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repercussions for using hateful language and slurs. Upon arriving in Miami, Norell’s family moved to Jacksonville with assistance from the Lutheran Immigration and Refugees services. Norell was defiant against her verbal aggressors and always kept her chin up. “Names have power if you only let them. I have been called every slur you can imagine such as cross dresser, It, heshe, man in a wig Taina Norell is a transgender artist who and even freak.” makes a living by performing drag, working Norell believes she inherited her mother’s as a makeup artist for Chanel, taking strength and fortitude. “My mother has photographs of newborns and painting. She always been a strong woman. I am so grateful believes that the more life skills you acquire, for my mother’s love. My stepfather was a the more they become an integral part of very cruel man and was physically abusive one’s growth, and that continuing to learn towards her, so I would fight back and protect and adapt is an imperative facet to the human her. “ experience. The years of trauma, abuse, Her humble beginnings and violence miraculously are anything but a fairytale, helped shape and build an but she was determined inner strength in Norell. A to overcome bullying and sense of resilience that she homelessness. would need to rely on in her Norell immigrated to the early twenties was slowly U.S. on May 5th, 1998 from cultivated. The next few years Cuba. Her mother, Migdalis in her life would continue to be was a refugee and fled to the rocky. U.S. 8 months earlier than After being in the U.S. for Norell. Her mother and a decade, Norell decided to stepfather moved to Miami visit New York City with some and worked tirelessly to save friends. However, her friends up enough money to send for ended up leaving New York Norell and her brother. without informing her, leaving Norell’s mother found Norell stranded in the big a church in Coral Gables city. Fortunately, she became called Ermita de la Caridad acquainted with some people (Our Lady of Charity), and who recommended that she went there every Sunday. reach out to a shelter. She had Her mother wept silently a place to sleep most nights, - Taina Norell during the service because “They [the shelter] wake you trans artist she felt guilty for leaving her up at 6 a.m. and kick you out two young children in Cuba. and don’t let you back in until 8 Eventually, one of the pastors approached her p.m. If you’re not lined up in front of the door and asked why she was always crying. The by 8:00, you lost your bed for the night.” pastor subsequently helped her raise enough After being homeless and struggling to amount of money to pay for the plane tickets survive for three months, she made the to Miami. decision to reach out to her mother. At first, Once in Miami, bullying continued to she was ashamed that she got herself in that be rampant, and there were virtually no situation.
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NEWS local “That was my rock bottom, 2008. I was embarrassed, but I knew I deserved better than this. I called my mother. I knew I could get out of this dark hole that essentially I put myself in.” Mr. and Miss Trans USA, is an annual pageant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was created in 2018 in order to provide a platform that focuses on trans-visbility and to serve as the outreach for the transgender community. Norell is the first ever Latin American who represents for the state of Florida in this competition. There are 21 contestants registered for the pageant that will be held on Sept. 21 2019. Norell was attracted to Mr. and Miss Trans USA because it brings together Trans visibility and activism unlike most pageants. This pageant wants the contestants to have a voice and to use their platform to bring about awareness to social issues that impact the trans community directly. “My mission in life is to inspire young transgender women who feel like they don’t have a voice or they don’t belong or perhaps aren’t good enough. Remember you might stumble along the way and fall down, but it’s not how many times you fall down that matters but how many times you get back up. You’re beautiful; trust the process and your evolution. Don’t ever lose hope, and surround yourself with people who uplift you and support you. Have a clear vision of where you see yourself and never give up on your dreams. Only you have the power of making them a reality.” Norell reminisces about immigrating to the U.S., and her family moving from Miami to Jacksonville. She spoke about how dangerous the neighborhood she grew up in was, and how drugs and gang violence ran rampant. Her three months of homelessness in New
Taina Norell during her youth. Image courtesy of Taina Norell.
York City, and how she was a working girl. She sighs deeply and continues, “I rewind that tape in the back of my head of my life, my chapters in my book, I am so very lucky to still be around” “I want to meet with local, trans led organizations, like Arianna Lint or Tatiana Braxton to talk about main issues that are happening, trans women of color are under a giant target, it’s happening in every city.” Norell is continuously creating and evolving. She keeps busy by performing at Azucar, The Manor and Georgie’s Alibi, taking photos of newborns for Mom365 and working as makeup artist for Chanel. “Children, teens, and even adults are being driven to thoughts and even attempts of suicide from bullying. For every one of them that survived or for each one that didn’t, I stand here today. No matter the depth of my pain, I never thought of taking my life. The love that I found for myself kept me protected from the evils projected at me.” Informational graphic for Mr. & Miss Trans U.S.A. Image courtesy of Taina Norell.
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Trans March on Washington set for Sept. 28
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National Transgender Visibility March on Washington originally planned for March 31 will now take place Saturday, Sept. 28, according to a statement released on Tuesday by organizers of the march and related events.
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Marissa Miller, a D.C.-based transgender activist and Chorus of New York will be among the performers at the lead organizer, said the march will begin with a 9:30 concert, Kormann said. a.m. rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown D.C. in which Kormann said watch parties in at least 13 cities were prominent transgender and LGBT rights advocates will expected to view the concert through a live streaming speak. broadcast. Miller said the march itself will be live Among those scheduled to speak at the rally will be streamed for people unable to come to D.C. actress, transgender rights advocate, and businesswoman Kormann said an opening reception for people planning Angelica Ross, who starred in the FX series “Pose,” the to participate in the march will be held Thursday, Sept. statement released on Tuesday says. Also confirmed as 26, to be followed by a Friday, Sept. 27, Torch Award speakers are Alphonso David, the recently Ceremony in which prominent transgender named president of the Human Rights and gender non-conforming leaders and Campaign; and Earline Budd, the longtime activists will be honored. Both events will D.C. transgender rights advocate, according take place at the Crystal Gateway Marriott to Miller. Hotel in Arlington, Va. HRC’s annual national dinner is According to Kormann, 500 transgender scheduled to take place Saturday evening, and gender non-conforming people Sept. 28, after the march. Miller said many will come to the march from across the people coming to D.C. for the dinner were country on a scholarship made possible “March with expected to join the march. by contributions from supporters of the Following the Freedom Plaza rally the march and its related events. He said some us to demand Trans Visibility March is scheduled to participate in community organizing justice for our will proceed to the U.S. Capitol, Miller said. workshops on Friday afternoon, the day “Members of the transgender and siblings whose before the march. gender non-conforming communities “They will then go back into their lives were will take a major stand against hate and communities and start to mobilize their discrimination when they rally in the community,” he said. “So the idea is to taken through nation’s capital for the first-ever National give them tools to go back into their senseless Trans Visibility March on Washington,” communities.” organizers said in a January statement Miller said another Trans March on murders.” announcing plans for the march. Washington is also being planned for “Transgender individuals from major 2020 to coincide with the U.S. presidential - Statement from the organizers of the march metropolitan cities including Atlanta, election. She said details of that march, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los including the date and related events, Angeles, Miami, Memphis, New York would be announced at a later time. and San Francisco will come together with their allies She said anyone who believes in equality for all is calling for equal rights, physical safety and demanding invited to join the Sept. 28 Transgender Visibility March the transgender communities be officially and federally on Washington. recognized across every state department within this “We urge you to join us Sept. 28, 2019 as we march in great nation,” the statement says. solidarity in support of equal rights and inclusion for Mark Kormann, director of fundraising for the march, our community,” a statement on the march website says. said a National Trans Visibility March Benefit Concert to “March with us to demand justice for our siblings whose help fund the march is scheduled to be held Aug. 23 at lives were taken through senseless murders,” it says. The Community Church of Washington, D.C.-UCC at 7:30 Additional details on the Sept. 28, 2019 march p.m. Friday, Aug. 23. The Seasons of Love Ensemble of the can be found at transmarchondc.org. Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. and the Gay Men’s
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The Return Of
Mark Foley Disgraced in sexting scandal, but now reinvented and honored by Republicans Anthony Man Sun Sentinel
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ark Foley was a popular South Florida congressman until he resigned in disgrace more than a decade ago, rocking the Republican Party and leaving it tarnished.
He’s now enjoying a political renaissance among South Florida Republicans who admire his political skills, applaud his community service, and like his support for President Donald Trump. After almost 12 years in Congress, Foley internet messages he exchanged with teens. resigned shortly before the 2006 election It was a major blow to Republicans, who after the disclosure he exchanged sexually already were fighting political headwinds laced Internet messages with teenage b o y s . from then-President George W. Bush’s sagging He’s said there was never any sexual contact, popularityand growing dissatisfaction with and FBI and state investigations were closed the war in Iraq. The party lost control of the without criminal charges. House that November. Foley misses public office, and said he’s Foley has apologized on multiple occasions thought about running again. and did so again this month Although he didn’t make a at the Palm Beach County Shermanesque vow that he’d Republican Party Lobsterfest never run, he indicated there’s dinner. “I’m sorry for causing almost no chance his the party embarrassment,” he name will ever again be on an said. “I want to thank all the election ballot. friends in this room, particularly He’s parted with the majority those who stood by me in some of elected Republicans in one of my darkest hours.” significant policy area. Though he enjoyed an “A” grade from the ‘My life was over’ National Rifle Association while in office, today he supports After his resignation, he went banning assault weapons and to rehab for alcohol addiction - Mark Foley high-capacity magazines plus and disclosed he’d been the politician expanded background checks victim of childhood sexual for firearms purchasers. abuse by a priest, something he’d kept to himself for decades. The scandal He also came out as gay. Before then, his sexual orientation was long an open secret in Foley routinely won congressional South Florida and Washington, D.C. elections, in a district anchored by Palm In recent years he’s hosted a radio show and Beach County, with two-thirds of the vote. He done some work in real estate, most notably was cruising toward victory in 2006. the deal that resulted in a new stadium that In a swift and stunning downfall, he brought the Washington Nationals and resigned after disclosure of sexually explicit Houston Astros to the new Ballpark of the
“You can’t keep watching this carnage and saying, ‘everything’s fine.’ You can’t.”
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Palm Beaches for spring training starting in 2017. He’s also been a regular at civic organizations, such as Wednesday’s gathering of the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, and at multiple political events: candidate meetand-greets and mass rallies, club meetings and party fundraisers. One year, he emceed Lobsterfest. Five years ago, Anita Mitchell, then county Republican chairwoman, turned to Foley to help with outreach to LGBT voters. At this year’s Lobsterfest, on Aug. 15 in Boca Raton, Foley was lionized, and presented with the only award given out at the dinner, for community service. “I love this man,” Karen Giorno told the crowd of 450. “I literally could do 45 pages of his accomplishments.” Giorno was Trump’s Florida director for much of the 2016 campaign. When she had
her first meeting with Trump, at his golf course in Doral, Giorno said the first person he told her to contact was Foley. The keynote speaker, longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone, paused in the middle of his remarks to give a shout out to “a man who doesn’t need to apologize because let he who is without sin cast the first stone, that great American patriot, Congressman Mark Foley.” Gun control With the increasing frequency of mass shootings, Foley now differs with many Republican elected officials on combating gun violence. He said he isn’t wavering in his support for the Second Amendment. But, Foley said, “You can’t keep watching this carnage and saying, ‘everything’s fine.’ You can’t,” he said. “If we
NEWS national can ban texting [while driving] we should be able to ban assault rifles.” Foley also supports expanding background checks for firearms purchasers and extreme risk protection orders, which allow removal of weapons from people who pose threats. “You have to start getting weapons out of the hands of people who are demented, who should not possess weapons.”
a bit of, you know, sadness.” He still had $955,000 in his campaign account as of June 30, federal campaign finance reports show, down from $1.7 million immediately after he left office in 2006. He’s spent money on charitable contributions and buying tables at various civic and political events. A comeback would be difficult. Though embraced by many Republicans in Palm Political future? Beach County, when Foley’s name comes up publicly in connection with a political When Foley spoke at event — such as his prominent Lobsterfest, he sounded like a seat at a 2016 Trump rally at “What has candidate. the BB&T Center in Sunrise — He talked about his controversy erupts online. happened to grandmother, a Polish And when Foley was seen our society? immigrant who worked as in a 2018 fundraiser picture What has a maid at a Travelodge, and with Donald Trump Jr. and happened to his grandfather, a cop. He gubernatorial candidate Adam praised border patrol agents, Putnam, the Florida Democratic our values? law enforcement officers and Party blasted out a statement What has military service members. labeling Foley “a sexual predator happened to “What has happened to our accused of harassing children.” our country?” society? What has happened to Foley all but ruled out our values? What has happened running again. - Mark Foley to our country? We must awaken “That ship’s kind of sailed. I’m politician the spirit of our democracy,” 65 this September, next month,” Foley said. “We must recognize he said. “As I sail into the sunset that we all have to participate in restoring the I think about life. And I’ve thought about it, moral order of this nation.” no question. I’m not denying that I’ve thought He praised the Republican Party as “all maybe there’s a chance to get back in and about the American ideals, the values, and serve in Congress, but as time goes on, I start the ethics of the greatest country on earth.” getting less and less animated towards that Foley said in an interview he misses the conversation,” he said. public arena. “Of course. This was my life for “I didn’t leave the way I would have loved so many years. And you know it’s hard to be to have left, but it is what it is,” he said. “Being in a room with people that were your huge back here and being part of this community is supporters and you let them down. So, there’s just thrilling to me.”
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Fort Lauderdale to Host First Ever
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who lives only to shame yourself and the mother who bore you.” Arguably, Saul is inferring that Jonathan is a woman of sorts. Saul’s outburst goes beyond the indecent to highly sexualized vulgarity. “To the shame of your mother’s nakedness.” In the Old Testament, “nakedness” most often refers to genitalia. “Nakedness” and “shame” were closely linked in ancient Israelite thinking. There appear to be both political and erotic components to Saul’s anger. It seems clear that Saul not only fears losing his throne to David but also the opportunity to establish a dynasty through Jonathan. The suggestion that Jonathan was sleeping with David also is an equally valid interpretation. The context is riddled with homoerotic clues. For example, the Hebrew word for “choose” is the same one used in Genesis 6:2 to describe “the sons of God saw that they [daughters of men] were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.” And Saul’s statement could be translated from the Greek Septuagint as “for, do I not know that you are an intimate companion to the son of Jesse.” It seems to me that scholars who resist the interpretation that David and Jonathan likely were lovers might be guilty of reading their preferred explanation into the text rather than just dealing with the biblical evidence that has come down to us. Sadly, in my view, many conservative, often evangelical, Christians ascribe their own likes and dislikes to God, rather than accept that God loves us all.
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ecently I dropped into a Family Dollar store in Columbia, Tennessee, where I noticed a nostalgia magazine by the cash register. Lucille Ball was on the cover. When I mentioned this fact to the twink by the cash register he gave me a blank look. He did not know who Lucille Ball was. This surprised me because, though Lucy Ball died in 1989, before the twink was born, reruns of “I Love Lucy” continue to be shown on television, here and abroad. Three decades after she died, many of us continue to love Lucy, even those who were not on this planet when she was. I first saw “I Love Lucy” in 1957, when I was four years old. That by itself would not be different from the experience of so many others but for the fact that I saw ILL in Cuba, where it was dubbed into Spanish as “Yo Quiero a Lucy.” In the USA, “I Love Lucy” was Lucille Ball’s show. In Cuba the show was about Desi Arnaz; the Cuban who went to America, married that funny gringa and made television history. The traits that made Desi unique and unusual in the U.S. — his rapidfire delivery, his accent (what accent? I thought everyone talked like that!) and his so-called “Latin” temper — made him one of us. I was also a few months younger than Desi Arnaz, Jr., whose cesarean delivery on Jan. 19, 1953 coincided with Little Ricky’s birth. Shortly after my first “Lucy” experience ILL ended its six-year run, Ball and Arnaz divorced (the first divorce I ever heard of), and Fidel Castro replaced Desi Arnaz as the world’s most famous Cuban. In 1962 my family, like Arnaz did 29 years before, moved to the U.S. To my delight, Ball returned to television soon after I arrived,
in “The Lucy Show.” Though Lucy’s character was now a widow she still had Vivian Vance as her best pal; not to mention the writers who made the first show such a hit. In fact, Lucy became such a part of my life that the lack of a Cuban did not keep me from enjoying “The Lucy Show” or its successor, “Here’s Lucy,” though I drew the line at the godawful “Life With Lucy.” Lucille Ball was that rarest of commodities, the female clown. Her television work paved the way for Carol Burnett, Roseanne Barr, Fran Drescher, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey and other funny women. Born in Aug. 6, 1911, Lucille Desiree Ball made over 60 films between 1934 and 1949. In 1940 she married Latin band leader Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha, who was six years younger and who co-starred in her 1940 vehicle “Too Many Girls.” Unfortunately for Lucy, that movie’s title was also a description of their early married life. Desi’s on the road womanizing led Lucy to file for divorce in 1944, but the couple reconciled. Ball’s desire to make Arnaz her TV co-star was based on her determination to save her marriage by keeping him at home. On Oct. 15, 1951 “I Love Lucy” premiered on CBS. With lesser actors, the show might have been a flop: the tale of a silly housewife who wants to have a life of her own in spite of her husband’s opposition had been done many times before. What made the Ricardos unique and immortal was the unique dynamic that existed between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, on stage and off. Though Arnaz was basically playing himself, Ball’s scatterbrained redhead persona was different than the hard-driving
Three decades after she died, many of us continue to love Lucy, even those who were not on this planet when she was.
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career woman who played her. Those of us who saw Lucy Ricardo from Ricky’s corner thought she was a crazy woman who, week after week, had to be put in her place by her stern but loving Cuban husband. Only in retrospective did we learn to admire Lucy Ricardo’s weekly acts of rebellion, and an assertiveness that Ricky could barely understand or control. Add to the mix the talents of Vivian Vance and William Frawley and the result was six years of magic — nine, if you include the “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.” One of the most important decisions that Desi Arnaz made as producer of “I Love Lucy” was to tape the show on film before
a studio audience. This preserved ILL episodes for posterity, allowing them to be seen again and again, all around the world. Though I saw my first “I Love Lucy” in 1957, I did not get to watch most of the series until the mid-sixties, when CBS showed reruns on weekday mornings. While other kids spent their summer vacations outdoors, I spent them watching reruns of “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Make Room for Daddy” — both filmed at Desilu Studios — but especially “I Love Lucy.” And while I still related to the Cuban, it was his wife who captured my heart. Though Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989 (Desi Arnaz died in 1986) she will live forever in reruns.
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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A week ago, we were hunkered down waiting for hurricane Dorian. This week, we’re clear, but once again turning to Netflix for bingeworthy entertainment. Check out the first season of “Styling Hollywood,” featuring Jason Bolden and Adair Curtis, partners in both business and life. These are the superstars who make the magic happen on the red carpet and at home for Tinseltown A-listers. To watch, go to Netflix.com.
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