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As preparations continue, the committee is particularly seeking volunteers with skills in event planning and logistics, social media and marketing, retail and merchandising, and hospitality to help plan and execute the festival. Local businesses and organizations are also encouraged to participate.

“Pride of the Americas 2020 offers a unique opportunity to showcase Greater Fort Lauderdale to the world and we invite the community to join us,” said Pride Fort Lauderdale president Miik Martorell. “There are many ways to get involved, whether you’d like to assist in planning events or just help out for a few hours during the festival.”

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Rick Karlin ride Fort Lauderdale is seeking volunteers to assist with the Pride of the Americas festival planned for April 21 – 26.

The festival, presented by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors from Alaska to Zaire. More than 30 events are planned in the Greater Fort Lauderdale area. Pride of the Americas will culminate on Saturday, April 21, with a parade on SR A1A and two-day beach festival, Saturday and Sunday, April 21 - 22.

The organizing committee will host an open house for all interested volunteers on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Hunters Nightclub in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, 2232 Wilton Dr. Hundreds of volunteers will also be needed during the festival to staff the welcome center and aid in many events, including seniors, youth, transgender and LGBT advocacy conferences, Earth Day conservation activities, arts exhibitions and concerts, parade and beach festival.

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NEWS local Rea Carey standing with Lee Rubin as he was presented the Excellence in Community Leadership Award. Photo via Compass, Facebook.

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he National LGBTQ Task Force held doing,” Rubin said, “ is paving the way for a party on Sunday, Nov. 3 in Fort what governments across the country are Lauderdale celebrating starting to do.” the commitment of Lee Rubin, Citrix, he noted, is creating “The work one of its former directors, and fostering programs for for his devoted service to the anti-bullying policies, equality that corporate organization. enactment, immigration America is doing act Held on Las Olas isles at protections, and gender is paving the the home of Roy Waldron transitioning plans in the and Evan Dillon on a rainy workplace. way for what afternoon, the task force’s The party’s hosts, Waldron governments executive director, Rea Carey and Dillon recently retired across the spoke about recent actions to South Florida. Waldron is the Trump administration has a now retired International country are initiated which are designed to IP legal counsel for Pfizer starting to do.” not end, but rather promote, Pharmaceuticals. Dillon is a discrimination against the retired radiologist.

- Lee Rubin LGBT community.

The Task Force sponsors the Carey said the Task Force ‘Creating Change’ conference “will be proactive and challenge rollbacks to and raised funds for its scholarship and non legal protections fats and lesbians have won profit programs. sober the years.”

In the next year, Carey said three specific Photo via Lee Rubin, projects they are undertaking involve Facebook. voter registration, restoration of rights for convicted felons, and the project ‘Queer the Census.’

Lee Rubin of Citrix was honored for his corporate advocacy for promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace.

Rubin, who was named to SFGN’s OUT50 list in 2015, had just spoken at the Out and Equal conference two weeks ago. The Task Force also recognized him for his philanthropy, contributions, and engagements in the community of organizations serving LGBT interests.

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November Events Commemorate

Transgender Awareness Month Denise Royal

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hroughout this month, there are several events for Transgender Awareness Month. The activities will honor transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse individuals. The highlight of the month is the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Nov. 20.

The day memorializes the lives of those lost to anti-transgender violence. The week before TDOR, there are events and activities for Transgender Awareness Week, helping to raise visibility about transgender people and the issues the community faces.

Transgender women, especially women of color, deal with disproportionate acts of violence, with nearly two dozen trans people killed so far this year.

Here’s a list of upcoming events in Broward County:

Friday, Nov. 8 7 p.m.

Film Documentary screening “TransMilitary”

TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve.

Refreshments will follow the screening.

The Sunshine Cathedral 1480 SW 9th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315

Saturday, Nov. 9 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Name Change 101

This workshop shares information on how to legally change your name and gender marker with attorney Simone Christ from southern Legal Counsel at AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation 700 SE 3rd Ave Suite 301, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

Wednesday, Nov. 13 7:00 p.m. - 8:30p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR) Observance

Transgender Day of Remembrance Luncheon

An evening dedicated to the celebration of rebirth and affirmation of the rite of passage to self-definition when one chooses their new name and clears a redefined path for their future. The evening includes musical solo, spoken word, refreshments to follow.

The Sunshine Cathedral 1480 SW 9th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315

Saturday, Nov. 16 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Name Change 101

This workshop shares information on how to legally change your name and gender marker with attorney Simone Chriss from Southern Legal Counsel at AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation 700 SE 3rd Ave Suite 301, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

Monday, Nov. 18 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Ally Event

This event features positive dialogue, education, and camaraderie. There will be an informative panel discussion on support within the transgender community.

World AIDS Museum 1201 NE 26th St. #111, Wilton Manors, FL 33305

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This worldwide annual candle lighting observance honors the memory of those who lost their lives in acts of anti-transgender bigotry and violence.

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The following events happen in Miami:

Wednesday, Nov. 20 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Miami Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience (TDORR) 2019

Barry University hosts its seventh annual Miami TDORR, to stand in solidarity with the resilient Trans community, and remember and honor the trans lives lost to violence, transphobia, and suicide throughout the last year. This remembrance will also incorporate a healing component for the third year in a row, led by the staff of SOUL Sisters Leadership Collective. Please arrive on time. If you enter late, please do so quietly.

Barry University, Andreas 111/112 11300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL

If you cannot attend, consider supporting this event financially, as there is no formal funding source:

www.gofundme.com/miamiTDORR2019 CashApp: $MiamiTDORR2019

This midday luncheon honors members of the community who work hard to further trans rights and protections. It also pays tribute to members of the trans community who died due to anti-transgender violence. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/1381016018732817/

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Palm Beach County hosts the following event:

Wednesday, Nov. 20 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Bee Love Slater was killed in September— tragically killed and burned in her car. This year, in conjunction with her mother and family, Compass will observe the Transgender Day of Remembrance in Belle Glade, not far from where Bee Love lived and was killed.

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Mayor Pete Surges in Iowa But is it real and will it last?

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ainstream media have spent considerable space in recent days trying to reckon whether openly gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is “surging” to the top tier of the Democratic field or stalling in the second tier.

On the anecdotal level, he has been successful enough to fire from top tier candidates.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been clinging to third place, took a soft swipe. He criticized the mayor’s comment that he would like to see more justices like former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. Sanders said he would prefer more justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.

Buttigieg was also the target of an internal campaign leak: Someone made public a document that showed a focus group of African American voters in South Carolina showed Buttigieg’s being gay was a stumbling block in his hopes of winning over a sizeable number of African American voters.

And a report emerged last week that Buttigieg’s campaign was getting help from controversial Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg.

That came just as the media was turning up the heat on Zuckerberg for including the extreme right-wing news outlet Breitbart as a “trusted” news source on Facebook’s new news tab.

Looking at data, Buttigieg continues to succeed in both polling and fundraising.

In the latest two national polls to come out since the October debate, former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren have split the lead. South Bend Mayor Buttigieg, the only openly gay candidate in the Democratic field, came in fourth each time.

In a Quinnipiac University poll of 713 voters who were Democrats or leaning toward Democratic candidates October 17-21, Warren garnered 28 percent of the support, followed by Biden with 21 percent, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders with 15 percent, and Buttigieg with 10 percent. (The poll’s margin of error was 4.6 points.) For Buttigieg, the result was a two-point improvement over a Quinnipiac poll just before the October 15 debate.

In a CNN poll of 424 Democrats or Democratic-leaning adults nationwide October 17-20, 34 percent supported Biden, 19 percent Warren, 16 percent Sanders, and six percent each for Buttigieg and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris. (The margin of error was 5.8 points.) For Buttigieg, the result was unchanged since the CNN poll in early September.

The CNN poll demonstrated something else: Despite his unprecedented success as a virtual unknown when he started his campaign, Buttigieg is still a relative unknown. The CNN poll found that 37 percent of 1,003 adults surveyed still “never heard of” Buttigieg.

Twenty-eight percent had a “favorable” opinion of him, 23 percent had an “unfavorable” opinion of him, and 12 percent had no opinion. The 37 percent who said they “never heard of” Buttigieg was an enormous improvement compared to January, when 77 percent “never heard of” him. But it is still a significant hurdle when compared to Biden and Sanders (who only three percent said they “never heard of”) and Warren (with 13

Buttigieg is polling third, even second, now in Iowa, the site of the first presidential nomination contest.

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percent “never heard of”). Even 28 percent of Democratic voters said they “never heard of” Buttigieg.

Iowa Polls: Surge or Bullshit?

Those are the national polls. In the first state that will conduct presidential party nomination voting, Buttigieg is in better shape.

Buttigieg is polling third, even second, now in Iowa, the site of the first presidential nomination contest. An Iowa State University poll conducted October 1822 among 598 “likely Democratic Caucus attendees” showed Buttigieg in second, with 20 percent of the vote. He was behind only Warren, with 28 percent, and two points ahead of third place Sanders.

In a poll conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, 13 percent of 500 “likely Democratic caucusgoers” in Iowa said they would “vote for or lean toward” Buttigieg.

(The poll was conducted October 16-18 with a margin of error of 4.4 points.) The percentage itself is not impressive; he’s polled as high as 16 points this month. But what is worth noting is that his polling now puts him only four points behind U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (at 17 percent) and five points behind former Vice President Joe Biden (at 18 percent) in Iowa. He has consistently been 11 points behind the frontrunners since mid-September.

Openly gay poll expert Nate Silver called the idea that Buttigieg is surging in Iowa “bullshit.”

“It’s possible he’ll surge,” said Silver, “…

But to say there’s been a big Buttigieg surge is so far from reality that, if you simply glance at a table of polls, it almost feels like gaslighting. He’s maybe gained a point or so in the national polls.” Silver said Buttigieg has advantages in Iowa and New Hampshire –both states have with largely white populations and Buttigieg’s home state

NEWS national of Indiana is, like Iowa, in the Midwest. the Federal Elections Commission, Buttigieg A Washington Post op-ed piece last week has raised a total of $51.5 million through made the same point. It said Buttigieg’s September 30. Among the Democrats, this “relative political inexperience is probably is the third most raised. (Sanders has raised still a disadvantage” but that he has $74.5 million and Warren $60.3 million.) “successfully executed an Ellen DeGeneresThough it’s not clear whether this will style charm offensive….” help his campaign, Bloomberg reported “But as others have pointed out,” said October 21 that the Buttigieg campaign the piece, by Post political columnist David has been “quietly” getting help from Byler, “rumors of a recent Buttigieg surge controversial Facebook founder Mark are mostly exaggerated” because Buttigieg’s Zuckerberg. Buttigieg campaign spokesman support is still primarily white, well- Chris Meagher confirmed that Zuckerberg educated, high-income voters. and his wife sent campaign manager Mike That shows up most starkly in the third Schmuhl some names of people they would state to hold its Democratic nomination recommend for Buttigieg’s campaign staff. voting: South Carolina.

Facebook has become an issue In South Carolina, Buttigieg in the Democratic primary, was polling sixth, with only 3 with some candidates, such Fortune or 4 percent of the vote. A poll as Warren, saying megamagazine said taken by the local Post and corporations like Facebook this week that Courier newspaper October are engaging in “anti12-21 showed Buttigieg competitive practices” and Buttigieg appears support doubled, to nine violating consumer privacy to be taking percent overall but at only rights, among other things. about five percent among On Thursday, October the lead as the blacks.

24, during an appearance “Big Business Previous South Carolina in New Hampshire, candidate” in polling has strongly Buttigieg appeared to put suggested Buttigieg was some distance between the Democratic suffering a significant deficit himself and Facebook. He presidential in support among black contradicted Zuckerberg’s voters. McClatchyDC news Congressional hearing field. reported last week that an testimony – that Facebook “internal focus group” study has no responsibility to police by the Buttigieg campaign found that the political ads on its pages. Buttigieg said candidate’s “being gay was a barrier” for Facebook does have a responsibility to pull black voters.” McClatchy said the study false advertising and advertising aimed at covered responses from only 24 black voters suppressing voter participation. And he said participating in three small focus groups in breaking up mega-corporations is an idea South Carolina, but only one of the 24 said that should be considered. they would consider voting for Buttigieg.

Fortune magazine said this week that “[T]heir preference is for his sexuality to Buttigieg appears to be taking the lead not be front and center,” McClatchy reported as the “Big Business candidate” in the the study as saying, posting it online. The Democratic presidential field. In addition study also noted that, “After seeing the to the Facebook connection, it cites that Mayor speak, most voters in each group several big corporations –including Netflix, seemed to be able to get past his sexual Uber, and Nest—have hosted fundraisers orientation.” on Buttigieg’s behalf. He’s been praised by On the plus side, Buttigieg is strong in the son of conservative publishing magnate fundraising. According to records filed with Rupert Murdoch.

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Trump Betrays LGBT Community Again

New rule will allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to discriminate As a candidate Trump once promised to be a ‘real friend’ to the LGBT community Chris Johnson

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he Trump administration is moving forward with a proposed regulation that will allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to refuse placement to LGBT families over religious objections.

The Department of Health & Human Services went public on Friday with the regulation, which will undo an Obamaera policy implemented in December 2016 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity among federal grantees.

The proposed regulation, which will have far-reaching implications, was immediately criticized by LGBT rights supporters.

Julie Kruse, director of federal policy at Family Equality Council, said in a statement the policy was “outrageous,” especially at the start of National Adoption Month.

“The American public overwhelmingly opposes allowing taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies to turn away qualified parents simply because they are in a same-sex relationship,” Kruse said.

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in a statement the regulation would also allow anti-trans discrimination in health care.

“This rule is an abuse of taxpayer dollars in the name of empowering hatred and bigotry towards society’s most vulnerable members,” Keisling said. “Stigma and prejudice are fueling a public health crisis among transgender people across the country, one that manifests itself as suicide, addiction, intimate partner violence and HIV. Enabling providers of life-saving services to worsen these crises by rejecting transgender people is a moral crime and a severe abdication of Photo via Adobe Stock.

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HHS’s mission to preserve public health.”

According to NCTE, the rule will allow anti-trans discrimination in HIV and STI prevention programs, opioid programs, youth homelessness services, health professional training, substance-use recovery programs and other life-saving services.

The proposal seeks to gut an Obama-era rule that barred entities receiving money under federal contracts, including adoption agencies, from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.

As the new proposed rule notes, HHS has already granted an exemption from the Obama-era rule to South Carolina, which sought to get out of the regulation on behalf of the Miracle Hill Ministries adoption agency.

The rule seeks to justify itself by saying the Obama-era regulations aren’t based on statutes and religious-affiliated groups have complained and filed lawsuits over meeting those requirements. These groups, HHS noted, assert the policy is unlawful under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment.

“The existence of these complaints and legal actions indicates [the Obama-era rule] imposed regulatory burden and created a lack of predictability and stability for the department and stakeholders with respect to these provisions’ viability and enforcement,” the rule says.

It’s true the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in federal

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programs, has no language against either sex that no person otherwise eligible will be discrimination or anti-LGBT discrimination. excluded from participation in, denied the The Obama-era rule, therefore, is more than benefits of, or subjected to discrimination an expanded interpretation of discrimination in the administration of HHS programs and based on sex as defined under the law to services, to the extent doing so is prohibited include anti-LGBT discrimination. by federal statute,” the language says.

The proposed rule also says religiousThe new regulation was expected. In May, affiliated agencies will cease to provide Axios reported the Trump administration services altogether if forced to comply with was planning to implement a rule to allow the Obama-era rule, which HHS concludes adoption agencies to reject same-sex parents. “would likely reduce the In a speech on the National effectiveness of programs Day of Prayer in February, “This rule is funded by federal grants President Trump expressed an abuse of by reducing the number solidarity with religious of entities available to affiliated agencies seeking taxpayer dollars provide services under these to place children into homes in the name of programs.” consistent with their religious empowering In recent years, Catholic beliefs, even if that means adoption agencies have closed hatred and bigotry denying placement into LGBT in Massachusetts, Illinois and families. towards society’s D.C., citing new laws that bar “My administration is most vulnerable anti-LGBT discrimination and working to ensure that faithmembers.” allow same-sex couples to based adoption agencies marry. Those decisions preare able to help vulnerable - Mara Keisling dated the Obama-era rule, children find their forever executive director of the National Center for but show the extent these families while following their Transgender Equality agencies are willing to go to deeply held beliefs,” Trump deny placement into LGBT said. homes.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Religious-affiliated agencies have also Judd Deere denied the proposed rule was challenged the Obama-era rule in court. in violation of Trump’s promise to protect Just last month, a federal judge in Michigan LGBT people. ruled in favor of St. Vincent, a Lansing-based “The President is in no way undermining adoption agency that sued both the state his promise or preventing LGBT people from and federal government to allow it to refuse adopting. LGBT people can still adopt and to certify LGBT homes for adoption. that will not change. The Administration As a result, the Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era rule that was proposal seeks an amendment to the Obama- proposed in the 12’o clock hour of the last era regulation with the following language administration that jeopardizes the ability to give federal grantees more leeway — of faith-based providers to continue serving including the ability to discriminate against their communities. The Federal government LGBT people — in the services they provide: should not be in the business of forcing child “It is a public policy requirement of HHS welfare providers to choose between helping children and their faith,” Deere said.

An HHS spokesperson referred the Blade to a news statement summarizing the proposed rule in response to an inquiry on why it’s necessary and its potential negative impact on LGBT people.

Tony Perkins, president of the antiLGBT Family Research Council, applauded the Trump administration in a statement for moving forward with the anti-LGBT regulation.

“Thanks to President Trump, charities will be free to care for needy children and operate according to their religious beliefs and the reality that children do best in a home with a married mom and dad,” Perkins said.

An estimated 440,000 children are currently in the foster care system in the United States, and more than 123,000 kids are now available for adoption.

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Compass Leads HIV Prevention Efforts in Palm Beach County Kristen Grau

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reventing HIV in Florida is a cause that takes time and money. How much money? Almost half a million dollars, the U.S. says.

Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez announced earlier this month that $490,000 in federal funding will go toward seven Florida counties, including Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties.

That money, from President Trump’s Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, will go toward “planning and restructuring” the way South Florida can access prevention services, according to HIV Prevention and Education Director Lorenzo Lowe of Compass the LGBT center of the Palm Beaches.

“For me, I think this is really exciting,” Lowe said. “This is a moment in which we have this fire that has been ignited and there’s this interest that is being created and we have the ball rolling and we’re getting a lot of attention. It’s important for South Florida — it truly is.”

According to the Florida Department of Health, there were 4,906 new HIV diagnoses in 2018.

“HIV is not a partisan issue, but a very problematic health concern that affects our communities greatly,” said Nuñez in a statement earlier this year. “With assistance from our federal partners at [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], we are confident that the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative will reduce HIV transmission in our state … We must collectively continue to promote advocacy, research and progress

to pave the way for a healthier Florida.”

Lowe said Compass and other prevention service providers in South Florida are still developing a plan detailing how to spend the money. He estimates that South Florida communities will start benefiting from the funding early next year.

However, he added that some of the likely additional resources that will come out of it are PrEP, condom distribution and other treatment programs.

Nunez also talked about the Florida Department of Health’s four-step initiative to eliminate HIV. The plan’s key components include: 1. Frequent HIV and STI testing in healthcare settings 2. Rapid access to medication and case management 3. Improving access to PrEP and nPEP

“We have to change the statistics. The statistics are drastic for our community.”

- Lorenzo Lowe HIV Prevention and Education Director

4. Increase community awareness The other four Florida counties part of the funding are Orange, Duval, Hillsborough and Pinellas.

On a federal level, the goal of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative is to “reduce the number of number of new HIV infections in the United States by 75 percent within five years, and then by at least 90 percent within 10 years, for an estimated 250,000 total HIV infections averted,” according to HIV.gov.

One of Lowe’s goals is to raise awareness of some of the overlooked barriers that hinder people with HIV from receiving the care they need. Some of those changes should be fixing and removing some of those barriers like transportation, mental health and homelessness, Lowe argued.

“We have to change the statistics. The statistics are drastic for our community.

So we have to figure out what’s working because the way that we have been doing it isn’t working anymore,” Lowe said. “And the numbers and the data is showing that we have had some progress, but we definitely need to change and implement new programs.”

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released last year that analyzed HIV diagnoses in 2016 showed that the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach region had the highest rates of diagnoses in the country. West Palm Beach had recorded 23 diagnoses for every 100,000 people.

Lowe said the $490,000 comes after Harold Phillips, chief executive officer of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, visited Miami to discuss what the White House can do to make a difference in South Florida.

“We’re working on how to bridge gaps [between healthcare and the community] and there’s several different challenges,” Lowe said. “And it’s not an easy road, but this is actually … to help really identify some of the things we need to work on in our county.”

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Green Party Polo Democrático a leftist party, Then, like any other politician, she kissed won with 35% of the vote, her. That touched many LGBT taking a record 1,108,540 votes. supporters in the crowd, but López was joined Her closest competitor was also shocked not a few who center-right candidate Carlos watched the mayor-elect’s onstage by her Fernando Galán with just over speech on television. partner, the 32% of the vote.

The kiss immediately set off senator Angéica Gaining national attention as a firestorm of opinion, with one a journalist for shedding light prominent female journalist Lozano, who she on one of the greatest political asking why they had to offend thanked her for corruption scandals to rock evangelical Christian political the country in modern times, parties and their voters with an “being the love the Parapolitica scandal, López “unnecessary kiss on the lips.” of my life, and That sparked a has been an outspoken critic making me happy “BesoChallenge” with people of right-wing former president from all walks of life posting Álvaro Uribe. She later served every day.” their best smooches – some in the Senate, was the vicewith their heterosexual presidential running mate for Green Party candidate Sergio Fajardo in partners, some even with their dogs - on 2018, and later that same year launched a social media. And when a city council countrywide anti-corruption referendum member declared that from now on, the Andean city would fall “under the yoke of that fell short by under 500,000 votes.

López grew up in a humble household in Sodom,” both Sodom and Gomorra trended working-class neighborhoods of Bogotá, in Bogotá on Twitter for several days.

Lopez’s election marks the latest triumph one of seven children. Despite her less than privileged background, López earned for the LGBT community in socially degrees from the Universidad Externado conservative Colombia. The country became de Bogotá as well as from Columbia and one of the first countries in the hemisphere to recognize same-sex marriages in 2016, but Northwestern universities in the U.S. The subject of sexual orientation appeared civil unions had become legal in 2007.

López takes over from current mayor – to be far from the minds of Bogotá voters, who made their choice on other issues and one-time mentor - Enrique Peñalosa on such as public transportation, security, Jan. 1, 2020 and will serve a five-year term. corruption and social mobility. López gained

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Hope for a New Tomorrow SFGN endorses Mayor Pete for President

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he newspaper you hold in your hand has spent the past ten years and 500 issues illuminating LGBT lives, advocating for the causes we find in common, standing up for the rights we hold so dear.

We do so again today.

One year from today, on the first Tuesday in November of 2020, America will get to choose its next president of the U.S. We endorse the candidacy of Pete Buttigieg.

We do not do this simply because Mayor Pete is a gay man and this is a gay paper.

We do this because he is a good man seeking to do great things. Of course he will have the best interests of the LGBT community in his heart, but he has the spirit of America in his soul.

Pete Buttigieg is the polar opposite of Donald Trump. He is educated and articulate, reasonable and responsible, committed and conscientious. To the table, he brings class, not crass; dignity, not disgrace.

He is an advocate, not an ass.

Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House threatens our nation daily.

His personality is toxic, his patriotism suspect, his politics racist, and his positions on social issues neanderthal. His presence in the White House corrupts the soul of our nation.

From the LGBT community’s standpoint, Donald Trump’s tenure has already compromised social freedoms the LGBT community has won over the last two decades. He threatens to do even worse going forward. The President is turning back time to an America less diverse, less inclusive, less just.

Our country needs a leader who will bring Americans together, not tear us apart. The field of Democratic candidates has a host of such aspirants, each with strengths, all

with flaws. No one candidate in an America of 300 million souls will ever be the ‘perfect’ candidate; all things to all people. Remember perfect will always be the enemy of good. This year, however, Mayor Pete does stand out as the most inspirational and aspirational one.

The Mayor of South Bend is asking our citizens, from shore to shore, to believe in hope, not hate. He is asking us to embrace our individuality, not erase it. He appeals to our better angels, not our worst fears.

Pete Buttigieg is a name no one knew or could pronounce a year ago. He is the mayor of a small town in a conservative state. But America is getting to know him. They are finding an honest man with a unifying voice; a man who addresses problems instead of creating them. Mayor Pete will build bridges, not walls.

Pete Buttigieg is a young man with modern ideas, instead of an old one with bone spurs in his brain.

He is a Rhodes scholar who speaks in eight languages instead of in four letter words.

He is a soldier who was firing guns at terrorists while Donald Trump was firing Omarosa on a reality TV show.

Pete Buttigieg is authentic, genuine, and real. He has turned adversity into strength and challenge into character. Our country deserves a citizen with courage and a conscience at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Our newspaper understands that not all gays and lesbians speak with one voice.

We represent a range of personalities and politics. A rainbow is a bouquet of many colors. Pete Buttigieg, however, is a candidate who will represent them all.

SFGN celebrates as well the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Corey Booker. Indeed, any of the Democratic candidates for the

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presidency would do a better job than the man renting the space now. All will represent our interests honorably and capably.

Today, however, we come down on the side of Mayor Pete. He has made us proud, and will make our country stronger. He is one of us who speaks for all of us. He is proof for all of us there is no bridge too far; that we are only limited by the boundaries of our imagination.

Let us not coronate next November a corrupt king. Let us pass the torch to a new generation of Americans, multi-cultural and diverse, inclusive and rich with life, visionary with grace, and mindful of the tomorrow future generations face.

Can the LGBT community help win the World Series of politics in 2020? This is a century which began first with the Boston Red Sox winning it in 2004, the Chicago Cubs in 2015, and now the Washington Nationals in 2019. Each team waited nearly a hundred years, or even more. It can happen to us too.

Everything cometh to he who waiteth so long as he who waiteth worketh like hell whilst he waiteth.

If a man stands by his convictions, and there abides, eventually the whole world will come around to him. Maybe it’s our turn.

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By Sallie James

If you want to rename a street to honor name changes.

“I think Justin’s request that we name someone’s memory, or name a building, or a park after someone of note, the city a street after Harvey Milk kind of caught us by surprise. It wasn’t brought up by will soon have a formal process.

City commissioners in October the community,” said Commissioner Gary reviewed and tweaked a set of standard Resnick. Resnick said wasn’t opposed to procedures and guidelines for naming, the idea of renaming a street after Milk. co-naming or renaming city amenities, He was opposed to renaming the street because the city had no policy including buildings, at the time. recreational areas, and “If your street name other facilities operated Mayor Justin Flippen changes you may have to

by Wilton Manors. The had proposed renotify a lot of people who policy and guidelines send you mail. Some of these will be up for a vote at naming Northeast things have a lot of practical the November 12th City and Northwest implications, especially if you Commission meeting. are running a home-based The move comes 21st Court as business,” Resnick added. about five months after “Harvey Milk Flippen said he proposed the city designated May the resolution last May Court,” but after 22nd as “Harvey Milk because he wanted the city Day” in honor of the much discussion, to honor Milk because of late gay rights icon after commissioners his significant civil rights a proposal to name a residential street after declined to make the contributions. His colleagues agreed on Milk’s societal Milk fell apart because street name change. contributions but not on the the city didn’t have a renaming process. naming policy.

“The members of the Mayor Justin Flippen had proposed re-naming Northeast Commission wanted to formalize the and Northwest 21st Court as “Harvey process, hopefully to streamline it and Milk Court,” but after much discussion, not make it more bureaucratic,” Flippen commissioners declined to make the said. “We unanimously agreed we were street name change in May, saying the comfortable with it coming back to us as a city first needed to establish a policy that policy resolution we will adopt.”

The new policy: would outline a procedure for making

1. Requires an applicant, including city commissioners and city staff, to submit an application to the city for review.

2. Requires inclusion of written documentation of approval by next of kin of the person to be honored, if possible.

If the application pertains to a leisure services facility, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board can review the application and make a recommendation to the City Commission.

If the application is for a public street, property owners who live within 300 feet of the street or who live on the street must be notified by mail of the date of the City Commission meeting when the item will be discussed.

Public input will be sought through no

less than two City Commission meetings.

Notification will be made through the city’s weekly email blast, the city’s monthly newsletter and social media.

The renaming will be confirmed by City resolution.

The city shall have final approval and absolute discretion to approve or deny any request for any reason.

In April, Commissioner Paul Rolli spoke against the street naming saying, “City property belongs to all the inhabitants of the city. It doesn’t belong to a couple of people. I think the first thing we do is create a process.”

“When it first came up, my recommendation was that we develop a policy for naming of all public property. I wanted the process to be transparent,” Rolli said. WMG

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This year’s theme for Wicked Manors, the Seven Deadly Sins, offered many options to write about this week. Unfortunately, in our world today one does not have to look far to find many who openly flaunt the sins of greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy and pride as if a badge of honor.

Our President alone is guilty of all seven and tweets daily of such sinful behavior.

However, who am I to judge the actions of others, being just a sinner myself. That, in itself, is viewed as sinful behavior. “Judge not, yet ye be judged.”

Here in our Island City we choose to celebrate All Hollow’s Eve each year with a night of merriment, fun, costume wearing, frolicking and perhaps indulging in a few of those seven sins. Afterwards, once we finish with all the debauchery and celebrations, perhaps we should spend some time contemplating the opposite side of these sinful behaviors, known as the contrary virtues.

As the world around us becomes more and more polarized each day, perhaps we all need a little practice in humility, charity, kindness, patience, chastity, temperance and diligence.

Now don’t get your knickers all twisted with the notions of chastity and temperance. I am not suggesting giving up happy hour or becoming celibate, so don’t delete that online dating app just yet.

The virtue of chastity can refer to the purity of one’s conduct and intentions, so one can be chaste by striving for better health through good personal hygiene and practicing safe sex.

Temperance is defined as moderation not abstinence, so go ahead and have that cocktail, but perhaps refrain from using too many of those drink tokens after you have had a few.

As for the other five virtues; humility, kindness, charity, patience and diligence, they should not be too hard to work into our daily routine. Well, humility might be a problem for some. Yes, you know who you are.

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Getting back to the subject of sinful behavior, I cannot stop thinking about Joe Biden’s past support for credit card companies and banking interests after watching the new Meryl Streep movie, “The Laundromat.”

While serving as Senator from Delaware, Biden took very good care of monied interests who used Delaware as a tax haven and other lucrative reasons. Perhaps such a history might be the reason his campaign is failing to arouse strong grass roots support.

Democratic Party leadership might want to start listening to the workingclass Americans they sold out with NAFTA, lucrative banking and usury laws, and by courting big business over union membership.

Middle-class dreams evaporated over the last twenty years while the wealth of just one percent ballooned to new heights. Younger Americans are demanding answers, but those answers are not going to come from Joe Biden.

Another sell-out being perpetuated is the notion of recycling and the continued use of single-use plastics. Some cities here in Broward County are making moves in the right direction by banning the use of plastic straws, but so much more needs to be done.

We need to look at all single-use plastics,

I am not suggesting giving up happy hour or becoming celibate, so don’t delete that online dating app just yet.

like cups, take-out containers, grocery bags and individual water bottles if we are going to make any real difference in our environment.

With all the kickback over something so miniscule as a plastic straw, the plastic industry has nothing to worry about anytime in the near future.

Another item we don’t need to worry about here in our Island City are those Spanish Fascist Blackshirts rumored to be bullying some members of our community at City Commission meetings.

Although a unified group of individuals wearing black shirts were present and vocal at our last city commission meeting, I was told by a reliable source that the choice of color had nothing to do with goose-stepping gestapo tactics, but rather for the slimming effects of black clothing.

The group was united in their support for the Urban Form Study recently submitted to the city. This study advocates increasing density in appropriate areas of our city, tiering height requirements, changes in parking requirements and many other recommendations to steer our city ahead to the future.

Enough rambling already, let me get busy carving my pumpkin so I can have that jacko-lantern gleaming with candlelight by my front door. This way I will not have to worry about any evil spirits that might be roaming the neighborhood when I head out to enjoy the autumn festivities along Wilton Drive.

Merriment like Wicked Manors make life just better here. WMG

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Wilton’s Third Quarter – What’s New?

Real Estate

By James Oaksun These next two columns will be shorter on the text, but hopefully chock full of information to make you a better consumer. Whether you wish to buy or sell in Our Fair Island City, or simply wish to impress those know-it-all guys from DC or Boston, you will find the knowledge helpful.

There are storm clouds around the national real estate market. Just last weekend I read a column titled “The U.S. Housing Crash is Officially Here.” The article picked a couple data points and overgeneralized, in my opinion. However, I have been warning about how the super-strength of our local market will not continue forever.

Considering WilMa as a whole, the median sale price of a single family home in the third quarter was $485,500. This is a seven-percent increase compared with 3Q18, and a sixpercent gain compared with the third quarter of 2017.

However, it is important to note that the median price did decline four percent versus 2Q19.

The graph shows the trend in median price back to 1Q17. I have also included the prices at the 25th and 75th

So, prices have been trending up, but at a reduced rate. The drop from 2Q19 is troublesome, and merits attention.

percentiles – what more geekish-oriented people call the “interquartile range”. So when one of the DC know-it-alls starts pontificating about local real estate, just say “the current interquartile range is 350 to 600 for single family.”

Then make them buy you a beverage.

So, prices have been trending up, but at a reduced rate. The drop from 2Q19 is troublesome, and merits attention.

The attached text chart breaks down the three neighborhoods in the Island City – West being all west of Andrews, Center being Andrews to the train tracks, and East being train tracks to Federal. Here I make a six-month calculation due to fewer data points. As in prior quarters, pricing is at a premium in East Wilton, with the other neighborhoods more “affordable.”

I’ll point out three things here. First, the overall city decline compared with 2Q19 was due to decreases in Center and East Wilton; median prices in West Wilton increased.

Second, the seven-percent increase versus 3Q18 was driven

by Center Wilton, as the other two neighborhoods had just minor gains. Finally, the two-year change was entirely due to East Wilton. West Wilton had no change in prices, while Center Wilton had a small decline.

Tune in next time for a sales and inventory check.

James Oaksun, Florida’s Real Estate Geek(SM), is BrokerOwner 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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I believe one of the best ways forward to maintain funding for our city’s level and quality of services and alleviate the burden on current property owners is to expand the tax roll through carefully increased density along our commercial and transit oriented corridors with redevelopments that conform to our city’s scale and small town sensibility.

The year to come should bring progress in this area by us all working together.

In late October, the city’s consultant, Calvin Giordano, provided a presentation to the City Commission on the draft Urban Form and Density study, which offered results of their research and public outreach on the future of our urban form and density in Wilton Manors. The full presentation can be found online.

This process has been specifically designed to provide the public with opportunities to weigh in and share their thoughts and support as to what kind of form new and future growth should look like in Wilton Manors and where in the city that growth should

be limited. I have been encouraged, as the public has confirmed the position I have shared and will continue to take on their behalf in that preservation of our single-family neighborhoods is a priority and that the growth we seek to develop should be limited to our aging commercial and transit oriented corridors.

The City Commission will accept the full report later this year, and Calvin Giordano will begin to build the regulations that will provide developers with the vision and tools to redevelop our aging commercial infrastructure.

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They are potty-trained, like toys and have hearts of gold. They will do best in a home without felines. This pair are very sad that they are back at the shelter after their previous adopter became ill. While they are getting lots of TLC from the staff and volunteers, what they really want is a family to call their own. Can you give them the loving home they so desperately want?

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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The Flamingo Auto Group South (FAGS) is an inclusive auto group with a low barrier to entry.

You don’t need to be a car collector, own any vintage cars, or even a car in general to join this group — you just need to have a passion for cars. “The group got started as a way for gay car enthusiasts in the area to have a venue for car shows and social functions with likeminded guys in a gay environment, free from any possible homophobia one might run into at a straight car show or event,� said Adam Walder, who has been president of the group since 2009.

FAGS is coming up on its 20th anniversary, which it will celebrate with a dinner in June 2020. The group is a regional chapter of the larger Lambda Car Club International, an extensive network of gay and lesbian car enthusiasts with a history spanning nearly

The group is a regional chapter of the larger Lambda Car Club International, an extensive network of gay and lesbian car enthusiasts with a history spanning nearly four decades.

four decades, with the original group, the Gay Old Car Owners Society, being founded in 1981.

The creation of the Flamingo Auto Group was somewhat in response to the reactions of mainstream auto clubs, which historically have not been welcoming to the LGBT community. Many of the Flamingo Auto Group’s members also participate in mainstream groups however, and the group participates in larger car shows that are not specific to LGBT membership. “The auto club landscape has definitely become more friendly to gays and lesbians over the past decade,� Walder said. “Most all of our members are also members of other clubs.�

According to Walder there are currently nearly 60 members and get around 25 to 30 attendees at their car shows. In the group’s history they have only ever had one female member, but Walder notes that the group has done a number of shows with lesbian groups and that FAGS is always open to women as much as it is to men. “We are always looking for new members x and are especially interested in younger members and what they may be able to bring to the table,� Walder said.

Alongside newer members, the Flamingo Auto Group will soon be getting new leadership. Walder is looking to retire from his position at the next election and pave the way for new leadership to take the wheel.

The group is always accepting membership on their Facebook page, Flamingo Auto Group South, where they share updates on events, shows, and other club activities.

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Finally some authentic Chicago style pizza

Chicago Stuffed Pizza

Chicago deep dish pizza.

238 Commercial, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea 954-533-1808 chicagostuffedpizzamenu.com As I’ve written before, Chicagoans are we popped by on a Saturday night and who adamant about their pizza preferences. Of should we run into just leaving, but Island course, there’s thin crust which is the most City Stage artistic director Andy Rogow (a similar you’ll get to New York style down former Chicagoan) and his husband Lloyd. here in South Florida.

They gave us a “thumbs up” sign of approval But even then, there are major differences and we, of course, discussed our favorite between the pizzas from the east coast and Chicago pizza places.

Midwest. Chicago style thin pizza has a We were able to snag the last two top firmer crust, you can’t really bend it and eat table inside and placed our order with the it like a taco, as you can with New York style. single harried, but pleasant server. We Even if the crust were pliable enough to do ordered a large stuffed pizza with green so, it would be difficult because Chicago and black olives (I would have preferred pizzas are traditionally sliced in a grid pattern sausage, but my husband is a vegetarian). (called bar-cut) and served in 3-inch square Since we know these behemoth pizzas take pieces, giving you the option of at least 40 minutes to bake, we outside pieces with crust or the also decided on a Caesar salad sloppier inside squares. to split while we waited. My The biggest The biggest debate about husband ordered a Coke and I debate about pizza in the Windy City is about a glass of the pinot grigio (only whether you prefer pan (also $6 a glass). My husband was pizza in the called deep-dish) or stuffed surprised that instead of a can Windy City is versions. The deep-dish version or fountain drink he was served is more like a traditional pie, about whether a bottle of “Mexican” Coke, with a crispy bread crust, made with cane sugar instead you prefer pan of corn syrup. Those of us of a followed by cheese, chopped tomatoes (seldom sauce) and certain age usually prefer this (also called other toppings. The stuffed version as it tastes like the soft deep-dish) version offers a similar crust, drink we grew up with. Later, although the stuffed version is a second bottle was delivered or stuffed usually a little “breadier,” like without even asking. Good versions. the garlic knots served in most service, I noted.

Italian places in South Florida.

When our pizza arrived it That crust is stuffed almost to the top with certainly looked like the pizza from home, at lots of ground mozzarella, fillings and then least two inches tall and topped with chunky topped with a chunky tomato sauce. Both sauce. It cut like a pie from home too, with versions are knife and fork meals. strings of melted mozzarella oozing from While there are a few places that serve each slice. However, the proof was in the taste “Chicago-style pizza” here in South Florida, and it was absolutely the same. Chicagoans none of them have really gotten it right, until will know what I mean when I say, “It’s just Chicago Stuffed Pizza Company opened in like Giordano’s,” a popular Chicago pizza Lauderdale by the Sea. The blink-and-you’ll- chain. The crust was appropriately chewy miss-it spot is located in a strip mall just east and studded with plenty of olives amidst the of the intracoastal and features just a few gooey cheese. tables inside with about a half-dozen more Everything was perfect until we got our on a small patio next to the parking lot. bill. Stuffed pizzas are expensive, almost After giving it about a month to settle in twice that of a New York style, but a large will

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easily serve 6-9 people (one slice is enough for a meal). But that’s not what shocked us; the wine which was listed for $6 a glass on table cards, was billed at $7.99, We were also charged for the soda that was refilled without our asking – plus we were served the bottled Coke instead of the cheaper soda in a can. We

asked for the wine price to be corrected but didn’t say anything about the bottled soda.

Perhaps the server in her harried state did so without thinking, rather than attempting to pad the bill. I certainly hope so, because Chicago Stuffed Pizza Company is worth a return visit.

These places also claim to serve Chicago style pizza, but I haven’t checked them out … yet!

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Bocelli, widely regarded as the most popular classical singer in the world, has been thrilling audiences for more than 20 years and here’s your chance to finally experience his music in this sparkling, state-of-theart venue. Tickets at MyHRL.com.

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No, make that ALL Bravo TV fans because Ben Mandelker and Ronnie Karam, creators of the irreverent and outrageous “Watch What Crappens” podcast, are recording their latest show tonight at 7 p.m., at Revolution Live, 100 S.W. 3rd Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Be there and discuss all your favorite Bravolebrities with the guys. Tickets start at $25 at JoinTheRevolution.net.

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Actor’s Playhouse presents the Johnny Cash musical, “Ring of Fire,” through Dec. 8 at the Miracle Theater, 280 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables. Performed by five incredible actor/singer/musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting jukebox musical features the songs “I Walk the Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and more than two dozen other classic hits. This show is “a foot-stompin’, crowd-pleasin’ salute to a unique musical legend.” Tickets at ActorsPlayhouse.org.

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The South Florida Symphony Orchestra performs the score of Disney’s animated classic, “Beauty and the Beast,” live in concert tonight at 7 p.m. at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale. Experience the full-length film and Academy Award-winning music, with musical direction provided by the symphony’s conductor, Maestra Sebrina Maria Alfonso. Tickets start at $35 at BrowardCenter.org.

Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center in Miami is presenting “The Wolves” through Nov. 17. This Pulitzer Prize finalist centers on the lives and experiences of nine high school girls through their weekly, Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups, using their team and relationships as a metaphor for survival in 21st century.

Catch this thought-provoking play today at 3 p.m. Tickets are $50 at ArshtCenter.org.

Our Fund, in partnership with Equality Florida, presents its 9th annual LGBT Leadership Forum, “LGBTQ Equality: How We’ll Get There and Why States Matter,” tonight at 6:30 p.m., at the NSU Art Museum Horvitz Auditorium, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. A panel of national leaders, moderated by Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith, will discuss the pressing issues. More information at Our-Fund.org.

The Tony-winning Broadway revival of “Fiddler on Roof” makes its latest tour stop at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach tonight and runs through Nov. 17 to open Kravis on Broadway.

A new generation of audiences are being introduced to the classic songs “Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” written 50 years ago by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. Tickets available at Kravis.org.

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A&E music Todrick Hall returns to the Broward Center next weekend with his “Haus Party” tour. Credit: Jon Sams.

Outshine Film Festival

Welcome to the Haus of Todrick

Closing night

On October 20, the OutShine Film Festival closed off its films with guest appearances for the closing awards. Shown to the left is Executive Producer for OutShine Arnel San Pedro and speaking is Haaz Sleiman, an actor who accepted the HRC Visibility Award as an openly gay Muslim American actor. Photo credit: J.R. Davis. To see more, visit SFGN on Facebook.

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here does multi-talented choreographer/singer/actor and part-time ”RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge Todrick Hall find all his energy?

“I just have to accept the fact that I’m not a normal person,” he said, just a couple of hours after hopping off a red eye flight to Fort Lauderdale earlier this summer. “I don’t need a lot of downtime…it’s not fun to lay out at the beach or at a park.”

Instead, he’s constantly thinking about that next performance.

“I’m inspired by everyday things. I could be driving down the street and see a line on a billboard and one of the lines on the billboard could inspire a song or the title of an album. I love going to New York City to see a Broadway show, a live orchestra perform or a concert. That’s what I do in my free time,” Hall explained.

When he does find time to relax, Hall circled back: “I love a movie or a TV show, but nothing beats seeing a cirque show, Broadway, a performance of the “Nutcracker” ballet….I love to smell the remnants of the fog machine four rows back from the orchestra.”

Friends and colleagues alike credit the performer’s tireless work ethic.

“He’s genuine, fun, funny, but hardworking, very focused,” said Watkins, Hall’s companion for this trip.

The artist’s singular focus on his art doesn’t mean he doesn’t appreciate visits

to South Florida…and his fans here. He’s looking forward to returning to the Broward Center next weekend with his “Haus Party” tour.

“Even though I travel so much, I don’t often get to see the sights,” Hall admitted, “but I always feel loved when I’m here.”

One of his first jobs was at Disney World and Hall came out while living in Florida.

He’s sold out the Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater but will be finally performing in the 2600-seat Au-Rene Theater.

“I remember thinking I will sell this theater out some day and now I can’t wait for it to be filled with my fabulous fans,” said Hall.

He plans to treat those fans to favorites from his last three albums, “Straight Outta Oz,” “Forbidden” and “Haus Party, Pt. 1,” and he promises more dancing.

“I want to dance a lot more. I really want to challenge myself choreography-wise,” Hall added.

He’s always pushing himself, and for good reason, the 34-year-old YouTuber acknowledged that, in the age of social media, aspiring young performers have the ability to “put themselves out there…without asking permission.”

“The downfall is that anybody can become famous these days, you don’t have to have talent,” Hall pointed out.

Fortunately, the talent part has never been a problem for him.

Todrick Hall’s “Haus Party” tour comes to the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $27.50 at BrowardCenter.org.

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Queerly Digital LGBT cinema on DVD/Blu-Ray, a monthly column David-Elijah Nahmod

To A More Perfect Union Welcome to Queerly Digital, a regular column about LGBT cinema on DVD and Blu Ray.

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ewly out on DVD, Donna Zaccaro’s documentary “To a More Perfect Union: US V. Windsor” is a short (63 minutes), succinct documentary on the legal battle fought by Edie Windsor, a lesbian in her 80s who refused to let the US government invalidate her relationship.

Windsor and Thea Spyer (the couple married in Canada) were together for forty years. When Spyer died after a long illness, Windsor was hit with an estate tax bill totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s a bill she would not have had to pay were her marriage recognized by the federal government. She decided to sue.

Zaccaro assumes, perhaps correctly, that many younger viewers might not know the history of the gay rights movement in the U.S., and so she opens her film with a brief look back at how LGBT people were treated and viewed by society during the 1950s and 60s--police raids of gay bars had been the norm. A cringe inducing clip from a 1967 CBS news special called The Homosexuals reminds viewers how negatively society viewed LGBT people during those years. Zaccaro also recalls the formation of The Mattachine Society, an organization of gay men, and the Daughters of Bilitis, a San Francisco based lesbian group, which were the first gay organizations in the U.S. LGBT people finally fought back in 1969 when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York--the riots which ensued birthed the modern gay rights movement and launched the first Pride parades. It’s a lot of information, and Zaccaro impressively packs it all into the film’s first ten minutes.

The film also recounts the history of DOMA, the Defense Of Marriage Act, which was passed

by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton when it looked like Hawaii was going to pass the country’s first marriage equality bill-lawmakers were afraid that other states would be forced to honor Hawaiian marriages. Windsor’s suit challenged part of that law and demanded full recognition of her marriage to Spyer.

The bulk of the film focuses on Windsor’s relationship with Spyer, and Windsor’s subsequent legal battle. Interviewees include Windsor herself, and Roberta Kaplan, Windsor’s attorney, who wisely avoids using complicated legal jargon in her interviews which makes the film, and the details of the case, easily accessible to the average viewer.

Viewers will learn exactly what Windsor had to go through in order to get her case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court, no mean feat, made all the more impressive because of her advanced age and the fact that she was suffering from health problems at the time.

But she persevered, and her case indeed made it to the high court, attracting national attention along the way.

And though the outcome of the case is well known (Windsor won) the section of the film which includes Kaplan’s oral arguments before the court and arguments from the opposing side play out like a well done suspense drama.

Ultimately, Windsor not only won her case, she paved the way for the establishment of full marriage equality rights in the U.S. two years later. Now that she is no longer with us, “To A More Perfect Union” stands as a tribute to her strength, and to her extraordinary accomplishment. The film paints a portrait of her as a hero, rightfully so. Windsor deserves to be remembered. “To A More Perfect Union” is a lovely remembrance of her.

The film paints a portrait of her as a hero, rightfully so.

Windsor deserves to be remembered.

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West Side Story

November 4 to December 1 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, 3800 NW 11th Pl, Lauderhill. West Side Story re-imagines Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in 1950’s New York City. A bitter rivalry between gangs is forever altered by a forbidden love affair between the young couple Tony and Maria.

Tickets at LPACFL.com.

Friday Night Sound Waves Music Series

Fridays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Hub, Las Olas Boulevard and A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy live, outdoor music spanning genres and tributes every Friday evening through November. Free. Visit FridayNightSoundWaves.com

palm beach county *Ordinary Americans

December 6 to December 29 at the Don & Ann brown Theatre, 201 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. Ordinary Americans pays tribute to an extraordinarily talented, innovative, and courageous artist and businesswoman, Gertrude Berg. Her television show fostered the idea that, regardless of who we are, where we come from, or how we worship, people are basically the same and fundamentally good.

But then she and her wonderful, big-hearted ensemble are threatened by the Red Scare, and life is never quite the same. Tickets $52 to $92. Visit palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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Just the Funny Theater, where The Big Show takes place on Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. in Miami. Visit JustTheFunny.com for tickets. Photo via Just The Funny Improv Comedy, Facebook.

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.

miami-dade county Outdoor Music Series

Third Thursdays at the Perez Art Museum

Miami, 101 W. Flagler St. in Miami. Come out for live music from DJs and musicians by the bay. Drink specials available. Free with museum admission. Call 305-375-3000 or visit PAMM.org.

The Big Show

Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. at Just the Funny Theater, 3119 Coral Way in Miami.

A collection of comedy mixing the likes of improvisation and sketches. Tickets $12. Call 305-693-8669 or visit JustTheFunny.com.

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Tuesdays in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Southwest Ranches. A support group for parents of LGBT youth 13 to 21. Free. Visit SunServeYouth.com for dates and locations.

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

Survivor Support

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 *The Art of Flame Glassblowing Exhibit

November 9 and 10 at the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts, 481 South Federal Hwy, Dania Beach. The exhibit features floral paperweights from the 1970s representing Paul Stankard’s accolade as the “father of modern glass paperweights”. Having rivaled the skills of the 19th century French paperweight masters, Stankard turned his attention to unique glass sculptures, which encapsulated his mystical visions of nature.

By the 1980s, he was considered a pioneer of flameworking in the studio glass movement.

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*Couch to 5K, Free New Runner Training for the A1A 5K

Wednesday, Nov 13th, 6:30 p.m. at Holiday Park, 1200 G Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale FL Like to try out running? Keep off holiday pounds? Meet other LGBTQA runners? The Front Runners & Walkers Fort Lauderdale, your hometown LGBTQA running club is offering a FREE nine-week training program to prepare new/aspiring runners who want to complete the Fort Lauderdale A1A 5K Race on January 25, 2020.

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*Lyrical Luncheon

Thursday, November 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club, 2800 Yacht Club Dr. The Opera Society invites you to join us for a Lyrical Luncheon, featuring Justin Moss of FGO, with a preview of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni and FGO Studio Artists performing enchanting Arias, followed by a wonderful lunch. Tickets $65.

Visit TheOperaSociety.org.

Film Series: Working Woman

Sunday, November 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the NSU Art Museum, One East Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Working Woman is a film about a mother of three whose husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business. She lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harassing realtor and brings herself back to fight in this absorbing drama. Tickets $9 to $18.

SafeT Support Group

Every Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at SunServe, 2312 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors. SunServe Mental Health Services & Midway Specialty Care Center Presents: SAFE T A weekly drop in group for anyone who identifies as transgender and or gender

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Nonbinary and Gender Variant Support Group

Every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at SunServe, 2312 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors.

A group limited to self-identified gender marginalized & gender questioning peoples.

Gender marginalized includes cis-women, womxn, femmes, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, agender, trans & gender questioning. Learn more at SunServe. org/ENBY.

palm beach The Body Says I Am A Fiesta — Art Installation

October 4 to March 1 at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach. This exhibition addresses ideas about the body and its symbolic and societal implications in modern Latin American cultures through the paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by artists active in Latin America and the United States between the early 1900s and the present.

Family Nights with Food Truck Invasion

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sunset Cove Amphitheater, 8802 Boynton Beach Blvd, Boynton Beach. The event features rotating entertainment activities and a large collection of Food Trucks on site! Admission is free.

miami-dade 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.

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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.

Tuesdays from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Jose Marti Park, 362 SW Fourth Ave. in Miami. Yogis 18 and older of all levels are invited to a practice lead by a certified instructor. Bring your own yoga mat, water, and towel. Free. Call 305358-7550 or visit BayfrontParkMiami.com/ Yoga.html.

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POZCONNECT Support Group for Gay and Bi Men

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.

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 fir details.

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 Comedy Key West

Thursday and Friday at 8:30 pm at the Bottlecap’s Blue Room, 1128 Simonton Street, Key West. Come enjoy drinks and jokes at the weekly comedy nights! Local talent sure to get you laughing is showcased each week.

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