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Cher Turned Down Olympics Gig in Russia

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The pop legend explained how she said ‘no’ to an offer to open in the Sochi Olympics

Cher has shown her support for the LGBT community for decades, and now she does it again: she turned down a chance to be the opening act at the Sochi Olympics in Russia because of the “gay hate” in the country.

In an interview with Canadian news magazine Maclean’s, the pop legend

explained how she declined the offer to perform at the Game’s inaugural event.

“I can’t name names but my friend called who is a big oligarch over there, and asked me if I’d like to be an ambassador for the Olympics and open the show,” she said. “I immediately said no.

I want to know why all of this

gay hate just exploded over there. He said the Russian people don’t feel the way the government does.”

Under the Russia’s “homosexual propaganda” law, anyone giving minors information regarding homosexuality can be put in jail. Foreigners can be detained for up to 14 days.

California Boy Scouts’ Tax Bill on Hold

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all parties involved to address and refine this legislation, Lara said in a statement. As session reconvenes in January, the passage of this bill and fighting against the discrimination of California’s LGBT community continues to be of paramount importance.

The bill, drafted last February, has already been

approved by the Senate.

However, since then, the BSA’s National Council has decided to allow openly gay youths to participate (gay scout leaders are still banned).

The legislature adjourned for the year on Sept. 12, but it will come back in January, when Lara could choose to reactivate the bill.

Japan District Approves Pro-LGBT Resolution

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24 wards in Osaka, passed a resolution promising to accept gays and lesbians as equals, and saying they’ll educate residents on LGBT rights issues.

“In order to make this city a livable place for a diversity of people, Yodogawa Ward respects the human rights of LGBT people,” the resolution reads, as quoted by GSN. “Therefore, we will carry out

staff human rights training in regards to the LGBT community; disperse accurate information about the LGBT community; support the activities of the LGBT community [and] listen to the voices of the LGBT community.”

Japan currently offers no protections from discrimination or union recognition for LGBT couples.

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The Yodogawa ward will carry human rights training in regard to gay rights

As times change, Japan’s conservative society seems to be caving in to accepting LGBT rights.

Now, a government area in the city of Osaka has become the first Japanese district to officially support the inclusion of LGBT people in the Asian country.

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A bill that would take away the Boy Scouts’ state tax exemption was shelved

As the Los Angeles Times reports, California Sen. Ricardo Lara, who’s openly gay, decided to put the bill on inactive status because he thought the bill wouldn’t get enough votes to pass in the Assembly.

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A Nigerian postgraduate student is getting international media attention after he theorized that gay marriage is scientifically wrong -- because similar magnets repel each other, so people must too.

As Nigeria’s This Day Live reports, Chibuihem Amalaha, a student at the University of Lagos cited magnets, electrolysis, animal mating and simple addition as rationale for why gay relationships just aren’t right. He reached the conclusion that two similar entities, magnets for instance, repel each other, proving gay marriage is wrong.

“They will repel, that is, they will push away themselves showing that a man should not attract a man,” he said. “If you bring two South Poles together you find that the two South Poles will not attract indicating that same sex marriage should not hold.”

Amalaha never hid the fact that he’s super biased and anti-gay, saying that same-sex marriage is “eating deep into the fabric of our human nature all over the world.”

He also said that he hopes his research some day get him a Nobel Prize.

Homosexuality is criminalized in Nigeria. In some states, it is even punishable by death.

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Toys retailer giant Toys “R” Us will stop labeling its products for boys and girls after mounting pressure from consumers.

According to Think Progress, the United Kingdom branch of the company will start to use gender-neutral terms and images in its toys Christmas catalogue. The move comes in response to an online petition launched by the group Let Toys Be Toys asking the company to remove gender stereotypes from its products.

A similar Change.org petition was made for the U.S. stores, reaching over 3,000 signatures to follow on the UK’s steps, but the company’s website still labels toys for boys and girls, and the company hasn’t replied back to requests for comment.

Last year, Top Toy, one of the largest toy chains in Sweden, published a catalogue showing girls holding toy machine guns and boys playing with dolls, according to RT.com.

The move was an effort to cash in on Sweden’s new gender-neutral language revolution.

RT reported that since 2008, the country’s government has spent millions promoting gender equality in schools. The Swedish are so hardcore about it that some government officials have proposed a new single gender-neutral pronoun – “hen” – to replace “he” and “she” in order to minimize gender stereotyping.

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Urban Gays Less Happy Than Those In Rural Settings

It is generally thought that the city, with its wide variety of people, offers a more welcoming setting for LGBT, however, a new study asserts that gays in rural areas might actually be better off than those in metropolitan cities.

The study, called “Does Place of Residence Matter?

Rural–Urban Differences and the Wellbeing of Gay Men and Lesbians,” was recently released by the Journal of Homosexuality. It focuses on the experiences of 635 gays and lesbian living in the U.S., who filled out a series of surveys regarding their experiences.

The results found living in large metro areas seems to negatively impact the health and well-being of gays and lesbians.

“For gay people, large cities tend to provide more social-networking opportunities, more social and institutional supports and more tolerant social climates,” the study concludes. “Yet, they also typically have more noise, pollution, traffic, crime and ethnic conflict – stressors that tend to erode wellbeing. Other drawbacks of urban life may include high taxes, inferior public schools, substandard housing and a relatively high cost of living.”

Researchers reached the conclusion that the quality of life experienced by rural or small-town gays often outweighs the challenges and threats associated with living in a large metropolitan area.

These findings contradict a research study conducted last year that concluded that conservative climates in rural and small town settings tend to negatively impact the health and well being of LGBTs.

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in Michigan and the Santa Ysabel Tribe of California also recognize gay marriages.

While a state may have approved gay marriage, Native American tribes enact their own laws.

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Washington Native American Tribe Approves Gay Marriage

A Native American tribe from Washington State has taken the steps to formally recognize gay marriage.

The Colville Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Nation voted on Sept. 5 to recognize same-sex marriages, according to The Wenatchee World. Not all council members were present during the vote, but all of those who were, voted favorably.

Council chairman Michael Finley told the newspaper that the vote was the final step toward full recognition, as LGBT identities had long been recognized (called two-spirit soflagaynews //

in the tribal vernacular).

Gay couples in the tribe were already allowed to add their spouse to their insurance and other benefits plans.

The total number of U.S. tribes with formal marriage equality reaches six with the Colville Nation.

The Coquille tribe legalized same-sex unions in 2009, while the Suquamish Tribe approved such unions in 2011—one year before state residents voted at the ballot to legalize it in 2012. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan also began to recognize same-sex marriages this March.

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An LGBT journalist has promised to take drastic measures if a new anti-gay legislation in Russia moves forward.

According to The New Civil Rights Movement, Elena Kostyuchenko, who writes for the Novaya Gazeta, promised on Twitter she will start outing closeted members of parliament who voted in favor of the country’s “homosexual propaganda” law, and those who vote for a proposed law that would remove children from their gay parents.

Kostyuchenko said publishing the private information of Russian legislators is like a “nuclear bomb” that should only be used as a “last resort,” but given the new anti-gay bill recently proposed, she said that “such a time has come.”

Russia’s current anti-gay law prohibits the public display of homosexuality, as well as the teaching of anything LGBT-related to a minor. If passed, the new bill would deny gay parents custody over their children.

Kostyuchenko promised she will publish her report outing closeted parliamentarians on the day the bill gets its first reading in the State Duma, reports Gay Russia.

She added the only way for closeted politicians to be spared is to vote against the custody bill.

“Others will disclosed,” she tweeted on Sept.

5. “This is a warning. They want to destroy our life, and we will destroy them.”

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Christians Can Finally Say ‘It Gets Better’ New initiative aims to make Christian allies come out of the closet Gideon Grudo Wayne Besen doesn’t skip a beat when he says that it’s time to save Christianity from itself.

To this end, Truth Wins Out (TWO), the anti-anti-gay group of which he’s executive director and Christian author John Shore have launched their take on Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign. With Savage’s promotional endorsement (and blessing), TWO and Shore give you NALT Christians

Project — active as of Wednesday, Sept, 4.

NALT stands for “Not All Like That.”

“We are playing a symphony inspired by Christ’s Great Commandment that all of his followers love our neighbors as we love ourselves,” said NALT co-founder John Shore.

“If you’re an LGBT-affirming Christian, there is a seat waiting for you in the orchestra of The NALT Christians Project.”

Steve Rothaus and Wayne Besen at Bass Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Steve Rothaus’ Gay South Florida Facebook

The idea is for people to submit videos of themselves telling the world they support LGBT rights and LGBT people, because they’re “not all like that” Pat Robertson, or any other bigot.

“I think it’s going to be successful because of the time we’re living in. Among young people, there are Christians who are appalled by the message of the Christian right,” Besen told SFGN. “They grew up with LGBT friends and are looking to do something.”

The project was a culmination of over a year-and-a-half of brainstorming. TWO’s associate director Evan Hurst — on seeing the success of the It Gets Better campaign — came up with an idea to do something similar with Christians. Hurst had himself grown up in a very conservative household, and knew any kind of outward alliance would go a long way to anyone watching.

“This project is designed to reach people like myself when I was sixteen and growing up in a conservative religious community,” said NALT Christians Project co-founder and Truth Wins Out Associate Director Evan Hurst. “I wish I had known about the millions of loving Christians who take Jesus’ teachings seriously, and if this project can help keep LGBT youth from the spiritual turmoil of being convinced they are hellbound simply for being who they are, then we’ve done our jobs.”

Submissions are already coming in. Once

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the team deems it’s legitimate (and not some rant from an anti-gay activist), the video will go online. Perhaps sometime soon, the campaign will focus on more than just Christians, but for now, it’s religion-specific.

“The truth is that Christians are the vast majority in this country and are the one affecting inequality. And they’re the ones most frequently on TV,” Besen explained the philosophy behind targeting Christians. “You just don’t see many Jews or Muslims going on TV and ranting against the LGBT community. That said, Jews have been very supportive overall.”

But he kept the option on the table, and pointed out that the name of the project itself is by no means religion-specific.

People want to speak up sometimes instead of have what Besen calls “horrible” spokespeople. People who grew up with LGBT friends, with LGBT idols, with LGBT peers. Besen went on to say that Christianity has a wild and vehement opposition to science and modernity.

“That’s not a good message to send.

Pat Robertson is not the modern world.

He’s a dinosaur. And people don’t want to live in prehistoric times,” he said. “They want to have a faith that’s compatible with contemporary times.”

A program like this is “going to save Christianity from itself,” Besen said.

For more information, go to NotAllLikeThat.org.

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Ask What Obamacare Can Do For You White House airs informational what healthcare reform can do for the LGBT community Jacob Long She also noted the step forward in allowing federal employees to give healthcare benefits to their significant others.

“I think we need to start with reminding our friends and neighbors that the new healthcare reform will stop insurance companies from charging a higher premium for people who are LGBT. That’s now illegal in the United States,” she said to applause.

Another step taken was the elimination of coverage denial based on preexisting conditions like HIV/ AIDS. When she noted this, the crowd applauded again.

“No one again will have a lifetime limit on their healthcare insurance.

We’re instituting annual limits,” she said. The Affordable Care Act, she added, also makes it illegal for companies to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

“Dr. King has taught us that human progress never rolls in on the wheels President Barack Obama of inevitability,” she said, continuing Photo courtesy of The Obama-Biden Transition Project to say the efforts that led to these provisions are the fruits of the labor The White House wants you to know how Obamacare is going to beat up on some of of many activists across the country. “The the obstacles that the LGBT community work that you’ve done to get us to this place is transformative.” faces everyday.

Kathy Greenlee of the LGBT Coordinating “Despite the tremendous progress we’ve made in achieving equality for the Committee Work Group at the U.S. Dept. of LGBT community,” a statement from HHS talked about the administrative history the administration reads, “many LGBT and efforts of helping the aforementioned individuals still face limited access to provision to fruition.

“We wanted to make sure that the healthcare and insurance, and are less likely to get the preventive care they need money we already have at HHS goes to the community, that people know about the to stay healthy.”

To help break down where the government funding,” she said.

Howard Koh works alongside Greenlee. will come in to help, the White House held a Based on the timeline that the HHS is video informational on Thursday, Sept. 13.

“We’re working with the CDC to collect looking at, Koh said that by the summer both sexual orientation and gender identity of 2014, there’ll be surveyed numbers and data,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius data regarding the LGBT community, which during the briefing. “If we’re going to close will help determine its real needs. Koh said health disparities, we need to understand that at a meeting in January, LGBT leaders what’s happening. All of us recognize we emphasized the importance of acquiring have a lot to do — especially in the post- data specific to gender identity in the country. This led to actual surveys being DOMA world.”

She announced that the NIH will now give conducted through the CDC. Working along both Greenlee and Koh is the same recognition to same-sex spouses that it gives to opposite-sex couples, getting Ken Choe (the three sat together and spoke rid of what could have been “discriminatory.” in turn).

“We’re here for you. Kathy, Howard and I (and others) would like to think that we’ve demonstrated that we’re listening to you,” he said. “We hope that our accomplishment show that we’re trying to solve a range of issues across the board.”

According to the administration, Obamacare will “directly address” some of the needs faced by the LGBT community in these ways: •Protecting the right to access quality, affordable health insurance. Starting in 2014, the health care law prevents insurers from denying coverage or charging a higher premium because of a pre-existing condition or because of their sexual orientation.

•Removing lifetime dollar limits on coverage. That means that people with chronic diseases, like HIV/AIDS, cancer and mental health concerns, can get the care we

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need. And starting in 2014, all annual limits will be illegal, too.

•Promoting wellness by requiring insurers to cover preventive care at no additional cost. LGBT adults and teens can get screened by a health professional for HIV and depression without paying co-pays or deductibles. Other preventive services, like cervical cancer screening for sexually active women, obesity counseling for people at risk, and well-woman visits are also covered at no extra cost.

•Helping more LGBT Americans find affordable health insurance. Starting October 1, 2013, all Americans without insurance and those looking for better options will have a new place to shop for plans, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and may qualify for lower costs on monthly premiums.

For more information, go to HealthCare.gov

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Panel Discussion on Trans Women at Pride Center Andrea Dulanto

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On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Pride Center in Wilton Manors, offers a panel discussion called “Are Trans Women Our Sisters?”

The event is part of The Community Collaborative Transgender Educational Series coordinated by several local organizations: The Pride Center, The T-House/ Broward County Department of Health, and SunServe.

According to The Pride Center website, the upcoming discussion will “facilitate an open dialogue on ‘women born women only politics’ and its impact on the relationships between lesbian and transgender women.”

A professional panel will inform the conversation with their experience and insights: Denise Spivak, President of Women in Network (WIN); Robin Schwartz, President of Aqua Foundation for Women; Tori Bertran, Activist/ Board Member of Aqua Foundation for Women; and Diana O’Brien, Activist/ AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Coordinator.

Via email, SFGN interviewed the panelists as well as the organizer of the event, Bishop S.F. Makalani-MaHee of The Pride Center.

Bishop spoke about the need for dialogue.

“Hopefully we can begin to eliminate the stigma and marginalization that many trans women experience,” he shared. “Some within the women’s community as a whole— and within the feminist/lesbian/separatist community specifically—do not see trans women as ‘real’ or ‘full’ women…Pervasive lack of understanding and practice of separatist politics definitely has an impact on the South Florida trans and lesbian communities, especially as we experience trans-lesbian women seeking acceptance and belonging in the South Florida women’s community.”

In a statement to SFGN, activist/ transgender advocate Diana O’Brien provided relevant details likely to come up again during the discussion: “The majority of girls and women are cisgender—that is, the gender identity they develop matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

A small minority of girls and women are transgender –the gender identity they develop is discordant with the sex they were assigned at birth.”

In addition, O’Brien emphasized that “sexual orientation and gender identity are two entirely different things. Trans folk experience the same variety of orientations as everyone else.”

Activist Tori Bertran of Aqua is “a trans woman who has been in women’s spaces for years” and has a “cis female partner.”

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“When I transitioned, the lesbian community in Miami welcomed me with open arms,” said Bertran. “I didn’t even identify as a lesbian [at the time]…still, woman after woman went out of her way to reach out to me and make me comfortable.”

However, she did observe that there are some “women who came of age forty, fifty years ago…[who] don’t…accept [transgender women] as kin.”

O’Brien pointed out that “hate and discrimination are alive and well.” Yet, she added “many of the leaders within the lesbian community fully embrace trans women as sisters, and are wonderful allies.”

President of WIN, Denise Spivak, gave some perspective on how to frame the dialogue: “The question is…are we one community or many little communities? If we are an inclusive LGBT community, how do we embrace and respect each other’s needs and differences and political issues while still maintaining community cohesion…

How do we address trans phobic attitudes or beliefs? And, at the same time, how do we maintain and define (or redefine) womanonly spaces that many feel are important, safe spaces?”

President of the Aqua Foundation for Women, Robin Schwartz, also reflected on the need for connection. “We have an opportunity to bond together in our fight for equality, to bond in our right to identify anywhere on the gender or sexuality spectrum…”

Yet Schwartz was not always this inclusive.

“Many years ago, I was one of those lesbians who didn’t think the gay rights movement should include transgender people. I thought that because sexuality and gender were two separate issues, there was no reason to combine them in our efforts.”

Her personal connections with transgender individuals brought her more awareness and initiated an evolution in her thinking.

“The LGBTQ movement must fight for the rights of all people,” asserted Schwartz. “We must stand up for our friends of color, for the underprivileged, for lesbians, bisexuals and our transgender friends.”

Spivak also sees the connection with transgender issues as imperative.

“While the LGBT community has seen great victories and advances over the past year, the trans community still faces immense hurdles…we, as a community, need to stand together to get over the hurdles.”

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Every Turn, which detailed discrimination against transgender individuals in areas such as housing, education, health care, employment. People of color, particularly transgender individuals who are African American, experience the worst of the discrimination due to the intersection of trans phobia and racism.

Transgender women of color are potentially more vulnerable to violence. Islan Nettles, 21, was beaten to death in New York in August 2013 because of her gender identity.

O’Brien also gave her account of these brutal inequities: “As someone who works in public health, I see the effects of social marginalization on the trans community every day. Social injustice hurts people, makes them sick, and sometimes kills them. What we are talking about is not just ivory tower ideology - it is rubbermeets-the-road real world institutional and individual injustice that is responsible in part for the pervasive discrimination, extreme poverty and staggering murder rate, suicidality and HIV prevalence within the transgender population.”

An open dialogue on the relationship

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between transgender women and lesbians may only be a small step towards fighting this vast injustice—but it could be the first step.

As Bertran proposed: “Lesbians and trans women can learn a lot from each other— issues of gender, acceptance, struggle…Just seeing the world in a way that wouldn’t have necessarily occurred to us before.”

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Trans People Make Very Little Money A new study from MAP shows poverty is rampant among the T in LGBT Jacob Long Transgender workers are nearly four times more likely than the population as a whole to have a household income of under $10,000 — let that sink in.

“I don’t know if you could live on $10,000 a year in income, but I couldn’t,” says Ineke Mushovic, executive director of the Movement Advancement Project, which spearheaded the research that led to this information. “It really is shocking.”

The report claims to shed the brightest light thus far on the inequities facing transgender workers in the American workforce, from finding and keeping good jobs, to having equal access to job-related benefits, to obtaining adequate health insurance coverage.

It’s called “A Broken Bargain for Transgender Workers,” and acts as a supplement to MAP’s recent “A Broken Ineke Mushovic is the executive director of the Movement Bargain: Discrimination, Fewer Advancement Project (MAP).

Benefits, and More Taxes for Photo courtesy of Ineke Mushovic LGBT Workers.” While MAP and obstacles facing the transgender led the research and the report, it’s co-authored by the National Center for community because it may fall to the Transgender Equality (NCTE), the Center for wayside in the many LGBT headlines American Progress (CAP), and the Human circulating everyday.

“Transgender people of color, ones who Rights Campaign (HRC), in partnership with Freedom to Work, the National Gay live at intersections, and otherwise are so and Lesbian Task Force, Out and Equal marginalized — and marriage is so often in the headlines,” she said. “We haven’t seen as Workplace Advocates, and SEIU. “Transgender people face alarming much discussion about transgender people states of inequality. The challenges that and the issues they face.”

As always, undoing the cultural mystery transgender people face in terms of finding and securing good jobs that provide them that shrouds transgender people could be a with healthcare is such a significant issue,” major stepping stone to achieving the type of Mushovic told SFGN. “We need to help equality and awareness that Mushovic chases.

“We already know that Americans are Americans understand that transgender people, just like everyone else, are just trying far less likely to know someone who’s to provide for themselves and for everyone transgender than to know someone who’s gay or lesbian,” she said, adding, “When around them.”

Other information from the research people meet LGBT people, it eliminated found that “transgender workers report some of the mystery or the otherness. You unemployment at twice the rate of the realize that fundamentally, we all care about population as a whole” and “more than four the same thing in life.”

Don’t be afraid to ask. Here are some in 10 transgender people (44 percent) who are currently working are underemployed,” other instances of inequality that plague the transgender community, according to according to the report.

Mushovic said that it’s very important the report: to veer the discussion toward the issues •Pervasive Misunderstanding, Hiring Bias

and On-The-Job Discrimination.

•Wage Inequities.

•Lack of Explicit Legal Protections.

•Inability to Update Identity Documents.

•Unequal Access to Health Insurance Benefits.

•Denial of Personal Medical Leave.

“Far too often, employers offer health benefits that do not provide the coverage and medical leave that are crucial to the

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wellbeing and security of transgender workers and their families,” said Winnie Stachelberg, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at CAP, a co-authoring organization to the report. “Workplace fairness means more than freedom from harassment; it means equal access to the benefits that transgender employees need to live healthy and productive lives.”

For more information, go to LGBTmap.org.

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Broward Bares All, Keeps the Fun in Fundraiser Denise Royal

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On Saturday, September 21st, South Florida’s sexiest fundraiser hits the stage for one night. It’s the fourth year of Broward Bares It! The 90-minute revue features male and female burlesque, some comedy, but even more – sex!

“There is a brand new cast for this years show and let me tell you, these people are not shy…you can expect a lot of skin and hot, steaminess oozing from the stage,” said Terry DeCarlo, Director of Development, Marketing & Public Relations for Broward

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House. “We have added a VIP party section right in front of the stage so the audience can dance along with the performers and get up close and personal!”

The appearances by more than 150 dancers from around the country promises to be hot!

The past three years, the shows have sold out. The proceeds from Broward Bares It! go to Broward House, South Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS community service organization. It provides medical care, housing and other services to more than

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“The money from this event, like our others, helps Broward House to keep its promise of never saying no, or turning anyone away from our door, no matter what their financial situation,” says DeCarlo.

This year’s theme is “I Do, Do You?” The show takes place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Tickets start at $45.

Visit www.BrowardBaresIt.com/ for more information.

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Small Utah Town Celebrates Pride

The 3rd annual Moab Pride Fest raises LGBT visibility in rural area Andrea Richard

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The tiny town of Moab in Utah draws outdoor enthusiasts from around the country. With access to extensive trails, large valleys through Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park, this town of 6,000 is renowned as a place for mountain bike adventures to awesome whitewater rafting amid Mars-like slick red rock.

Aside from rugged outings, this community boasts a progressive spirit with an open-mindedness that offers LGBT members a safe haven to live, visit and to throw one heck of a Pride festival.

“The cool thing about this quirky community is there’s an acceptance of being who you want to be,” said Jenn Oestreich,

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Moab Pride event organizer.

The annual Moab Pride, an affiliate of the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City, is the country’s first locale to integrate outdoor recreation with an LGBT festival. Moab Gay Adventure Week rolls out the week prior to the three-day festival held from September 27 through 29, offering travelers wellrounded outdoors amusement.

For Moab, Pride is more than just a party and a parade. It is a political statement heard far beyond the town’s borders according to a statement issued by the organizers. “The importance of small town prides is the courage and visibility putting on an event in a small town as opposed to a big city where it’s easy to blend into large crowds,” Oestreich said.

Indeed, it is tough to avoid standing out in smallville America. “Small town pride events are the ones creating change,” commented Donna Narducci, former executive director of Atlanta Pride.

Moab Pride founder Amy Stocks and area native came up with the idea to organize this festival after watching a satiric video from the parody news organization “The Onion,” about a small town having a Pride festival for its lone gay man. From a seemingly funny sketch, Stocks drew up plans with Ali Lingel and Moab Pride was founded in 2010.

Now it has become one of the nation’s largest small-town pride festivals.

Attendance is expected to triple this year to upwards of 2,000 festivalgoers. To crown this milestone, internationally acclaimed author and celebrated columnist Wayne Besen was tapped to speak Saturday, Sept. 28 at Old City Park.

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Besen, age 43, recently garnered two Lambda Literary Awards nods for his book, “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth,” and he continuously strives to combat the “ex-gay” movement through his activism work with Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization he founded.

A University of Florida graduate majoring in journalism, he has made guest television appearances on shows including NBC Nightly News, Hard Copy, PAX’s Faith Under Fire, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

As a speaker, he is known for his poignant and engaging delivery that has landed him speaking gigs at Vanderbilt, Harvard Law School, and John Hopkins.

Additional entertainment includes live musical performances by folksy pop duo The Lovebirds, who will flaunt colorful costumes during their performance on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 28.

Soul-stirring Singer/songwriter Nicole Torres also known as Nico Tower and the Radioactive Folk Orchestra will also take the stage. And Salt Lake City-based band The Vision will play dance-hopping tunes.

All female blues rockers Birdie and the Black Sheep, from Salt Lake City, will perform and encourage attendees to throw their bras out while they rock it out.

On Friday, Sept. 27, the 2013 Moab Pride will kick off with the “Orange Party,” proceeding the final day of Moab Gay Adventure Week, with Los Angeles-based house DJ divaDaneille.

Visit www.moabpride.org and www. gayadventureweek.com for further information.

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Why Studying Evangelical Tendencies is Important What swaying religious indifference says about the future of gay rights Gideon Grudo We already told you that according to new research out of Baylor College, the number of evangelicals in the “messy middle” — those who oppose homosexuality morally but support equal rights — is growing.

New support for same-sex marriages is coming from people who are very traditional and conservative moralists. “These people are in church. They’re Sunday School teachers.

They’re not marginal. They’re in a position to change the position of Evangelism, moreso than youth who don’t really go to church.”

Lydia Bean told SFGN. She’s the co-author of the research mentioned above.

But why should anyone give too much thought to what Evangelicals think about LGBT issues?

“Evangelicals are 25 percent of the American population. But they’re also the most organized constituency opposing gay rights,” Bean said. “If support for the anti-gay movement is eroding in evangelicals, it has huge implications for American politics.”

It’s not exactly that LGBT people are

now in the “okay” category, but more that evangelicals (or at least 35 percent of those who took part in national surveys) are losing their interest. When Bean says “eroding,” she means the issue is falling into ambivalence.

“By contrast, 24 percent of evangelicals support gay civil unions, even though they are morally opposed to homosexuality,” the Bean and co-author Brandon Martinez reads. “These ambivalent evangelicals are similar in biblical literalism and religious practice to those who oppose civil unions.”

The interesting thing about evangelicals, Bean said, is there are two scripts about homosexuality: One says it’s wrong and outright opposed to Christian values. The other is about treating people respectfully, stopping bullying, and loving neighbors.

In an evangelical youth group that Bean attended, the subject was standing up to anti-gay bullying.

“That’s a pretty big shift. But they co-exist because anti-gay rhetoric is pretty rare in evangelical churches. Pat Robertson’s crazy

comments — I think he’s gone senile — you wouldn’t hear that in most churches,” Bean said. “Most of the rhetoric is muted by this growing awareness that you don’t know where people are coming from. You might say homosexuality is a sin, but no one would ever say that it ‘needs to be eradicated from society like a cancer.’”

It’s kind of like divorce, she said, which is frowned upon but doesn’t have so much angry rhetoric against it.

A concrete example of changing minds like the ones outlined in Bean’s research would be the recent stance reversal from Florida native Alan Chambers, who had denounced his very strong ties with Exodus International, an organization that attempted to help people overcome their homosexuality. Two months ago Exodus issued a statement which repudiated its aims and apologized for the harm it’s causes to the LGBT community.

“What you have is this increase in people coming out publicly and saying, ‘I don’t want to be a part of this anti-gay rights

movement as an evangelical,’” Bean said to the Washington Post. “They’re not switching sides from the culture wars, they’re just withdrawing from the culture wars.”

Lydia Bean (pictured) co-authored a study that showed Evangelical opinion toward LGBT rights and equality is not what everyone thinks it is — not anymore, at least.

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Celebrating Women

Aqua Foundation holds fundraiser to recognize organizations, women leaders

Jacob Long On Saturday, Sept. 21, Aqua Foundation will hold its Aqua Affair, a night of drinks, food, and high fives to the women in South Florida who are making a difference. The night is meant as special recognition of grant-receiving organizations in South Florida, as well as the scholarship recipients from this year. It all goes down at the Mandarin in Miami Beach, where DJ Pride will be emceeing — hors d’oeuvres

and open bar will accentuate the night. If you get tickets online, it’ll run you $70 ($55 if you’re a member). Door price is $85. And don’t forget to bring some money for the silent auction.

“It’s important — we want to highlight the other organizations for the great work they’re doing for our community,” Robin Schwartz, the executive director of Aqua Foundation, told SFGN. The organizations

Mageda Abdulhadi Received the Alison Burgos Scholarship Recipient Major: Philosophy & Psychology College:University of Florida From Aqua Foundation: “Mageda is a returning scholar who continues to excel in her classes, as well as taking on undergraduate research projects and beginning a TA position. As a double major in Psychology and Philosophy she doesn’t have much spare time but she still has found the time to become involved in her LGBT student group, organizing movie nights, serving on committees, and recruiting others to join. Additionally she has been inducted into multiple honor societies in recognition of her scholastic and leadership achievements.”

Peggy Bates Major: Occupational Therapy College: Keiser University From Aqua Foundation: “Peggy is an older student returning to school to pursue a degree as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. She made the decision to transition into a different career after she lost several fingers in an accident and had to receive therapy herself. She has already overcome many of life’s obstacles, including a challenging coming out and difficulty in traditional school settings due to ADHD. She is eager to start her new career and devote more time to her volunteer activities, which includes spending time talking to patients in occupational therapy who are having a particularly difficult time adjusting.”

she mentions received grants in 2012 from the foundation.

This year, Aqua also gave out scholarships to individuals.

“These women are our future leaders. They are the women that — as time goes by — will be leading not just women’s organizations but all organizations,” Schwartz said. “And they’re all already having a healthy attitude about being LGBT.”

The organizations that received grants in 2012 (totaling $50,000): •PFLAG of Ft. Lauderdale •Pridelines Youth Services •The Museum of Contemporary Art •Gilda’s Club South Florida •SunServe •Pride Center at Equality Park •Safe Schools of South Florida

The 2013 scholarship recipients ($60,000):

Catherine Armuelles Major: Women’s Studies College: Florida Atlantic University From Aqua Foundation: “Catherine is a returning scholar who has overcome adverse circumstances from a young age.

Her early memories are of an abusive home life, which caused her to struggle with low self-esteem. After high school Catherine entered a ministry program. Although her attraction to women meant she could not serve as a pastor, she still remained active there and prayed desperately for God to “take this burden away.” When that did not work she knew she needed to be honest with herself, so she came out. When her church community alienated her, Catherine moved on with her life.Catherine decided to go back to college at 27 and has become a criticallythinking honors student completely invested in gender and sexuality studies.”

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Kimberly Carias Major: Nursing College: Florida International University From Aqua Foundation: “Kimberly is only 19 and has already managed to excel in her new scholastic environment at FIU where she has maintained a 4.0 while pursuing a Nursing degree. She is active on her campus, having joined the LGBT and Women’s studies groups and she is currently working with fellow students to found the first Lesbian Sorority on FIU’s campus.”

Yanire Chow Received the Wells Fargo Scholarship Major: Information Technology College: Florida International University From Aqua Foundation: “Yanire is pursuing a degree in Information Technology and is currently maintaining a 3.9 GPA; she has maintained scholastic success even while working full time to support her mother and herself. She soflagaynews //

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also knows how to throw herself into her community and volunteers as a basketball coach for a local league her nephew is part of in addition to many other volunteer activities in the LGBT community, including with Aqua Foundation, Miami Beach Gay Pride, Save Dade, and Equality Florida.”

Emerald Major: Psychology College: Florida International University From Aqua Foundation: “Emerald faces a challenging experience as a young lesbian woman, raised in a Pentecostal household she has not felt comfortable coming out to her family but she has found the strength to accept herself and be out to her friends and peers. She is currently pursuing a degree in Psychology and plans to join the military to

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serve as a counselor. She is also currently working with other students to reignite her campus’s LGBT student group.”

Mandi Hawke Major: Business Management College: Broward College From Aqua Foundation: “Mandi is already an accomplished leader in our community, serving as the Program Coordinator for Youth Services at Sunserve as well as Co-Executive Director of Drag It Out. She has decided to return to school to pursue a degree in Business and further her professional development and ability to give back to her community.”

Vanessa Hernandez Received the Alicia Apfel Scholarship Major: Nursing College: Nova Southeastern University

From Aqua Foundation: “Vanessa is finishing her Nursing degree this year and is already set on pursuing her Master’s in Social Work; she has maintained an excellent academic record all while working night shifts at a clinic for patients with eating disorders as a Recovery Coach. She has also found time to informally mentor other scholarship recipients, helping them navigate coming out and scholastic choices. She was also recognized for her academic success and leadership capabilities when she was chosen to be inducted into the Golden Key Honor Society.”

Caorlyn Napp Major: Clinical Psychology College: Nova Southeastern University From Aqua Foundation: “Carolyn is currently working in mental health and has now returned to school to obtain a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology. She has personal experience with abuse as she grew up in a difficult family situation and has spent her life mentoring and helping others in challenging circumstances. She is the first person in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, is working on obtaining her certification to become a GED instructor, and currently serves as the Board Chair for Drag It Out.” Bridget Palaez Received the Wells Fargo Scholarship Major: Nursing

College: Nova Southeastern University From Aqua Foundation: “Bridget continues to excel in her nursing program and was inducted into the Golden Key Honor Society last semester. She expects to graduate within a year and plans to pursue medical school; she is currently working as a medic and has held a number of positions in the medical field while pursuing her degree. She has embraced her leadership potential with zeal and taken the initiative in developing a GSA on her campus as well as bringing in the YES institute to speak to her class in response to discrimination she experienced as an out lesbian.”

Caridad Tabares Received the Latina and General Scholarship Major: Journalism College: University of Miami From Aqua Foundation: “Caridad came out only a few years ago at the age of 38, but her leadership is already being felt in our community. She currently blogs for a Spanish speaking audience on LGBT issues and was nominated for a GLAAD award for her efforts. She is attending the University of Miami to obtain a degree in Journalism so that she can continue to pursue her writing career and serve as a spokesperson for the lesbian community.

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Move Over Betsy Ross, Miami Beach Hosts Creator of Rainbow Flag Andrea Richard

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A little bit of fabric and a vision can go a long way. Just ask gay rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker, who spoke to a captivated audience Thursday, Sept. 12 at Miami Beach Botanical Garden.

Baker’s impact as a gay rights activist has garnered him world wide attention as a leader in the LGBT movement, and the City of Miami was sure to welcome him on Thursday evening with an honor – the key to the city.

His speech began with a reflection on his early life in a small Kansas town. There he

grew up feeling different, alone and riddled with guilt, so he dealt with it all through his own art therapy he said.

In 1970 he was drafted in the army leaving his Kansas life, and arrived in bustling San Francisco where he resided after receiving an honorable discharge two years later.

It was then that he took up sewing, so he could make clothes he couldn’t afford such as in the vein of David Bowie’s glam era. He wanted to delve into drag. He got involved in marches and activism in the Bay Area,

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and befriended Harvey Milk. He would sew banners for marches and gay protests.

But it wasn’t until 1978 that he came up with an idea that would ultimately serve as the most globally recognized LGBT pride symbol – the rainbow flag. He constructed the first one with eight pieces of different colors – each of which correspond to a meaning.

“My sewing craft was always my activism and my way to connect to the community,” Baker said on Thursday to a packed room of nearly 150 attendees.

As Baker shared his life story a feeling of inspiration swept the room. He would pause between witty banter, the crowd would laugh and clap, and his eyes would sparkle as though passion fills his blood.

For Baker, the rainbow flags symbolizes a “beacon of hope,” intended as a “direct visibility action that belongs to everyone.”

What is unique about this flag is it can be hung either way, up or down, there’s no strict rules governing how it’s positioned on a pole like the American flag.

“We must not be afraid to rise up and change the world,” he said. He wrapped up his speech, and proceeded with a Q&A session with the audience.

“Fire away,” he began, and so the questions started with gushing attendees proclaiming

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their admiration for his work, his flag and his inspiring contribution to the community.

“A lot of people ask me about music, and of course that Judy Garland song ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow,’ comes up. But tonight, we are under the rainbow longing to be free,” he joked, looking up at a rainbow flag that was suspended from the ceiling spanning the entire room.

When asked where the most shocking place was that he spotted his flag, he said it was in Milan, Italy during the mid-2000s.

It was there where flags emblazoned with “pace,” Italian for peace became trendy. Did this imitation cause him distress? No. “It amused me to see it,” he admitted.

Until he designed the rainbow flag, the pink triangle was used to represent LGBT social movement, a symbol born out oppressive Nazis rule according to Baker. So he sought to make a change, a positive change.

Baker has broke two world records through creating the world’s longest flags for demonstrations.

A rainbow flag was placed at the back of the room for attendees to sign. Baker stayed awhile after his Q&A to pose with fans.

His speech ended with a standing ovation.

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Study: LGBT Youth Face Higher Risk of Dating Violence Jacob Long

A new survey shows more 43 percent of LGBT teens who are dating reported some kind of relationship abuse, significantly higher than the 29 percent of heterosexual teens who said they faced abuse.

The report comes from the Urban Institute, which since 1968 has been conducting research and evaluating programs across the country as they pertain to social and economic issues. This latest research, “Dating Violence Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth” is one of the first examinations of dating violence and abuse through the distinct lens of sexual orientation and of gender identity. Out of the 5,000 students surveyed in grades seven to 12, sprawling the states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 3,745 reported they were dating.

“We look specifically at how social media is being used to victimize teenagers,” Meredith Dank, one of the lead authors on the study, told SFGN. Six percent of the dating teens surveyed were LGBT. “LGBT teenagers are much more likely to face dating abuse, from sexual abuse to bullying.

The first step is recognizing it as an issue,” Dank said, adding that LGB youth are more likely to seek help. “This puts school administrators and peers in a good position to help.”

But transgender teens aren’t as likely to seek help, hiding their identity in fear of further retaliation or abuse. Trans youths reported high victimization in teen dating violence.

They also reported high levels of perpetration — meaning they reported they’d initiated some of the incidents. The research couldn’t detail whether the perpetration of the violence was in defense or offense, though. Dank admitted that they’d have to take a closer look in the future on the exact details of each case of abuse to better determine causes.

“It begs for further research to figure out exactly what that victimization looks like,” she said. But she wasn’t apologetic.

This study, after all, is on the frontier of addressing issues seldom seen in similar surveys. “I think what’s important to highlight is that this is one of the only studies that juxtaposed LGBT dating violence stats against heterosexual dating violence stats.

We’re also one of the first studies to separate out gender identity.”

Some highlights from the survey (these numbers represent the six percent LGBT respondents from the pool): •43 percent reported being victims of physical dating violence, compared to 29 percent of heterosexual youth; •59 percent reported emotional abuse, compared to 46 percent of heterosexual youth; •37 percent reported digital abuse and harassment, compared to 26 percent of heterosexual youth; and •23 percent reported sexual coercion, compared to 12 percent of heterosexual youth.

•Although a small number, the 18 transgender youth surveyed had the highest rates of victimization: 89 percent reported physical dating violence, 61 percent were sexually coerced, 59 percent experienced emotional abuse, and 56 percent recorded digital abuse and harassment.

“Given such high rates of victimization, helping these young people is especially important since teen dating violence can be a stepping stone toward adult intimate partner violence,” Dank, who’s a Senior Research Associate at the Justice Policy Center said.

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Notably, past research on the effect of dating abuse in youths on their adulthood has never been LGBT-specific — research that Dank said is one of the next steps.

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Pink Flamingo Awards Are In First annual luncheon big success Jacob Long

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It’s called the Pink Flamingo Awards, the LGBT Visitor Center’s version of a People’s Choice awards — but this one took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

It all went down on Tuesday, Sept. 17 — around 170 attendees selling out the event, which honored 10 people and organizations that have made Miami Beach one of the top 20 places to visit (for LGBT tourists, at least). Just under a thousand people voted for their favorite spots. Some of the nominees campaigned on their own accord with Facebook pages and email blasts. In one case (favorite DJ), the winner was determined by just four votes — DJ Pride won and the runner up was DJ Maximus 3000.

Supporters of the Visitor Center were asked to vote on their choice of the top person or group within ten distinct categories, from favorite DJ personality to favorite retail store.

The $60 ticket to the event included an invitation into a silent auction, and entrance into a raffle contest.

“Many people in the community don’t realize that the LGBT Visitor Center is a stand-alone organization under the nonprofit MDGLCC Foundation,” said Karen Brown, the center’s executive director. “We are partially funded by grants for the work that we do to serve our tourists and our community, but we need the community’s support to raise funds to bridge the gap between what we need and what the grants don’t cover. So many locals enjoy the programming at the Center and so many local non-profits benefit from us being here that I honestly think we should change the name of the place to the ‘LGBT Visitor and Community Center’.”

Here are the winners from the ceremony: •Hospitality Partner of the Year

•Favorite Nightlife Destination

•Favorite Nightlife Promoter

•Favorite Entertainer

•Favorite Restaurant

•Miami Beach Visitor Favorite

•Favorite DJ Personality

•Favorite Fundraising Event

•Favorite Tourist Attraction

•Favorite Retail Store

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To Marry or not to Marry

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Julie Seaver

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“So when are you two getting married?” I should know the answer to this question as I hear this lot at work and out with our friends. Well that, and the fact we have been engaged since last year when my partner popped the question to me on her birthday.

In the past we...I mean my fiancée and I, have always believed if we didn’t have marriage equality in the state of Florida, what was the sense in getting legally married? We live here, we work here, we pay our taxes and our community is right here. Even living in this post DOMA bliss, why should we bother going out of state we have no ties to, just to get married? Well, we both have changed our minds in the last couple of weeks and here’s why.

Let’s go back to Labor Day Weekend where everyone was celebrating a 3 day holiday with BBQs, pool parties and the last of summer on the beach. That weekend, we received a call from one of our very good friends who was up north with her family that her wife was in a tragic boating accident down here and she didn’t survive. Barely 40 years old, this

couple had everything anyone would want in a marriage: happiness, love and laughter.

Everything, that is, except the same rights as a legally married couple. When you’re in your 30s, you don’t think about dying or living wills and estate documents, you think about living in the moment and having plenty of time.

With time, things can quickly go from bad to unthinkably worse. Now faced with the unfortunate reality that she may lose the home she shared with her wife to the in-laws (how ironic that sounds), our grieving friend and many of us “family” members were not welcome inside the funeral home yesterday.

Out of respect and on our very best behavior, we stood outside of the service and quietly listened to the pastor talk about accepting God into your life and how none of us are ever promised one more day. He spoke of how she loved her dogs, the Dolphins and Harley Davidson motorcycles. There was no mention of her wife or their life together.

I looked at my future wife with tears in my eyes when she said, “don’t worry, that will

never happen to us,” and realized it was a promise she couldn’t keep. After the service, we all went back to the house and this was the topic of discussion amongst all of us. With all of the new changes in effect with DOMA, and now the IRS allowing legally married samesex couples to file jointly, there is much hope, but even more questions. We have so many community partners in the legal field that are willing to offer their services and lead us in the right direction, which is why programs and workshops to address these questions are so important.

So, to answer the question of when are we going to get married? Well, we don’t have a date set yet, but we have made a commitment to each other to get more informed at the upcoming Compass Business Expo and post DOMA workshop. Now is the time to get informed, get planning, and if nothing else, get your domestic partnership and living will paperwork in order. And then we can enjoy our gift of time together, no matter how much is left.

Julie Seaver is Center Operations Director

at Compass, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of the Palm Beaches and can be contacted at Julie@compassglcc.com.

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Julie Silver: A Journey of Faith, Family, and Song It’s the season of the High Holidays for Jews around the world—and that means that Julie Silver, one of the most popular singers and songwriters of Jewish contemporary music, and a lesbian mom, is very busy. She took time, however, to speak with me about being a mom, balancing family and work, coming out, living as an interfaith family, and doing good in the world.

Silver has been performing professionally for over 25 years, first in her native Massachusetts and now across the United States and beyond. Her albums are a mix of songs about the Jewish and the broader human experience as well as Jewish holiday and liturgical songs. Her 2007 album It’s Chanukah Time is the only Jewish album ever to have been recognized on Billboard, reaching the number five spot in 2009. A retrospective CD for the (appropriately) silver anniversary of her career is in the works.

For the past 20 years, she has made her home in Southern California, where she lives with her spouse Mary Connelly, a television producer, and their two daughters, ages eight-and-a-half and one-and-a-half years.

Despite some initial fears that becoming a parent would interrupt her career, Silver found that parenting “didn’t really divide my time. Adding love to your life shouldn’t be a drawback and it shouldn’t be an interruption, and it really wasn’t.”

Parenthood has instead “elevated” her life and career. “It felt out of spiritual necessity that I had to keep doing this work, and do it even better,” she explained. She wants her daughters to see her passion for making a contribution to the world, so they in turn “feel passion in their work and in their everyday lives.”

Conversely, her career has informed her parenting. Having sung at High Holiday services since she was 15 years old, she said, she feels well equipped to explain “in very simple terms” to her daughters what the holidays mean and “what it means to be part of a community of learners and seekers and people who want to do good things in the world.”

That community—of progressive, liberal Jews—has always accepted her, she said.

She’s had “a completely different experience” from LGBT people who feel condemned by their religion. “There was nobody more important to me than Jewish professionals in my coming out,” she said. “Judaism has done nothing but support and embrace all

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the pieces of me. Especially that one.”

Because of her deep roots in the Jewish community, Silver surprised herself when she fell in love with Connolly, an Irish Catholic. “I never thought in a million years I would ever be with somebody who was nonJewish,” she said.

As part of an interfaith couple, Silver said, “I had to learn to accept everything that raised my partner, and everything that she embraced. Even though we come from two totally different faiths, the only thing that’s important is that we support each other in what we’re doing.”

As a parent, Silver said, “I’m going to raise my children with love and they’re going to know how I was raised, and they’re going to experience all these Jewish things—but they have another mother, who has her experience as well. And so we have to find a way to fit both into our home.”

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Easter egg hunt for their girls last year when Connolly was away. Similarly, when Silver is away on the weekends, Connolly takes their eldest to Hebrew school.

Still, Silver said that being an interfaith family is “a running dialogue . . . . The more we talk about our faith, the more we talk about our separate experiences, the more we have combined experiences, the more our experiences mean to us.”

In her public life, Silver is committed to using her experiences and her platform as a performer to help LGBT people. “In the last 10 years, it’s become an entire wing of my career to mentor and at least connect with young people—or not young people—who are coming out, and to be an ear and an advocate,” she said.

“I’ve come out to 10,000 people in Washington, D.C. at the regional biennial for the Reform movement. I’ve come out for 25 seventh graders that I’m just kind of talking with. Audiences throughout the country hear me say, ‘our daughters; my wife,’” she related. It’s clear “that they’re watching

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someone who is incidentally a lesbian, someone who’s completely comfortable with it.” By getting people to be comfortable with her, she hopes they can learn to feel comfortable with themselves and others.

Another cause in which she is “deeply invested” is women’s right to pray equally with men at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

This November, she will be going to Israel for the 25th anniversary of Women of the Wall, the advocacy group pushing for change there.

Silver insists that when it comes to social action, “Everybody has a gift. Everybody has something to offer.” For herself, she said, “If I can raise my voice because I have a platform, then that’s the best I can do. I have a performance skill. That’s how I’m going to hopefully help.”

Silver will be performing at Temple Beth Am in Miami on October 4. Visit juliesilver. com for details.

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

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Attacked regardless is he takes it to heart. I feel it’s my responsibility to shed light on people’s misguided and dark hearts.

The second message came in apparent response from the message my Facebook friend sent and because I finally blocked the first messenger. His message was this: “You are still online all day no wonder you can’t find a man and nobody want you because you are AIDS. So why don’t you kill yourself faggot? No wonder you are still single forever because you still have no damn boyfriends and you are AIDS/HIV anyways. What an idiot you are and you are low-life stupid slut faggot.”

Now, of course I was never able to respond to either of these men, but if I could my response would be this: Gentlemen, I first want to apologize for whatever in your life has caused you to lash out at me for simply being open and honest about my HIV status on a gay hook-up site. I

too once felt your anger when I was infected by someone who didn’t have the respect for me to tell me his status. With that being said, I have come to love myself and people of all statuses now. Just because you don’t understand the virus or the difference between HIV and AIDS doesn’t give you the right to project your misinformed and bigoted hatred at me. One thing you do have right is “I are AIDS.” I’m doing my best to give a face and a voice to a disease that has been ridiculed much worse than you’ve done to me. I don’t know what your goal was in writing those messages to me but you have accomplished one thing: my stance against stigma and hate has been strengthened.

You’re words were meant to break me but they did the exact opposite. And for that, I thank you.

Ryan Dixon

Each week Ryan Dixon shares his story of taking HIV medication.

Photo courtesy of Ryan Dixon

Ryan Dixon (a.k.a former porn star Kameron Scott) has started taking HIV medication. He’s keeping a diary of his experience.

Being in my mid-20’s isn’t easy, add HIV on top of that and we have one hell of a complicated life. I’m making the best out of the hand life has dealt me and the decisions I’ve made along the way. Writing helps free my mind. Hopefully these words will help you understand the plight of others like myself, and inspire you to live each and every day in the moment.

Week 53

(Aug. 31 – Sept. 5) I feel like I have finally come across a terrorist in my own back yard. I literally had two guys come after me online because I have my HIV positive status listed. The gall that it took to use the language they did and to say the hurtful things that they said is unfathomable.

I had no idea how to respond nor was I given the chance – they blocked me so I could only read what they wrote.

I’ve encountered hate speech before online but only after disclosing or after I messaged a person. I usually chalk it up to the lack of education, but this time the messages were completely unprovoked. I

never messaged these guys or even looked at their profiles. I woke up to a message that said, “You going die soon because you are AIDS now. Bye whore faggot!”

At first I was shocked at his horrible butchering of the English language.

When his words finally did sink in my stomach started to hurt. I was trying to understand how someone could just attack me like that without provocation.

I posted a screen capture of the message and put it on my Facebook page to see what reactions my friends and followers on there would have. What I didn’t expect was for one of those friends to write the man back on the same site to defend me.

I received this follow up message after he was apparently written: “Sadly, you are still f-ing whore because you don’t give a shit about yourself and we’re all glad that you got AIDS now and you’re going to die soon faggot! So stay away from negative guys dumb faggot.”

Ironically enough, I’ve never dated a positive person in the last five years. I’ve been with positive guys sexually but never romantically. When it comes to relationships, sex doesn’t seem to really matter. It’s a factor that helps, but has always come secondary to me when looking for love. I only wish I had the chance to respond to him just so I can try and educate him a little on HIV –

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We Do, Too!:

ArtsUnited and The Pride Center Presents Marriage Equality Photo Exhibit

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One photo, two brides.

They gather the folds of their white gowns as they lift their wedding bouquets above their heads, laughing.

One of the women was Jane Kreinberg’s lesbian niece. Kreinberg took a photo of that rousing moment and it became part of an ArtsUnited show in Wilton Manors.

ArtsUnited is a South Florida nonprofit that has provided opportunities for gay and lesbian artists since 1999.

However, no one knew Kreinberg’s photo would inspire an entire series of exhibits.

For the past few months throughout South Florida, ArtsUnited has presented We Do, Too!, wedding photos of same-sex couples from Florida who had to leave the state in order to get married. Included with the photos are written statements sharing the couples’ thoughts on marriage equality as well as what it’s like to live in a state that doesn’t legally recognize their marriage.

We Do Too! has appeared at the LGBT Visitor Center in Miami and Compass GLCC in Lake Worth. This September, the collection of twenty-four photos can be viewed at The Pride Center in Wilton Manors until September 30.

A well-attended opening reception was held on Friday, September 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. During the event, President of ArtsUnited, Peter Meyerhoefer, spoke to SFGN about plans to show the marriage equality exhibit throughout Florida, noting that “the goal is to move to the mainstream.” Meyerhoefer confirmed that We Do, Too! is scheduled for June 2014 in Gallery 6 at the Broward County Main Library.

Recently married to his partner of twenty-eight years, Meyerhoefer sees great significance in broadening the audience with the addition of “more public spaces.”

However, a main concern is sponsors. The current exhibition received support from Marc Martin Publishing and The Punchline, Inc. But more sponsors are needed in order to cover shipping costs and other expenses related to a traveling art show.

Kreinberg is on the ArtsUnited Board of Directors, and she also spoke to SFGN about the need for sponsors, particularly because they hope to bring the show to Tampa and Key West. According to Kreinberg, ArtsUnited is “focusing on Florida” because marriage equality is “topical” here. Yet, she also pointed out that “the majority of states

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don’t have marriage equality.”

With sponsorship, We Do, Too! could “go all over the country.”

Many of the couples’ written statements share how they left Florida to get legally married in New York, San Francisco or Canada. They also relate what it felt like to return.

In Marty and MJ’s statement, they say that “Coming home to Florida married, was bittersweet—to be legally married one place, but not another.”

Shmetrice & Brooke’s marriage took place in New York, but they also held a ceremony in Cancun, Mexico—their photo is an idyllic scene on the beach by the ocean.

Their statement asserts: “[W] e have made a legal, social and spiritual commitment to honor each other even when not honored by others.”

Many of the couples from the photographs attended the opening reception, as well as one participant whose partner was absent due to a business trip.

Kevin Murdoch and Drew Miller have been together for nearly nineteen years. On their thirteenth anniversary, they Terry DeCarlo and Bill Huelsman. honored their commitment in a Photo courtesy of Steve Shires 2009 ceremony in Hawaii. They were later legally married in New Terry DeCarlo is Director of Public York in 2012 with many of their friends and Relations, Marketing and Fundraising at family in attendance.

Broward House, and Bill Huelsman is the “I don’t think we realized how important owner of Garden’s Executive Suites in Palm it was until after we did it,” said Murdoch. Beach Gardens.

“The legal ceremony made a difference.”

Together for eighteen years, they were Adrienne Foland and Amy Waxman were married in December 2012 under the married at San Francisco’s City Hall in October Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New 2008. During May of that year, the California York. Many of their friends encouraged the Supreme Court had ruled the ban against couple to participate in We Do, Too! same-sex marriages unconstitutional. But in “There was no second thought… the only November, the voter-initiated Proposition 8 question was which picture?” said DeCarlo. reinstated the ban. Foland sensed this would Seeing his wedding photo on display, happen. Yet it only deepened the significance DeCarlo shared that he “feel[s] justified in of her marriage. the eyes of the public.”

“There were eight weddings going on at “Each day, different states are making the same time [in City Hall]. There was lots progress,” said DeCarlo. “Hopefully, one of love that day.” day our friends and neighbors down on When asked what the exhibit conveys to Wilton Drive will have a huge wedding audiences, Waxman did not hesitate. “[The ceremony at City Hall. And it will be legal. photos show] our love is no different from And incredible.” anyone else’s love.”

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Before each exhibit, ArtsUnited sends out a call for same-sex couples to submit their wedding photos. Visit their website for information.

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Dania Beach’s Humanity Project serves the children who create it

Jacob Long Question: What happens when you let a bunch of kids take control of a website and create for their peers what they think is right?

Answer: The Humanity Project for Kids.

“It really grew out of the writing,” says Bob Knotts, founder of the Humanity Project and its most recent offspring. Knotts had been journalist for a long time before then, and had written many books and plays (and a slew of articles for Newsweek’s travel magazine, Reader’s Digest, and the SunSentinel, among others). Most of his books were for kids.

“I began having a strong feeling for educating children.”

When a Miami theater commissioned one of his plays about teen suicide, his writing crossed the border into activism.

“I thought ‘if I could create an organization that focuses on people’s craving for being appreciated, and use that in a constructive way, I could apply the ideas and do more than just write about them,” Knotts told

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SFGN. “It really is about trying to find way to help individuals feel better about themselves with the goal of improving society.”

The group he created, Thp4kids, is focused on “socially isolated youth,” commonly known as “disengaged youth.” A grant from State Farm made it all possible. Knotts says that he considers State Farm one of the more community-minded companies out there because of the grants they make available to social issues projects (the company also advertises with SFGN — full disclosure).

“It’s 99 percent student-created for their peers with a heavy LGBT angle to it, Knotts said, pointing out that LGBT youth make up a large portion of the “disengaged youth” he’s previously mentioned. The site’s intended to be engaging and funny, but can get serious (with a blog from Knotts about being bullied as a child, for example).

“We deal with some really central issues about how you see yourself and how you deal with life,” Knotts said, adding that the kids

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running the site have been known to produce a song or two, as well. “I hope that we reach a big international audience.”

Many of the kids running the site have also shared their own experiences with bullying or coming to terms with who they are — or even about how to deal with divorcing parents.

Here’s one from sophomore Haley, titled: “Don’t Blame Yourself”: From a young age we learn that love never lasts.

Nearly 50% [sic] of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce nowadays and many families only stick together because of the economy.

But when I was in 6th grade, divorce seemed to be a foreign concept to me. I only had one friend whose parents were divorced, and they had ended up remarried.

My mother was the one who broke the news to me.

She had dropped me off at the house of a friend of hers and gone to pick up my aunt at the airport. When they both showed up, I knew something was off; my aunt lives, along with the rest of Bob Knotts is the founder of the Humanity Project and its most recent my family, up in New Jersey. offspring. Knotts had been journalist for a long time before then, and had Only something incredibly written many books and plays (and a slew of articles for Newsweek’s important could have pulled travel magazine, Reader’s Digest, and the Sun-Sentinel, among others). her away from her two Photo courtesy of Bob Knotts young boys to visit us in humid Florida. My mom took me upstairs may eat too much, or too little, and claim and told me that she was divorcing my that you need to eat more or eat less; all father, and that was when I started crying. manner of things.

But after a few months, a year, you I knew my father wasn’t a good man—he discover that you’re actually very good at drank, he yelled, and he was angry most of the time for no reason—but I thought that painting, or singing operas in the rain, or Frisbee. You begin to do three hours worth maybe they could work it out.

I sobbed for an hour, nearly two. She told of Calculus homework just because the me that there was no way they could go back numbers make sense while everything else to what they once were, and that all we could doesn’t. You learn to live again, regardless of do was move on and live a healthy life. I took which parent you’re living with.

Don’t blame yourself – humans, unlike her words to heart. When your world falls swans, wolves, and prairie voles, often do down around your ears, you find ways to cope. At first, they may be destructive. You not mate for life. You have your life to live, may cry, for days and weeks and months; and you should never spend it worrying you may take up cursing like a sailor; you about the past.

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LGBT Foundation Sends South Florida Student to Washington UM’s Ana Moas spent the summer in the capitol learning to lead Jacob Long

Ana Moas was one of 42 students chosen out of hundred of applicants to attend the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s highly competitive, award-winning Congressional Internship Program, and was funded by the David Bohnett Foundation, a leading social justice non-profit and grant-making foundation with a focus on LGBT and progressive inclusion in the political process.

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When a Washington, D.C. internship popped up on the listserv at University of Miami (UM) that Ana Moas belongs to, it wasn’t long before she applied for it.

“It looked like a pretty sweet deal,” Moas told SFGN. “All you had to do was pay for food and any other activities.” Everything else was paid for. It was the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s highly competitive, award-winning Congressional Internship Program, which allows students to go experience first-hand what it’s like to work on the Hill and participate in its shenanigans. Out of hundreds of applicants to the program nationwide, only 42 were selected, among them Moas.

“The idea is to make us more aware. Being that we’re all Hispanic students, the hope is we make this part of our future if we ever choose to become leaders in the Hispanic community,” Moas said.

Every student had a sponsor, and hers was the David Bohnett Foundation, a leading social justice non-profit and grant-making foundation with a focus on LGBT and progressive inclusion in the political process.

“I think they chose to fund us because of

the social activism that we would have with the program,” the 20-year-old Moas said, adding, “A lot of our time was spent on the Hill or in law offices. But we participated in some community services. It wasn’t so much about going out and changing the world right away, but more about what we’d do when we got home.”

Now that she’s home, though, Moas has been busy preparing for her last year in school. When things slow down, she plans on applying to the Peace Corps and finding ways to help out grassroots organizations and groups in Cuba, her homeland.

“We got to witness DOMA getting struck down. It was key to igniting a spark that would have us be more interested in being social activists. It wasn’t an LGBT focus per se, but it was definitely part of what we talked about,” Moas said about how her time in Washington inevitably lent itself to gay issues even though it wasn’t implicitly intended to do so. “This summer has doubtless been the most transformative of my life.”

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Homeless and Helpless Part 2

This is SFGN’s second part of a two-part series on South Florida’s LGBT youth homelessness Part 1: http://bit.ly/1eWMEvV

Christiana Lilly

christiana.lilly@gmail.com

A sunburned kid seeking cool air for a few minutes. A teen using the computer to apply for jobs.

While the LGBT Visitor Center in Miami Beach is primarily the center of the city’s tourism, its rainbow flags have also become a signal to gay teens living on the street that it’s a safe haven.

Karen Brown, the executive director of the center, said she has about a dozen homeless teens, both straight and LGBT, come into the center on a regular basis to apply for jobs at the computer center, charge their cell phones, cool off, or get snacks. When she first started, she naively gave them some cash to take the bus. She quickly learned the kids weren’t using it for that.

“I can’t be mad at them for trying to survive,” she said. “You still have to be compassionate.”

Although numbers vary from study to study, it’s estimated that about 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT -disproportionate from their representation in the general youth population. About

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110,000 LGBT youth become homeless each year in the United States, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and once they are on the street, they are more likely to experience physical and sexual assault than their straight peers. They are also more than 30 percent more likely to attempt suicide once they’re homeless.

For Jamesly Louis, 22, it was a feeling of completely hopelessness that led him to become homeless at 16. Being gay was a part of him since he could remember, and his highly religious Haitian family would not acknowledge it. He was bullied at school, teachers ignored him, and he felt like he was the only person in the world who was homosexual.

“All I wanted was someone, some type of connection to make me feel like I was not alone. I really felt that deep down, well maybe I don’t belong here; if I’m the only one that’s like that then why am I here?”

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she immediately called Pridelines Youth Services, who referred him to Covenant House in Fort Lauderdale. After he went home to pack his things, Louis took a twohour bus ride from Miami to the shelter in the middle of the night.

“I was a bit scared. When I got there the paperwork took a lot of time to complete,” Louis said. “When I woke up the next morning, my mind was at peace.”

Louis got to work right away to start a new life. He found at job as a seasonal worker at J. Crew at the Aventura Mall -- another twohour bus ride -- and signed up for program where staff would hold onto his money to help him save up for an apartment. Since he was only on a tourist visa -- his mother brought him and his siblings to Miami from Haiti to marry a man who never filed for their permanent status -- but an immigration lawyer helped him turn it into a special immigrant visa. On the anniversary of that day, he brings her a flower to say thank you.

For the two months living at the shelter, Louis’s biggest problem was dealing with

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homophobic kids. Some roommates would egg him on to tell them he was gay, and some other gay kids were bullied.

“I [saw] a lot of fights because gay kids just look at another guy, and then he doesn’t like the way he looked at him, and a fight,” Louis remembers. “I kept to myself and I keep myself focused. I was like, I am here to seek some help and I’m not here for the rest of it.

The minute I get enough money, I’m moving out. I had a plan and I did not want to be disoriented. I wanted to keep focus.”

While there isn’t much that staff can do when it comes to homophobic clients at a shelter, LGBT advocates are working with shelters to train staff in how to handle LGBT people’s needs. Mandi Hawke, the director of youth services at SunServe in Fort Lauderdale, has done training at Covenant House, the Homeless Assistance Center, and other agencies. This includes the proper vocabulary and how to approach someone about their sexuality or gender identity.

“There’s always new youth coming in that may be homophobic and we can’t really

do anything about that, but we definitely do everything we can to train the foster care system, the homeless care system, all therapists in the community,” Hawke said.

An important lesson for staff at homeless shelters, or those working with LGBT youth, is to learn how to talk to someone about their sexuality and gender identity. In Hawke’s experience, many well-intentioned people avoid using pronouns when they encounter someone who is ambiguous in their gender for fear of offending, when in actuality it’s a sign of respect and alleviates anxiety to simply ask.

The biggest problem is youths admitting their sexuality to advocates, not because they’re ashamed, but they’ve been programmed to believe that they won’t receive help if they give up that information.

Posted on the wall behind her desk is a poster she encourages all advocates to have: Equality is my Priority. When a youth is sitting across from her, she knows he or she is being informed that they’re in a safe environment.

“We really live in a heterosexist world, right? And so we just assume everyone is straight,” said Carla Silva, the executive director of The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth.

The Alliance is one of seven LGBT and homeless agencies that recently came together to form the LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Initiative with help from Florida Rep. David Richardson, who secured state funding for safe housing. They are working on the local level to combat homelessness among LGBT youth by educating agencies, increasing the number of foster families willing to take in LGBT children, and ensure a constant stream of funding.

Twice a year, the Homeless Trust leads a homeless count, with people fanning across the county in homeless “hot spots” to get an accurate number of the population. When surveys are done, the homeless are asked for their gender identity, with the option to refuse.

In the Unaccompanied Youth Count/ Survey pilot in August, one that included more than a dozen agencies -- the question of sexual orientation was added since so many homeless youth identify as LGBT -again, a question that can be refused.

“The question regarding sexual orientation is primarily for the youth count, as nationally it is estimated that 40 percent of the unaccompanied homeless youth say they lost their housing either directly/indirectly due to their sexual orientation,” Ron Book, the chairman of the Homeless Trust, wrote in an email. “This information is useful for local LGBTQ youthserving organizations to address homeless prevention/interventions.”

About 100 volunteers from more than a dozen local organizations took to the streets on foot or bicycle, scoping out groups of youths.

If they are in fact homeless, they encourage them to take a survey to help the county provide data to the Department of Housing and Development. Serving as a “hot spot,” the visitor center is the command center for

volunteers to collect plastic bags filled with donated toiletries, coupons and snacks.

“Most of them don’t consider themselves to be homeless,” said the Rev. Grey Maggiano of Trinity Cathedral in Miami. “For them, homeless is you’re old, have a drug problem, and you sleep on the street.”

Many might not be sleeping under a bridge at night, but they sure don’t know whose couch they’ll be crashing on. The few teens who would talk to Maggiano -- who had better luck in the downtown Miami area -- told him their moms chose love over them, parents had drug problems, stepfathers abused them, or ran away from foster care.

Maggiano said no one brought up their sexuality and he doubts any would reveal another layer of vulnerability to a stranger.

On all levels of governance, the information is fairly new. It’s been long thought that asking someone’s sexuality or gender identity in surveys is invasive and could lead to discrimination -- when South Florida Gay News reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services, a spokesman said they did not have any data of gay homeless youth.

“We can’t track the data if you don’t ask and we can’t make sure that this population is cared for. It honestly just keeps them in the closet and that’s also very frustrating,” Hawke said.

Luckily for Louis, he had no qualms about his sexuality and was perhaps more headstrong than other teens who were in his situation. He managed to continue going to school while living at Covenant House for two months, shuttling back and forth between Fort Lauderdale and Aventura for work. He saved up enough money to crash on someone’s couch and eventually went to Miami-Dade College. Today, he is a student at the New World School of the Arts’ theater program and lives in an apartment with other college students.

To give back, he is now on the board of Pridelines as a public speaker and working with marketing efforts.

“When I was young, if someone like myself were to tell me their story, maybe I would have a better chance at a lot of things.

A lot of kids in this world, like those who unfortunately [are taking their lives] not because they’re gay, but because they feel so alone and they have nowhere to go.”

When asked what could be done to help gay teens, Louis isn’t optimistic. For him, all the training in the world won’t change someone’s homophobic attitudes. However, he hopes that one day school will be a safe place for everyone, and that teachers and counselors regardless of their beliefs will be willing to help every student.

Hawke said, “This is an issue that’s definitely still here in South Florida, and it’s our kids, and it’s our community. We need to do something about it.”

Visit http://bit.ly/1eWMEvV to read part one.

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After Leaving Manhattan, she came to South Florida and enrolled in Miami International University of Art and Design where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fashion Design. Later she moved to Europe and explored through Belgium, Germany, and France. While in Europe, she got a taste for fine foods and cutting edge fashion. Upon arriving back in South Florida she became somewhat of a local celebrity in Fort Lauderdale. During this period she won the Miss Miami Beach Pageant and most recently the Dancing with the South Florida Stars contest.

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aybe you haven’t been to Mojo because when you’re driving along Federal Hwy, you somehow miss it between Commercial Blvd. and Oakland Park Blvd. Maybe you haven’t been because it’s South Florida and you think it’s pronounced mo-ho like the type of cuisine, when it’s really pronounced a-la Austin Powers: “I’ve lost my mojo!” And for owners Domenick Faloione and Anthony DeMaio, this isn’t their first mojo.

The first Mojo opened in New Jersey in 1999. Faloione and DeMaio sold the restaurant in 2006 and headed south shortly thereafter. Mojo in its current formed opened in 2010 in Fort Lauderdale where it has been ever since.

Faloione and DeMaio have not only been partners professionally, but personally.

They have traveled the world together for the last 33 years. Faloione, classically trained in Tuscany and Florence, opened his first restaurant at 24 years old. After decades residing in South Jersey, DeMaio and Faloione are no longer just snowbirds to South Florida, but full-time residents and local business owners. After three years with the Fort Lauderdale Mojo, they’ve earned the right to have the community’s support. Really, it’s surprising to even SFGN Fort Lauderdale residents that we hadn’t been here sooner.

When you walk in, the serene aqua walls will welcome you, making you feel like you’re on a beach, not Federal Highway. Faloione, who is not only part owner but also head chef, creates all of the artwork around the restaurant. If you’re impressed, feel free to buy one right off the wall. They’re for sale.

Mojo is open nightly, excluding Sundays, featuring happy hour specials ok weekdays from 5-7 p.m. On Monday, sip on $6 select martinis, mojitos and margaritas. On Wednesday, enjoy $5 wines by the glass, $6 martinis and halfpriced well drinks and draft beer. There isn’t a night you visit that you won’t have something delicious to drink.

For dinner, start with the calamari –

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lightly battered in rice flour and club soda, flash-fried, and tossed in a sweet Thai chili sauce. Other restaurants you frequent may serve heavily breaded, chewy calamari with marinara sauce on the side. The calamari at Mojo will make you mentally erase any other version of calamari you’ve ever had in your entire life. It’s that good.

Browse the prefix menu, where you can get a soup or salad, entrée and dessert for $20. The soup of the day rotates, but don’t ignore the creamy Parmesan, potato and leak soup. For the main entrée, try the orange-glazed salmon, served over Asian vegetables and lo mein tossed in the same sweet Thai chili sauce as the calamari. If you’re not already full from the appetizer or soup, you will be after this only because you can’t stop eating.

If you’re ordering off the regular menu, grab the Char Sui Pork Chop – a 10-ounce center cut chop, stuffed with chorizo and cornbread cherry stuffing, served with sweet potato and jalapeno hush puppies and seasonal vegetables. It’s tender, juicy and exceptionally fresh. Repeat after me: don’t forget the pork chop.

For dessert – if you can make it that far – ask what the features are, since Anthony DeMaio bakes everything fresh and rotates options every few days. On a recent visit, we enjoyed DeMaio’s Almond Joy – a brownie topped with coconut gelato, white chocolate amaretto sauce and almonds. While no candy bars were served, it literally tasted like an Almond Joy, only better.

For the southerners who are fully aware of what a hummingbird cake is, DeMaio – a northerner! – makes one to die for.

The cake closely resembles – but tastes nothing like – a carrot cake. The mixture of pineapple chunks with the bananas and cream cheese frosting make this cake a must have when you visit.

There’s no longer a reason to look over Mojo. With exceptionally fresh dishes, a welcoming atmosphere and intelligent staff, stop ignoring Mojo and go immediately. soflagaynews //

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THUR Art

9/19

Unleash your inner Michelangelo in a new men’s art class meeting tonight at Leather Werks, 1226 NE 4th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale.

Join a fun group of guys from 6 to 9 p.m. for ongoing freestyle drawing and painting sessions featuring male models. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, all levels are welcome. Internationally published artist Ira C. Smith will be coaching during the session. Participants should bring their own art supplies. Cost is $25 per person with advance reservation and $35 at the door, subject to available space. For reservations, email MensArtClass@AOL.com.

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9/20

The hills are alive with The Sound of Music…. at least in Boca Raton. The new Wick Theatre debuts its first production, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, in the former Caldwell Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Hwy. You’ll be singing along, from Do-Re-Mi to My Favorite Things, and the costumes are guaranteed to be fabulous, courtesy of Executive Producer Marilynn Wick, founder of Costume World and the Broadway Collection Costume Museum that will open on the premises in November.

Catch the show Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $58 each at TheWick.org or (561) 995-2333.

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9/21 SUN

Once again, the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus offers up its “Fall Follies,” an entertaining cabaret-style show featuring the men of the chorus and plenty of special guests. Join the fun at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale auditorium, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., at 8 p.m. for an evening of solos, duets and small ensemble performances that showcases the many talents of the chorus members.

There will be lots of song and dance numbers, comedy and plenty of surprises, too. It’s the only opportunity to catch the show, so reserve your tickets today. Tickets are $25 each at TheFortLauderdaleGayMensChorus.org.

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The beloved Broadway classic, The Sound of Music, opens the inaugural season this week at the new Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. Sing along with the Von Trapp clan as they make their escape from Nazi Germany in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

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9/22 MON

Downtown Miami is the place to be this weekend for Art Days 2013. Enjoy three days, beginning Friday, including 125 exhibitions, artist studio visits, bike and walking tours, performances, film screenings and parties at more than 30 venues downtown. Start your day at the Art Days “hub” at Grand Central Park at Miami Worldcenter, 700 N. Miami Ave., between 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Park your car, plan your itinerary and hop on the trolley or Metromover to take part in the festivities that celebrate the city’s diverse arts and cultural institutions. For more information, go to DwntwnArts.com. soflagaynews //

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The Friends of Chamber Music in Miami have a stellar season of classical concerts planned for the 2013-14 season. The non-profit group’s 58th season opens tonight at 8 p.m. with the Ehnes Quartet performing Schubert’s masterpiece, the Death and the Maiden quartet, at Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3010 DeSoto Blvd. in Coral Gables.

This work, Schubert’s fourteenth string quartet, was composed in 1824, after the composer suffered a serious illness and realized he was dying, and is still considered one of the pillars of the chamber repertoire. The Ehnes Quartet promises a moving performance. Tickets are $35 at MiamiChamberMusic.org.

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C.O.G, opens Sept. 20 at O Cinema Wynwood, 90 NW 29th St. in Miami. The film is an adaptation of David Sedaris’ autobiographical short-story, Naked, directed

by Miami native and University of Miami grad Kyle Patrick Alvarez, an openly gay CubanAmerican filmmaker. The film premiered at Sundance and has made a big splash on the festival circuit. The plot focuses on David, a cocky young man who decides to attempt to immerse himself in the real world, and goes off the grid on an Oregon apple farm following his graduation from Yale. For show times and tickets, go to O-Cinema.org.

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Broward Bares It is one of the Broward House’s most popular events of the year.

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More than 150 performers will “take it off” this weekend at Paradise Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood to benefit Broward House, the county’s largest HIV/AIDS service organization.

On Saturday, Sept. 21, Broward Bares It returns for a fourth year with a sexy evening of burlesque, music and comedy. Following recent advances in marriage equality, the production is whimsically themed, “I Do, Do You” and features over 20 acts.

“There’s going to be a really special surprise that happens during the show,” promised Terry DeCarlo, director of marketing for Broward House. “(Marriage) was such a big issue this year and we thought it would be a fun theme for our performers.”

The cast is not shy, warned DeCarlo, who noted many were new to the production.

Florida’s Own Dame Edna, a veteran of all four shows, returns as host.

“How can you do anything without Dame Edna?” he asked. “But so many other performers are new, adding a real shot of new energy to the show.”

Also taking the stage will be the sexy dancers of Boardwalk and Johnny’s, internationally-acclaimed pole dancer Derick Pierson, circus performers from Rainbow Cirque, the Gustavo Sumi Dance Troupe and dozens of the region’s most popular singers, dancers, performers and female impersonators.

Preparations for the show began more than six months ago and organizers expect more than 1,500 attendees. In past years, the event quickly sold out, but this year a few

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general admission and VIP tickets are still available, said DeCarlo.

With 15 locations across Broward County, Broward House serves more than 6,000 men, women and children with services ranging from housing to medical care.

“Unfortunately with the weak economy, a lot of people living with HIV/AIDS must choose between paying for housing, food or their meds. We choose to never say no,” DeCarlo explained. “That’s why we work so hard on our fundraisers, so we can keep that promise.”

“I think it’s wonderful that we live in a community where so many talented performers are willing to donate their time and talents to raise money for Broward House,” said Mark Budwig, president of the board of directors. “We’re also particularly fortunate to have Terry, who really thinks outside the box when it comes to fund raising.”

The goal for the show is to raise $70,000 to support Broward House programs.

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Broward Bares It IV: I Do, Do You

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Saturday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.

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Like most celebrities that host forums on Reddit.com, Madonna’s appearance on Sept.

16 wasn’t free of a plug.

She’s currently working on what she terms a revolution of love, a perfect time to indulge the Internet the best way you can — by holding an open mic Q&A on the most popular social website there is. Reddit is famous for its AMAs (Ask Me Anything) forums and, though a little less popular, its AMAAs (Ask Me Almost Anything), which is the brand Madonna chose. To learn more about Art for Freedom project, go to ArtForFreedom.com.

Questions and answers on these forums are voted on by the users, showing the most popular comments (questions) on a forum further up the page.

Without further adieu, here is Madonna’s introductions and her AMA’s most popular questions.

Introduction (unedited)

Hello Reddit! I’m excited to do this! Just finished working out, now I’m in front of the computer....ready for your questions…

Verify my love: https://www.facebook. com/madonna/posts/10151903092814402 And again: http://instagram.com/p/ eVkbu2mEYb/ thanks reddit. nice chatting with you. next time send photo. I want to start a Revolution of Love - are you with me? Then send people to artforfreedom.com

Q&A (unedited)

polvitos: Is your publicist or an intern typing everything for you? Be honest. This is still awesome. Thank you! _Madonna: my housekeeper im vaccuming the housekeeper is typing

subway_kid: Where have you not yet traveled that you would like to? _Madonna: Egypt and an island off the coast of east Africa called Lamu voguemdna21: Madonna, what is the most embarrassing moment of your life? _Madonna: there’s so many. when i went out on stage and said hello to the wrong city. sleep deprivation. dryanyanyan: What is the last thing you laughed about? _Madonna: the fact that i had a dream about brad pitt RoseLizenberg: In the song “I Dont Give A” are the lyrics “baby Jesus on the stairs...” or is it “baby Jesus understands”?? Please settle this bet for me. I love you. _Madonna: Baby jesus on the stairs

OCTOBER 3

MichelleCiccone: What is the best present you got for Your B-day? _Madonna: i got a bong in the shape of a penis gelloh: Can you name one gay guy you wish you could turn straight? _Madonna: frank ocean victor1707: if you could talk to your 20-yearold self, what would you say? _Madonna: don’t take any of this personally kegstandlolita: if you were a gay man, would you be a top or bottom _Madonna: i am a gay man

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

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Broward County Russell Brand: Messiah Complex

Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive in Coral Springs. British comedian and actor Russell Brand embarks on his first-ever comedy tour. Tickets $47.70. Call 954-3445999 or visit CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com.

The Silence of the Clams

Through Sept. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. A comedic mystery of a butch FBI agent who has to save Nancy Pelosi’s daughter from “Beaver Bob” by interviewing Dr. Hannibal Lichter. Tickets $30. Call 954-678-1496 or visit EmpireStage.com.

* Side Effects

Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive in Coral Springs.

Agnes and Brandon are counting down the days until their wedding, but at their engagement party, Brandon makes an announcement that Agnes isn’t sure she can handle. Tickets $25. Call 954-344-5999 or visit CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com.

* Caribbean Jazz Matazz

Let’s Be

Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Send yourself to the islands with a show that fuses jazz, reggae and calypso with award-winning musicians. VIP tickets include a pre-show champagne reception.

Tickets $68 to $95. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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* Grand Pas de Deux Series VII

Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The South Florida Ballet Theater performs some of the greatest ballet pieces, including “La Corsaire,” “Scheherazade” and “Cinderella Act II.” Tickets $15 $50. Call 954-4620222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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Double Trouble

Sept. 19 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. These twin singers have survived a life of abuse and homelessness to become soul phenoms in their own right. Tickets $20 to $165.

Call 561-450-6357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

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Sept. 20 from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. The Grammy-nominated artist mixes his Latin roots with his love for jazz on the stage. Tickets $25 to $190. Call 561-450-6357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

Miranda Lambert

Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Cruzan Amphitheatre, 601 Sansburys Way in West Palm Beach. The country singer

is joined by Dierks Bentley. Tickets $38.25 to $67. Visit LiveNation.com.

* Barrelhouse Chuck

Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. The legendary Chicago blues pianist that had Muddy Waters swooning takes the Delray stage. Tickets $25 to $40.

Call 561-450-6357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

Piano Faculty Concert

Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. at FAU’s University Theatre, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. The university’s acclaimed faculty will perform their favorite work in honor of benefactor Madelyn Savarick’s 90th birthday. Tickets $10. Visit FAUevents.com.

* The Rattette Band

Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. at FAU’s University Theatre, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. The band will perform the music of Stan La Ferriere with vocalist Greg Diaz. Tickets $10.

Visit FAUevents.com or call 800-564-9539.

Miami-Dade Noches Tropicales

Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, 2901 W. Flagler St. in Miami. Dance to the music of Edwin Bonilla & His Latin Jazz All-Star Ensemble. Free.

Il Volo

Sept. 21 at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The trio of Italian teen tenors has exploded onto the international music scene. Tickets $53.70 to $106.40. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

Sons of the Prophet

Sept. 21 to Oct. 20 at the GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Avenue in Coral Gables. A surprisingly humorous look at human suffering and wounds that just won’t go away. Tickets $15 to $42.50. Call 305-445-1119 or visit GableStage.org.

* Cardenio

Sept. 27 to 29 and Oct. 2 to 6 at FIU’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center, 10910 SW 17th St. in Miami. A comedic, Shakespearean-inspired play of love, sex, comedy and romance. Tickets $10 to $15.

Call 305-348-0496 or visit wpac.fiu.edu/theatre.

* The Marvelous Wonderettes

Sept. 27 to Oct. 13 at Main Street Players, 6766 Main St. in Miami Lakes. The story of the high school song leader squads in the ‘50s is told through pop songs of the ‘50s and ‘60s that you’re sure to sing along to. Tickets $18 to $25. Call 305-558-3737 or visit MainStreetPlayers.com

The Big Show

Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. at Just the Funny Theater, 3119 Coral Way in Miami. A collection of comedy mixing the likes of improvisation and sketches. Tickets $12. Call 305-693-8669 or visit JustTheFunny.com.

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* Are Trans Women Our Sisters?

Sept. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A discussion of women who were physically born women and accepting those making the transition. Call 954-463-9005.

Films4Peace

Sept. 20 to Dec. 7 at the Schmidt Center Gallery and Sept. 21 to Nov. 9 at the FAU’s Ritter Art Gallery, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. Twenty-one artists interpret peace through the visual arts. Call 561-2972661 or visit FAU.edu/Galleries.

* PalmCon

Third Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. Seniors are invited to join in on coffee and pastries with a guest presenter every month. Call 954-463-9005.

Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Fans of comics and collectibles share their passions together at PalmCon, with guests Deep Roy, Ethan Van Sciver, Allen Bellman, Jose Delbo and more. TIckets $4 to $9. Visit CosmicTimes.net/ PalmCon.html.

* Sage Co-Ed Discussion Group

Chinese Moon Festival

* Pride Thursdays

First and Third Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors.

Seniors are invited to join a group discussion on a variety of topics, led by a facilitator. Call 954-4639005.

PFLAG

Tuesdays in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Southwest Ranches. A support group for parents of LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and locations.

GayWrites

First and third Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Stonewall Library, 1300 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.

Join other LGBT writers to work on your latest story, memoir or novel. Free. Email garri1@earthlink.net

SunServe Youth Group

Tuesdays and Thursdays in Fort Lauderdale, Southwest Ranches, Coral Springs and Hollywood. A support group and night of fun for LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and times.

Gender Bender Youth Group

Mondays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at SunServe Campus, 1480 SW Ninth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. A group for LGBT youth 13 to 21 to discuss gender, gender expression, binary systems, friendship, family and whatever else comes up! Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com

Survivor Support

Sept. 21 from Noon to 5 p.m. at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach. Free with regular museum admission. Celebrate the Chinese festival of the moon with Chinese artwork, live music and activities for the whole family. Call 561-832-5196 or visit Norton.org.

Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition

Sept. 21 to Dec. 7 at the Schmidt Center Gallery and Sept. 21 to Nov. 9 at the FAU’s Ritter Art Gallery, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. More than 30 artists who teach at FAU will exhibit pieces of work. Call 561-2972661 or visit FAU.edu/Galleries.

* White Party

Sept. 27 at Penny’s at the Duke, 902 N. Dixie Highway in Lantana. Celebrate World AIDS Day with Compass with raffles, drag show, music, dancing, auctions and more.

Call 561-533-9699 or email events@compassglcc.com. subtitles. Visit FAU.edu/CubanFilmFestival.

Miami-Dade County *Sir Salman Rushdie

Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Miami Dade College’s Chapman Conference Center, 300 NE Second Ave. Building 3 in Miami. Author Rushdie’s book “Satanic Verses” was banned in 12 countries in 1989 and sent him into hiding for nine years to avoid death. Tickets $10 each or two with the purchase of a book. Visit BooksAndBooks.com.

First and third Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Broward Health Imperial Point Hospital cafeteria, 6401 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. Find support from counselors and peers who have lost loved ones to suicide. Call the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention at 954-384-0344 or visit FISPOnline.org.

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* Stand Your Ground Panel Discussion

Sept. 19 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. The “Stand Your Ground” law has been a hot topic for debate since the Trayvon Martin case, and the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches has organized a panel of seven public leaders with differing views on the law. Tickets $35 to $60. Visit TheForumClub.net.

Sept. 28 from 6 to 9 p.m. at SouzaImagery, 415 NW 26th St. in Wynwood. Enjoy a night out for a good cause with a performance by the Rainbow Circus, food trucks, and drinks from Bacardi and Evaton Wines. Tickets $35. Visit GLBTQAlliance.org.

Through Sept. 30 at participating restaurants.

The Miami culinary world is on fire with more than 170 restaurants opening its doors for two months of delicious dishes, coinciding with many cities’ restaurant weeks. Meals $19 to $39. Visit iLoveMiamiSpice.com.

Faces of Continuum

Through Oct. 31 at the LGBT Visitor Center, 1130 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. Enjoy the portrait photography by Jeff Larsen, known for his controversial exhibit “Men in Living Rooms.” Call 305-397-8914.

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Broward County Angel’s Cafe

2287 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Enjoy happy hour on Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m. with $3 wines and beers, free snacks, raffles, and music by DJ Sol. 2-4-1 Sunday dinner special Valet parking in rear. Call 954-900-5217.

Alibi

2266 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Best and longest happy hour; Wednesdays $2 domestics and$1 Schnapps after 9 p.m. Call 954-565-2526 or visit AlibiWiltonManors.com.

Dude’s Bar

3270 NE 33rd St. in Fort Lauderdale. Men dancing daily from 9:30 p.m., karaoke on Sundays, Monday drink specials $1 well drinks. Call 954-568-7777 or visit Facebook.com/Dudes.Bar.

Johnny’s

1116 W. Broward Blvd in Fort Lauderdale. Some of the hottest guys around with drink specials to make it even sweeter. Call 954-522-5931.

Mona’s

502 Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. An eclectic bar with décor that will keep you entertained for hours.

Thursdays College Boys Night drinks 2-for-1. Call 954-

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The Manor

2345 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Indoor and outdoor dining followed by hitting the dance floor.

Live music Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Call 954-626-0082.

Sidelines Sports Bar

2031 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Relax with a cold beer for some friendly competition on the pool table.

Call 954-563-8001 or visit SidelinesSports.com.

H.G. Rooster

823 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. The city’s oldest gay club, with hot male dancer, free BBQ and karaoke. Cal 561-832-9119.

The Mad Hatter

1532 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. Cheap drinks, friendly bartenders and free pool from Sunday to Thursday. Call 561-547-8860.

Vita Ultra Lounge Saturdays

1225 Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach. LGBT Saturdays with the best drag queens around. Call 561835-8482 or visit VitaUltraLounge.com.

Miami-Dade County Azucar

2301 SW 32nd Ave. in Miami. Jock night Wednesdays, drag Thursdays, girls night Fridays and more. Call 305-443-7657 or visit AzucarMiami.com

Naked Grape Wine Bar & Tapas

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2163 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. A casual, hip bar to try out all sort of wines. Happy Hour all night on Thursdays. Call 954-563-5631.

The Cottage

522 Lucerne Ave. in Lake Worth. Tea Dance Sundays with great service, food and drinks. Call 561-586-0080.

Fort Dix

6205 Georgia Ave. in West Palm Beach. A great place to mingle and relax with DJs on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Call 561-533-5355.

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34 NE 11th St. in Miami. Come out for a night at the infamous nightclub known for crazy all-nighters to the best live electronic dance music. Call 305-3501956 or visit ClubSpace.com.

727 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Located in the heart of South Beach on the famous Lincoln Road strip. Call 305-561-5521.

Twist

1057 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. Awesome music, muscle boy dancers and never a cover. Call 305- 538-9478.

Classifieds accommodations

REAL ESTATE RUMFORD MAINE A UNIQUE CAMP SITE (or whatever). A retired 180 ft communication tower and a 12x24 support structure on 2.5.acres with a deeded ROW through a dense woods. Area known for skiing, snow mobile and ATV clubs and trails. jpm8145@gmail.com for pictures. $40k.

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PERFECT VACATION RENTALS! Spring & Summer specials from $69/night and $395/week.Award Winning Gay Hotel. Beautiful Studio, 1 & 2 BR Self Catering Apts. with Full Kitchen.Clothing optional heated pool, laundry, private parking. Central to Wilton Manors &HauloverBeach.Incl.Wi-Fi utilities, cable, tel. Gay Owned & Operated. Pets Welcome.

Celebrating 15 YearsCall Joe or Jack at (954) 927-0090 or visit www.LibertySuites.com *Four Week+ Relocation Discounts Offered* LOOKING FOR LODGIING NEAR SUNLIFE STADIUM? Completely furnished luxury 1/ BD/1BA Condo. Easy access to public transportation and major express ways.

Shopping and dining are in walking distance.

Gated Community and private parking.

Reasonably priced @$375 a week or $1,500 a month plus $400 processing and move in fees.

Call 305-793-8650.

air conditioning HONEST, RELIABLE AIR CONDITIONING & HEATING SERVICES Gay owned and operated company, Eiland Air, Inc. 24 hour service. Reasonable prices.

Licensed & Insured #CAC1817222 Call Mike 786-247-6022

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GAY APARTMENT RESORT/HOTEL FULFILL YOUR RETIREMENT DREAM With this rare opportunity to enter the lucrative Fort Lauderdale Gay Accommodations Market.

Owners retiring and offering the award winning Liberty Apartment Suites in Dania Beach, with 11 beautifully furnished Apartments with full kitchens.

Established 15 successful years with high repeat and referral guests. Currently operated as selfcatering, limited service, extended stay hotel phenomenal potential for growth and expansion.

Turn-key business, All Inclusive. Offered at $895,000. Qualified Buyers Only - Brokers Protected - For info, contact: Joe Van Eron-(954) 383-5548 or Joe@LibertySuites.com

VW Golf Rabbit 2006 For Sale, VW Golf Rabbit 06 well serviced, well-keptand in great shape with only 57,500 mileage. Registered until, 12/14. Ready to be picked up and driven home! Sporty , smart and nice looking car. Great on gas!!! Please call: 954.770.2795, miami. craigslist.org/brw/cto/3921656419.html

cleaning services

STATE-OF-THE-ART-DENTISTRY General & Cosmetic Dentistry Sedation Dentistry

HOME AND COMMERCIAL CLEANING Residential and Commercial cleaning.

Experienced with references and provide free estimates. Call (305)-896-7494 or (214)-356-0684 CLEAN IT RIGHT The best cleaning for your buck. 1BD $50, 2BD $60, 3BD $70. Excellent rates & references. 10 years in business. Serving Broward, North Miami Dade & S. Palm Beach.

Call Manny 954-560-4443

COMPLETE COMPUTER REPAIR FREE ESTIMATES - no extra charge for in-home.

FREE Computer tune-up with any service.

Replacement of laptop screen & key board.

Viruses, spyware, data recovery, lockouts & more. SAME DAY SERVICE - LOWEST PRICE GUARANTEE Call Ernesto: 754-234-5598

counseling/psychotherapy LICENSED CHRISTIAN COUNSELOR Dr. Saul Thermidor, FACCT # LCCP 0365011212 Licensed Christian Psychologist provides Christian counseling on LGBT, anger, violence & personal issues. I speak , English, French and Creole. Call 305-407-9397 day, evening & weekend!

TERRY DAVIS, LCSW, LLC #SW1079 Supportive male therapist, specializes in LGBT issues, HIV/AIDS,addictions, etc. Affordable, sliding scale. Eves/weekend. TdavisLCSW.com* (954) 731-5505

employment ACCOUNT MANAGERS ,BOOK KEEPERS AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES Work your own flexible schedule! Pays $1500 to $2000 monthly plus benefits. Must be computer literate, have 2-3 hours access to the internet weekly . We are looking for efficient and dedicated people who are at least 21 years of age. contact us for more details .If you are interested and need more information send your resumes to ruthmace7@gmail.com HANDYMAN NEEDED!! Part time handyman needed to with building projects. Painting, Tile work, Electrical, Construction. Wages based on experience. Call 954-892-0494.

GENERAL MANAGER FOR MICHELE’S RESTAURANT Must have knowledge of both FOH and BOH, Food Costing , service standards, wine and alcohol laws.etc. Looking for someone with FULL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE. Please submit resume to lou@lmc123.com immediate opening.

BROWARD HOUSE Case Manager for MEGA program working with 18 – 30 year old MSM (men who have sex with men) at risk for substance abuse and HIV. Candidate with have a Bachelors degree and provide testing and case management services addressing health care, social supports, and other life areas.

Individual must also have the ability to facilitate groups specific to target population. Forward resumes to AThornberry@Browardhouse.org FINANCIAL OFFICER Responsible for maintaining financial, acctng, admin. and personnel services in order to meet legal requirements and support organizational operations. Email denise@lgbtcenters.org for more information!

computers

PERSONAL COMPUTER TUTOR! Basic computer skills* Emailing pics /docs, scanning* Microsoft office programs*Excel, Word, Outlook and Powerpoint* Virus Removal* PC speed optimization* Secured Wireless home network setup* Wireless printer installation* PC purchasing consultant. Call (954) 980-0383 or email jamesjcarter22@gmail.com.

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HATE WINDOWS 8?We can bring back the look and feel of windows. Same day service. Call 954-986-1316 www.gaycomputerwiz.com

MOVIE POSTERS WANTED Private collector buying vintage movie posters, lobby cards, film stills, photography and other old entertainment memorabilia. Call for a free appraisal to find out what your stuff is worth! All calls confidential.

Ralph (800) 392-4050 email: sell@ralphdeluca.com

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business opportunities

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THE PATIENT AND ANY OTHER PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYMENT HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO PAY, CANCEL PAYMENT OR BE REIMBURSED FOR PAYMENT FOR ANY OTHER SERVICES, EXAMINATION OR TREATMENT WHICH IS PERFORMED AS A RESULT OF AND WITHIN 72 HOURS OF RESPONDING TO THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE FREE, DISCOUNTED OR REDUCED SERVICE, EXAMINATION OR TREATMENT.

employment ENTRY LEVEL SALES EXECUTIVE Full time Sales, Client Services, Direct Marketing, Lead Generation, Telemarketing & Email Services. Microsoft Word & Excel experience.

Competitive Salary plus Commission, Medical/Dental, 401k & Profit Sharing .

Email Resume: aleen@lighthouselist.com SALES POSITIONS Sales position open at high end antiques gallery in WPB. Knowledge of antiques, sales experience required.

Reply: HillcrestAntiquesWPB@gmail.com HANDYMAN WANTED Small local restaurant wanting handyman service part-time 954-496-9000

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Call Adrain at 954-530-4970 seeking employment PERSONAL ASSISTANT & MALE COMPANION SEEKING a part-time job as a personal assistant & male companion in Broward County. Will take you to doctors appointments. Help you w/ your grocery shopping. Refill or pick up medications. Will drive you to do all your errands & assist w/ daily household chores. Great driving record, honest, professional, reliable, trustworthy, & always willing to help and assist. If you have any further questions please call 954-5481798 or email Ltn69@yahoo.com Thank you.

EXPERIENCED , LICENSED BARTENDER I am available for parties, weddings, private events and more. Available evenings and weekends. Call 410-299-6874 for more info.

garage sales GARAGE SALE!!! August 3rd, 8am to 2pm. The address is 2408 NE 11th Ave, Wilton Manors.

Garage behind the house and Funeral Home.

House goods , Exercise equipment and some really good stuff!!!!

handyman DEREK’S HANDYMAN SERVICE Cabinet shop for all your Custom Made Cabinetry, Countertops and Cabinet Re-facing. MUST SEE OUR WORK! JUST ASK OUR CLIENTS! ALL Electrical to code, any/all plumbing work, drywall finish work/repair, crown/baseboard pro-install, int./ ext. painting, demo work. Pressure washing, DÉCOR TILE Install, complete home up-dates. Also, PGT Windows (Wholesale) and Frameless Shower Enclosures. For large jobs, 4 man crew available. WE HANDLE IT ALL!!! Instant call back direct service response. No job is ever too small. Excellent references. Derek 954-825-5598 or email: DerekGallaway@att.net HUSBAND FOR RENT! Is he procrastinating home repairs? He says he will do it tomorrow??

After the football game?? We fit right in - In the house or the yard, small or big jobs: Tiles, Dry walls, paint, Plumbing, Roof leaks, broken furniture, Irrigation, Fences & more. It doesn’t cost to hassle us to see the work- so why wait? Neat, clean work for reasonable price Haim, 954-275-0952, Sidnalll@ yahoo.com

home improvement THINGS YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH? Minds at ease, A+ handyman service. Prompt, Reliable & Honest. Call Keldon Keller 954-551-3127 krkeller@aol.com TOP NOTCH CONTRACTING Knows all and does all!! Many years experience and easy on the eyes! Remodeling, Trimming, Ground molding, Drywall, Painting, Landscaping, Roofing , Tile work, Electrical, Windows, Doors and more. Very reasonable rates and free estimates. Call Shawn 954-549-8243

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HEART TO HEART HOMEMAKER AND COMPANION If you or your loved one are elderly, or temporary or chronic disabled, we can help you with home chores (cooking, light-house cleaning, laundry) and bring companion for home or where you need to go. We will work with you to find the Plan that fits your needs. (954)2264660. Right in the heart of Wilton Manors.

COMPANION,HOME CARE,SENIOR SERVICES. Make life a little easier for you or your loved one. 53 yr old experienced caregiver available. Light Cleaning, cooking and laundry included. Also shopping, appointments, gardening and organizing Im friendly, engaging and compassionate. Hourly or afternoon/ evening/late night shifts available. Bonded insured, college educated and references. Call for more info, Robert 954-707-0264.

STEVEN JAY’S LOVING WAYS PET CARE! I care for your pet in my home. One client at a time if requested. Multiple pets and all pets welcome! I have a very clean home and low rates! Call Steven Jay , 954 -565-1996

Dog Walking: $10.00 starting at Pet Sitting: $40.00 In House Pet Sitting: $45.00 Training: $10.00 starting per visit Pet Taxi (FTL Area): $20.00

human resources

WE GOT YOU COVERED! Advocates for student needs. Specializing in helping foster student and others transition into responsible, independent Adults. We are here to help find resources and outlets for stable and healthy adult lives. Call 786793-8650 for more information.

Dependable • Reliable Service Delivered with Love and Respect

954-297-5336

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

licensed massage

EXP. MATURE MALE WPB MASSEUR Incalls 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) 254-8065 for appt. or walk-in OK. RELIEVE STRESS & TENSION WITH MAGIC HANDS PRO MASSAGE (FL: MA51008)

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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. MA18563 Dennis (561) 502-2628 AFFORDABLE AWESOME MASSAGE BY JIM Offering Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports and LomiLomi Massage for Men; in a very comfortable, relaxed and Private Massage Studio, NOW conveniently located in Wilton Manors on NE 26th Street, with plenty of free parking. Same Day appointments are welcome; please call Jim, 954-600-5843 email: info@massagebyjim.com or visit my website for testimonials, rates and more. GREAT OPENING SPECIAL NOW AVAILABLE! www.massagebyjim.com Licensed and Certified MM22293 WPB/ LAKE WORTH MASSEUR Strong, caring perceptive therapist for your body in need. Full time therapist for over 15 years!

Easy and relaxed home studio for your comfort and healing.Convenient and affordable, flexible hours, in and out calls. MA64031, Alan 954-279-9935 www.alantherapy4u.com

WILTON MANORS MASSAGE Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports. $59 Swedish Hour. call or Text Chris Tunkus 954-258-8779 1322 NE 4th Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL www.WiltonManorsMassage.com

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

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piano for sale LOVELY FAMILY STEINWAY & SONS GRAND PIANO Walnut color with Piano bench incl. Lived with same family since 1960. It taught their two daughters and now has taught the grandson how to play. Its parents are 75 and 89 years old and are moving to a small apartment and cannot bring it with them.It needs a new home with an owner who will love it and enjoy its marvelous sound .

Last tuned in June 2013. Appraised at $20K , will sell for $ 12K. Email Bobbi55bhi@aol.com

painting services PAINTING - INTERIOR & EXTERIOR Residential & Commercial. Drywall & stucco repair. 20+ years experience in Broward. Lic & ins. CC#92-6690-PU-X. Great references. Call Bob for a free estimate 954-465-1041

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plumber BUTLER PLUMBING, INC.Residential & Commercial, Licensed & Insured, Palm Beach 561-613-338, Broward 954 -999-3315, Miami-Dade 786-999-2152 24/7 -365 days,info@butler-plumbing.com, www.bultlerplumbing.com“ Just tell your friends the BUTLER did it”

property management

rent/lease ft. lauderdale LARGE TOWNHOME WITH POOL, EAST FORT LAUDERDALE Beautiful 2BR/2BA townhome in quiet 5-plex.Large eat-in kitchen with center island, central a/c, ceiling fans, Washer/dryer in unit, dishwasher, sparkling pool and more. All in tropical paradise within 5 minutes of the Atlantic Ocean & 1-95 & 8 minutes to Wilton Drive. Master bedroom has walk-in closet and sliding glass doors to private balcony.

Great neighbors and neighborhood .Small pet ok.$1,250 /mo. Check out photos & complete descriptions at www.YourPerfectApartment.com or call Rick at 954-253-1929 LAKERIDGE FURN. GARDEN STUDIO Central to beach/downtown/Wilton Drive.Clean newly ren. 1 rm and bath. Lg. private fenced courtyard. private entry with parking,laundry onsite, water and electric included. $765/mo. 1st and security with lease. Avail March 1st call 941-548-7989 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 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

condo for sale MANOR GROVE CONDOS Two bedrooms with two baths ,condo for sale.1180 sq ft located in a nice and quiet community. Beautiful pool with clubhouse and friendly neighbors. $145k. Call Louisa for more information 561-654-8708

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1BD APARTMENT UPSTAIRS 1142 NE 4th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale $700/Mo. Yearly Call 954-764-0212 or 954-581-2573 2BA/ 2BA MIDDLE RIVER TERRACE Tile floors, marble and tile baths, stainless and granite kitchen. Open living/dining/kitchen floor plan.

Parking for 2 cars. Private Courtyards. Pet Friendly. $ 1350/MO F/S Call Camelot Property Management for showing instructions. 954-586-4880 LAKE RIDGE Beautiful 1 BD/1BA with a large yard, dishwasher and W/D. This apt is a must see! There is a $50 dollar application fee. First/last and security required $875 a month. Call 954-465-4420 for more info.

DAYTONA BEACH Gay rental complex for sale 2br home + 5 detached rental units beach side.

Owner financing real estate, trade or cash down. $420k DaytonaGayComplex.com

MIDDLE RIVER TERRACE Nice 1BD/1BA apartment, with pool and two balconies! This unit also has a dishwasher with a W/D. There is a $50 dollar application fee. Also first/ last and security deposit required. $950 a month.

Call 954-465-4420

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PERFECT RELOCATION RENTALS!! 4 WEEK + SPECIAL FROM $325 A WEEK!!!. Gay Owned & Operated Apartment Hotel. Beautiful Studio, 1 & 2 BR Apts.With Full Kitchens.Turn-key, fully furnished & equipped, clothing optional pool, laundry, parking. Central to Wilton Manors & Haulover Beach. Incl. Wi-Fi, utilities, cable, tel.

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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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LARGE 2BR/1 BA Beautiful wood floors, private yard, single family home with canvas covered parking, amazing bonus room, washer/ dryer. Quiet neighborhood walking distance to Wilton Drive/restaurants, clubs, etc. Background check/credit check required. Available NOW!!! $1,650month Please call Terri Wright with Sea Island Realty, Inc 954-401-4918

PALM AIRE Affordable and ready to move in.

Beautiful 1 bedroom King Apt. 1.5 bath, new flooring and freshly painted walls. Can be furnished or unfurnished. A great place to live!!

Call Myron 201-214-3992.

roommates LAUDERLAKES ROOMATE WANTED Share a 2/2 on lake w/ hot tub, private bath, W/D , dishwasher ,central a/c and cable. $ 400/mo includes utilities & internet. Looking for a mature professional. 1st & security deposit. Background check req. Call Gary 954-803-0885 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 561316-7236

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