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Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • Norm Kent [email protected] Chief Executive Offi cer • Pier Angelo Guidugli Associate Publisher / Executive Editor • Jason Parsley [email protected] Editorial Art Director • Brendon Lies [email protected] Designer • Charles Pratt Associate Editor • Jillian Melero [email protected] Digital Content Director • Brittany Ferrendi [email protected] Arts/Entertainment Editor • JW Arnold [email protected] MEGACON HONORS PULSE VICTIMS WITH Social Media Manager • Tucker Berardi [email protected] Food/Travel Editor • Rick Karlin Brittany Ferrendi ‘lOVE IS LOVE’ aRt auctiOn Gazette News Editor • Michael d'Oliveira HIV Editor • Sean McShee Senior Photographer • J.R. Davis he Southeast’s largest comic, gaming history at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Katsafanas described the cocktail reception [email protected] and anime convention is stepping up to Much of the artwork on auction are the meet and greet as a “really unique setting” with Senior Features Correspondents honor Pulse nightclub shooting victims original 11x17 drawings and illustrations of the very limited tickets. The “relaxed, friendly” Jesse Monteagudo • Tony Adams T Correspondents with a special art auction. pages that appear in the Pulse comic anthology. atmosphere will let patrons speak directly to Dori Zinn • Andrea Richard • Donald MegaCon Orlando is teaming up with Marc The art mediums range from paint, prisma, artists and enjoy hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Cavanaugh • Christiana Lilly • Denise Royal • Andreyko’s “Love is Love” project to form pencil and more. 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SouthFloridaGayNews.com GUIDE TO THE DRIVE 1 SFGN’s LGBT Home Design Edition / / Father Bill, founder of Poverello, has passed. Submitted photo. Copyright © 2017 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 4 • 5.17.2017 NEWS national POLLS SHOW NATIONAL APPROVAL FOR SAME- SEX MARRIAGE AT NEW HIGHS But much ground is still left to gain Jillian Melero rotestants came in at their Support for Gay Marriage, by Political Party — 1996-2017 highest, 55 percent, and PRepublicans at theirs, 47, in support of same-sex marriage during Gallup’s annual Values and Benefi ts poll conducted May 3 – 7. The specifi c question, as worded by the Gallup poll pertains as to whether same-sex marriage “should be recognized by the law as valid,” compared to similar polls that ask whether a person is in favor of same- sex marriage, leaving the question up for moral interpretation, versus legal. Support for Gay Marriage, by Religious Group — 2004-2017 Overall 64 percent of those polled said they believed that marriage between same-sex couples should be recognized by law, a steady increase from last year’s 61 percent. The data was collected from a sample size of 1,011 people living across 50 states within the U.S. and was collected via landline or cell phone survey. 5.17.2017 • 5 Four texas Men Face Federal Hate Crime Charges for luring Gay Victims with Grindr (EDGE) A federal grand jury indicted four Texas men while the men ransacked their homes. In one instance, a car Wednesday with federal hate crime and conspiracy charges was stolen. for using the gay hook-up app Grindr to target victims for The men were charged with 18 federal counts that home robbery. include kidnapping, carjacking, conspiracy and possession According to the 18-count indictment, Anthony Shelton, of a fi rearm. 19; Nigel Garrett, 21; Chancler Encalade, 20; and Cameron Dallas News reports that the hate crimes carry a maximum Ajiduah, 18, committed four home invasions from January 17 penalty of life in prison. The case is being investigated by the to February 7, 2017 in the Dallas suburbs of Plano, Frisco and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as Aubrey. well as police departments in Plano and Frisco. In each case, the victims were targeted by the defendants Local news station CBS DFW spoke with North Texas Gay who falsely posed as a gay man on Grindr looking to meet up and Lesbian Alliance President Jeanne Rubin who was glad at the victims’ homes. to see a grand jury recognize the seriousness of the crimes. However in each case, according to KTXS News, when “You can be scared as a homeowner if your neighbor is the victim answered the door, instead of one hook-up, four robbed, but it’s diff erent if you feel like you’re being targeted armed men showed up.
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