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Republican Gov. Tom Corbett compared the marriage of same-sex couples to the marriage of a brother and sister during an appearance on a morning TV news show.

The Pennsylvania governor was on WHP-TV in Harrisburg speaking about gay marriage when an anchor asked about a statement his lawyers

made in a recent court filing, comparing the marriage of gay couples to the marriage of children because neither can legally marry in the state.

“It was an inappropriate analogy, you know,” Corbett said. “I think a much better analogy would have been brother and sister, don’t you?”

Corbett, a lawyer, former

federal prosecutor and state attorney general, also said he does not think a pending legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage belongs in federal court.

“The Supreme Court left it up to the states to determine under their laws as to what is and isn’t a marriage,” Corbett said.

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Davydov, 36, died on Friday in Moscow after slipping into a coma. The cause of death is currently unknown but Pavel Chikov, the activist’s legal aid, told BuzzFeed that Davydov’s

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news local LBGT Business Expo this Saturday in Lake Worth Andrea Richard This Saturday, Oct. 12, marks the first LGBT business expo of its kind to Palm Beach County.

While the event name may suggest that this business expo is a job fair, Jimmy Zoellner, event host and director of development at Compass Community Center of Lake Worth and the Palm Beaches, asserts that is not the case.

“This is not job fair. What we are doing is showcasing to the community the many businesses that are LGBT owned or LGBT friendly,” he said. “There are so many businesses that support our community that people are not aware of. The same thing is true about our city partners. At Compass, we have amazing partnerships with Lake Worth, and our local chambers of commerce.”

The 2013 LGBT Business Expo runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and will feature more than thirty gay-friendly businesses from across Palm Beach County ranging from banks, estate planning to non-profit adoption agencies.

In addition, attendees can join informational workshops.

The career minded can learn new ways to better present their resumes to prospective employers.

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Educational workshops will also cover financial planning, healthcare planning for unmarried couples, and how to find affordable healthcare.

“Our biggest presentation is on Life after DOMA with a focus on estate planning,” Zoellner said. “It will be followed by an open discussion so our audience can ask the panelists questions.”

The Life After DOMA presentation will take place towards the end of the event, and will be feature Fort Lauderdale commissioner and attorney Dean J. Trantalis.

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News Briefs +NASCAR fines Nelson Piquet Jr. for Anti-Gay Slur NASCAR fined Nelson Piquet Jr. $10,000 and ordered him to attend sensitivity training for using an anti-gay slur on social media.

The Nationwide Series driver posted the remark on Instagram Sept. 25 in a post that has since been deleted.

“Nelson Piquet Jr. recently communicated an offensive and

derogatory term that cannot be tolerated in our sport,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president of racing operations. O’Donnell added the 2013 code of conduct clearly defines NASCAR’s position “regarding the use of disparaging terms. We expect our entire industry to abide by this Code.”

Piquet apologized in a statement.

“I sincerely apologize to everyone for my poor choice of words last week. I did not mean to hurt or offend anyone,” the Brazilian said in a statement. “This has been a cultural learning experience that will make me a more sensitive person moving forward.”

Earlier this year, NASCAR suspended Nationwide Series driver Jeremy

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Kennedy Says Too Many Disputes Left for Court

Justice Anthony Kennedy criticized the ideological gridlock that leaves so many divisive issues to the Supreme Court, saying a “functioning democracy” would resolve them in the political arena.

“Any society that relies on nine unelected judges to resolve the most serious issues of the day is not a functioning democracy,” Kennedy said Thursday at the University of Pennsylvania.

“I just don’t think that a democracy is responsible if it doesn’t have a political, rational, respectful, decent discourse so it can solve these problems before they come to the court.”

Kennedy is teaching this week at the University of Pennsylvania law school. He spoke to the faculty days before the Supreme Court starts its annual term Monday.

Kennedy, a 77-year-old centrist, is often the swing vote in divisive 5-4 decisions, including this summer’s vote to overturn parts of the Defense of Marriage Act. “DOMA writes inequality into the entire U.S. Code,” Kennedy wrote in the landmark ruling, which has renewed efforts in several states to revoke same-sex marriage bans.

Reflecting on the evolving case law on gay rights, Kennedy said he’s amazed at how quickly attitudes have changed.

“We live in an era of time compression,” Kennedy said. “It’s simply stunning to me to see the changes in attitudes” regarding sexual orientation.

“It’s something I didn’t think about or know about as a kid,” said Kennedy, who grew up in northern California. “But the nature of injustice is, you can’t see it in your own time.”

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Clements for two weeks for using a racial slur. Clements made the remark to a blogger for MTV News during an interview at Daytona. NASCAR learned of the comment from a witness, suspended Clements indefinitely and also ordered him to see a sports diversity expert.

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But after the court hearing, Workman said the case would have been no different if Kaitlyn was a boy.

Hunt’s parents have been critical of the victim’s family for going to police over the relationship, repeating that criticism Thursday.

“If we start arresting kids for having sex or sexting, you might as well turn the high schools into prisons,” they said.

The victim’s family released a statement saying it was never their intent to harm Hunt, and the case was never about gender or sexual orientation.

“It was about age-appropriate relationships and following the rules and laws of our society,” the statement said.

Hunt was 18 when she was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery after she was accused of having sexual relations with the girl, who was 14.

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Kaitlyn Hunt, the 19-year-old who has been jailed in Florida over a sexual relationship she had with a 14-year-old girl, pleaded no contest Thursday to five charges as part of a deal brokered by prosecutors and her attorneys.

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Under the terms of the agreement, Hunt will be sentenced to four months in jail, to be followed by two years of house arrest with electronic monitoring, and nine months of monitored probation after that, according to prosecutor Brian Workman.

If she has no violations, she will not be a convicted felon under Florida law, and she will have the possibility of sealing her file and having the case expunged after 10 years, he said.

The case garnered attention as Hunt’s lawyers claimed that authorities wouldn’t have gone after her if the situation had involved a male and a female instead of two teenage girls.

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Police are searching for three suspects after two gay men were attacked in Pittsburgh.

Authorities say that the unidentified victims were attacked early Sunday morning outside of a bar in the Lawrenceville neighborhood.

Three unknown men began yelling derogatory remarks and then attacked one victim, who was punched and kicked when he was on the ground. The 26-year-old victim refused medical attention and his 22-year-old boyfriend escaped without injury.

Police say the suspects in the assault got into a black Hyundai and drove away. One witness gave police a possible license plate number, but no arrests have been made.

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Pvt. Bradley Manning made waves when he released the largest number of classified documents in American history to Wikileaks.

Then, after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, she captured everyone’s attention again after coming out as a transgender woman. Introducing herself as Chelsea Manning, she is fighting for her request to receive hormone therapy while incarcerated -- an ongoing battle for transgender prisoners across the country.

“We want to make sure that transgender prisoners have access to the appropriate medical care that they are entitled to, and there are too many systems that are not providing that care or are not knowledgeable about what that care should be,” said Amy Whelan, a senior staff attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

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federal prison population and an official record is not available. However, in the last 2005 census of prisons 1 percent of prisoners’ genders was not identified. The Florida Department of Corrections said there are only seven in the Sunshine State.

No matter the number, the battle for fair medical treatment and protection from sexual assault is ongoing. Prisoners are entitled to medically necessary treatment and medication, treating anything from schizophrenia to diabetes, with some citing the Eighth Amendment as proof. Some, however, don’t feel that gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder (GID) is one of them.

“All prisoners are entitled to receive treatment that’s medically necessary, and this is treatment that’s medically necessary, so I don’t feel like it’s special treatment. Just like a diabetic should receive the treatment that he requires to treat his disorder, so

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should someone receive it for gender identity disorder,” said Cassandra Capobianco, an attorney with Florida Institutional Legal Services (FILS).

Vanessa Adams was a transgender woman who had not transitioned and was diagnosed with GID by doctors at a prison in Missouri in 2005. She made at least 19 requests to be given hormone replacement therapy, all of which were denied because she was not undergoing therapy before she was incarcerated -- called a “freeze frame.”

Adams attempted suicide multiple times and attempted to cut off her penis and testicles with a razor, causing her to be moved to multiple prisons across the country.

“No one knows what it is like to be in the wrong body,” she told a staff member who found her standing in a pool of blood.

While continuing her sentence at FFC Coleman in Florida, she finally managed to remove her penis. “[Prisoners] are at the mercy of correctional physicians and staff to provide them with care, and when that care is not forthcoming, some prisoners with severe gender dysphoria become so desperate that they take these actions,” Whelan said.

Adams was sent for treatment in Massachusetts, where she continued her sentence. In 2009, she was represented by FILS and the National Center for Lesbian Rights and other groups and finally in 2011, the Bureau of Prisons dropped its freeze frame rules regarding hormone therapy.

Now, each prisoner is evaluated individually.

Plus, estrogen and testosterone is not something prison pharmacies would have a problem getting their hands on. “[Hormones are] really the only effective treatment for GID,” Capobianco said. “They prescribe hormones to other people with other disorders, including to sex offenders in the Bureau of Prisons… it is certainly something they can get and we know that because they prescribe it to people who had a prescription coming in, and they eventually prescribed it for Miss Adams.”

Another battle facing transgender prisoners is where they are housed. In Florida, prisoners are placed according to their physical gender, which is problematic to those who have not transitioned.

Non-heterosexual inmates are more likely to be assaulted in prison, but the dangers within prison walls is especially high for those who are transgender. In a study conducted of

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California prisons by the by the University of California Irvine in 2007, 59 percent reported being sexually assaulted while only 4 percent of randomly selected straight inmates could say the same. In the same study, 41.2 percent of transgender prisoners said what happened to them was rape -- compared to 2.2 percent for straight inmates.

Also, 70 percent of officers said they were not aware of the assaults against transgender inmates. Even worse, 64 percent of transgender victims who required medical treatment after the assault said they did not receive it.

Changes are being seen slowly across the country, though. At least four jails or prisons in Cook County in Illinois, Cumberland County in Maine, Washington, D.C. and Denver, Col. have extra provisions in place to accommodate transgender prisoners as much as they are entitled to.

“My hope is that prison systems will move toward treating gender identity disorder the same way that they treat schizophrenia or heart disease or any other disorder,” Capobianco said. “All prison systems should be providing evaluations and treatment for all of their transgender inmates regardless of what treatment the person received prior to incarceration or really any other factor. If they need it, then they should get it.”

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Unique Struggles of Being Gay With Alzheimer’s Denise Royal In 2005, Gordon Broom knew something was wrong. He had a difficult time remembering things. He would leave the house, but often times had to return because he’d forgotten something. Within a year, that forgetfulness started to impact his job. He mentioned the problem to his doctor and was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.

Within two years, those issues progressed and Broom was sent to a neurologist who diagnosed him with Early Onset Alzheimer’s disease. (Now known as Younger Onset Alzheimer’s). He was only 55 years old.

“I was upset for about 20 minutes,” he said. “Then I decided not to get depressed.

My parents both had dementia in their later years. So I chose to take each day as it comes and enjoy my life. Not everyone’s path is the same. Some people deteriorate quickly and some can go for a long time before things get bad.”

Since then, he’s participated in two clinical trials – including one that uses nicotine to slow the progress of the disease.

And Broom says it appears to work. He’s being treated at Brain Matters Research in Delray Beach. It’s one of the nation’s largest, private research organizations specializing in Alzheimer’s disease.

Broom is not in this struggle alone. He and his partner Larry Jordan have been together for 27 years. Jordan says Alzheimer’s has changed their outlook on life.

“You don’t know what will happen in the future. Our planning for the future came in to focus. We don’t know what’s going to happen. We just said we’ll deal with this and that’s what we’re doing.”

An estimated 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, including about 150,000 individuals living in South Florida.

But dealing with Alzheimer’s can present unique problems for the LGBT community.

One such issue is seeing patients go back into the closet if/when they’re placed in facilities because they’re not comfortable being openly gay.

But there are other concerns as well.

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According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, LGBT elders are more likely to live in poverty than their straight counterparts.

Older LGBT people are more likely to be estranged from their biological families.

Often, an LGBT individual’s family of choice may face obstacles to gaining the power to make end of life and other legal decisions. When asked whether they could be open with facility staff about their sexual orientation or gender identity, only 22 percent said yes.

Jordan, who is Black, says there’s a double stigma of sorts for gays dealing with Alzheimer’s.

Both Broom and Jordan are now retired.

They stopped working a little sooner than planned. But these days, they spend the majority of their time lobbying for Alzheimer’s awareness and advocacy. Both men say the disease has not put a strain on their relationship. Instead, it’s caused them to work harder on issues like communication.

Broom says these days he’s doing pretty well.

“I still have trouble remembering things, but nothing like I did several years ago.” While he still has trouble remembering things, his memory is not as bad as it was years ago. For example, he may ask the same question over again. But he misplaces things less often.

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The event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions. There are three upcoming events in the South Florida area.

Miami

Saturday, Oct. 12, – Walk 9:15 a.m.

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Saturday, Nov. 2 – Walk 9:15am Meyer Amphitheatre 104 Datura Street West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Registration 7:30 a.m. – Opening Ceremony 8:30 a.m.

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Syphilis Cases on the Rise in Broward County Denise Royal

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Clinics in South Florida are seeing a dramatic uptick in patients testing positive for syphilis.

The numbers are so staggering that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation recently sent a health alert and sent informational mailers to some 22,000 people in Broward Country encouraging them to get tested for STD’s.

It contained some alarming numbers.

Syphilis cases in Broward County have increased by 400 percent since 2000, since 2005, the rates in Broward are two-times that of the rest of the state of Florida and 19 million Americans are infected with STIs annually, but only half are aware they are infected.

“While Broward County has the highest rate of syphilis in the state of Florida, the good news is that syphilis is a curable disease - one best caught and treated early,” said Albert Ruiz, director, of the Public Health Division for the AHF. So far, the response to the mailers has been positive. The Broward Wellness Center has seen a sizeable increase in patient visits. On an average day, 60 clients visit that center.

Recently more than 100 people have come in for treatment and testing.

The high incidents of Syphilis are cause for alarm in Broward. It’s home to the most new HIV infections in the U.S. “It is not uncommon for clients to come into our centers for STD screenings, only to find out they have also been co-infected with HIV, this is particularly true with syphilis, “ according to Ruiz.

He says more can be done to bring attention tot his problem. “Federal, state

and local authorities can make syphilis a priority in Public Health. Currently many jurisdictions are cutting back on Public Health Investigators, people who follow up with those who test reactive to encourage their partners to get screened and treated,” Ruiz said.

Syphilis infections occur in three stages. The first stage involves a sore that forms at the point where syphilis entered the body. The Centers for Disease Control says it is usually painless and will last three to six weeks, so it may go unnoticed.

The second stage includes skin rashes around the mouth, genitals and anus.

Though it can be irritating to some, often times the rash does not itch and can be confused with other conditions. These symptoms will disappear with or without treatment, but a lack of treatment can allow the disease to progress to the third stage.

The third stage of syphilis can cause severe complications, ranging from memory loss to dementia and paralysis. The disease can damage internal organs and may lead to death. An estimated 15 percent of people infected with syphilis get to the third stage.

Since the disease can pass through vaginal, anal and oral sex easily, it is important to seek testing.

Experts say it’s equally important to take precautions to avoid STD’s altogether. “If someone is sexually active, the best ways to protect themselves is to use protection (condoms) and get tested regularly regardless of symptoms,” said Ruiz.

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Fort Lauderdale Celebrates Leather Pride

Oct. 10-13 Denise Royal

The Fourth annual Fort Lauderdale Leather Pride weekend kicks off on October 10. This year’s theme is a celebration of the past, present and future. Author Guy Baldwin is this year’s guest of honor.

Baldwin has been both participant and observer of the American leather scene since the mid-1960s. An acclaimed speaker, he is perhaps best known for his essays in

Drummer magazine, many of which were collected in his 1993 book, Ties That Bind. His 2002 SlaveCraft, now in its fourth printing, offers a compelling and controversial look at the inner dynamics of erotic servitude in the Master/slave dynamic.

Weekend run bags are available for $40. Run bags will be filled with discounts with area businesses and will

debauchery as he spins some deep sexual sounds and grinding bass.

Other festivities include a dungeon/play party, clothing-optional beach fun, a Sir/ Slave auction, cocktail parties, pool parties and much more!

For more information, please visit FTLleatherpride.com/ or visit the Leatherwerks store.

also include a Fort Lauderdale Leather Pride commemorative dog tag as your admission ticket to the Guy Baldwin interview discussion on “History Speaks” from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, October 12 at Bill’s Filling Station.

Then at 10p.m. the mood changes from the pas to the future when the after party begins! DJ Herbie James sets the mood for

Saturday, Oct. 12 Thursday, Oct. 10

Afternoon classes, from flogging to fire play, at LeatherWerks.

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Cocktail reception at Bill’s in Wilton Manors.

6:30 p.m. – A Leather Community dinner

at The Manor in Wilton Manors. This will be everyone’s first opportunity to meet Guy Baldwin and mingle with local and visiting friends. Help us kick off a long and fun-filled weekend celebrating the diversity and kinks in our community.

8 p.m. to 10 p.m. – “History Speaks” with Guy Baldwin at Bill’s in Wilton Manors. Guy Baldwin will be interviewed on stage while the interview can be watched live or on one of the many televisions around the bar. Limited floor seating will be available. After the interview, the microphone will be opened up for questions from the audience. This will be a video-taped interview and sent to the Leather Archives and Museum to be shared with others.

10 p.m. – Stay at Bill’s and party the night away at their monthly D.I.L.F (Dads I Love to Fuck) party where the Dads, Sirs and Bears come out for a cruise.

Friday, Oct. 11 Spend the day frolicking in the sand and cool waters of the Atlantic Ocean while butt naked at Haulover Beach (clothing optional). Bring a leather flag to let others know where the fun can be found. Or you can take a walk down Wilton Drive and enjoy some shopping at one of the many gay or gay-friendly stores and stop in for lunch at The Courtyard Cafe and thank them for being so gracious to our community.

11 p.m. to 2 a.m. – Head down to The Ramrod for the annual Kink Party with live demos throughout the bar and meet and greet the judges and contestants for the 2013 Mr. Ramrod contest.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Courtyard Cafe for dinner ($35.00 and includes soft drinks, dinner, dessert, tax and tip -- cash bar available with drink specials) discount for event attendees

Sunday, Oct. 13

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Rumors Bar and Grill on Wilton Drive. dDink specials and dinner discounts for attendees.

Noon to 5 p.m. – Party at one of the South Florida boys of Leather famous pool parties. Be prepared to get wet! Location TBA.

9:30 p.m. to Midnight - The Sir/slave Auction at LeatherWerks to benefit The Smart Ride. Guy Baldwin will be available to sign any of his books that you would like to bring in from your personal collection. The backroom dungeon at LeatherWerks will be available before and after the Sir/slave auction on stage.

Midnight - Continue the party at The Ramrod bar just a few blocks away.

Plan on getting hot and sweaty while dancing and playing the night away. No cover charge!

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What is National Coming Out Day?

…and why it matters Christiana Lilly It was 25 years ago on October 11 that half a million people walked in the March on Washington a second time, fighting for lesbian and gay rights.

On the anniversary of that day ever since, LGBT activists have celebrated National Coming Out Day to encourage acceptance and living an open life.

“It’s just continued to grow as our understanding of the power of coming out has only increased the importance of acknowledging people who are living their out and open lives is still just as important as it was 25 years ago,” said Candace Gingrich, the associate director for Youth and Campus Engagement at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

Gingrich is the half sister of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and has been hugely involved in programming promoting living openly since 1995.

For the 25th anniversary, the HRC has themed the day “Coming Out Still Matters” and is also commemorating the anniversary of gay artist Keith Haring’s iconic artwork of a cartoon character coming out of the closet.

This has become the official logo for National Coming Out Day. Over the years, many celebrities both gay and straight have gotten

involved with National Coming Out Day -- to name a few, in 1991 Geraldo Rivera hosted a television program with openly gay actors and politicians, Melissa Etheridge produced a radio PSA, a benefit CD was released in 2002 with the likes of K.D. Lang, Sarah McLachlan, Queen and more.

Not only is coming out an important moment for any LGBT person, but Gingrich stresses the role it plays for society moving forward. When people are out, “those gay people” become the faces of friends, family and coworkers.

“Your instinct is to fear the unknown, so if you’re someone who doesn’t know a gay person, a lesbian, a bisexual, a trans person, it’s much easier for you to believe the stereotypes and the misconceptions and sometimes the lies that are told about queer people,” she said. “Not only is it powerful for the individual to come out and be able to live their lives openly and be their authentic selves, but they’re also educating the people around them.”

For straight allies, National Coming Out Day is a day that they can let everyone know that they support their gay brothers and sisters. The HRC has a coming out guide for both gay people

and allies (http://bit.ly/18vYzft).

Harvey Milk once said, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

The gay rights activist, who was killed in 1978, lived an openly gay life and his legacy and that of those who marched 25 years ago lives on, encouraging LGBT people youth and old to be their true selves -- even when there are risks.

“Here’s this guy who totally knew that coming out had risks but acknowledged that it was still such a powerful thing to do that it was worth that risk,” Gingrich said. “The more people who are living out and open lives,

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A look back at must see ‘Coming Coming Out in Film Out’ films through the ages Gary M. Kramer

Making Love - 1982 Coming out is a rite of passage for the GLBT community. Beyond self-acceptance, it is about sharing yourself with family members, friends, and even co-workers. Coming out as a teen is more common and perhaps easier than it was a generation ago, but it remains a political statement at any age.

Films have long depicted coming out stories, and while some members of the LGBT community who tire of seeing coming out stories, they are important and often give folks courage to take that big step. Here is a list of titles to check out to celebrate National Coming Out Day. Back in 1982 Hollywood made Making Love, a soapy drama about Zach (Michael Ontkean), a married doctor who is forced out of the closet when he begins an affair with Bart (Harry Hamlin). The film remains a touchstone for a generation despite mixed reviews and mediocre box office because it was one of the few efforts Hollywood made at courting a queer audience. Hollywood took a comic approach to the topic in 1997 with In & Out, a popular and broad film about a schoolteacher (Kevin Kline) grappling with his sexual identity after being inadvertently outed by a former student’s award acceptance speech.

American independent film handled coming out with much more sensitivity.

Edge of Seventeen (1998) is a coming out classic, and based on writer Todd Stephens’s

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But I’m A Cheerleader - 1999

semiautobiographical experiences. The film features a winning performance by Chris Stafford as Stephen’s alter ego and sexy support from Andersen Gabrych as the young man who seduces him. While Edge of Seventeen has a sincere (and de rigueur) coming out scene with his mother (Stephanie McVay), Stephens mocked it in his 2006 comedy, Another Gay Movie. In this spoof, the flamboyant Nico (Jonah Blechman) is looking to lose his anal virginity, but has yet to tell his mother (Edge of Seventeen’s McVay) that he is gay.

One of the best American lesbian coming out films is the hilarious and affecting Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), in which the title character (co-writer Jennifer Westfeldt) decides to start dating women because she is fed up with men. When she connects with Helen (co-writer Heather Jurgensen) the two women have to determine who they want to love and what they want out of their relationship. Another comedy, But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), depicts a would-be lesbian (Natasha Lyonne) being sent off to a rehabilitation camp called “True Directions” to “cure” her of her orientation. Of course, she meets a handful of LGBT characters who express themselves and find self-acceptance.

Foreign films also portray coming out stories with considerable grace. From Canada, C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) is an outstanding film about Zachary (Marc-André Grondin) soflagaynews //

coming of age in the 1970s in a tight-knit family in Montreal. He loves David Bowie and develops strong feelings for guys, much to his disapproving father’s chagrin.

Imaginatively filmed by director Jean-Marc Vallée, C.R.A.Z.Y. is one of the best coming out films ever. On the lighter side, Mambo Italiano (2003) has lovers Angelo (Luke Kirby) and Nino (Peter Miller) coming out to their parents with fear and mixed but amusing results.

Two British films about teenagers that have long been embraced by audiences are Beautiful Thing (1996), about two male teenage neighbors in a London towerblock who fall in love, and Get Real (1998), about Steven (Ben Silverstone) who is crushed on the prep school jock (Brad Gorton), who happens to reciprocate.

The landmark German film Taxi Zum Klo (1980), depicts writer/director/star Frank Ripploh outing himself in his classroom by coming to school in drag after a night of debauchery. Summer Storm (2004) was a comedy-drama about same-sex attraction as the closeted Tobi (Robert Stadlober) and his best friend Achim (Kostka Ullman) compete in a rowing competition against the Queerstrokes, a gay crew team.

From France, Wild Reeds (1994), features one of the most remarkable coming out scenes in cinema, as François (Gaël Morel) confirms his sexuality in a bathroom mirror.

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Sexy Stéphane Rideau, who appears in Wild Reeds, plays gay in Come Undone (2000), a moving story about Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaïm) who falls in love with Cedric (Rideau) one summer and confesses his attraction to his family, The film toggles back and forth in time as Mathieu has attempted suicide following the end of the relationship.

One of the most important coming out films is the Oscar-winning 1994 short Trevor, about a young Diana Ross-loving teenage boy negotiating his sexual identity in high school. The short, which unfolds as a series of personal diary entries, is still fresh and funny two decades later. But it is perhaps most significant for sparking the Trevor project, the suicide prevention hotline for LGBT youth.

Also in video diary format, is the emotionfilled, confessional coming out documentary, Wish Me Away. Chronicling country singer Chely Wright’s transformation from closeted singer/songwriter to becoming a bold, out lesbian waving the rainbow flag at various Pride events. The film also provides a revealing behind-the-scenes look at how her public coming out campaign was orchestrated.

Coming out for minority characters is captured in two extraordinary films. Pariah (2011) gives a glimpse into the African American butch world as teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) negotiates finding her

Another Gay Movie - 2006 sense of self in the face of negativity from her mother and her efforts not to hurt her father.

La Mission (2009), has a Latino teenager Jes (Jeremy Ray Valdez) trying to hide his samesex desires from his macho father (Benjamin Bratt) in San Francisco’s Mission district.

Gun Hill Road (2011) tells a different kind of coming out story as Michael (Harmony Santana) reveals he has become Vanessa to his father Enrique (Esai Morales) after dad comes back from a stint in prison.

Coming out later in life is the subject of several films. Just out on DVD is Turtle Hill, Brooklyn (2011), has Mateo (Ricardo Valdez) throwing his partner Will (Brian W. Seibert) a 30th birthday party, only to have friction arise when Will’s sister pays an unexpected visit, and learns about her brother’s relationship.

In the modest and endearing low-budget comedy-drama The One (2011), Daniel (Jon Prescott) is engaged to Jen (Margaret Ann Florence) only to fall in love with Tommy (Ian Novick).

Big Eden (2000), a romantic drama about Henry (Arye Gross), a city slicker who moves to Montana where he grew up and finds a new life as a gay man; Mulligans (2008), about a young man’s father (Dan Payne) having an affair with his son’s best friend (Charlie David, who penned the screenplay); and Beginners (2010), in which actor Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for his performance as a dad who comes out at age 70.

Coming Out Through the Ages

A list of must see coming out films Taxi Zum Klo – 1980 Making Love – 1982 Wild Reeds – 1994 Trevor – 1994 Beautiful Thing – 1996 In & Out – 1997 Edge of Seventeen – 1998 Get Real – 1998 But I’m a Cheerleader – 1999 Come Undone – 2000 Big Eden – 2000 Kissing Jessica Stein – 2001 Mambo Italiano – 2003 Summer Storm –­ 2004 C.R.A.Z.Y. – 2005 Another Gay Movie – 2006 Mulligans – 2008 La Mission – 2009 Beginners – 2010 Turtle Hill, Brooklyn – 2011 The One – 2011 Gun Hill Road – 2011 Wish Me Away – 2011 Pariah – 2011 soflagaynews //

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Some of whom shocked us, Famous Coming Outs some of whom didn’t David-Elijah Nahmod rights fight in the Sunshine State.

Never one to mince words, Rosie has been known to shout her opponents down.

Though this has made her more than a few enemies on both sides of the fence, even her detractors often grudgingly admit that she’s usually right.

A lover of musical theater, Rosie has been known to put her own money into failing Broadway shows she deemed worthy of support.

1. Ellen Degeneres

More than 39 million people tuned in to hear Ellen say the words “I’m gay” in April 1997. The words were uttered by the fictional character she played on her self-titled sitcom, though Degeneres herself had come out two weeks earlier on the cover of Time Magazine.

Prior to coming out, both Ellen and her show had enjoyed a fair to middling popularity. Overnight she became the worldwide face of LGBT equality, but there was also a great deal of negative backlash. The Ellen Show was cancelled the following year.

But the door had been kicked open.

Though it took a few years for her career to recover, Ellen’s courageous stand changed everything.

She has since sparred on air with then Presidential candidate John Mc Cain on her current chat show when he told her that they’d have to “agree to disagree” on the issue of marriage equality. “I’m good enough to sit at the same table with you,” she told McCain.

These days, celebrities routinely come out, which often enhances their careers.

LGBT people are now are all over the tube.

It all began with Ellen, which earns her the number one spot.

2. Rosie O’Donnell

Some have criticized Rosie for not coming out until Ellen had made it safe to do so: in 1996 the two had joked about being “Lebanese” on Rosie’s talk show. But Rosie has more than made amends: mother to five children, Rosie has become a powerful advocate for LGBT families, speaking openly about her brood while she campaigns for marriage equality. The owner of a home in Florida, she has led the LGBT adoption

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But Bowie is definitely one of the Bs in LGBT. But it was in 1976 that he finally declared to Playboy: “It’s true—I am a bisexual. But I can’t deny that I’ve used that fact very well. I suppose it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Years later in a 1983 Rolling Stone interview he regretted his decision to come out, saying that his admission was “the biggest mistake I ever made.”

But in a 2002 interview with Blender, he stated that, while the admission had caused him problems in the USA, it was no problem in Europe. “America is a very puritanical place,” he said. “I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.”

Married for many years to the fashion model Iman, Bowie today laughs about questions regarding his sexuality.

comfortable with it for a very long time.”

The admission enhanced his escalating career. Earlier this year the out, proud gay man took his powerful pipes to China, where he was equally open about his sexuality.

6. Anderson Cooper

Absolutely no one was surprised when the handsome CNN news anchor came out in 2012. “I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” he said to journalist Andrew Sullivan.

AC 360, his signature show on CNN, continues to pull in impressive numbers.

Cooper joins fellow out journalists Thomas Roberts, Rachel Maddow, Sam Champion, Don Lemon, and others, who have seen no career backlash as a result of coming out in our Brave New World.

3. Marlon Brando

Considered by many to be the greatest film actor in history, Brando’s early performances in classics like A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and On the Waterfront (1954) continues to inspire young actors to take their craft seriously.

Brando’s eccentricities and his colorful private life became equally legendary--he fathered numerous children with a variety of women.

His bisexuality was rumored for years, with Hollywood insiders whispering about his alleged affairs with fellow 1950s superstars Montgomery Clift and James Dean.

Brando took it all in stride.

“Like a large number of men, I too, have had homosexual experiences,” he said in a 1976 interview. “I am not ashamed.”

4. David Bowie

No doubt the legendary glam rocker raised many eyebrows when he appeared as a Saturday Night Live musical guest in drag in the late 1970s. But actor/musician Bowie was open about his bisexuality as early as 1972. For years he dodged rumors about being caught in bed with Mick Jagger, an incident which was never proven. soflagaynews //

5. Adam Lambert

Idol runner-up Lambert grew up in a world that’s very different from what earlier celebrities had to live in. For one he shot to fame on America’s biggest singing competition American Idol. Before appearing on Idol he lived an out and proud life never thinking twice about hiding his sexuality. When photos of him kissing a guy and dressing in drag went viral, suddenly his sexuality was on everybody’s minds, and the more he stayed mum on the subject, the more the public wanted to know. During the show he refused to comment, instead choosing to focus on his music and performances.

Shortly after the season wrapped up with him coming in second place, he sat down for a 2009 interview on 20/20.

“Adam, are you gay?” he was asked.

“Yes, I am,” he said. “I’ve been very

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7. RuPaul (and Sylvester)

Some of our famous out celebs could have taken a cue from the fabulous RuPaul. The drag artist has had hit records--which he performed in drag--and has been a celebrity spokesperson for a variety of products.

Now a reality TV superstar on Logo, Ru has also been an actor. In 2000 he played a female role on the ABC daytime soap opera Port Charles. He also appeared as a school guidance counselor--a woman--in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).

But Ru could play serious roles too: in 1995 he played a man in the made for TV AIDS drama A Mother’s Prayer, and got strong notices for his work.

For two years he hosted a lively talk show on VH1, where he would often help his famous guests figure out their drag names.

Ru has been open about his homosexuality

every step of the way.

RuPaul might have taken his cue from the late Sylvester. As early as the 1970s, openly gay Sylvester had a string of disco hits. Anthems like You Make Me Feel Mighty Real were wildly popular in both gay and straight dance clubs.

In 1979, Sylvester, clad in a mu-mu dress, appeared on the somewhat conservative The Merv Griffin Show. He told an obviously uncomfortable Griffin that he had just completed his role in the upcoming Bette Midler film The Rose.

“I’ll be playing Miss Billie Holiday,” Sylvester said gleefully.

8. Suze Orman

Financial guru Orman has written books, appeared in a series of well received PBS specials, contributes to Oprah Magazine, and is a CNN regular. She offers sound advice on how people can invest their money wisely and get the most bang for their buck--empowerment of women is a big part of her teachings.

In a 2012 interview on The View, Orman stated that she intended to vote for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney because she wants to marry her girlfriend. The admission hasn’t affected her career.

In March 2013, Forbes Magazine named Orman as one of the most influential celebrities of 2013.

9. Neil Patrick Harris

In 1989, then 16 year old Harris won the title role in Doogie Howser MD, the TV series about a child prodigy who became a practicing physician. Since the series ended in 1993, Harris has enjoyed a successful career as a TV guest star, on Broadway and in a handful of films. Harris came out in 2006, referring to himself as a content gay man. He has since married his partner David Burtka, with whom he has children via a surrogate mom.

The couple discussed their relationship in a candid 2012 Oprah interview on OWN--they allowed Oprah’s cameras into their home.

Harris’ career has escalated since coming out. A popular Tony Awards host, he now costars in the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother,

in which he plays a womanizing heterosexual.

And last month he hosted the Emmys.

10. Melissa Etheridge

Old school rocker Etheridge released her debut album in 1988, and immediately made an impression with her blusey, confessional lyrics and raspy voice. For several years she dodged questions about her private life, but soon grew weary of evading the truth. Her 1993 album Yes I Am served as her official coming out as a lesbian and was a huge success.

Now 52, Etheridge continues to record and tour, and has been open about her relationships with a variety of women.

Shadows: TV Milestones, which put the iconic and unusual daytime serial in it’s proper historic context. The book included frank discussions of why the show has such a huge gay fan base. Part of this was attributed to Edmonds, who was described as “a Tennessee Williams character in the flesh.”

The book suggests that Edmonds’ “eloquent queer persona” may have prevented him from achieving success outside of New York’s soap opera and theater stages.

12. Rock Hudson

Handsome, virile Hudson was a wildly popular leading man in films of the 1950s and 60s. Always cast in macho, heterosexual roles, he spent much of his life dodging rumors about his sexual orientation. During the 1950s he married his agent’s secretary, allegedly to cover up the truth about his homosexuality. The marriage was a disaster.

In the 60s he starred in a series of romantic comedies with Doris Day, but the gay rumors persisted. One such rumor was that Hudson was “married” to popular TV star Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) – Nabors, now in his 80s, has since come out.

When an emaciated Hudson joined the cast of the popular prime time soap Dynasty

in 1984, the press wondered if he had AIDS. There were published accounts of Dynasty co-star Linda Evans refusing to kiss Hudson on camera out of fear of contracting HIV – Evans, who campaigned for increased AIDS funding during Dynasty’s run, vehemently denied these allegations.

Shortly before he died of AIDS at age 59 in 1985, Hudson revealed in a statement to the press that he had AIDS, bringing face to the disease and in the process jumpstarting the campaign to prevent HIV. “His illness and death have moved the fight against AIDS ahead more in three months than anything in the past three years,” said Bruce Decker, at the time chairman of California’s AIDS Advisory Board Committee. While activist Armistead Maupin commented: “I’m sure Rock’s coming out will stand as a landmark in the gay community.”

Longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor, who knew of his gay lifestyle since the 1950s, visited Hudson a few days before he died.

After Hudson’s passing, Taylor campaigned vigorously for AIDS funding, and appeared in PSA’s encouraging condom use. Taylor helped found AMFAR--The American Foundation of AIDS Research.

11. Louis Edmonds

Who? Edmonds was a leading player on Dark Shadows, the horror themed daytime soap opera that amassed a huge cult following in the late 1960s. He was one of only two actors to have appeared on both the first and final episodes of the serial, which produced over 1,200 episodes during it’s five year run.

In 1979, he was cast as con artist Langley Wallingford on the iconic soap All My Children, a role he played for sixteen years.

He received three Emmy nominations for AMC--his fans included TV legend Carol Burnett, who asked to appear on the show in 1983 and specifically requested that she work with Edmonds: Burnett appeared as Langley’s long lost daughter.

During his career, which included dozens of stage roles, elegant, old-school gentleman Edmonds referred to himself as a “confirmed bachelor.” But in the 1990s, he came out on stage when he appeared at a Dark Shadows fan convention. He was 71 years old.

A few years later, TV historian Craig Hamrick published Big Lou, a biography of Edmonds in which details of his life as a gay man in the New York theater world was revealed. Edmonds died in 2001, Hamrick died of cancer a few years later, but the book remains available at Amazon.

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Read the coming out stories from local community leaders Jason Parsley Some are funny. Some touching. Some inspiring. These are the real coming out stories from a smattering of South Florida’s LGBT community leaders.

Happy Coming Out Day from SFGN!

Toni Armstrong Jr.

Co-Founder of BLAST (Bi, Lesbian and Straight Together) Women of the Palm Beaches Childhood love for Mouseketeer Annette Funicello had to hide it. Lust for junior high gym teacher - could barely abide it. Stonewall happened - I embraced it.

Out as a special ed. teacher - refused to erase it. Family knew - elderly neighbors too. Huge Lesbian Capricorn Parties in Chicago with legendary Tracy Baim - vampire

tequila slammers were the name of the game. Went to Canada with Janis to legally wed; our moms gave us away - what more could be said? Promoted lesbian women’s music, and helped form GSAs. Now building lesbian community in Florida - OUT OUT OUT ‘til the end of my days!

Stephen J. Fallon • Executive When SFGN asked me to tell my story for National Coming Out Day, my memory flipped through the decades the way we used to flip through record album covers. Remember those? So picture this: when I came out, Madonna was that new artist who had just hit number 1 with “Like a Virgin.”

People were genuinely asserting that another new breakout performer, George Michael from Wham, couldn’t possibly be gay. My friends and I were making “mix tapes,” wearing Drakkar Noir cologne, and trying to look like extras from Miami Vice in our Z Cavaricci pants.

This was so long ago that the big gay bar in Boston had no signage, no velvet rope, no thumping music to hear from blocks away. You entered the plain brick front of “The 1270” discreetly, having parked in a dark and sketchy lot a few blocks off the backside of Fenway Park. That’s where I nervously approached my soon-to-be first boyfriend while he danced to Aretha Franklin’s “Freeway of Love.” When she sang “Knew you’d be a vision in white / How’d you get those pants so tight?” I decided that he was and they were.

I dove into his coconut scented lip gloss, and adored his almond shaped eyes. Mutual attraction was about all we had in common. I was the white kid from a preppy college in the suburbs; he was the Caribbean guy who’d just moved to the States, now living in a cramped “flat” on a crimeridden street in Dorchester. He’d chain-smoke whenever his mother would call from Barbados to condemn him with Biblical quotes about gays.

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Yet for seven months, he and I snuck kisses and clutched each other’s bodies on the sofa in his apartment (where he was not out to his roommate). We rarely went anywhere else. No one was openly gay back then, it seemed. We were careening down the bumpy road of our first gay relationship with no map, no tour guide, and no brakes. But in our scared and desperate ways, we fell into a beginner’s version of love.

Hang on Marty McFly, we’ve zipped “Back to the Future”!

The new Pope just proclaimed that Catholicism has better things to do than harangue people for being gay. A few months back, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. While there are still plenty of hate-filled hallways in our nation’s schools, there are now also oases of acceptance for guys and girls coming out today.

So it’s easy to assume that the ancient Coming Out stories my peers and I tell are sepia-toned recollections of an irrelevant bygone world. Still, every day at Latinos Salud (www.latinossalud.org ) we meet newcomers to South Florida’s gay scene, young and middle aged, who emigrated from countries that still mock or resent the “maricon,” the “puta,” the boy who walks like a “pato” (a duck). Only now, these guys can find a safe space to come out and forge their identity in a foreign land. In South Florida, Latinos Salud, the Pride Center, and SunServe provide a tour guide and a road map on National Coming Out Day, and every day.

Jorge Richa • MGLCC, Marketing & Programming Director I was blessed to have had a positive coming out experience. I attribute this to the great support, love, understanding of family and friends. While living away from home in the U.S., it was during my twenties that I came to terms with my sexuality and had my first partner.

I was out to our mutual friends and acquaintances.

Coming out to my immediate family and longtime friends came shortly after as a result of me wanting to share with them how happy I was in that relationship, being myself, and accepting my sexuality.

I had a face to face conversation with my closest sister where lots of tears were shared. My tears were of relief as I finally got this secret out and had her unconditional love and support. Months later it was coming out to my other only sibling. My concern was how she would take it, I was scared that it could affect my interaction and great relationship I had with her kids. My worries were unfounded as she confirmed she loved me for who I was no matter who I love. Then it was the parents turn.

During a business trip back home to Puerto Rico I invited my mom to lunch with the intentions to present her with a long letter that I had written. She very calmly put it

aside and asked me to talk to her about its content. It was very emotional, the support and comforting words was everything I needed at the moment.

With regards to telling my father, quite frankly, I was concerned about his health as I thought he would have a heart attack after I told him. I asked my mom to give him the letter that I had written. That evening I stayed at their house and the morning after I found my father with a very solemn face in the kitchen next to my mother. He had read the letter. Without hesitation he gave me a hug and told me he loved me no matter what, that I would always be his son.

He asked for time to better understand and cope with the news. I could feel him and my mom were struggling with it as a result of their strong religious beliefs and Catholic Church teachings. With the passing of time, speaking with professionals, and even church clergy, my parents were able to resolve their internal struggles to fully accept me for who I was and how God brought me to this world.

I know that I have been blessed with such positive coming out experiences and only hope that more people have similar ones as homosexuality continues to be more and more accepted in the world we live in.

Victor Diaz-Herman

Executive Director, Pridelines Youth Services I came out at the age of 26 after several years of exploring my sexuality secretly. You’d think that having lesbian moms and a gay uncle would have helped me embrace my sexuality at a much earlier point in my life, especially growing up in a family where the generation before mine paved the way for acceptance. But my coming out experience was anything but easy; it was a tumultuous internal struggle.

I’ve always been more effeminate, my interests were never those traditionally associated with masculinity, and I always had more female friends than male. Truthfully, it was obvious to most of my family and friends that I was clearly repressing my sexuality, and oftentimes they’d ask me about it – it would drive me crazy.

As a young man I hated being predictable, something I’ve come to embrace as I’ve matured. I was always bothered by the fact that so many people assumed that I was gay. I felt as if I wasn’t being given the chance to determine that for myself and I didn’t want to make such a defining statement without first being sure that I wasn’t going through a phase or without experimenting with both sexes to be certain of my feelings.

Additionally, I was concerned about my family. I feared that some of my family would disapprove of me based on their religious beliefs. I feared that they would blame my mothers for “making” me gay. And, I think the greatest fear of all, was how my parents (moms) would react if, and when, I came out. This is likely the reason I chose to come out to my friends first, then to my cousins, and finally to my parents.

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friends and family to fall back on in case my coming out to my parents didn’t go well.

It turns out that I didn’t have to actually come out to any of my parents. One of my cousins decided to tell my moms that I had a boyfriend. That evening they casually asked me over dinner. I was surprised by their reaction when I confessed that I was in fact dating a man; they expressed concern for me. My mothers grew up in an era where they lost friends to HIV/AIDS, when being gay meant that you had to hide your sexuality by day and turn to bath houses and nightclubs at night, and when people were being assaulted if they were “out” in public.

They didn’t want me to experience any of those things, but they loved me unconditionally regardless. Like my moms, my dad also asked me if I was gay after several months of knowing that I was in a relationship with a man.

His response, when I confirmed that he was correct, was that he just wanted me to be happy.

I am truly blessed to have been raised by supportive parents, in an accepting family, and to have amazing friends that never turned their backs on me. As a result, I realize now that my struggle was an internal one that lasted 26 years, it was based on perceptions and conclusions that I was creating for myself which perpetuated my fears. Coming out is a unique experience for each person.

I think that’s why I enjoy being the Executive Director at Pridelines Youth Services, because I am in the privileged position to help young LGBTQ individuals throughout that process, our staff and youth members are a safety net for each other, embrace each other for who they truly are, and support each other when family and friends may not.

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N COD Michael Emanuel Rajner, BSW • LGBT As a teen in the 1980’s, I struggled tremendously as I became aware of my sexual orientation. I grew up without a gay role model. The first time I realized there was a gay community of people, it was watching the news and learning of a gay cancer that was rapidly claiming the lives of gay men.

I recall one of my brothers stating, “finally there is something to get rid of these faggots.” Words so painful that pierced my heart and left me feeling alienated and ashamed. I was also at the time struggling to overcome the abandonment by my mother, grandmother and cousin when they all died less than two months apart from cancer when I was 13 years old.

The struggle continued as I entered the seminary and later became a survivor of sexual harassment and abuse by clergy. It took me more than 10 years to begin to confront the pain from those dark days.

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Over the years I have listened to the struggle of other individuals as they shared their coming out. It is these collective stories that have helped fuel my passion to ensure generations to follow will know there is a loving and compassionate community that affirms and values the unique individual and that our sexual orientation or gender identity should not marginalize us from any of our hopes or dreams.

In my service on the Broward County School Board Diversity Committee, I was proud to help improve policies in our public schools to be a more affirming and safer place for every child to achieve academic success. This year, for a second year in a row, Broward Schools is recognizing LGBT History Month. A month where our youth will learn of some amazing people who have not been deterred by their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Robin Schwartz

Executive Director, Aqua Foundation for Women I was 21, living in Gainesville, going to college and dating men. A good friend of mine suggested we go to a gay bar because the music was good. I loved good music so I said ok. I had never had a conscious thought about being gay or even having an attraction to women. Off we went.

After that night for reasons unknown to me at the time I went back to the club without my friend. A woman came up to me and asked me to dance with her. I said “I’m straight.”

She said, I asked you to dance, not @!#*. Off we went. And from that day forward I kept dancing with women.

Within months of being back from college and living in Miami with my dad, my mother called me. She asked me if “I want to be a boy or a girl?” I had recently cut my hair very short and apparently my brother had told her he was

suspicious. This may have been because he had caught me in bed with a woman! He didn’t catch us having sex, but she was in the bed, and that was all it took.

After explaining to my mom that I don’t want to be a boy she asked me to come see her. I asked her to not tell my dad. When I got to her house my dad was there. They told me they love me. They offered to send me to a psychiatrist.

I told them there was no need. I was comfortable with who I was. They said ok and off we went. Eventually they grew comfortable too.

A few years later I came out at work.

At age 48 I became the Executive Director of Aqua Foundation for Women, a non-profit focused on the wellness and equality of LBT women.

Kris Fegenbush • COO , Pride I came out in my later 20s. For years, I had grappled with reconciling my faith with my sexuality. My father is a minister, and I worked for a faith-based organization.

The process involved lots of tears, questions, late night conversations, prayer, cute boys on South Beach, and the examples of some wonderful gay people of faith that I got to know in South Florida. A couple of loyal, dear friends stood by my side and loved me generously. I met some amazing, older LGBT mentors. They helped rescue me from myself when my thinking became claustrophobic or fearful.

That’s why I encourage younger people to seek out older mentors and spend lots of time learning from them. My family surprised me with the depth of their acceptance, love and embracing. It was tough on my mom, but I’ve learned that I hadn’t given them enough credit. I had projected my fears onto them. That’s why I now am learning to expect the best in others.

My grandfather always said, “there’s so much good in the worst of us; so much bad in the best of us; it never behooves

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any of us to criticize the rest of us.” I’ve discovered that we find what we’re looking for in others. If people are looking for my faults, they’ll find them quickly. If I seek what is best and excellent in others, that’s what I find. My family made the commitment to walk down this road together, extending grace where we didn’t understand each other.

To this day, they never introduce my partner of 12 years to others without calling him their “eldest son.” It makes the world of difference when family and friends offer unconditional love. We all need to be reminded of the ultimate truth: we are loved more than we know. I didn’t receive the in-my-face judgment I expected from others.

Who knows? I may have been the topic of nonapproving conversation among some old friends, but I was never invited to those parties. I think it’s hard to extend judgment and shaming stigma when we come face-to-face with human need at a personal level. That’s why coming out is important. It changed not only my life, but the lives of my friends and family. We all grew along this journey.

Anthony Timiraos • CEO ,President

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Yikes! My coming out story? Very short and simple - it happened 43 years ago on May 8th. Came out at the same time with my husband Arthur. We were both 17, we fell in love and decided to spend the rest of our lives together. We just turned 60 this year and we are still together. Time flies.

Denise Spivak • President,

Women in Network

I guess my coming out started in college at a Holly Near concert. Holly was a big presence in the Women’s Music/Lesbian community at the time. The music she was singing and the women that were there, the whole atmosphere just felt really ‘comfortable.’ I also developed a crush on a friend who was a junior at the time.

A short time later I was having a conversation with someone, talking about after college, life, etc. and the question was posed “who do you see yourself with 20 years down the road, a man or a woman” and without

pausing I said “a woman.” At that point I really came out to myself (and her). And I’m so lucky that I had a positive, safe and loving experience when I came out to my family and friends.

Not everybody is that lucky, even in 2013! I think coming out is an ever-evolving process. I now work for a LGBT organization and I essentially ‘come out’ almost every day to people I meet.

Tony Plakas • CEO,

Compass

Coming Out: It sounds like an event. But it isn’t – it’s a process. Our Compass kids taught me that over the years.

If there was a moment, it was on a very specific day – in a very specific way. In 1999, after I had worked at Compass for two years, I forced my reluctant husband and my awesome Golden Retriever to take a picture of our “family” on our front porch for a news story. In the height of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, The Defense of Marriage Act and a world so horrible; a picture of a gay family on our front porch was an act of activism I underestimated - epically.

I came out on the front page of the local section, when newspapers had a front page for which they could be proud. There we stood: my man, my dog, and me. Proud.

In 1999, the U.S. decided to report same-sex households, and my friend Ron Hayes did us justice. He was a reporter.

I thought doing the story was an obligation, because of my role, so I did it.

I had absolutely no idea the consequences. But I am still proud of that picture, even though I had no idea I was being brave at the time. I remember my dog more than my man, not because I didn’t love Jamie; but just because Tash seemed so proud of us. He looked happy; happier than I could have looked at the time. We were a family.

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Everyone; and I mean everyone, says the same thing: “I couldn’t be more out.” I laugh. It is one thing to be out – but when you put it on your resume, you mean business.

Working for Compass, even if you’re not gay, is a statement.

In my opinion, it’s a beautiful statement. It’s says, “It’s as good as it gets,” even when being gay isn’t always easy.

I never really felt I had to come out because everyone I have ever loved told me they loved me and couldn’t imagine a world where being gay would make that change – in any way.

When I told my dad, his response was, “you know I love you no matter what.” No fight, just love.

But I really came out when I met the love of my life; when I met Jamie, because I wasn’t going to let anyone or anything come between what I felt for him. I knew instantly I wanted to be with him for better or worse, in sickness and health, and for richer and poorer.

I’ve seen people say they’ve come out, but I’ve seen more people aspire to find a life free of shame. And the best part is the moment we realize no one who matters to us ever wants a reason to stop loving us unconditionally not even when we tell them we don’t fit their norm.

Coming out isn’t about leaving a closet – it’s about realizing the people who love you never want you to hide your true potential, and they will do anything to help you achieve it. It’s a true testament of love – and love, really, is what coming out is all about.

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N COD Chuck Nicholls • Vice

President, Tuesday’s Angels

I came out in Apopka Florida...yes, I said Apopka, Florida, the indoor foliage capital of the world.

I had just finished completing my course work at the University of Florida in Gainesville (yeah Gators!) and was embarking on my first field work which was a necessary part of completing my M.S. degree for my thesis.

After driving from Gainesville I found this Victorian guest house (looked like something out of a horror movie) where I was to spend the next several nights whereby I would be collecting data from growers in the area for the next several days. Little did I know my life was about to change forever.

I knocked on the door of the guest house about 10 p.m.

The proprietor asked that I wait in the TV room with the rest of the men who were USDA fruit and vegetable inspectors. The room was barely lit and all I could see were boots and the legs of men (in levis) in the shadow of the TV set where a major boxing match was being shown.

Having no interest in boxing my eyes were gazing on the 10 plus men that were in the relatively dark room.

The fight was over and I registered at the desk. One of the

inspectors asked if he could help take my bags to the room.

Naturally, I was flattered and willingly accepted his offer.

His mother was housemother at one of the sororities at UF so conversation was relatively easy. I had the distinct feeling he was interested in me but nothing happened at that point. About midnight he knocked at my door and said he could not sleep and asked if he could stay in my room. That evening was a magical moment for me because in my 22year history this was the first time I had feelings for a man.

This relationship continued for several months. He knew people all over the state and my research work took me to various locations. I came out fast...very fast!

I loved the attention I was getting especially from all the celebrities and men in Miami.

Coming out was not easy in those days.....nothing like it is today. One had to be closeted and very careful at the University. Those days were also clouded by The Johns Committee in Florida. The committee was all about exposing gay professional men in academic and business professions. Needless to say I was a survivor and happy that I am alive today to talk about it.

Judge Rand Hoch (retired) •

President and Founder, Palm Beach County Human Rights Council It seems as if before I became really well known locally as an LGBT activist, I was always in the process of coming out to someone. My favorite coming out experience happened back in 1984.

During the summer between my second and final year of law school, I clerked for a prominent real estate law firm in Palm Beach County.

When I accepted the job, I negotiated a two-week break in the middle of the summer so that I could attend the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

Back then, political conventions were televised gavel-togavel. So I assumed that the firm’s partners knew that the convention only lasted 4 days and that I would be spending the rest of my break enjoying all that San Francisco has to offer. I also assumed that they knew I was gay and just didn’t want to address it directly.

During the summer, the firm has several social events and I never brought a woman along as a date. Again, I assumed that the firm knew I was gay.

The firm liked my work and at the end of the summer, the managing partner offered me a position as an associate upon my graduation from law school the following year.

This was unexpected, because job offers are usually made in the fall following a clerkship. So, I had to make a quick calculation.

The legal work I had done during the summer wasn’t very interesting. But the job was in Palm Beach County where I wanted to be and it paid well. And I had borrowed a lot money to get my law degree. I thought if I was going to have settle for boring job just to pay off my loans, then at least I should be able to be open about my personal life at work.

So I asked the managing partner, “How is my being gay going to affect my chances of becoming a partner 5 or 6 years down the road?”

I watched all the color drain from his face. Then I watched the color return as he said “This firm has never had that problem before.”

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This was not a good sign.

He asked how my being gay might have an impact on the firm.

I replied that I didn’t intend on asking male clients to dance at the Christmas party, but, if there was a firm party without clients, I would like to be able to bring along my significant other – if I was lucky enough to have one at the time.

He told me he would discuss this with the other partners and get back with me in a few days.

When I did not hear back within two weeks, I called and asked him how the discussion with the partners went about the job offer.

He replied, “We never offered you a job.”

Obviously, this was not a firm I wanted to work for anyway.

This put me in an awkward position, because during job interviews that Fall, potential employers were bound to ask me why I wasn’t going to work for the firm I clerked for that summer. I wanted to say that I was offered a job and I declined.

Ultimately, I convinced the managing partner that if anyone inquired, he had to tell them the truth: The firm was pleased with my work and I was offered the job, but I decided not to work there.

I ended up working for a labor law firm in Palm Beach County, representing unions and employees. And I got very involved in LGBT politics.

Years later, having served as Florida’s first openly gay judge, I returned to Palm Beach County to mediate employment disputes. I was very pleased one day when I got a call from the law firm I had clerked for a dozen years called and asked me to mediate one of their cases.

On the day of the mediation, most of the attorneys I had worked for, stopped by to say hello. They let me know that they had followed my career and they were pleased with the work I was doing.

When the firm celebrated its 25th anniversary ten years later, I received an invitation to the celebration. It was addressed to “Rand Hoch and Guest.”

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When I was about 6 I overheard my Granny and her sisters discussing their brother’s recent accident in his home, where he lived alone. “This wouldn’t have happened had he not been alone. If he weren’t ‘that way’ he’d have a wife who would’ve called help sooner,” one of my Great Aunts said. Another of my Great Aunts said something I’ve never forgotten, “I hate that him being this way means he won’t have anyone to take care of him once we’re gone.”

I quickly realized that being “that way” meant being gay, and eventually that I too was “that way.” From the onset, the conservative culture of Texas told me to expect from a gay life harassment, loneliness, marginalization, and an eternity spent where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Remaining closeted to my family along with a healthy dose of popularity and fairly masculine tendencies mitigated many of the issues I know my fellow LGBTQ peers experienced;

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outwardly I led a privileged and near picturesque childhood, but inwardly my soul was tormented.

My Christian faith was and is the most important part of my life, but in my youth Jesus’ teaching of love and benevolent living was twisted into a message of judgment and legalistic thinking. After college, I chose to enter ministry training to overcome the “demon of homosexuality,” but what a personal relationship with Christ led me to was the truth: God lovingly made me as a gay man, Christ delivered me to a fuller life, and my Mom, Dad, Granny and friends all love me because of this, not in spite of this.

Coming out for me made me a better man and strengthened my relationships. I pray your coming out is as positively transformative as mine was.

Happy Coming Out Day!

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We start our lives in the closet.

There are the occasional leaks.

Tiny cracks in an otherwise carefully crafted facade that, if recognized, provides a key to the person’s hidden world.

Many of us have, or had, a public persona and a private persona.

The secret side takes the form of a struggle and we work very hard at protecting it. We can live stressfully bifurcated lives, juggling back and forth between pseudo straight and gay. Until the day we come out, burst out, or are forced out.

October 11 is National Coming Out Day. The day was born out of the 1987 GLBT march on Washington DC, where hundreds of thousand of Americans marched to support equal rights for LGBT people. If you are still in the closet make your first step out of it on this day.

There is no right or wrong way to come out. It’s a lifelong process of being more and more open and true with yourself and the people around you.

When we finally come out to families and friends we meet a challenge that was given to each of us by chance at birth. The challenge is to be honest about this aspect of our beings even when it is hard and painful.

Even when we do not know the right words, our culture, our families, our churches teach every newborn that we are “supposed” to be attracted to people of the opposite sex. None of us were told we might fall in love, or feel a certain way, with someone of the same sex.

We come out because, sooner or later, we can’t stand hiding who we are anymore, or we are pushed out by external events beyond our control.

When we finally do it we discover that it feels so much better to be open, honest and free than to conceal such integral part of who we are.

We also realize that our biggest fear was fear itself. It is, however, a leap of faith. It’s no cakewalk. Those you thought would be least judgmental or upset may be the first to turn way. That’ s what my younger brother did.

While those who seem least likely might be the ones offering the strongest support, as my

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middle brother did. The journey from coming out to living openly is ongoing. There will be bumps on the road and one should take it at his/her own pace. The only certainty is that it gets exponentially easier with time.

I have had my epiphanies and wonderful surprises on my journey. Years ago my 15-year-old niece sent me spinning. I was visiting my brother in Italy and one day she asked me to meet her after school.

“There is a place downtown you will like,” she said in a conspiratorial tone. The cafe was a hang-out for leftists, artists and gays. Socialist magazines and communist newspapers were on every table. A poster of Che Guevara hung on the main wall.

I had the feeling there was a very specific reason for this meeting. It didn’t take long.

“May I ask you a personal question Zio P?” “Sure, go ahead,” I replied, knowing already what was coming.

“Are you gay? I think you are but I’m not completely sure.”

“I am. Does it make any difference?”

I never saw anybody react to my being gay the way she did. “Oh my God, of course not, this is great! It’s wonderful… I knew it all the time… I have to tell all my friends!”

A typical teenager.

She was ecstatic to have a gay uncle. She wanted to know, in rapid-fire succession, about my life, my friends, my partner, when she was going to meet him, how long we had been together, what was our life like… everything.

Nobody ever made me feel so good about being gay. I was pleasantly shocked, relieved and completely blown over. When I was 15, it never crossed my mind to ask a relative or a friend if he/she was gay. I did not even ask myself the question, for that matter. I was too scared of the answer. For my niece it was the most natural thing in the world.

I left the cafe with a new spring in my step and felt much lighter. That afternoon with my teenage niece will always be memorable.

There was a new and special bond between us, and a sense of peace with the world around. Moments like that make it all worthwhile.

So, no matter how old you are: Just do it.

You will never regret it. Yes, come out, come out wherever you are be yourself, or you will never know what life is and remember: everyone is born straight, only the gifted overcome it. After all, there is nothing wrong with being fabulous.

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Matthew Shepard: 15 Years Later The tragic murder and its legacy Christiana Lilly The story of Matthew Shepard, a young life taken at the hands of brutality, is 15 years old,but those old enough to remember the crime will never forget.

On the night of Oct. 6, 1998 in Laramie, Wy., Shepard was 21 when he met Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, also 21, at a bar and said he was too drunk to drive home. The two drove him out to a remote spot, where they robbed, pistol whipped, and tortured him. They then tied the bludgeoned Shepard to a fence -- allegedly his face was completely covered in blood save for where tears had washed it away -- and left him there to die. Eighteen hours later, he was found by a bicyclist who initially thought he was a scarecrow. Shepard’s injuries were so severe that doctors could not operate, and he died on Oct. 12, 1998.

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His murder became a media sensation and friends of Shepard’s as well as the girlfriend of McKinney said the incident was fueled by hatred of gays. The two men were sentenced to life in prison -- spared the death penalty

by Shepard’s parents.

Robin Wood, the director of development at the Matthew Shepard Foundation, was 14 at the time of the murder and lived just south of Laramie in Denver, Col. “It was the imagery of the fence, the fact that he was so young, and that it was just so senseless,” he said. “I think certainly the gay community, because people were beginning to feel more comfortable being out at a younger age, it was just really scary to think that if you were hanging out with friends at a bar and talked to the wrong person, you were going to end up dead.”

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Melissa Etheridge was just one of many musicians who were moved by the story and turned it into music -- she wrote “Scarecrow” in his honor: Scarecrow crying Waiting to die wondering why Scarecrow trying Rising above all in the name of love Dennis and Judy Shepard, the parents of Matthew, decided to stand up for their son and founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation shortly after his death. Since then, Judy has toured the world speaking to schools, universities, and political leaders about making communities a safer places for not just the LGBT community, but everyone.

Also, Matthew’s Place, an online community for young LGBT bloggers, has been resurrected and gives youth a place to talk to others in their position and to hear both A favorite photograph of Matthew Shepard, who was killed when he stories of sadness and triumph was 21 years old in Laramie, Wy. that they can relate to.

Photo courtesy of the Matthew Shepard Foundation The foundation works with drama groups across the country to make the killing have been questioned, including in play based on Shepard’s story, “The Laramie “The Book of Matt” published in September.

Project” a reality. Susan Cunningham Burk Stephen Jimenez, who is gay, had set out leads the effort using her background as a to learn more about Shepard and his death news anchor in Wyoming at the time of the for a screenplay, but in his investigation murder to provide background information discovered that McKinney and Henderson as well as press clippings, photographs and allegedly had only killed him after a meth other items to make the play come to life. binge and that Shepard wasn’t as innocent Many schools have had trouble getting the as people believe.

“Attempts now to rewrite the story of play to the stage as some administrators this hate crime appear to be based on have felt it wasn’t a family-friendly story.

The foundation was also instrumental untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors in working to pass a national anti- and innuendo rather than the actual evidence discrimination law. Shepard’s death -- as gathered by law enforcement and presented well as that of James Byrd, Jr., an African in a court of law,” according to a statement by American man tortured and killed by white the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

However, today, Wood points out that the supremacists just a few months before in foundation has a higher purpose than just Texas -- inspired the law that was finally the name of Matthew Shepard and works to added to the books by President Barack Obama in 2009, giving more weight to eliminate hate of all kinds.

On the 15th anniversary of his death, the crimes committed out of hate. foundation is hosting the Bear to Make a “We keep those stories together in many Difference Gala in Denver. George Takei, ways because it shows that, you know, 1998 was just not a good year to be different… hate an openly gay actor who has used his witty covers more than just one demographic,” banter on social media to reach out to millions, will be honored with the Making A Wood said.

However, the motives behind Shepard’s Difference Award.

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LGBT History Month: 31 Days, 31 Icons From LGBTHistoryMonth.com

Axel Axgil

Djuna Barnes

Joseph Beam

April 3, 1915 - October 29, 2011

June 12, 1892 June 18, 1982

December 30, 1954 - December 27, 1988

“We realized the historic significance of what we were doing.”

“The truth is how you say it, and to be ‘one’s self’ is the most shocking custom of all.”

“We are black men who are proudly gay.”

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Axel Axgil was a Danish gay activist and cofounder of Europe’s first gay rights organization. After Denmark became the first nation to legalize same-sex domestic partnerships, he and his partner Eigil Eskildsen were the first couple to register.

Born Axel Lundahl-Madsen, he came out in the 1940s after meeting Eigil. The two men would later adopt the surname “Axgil”—a combination of Eigil and Axel—to acknowledge their commitment to one another.

Inspired in 1948 by the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which included sexual orientation, Axgil cofounded Forbundet af 48 (F-48), Europe’s first gay rights organization. By 1951, F-48 had over a thousand members and branches in Sweden and Norway.

The couple founded Vennen (The Friend), a gay magazine.

In addition to producing the publication, Axgil ran a small publishing company that sold nude male photographs. In 1955, Axgil was arrested for distributing the photos.

The investigation into Vennen led to a scandal and arrests of gay men. After his release from prison, Axgil founded the International Homosexual World Organization (IHWO). In 1970, IHWO successfully appealed to the German Federal Chancellor, who discontinued the seizure of nude male photographs.

In 1989, after years of lobbying by the Axgils, Denmark became the first nation to recognize same-sex domestic partnerships. The law gave same-sex couples most of the rights and obligations of marriage, excluding the right to adopt a child. On October 1, 1989, the Axgils and 10 couples held a commitment ceremony that attracted worldwide media attention.

Axgil continued his activism and ran a gay-friendly bed and breakfast until Eigil’s death in 1995. In 2012, as a result of the groundwork laid by Axgil, Denmark became the second nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

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Djuna Barnes is a prominent modernist writer known for her experimental style and edgy themes.

Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to a polygamist family, she was inspired to write by her grandmother, a feminist writer and journalist. As a child, Barnes was sexually abused by family members. In 1909, she was forced to marry her father’s brother-in-law. Two months later, she left him.

In 1912, Barnes moved to Greenwich Village and began writing for magazines and newspapers. She had affairs with men and women. She wrote novels, including “The Book of Repulsive Woman: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings” and “Paprika Johnson.”

She moved to Paris, where she lived with Thelma Wood, her lover and fellow artist. Barnes became involved in the Parisian lesbian community, which is depicted in her privately printed novel, “Ladies Almanack.”

In 1931, after her relationship with Wood ended, Barnes relocated to England. She stayed in a country manor with other writers and literary critics. She wrote “Nightwood,” her best-known novel, which received attention for its stylistic excellence. So impressed by the book, T.S. Elliot wrote the introduction and became involved in its publication. “Nightwood” depicts desire between women and challenges the gender binary.

In 1939, Barnes returned to New York, where she lived in relative solitude for the remainder of her life. She continued writing plays and poetry that challenged heteronormativity and the lifestyles of the upper class. She often drew from her own life experiences, exploring themes of abuse and sexuality in a number of her works.

Barnes’s writing had a significant impact on modernist literature. Writers such as Truman Capote and Bertha Harris have cited Barnes as an inspiration for their works.

She is recognized as a pioneer of lesbian literature.

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Joseph Beam was a gay rights activist who helped build a black LGBT community in the 1980s. He was the editor of “In the Life,” the first collection of nonfiction works by and about black gay men.

A native of Philadelphia, Beam attended Franklin College in Indiana, where he studied journalism. He was an active member of the black student union and the Black Power movement. After college, Beam received his master’s degree in communications.

In 1979, he returned to Philadelphia. He explored literature on gay figures and institutions while working at Giovanni’s Room, an LGBT bookstore. Discouraged by the lack of community for black gay men and lesbians, Beam began writing articles and short stories for gay publications.

In 1984, he received an award for outstanding achievement by a minority journalist from The Lesbian and Gay Press Association. In 1985, he became the first editor of “Black/Out,” a journal produced by the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. He served as a consultant for the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Friends Service Committee.

Beam continued to collect materials about being black and gay. In 1986, he produced the first-ever collection written by black gay men, called “In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology.”

In 1988, while compiling “Brother to Brother,” a sequel to his anthology, Beam died from AIDS-related complications.

His mother, Dorothy Beam, and the gay poet Essex Hemphill completed the work, which was published in 1991.

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60-Second Car Reviews: Just a Minute!

Check out the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E250 Bluetec The classy, cushy Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan has always been a great car – for our moms. But for 2014, the mid-size Benz range has gotten a smart facelift and a welcome interior refresh, bringing with it a new nose with a striking duo-brow LED light treatment

and, on Sport models, aggressive front and rear bumpers. The tail lamps, too, have taken on an edgy glow, while the body sides have been smoothed out thanks to new rear door skins. It is a refresh so significant that Mercedes is calling it a redesign, and that in

any case makes it far more fashionable for the next generation.

The interior has also been upgraded, if less dramatically, making the ambience both more sophisticated and luxurious, containing lots of great technology, too.

One particularly compelling E-Class model is the new-for-2014 E250 Bluetec, which is powered by a deliciously potent and quiet turbo diesel that combines pressyou-into-the-seatback power with stunning fuel economy of 24 mpg in the city and 38 mpg on the highway. It may be the entrylevel E-Class, but it makes absolutely zero compromises in terms of the luxury for

which Mercedes-Benz is known.

Particularly in E250 form, the 2014 E-Class is a remarkable car from a remarkable company, one that feels fresher and more relevant than ever. And not just for our moms.

Renowned automotive journalist and gay car geek Steve Siler has turned his life-long love of cars into a fruitful and enthusiastic career traveling the world to test thousands of new vehicles as they are introduced. Siler is s regular contributor to Car and Driver Magazine, Edmunds.com,AutoTrader. com, AOL Autos and Yahoo! Autos, and also pioneered automotive writing for the GLBT community more than a decade ago.

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hether your day starts, or ends, at Courtyard Café, it should definitely include it.

The café has been around for a quarter century under various owners, but Shawn and Nick have owned it for the last seven.

While the location hasn’t changed, you can thank Shawn and Nick for the tasty improvements to the menu.

Take breakfast, where you can build your own omelet from dozens of options. Load up your eggs with everything from spinach to chili. Other favorites like the homemade biscuits and gravy and eggs benedict are up for grabs, too. Don’t worry, breakfast is served all day, so you can enjoy pancakes or French toast any time you want.

That goes for lunch and dinner, too. Grab a burger anytime, and build your own as well.

For less than $10 you can add anything to your burger, including grilled pineapple and even sauerkraut. Essentially, add anything to your burger that the restaurant has on hand.

And not just sirloin burgers, the café also offers turkey, veggie, and even an Alaskan salmon patty.

If that’s just too many choices, try the dozen-plus burger options on the menu, including the California Bacon Avocado burger and the fan-favorite Manor Burger.

Not into burgers? Try the chef’s homemade meatloaf with veggies and mashed potatoes or even the haddock (blackened, teriyaki or lemon pepper) dinner options. Look out for the kid-friendly menu, too, and bring them along on Tuesday or Thursday when they can eat for free. Ask about the fit fare selections for low-carb or low-calorie options.

Don’t pass over the appetizers! Try the popular fried green tomatoes – crispy, crunchy green tomatoes fried to perfection and served with a Cajun ranch dipping

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sauce. Or nosh on the mac ‘n cheese bites – deep-fried macaroni and gouda cheese balls that you can down in one chew. Some may consider this a bad thing but they taste delicious so it’s worth it.

If you’re around for breakfast, ask about the mimosa special: $4.50 a glass or the $20 bucket special – a bottle of champagne and your choice of orange juice, pass-o-guava or peach nectar. For other times of the day, beer and wine selections are available.

If you can make it to dessert, try any of the homemade cheesecakes that rotate often to whatever the chef prefers. For a limited time, try the pumpkin swiss roll – pumpkin cake layered with cream cheese and topped with whipped cream. Your visit will not be complete without this.

The Courtyard Café doesn’t just offer a wide variety of amazing diner food, but you can also get it anytime you want. They’re open every day, but walk in any time Thursday, Friday, or Saturday since they’re open 24 hours.

Whether you’re starting your night off, or ending it, the Courtyard Café has everything you want, any time you want it.

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We can all admit that being a science geek wasn’t cool in school, but science can be fun, especially when you’re 21! Tonight, South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North in West Palm Beach, presents the 3rd Annual Science of Wine and Beer event from 6 to 9 p.m. Learn all about the chemical reactions responsible for making these delicious concoctions. The evening will include food, music, giveaways, trivia and special demonstrations – including a liquid nitrogen beer ice cream demonstration. Local brewers will also be offering samples. Tickets are $20 in advance at SFScienceCenter.org or $30 at the door.

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They’re back! Chances are, if you’ve ever been on a gay cruise or traveled to one of the many Pride celebrations around the country, you’ve enjoyed the music of this Chicago duo. Amy Armstrong’s bluesy voice and bawdy humor are complimented by the incomparable musicianship of pianist Freddy Allen. The twosome will be in Wilton Manors again tonight to celebrate the first anniversary of Village Pub, 2283 Wilton Dr. The performance begins at 9 p.m. and is free.

Stop by for the music, but also enjoy birthday drink special, prizes and giveaways. For more information, go to VillagePubWM.com.

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The Broadway Across America season has arrived in South Florida with two long-running shows pulling into Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Mamma Mia! the long-running musical set to the ‘70s sounds of ABBA opens at Miami’s Arsht Center tonight, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 13. You’ll be dancing in the aisles all night long to the catchy tune. Tickets start at just $26 at ArshtCenter.org. Meanwhile, Kander and Ebb’s dazzling 1920s courtroom drama, Chicago, starring John O’Hurley (Dancing with the Stars), plays at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday, Oct. 9 through Sunday, Oct. 20.

Tickets start at $34.50 at BrowardCenter.org.

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Pianist Freddy Allen and vocalist Amy Armstrong return to Wilton Manors tonight to celebrate the Village Pub’s first anniversary. The duo are popular entertainers on gay cruises and at Pride celebrations and gay resorts across the country.

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Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, nurtured and grown under the direction of Ballet Master Vladimir Issaev since October 1997, leaps into its 16th season with the intriguing Pentimento, set to excerpts from Johan Sebastian Bach’s Four Suites for Orchestra, and Igor Stravinsky’s brilliant Firebird. The company presents the program at Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center, Saturday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m., and at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. Tickets for both venues are $25 and can be purchased at BrowardCenter.org and AventuraCenter.org. soflagaynews //

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Almost every gay man has encountered that unfortunate trick who bucked like a bronco between the sheets, but there’s nothing quite like a real cowboy riding a real bull to submission in the rodeo arena. This weekend, the Professional Bull Riders Invitational comes to Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Friday, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 13. We all know how the guys posture in the bars, but these men are seriously riding hundreds of pounds of Grade A beef that explodes into action when the gate opens. Don’t forget your boots! Tickets are $20 - $105 at HardRockLiveHollywoodFL.com.

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The never-ending summer of Monday play readings continues into October. Tonight, GableStage, 1200 Anastasia Ave. in Coral Gables, offers a free reading of Colin McPhillamy’s new play, An Actor Walks into China. Brit McPhillamy tells the story of an actor who is transferred from Little Rock, Ark. (think WalMart and Bill Clinton) to Beijing, China (where Shakespeare is known as Sha-shi-bi-ya), to help the Chinese government spend a little bit of the country’s massive financial reserves for culture. The performance is free and parking is available in the lot north of the theater’s Biltmore Hotel home.

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More than 30 LGBT-themed feature, short and documentary films will be screened at the Fifth Annual Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (FLGLFF), Thursday, Oct. 10 through Sunday, Oct. 13.

According to Mark Gilbert, chair of the festival’s board of directors and acting executive director, the featured films run the “cinematic gamut” from comedies and dramas to hard-hitting documentaries from 10 countries. Fourteen of the films will receive their South Florida premieres at the festival, which calls Fort Lauderdale’s Classic Gateway Cinema home for the second year in a row.

“Each film has something to offer every film fan and we’re looking forward to great moviegoer experiences,” Gilbert said. “Our goal is to bring a diverse array of films to the table that enlighten, entertain and inspire, and with this year’s line-up of films, I know we’ve accomplished that goal.”

In addition to a wide variety of film screenings, organizers—a staff of five and more than 100 volunteers—have lined up a number of special events and will be hosting actors and filmmakers during the four-day festival.

“We’re very excited,” explained Gilbert, who is well known in South Florida as the host of the former radio programs Issues Over the Rainbow and South Beach Dance Party. “The big message is that we’re really looking to grow the festival in Fort Lauderdale and we need the community to step up and help us.”

The two week long Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has consistently grown and gained a national reputation in recent years and Gilbert hopes to see the Fort Lauderdale festival continue to grow.

“The energy and reception have been remarkable (in Fort Lauderdale) and it’s already proven we’re on the right course,” added Gilbert.

Kicking off the FLGLFF on Thursday at 7 p.m. will be G.B.F., short for “Gay Best Friend,” a film that Variety called a “sweet comedy that remixes Clueless, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink from a gay male teenage p.o.v.” Directed by Darren Stein, G.B.F. focuses on the fight for supremacy among a group of popular girls in high school. Their

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The Last Match, a heart-wrenching story of forbidden love in the barrios of Havanna, Cuba is one of the 30 films featured at this year’s Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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rivalry takes an unexpected turn when Tanner (Michael J. Willett) accidentally outs himself and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. As the girls race to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, i.e., the Gay Best Friend, Tanner must choose between his skyrocketing popularity and the friends he is leaving behind.

Actor Michael J. Willet, who Gilbert calls “an incredibly nice, cute guy” will attend the opening night party at 9:30 p.m. at Stache, 109 SW 2nd Ave. in the Revolution Live complex. Tickets are $30 for the film and party and $20 for the party at FLGLFF.com. soflagaynews //

Closing night offers a stark choice, two South Florida premieres: Catch the livefilmed version of Sordid Lives creator Del Shores’ hilarious coming out play, Southern Baptist Sissies, on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. and featuring Dale Dickey (True Blood) and Lesley Jordan (Will and Grace, Sordid Lives), or the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, a dazzling, courageous portrait of the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple, at 7 p.m.

Following both closing night films, the Festival Finale will take place at 9 p.m. at Alexan Solmar, 408 NE 6th St. in Fort

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Lauderdale, with special guests, director Shores and actor/producer Emerson Collins from Southern Baptist Sissies. Tickets are $15 for either closing night film, $30 for the film and party, and $20 for the after only.

Tickets for individual films range from $7 for festival members to $15. For a complete FLGLFF schedule and tickets, go to FLGLFF. com. For the first time, fans can also download the festival app for show times and more information about the films. The app is available at the Apple iTunes Store for iPhone and iPad and from Google Play for Android mobile devices.

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The Last Match – South Florida Premiere

Romeo, Romeo – South Florida Premiere

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Director: Antonio Hens Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate on the soccer field of their slum in Havana.

Although obsessed with making money to support his baby, teen wife and wife’s grandmother, gambler Reinier always fails in getting the stroke of luck he desperately needs. At the same time, he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Although handsome Yosvani will give up his girlfriend to be with his love, the boys will have to fight hard to pursue this forbidden love in the reckless Havana streets.

SFGN: This is a fascinating, gritty look at the perils of being gay in a machismodominated communist society. Hens offers a touching portrait of conflicted young lovers, despite the recent advances for transgendered Cubans led by dictator Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariella.

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Director: Lizzie Gottlieb Gottlieb’s film offers an intimate portrait of a modern same-sex marriage and the quest for two attractive likeable women, Lexy and Jessica, to have a child. Their journey to conceive is heartbreaking, funny, and frequently lands them in circumstances they could never have imagined: artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, Petri dishes, sperm, ovaries, follicles, innumerable pregnancy tests and the inevitable turkey baster.

SFGN: Let’s face it, babies are the ultimate gay accessory item. As marriage equality spreads and more couples seek the lives of their heterosexual counterparts. Most couples take this responsibility seriously— it’s not a laughing matter—but this film manages to inject some heart and humor into a process that’s so much easier with a penis.

Sunday, Oct. 13

I Am Divine

Monster Pies – South Florida Permiere

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Director: Jeffrey Schwarz Young Harris Glenn Milstead liked musicals, was drawn to feminine pursuits, was bullied and privately played dress-up games in his mother’s clothing. By 1963, Glenn was brave enough to show up at a party dressed as an astonishingly passable Elizabeth Taylor. After meeting a crowd of gay hipsters, Glenn starts camping it up and meets the man who would forever change his life, movie director John Waters.

SFGN: Patrons of Bill’s Filling Station will remember Divine’s mother, Frances Milstead, a regular at the bar for years after her son’s unfortunate death. This is a touching look at one of the generational icons of gay culture.

Saturday, Oct. 12 The New Black – South Florida Premiere 12 noon Director: Yoruba Richen This compelling documentary takes viewers into the pews, out onto the streets, and provides a seat at the kitchen table, as it tells the story of the historic fight over marriage equality in Maryland’s 2012 election.

Compassionate and balanced, The New Black gives audiences an inside look at efforts within African American communities and churches across the country to address—and then do something about—same-sex equality.

SFGN: This is an especially appropriate selection for the festival, which falls in LGBT History Month. While it’s still easy to look

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back at the heroes of earlier generations— the Stonewall Riots of 1969 or the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s—history is being made right around us today and this film sheds some light on the struggle of modern day LGBT activists.

12 noon Director: Lee Galea Geeky, 17-year-old film buff Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember. When a handsome new boy arrives at his school, Mike can’t believe his luck when his teacher pairs them together for a class assignment. A single spark between them suddenly ignites an infinite world of possibilities as emotions are awakened in Mike that he’d never before dared to dream.

Set in Australia in the ‘90s, Monster Pies is a tender coming-of-age emotional drama.

SFGN: What’s an LGBT film festival without a “coming out” film? However, instead of the usual film school projects we’re regularly forced to endure, this feature, set in the relatively exotic culture of Australia, is fresh and funny.

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Festival Highlights

Starring john o'hurley from "Dancing with the Stars" & "Seinfeld"

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia – South Florida Premiere 2 p.m.

Director: Nicholas Wrathall Arguably, no 20th Century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Director Wrathall weaves a compelling portrait of a brilliant thinker, essayist, critic, political commentator and, when few were out, an openly gay man.

SFGN: Three words – LGBT History Month.

Not everybody’s cup of tea, but a tantalizing taste of one of the great minds of our century and our community. An extremely well made and thoughtful documentary.

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Our Fund Announces Matching Grants Program to Benefit 10 Local Organizations Our Fund

Non-profit organizations in South Florida were awarded a total of $80,000 in grants from OUR FUND, South Florida’s LGBT community foundation, for projects that will help improve the lives of LGBT residents of South Florida. The grants require that the selected agencies work with their staff and OUR FUND to obtain equal matching gifts from new donors or increased gifts from existing donors for a total of $160,000.

Projects in areas that included health, education, civil rights, arts, human services, youth, LBT women and transgender were selected from the tri-county area by the Programs and Grants Committee of OUR FUND, a committee comprised of community leaders from all three counties.

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created by the generosity of Our Fund supporters who pledge their support for a period of three years by committing to a minimum annual contribution of $1,500. A portion of their gift is allocated to this special Fund designed to increase philanthropy.

“Our philanthropic impacts are achieved when our community works together”, said Anthony Timiraos, CEO/President of OUR FUND. “Our donors know that they are part of a charitable network that increases their effectiveness and impact – together, we are all making a difference”.

David Jobin, Executive Director of The Stonewall National Museum and Archives, one of the ten recipients, commented that “…this grant will help fund an exhibit that allows SNMA to create a thoughtful conversation among Florida educators,

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administrators and Florida’s high school student population as it draws natural comparisons in the fight for equality among previously marginalized races and populations.” Latinos Salud, another recipient organization, will “create an intensive rapportbuilding platform that safely recruits into HIV testing those local gay men who are otherwise reluctant to test. The program will also provide support to those who know but have fallen out of care and services.” says Executive Director, Stephen Fallon.

The wide variety of projects that are being funded include: •Compass Community Center: Funds to host the largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Florida.

•Equality Florida: Funds to initiate Gender Identity programs Anthony Timiraos, CEO/President of OUR FUND Photo courtesy of OUR FUND through Equality Means Business and advocate for transgender a project that will improve the mental, residents to minimize transphobia.

•Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida: physical, financial and emotional well-being Purchase of software to aid in donor and of all transgender persons in South Florida.

•YES Institute: Expansion of education grant tracking. efforts to help youth facing rejection and •Gilda’s Club: “Touched by Cancer project harassment on the basis of gender and will increase targeted marketing campaigns orientation.

Funds will be used primarily in to the LGBT community on the causes and Broward and Palm Beach counties. risk factors of cancer. Provide lists of health resources helpful to LGBT population.

These organizations will seek to obtain •Latinos Salud: Expand their HIV testing matching gifts between October 1 and efforts to target those local gay men who are December 31, 2013 as part of the funding reluctant to test and provide needed support requirements. to those who know their HIV+ status but For more information about any of these have been unable to manage their diagnosis. projects or to make a donation please visit •Pride Center at Equality Park: Continued www.our-fund.org/matchit or contact funding for a fully-equipped staffed office any of the organizations noted above. for LBT women to receive needed support Our Fund’s mission is to promote a culture referrals, services and resources. of philanthropy by uniting donors with •Safe Schools South Florida: Funding organizations supporting the LGBT community. to continue programs making schools’ Focused on expanding philanthropy in South environments safer for all students.

Florida and working to develop stronger non•The Stonewall National Museum profit organizations, South Florida’s only LGBT and Archives: Funding for a statewide community foundation has been established to distribution of educational materials that help build endowments that support donor’s will help create thoughtful conversations charitable interests including organizations among our state’s educators, administrators providing services throughout the LGBT and student population. community.

•SunServe: Funding for GenderServe,

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Broward County Chicago

Oct. 9 to 20 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The Broadway classic takes the audience back to the Roaring ‘20s in a story of murder, corruption and jazz in the Windy City.

Tickets $34.50 to $119.50. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* Battle of the Boro’s

Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive in Coral Springs.

The five boroughs of New York City duke it out on stage with renditions of doo wop and oldies hits.

Tickets $60.42 to $71.02. Call 954-344-5999 or visit CoralSpringsCenterfortheArts.com.

Björn Again

Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. at Parker Playhouse, 707 NE Eighth St. in Fort Lauderdale. A night to relive the ‘70s with ABBA’s hits performed by the world’s top tribute singers and dancers. Tickets $37.50 to $51.50. Call 954-462-0222 or visit ParkerPlayhouse.com

Elegantly Brahms

Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Pianist Gwendolyn Mok performs pieces by Johannes Brahms to benefit the Friends of Music Education for Haiti. Tickets $60. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

Comedy Central Presents Anthony Jeselnik

Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. at Parker Playhouse, 707 NE Eighth St. in Fort Lauderdale. The stand up comic has had the audience in stitches from various Comedy Central roasts, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live and his own The Jeselnik Offensive. Tickets $29.15. Call 954-462-0222 or visit ParkerPlayhouse.com.

Ambrosia

Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. at the Miramar Cultural Center, 2400 Civic Center Place in Miramar. Tickets $30 to $40. California rock is back with the ‘70s rock band known for their hits “How Much I Feel” and “Biggest Part of Me.” Call 954-602-4500 or visit MiramarCulturalCenter.org.

Oct. 12 to 13 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida kicks off its season with its tribute to the pentimento art form as well as the notorious “Firebird” by Stravinsky. Tickets: $25. Call 954-4620222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* Hispanic Heritage: The Mystery of Tango

Oct. 15 at 8:15 p.m. at Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Argentine violinist Alejandro Drago explores the music behind the tango, as well as performing the world premiere of his composition, “Mysteries of Bueno Aires.”

Tickets $60 to $80. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

Palm Beach County The Sounds of Simon

Oct. 10 to 20 at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton. The immensely popular musical of Paul Simon’s music, twice held over this summer, returns again for a limited engagement. Tickets $35. Call 561-600-0495 or visit SoundsofSimon.com.

All Shook Up

Oct. 10 to 27 at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. A mix of Elvis Presley’s rocking’ introduction to the world in the lines of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Tickets $26 to $35. Call 561-586-6410 or visit LakeWorthPlayhouse.org.

Of Mice and Men

Oct. 11 to Nov. 10 at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. John Steinbeck’s novel of the struggle of two migrant workers come to the stage in the theater’s season opener.

Tickets $52 to $75. Call 561-514-4042, ext. 2 or visit PalmBeachDramaworks.org.

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* India.Arie

Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore, 1700 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. The soulful singer comes to Miami with Gramps Morgan. Tickets $44.50 to $58.

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Metamorphoses

Oct. 10 to 27 at the Adrienne Arsht Center, 1200 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The Greek myths of Ovid are told through performance in an underwater stage. Tickets $45. Call 786-468-2000 or visit ArshtCenter.org.

The Marvelous Wonderettes The Cherry Orchard

Through Oct. 13 at FAU’s Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. Anton Chekov’s play of an aristocratic Russian family’s struggle to come to terms with the end of their family’s estate during the rise of the middle class. Tickets $12 to $20. Call 1-800-564-9539 or visit FAUevents.com.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Through Oct. 20 at the Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 NW Ninth St. in Delray Beach. Barney Cashman’s friends convince him that having an affair will add some spice to his life -- but he soon discovers it’s not as easy to romance the ladies as he thought.

Tickets $30. Call 561-272-1281, ext. 4 or visit DelrayBeachPlayhouse.com.

Miami-Dade County

Through 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

* Pentimento and Firebird

Oct. 19 to 20 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St. in Aventura. The Arts Ballet Theatre of FLorida kicks off its season with its tribute to the pentimento art form as well as the notorious “Firebird” by Stravinsky. Tickets: $25. Call 305-466-8002 or visit AventuraCenter.org.

Sons of the Prophet

Through 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.

Ruthless! The Musical

* Sensation: Ocean of White

Mamma Mia

The Big Show

Oct. 9 to Nov. 3 at the Actors Playhouse at the MIracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. A satirical musical about a girl’s yearning for stardom in today’s celebrity-obsessed world. Tickets $40. Call 305-444-9293 or visit ActorsPlayhouse.org.

Oct. 10 to 13 at the Adrienne Arsht Center, 1200 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The acclaimed musical with the tunes of ABBA will have you dancing in your seat. Tickets $26 to $96. Call 786-468-2000 or visit ArshtCenter.org.

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Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. A dance and electronic music show for guests 21 and older only; please wear all white. Tickets $175 to $279. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

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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Broward County * Mommy, I’m a Bastard!

Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Miramar Cultural Center, 2400 Civic Center Place in Miramar. A film about three families linked together through adoption, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Max Barbakow. Tickets $5. Call 954-602-4500 or visit MiramarCulturalCenter.com.

* Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Oct. 10 to 13 at the Classic Gateway Theater, 1820 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. A line up of 37 feature films, documentaries and short films from 10 different countries. Visit FLGLFF.com

* Breast Fest

Oct. 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. A talk from Dr. Nicholas Tranakas, exhibitors, photo booths, glitter booth, refreshments, video presentations and more.

Free. Call 954-463-9005.

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

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.

Palm Beach County Science of Wine & Beer

Oct. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North in West Palm Beach. Try food from local restaurants and taste craft beers and wines. Tickets $15 to $25. Call 561-8321988 or visit SFScienceCenter.org.

* Make-A-Wish Cocktail Reception

* Lantern Festival

* SNAPSHOT

Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition

Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. at Alpine Jaguar, 6606 N. Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Test drive a Jaguar F Type Roadster before enjoying cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. RSVP to Ceylan Grosso at 386-864-1507.

Through Oct. 23 at The Pride Center Room 206 Gallery, 2040 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors.

Twelve artists showcase LGBT life through their work.

Free. Email Steven Shires, steve@stevenshires.com

Sage Co-Ed Discussion Group

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 954-463-9005.

SOMOS

Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Latinos Salud Clubhouse, 2330 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Latino men 18 to 30 can make new friends with game nights, movies, karaoke and other activities. Free. Call 954-533-8681 or visit LatinosSalud.org.

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.

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Oct. 19 from 3 to 8 p.m. at Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road in Delray Beach. Float lanterns, play in the ennichi street fair, and eat and drink Japanese traditional food. Tickets $10 to $15. Call 561-495-0233.

Through 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 561297-2661 or visit FAU.edu/Galleries.

Miami-Dade County * Author Reading

Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave. in Coral Gables. Colin McPhillamy left behind Little Rock, Ark. for Beijing China and wrote about it in “An Actor Walks Into China.” He will be at the theater for a play reading.

Free. Call 305-446-1116 or visit GableStage.org.

Monster Masquerade

Oct. 19 from 8 p.m. to midnight at Zoo Miami, 12400 SW 152nd St. in Miami. A ghoulish party of costumes, haunted houses, music, food and drink to benefit Zoo Miami. Tickets $60 to $75. Call 305-255-5551 or visit ZooMiami.org.

Faces of Continuum

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

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.

SunServe Youth Group

HIV Support 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.

Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at South Beach AIDS Project, 1234 Washington Ave. Ste. 200 in Miami Beach. A support group for those who are HIV positive. Free. Call 305-535-4733, ext. 301 or email support@sobeaids.org.

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Broward County 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 GeorgiesAlibi.com.

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. Two-for-one Sunday dinner special. Valet parking in rear. Call 954-900-5217.

The Club Fort Lauderdale

110 NW Fifth St. in Fort Lauderdale. A gym oasis with a pool, steam room, hot tub and half-priced rooms on Tuesday nights and half-priced lockers on Thursdays. Call 954-525-3344 or visit TheClubs.com.

Johnny’s

1116 W. Broward Blvd in Fort Lauderdale. Sixty hot dancers with drink specials to make it even sweeter.

Call 954-522-5931 or visit JohnnysBarFLcom

The Manor

2345 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Dance club Friday and Saturday nights.Call 954-626-0082 or

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Naked Grape Wine Bar & Tapas 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 or visit NakedGrapeWineBar.com.

Rumors Bar & Grill

2426 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Come check out Rumors Bar & Grill. Call 954.565.8851 or visit rumorsbarwm.com

Sidelines Sports & Video 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.

Swinging Richards

1350 SW 2nd St, Pompano Beach, FL 33069. Fully nude male dancers for the best shows in the South.

Call 954-357-5521 or visit SwingingRichards.com.

Village Pub Wilton Manors

2283 Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. Never miss out on a happy hour, as the pub is serving up two-forone drinks Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, hit the dance floor with world class VJs. Call 754-200-5244.

Palm Beach County

Eros Lounge

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

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The Cottage 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.

727 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Located in the heart of South Beach with hot male dancers, Pop Fever Thursdays and Filthy Gorgeous parties Fridays.

Call 305-561-5521 or visit ScoreBar.net.

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Key West

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.

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

Club Space

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.

Discotekka

950 NE Second Ave. in Miami. Come on Saturday nights for some of the best DJs around. Call 305-3509084 or visit Discotekka.com.

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8201 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. Bingo Tuesdays and Born to be a Drag Fridays. Call 305-754-3444 or visit ErosLoungeMiami.com.

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1057 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. Multiple rooms to give you the music you want, muscle boy dancers, and never a cover. Call 305- 538-9478 or visit TwistSoBe.com.

801 Girls Cabaret

801 Duval St. in Key West. The island’s only daytime drag show. Call 305-923-9296 or visit 801Girls.com

Bottlecap Groove Lounge

1128 Simonton St. in Key West. Thursday pool tournaments and dance parties Friday and Saturday nights. Tips during Happy Hour on Fridays will benefit a different nonprofit every week. Call 305296-2807 or visit BottlecapKeyWest.com.

The Bourbon St. Pub

724 Duval St. in Key West. Get a taste of New Orleans with the best video bar with live DJs every night. Call 305-296-1992.

Club Aqua

711 Duval St. in Key West. Dueling bartenders on Mondays as they sing, shake and stir their way to victory. Call 305-294-0555 or visit AquaKeyWest.com.

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rent/lease ft. lauderdale 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

real estate for sale 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

rent/lease furnished 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.

Pets Welcome. Call Joe or Jack at(954) 9270090 or visit www.LibertySuites.com

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. $ 1275/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.

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

rent/lease pompano beach

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.

rent/lease west palm beach

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

rent/lease wilton manors

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

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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