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AVE announced in a press release this week that the organization has named Damian Pardo its interim executive director while it searches for a permanent one. Tony Lima, the former executive director, was removed from his position after some controversial remarks he made on stage at the organization’s annual Champions of Equality gala on June 14. While on stage Lima introduced four men, who are suspects in an anti-gay hate crime case, saying they were “wrongfully accused.” SFGN first reported the comments and they were later confirmed by a video from the event. The comments created a firestorm surrounding Lima and SAVE. Less than a week later Lima was terminated in a unanimous vote. “As the founding chair of SAVE and one of the LGBTQ community’s most respected and accomplished advocates and leaders, we are thrilled about having Damian take the helm of the organization during this transition period,” SAVE Chairman of the
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Barton Lynch, a bisexual man, donated his kidney because once he started dating men, he could no longer donate blood. The FDA bans men who have sex with men from donating blood, a policy that rights groups say is homophobic, according to LGBTQ Nation. But they can still donate organs and bone marrow. The policy “frustrates me to no end,
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because I think it’s based on outdated science and outdated [HIV] scares,” Lynch told the Washingtonian. “Other countries have changed their collection procedures and they’re not showing adverse effects, so it just seemed like this was one more reason to do it.” Lynch wrote a letter to the secretary of health and human services asking for the gay blood ban to end.
Scarlett Johansson said all actors should be able to take whatever role they want, regardless of race or gender. Johansson received backlash last year after taking a role in a movie as a transgender character, according to Mirror. She ended up stepping down from the role, but maintains that an actor should be able to play whoever they want. “You know, as an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job,” Johansson told As If magazine. “I feel like it’s a trend in my business and it needs to happen for various social reasons, yet there are times it does get uncomfortable when it affects the art because I feel art should be free of restrictions.” Twitter users are saying Johansson’s comments “diminish the importance” of transgender visibility in Hollywood.
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Education Minister Rafi Peretz said it’s possible to change a gay or lesbian person’s sexual orientation through conversion therapy. In a televised interview Saturday, the far-right rabbi said he’s performed conversion therapy on religious students in the past, according to the Washington Post. The National Association of LGBT in Israel called for his firing in a statement. “There is only one adequate response to such dark statements by the minister of education and that is to fire him immediately,” the National Association of LGBT in Israel said in a statement, according to the Post. “It is imperative to prevent Israeli girls and boys from exposure to the homophobic poison disseminated by one who is presumed to
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be involved with education and values.” Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from Peretz’s comments, saying they’re “not acceptable to me and do not reflect the position of the government under my leadership,” the Post reported.
Alan Turing, a gay World War II hero and “the father of computer science” will be the new face of the UK’s £50 bill, Bank of England Gov. Mark Karney announced Monday. Following his war contributions, in 1953, Turing was convicted of “gross indecency” for having sex with his partner, and part of his sentence was castration, according to Gay Star News. Turing died by suicide. Gay rights campaigner John Leech fought to have him pardoned, succeeding in 2009. “I’m absolutely delighted that Turing will be the face of the new £50 note. I hope it will go some way to acknowledging his unprecedented contribution to society and science ...But more importantly I hope it will also serve as a stark and rightfully painful reminder
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of what we lost, and what we risk when we allow that kind of hateful ideology to win,” Leech told Gay Star News. The movie “Imitation Game” was based on Turing’s success in cracking Nazi codes during the war.
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Australian Attorney General Christian Porter cleared up concerns that a new bill protecting religious freedoms will not water down LGBT rights. Gay rights advocacy groups including Equality Australia have warned that the conflict between state and federal laws could make discrimination easier, according to the Guardian. States including Tasmania and Queensland prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexuality, without an exemption for religion. “We would add that we hope the religious discrimination bill would provide consistent protections for best practice anti-discrimination laws … [to] ensure people living in states with strong protections – such as Tasmania – would have consistent coverage against
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discrimination on all grounds,” Equality Australia’s Director of Legal Advocay Lee Carnie said, according to the Guardian. Advocates have demanded that Porter meet with both religious leaders and LGBT rights groups who may be affected by the bill.
An unnamed woman shoved one of Brazil’s most famous priests Father Marcelo Rossi off his stage in Sao Paulo. The televised service captured the woman rushing at Rossi and pushing him, according to Queerty. Rossi has in the past said homosexuality is an illness, and that gay sex isn’t good because it hurts. But according to Brazilian delegate Daniel Castro, the attack didn’t have anything to do with Rossi’s anti-gay views. “She said that she wanted to come in to talk to him and that she was scared the moment she saw the security guards running after her. It’s her version, but anyone who sees the pictures sees that there is none of it [security guards running after her]. She says she got scared and pushed him at a time when
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Pete Buttigieg came in fifth in the NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll with 7 percent support among the Democratic field. Last week, Buttigieg, a gay man, was savagely criticized by another gay man, writer Dale Peck. In a piece published by The New Republic, Peck refers to Buttigieg as “Mary Pete” and speculates as to the mayor’s sexual tastes while conjuring up a twisted scene at a Chicago bus station. The New Republic pulled the piece after only a few hours online and its editor in chief apologized to Buttigieg. “We have high standards at The New Republic, but sometimes we fall short,” said Win McCormack, TNR Publisher. “Yesterday, we made a mistake, but we remain committed to honoring the tradition of high standards and journalistic integrity that have been the hallmark of The New Republic for more than 100 years.” Buttigieg is scheduled to appear in Portland, Oregon on July 23 for a big ticket fundraiser. He is following in the footsteps of fellow party hopefuls Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang who visited the Democratic city stronghold in recent weeks. One of Inslee’s proposals, if elected, is to nominate women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe, a lesbian, as secretary of state.. Rapinoe, co-captain of the World Cup champions, has called for more love and listening and less hate and talking. Groupings for the Detroit debates, hosted by CNN, have yet to be announced. Round three of the Democratic National Committee debates is set for Sept. 12-13 in Houston.
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teven Shires views the world from a bills, Shires prefers photographing objects unique lens. And it shows in all of his over people. “They don’t talk back,” he said. photographs. “I can manipulate them. I don’t have to ask Shires specializes in event and corporate them to smile.” photography — and for the first time ever, Shires is originally from Richmond, this summer, he’s exhibiting his photography Virginia. He started his career as an at shows on Wilton Drive. elementary school teacher. He’s been in South The show, called “My Eye Too,” takes places Florida since 1989 and has photographed real this Saturday at the South Florida Symphony estate, retail stores, and landscape lighting. Orchestra on Wilton Drive. The show is from Shires is also the official photographer of 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. It’s the follow up The South Florida Symphony. to his “My Eye” show earlier this He’s captured images for the “She’d never summer. symphony for several years. “I’m humbled by all of this,” “My Eye” and “My Eye Too” seen my Shires said. “I feel gratified. This came about thanks to Jacqueline artwork, but is all new territory for me. I don’t Lorber, the Symphony’s since I’ve make a lot from it. I live a simple president, and CEO. “He’s had life.” worked for her the most successful show of all Shires’ photographs include the artists since we opened up for 10 years, a wide range of subject matter. two years ago,” Lorber said. “The she gave me a June show was successful, and we Among the most recognized pictures is an image from Puerto wanted to give him the maximum chance.” Rico, one on a golf course, and amount of exposure, so he’s - Steven Shires a wide-angle abstract piece of a coming back in July.” Artist cruise ship. Another signature Patrons, friends, and guests are piece titled “Elementary” is a invited to enjoy Shires’ artwork. dramatic photograph of a girl in an elementary “Jacqueline gave me this chance,” Shires school walking past a window. said. “She’d never seen my artwork, but since Some of Shires’ displayed images are from I’ve worked for her for 10 years, she gave me early in his career; others are more recent. a chance.” The sum total of his work is a fantastic display Shires’ photography will also be on display of talent. soon at the art gallery at Fort Lauderdale City While taking photos at events pays the Hall. ‘That’s a biggie for me,” Shires said.
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The adoption fee for dogs over 6 months is $100 and felines over 6 months are $30. When you adopt from the Humane Society of Broward County the dogs and cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, receive preliminary vaccinations, cats are feline leukemia tested, and dogs over 7 months are tested for heartworm. They also receive a flea/tick preventative, a 10-day limited health care plan from VCA Animal Hospitals, 30 days of Trupanion Pet Insurance and a bag of Purina ONE pet food. The HSBC opens daily at 10:30 and is located at 2070 Griffin Road, a block west of I-95. For more details call 954-989-3977 ext. 6. To see who else is looking for a home visit www.humanebroward.com.
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Our Fund’s mission is to promote responsible philanthropy in order to make South Florida the most livable community in the country for LGBT people.
Everyday Philanthropist As South Florida’s only LGBT community foundation, Our Fund Foundation improves people’s lives by providing various ways to give and supporting causes within the LGBT community. Every month we will feature a local philanthropist and ask them about what inspires them to give, hopefully inspiring new everyday philanthropy. Barbara Signer, another committed supporter, talks about what inspires her to give to South Florida causes:
Where are you from, and where do you consider home? I was born and raised in The Bronx, NY. I consider Fort Lauderdale my home now, because it’s where I feel I have many bonds of friendship and sense of belonging. Not only the friends I have met here through the LGBT Community (Our Fund, Equality Florida and Women’s Groups), but also valued neighbors, through Democratic Clubs and campaigns and tennis group friends. I feel very fortunate that friends from the northeast live here now, too, so I have the best of both worlds. When did you first begin giving, and what inspired you to do so? What was the first organization you gave to? My earliest regular giving involved donating to health related organizations: American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Association and AIDS Organizations. My grandmother, whom I was very close to, had diabetes and was an inspiration to me and source of great love. Which causes and organizations do you support with your time and resources? Since moving to Fort Lauderdale, my wife Fran and I have been supporting LGBT causes by being part of Equality Florida’s Gala Steering Committee and co-chairs of the Gala. We have also been to Lobby Days on behalf of Equality Florida in Tallahassee. In addition I have been part of the review committees for Our Fund Grants and The Point Foundation Scholarships. Both experiences have afforded me the opportunity to meet and learn about amazing people and their contributions. We are also members of Our Fund and Lambda Legal Legacy Societies. Most recently Fran and I, along with Sue Wilder, formed the Women’s Cultural Salon, which together with leaders of various women’s organizations has conducted a survey to find out what can be done to strengthen the women’s community in terms of a more visible presence for women in Broward. In addition to LGBT specific organizations, Fran and I have been very active in political campaigns since we moved here in 2011,
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OUR FUND FOUNDATION supports projects that serve the LGBT community in a number of different fields:
including canvassing, registering voters, and rallies. Lastly we are supportive of local theater, particularly women focused, including Thou Art Woman, What’s Your Elephant, and The Vanguard. What do you find most rewarding about giving to the causes you care about? In addition to feeling like we can make a contribution, the most rewarding aspect is meeting so many wonderful people we count as friends. What sort of guidance would you give to someone considering giving back to their community? I would tell anyone who feels that there are injustices that need to be corrected or a cause that is important to fight for, to find a local organization, attend its meetings, and find out how to help. There are so many different ways one can help and it is not difficult to find a way that is not overwhelming. The people one meets and the sense of trying will exceed your expectations.
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To learn more about how you can support Our Fund’s mission to support agencies advancing LGBT causes in South Florida, visit us at www.Our-Fund.org or call us at (954) 565-1090
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Palm beach datebook SpellBound Friday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach This FUNdraiser will kick off with a reception including complimentary lite bites. The show will include up close and main stage magicians and an evening of jaw-dropping entertainment including Andy Holland, Gary Goodman and more! Tickets $45 to $65. Visit artsgarage,org Summer Jazz Series Saturday, July 20 at 7 p.m. at the Cultural Council Come see Broadway and cabaret star Avery Sommers as he performs in collaboration with the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival.Tickets are $20. Visit PalmBeachCulture. com/Music. Art After Dark Fridays from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach View an exhibition, attend a talk, participate in an art activity, enjoy a performance, concert, or film, sip cocktails, and dine in the Museum’s elegant new bar and restaurant. Free admission. Visit Norton.org. Palm Beaches Prime Timers Second Saturdays at 3 p.m. at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth An active fraternal and social organization dedicated to bring together mature gay and bisexual men for friendship, activities, support, and personal growth for the best times of our lives. Free. Call 561- 533-9699 or visit CompassGLCC.com. STD Testing and Flu Vaccinations First Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. at Compass GLCC, 201 N. Dixie Highway in Lake Worth The Department of Health comes monthly. Call 561-533-9699 or visit CompassGLCC.com. 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! Returns in October. Call 561-243-7922 or visit DelrayArts.org.
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compass and smartride team up for
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ompass Community Center in Lake Worth Beach celebrated the summer and The Smart Ride with its sixth annual annual Lei Me Luau Party held at The Mad Hatter Lounge. Compass raised $1,700 to participate in the SMART Ride, which is a 165-mile bike ride from Miami to Key West in November that raises money for HIV/AIDS prevention groups. Compass has provided HIV/AIDS services to thousands of people living in Palm Beach County and looks forward to growing the presence of Palm Beach County during this year’s ride. “I often forget that I am HIV positive and alive, mainly because of fundraising events like this,’’ said Mad Hatter Lounge employee Bruce Jagers. “I love the Luau and the money that is raised. It keeps me alive. I’m excited to be a part just to say ‘thank you’ for giving me life.” Dylan Brooks, Compass’ HIV testing coordinator, facilitated most of the event. “People came from all over to help us party at The Hatter,” Brooks said. “I’m always excited to see the community come together and support each other.” Local businesses like Studio 205, H.G. Roosters, Citrus Salon and Spa, and Penny’s at the Duke donated several items as donations toward the luau’s 50-50
“It keeps me alive. I’m excited to be a part just to say ‘thank you’ for giving me life.” -Bruce Jagers Mad Hatter Lounge Employee
raffle, where the winner takes half of the amount raised. The total raised was $700 and West Palm Beach resident Jay Cee earned the winnings — but decided to give his portion back to Compass. Each year, the Compass prevention department collaborates with The Mad Hatter Lounge to supply Palm Beach County with one of its most tropical parties. Kristof’s Catering of Lake Worth Beach put its own spin on the theme with an entire roasted pig for guests — as did local artist and longtime Mad Hatter Lounge
head of decor George Peer with plenty of handmade flowers around the bar. Dozens of people celebrated the evening with Brooks and the rest of the Compass crew. Guests that came to party included employees of Compass, members of Smart Ride, several community leaders, and owners of LGBT-friendly bars in Palm Beach County. For more information on how you can donate to The Smart Ride or Compass, visit the Compass website.
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Pride celebrations in Europe mark 50 years since Stonewall Aritz Parra
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uropean cities celebrated LGBT pride on Saturday, July 6 with colorful parades that also became platforms for political demands and a push back against far-right populist parties. This year’s events in London, Madrid and Budapest mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising in New York against police persecution, a turning point in the modern gay rights movement. The Spanish capital’s parade, one of the largest in the world, also became on Saturday the stage for the bursting of political tensions when police had to escort home center-right politicians out of the parade after LGBT activists blocked them from continuing halfway into the course. The protesters, some of them hurling water bottles at the politicians, expressed anger over the center-right Citizens party’s close ties to Vox, an uber-conservative party that has recently made inroads in Spanish politics and that activists perceive as an instigator of homophobia. Vox officials, whose votes were key last month in electing a new conservative Madrid mayor also supported by Citizens, have proposed moving next year’s Pride parade out of the city center, while regional leader Rocío Monasterio has said the celebrations “denigrate people’s dignity” and include “Faced with attitudes “explicit sexual acts in the streets.” that take us 20 or 30 years “When a mother, a father back, we need to tell them step outside with children from that we’ll take not even their home, they don’t have to one step back,” Gimeno be exposed to that spectacle,” said. Monasterio told a conservative Despite the brief website last week. confrontation between Citizens had defended its right - Beatriz Gimeno Spanish Activist and politicians and activists, to join the Pride celebrations lawmaker Saturday’s parade was despite refusing to sign the march’s manifesto, which called on political parties attended by hundreds of thousands in a not to support anti-LGBT policies by the far- largely festive mood. The official march preceding the parade right. Beatriz Gimeno, a long-time LGBT called for better care for elder LGBT people activist and far-left Podemos (We Can) party and a nation-wide law that, among other lawmaker, told The Associated Press that long-running demands, would standardize “reactionary” remarks by the far-right were rights for transgender people across the a reminder of how relevant the battle for gay country. “Elders without closets,” read a street-long rights remains.
“Faced with attitudes that take us 20 or 30 years back, we need to tell them that we’ll take not even one step back.”
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Madrid Pride 2018 via Facebook.
white banner carried by protesters marching along Madrid’s main artery. Members of the first generation of Spanish gay rights activists were at the front, followed by the colorful parade of floats decorated profusely with rainbow flags. Arny Carrasco, a 67-year-old man from a small town, said he had missed few pride celebrations for the past two decades, but that Saturday’s felt “special” for its focus on the elderly. “The gay community has shown society different ways of relating to each other and it’s about time that we don’t feel that we need to get back into the closet when we become older,” Carrasco said, citing how nursing homes, for example, are ill-prepared to cater the needs of LGBT people, especially transgender men and women.
In London, hundreds of thousands also poured into the streets of London for Britain’s biggest Pride parade. Some 30,000 participants, including uniformed police and firefighters, marched while many more lining the streets cheered and waved rainbow flags. Organizers said they had aimed to increase the event’s diversity, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he hoped it would be the biggest-ever Pride parade. Alison Camps, co-chair of Pride in London, said “it’s vital that we remember that Pride is not just one day a year — we must fight for the rights of all members of our community all year round.” In the Hungarian capital, Budapest, thousands also took part in a Pride parade that stressed calls for acceptance and the right to live without fear.
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New York Pride/World Pride Jesse Monteagudo
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y now all of you have seen, heard, read or otherwise know about New York City Pride / Stonewall 50, the events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. You also know about World Pride (June 26-30), held for the first time in the U.S. simultaneously with Stonewall 50. Millions of lesbians, gay males, bisexuals, trans and queer people and our heterosexual allies gathered in New York to remember, observe and celebrate. If Stonewall 50 was about the past then World Pride is about the present; a show of unity and determination in the face of government and religious opposition, at home and abroad. I was one of the fortunate ones who were in New York City during this momentous weekend; not as a celebrity, not even as a reporter, but as one gay man who wanted to share in this moment of history. This was my third visit to New York. My first visit, a week in July 1977, came after we lost Miami-Dade County to Save Our Children. My second visit, in the fall of 1997, was a few hours in the city with my late partner, Michael Greenspan. My third visit was longer, from June 26 to July 2. Each time, New York had something new to show me. This time, the Big Apple was decked out in her rainbow colors, from department store windows to the Empire State Building. I almost expected the Statute of Liberty to wear a rainbow colored dress but she did not need to. Her presence spoke volumes about the rights of all, even in the face of an administration that seeks to destroy her dream. Wherever you went, from Harlem to Brooklyn, queer people and our allies were in full force. Most of New York’s famous museums had LGBT exhibits. The Museum of the City of New York featured the work of Fred W. McDarrah, the Village Voice photographer who captured the Stonewall
uprising as well as other pivotal events in LGBT and NYC history. The Solomon R. Guggenehim Museum displayed the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic photos drove Jesse Helms into a tizzy. The New York Public Library at Bryant Park had two relevant exhibits: “Love & Resistance - Stonewall 50” showcased queer history and relationships while “Walt Whitman: America’s Poet” honored the great gay poet (1819-1892). Religious groups, at least the liberal ones, joined in the celebration. Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, NYC’s LGBT synagogue, held a special Pride Shabbat with guest speaker Tony Kushner. Though I could not make it to all the Pride events, I managed to see a few, including World Pride’s Opening Ceremony June 26 — with Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Chaka Khan and Todrick Hall, among others — and the NYC Pride Parade June 30. The media did its best to play up our differences: between white gay men and trans women of color over who did what during the Stonewall uprising and between the established NYC Pride Parade and the Queer Liberation March over business participation and control. It did not really matter. Many New Yorkers went to the Queer March in the morning and to the Pride Parade in the afternoon. The NYC Pride Parade itself broke records, drawing a crowd of 4-5 million participants and bystanders. The parade began at noon up Fifth Avenue and continued through the afternoon and early evening before it ended in Greenwich Village and at the Stonewall National Monument. I watched the parade for a few hours
As a gay man among many LGBT people and allies, I felt I was in the middle of a worldshaking event; one that will not happen again but which I will remember for as long as I live.
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opposite the viewing stand on Fifth Avenue and 26 Street before I took a break and then wandered over to the Village to view the rest of the parade. Our queer world was in full display, with groups from the USA, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, etc. There were politicians and celebrities — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Vanessa Williams, Andy Cohen — but also “ordinary” LGBT people, representing all nations, classes, races, religions and lifestyles, being proud of who we are, and willing to share our pride with
others. NYC Pride 2019 had the distinction of being televised by a major network (ABC) not to mention many local stations. As a gay man among many LGBT people and allies, I felt I was in the middle of a world-shaking event; one that will not happen again but which I will remember for as long as I live. Next year’s pride ceremonies will not be as earthshaking but no matter. Memories of Stonewall 50 and World Pride 2019 will give us the impetus to move forward, to fight whatever battles might come our way.
Jesse Monteagudo is a freelance writer and journalist. He has been an active member of South Florida's LGBT community for more than four decades and has served in various community organizations.
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SFGN Publisher Norm Kent Owes Mayor Pete An Apology
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think Norm Kent’s vitriolic “Mayor Pete The Invisible” editorial was a bit misplaced and disrespectful to Mayor Pete. While he has run campaigns to get elected, running for the presidency is a different ballgame than running for a mayors office. Could it be that while he’s a Gay married guy, the biggest number of really important voters are not in our community and considering he’d like our support, the gay vote at the moment may not be his top priority? I think Norm’s issue was less about the Mayor’s failure to communicate and meet with the gay press but having been asked to pay to attend the fundraiser! Articles like Norm’s certainly will not endear Mayor Pete or any another gay candidate to the gay press and certainly not to SFGN!
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ew Yorkers love their Sunday New York Every time I hear of another newspaper Times. At least, they used to. closing, a little part of me dies. Without In its heyday, the paper had a dozen journalists calling truth to power, sections and seemed like it weighed 20 corruption thrives like an untreated fungus. pounds. You could spend a day reading it. Accountability is lost, and power abuses the Many people did. public trust. Dissent is never given a voice. For the past 40 years, Prakash Rao has Without a local newspaper, sexual predators operated a tiny, little newsstand in Greenwich are not exposed. Charities designed for you line Village on the same corner of Christopher individual pockets instead. City commissions Street and West 7th Avenue South. It is directly run roughshod not only over your lawns, but across from a neighborhood institution, your rights. A fighting, local newspaper is the Village Cigars. Same owner. Same guardian of your liberty. newsstand. For years, I have heard from some In the 1970s and 80s, Prakash Rao business owners on the Drive in and his partners had to come in on Wilton Manors that “We don’t Saturday evenings around need to advertise. We are 5 p.m. to start collating the already here. People see us.” separate sections of the And they did, until the city Sunday Times, patching them undertook a construction together for sale. It was no easy project that cut off even the task. limited parking and access On any given Sunday consumers utilized. morning, Prakash would sell Who do you think 2,800 copies of the New York were the first citizens and Times on a Sunday morning. businesses to protest; to It took some work. But times demand that SFGN should change. Ask Blockbuster do more articles revealing Video. The world is becoming just what the hell was going a digital universe. on? You guessed it. On Sunday, June 30, the day Somebody broke into of New York’s 50th Stonewall a local store recently, and Parade, I went into the Village. raided their cash register. It was packed. Gay heaven. What paper do you think - Prakash Rao News stand owner Men and women and rainbows wrote about it online? Not everywhere, iPhone in their the Wall Street Journal. The hands. There was Prakash, too, his newsstand culprit has now been apprehended. open, his papers out front. When hate crime suspects were introduced I was worried with such a historical event at a SAVE fundraiser as “wrongfully accused” unfolding I would be too late to score a copy last month, it was not the NY Times that of the NY Post, Daily News, or NY Times; that caught and exposed the rather shocking everyone before me would have bought them surprise. It was SFGN, a print newspaper out. My fears were unwarranted. supporting you in a digital world. “We sell less than a hundred copies a week of Years ago, the directors of Pride South the Sunday Times,” Prakash told me. “People Florida were woefully mismanaging their don’t buy papers the way they used to.” budget. No one wanted to touch the topic. We “In the past,” he added, “there would be did. The late executive director wound up with lines to get the Sunday Times. We couldn’t put a jail stint, and the local pride group recovered them together quickly enough.” Yes, the past. thousands of dollars in restitution. The world the way it once was. When we went after another publisher for a
“We sell less than a hundred copies a week of the Sunday Times. People don’t buy papers the way they used to.”
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fundraising fraud, many said we were simply jealous. When he went bankrupt leaving 300 creditors out a total of $6 million, the newspaper won a Florida Press Association award for exposing it. When one of the persons named in our Out50 spotlights was exposed in 2017 for having wrongfully accosted boys decades ago during his tenure as an educator in a prep school, it was SFGN’s associate publisher, Jason Parsley, that wrote about it, albeit painfully. That’s what we do, even if it unfortunately involves sexual predators inappropriately working in a community center. Last week, MAD Magazine, born in 1952, called it quits. Yes, that MAD Magazine. After six decades of unapologetically irreverent cutting and caustic satire, no more new content will be coming your way. As fast as someone could build something up in Americana, MAD editors would humorously find a way to tear it down. Joe Raiola, a man who spent 33 years as both a writer and editor for Mad Magazine wonderfully remarked after the announcement, “Kids generally understand that people are full of shit… Mad confirmed everything that I was thinking but wouldn’t say to anybody else: Everyone is full of shit—
and you can’t trust anyone.” He is spot on. On another front, earlier this month, The Vindicator newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio celebrated its 150th birthday. They won’t be having any more. This paper reaches 100,000 readers a day online and in print. It is shutting down next month. Here is what columnist Tom Jones wrote: “Soon there will be a void, and we’re left to ask: Who will cover possible corruption in city hall? Who will make sure the school board is treating teachers and students well? Who will be the watchdog keeping an eye on the police, district attorneys and other government agencies? Who will be the voice of a community?” Jeffrey Epstein may not like it, but we need the Julie Browns of this world and the Miami Herald more than we need the likes of him. This month, as you pick up the summer copy of the MIRROR, our annual Guide to the Drive, or this week’s 497th issue of SFGN, think of what you are getting that most gay communities in America are not. The South Florida Gay News is a voice and a vision for our lives, our loves, and our losses. Sometimes, the news we bring you will be celebratory and laudable. Other times, it may be critical and lamentable. But it is real news, and we are proud to be by your side. 7.17.2019 •
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Bungling Burglar Arrested! Alleged thief caught in Chicago By Sallie James
A bungling burglar who tried Wilton Drive next door and stealing cash unsuccessfully to heave a cement block and merchandise, and attempting — through the door of a popular candy store is unsuccessfully — to break into the New in police custody, charged with burglarizing York Grilled Cheese Co. at 2207 Wilton Drive. three downtown businesses. Both incidents were captured on Raheen Clinton Clay, 24, was arrested on June 9 in Chicago by Chicago’s Fugitive surveillance cameras, which Dumas posted Apprehension Unit. Police from multiple on his store’s Facebook page. The videos jurisdictions tracked Clay down after went viral. Dumas attributes the suspect’s arrests Wilton Manors police identified him in partially to the power of store surveillance videos. social media. Charges against Clay “People kept sharing include the Wilton Manors the videos,” he said. burglary cases, a burglary News of the suspect’s warrant out of Iowa and a arrest elicited a slew of probation violation in Illinois. comments on To the It was sweet news to Ralph Moon’s Facebook page. Dumas, whose store To the “Donate candy to the Moon was struck twice by detective who cracked the accused burglar. In the the case. Congrats,” first instance, the suspect posted Sean Parkoff. jimmied the lock on a rear “Great job to police in door and took $600 from the both states,” said Richard cash register. In the second Kelley. instance, the suspect threw a “I bet his mom is cement block at a glass door 27 proud,” wrote Lisa times, cracking the tempered - Ralph Dumas Riviello. glass but failing to get inside. To the moon owner Wrote Sarah Gaynor, Store video shows the man “He was very busy! attempting to heave a cement block through the back door of Dumas’ Stupid! Glad they caught this nut.” Dumas said he’s happy to move on. He business at 2205 Wilton Drive over and over said the double break-ins cost him about in the wee hours of the morning of June 27. The same man was also captured on $3,000. “It’s a little scary but nothing has store video early on June 17 rifling through the cash register and making off with $600. happened in 15 years. I think this was an The suspect is also accused of breaking isolated incident,” Dumas said. “It’s better into RockHard Lovestuff at 2205A than a bullet in my head.” WMG
“It’s a little scary but nothing has happened in 15 years. I think this was an isolated incident.”
CCTV footage via Facebook. Mugshot courtesy of Chicago Police Department.
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Patience in a High-Speed World By Sal Torre Photo credit: Justin Musial.
Everything today seems to be based on speed. How fast is your data plan? How fast can my food delivery be at the front door? How soon will my Uber be pulling up? How quickly can Starbucks get a triple venti half soy no-foam latte placed in front of an impatient, multitasking customer. Speed has become our latest addiction. This driving need for instant gratification, for quick results, to have things done at a faster and faster pace does not mix well with long-term planning, state and local government agencies, and the reality of municipal budget restraints from year to year. The road resurfacing and striping phase of the Wilton Drive project has not even had a chance to dry, and people improvements come at different stages. This are already expecting trees, landscaping, prolonged time frame does not sit well with and a finished product. Unfortunately, those craving the quick gratification that many some things take time, more time than have become accustomed to. However, major we would like perhaps, but still worth projects such as Wilton Drive take time to reach completion, but once that goal is achieved, the waiting for. In a perfect world one might expect long wait will reward our city with much to be trees, landscaping, art installations, proud of along this vital main corridor of our signage, new lighting and other Island City. One benefit of this whole process is that amenities to have been installed over the past year while road construction the cost of all the roadway improvements was taking place. Unfortunately, Wilton such as drainage, curbing, wider sidewalks, medians, bike lanes, Drive is a far more complex and road resurfacing reality. have been funded by the Wilton Drive is known Residents and Florida Department of by another name, SR 811. businesses Transportation (FDOT) and This designation means the Broward Metropolitan that the roadway is owned will just have Planning Organization. and controlled by the The huge cost burden of State of Florida and falls to wait a bit these road improvements under the guidelines of longer as the on our municipal budget the Florida Department of would have made this Transportation (FDOT). improvements project prohibitive in the This reality has made time frame we are currently it far more challenging to come at witnessing, too slow for bring about long-awaited different stages. some, but actually very changes along this stretch quick in the budgetary and of roadway. The good real-time world. news is that the state is Until the state FDOT finalizes this initial nearing the completion of Phase One of this project. At that point, our local phase in the next few weeks, some items that government can begin the eagerly seem odd and a waste of money will have to awaited Phase Two of the project, the be endured. The dying sod tossed into place landscaping/streetscaping phase for to cover gaping holes along the street is not the new and improved Wilton Drive the final landscaping that is fueling much of the complaining and snickering. It is simply a corridor. Residents and businesses will means to complete Phase One so that our city just have to wait a bit longer as the can begin Phase Two, which will go a long way
WMG July 17, 2019 • Volume 6 • Issue 14 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943
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toward transforming the Drive into the state of grandeur many in our community have planned and worked for over many years. The City of Wilton Manors has set funds aside in previous budgets and has proposed future funding for the landscaping and tree installation planned in the next phase of improvements. Over time, we will begin the much anticipated streetscaping, art installations, and so much more. The Drive will be a continuing work in progress for some time, but soon much will be happening to move beyond the sod that some are complaining about. Along with the planned landscaping, the city is also ready to move ahead with a very detailed wayfinding sign project that will introduce new signage along our entranceways and throughout the Wilton Drive Improvement District, bringing a fresh look to our Island City. Funds are also being budgeted to bring a new look to Jaycee Park. This small public park located across from City Hall on Wilton Drive will get a complete make-over to transform the space into a spectacular gathering place along the new and improved Wilton Drive. Our elected officials and city management team are fully committed to bringing about the wondrous transformation of Wilton Drive from a four-lane state roadway into the vital, beautifully landscaped, main city corridor serving as the centerpiece of our great Island City. Patience, proper planning, overcoming hurdles, responsibly budgeting and the transformation of a dream into the new and improved Wilton Drive is what makes life just better here. WMG
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Real Estate
Second Quarter Results:
A New View By James Oaksun
In my previous three columns, I demonstrated that: 1. “Price per square foot” was an imprecise estimator of property value in Wilton Manors 2. Statistical analysis found a better estimator using several inputs including square footage 3. Compared to commonly-used metrics, the new model produced superior results Additionally, we are able to utilize the model to analyze true overall pricing trends in the Island City. First, actual sales back to 2012 identify characteristics of the “typical” WilMa home sold:
Three bedrooms, two baths No garage Has pool, but not on a river or canal Just under 1,800 “adjusted square feet” of living space 8,300-square foot lot
Now, we know the characteristics of homes sold in a particular quarter. To the extent the homes sold differ from that typical home, we are able to use the dollar weights for these and
other factors to make an “apples to apples” comparison across timeframes. For example, suppose the median sale price increased by five percent compared with a prior period. Further analysis indicated that in the prior period, the typical home sold was 1,600 square feet (i.e., smaller) and did not have a pool (an attractive amenity for WilMa buyers). We could then hypothesize that the lower price was not entirely due to underlying economics, but to some degree based on different characteristics of the home sold. With the weights the statistical analysis found, we are able to adjust prices over time to “true up” valuations and obtain an estimate of actual price activity. For the three months ended June 30, 2019, the median sale price of a single family home in Wilton Manors per MLS (no condos or townhomes included) was $507,500. This is a 13 percent increase from the second quarter of 2018, when the median sale price was $447,750. Compared with the first quarter of 2019, median sale price increased by 8 percent. For the first six months of 2019, the median sale price was $488,750, an 8 percent increase
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compared with the same period in the prior year. Now we get to the fun part. The chart included here has a blue line showing actual median sale price per MLS back to 2012. Then I calculated “adjusted median price” based on differences across periods in the characteristics of the homes sold — the dashed red line. Although they track similarly, there are obvious differences in certain quarters. On this adjusted basis, the median sale price in 2Q19 was $511,120, a slight increase from the actual median of $507,500. However, due to differing characteristics of the homes sold, this was just a 6 percent
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increase over second quarter 2018, when the adjusted median price increased from $447,750 to $482,800. Perhaps an analytically motivated and somewhat geekish person could apply this methodology to other cities and neighborhoods, especially as concern grows regarding trends in the marketplace. WMG James Oaksun, Florida’s Real Estate Geek(SM), is Broker-Owner of New Realty Concepts in Fort Lauderdale. In addition to having degrees from Dartmouth and Cornell, he is a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI).
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Gym Drama
Challenge Fitness Fined for Noise Complaints Gym’s attorney accuses magistrate of holding “kangaroo court;” judge calls lawyer “nasty” and “disrespectful” By Sallie James Score one for the Townhomes of Riverside Homeowners Association. The HOA was the temporary winner of a long-simmering feud with a noisy neighborhood gym. The outcome? Special Magistrate Thomas J. Ansbro on July 3 ordered Challenge Fitness to pay a $500 fine and $150 costs after a contentious hours-long hearing at City Hall over code violations. The issue of noise violations has been ongoing for more than a year due to numerous case delays. The issue? Nearby homeowners complained that the gym’s loudspeaker system was so intrusive it affected their daily living. The gym leases its property from the Pride Center at Equality Park, which has also sparred with the same HOA over drainage issues, lighting issues, and parking and code enforcement issues. The hearing about noise complaints at the gym at 2036 N. Dixie Highway was confrontational from the start. Challenge Fitness attorney Paula J. Campione had filed an emergency motion to delay the July 3 hearing because an earlier noise complaint was still on appeal and had not yet been resolved. That case involved a $250 fine. Ansbro refused to grant the delay. At one point during the hearing, Campione accused Ansbro of holding a “kangaroo court” and described a complaint from a homeowner as evidence of “practicing law without a license.” An irritated Ansbro called the gym’s attorney “nasty” and “disrespectful” and
Challange Fitness’ lawyer, Paula J. Campione. Photo courtesy of the Florida Bar.
threatened to remove her from the case because of comments she made during her presentation. At another juncture, Campione asked Ansbro why he didn’t take into account numerous documents she had submitted earlier that day for consideration. Ansbro told her he had received them only hours earlier and the file was too “voluminous” for proper review. “That would not be tolerated by a court and it’s not going to be tolerated by me despite the fact you may think I run a kangaroo code court,” he said, referring to comments Campione made in pleadings. “You are extremely disrespectful and not a service to your client, quite a disservice to your client to be nasty. It doesn’t work here and it won’t work in Circuit Court. You might need to go back and take some training on what it takes to do some legal work.” As the hearing proceeded, the barbs continued. Campione subsequently argued that Ansbro was “unduly “That would not biased” and “un-neutral” and should not be handling the case. be tolerated by Ansbro disagreed. a court and it’s Riverside Homeowners Campione requested not going to be Association President Matt an inspection of the gym’s tolerated by me Dreger recalled how he premises. She told Ansbro and other residents in his the gym had made several despite the fact neighborhood could “hear the improvements over the past you may think I at the gym inside year, including installing air run a kangaroo instructor our homes and on our front conditioning in September code court.” porches,” as well as at the pool 2018, and is in the process of and waterfront. replacing a metal rolling door - Thomas J. Ansbro “I have no particular bad with an enclosed concrete wall Special Magistrate feelings toward the gym. We to help curb noise in an effort to just don’t want to hear them,” be a good neighbor. Ansbro repeatedly noted that the July 3 Dreger told Ansbro. “If someone just grabbed hearing focused only on a noise complaint the volume and turned it down, this would all stemming from an April 4, 2019 incident, and go away.” Campione requested Ansbro use noise from told Campione that anything else she presented the nearby railroad tracks as a baseline, which was irrelevant. “We’re here on a case to determine whether he promptly declined. “He is talking about the noise generated a violation was committed on a certain date. A motion to inspect the premises, which has from this property. That’s why I’m here, that’s nothing to do with the case before me has no why everybody is here,” Ansbro said. An irritated Campione asked Ansbro at one relevance. Denied,” Ansbro told Campione. During his testimony, Townhomes of point, “I’m sorry magistrate. Do you represent
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the city now?” When Ansbro said he didn’t, she replied, “Sure seems like it.” Ansbro shot back, “I’m going to disallow you to represent these people if you don’t stop the snark. You understand me, do you?” Ansbro called Campione “disrespectful” and Campione told Ansbro he was supposed to be “unbiased.” After Dreger told Ansbro that Challenge Fitness had turned down the volume “insufficiently.” Campione then accused Dreger of “purposely filing complaints against the Pride Center for ulterior motives.” At one point, Campione’s co-counsel referred to Dreger as “hyper-sensitive.” Ansbro said he didn’t think Dreger’s complaints about the gym were unreasonable. “My intent is to get compliance. That’s all we want to do,” Ansbro said. After imposing the $500 fine, he added, “I want to make it clear: I don’t want to see this back here.” WMG
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Convictions
Seeing In The Dark
Why More Employers Should Offer Care Benefits Belo Cipriani
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mployee benefits aim to show workers their organization cares and is invested in their future. But more often than not, these corporate perks fail to offer employees services that are useful — especially during a crisis. One of the most commonly overlooked benefits by organizations is flexible work time to be a caregiver for a family member. And for the LGBT community, whose members often follow a chosen family structure, this can include neighbors and friends.
San Francisco resident Terry Wicks, now 64, was enjoying a successful career as an X-ray/MRI Tech in 2015 when his husband, Michael Draper, now 57, was diagnosed with multiple system atrophy — a very rare neurodegenerative brain disease that has no treatment and is fatal. “When we were told it was terminal,” said Wicks, “I gave two weeks’ notice and quit my job to focus on Michael and the life changes that were necessary going forward.” Wicks confirms what we all know: that caregiving is tough. He spends his entire day caring for his husband, running the home, looking after pets, and managing the household budget. Prior to his diagnosis, Draper worked as a senior director of Global Operations for a major tech company in Silicon Valley. Now that some time has passed, Wicks said that loss of income has greatly impacted their family. “I am not compensated in any way by any one for being Michael’s full-time caregiver. The fact that I cannot work because I have to take care of Michael has really hurt our finances,” said Wicks. Wicks and Draper’s heartbreaking story is sadly not uncommon. According to a 2019 Harvard Business School study, “The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity By Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs,” by Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman, which examines survey results from 1,500 employees and 300 HR leaders, three out of four (73 percent) employees surveyed reported having some type of current caregiving responsibility,
and more than 80 percent of employees with caregiving responsibilities admitted that caregiving affected their productivity. In addition, almost 25 percent of employees surveyed who said they left an organization cited doing so to care for an ill or disabled spouse, partner, or extended family member. “We are always working,” said Raman, one of the study’s authors, “and where is the time to take care of our responsibilities?” “Traditional families don’t really exist,” continued Raman, “but most employers don’t acknowledge family of choice and lose out on great workers. Our research found that most organizations are wasting money offering benefits that employees don’t need, and overlook care benefits.” Raman explains that care benefits are limited to executives and are not advertised within organizations or on company benefit sites. She also states that we live in a culture where people can feel guilty for taking time off — even if it is to deal with a tragedy — and may be hesitant to ask their employer for a care benefit. Paul Blom, an openly gay business man and owner of a Right at Home franchise in Bloomington, Minnesota — an agency that provides caregiver services — says most people end up paying for caregivers from their income or out of their savings, and that the cost quickly adds up. “It can cost anywhere between $30-$40 per hour depending upon the level of care that is required,” he said. “People who are low income can qualify for medical assistance/ Medicaid programs that will cover care, but
Terry Wicks and Michael Draper.
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the reimbursement rates have stagnated over the last 10 years, to the point that there are fewer and fewer agencies that will accept reimbursement through those programs.” Blom’s business has started to see some referrals come in through Care.com — a website that connects families with different care providers. However, he says it’s only a handful of large companies that are offering a care benefit through the Care.com service, Care Concierge. Both Raman and Blom feel more employers need to offer care benefits; yet, it’s a long
journey toward making care benefits a more common company perk, as organizations would have to shift their culture in order to appreciate the advantage of helping their employees meet their caregiver responsibilities. To read the full Harvard study, visit https://tinyurl.com/y2wxjv23.. And for more information about caregiving resources for the LGBT community, you can visit the LGBT Aging Center, a national resource, at: https:// www.lgbtagingcenter.org/training/index. cfm.
Belo Cipriani is a disability advocate, an award-winning journalist, the prize-winning author of Blind: A Memoir and Midday Dreams, and the spokesperson for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Learn more at www.belocipriani.com. 7.17.2019 •
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FAITH & PRIDE spirituality
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ride month has passed. For many, especially the younger people among us, pride is about parades and parties, celebrating and just being out in the community — out as LGBT, out in the community, out to the world. For those of us in the religious world (the liberal, accepting religious world), it is a time to celebrate that we are all created differently, but loved the same. In July, most put pride on a shelf and move on with their lives, lives that fit in with the mainstream of society, lives that are just a part of the “normal” world. But, as a part of the older generation of queer folk, a word that many of my generation reject, I am called to remember times when the struggle was yearround, when being identified as “one of those people” (the words used were much less polite), could mean expulsion from one’s religious community, loss of a job, imprisonment, forced mental health treatment (read, “being cured of being gay”), even violent attacks that often resulted in death. We need to continue to remember. We need to remember the time before Stonewall. We need to celebrate those who helped to
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set the stage at great risk to themselves. We need to remember that they set the stage for a world, at least in North America, where the Stonewall events and later activism and progress could even be contemplated. At Church of Our Savior, we continue to remember our history and those who risked themselves prior to Stonewall by presenting “Out of the Shadows, from police raids to Stonewall riots, 1903-1969,” a photo exhibition from the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, in Fort Lauderdale. On Saturday, July 20, the exhibit will be open at Church of Our Savior MCC, 2011 South Federal Highway, Boynton Beach, beginning at 6 p.m., with a coffee and cookie reception at 7 p.m. For those who can’t make the reception, feel free to drop in on Sunday after service, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., to view the exhibit. From 1968 until today, Rev. Elder Troy D. Perry’s words continue to ring true. As he repeats, every chance he gets, “God made you the way you are and God loves you the way you are!” Let us remember the beloveds who are no longer with us and the beloveds who remain among us.
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Such a Different Life, and Yet, the Same Brian McNaught
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e’re north for the summer, in the I’m a Democrat, and the wealthy garbage forests, mountains, and lakes of the collector in town is a Trump Republican, is Adirondacks. We moved here after genetic. The liberals here don’t see the world spending 16 summers in Provincetown. We the way they do because they had different followed friends, who charmed us with experiences growing up, but because their sunset boat rides in a Cris Craft, a shiny, genetic make-up influences their perception wooden boat. of reality. We can’t help ourselves. The other Ray and I love the wilderness, most 60 percent is due to the influences of our especially the wildlife. Not much could environment and nurturing, over which compare to the humpback whales and we have more control. That same DNA, I horsehead seals that often entered the suppose, can influence whether we choose harbor in front of our home, but, there’s also to live in Provincetown or in Tupper Lake, or nothing to compare to the crackle of logs in in both. a fireplace, and the haunting call of the loon It’s possible for researchers to pick out in a cove on our property. Our lives are very Republicans and Democrats based upon the different from what they once were, and way they process information. Tests where yet, very much the same. We’re the same subjects were shown images, such as of a two guys and a dog, just in a panda, a monkey, and a different reality. banana, and then asked to On my errands today, I cut answer simple questions If it's true that through the back streets of about the images, made the blue collar neighborhoods it apparent who was who. 40 percent of the of Tupper Lake, the former So, you can have a liberal reason for our lumber town in which we live, in Provincetown or Tupper seasonally. The magnificent Lake, but it’s more likely political views spring symphony of blooming the liberal’s DNA would is guided by our pink, purple, and white lilac, gravitate toward the tip of DNA, is it possible cherry trees, and the lowly Cape Cod. Liberals are from but extraordinary yellow Venus and Conservatives for liberals and dandelions, reminded me from Mars, but some of us, conservatives ... to so much of growing up in because of the 60 percent truly understand Michigan. influences, are able to find I like the simplicity and peace and beauty in both. what the other is dignity of these neighborhoods Lincoln is neither saying? that petition year round to have a Republican nor a their potholed roads repaved. Democrat, but I can tell Cracked cement walks head from his behavior that he directly from the street to the front doors of is more likely to be a liberal. List quickly the simple homes of these good people, who the characteristics of a liberal. Many of you all are very family oriented. In Tupper Lake, know the story of Ferdinand the bull who everyone is related. refused to fight. That’s my boy. Lincoln has This is also Trump territory, though not never been in a fight, except when attacked, as demonstratively conservative as some or competing with his brother to protect the sections of the country. If it was so, we would 7-year-old boy they both feel duty bound to leave, and warn others not to come. This is guard. Make love, not war. All we are saying a new experience for us, but we manage, as is give peace a chance. Lincoln is like his two other liberals do, by finding and clinging to dads. likeminded people. Among the liberal groups If it’s true that 40 percent of the reason here you’ll find gay and straight people, well for our political views is guided by our DNA, and under-educated, and those from all is it possible for liberals and conservatives walks of life who share the same vision of from either end of the spectrum, to truly America, and understanding of scripture. understand what the other is saying? Many What I’ve learned recently, from a of us have had the experience of being program on NPR, is that 40 percent of why completely perplexed by the political views
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of friends and family members. How can it be that two people raised in the same house can each be willing to die for opposing beliefs, or kill their siblings for opposing beliefs? Extreme, you say? Another American Civil War would put brother against brother, sister against sister. Are they each being pig-headed for no good reason, or do they passionately see the world differently because of their DNA, and other factors over which they had no control? I was very successful in my corporate diversity work on LGBT issues because before each presentation, I prayed that a power greater than myself would channel welcoming love to everyone in the audience. My use of words, and choice of examples, were not confrontational. So, we could be from different planets but nevertheless meet in a space station to talk. What do we talk about? The things we have in common — faith, love, family, whales and loons, beach sand, blooming apple trees, and potholes. And we, each side, must gently reframe the discussion on immigration, abortion, nationalism, and welfare to see where we can understand the other’s perspective, and perhaps find common ground. Because we live in a democratic Republic,
we get to vote. We also get to try to convince others to vote with us. But we shouldn’t set ourselves up for disappointment when they just can’t come to see things the same way we do. Whoever wins the vote gets to pack the Supreme Court with people who share their brainwaves. What is the relationship between the panda, the monkey, and the banana? Right answer. You’re confirmed to serve for life. Ray and I bounce back like you, and like those old standing clown figures from our youth, that you could punch back and watch them spring forward, again to left of center. We spend our time doing more than building fires and listening to the call of the loons. We try to use welcoming, loving language with conservatives, and be mindful of how we’re talking about them when we’re with liberals. We can complain all we want, but, only they can decide whether their vote betrays their values of faith, love, and family. To change their mind wouldn’t mean they were defying their DNA. Rather, they’d be weighing which values they hold most dear. Sometimes, no, oftentimes, we all need to sit quietly together, and enjoy listening to each other’s responses to lilacs and life as we each see them.
Brian McNaught has been a leading educator on LGBTQ issues globally since 1974. He has made his many books and DVDs available for free at Brian-McNaught.com. The New York Times named him “The Godfather of gay diversity training.”
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South of the Border Part 1 Rick Karlin
There is more to Mexican cuisine than just tacos.
Almacen de Empanadas
In this week’s column we’ll look at regional Mexican cuisine. For next week’s column we’ll expand our focus to Central and South America. We’ll leave the Caribbean countries, Almacen de Empanadas (literally the many with Latin roots, for another time. Mexican cuisine is more nuanced than empanada warehouse) opened quietly before Stonewall Pride, adding some much-needed many realize. When discussing Mexican variety to the dining options along Wilton cuisine, one needs to be aware that there Drive. With nearly two dozen varieties are seven distinct regions, each with its own from which to choose, you’re certain to find staples and techniques. The one constant something to your taste. Among the savory you’ll find is the tortilla. Whether flour or options are, pastries stuffed with mac and corn, there are more than 40 variations of cheese, cheese, onion and cheese, barbecue this essential of Mexican cuisine. Starting in Northern Mexico, which chicken, broccoli, blue cheese, spinach with eggs or feta, eggplant, mushrooms, ham and includes Baja, Sonora and Chihuahua, among other regions, you’ll find great diversity as cheese and chorizo, among others. Sweet selections include Nutella, apple you travel from the Baja California coast and caramel. Currently, the restaurant only to the Gulf of Mexico. This area is home serves empanadas, soft drinks, wine and to many ranches, so you’ll find beef and beer. Some side dishes and salads would cheese dishes. Baja California is also home be a nice addition. The pastries are priced to Mexico’s oldest continuously producing $3.50 each and three makes for a satisfying, wine district and as a peninsula, features a wide variety of seafood if light meal. The dining area dishes. is comfortable enough, if not The North Pacific coast, particularly conducive to a Mexican cuisine is home to Sinaloa, Nayarit, leisurely meal. In fact, it appears Jalisco and Colima, stretches as if the intention is to encourage more nuanced than Mexico’s long Pacific pick-up and take-home dining. many realize. When along shoreline and supplies Service is friendly, if unpolished. discussing Mexican much of the country’s Almost every Latin American country features some version cuisine, one needs to principle grains and produce, especially its chilies. Some of the empanada. If your idea of be aware that there classic North Pacific Coast Latin American food is limited are seven distinct dishes include pozole, and to Taco Bell, you may not be aware of the subtle differences regions, each with menudo. Guadalajara is the area’s gastronomic center and in technique, style, produce and its own staples and the areas around Jalisco are staples. Each Latin American known for tequila production. techniques. country has its own separate Bajio is the area most culture — and as a result, its own similar to the land of the unique cuisine. While there are some similarities, the colonizing Spaniards and the food there dishes vary from country to country and retains its European influence. It is known even region by region within the country, for rice and pork dishes, as well as desserts just as they do in the U.S. Most countries such as chongos (a syrupy cheese dish) and serve rice and beans, but the beans used vary cajeta, a goat’s milk-based caramel. The South Pacific coast is an area of deep for each country and differ in preparation. For example, once you get south of Mexico, valleys surrounded by mountainous peaks you’ll seldom find refried beans and once and is home to the most indigenously based you leave Mexico and Guatemala, the spices dishes. The Oaxacan region is known for get milder the farther south you head. several varieties of mole, the deep, rich Indeed, each region within each country Mexican sauce based on slow cooked chilies, has its own distinct culinary specialties — cocoa and nuts. Black beans are a favorite just as the countries of Europe do. So “Latin addition to dishes. In the South you’ll find that the areas American cuisine” really is a collection of different cuisines, rather than its own entity. including Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana 2041 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors 954-314-7764
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Photo via Facebook. Roo on the Yucatán peninsula are distinct from the rest of the country. Many dishes can be traced back to Mayan food. There are also influences from the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Middle Eastern cultures. Corn is the basic staple and is used in food and pureed for drinks. Another prominent feature of Yucatán cooking is the use of tropical fruits. It’s no surprise that many of the most popular dishes of the Gulf region, which includes Tabasco and Veracruz, features seafood. It is another area that combines the influences of the indigenous Mayan culture with that of European settlers as well as that of Afro-Cuban influences from the Caribbean islands. One of the most popular dishes is red snapper prepared with a light tomato sauce seasoned with bay leaves, onions, capers, olives and sweet yellow peppers. Tabasco is the home state for the
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famous hot sauce that bears its name. Just as the U.S. dishes vary from region to region, so too does Mexican cuisine. Centrally located Mexico City provides a nice variety of regional cooking as well as global influences. Mexico City is also famed for its street food vendors providing a quick lunch to the millions of inhabitants of Mexico’s capital city. The street trucks and carts serve barbacoa (a favorite in the central highlands), carnitas (originally from Michoacán), moles (from Puebla and central Mexico), tacos with many different fillings and large sub-like sandwiches called tortas. There are also eateries that specialize in preHispanic food, including dishes with insects. Next week we’ll take a look at the dishes of Mexico’s neighbors to the south, and while there are some similarities in the cuisines of the southern part of this hemisphere, there are distinct differences as well.
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HOMO HISTORY
BY GRAHAM BRUNK
Will the Real Allen Parsons
Please Stand Up? The gay criminal mastermind has evaded police for 41 years.
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hatever happened to Allen Andrew Parsons? It’s a question that’s lingered for 40 years since his disappearance around 1980.
But first — who was this mysterious man? Parsons graduated with top honors from Fort Lauderdale High School. He ran a thriving mail order gay pornography business. Later he ran a drug abuse commission. And his last known profession was publishing a chain of gay publications. Was he a victim of a selective police enforcement? Was he a criminal mastermind? Parsons graduated from high school in 1955. He was in the art club, debate club, AV club, swimming team, and served as class president. People in his class envied him. He was a well groomed guy that all the girls wanted. Parsons however had other interests.
after his first year and returned home to his mother’s house on NE 1st Street in Fort Lauderdale. He got a job with the Broward Sheriff’s office in the juvenile division and laid low for a few years. After about a year the Sheriff’s office fired him when they discovered he had lied about previous experience. In the very early morning hours of Nov. 10, 1960, the Sheriff’s office with the assistance of the Pompano Beach Police Department raided Parsons’ home near downtown Fort Lauderdale. They found loads of male pornography, which was illegal to possess at the time. Investigators learned much of the pornography was created by Parsons. They
Parsons pleaded guilty and admitted he had made a thriving business throughout five different states selling the pornographic photos. He spent the years following his high school graduation attending Stetson University in DeLand on a debate scholarship. He even got a gig writing about his experiences at Stetson in a column in the Fort Lauderdale News. He became the first teenager to ever address the Florida State Legislature in Tallahassee during his time at Stetson. For reasons unknown he left Stetson
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also found he had a subscription list of over 5,000 men in the Southeast U.S. whom he’d mail copies of the photos to. This was proven when the U.S. Postal Service froze mail in progress from Parsons’ address and found gay porn. Law enforcement was tipped off a few days prior about Parsons when a 15-year-old boy who was hitchhiking was picked up by police
Side-by-side of Allen Parsons and Richard Thompson.
in Pompano Beach and told them Parsons had shown him obscene material and had taken nude photos of himself. Parsons pleaded guilty and admitted he had made a thriving business throughout five different states selling the pornographic photos. Because of his academic status, achievement, and obvious homosexuality his case made the local news. Since individuals in Dade and Duval counties had received images from Parsons, those counties charged him as well. He was eventually sent to prison where he would serve a year followed by five years of probation. But that was far from the end of Parsons’ story. A few years after his release in 1963 it was revealed Parsons never registered for the federal draft, a requirement at the time for all men in the U.S. to do when they turn 18. His probation was extended another five years and he was required to register.
In 1965 he was arrested when two boys, ages 16 and 17, reported to police that Parsons made unwanted advances to them. The Miami News and the Fort Lauderdale News reported that the former honors student was once again caught soliciting “young boys” for sexual acts and photography. Despite the media sensation around Parsons’ arrest he was found not guilty. This time Parsons disappeared. In the early 1970s Dr. Richard Thompson arrived in Titusville. He claimed to have gained experience after practicing in Washington D.C. and graduating from Georgetown University. He did not practice psychology locally. He claimed a lot of his wealth came from an inheritance. Thompson quickly became the leader of the Titusville Drug Abuse Commission. He also became very active in local politics and gained himself a spot on the board of the local democratic committee. He boasted about his wealth and used it to befriend
HOMO HISTORY (CONT.) many youthful political activists while promising his association with them would launch them into the political spotlight. Dr. Thompson was routinely used as a source for discussion on drugs and politics by the area’s local newspaper, Florida Today. He gained even more notoriety when he led a local Brevard County effort to get New York Mayor John Lindsay’s name on the democratic ticket for the 1972 presidential election. But on the morning of August 18, 1972 all of that came crashing to a halt when Titusville Police Chief Clarence Kirkland announced Thompson had been arrested at the court house that morning under suspicion that he had registered to vote under a false name and failed to report that he was a convicted felon. Kirkland went on to explain that Thompson’s finger prints were an identical match to a young man with a long criminal rap sheet in Fort Lauderdale a decade before — Allen Andrew Parsons. Despite the very obvious likeness and behavioral tactics Thompson shared with Parsons, he called the arrest nothing more than a “smear tactic to run him out of town” due to his political activism. In talking to local media he felt he was arrested to stop a local political rally he was planning with a political youth group he had set up. Thompson refused to talk directly about the charges pending against him and would not answer whether he was, in fact, Parsons.
In 1972 it was technically not illegal to register to vote under a false name, but only to cast a ballot under the false name. Since there was no evidence Thompson ever voted under this name the case would not have held much water in court. Kirkland resigned over the controversy and Thompson never had to appear in court to disprove he was not Parsons. Florida Today even did a lengthy opinion piece detailing the case and why Thompson’s troubles didn’t end there. Thompson laid low and played the victim card for a few months, telling local reporters that the claims against him had bruised his reputation and that it would take years for him to rebuild his repertoire. Nonetheless Thompson vowed to remain active and local. Thompson remained mostly out of the spotlight in 1973 but the mysteriousness of his identity and wealth didn’t go unnoticed by the IRS. In December of that year the IRS revealed that they had identified where Thompson’s money was coming from. He had been secretly operating a large chain of gay publications under the brand Richard Models Exclusive (or RMX). The publications had circulation in the tens of thousands and primarily featured young boys ages 15-22. The photo books with titles such as “From Richard with Love” or “200 boys”) were found to be widely available all over the country. One such book even featured a model who called himself John Schriver, who claimed to have been
In December of that year the IRS revealed that they had identified where Thompson’s money was coming from. He had been secretly operating a large chain of gay publications under the brand Richard Models Exclusive (or RMX). Dr. Thompson missed his first court date because he was in Miami “on business.” He finally appeared in court in Brevard County on Aug. 29 and pleaded not guilty for falsifying his voter registration. He said he was not Parsons and was not using a pseudonym to hide his criminal past. If convicted he faced five years in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. It was front page news on the morning of Sept. 21, 1972 when it was announced that the Titusville Police decided to drop their charges against Thompson. The police agency claimed they felt they did not have a strong case.
from the Palm Beach area and a part of the Kennedy family. He would go on to appear in several publications and gained some notoriety but his claim was later widely debunked in a 1972 issue of The Advocate. In fact, almost all the other models were from South Florida and photography was mostly done in rural outdoor scenes or deserted beach scenes in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The revelation shed light as to why Thompson took so many business trips to South Florida. The books were copyrighted by the Overstock Book Company, a New York based
BY GRAHAM BRUNK
A model from Richard Models Exclusive, Richard Thompson’s gay pornography company. company responsible for supplying similar print material via many different brands all over the country. It was one of the largest underground gay pornography operations of its kind in the country at the time and the age of the models came under great scrutiny. This case paved the way for eventual regulation of what should be considered underage and what is not. A police raid in Thompson’s Titsuville house found that he had loads of pornographic materials and a very clever business plan with dealings in Miami, New York, and Puerto Rico. Thompson was located and in 1975 pleaded guilty to tax evasion, having never filed taxes for any of his income in the 1970s. Furthermore his identity was still in question when Georgetown University claimed to have no record of his attendance. He was sentenced to probation with the condition that he not have any dealings with illegal pornographic material again. Following an arrest for lewd and lascivious activity against a 15-year-old boy in later 1975, police raided his house again, finding more pornographic magazines, photos, and personal diaries. During his court proceedings Titusville Councilman Charlie Davis came to Thompson’s defense stating that he should be given psychiatric
treatment rather than a prison sentence. He felt Thompson was a victim of constant selective enforcement. The court ignored Davis’ request and Thompson, whom the court was now calling Allen Parsons, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison followed by 2 more months in a Brevard County prison. Parsons spent the 10 months at the El Reno, Oklahoma prison facility. He was released on June 16, 1978 and due back in Brevard County, but Parsons disappeared. Titusville Police Chief Ron Clark spent a year trying to seek out Parsons to no avail. In the last article ever to be written about Parsons in September 1980, Clark stated he didn’t care where Parsons was as long as he stayed away from Brevard County. He had no doubt Parsons would surface again since he felt you couldn’t cover up the type of activity Parsons was involved in for very long. Turns out he was wrong. Parsons has evaded police for the last 41 years. It is thought Parsons returned to South Florida and may have used as many as 160 different aliases since. If he is still out there, he is an 81-year-old criminal mastermind with a knack for covering his whereabouts very well. It’s worth noting that the statute of limitations on his case have run out.
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Carbonell Award-winner Jeni Hacker stars in Ronnie Larsen’s new comedy, “Grindr Mom,” opening this weekend at Wilton Theater Factory. Submitted photo.
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or his latest comedy, playwright and producer Ronnie Larsen has enlisted the talents of Carbonell Award-winning director Stuart Meltzer and actress Jeni Hacker. “This show is very different from anything I’ve written before,” said Larsen, whose OffBroadway hit “Making Porn” and other bawdy gay comedies have been produced around the world. “There’s no nudity or sex — at least not on the stage!” “Grindr Mom” is the story of a mildmannered suburban housewife who becomes curious about her gay son’s love life. After he mentions meeting a guy on a “dating” site (“Grindr”), she decides she needs to learn more about “the whole gay thing.” She creates a fake profile on the hook-up app and quickly discovers more about gay mating rituals than she could have ever imagined. Larsen promised lots of laughs in the onewoman show, but some serious moments, as well. As “Pepsi Guzzler,” the Mormon mom is confronted with lots of cheesy one-liners about coke (cocaine) and PnP from her wouldbe suitors. “She becomes obsessed with the whole thing and discovers that gay men are everywhere — church, school, the grocery store — and they’re all looking for sex!” he chuckled. “More importantly, the show challenges the gay community, too. She wonders why we fought so hard for marriage when we don’t seem to respect the institution.” There’s also a big surprise ending, and not necessarily the happy kind, but Larsen was mum, avoiding any spoilers.
One thing was certain in his mind: he would need a very strong actress. The show started as a 10-minute monologue written for last year’s “Hook Ups,” a collection of short plays, which Larsen reworked and extended this summer. “I knew I needed a master storyteller and that was Jeni Hacker,” he explained. “She’s just wonderful. I sent her the monologue and she loved it.” Hacker, a familiar face in South Florida theaters and an Actors Equity member, proudly displays two Carbonell statues for her work at Miami’s Zoetic Stage — one for best actress in the 2016 production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Passion” and the other for best supporting actress in the 2017 world premiere of “After.” She also starred as the conflicted mother in the theater’s critically acclaimed production of “Fun Home,” the Tony-winning musical about a lesbian cartoonist who must come to grips with the suicide of her gay father. While Larsen traditionally directs his own plays, he felt Zoetic’s resident artistic director Stuart Meltzer would be the perfect fit. The openly gay Meltzer, who wrote and directed the Carbonell-winning family drama “The Goldberg Variations,” has a keen understanding of the dynamics of complicated families, Larsen pointed out, and is also simply one of the best directors in the region. “This is a dream team,” Larsen said proudly, especially because the play relies solely on the powerful performance of its star with no set and virtually no lighting cues, “and I think audiences are going to be really surprised by ‘Grindr Mom.’”
Jeni Hacker stars in the world premiere of Ronnie Larsen’s “Grindr Mom,” July 19 – 27 at Wilton Theater Factory, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton Manors. Tickets are $25-35 at RonnieLarsen.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 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.
broward county *Dining with the Divas Fundraiser
Thursday, August 22 at 7 p.m. at Lips, 1421 E Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Have a memorable night with celebrity hosts Ronald Herron, Larry Karnoff, Marc Martorana, Adam Irvin and Brett Watts as well as some of your favorite South Florida drag queens. Funds go to the Stonewall National Museum & Archives. Tickets $50, $75 for VIP. Visit stonewall-museum.org.
*One East Society’s Society Social
Thursday, July 18 at 300 SW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale. Introducing One East Society’s first Society Social, where members and guests can engage, meet, and connect with other young creatives and professionals who share an appreciation of the arts. Featuring a pop-up art installation by Just Us Gallery and H&H Gallery, live performance by The Pulse Band, and sounds by DJ SID. RSVP at NSUArtMuseum.org.
*SAGE Presents ‘The Favourite’
Friday, July 19 at 1:30 p.m. at the Pride Center, 2040 N. Dixie Hwy. The Favourite is set in early-1700s England which is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne plagued by physical ailments and the trauma of losing 17 children, occupies the throne. Wickedly funny and at times devastating. Free to attend, food and drink available.
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Home: An Artistic Celebration of Community
Saturday, August 31 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at ArtServe, located at 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. Audiences will enjoy familyfriendly art activities and interact with artists as they build a collaborative performance piece that will be presented at the close of the evening. Free parking, refreshments and a fine art clearance sale are included. Tickets $20, Visit bit.ly/artservehome2019.
Hall of Heroes
July 3 to September 2 at the Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale. This comic book superhero exhibit immerses you in the action as soon as you enter, with fullscale statues of biggies such as Superman, Iron Man, Batman (and his Batmobile) and The Hulk. At interactive stations, visitors can see how they match up against the superheroes. More info at MODS.org.
GFLGLCC July Mixer
Tuesday, July 26 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the B Ocean Resort, 1140 Seabreaze Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Come meet with the Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce and as always enjoy a complimentary vodka drink, cash bar with happy hour specials and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Tickets $10. Visit GoGayFortLauderdale.com to RSVP.
Environmental & Disaster Relief Volunteer Camp
July 8 to 12 at HandsOn Broward. This program mobilizes young adults to take action that
changes the world and themselves through service. Youth will learn how to spot issues in their communities and get to know the tools and resources they need to become part of the solution. Those interested in registering contact Dani@handsonbroward.org.
palm beach county Douyé
Friday, July 12 at 8 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. FAME magazine describes Douyé’s music as “something you have to surrender to, as it sweeps the listener up in its rich textures and heavenly melodies, a feast for the senses, a collection of paeans to love and positivity carried enticingly by her ceaselessly melodious singing.” Tickets $35 to $45. Visit artsgarage.org.
Diamond Dixie
Saturday, July 13 at 8 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Diamond Dixie is an Orlando-based country duo made up of sisters Gabriela and Bianca LeDuc. The girls have been performing for more than a decade and have traveled all over the United States playing shows, recording music and making radio and television appearances. Tickets $25 to $35. Visit ArtsGarage.org
SpellBound
Friday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. This FUNdraiser will kick-off with a reception including complimentary lite bites. The show will include up close and main stage magicians and an evening of jaw-dropping entertainment including Andy Holland, Gary Goodman and more! Tickets $45 to $65. Visit artsgarage,org
Coffee Clatch at Compass
First Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon at Compass, 201 N. Dixie Hwy, Lake Worth. A social group focusing on the mature LGBT+ community in Palm Beach County, providing a relaxed environment for meeting friends, discussing interesting topics, and engaging in community projects. Free to attend, email joekolb@compassglcc.com for details.
miami-dade Overtown Music and Arts Festival
Friday, July 19 in the Overtown Business District, Miami. It’s a full day of non-stop fun, featuring great live music, ethnic cuisine and artists, crafters and jewelers showcasing their work. There’s also a gigantic Youth Zone for the youngsters that includes more live music, arts and crafts, face painting, bounce houses, karaoke and fun fitness. Visit OvertownMusicArtsFestival.com for details.
Arsht Center Farmers Market
Mondays from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. Purchase fresh food from local farmers, including fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, as well as chefs, live music, and cooking demonstrations. Tickets $45 to $75. Free. Visit ArshtCenter.org/en/Visit/Dining.
POZCONNECT Support Group for Spanish Speakers
Mondays 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Pridelines, 6360 NE Fourth Court in Miami. A support group for HIV+ people, in Spanish. Free. Call Eddie at 305-571-9601, ext. 105 or visit Pridelines.org.
POZCONNECT Support Group for Gay and Bi Men
Tuesdays from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Pridelines, 6360 NE Fourth Court in Miami. A gay and bi men’s roundtable HIV+ support group. Free. Call Eddie at 305-571-9601, ext. 105 or visit Pridelines.org.
key west Taco Brunch and All Day Happy Hour
Every Sunday (opening at 8 a.m.) at Mellow Cafe and Gastropub, 1605 N. Roosevelt Blvd, Key West. Spend the day drinking and downing tacos at this all-day happy hour, each week on Sunday!
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