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Florida Supreme Court Settles Lesbian Custody Battle The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who donated an egg to her lesbian partner has parental rights to the child and is ordering a lower court to work out custody, child support and visitation arrangements.

The case involves two women, identified only by their initials, who had a child together. One donated an

egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004.

But two years later the Brevard County couple split up, and the birth mother took the girl and left the country. The other woman, who identifies herself as the biological mother, used a private detective to find her former partner in Australia,

and a custody fight ensued.

The court wrote that the birth mother’s “preference that she parent the child alone is sadly similar to the views of all too many parents who, after separating, prefer to exclude the other parent in the child’s life.

The court added that “an allor-nothing choice between the two parents is not necessary.”

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endangering the welfare of a child and related charges.

Prosecutors say Branch allegedly lured males, ranging from their teens to late 20s, to his apartment and provided them, including at least one minor, narcotics, including cocaine, heroin and alcohol.

He then prostituted the

males to other male clients, who prosecutors say paid up to $200 for each sexual act.

Branch allegedly posted naked photos of the males on Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter to set up the encounters.

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to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all.”

The rapper has always courted controversy, and it’s not the first he’s attracted attention for gay epithets in his music. Eminem now is feeling the heat for the not at all gay friendly lyrics in “Rap God” from his eighth solo album, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” which came out Tuesday.

When Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt recently questioned Eminem as to “why, in 2013, use ‘f**got’ on that song (‘Rap God’)” and “why use ‘gay-looking’ as an insult” given that he has gone out of his way to say he has no problem with the gay community, the

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rapper attributed it to his hip-hop persona.

“I don’t know how to say this without saying it how I’ve said it a million times,” he said. “But that word, those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin’ or whatever, I never really equated those words . …”

To being a homosexual, Hiatt asked?

“Yeah,” he said. “It was more like calling someone a b**ch or a punk or a**hole. So that word was just thrown around so freely back then. It goes back to that battle, back and forth in my head, of wanting to feel free to say what I want to say, and then (worrying about) what may or may not affect people.”

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Eminem Uses Word ‘Faggot’ on New Album Eminem was a bit of a novelty when he burst on the music scene with his major-label debut album, “The Slim Shady LP,” in 1999.

One of the highest-profile white rappers not only to have major crossover success but also street cred, the artist born Marshall Mathers no longer has to deal as much with the issue of race in a music genre dominated by AfricanAmerican men. Instead, he is grappling with issues regarding another minority group.

“I poke fun at other people, myself,” Eminem recently told Rolling Stone magazine about using a slur against gay people in his rhymes. “But the real me sitting here right now talking

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Jersey Man Indicted for Male Prostitution Ring A Ventnor, N.J., man was indicted last week by a state grand jury on charges that he operated an all-male prostitution ring out of his apartment.

Marc Branch, 40, was indicted Oct. 31 on charges of human trafficking, aggravated sexual assault, engaging in prostitution with a minor, promoting prostitution,

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News Briefs +LGBT Casino Club Shuts Down in Atlantic City After two years in business, Pro Bar at Atlantic City’s Resorts Casino Hotel — the first-ever LGBT nightclub at a casino — shut down last week.

In a statement released by Resorts, the reason for the

shuttering was attributed to a decline in attendance at Pro Bar, as well as at the casino’s Piano Bar, which also closed this week.

“While the closure of the clubs was a necessary business decision

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priority, and we will put everything we’ve got into it,” O’Connor said, adding that he believes public opinion is opposed to discrimination against LGBT people.

St. Pete Pride 2014 to Feature Night Parade

There are a lot of changes coming to St. Pete Pride in 2014, and it’s in an effort to boost attendance, make festival-goers more comfortable and spread Pride throughout the last weekend in June.

The most notable change affects the parade, which shifts to an evening event on Saturday, June 28. The annual festival will continue the celebration on Sunday, June 30, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

“Parade goers will no longer have to compete for viewing space with exhibitor’s tents, making it easier to view the parade,” St. Pete Pride executive director Eric Skains said in a press release. “This allows for additional viewing spaces and we anticipate more elaborate parade entries as organizations will have more time to decorate and build their entry.”

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EU Court: Asylum For Gays

Refugees facing imprisonment in their home country because they are gay may have sufficient grounds to be granted asylum in the European Union, the 28-nation bloc’s top court ruled Thursday.

The existence of laws imprisoning homosexuals “may constitute an act of persecution per se” if they are routinely enforced, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice said.

A homosexual cannot be expected to conceal his sexual orientation in his home country to avoid persecution, since it would amount to renouncing a “characteristic fundamental to a person’s identity,” the court added.

International treaties say people must prove they have a “well-founded fear” of persecution for reasons of race, religion, ethnicity or political opinion if they are to obtain asylum.

The court said it will be up to Europe’s national authorities to determine whether

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“The property remains dedicated to the LGBT community and is working on new and exciting LGBT programming for 2014,” she added.

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the situation in an applicant’s home country amounts to persecution, especially whether homosexuals are indeed sentenced to prison terms there.

Some nations have laws against homosexuality but rarely enforce them.

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Opponents Push to Repeal CA Trans Law

Opponents of a new California law that gives transgender students certain rights said Sunday that they had collected enough signatures for an initiative that would repeal the law.

A coalition of conservative groups called Privacy for all Students submitted 620,000 signatures to get the initiative on the November 2014 ballot, said Frank Schubert, the political strategist handling the signature gathering effort.

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of the reviews, the group has the requisite number of valid signatures, the initiative would qualify for the ballot.

“Many people said we had no chance to collect over half a million signatures in just 90 days, but we have proven them wrong by gathering over 115,000 more signatures than the minimum needed,” Gina Gleason of the group Faith and Public Policy, said in a statement.

California is the first state to pass a law detailing the rights of transgender K-12 students.

One of the provisions gives transgender students the choice of playing on either boys or girls sports teams. It also allows them to choose which restroom that want to use.

The goal of the law is to reduce discrimination against transgender students.

John O’Connor, executive director of Equality California, the organization that co-sponsored the transgender student law, said he was alarmed by the initiative effort.

“Protecting this law is our number one

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This holiday season, hunger remains a serious problem in Broward County. Those going without food include children, our neighbors and in some cases, our coworkers. To some people, it may feel like the economy is rebounding, but many others still struggle to make ends meet. And that includes putting food on the table, especially as the cost of living continues to increase.

As Thanksgiving approaches, you will be asked to donate money, food and time to organizations throughout South Florida.

All of them help people in need. But The Poverello Center is unique.

For more than 25 years, Poverello has provided food and basic life essentials to nearly 2,500 youth, women and men living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses living at or below the poverty level.

According to the company, it is the only special needs food pantry in our area and one of the only ‘consumer choice’ pantries in the country.

“Our goal is that no indigent HIV client, especially the most needy go with out food,” said Arlie Smith, a volunteer with Poverello’s Development Department Staff.

Over the past few years, The Poverello Center has offered turkeys, stuffing, cranberries and other side dishes as part of a proper and nutritious holiday meal. While it would cost a family about $35 for this meal, The Poverello Center offers them for less – around $15 each.

This year, Poverello’s goal is to provide 2,000 holiday meals to families in need.

For more information visit www.Poverello. org and go to the Ways to Help button and click on Virtual Food Drive.

news highlight Gay Candidate for Miami Beach Mayor Loses Christiana Lilly

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Miami Beach went to the polls and elected Philip Levine as its next mayor with 50.49 percent of the vote.

Sitting Commissioner Michael Gongora, who would have been the city’s first openly gay mayor, came in second with 36.43 percent of the vote, according to the MiamiDade Supervisor of Elections. Voters came out in high numbers with 11,170 voting for a new mayor.

However, because Levine did not win with at least 50.5 percent of the vote, there was a recount, including provisional ballots, but Levine still came out a winner.

Steve Berke and Raphael Herman were two other contenders for the spot.

A practicing attorney, Gongora has served two terms as commission and sits on multiple committees and board with Miami Beach. One of his proudest moments was being the sponsor on a passing ordinance for tax equity for domestic partners.

“The best interest of Miami Beach remains my main concern,” Gongora wrote in an email blast. “In conceding the election, I asked Mr. Levine one thing: to always put

the interests of the residents first. I hope the new Mayor and Commission will strive for what is best for Miami Beach.”

Gongora’s term as commissioner will end November 25. He says he will focus on his law career and family. http://southfloridagaynews.com/articles/ michael-gongora-hopes-to-become-miamibeachs-first-openly-gay-mayor/125951

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Seattle Gets First Gay Mayor ...and Other Gay Candidate Results Lisa Keen

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Openly gay Washington State Senator Ed Murray won election Tuesday night to become Seattle’s first openly gay mayor.

Seattle is the 22nd most populous city in the nation. Murray, a Democrat, was running against incumbent Democratic Mayor Mike McGinn. The King County Elections unofficial returns showed Murray with 56 percent of the vote to McGinn’s 43 percent.

Media in Seattle characterized Murray as a politician willing to implement incremental plans to get approval for such measures as last year’s marriage equality law.

“The prolonged marriage battle is Murray’s model for how he would go about being mayor,” stated an article in Sunday’s Seattle Post Intelligencer. “He’s not big on symbolism.

He’s not into ‘lecturing and finger pointing.’

He never wants to go it alone.”

There was other good news for gay candidates last night. Houston’s lesbian Mayor Annise Parker’s bid for a third term was at the top of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund top 10 important “races to watch” Tuesday, and Parker won handily. According to the Harris County Elections Division, Parker took 57 percent of the vote against a field of eight challengers. Her closest challenger, another Democrat, Ben Hall, received only 28 percent. Because of term limits, this will be Parker’s last term as head of the fourth most populous city in the United States.

Another openly gay candidate, Michael Gongora, a city commissioner in heavily gay Miami Beach, Florida, appears to have come up a little short in his bid for the mayoral seat in that city. Gongora was one of four candidates running for the mayor’s seat and at deadline unofficial election results showed Gongora in second, with 37 percent of the 9,217 votes that had been tallied. Phillip Levine had 50.70 percent –just enough to avoid a run-off. (If no one candidates gets at least 50 percent of the vote, there will be a run-off on November 19.) Only 10 percent of registered voters turned out for the race.

Celia Israel was one of four candidates running in a special election to fill a vacant state representative seat from the Austin, Texas, area. According to Texas Elections Division information, Israel, treasurer of Stonewall Democrats of Austin, came in second with 32 percent of the vote, behind Mike VanDeWalle who garnered 40 percent.

Because no candidate received 50 percent of the vote, Israel and VanDeWalle will meet in a run-off next month.

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Incumbent New Jersey State Assemblyman Tim Eustace, a Democrat, ran for re-election to a second term as representative of District 38, in the northeast corner of the state. Eustace is a co-author of the New Jersey marriage equality bill that passed the Assembly last year. New Jersey election officials had not posted results last night but NJ.com showed early returns (11 percent reporting) with Eustace tied for third place, with 22 percent of the vote. The first and second-place candidates won only 29 percent and 27 percent respectively.

Incumbent Minneapolis City Council member Robert Lilligren was running for reelection to represent Ward 6. While the city’s elections division had not yet posted results last night, Lilligren, 53, appeared to be the second-highest vote getter, with 32 percent of the vote. Lilligren has served on the council since 2001. A residential property developer, he earned the endorsement of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Three openly gay people ran for seats on city councils: a newcomer, Darden Rice won a seat in St. Petersburg, Florida with 55 percent of the vote; and seeking re-election, LaWana Mayfield in Charlotte, North Carolina, won re-electoin with 77 percent of the vote; and Chris Seelbach in Cincinnati was the sixth top vote-getter out of 21 candidates for nine seats.

The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund also endorsed Catherine LaFond for a seat on the Water System Commission of Charleston, South Carolina.

And early indications are that Catherine LaFond has won the right to a run-off for a seat on the Water System Commission of Charleston, South Carolina. The Victory Fund says that, if she’s elected, she will be the first person to run and win as an openly LGBT candidate.

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Sobel: GOP get on board or be left behind Senator continues fight for equality; to be honored by Equality Florida Sunday John McDonald In the Atlanta airport waiting for a late night flight back to her district, Senator Eleanor Sobel lamented the current living conditions for LGBT Floridians.

“Why would any gay person want to come to Florida?” said Sobel, a Democrat who represents Southeast Broward County in the Florida Senate.

It’s a puzzling question. Unlike most states in the North, West Coast and developed countries across Europe, Florida lags behind in LGBT rights and protections. The state constitution bans same-sex marriage and it’s still legal for employees to be fired based on sexual orientation. Sobel, a Brooklyn native, plans to remedy these problems by introducing a domestic partner bill in the upcoming session.

“We have to do this,” she said.

“The laws we have now are hurting us economically.”

For committed gay and lesbian couples, under current law, Florida offers no statewide protections.

Instead, across the state, there are a Senator Eleanor Sobel patchwork of laws in municipalities Photo courtesy of Eleanor Sobel and counties offering some form of Sobel will be honored for her work Sunday domestic partnership benefits.

Equality Florida, the state’s largest LGBT night at Equality Florida’s Broward Gala, civil rights organization, estimates 8.8 million receiving the organization’s 2013 Voice of people live in communities that recognize Equality Award. A crowd of 400, including domestic partnerships. That makes Florida 50 elected officials, are expected to attend the gala at Fort Lauderdale’s Hyatt Regency fifth in the nation in domestic partnerships.

Also according to Equality Florida, Broward Pier Sixty-Six. The Broward County School District County, Broward County Community College, Broward County School District, Broward will also be honored at the gala with County Sheriff’s Office and the municipalities Superintendent Robert W. Runcie of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miramar and accepting on the district’s behalf and Wilton Manors all provide domestic partner students from several Gay-Straight Alliances are expected to attend. Broward benefits for their employees.

Sobel said, convincing Republicans, Schools have been pioneers in Florida who control the state House and Senate, to in terms of diversity and inclusion, come on board for full equality is crucial in said Equality Florida Deputy Director Stratton Pollitzer, citing the district’s establishing uniform statewide laws.

“They (Republicans) have to realize this is anti-bullying regulations.

The gala, a three-hour soiree inside a the civil rights issue of our time,” she said.

“Attitudes are changing and there is a big panoramic ballroom and waterfront terrace, cultural shift occurring in our country and represents 20 percent of Equality Florida’s Republicans have to decide if they will be a fundraising efforts this year.

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news local Magic dedicates World AIDS Museum Basketball legend continues fight against disease John McDonald

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Known throughout his career as an assist leader, Earvin “Magic” Johnson delivered yet again, this time with an inspiring message in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Johnson, 54, a legendary basketball player now business mogul, arrived in South Florida last week for the dedication of the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center.

“We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re making great strides and this museum will help,” Johnson said. “We have to continue to work together to drive down the numbers and change the way society thinks about HIV/AIDS.” The number of new infections in Broward County is one of the highest in the nation.

With so many people in South Florida affected by the disease, a museum is a great way to raise awareness and decrease stigma, said its president and CEO, Steve Stagon.

“Stigma is one of the issues we want to deal with,” Stagon said. “Stigma can be worse than the disease itself because it keeps people from getting better.”

On the 21-year anniversary of when he announced to the world he had tested positive for HIV, Johnson described to the small and exclusive audience just how times have changed.

“I took 15 pills three times a day,” Johnson said about his initial diagnosis. “They said I needed that because I was a big man so my size worked against me. Now it’s pills once a day so I’m happy about the advancement of medicine.”

The World AIDS Museum at 1201 Northeast 26th Street, Suite 111, is scheduled

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to open early next spring, said board chairman Hugh Beswick, and will feature a timeline of important events and milestones along with a virtual quilt of stories from survivors, activists and family members of those lost to the disease. The United States government estimates more than 25 million people worldwide have died from AIDS since the first cases were reported in 1981.

At the dedication ceremony, Johnson spoke about his son EJ who had recently come out as gay and how he and his wife Cookie were glad to have the conversation.

“We knew he was gay,” Johnson said.

“And we told him we still loved him and always would.” Johnson was a dominating presence on the basketball court. The 6-foot-9 point guard led Michigan State University to the 1979 NCAA championship and went on win four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers before retiring early upon contracting HIV. He presented the museum with an authentic Lakers jersey No. 32 from his playing days, joking “I know it’s not the Heat, but it’s the best I can do.” Johnson has continued his successful ways in business and advocacy.

He is currently a strategic partner with Clear Health Alliance, a first of its kind Medicaid plan serving 1,500 members in 12 Florida counties. He stressed the importance of getting tested and for society to stop discrimination against people living with the disease.

“Magic is so courageous,” Stagon said.

“He’s an inspiration for everybody.”

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Post-DOMA Strategies Our Fund hosts LGBT leadership forum Tony Adams

Act,) Rea Carey said, “In some ways, it’s ‘A lot and nothing.’

We are in celebration mode but we are also in morningafter mode, wondering what the impact of our victories will really mean for us. We need to educate ourselves about the particulars of our victories.

I am concerned that some people will think that we are finished fighting for equality.

A lot of people around the country are wondering ‘What’s next?’”

Rubin noted that 37 percent of all Americans now live in states where same-sex marriage in legal. He asked Cathcart and Paul Smith how Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale where the forum and recpetion is held. they will approach those Photo courtesy of Steven Brooke from moafl.org states that have constitutional amendments that ban sameOur Fund, a foundation connecting the sex marriage.

Cathcart replied, “Most of the LGBT community, hosted the third annual activity will be in the courts.

There are 39 “National LGBT Leadership Forum and Reception” Monday, November 11, 2013 at cases in 21 states going on right now. Some of them are good and some of them are less the Horvitz Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale.

Moderator Lee Rubin directed four very strategic than others.”

Rubin asked Carey and Nadine Smith optimistic panelists in commentary about the forum’s theme: “Strategy after Supreme about the timeline for marriage equality Decision – Steps towards full equality after in Florida. Smith said, “We see that our DOMA.” The panelists were Kevin Cathcart, best path to marriage equality in Florida is Executive Director of Lambda Legal since through the courts. That is a more effective 1992, Rea Carey, Executive director of The route than through the legislature.” She National Gay and Lesbian Task Force since received applause when she said, “We 2008, Paul M. Smith, law partner in Jenner have learned that this initiative must be a & Block, Washington, DC and chair of the conversation about love stories. Personal firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice, stories about same-sex couples and families and Nadine Smith, Executive Director of are the way to win rights. Surprisingly, Florida leads the deep south in pro-marriage Equality Florida since its inception in 1997.

Rubin began the evening with a question equality opinion.”

Carey echoed Smith when asked what she directed to Nadine Smith about the increase is seeing in other states. “It’s the coming out in numbers of athletes who are coming out that changed everything.” Smith continued, and the parallel phenomenon of straight “The next wave after we win equality will athlete allies. How are they changing our culture? Smith replied that “out” athletes be the struggle to win personal happiness. and straight allies are emblematic of the They are two different things. Just because times in which we live. They are among the you have the right to marry doesn’t mean many who see LGBT rights as “the defining you can safely place your wedding picture on your desk at work.” issue of our generation.”

When asked about the fact that other gay When asked by Rubin to talk about what destination states like New York are eating has really changed for the LGBT community Florida’s lunch in terms of gay tourism in the past year, given all that has happened with the fall of DOMA (Defense of Marriage dollars not coming into Florida’s economy, Smith confirmed that the statistics¬¬ – $296

million into New York’s coffers because of marriage equality¬ versus zero into Florida¬ – will be a big part of the strategy to bring marriage equality to Florida. Local businesses understand the benefits, but packaging honeymoon specials for couples that have to get married elsewhere is not enough.

When asked what she thinks the impact of Charlie Crist (who has announced his candidacy for governor of Florida and has changed his position on marriage equality) will be on Florida public opinion about marriage equality in the coming year, Smith said, “The premise that people can change their minds is not only acceptable but key to the process of obtaining equality. Charlie Crist may be good for our cause, and I am glad for his support.”

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PBC Human Rights Council Denise Royal

Since 1988, the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council has been working with the sole purpose of changing laws and policies to provide equal treatment and equal benefits for the local LGBT community. The group’s silver anniversary will be celebrated on November 19 at The Four Seasons Resort, Palm Beach.

Thanks to West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio, November 19, 2013 has been proclaimed as Palm Beach County Human Right’s Council Day in WPB. Ross W. W. Meltzer and Victor M. Figueredo will chair the festivities at the Four Seasons.

“It has been an exceptional year,” said Figueredo, “we are happy to be celebrating the efforts for our county as well as national milestones.”

This year, there is a lot to celebrate.

Nationally, the reversal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the IRS allowing federal tax returns for LGBT couples provided dramatic progress. Locally, the advancements continue with both Boca Raton and the town of Palm Beach voting to extend the full range of domestic partnership benefits to its municipal employees. In addition, Palm Beach Gardens City Council voted unanimously to offer health insurance benefits to municipal employees’ domestic partners and their dependent children.

For 25 years, the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council has worked diligently with public officials to successfully enact more than 60 local laws and policies that provide equal protection and benefits to Palm Beach County’s LGBT community. The group has played a visible role in local politics – from early in its existence. In 1990, it helped pave the way for a fair housing ordinance that protected LGB residents, the oldest gay rights law on the books in Florida.

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A Timeline of Gay Rights 1990

PBC amends it’s Fair Housing Ordinance to protect LBT individuals from discrimination in housing, financing for housing, and in public accommodations.

(The law is the oldest gay rights law currently in effect in Florida). PBC becomes the first public employer in Florida to amend the County’s Affirmative Action Plan to protect gay and lesbian county employees from discrimination in hiring and employment. PBC Anti-Violence Project is established by the PBCHRC to work with law enforcement and the LGBT community to combat an increase in gay bashing in the county. West Palm Beach includes LGBT issues in its diversity training for law enforcement officers and other municipal employees.

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1988

The PBC Human Rights Council (PBCHRC) is founded to work towards ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

1988

West Palm enacts an Equal Opportunity Ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private and public employment, housing and public accommodation.

2000

John L. Stryker, part-time Palm Beacher and philanthropist, establishes the Arcus Foundation, the world’s leading foundation funding organizations worldwide working to advance LGBT equality.

1996

Lake Park enacts an Equal Opportunity/Minority and Women Business Enterprises Ordinance, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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1989

The PBC Human Rights Council begins an educational campaign on bias against gay men and lesbians in housing in PBC.

West Palm becomes the first public employer in Florida to provide domestic partnership benefits for municipal employees. Compass, the successor of the Stop AIDS Project, is formed as the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of the Palm Beaches. The first PrideFest is held at the Armory Center in West Palm.

1991

West Palm becomes the first public employer in Florida to enact an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in public employment.

West Palm reverses an initial denial by the Zoning Board of a license for The Backdoor Bookstore, a lesbian owned business geared to the LGBT community. The short-lived bookstore becomes the unofficial LGBT community center in the county.

West Palm, Boynton Beach and Riviera Beach adopt a policy prohibiting the use of any public funds for organizations or facilities, which discriminate on the basis of several protected classes, including sexual orientation.

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Atlantis adds sexual orientation to its Police Department’s Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace Policy.

1995

Voters in West Palm overwhelmingly reject the effort to repeal the Equal Opportunity Ordinance by a margin of 56 percent to 43 percent. West Palm becomes the first jurisdiction in Florida to withstand a repeal effort by popular vote.

2002

The PBC Sheriffs’ Office offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

The PBC Board of County Commissioners amends the County’s Equal Employment Ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on marital status and sexual orientation.

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2003

West Palm extends lifetime health insurance benefits to the surviving domestic partner of any city employee killed in the line of duty. The PBC School Board adopts a policy to protect students against harassment based on actual or perceived sexual orientation.

Lake Worth amends the city’s Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

2005

West Palm Beach establishes a Domestic Partnership Registry. The Pride Business Alliance, a local gay chamber of commerce, is established.

Belle Glade adds sexual orientation to its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.

West Palm amends its Equal Opportunity Ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression in private and public employment, housing and public accommodation. Lake Worth amends the city’s Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression.

Jupiter, the Health Care District of PBC and the Solid Waste Authority offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

Juno Beach revises its non-discrimination and harassment awareness policies to include sexual orientation and revises the definition of “immediate family” with regard to bereavement leave to include an employee’s “significant other.” Hypoluxo and the Solid Waste Authority add sexual orientation to their non-discrimination policy. The PBC Sheriff’s Office adds sexual orientation and marital status to its nondiscrimination policy. family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

PBC amends its Equal Employment Ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression.

Tequesta enacts comprehensive policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Royal Palm Beach amends its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and its Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The PBC Bar Association adopts and LGBT inclusive anti-discrimination policy, becoming the first County bar association in Florida to do so. Palm Beach Gardens City Council implements basic domestic partner benefits for city employees.

2010

The PBC School Board revises the District’s nondiscrimination policies to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Wellington plays host to the world’s first international gay polo tournament.

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The Office of the Clerk and Comptroller offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

The Office of the Supervisor of Elections becomes the first local public employer to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression. The Port of Palm Beach offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

Lake Worth offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. The PBC Property Appraiser offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

2006

Belle Glade enacts a Special Event Permit Ordinance specifically prohibiting discrimination based on “sexual orientation or gender related grounds.” PBC offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. The School District of PBC offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. The Office of the Supervisor of Elections offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

The Office of the Tax Collector revises its non-discrimination policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Office of the Tax Collector offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. PBC establishes a Domestic Partnership Registry. Delray Beach offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. The PBC School Board adopts a Commercial Nondiscrimination Policy, which prohibits the School District from doing business with firms, which discriminate on the basis sexual orientation. The Board of Trustees of Florida Atlantic University trustees adopts an AntiDiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Regulation covering all classes protected by law, which protect LBT individuals at FAU’s Palm Beach and Broward campuses but not their northern campuses. West Palm extends health insurance continuation coverage (COBRA) to city employees with domestic partners. Palm Tran offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. soflagaynews //

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Palm Beach Community College offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners.

The PBC School Board expands the definition of “family” in the School District’s Leave of Absence policy to include employees’ domestic partners and their children. The PBC School Board includes sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as protected classes in a comprehensive policy protecting students against bullying and harassment.

BLAST (Bi, Lesbian and Straight Together) Women of West Palm Beach is founded. The PBC Office of Equal Opportunity rules that the School District has discriminated against employees with domestic partners by charging them higher health insurance premiums than married couples must pay.

2009

The PBC Children’s Services Council offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. Susan Stanton, a transsexual woman is hired to serve Lake Worth City Manager. The School District of PBC includes the children of employees’ domestic partners as eligible dependents for health insurance coverage.

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2010

The PBC School Board revises the District’s nondiscrimination policies to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Wellington plays host to the world’s first international gay polo tournament.

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2012

Delray Beach and the county Office of the Clerk and Comptroller revise their Family Medical Leave Policy to provide the same benefits to families based on domestic partnerships as are provided to families based on legally recognized marriages. PBC amends its non-discrimination in Contracting Policy to include gender identity or expression.

The West Palm Beach Housing Authority adds gender identity or expression to its nondiscrimination policy.

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2011

Wellington offers family health insurance coverage for employees with domestic partners. The city also amends their non-discrimination policies to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

The Boca Raton City Council unanimously votes to opt-out of the PBC Equal Employment Ordinance, leaving LGBT workers’ in Boca Raton with no legal recourse in cases of employment discrimination. The Office of the State Attorney revises its Harassment Policy to include gender identity or expression.

Palm Beach County, the City of West Palm, the Office of the State Attorney and the Office of the Public Defender revise their respective Family Medical Leave Policies to provide the same benefits to families based on domestic partnerships as are provided to families based on legally recognized marriages.

The Board of Trustees of Florida Atlantic University adds sexual orientation to the school’s Anti-Discrimination and AntiHarassment Regulation.

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Palm Beach County, the City of West Palm Beach, Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits, and Constitutional Tax Collector Anne Gannon all implement a tax equity policy to offset the additional federal income taxes which is assessed on employees whose domestic partners receive health insurance through their employers.

The Town of South Palm Beach adds “sexual orientation” and “any other legally protected status” to the Town’s nondiscrimination statement.

The PBC Solid Waste Authority adds gender identity or expression to its nondiscrimination policy. The City of Delray Beach updates its policy against discrimination, harassment and bullying to include both “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression.”

Florida Atlantic University offers a domestic partnership stipend to university employees and allows employees to use sick leave to care for their domestic partners. The Palm Beach Town Council votes to implement the full range of domestic partnership benefits for Town employees.

The City of Boca Raton amends its personnel rules and regulations to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

The City of Boca Raton extends the jurisdiction of the Community Relations Board to include the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents. The City of Boca Raton extends the full range of domestic partnership benefits to its municipal employees.

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Rand Hoch founded the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council in 1988 and served as the organization’s President until 1992. Rand resumed his service on the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council in 2002 and was again elected president in 2006.

Jessica Blackman

Ms. Blackman is currently a member of the Florida Bar, Young Lawyers and the Workers’ Compensation Section. She is also an active member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and an Executive Board Member of its Young Lawyers Section, as well as being on the Board of Directors for the Treasure Coast section of the Friends of 440 Scholarship Fund and the Palm Beach County Human Rights Counsel.

Rae Franks

Rae Franks has practiced law in West Palm Beach since 1985.

As a board member of the Human Rights Council, Rae became actively involved with the drafting of the City of West Palm Beach’s Human Rights Ordinance, and its subsequent winning battle in the court and in the referendum challenge. Rae is currently the Chair of the Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity/Fair Housing Board, a member of the City of West Palm Beach Zoning Appeals Board, and Secretary of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.

Dan Hall

Treasurer Dan Hall is an attorney, and runs a financial counseling company. He has three grown children and lives in West Palm Beach.

Peter Cava

Jamie Foreman

Peter Cava is an adjunct instructor in Florida Atlantic University’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

As an instructor, Peter developed FAU’s first course in Transgender Studies. Peter is also a Ph.D. candidate in FAU’s Public Intellectuals Program (with a concentration in Feminism, Gender and Sexuality) and the treasurer of FAU’s Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association.

Jamie Todd Foreman relocated to Palm Beach County in 1997 to serve a three-year term as staff attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit of Florida. He is currently an attorney and legal research consultant for West Group and resides in College Park.

Matthew McWatters

Matthew McWatters has served as Secretary of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party from 2006-2008, as well as Vice President of the Palm Beach County Young Democrats from 2005-2009 and President from 20092011. Matthew currently serves as Legislative Director of Palm Beach County National Organization for Women, of which he was elected in 2011. Matthew lives in North Palm Beach with his partner, Jeff, their dog, Bella, and their two cats, Laertes and Ophelia.

James Paul Sasser

J.P., a second generation Florida Cracker, and served as the Mayor of the City of Pahokee. He was first elected to office in 2002.

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Pot Smokers Finally See the Rainbow When 64 percent of the voters in Miami Beach in a straw ballot said they would support medical marijuana last week, it was no surprise.

Pot smokers may not wear rainbow flags, but they have finally come out of the closet.

For forty years, since early in the 1970’s, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has been fighting to change repressive and regressive laws

against the responsible use of cannabis by consenting adults.

The truth is that the ‘war on drugs’ was never a war on drugs. It was a war on good and decent people, whose only crime was smoking a joint at the end of the day.

Most Americans have always known that the horror stories about pot consumption were delusional hallucinations thrown upon us by cowardly politicians who were

afraid to be seen as ‘soft on dope.’ Today, though, cannabis consumers realize they can trust their own experiences more than the government’s forked tongues.

In 20 states where citizens have been asked if they want pot to be decriminalized, they have resoundingly said ‘yes.’ Current Gallop polls in fact have showed that a majority of nearly 60 percent of Americans want pot legalized.

It isn’t because we are all stoners, though many of us are. It is because we as Americans are fed up and disgusted with the lies and laws our legislators have passed and prosecuted. Over four decades, we have empowered our government to enact draconian measures that have compromised our civil liberties and sacrificed common sense. We are fighting back, against spying, surveillance and stupidity.

While we were too complacent or silent, our leaders have ratified statutes allowing for our sons and daughters to be jailed, our cars to be seized, and our scholarships to be forfeited. In certain places, moms and dads can still lose custody of their kids because they are caught smoking pot. It is an outrage and injustice Americans can no longer endure or countenance.

Today, from Miami Beach to Maine, from Seattle to South Florida, we are saying ‘Free the Leaf.’ It’s not just to get high. There are valid medical and curative reasons to support normalizing marijuana.

Thousands of Americans who were living with HIV learned years ago that medical cannabis inhibited a ‘wasting away’ syndrome and enhanced their appetite.

Others, like Elvy Mussika, a grandmother from Hollywood, Florida, found out smoking marijuana alleviated her blinding glaucoma.

She now actually gets pot monthly from the

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DEA, cultivated at a government-controlled grow house in Mississippi.

Scientists in Israel have discovered cannabis can control muscular spasticity and arthritic conditions amongst the elderly. One housewife in Manatee County, Cathy Jordan, has grown and used cannabis for a quarter of a century to combat Lou Gehrig’s disease. Acknowledging her use is a ‘life-saving condition,’ an enlightened prosecutor has declined to prosecute her.

Those of us who smoked joints watching Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix in the 1960’s are now in our 60’s. We have seen pharmaceutical companies overdose us with a sea of prescription pills that have led to unanticipated consequences and multimillion dollar class action lawsuits. None of us has ever died from weed, but we have all been victims of the war against it.

As we approach an age of decriminalization and even legalization, let me just say ‘welcome.’

If you support reform now, and you have not before, thanks for joining a good cause.

In Florida, an effort has been launched to place medical marijuana on next year’s ballot as a constitutional amendment. If the signature requirements are met, you will get to vote on it. Like every other state where people vote on cannabis, it will pass overwhelmingly, with bipartisan support in both red and blue counties. Pot has only one party.

Support those communities that want to legalize and medicalize cannabis, and you will be on the right side of history, part of a community wrongfully denied a voice and now, finally, after all these years, rightfully being recognized.

Norm Kent, a Fort Lauderdale attorney, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NORML, and the publisher of South Florida Gay News.

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The Faces of Change SFGN Staff Last week the U.S. Senate finally passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which was originally introduced in 1994. It took a bipartisan effort in order to finally pass it with 10 republicans voting in favor, two of which, John McCain and Orrin Hatch, previously voted against the bill. SFGN salutes those Republican senators who decided equality is more important than politics and that no person should be fired based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Christopher Reina is doing a five-year sentence in federal prison. In his writing he shares how he is surviving prison life as a gay inmate. Chris is paying it forward by donating his compensation for this column to The Pet Project, an organization near and dear to his heart.

Entry 3: Nov. 13, 2013 So, I have a confession to make. My recent legal trouble is not my first. I have in fact been arrested on prior occasions. Once for driving on a suspended license, twice for possession of meth, and twice for drug-induced mutual combat occurring in a chemically imbalanced relationship. I received a fine for the driving violation. The drug charges, six months apart, resulted in probation, and the domestic violence charges were dropped.

It’s embarrassing information to own up to,

but there you have it. What’s the worst that could come from making it known, a few less Christmas cards this year? Regardless, it’s all a matter of public record, and all a part of the unmanageability of life that comes with addiction, that, and being exceedingly unlucky.

What it all boils down to is that I have learned the ABC’s of getting arrested. Have you ever gotten high, or drank too much at a bar or party and driven home? Ever miss a court date? Ever hit your boyfriend or girlfriend back because he or she hit you first? Then let me share a few helpful tips with you, just in case.

If you are stopped or questioned by the police, do what the cops order you to do. If you are handcuffed, chances are good that you are going to jail. Do not run or try to resist. Do not admit to any wrongdoing, and do not lie to the police.

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Keep your mouth shut. Do not give cops permission to search your vehicle, home, or person under any circumstances. If you feel like crying, do it on the way to the jail. Get it out of your system. If you own pets, do everything in your power to make sure there is someone on the outside who can take care of them. This is an excellent idea for any pet owner, regardless of the nature of an unexpected incapacitation.

Otherwise, the police may have no other option than to call animal control.

When you get to jail, do not expect that your mug shot will be anything but hideous.

Expect to freeze your ass off in the holding cell while you await processing, which can take up to eight hours. Do not bother asking when you can make your free phone call or what time your bond will be posted. Doing so will only antagonize an already hostile jail staff. Even if you make bail relatively early, expect to be detained for 12 to 18 hours. Do grab a seat on the bench in your holding cell as at some point it will likely become standing room only.

Do not discuss your case with anyone except your attorney. Words can come back to haunt you. If you need a cover story for the nosy Parker sitting next to you, make up something benign. Conversely, do not ask another inmate why they were arrested.

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Keep in mind that the phones are monitored.

When you are processed, do not admit to being suicidal at that moment or at any time in the past. If you are fairly certain that you will be released relatively quickly, do not admit to taking psych meds. Trust me, you will not like where you end up. If you need to take HIV meds or the need for psych meds is urgent, tell the intake nurse. Educate yourself on the names and dosages of any medications you are taking.

If you end up being moved into the general or even the protective custody population, keep your head down and your eyes open.

Avoiding asking other inmates for favors like placing 3-way calls for you or passing messages along to someone on the outside.

Favors in jail are often tit for tat and you may not like their terms. If you inadvertently step into another inmate’s personal space, always excuse yourself. Jail culture is very keen on matters of respect. However, unless you really messed up like I did, you will eventually be released, at which point you will no doubt tell yourself that you will never take sweet freedom for granted again. Better yet, save yourself the trouble and don’t break the law in the first place.

Next time: Life goes on on the outside. Till then, stay safe everybody. #50095-004

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Have you seen the new Red Zone at BB&T center lately? It’s a great way to watch a Florida Panthers game or concert, with amazing views, personal amenities, and great sound. It is also the place where you can catch Barry Manilow. The legendary singer will bring his tour to Fort Lauderdale on Friday, January 17, 2014 – a great way to start the New Year with your friends.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Barry Manilow to the BB&T Center,” said VP of Event Programming Kevin Grove. “He is one of the greatest contemporary artists in the world, who is sure to bring an amazing performance to his South Florida fans.”

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“O Canada! In Praise of Thee”

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Last month I attended my first federally recognized same-sex marriage. In Canada. Our two friends, Steve Berridge (Canadian) and Trevor Lavelle (US Citizen) got married on the outskirts of Montreal in front of friends and families who made the journey from all corners of the U.S. and Canada.

On July 20, 2005, Canada became the first country, outside of Europe, to legalize samesex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which provided a gender-neutral marriage definition. Court decisions, starting in 2003, had already legalized same-sex marriage in eight out of ten provinces and one of three territories, whose residents comprised about 90% of Canada’s population. Before passage of the Act, more than 3,000 same-sex couples had already married in those areas. Most legal benefits commonly associated with marriage had been extended to cohabiting same-sex couples since 1999.

The Civil Marriage Act was introduced

by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal minority government in the Canadian House of Commons on February 1, 2005 as Bill C-38. It was passed by the House of Commons on June 28, 2005, by the Senate on July 19, 2005, and it received Royal Assent the following day. On December 7, 2006, the House of Commons effectively reaffirmed the legislation by a vote of 175 to 123, defeating a motion of the Conservative minority government to examine the matter again. This was the third vote supporting same-sex marriage taken by three Parliaments under three Prime Ministers in three different years.

In the US, talk of same-sex marriage still sends Republicans, the Crazy Christers and the right wing media into bizarre three ring circuses, peppered with predictions of Armageddon, the exact date and place of the incoming Rapture complete with assorted Fox News reporters having apoplectic attacks. Glenn Beck, Anne Coulter and Rush are constantly on the verge of nervous breakdowns or multiple strokes. If only.

Meanwhile north of the border the rumored lesbianism of Lauren Harper, Canada’s First Lady, hardly raises a well groomed eyebrow.

Something that in the US would be rehashed daily “a-la- Benghazi”.

Furthermore, the sky over Canada is still blue on any given day and it was shimmering and sparkling when our friends Trevor

Canada is like your attic, you forget that it’s up there, but when you go, it’s like “Oh man, look at all this great shit!”

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Two men dressed in faux Royal Canadian Mounted Police costumes celebrate their wedding.

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and Steve tied the knot. The wedding was officiated with flair, charm and humor, by their friend Me. Sylvie Bouegeois, attorney at law.

In Québec anyone can officiate at a wedding. All you have to do is fill out a form and send it in to the government. You get a confirmation that you are authorized to marry two specific people at a specific place, at a specific time on a specific date.

No changes allowed. I know of a same-sex wedding where the father of one of the grooms did it.

As they exchanged their “ I DO” I scanned the room, I expected to see the straight married couples frantically dialing the Mounted Police to come defend and save their marriages. But nothing happened. Fire and brimstone did not rain on us either and then I realized I was in a civilized country.

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When we landed in Montreal we were given the customary immigration control card but this was different from any other I ever filled out. It allows for two people who reside at the same address to complete it as a couple regardless of gender, family name or marital status. The custom officer looked at the two of us, stamped our passports and greeted us with a cheerful: “ Bienvenu a Montreal” . I turned to my partner and said:” this is what the world should be like”.

Canada is one of the freest countries in the world, it has managed to create harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, there is a strong desire to unite, not to bicker and divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; not forgetting the past but welcoming the future and changes associated with it without fear.

We instead continue to elect, and parade on every talk show , politicians who are stubbornly negative, regressive, seeking to

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block, delay, stall and filibuster, with shrill rhetoric, measures that with time eventually become, no matter what, law of the land.

Politicians stuck in a time warp, who blindly toe the party line, like the Politburo of old, the people and the country be damned.

Neanderthal political “dysfunctionality” is becoming the symbol of our nation slowly replacing the Statue of Liberty and what it stands for.

How can two nations who have shared a symbiotic relationship for hundreds of years, a 5,525 miles border, with almost the same ethnic founding fathers and deep cultural similarities become so different? After all we look alike and speak (mostly) the same language. I guess the best way to describe the dichotomy in a nutshell is that a Canadian is an American without guns, with health care, well adjusted and with same-sex marriage on top of that. Our northern neighbors have much to teach, and if we are willing to listen, they may teach us, because as a nation, we still have much to learn.

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Inside Charles L. Ross’ New Novel Fort Lauderdale resident Charles L. Ross (known locally for the gallery he endowed at the National Stonewall Museum and Archives) has written a steamy novel about power, arrogance, vanity and sex behind the pages of a glamorous shelter magazine.

INSIDE is the title of his novel and the name of the magazine.

If you liked The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll love Ross’ novel as it cat-claws its way through the refined fabric of a business upholstered with treacherous and wealthy publishers, paranoid and lonely editors, and drug/sex obsessed gay designers, photographers and their cute assistants.

Does this sound like Barbie’s Dream House?

Not really; Ross’ novel is less a fairy tale and more a “Fairy Tell” because as art director of Architectural Digest 1978-1985 (the time setting of the novel,) his personal experience tracks that of Anthony Dimora, the character

at the center of INSIDE’s action. Ross, who was profiled in the May 30, 2010 issue of South Florida Gay News (http://southfloridagaynews. com/articles/the-fairy-tale-life-of-charles-lross/101309,) won’t say how much of INSIDE is real and how much is imaginary.

When pressed, he says, “It’s a novel.

Many people want to know what’s real, but not knowing makes it fun. There are things in the novel that likely no one will notice but they amused me when writing it; for example, Anthony Dimora’s initials. And dimora means home in Italian.”

When I questioned Ross about INSIDE, he was candid in his responses.

I’m guessing you wrote INSIDE because you felt you had a story to tell; an insider’s view of an industry that you knew well. Right?

When people find out I worked at Architectural Digest, they express interest in going behind the scenes, so that was part of the motivation to write INSIDE. In a story like this, the reader can enjoy the goings on when there is at least one likable character. In INSIDE, there is exactly one likable character: Anthony. Was the industry really that nasty?

I think there’s more than one likable character. Leaf is not one-dimensional; she’s sad, and I think some readers will feel sympathetic toward her at least some of the time. Isn’t Raymond likable? What about Cole and Mark, the photographer?

Leaf [the editor] is perhaps the most colorful character, but there are also Timmy [the assistant], Cole [the wealthy boy-toy] and Anthony himself who vie for the reader’s attention. It’s hard to think of Raymond as likable just because he has an enormous penis, although I admire his generosity with it. By the end, I wondered what the book was really about. The vendetta of Leaf? The romantic life of Anthony? The way Anthony threads his way carefully through the treacherous minefield of his chosen profession? The way that profession is governed by “The Gay” except at the very top where straight people control the real direction of the magazine and the real flow of money?

Andrew Holleran, who graciously read an early draft, said Anthony’s inner thoughts weren’t on the page, so I worked on that aspect—and it changed the book;

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it became equally about Leaf and Anthony, whereas before it was mainly about her. But I think Andrew saying it’s “a biography of a magazine” is accurate.

The designers come off as a nasty brood of gossipy silly queens who can tell you where to put a vase or how to photograph it, but not much more. Is this an intentional condemnation of the class?

In 1980 I was interviewed in The Advocate.

Some people thought I was hard on gay designers, but that’s the way I saw the ones I knew. I think you’re wrong to say they knew how to photograph a vase. Most of them just got in the way during a photo shoot. They really were interested in “disco and dish.” Sadly, many of those men died because of AIDS. How would you feel if a reviewer said “The book vacillates between an account of Anthony’s career and his sex/romantic life, with the career ultimately taking first place.”

I agree the career came first. I had two lovers during my ten years at the magazine— but neither one of them are in this book.

You wrote some good sex scenes...drawing on personal experience?

I repeat: It’s a novel. But I’m not ashamed to admit I did go to the baths and Griffith Park.

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How do you feel about your time at Architectural Digest? Are you proud of your professional demeanor? Are there things you would change about how you behaved in the workplace?

I am proud of what I accomplished at AD. Until I got involved, it seldom went to the press on time, so I’m proud of not only the way the magazine looked but also how I reorganized it to run smoothly. As for wished-for changes in my behavior, I was rather naive and foolishly believed what people told me. I’ve since learned that most people lie.

This book will make a terrific movie. Let’s cast it! Cole? Anthony? Leaf? Timmy?

Raymond?

I envision a miniseries. When I first started writing the book—30 years ago!—I envisioned Shirley MacLaine as Leaf. Now I see Julianne Moore. Can Ryan Kwanten pass for a 17-year-old Cole? For Anthony, I have my heart set on Zachary Quinto.

I agree with Ross’s casting choices (adding Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Timmy) but I suggest you not wait for the possibility of a miniseries. INSIDE is a delicious book. It’s available in print or for Kindle at www.amazon.com/ Inside-Charles-L-Ross/dp/1492237108/

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‘Nobody Said’

Aiden Leslie makes splash with new single Gary M. Kramer garyk@att.net

Aiden Leslie’s hot new single, “Nobody Said” is another of the out singer/songwriter’s self-described “diary entries.” In a Skype session from New York, the Cincinnatiborn performer discussed his song, which stemmed from a breakup.

“My intention and my goal is to express myself through my music. That’s how I do it. For me, it is like a therapy session-it’s getting it out. I have to talk about it. I always try to write from a place that people get it universally; it’s not Aiden talking about a guy. Everyone can relate to this, or identify with what I’m talking about on some level. It’s the human condition.”

“Nobody Said” is not just about Leslie’s relationship. His catchy song also addresses the trouble gay men can have being honest and communicative.

“I think gay men do have trouble expressing their emotions. I know I do,” he confessed. “We need to take a look at that; we need to get real.”

He cites that there are pressures in the gay community--from body image to trying to be in that A-list crowd--that can prevent guys from being more self-aware and able to grow. His song is less about pointing a finger at an ex and calling him a jerk, and more about looking inward, to one’s self to find self-worth.

The singer, who writes both the lyrics and the melodies for his music, is at a good place in his life now. He is doing what he loves and frequently performs across the country.

After doing theatre in his hometown as a kid, he moved to New York City where he performed in off-off-Broadway shows. On a break during a rehearsal of The Boy from Minnesota, he accompanied a sound guy who also DJed to a record store. Leslie became interested in house music, its sounds and beats, and as a result, became immersed

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in the culture and nightlife. He started writing songs, and meeting people, such as the legendary Junior Vasquez, who gave Leslie his first break, remixing “Love to Hate You,” a cover of the Erasure song.

Suddenly, Leslie started to develop his sound and his songs, creating hits like “Worlds Away.” (Fun Fact: The video for that song hit #1 on the MTV Logo countdown for a record four weeks.)

While the performer has only released singles thus far--his other song “Diamond Dreams” is a terrific track that shows off the singer’s vocal range and talents--he is working on an album. However, he mourns today’s marketplace for tracks of music, acknowledging, “It is a single world these days. People are putting out single after single after single. It’s testing the grounds musically. I am writing an album, but there are two sides of it. Singers [who produce albums] put out 12 songs and one maybe penetrates. The other 11 [disappear]. People don’t listen to albums anymore. I want to do it, but people’s attention spans are gone.”

Yet Leslie is not discouraged about the music he is making.

He is especially proud of “Nobody Said,” effusing about working with producer D1 Music and their production team.

“I brought the words and the music to them, and together we came up with a direction. I wanted ‘Nobody Said’ to be a bit different than my other songs--a little drier, more minimal. I want you to feel the beat, and still be very electronic and very pop. We listened to different groups and sounds, and I see what feels right.”

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Steve Grand: All-American Boy J.W. Arnold

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Singer Steve Grand scraped his savings together to make a music video, but the hopeful 23-yearold never anticipated how quickly his AllAmerican Boy would go viral and change his life.

“No one was helping me. I saved up between $2,000 and $2,500—which isn’t a lot—by playing at a jazz club and churches, and I maxed out the credit card,” he recalled. “But I was ready to do something.”

Music had always been an important part of Grand’s life growing up in suburban Chicago. As a youngster, he was inspired by Schroeder, the piano playing character in the Charlie Brown cartoons.

“I was probably four years old and I would make little cardboard models of pianos. I’d sit at them and pretend to play,” Grand said.

Before long, Grand was writing and performing his own songs, primarily as a way to cope with life in his small Illinois community.

“Adolescence is hard enough….compounded with that, I realized I was gay. Music was my escape….this dream that I would be able to express my pain and what I was feeling.”

Grand’s parents panicked when they discovered his orientation and sent him to a Christian therapist. Fortunately, his parents have “come a long way” and embraced his career and sudden fame as an openly gay musician.

Grand posted the video on YouTube on July 2 and just two days later, it was featured on Buzzfeed.com. Facebook shares grew exponentially and blogs picked the video up.

Less than a week later, Grand received a call from producers at Good Morning America and he made his first national television appearance.

“My head is still spinning,” Grand humbly admitted, crediting the enthusiastic fans who quickly embraced his music.

He has been labeled the “first gay country music star,” but is hesitant to be pigeonholed too soon. Grand studied for a year at Nashville’s Belmont University and agrees “something rubbed off on me,” but he never set out to be a country artist.

Grand elaborated, “I’m truly a songwriter at heart, rather than a performer. How the song is produced depends on the story and the message and the feeling I’m trying to convey. I’m never thinking about what genre when I’m writing, I think as people hear more of my music, the (country label) will go away.”

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swept away on a whirlwind tour of the country and, on Saturday, Nov. 23, will land in South Florida for a concert at Fort Lauderdale’s Sunshine Cathedral.

Audiences will enjoy live performances of his first two YouTube hits, All-American Boy, and the follow up, Stay, as well as the rock ‘n roll oldies he grew up listening to with his father and some contemporary pop hits. And, there is plenty of “banter” with the audience in between songs, too.

The travel has been one of the most rewarding aspects of his success, giving him the opportunity to meet fans, but more importantly, a chance to hear their stories. The relationship with his fans is, in his words, “truly sacred.”

He’s heard moving stories of other LGBT people who also grew up in small communities and struggled with their sexuality. It’s also not unusual now for him to be recognized on the street and his mailbox is filled with encouraging messages.

“What’s been really so amazing is being able to touch so many people through my music, which is what I care most about. I dreamed about being able to make music, but never expected anything like this,” Grand said.

When he’s not traveling the country or performing at home in Chicago, he devotes his time to writing and recording more songs: “I should take some more time to let things sink in, but I also take this seriously and put a lot of pressure on myself. I’m so grateful because so many people work their whole lives to have a career in music and now I’ve got it.”

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Though South Florida is best known for its sunny beaches and sultry nightlife, it is also home for many of us who like to read books. (We have to do something while we are sunbathing.)

In fact, according to Amazon, Miami is the third most-read city in America.

Each November, South Florida book lovers, along with book authors, publishers and publicists, gather at Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus for the annual Miami Book Fair International, our country’s largest literary gathering. This year’s Fair, to be held November 17-24, is also the Fair’s 30th Anniversary, not too Photo courtesy of miami book fair shabby for an event that began with so much uncertainty, back in the age of Scarface and Miami Vice (1984).

Looking” And 20 Other Myths about LGBT As in previous years, the highlight of the Life and People (by Bronski, Ann Pellegrini 2013 Fair is the Festival of Authors, a book and Michael Amico); and Does Jesus Really lover’s wet dream that allows us to interact Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in with our favorite writers. This year the Fair Search of God in America (by Chu). opens with a bang Nov. 17 with Inaugural “I think this is a great mix because You Author Dan Brown, best-selling author of Can Tell deals a lot with religion as well as The Da Vinci Code, Inferno and other Robert marriage and other legal issues,” Bronski Langdon thrillers. Brown’s appearance kicks said. “We will also be signing books.” In off a week of “Evenings With” the likes of addition to promoting (and signing) their Reza Aslan, Carl Hiaasen, Terry McMillan, Joe books, the trio will take part in what Chu Scarborough and Congressman John Lewis. predicts will be “a fascinating - and daunting!

Other writers will talk, read and autograph - panel on challenges facing the LGBTQ their books during the weekend (Nov. 22-24) community. There’s been so much progress, Street Fair that features, in addition to scores and yet there’s still so much to be done.” of book vendors and exhibitors, a Children’s Another LGBT highlight of the 30th Alley and a “Homenaje a Espana”: a Anniversary Miami Book Fair is “Queer celebration of Spain that commemorates the Poetry/Queer Differences,” a poetry reading Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon’s “discovery” of on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 1 p.m. Presented in Florida in 1513. “I love the Fair,” says author partnership with Reading Queer, this panel Michael Bronski, who was on a panel last explores and celebrates our differences with year and “heard numerous great talks and LGBT poets who write and speak from varied visited almost all of the booths.” “I love the perspectives: Eduardo C. Corral, Neil de la range of panels and the weather/restaurant Flor, Parker Phillips, Maureen Seaton, and L. scene works for me,” says author Jennifer Lamar Wilson. South Florida homeboy and Baumgardner, who first attended in 2008. inaugural poet Richard Blanco will promote Each year the Miami Book Fair International his latest book, For All of Us, One Today: has one or more events geared towards LGBT An Inaugural Poet’s Journey, at 4:30 p.m. on readers, and the 30th Anniversary Fair is no Sunday the 24th, sadly in partial competition exception. This year the Fair saves its queer with the Baumgardner/Bronski/Chu panel. best for last, scheduling the main LGBT panel Finally, Benjamin Alire Saenz, winner of on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 5 p.m. Titled “GLBTQ: two Lambda Literary Awards last year - for Politics/Marriage/Religion,” the panel Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky features authors Baumgardner, Bronski and Club (Gay General Fiction) and Aristotle and Jeff Chu. They will each be promoting their Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe respective books: We Do!: American Leaders (LGBT Children’s/YA) - will appear with M. Who Believe in Marriage Equality (edited by Evelina Galang on a panel Sunday at 3.

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A Day with HIV For the fourth year, A Day with HIV attempted to help fight the stigma of HIV and advance a community of caring through a collective photographic portrait.

On Saturday, September 21, Positively Aware asked people everywhere, both HIV-positive and negative, to join in the fight against HIV by asking people

to take a digital photograph on that day to record a moment that put the focus on the daily trials and triumphs of people living with HIV and those who care for them.

The images selected for the photo essay were announced in October and published in their November/December issue.

Positively Aware magazine’s annual photo essay

SFGN once again worked with Positively Aware to highlight this special issue of theirs by running some of the photos they chose for their essay, which included a local resident Dab Garner, whose photo appears on the next page.

Visit www.ADayWithHIV.com and www.PositivelyAware.com for more information.

David Bayer

8:15 a.m. San Diego, California US “Taking to the road. Taking to life.

Taking the opportunities that life gives us. Taking time to be grateful. Taking time to smile. Taking time to pay forward and taking time to be there for myself and family! Life is good!”

Andrea Ingram

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US “Each Saturday, St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, has a community meal. We serve fellowship and pray for one another. I regularly spend my time in the community, encouraging people to get tested and to know their status, as well as talking about HIV stigma. Today, I spent A Day with HIV praying, serving, encountering, and ‘fellowshipping’ people in the community. I made a new friend! She plastered me with Dora the Explorer stickers—’for being nice to her,’ she said.”

Kevin Dupree

10a.m. Lees summit , Missouri US “It’s the moment you realize you are not alone on the journey through the wilderness.

Remember, the warm glow of the universe will always hold you in its arms and swallow you up with the love you deserve.”

Andrea Ingram

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US “Each Saturday, St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, has a community meal. We serve fellowship and pray for one another. I regularly spend my time in the community, encouraging people to get tested and to know their status, as well as talking about HIV stigma. Today, I spent A Day with HIV praying, serving, encountering, and ‘fellowshipping’ people in the community. I made a new friend! She plastered me with Dora the Explorer stickers—’for being nice to her,’ she said.”

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Robert Morris

3:00 p.m Minneapolis, Minnesota US “This smile was a long time coming. I live my life for what’s now; I don’t let HIV live my life.

We got this, you are not alone.”

Laurie Priddy

7:00 p.m Arches National Park Moab, Utah US “We hiked all over Moab. This is the third time I was able to have my niece with me for a month out of the summer.

Living with HIV for 25 years, I have had the beautiful experience of watching and experiencing my family go from fear of me, to acceptance through education, to unconditional love.”

Dab Garner

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Fort Lauderdlae, Florida US “A friend took a pic of Dab the AIDS Bear and me without a shirt wearing my dog tags to show there is just me and the bear in my war against HIV and AIDS. As a 32-year survivor, I hope to inspire others to know that it is possible to live a long time with HIV while encouraging others who are HIV-negative to get tested and know their status.”

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Redefining Beauty Meet the New Miss ARC Andrea Richard

ARC Broward President Dennis Haas speaks to Faith Moberg and Hope Moberg Submitted Photo

What is considered beautiful comes down to perspective, conventional or otherwise.

This Sunday’s Miss ARC Pageant in Fort Lauderdale marks a defining moment for the community at large. Twenty girls with disabilities, ages 5 to 18, will compete to become the face of this inaugural pageant.

Presented by ARC Broward, a non-profit group that serves families and children living with autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, sought to organize this event after a staffer watched a recent HBO documentary on The Miss You Can Do It Pageant, featuring contestants with cerebral palsy.

“It was very emotionally charged, and we watched it as a staff we cried,” said ARC president Dennis Haas. “So we thought why not bring this idea to Broward.”

To get stage ready, the girls will work with a professional coach to learn makeup tricks, hairstyling, and wardrobe tips. And prior to the big day, the participants will be treated to a relaxing day at Casbah Spa. “This is about the inner beauty of these individuals,” Haas said. “What’s been amazing so far is seeing how all the girls are bonding through this experience. Some of the girls have autism, some are in wheelchairs, and some speak with the aid of an iPad device. So seeing them getting together, and making new friends, and asking each other what their lives are like inspires us. “ Society is not always an accepting and warm friend. What ARC Broward, established in 1956, focuses on is developing what each individual can do, as opposed to what they cannot do.

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“It’s exciting for many of them to be in front of an audience, to dress up in pretty clothes and feel good and valued about who they are as a person,” he said.

To produce the event with a higher caliber, the organizers have enlisted a panel of judges with entertainment industry cred. They include Miss Iowa USA, Abbey Curran, Miss Florida 2014 Brittany Oldehoff, Miss Carnaval Miami 2013 Melissa Ramirez, and on.

Serving as a judge is Cristy Caserta, attorney and previous contestant on ABC’s The Bachelor. She said that “In today’s society with a majority of the focus on sex appeal it is so important to teach our youth, and to remind ourselves, that true beauty not only comes in so many different shapes and sizes, but mostly from within. I have a feeling these girls are going to teach us a thing or two about what it really means to be beautiful.”

Hass agrees that the audience will learn from the girls.

“No matter who you are and how challenged you might feel in life, anyone who spends a couple hours with these girls with disabilities will change their perspective and pause. They will make you think about your own life and you might realize how great it is,” he said.

The winner from this weekend will serve as the face for next year’s Miss ARC showdown.

Miss ARC Broward Pageant occurs 2 p.m.

November 17, at Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., in Fort Lauderdale.

To purchase tickets, $15 per person, online, visit www.browardcenter.org. Visit www. arcbroward.com or call 954-746-9400.

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Formerly Georgie’s Alibi, this Wilton Manors legend has been serving the locals for more than a decade. Once the owner sold the place a few years ago, it’s simply just Alibi. Less letters, more delicious goodies.

Don’t try to find a night where it isn’t filled up at one or all of the four bars. Stop by for the entertainment but stay for any of the daily meal specials, all $10. Managers say Sunday’s fried chicken dinner and Tuesday’s bacon-wrapped meatloaf get regular calls if they are stocked up for dinner. They’ve been known to sell out, so calling ahead may be a good option.

If you’re stopping by for just a snack, get the ahi tuna nachos ($15). Tortilla chips are substituted with crispy wontons, topped with scallions, sesame seeds, sushi grade ahi tuna and a wasabi drizzle. Alibi is slowly starting to offer heart-healthy options, like the hummus and pita ($8), so you can nosh without feeling guilty.

The heart-healthy menu also includes the amazing roasted beet salad ($11 for a large) – a heaping portion of roasted beet chunks, crumbled bleu cheese, sliced apples and toasted almonds over a bed of mixed greens. Grilled chicken, shrimp and steak are available to add to any salad, starting at $3.

If you’re here for their legendary burgers, immediately order “The Champ” – a 10-ounce Black Angus beef patty, topped with American cheese, caramelized onions, and a chipotle mayo ($12). All of the burgers are some of the most popular meals on the menu, but “The Champ” won the 2010 Riverwalk Burger Battle. It reigns supreme at Alibi. You could also try “The Knockout” – aged cheddar cheese, roasted jalapeno cream cheese, roasted garlic mayo and a bacon onion jam ($13) – the 2011 winner.

For dinner dining, it should be required for patrons to try the fried chicken dinner ($14

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A big favorite among the regulars are the kabobs ($15) – steak, chicken or shrimp served over rice and beans. Add an additional side – including mixed sautéed veggies – for no additional charge.

Of course you can still stop by for after-work liquor specials and late-night drinks. Happy Hour runs 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday thru Friday, with 2 for 1 on, well, everything. Late night specials include Long Island Iced Tea’s on Thursday and flavored martinis on Tuesday, both specials running from 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.

Make time to stop by for brunch! Bloody Mary’s and $2 mimosas are flowing while breakfast burritos ($9) and vanilla French toast ($8) and made to order. Save room for the made-to-order doughnuts ($4) if you’re feeling the desire to indulge.

Be sure to stick around as Alibi starts serving up more fresh seafood options and heart-healthy fare. Don’t worry; The Champ won’t be going anywhere.

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Explore your creativity and unleash your inner Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci or Pablo Picasso. Internationally published artist Chris Lopez of Chris Lopez Gallery will be the guest coach at the monthly men’s drawing class tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. at LeatherWerks, 1226 NE 4th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. All levels and mediums (pencil/pen, charcoal, watercolors, etc.) are encouraged to attend and all participants should bring their own supplies. Cost is $25 in advance and $35 at the door, although space is limited. Reservations can be made by emailing MensArtEvent@AOL.com. Put EVENT in the subject line.

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Art Walk

11/15

The monthly third Friday ArtWalk on Wilton Drive kicks off tonight for the 2013-14 season. Galleries and boutiques along the drive will be showcasing a wide variety of works from local artists all night long. Stop

by Tracy Carroll Salon on the corner of NE 8th Ave. from 7 to 11 p.m. and meet artists Rob Saunders and Diane Delorey, who are exhibiting a series of provocative male nudes this month. Then head over to Art Frenzie, 2151 Wilton Dr., where Marc Lipp will be painting his unique airbrushed works live. While you’re there, check out the Music Memorabilia Mania show, too.

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Move over Celine Dion because you’ll be stepping up to the rail and proclaiming, “I’m the king of the world!” at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, opening today at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Tr. in West Palm Beach. Hundreds of artifacts recovered from the tragic 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic are on display, including china and personal effects such as cigar holders, toothpaste jars and perfume bottles. Visitors also pass through a Memorial Gallery commemorating the hundreds of victims. Tickets are $13 for adults at SFScienceCenter.org.

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Artifacts recovered from the 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic are currently on display at the South Florida Science Center in West Palm Beach. In addition to the china and hundreds of personal items, the exhibit tells the stories of the hundreds of victims of the maritime tragedy. Photo Courtesy of RMS Titanic, Inc.

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11/17 MON

Wilton Manors composer Michael Ross will have one of his operas, Yours Truly, Anne, based on the life of Anne Frank, performed in concert this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, 33 Gleason St. Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who hid in the attic of an Amsterdam house during the Nazi occupation, was immortalized after her diary was discovered. This is a rare opportunity to enjoy an opera by a local, living composer (another being Florida Grand Opera’s production of Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy). The performance is free. For more information, call (917) 359-9416. soflagaynews //

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Maestro Sebrina Maria Alfonso’s South Florida Symphony opens its 2013-14 season tonight at Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center with A Soul Unfettered, including Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Samuel Barber’s Cello Concerto and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great.”

According to Maestro Alfonso, each of these composers broke the musical conventions of their times to express their innermost emotional desires. You can also catch this groundbreaking program on Nov. 16 at the Delray Center for the Arts and Nov. 19 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Tickets are $35-75 at SouthFloridaSymphony.org.

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The Florida Grand Opera opens its 201314 season tonight at Miami’s Arsht Center with Mourning Becomes Electra by Fort Lauderdale composer Marvin David Levy.

Based on the play cycle by Eugene O’Neill, this mythic tale is set in Massachusetts shortly after the Civil War and fueled with the seething passions of bitterness, infidelity, incest, and even murder. In fact, there are two murders and a suicide before the curtain falls on Act 1! Catch the last performances of this American classic, tonight and Saturday, Nov. 23. Tickets at FGO.org.

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March 27-31, 2014 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” Zwilich: Shadows for Piano and Orchestra Jeffrey Biegel, piano Schumann: Symphony No. 1 Spring

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February 22-24, 2014 Arthur Cook, cello Music of Bach & Kodaly

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March 12-15, 2014 Zuill Bailey, cello Natasha Paremski, piano Debussy Sonata Britten Sonata Franck Sonata

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May 4-6, 2014 Bernard Hermann: Echoes Janacek: String Quartet No. 1 The Kreutzer Sonata Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor

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June 15-17, 2014 Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 Barber: String Quartet

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July 14-16, 2014 Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade Amy Beach: String Quartet in One Movement Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor

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Though it’s one of Eastern Europe’s most cosmopolitan countries, Poland remains conservative at its core. Its never been a comfortable or safe place to be openly gay, though that may be starting to change, according to Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.

The actor plays Father Adam in a new film that must have raised many eyebrows in it’s native country: In The Name Of is about the Father’s struggles with homosexuality as he runs a home of delinquent boys.

Two of his charges are having sex with each other, while another boy in the nearby village has fallen in love with the tormented priest. Father Adam controls his sexual urges with alcohol in the dark and superbly intense drama.

The film tells its story quietly and slowly.

Some of the boys figure out what Father Adam is struggling with. He comes home one night to find the word “fag” scrawled across his door. A colleague tries to “warn” the Bishop that Adam is looking at the boys in an “inappropriate” manner. The warning is ignored. As the Father’s drinking increases, the neighborhood boy becomes determined to seduce him.

Chyra, now on tour to promote In the Name Of’s American theatrical release, tells SFGN that Poland, by and large, is struggling to maintain its conservative roots, but that things are slowly changing.

“Conservatism remains very strong in the church,” he said. “The church wants to silence liberals.”

But as in other countries, people can be silenced for only so long.

“The box office wasn’t bad,” Chyra said of the film’s Polish release. “Critics were good to it. People told me they liked it. The gay community liked it a lot: I have a lot of gay

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friends, and they were really touched by it.

This is all very new in Poland, it’s the first time this subject has been the main story in a film. It’s very important that we don’t hide this part of life. “ Chyra said that the film’s underlying message crosses sexual boundaries. “It’s not just a gay story, it’s about loneliness and the need for love.”

In the Name Of features a sequence that might have caused some Poles to gasp. One night, Father Adam, desperately fighting his own demons, sees two of the boys at the halfway house having sex. Both are seen fully nude, one on top of the other. Though the scene is in no way pornographic, its startlingly graphic when one considers where the film was made. We wondered how difficult it might be to find actors willing to portray lust and desire so openly.

“The blonde in that scene is a professional actor,” he said. “Other boys are from the town where we filmed, and were not professionals.

We didn’t explain to them fully what the film is about.” But of course, he said, they could see the film’s themes as shooting progressed.

Chyra, who is straight, is no stranger to gay roles. Besides his lengthy film resume, he also works on the Polish stage. He’s starred in Polish productions of the AIDS drama Angels in America and played Emory in the gay classic The Boys in the Band.

“Am I a role model?” Chyra wondered. “I don’t know, maybe. I’ve also played bad guys. I don’t think I’m the face of a people. I don’t want to change the world, I want to start the conversation.

Everyone wants to talk about this.”

In the Name Of premiers Friday, November 15 in Miami at The Tower Theater, 2705 S.W. 3rd St. (www.towertheatermiami.com). The film is in Polish with English titles.

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Broward County Nov. 13 at 7:45 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Tickets $40. The band will be performing a tribute to Buddy Rich. Call 954462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

trained violinists Kev Marcus and Will B take their instrument to the next level by infusing it with hip hop beats. The two have performed at President Obama’s inauguration and collaborated with major artists such as Kanye West, Aerosmith, P. Diddy and more. Tickets $35 to $75 benefiting the Plumosa School. Call 561-402-3639 or visit PlumosaFoundation.org

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Frank Derrick Big Band

Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Brickman modernizes the piano with his pop songs. Tickets $49. Call 954-4620222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

Tango Fire

Nov. 15 at 8:30 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Fourteen world-class dancers show off the sexy dance that is tango.

Tickets $35 to $75. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* 3 Cohens Sextet

Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.

The Israeli siblings bring light-heartedness and fun to their jazz performance. Tickets $40. Call 954-4620222 or visit MiniaciPAC.com

* Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale.The country’s 90-year-old orchestra comes to South Florida, bringing with it guest cellist, Narek Hakhnazaryan. Tickets $35 to $75. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

Palm Beach County Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. The country’s 90-year-old orchestra comes to South Florida after a performance at the Lincoln Center, bringing with it guest cellist, Narek Hakhnazaryan. Tickets $153 to $603. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Nov. 15 to 24 at FAU’s Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. Oscar Wilde’s comedy takes place in 1890s England with four characters taking on differnt personas in order to get out of different obligations. Tickets $20. Call 1-800-5649539 or cisit FAUEvents.com

* The Dancer’s Space

Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duncan Theatre, 4200 Congress Ave. in Lake Worth. Celebrate the art of dance with live performances by local choreographers and the film, “Movement (R) evolution Africa.” Tickets $5 to $15. Call 561-8683309 or visit PalmBeachState.edu/Theatre/DuncanTheatre.

Black Violin

Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Plumosa School of the Arts, 2501 Seacrest Blvd. in Delray Beach. Classically

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Nov. 16 from 8 to 11 p.m. at Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. The guitar legend of the ‘70s merges rock and jazz together in an unforgettable performance. Tickets $25 to $45. Call 561-450-6357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

Of Mice and Men

Through Nov. 17 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.

* Ronin Taiko

Nov. 21 and 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Morikami Theater, 4000 Morikami Park Road in Delray Beach.

The booming Japanese art of drumming with guest artists Conrad “Kabuki” Itchener and Kyle Abbott.

Tickets $35 to $45. Call 561-495-0233.

* The Lettermen

Nov. 22 to 24 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. The members of the trio have changed over time, but their iconic sound has never faltered. Tickets $45. Call 561-2437922 or visit DelrayArts.org.

The Longing & The Short of It

Through Nov. 24 at Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. Six characters sing and play out the awkward and heart wrenching parts of being alive that everyone in the audience can relate to. Tickets $30 to $45. Call 561-450-6357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

They’re Playing Our Song

Through Nov. 24 at the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail in Boca Raton.

Groove back to the ‘70s for the real-life romance between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carol Bayer-Sager. Tickets $30 to $35. Call 561-3473948 or visit BRTG.org.

Free Friday Concerts

Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Enjoy live music from the comfort of your picnic blanket or lawn chair every week, for free! Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org.

Miami-Dade County Knowledge & Noise

Through Nov. 16 at the Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE Second Ave. in Miami Shores. A brother and sister are bored and curious, so they set off to the “unknown.”

Tickets $20. Call 305-751-9550.

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. Known for their hits “Thrift Shop” and “Same Love.” Tickets $46.10 to $56.30. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

* The Red Thread

Nov. 20 to Dec. 22 at the Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE Second Ave. in Miami Shores. Inspired by Chinese folktales, a young woman is on a mission to rescue her fathers’ masterpiece. Tickets $25. Call 305-751-9550.

The History of the Eagles

Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The band that has put hit after hit for decades on end comes together. Tickets $67.30 to $203.40. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

* Janelle Monae

Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. at The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. The singer lands in Miami for her Electric Circus tour. Tickets $45.50 to $61.50. Visit LiveNation.com

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Golden Dragon Acrobats

Nov. 24 and 25 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St. in Aventura. The award-winning show brings together centuries of ancient Chinese music, dance and acrobatics to the stage. Tickets $34.50 to $39.50. Call 305-466-8002 or visit AventuraCenter.org.

My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit

Through Dec. 8 at the Roxy Performing Arts Center, 1645 SW 107th Ave. in Miami. Three daughters battle with one another as they deal with the mysterious death of their mother in the New Mexico desert. Tickets $15 to $30. Call 305-443-5909 or visit New-Theatre.org.

The Big Show

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

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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.

* GCDG vs. Fort Myers Derby Girls

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* “Naughty” Reception

Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach.

A look at early cinema and how it impacted the movie industry. Tickets $10, members free. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org

Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. at the War Memorial Auditorium, 800 NE Eighth St. in Fort Lauderdale. Catch the Grrls in their last match of the season! Tickets $10 to $20. Visit GoldCoastDerbyGrrls.com Nov. 16 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Broward Art Guild Gallery, 3280 NE 32nd St. in Fort Lauderdale. Eroticism is explored through the art of 27 artists in South Florida. Tickets $10 donation. Email artsunitednews@ gmail.com

The Lang Ye Taoist Esoteric Qigong

Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at The Goddess Store, 2017 Harrison St. in Hollywood. All levels of qi gong students are welcome for a day-long exercise of the five elements. Cost $75. Visit heandeinstitute.com.

* Glam Air

Nov. 23 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 1650 Harrison St. in Hollywood. Go back to 1975, the year of the center’s beginning, in a space transformed into an airport with full bar, fashion show, music, dancers, silent auction, and more. Tickets $115.

Call 954-921-3274 or visit ArtAndCultureCenter.org.

* BeachBash

Nov. 23 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. poolside at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina Hotel, 1881 SE 17th St. Causeway in Fort Lauderdale. Indulge on delicious bites from area restaurants and dance to the music of DJ Rush to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s South Florida office. Tickets $65. Visit BeachBash.com

Movies That Changed the World

South Florida Symphony Orchestra

Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach.

The orchestra returns for the season in the Master Concert Series. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org or SouthFloridaSymphony.org.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Nov. 16 to April 20, 2014 at the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail North in West Palm Beach. With your replica boarding pass of an actual passenger in hand, enter the world of 1912 on board the Titanic. Tickets $9. Call 561-843-1988 or visit SFScienceCenter.org.

Miami-Dade County * The New Leadership Equation

Nov. 15 from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at Soyka Restaurant, 5556 NE Fourth Court in Miami. Learn more about business growth with speaker Jaime T. Yordan-Frau. An event by The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Tickets $35 to $45. RSVP to www.gaybizmiami.com, rsvp@gaybizmiami.com or 305-673-4440.

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*Miami Beach Small Business Symposium

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.

Nov. 15 at 9 a.m. at the LGBT Visitor Center, 1130 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach. Hear from other LGBT small business owners in Miami Beach and speakers from the city. RSVP to edisonfarrow@gmail.com.

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* Brunch for the Animals

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

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

SunServe Youth Group

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

Gender Bender Youth Group

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

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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

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Nov. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 4441 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach. Raise money with your pooch with a special lunch for the both of you, then, check out the silent auction for holiday shopping. Tickets $150, dogs free. RSVP to Dani Kandera 305-749-1825 or visit HumaneSocietyMiami.com.

* Women’s Empowerment Luncheon Nov. 19th from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Seasons 52 Restaurant, 321 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. Guest speaker, Angela Daniels of New York Life, will talk about engagement with the LGBT community in business. Tickets $30 to $40. RSVP to GayBizMiami. com, rsvp@gaybizmiami.com or 305-673-4440.

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* Winter Wonder Island

Nov. 29, 2013 to Jan. 5, 2014 at Jungle Island, 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail in Miami. Just because it doesn’t snow doesn’t mean winter hasn’t come. The zoo is transformed with holiday-themed lighting, activities, laser light shows, holiday movies, photos with Santa Claus, and snow! Visit JungleIsland.com.

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DateBook Nightlife

By Christiana Lilly, Calendar@SFGN.com

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

visit TheManorComplex.com. Call 954-626-0082 or visit TheManorComplex.com.

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

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

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.

H.G. Roosters

Twist South Beach

Vita Ultra Lounge Saturdays

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.

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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Iconic Palace Bar Extends Drag Brunch Maritza R. Moulite and Natalie Merola, South Florida News Service

Palace South Beach, now in its 25th year, serves up sass with a side of bacon at its legendary Sunday “Brunchic,” where people gather around to eat brunch while watching a popular drag show. Now customers can enjoy a similar experience all weekend.

Last weekend was the first of the new Saturday “Breakfast Club” series, which will be an addition to the Sunday “Brunchic.”

On Saturdays now, for $31.99, diners can get a meal and unlimited mimosas or bloody Mary cocktails while being entertained by the “Palace Divas” at two seatings: 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

On Sundays, customers get the same for $31.95, without the option of unlimited bloody Marys.

“Every show is different, and all walks of life come here to have a good time. Whether you’re gay, straight, visiting or local, you can’t come and not have a good time,” said David Brown, 47, who has been a regular at Palace for about two years. “Palace has an anything-can-go atmosphere.”

Julia Atis, 41, and Claudia Fernandez, 51 — who couldn’t find an open table at the

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restaurant, so they sat at a booth next door — agree.

“This is the only happening place,” Fernandez said. “Everybody seems so happy.”

Noel Figueroa — stage name Noel Leon — said that keeping the audience entertained is her top priority. She has worked at Palace for the past six years and hosted the popular brunch for more than five and a half.

“We try to show that we’re just the same as everybody else. Everybody can have fun here,” Leon said. “And it’s not just about being gay or straight. It’s about having a good time.”

Palace didn’t start as a bar and restaurant.

It was originally a fruit bar that became a hot spot for the LGBT community when it began to add liquor to the drinks and offer drag shows.

“Over the years, 13th and Ocean became known as ‘gay beach,’” said Palace general manager, Nelson Cardona, 30. “We interact with people on the street. It’s very impromptu and just keeps growing and growing as the largest gay operation here in South Florida.” soflagaynews //

Many of the performers from smaller towns are surprised that the show is so public, said Cardona. The performances often start from across the street and move to the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.

The drag queens then interact with the audience as they dance and lip-sync popular songs like Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive.

The audience on the terrace enjoys a meal and drinks while tipping the Palace Divas for their performance.

For 10 years, Palace offered brunch and the show once a week on Sundays. Now, expanding to the whole weekend, Cardona expects the place to become even more of a Miami tradition.

“We want to keep branding Palace as the iconic venue it is and the fabric of Miami and Ocean,” said Cardona. “We have a lot of drag queens that come through here. We want to see them grow in the next couple of years and be that hub.”

Cardona said that Palace extended brunch all weekend to accommodate the many people who leave town on Saturdays. There’s a “prix fixe” menu that changes every week.

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“It’s something that we don’t advertise or market. It’s great that we’ve grown through word of mouth. It’s the best way you want to grow something,” Cardona said.

Visit PalaceSouthBeach.com for more information.

IF YOU G What

Palace Drag Brunch

When

email info@palacesouthbeach. com or call 305-531-7234, www.palacesouthbeach.com.

Where

Palace South Beach, 1200 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Fla., 33139.

Cost

$31.99 per person on Saturdays with unlimited mimosas or bloody Marys. On Sundays, $31.95 with only unlimited mimosas.

Info.

www.palacesouthbeach.com.

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT NEEDED Personal Assistant needed to organize and help. Basic computer skills needed good with organization. We are ready to pay $530 per week interested person for more info contact: gghudson010@hotmail.com

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furniture repair AAA FURNITURE HOSPITAL We specialize in gluing and clamping of” broken and loose” tables, chairs and occasional pieces.

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handyman

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