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CONTENTS Welcome Letter ...................................................... 9 Proclamations ....................................................... 10 Message from Come Out With Pride Executive Director Mikael F. Audebert ................. 13 Parade Grand Marshal Debbie Gibson .................. 17 Come Out With Pride Week’s Events ..................... 25 Come Out With Pride Map..................................... 30 Come Out With Pride Event Schedule ................... 34 Come Out With Pride Performer Josey ................. 39 Come Out With Pride Performer Live Hart ........... 47 Out Is the New In Film Festival Filmmakers ....... 55 Come Out With Pride Sponsors ............................. 60 COME OUT WITH PRIDE 2012 PROGRAM/PUBLISHED BY WATERMARK MEDIA, INC. AND COME OUT WITH PRIDE

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 WORLD OF PRIDE FACT ABOUT ICELAND: Iceland has the world’s first openly gay head of state, Jóhanna Sigurõdóttir.

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he Metropolitan Business Association and our Come Out With Pride Team are very pleased to welcome you to the COME OUT WITH PRIDE 2012 celebration! Each year, the Come Out With Pride Production Team devotes countless hours to making sure that each PRIDE event is better than the previous year. Each year we also look for ways to make the event different and more meaningful. This year is no exception, as we have expanded our venue areas and have created a world experience to complete this wonderful day of celebration. This year’s theme of a WORLD OF PRIDE will take you on an international journey of self-discovery. We are very proud to stand in solidarity with our LGBT brothers and sisters, to commemorate National Coming Out Day, and to celebrate our authentic lives together. Each year our PRIDE event grows in size and attendance as a testament that more and more people feel the strength and support to come out and be themselves. We are told that many lives are changed by experiencing Come Out With Pride. Many people are strengthened by experiencing the event and by witnessing the joy of the thousands of people who attend each year. As a result of this experience, many �ind the strength to �inally come out and be true to themselves and their families.

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PRESIDENT Metropolitan Business Association

For the many volunteers who produce Come Out With Pride – led by the amazing Mikael Audebert, Executive Director – this is the true meaning of our event. If we touch just one person, and show them that there are 100,000 other people just like them who have faced the same challenges and who now join them in celebrating their personal freedoms, then we have done our job. Come Out With Pride is more than a festival and more than a parade. It is an expression of life in its truest form – an expression of joy from living an authentic life. On behalf of the Metropolitan Business Association and the Come Out With Pride leadership team, we welcome you to Come Out With Pride 2012, A WORLD OF PRIDE!

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 WORLD OF PRIDE FACT ABOUT US: Six states – Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Iowa – and Washington DC allow for marriage. Another 14 states have domestic partnership.

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 WORLD OF PRIDE FACT ABOUT FRANCE: France recognizes marriage licenses from anywhere else and will change civil rights to marriage and adoption rights in 2013.

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s I am entering my fourth year with this wonderful organization, I wanted to re�lect on other Pride events, especially in less LGBT-friendly countries. This year, we examine the diversity our community offers. Our own LGBT community reaches out to all ethnicities, religions, backgrounds, and certainly all sexual orientations. Tolerance and acceptance are things that all communities on this beautiful planet aspire to, so it’s frustrating that these are still issues in 2012. LGBT individuals in Angola face death. In Russia, the laws got tougher, preventing LGBT people from holding their annual celebration. Even in the U.S., our government denies us the fundamental rights offered to others. Yet, we march on, celebrating in any ways we can, showing our PRIDE around the world, in all languages and cultures. This year, in a new World Showcase, we will be featuring 10 World Pride events in pictures and in stories. I strongly encourage you to visit that exhibit on the International Bridge at Lake Eola (farmers’ market area). In addition, we will be taking you around the world through entertainment, food, and cocktails. I am also excited to announce the “rebirth” of our LGBT Film Festival, OUT IN THE OPEN™. We have the director of Love Free or Die, which received the Sundance 2012 Special Jury Prize. In addition, we will be closing with a special guest who continues to inspire thousands of people around the world through her coming out story: Chely Wright. Special thanks to Margaret Nolan and Nils Taranger for leading the rebirth! Last but not least, I want

MIKAEL FRANK AUDEBERT

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SENIOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Come Out With Pride

to emphasize our organization’s mission. Though a lot of fun is had planning events like Come Out With Pride, we also have two others purposes. We provide local nonpro�it organizations grants and scholarships. We also spread the word about PRIDE. This year, we secured TV spots through a generous BrightHouse Networks donation. We used these to broadcast 2 Public Service Announcements for 30 consecutive days on over 17 national networks. This was a �irst in Florida. With your help on Oct. 6, we can do even more! Finally, thanks to our amazing sponsors, especially Macy’s for taking on the role of Presenting Sponsor in a year of backlash toward corporations that stand for equality, inclusion, and fairness. I strongly encourage you to remember all our supporters. And these sponsors DO support us! My gratitude is to an amazing team for pouring time, energy, and creativity into YOUR annual celebration. They say “it takes a village,” and I am extremely proud of my villagers! Visit our website for the latest updates on all of the fun. Live your life authentically, always!

Happy Pride, Orlando!

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o child of the 80s can fail to recognize the songs of Debbie Gibson. Her 1987 debut album, Out of the Blue, featured four top ten hits: “Only in My Dreams,” “Shake Your Love,” “Out of the Blue,” and “Foolish Beat.” In fact, that last song landed Gibson in the Guinness World Book of Records as the youngest person to ever produce, write, and sing a No. 1 hit, at the age of 17. All along, her gay fans have always loved her. “I never totally understood the love affair, except to say maybe I do have history with the LGBT community,” says Gibson, who freely admits she started performing her �irst song in Continued on page 19 |  |

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 WORLD OF PRIDE FACT ABOUT MEXICO: Mexico made gay sex legal in 1871 under Napoleonic Law.

coming at her. It was an innocent mistake. She assumed people knew, which they |  | Debbie Gibson FROM PG.17 did, even though he never publicly stated it. I never made a statement saying ‘I am gay clubs to garner attention. heterosexual’ so...?!?” emphasizes Gibson. “I remember my mom – who was about “Jon was so cool and classy about it. We all the same age as I am now – collecting the fee love Tiffany, so it was not done with malice.” from a drag queen named Belle!” In fact, Gibson has supported all her LGBT Gibson has a long history with the LGBT fans who have in turn supported her. She community. As a youngster doing theatre, always showed her true colors – even at her she worshipped out Broadway star Gary young age – by raising money and awareness Beach (who won a Tony and starred in the for people with HIV/AIDS. movie version of The Producers.) At the age She’s always very outspoken about LGBT of 11, Gibson performed with Beach in A rights, including gay marriage. Christmas Carol. She later reconnected with “I know I can be him onstage as an adult in with my man without Beauty and the Beast. the government “He is just a warm human being involved in my being.” relationship in any way,” After her debut album says Gibson, who wonders soared, Gibson released why her LGBT fans don’t Electric Youth, another great have the same right. success. Gibson became the “I believe that everyone �irst female artist to have a should have the choice song and album at No. 1 at of marriage, as well as the same time. In 1989, she adoption. An un�it straight shared the American Society couple can have a natural of Composers, Authors and child, no questions Publishers Songwriter of asked. However, a loving the Year award with Bruce gay couple has to jump Springsteen. through hoops to show Yet, Gibson never forgets they are capable? Not fair!” that it all started in clubs – gay, She also has a distinct straight, and teen. —DEBBIE GIBSON understanding of teen “I played every gay club bullying. in this country. It was always my favorite part of the evening. Or, shall I “Listen, being a teen star in high school, say morning! My set at the gay clubs usually I had a scarlet letter on me. I had things didn’t start til 5A.M. If I was anywhere in the thrown at my bedroom windows, my little New York area, I would wipe my makeup off, sister was threatened, and I had panic sleep and hour, and then go to school!” attacks partially as a result of the cruelness The 1990s saw Gibson taking Broadway of all that,” says Gibson. “Shows like Glee and West End stage roles, including Eponine demonstrate that mis�it talented kids are in Les Misérables, Misérables Sandy in Grease, Fanny cool in their own right, which is great!” Brice in Funny Girl, Girl and of course, Belle in After being the Grand Marshall of the the stage version of Disney’s Beauty and the 2012 COWP parade, Gibson will Beast. In recent years, Gibson has toured perform at Parliament House, with friend and fellow 80s pop star Tiffany. both on Oct. 6. |  | Gibson is also quick to defend Tiffany, who in January 2011 accidentally outed fellow pop singer Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block: “Tiff had enough

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or gay singer-songwriter-model Josey, the last �ive years have been turbulent, to say the least. Right out of college in Kentucky, Josey was signed to a country music contract. Nine months later – in 2008 – that record company dropped Josey based on his sexuality. The action caused a �irestorm in the LGBT community, one that galvanized Josey’s biggest fans. “I feel that, today, the record company might handle it a little differently only because of the rapid change in society since then,” says Josey. “Although looking back, it was the best possible thing for me, because I now have so much more creative control over everything I’m doing.” Josey took that control and ran with it. He independently reproduced his album My Life on the Radio. He also uses many social media platforms to promote his music and communicate with his growing fan base. “Doing it on my own is the only way I can think of doing it,” says the artist. “What’s the point of connecting with people who support you if it’s Continued on page 41 |  |

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That explosion was Spears posting the video on her own site and telling the world |  | Josey FROM PG.39 that Josey’s cover had her “amazed.” “The response was wonderful and not going to actually be you? I love going overwhelming. So to this day I love that online and reading comments, suggestions, sometimes the simplest things really stand and different ideas for me.” out the most.” Josey says. He also uses that platform to speak out for Over the last few years, Josey has been LGBT equal rights. using the impetus he’s created to work on “I feel everyday we become a step closer his next album, where he hopes to blend his to where we want to be. Fortunately, I have acoustic style with urban and pop sounds. been given a voice in this community, and I The �irst single, “Stuck in My Head,” was will always stand up for what I feel or believe in, because not everyone gets the opportunity released in April of this year. “I have been working on this sound and to be heard.” writing for a while now, and I can’t wait for it All the attention before and after the to be �inished. My producers keep reminding controversy helped Josey in his other career me that Rome wasn’t built in a day (or even a as a model. The handsome singer-songwriter few weeks), so I try to keep obviously works hard to keep in mind that – if I want to himself in top shape. create something that will “I actually got started as a last and make an impact – I model while promoting my �irst de�initely have to take my music project. I was talking time.” with several magazines, and When asked about they wanted to do photo shoots starting out in the country for their articles. After these music business and going various shoots and articles were into pop, Josey replies, published, I ended up with quite “Well, honestly, I don’t think a modeling portfolio,” says Josey. my material was ever one “As more offers for modeling particular style. My writing —JOSEY projects arose, I was able to takes a hand in both genres; do these in addition to my how it’s produced determines the way it will music career. I’m not currently exclusive sound.” with an agency but would love to expand the “Growing up with country music and possibilities to team up with someone in that learning to write in that style, I think world.” the ‘root’ of a lot of my songs will always In the meantime, Josey found a unique be country. However, I really enjoy way to keep his audience entertained. He experimenting with all different kinds of started the extremely popular JoseyTV, a sounds and writing styles.” YouTube channel, where he covers many The artist couldn’t be more energized mainstream artists like Maroon 5, Katy Perry, to be at Come Out With Pride, especially Adele, and Lady Gaga. meeting Debbie Gibson: “I have not met her “I would say my favorite cover so far before! So I am excited!” would have to be Britney Spear’s ‘I Wanna “I have been to Orlando before, but Go.’ There was something so organic and real not for an extended stay! I’m anticipating about the �irst take of that cover. I literally great things!” |  | sang it, put it up, and shared it with a few friends and then Bam!”

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ome Out With Pride wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t brag about some of our own amazing Central Florida talent. This year local singer-songwriter Live Hart will be sharing her skills onstage at the Lake Eola Amphitheatre. This out artist is excited to be a part of the of�icial Oct. 6 event. “I hope it doesn’t rain,” says Live. “I hope it’s a beautiful day and everyone has a good time and that I have a great sound. I just want it to be phenomenal for everyone!” Live Hart is known for her folksy R&B, evident on her �irst single – released two years ago – “Please Don’t Say It’s Over.” “When I released that song, I started seeing that people were really digging what I was doing and that I was getting an audience. The song Continued on page 49 |  |

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|  | Live Hart FROM PG.47 got such great response for my �irst project. It was so encouraging.” Her smooth voice and personal lyrics de�ine a style that grabs listeners on a deep level. She also consistently keeps in contact with her fans and booking opportunities through her website, LiveHartOnline.com. She’s so into music, she uses this same website to share others artists and their new material that she’s found. “I have a lot of friends who are artists and musicians, and I just want us all to support each other,” says Hart. “Whatever I can do to help them – I just love music - I’ll share with my friends, because I just think it’s cool.” “I was always into music as a child. I started out playing violin and then alto sax,” says the guitar player and vocalist. “My friends and my family have always supported me. It all began for me by writing poems. I think that happens for a lot of singer-songwriters; they start out as poets.” —LIVE Live Hart is originally from New Jersey; she was raised by Jamaican parents. She moved to Central Florida to pursue schooling. She also joined a girl group, Urbanesque, which worked together for just under �ive years. “We decided as a group to part ways and try our own solo careers.” “For the past few years, I have been pursuing music fulltime. I’ve done a lot of shows and performances throughout Central Florida and have been able to explore some other cities, also.” says Hart. “For the last two months, I was just hanging out, but September and October have really �illed out,” says Hart.

“It’s funny how the music industry works that way.” Hart has opened for American Idol winner David Cook and R&B superstar Monica, and her own bookings continue to grow. Currently, in between these dates, she is in the studio recording her debut with Shaun Fisher on an album that they have labeled “Alternative Soul.” “It’s about 70 percent done,” she says. “I’m very excited about this, because it’s my �irst solo project. I’ve been working for the last year and a half. Some of these songs I wrote two years ago. They’re still like children to me. They start as a simple melody or thought. A lot of my tunes are born in the car, because I’m always traveling, going somewhere. I have to keep a little recorder with me at all times.” “Music for me is like a little mirror into my soul. I never write in too broad of strokes or in too general of terms, because I want people to connect on a personal level. I hope they get to know a little bit about me.” HART “My goal is to put out the best product that Live Hart can. I do it for me, abut also for my audience: the girl going through that really bad breakup, that boy who is misunderstood. However, I also do it for other singer-songwriters out there, so we can be there for each other.” “This isn’t my �irst Pride event. I’ve always been very supportive of the LGBT community. As an out gay woman, I always feel right at home at these events,” say Hart. “I’m very excited and happy to be asked,” says Live Hart. “I’m looking forward to being a part of the day.” |  |

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he world’s only openly gay bishop, New Hampshire’s Episcopalian Gene Robinson, works to extend religious access to all LGBT people. He travels and speaks at different congregations, facing strong opposition that can even become death threats. Director Mackey Alston says this is an important year for his �ilm: “We must mobilize across the nation to make sure our progress continues and we do not elect a president who considers us and our love inferior.” Mackey also knows that many LGBT people have been ostracized by religion. “Just as I have aimed to show that LGBT people are fully human to people who demonize us, I also aimed to show LGBT people that religious people are human, too, and not just evil,” says Mackey. “Bishop Robinson says, ‘The opposite of love is not hate, but fear.’” |  |

n 1995, the Academy of Country Music named Chely Wright Top New Female Vocalist. In May 2010, Chely came out publicly, writing a book and talking with Oprah. This documentary weaves together the last two years, including some of Wright’s personal videos and the public response she faced. “The audience reaction that I’ve experienced has been so positive and emotional,” says Wright. “I think my favorite reaction that I continue to see – which is a reaction that I never anticipated – is when someone approaches me and tells me that seeing my journey has helped them understand their child’s journey even more.” When asked about her coming out, the singer called it “very orchestrated” and continues: “When Oprah invited me to be on her show, it caused a tidal wave of exposure. I still get letters everyday from people all over the world.” |  |

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