 1952- “What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive?”

ean Paul Gaultier is a world-renowned French fashion designer best known for his avant-garde and haute couture designs. He redefined traditional Parisian elegance. Gaultier grew up in Arcueil, France. “I was a lonely child,” he says. “One day I decided my teddy looked forlorn and ugly so I made him a corset.” At 13, he designed a collection for his mother and grandmother. As a teen, Gaultier sent sketches to Paris designer Pierre Cardin and was hired as his design assistant. Gaultier worked for many French design houses, including the House of Patou. After his designs were published in Mode Internationale, Gaultier started his own company and became the second designer in three decades to create couture under his own label. In his late 20’s, he became famous for his fusion of classic fashion and unconventional elements. He earned the name “enfant terrible” for his provocative designs. After noticing that couture designers hid female curves, Gaultier reinvented the corset as an outerwear piece presenting breasts as an object of feminine power. On her Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna exclusively wore Gaultier designs, including the iconic torpedo bra. In the 1980’s, Gaultier broke fashion stereotypes by featuring transgender, pierced and tattooed models. “There are different kinds of beauty,” he said, “and I always try to show that.” He challenged traditional gender roles by creating skirts, corsets and tutus for men. For one controversial show, female models smoked pipes while men wore transparent lace skirts. He worked as creative director for Hermès and designed costumes for films such as “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” (1989), “Kika” (1993) and “The Fifth Element” (1997). In 1995, Gaultier received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stockholm Film Festival. In 1987, Gaultier won the French Designer of the Year award and earned the title of Chevalier, one of France’s highest honors. In 2011, he received the Globe de Cristal for Best Fashion Designer.

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Marlene Dietrich

Actress 1962- “It was the job I was born into. I didn’t have an actor’s personality, it’s just what I did.”

Actress 1901-1992 “Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade”

arlene Dietrich was a movie star and cabaret singer who appeared in dozens of films during Hollywood’s Golden Age. She was one of the highest paid actresses of her time. Born Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Berlin, Germany, she was the younger of two daughters in a well-to-do family. In her mid-teens, Dietrich studied acting. In the early 1920’s, she began her career in cinema and met her future husband Rudolf Sieber. Dietrich remained married to Sieber for more than 50 years. During the marriage she had a series of affairs with famous men and women. Her breakout role was as sultry cabaret singer Lola Lola in the German film “The Blue Angel” (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg. Dietrich and von Sternberg moved to Hollywood, where he directed her in six films. For their first collaboration, “Morocco” (1930), Dietrich earned an Oscar nomination. She played a singer dressed in a man’s tuxedo and top hat who kisses a female audience member on the lips. Among Dietrich’s most memorable films are “Desire” (1936), co-starring Gary Copper; “Destry Rides Again” (1939), which showcased her comedic talent; “Witness for the Prosecution (1957), her top box office hit; and “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), her final motion picture. Dietrich became an American citizen in 1937 and performed for Allied troops during World War II. In 1947, she was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom, which she called her proudest accomplishment. As her film career waned, she found success for nearly 20 years as a cabaret singer. Collaborating with musical arranger Burt Bacharach, Dietrich turned her nightclub act into a theatrical onewoman show. Dietrich and Bacharach recorded four albums and several singles. In 1967, she performed her show on Broadway and received a Special Tony Award. In 1975, after a series of onstage falls and injuries, Dietrich retired from show business. She spent the final decade of her life in Paris, secluded and bedridden.

odie Foster is a celebrated actor, director and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Foster was born in Los Angeles, the youngest child of a film producer and an Air Force officer. Her parents divorced before she was born. Foster’s career began at age 3 in a Coppertone commercial. As a child, she appeared in dozens of commercials and television series, including as a co-star in “Paper Moon.” Her breakout role was as a teenage prostitute in “Taxi Driver” (1976), for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In 1980, Foster enrolled at Yale University. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in literature. While at Yale, she was stalked by John Hinckley, an obsessed fan who shot President Reagan and said he did so to impress her. Foster won her first Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in “The Accused” (1988). She earned her second Oscar and another Golden Globe Award for “Silence of the Lambs” (1991), her first blockbuster film. That same year, she made her directorial debut with “Little Man Tate,” in which she co-starred. In 1995, she directed “Home for the Holidays.” Foster has appeared in more than 40 films, including “Maverick” (1994), “Nell” (1994), “Contact” (1997), “The Panic Room” (2002), “Inside Man” (2006) and “The Brave One” (2007). In 2007, while accepting an award at a Hollywood Reporter “Women in Entertainment” event, she acknowledged her then long-term partner, producer Cydney Bernard, with the words, “to my beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss.” That same year, Foster gave The Trevor Project its largest donation. Foster lives in Beverly Hills with her two sons.

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he critical success of the Showtime television series “The Borgias” has renewed interest in the men who historian E. R. Chamberlin called “the bad popes.” Of course not all the popes were bad. There have been 265 popes - from St. Peter to Benedict XVI - and they include good popes, bad popes and mediocre popes. But the bad popes are often more interesting. One of them, who was so notorious that he merited his own entry (by historian Louis Crompton) in glbtq.com, was Pope Julius III (ruled 1550-1555). Famous as “a skilled expert in canon law” and a patron of the arts, Julius also “created one of the most notorious homosexual scandals in the history of the papacy.” While still Cardinal Giovanni Maria del Monte the pontiff fell in love with a 15-year old named Innocenzo. Two years later del Monte, now Pope, made Innocenzo a cardinal and his “chief

By Jesse Monteagudo diplomatic and political agent.” Though Church scholars insist that Julius’ interest in Innocenzo was strictly platonic, Crompton quotes the Venetian ambassador to the Holy See, who reported that the young Ganymede “shared the pope’ bedroom and bed.” Not surprisingly, Cardinal Innocenzo’s glory days ended when his papal partner died in 1555. Innocenzo himself died in 1577. Recent studies suggest that a large percentage of Roman Catholic priests are homosexual. If this is so, it stands to reason that a relatively large number of popes, most of who were priests, were also gay. According to Wayne R. Dynes, who wrote about the “Papacy,” in his Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, “given the custom of monastic sex-segregation and the extension of celibacy to the priesthood in the Western church beginning in the eleventh century, it is not surprising that a number of Roman pontiffs should have been involved in homoerotic sentiments and behavior.” Noel I. Garde, in his gossipy 1964 book Jonathan to Gide: The Homosexual In History, included John XII (955-964), Benedict IX (1033-1045; 1047-1048), John XXII (13161334), Paul II (1464-1471), Sixtus IV (14711484), Julius II (1503-1513) and Leo X (15131521), along with Julius III, in his list of “gay popes.” Garde and his book must be taken with a rock of salt, for he also included in his list Alexander VI (1492-1503), the Borgia Pope, who was portrayed in history (and on television) as very heterosexual. Even so, Garde’s list leads us to conclude that some of the popes ignored the Church’s rule against homosexuality to the extent that they practiced it themselves. John XII according to Dynes, “modeled himself on the scandalous Roman emperor Heliogabalus, holding homosexual orgies in the papal palace.” But the bisexual John also liked women, which allowed Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, in The First Gay Pope and Other Records, to rightly call Benedict IX “the first pope known to be primarily homosexual,” if only for having “turned the Vatican into a male brothel.” The Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries featured a set of intelligent, sophisticated and corrupt popes who did not let their spiritual duties get in the way of having a good time. When Pietro Barbo, who was

Julius disported with Ganymedes ‘without shame.’” In modern times Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli; 1958-1963) and Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini; 1963-1978) were suspected of being gay. Winston Leyland, in Gay Sunshine Interviews Vol. 2, attributed these popes’ relative tolerance of homosexuality to their own sexual orientation; though it could be argued that the Italian Church has traditionally been more tolerant of “sins of the flesh” than the Polish or German or Irish-American Churches. Paul VI was outed by the gay French writer Roger Peyrefitte, in a 1976 interview he did in response to that pope’s antigay edicts. According to Peyrefitte, who knew his way around aristocratic circles in France and Italy, Paul VI led an active gay life while he was still Archbishop of Milan. Recalling the incident in a Gay Sunshine interview, Peyrefitte recalled that Montini “had a relationship with a young movie actor” named Paul, whose name Montini took when he became pope. The future pope also visited “a discreet house” where he and other pope julias iii Milanese notables see more photos at sfgn.com/photos would “meet boys.” Peyrefitte’s Rovere family were accused of sodomy revelations caused a sensation, and a sharp by their political and religious enemies. rebuttal from the Vatican. Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere, All this leads us to the current Pope, made his nephew Petro Riario - who was Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger; 1205-). also his lover - a cardinal. According to Though “Papa Ratzi” is best-known for Crompton, this time in his monumental his antigay pronouncements, in 2010 Homosexuality and Civilization, Sixtus was the gay (and Catholic) writer Andrew labeled a sodomite in the dispatches by the Sullivan wrote a column arguing for the always astute Venetian ambassador and pontiff”s homosexuality. Sullivan noted in the diaries of Vatican insiders Stefano the pope’s “prissy fastidiousness, the Infessura and Johann Burchard. Another effeminate voice, the fixation on liturgy nephew, Giuliano della Rovere, known and ritual, and the over-the-top clothing to history as the “terrible pope” Julius II, accessories” and his intimate relationship “was condemned by the Council of Pisa with Georg Gaenswein, the handsome as ‘this sodomite, covered with shameful Bavarian priest whom the pope made his ulcers.’” The Council based its conclusions personal secretary. All this is speculation on “Julius’s fondness for Federigo Gonzaga, of course; and there is no reason to believe Francesco Alidosi, and other young men.” that Benedict XVI is gay. In fact, given his Crompton also quoted another Vatican entrenched homophobia, I would rather diarist, Girolamo Priuli, who “reported that that he wasn’t. Photo Courtesy of Ophelia2

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beautiful and knew it, was elected pope in 1464 he announced that he wished to be called Formosus (“beautiful”). The appalled cardinals talked him out of it, and Barbo took the less pretentious name of Paul II. According to Dynes, Paul II “was a collector of statuary, jewelry, and (it was said) handsome youths. Given to the most sumptuous ecclesiastical drag, he was lampooned by his enemies as ‘Our Lady of Pity.’” I must add that Paul II, like most Renaissance popes, was also a skilled administrator and an avid patron of the arts. Two Renaissance popes of the della

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ot long ago, realistic portrayals of LGBT relationships were rarely seen on the small screen, let alone in feature films. Gay film festivals were flooded with poignant, if saccharine, coming out tales from budding film students who had nothing to lose and the airwaves filled with flamboyant stereotypes. But, in the years since Will & Grace, To Wong Foo and The Birdcage, public acceptance has created openings for gay and mainstream filmmakers to explore the nuanced facets of these relationships. One such film, Keep the Lights On, coming off a successful screening at the Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and opening Friday, Oct. 12, at local

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penning in 2008 and completed last year with the asssistance of co-writer Mauricio Zacharias, as an important milestone for LGBT cinema. “My generation entered with a lot of baggage, but it’s not all baggage we created,” he said. “Gay filmmakers (over the years) have found new closets, a result of society. I knew this wasn’t going to be a conventional gay film,” citing excitement within the gay film and arts communities in New York City to his script. “There’s no Hollywood money here.” Sachs, who was born in 1965 and came out at 16, said it took more than two decades to eventually tell his story, “to be honest and share secrets,” he said. Acknowledging the darkness—and subsequent resilience—of his characters, Sachs also sought to pay homage to other gay artists and disciplines through his film. The score includes performances by the late Arthur Russell, who died of AIDS in 1993; nods to Avery Willard, an experimental pornographer during the ‘70s; and even the art work of Sachs’ husband, artist Boris Torres, featured in the opening credits. thure lindhardt and zachary booth in keep the lights on, directed by By his own admission, Sachs ira sachs. see more photos at sfgn.com/photos could not have made such a film without having taken his art cinemas, offers a jarring portrayal of a own journey through relationships. dysfunctional gay relationship fueled by sex Today, he teaches in the graduate film and drugs. program at New York University and mentors Erik (Thure Lindhardt) is a young Danish young filmmakers. He also facilitates filmmaker who hooks up with anonymous workshops and interdisciplinary programs sex partners on a Manhattan chat line in for gay artists. 1998—years before AOL, Manhunt and “These kinds of programs are so even Grndr. One hookup takes him to the important,” he said. “That’s why my own apartment of a young closeted attorney, Paul work got closeted in a way.” (Zachary Booth). What follows is a nearly decade-long rollercoaster ride as the couple test the boundaries of love and loyalty. At When: times, Erik enables Paul’s addiction, facing Opening Friday, Oct. 12 the consequences in his own livelihood and happiness. Where: But while that relationship might seem Gateway Classic Theatre, Fort Lauderdale familiar to residents of Wilton Manors, For tickets and showtimes, go to www. South Beach, Chelsea or the Castro, how TheGatewayTheatre.com. would straight audiences react to this Tower Theater, Miami depiction from filmmaker Ira Sachs? Keep For tickets and showtimes, go to www. the Lights On was named the Best Narrative TowerTheaterMiami.com. Film at the Sundance Film Festival. How Much: Sachs sees his film, which he started

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nlike many newlyweds, comedian Mario Cantone isn’t afraid to kiss and tell… And sing, too. The joys of marriage — Cantone wed his longtime partner, Broadway musical director Jerry Dixon, last year — are just one of the topics the Sex and the City alum will tackle at Hard Rock Live on Thursday, Oct. 11. “Technically, we’re married, but we’ve been together 20 years,” Cantone explains. “Actually, I think (a marriage certificate) has given us separation anxiety. Does it feel different, yeah it does, it’s nice.” But will Cantone and Dixon take the next step and adopt children like so many other gay couples? “Emphatically, NO. You can type that in big capital letters,” he howls. “I talk about that in the show,” along with the latest developments in his career, reality television, pop culture, his family and life in general.

Oh, and he also is debuting a new opening number, another trademark “Liza” (Minnelli) song and plenty of musical numbers penned by Dixon, his “in-house composer.” The show received rave reviews in Montreal, and Cantone is betting it will be a hit with American audiences, too. “I really try to mix it up with twists on standards and lots of surprises. I can’t wait to get on stage. It’s the waiting before the show, like right now, that makes me nuts,” he explains. “AA — anxiety and anger — that’s what fuels the comedian. I definitely have to work to relax.” Don’t mistake Cantone for a workaholic, either. Eight years have passed since his last one-man show. (He last appeared in South Florida in 2005.) “I like my down time,” he says. “I’m basically lazy,” before discussing some of the projects that nearly came together, including a scrapped series set for NBC that would have paired him with former Miami

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Vice star Don Johnson. While Cantone isn’t normally considered a “political” comedian, he can be outspoken, leading a fellow political comedian, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, to call him “the white Sammy Davis, Jr.” Cantone fired back that Stewart was “the white Dean Martin.” As a young gay comedian in the 1980s, Cantone had an uphill battle, recalling nationally televised appearances that were cancelled because of his “sensibility.” But, he found the drive to succeed, as evidenced by his later successes. “My success really came from being me and crossing over to the straight audience,” he says. “For some reason gay men don’t come out to see me.” A recent benefit at the Castro Theatre in the heart of San Francisco’s gay community still drew a mixed crowd, but it was one of the greatest shows of his career. “I’m lucky that straight audiences love what I do, although it’s not that I don’t have

gay audiences. I get it, we (gays) like the women: Kathy, Judy, Madonna, Lady Gaga — well, I don’t love Lady Gaga, but they do.” For more information, go to www. HardRockLiveHollywood.com. Photo Courtesy of Paradigm Agency

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Theater Broward County Keiko Matsui

International Concert Agency presents pianist and contemporary jazz artist Keiko Matsui in her Florida debut as she performs songs from her latest album “The Road” alongside her band on Thursday, October 11 at 8 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center. The Tokyo-born star was rated Billboard’s number three “Top Contemporary Jazz Artist.” Tickets are $40, $45 and $50. VIP tickets are $70 and include a post-show meet and greet with Matsui. Visit BrowardCenter.org

Last Call Last Call starring actress, stand-up comedian and worldclass bartender Terri Girvin in the Abdo New River Room. The hilarious one-woman show takes place during one chaotic bar shift at the Manhattan bar. Showtimes are Thursday and Friday, October 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, October 27 at 3 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, October 28 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30. Visit BrowardCenter.org

Adventures in Darkness starring Tom Sullivan

Lighthouse of Broward presents Adventures in Darkness starring Tom Sullivan on Thursday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center. An actor, singer, entertainer, author and producer who has been blind since birth, Sullivan takes audiences on his journey to live a “normal” life with a performance that will bring tears, laughter and inspiration to all. Tickets are $45 and $75. Visit BrowardCenter. org

Sticks and Stones A musical play about social issues, bullying and lessons learned, Sticks and Stones is performed as a Smart Stage Matinee in the Amaturo Theater on Friday, October 26 at 10 and 11:30 a.m. This one-woman musical uses music, poetry and video projection to teach children about the critical effects of bullying based on real life experiences of adolescents. It focuses on siblings Scott and Lyn who both experience different problems with bullies, peer pressure and loss of friends. Tickets are $6 and under. Visit BrowardCenter.org

Palm Beach County *Little Shop of Horrors

A mean eating plant. A hapless hero. A beautiful maiden. A sadistic dentist. What could possibly go wrong? Little Shop of Horrors will take place Oct. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. at Olympic Heights, 20101 Lyons Road in Boca Raton. Call 954-461-5672 or visit FourthWallTheater.com

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*Avenue Q

Won the Tony “Triple Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. Tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although the residents seem nice, it’s clear this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Call 954323-7884 or visit SlowBurnTheatre.org

The Rocky Horror Show

Halloween is just around the corner, and who better to celebrate with than the denizens of Dr. Frank N. Furter’s home-sweet-castle in Richard O’Brien’s beloved cult classic, The Rocky Horror Show. And Entr’Acte Theatrix is inviting audiences to come do the Time Warp again… when they present ‘Rocky’ at the Crest Theatre at the Delray Center for the Arts at Old School Square from October 25 through November 4. Visit Entractetheatrix.org

Romeo and Juliet

Palm Beach State College¹s theatre department will be presenting Romeo and Juliet on October 17-20 times varies. Tickets are $12 for general and $5 for students with ID. This play will take place at Duncan Theatre, which is located at Palm Beach State College. Visit Palmbeachstate.edu/theatre/ duncan-theatre

Jake Shimabukuro

Renowned for lightning-fast fingers and revolutionary playing techniques, this ukulele sensation’s concerts – featuring an array of genres including jazz, blues, funk, classical, bluegrass, folk, flamenco and rock – are a high-energy, jaw-dropping musical treat not to be missed. Jake Shimabukuro will be at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall at the Kravis Center on Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $15. Visit Kravis.org

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The Choreographer’s Ball

Pablo Malco Foundation presents The Choreographer’s Ball on Saturday, October 13 at 7 p.m. Filled with riveting entertainment, the dance showcase features some of South Florida’s best dancers and choreographers performing various forms of street dance, hip hop, contemporary ballet and more. Tickets are $22, $28 and $35. Visit AventuraCenter.org

Martha Speaks

A funny new musical based on the series of books by Susan Meddaugh on Saturday, October 20 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Martha is an ordinary dog who gains the ability to speak after eating a bowl of alphabet soup. Children will enjoy free preshow art activities and themed airbrush “tattoos” by Young At Art Museum. Tickets are $16 and under. Visit AventuraCenter. org

Dancing Around the Iron Curtain

The South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s Blue Door String Quartet’s Chamber Series continues on Monday, October 29 at 7 p.m. The program features Piazolla’s “Tangoes,” a unique blend of jazz improvisation, counterpoint and dissonance; Shostakovich’s “String Quartet No. 8, 0pus 110,” known as one of the most powerful and personal works of twentieth-century art; and concludes with Beethoven’s “String Quartet in C Major, Opus 59, No. 3.” Tickets are $25. Visit AventuraCenter.org

THE Vampire Circus

Lock your doors, secure your home’s The Vampire Circus will release an army of vampires into Miami and transform Downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park into a haven for the beautiful and seductive creatures of the night on October 18 to 31 at 8 p.m. At The Vampire Circus, spectators will witness a world filled with super natural Circus performers, terror and suspense, enchanted magic and comedy that will leave them dying for more and an exotic ambiance of panic and fear that would make Tim Burton proud. Visit theVampirecircus.us

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

Judy Blume’s best-selling book Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great from the Fudge series of books comes to life on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. as part of the Family Theater Series presented by WastePro. Sheila Tubman learns how to face her fear of dogs, swimming, spiders and more in this poignant coming-of-age musical. Individual tickets are $15 with subscriptions offering savings of up to 15 percent. Visit Miramarculturalcenter.org

An Encounter with Simone Weil

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Weil brings to light profound questions of moralBy J.W. Arnold be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. responsibility in the film An Encounter with 20 at The Pride Center, 2040 North Dixie Highway Simone Weil on Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m., which will in Wilton Manors. The Expo will again provide Lesbian, Gay, be screened as part of the Southern Circuit Independent Film Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) seniors with Series. From the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War to antia unique, comprehensive overview of available war protests in Washington D.C., from intimate exchanges healthcare services. Over fifty LGBT-friendly medical, between the filmmaker and her older brother, to captivating professional, support and financial providers in interviews with people who knew Weil, the film takes viewers the fields of healthcare, aging and geriatrics will on an unforgettable journey into the heart of what it means showcase their services and products through this to be a compassionate human being. Tickets are $15. Visit popular event. Contact: Kristofer Fegenbush, Pride Center Miramarculturalcenter.org Deputy Director at 954-463-9005 ext. 111

Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages, an arena-rock love story told through the mind blowing, face-melting hits of Journey, Night Ranger, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benetar, Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, and Whitesnakeand. Don’t miss this awesomely good time about dreaming big, playing loud and partying on! Oct. 9-14 at the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Visit Arshtcenter.org

Idle Warship: Talib Kweli & Res

Talib Kweli’s buzzworthy duo act Idle Warship, with singer/ songwriter RES, will make its anticipated Florida debut at the Center’s Knight Concert Hall on Oct. 19. In 2009, the famed rapper joined longtime collaborator RES to form Idle Warship. The hip-hop/electro group released their first official album, Habits of the Heart, in November 2011. Visit Arshtcenter.org

Lenine

For his Arsht Center debut on Oct. 26, Lenine will perform hits from his highly-acclaimed career, including award-winning favorites “Ninguém Faz Idéia” and “Martelo Bigorna,” as well as new songs from his tenth album, Chão (Ground in English), produced by Bruno Giorgi, JR.Tostoi and LENINE himself. Chão consists of ten songs marked by intriguing, unconventional sounds like a canary’s chirp, a kettle’s whistle, a child’s heartbeat, waterfalls and a hypnotic digital ping-pong noise courtesy of a Facebook chat. Visit Arshtcenter.org

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Fort Lauderdale Zombie Walk encourages the community to and march around downtown event will take place Oct. 12. open at 6 p.m. for an all ages provided by Body Art By Keegan up artists inside Green Room TBA). Entertainment throughout, games, DJs, live entertainment, Zombieftl.com

Zombie Walk

is an annual event that dress up like zombies Ft Lauderdale This Doors at Green Room crowd. Make-up will be and an army of makefrom 6 to 10 p.m. (costs including carnival-style and an art show. Visit

Adventure Bears - Fall 2012 Caribbean Cruise

Adventure Bears offers a truly unique travel experience where you can relax/recharge from a stressful job or be social with other like-minded traveler -- all while being pampered on one of the finest cruise lines in the world, Princess Cruise newest ship, the Ruby Princess. Call or email Paul B. Stalbaum at paul@crusiedesignstravel.com or 954-566-3377

Broward House presents Wanda Sykes, A World AIDS Day Benefit Concert

Sykes will make her only South Florida appearance in 2012Classic Pin-up photographs by Miami Shores photographer Bunny 13 in this one-night only engagement during Yeager. World AID Days

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Erotic Art4, at Museum Through Nov. the Arsht Center is convening community organizations, in partnership with the Anti-Defamation Showcases Classic Pin-Ups League, in a county-wide calendar of performances, activities, education programs and public forums. This program willArt be a aomi Wilzig’s infamous World Erotic three-month, county-wide human rights collaboration that will Museum (WEAM) in Miami Beach will be focus attention on the work that is being done in Miami-Dade County toward theshots protection of humanpin-up rights against bigotry adding vintage by famed photograand hate. Visit ArshtCenter.org pher Bunny Yeager to its permanent collection Broadway in Miami 2012-13 and Yeager will be on hand for the unveiling on This season Ziff Ballet Opera House on Oct. 9 to May 12 will hold Tuesday, Oct. The Miami Experience Shores photograthe Broadway In 16. Miami spectacle. the return of the world’s greatestamusical spectacleof- Les Misérablesmen - in its pher titillated generation American lavish new 25th anniversary production, along with the Miami with herofsemi-nude shots,fun-filled including classic premieres Broadway’s biggest hits -the including the high-stepping Mary Poppins, the outlandishly colorful Priscilla, ‘50s pin-up girl, Bette Page. The event coincides Queen of the Desert, the awesomely cool Rock of Ages, and - the 2010 Awardof Winner Best Musical - Memphis, with the Tony release Petrafor Mason’s new book, a triumph of explosive dancing and powerhouse songs. Visit Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom: Photography’s GoldArshtcenter.org en Era, by Rizzoli. Celebrating its seventh anniversary, WEAM showcases Wilzig’s personal and irreplaceable collection of erotica in more than 12,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space at 1205 Washington St.The museum’s profile has been raised in recent years with noted exhibits including Rembrandt’s Erotic Secrets and Bruno Bernard’s ‘The Secret The Four Noble Truths We all have certain things that feel to us like true sources of Marilyn, ’ currently on exhibit through Noof happiness, but which in reality have caused us no end of suffering, time time again. is our mind of attachment that vember. Theand museum isItopen Monday through continues to deceive us, causing us to relate to these things Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Satin mistaken ways, and leading us straight into problems and misfortune. Learnro how break this cycle. $10/classisor$15, $30/ urday, 11 a.m. 12tomidnight. Admission series includes vegetarian food after class, members free. Visit no one under 18 admitted. For more informaMeditationInFortLauderdale.org tion, go of to www.WEAM.com. Taste the Island

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Wilton Manors is holding its 7th annual Taste of the Island at historic Richardson Park from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets

Youth Arts Wilton On with available atGet BartonTheir Miller Cleaners, Manors CulLibrary, and at Wilton Manors City Hall. Includes a Silent Auction, ture Shock Miami which will take place in the Richardson’s historical house. Visit TasteOfTheIsland.org igh school and college students, ages 1322,Center can nowHosts get $5Senior tickets to performancPride Health Expo es offered by more than 90 Miami-Dade arts presenters, including top music, dance, theater

weekend on Dec 2, at 8 p.m. at the Broward Center Au Rene Theater as a benefit for Broward House, Broward County’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS community service organization. and performance art organizations. Students Wanda Sykes is considered “one of the funniest stand up comics” her peers among Entertainment Weekly’s can alsobyget two and $5ranks admissions or free tickets 25 Funniest People in America. Visit BrowardCenter.org

to a number of participating art museums in Pozitive the county.Attitudes All tickets are tax- and fee-free and Topic driven Peer lead support group for gay and bisexual the student must use the first ticket, although men who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Meets accompanying disevery Wednesday adults 7-9 p.m. may at the use Pride additional Center 204 N.Dixie Hwy Roomtickets. 204. Refreshments, charge, open and meeting. counted For morenoinformation a PAHereandNow@aol.com www.PozitiveAttitudes.com complete list of available performances, go to www.CultureShockMiami.org. hQueer Youth Friday Nights

Miami andgroup Lesbian FilmThis Festival LGBTQ andGay allied youth for people13-21. Is a drop in group anytime from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. This youth group will be Hosts Monthly Screening SunServe building on 1480 SW 9th Ave on the second floor. A Safehe Space to be yourself! QueerLesbian Themed Movie at 7 Miami Gay and Filmshowing Festival p.m. on Friday nights. This group is a safe hangout to meet new (MGLFF) continues its monthly movie sefriends, free Wi-Fi to bring your laptop or your iPad, plus board games that you can bring and or playLesbians the ones that provide at ries GLOW (Gays onthey Wednesthe group. Visit Sunserve.org/youth/index.htm days) on Oct. 17 with “About Cherry,” directed GLBX Business Advantage Referral by Stephen Elliott. Think Pretty Woman with a Group GLBX Business Advantage Referral Group will be held at the twist: The child of tremendously dysfunctional chamber offices on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month parents, Angelica (Ashley Hinsaw), disappears to from 8 to 9 a.m. The leads group is looking for additional members. Ifand you turns are interested joining, please contact Ken California to modeling for erotic phoStollar at Kenneth.Stolar@sci-us.com to see if your category to shoots earn some quick Barely 18, is open and to to attend as a guest. Visitmoney. Ftlchamber.com/index. php?src=gendocs&ref=GLBX_home&category=GLBX she adopts the stage name “Cherry” and, with the help her lipstick lesbian mentor (Heather QueerofYouth Nights LGBTQ & allied youth 13-21 area welcome any time after film 6 p.m. Graham), soon adopts full-fledged adult at the SunServe building on Wilton Drive for a great place to career. When a wealthy lawyer played by James meet new friends, play board games and a Queer Themed Movie at 7introduces p.m. Email Afrosch@sunServe.org Franco her to a glamorous life of expensive clothing, lavish parties and sheer exLatinos Salud’s cess, Angelica mustprograms decide when too far is far Multiple programs and groups for bi/gay Latino guys. Latinos enough. The screening be held Salud’s SOMOS program iswill for guys 18 toat30.OAllCinema, proceeds will benefit Latinos Salud in our efforts to educate on HIV 90 NW 27th St. in Miami, at 8 p.m. A cocktail Prevention and testing. Every Thursday night at 7 p.m. join the Core Group, and help plan alternative Also reception will precede the movie at 6activities. p.m. with offers Popular Opinion Leader group for guys ages 25 to 44 aand cash bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. a Life Coaching program for guys ages 18 to 44. Come by Monday through Friday 11 to 7 p.m. for one-on-one life Tickets are $6-10 ina.m. advance at free www.MGLFF. coaching with certified CRCS coaches. Located at 2330 Wilton com at the box office. Drive.or Call$10-16 954-533-8681 or visit Latinossalud.org

The King and I at Lake Worth Playhouse By Jason Parsley

p their 60th season this past weekend with the historical romance The King and I. Overall the show was solid, which is what I’ve come to expect from the community theater. And that’s probably why they’ve been around for 60 seasons. The show, based on a true story, follows Anna Leonowens (Katie Angell Thomas) who becomes the English governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam (Bryan Wohlust) in the early 1860s. The King hires Anna to teach his children and wives English and British customs in order to modernize his country. The King and I first premiered on Broadway in 1951 and starred Yul Brynner as the king. In 1956 the story was adapted as a film musical and again starred Brynner. The story was also made into two non-musical films Anna and the King of Siam in 1946 and then again in 1999 as Anna and the King starring Jodie Foster.

Both Thomas and Wohlust were excellent as the lead roles. And because of the amount of children in the musical there were plenty of awwww moments. “It was fantastic,” said Jeff Wolmetz of Delray Beach. “My favorite parts were when probably when the kids were first coming out introducing themselves to Anna. That was an adorable scene. I also liked the scene where Anna and the King were dancing to Shall We Dance. That was excellent. But I liked the whole show.” Wolmetz continued: “The King was amazing. He sounded the same as Yul Brynner did in the movie. It was a great cast. There was a lot of humor in the show. And a lot of good songs.” The King and I runs through Oct. 21. Tickets are $26 to and $30. Visit LakeWorthPlayHouse. org for more information.

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Man2Man Discussion

Man2Man Discussion Group meets at the Pride Center on Mondays from 7 until 8:30 p.m. Any subject may be discussed. Members regularly reassemble afterwards for ‘repast’ at The Courtyard, PeterPan Diner. Visit Glccsf.org

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

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.

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 1981-2012 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 954214-2457

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

Life Coaching

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. 2330 Wilton Drive. Call 954-765-6239. Visit Latinossalud.org

Sex & Love Anonymous

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

Survivor Support

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

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

Sunday Jazz Brunch

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.

Young Adult GLBT

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

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

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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 954-566-2074 or email: Tedverdone@comcast.net

Tuesday Night Eatin Meeting

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

Gay Male Empowerment

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

OktoberfestNext to the Christmas tree, Oktoberfest is the most popular custom Germany (actually Bavaria) has ever exported to the rest of the world. The American German Club of the Palm Beaches proudly hosts its time-honored Oktoberfest on the second and third weekends of October. A yearly celebration of beer and good times held on ten acres of ground, under pavilion and massive tent; making this “Original Oktoberfest” one of the largest in the country. Visit Americangermanclub.org/oktoberfest.html Lake Worth Bike Night

The Lake Worth bike night is fun, and it’s for a cause. Join loads of people in downtown Lake Worth every Thursday from 7 p.m.10 p.m.. The event is free and open to bikers and non-bikers. Visit Lakeworthbikenight.com

Alternative Life Style Show

New AlternativesSocial 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

PBC Gender Support

All ages support group dedicated for transgender individuals. This meeting happens the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. These meeting will take place at The Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Palm Beach County. Visit Compassglcc. com

Featured guests contribute to the community. All are welcomed to call in. Many give aways and prizes including a contest for free buffets at Isle Capri Casino in Pompano. You can also listen by adding W4CYRADIO to SKYPE or call in at 561-6239429. Up coming spotlights on parties of interest and special events.

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PFLAG

Seniors vs. Crime

PFLAG is a monthly support, coming out and rap groups for families of & for Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender people. Meeting in Palm Beach County is at 6:30 on the third Wednesday of the month. Call or email Carol at 561-716-9464 Pflag@pobox. 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 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.

PFLAG

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

SunServe Therapy Groups

Provided for the LGBT community at SunServe on a regular basis. Call the Intake Coordinator at 954-764-5150 to learn which therapy groups have openings. Groups Include a Gay Men’s HIV+ Long Time Survivors’ Group, a Safe “T” support group for gender variant adults, an Intimate Partner Abuse group and others. 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.

Women4Women Support

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

Man2Man Discussion

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/

Palm Beach County Mask-Erade

The exhibition continues through. November 7. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday by appointment only and closed Sunday. These amazingly crafted masks were worn by the indigenous people of Peru living under the Spanish occupation in the 19th century. At a time when the Spanish allowed little room for self-expression among native Peruvians, the indigenous people crafted these masks for their dance festivals, subtly mocking their overlords. Visit Griffingallery.net

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival

Foodies have a reason to celebrate as a flood of epicurean talent descends upon the area for the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012. Award-winning chefs and culinary personalities, authors, winemakers, journalists, and mixologists are creating a culinary event of a magnitude never before seen on the illustrious island and beyond. This sixth anniversary year of the Festival includes an expanded lineup, growing from five nights of culinary delights to nearly a dozen events with both day and evening programming, including a star chef golf tournament and trade-only panel discussion. On Dec7-11 at various locations. Visit Pbfoodwinefest.com

Palm Beaches Marathon & Run Fest

December in Florida and striding through tropics. Now that will impress your friends and family. Palm Beaches Marathon & Run Fest isn’t just a race or a way to keep in shape before the holiday parties and cheer; it’s a vacation onto itself. This event will start and finish on Flagler drive on Nov 20-Dec 2. Visit Runpalmbeaches.com

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Yoga On The Waterfront

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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 p.m. 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.

PathsPaths is a social/discussion group held at Compass

YOGA Among the Orchids

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

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 561-404-2011. Visit OrchidWeb.org

Jazz on the Palm

Jazz on the Palm - Downtown West Palm Beach Waterfront - Gather with friends and family to enjoy the diverse vibrant sounds of jazz under the stars every 3rd Friday of month at the new Downtown West Palm Beach waterfront concert series. Free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visit Wpbgo. com/2010/06/jazz-on-the-palm

Sunday on the Waterfront

Sunday on the Waterfront is a free concert series, which takes place the third Sunday of most months in the beautiful downtown West Palm Beach waterfront area. 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

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

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

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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 Curtain Up

Lambda Dade Clubhouse

Join ALandCHUCK.travel and CRUISE on Dec 1, with the largest gathering of Drag Stars ever! Join nearly 40 stars along with Celebrity Hostess Michelle Visage for an incredible 8 day cruise with cocktail parties, drag performances, comedy shows, Q&A panels and so much more. Visit Facebook.com/ events/148246971907863/.

The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center will host a community-wide Curtain Up on Sunday, October 14 from 12 to 3 p.m. The day’s festivities include art activities and themed airbrush “tattoos” by Young At Art Museum, food trucks, ticket giveaways and a Latin Fusion concert featuring music by Venezuelan jazz singer Maria Rivas, Brazilian pop star Beatriz Malnic and the ArayaOrta Latin Jazz Trio. Curtain Up is free and open to the public. Visit AventuraCenter.org

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

Ransom Mondays

Need an excuse to keep partying well after the weekend is over? The Monday-night party at the recently renovated Collins Park lounge. This amazing party will take place at Mokai in Miami Beach. The party, hosted by Mark Lehmkuhl, sort of takes now-defunct Bella Rose’s Black Sunday murder mystery theme but gives it a Patty Hearst twist. Every week, some prominent nightlife fixture gets held for ransom, and the only way it gets returned is if you party your ass off. Only $20 to attend. Visit Mokaimiami.com

Rainbow Circle

Rainbow Circle is a peer-led LGBTQ support & discussion group. Topics covered often include coming out, relationships, bullying, peer pressure, drugs & alcohol, depression and selfesteem. You pick and develop discussion topics and are able to express your thoughts and feelings without fear in a safe and supportive environment. This group will take place every Monday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the University of Miami, Flipse Building #302. Visit Pridelines.org

Sex Talk

Sex Talk: Peer Health Educators are young LGBTQ adults who learn how to talk to other young adults about sex, sexuality and HIV/STD prevention. You’ll conduct outreach events, record video messages, participate in a series of performances and organize special events with a purpose. This event takes place the second and fourth Thursday every month at Pridelines Headquarters located at 9526 NE 2nd Ave #104 In Miami Shores from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit Pridelines.org

AIDS Quilt Panel Workshops

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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

Boardwalk

1721 N. Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311. (954) 463-6969. A Cute Little Hangout in Fort Lauderdale. Pool-room/game room on one side and a bar/strip club on the other. Mondays $3 Well & Dom, after 9 p.m. $3 U-Call-It Shots

The Club Fort Lauderdale

Miami Beach Community Health Center’s “Making Memories” will assist those interested in creating an AIDS Quilt panel as a way to pay tribute to a life lost to AIDS. Workshops are held the fourth Saturday of every month through October. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Workshops are free. Visit Miamibeachhealth.org or 305538-8835 or 1-800-393-1290

Bathhouse. 110 NW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL, (954) 525-3344 Good. Clean. Fun. 1/2 price rooms...Tuesday Nights and 1/2 price Lockers. Thursdays Nights. Always busy.

Clubhouse II

Bathhouse. 2650 E. Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (954) 566-6750. A Private Club for Bi/Gay men. “bear and cub” Thursday $4 Off For Bear & Cub. Tuesday leather night - $4.off wear any type of leather.

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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.

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Corner Pub Bar

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.

Cubby Hole

823 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 728-9001. The Cubby Hole is one of Fort Lauderdale’s most unique and popular Neighborhood bar for men. Underwear Wednesday’s. “Boxers n’ Briefs” get 2 for 1 drinks 9 p.m. to close

The Depot Cabana Bar and Grill

2935 N. Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, (954) 537-7076. Voted the “Friendliest” Gay Bar in Fort Lauderdale. Monday’s $1.99 Drinks and $.50 wings open to close

Dudes Bar

3270 NE 33rd St Fort Lauderdale FL 954-568-7777. Sexy hot men starting to shake the booty daily from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Sundays enjoy karaoke with Peter Petrucci. Great drink specials every Monday with $1 well drinks from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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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 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

25 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483 954-801-3247. Delray Beach’s only gay bar. Mon - Sun: 4 p.m. - 2 a.m. Awesome Drink Specials.

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

Smarty Pants

3038 North Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306, (954) 5611724. Great Local Hangout in Fort Lauderdale with Great Drink Specials. Saturday’s Free Breakfast to Order – 8 a.m.

950 NE 2nd Ave, Downtown Miami, Florida 33132,(305) 350-9084. One of the best night clubs In Miami. Every Saturday the hottest DJ’s from the top performers. Drink Special Every Saturday

Swinging Richards

17450 Biscayne Blvd, N Miami Beach, Fl 33160 954-357-2532 Tuesdays-Saturdays from 6 p.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) 538-9478. Never a Cover…Always a Groove. Resident star DJ Mika spins tribal. Every Saturday TWIST is full of the hottest men in Miami. Muscle boy dancers taking it off in the Bungalow Bar.

Key West 801 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 11 a.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

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.

705 Duval St. , Key West, Florida,(305) 292-8500. Key West AllMale Strip Club. Daily Happy Hour from 3-8 p.m. And a piano sing-a-long every Wednesday night.

Johnny’s

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.

Pearl’s Patio Bar

1116 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, (954) 522-5931. 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.

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 to 9 p.m. Indoor/Outdoor Dining. Dance the night away Thursday through Sunday. Live music Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. Visit themanorcomplex.com

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

the king and i at lake worth play house

The Stable

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 8 p.m. Enjoy College Boy’s Choice 2 for 1

205 East Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park, FL 33334, (954) 5654506 A neighborhood bar with a different theme every night, from drag shows and bingos, to bears and underwear.

Monkey Business

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.

2740 North Andrews Ave, Wilton Manors, FL 33311. (954) 5147819. 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

Torpedo

Palm Beach County

The Cottage (Tea-Dance Sundays)

Fort Dix

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

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.

PJ’s Corner Pocket

H.G. Rooster

Ramrod

Miami 62 NE 14 Street Downtown Miami Florida (305) 640-8749. Open Wed. through Sun. The hottest men in the universe strip shows nightly from 6 p.m. sexy from wall to wall. Free entrance. Free parking. Free VIP rooms. Featuring the Hottest Male Dancers and The Best VIP ROOMS and always $5 Drinks. Full Lineup at ed at WWW.Facebook.com/JohnnysMiami

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.

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

New Moon

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

Johnny’s

823 BELVEDERE ROAD, WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA 33405, (561)-832-9119. H.G. Roosters is West Palms oldest gay club. Sunday’s Complimentary BBQ 5 p.m., Hot Male Dancers 6 p.m., Karaoke 11 p.m.

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

Mara (Thurs-Sat)

Rosie’s Bar and Grill

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.

1132 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth FL $3 Drinks. No Cover. Open till 5 a.m. Ladies night on Thursdays and Karaoke on Fridays.

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