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Nostradamus — Nate Silver talks — New York Times blogger on sexuality, politics and sports page 5

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Last week’s hottest items that couldn’t wait to be printed

out by Michelangelo Signorile, Huffington Post Gay Voices editor, in a recent column.

“The closet isn’t going away any time soon. But one step toward dismantling it among public figures it to make it a difficult and embarrassing place to be. From the looks of the latest celebrity selfoutings, that’s perhaps starting to take hold,” Signorile wrote.

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Senior Features Correspondents

Oral arguments for gay marriage court cases will take place in late March

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Jan. 7 the dates it will hear oral arguments for gay rights cases.

According to the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the court will hear the oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the federal constitutional

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in United States v. Windsor, a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, on Wednesday, March 27.

DOMA is a 1996 law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, thus depriving gay couples of the rights and privileges granted to heterosexual couples.

The Supreme Court decisions in these cases could affect the rights of millions of LGBTs nationwide.

challenge to California’s Proposition 8, on Tuesday, March 26.

Passed in 2008, Proposition 8 took away the right to marry from gays and lesbians in California. It was later declared unconstitutional.

The proponents of the anti-gay law then took that decision to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court also indicated it will hear oral arguments

Correspondents

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Contributing Columnists Wayne Besen Brian McNaught Dana Rudolph David Webb Ric Reily Victoria Michaels Calendar Editor Brian Swinford Editorial Cartoonists Karl Hampe Darryl Smith Staff Photographers J.R. Davis Pompano Bill Steven Shires

Sparkling Wine Created in Support of LGBTs

Sales & Marketing

A percentage of the wine sales will be donated to gay rights organizations A wine maker has found the perfect way to cash in on the recent gay marriage victories nationwide with the release of a new LGBTmarketed brand of sparkling wine.

New York company Biagio

Cru & Estate Wines has just released Égalité, a new beverage from the Burgundy region of France that its makers are confident will be used at the wedding parties of every gay couple getting hitched.

To support equality, the company also will make $1,000 donations to LGBT organizations like The Trevor Project and GLSEN. A percentage of future gains will also be donated, according to the Huffington Post.

“We saw this as an opportunity

to do well by doing good,” he notes.

“We’re very confident people will respect it, and that’s the important factor — the spirit and the respect.

How can you push back on treating people equally?” Darren Restivo, one of the principals of Biagio Cru & Estate Wines told Huff Post.

Restivo added that the fruity wine pairs well with cheeses, quiche, salads and poultry dishes.

& • Three More Quickies to Wake You Up Department of Defense Maintains Ban on Gay News Websites

The Pentagon banned a number of websites relating to gay news, bullying from its computers

•Rosie O’Donnell and Wife Welcome New Baby to Their Family Rosie O’Donnell and her wife, Michelle Rounds, adopted a baby girl named Dakota

• England’s Catholic Church Bans LGBT-Friendly Masses

The UK Archbishop canceled LGBT-friendly masses held in London for the past six years

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The Kyle XY heartthrob announced his engagement to his boyfriend on Twitter This way, the 30-year-old made the big announcement that he’s happily engaged to his boyfriend, musician Blue Hamilton.

Dallas was rumored to be in a relationship with fellow actor Jonathan Bennett back in 2009.

His subtle way of coming out seems to be in line with those of “White Collar” star Matt Bomer and American Horror Story actor Zachary Quinto, a trend pointed

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TV Actor Matt Dallas Comes Out as Gay Actor Matt Dallas, best known for his leading role in the ABC series “Kyle XY,” subtly came out as gay and announced his engagement in a tweet.

Dallas tweeted on Jan. 6, just after midnight: “Starting off the year with a new fiancé, @bluehamilton.

A great way to kick off 2013!”

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NEWS HIGHLIGHT

Scout’s Dishonor Gay Scout Approved For Eagle Honor Ultimately Rejected by BSA Executive

By Sergio N. Candido

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gay teen who had won an unprecedented appeal from the California Chapter of the Boy Scouts to claim a meritorious award was ultimately shut down by one of the organization’s executives due to his sexuality.

Ryan Andresen, 18, built a 288-tile wall of tolerance for a middle school in California to create awareness about bullying as part of his Scout troop project, according to Pleasant Hill Patch. For his efforts, he was supposed to receive a meritorious Eagle Scout award, but he was never given the accolade because he came out as gay.

Angry at this decision, Andresen’s mother, Karen Andresen, started an online petition, which got the overwhelming support of 463,208 people, as of publication. The story gained such momentum that Ryan Andresen was invited on the Ellen DeGeneres show and even received as $20,000 check as a gift.

On Jan. 7, California Boy Scout leaders

announced they had approved the award in an official Eagle Board of Review in December. National headquarters must still approve the Eagle award; however, the decision to override the initial denial sets a new precedent for the anti-gay organization.

But two days later Scout Executive John Fenoglio rejected the Board’s decision, arguing that Ryan Andresen had failed to meet the standards of “duty to God, avowed homosexuality, and the fact that he is now over 18 years of age,” according to CNN. Andresen’s father, Eric, voiced his disappointment at the surprise reversal: “The Boy Scouts is a volunteer driven organization,” he told The Advocate. “What signal is the Boy Scouts of America sending to those volunteers, when they circumvent the local process and tell the official Board of Review that the a volunteer board lacks authority?”

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Statewide Domestic Partnership Bill Filed in Florida Senate

Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, is introducing a bill that would allow LGBT Floridians to enter into a domestic partnership no matter what county laws say about such union.

“The state has a strong interest in promoting stable and lasting families, and believes that all families should be provided with the opportunity to obtain necessary legal protections and status and the ability to achieve their fullest potential," the bill says in a section of legislative findings as quoted by the Tampa Bay Times.

The domestic partnership registry allows gay couples rights to hospital visitations in case the other one’s ill, funeral and burial arrangements, and child education decisions. Many cities in Florida, including Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Orange County already allow for domestic partnerships, however, the union is recognized only in the county where it was performed.

Gay marriage was banned in Florida’s Constitution in 2008, when Floridians voted 61.9 percent in favor and 38.1 percent opposed to marriage being defined as the union between a man and a woman.

Pastor Blames Gays for Biblical Noah's Flood Given the blame game in the past few months, it was only a matter of time before some anti-gay preacher pointed an accusing finger to gays for the mother of all natural disasters: Noah’s Flood.

It was Pastor Scott Lively who came up with the accusation during a radio interview with the ultra-conservative American Family Association.

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“The last straw for God before he brought the flood was when they started writing wedding songs to homosexual marriage,” Lively said on Jan. 8, according to a transcript published by Right Wing Watch.

The pastor argues that just before the biblical flood, it was one of the gayest times ever for humanity, something which was “the last straw for God before he brought the flood.” And Lively warns we might be approaching another similar end-of-times natural disaster given the growing acceptance of gay marriage.

“There’s never been a time in the history of the world since before the flood when homosexual marriage has been open and celebrated, and that’s another sign that I believe that we’re close to the end.”

He goes on: “I think this is the issue of the e n d times, homosexuality.

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It’s present, if you do a careful investigation of all the scriptures dealing with this from the beginning and all the way to the end, God is painting a very clear picture that this represents the outer extent of rebellion against him in a society and the last thing that happens before wrath comes.”

In 2012, gays were blamed for hurricanes Sandy and Isaac, and for the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre in Conn., where 26 people, including 20 children, were shot to death by a gunman.

According to The Advocate, Lively is part of an ongoing federal court case where he’s accused of conspiring to persecute LGBT people in Uganda.

Poll: Fewer Americans Believe Homosexuality is a Sin

A new poll seems to indicate that attitudes toward homosexuality are slowly changing in the U.S. According to an online survey by the religious nonprofit LifeWay Research organization made last November, 37 percent of Americans believe that homosexuality is a sin. The percentage represents a 7-point drop from 2011’s survey results.

Meanwhile, respondents who did not believe homosexuality was a sin increased by a two percent.

Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, believes that 2012’s results are correlated with President Barack Obama’s announcement that he supports gay marriage.

“The president’s evolution on homosexuality probably impacted the evolution of cultural values - there is a real and substantive shift, surprisingly large for a one-year timeframe - though this was hardly a normal year on this issue,” Stetzer said in a statement.

“The culture is clearly shifting on homosexuality and this creates a whole new issue: How will America deal with a minority view, strongly held by Evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and so many others?

Anthea Butler, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, believes the increasing visibility of gay and lesbian celebrities, like Ellen DeGeneres, has also contributed to the changing attitudes.

“Who wouldn’t want to take their grandmother to see her show?” Butler told USA Today.

Police Arrest Teen Planning to Bomb Gay, Black Students

An Alabama teen who police believe was plotting to blow up his black and gay classmates was released on bond.

Derek Shrout, a self-described white supremacist and student at Russell County High School, was arrested by state police on Jan. 4 after one of his teachers found a journal in which the 17-year-old had written down plans to kill one teacher and five students, who are black, and another white male student, who Shrout believed to be gay, ABC News reports.

On Jan. 8, Shrout pleaded not guilty to attempted assault, and District Judge David Johnson set his bond at $75,000, according to CNN. “The journal contained several plans that looked like potential terrorist attacks and attacks of violence and danger on the school,” Sheriff Heath Taylor told ABC, adding the

attacks could have been inspired by the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre in Connecticut, where 26 people, including 20 children were shot to death.

Police also found dozens of empty tobacco containers with shrapnel at Shorout’s home, devices that authorities said were “just one step or two away from being ready to explode.”

Shrout’s lawyer, James Armstrong, denied the teenager had any intention of carrying out the attacks.

“I think this might have been blown a little bit out of proportion in light of what happened in Newtown, Connecticut. Of course, everyone is on edge about that kind of thing,” Armstrong said.

Under the conditions set by the judge, Shrout must remain at home and will have an electric monitoring device. His next court hearing is scheduled for Feb. 12, according to prosecutor Buster Landreau.

Survey: Most Gay Men Use Dating Apps to Look For Long-Term Relationships

Do you go on Grindr with hopes of finding “the one”?

A new survey asserts that indeed, most gay men log on dating apps seeking long-term partners, not just casual flings.

Stagg, a new app that claims to be more like eHarmony for gay men than Grindr, conducted a national survey of 537 gay men ranging in age from 18 to 73.

The results showed that 66 percent of the respondents said they use apps in the hopes of finding long-term potential, despite “the almost universal perception that other guys on dating apps are looking for a hookup.”

“The Supreme Court of the United States has announced they’d hear arguments in late March on two historic cases that could dramatically advance legal recognition of same-sex relationships,” Brad Brenner, cofounder of Stagg and a licensed psychologist, said in a statement.

“However, partly due to decades of stigmatization and discrimination faced by the LGBT community and, in particular, our romantic lives, gay men continue to find themselves too often wandering in bars, places of work, or online – our version of wandering in the wilderness – in search of potential long-term partners.”

The new app, launched on Dec. 20, 2012, says it will help take gay relationships to the next level by matching users depending on their interests and personality traits.

Stagg is available for free at the App Store.

A version for the Android operating system is set to be released later this year.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Nate Silver Bares It All Gay geek holds public forum on online community site Reddit

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ate Silver, the New York Times writer and statistician who accurately predicted Barack Obama’s reelection using math when all the pundits labeled the race “too close to call,” went on social media network Reddit to answer questions from readers.

While Reddit rules state people can ask him anything, Silver said he would like to discuss “our forecasts of the 2012 election, how polling is changing, America's budgetary politics and sports.”

However, he did answer one question about his sexuality, a subject he said wasn’t

appropriate for Reddit. The 34-year-old, who came out to his parents after a trip to London to study economics, recently told Out Magazine he wasn’t “excessively” bullied during his high school years, and maintained a low profile by immersing himself in fantasy baseball leagues or the debate program.

Here’s a selection from Silver’s AMA: on sports:

On politics:

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. At what point did you feel the 2012 Presidential Election ceased being a ‘close race’? And do you think other media entities who maintained it was until the end were simply not in agreement with you, or kept towing that line to keep ratings up? Also, what did you view as the biggest missteps during the election? — from DragonPup

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. 2012 was a reasonably close election. Not 2000 close, obviously, but closer than average.

The distinction that got lost a bit was between closeness and uncertainty. If a baseball game is 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th inning and you've got Papelbon on the mound or whatever, it has definitely been a "close" game but not one in which the outcome is in all that much doubt.

Less abstractly: when it became clear (i) Romney's "momentum" from Denver had begun to recede and (ii) that the final major news event of the campaign (Hurricane Sandy) was working to Obama's benefit, some of the uncertainty was removed.

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. Is it correct to assume that sabermetrics will never work in football and basketball like they do in baseball?

And if so, is that because baseball is much more of an individual sport, or are there other reasons as well?

(Edit: By an individual sport, I mean that for the most part it’s pitcher vs. batter, with anything happening after that only a result of the initial matchup. This is not like football, where even a simple five yard run only happens because of many moving parts, i.e. blocking, and thus makes it much harder to grade anyone on a completely individual level.) — from AllDaveAllDay

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. Well, I guess I’d put it like this: statistical analysis may not get you as far in basketball* or (especially) football as it does in baseball. But it still probably gets you much further than in most industries.

•A lot of NBA teams (especially the ones that win a lot) have become VERY sophisticated about their decision making. Basketball may be closer to the baseball than the football end of the spectrum, both in theory and practice.

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On gun control:

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. Can you prove whether gun control would make America safer? — from grecojc

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. It’s a tricky problem, statistically.

The issue is that while gun ownership rates could plausibly be a cause of fatal crimes and accidents, it can also be a reaction to it, i.e. people purchase guns because they feel unsafe.

I’m not saying that the issue is intrinsically inscrutable. But it’s something that more requires a PhD-thesis-level treatment than a blog post to really add much insight, I think.

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On his predictions + calculations

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. Could you please address some of the biggest misconceptions of what it is you do and **can** do? A lot of “Silver is a wizard who can calculate everything” jokes have emerged, as you have grown in popularity, but often so at the cost of understanding what statistics are actually about. — from kskxt

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. More often than not, people overrate the reliability of predictions in systems with a lot of complexity. There are certainly exceptions, and presidential elections are almost certainly one of them, but it’s a bit weird/ironic that I’m known for one of the exceptional cases.

On HIS SEXUALITY:

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. In a recent profile, you stated you wished not to be known as a “gay statistician” but as a statistician who happens to be gay. Isn’t that a bit naive in today’s political and social climate?

Don’t you think that whether you like it or not, people will treat you differently because you are gay and that your identity as a gay man cannot be limited to your private sexuality? As someone so ubiquitous now in the public sphere, should you be addressing issues in your writing that are related to gay rights as much as baseball? — from snsiegel

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. It’s a complicated issue that maybe doesn’t lend itself so well to the reddit treatment.

My quick-and-dirty view is that people are too quick to affiliate themselves with identity groups of all kinds, as opposed to carving out their own path in life.

Obviously, there is also the issue of how one is perceived by others. Living in New York in 2013 provides one with much a much greater ability to exercise his independence than living in Uganda — or for that matter living in New York forty years ago. So perhaps there’s a bit of a “you didn’t build that” quality in terms of taking for granted some of the freedoms that I have now.

And/but/also, one of the broader lessons in the history of how gay people have been treated is that perhaps we should empower people to make their own choices and live their own lives, and that we should be somewhat distrustful about the whims and tastes and legal constraints imposed by society.

want to keep reading?

Check out Nate Silver’s full thread at http://bit.ly/VCw1ud.

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NATIONAL NEWS

Limbaugh: Pedophilia Next for ’Left’ After Same-Sex Marriage

By Jason St. Amand – EDGE Network

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ush Limbaugh said on his radio show Monday that he believes there is a movement trying to "normalize" pedophilia and compared that movement to society’s "normalization" of marriage equality, Politico reports.

"There is a movement on to normalize pedophilia, and I guarantee you your reaction to that is probably much the same as your reaction when you first heard about gay marriage," he said on his radio talk show "The Rush Limbaugh Show." "What has happened to gay marriage? It’s become normal - and in fact, with certain people in certain demographics it’s the most important issue in terms of who they vote for."

The conservative commentator added, "There’s a movement to normalize pedophilia. Don’t pooh-pooh it. The people behind it are serious, and you know the left as well as I do. They glom onto something and they don’t let go."

Limbaugh also discussed a recent opinion piece that appeared in the British newspaper the Guardian that has caused a ruckus in right-wing circles. "Paedophilia: Bringing Dark Desires to Light," written by John Henley on Jan. 2, delves into the science

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behind pedophilia and examines the brains normal. The kids love it, he loved it, nobody was hurt," Limbaugh of pedophiles. continued. "And in fact, it’s just a different The article discusses Jimmy Savile, a British sexual orientation?’" television host who made headlines when Limbaugh isn’t the only ultra right-winger he died in 2011 after authorities claimed he molested hundreds of young women. "This is who believes there is a movement afoot to radical stuff. But there is a growing conviction, normalize adult-youth love. A number of notably in Canada, that paedophilia should probably be classified as a distinct sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality," the article stated.

When Limbaugh referenced the piece, he said about it, "They make the case that kids enjoy it, adults enjoy it; what’s wrong with a little love? The same things that were said about gay marriage. Look at the Elmo story, the puppeteer at PBS. Three or four young people, kids, were hit on by that puppeteer. Look how little attention that story got. In fact, that story was laughed off. It wasn’t a big deal at all."

In November 2012, Kevin Clash, who was the puppeteer for Elmo for 28 years, resigned from "Sesame Street" amidst allegations that he had sex with underage youth. In fact the Associated Press and every other major medium had blanket coverage of the accusations and his consequent resignation from the show.

Not so for Limbaugh, Conservative American radio talk show host and political commentator, who warned listeners, "I Rush Limbaugh just want to remind you, now, when you first heard about gay marriage -- and I don’t mean to readers on Free Republic commented on the pick on gays. It’s not what I’m saying. It’s Guardian article. "This is what is next on the just something that was such a tremendous prog agenda once the homo normalization departure from accepted norms of the day. fight is won. It will begin with a ’grassroots’ When you first heard about gay marriage, you assault on Age of Consent Laws. Unless pooh-poohed it." (It’s questionable whether something changes, they will win this fight Limbaugh’s listeners, who constitute the too" was a typical comment.

Additionally, Right Wing News criticized fringe Right, have ever "pooh-poohed" gay the Guardian piece in a Jan. 6 article and marriage.)

He also referenced Jerry Sandusky, the wrote, "The paper seriously presented Penn State assistant football coach who was pedophiles as but a misunderstood minority sentenced to prison for at least 30 years after that do no real harm," and "Guardian feature columnist Jon Henley uncritically quotes he was found guilty of abusing several boys.

"Can you imagine if Jerry Sandusky had convicted pedophiles like Tom O’Carroll had this information at his trial? What do who said that children enter into such you think the reaction would be to Jerry "relationships" voluntarily."

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NATIONAL NEWS

Harvey Milk Airport?

San Francisco considers name change to honor slain gay rights activist

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AN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco lawmaker on Tuesday planned to introduce legislation asking voters to rename the city’s airport after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

A charter amendment sponsored by Supervisor David Campos would put the question of creating Harvey Milk-San Francisco International Airport on San Francisco’s November ballot.

If five of Campos’ colleagues agree to submit the proposed name change to voters and the amendment goes through in the fall, the city would become home to the world’s first airport honoring an openly gay person, said Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk.

Milk, who runs an international gay rights foundation in his uncle’s memory, said that adding an airport to the list of public venues named for Harvey Milk

would mark a milestone since flights to and from San Francisco International serve 68 countries where homosexuality is illegal.

“For young gay people in an illegal place looking up at a monitor and being able to point to this international airport named after an LGBT advocate, it gives them the green light to authenticity,” Milk said.

“It’s a major representation that (they) are being celebrated somewhere in the world in a high-level way.”

About 41 million passengers pass through San Francisco International every year, “and the idea that millions of people can learn about Harvey Milk and what he represented is very moving,” Campos said.

“That no airport in this country has been named for an openly LGBT person is something I hope would be remedied, and what a better place than San Francisco for

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something like that to happen than SF and what better person than Harvey Milk,” he said.

Campos said the San Francisco Board of Supervisors could vote on the amendment in as little as two weeks.

Milk became one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the United States when he won a seat on the board of supervisors in 1977, inspiring a generation of activists with his uncompromising call for gays to come out.

He was assassinated at City Hall, along with Mayor George Moscone, more than a year later. His life became the subject of the 2008 Oscar-winning film “Milk.”

The airport renaming, if it is approved, would make him the recipient of an honor most often reserved for former presidents.

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The Gayest Cities in America, by the Numbers Fort Lauderdale makes the list

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ow do you define a “gay city?”

Is it by the number of LGBT businesses it has? The population?

Heavyweight LGBT publication The Advocate decided to look at the facts instead of the fun, and put together a list of gay cities ranked based on the numbers: cities received points for each federal, state, and local official in office or elected in 2012, gayfriendly companies located in the city, and of course, for legalizing gay marriage, among

Here’s the list: 1. Tacoma, Wash.

2. Springfield, Mass.

3. Spokane, Wash.

4. Washington, D.C. 5. Seattle 6. Salt Lake City 7. Eugene, Ore. 8. Madison, Wis. 9. Atlanta 10. Twin Cities, Minn.

11. Oakland, Calif.

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other factors.

“Although we shake up the criteria each year—a mix of more predictable, wellreasoned, and off-the-wall—we never know which cities will make the list until we start tallying the points,” Matthew Breen, editor in chief of The Advocate, said in a statement.

“So it’s a nice surprise to us as well when an unexpected place delivers more gay cred than we expected. But the dialogue this list sparks is the ultimate goal.”

13. Colorado Springs, Colo.

14. Salem, Ore. 15. St. Louis 16. Scottsdale, Ariz.

17. San Francisco 18. Anaheim, Calif.

19. Richmond, Va. 20. Long Beach, Calif.

21. Peoria, Ill. 22. Denver 23. Cincinnati

24. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

25. Sacramento

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NATIONAL NEWS

Christian Media Lashes Out at Neil Patrick Harris Actor lambasted for Super Bowl ad

By Ryan Dixon

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According to an article by Joe Kovacs of WDM, during the Jan. 6 game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens, CBS ran several ad spots that promoted the upcoming Super Bowl the station will be airing on Feb. 3. Some of the ads featured Harris wearing eye black with the date “Feb. 3, 2013” inscribed on it.

Football player and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow is also well known for publicly -- and frequently -- professing his love of God and his Christian faith on his eye black.

His Bible verse inscriptions on his eye black were a mainstay of his uniforms in college.

Kovacs then assumes that Harris and pro-

ducers at CBS were imitating Tebow by using the eye black with inscriptions of the Super Bowl Date in their new ads. Kovacs writes that a football fan,who watched the CBS promo Sunday made the connection between Harris and Tebow, saying, “They’re pushing a gay agenda by using him, and they’re mocking Christians at the same time.”

Kovacs never directly makes any accusations against Harris, but instead leaves his readers a poll to express their opinions. The question posed to readers is: Is CBS mocking Tim Tebow and/or Christians in its Super Bowl ads? The number one answer with more than half of the over 1,000 votes is “Yes and every effort should be made to boycott CBS and its advertisers.”

Other answers included, “Yes, in the subtle way TV networks use images to slowly undermine Christianity,” “Yes, it’s mocking,

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but it’s in a fun way, not mean-spirited” and “No, Neil Patrick Harris’ homosexuality has nothing to do with the ads.” The latter only received one percent of the votes.

Kovacs’ readers sound off in the comment section of the article too, with the vast majority of them agreeing with the top answer of the poll.

“That’s okay, let the gays poke fun at Tebow. We know where he’s going and we know where they are going if they don’t repent! People tend to poke fun at things they don’t understand. I admire Tebow for standing up for his religious convictions! Good for him!” one commenter named Karlly wrote.

Another commenter, Mike Bratton, likened homosexuality to an addiction, such as alcohol.

“Deviant sexual behaviors such as homosexuality are nothing but abnormal. And it’s when people understand that they have a problem that they can find a solution for that problem,” the commenter wrote.

Commenters also reported that Beyoncé also appeared in a similar ad, but nothing has been made of her portrayal.

This isn’t the first time that eye black has caused a stir. SFGN reported in September that former Toronto Blue Jays’ shortstop Yunel Escobar was suspended three games for writing a homophobic slur in Spanish

on his eye black.

As of press time, CBS did not return phone calls from SFGN and Kovacs didn’t return an email seeking comment.

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CBS Super Bowl ad featuring gay television star Neil Patrick Harris is being slammed by a conservative media outlet for mocking Christi-

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NATIONAL NEWS

NATIONAL NEWS

Breakfast at Cody’s Victory!

Lucky Charms cereal, used in gay porn scene, stirs legal controversy

By Ryan Dixon

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ay porn studios are trying hard to find ways to keep content on their sites fresh and original. Sexy themes are one way to get people to come back, but Next Door Studios (NDS) has taken sexy to a whole new level. Lucky Charms has been turned into a ‘sex prop’ for a recent porn shoot.

First reported by the gay porn blog thesword.com, NDS depicted codycummings. com namesake Cody Cummings and Jayden Ellis in an explicit scene with a box of General Mills’ Lucky Charms cereal and a glass of milk.

The cereal and milk are both pictured while being poured by Ellis over Cummings’ behind, flowing over his anus and testicles, ending up in a bowl on a couch. Spoiler Alert: it ends with Cummings ejaculating into a spoonful of the cereal, which Ellis then eats. Another General Mills slogan, “Breakfast of Champions,” is the title of the scene.

When contacted by SFGN, NDS owner Stephan Sirard explained he was unaware of the use of the trademark slogan in the film, citing editors and producers make those decisions.

“Using that trademark was a bad idea and it will be changed,” he said. Sirard added that his studio has been “using props for 14 years” and that they have “never had a problem come of it.”

While Sirard said no company has ever sent a cease and desist letter to NDS, he indicated his company would likely comply with it if such a letter was ever sent. He admits using someone else’s trademark could possibly cause problems with some companies.

In an email to SFGN, General Mills’ Director of Public Relations Kirstie Foster wrote “We were unaware of this video.” She added though, “a company’s options can be somewhat limited in such cases.” Foster

declined to say whether General Mills was planning on taking legal action. But a wellknown Fort Lauderdale attorney, intellectual property specialist Miriam Richter, told SFGN that NDS could potentially be facing legal ramifications.

Richter said that General Mill’s remarks could be interpreted in two ways, that either General Mills doesn’t care, or the situation is working its way up the line from public relations to a legal department.

“If you do not monitor the marketplace for misuse of your product, then you lose your trademark and it becomes generic — no longer special,” Richter said.

Richter specified that copyrights protect authors, artists and similar types of people whereas “trademarks are creatures of commerce.

A trademark tells you who is behind the good you are using.”

“When you grab a box of Lucky Charms, you see the name General Mills and expect a certain type of quality,” Richter said. “The trademark lets people know what to expect inside the box.”

According to her, General Mills has a perfectly legitimate case: Cereal in porn isn’t the same as cereal in the morning at breakfast.

“If I were General Mills’ counsel, I’d tell them the time to pursue legal action is now. It’s a brand that you don’t want in [the porn market].” She added that using the cereal in the porn is not where the manufacture intended it to be used. “This is an inappropriate use of the product. It’s no longer that thing General Mills intended it to be anymore.” , Richter said.

Meanwhile, since first contacted by SFGN, Next Door Studios has changed the title of the film from “Breakfast of Champions” to “More than a Mouthful.” Enough Said.

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Gay vets ousted by DADT get full separation pay

By Sergio N. Candido

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ay and lesbian U.S. Army veterans only to be forced out against our will for being who were honorably discharged who we are,” said Richard Collins, a former due to their sexual orientation will staff sergeant in the Air Force who served now receive full separation pay for nine years until he was discharged under DADT. thanks to a court settlement.

“We gave all we had to our country, and just Even after “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” was repealed, a statute that remained unchanged wanted the same dignity and respect for our ordered LGBT service members discharged service as any other veterans.” for “homosexuality” to received half the separation pay -- the equivalent of severance pay in other jobs -- from the U.S. government.

Approximately 181 honorably discharged LGBT veterans will get $2.4 million in compensation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

“There was absolutely no need to subject these service members to a double dose of discrimination by removing them from the armed forces in the first place, and then denying them this small benefit to ease the transition to civilian life,” Laura Schauer Ives, managing attorney for the ACLU of New Mexico, said in a statement. “This decision represents a long-delayed justice to these veterans.”

The settlement covers gay service members who were discharged on or after Nov. 10, 2004.

“This means so much to those of us who dedicated ourselves to the military, Gaga addresses the crowd at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

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NATIONAL NEWS

Hostile pastor will not cast shadow over LGBT inaugural activities

By Lisa Keen

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t was almost déjà vu all over again.

To deliver the benediction at his second inauguration January 21, President Obama chose a pastor who had called homosexuality “probably the greatest addiction” and said marriage between samesex partners is “absolutely undermining the whole order of our society.”

But this time around –unlike in 2009, when President-elect Obama chose California evangelist Rick Warren to deliver the benediction—the pastor with such hostile views of LGBT people withdrew his participation in the high-profile national event.

Meanwhile, President Obama also chose an openly gay poet to participate in the public inauguration event, the Lesbian and Gay Band Association has been included in the line-up of parade contingents, and the Human Rights Campaign will host an LGBT Inaugural Ball with tickets running $375 each.

But this time around, the LGBT events will not be overshadowed by concerns over whether the president-elect will be supportive of the LGBT community. President Obama’s first term has secured his position in history

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as the most pro-gay president. And there will be no discomfort this time from having to watch a pastor with active opposition to equal rights for gays on the national stage at the inauguration.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio’s participation on Wednesday, January 9, but Giglio issued a statement Thursday, January 10, withdrawing his acceptance.

Addie Whisenant, a spokesperson for the Inaugural Committee, said Giglio himself decided to withdraw from the ceremony.

In his statement, Giglio said he respectfully withdrew because he was concerned that his prayer would be “dwarfed” by negative reaction to comments he made “15-20 years ago.” Giglio did not specify which comments or what his topic had been, but he was clearly reacting to early reports in social media, beginning with ThinkProgress.org, that he had delivered a sermon in the 1990s that was “vehemently anti-gay.”

Using the White House’s “We the People” petition tool, “Jeffrey C.” of New York created a petition January 9 asking the president to “Replace anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio for the

benediction at the inauguration with a proLGBT member of the clergy.”

The petition compared Giglio to California evangelist Rick Warren, who was asked to deliver the benediction in 2009 just months after Warren had helped pass the California ban on marriage for same-sex couples.

“There are many members of the clergy active in the cause of civil rights and who have long been on the front lines of the fight for LGBT equality,” stated the petition.

“As we told you four years ago, selecting a Christian fundamentalist who has a record of antigay sermons is offensive and unnecessary.

Therefore, we call on you to replace Giglio and to select a member of the clergy with a history of supporting LGBT equality to give the benediction at your second inaugural.”

As of Thursday morning, the petition had 1,004 signatures.

National LGBT groups had not even formulated a response when Giglio issued his withdrawal, and they clearly supported Giglio’s bowing out.

"It was the right decision,” said Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin.

“Participants in the Inaugural festivities should unite rather than divide.”

Darlene Nipper, deputy executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said NGLTF had let the White House know of its “grave concerns” about the choice of Giglio, given his “history of anti-gay statements” and “spiritual abuse of LGBT people.”

“Having him deliver the benediction was a divisive choice, and we applaud his removal from the program,” said Nipper.

Given the widespread discontent expressed by the LGBT community in 2009 over Rick Warren’s selection, it was no doubt a surprise to many that President Obama would select another LGBT-hostile voice for his second inauguration. It appears, however, the president may have been unaware of Giglio’s LGBT sermon from the 1990s. Some news reports indicated Giglio had been chosen because of his work to stop human trafficking.

The sermon that came back to haunt him was a rambling one, claiming the Bible

says homosexuals should be put to death, ridiculing studies suggesting homosexuality is rooted in genetics, and repeating the oft cited Biblical characterization of “men lying

with men” as an “abomination.” Giglio said homosexual behaviors were “impure things,” “depraved,” “unnatural,” “indecent,” and “pollutes our world.”

While everyone is entitled to basic human rights, said Giglio in the sermon, homosexuals are “not entitled to be recognized as a married couple and family under God that can adopt children…as if this is a normal thing in society.” Homosexual marriage, he said, is “absolutely undermining the whole order of our society.”

Giglio and his wife head the Passion City Church in Atlanta, which focuses its ministry on college-aged young people.

Meanwhile, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Wednesday that it has chosen an openly gay poet to present a poem written for the highest profile event, the presidential inauguration stage. A Cuban immigrant, educated as a civil engineer, and living in rural Maine, Richard Blanco represents a number of constituency groups.

In a statement released by the inaugural committee, President Obama said he was honored to have Blanco present the inaugural poem.

"His contributions to the fields of poetry and the arts have already paved a path forward for future generations of writers,” said Obama in the statement. “Richard's writing will be wonderfully fitting for an Inaugural that will celebrate the strength of the American people and our nation's great diversity."

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LOCAL NEWS

Five Fabulous Thrift Store Years Out of the Closet celebrates five-year anniversary this month

By Dori Zinn testing operations. For every dollar spent in the store, 96 cents contributes to free HIV/ AIDS testing, medications for people who can’t afford them and patient advocacy.

“That $1 you only think is just a $1 is saving

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someone’s life. It’s not just a thrift store to get a deal,” Stanley said. Stores rely solely on donations from the public.

And not just donations from the gay community, but the entire South Florida

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hen Paul Stanley arrived in South Florida by way of Rhode Island nearly five years ago, his sole purpose was to stay by his ill father. After his father passed away, Stanley planned on going back home, but saw an opening for a cashier position at the Out of the Closet thrift store in Wilton Manors.

“I saw a sign on the building and that said they were looking,” Stanley said. “I applied, got the job, and haven’t left since.”

In the last five years, Stanley has worked his way up from cashier to store manager to district manager of retail operations — the title he holds now. Out of the Closet will celebrate their five-year South Florida anniversary on Jan. 25. Since their California birth a quarter of a century ago, the thrift store has opened 22 locations. All but one — in Amsterdam - are in the U.S. Out of the Closet was born out of the mind of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Co-Founder Michael Weinstein.

AHF originally started in 1987 as AIDS Hospice Forms, but transitioned to AIDS Healthcare Foundation in 1990, the same year the first Out of the Closet opened.

The thrift store is the only retailer where proceeds go to HIV/AIDS medical care. Plus, it serves as a clinic and free testing facility for those who are looking to get tested.

It’s also a full pharmacy for the entire community — not just those living with HIV/AIDS. The pharmacy takes insurance just like any other clinic.

The testing center has trained staffers who not only administer test results, but also support patients if their test results come back positive.

“They don’t just come in, get tested, and we throw them out,” Stanley said. “We take care of them.”

Out of the Closet pharmacists and technicians connect patients to doctors and the medical attention they need. It’s more than just a thrift store.

But the thrift store is what helps run the

community. Between the four South Florida stores — Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and South Beach — the thrift store has two trucks that go out five days a week for furniture pick-ups or donations from people that are unable to drop off at a store.

While Stanley says they don’t have any South Florida expansion plans yet, they are always looking for locations that are a good match for the store as well as the pharmacy.

For more information, visit www. outofthecloset.org or AIDS Healthcare Foundation at www.aidshealth.org

If You Go Where: Out of the Closet 2097 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors, FL 33305 When: Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m.to 5 p.m.

How Much: Specials all day, including 20% off furniture.

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LOCAL NEWS

Supporting Women Everywhere Aqua Foundation for Women awards annual grants to LBT organizations

By Lulu Ramadan

Gilda’s Club of South Florida provides the community with a network of support groups and organized activities to support people in the community living with cancer and their families and friends. Gilda’s Club will be using the $5,000 in grant money to organize “Women Supporting Women” — a support group for LBT women struggling with cancer.

“We’re hoping to increase cancer awareness and promote a healthy lifestyle,” CEO of Gilda’s Club Shelley Goren said.

“We’re expecting to serve about 90 people.”

Pridelines Youth Services provides a safe haven for at-risk LBGTQ youth.

They organize events and programs and network with other organizations to get atrisk youth help with issues like homelessness and suicidal actions. They arranged a threeday youth leadership retreat at Hugh Taylor

Birch Park beginning Jan. 18 and the $4,000 of the $9,000 in grant money awarded will sponsor the attendance of 23 LBT women at the camping trip. The other $5,000 will be used to fund a variety of workshops for LBT women ranging from gender and sexuality to health-related workshops, according to Pridelines’ Director of Programs Luigi Ferrer.

“The camp experience will be great for them. A lot of youth don’t have much experience with other LGBT youth. It’ll be great for them to see other and many of the counselors are gay and lesbian which will provide them with adult role models,” Ferrer said.

SunServe provides members of the LGBTQ community with support groups and counseling services. Using the grant money awarded from the Aqua Foundation, SunServe will be organizing support groups and educating people on intimate partner violence in the LBT community, according to the Aqua Foundation.

The Pride Center at Equality Park hosts more than 60 group meetings per month that address issues facing the LGBT community. They organize activities and services to educate the public on health and safety issues and promote pride in the LBGT community. The Pride Center at Equality Park is using the grant money to create an online health directory so women can search for physicians and keep the LBT community informed about health issues.

According to Robin Schwartz of the Aqua Foundation, this $15,000 grant is the most impactful grant awarded this year.

“A lot of women don’t go to the doctor because of fear of discrimination or sometimes just embarrassment,” Schwartz said. “This directory is going to save lives because women will be able to go get checkups instead of waiting until something is wrong.”

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Women on the Rise” program provides young women between the ages of 12 and 18 with access to hands-on art projects, meetings with noted women artists, and information on how art can address issues

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affecting women like body image and relationships, according to their website, mocanomi.org. The money awarded will be used to continue the program and focus on artistic initiatives for LBT women.

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he LBT community just got $50,000 richer.

The Aqua Foundation for Women — a foundation that works to improve the LBT community through grants, scholarships, and mentoring programs — announced the winners of this year’s grants on Jan. 4. The Aqua Foundation awards annual grants to organizations that promote equality, wellness, and empowerment for LBT women. The grants have been awarded every year since 2005 and this year, $50,000 in grants was given to seven organizations in Broward and Dade counties.

“Each year we award grants to organizations that fit what we are trying to accomplish in the community,” Executive Director of the Aqua Foundation Robin Schwartz said.

“Everything we do benefits the lesbian, bisexual, transgender women’s community.

Each of the organizations will be using the grant money to fund initiatives ranging from cultural enrichment to youth services.

Executive Director of the Aqua Foundation, Robin Schwartz at the Aqua Foundation Aqua Ally Awards in February 2012

PFLAG Ft. Lauderdale is an organization that meets to discuss issues facing the LGBT community and advocates for equal opportunity for and the ending of discrimination. Last year, the Aqua Foundation’s grant money funded an outreach program for at-risk LGBT and this year’s grant money will fund the continuation of the program, according to PFLAG’s Facebook page.

Safe Schools South Florida’s promotes safer schools by hosting training programs and seminars to advocate equal rights and opportunity for LGBT youth.

Their “Women in Training” program educates LBT women in public speaking and encourages them to get involved in the community. According to their website, safeschoolsouthflorida.org, the grant money will be used for the second year in a row to continue the growth and development of this program.

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LOCAL NEWS

Pride Center in Paradise Wilton Manors group to hold second annual fundraiser

By Dori Zinn

Where: Richardson Historic Park Manor House 1937 Wilton Manor Dr Wilton Manors, FL 33305

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Attendees at the inaugural Evening in Paradise benefitting the Pride Center. Held at the beautiful home of Board Member Jim Walker and his partner, Lee Rubin, the first Evening in Paradise in 2011 raised over $50,000. Irwin Drucker and Joe Guerrero co-chaired the party of the season alongside Lee and Jim. Over 300 guests enjoyed open bar, food, music and entertainment. This year’s Evening in Paradise is this Saturday at The Richardson Historic Park Manor House.

Photo by steven shires

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hile many around the country are bundled up in boots and long johns the middle of winter, South Floridians get to experience the season where 75 degrees is normal temperature — perfect for An Evening in Paradise.

For the second year, The Pride Center at Equality Park is holding the fundraiser An Evening in Paradise on Jan. 19 at the Richardson Historic Park Manor House, with proceeds benefiting the center and Island City Foundation.

Pride Center CEO Robert Boo says it is the collaboration with the City of Wilton Manors that made using the Manor House possible.

“The city approached us about doing a collaboration with the event and donating some proceeds to Island City,” Boo said. The Island City Foundation - created in 1997 - supports public services for city residents, like education, economic development, and social services. This is the first year The Pride Center has teamed up with Wilton Manors and the Island City Foundation.

Last year, the event was held at the house of one of the cochairs and it raised $50,000 from the 300 guests. This year, Boo hopes to get $75,000 and 400 people to attend. With generous donations from caterers and businesses to donate services, Boo says it’s a great way to market themselves.

Bobby Kyser Panache Style designed the theme for the event, Step Into Temptation.

“There’s going to be crazy, over-the-top decorations, like human-size picture frames with body art behind it posing,” Boo says.

VIP guests who pay a premium will have dedicated bars.

There will be a DJ on hand, a red carpet, and a silent auction.

Boo said the majority of the event will be held outside and “Florida cocktail” attire is requested. Wells Fargo, AHF Pharmacy and Panache Style are among a few of the sponsors.

VIP Tickets are $150 while General Admission is $100.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

For more information, go to www.pridecenterflorida.org.

When: Saturday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m.

How Much: $100 to $150

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LOCAL NEWS

Working Against Bullying

HRC South Florida, Broward County Schools & Nonprofits Present Anti-Bullying Summit

By Andrea Dulanto “Growing Up LGBT in America,” a report by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), found that 21 percent of LGBT youth (ages 13-17) identified school and/or bullying as the most important problem in their lives.

That’s 21 percent of LGBT youth who could be focused on more productive problems like applying for their first summer internship or researching colleges. That’s 21 percent of LGBT youth who may only see school as a place that doesn’t accept them for who they are.

HRC South Florida offers one possible solution to the problem of bullying — the Anti-Bullying Summit at Sunrise Middle School in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Jan. 23.

According to the HRC news release, “the goal of the Summit is to educate students, faculty, administrators, legislators, and our local community about the dangers of bullying and identifying ways to prevent it in our community.” Speakers and workshops will cover different aspects of bullying such as “verbal, physical, social alienation and

cyber bullying of all types of students including LGBT.” Andy McNeill, Chair of HRC South Florida, also elaborated on how “the Summit is developed around an anti-bullying play that will be performed by students from Sunrise Middle School.” According to McNeill, participants of the Summit will discuss the play in small groups led by facilitators, and will then share ideas with the entire group.

Broward County Public Schools and Sunrise Middle School have partnered Michael and Carmen from “What Do You Know? Six to twelve year-olds talk about gays and lesbians” with HRC on this event, affirming HRC’s initiative South Florida Family Pride, SunServe, Aqua public to see them as normal, treat them with to provide safe schools for everyone, not just for LGBT students. Foundation for Women and Safe Schools equality and accept them as they are,” she said.

In addition, several nonprofits have come South Florida.

Mandi Hawke, program coordinator for The Summit hopes to encourage together to work on the Summit, including Youth Services at SunServe, discussed the connection between individuals as well as significance of this effort. organizations.

“At SunServe, we believe that partnering “Our approach is to provide a stage where with other organizations, non-profit or all stakeholders can come together and join otherwise, shows the community the power the conversation and take it back into their of unity,” she said. everyday lives,” said McNeill. “If we don’t talk McNeill added that “any group who wishes about bullying, then it cannot be solved. We to partner and join forces on this event is believe the HRC South Florida Anti-Bullying encouraged. We will continue to grow the Summit is one of many steps our community support network for what is a very worthy can take to foster the conversation.” cause.”

For more information, go to http://bit.ly/ As evidence of this support, McNeill UYWYsG confirmed that the mayor of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Mayor Jack Seiler, is scheduled to be in attendance.

McNeill recounted how this first Summit was initiated by a visit to Washington D.C. during HRC Lobby Days.

“Each year HRC South Florida meet[s] Where: with each member of the South Florida Sunrise Middle School Congressional Caucus,” said McNeill. “We 1750 Northeast 14th St. outline HRC’s major legislative initiatives.

Fort Lauderdale, FL Two of those are currently in relation to bullying.”

When: After meeting with a number of Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 representatives’ offices including that of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Alcee Hastings 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Frederica Wilson, HRC South Florida concluded: “There was great interest in How Much: holding a local summit to ensure an ongoing Free and open to the conversation would continue and to generate PublicRSVP is required support for the [bullying] initiatives.” at HRC South Florida on When considering the particular needs of Facebook or email hrcsfl@ LGBT youth, Hawke said that the youth just gmail.com seeks normalcy.

“They just want schools, parents and the

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PASSAGES

Popular Local Bartender Passes Away

By SFGN Staff

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ene Fernandez Cintora, 36, passed away on Dec. 30, 2012. He is survived by his parents, Patricia and Rene; his sister, Paola; and brother, Roberto.

Born in Guatemala, Cintora was a Fort Lauderdale resident who worked at several establishments on Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. He most recently worked at the Pink Submarine and Infinity Lounge.

The passing of Cintora has left many in the local community saddened by the loss of what they are calling a good friend.

Dawn Cohen Holloway, owner of the Pink Submarine in Wilton Manors, worked with Cintora at her submarine shop frequently.

“He was an amazing person to work with,” Holloway said. “He had a smile that never ends.”

Cintora’s smile is a reoccurring theme on the guestbook for his obituary on legacy.com.

Wilton Manors resident Tony George was sad to hear of Cintora’s passing saying, “Your smile lit up any bar and you brought the same light to those around you.”

Cintora’s family held a service for him on Jan. 3 at Guiding Light in Hollywood, Florida.

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Manford became an outspoken gay rights advocate in 1972 after her activist son, Monty, was beaten by police during a demonstration in New York City. She went on to found a local support group there for other parents the next year. In those days, many of the group's members were struggling to accept their children's sexual orientations.

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LOCAL NEWS

Palm Beach County AIDS Activist Dies

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arry Leed, a former employee of the Comprehensive AIDS Program (CAP) in Palm Beach County, recently died.

He was 62.

Born in New York (Staten Island), Larry attended Ricker College in Houlton, Maine.

His first career was in banking: he worked at The Bank of New York and Mitsui Bank, which involved international travel, especially to Japan.

At the age of 40, Larry decided to make a life change, and he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. He approached CAP and accepted an entry-level position as an administrative assistant.

He quickly demonstrated his professionalism, compassion, and ability to get things done and over the years was promoted to Deputy Executive Director.

Larry was involved in guiding the Board of Directors through a strategic planning process that led to the creation of FoundCare, Inc., which operates a community health

center. He led the agency through acquiring a building and doing major renovations to build-out the health center. Larry also served as Chief Operating Officer of FoundCare, until his retirement from CAP and FoundCare in March of 2011.

Larry’s friends and coworkers remember him as fun-loving, inclined to laugh, and always ready with a hug and a smile.

After retiring, Larry moved to Costa Rica, a place he had traveled to a number of times.

CAP and FoundCare are hosting a memorial service on Friday, January 18 at 4 p.m. at 2330 South Congress Avenue in West Palm Beach to honor Larry. The Board of Directors has established the “Larry Leed Memorial Fund” with the proceeds to benefit clients with needs that are unable to be met through other funding sources. Donations can be made online at: https://www.foundcare.org/CAP-LarryLeed

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Mark My Words

LGBT leaders do not want your parents?

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By Mark Segal

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or most of you, the reactions you one homophobe in this city was a man who got when you came out to your became mayor. John Street, after intense parents and the statements they conversations, soon learned about and came subsequently made would — if to appreciate the LGBT community. Before made public — most likely rule them out as his term was out he presided at the wedding contenders for the role of U.S. Secretary of of one of his staffers and his partner in City Defense, according to some of our wise LGBT Hall. Street’s gradual acceptance opened the leaders. floodgates for funding for gay organizations President Obama’s nominee for Secretary and for support for LGBT legislation. It’s in of Defense is former Nebraska Senator our best interest to work to make people Chuck Hagel. Some LGBT leaders have change, rather then automatically counting opposed Hagel since way back in 1998, when them out.

President Bill Clinton nominated gay-rights So, I'm not ready to count Hagel as an activist James Hormel to be ambassador enemy, but I’m open to him proving to our to Luxembourg, and Hagel called Hormel community that he’s our friend and will fight “openly, aggressively gay.” The idea of his for our inclusion and equality. That will come comment was clear: that we Americans during the Senate confirmation hearings. should not be represented by a gay person When asked his views, we’ll discover if he’s abroad. His voting record on LGBT-rights still stuck in 1998 or if like many, including legislation was no better. some of your parents, he’s advanced.

Let’s examine those first two paragraphs If you’re basing your opposition on his together now and think how your parents statements from 1998, give us, your parents first reacted when you came out, then how and our president a break and assess his they are reacting towards you now. The ability based on his current positions. None chances are with them getting to see how of which any of you know as of yet, unless LGBT people actually are, they have changed you have ESP. their views quite dramatically.

Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s While I don't know Hagel or his personal views, I know he has apologized for that 1998 most-award-winning commentator in LGBT remark. For me that is not enough, and I'll media. He can be reached at mark@epgn.com. explain from experience what would be.

If we as a community refused to work with people who only shared our views of equality in the past, then we’d never pass any legislation. The point is to win over allies. So what someone said in the past is the past — but only if they have progressed in some capacity on the issue.

Philadelphia’s domesticpartners bill became law after we won over a councilman who publicly called LGBT people queers and fairies. He became the swing vote. His comments were worse then Hagel’s, and we won him over to full equality. If we would have counted him out, we’d not have passed domesticpartner legislation. At one point, the numberformer United States Senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel

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By Karl Hampe

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McNaught’s Notes

Perspective is Everything

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here is a passage in the Tao te Ching that asks if you can quiet your mind before taking action. “Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?” In another Buddhist/Taoist reading, the author describes the agitated mind as a jar of water and sand that has been shaken. The path to right thought, speech, and action is to let the sand settle before opening your mouth.

I’ve struggled over the holidays to let my sand settle. My spirit has been vexed to such an extent that I haven’t trusted my own feelings. Like so many others, my heart was torn apart by the murder of the schoolchildren in Connecticut, and I couldn’t shake my sadness. I was frightened by our divisive national election, and by the angry responses to its results. And I was grieved by the Pope’s decision to preach on Christmas Day about the global threat of marriage equality rather than on the promise of peace to people of good will. The holidays increase my expectations of good will, but I felt little

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By Brian McNaught peace. I tried to be present in each moment of my days. I kept things simple in my mind.

I avoided newspaper reports of human suffering, and I focused on my breathing. But I still felt emotionally spent by the lack of human decency I saw around me.

It was spending a week with my 18-monthold grand nephew, Easton, that pulled me out of my malaise. Carefully watching him explore with wonder the new world of our home, and seeing how he reacted to the unconditional love of his parents, and of his doting great uncles, fed my soul. It reminded me of the true beauty of life, and of the importance of experiencing it without fear. This innocent soul was unaware of the meanness that dominated newspaper headlines.

Because of that small child, and the good will that surrounded him, my sand is finally settling. I trust my observations, and feel more serene. In reflection, I’m struck once again by the belief that the freedom we feel to live full, happy lives depends heavily

upon our perspective of our purpose. And, our ability to live in safety and dignity often depends upon the perspective of those who make the rules that govern our lives.

Some people believe that we must sacrifice ourselves for the common good. For instance, it is thought by some people that when gay people marry, we threaten the moral fabric of society. Therefore, we should be willing to accept a diminished status for our relationships. If we refuse, laws must be passed to stop us from having equal rights. The Pope called on the leaders of all religions to join him in this very personal war.

Other people believe that their primary responsibility in life is to their own personal freedom, regardless of the impact it has on others. No one has the right to tell them they can’t do something. The militias that have appeared in extraordinary numbers in the United States are an example of such people. They are heavily armed hate groups, and they have become more agitated by the re-election of our black President.

Most of us fall in between the two extremes, believing that our calling is to become the best people we can be, yet also be willing to make some sacrifices of personal freedom for the greater good. We don’t talk in movie theaters. We obey driving regulations. We do things that help ensure the safety, dignity, and happiness of others.

Our willingness to make these sacrifices ends, though, when the happiness of other individuals impacts our own safety, dignity, and happiness, or that of others. For instance, it might make someone happy to remove all of the gay-positive books from the school library, but we’re going to fight to stop that from happening.

I believe that our life experiences heavily influence our perspective on the degree to which personal sacrifices should be made for the common good. The easier our life has been, the less we understand the oppression of others, and the less we want our happiness threatened by the needs of others. Few people would argue that in the United States today, heterosexual, white, male Christians have more opportunities than any others to feel safe and valued in their pursuit of happiness.

They have privileges that others don’t have.

The majority of this demographic voted for Republican candidates in the last election.

If those with privilege better understood the lives of those with less privilege, they might be less inclined to argue that these

individuals should sacrifice their freedom for the common good. If those with privilege better understood the experiences of those who voted for President Obama, they might be less confused and angry about the results of the election. If the Pope had a better personal connection to gay people, he might be less inclined to suggest that we are less worthy as human beings.

I want young Easton, and all children, to always feel the complete support and unconditional love of their families, and of those who govern their lives. Right now, the world in which he is growing is like a jar of water and sand that has been violently shaken. He needs, I need, and all of us need to have that sand settle. Without that happening, there can be no right thought, right speech, or right behavior.

Can we coax our minds from our fears, and keep to our original oneness?

Brian McNaught was named “the godfather of gay diversity training” by The New York Times. He works with corporate executives globally, is the author of six books, and is featured in seven educational DVDs. He and his spouse Ray Struble divide their year between Ft. Lauderdale and Provincetown.

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Pink Martini

Publisher’s Editorial

Call a Spade a Spade

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n the past few weeks, we have had to edit quite a few defamatory remarks posted in the comments section regarding a news article we did on the closing of Matty’s Bar on Wilton Drive in the Manors.

The bar had been in litigation with the Alibi in Wilton Plaza. The owners of the Alibi secured a $750,00 judgment against some persons associated with Matty’s. That judgment led to the bar’s demise.

With its ‘Wild Wednesdays’ and 75 cent drinks, Matty’s had become pretty popular.

Consequently, a number of commentators

By Norm Kent more than one occasion, he had to go to court to stop a former employee from quitting on a Monday and going to work for his competitor on a Tuesday. He would win because equity and fairness was on his side. The Alibi and its owners, Jackson Padgett and Mark Negrete, not only had to pay the sellers money for their bar, they then had to go to court for two years and pay attorneys to sue the guys who took their money and then breached their agreement.

They won a judgment and had the right to enforce it. The sellers broke the rules,

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discussing the closing took some really vicious hard shots at the Alibi for being ‘ruthless’ and mean. Give me a break. Let’s call a spade a spade.

The owners of the Alibi paid a lot of money for their nightclub. In exchange for purchasing it, they got a written promise from the guys they gave the money to that they would not use that money to go down the block and compete against them.

As Jason Bell, the former owner of Hotspots noted in his own comment, “A non-compete is a standard clause in every business transaction sometimes even including certain employees that leave a business restricting them from gaining employment with a competing business within a defined area the business they left services...all parties agree to the terms and the distance.”

Jason knows of what he speaks, and on

and they paid the price for it. This is not about the Alibi not being a good neighbor or sharing the wealth. Gay bar or straight employee, it is about honoring agreements and obeying the contracts you sign. The Alibi is one of the more magnanimous and philanthropic gay business entities in Wilton Manors, sponsoring everything from ‘A Taste of the Island’ to gay softball teams, multiple charities, and a lot more to boot.

The duty of this newspaper is to illuminate the lives of the LGBT community with its achievements and promise. But it can’t turn a blind eye to the warts and the wounds, which adversely impact us, whether it is a gay realtor who stole from his clients or it is a gay business that defaults on its obligation to other businesses. As for Matty’s, it got what it deserved: an eviction notice.

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The Transvestigator

South Florida Spoof Scam Targets Transgender Women

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f you think it’s safe to answer a call on your mobile phone by glancing at the caller ID — think again.

It’s called “caller ID spoofing,” and while it’s legal in some situations, a recent number of criminal cases have security experts questioning if the law should be changed.

“Spoofcard” and “TraceBust” are two of the more prominent caller ID spoofing services available. For a fee, users can camouflage their caller ID to be any number they want. Users can also mask or change their voice to be either a masculine or feminine caller of any age, which will fool anyone. It’s important to note that it is only legal as long as it’s not used with the intent to defraud or cause harm.

Spoofcard and TraceBust promote themselves as a fun and legal way to pull a phone prank on someone, but a few local Broward County transsexuals would disagree as they recently became victims of a spoofer’s scam seeking to extort them for cash.

The transgender victims offered to come forward with the details of their allegations under the conditions of anonymity, and by agreement to only be referred to by their first names.

The scammer, who identifies himself as male, began calling TS Angel earlier in January and demanded that she send him $150 through Western Union immediately, or he threatened to make her life a living hell. Because the scammer utilized “spoofing technology,” he claims the incoming calls are untraceable and hails that he will never be caught.

After Angel refused to wire him the cash, the scammer placed her phone number into a computer “auto-dial” prankster web program in which her mobile phone began to ring — nonstop — every 30 seconds — for over a week. The calls display themselves on caller ID as all different area codes from across North America and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. Or is there?

“My life has been turned completely upside down since this started last week and I will stop at nothing until this person is caught and prosecuted for this illegal activity,” said TS Angel. “Over 4,000 phone calls have been recorded streaming into my cell phone by a monitoring service that I was forced to purchase to protect myself from this tyrant.”

In every case reported thus far, the

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By Victoria Michaels spoof scammer instructs his transgender victims to wire $150 cash utilizing a secret password and answer so that a photo ID is not required to pick up the alleged extorted

This “spoof” story has repeated itself time and time again as three other victims in South Florida have come forward to report the same exact “extortion scam” coming into their mobile phones. It’s reported by all transgender victims that the scammer calls the T-girls and claims that he is collecting a debt for an unsatisfied admirer. He orders the T-girls to pay the debt via Western Union or he threatens to “force the girls to change their phone numbers” that he claims he knows is of value to them.

An eerily similar mode of operation is reported by TS JoJo from West Palm Beach who stated, “This individual/scammer called me relentlessly in September 2012

a screen shot of the “spoofcard” app.

funds. However, because he has already picked up cash on two separate occasions that officials are aware of, it’s very likely that video surveillance of the spoof scammer does exist and authorities are checking into it. For these victims, justice can’t come soon enough.

and claimed he is a computer geek [and] has nothing better to do with his time than to extort cash from vulnerable T-girls in South Florida. It wasn’t until December of 2012 that I had enough of his pranks and I decided it best to Western Union him $150 cash — at which time the calls stopped.”

The federal Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 made spoofing illegal when used to defraud, cause harm or obtain something of value from a person by fraudulent means.

On June 22, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission announced it would levy fines of $10,000 per offense and up to $1 million for any single spoofing violation, reported GoErie.com.

Laws may vary state by state, however, in most states like Florida, it is considered a felony if convicted. Extortion is an entirely separate crime, which applies in these reports.

A third victim, TS Tina in Fort Lauderdale, reports that her spoof scam misery began just this week. After learning how many other victims have been affected, she decided to hire a private investigator to help hunt down the person responsible for taking advantage of so many of her fellow transsexual sisters in South Florida.

“I am truly sympathetic towards everyone who’s lives have been disrupted and terrorized by this very sick person who feels the need to prey on the T-Community while hiding like a coward behind computer technology. My heart goes out to all of the victims in this growing epidemic in the Fort Lauderdale area, and also for the scammer himself as I am a firm believer in karma being a very powerful defense,” TS Tina said.

A fourth individual the “spoofer” has preyed upon is TS Rochelle, who fell victim in November 2012, and eventually did wire the spoof scammer $150 cash to have it stop. In her particular case she says that she received a confirmation email from Western Union, which reports the time and location where the money was received – something that may prove to be helpful for law enforcement and investigators.

CEO of TelTech (SpoofCard), Meir Cohen, told KOMO News, “It may be deceiving to put in someone else’s number, but it’s not a crime. However, our company will hand over a user’s call history to authorities if it gets a court order to do so.”

Sue Sperry, spokeswoman for AT&T, said many of the complaints AT&T receives center around automatic dialers, or robocallers.

“These are offshore computers that dial constantly and constantly with millions of numbers.” as in these cases in South Florida.

The Federal Trade Commission and states also have the authority to investigate, and in the states’ case, prosecute spoofers.

Anyone who feels they’ve been spoofed should register a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission — report the crime immediately to local law enforcement — contact their cell phone carrier immediately to report the abuse and keep record of the incoming calls — and please contact the author of this column as to go on record for this on-going case.

Email VictoriaMichaels@aol.com for more information.

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he first time I was introduced to Holocaust history was in the fourth grade. As we were leaving our last class before winter break, my teacher Miss Kirkland handed us our reading assignment. I looked down at the hardcover book and read the title: “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Great. I hated history and now it was going to invade my vacation time. I had no premonition that 30 years from then, I would be a part of an organization that would host a traveling museum exhibit dedicated to the Holocaust.

As I hid under my bed covers reading all night, I was transported back in time through the portal of the pages. Anne’s deepest thoughts, feelings and optimistic outlook never left my mind.

Over the years, I would learn about the victims of the Holocaust through the pages of my high school history book and then again when my daughter went on her 6th grade class trip to Washington, D.C. A visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum had been on the permission slip and I didn’t think anything about what my daughter would be seeing, only that I was glad the opportunity to visit the our nation’s capital was afforded to her. And again, I thought about Anne.

It was only two years ago, when Compass would bring me to a life changing experience held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. to speak to the museum staff about the return of their traveling exhibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 19331945” to Compass to commemorate our 25th Anniversary.

Compass, was the first gay and lesbian organization to ever host this very special traveling exhibit, which opened the doors for other LGBT organizations to become USHMM exhibit hosts.

The images of the museum show how Hitler targeted homosexuals, Communists and other political dissidents, most Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, some Protestant pastors and Catholic priests, African Americans, the mentally and physically disabled, and others.

The museum included the camps as well as the mass graves in the countryside, killings in the street, organized mass shootings, castrations, sterilizations and

basically, any person singled out for their race, religion, political beliefs, or their sexual orientation. I walked through the museum with the images of piles of victims’ old shoes and shaved human hair burned in my memory forever. My thoughts came back to Anne. Did she know about the atrocities of so many around her as her family spent years, quietly breathing behind the hidden walls that protected them from Hitler’s military officers? How could I have been so desensitized to the plight of 12 million people for so long? And more importantly, why have we not learned our lessons in the history of hate and fear?

As the exhibit comes to a close at the end of January, I have been thinking of the thousands of people that have come through the doors to see it and everyone who made this impact possible. Our Fund, FAU Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education, Michael Powers Design, and the board, staff and volunteers of Compass believed in this project and are a part of history now.

People that would otherwise never visit a gay and lesbian community center, telling their own personal stories, have come out of this exhibit with tears in their eyes realizing there are more stories in history to be told.

The same history I have ignored for so many years.

I am not the same person I was six weeks ago when we first unloaded the heavy wooden crates that carries the exhibit through its powerful journey. We will miss this great honor when it goes, and are grateful for the experience. I have grown a new found appreciation through the power of personal stories. Never again, will history be lost on me and I am forever changed.

We hope everyone takes the opportunity and makes it a point to see this exhibit. As for me? I’ll be here waiting, waiting for one more story that reminds me of Anne.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945” will be on display at Compass through January 27th. Julie Seaver is Compass’ Community Center Director. She can be reached at julie@ compassglcc.com.

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Gideon’s Gauntlet

Our Worlds Collided

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here are eight people on this planet with my last name.

Of those eight, three adopted the name by marriage. The youngest of the eight, my beautiful niece Orlie, was born earlier this year. She’s the first Grudo to be born in 27 years, stripping me of my title as the youngest member of the family.

Had I been around for the Holocaust, I would not have suffered for being gay, as happened to close to one million German men, a tenth of which were at least arrested.

But I would have suffered for being Jewish, as happened to my family.

I’m writing this because I went to the Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals exhibit at the Compass Gay & Lesbian Community Center on Jan. 5. I came face-to-face with the gay segment of one of the more cataclysmic events in our history, a segment I’d been mostly ignorant of until then. But these men and women were associated to me by an eternal bond. A shared hate by the common men of a generation or two or a dozen or more.

Upon entering, you glance to your right to see the broken planks of wood and barbed wire that litter the walls of the exhibit. Your hand is clenching a pamphlet titled “One Person’s Story,” a bio of someone who fell into this tragedy.

Friedrich-Paul Von Groszheim’s father was killed in World War I when the boy was 11. His mother died shortly afterward. He had crushes on boys growing up, and would weekend at gay establishments. In 1937, he and 230 others were rounded up by the Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler’s brutal military police, during a mass arrest. He spent 10 months in jail, and would later be re-arrested, tortured, humiliated. So the pamphlet reads.

He violated the law. The law as set forth in paragraph 175, a late nineteenth century anti-gay law in Germany that wasn’t revoked entirely until 1994.

Groszheim would have probably worn a pink triangle on his shirt and arm. It told others he was a homosexual. It had to be a label on his arm, see, to differentiate him from others around him. Even prisoners have hierarchies. I can only assume wearing a Jewish star was worse — but that’s subjective.

The exhibit is a series of panels about different aspects of the war, the camps, the arrests, the social groups, the resistance. It’s a story of hate, love, death and, sometimes, life and liberty. It’s mostly a human story.

Robert Odeman was a writer. He was born

By Gideon Grudo in 1904 and had fallen in love for the first time in 1922. In 1937, he was arrested in Berlin for seducing another man. He got 30 months.

Again, he violated paragraph 175. So the pamphlet reads.

I would like to think Odeman would be happy to see how far the western world has come in accepting homosexuality. But maybe he’d be mortified, aghast at how far it has yet to go. Maybe he would stand here, jaw agape, staring at the pundits who denounce the “lifestyle,” who argue against equal rights.

Most of all, he’d know more than anyone else what can happen when the common man supports legislated and legalized hate.

And it’s not something we’re naïve to here in the States, where many still oppose gay rights. And it happens elsewhere, too. Just this past weekend, an estimated 340,000 people protested a same-sex marriage bill in Paris, according to the Associated Press.

The Holocaust didn’t show up out of thin air. The social systems that allowed it to happen and gain support (or at least allowed it to be unperturbed through acquiescence) did not fall out of a magician’s hat. They slowly developed. They ascended up a ladder of prejudice and inane scapegoating.

Likewise, the anti-gay sentiment in our modern, “enlightened” country does not mean Holocaust, but it’s not a far cry from what led to it.

It’s bad to know nothing of a subject and base opinions based on that ignorance.

It’s worse to rely on parents and preachers and politicos for that information and base opinions based on their ignorance.

When people do this, the Holocaust happens. This is not melodrama. This is historically documented fact (want to read more about how it came to be? I highly recommend Richard Evans’s The Coming of the Third Reich).

Karl Lange had an American father. He spent some time in Los Angeles before his parents divorced and he moved back to Hamburg. He was arrested in 1935 and sentenced to 15 months when the police found out he was in a relationship with another man. So the pamphlet reads.

These names I’ve mentioned are but a few.

Many others suffered. Many others died. If there were an afterlife, I’d like it to be one of David Eagleman’s entries in Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The neuroscientist turned author concocts forty possibilities as to what happens to us when we die. In one of them, men and women stick around for a

January 16, 2013 • SouthFloridaGayNews.com

The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals exhibit at the Compass Gay & Lesbian Community Center runs through Jan. 27.

bit, waiting until every living person on Earth has forgotten their names. Only then do they truly die and proceed to the next chapter. In that sense, remembering is giving life.

In this sense, remembering is saving life.

So don’t forget. And if you don’t know, go find out. As Robert Heinlein elegantly put it

in Time Enough for Love (1973): A generation that ignores history has no past — and no future.

To check out the exhibit for yourself, go to compassglcc.com for more information. It runs through Jan. 27.

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Mombian

10 Wishes for LGBT Families in 2013

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ast year was in many ways a record year for progress towards LGBT equality—but we still have things to accomplish in 2013. Here are my top 10 wishes for LGBT parents and our children in the year ahead.

Relationship recognition Marriage brings with it many legal benefits and protections—but it also prevents our children from feeling they are second-class because their parents can’t partake in the institution that most defines stable, loving adult relationships in our society.

Same-sex parents were active in all four states that faced— and won—marriage equality ballot measures in 2012 (Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington). In Washington, lesbian grandmas Jane Abbott Lighty and Pete-e Petersen, 77 and 85 years young, respectively, were the first to legally wed.

In 2013, several states, including Delaware, Illinois, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, could see legislative action to allow same-sex couples to marry. Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases that could make it legal in California and/or ensure federal recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages.

Parental recognition.

Marriage equality is not the same as parental equality, however. One legally married lesbian couple in Iowa had to fight a long court battle to have the non-biological mother placed on their stillborn child’s death certificate. Another married couple is fighting there so they may both be on their child’s birth certificate.

And just as opposite-sex couples do not need to be married in order to be recognized as parents, neither should same-sex couples.

Yes, we need the option of marriage as a matter of equality, but should not rest

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By Dana Rudolph all of our parental recognition upon that institution.

We therefore also need to expand the number of states that allow LGBT people (and others) to be recognized as “de facto” parents by virtue of a parent-child relationship and responsibilities and the legal parent’s consent. Currently, only one state, Delaware, will recognize de facto parents as having full parenting rights.

We also need more states to consider people parents because they consented to a partner’s insemination. Only 16 plus D.C. now do so for those in legal relationships, and a mere three states plus D.C. do so for those outside of legal relationships.

Second-parent adoption of a same-sex partner’s biological or legally adopted child by the other partner is only allowed statewide in 13 states plus D.C. It is restricted in seven others, and uncertain in the remaining 30.

Even in states where both same-sex parents may appear on their children’s birth certificates (because of marriage, civil union, or domestic partnership), LGBT legal organizations advise them to complete second-parent adoptions since other states and the federal government may not recognize the second parent’s right to be on the birth certificate.

Better safe schools laws Eighteen states have no laws that explicitly protect students from discrimination or bullying that is based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Only six states prohibit discrimination based on those with whom a student associates, such as a parent. Many states could also beef up the required training, monitoring, and enforcement of their anti-bullying laws across the board.

even in other states, LGBT inclusion in the curriculum—or even knowing how to respond when a student brings up LGBT matters—is rare. Invisibility can lead to feelings of isolation among LGBT students and children of LGBT parents, and misunderstanding among non-LGBT students. Among older students, elimination of LGBT-inclusive materials in health classes can mean endangering students’ lives.

Inclusion in children’s media Few children’s books, and no mainstream children’s television shows, include LGBT people and our families. We need them for the same reasons we need inclusion in school curricula.

More awareness of gender variation From the moment a new parent is asked, “Boy or girl?” society tries to weigh us down with gender labels and expectations for our children. We must continue to work towards inclusion and acceptance, recognizing that many parents and children—from tomboys to transgender people—don’t fit those molds.

Equality in senior care LGBT seniors cannot access a same-sex partner’s Social Security benefits and are treated as single (to the couple’s financial detriment) under Medicaid. Many suffer discrimination in elder care facilities.

For those with children (and sometimes grandchildren), this can burden the entire family.

Basic protections LGBT parents also need the same basic protections as any LGBT people, including nondiscrimination laws in employment and housing, as well as immigration policies that put same- and opposite-sex couples on an equal footing.

Time for our families

Dana Rudolph (left) and her family

Adoption rights In only 18 states plus D.C. can LGBT parents petition for joint adoption statewide.

Five states (Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Utah) restrict same-sex couples from doing so. The remaining states are uncertain.

Positive inclusion of LGBT people in school curricula and discussion Eight states (Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah) have laws that prohibit teachers from discussing LGBT issues or mentioning them in a positive light. And

In all of our efforts to change the world, we must remember why we do so. Sometimes the most important thing we can do is take the time to play a game or read a book with our children, or simply spend a few minutes listening to them talk about their day. In the end, raising our children will be our most significant contribution to making the world a better place.

Best wishes to you and your families in 2013.

(Thanks to the Movement Advancement Project at lgbtmap.org for much of the data above.)

Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (www.mombian.com), an awardwinning blog and resource directory for LGBT parents.

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Jesse’s Journal

A Heritage of Words

By Jesse Monteagudo

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s a writer, I am interested in words; where they come from, what they mean, their use, significance and power. As a gay writer, I am particularly intrigued by LGBT slang (also known as gayspeak) and by the words that are used to describe us; both by ourselves and by others. Like other groups, lesbians and gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people have developed through the years a language of our own; a code that we often used to communicate among ourselves and to keep an often-hostile world from knowing what we are talking about. Meanwhile, heterosexist society’s often-hostile take on sexual and gender minorities also influenced the development of the common language.

From Leviticus to Richard von Krafft-Ebing to the punk in the street homo-, bi- and transphobic words were coined, developed and used by the people who did not understand us and who therefore feared and hated us.

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people say about me, as long as they do not interfere with my life, liberty and the right to be myself. But gayspeak never ceases to fascinate me. Several books have been written about this exciting topic. The mother of them all, of course, is Gay Talk: A (Sometimes Outrageous) Dictionary of Gay Slang by Bruce Rodgers, originally published as The Queens’ Vernacular way back in 1972.

This was followed by Homolexis: A Historical and Cultural Lexicon of Homosexuality by Wayne Dynes (1985) and Gay(s) Language: A Dic(k)tionary of Gay Slang by H. Max (1988).

Another useful source is Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984), Judy Grahn’s fascinating cultural history. A more recent review of gayspeak is the article of that same name published in the online GLBTQ Encyclopedia (www.glbtq.com).

Gayspeak has long been with us. As Grahn wrote, “Gay culture is ancient and has been suppressed into an underground state of being” and “slang is not necessarily

a transitory language form.” As heirs to this closeted queer culture, we learned our language from the same-sex loving and gender-variant people who came before us.

Grahn herself learned her gay slang from her first lover while I learned it from the gay, bisexual and transgender acquaintances, friends and lovers who took me in when I came out in Miami’s Little Havana in 1973. At that time, our language passed from person to person by word of mouth. Today, thanks to the LGBT media and the greater openness of our subculture, gay words and gay worlds are more easily transmitted from one LGBT generation to the next.

As members of a despised minority group, LGBT people have developed ways to communicate among ourselves without the socalled straight world knowing what we were talking about.

Even today words and symbols like the hanky code, the pink triangle, the Lambda, the labrys and the rainbow, leather and bear flags are used by our community to let our sisters and brothers know who we are and what we want. In the Cuban-American subculture in which I came out, the language that those of us who were in the know (entendidos) spoke was used to let others discreetly know that we were all part of the LGBT ambiance (ambiente). This kept most heteros in the dark and ourselves physically safe. In America, gay men long referred to each other as Friends of Dorothy (as in Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz or Dorothy Parker of the Algonquin Round Table -Take your pick.); a code word that was used to inform those in the know where we were coming from. By the same token, queer African-Americans used the term “in the life” to refer to same-sex loving or gender-variant women or men.

Even the word gay began its career in the homosexual lexicon as a code word.

Originally, of course, gay was used to mean happy, light-hearted, lively, merry, and vivacious. Later, gay was used to refer to people of easy virtue, as when prostitutes were referred to as gay girls. The word lesbian, of course, comes from the Greek island of Lesbos, home to the classic poet Sappho (a Lesbian in both senses of the word).

Meanwhile, Grahn added to our cultural heritage with her intriguing suggestion that the words bulldyke and bulldagger came to us courtesy of the first century Celtic Queen Boudica; an inspiration for heroic women even if her sexuality remains in doubt. The Celts, by the way, are role models for LGBT communities even after twenty centuries.

After all, Celtic women were strong and Celtic men were pretty and the male Celtic warriors were not ashamed to expose their well-built bodies as they proudly fought their battles in the nude.

Though both male and female homosexuals began to use the word gay to describe themselves and each other by the early part of the last century, the mainstream did not catch on until the 1960’s or so. In the meantime, as George Chauncey wrote in Gay New York, the word gay began to be used by men who saw themselves as members of a fixed sexual class - as opposed to words like fairy, queer and trade which were long used to define fluid sex roles and gender-identified categories. The rise of gay liberation made gay the word of choice in the gay male community, just as the words Black and later African-American replaced Negro. Even so, as late as the 1970’s, men who described themselves by what they did and not by what they were continued to use the word queer, as did the hero of Clay Caldwell’s delightful novel Queers Like Us (1975).

Of course, as we all know, the word queer has made a comeback in our community.

This is partly due to the emergence of a new generation of LGBT which sees itself in a new light. But there are other reasons for queer’s return. The diversity of our community has made queer an easier word to use than the exclusive word gay or the inclusive but cumbersome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (and queer) community. There is also something daring and radical about the word queer; a once-derogatory word that we have (re)taken from the enemy and made our own. As a writer, the return of the word queer has given me another word to use in order to describe myself and those who are like me.

Which is all the better.

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Check out the winners of this year’s SFGN’s “Best of Gay Friendly South Florida” here at

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In November we asked you, our readers, to vote for your favorite restaurants, hangouts, and charities – from your favorite Gay Friendly Social Network and favorite Barber to who you think serves the best pizza in town. We received hundreds of votes.

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The Future of Leather

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By Ryan Dixon

hat is the state of the leather union?

For people in the leather community around the world, concern is often raised about the preservation and continuation of its rich traditions and history.

From my experiences in the last two years while being involved in the leather community, I can say that leather people are an often frowned-upon group of people by those not “into” the lifestyle – gay and straight. While presenting itself as a closeknit group of people, I’ve felt that there is a separation, a dissention among the ranks if you will, between the older generation and the generation of newcomers to leather. There seems to be a severe lack of communication that could help ease problems and tension.

There are severe challenges that lie ahead to make sure these two separate groups inside one leather world work together to preserve and grow.

Boy Bam Bam agrees with me.

Standing out front of the old Lure bar in New York City, a then 19-year-old Bam Bam was on edge and scared to death to enter the storied leather bar. He saw a party advertised in a gay rag and put on the only leather he had at the time — a pair of boots — and stood outside the doors to the Lure for hours.

“I moved there from Kansas to be a big star just like every other blue eyed, blond haired gay boy wanted,” he said. “The bouncer said I either come in or leave. I walked in and, well, the rest is history.”

Bam Bam, now 36, has just started his yearlong reign as International Leather boy after winning the International Leather Sir/boy (ILSb) contest in late 2012. ILSb is a leather contest comprised of thirteen regional contests that tend to focus on the sexual side of the leather community. Bam Bam has been afforded many opportunities to travel all around the country because of his title, and has seen how the generations

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interact. family, one she would never trade.

Bam Bam believes, like me, there is a “Traditional families look at us and say, problem with communication, even relating ‘you perverts are damned’,” Rider said. “The it to how the different generations have sex. community that models your family values “A younger person or generation wants the best is the leather community. We take instant gratification,” Bam Bam said. “We care of our own. That is a tradition family have Grindr and other social media outlets value as any other.” that let us fuck in fifteen minutes. The older Rider said that the leather community’s guard (older leather generations) is used to history is safe, but she wants controlling and cruising someone. That may take several overbearing behaviors to go away. hours if not longer with no guarantee of “If we quit trying to control it (the leather getting laid.” community) and let it grow as new people In Phoenix, Arizona, where Bam Bam now come in, and teach them the traditions and lives, he said the community there is very our history as they come in, our community mixed and luckily younger leather generation will prosper,” Rider said. “We’ve become a is very involved with the older. culture now that needs to be preserved.”

“The Phoenix boys of leather host a monthly roundtable with our elder leather counterparts,” Bam Bam said. “We discuss what is happening in our area, others we have been to, and what we together can do to strengthen our community and those around us.”

Glenda Rider, who owns and is one of the four producers of the International Ms. Leather (IMsL) contest, has been involved in organized leather since 1991.

“I had been involved in kinky leather fun in 1987 boy Bam Bam, International Leather boy 2012 and it wasn’t until I came out in 1988 that I realized there was an entire community So, the communication between of leather people,” Rider said. generations is good in one part of the She started a leather play space called country, or with one certain demographic of Playhouse Studios and Galleries while living leather people, but how do we get them all on in Baltimore for 40 years. She took over the same page? How do we bring generations ownership of IMsL in 2006 after former and ideas that seem so far apart together for titleholder Amy Meek took over the event the betterment of a community as a whole? in 1995. Rider took over because she wanted Bam Bam wants the younger generation to ensure that the contest and the entire to remember something we all learned in weekend lived on. elementary school for crossing a road: Stop, “I couldn’t bear the thought of the contest look and listen. not existing,” Rider said. “It’s my favorite “The best way to avoid making a mistake, thing in the world because it’s the one event to avoid reinventing the wheel is to learn the that brings women from all over the country history,” Bam Bam said. “Take a good look and all over the world together every year.” and see where things are going. Not knowing Rider’s nearly 30 years in the lifestyle where you’ve been means you’re destined to and being a title holder has allowed her to repeat previous mistakes.” meet leather women and men from all over “It’s (leather history) about the families the world and from many walks of life. But and communities we build,” Rider said. “Yes, how do they think the leather lifestyle is we sometimes have our fights, but no matter progressing and how it will survive? what I always see people coming to people’s Rider believes the leather community aid to help and to celebrate.” doesn’t need to worry about its future. She said leather community is a worldwide Photo Courtesy of boy Bam Bam

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By Publisher Norm Kent

‘Cabaret by the Bay’ Showcases American Life: Theatrical Community Supports SFGN

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requently, SFGN is often writing about the major theaters and Broadway type openings that cast star actors at places like the Broward Center and Kravis Center. But guess what?

As our community grows, so do the venues and vehicles for showcasing arts and culture.

And the concept behind Sound Bite Q is to celebrate the many businesses and venues which enrich our days and enhance our lives.

The best example I can give you is ‘The Cabaret by the Bay’ series launched at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Following the December debut of American Idol star Kimberley Locke, the Cabaret by the Bay Series has brought to the table for its inaugural season a group of remarkable women sharing stories, songs and their

inspirational European pieces that the city of Hollywood Cultural Arts Center puts on regularly, which we also advertise in SFGN, thanks to their generosity. Just like the Joe DiMaggio Legends Game coming up later this month at Fort Lauderdale Stadium, or the Gay Polo Tourney coming to Wellington again in April, our lives are not just about bars and beaches. We bring to the table diversity and depth, and I am guessing a lot of gay men will be joining me at the Hard Rock to see Willie Nelson next month. We are proud to be able to promote and showcase these performances in SFGN, and we hope you

at the Manor Entertainment Complex for over two years, so it is exciting to see them engage a more authentic cabaret for all of South Florida.

With Rick as musical Director and David as Artistic Director, they lined up four exciting artists for their season.

Tickets for each performance in the Cabaret By the Bay Series are $34.50. Tickets, group discounts and scheduling information for all performances are available through the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center's box office at (877) 311-7469 or online at www.

AventuraCenter.org.

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New newsworthy news From the publisher’s desk

own unique perspectives on the world of entertainment.

Blood, Sweat and Mouseketears! with Lindsey Alley opens on Friday, January 18 and Saturday, January 19 at 8 p.m. It is a musical revue from the Disney Songbook- presented from the unique and hilarious perspective of a former Mousketeer, Lindsey Alley. Called “a force to be reckoned with,” by Broadway World, Alley sings such favorites as "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Someday My Prince Will Come," as she shares stories about her quest for the elusive "happily ever.” The show is autobiographical, but a commanding performance makes it one you can take your mom to, your niece, or your family and friends.

Aventura’s ‘Cabaret’ series is not unlike the

American Idol season 2 third place finisher Kimberly Locke kicked off the cabaret series in December. Locke is known as being a straight ally.

contact our Datebook editor to make sure your event gets the print it deserves.

Having said that, the ‘Cabaret’ series by Aventura will also feature Puerto Ricanborn star Carla Bordonada singing some of Broadway's greatest Latin inspired blockbusters in ‘Canciones de Broadway’ on Friday, February 15 and Saturday, February 16 at 8 p.m. While the show is mostly in English, the last time I looked our community has a little bit of a Hispanic flair, and Bordonada will be performing hits from such shows as West Side Story and Evita. Headlining on March 8 and 9 will be the Emmy Award winning actress and comedienne from the TV show that changed America forever, All in the Family. That’s right, Sally Struthers.

Renowned cabaret pianist Rick Leonard serves as musical director and joins the artists in the series. Author of It’s a Fabulous Life, David Sexton serves as the series artistic director. I have been watching these gentlemen perform a popular cabaret show

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So whether it is the Coral Springs Center for the Arts featuring a show this Saturday entitled ‘Three Hysterical Broads’, or Dame Edna headlining in the Manchester Room of The Alibi, our community is alive and vigorous, diverse and dynamic. You can appreciate the hundreds of men performing in our choruses or the dozens of boys swinging artistically on polls at local male strip clubs. Everyone brings to the dance unique talents. We all see the world through different colors.

Choose, enjoy, embrace, and help support those good and kind businesses reaching out to you, using our newspaper as their advertising vehicle. It is their way of saying they have faith in us, but more importantly, it is a recognition that we count, our dollars matter, and our lives have the diversity and depth, the reach and the righteousness, we know in our hearts and souls we have always expressed.

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FEATURE

From France to Wilton Manors Couple struggles to make restaurant dream come true

By Ryan Dixon

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available in the area when they came over.

The couple invested everything they had, over $200,000, into buying the former Urban Kitchen on East Oakland Park Boulevard.

They purchased the establishment just before city.

The four-year-old restaurant, owned and President Obama’s election.

“We bought the place at that really nice operated by Jean Doherty and Vero Leroux, prides itself as the “smallest, cutest restaurant time when everybody was getting sick of Bush,” Leroux said. “The economic crisis was in Wilton Manors.”

Doherty, born and raised in a traditional very bad, and we barely managed to sell the Irish Catholic family, left her home when she place for $30,000.”

The thoughts of ending up “bag ladies” was 17 and headed for France. All on her own, Doherty set out just to get away — just to go. after being previously so successful scared She had to get away from the constraints of the couple. With nowhere to go, not even back to France, Doherty had to call her parents ask her family.

“I kept coming out to my parents,” Doherty for money to help pay their rent.

The two barely managed to acquire the said. “They kept telling me to stop that current space they occupy, having to deal nonsense.”

It was ten years into her stay in France with money and city issues, according to that Doherty met Leroux. They owned a very them. Where Le Patio stands now used to be successful restaurant called the West Saloon a massage parlor. The change of occupancy in France together. Doherty described it as a they had to go through was the most combination of the local bars Scandals and difficult thing, they said. From inspections Bill’s. There was cowboy decor all over, and to certificates, the $30,000 they had from American license plates adorning the walls. the sale of their last place was quickly She even said they had line-dancing once a disappearing.

“When the city says you have to have week. something, by God you have to do it,” Doherty said, slamming her fist to the table to make her point. “I’m sure other business here can relate to us,” she said with a chuckle.

The up-beat and positive attitudes of these women are the driving force behind their success, even more so than their food. The couple feels blessed that their landlord, who lives in Ohio and has only Jean Doherty and Vero Leroux, Owners of Le Patio met the couple twice, believed in them, even loaning them money to help get the restaurant Line dancing in France? Whatever works.

The food at the West Saloon was a mix of open in just six months. Their neighbor Sam an Irish pub and a Tex-Mex joint that served has loaned them the use of his patio outback hamburgers. That’s a far cry from the French, to give them more space.

One might think it would be difficult to run Irish and Italian dishes they serve now.

“That’s what the place was when we bought a successful business where you can’t even it,” Doherty said. “It was doing really well so cook the food on site, but Jean and Vero have managed to do it. The two share a cooking we didn’t change anything.”

After the couple’s daughter (Doherty’s space with friends who own a catering biological daughter) went back to Doherty’s business. They prepare the food there every home country to pursue her master’s degree, day and bring it to the restaurant to heat and they were left with an empty nest and idle serve. They pride themselves in introducing hands even with a busy restaurant. The people to affordable French and Irish comfort decision to move to the states was made five foods with entrees averaging around $14.

The couple has no plans for the future, years ago.

They settled for renting a home in Oakland except to keep turning out amazing food and Park while looking for their next food venture. warm smiles that has won the hearts and Even though their current establishment stomachs of many Wilton Manors diners. is in Wilton manors, there wasn’t anything Photo Courtesy of Jean Doherty

ucked away on Northeast 11th Avenue in Wilton Manors, Le Patio Restaurant has become a mainstay in the gay community of this small

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FEATURE

Gay Without God New social network looks to un-blur the lines of science, religion and the gay community

By Ryan Dixon

"If a man lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination and they shall surely be put to death."

Leviticus 20:13

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lake Gallagher is gay — without a god. That’s how he likes it to be. And he’s inviting others to join him.

In high school, Blake Gallagher knew he was gay. The 31-year-old San Diego native grew up in what he described as a moderately religious household. He said

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religion never really played a huge part in his household, but that the idea of God – the idea of a higher power – was always there. It was during his high school years he had to reconcile his teachings and his thoughts on homosexuality being a sin.

“You go through a depression and a

denial because of this internal battle of sin,” community that does not debate. In creating Gallagher said. “How is a young person Gay Without God, I wanted to plant a seed of supposed to deal with that?” thought for those out there looking for their After much soul searching Gallagher came own answers.” to the realization that his sexuality isn’t that Gaywithoutgod.com is a site that draws big of a deal, but he knew he would be coming people in who already have a viewpoint. The out against a society that would be against community there and the forums have given him. His family reacted like he expected. the gay community a place to express their “My parents had a difficult time at first, beliefs to people who want to hear what they but they became completely supportive,” have to say. This was no easy task, Gallagher Gallagher said. “My best shared, adding that doing childhood friend isn’t ok it in a way that didn’t focus with it though. Kinda sucks, on sex was the biggest ya know.” challenge. But he made it In college, Gallagher happen nonetheless. studied engineering, where Starting up only three he said he built a solid short months ago, what scientific foundation. While started out as a small identifying as a Christian undertaking has grown to in college, Gallagher said 750 members whose average that the reality of the Bible age is 21. and his observation were “Just like when I first critically and completely started to question things, different. most of our members are “When coming out as high school and college Blake Gallagher gay, you have to question students,” Gallagher said. reality,” Gallagher said.

Gallagher didn’t know After college while working in architectural what was going to happen, but he had a design, Gallagher met his partner five years feeling that there were a lot of people out ago at a bar in Seattle where he has been there with the same ideas. The last three living for seven years now. Gallager said what months he has worked hard to keep his site allowed them to hit it off so well was their free from sex and dating. common views on religion, science and being “Why mix religion and sexuality? Religion gay. Realizing that a bar was not the place to is already really obsessed with sex,” Gallagher meet like-minded people, Gallagher decided said. “I want to counter that obsession and that he wanted to design a community that present a more rational approach to things. could become an expression of beliefs that You’ve got to have critical thinking.” he and others hold true — a community for The website has grown from his idea into people with similar views to come together what the community wants it to be. Gallagher and share. wants to see it grow even more, maybe even “Atheism is almost a trend,” Gallagher affect politics as we know it. said. “I wanted to move away from the debate “I guess it’s a whisper that will grow louder of it, and make a peaceful transition to a into a voice of change,” he said.

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he Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival opens Thursday and runs through Jan. 27. Screening take place in locations across the county, including the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Cobb Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens, Movies of Delray Beach and Regal Delray Beach 18.

Once again, the festival features several gayinterest films, including Family Time, a drama about a shared journey by three brothers screening on Jan. 27, and Melting Away, the story of a dying Israeli man who must cope with his transgendered son, a Tel Aviv nightclub performer, screening Jan. 21 and 22. For a full schedule and tickets, go to PalmBeachJewishFilmFestival.org.

FRI POETRY

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egie Cabico, the nationally-recognized queer spoken word poet/writer/playwright will appear at Books & Books on the Miracle Mile in Coral Gables Friday at 8 p.m. Cabico, who is based in Washington, D.C., is the featured artist in Tigertail Productions’ SpeakOut LGBTQ teen spoken word program in Miami-Dade, Jan. 14 – 18.

The program includes a series of free workshops for youth designed to foster writing and speaking skills within a medium that blends poetry, theatre and hip hop culture. Events are free and open to the public. For more information, go to Tigertail.org.

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e’ve got two picks for tonight: What do Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake all have in common? They got their start on the new Mickey Mouse Club. Another Disney alum, Lindsey Alley, who has made her mark on Broadway, comes to Aventura Arts and Cultural Center for her new cabaret show, Blood, Sweat and Mouseketears!

Tickets are $34.50 at AventuraCenter.org You’ll find more funny ladies tonight at 8 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. Three Hysterical Broads… (Off Their Medication) will have you laughing to the jokes of Roz G., the lesbian comic who gained national attention on television’s Last Comic Standing, as well as Lynn Koplitz and Marla Schultz. Tickets are $29-39 at CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com.

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Mickey Mouse Club alumna Lindsey Alley comes to Aventura Arts and Cultural Center for new cabaret show

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SUN DESIGN

1/20 TUE MUSIC

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ne of the biggest events each January is Art Deco Weekend along Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. Enjoy food and craft vendors, examine vintage automobiles and listen to local performers on stage at this threeday event beginning Friday afternoon. Presented by the Miami Design Preservation League, the festival also celebrates the architecture that makes Miami Beach and international tourist destination.

Be sure to visit the furniture exhibition in the Visitor Center, 1001 Ocean Dr., and sign up for one of the guided walking tours of the district’s most noteworthy buildings. For a full schedule, go to ArtDecoWeekend.com.

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nforgettable recording artist Natalie Cole comes to the Broward Center’s Au Rene Theatre Tuesday for one performance only.

Since her 1975 debut, Cole has sold more than 30 million albums in an amazing career that has spanned pop, R&B, soul and gospel. We still hear the groundbreaking album she recorded using historical video and audio tracks of her father, the legendary Nat King Cole. Tickets are $59 to $119 at BrowardCenter.org and this just might be the right performance to try out the center’s brand new club level, featuring premium seating and an open bar with hot hors d’oeuvres and desserts before and after the concert.

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he Palm Beach Poetry Festival returns to South Florida for the ninth year, opening Monday and running through Jan. 26 at Old School Square in Delray Beach. Eleven award-winning poets will be featured, including B.H. Fairchild, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, lesbian poet Marty McConnell and special guest Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States. The poets will participate in a series of events, including eight workshops, craft talks and readings, interviews and panel discussions. Some festival events are ticketed, although several open mic events are free and open to the public. Go to PalmBeachPoetryFestival.org for a full schedule and more information.

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DANCE

NOW PLAYING! Thursday - Saturday and select Sundays

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he acclaimed British dance company Motionhouse makes its West Palm Beach debut Jan. 22 and 23 at the Kravis Center.

Known for visually stunning productions, the company’s show is entitled Scattered and combines Motionhouse’s trademark physical dance theatre with clever video and cirque-style acrobatics to create a unique, mesmerizing performance. Both shows take place in the Rinker Playhouse and begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28 and may be purchased at Kravis.com or the Kravis Center box office.

For tickets and group discounts call Broward Center’s AutoNation Box Office at 954.462.0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org

British dance company Motionhouse’s ‘Scattered’ comes to the Kravis Center.

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In The Real World, The Only People Who Burst Into Song Are Hopelessly Deranged.

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Sing Out, Sondheim!

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Jan 17 - Feb 3 - 8pm, 2pm - $23-35 Immerse yourself in the wild nightlife of a 1920’s Speakeasy.

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he Sing Out, Sondheim! exhibition at Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Fort Lauderdale honors and celebrates the achievements of venerable composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. From Jan. 7 to Feb. 28, Stonewall presents this exhibition that covers Sondheim’s career in musical theatre from

1957 to 2010.

The opening reception on Thursday, Jan. 10 for Sing Out, Sondheim! was well attended.

The evening also celebrated the grand reopening of the Charles L. Ross Gallery.

Pictured are Charles L. Ross (red shirt) and admirers in his gallery.

Enjoy a night of drinking, gambling, hor d’ourves, cabaret and jazz singers and an interactive murder-mystery experience including Charlie Chaplin at an authentic speakeasy.

Guests are encouraged to attend in costume.

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Miami City Ballet

What a Difference a Year Makes!

By J.W. Arnold Photo © Daniel Azoulay

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ust a year ago, Miami City Ballet premiered Viscera, a commission from then-25-year-old British choreographer Liam Scarlett. Set to American composer Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Concerto No. 1, the work was youthful and energetic, an earnest exploration of movement making use of the entire company.

Last weekend, Scarlett, recently named artist-in-residence at London’s Royal Ballet, returned to Miami with another triumphant world premiere for Miami City Ballet, Euphotic. While still exuberant, this new work clearly demonstrates how much Scarlett has matured in just a year.

Again set to lush, neo-Romantic music by Liebermann, this time the Piano Concerto No. 2, Euphotic begins dramatically with the entire company kneeling on stage, facing away from the audience. As the piano and orchestra make their entrances, Scarlett also sets in motion a series of entrancing dance sequences taking the scene from one of stillness to a complex cacophony of motion.

Where Viscera seemed rushed and almost disheveled, Euphotic is calculated. Every movement, from precise snaps of the head to the position of each hand, is carefully considered. The musical lines are perfectly matched to every turn, leap and lift with the dancers becoming visual extensions of the orchestra.

At times, the soloists display amazing acts of athleticism with the dancers executing lifts and throws that might seem more appropriate on the ice rink, performed

by Olympic figure skaters. And, just as dramatically as it began, Euphotic concludes with a series of precise unison movements that brought the audience spontaneously to their feet.

Euphotic and the future ballets from Scarlett are destined to become standard repertoire and Miami City Ballet can rightly claim its place in elevating the talented young choreographer, who also designed the costumes and set.

During the second act, audiences were treated to two starkly contrasting pas de deux: Patricia Delgado and Renan Cerdeiro dancing the Duo Concertante to music by Stravinsky, and Mary Carmen Catoya and Renato Penteado performing Don Quixote Pas De Deux set to traditional music by Minkus.

Violinist Alla Krolevich and pianist

Miami City Ballet dancers in the world premiere of Liam Scarlett’s Euphotic.

Francisco Renno (who also delivered a dazzling performance of the Liebermann Piano Concerto later in the program) were placed on stage for Duo Concertante with the dancers beginning a spectators. As the music began, Delgado and Cerdeiro seemed spontaneously moved to dance, contrasting Stravinsky’s cold melodies and dissonant harmonies with intimate movements accentuated by the clever use of spotlights to isolate their expressions and movements.

Catoya and Penteado danced a flawless Don Quixote, perhaps the kind of rare performance of a lifetime, exhibiting athleticism and grace throughout. The dancers, longtime principals at Miami City Ballet, leaped and turned, consistently getting that extra bit of lift and extension that distinguishes them from the others in the company. Again, the audience was moved to its feet by the stunning performance.

Opening the program was Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15, a traditional work set to the music of Mozart. Despite some early nerves, the company soon settled into the performance, a work with several movements that featured several of Miami City Ballet’s soloists and rising stars.

Although former Artistic Director Edward Villella programmed this season before his hastened departure, the impact of Lourdes Lopez, his successor can be seen, especially in the large works like the Divertimento No. 15. Her dancers are more exact and seem just a little more sensitive and musical in their approach to Balanchine’s choreography.

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Miami City Ballet - Program II

Jan. 18-20, Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale Jan. 25-27, Kravis Center, West Palm Beach

Box office 954-344-5990 www.CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com

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“Live theatre to die for” Zev Buffman

returns with the Premiere of a new thriller

TOTEM Cirque Du Soleil

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Melinda Peterson as Agatha Christie

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Riverside Hotel 75 Years of Tradition

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n 1984, when creator Guy Laliberte of Quebec created the first ever Cirque Du Soleil show comprised of a mix of circus acts, without animals, he brought together street performers with extravagant costumes, exotic makeup, state of the art lighting and original music all to help tell a magical story.

Since the original show was created, they have produced twentyeight shows including Alegria, Zumanity, KA, Kooza and, of course, TOTEM. Twenty of the shows still travel the World and also appear as permanent setups in Las Vegas, Orlando and Dubai.

In 2010, director Robert Lepage and founder Guy Laliberte created TOTEM the Odyssey of the Human Species.

TOTEM traces the journey of humankind’s journey from the beginning of time to walking on the moon to enjoying life on the beach.

Like most Cirque productions, it uses imagination to explore what might have been and what was. Bouncing from primitive Neanderthals and primates to exploring Native American stories and even stories of Love, TOTEM explores our ongoing search for balance and curiosity.

Let’s not forget that TOTEM is a circus!

Gilles Ste-Croix, the artistic guide, put together a show of gymnasts using aerial rings and acrobats using Russian bars — opening with the high bar and trampoline.

Some of my favorite pieces included the death-defying, roller-skating Native Americans that kept the audience on the edge of their seats with their ability to perform tricks that seem impossible, like the death spiral.

There was also the Fixed Trapeze High Bar that not only portrayed a story of two lovers seducing each other but the strength and athleticism it takes to Photos Courtesey of: perform tricks like OSA Images the crescent moon Costume Credits : and the inverted Kym Barrett crucifix. I also enjoyed the five unicyclists juggling metal bowls in a display of agility, balance, synchronized control and physical grace, tossing the bowls with their feet over their shoulder but always catching them on their heads without using their hands.

And of course I can’t forget the clowns; a circus just wouldn’t be a circus without them. Cirque allows them to help tell the story while making the audience laugh and giggle at the adult themed humor they provide us.

For more information, go to www. cirquedusoleil.com.

If You Go Where: Sunlife Stadium in Miami Gardens When: Jan. 10 to Feb. 24 How Much: $43.50 to $268.50

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Musical Makes a Splash at the Maltz

By Jason Parsley

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this was the first time he had the opportunity to include a full rain scene.

“I have never had the opportunity to produce it exactly as I wanted,” he said in a statement. “I am so excited because for the first time, I have the ability to spread the rain effect over the entire stage.”

The show follows the story of Don Lockwood, a silent film star, his annoying and bitchy leading lady, Lina Lamont, and Lockwood’s new love interest Kathy Selden.

Lockwood and Lamont are starring together on a new silent movie, The Dueling Cavalier, but when a rival studio announces its first movie featuring sound, the plans quickly change and the Dueling Cavalier becomes The Dancing Cavalier, a musical comedy.

Except there’s one problem: Not only can’t Lamont sing, her voice is so squeaky, it’s difficult to even listen to her talk. So Selden is asked to overdub Lamont’s voice. Hilarity ensues.

The stage show is based on the 1952 musical starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.

The Matlz is known for its high quality productions and this one is no exception.

The show continues through Jan. 27. Visit www.jupitertheatre.org for tickets and more info.

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he old nursery rhyme goes rain, rain go away, come back another day, but in the case of Maltz Theatre’s current production, Singin’ in the Rain, I wanted the rain to stay, stay and never go away. In fact my biggest complaint about the show is that it didn’t rain more.

The musical’s signature song, Singin’ in the Rain, is truly a showstopper and leaves the audience asking themselves, “I can’t believe it just rained on stage.”

“It was really raining,” said Jeff Wolmetz.

“I’ve never seen rain on stage before. I didn’t expect it to be raining for real. I thought they’d just throw some glitter down or something.”

The rainstorm was clearly the most memorable moment of the show, overshadowing all else.

Before the musical premiered, the theatre’s producing artistic director, Andrew Kato said in a statement, “This is the first time in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s history that we are creating a full rainstorm onstage, and the effects will be dazzling.”

Of course, artistic directors have to say great things about their own shows, but in this case, he wasn’t embellishing one bit.

On stage, rainstorms aren’t easy to reproduce. Director and choreographer Marc Robin has directed this show fives before, but

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Curt Dale Clark, Lauren Blackman and Brian Shepard dance during Singin’ in the Rain at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre

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Anime Can Be Gay LGBT Fans of Anime and Animation Can Express Themselves at Animate! Miami

By Andrea Dulanto

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very July in Miami, Super Conventions presents Florida Supercon, a four-day comics convention that celebrates comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, cosplay, anime, animation, and pop culture galore. What’s even better is how they offer many LGBT friendly celebrities and panels — one example is George Takei who is scheduled to appear at Florida Supercon 2013.

But Super Conventions has created a new event — one with a definite LGBT fan base — Animate! Miami. This convention focuses only on anime, animation and cosplay, and will take place on January 18-20, 2013 at the

Miami Airport Convention Center.

“We used to run an event called Anime Supercon which we put on hold in 2010,” explained founder and organizer of Super Conventions, Mike Broder. “[Animate!

Miami] is Anime Supercon, just under a new name.”

Instead of “the comic book vendors, artists, [and] Sci-Fi guests” that abound at Florida Supercon, Animate! Miami features “top name guests from anime and animation,” as well as “killer costuming and cosplay events.”

Broder also shared that this new convention allows them to “bring in guests that are not available for Supercon.”

For example, My Little Pony: Friendship is

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Magic has become one of the most popular animated shows since its debut in 2010.

Twice, Broder tried to arrange for the voice actors to appear at Florida Supercon, but there were scheduling conflicts. Animate!

Miami will finally present the voice actors of My Little Pony to a South Florida audience.

Cast members from the anime High School of the Dead and Soul Eater will also be there as well as voice actors from Ouran High School Host Club and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

For those unfamiliar with anime, Broder elaborated on the genre: “Anime is essentially just a cartoon from Japan. So like all cartoons,

there are good and bad, adult and non-adult … but there are a lot of high quality, wellwritten anime films and series. Same as there are well-written American cartoons and animated films. It just takes a minor leap to adjust to the Japanese art style. Also, there are dubbed audio versions and sub-titled versions.”

Anime has a particularly strong following within the LGBT community as evidenced by websites such as Gay-Nerds.com and Out Anime.

Broder discussed possible reasons for anime’s connection with LGBT audiences, “There tends to be a lot more openness in anime than in western cartoons…they're

more likely to have openly gay characters in the stories and treat these characters in more realistic way. There is [also] a huge segment of Yaoi and Yuri, which is anime (and manga comics) dealing explicitly with gay and lesbian relationships.”

The current schedule of programs at Animate! Miami does not list anything LGBT-specific. However, Broder emphasized events that could reach out to the LGBT audience, particularly anyone who does cosplay, i.e., dressing up as a character from anime or an animated series: “The Saturday night costume competition or the Sunday night Masquerade Costume and Performance Competition, the raves, karaoke.”

Other presentations that may be of LGBT interest are those by Urban Ronin, a stunt combat/ cosplay group, and Cheesy On the Outside, a performance group that will stage shadow casts of Dr. Horrible’s Sing A Long Blog and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

As always at events such as these, particularly when LGBT youth are present, the concern may be safety — can an LGBT person freely express themselves?

“We have a very open community, where everyone is welcome to express themselves.

In the seven years since we've started these events we've never had any issues,” stated Broder. “Our only rules are that costumes have to be PG-13 during the daytime until the exhibition room closes.

“We're a little bit more relaxed for the evening events, but it still has to be in the bounds of keeping it legal. But as far as expression goes, we have a zero tolerance towards intolerance. We're all one big community and these events are where geeks of all shapes/sizes/sex/orientation/religion, etc. are welcome. I don't want anyone at our events that would make someone feel unwelcome because of some perceived difference.”

Four thousand attendees are expected

at the event, but Broder anticipated that number could increase.

To view a complete schedule of programs for Animate! Miami, visit http:// animatemiami2013.sched.org/.

To purchase tickets, visit http://www. animatemiami.com and click on Buy Tickets

If You Go Where: Airport Convention Center 711 NW 72nd Ave Miami FL Hotel Phone: 305-261-3800 When: January 18, 19 & 20, 2013 Convention Event Hours / Exhibition Room Hours Friday, 2 p.m to 3 a.m. / 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. / 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. / 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

How Much: 3 Day Event Ticket - $45 Friday, Single Day Ticket-$20 Saturday, Single Day Ticket-$25 Sunday, Single Day Ticket-$20 VIP Pass-$150

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Theater Broward County

An innovative program of musical genres selected by audiences through surveys and Facebook suggestions during the past year. Selections range from Mozart, Vivaldi, Gershwin and tangos to original works performed by string quartets and rhythm sections with Spoken Word artists.

At the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Theater on Jan. 26. Visit ArsFlores.com

*Story Pirates

Monty Python’s Spamalot

Local students are the playwrights of the hilarious and interactive performance by Story Pirates on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 11 a.m. as the final show in the Family Theater Series.

Every show is unique as teaching artists and performers also take suggestions from the audience to create stories on the spot. Tickets are $15 visit Miramarculturalcenter.org

*Harlem Gospel Choir

Made up of the finest singers and musicians from various churches in Harlem, N.Y., the Harlem Gospel Choir will perform on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. as part of the Signature Series. The choir performs songs of inspiration that touch the depths of the soul and raises spirits to angelic heights.

Tickets are $35, $40 and $45 with subscription packages available. Visit Miramarculturalcenter.org

*Eating Alabama

The Southern Circuit Independent Film Series continues with Eating Alabama on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. A thoughtful and often funny look at community and sustainability, the documentary follows a young couple who set out to eat locally and seasonally, the way their grandparents did, yet they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed. Following the screening, the film’s director and producer Andrew Grace and the audience will engage in a discussion about the film and his work as a filmmaker. Tickets are $15 with subscription packages available. Visit Miramarculturalcenter.org

At the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy of beautiful showgirls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. Tickets start at $25, $39, $49, $59 and $65 with Club Level seats available for $109. Call 954-462-0222

Laffing Matterz

Laffing Matterz at the Broward Center continues in the Abdo New River Room Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and selected Sundays throughout the season at 4:30 p.m. Taking on the latest scandal, social media, current events and everything in-between, Laffing Matterz at the Broward Center combines the best of dinner theater with the hilarity of topical satire. Admission is $59 and $65 and includes the show and a dinner with house salad, a choice of entrée and warm sourdough bread. Visit BrowardCenter.org

*Tosca

The Miramar Cultural Center and Teatro Lirica D’Europa presents Puccini’s Tosca on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Opera Series. This opera is a sizzling drama of love, death-defying loyalty and villainous deceit. Sponsored

by Novus Realty, LLC, the performance features a live orchestra and is sung in Italian with English projected subtitles. Tickets are $40 and $45 with subscription packages available. Call 954-602-4500 or visit Miramarculturalcenter.org

Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company

Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company at the Amaturo Theater stage on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. with a world-class performance that will inspire audiences with its exhilarating passion. Comprised of some of flamenco’s most unique and creative musicians, singers and dancers from Spain. Tickets are $35 and $45. Call 945-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org

Natalie Cole

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts hosts the onenight only concert by nine-time Grammy Award-winner Natalie Cole on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater. Natalie Cole will perform hits from her 20 albums, which showcase her unique style of music that is a crossover between R&B, soul, pop, gospel and adult contemporary.

Tickets are $39, $49, $59, $69 and $79 with Club Level seats available for $119. Call 954/462-0222 or Browardcenter.org

Marriage of Figaro

The Opera Series at the Miramar Cultural Center | ArtsPark kicks off with Teatro Lirica D’Europa’s presentation of The Marriage of Figaro on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. This witty yet profound tale of love, betrayal and forgiveness follows the mayhem that ensues as a wedding party tries to get to church on time. The performance features a live orchestra and is sung in Italian with English projected subtitles. Tickets are $40 and $45. Call 954-602-4500 or visit Miramarculturalcenter. org

Pig Tale – An Urban Faerie Story

For anyone who’s ever found themselves staring at their partner – wondering what in the world happened to that hot, handsome man they first started dating – playwright Chris Weikel is happy to explain it in his own twisted bedtime story.

Set in the wilds of New York’s East Village, Chris Weikel’s Pig Tale explores some of our worst dating fears. The ticket price is $30. Through February 2. Call 954-678-1496 or visit Islandcitystage.org, Empirestage.com or Smarttix.com or call Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

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Floral Designs for the Holidays

“Flower Designs for the Holidays”. Janice Hamlin, Master Flower Show Judge from the Manatee River Garden Club in Bradenton, Florida will inspire us by demonstrating the creation of flower designs for the holidays. Call 954-561-8475.

Visit FLGardenClub@gmail.com

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Palm Beach County A Raisin in the Sun

In this powerful, classic drama, a substantial insurance payment could have life-changing consequences for a poor black family living on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s. This play is directed by Seret Scott and produced by Calla & Ralph Guild. At the Palm Beach Dramaworks on Feb 1- Mar 3. Visit Palmbeachdramaworks.org

Singing in the rain

This high-energy romantic comedy overflows with splashy song-and-dance numbers, including glorious songs such as “Good Morning,” “Make ‘Em Laugh” and the show-stopping title number, “Singin’ In the Rain.” The golden age of movie musicals comes alive as we follow silent movie actor Don Lockwood’s journey into the talkies of the late 1920s. At Maltz Jupiter Theatre through Jan. 27. Visit www.JupiterTheatre.org/

Miami-Dade Blood, Sweat and Mouseketears!

Blood, Sweat and Mouseketears! with Lindsey Alley on Friday, Jan. 18 and Saturday, Jan.19 at 8 p.m. as part of the Cabaret by the Bay Series. Former Mousketeer Lindsey Alley, who began her career on the Mickey Mouse Club with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aquilera, hosts the show.

Singing such favorites as “When You Wish Upon a Star” and “Someday My Prince Will Come,” as well as new favorites like “Part of Your World” and “Go the Distance,” she shares stories about her quest for the elusive “happily ever after.”

Tickets are $34.50. Call 877- 311-7469

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Broadway in Miami 2012-13

This season Ziff Ballet Opera House through May 12 will hold the Broadway In Miami spectacle. Experience the return of the world’s greatest musical spectacle - Les Misérables - in its lavish new 25th anniversary production, along with the Miami premieres of Broadway’s biggest fun-filled hits - including the high-stepping Mary Poppins, the outlandishly colorful Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the awesomely cool Rock of Ages, and - the 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical - Memphis, a triumph of explosive dancing and powerhouse songs. Visit Arshtcenter.org

Community Calendar Broward County *2013 Anti-Bullying Summit

HRC South Florida is proud to announce its 2013 AntiBullying Summit being held at Sunrise Middle School in Fort Lauderdale. This Summit is in partnership with Broward County Public Schools and Sunrise Middle School. The goal of the Summit is to educate students, faculty, administrators, legislators and our local community about the dangers of bullying and identifying ways to prevent it in our community.

This is a free, community event and takes place January 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Water, Sports and Travel Festival

The first-ever Water, Sports & Travel Festival, presented by leading water sports organizations will be held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center and several locations throughout Greater Fort Lauderdale from April 26-28. The Festival exhibition will feature four co-located shows including “The Board Show”, “The Dive Show”, “The Boating & Water Toys Show”, and “The Travel Show.” Visit Wstfest.com

LGBT Quit Smoking Groups - Free Nicotine Patches

Did you know that LGBT people are more likely to smoke than most any other population group in the United States? Being around other Smokers can make it more difficult for people in our communities to quit. But many of us are trying, and the Quit Smoking Now Program in Wilton Manors is here to show us how to quit and stay without smoking. Visit My.vcita.com/myquitcoach QuitsmokingWM. com or call 305-942-6378

The 6th Annual I Care I Cure…I Run 5K

The 6th Annual I Care I Cure…I Run 5K and Family Fun Day! is on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 a.m. at the BB&T Center (formerly BankAtlantic Center), 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise, Florida.

Register online at: www.icareicure.org, Adults $25 and Children $20. The I Care I Cure Childhood Cancer Foundation supports the development of, and raises public awareness about, cutting-edge research for targeted therapies for childhood cancer. Contact Sue Trilling at 800-807-8013

Island City-Wide Yard Sale

Annual Island city-wide yard sale. The Yard Sales are held at Hagen Park, 2020 Wilton Drive, on the second Saturday of the month through April 2013 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The City Yard Sales spaces will be available to purchase. February 9. Last year, the yard sales hosted from 60 to 90 vendors, so register early while there is still space. More info call the Leisure Services Department at 954-390-2115 or 954-390-2130.

The Four Noble Truths

We all have certain things that feel to us like true sources of happiness, but which in reality have caused us no end of suffering, time and time again. It is our mind of attachment that continues to deceive us, causing us to relate to these things in mistaken ways, and leading us straight into problems and misfortune. Learn how to break this cycle. $10/class or $30/ series includes vegetarian food after class, members free.

Visit MeditationInFortLauderdale.org

Pozitive Attitudes Topic driven Peer lead support group for gay and bisexual men who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Meets every Wednesday 7-9 p.m. at the Pride Center 204 N.Dixie Hwy Room 204. Refreshments, no charge, open meeting.

PAHereandNow@aol.com www.PozitiveAttitudes.com

Queer Youth Friday Nights

LGBTQ and allied youth group for people13-21. This Is a drop in group anytime from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. This youth group will be SunServe building on 1480 SW 9th Ave on the second floor.

A Safe Space to be yourself! Queer Themed Movie showing at 7 p.m. on Friday nights. This group is a safe hangout to meet new friends, free Wi-Fi to bring your laptop or your iPad, plus board games that you can bring or play the ones that they provide at the group. Visit Sunserve.org/youth/index.htm

GLBX Business Advantage Referral Group

GLBX Business Advantage Referral Group will be held at the chamber offices on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 8 to 9 a.m. The leads group is looking for additional members. If you are interested joining, please contact Ken Stollar at Kenneth.Stolar@sci-us.com to see if your category is open and to attend as a guest. Visit Ftlchamber.com/index. php?src=gendocs&ref=GLBX_home&category=GLBX

Queer Youth Nights

LGBTQ & allied youth 13-21 are welcome any time after 6 p.m. at the SunServe building on Wilton Drive for a great place to meet new friends, play board games and a Queer Themed Movie at 7 p.m. Email Afrosch@sunServe.org

Latinos Salud’s programs

Multiple programs and groups for bi/gay Latino guys. Latinos Salud’s SOMOS program is for guys 18 to 30. All proceeds will benefit Latinos Salud in our efforts to educate on HIV Prevention and testing. Every Thursday night at 7 p.m. join the Core Group, and help plan alternative activities. Also offers Popular Opinion Leader group for guys ages 25 to 44 and a Life Coaching program for guys ages 18 to 44. Come by Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for free one-on-one life coaching with certified CRCS coaches. Located at 2330 Wilton Drive. Call 954-533-8681 or visit Latinossalud.org

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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 954924-2980

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 954-5662074 or email: Tedverdone@comc​ast.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

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

PFLAG

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

New Alternatives

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

Sober Sisters AA

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

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

Good Orderly AA

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

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

Yoga On The Waterfront

Lake Pavilion at 101 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL / Yoga On The Waterfront in downtown West Palm Beach on Wednesday Evenings at 5:45 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.

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 954-7645150

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 *”We Got Love!”

Hot ’n horny hookups.

Extend your Valentine celebration with 25 men who have been in, through, and over love, way too many times! Classic love songs, beautiful melodies, and just a touch of sarcasm!

Post-concert reception featuring wine and sweet treats (and some savory treats, too!) This concert will be performed by the best chorus group around, The Gay Men’s Chorus of the Palm Beaches. This event will be on Feb. 17 from 4 p.m to 5:30 p.m. at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. Call 561- 582-6609 or email SAEpiscopal@aol.com

*Coming Out Support Group

Coming Out Support Group for all ages, men and women.

Meets every Thursday evening at Compass, GLCC of the Palm Beaches , 201 N. Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, Florida from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Call Forrest @561-479-8313

*South Florida Fair

The South Florida Fair is back and better than ever Jan 18-Feb 3 at the West Palm Beach fair grounds. Bring the whole family out for rides, animals, and some good old fashioned funnel cakes. Tickets are $15 at the gate and kid get in free that are under 5. Visit Southfloridafair.com/index. cfm?fuseaction=home.main

*Middle Eastern Festival

Join the Celebration of Middle Eastern Cuisine and Culture in this amazing Festival. Come and enjoy the food, music and vendors. Tons of games and activities- you will be occupied for hours! Hours range from Friday, Jan. 18: noon-8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20: noon to 6 p.m. Admission is Free. Visit MiddleEasternFestivalFL.com

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 nonbikers. Visit Lakeworthbikenight.com

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Alternative Life Style Show 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 561-623-9429. Up coming spotlights on parties of interest and special events.

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YOGA Among the Orchids

It’s time for Yoga Among the Orchids at the American Orchid Society, 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach. Relax and replenish the flower inside with an hour of breathing exercises, toning, and yoga poses under a canopy of lush orchids. Classes are Wed. at 9 a.m. Cost is $20 and RSVP is suggested. Call 561-4042011. Visit OrchidWeb.org

Jazz on the Palm

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

BrothasSpeak

This group is a black gay men’s discussion group that is held at the Compass in West Palm Beach. Every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. this group will be directed toward issues for and about black men. Visit Compassglcc.com

Paths

Paths is a social/discussion group held at Compass in Lake Worth. This men’s group takes place every Monday from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Paths men’s group will be discussing relationships, coming out, safer sex issues and more. Visit Compassglcc.com

Yoga

Yoga with Deborah will change your life. Bring a mat and get ready to stretch the stress away every Tuesday at The GLCC in Palm Beach from 6 to 7 p.m. This yoga experience will uplift and transform your life. $6 Entry Fee. You must bring your own mat. Visit Compassglcc.com

Living Buddhism

On the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. Compass in Lake Worth will be holding a discussion group for overcoming obstacles and obtaining happiness. This group is great for getting internal enlightenment. Release your inner stress, and become free. Visit Compassglcc.com

Miami-Dade *4th Annual Pride Cruise

From Ocean Drive to the ocean waves, Miami Beach Gay Pride 2013 is setting sail once again with Source Events for the “Miami Beach Pride Cruise” immediately following all the Miami Beach Gay Pride festivities. The Pride Cruise takes place from Monday, April 15 to Friday, April 19. Visit SourceEvents.com

*Miami Beer Festival

The inaugural Miami Beer Festival brings together dozens of craft and international breweries, as well as Southern Florida’s best local breweries. The event will feature live music, food trucks, and some delicious beers. Admission is $40 for general admission and $50 for VIP. This event takes place January 19, from 6 to 10 p.m. Visit MiamiBeerFestival.com

*South Miami Rotary Art Festival

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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

Lambda Dade Clubhouse

A meeting place for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender communities and friends in recovery. Hosts Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Al-Anon, Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA), Debtors Anonymous (DA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA), meetings. (305) 5739608. 212 NE 24th Street. Miami. Visit Lambdadadeclubhouse. org

Key West *January House Tours

The Conch Train rolls a new track through Old Town on Jan. 18 to19 from 4 to 8 p.m. This amazing house tour will bring you by some of the most historic houses in Key West, like 421 Virginia.

This vernacular cottage located a few steps off Duval was abandoned, deteriorated and close to demolition just a year ago. Amazingly, it is now a comfortable 3br/2.5 bath in-town retreat. Call 305-294-9501.

*19th Annual Master Chef’s Classic

The 19th Annual Master Chefs Classic, held at the Westin Resort & Marina on Jan. 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. and is the premier culinary tasting and competition of the Lower Keys. This is a fundraiser for MARC (Monroe Association of ReMARCable Citizens). Attendees are treated to amazing culinary creations in appetizer, entree and dessert categories. Awards are given from a judging panel as well as the People’s Choice Award decided on by you, as one of the lucky attendees. This event has sold out in advance for the past three years, tickets will be available at: Keystix.com. Call 305-294-9526 ext. 25

*The 48th Annual Old Island Days Art Festival

The Old Island Days Art Festival is a two-day juried outdoor fine art festival. That will take place on Feb. 23-24. The show, which is in its 48th year, is sponsored by the Key West Art Center, and was originally held to raise money for the renovation of the building at 301 Front Street. This show will be filled all sorts of beautiful art from a lot of locals in Key West.

Visit KeyWestArtCenter.com/festival.html

Held in the vibrant downtown area of South Miami on Sunset Drive between U.S. 1 and Red Road, the show offers a weekend of exhibition by 148 exhibitors of fine arts and crafts.

Free admission for patrons and ample garage and street parking are available in this exciting area filled with historic buildings, trendy restaurants and unique shops. Come and support your local arts community on Feb. 23 at 10 a.m. and Sunday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m. Visit SouthMiamiArtsFest.org

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Kart Racing Tour

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

On Feb. 8-10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. enjoy The Florida Winter Tour which is one of the world’s largest, and longest running kart racing programs. In 2012 the FWT featured over 400 drivers from 28 countries and all six karting continents, and for the 5th consecutive year was the world’s largest official Rotax Max Challenge series and event. General admission viewing is free.

Pit passes are $10. Call 305-469-6188

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

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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.

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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

Bathhouse. 110 NW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL, (954) 5253344 Good. Clean. Fun. 1/2 price rooms...Tuesday Nights and 1/2 price Lockers. Thursdays Nights. Always busy.

Clubhouse II

Bathhouse. 2650 E. Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (954) 566-6750. A Private Club for Bi/Gay men.

“Bear and Friends” Thursday $5 Off a room 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tuesday Leather Night - $5 off for those in full leather gear.

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.

Johnny’s

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 http://www.Facebook.com/JohnnysMiami

Score

Smarty Pants

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.

1915 N. Andrews Ave, Wilton Manors, FL 33311, (954) 564-7335. Redefining what a bar should be.

Thursday’s margarita madness $4, Monday’s “Underwear Night. 2 for 1” until 9:30 p.m.

The Stable

Swinging Richards

Cubby Hole

Torpedo

Twist

Corner Pub Bar

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.

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.

Johnny’s

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

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

Monkey Business

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

3038 North Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306, (954) 561-1724. Great Local Hangout in Fort Lauderdale with Great Drink Specials. Saturday’s Free Breakfast to Order – 8 a.m.

205 East Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park, FL 33334, (954) 565-4506 A neighborhood bar with a different theme every night, from drag shows and bingos, to bears and underwear.

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.

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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.

The Cottage (Tea-Dance Sundays)

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

Fort Dix

6205 Georgia Ave, West Palm Beach, Florida 33405 Directions, (561) 533-5355. Mostly local crowd looking to mingle and relax. Place rocks with a Fabulous DJ on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday T-Dance.

H.G. Rooster

823 BELVEDERE ROAD, WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA 33405, (561)-832-9119. H.G. Roosters is West Palms oldest gay club.

Sunday’s Complimentary BBQ 5 p.m., Hot Male Dancers 6 p.m., Karaoke 11 p.m.

Mara (Thurs-Sat)

1132 North Dixie Highway, Lake Worth FL $3 Drinks. No Cover.

Open till 5 a.m. Ladies night on Thursdays and Karaoke on Fridays.

The Mad Hatter

1532 North Dixie Hwy ,Lake Worth, FL 33460. (561) 547-8860.

Cheap drinks, friendly bartenders, and free pool SundayThursday. Stop by and relax at this no-attitude haunt.

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.

Tag Bar

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.

PJ’s Corner Pocket

Club Sugar

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

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.

Ramrod

950 NE 2nd Ave, Downtown Miami, Florida 33132,(305) 3509084. One of the best night clubs In Miami. Every Saturday the hottest DJ’s from the top performers. Drink Special Every Saturday

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.

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.

Palm Beach County

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

Rosie’s Bar and Grill

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.

801 Bar

2283 Wilton Dr. Wilton Manors, FL 33305, 754-200-5244 Villagepubwm.com Looking for a relaxing place to spend the early afternoon? Or perhaps you want to come in and “work?” We have incredibly fast WiFi, complimentary outlets for you to power up your phone or laptop AND 2-4-1 Happy Hour Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

New Moon

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

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.

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Eros Lounge

8201 Biscayne Blvd. Miami 305-754-3444 Open 6 days a week Happy Hour 5:00pm - 9:00pm Free parking, and on Thursdays, Starting Jan. 10th. Back to Paradise. A night of Soulful NYC House music. DJ David Solero

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LICENSED MASSAGE HANDYMAN EXCELLENT HANDYMAN WORK Very experienced worker, roofing, trimming, drywall, remodeling, painting, landscaping, tile work, doors, electrician. For further information contact Shawn at 954-549-8243 ---------------------------------------------------------------THINGS YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH? Minds at ease, A+ handyman service. Prompt, Reliable & Honest. Call Keldon Keller 954-551-3127 krkeller@aol.com

INSURANCE SERVICES GAY FRIENDLY INSURANCE We represent 50 companies for all your auto, home, health, life and business needs. We offer affordable rates and free quotes. Available nights and weekends 24/7. dlanders@kirsteininsurance.com Diamond Landers 954-665-3375

LANDSCAPING IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE 19 years experience, excellent work, referrals upon request. Call Roberto 954383-8980

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LICENSED MASSAGE EXP. MATURE MALE WPB MASSEUR In-calls only, private studio setting by Belvedere/SR7 in quiet area. Highly skilled, intuitive theraputic bodywork by friendly LMT. Affordable rates but cash only. Early to late, 7 days. Call (561) 2548065 for appt. or walk-in OK. RELIEVE STRESS & TENSION WITH MAGICAL HANDS PRO MASSAGE (FL: MA51008)

MASSAGE IN WILTON MANORS Have a great Swedish, Deep Tissue, Reflexology or Sports Massage in a quiet private atmosphere. 1 hr $50 for any massage. Call Steve 954-565-1996 LIC# MA16988 ---------------------------------------------------------THE BRITISH POUND John Maroussas LMT Sports Massage, Deep Tissue, Neuromuscular, Trigger Point, Swedish, Salt or Sugar Scrubs.

Private Studio w/ Shower. Wilton Manors Location near Bill’s Lic#MA51123 954-999-2240 --------------------------------------------------------AFFORDABLE, AWESOME MASSAGE

BY JIM Offering Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports and Lomi Lomi Massage; All in a very comfortable, relaxed and Private Massage Studio conveniently located on the SE corner of Oakland Park Blvd and Federal Highway.

Nationally Certified & Licensed. Call Jim Libonati at 954-600-5843. info@massagebyjim.com #MM22293 SPECIAL: First Time Client Rates ----------------------------------------------------------RECESSION RELIEF $40 per 90 MIN - Out calls higher. Swedish, Deep Tissue, Specialty Back, Lower Body & Feet. Couples Discounts. Seniors Welcome. Delray Beach. 16 years experience.

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LICENSED MASSAGE NEW CLIENTS GET $10 OFF ANY SERVICE Located in a very nice, private & comfortable massage studio. Nice linens, music, oils, hot towels and more. SPECIALS: Swedish, Integrative or Sports Massage 60 Minures $60, 90 Minures $85, 105 Minures $95 www. schedulenow.info Call 954-816-7260 Keith Angel, LMT MA62951 MM27048

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MIDDLE RIVER TERRACE Walk to Wilton Drive, large 2BD/2BA, extra large kitchen w/ dishwasher, central a/c, LR, DR, tile floors, parking, dog friendly. $1,200/mo. + Security. Call 954-815-2550 ---------------------------------------------------------------MIDDLE RIVER TERRACE 1/1 efficency $675/ mo. Or $165/week, 6 mos or 1 year lease.

Large 3BD house $1,250, carport, office, and all tile. Pay your first month’s rent with an approved application and you’re in. Water & electric included* Call for details. 954-527-9225 ---------------------------------------------------------------VICTORIA PARK LARGE 1BD/1BA Completely renovated. Torazo floors, new kitchen apps, Walk-in closet, new paint, A/C, shared W/D. Quite 5 unit bldg in safe area. $800/Mo. Call 954-763-3222 ---------------------------------------------------------------HUGE 2/2 POOL DUPLEX POMPANO BEACH Updated, Lushly Landscaped, East of Fed Hwy 1 Mile to Beach, D/R, Sep. Laundry W/D, Fab Lrg Pool, New Central AC, Tile Floors, Small Dog or Cat ok. $1390, Available 2/1/13 Call Tim: 754-235-2911 -------------------------------------------------------1BD APARTMENT UPSTAIRS 1142 NE 4th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale $700/Mo. Yearly Call 954-764-0212 or 954-581-2573 ----------------------------------------------------DUPLEX APT. CORAL RIDGE ISLES ( close to Holy Cross Hosp. and shopping ) Newly remodeled and landscaped 2B/2B ( each bedroom with adjoining bathroom) ideal for roommates. Spacious rooms with plenty of closet space, upgraded kitchen with micro, D/W. Your own laundry room with new W/D.Huge back yard and screenedin back porch. Small pet allowed $1250/ month call 561-362-6104 or 954-254-2499 -------------------------------------------------------$700 DOWNTOWN / SAILBOAT BEND Quiet, small complex. 1BD/1BA. Large walk-in closet, brand new carpet. Living room, dining area, kitchen, FREE hot water, NEW A/C, LOW electric bills, assigned parking, “””MOVE-IN SPECIAL””” $700/MO. Call 954-566-6251 -------------------------------------------------------2 ROOMS FOR RENT 1BD/1BA new carpet, kitchenette, $1,200/Mo. will reduce to $775 for experienced handyman. Also 1BD $700/Mo. will reduce to $400 for experienced handyman. No pets allowed. Preferably young and strong male.

Contact John 954-549-8243 for more info.

1414 NE 5TH TER. LARGE 2BD/1BA Open gourmet kitchen w/ smooth top stove, D/W, crisp white cabinets, tile floors, central AC, private patio, onsite laundry, pets OK. $1,180/Mo. F/S. Owner/Licensee. Call 954-448-9811

PB COUNTY-LAKE PARK 2/1 CONDO 2nd Floor Corner - Next to Kelsey Park across from Intracoastal Great Locations. $750 per month - 1 year Lease • No Pets • No Smoking • 1st & Security Call 561-310-0615

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PROPERTY MANAGEMENT HOME WATCH - PROPERTY MANAGER “Peace of mind while you’re away!” I will watch over your home inside and out as if it were my own! Starting at $35/Mo. Since 1987 Licensed/ Bonded 954-522-3310 www.pdpHomeWatch. com

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MALE ROOMMATE WANTED Male roommate wanted for 2/1/13. Beautiful WPB 2BD/2BA apt to share $650/Mo. Water, Elect, Waste Mgt included. Deposit + 1st. mo. Required.

Call 561-316-7236

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