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Boy Scouts Open Ranks to Gay Youth on Jan. 1 The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year’s Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications — ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can march in gay pride parades. Yet despite their be-prepared approach, BSA leaders are rooting for the change to be a non-event. Some churches are dropping their sponsorship of Scout units because of the new policy and some families are switching to a new conservative alternative called Trail Life USA. But massive defections haven’t materialized and most major sponsors, including the Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, are maintaining ties. The new policy was approved in May, with

support from 60 percent of the 1,400 voting members of the BSA’s National Council. The vote followed bitter nationwide debate, and was accompanied by an announcement that the BSA would continue to exclude openly gay adults from leadership positions. Under the new membership policy, youths can no longer be barred from the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts or coed Venturers program solely on the basis of sexual orientation. However, gay Scouts will face some limitations. “Any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting,” says one BSA document. From SFGN’s media partner the Associated Press.

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Coca-Cola made waves across the pond after officials from the soda company removed images of a same-sex couple getting married in their “Reasons to Believe” campaign. Ireland’s Eile Magazine, criticized the international company for the move in a recent article, especially in light of the fact that the campaign is based on the concept that for every negative moment in life, there are many more positive ones taking place. “In the main version of the advert -- or rather, the version which is being used in other European countries -- there is a scene where two men have just been married, and are surrounded by friends and family. In the Irish version of the new advert, however, no such scene exists,” writes Scott De Buitléir in that article.

The version containing the same-sex couple is being used in the Dutch, Norwegian and British versions of the advertisement, while Queerty notes that the one featuring straight Australia newlyweds Jamie and Nikki is being show in Ireland, France and Denmark. In response to a query from the Irish website TheJournal.ie, a spokesperson for the company said the advertisement has been tailored for each market where it will be shown and has been informed by consumer research in each individual market. “The core objective is that the vignettes in the ad resonate with people in each country and that they are truly representative of cultural issues that they are familiar with and value,” they said. From our media partner EDGE.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker To Marry Partner The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Houston’s openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, will marry Kathy Hubbard, her partner of twenty-three years, in January. The Chronicle has an anonymous source close to the couple who claims Parker and Hubbard will marry in Palm Springs California. Parker was recently elected to a third and final term as Houston mayor. She once pledged that she and Hubbard would not marry until Texas legalized gay marriage. However since the Supreme Court struck

down the Defense of Marriage Act Parker has made some recent public statements suggesting she might change her mind. She Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Michan said in a statement via email to the Chroncile: “The mayor very much appreciates the interest in the 23-year relationship she has shared with her life partner, First Lady Kathy Hubbard. However, marriage is a private matter and she has no announcements she wishes to make at this time. If that changes, we will let you know.”

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News Briefs Alabama Lawmaker to Propose Legislation Backing ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star The controversial comments about homosexuality made by “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson have come up in conversations across the country in the past two weeks and may make its way to the Alabama state legislature next month. Republican state Sen. Jerry Fielding told CNN affiliate WBRC he plans to introduce a symbolic resolution in support of the Louisiana family’s patriarch. “Biblically speaking, what Mr. Robertson had to say is completely supported. I just think it’s time that the overwhelming majority of people begin to speak up and speak out on these issues,” Fielding said. The senator said the resolution was not meant to portray anti-gay themes, WBRC reported. “We just don’t want people running over people that believe in the Bible and standing up for Jesus and God and doing those things the Scriptures teaches us to do,” he said. A&E suspended Robertson after he told GQ magazine in its January edition that homosexuality is a sin and put it in the same category as bestiality and promiscuity. The

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The last of the Utah counties that were holding out on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples reversed course Thursday and decided to hand out licenses to all eligible applicants. Officials for the four holdouts — Box Elder, Utah, Piute and San Juan counties — told The Associated Press they made the decision to offer licenses to same-sex couples. County clerks say they had little choice after an appeals court Tuesday declined to intervene and halt gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled last week that Utah’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, sending gay couples rushing to clerk offices for licenses. The state plans to take its fight against gay marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court as early as Friday while it prepares an appeal of Shelby’s ruling to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Ryan Bruckman, a spokesman for the Utah attorney general’s office. Bruckman has said counties could be held in contempt of federal court if they refused to comply. The holdouts said they decided to obey Shelby’s ruling despite reservations and questions about their legal liability.

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network’s actions came after gay rights groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign, called on Robertson to step down. The suspension ignited an uproar among those backing Robertson. An online petition against A&E, for example, surpassed its goal of gathering 250,000 signatures. Alabama state Rep. Patricia Todd, the only openly gay lawmaker in the Alabama state legislature, agreed Robertson has a right to express his religious beliefs, WBRC reported. But the Democrat added, “it’s not one of the most important things facing Alabama that we need to be taking time to even discuss in the legislature.” A fan of the show, she also said she wasn’t surprised at all by his remarks. “Yes, I’ve watched “Duck Dynasty.” I thought it was quite amusing. I liked it. I still will continue to watch it,” she said. “(For) most of us, it was like no big deal. Who cares? Yes, of course he thinks that.” From SFGN Media partner CNN. Photo credit: Jeff Reidel/GQ

Utah makes it a misdemeanor for county clerks to sanction a same-sex marriage. San Juan County Clerk Norman Johnson said “what finalized it for me” was Gov. Gary Herbert’s order to state agencies to comply with Shelby’s decision and change procedures Hundreds of same-sex couples in Utah lined up at the county building waiting to get for the delivery of state their marriage licenses.Photo credit: Jeff Reidel/GQ services. To that end, the Utah Department of Workforce Services abundantly clear that plaintiffs’ alleged is recognizing gay couples for food stamp harm is actual, concrete, and particularized.” Harris v. McDonnell is a challenge and welfare benefits. organized by Lambda Legal and the ACLU for From SFGN Media partner CNN. two lesbian couples. One couple would like ay Marriage Advances in to marry in Virginia; the other has married Courts in the District of Columbia and would like Federal judges in three states advanced their marriage recognized in Virginia. marriage equality lawsuits Monday. Citing sovereign immunity, the judge One of two lawsuits challenging Virginia’s did dismiss the suit as it was applied to ban on recognizing the marriages of same- Governor Robert McDonnell. But the lawsuit sex couples advanced Monday after a federal will proceed with chief defendant Thomas judge denied the state’s motion to dismiss Roberts, the clerk of the Staunton Circuit the case. Judge Michael Urbanski of the Court and Janet Rainey, the state registrar. U.S. District Court for the Western District In Ohio, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy of Virginia (Harrisonburg) issued a 17-page Black issued a 50-page decision Monday, memorandum December 23, saying, “It is saying the state constitution’s ban on

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recognizing same-sex married couples violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection. The lawsuit was Obergefell v. Wymyslo, in which two surviving spouses sought the right to be identified as such on the death certificates of their spouses. Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in U.S. v. Windsor, Black said, “It is beyond debate that it is constitutionally prohibited to single out and disadvantage an unpopular group.” Black issued a permanent injunction against the state from refusing to identify a deceased person’s same-sex spouse on his death certificate. “Dying with an incorrect death certificate that prohibits the deceased Plaintiffs from being buried with dignity,” wrote Black, “constitutes irreparable harm.” Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine said the state will appeal the decision to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. And in Utah, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Shelby denied Utah’s request to delay the effect of his December 20 order that the state stop enforcing its ban on same-sex couples marrying. From Lisa Keen of KeenNewsService.com. © 2013 Keen News Service. All rights reserved.

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One year ends. A new one begins. One door closes. Another opens. At every age, life is a tabula rasa; a clean slate, a blank page, a new adventure. If you think about it, so it is everyday. I love listening to sports announcers declare an athlete is ‘day to day.’ So are we all, and in actuality, we are virtually minute-to-minute. This past year was almost my last year. But the sun shined again, and I found redemption and recovery. Now I have hope, health, and healing, but here is what 64 orbits around the sun have taught me: ‘make every moment count’ has to be your mantra. Life gives you the opportunity to laugh and love, capture special moments, share unforgettable experiences, and make lasting friends. It gives you the chance to forgive and forget, make up and move on, push forward yet kick back. As long as you can open your eyes, somewhere in this world there is beauty to see. Anyone born in the 20th century has seen meteoric growth in humankind. We have touched new horizons in architecture and

the oceans, invention and medicine, science and the arts. Think of our species, barely six feet of bare hands, flesh and bones, but we have created a world where we have tamed everything but our insane hatred of each other. The material world we have mastered. Matters of the soul we have not. Consequently, whether you go back thousands of years to the Persians and Troy, or to the bombings this week in Volgograd, the human species is still finding reasons to kill each other. It’s not good enough that nature deals its own blows with hurricanes and tsunamis, earthquakes and floods. We fuel our lives with uncontrolled religious passion and maniacal fanaticism. Whatever the hell it is, we find a way to kill each other. It is all so bizarre and unnecessary. In America, we don’t even need a reason to kill each other anymore. Joggers are shot in the streets, shoppers in the mall, families in their homes, congressmen at their desks, and ten-year-old children in a schoolyard. There is no such thing as a safe community. It does not

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yourself and your identity as a human being while you are here and while you can. One day, sooner than you ever expect, you will be gone, and if you can’t even count on your roommate to take out the garbage, who the hell is going to carry on your legacy. Laws denying you equality have always been wrong. Finally, a new day is dawning.

America is emerging from the shadows of LGBT discrimination. We are not far off from a day and place where there will be no Duck Hunters. Phil Robertson has no dynasty. He is a dinosaur. Some day we will even realize the Kardashians just don’t matter. America? We are the people who made black people slaves and built into our Constitution that they were three fifths of a person. We are the country who did not give women the right to vote for over a hundred years. We poisoned coal miners, abused workers, and treated minorities as secondclass citizens. We are the country that gave electro shock therapy to gays to ‘cure’ us. Maybe we are not quite as perfect as those high school textbooks you were forced to read. So listen, as you enter this new cycle around the planet, appreciate what you have. Life is precious, and like the Pope, you should not judge others, just be yourself. That takes more than enough work. Be a good person. Be the person your dog thinks you are. Happy New Year.

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‘GMA’ Anchor Robin Roberts Comes Out on Facebook “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts used a Facebook post to acknowledge what friends and coworkers have long known: She’s gay. Roberts, 53, has been very open about her health battles, but she has not previously spoken publicly about her sexuality. In an end-of-the-year message posted on her Facebook “like” page Sunday, Roberts wrote: “I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together.” While Roberts did not give her girlfriend’s last name, People magazine identified her as Amber Laign, a licensed massage therapist from San Francisco she met

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through mutual friends a decade ago. “At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude,” she wrote. “I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my restored good health. I am grateful for my sister, Sally-Ann, for being my donor and giving me the gift of life. I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together. I am grateful for the many prayers and well wishes for my recovery. I return every one of them to you 100 fold. On this last Sunday of 2013 I encourage you to reflect on what you are grateful for too.” From SFGN’s media partner CNN.

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news local What is the South Florida AIDS Network? Sean McShee Joey Wynn, Chair of the South Florida AIDS Network (SFAN) considers the most important issue facing HIV service providers in the coming year to be the integration of HIV services with the Affordable Care Act. As people enroll in the new health care exchanges of the Affordable Care Act, these new plans will have to develop working relationships with HIV service providers. People will have develop ways for HIV services to “accommodate those folks” and figure out ways to “get the word out, so we can make this the easiest transition possible,” according to Joey Wynn. This accommodation and communication will depend on the community input processes. In order to understand how this community can benefit from community planning, it helps to understand the structure of the Ryan White Care Program.

and community input body at the state level. In Broward two groups constitute the local planning and community input process: The South Florida AIDS Network (SFAN) and the Broward HIV Planning Council. SFAN functions as the planning/community input body for essential services, such as ADAP, administered by the state; the Broward HIV Planning Council functions as the planning/community input body for comprehensive care services for Eligible Medical Areas (EMAS), such as Broward County. SFAN and the HIV Planning Council have joint working committees to plan, set priorities, manage client-related issues, and monitor funding issues. All meetings are open to the public. Changes in the epidemic also drive changes in HIV services. By law, the Ryan White Care

The HIV/AIDS epidemic among adult men in Broward differs greatly between African Americans and other racial groups, as it has a major heterosexual contact component.

Broward adult males living with HIV/AIDS with known mode of transmission by race It’s convenient but inaccurate to think about Ryan White Care as if it were one program. It has seven parts: 1. Comprehensive care services for Eligible Medical Areas (EMAS), such as Broward County 2. Essential services, including ADAP, for states 3. Early intervention, counseling, and testing 4. Programs for youth, women and children with HIV infection 5. Dental Reimbursement Program 6. Education and training for health care providers 7. Research and demonstration projects. Two other programs have significance for HIV services: Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA), and AIDS Insurance Continuation Project (AICP). HOPWA provides temporary housing assistance to low income people with HIV infection. AICP pays insurance premiums for low-income people with health insurance and HIV. Planning councils and community input lie at the heart of Ryan White Care, locally and at the state level. The Florida Community Planning Network (FCPN) forms the planning

Program has to focus its activities on treatment. In recent years, however, the lines between treatment and prevention have begun to blur. Effective treatments for people with HIV infection tends to make them less likely to infect others, resulting in lower rates of new HIV infections. Joey Wynn described this as another challenge in SFAN, “Trying to get other programs from the local Department of Health (especially HIV Prevention) to be involved, keep us informed, and attend the meetings to get a first-hand view of what the community is experiencing in their challenges and concerns. “ While the Affordable Care Act holds out great hope for improving the lives of people living with HIV, it presents opportunities and challenges. Fortunately, an input process exists that makes participation and communication easier. Joey Wynn described SFAN as “an open process, we keep people informed about what is going on in the service delivery of HIV for folks, and a great place to come learn about and discuss the issues facing the HIV community in Broward County.

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U.S. Congressman Alcee L. Hastings told a standing room only crowd of gay Democrats to increase their support of his efforts in the House of Representatives. “Ya’ll don’t give me enough money,” he said during a speech at the Richardson House in Wilton Manors. Hastings (D-Miramar) represents Florida’s 20th District in Washington, D.C. and is a longtime ally and advocate of the LGBT movement. His remarks came during the annual holiday party for the Dolphin Democrats, a LGBT caucus chartered by the Florida Democratic Party. “If I know anything about the LGBT community, it is that you are not afraid to work,” said Hastings before highlighting a laundry list of accomplishments from the past year. “As you well know,” he said. “2013 has been a historic year.” Hastings said there is still much more

work to be done, discussing with support of your friends and aspiring politicians squeezed into many issues of importance and allies, you always the Richardson House to hear Hastings to LGBT Americans. He emerge stronger than before speak. The 77-year-old lawmaker has a spoke of the rising number – fierce and fabulous – and controversial career — impeached as a of young gay men of color show the haters that you are federal judge only to be later elected as a living with HIV/AIDS, the not only proud to be who Congressman. on-going implementation Hastings is up for re-election in of President Obama’s 2014 – and two challengers have “He’s the best friend Affordable Care Act, the filed paperwork for his seat, but we have in Congress.” Ross dismissed the notion he could upcoming Winter Olympics in Russia, Marriage be defeated. Equality in Florida and the you are, but that you have “He’s in a safe district,” Ross said. “But we ENDA (Employment Nonso much to give the world.” do need to have a fundraiser for him.” discrimination Act) bill Dolphins Dems President Hastings also used his platform at U.S. Congressman Alcee L. Hastings Tim Ross said Hastings has currently before the House. the holiday party to denounce certain Photo courtesy Wikipedia “The LGBT community always been there for the stereotypes he deemed harmful. has known great pain LGBT community. “Black churches are not anti-gay,” Hastings and incredible loss, from day-to-day “He’s the best friend we have in Congress,” said. “Black people have gay children, gay discrimination, rejection, and bullying to the Ross said. “And it’s important people realize aunts and uncles. People need to stop saying devastation of losing loved ones to AIDS,” that.” black churches are all anti-gay because they Hastings said. “But, as a community and Several elected officials, party activists are not.”

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Terry DeCarlo Named Second Winner of SFGN’s 2013 “Achievement in Excellence” Award Norm Kent

Terry DeCarlo is the Development Director of Broward House, but his presence in the LGBT community is and has been ubiquitouseverywhere. Now that his friends gave him and his husband a marriage brick on the steps of the Performing Arts Center, you literally can’t step out in public without seeing his name. Recently spotlighted as one of our community leaders living with HIV, DeCarlo is 51 years old, has lived in South Florida for 27 years, and has spent the last decade working in non profit management, as the go-to marketing and development person first for Care Resource and now with Broward House. Each agency is a community treasure that has left a lasting legacy in the countless lives of thousands. DeCarlo embodies the spirit of living with pride, engaging new and creative techniques to raise the consciousness of our community. He coordinates the annual World AIDS Day celebrations in Wilton Manors, from the candlelight vigil to the ceremony at the Pride Center. Last year, he filled the Center of the Performing Arts with Wanda Sykes and Margaret Cho, and

this year he brought in Cheech and Chong. Look, ten years ago, when he organized a ‘Red Ball’ to raise funds for the Children’s Diagnostic Center for AIDS, there was no popular venue, so he held it in his backyard. He and his neighbor tore down the fence between their homes to fit in the over capacity crowd. It’s called caring with a conscience. Eventually, the party made its way to the Swimming Pool Hall of Fame. Today, De Carlo makes his way to ours. In 2013, you also would have seen DeCarlo get up at six in the morning in the middle of the summer to organize the ‘The Amazing Race’. But there he was again last week, orchestrating Santa’s fun run, walk, and sleigh race in the Manors. Then there is the One Magical Weekend and Rip Tide event during the Gay Days at Orlando. He is a lightning bolt. Of course, as the Development Director, it is DeCarlo’s job to raise funds for the agency. On the other hand, he is also dramatizing with each new event the importance of charitable contributions to sustain the fight against HIV. ‘Broward Bares It’ has become the seminal summer event at the Seminole Hard Rock, and it is due to the marketing

genius and madness of the mind that is the soul and spirit of Terry DeCarlo. Have we mentioned also the ‘Dining Out for Life’ events or the ‘Tour of the Century’ bike ride? Each event brings the community together for a common cause and social good. Behind the scenes, DeCarlo is quietly and masterfully orchestrating and organizing an adventure that spurs your Photo courtesy Facebook participation and involvement, striving to help those living with HIV. It is a HIV falls upon all of us, and what we can do tenacity he may have learned in the Air Force as together. DeCarlo embraces our community. He an Intelligence Operations officer, where he spent inspires so many of us to work a little harder and six years after graduating Bethpage High School do a little bit more. DeCarlo brings to the table on Long Island. passion and perseverance. It enhances each of us. While taming the tiger, you have to keep a song For that unbridled energy and enthusiasm, SFGN on your lips and a smile in your heart. Wherever tenders its second 2013 award for ‘Achievements Terry goes, you will see him with his husband, in Excellence’ to Terry DeCarlo. Coordinating Bill Huelsman, who he formally married last year the Red Ribbon Awards for Broward House each at Rockefeller Center in New York. They have Spring, Mr. DeCarlo has been distributing a been partners since 1997, and just celebrated the few honors of his own in recent years. It is time holidays at Disney World. someone did a turnabout and so honored him. Ultimately, the social responsibility to tame We do so today.

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Quack Quack Robertson is Back Truth Wins Out

Truth Wins Out strongly condemned the by media executives under the guise of free cable network A&E [recently] for reinstating speech and liberty? “Ironically, this move could backfire on Duck Dynasty reality show actor Phil Robertson, who was suspended for making social conservatives,” said Besen. “If we have a blatantly racist and homophobic remarks in sickly media environment where LGBT people an interview with GQ. In backing Robertson, can be demonized and the painful African A&E is turning a blind eye to bigotry in order American experience can be minimized, then to pad the bottom line. Their foul, indecent it is open season on all groups, including move may have inadvertently opened a new fundamentalist Christians. It will be Wild West era in media where anything goes interesting to see how gleeful Tony Perkins — including hatred of minority groups — as is when unflattering and untrue stereotypes about Christian conservatives becomes a long as it turns a profit. “This is a disgraceful decision that gives a staple of the new media environment.” Indeed, social pass to prejudice and conservatives have been puts money before among the touchiest morality,” said Truth when it comes to what Wins Out’s Executive they deem “political Director Wayne Besen. correctness.” They “It sets the stage for an went apoplectic on ‘anything goes’ media February 1, 1993, when environment, where Michael Weisskopf, bigots are just another a reporter with The demographic to be Washington Post, catered to and exploited wrote that followers for financial gain. A&E of the Christian Right took the low road and are “largely poor, its failed attempts to uneducated, and easy to justify its inexcusable command.” actions have reflected Photo courtesy A&E Networks Robertson, made poorly on the cable news in his GQ interview when he said: network and deeply tarnished its brand.” “Start with homosexual behavior and just A&E released an embarrassingly insufficient public statement defending its morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and unconscionable decision: “Duck Dynasty is not a show about one that woman and those men,” he says. Then he man’s views. It resonates with a large audience paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. because it is a show about family ... a family Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male that America has come to love. As you might prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the have seen in many episodes, they come greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance swindlers-they won’t inherit the kingdom of and forgiveness. These are three values that God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.” Robertson defended his ignorant and we at A&E Networks also feel strongly about. “So after discussions with the Robertson unchristian remarks to a Bible study group family, as well as consulting with numerous at his hometown church in West Monroe, La. advocacy groups, A&E has decided to resume According to Robertson: “Jesus will take sins filming Duck Dynasty later this spring with the away, if you’re a homosexual he’ll take it away, if you’re an adulterer, if you’re a liar, what’s the entire Robertson family. “We will also use this moment to launch difference? If we lose our morality, we lose our a national public service campaign (PSA) country.” Robertson also made underreported promoting unity, tolerance and acceptance among all people, a message that supports our remarks that were racially insensitive: “I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment core values as a company and the values found in Duck Dynasty. These PSAs will air across of any black person,” Robertson is quoted in GQ. “Not once. Where we lived was all our entire portfolio.” As the media market becomes more farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. decentralized and competitive, it raises I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, questions about falling standards. Will there because we’re white trash. We’re going across be a day in the near future where a station the field....They’re singing and happy. I never marketed as “politically incorrect” broadcasts heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell dehumanizing shows about minority groups? you what: These doggone white people’-not a Are we getting closer to an age where deliberate word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: publicity stunts designed to upset particular Were they happy? They were godly; they were minority groups are cynically employed to happy; no one was singing the blues.” Visit TruthWinsOut.org for more information. maximize earnings and ratings? Will bigots become the next niche market pandered to

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news local Florida Group Puts State on Good List For Once Campbell Foundation Top HIV/AIDS Philanthropic Funder in 2012 Sasha Razumikhin Some good news after the sunshine state comes right before 2014: its very own Campbell Foundation is the only Florida group on a list of the 69 top philanthropic funders for HIV/AIDS in the country. The report comes by way of Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA), a 26-yearold watchdog organization whose mission is basically to ensure enough money makes its way to the research of and active AIDS eradication. It’s called “Global Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2012,” and lists the top 69 philanthropic groups that supported HIV/AIDS in 2012. On the entire list, Fort Lauderdale’s Campbell Foundation made the 56th spot, clocking in at $451,656. The report also listed the commitments each group made, Campbell’s listed as $0. The top 69 groups disbursed a total of $459,093,915, almost $10 million more than the combined commitments of $450,319,994 that these groups made. Going past these first 69, the report lists the groups from 70th place to 209th place disbursed a total of $7,982,258. While these numbers may seem impressive

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overall, the report shows that total funding by the groups it had surveyed in 2011 and then in 2012 went down by three percent, or about $15 million. For an example, Washington State’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation disbursed $238 million in 2011 and then $220 million in 2012, an $18 million drop. Another part of the survey asked participating groups to predict what would happen to disbursements in 2013. This is where the information gets the most pessimistic. Only ten percent of the respondents expected disbursements to go up. Forty-seven percent expected the amount to stay the same and 22 percent expected it to decrease. Twenty-one percent were unsure about what would happen. As for Campbell Foundation, Florida’s only representation on the list (the top ten groups represented Washington, New York, Illinois, California, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts), its 2012 funds paid for: • Pediatric studies to prevent the transference of HIV from nursing mothers to newborn children

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To study how human enzymes encoded with a particular gene may play a role in anti-viral immunity • The treatment of a stigmatizing rash seen on HIV patients • The effects of steroids, nutrition and exercise on HIV positive males • The use of herbs to reduce the viral load in HIV patients • The use of acupuncture for pain relief in HIV patients • Various novel anti-HIV medication therapies “We are thrilled to count ourselves among the top funders in the U.S.,” said Campbell Foundation program officer Ken Rapkin. “We are constantly striving to find new ways to raise money and awareness toward the goal of eradicating HIV/AIDS in our lifetime.” For more information about the Campbell Foundation, go to campbellfoundation.org.

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One Night Only at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Donald Cavanaugh On Jan 5, 2014 at 8 p.m., the Maltz Jupiter Theatre will host a special event performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell, the multi-faceted, multi-talented, multi-award winning star of Broadway, television and film. Proceeds from the concert, titled Brian Stokes Mitchell: Simply Broadway, after his newest album, will benefit the nonprofit Maltz Jupiter Theatre and The Actor’s Fund of America, of which Mitchell is board chair. Tickets for the one-night performance are available at the box office at 561-575-2223 or online at www.JupiterTheatre.org. Seventy VIP seats are offered and include a pre-concert formal dinner in the theater’s new the Green Room, orchestra seats, and a postperformance coffee and cordials reception with the star. “Jupiter, with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is an important place for the arts,” said Mitchell during an interview. “There’s a lot of good theater happening down there in South Florida so we felt it was a good idea to recognize what they are doing.”

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“We are thrilled to be working together with The Actor’s Fund and sharing, with Brian Stokes Mitchell, his passion for the importance of the arts in the lives of people everywhere,” said the Theatre’s managing director, Tricia Trimble. The concert will feature 90 minutes of music from Mitchell’s most recent album, Simply Broadway, which he describes on his website as “…12 great songs from 12 great Broadway classics – shows like Company, Camelot, Porgy and Bess, Les Miz, Sunday in the Park With George… all performed in the spirit of the originals but with a fresh new OLD approach... And what a voice – both on stage and on behalf of causes he champions; in this case, the Actors Fund of America. The Actors Fund has been a major source of assistance for workers in the performing arts since 1882. It provides direct assistance to over 13,500 people a year. “It’s not just for actors,” Mitchell said. “It’s for the stage hands, the costumers, the musicians – anyone who has made a living in the performing arts.”

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Mitchell has been a board member of Photo courtesy of Douglas Baz The Fund for 16 years and the chair for almost ten. “I’ve been very lucky in my career,” he said. “I’ve always made a living as a performer. I’ve never waited table or had to do clerical work to make ends meet. Working for The Fund is my way of giving back.” Among a myriad of other credits, Mitchell may be of special interest to gay readers for the fact that he played one of Rachel’s gay fathers with Jeff Goldblum on two episodes of Glee. “Lea Michele (Rachel) asked me to take the part. I’ve been watching her progress since we played together in Ragtime and was glad to do it.” “It’s time for the country to change about these things,” he continued. “We should be able to live our own lives. But these things take time until enough people stand up and say they want the change to be made. It’s not fast enough for some people but it will happen.”

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Mitchell and his wife, actress Allyson Tucker, have a ten year old son, Ellington. When asked how he would feel if his son said he was gay, Mitchell replied, “My job as a parent is to nurture my child to be whoever he is and help him discover what his task is in life.” “I’m fascinated by spirit and the quest we are all on but with different points of view and our need to understand and live more peacefully with one another,” he continued. “The performing arts are mostly story telling, sharing experiences with an audience that in turn experiences its own catharsis. It’s a primal experience to sit in a theater and share your humanity with other people.” Mitchell’s concert promises to be a wonderful experience for everyone who attends. He combines a resonant baritone voice with a stage presence and character portrayal unique to his performances. Visit JupiterTheatre.org for tickets and more information.

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If you’ve been celebrating the holidays all week, then a quiet night at home is certainly well deserved. Tonight, check out CW Seed, the CW television network’s online channel. The network is offering up Husbands, a hilarious comedy about a couple of quirky, gay newlyweds starring Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon. Each 7-10 minute episode offers the stuff of tabloid sensation because our husbands also happen to be celebrities experiencing wedded bliss under the lens of the paparazzi. To view all available episodes, go to CWSeed.com.

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Christmas may seem like a distant mystery— funny, since CVS, Wal-Mart, Target and the like kicked off the commercial blitz as early as September—but you can still experience the magic of the holiday with the Miami City Ballet’s heartwarming performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky’s timeless music comes to life in this holiday tradition at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, tonight through Sunday, Jan. 5. Performances Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. Tickets at BrowardCenter.org.

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Ghosts, Lesbians, lusty widows and lab reports! No wonder Danny wants to escape down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. At 81, the world Danny has always loved is falling apart. Joe Feinstein’s new play, Last of the Aztecs, gets its South Florida premiere on Saturday, Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan 5 at 5 p.m. at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. in Fort Lauderdale, and Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. Tickets are $15 at SmartTix.com or LakeWorthPlayhouse.org.

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Tap your feet to the beat. Tap: The Show offers nonstop, rhythmic dance wrapped in dazzling costumes and backed by a soaring orchestral score. An extravaganza featuring award-winning dancers and singers, this show offers breathtaking recreations of Broadway showstoppers, soft shoe, flamenco, Irish step, and more at Lynn University’s Wold Performing Arts Center in Boca Raton. You’ll be dancing in the aisles before it’s over. Experience the magic on Saturday, Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 5 at 5 p.m. Tickets are $25-40 at Give.Lynn.edu/TheatreArts.

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LGBT sports fans will be tuning in tonight to the BCS Championship Game, the biggest game of the college football season, this year pitting Florida State University Seminoles against the Auburn University Tigers. What better place to cheer on your favorite team than South Florida’s most popular gay sports bar, Sidelines, 2031 Wilton Dr. in Wilton Manors? Kick-off is at 8:30 p.m., but be sure to arrive early for a great seat at the bar and the 2-4-1 happy hour specials. For more information, go to Sidelinessports.com.

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No story has touched the LGBT community more than L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, the tale of Dorothy Gale, a farm girl from Kansas who is whisked away by a tornado to adventures in the magical land of Oz. This timeless story, retold through the theatrical magic of Andrew Lloyd Webber, returns to the Broward Center tonight through Sunday, Jan. 19. Expect plenty of surprises, including new songs from Webber and lyricist Tim Rice. Tickets start at $34. For show times and tickets, go to BrowardCenter.org.

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New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gospel Concert with Sister Hermana and Guests

Jan. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Parker Playhouse, 707 NE Eighth St. in Fort Lauderdale. Gospel singers from around the world come together to praise the new year ahead. Tickets $30. Call 954-462-0222 or visit ParkerPlayhouse.com.

Jay Z

Jan. 2, 2014 at 8 p.m. at the BB&T Center, One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. His only performance scheduled in Florida, the iconic rapper performs on his Magna Carta World tour. Tickets $28.75 to $146.25. Please visit Ticketmaster.com or TheBBTCenter.com.

Forbidden Broadway

Jan. 4 at 3 and 8 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Comedy at its best with impressions, outrageous costumes, song parodies and more. Tickets are $25 to $35. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

are $39.50 to $119.50. Visit TheBBTCenter.com or Ticketmaster.com.

Tony DeSare Quartet

Jan. 8, 2014 at 7:45 p.m. at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. DeSare mixes the classic styles of Sinatra and Nat King Cole with his own modern twist. Tickets $40. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* Secrets of the Trade

Jan. 11 to Feb. 9 at the Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale.A kid whose dream is to make it big on Broadway encounters his hero, who may or may not be his ticket to fame. Tickets $30. Call 954-519-2533 or visit IslandCityStage.org.

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Jan. 11, 2014 to 26 at the Down In Front Theater at Soref JCC, 6501 W. Sunrise Blvd. in Plantation. A courtroom drama exploring sexual abuse, family, power dynamics, and the court system. Tickets $15. Call 954-792-6700 or visit SorefJCC.org

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Last of the Aztecs

Jan. 4 and 5, 2014 at Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Danny, 81, had it all until all of his lifelong friends in the Aztec Athletic and Social Club passed away -- their humorous ghosts are haunting him, his wife has scary lab results, and his daughter has come out as a lesbian. Tickets $15. Call 954-678-1496 or visit SmartTix.com.

Billy Joel

Jan. 7 and 11, 2014 at the BB&T Center, One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. The Piano Man returns to South Florida after a short hiatus to perform all his hits you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but sing along to. Tickets

The Wizard of Oz

Jan. 7 to 19, 2014 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. An adapted version by Andrew Lloyd Webber, follow Dorothy and her new friends on their journey to Oz. Tickets $34.50 to $119.50. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

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Laffing Matterz: With a Vengeance...

Through March 22, 2014 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Hailed as the best dinner theatre by local critics, night after night this gang of performers will have you cracking up. Tickets $63 to $69, $125 on New Year’s Eve. Call 954-462-0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org.

* The Hummingbird Wars

Jan. 10 to Feb. 2 at the Arts Garage, 180 NE First St. in Delray Beach. When a soldier returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that his home has become the new battleground in this play examining the attack on the middle class. Tickets $30 to $45. Call 561-4506357 or visit ArtsGarage.org.

* Paula Poundstone

Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Twenty-five years after getting on a Greyhound bus to travel the country at open mic nights, the comedienne has a loyal following for her stand up that has the audience in stitches. Tickets $50. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org.

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Palm Beach County Salute to Vienna

Jan. 1, 2014 at 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Viennese waltzes, polkas, and operettas are performed by a cast of dancers and 75 musicians. Tickets $27 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

Neil Sedaka

Jan. 2, 2014 at 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. A legend of rock ‘n’ roll, Sedaka is known for his hits “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Calendar Girl,” and more. Tickets $25 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

Gregg Allman

Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, he has come into his own as a solo artist. Tickets $25 and up. Call 561-832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

Duo Amal

Jan. 5, 2014 at 2 p.m. at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. An IsraeliPalestinian piano duo, the two bring together two very different and conflicting worlds together through classical music. Tickets $25 and up. Call 561832-7469 or visit Kravis.org.

The Lion in Winter

Through Jan. 5, 2014 at The Donn & Ann Brown Theatre, 201 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. Travel back to 1183 in King Henry II’s castle as he celebrates Christmas with his three sons and estranged wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in a night that goes comedically very wrong. Tickets $60. Call 561-514-4042 or visit their website at PalmBeachDramaworks.org.

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.

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Jan. 4 to 19 at the SandBox at Miami Theater Center, 9816 NE Second Ave. in Miami Shores. A collection of plays and films by local artists. Tickets $30. Visit MadCatTheatre.org.

Broadway Her Way

Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, 51 N. Swinton Ave. in Delray Beach. Broadway performer Emily Skinner presents a solo show packed with musical favorites. Tickets $45. Call 305466-8002 or visit AventuraCenter.org.

Built to Amaze!

Jan. 9 to 20, 2014 at the AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey present an even more magical circus presentation. Tickets $16 to $87. Call 786-777-1000 or visit AAArena.com.

Antony and Cleopatra

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Brian d’Arcy James Two time TONY Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner plays out his rock ‘n roll fantasies. w Jan 29

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