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A Compelling Tale of Life in April 28, 2003 www.ExpressGayNews.com Volume 4, Number 17 Baseball's Closet Senator Stupid Wide Range of Groups Denounce Santorum’s Anti-Gay Remarks By Phil LaPadula and presidential candidate Howard Dean. Managing Editor The AP interview was published on Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R- Monday, April 21. By mid-day Tuesday, Pennsylvania) interview with the press releases from a wide range of groups Associated Press hit like a bomb last were flooding the e-mail in-boxes of Monday, leaving a billowing cloud of press newspapers all over the country. As the statements in its wake. The senator’s week progressed, the statements comments comparing homosexuality to denouncing Santorum’s remarks continued bigamy, polygamy, incest, bestiality and to pour in, with an increasing number adultery were quickly denounced by a calling for the senator to resign his post wide range of groups and individuals, as chairman of the Republican Conference, including the Human Rights Campaign the third highest party position in the (HRC), the Log Cabin Republicans, the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) Sen. Rick Santorum (left) with Sen. Trent Lott See Santorum on Page 4 Reprieve for Medically Needy? Dawson Says She’s ‘Confident’ Legislature will Fully Fund Medicaid Program By Phil LaPadula Sen. Mandy Dawson and Senate President form, eliminating a new eligibility requirement Although Dawson’s bill has not come Managing Editor Jim King expressed optimism that the that would require participants to spend all up for a hearing, the senator managed to A key Senate supporter of the Medically program would be fully funded for the next but $450 per month on their prescription attach the Medically Needy portion of her Needy Cost of Share Program is “confident” fiscal year. drugs before the state would pick up the tab bill to another bill, Senate Bill 2322. That bill that the program will be fully funded in the Rona Silberman, chief of staff for Sen. for the rest of their medications. Passed last passed the Senate unanimously on April 24 2003-2004 budget and will continue in its Mandy Dawson, said, “The senator is year, the new eligibility requirement was and includes a provision to eliminate the current form without the big cuts in benefits confident that the legislature will come up scheduled to take effect May 1. Patients who spend-down requirement. “Every senator that were due to take effect May 1. with the money. Speaker [Johnny] Byrd has depend on the program to pay for their signed on as a sponsor of Bill 2322,” The program received a temporary told members of the House that the program medications—including people with HIV/ Silberman said. reprieve last week when the Senate voted to will be restored to full funding.” AIDS and transplant patients—have Sarah Bascom, a spokesperson for fund it through June 30. It had been Dawson is the sponsor of Senate Bill complained that the spend-down Senate President Jim King, said the senator scheduled to expire on April 30. 1010, which includes a provision to restore requirement would leave them with $450 a In addition, spokespersons for both the Medically Needy program to its original month to pay for rent, utilities, food, etc. See Needy on Page 4 100% Solution Ride for Life Raises $50,000 The Seventh Annual 100% Solution Bike Ride for Life took place April 11-13. The event raised nearly $50,000 to benefit Tuesday’s Angels, a nonprofit organization that provides funding on an emergency basis to people with AIDS. The event has become the organization’s biggest fundraiser. Unlike some fundraisers, all of the money raised goes to people with AIDS, organizers say. Mike Walkowski, one of the two founders of the event, said, “We started it together with the idea of working with a national organization. But so little of the money actually went to help people that we decided to do it ourselves. The first year we raised $30,000, and it’s grown steadily each year.”

Riders Gordon Duvall, Rob Hancock, Mike Wilcowski, Blair Cockran, Andrew Segaloff, Karla Mcgillvary, Jerry Byers, Chuck Muribito, Chip Jones, Raoul Pinho and Len Jacobson collectively raised nearly $50,000 during the seventh annual 100% Solution Photo By Carole Fawcett Ride for Life. The money will go to assist people living with AIDS.

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CYMK April 28, 2003 Volume 4, Number 17 Issue 126

Inside THE EXPRESS Publisher Norm Kent [email protected]

Broward News Page 6 Senior Editor / Health Editor J. Michael James New Business Alliance Formed [email protected] Managing Editor in Fort Lauderdale Phil LaPadula Group will Promote Tourism [email protected] Arts & Entertainment Editor and Raise Money for Charities Mary Damiano [email protected]

Features Editor EDITORIAL Business Profile Page 7 Andy Zeffer [email protected] EDITORIAL

Mortgage Questions? No Problem Supervisor of Marketing and Development Kevin Hopper Mortgage Broker Carole Fawcett [email protected]

Shares Words of Wisdom Account Executives Craig Combs [email protected] Anthony Verrico [email protected] Dade News Page 11 Denise E. Ives [email protected] South Florida Artists Classifieds Manager Lexx Thomas ‘Create for a Cure’ [email protected] National Sales Representatives Miami Beach Silent Auction to Benefit Cancer Fight Rivendell Marketing 212.242.6863 BUSINESS

News & Features State News Page 12 Jennifer Trovato • Paul Harris Local Feature Columnists Rainbow Flag to Stretch Scott Colton • John Templeton Local Correspondents Palm Beach—Tony Plakas, ‘Sea to Sea’ in Key West South Beach—Jeff Wilkinson, Youth—Michael Irwin Business & Finance Over 3,000 People Needed to Daniel M. Pye • Michael Wilke Unfurl Banner on Final Day of PrideFest Syndicated Columnists Mike Alvear • Mubarak Dahir Paul Varnell • Deb Price • M.Signorile Dennis Scott-Bush • Jennifer Vanasco Page 15 Health & Fitness Columnists International News Stephen Fallon • Lee Strausberg Advice & Counseling SARS and HIV Seen as Mark Rutherford Webmaster • Gary Hallock Deadly Combination Network Administrator • Ray Johnston Contributing Photographers Researcher Says Death Toll will be Much Steven Shires • Pompano Bill • Carole Fawcett Distribution Managers Higher Among AIDS Population Charlie Braun • Glenn King • John Fugate Graphic Artist • Henny Snow

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CYMK SAA Scuba Club Kicks Off Season with a Splash Spring Diving Festival Scheduled for May 30 in the Keys The local Sunshine Athletic Association (SAA) Scuba Club’s 22nd Annual Spring Diving Festival will “splash down” in the Florida Keys on May 30 through June 1. The trip includes lodging, continental breakfast, Saturday evening dinner and daily dives. The cost is $240 for club members and $200 for non- divers. One of the featured dives for the more advanced diver on this trip is a visit to the wreck Spiegel Grove, which was sunk last year. For the less advanced divers and snorkelers, there will be shallow reef dives within the Key Largo Sanctuary. Prior to the Spring Diving Festival, the club has scheduled a series of dives off the coast of the Palm Beaches on May 2, May 3 and May 18. All these dives require advanced open-water training because of currents and depths involved. The SAA Scuba Club divers hit the waters last weekend with a two- tank dive on two reefs just off the Hillsboro Beach area of Broward County. The first dive was to a depth of 65 feet with a visit to Horseshoe Reef, while the second dive had the group combing the pristine fingers of “The Sanctuary.” For information about the SAA Scuba Club, contact Jonathan via e-mail at [email protected] Photo: SAA Scuba or call 954.462.DIVE. SAA Scuba Club divers hit the waters last weekend with a two-tank dive on two reefs just off the Hillsboro Beach area of Broward County

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CYMK Santorum from front Page privacy, a position similar to one held by silence with which President Bush and the the controversy. In fact, when the AP released Judge Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Republican Party leadership have greeted the complete transcript of Santorum’s interview Senate. The affair made national TV news U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the U.S. Sen. Santorum’s remarks is deafening,” Dean late Tuesday, the outrage intensified. It was broadcasts and was the topic of debate on Senate in 1987. “All of those things are said in a statement. “It is a silence that revealed that Santorum had compared same- the Fox network’s Hannity and Colmes. antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional implicitly condones a policy of domestic sex relationships to “man on child, man on dog” Santorum’s comments drew family. And that’s sort of where we are in divisiveness, a policy that seeks to divide relationships. comparisons to the past verbal explosions today’s world, unfortunately. It all comes Americans again and again on the basis of “This is the gutter language of the extreme of Sen. Trent Lott and former Sen. Jesse from, I would argue, this right to privacy that race, gender, class and sexual orientation.” right wing in this country,” said Lorri L. Jean, Helms. But some political observers said it doesn’t exist, in my opinion, in the United The next day, Dean issued another executive director of the National Gay and was unlikely that Santorum would be States Constitution.” statement that called on Santorum to resign Lesbian Task Force. “Comments comparing banished to the Senate’s back bench, as Lott Santorum also said that he has “no his leadership position. “As additional committed same-sex relationships to bestiality was last December after making remarks in support of former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s Santorum’s comments drew comparisons to the past verbal 1940s segregationist platform. explosions of Sen. Trent Lott and former Sen. Jesse Helms. “Unfortunately, the general public But some political observers said it was unlikely that doesn’t feel the same sense of outrage that Santorum would be banished to the Senate’s back bench, as they felt over Sen. Lott,” David Smith, Lott was last December after making remarks in support of former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1940s segregationist executive director of the Human Rights platform. Campaign, told The Express. Smith thinks it is “very unlikely” that Santorum will be forced to step down from his leadership post. problem with homosexuality; I have a “But his image and political standing have problem with homosexual acts...” been dealt a blow,” he said. The remarks drew a strong rebuke from Unlike the Lott affair, some high-ranking the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay political Republicans—including Sen. Arlen Specter group. “There is nothing conservative about and Sen. Bill Frist—and various allowing law enforcement officials to enter the conservative groups have rushed to home of any American and arrest them for Santorum’s defense. simply being gay,” said Patrick Guerriero, In the AP interview, Santorum defended executive director of the Log Cabin a Texas sodomy law currently being Republicans. “I am deeply troubled that Sen. Retired Sen. Jesse Helms reviewed by the Supreme Court and Santorum would divide America in a time of expressed his views on homosexuality. “If war. Mainstream America is embracing reports have come to light, revealing a and pedophilia are unbecoming of a United the Supreme Court says that you have the tolerance and inclusion. I am appalled that a disturbing history of inflammatory, anti-gay States senator.” right to consensual [gay] sex within your member of the United States Senate would rhetoric by Sen. Santorum, the deafening Winnie Stachelberg, political director of home, then you have the right to bigamy, advocate dividing Americans with ugly hate- silence of President Bush and his party has the Human Rights Campaign, said the you have the right to polygamy, you have filled rhetoric.” LCR also called for Santorum become inexcusable,” Dean said. “Rick remarks showed a lack of compassion and the right to incest, you have the right to to relinquish his leadership post. Santorum’s failure to recognize that attacking could incite violence against gays. “Clearly, adultery. You have the right to anything,” Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a people because of who they are is morally there is no compassion in his conservatism,” Santorum said. Democratic presidential candidate, criticized wrong makes him unfit for a leadership she said. “Discriminatory remarks like this The senator then argued that the U.S. President Bush and Republican leaders for position in the United States Senate.” fuel prejudice that can lead to violence and Constitution does not guarantee a right to not repudiating Santorum’s remarks. “The In a press statement issued April 22, other harms against the gay community. HRC Santorum defended his remarks and sought is calling on Republican leaders to take quick to clarify his position. “My comments should and decisive action to repudiate Sen. not be misconstrued in any way as a Santorum’s remarks.” statement on individual lifestyles,” he said. The Gay and Lesbian Medical “In the [AP] interview, I expressed the same Association, which also called for concern as many constitutional scholars, and Santorum to step down from his leadership discussed arguments put forward by the post, argued that the senator’s remarks set state of Texas, as well as Supreme Court a bad example for youth and “bring justices. If such a law restricting personal dishonor upon the Senate and the conduct is held unconstitutional, so could Republican Pary.” “Calling someone ‘fag,’ other existing state laws.” ‘queer’ or ‘dyke’ in school is the worst Santorum added, “My discussion … insult a kid can use, and ‘fag-bashing’ is was about the Supreme Court privacy case, considered sport by some,” said GLMA the constitutional right to privacy in general, President Kenneth Haller, MD. “For a and in context of the impact on the family. I person of the senator’s stature to refer to am a firm believer that all are equal under the LGBT persons with such inflammatory Constitution.” language is to give license to those who But Santorum’s statement did little to cool would perpetuate such violence.” Santorum from front Page held two press conferences on the Medically considers the Medically Needy program a Needy program last week. The party has also priority. “If they can find the money, it will launched an online and televised media be restored,” she campaign urging full said. “It’s one of funding of the program. [Sen. King’s] Bill Rettinger, a local priorities that he will activist and transplant be looking at during patient who has been the conferencing working to save the process. If they find program, expressed the money, then they cautious optimism. can work on the “Without the efforts of all substantive issues the people who wrote regarding eligibility letter, sent e-mails and for the program.” lobbied in Tallahassee, as It’s not clear well as the support of the whether Gov. Jeb state Democratic Party, Bush supports efforts this program would not to restore the program. have had a chance of The governor continuing.” provided no funding But it’s still not a done Sen. M. Mandy Dawson for the program in his deal yet, and activists are proposed budget for urging supporters to keep 2003-2004, and later proposed continuing it up the pressure on their state representatives. only for pregnant women and children. The legislative session is scheduled to On April 23, the Sun-Sentinel reported end May 2. that a spokesman for Bush said the governor For updates on the program, visit “needs to review” the idea. www.FloridaDemocraticParty.com and look Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party for the Medically Needy program’s link. 4 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 28, 2003

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CYMK New Business Alliance Formed in Fort Lauderdale Group will Promote Tourism and Raise Money for Charities From Staff Reports The GBA is a not-for-profit association, A new gay and lesbian business group and the net proceeds of all its activities will be has been formed in Fort Lauderdale to promote donated to gay charities. This year, the board tourism and raise money for charities. has chosen Sunshine Social Services, Inc. The Gay Business Alliance of Greater (SunServe), the Gamma Mu Foundation and Fort Lauderdale was originally the vision of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of the late Richard J. Fasenmyer, a nationally Greater Fort Lauderdale as beneficiaries. renowned Fort Lauderdale businessman. The Greater Fort Lauderdale boasts the group’s mission is to provide a unified voice second largest resident gay population in the to promote Greater Fort Lauderdale as United States. In addition, it was recently America’s top gay travel destination and to ranked as the top 2002 vacation getaway for raise money for charities that support the gay gay and lesbian travelers by Out & About community. magazine. It is widely recognized that the gay Renowned for loving a challenge, community is an integral part of Fort Fasenmyer assembled an alliance of key Lauderdale’s economic engine. It provides business leaders who would be interested in goods and services to the local community marketing the benefits of Greater Fort as well as the hundreds of thousands of gay Lauderdale to the gay community on a national visitors. According to the Greater Fort and an international basis. Fasenmyer was The Gay Business Alliance board of directors includes (top Row) Paul Czerwonka, Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, last personally responsible for funding the Cliff Petit, Steve Turner, Ron English, (bottom Row) Paul Hugo, John Castelli, Jeff year over 800,000 gay tourists spent Boss and Michael Kenny. Also on the board are Joe Mirabile and Bob DeBenedictis. establishment of the organization. approximately $1 billion in the Greater Fort The current board of the Gay Business Membership in the alliance is open to all (redeemable upon presentation of the GBA Lauderdale area. Alliance consists of business and community individuals and businesses that recognize the membership card. Window stickers will be It is with this financial data in hand that leaders from the Greater Fort Lauderdale importance of gay and lesbian commerce and available for business members offering the GBA decided to bring an annual event community. Members include Jeff Boss, John the successful growth of Greater Fort discounts). weekend to Fort Lauderdale. This event will Castelli, Bob DeBenedictus, Ron English, Paul Lauderdale. Charter memberships are now “It’s perfect,” stated board member Bob augment that buying power and will work to Hugo, Michael Kenny, Joe Mirabile and Cliff available for $50 and $175 (individuals and DeBenedictus. “I can offer a 15 percent continue the upward trend of gay tourism Petit, Steve Turner and Paul Czerwonka. In businesses respectively). Members discount incentive to any member who wants dollars spent in the area. addition, Raymond Vino, the creative vice automatically receive listings in the online to come to my gym, Better Bodies, plus I’ll get The event, called Fun Under the Sun®, president of Blue Door Productions Inc., serves membership directory. In addition, business the added benefit of having a listing in the will be a four-day celebration featuring a diverse as a consultant to the board on all marketing members receive listings with a hyperlink back online directory with a detailed listing of the calendar of events and activities. It will take and promotional programs. to their business website and are able to extend benefits that I’m offering.” place January 8-11, 2004, and will feature a wide discounts and/or benefits to all GBA members array of amateur sports competitions, cultural and artistic exhibitions, comedians, vocal artists and dance entertainers. The final event of the weekend will be an afternoon and sunset beach dance party on the world-renowned Fort Lauderdale Beach. “It’s a weekend designed to rpomote culture, leisure and entertainment,” Castelli said. The Fun Under the Sun® event weekend welcomes everyone regardless of sexual orientation. Some of the featured entertainment and cultural exhibitions will include: • Incorporation of AIDS Project Florida Art for AIDS annual fundraiser, hosted by DCOTA. • 2003 Designer Fashion Festival with clothing from renowned designers. • First Annual Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. • Concert Celebration featuring top comedians and vocal artists. • Fort Lauderdale Intracoastal Tour of Homes showcasing the most stylish homes adorning the area’s world famous waterways. • Nightly Cocktail Parties highlighting Fort Lauderdale’s cultural hot spots. • Morning Yoga and Meditation daily at sunrise on Fort Lauderdale’s Blue Wave Beach. • Everglades Safari featuring airboat rides, canoe adventures and special wildlife sighting tours. • Amateur Sport Competitions featuring golf, tennis, volleyball, bowling and fitness. • Underwater Scuba and Snorkeling Adventures for enthusiasts who wish to explore Fort Lauderdale’s underwater wildlife. • Afternoon and Sunset Beach Dance Party located on Fort Lauderdale Beach featuring and assortment of beach activities, a tropical cuisine beachfront barbecue, renowned DJs and celebrity entertainers. For more information on becoming a member of the Gay Business Alliance of Greater Fort Lauderdale, visit the GBA website at www.GayBusinessAlliance.com or contact the GBA office at 954.522.8064. For further information on Fun Under the Sun© contact the Gay Business Alliance or visit the event website at www.FunUnderTheSun.org.

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CYMK Mortgage Questions? No Problem Mortgage Broker Carole Fawcett Shares Words of Wisdom By Andy Zeffer “My advice to clients is information. “It seems like the past few Features Editor very simple: Every mortgage months, the market has turned and it’s “I consider what I do helping broker has access to pretty more of a buyers’ market than a sellers’ people achieve their dream,” much the same programs,” she market. There are more sellers on the Carole Fawcett says when says. “So when somebody market, but not as many buyers, which summing up her job. “For many goes out to shop for a loan, I happened very fast. I see refinancing as people, buying a home of their think they are doing it the very strong right now because of how low own is their dream.” wrong way. What they really interest rates are.” And it takes a should be doing is shopping In short, Fawcett thinks it’s an knowledgeable mortgage broker for a broker that they trust. excellent time to be a buyer and an excellent like Fawcett to bring the process They have to be comfortable time to refinance. If homeowners have a of buying a home together. sharing highly personal rate that is above 7½ percent, Fawcett Before getting started in the information and their credit thinks now is a good time to look at the mortgage business, Fawcett history with their broker.” possibility of refinancing at a better rate. worked with commodities. Her All the financial events Carole Fawcett’s abilities and talents experience in the bond market from an individual’s last seven reach much further beyond being a provided her with invaluable to eight years, such as mortgage broker. She is also an knowledge of interest rates and bankruptcies, foreclosures and accomplished freelance photographer who interest rate fluctuation. From marital status are considered contributes to The Express. And she is commodities, Fawcett edged her when a buyer applies for a active in the community. This will be her way into mortgages, getting mortgage. So Fawcett fourth year working on the Aqua Girl involved in the lucrative and emphasizes the importance of committee. This year she is co-chairing fast-paced South Florida real finding somebody you the signature Sweet Charity event, where estate scene. completely trust who is the theme will be “Havana Nights.” The She spent her first year and involved in these details of life. event benefits the Gay and Lesbian a half as the owner of a net branch When asked if compassion Foundation Women’s Fund. of an institutional lender. From plays a role in being a mortgage there she covered the whole state advisor, her answer is a of Florida, from Tallahassee to resounding yes—especially for Carole Fawcett can be reached at Key West. When the company “My advice to clients is very simple: Every mortgage broker first-time buyers, who are Mortgage Bankers N. A., Inc., 2475 has access to pretty much the same programs,” says Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood. went through a merger, she chose Carole Fawcett. “So when somebody goes out to shop for terrified they may not find a to go out on her own. Fawcett a loan, I think they are doing it the wrong way. What they loan. Phone: 954.972.3990, fax: now works as an independent really should be doing is shopping for a broker that they As far as advice on current 954.972.3989. Or call toll-free: broker with an office in trust. They have to be comfortable sharing highly personal market conditions, Fawcett 800.563.4089. information and their credit history with their broker.” Hollywood. gives the following

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CYMK Male Empowerment Group Giulianti will be among the “servers” at this Congregation Etz Chaim price ranges have been donated and will April 29—The latest in a series of Gay Male business-casual event. Other celebrity to Hold Holocaust Memorial be available for bid. Admission to the event Empowerment Group meetings will be held waiters include Hollywood Vice Mayor Peter April 29—Congregation Etz Chaim, a is $10, which includes a signed print by artist at ArtServe, 1300 E. Sunrise Boulevard. Bober; Hollywood Commissioners Cathleen spiritual home for gay, lesbian, bisexual and Herbert Hofer, whose painting is the symbol Registration is at 6:30pm, and the program Anderson, Beam Furr, Sal Oliveri and Fran transgender (GLBT) Jews and their friends of this year’s relay. starts at 7. The evening’s topic is “Claim Russo; as well as Hollywood Assistant City in South Florida, will hold a memorial service For more information or to start a Relay Your Power Assertiveness Training.” Managers David Keller and Richard Lemack. for Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Memorial Day, for Life team, please contact Danika Refreshments provided by Stork’s Cuisine for Art co-chairs are Patty Asseff and on Tuesday at 7:30pm. Kramer at 305.594.4363, ext. 225. Bakery. For more information, Drazia Rubenstein. Etz Chaim’s Yom Hashoa service will call 954.768.0434, ext. 6000 or Cuisine for Art will kick off be conducted by Rabbi Cathy Nemiroff and ‘Apron Strings’ in Hollywood send an e-mail to at 6pm with a reception Cantorial Soloist Michael Greenspan. The April 30 through May 25—The joys, hysteria [email protected]. followed by a four-course event will be held at the multi-purpose room and ironies of motherhood are examined in There is a $10 fee. dinner at 7pm Karaoke, of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Apron Strings—six one-act plays by award- dancing and a silent auction Lauderdale at 3970 NW 21st Ave. All are winning playwright Michael McKeever. Cuisine for Art for food-themed prizes will welcome. Presented by the Hollywood Playhouse and April 29—This year’s sixth round out the evening. For more information, call the the Acting Studio Stage Company at the annual Cuisine for Art, the Art Tickets are $60 per person synagogue at 954.564.9232. Hollywood Playhouse, 2640 Washington St. and Culture Center of in advance or $70 per person in Hollywood. Hollywood’s fundraiser at the door. Seating is open, Miami Beach ‘Creates A Cure’ Preview performances are April 30 at where public officials become though reservations will be April 29—Artists from Miami Beach are 2pm and 8pm. The show opens May 1 celebrity waiters, will be held taken for tables of 10 people. taking up the fight against cancer for the and continues through May 25 with at Hillcrest Golf & Country To reserve your seat, first time this year with the Create for a Cure performances on Wednesdays at 2pm Club, 4600 Hillcrest Drive, please call 954.921.3274, ext. Silent Art Auction to be held from 7pm until and 8pm, Thursdays, Fridays and Hollywood. 222, before Wednesday, April 23. 10pm at the Forge Restaurant, 432 W. 41st Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm. Broward County Commissioner Sue For More information visit St. (Arthur Godfrey Road) in Miami Beach. Call 954.922.0404 for tickets and Gunzburger and Hollywood Mayor Mara www.artandculturecenter.org. More than 25 works of art in varying information. A - FI

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CYMK New Parents Mother’s Day Poetry divine feline intervention. Directed by Attendance is limited to 100 persons . May 1—A discussion of Birth: A Literary May 3—A “Mother/Daughter Poetry Marjorie O’Neill-Butler, the cast includes Call Annery at South Beach AIDS Project Companion will be presented by Lynne Workshop” will be offered by Gretchen Mark Agnew, Ian Hersey, David Kwiat, Inc. 305.523.1033 by May 5. For more Barrett, one of the book’s editors, at 7:30pm Fletcher from 10am to 2pm on May 3. Pamela Roza, George Schiavone and Stacy information, visit www.SOBEAIDS.org. May 1. The program is Participants will read poems to, Schwartz. free at the Broward by, for and about mothers, and It’s a Cat House will be presented at It’s Saturday Night County Main Library, 100 then write original poems. In 7:30pm. Admission is free. GableStage is May 10—“Live!…From South Florida…It’s S. Andrews Ave., Fort celebration of Mother’s Day, located in the east wing of the Biltmore Hotel, Saturday Night” will be held at the Au-Rene Lauderdale. mothers and daughters are 1200 Anastasia Ave. in Coral Gables. For Theatre located in the Broward Center For A collection of encouraged to attend together. more information call the GableStage box the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort poems, stories and Bring a notebook and a office at 305.445.1119. Lauderdale. essays by 50 bag lunch to the workshop. This is the eighth annual fundraiser accomplished writers, The fee for the course is $40 in HIV Drug Resistance and for Gilda’s Club. The event starts at 7pm the book is designed to advance and $45 at the door. Resistance Testing with a champagne reception and auction guide new parents Pre-registration is May 7—South Beach AIDS Project, Inc and the performance starts at 8pm. through the complex required to attend both (SoBAP) and the United Foundation for AIDS Tickets can be purchased from $35 by emotional terrain of programs. For details, call (UFA) will host a free dinner seminar at calling 954.763.6392 or visiting pregnancy, labor, birth 954.3577401. Monty’s Seafood House on South Beach, www.GildasClubSouthFlorida.org. and parenthood. It depicts the emotional 300 Alton Road, 2nd Floor. A free buffet Gilda’s Club South Florida, at 119 Rose spectrum that new parents pass through ‘It’s a Cat House’ dinner will be served at 6:30pm and Drive, Fort Lauderdale, provides a meeting from fear and loathing, to uncontainable joy. May 5—GableStage continues its Play presentation will follow immediately at place were people living with cancer and All kinds of parents are represented— Reading Series with a new comedy, It’s a 7:30pm. their families and friends can join with others gay and straight, mothers and fathers, Cat House, by Roger Martin. The speaker will be Laura Marolodo- to build emotional and social support as a married and single, adoptive and biological. Two theatrical couples, one gay and Connelly who specializes in HIV and has supplement to medical care. The book’s contributors include Margaret one straight, battle the church, the mob and been involved with multiple studies Atwood and Sylvia Plath. the law and are saved only by somewhat regarding antiretroviral drug resistance. Continued on page 10 HA - PE

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CYMK Continued from page 9 175 applicants from St. Petersburg to Skippers meeting Friday, May 16, at the Riding a Harley for the Pets Monroe County submitted works. These Lauderdale Yacht Club, or $35 for advance May 17 and 18—Win a 100th Anniversary submissions included clay, sculpture, purchase for Edition Harley Davidson Road King (retail Avi Hoffman to Give Benefit painting, photos, collages and videos. racers. value over $20,000) and help the May 12—Award-winning actor/entertainer The exhibition’s goal is to provide a The race is a homeless animals at the Humane Avi Hoffman is graciously donating his time venue for Florida’s emerging artists, art 12-mile multi-leg Society of Broward County. Stop by the and talent by giving a one-night-only special students and well-respected established course off Fort shelter, located at 2070 Griffin Road, just performance to benefit the Hollywood artists, by judging works on their own merit Lauderdale Beach. west of I-95 to purchase your ticket. Only Playhouse. The evening, to be called The without knowledge of the artists’ histories. The first start signal 500 tickets will be sold at $100 each. Best of Avi Hoffman, will feature some of Gallery hours are Tuesday through is at 11am. The Drawing to be held May 17, and you don’t Hoffman’s favorite songs and stories. Saturday, 10am to 5pm; Thursday, 10am to clambake will be need to be present to win. The benfit performance of The Best of 8pm; and Sunday, 1 to 4pm. held at Esplanade "Pet Ride 2003" takes place on Avi Hoffman will take place 7pm at the Admission is free for center members, Park and River walk, Sunday, May 18. Join fellow animal lovers Hollywood Playhouse, 2640 Washington St. $5 for adults, $3 for students and free to Fort Lauderdale, and ride on your Harley, hotrod, limo or in Hollywood. To order tickets call the box children 13 or younger with an adult. from 6:30 to 11pm. car from the Humane Society to office at 954.922.0404. More information is available at RSVP or for Everglades City. www.ArtAndCultureCenter.org. further information Participants should arrive at the All-Media Juried Biennial please call: Suzy shelter at 8:30am for check in and morning May 16 through June 29—Sixty-six artists Reggae Clambake Batzer 954.467.7423 ext.1012 or visit refreshments. from around the state of Florida will be May 16 and 17—The Regatta is an exciting www.HospiceCareFlorida.org/ Riders will depart at 10am and ride to featured at the Hollywood All-Media Juried day of sailing for the novice and beginner RegattaEvents.html. The regatta is a the Rod and Gun Club where they will enjoy Biennial, opening at the Art and Culture sailors. This year’s Reggie clambake will volunteer-driven event, and all proceeds lunch and afternoon entertainment. Cost is Center of Hollywood, located at 1650 include an exquisite silent auction, Maine benefit patients and families of $50 per person. Call 954.266.6845 for Harrison St. lobsters and a live band. Tickets are on sale HospiceCare of Southeast Florida. more information. Open to all Florida residents, more than now: $70 per person, $45 if purchased at [email protected] PS - Z

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CYMK South Florida Artists ‘Create for a Cure’ Silent Art Auction in Miami Beach to Benefit Cancer Fight From Staff Reports Dreams. A cancer Survivor’s Recognition invited to participate. There will be plenty of Artists from Miami Beach will combine Ceremony will kick off the night, and then the food, music, games and lots of fun going on their creative energies to fight cancer by actual relay will begin. All cancer survivors are all night long. According to the event’s donating their work to the first Create for a invited to come to the relay and participate. organizers, the city’s elected officials, Cure Silent Art Auction. The event will be During the Relay, teams of 10-15 people business leaders and regular folks whose held on Tuesday, April 29, from 7pm until camp out, and members take turns walking, lives have been touched by cancer are solidly 10pm at the Forge Restaurant, 432 W. 41st St. jogging or running around a track. Each team behind the event. (Arthur Godfrey Road) in Miami Beach. must have a representative on the track at all More than 25 works of art have been times. Teams raise money through activities donated and will be available for bid. The auction is a warm-up event for the and events held before the Relay, by selling Admission to the event is $10, which includes Miami Beach Relay for Life, the American goods or services during the Relay (such as a signed print by artist Herbert Hofer, whose Cancer Society’s signature fundraising coffee, massages, water, hot dogs), and by painting is the symbol of this year’s relay. event, which will be held on May 3-4 at the getting pledges from friends and family. Miami Beach Senior High School track, from But it’s not just about the teams. This is For more information or to start a 6pm Saturday through noon on Sunday. Deco Dreams is the theme for the Create a community-galvanizing get-together that Relay for Life team, contact Danika This year’s theme for the night is Deco for a Cure Silent Art Auction cuts across all ethnic lines. Everyone is Kramer at 305.594.4363, ext. 225. MCC Offers Support to Partners of Gay Troops Don’t ask, don’t tell and don’t receive government programs, mainline churches Almost 250 Metropolitan Community military policy that will allow gays and any support. This is the dilemma facing and nonprofit organizations are providing a Churches across the U.S. are responding to lesbians to serve openly. thousands of gay and lesbian military range of services and support for husbands these needs by offering support groups, “This war has brought to light an spouses, due to the military’s “Don’t Ask, and wives of heterosexual military personnel. pastoral counseling, prayer teams, extremely important issue facing gays and Don’t Tell” policy. “Partners of gay and lesbian military transportation and home-cooked meals. MCC lesbians,” Perry said. “A nation that allows It’s an issue that’s being addressed by people are an invisible group in our society,” has teamed with the Servicemembers Legal closeted gays and lesbians to fight for its Metropolitan Community Churches, a said Rev. Troy D. Perry, founder and Defense Network to address the needs of freedom, and to risk death and injury, while Christian denomination with a positive Moderator of Metropolitan Community GLBT families of military personnel. denying their families any kind of help, has outreach to gays and lesbians. Churches, the world’s largest church group These GLBT families are often forced to not achieved fairness or justice. Until our Thousands of partners of gay and with a primary affirming ministry to gays, survive in isolation as the military refuses to government will address these needs, I am lesbian military personnel are denied access lesbians, bisexuals and transgender (GLBT) acknowledge they exist; government calling on all churches and all people of to support services provided to heterosexual persons. “Due to the military’s unjust agencies, other churches, civic groups and goodwill to respond to the needs of our spouses. How can they ask for help if the treatment of its gay and lesbian service military support groups have failed to step nation’s gay and lesbian military personnel government policy doesn’t allow them to members, too many GLBT partners have been forward to offer them assistance. and their partners.” even identify themselves? left without the support and services Rev. Perry, himself a veteran of the U.S. For more information about the Across the United States, civic groups, provided to their straight counterparts.” Army, again this week called for a change in Metropolitan Community Churches visit

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CYMK Rainbow Flag to Stretch ‘Sea to Sea’ in Key West Over 3,000 People Needed to Unfurl Banner on Final Day of PrideFest From Staff Reports including New York, Chicago, Boston, rainbow flag on Duval Street was hatched three The artist who created the rainbow flag Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, years ago, when Key West businessman Gregg is sewing a 1¼-mile-long, 16-foot-wide Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Seattle and McGrady envisioned the display as part of the version of the internationally recognized gay Washington, D.C. community’s annual gay pride celebration. It and lesbian pride symbol to be unfurled in Baker, a San Francisco resident, came to fruition when PrideFest 2003 co-chairs Key West on Sunday, June 15, the final day estimates the flag will require approximately Heather Carruthers and Tom Wheaton met of the city’s upcoming PrideFest. 17,600 linear yards of fabric and weigh more Baker by chance in San Francisco. Gilbert Baker’s mammoth creation is to than three tons. More than 25 miles of seams “I was struck by their excitement and be displayed along the entire length of Duval must be stitched before the project is enthusiasm, and the concept of going from Street, the island’s main thoroughfare that completed, he said. the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico,” stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf “To figure out how to pack it and how to Baker said. of Mexico. deal with the volume of fabric, I studied the PrideFest 2003, sponsored by Key He and other project organizers are way fire hoses are folded and loaded into West’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center, looking for about 3,000 people to help deploy trucks,” he said. “It has to be folded very is scheduled for June 7-15. the banner. carefully so it will never twist.” Rainbow25, an organization Baker co- Baker created the original rainbow flag As well as honoring the banner’s birth, founded in 2002 to chronicle the history of in San Francisco 25 years ago as a symbol of the 2003 flag will recreate Baker’s original the flag, commissioned the Key West flag. community pride in response to anti-gay eight-color design. The 1978 flag lost two For more information about Key West’s activities. original colors—pink, because it could not PrideFest celebrations, visit “Some of my friends call me the Betsy be commercially reproduced at that time, and Gilbert Baker www.PrideFestKeyWest.com, e-mail Ross of the gay community,” Baker said after turquoise for logistical reasons, Baker said. [email protected], or call he and about 60 Key West residents stretched flag’s creation. Its debut will also kick off The two colors will be represented in 305.292.3223. For more information out a 100-foot test section. rainbow flag anniversary events around the his Key West flag, along with the traditional about Rainbow25 events, visit The Key West flag commemorates the United States. Following Key West, sections red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and violet. www.Rainbow25.org. 25th anniversary of the original rainbow of the banner are to travel to 100 cities, The idea of displaying a sea-to-sea Clearwater Man Sentenced to House Arrest for Attack Victims Were Assaulted While Leaving Gay Pride Event in Tampa Florida, man to two years of house arrest The 26-year-old has been to the dentist 20 received a head laceration, and their friend, followed by four years of probation and times to repair teeth knocked out by the Scott Boswell, 25, got a split lip. 500 hours of community service for beating he took from Angus. At the sentencing hearing on Monday, attacking three men after a gay pride event Prosecutor John Terry asked the Angus tearfully apologized to the victims. last July. judge, Chet Tharpe, to give the accused “I don’t know why I did it,” he said. “I Devin Scott Angus had faced up to 30 four years in prison, and Angus’s attorney don’t hate homosexuals. I didn’t hate you years in prison. Earlier this month, he asked for two. that night.” pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated The victims were leaving a party at In explaining the lenient sentence, battery and a hate crime, the Associated the Florida Aquarium in Tampa when Judge Tharpe said that he worried sending Press reported. Angus confronted them in a parking lot. the young man to prison would make him “I hope this judge isn’t involved in Before attacking the men, Angus worse. The judge also gave Angus a six- any other discrimination cases, because taunted them by dropping his pants and year suspended sentence. “If Angus gets he evidently doesn’t know how to handle screaming obscenities. into trouble during the next six years, he’ll them,” said Steven Hair, one of the victims. Hair’s partner, Sonny Gonzales, 35, go to prison,” he said. Unity Coalition Opens Office in Miami Group Focuses on Issues of Concern to Hispanic Gay Community Unity Coalition (UC) will open its new working on a variety of issues that concern and community meetings for related groups Hillsborough County Judge Chet offices at 5781 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami on the LGBTQ (gay) community. and organizations. Miami Acción Positiva Tharpe sentenced 21-year-old May 1. “Adoption, immigration and youth (MAP), Family AIDS Coalition and the Clearwater man Devin Scott Angus to two years of house arrest followed by “Opening the Unity Coalition office will empowerment are just some of the focus recently created Generación Q, a youth-based four years of probation and 500 hours allow us to better serve our community,” said issues the coalition has undertaken for the Hispanic gay support group, will meet of community service for attacking three men after a gay pride event last Dr. Laura Leyva, a UC board member. next year,” said Herb Sosa, president of Unity regularly at Unity Coalition offices. July. Founded as a grassroots initiative Coalition. “The new offices will allow for “The South Florida Hispanic LGBTQ By Mark Goebel offering leadership on issues that concern development and expansion of these and community finally has a home,” said UC Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network the Hispanic LGBTQ and other minority related projects and events.” board member “Ron” Saul Brenesky. A Hillsborough County judge communities, Unity Coalition of Miami-Dade/ In its new facilities, Unity Coalition will For more information, visit sentenced a 21-year-old Clearwater, Coalición Unida de Miami-Dade is actively also host special events, lectures, training www.UnityCoalition.org.

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CYMK Government Censorship of Science? GLMA Decries Efforts to Push Gay Health Research ‘Back into the Closet’ From Staff Reports agencies. “There have apparently been cases In confidential communications, The Gay and Lesbian Medical of NIH and CDC officials being approached researchers have told GLMA that, Association (GLMA) is criticizing trends in by Congressional staffers who asked why while there is no written policy, government health research funding agencies certain grants were funded, as well as cases staffers at government health to censor language that in which specific NIH grants funding agencies “have been refers to LGBT health or that involved commercial sex leaking info to me, you, others” that sexual practices. workers or transgender indicates that this screening is Kenneth Haller, MD, persons were targeted with the taking place “with the apparent president of GLMA, stated, apparent intent of proving that intent to prove that these studies “According to our sources, these studies are promoting are promoting ‘unfavorable’ or e-mails to the National ‘unfavorable’ or ‘unsafe’ ‘unsafe’ lifestyles with federal Institutes of Health and the lifestyles with federal taxpayers’ dollars.” Centers for Disease Control taxpayers’ dollars.” While it “Over the past few years, and Prevention are being screened for sensitive has not been unusual in the past for mounting research has shown keywords such as ‘commercial sex workers,’ individual members of Congress to engage that sexual-minority persons have ‘needle exchange,’ ‘men having sex with men,’ in such inquiries for various reasons, the level many health concerns not shared ‘prostitutes,’ ‘trangender’ and ‘harm reduction,’ of scrutiny has become pervasive, according by the larger community,” Haller and some program staff have been to many researchers. said. “For the federal government reprimanded for ‘inappropriate language.’ In “Researchers in various fields have to effectively strip researchers Kenneth Haller, MD, president of GLMA, ssys e- addition, titles and abstracts of NIH grants are contacted GLMA about this,” said Haller. not just of their funding but even mails are being screened for “sensitive being screened for similar key words.” “Many have been advised by their project their language is to shove LGBT keywords such as ‘commercial sex workers,’ According to Haller, much of the driving officers to avoid ‘sensitive’ terms in the titles health research back into the ‘needle exchange,’ ‘men having sex with men,’” force behind these inquiries lies outside these of their grants if they expect to get funding.” closet.” and others. Los Angeles Council Approves AIDS Memorial By Christopher Lisotta neighborhood of Lincoln Heights. The designed by local Los Angeles artists. An diseases like diabetes would be a better Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network 9,000-square-foot memorial, named “The open-air amphitheater will be located near choice for a memorial than AIDS. The Los Angeles City Council on April Wall— Las Memorias,” will be shaped in the end of the memorial to host community Supporters countered that the real 22 unanimously approved the creation of the likeness of the Aztec god of hope, discussions and educational seminars. The reasons some people were wary of the an AIDS victims memorial in a park, despite Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent, and plan also calls for sculpture, benches, a memorial were homophobia and fear over neighborhood opposition. consist of eight panels. walking path and a rose garden. discussing a subject like AIDS so publicly In a 10-0 vote, the council approved Two panels will bear the names of 2,000 The city council vote marked the end within the Latino community. the $505,000 memorial, which will be people who have died from complications of a sometimes acrimonious debate Construction is expected to begin in funded by state, city and private of AIDS, while the other six panels will between memorial supporters and May and be completed by June. donations, for the northeast Los Angeles bear murals depicting life with AIDS, opponents. Some critics argued that

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CYMK A Compelling Tale of Life in Baseball's Closet Billy Bean's ‘Going the Other Way’ Scores With Its Unflinching Portrayal By Jim Buzinski Bean dutifully details his rise up the disease. family matters,” he recounts. “This had to be Outsports.com exclusive to The Express professional baseball ranks, from his days Bean shows surprising sympathy for one of those situations. There was only one The number of books written by gay male riding buses in the minors, to playing winter Lasorda, who could have done a lot of good problem: How could I explain that my ‘family professional team athletes can easily fit in baseball in Venezuela to finally arriving in at the time by telling the world the truth about matter’ was the AIDS-related death of my male the glove compartment of a Miata. There’s the big leagues in 1987. It’s a familiar tale but his son and standing besides him proudly. lover with whom I’d been living secretly?” the classic and important “David Kopay still a treat for baseball fans. “Having spent most of his adult life in the Bean’s eventual coming out occupies the Story,” published in 1977. And then there Bean’s story gets engaging as he world of gladiators,” Bean writes, “Tommy latter part of the book. There’s the was the … never mind ... the list ends there. becomes more and more aware of his must have found it difficult to deal with the disappointment of seeing his major league Until now. truth about his son. It must have been career end and the excitement of a new life in Billy Bean’s Going the Other equally hard for Spunky, having spent Miami with Efrain Veiga, a restaurateur and Way, co-written by Chris Bull, is a his youth in this same world, to accept now also his business partner. He details his valuable addition in helping to himself.” now-well known “outing” by the Miami understand what life is like for a gay Herald that led to a 1999 front-page story in jock. In this straightforward yet First True Love The New York Times and appearances on compelling narrative, Bean details his The heart of the book is Bean’s ABC’s 20/20 and countless other media life from that of a scrappy kid in love affair with Sam Madani, an Iranian outlets. Billy Bean the baseball player was no Southern California to life in the major who fled the downfall of the Shah and more and Billy Bean, the proud gay man, activist leagues and his eventual coming out. settled in the U.S. The two met in a and role model was born. It’s a story that will resonate with standard 1990’s style--cruising each Going the Other Way is not great many who will relate to its universal other at a gym. literature, but these kinds of books seldom are. themes of seeking love, acceptance It was lust at first sight. But, as in Its strength lies in Bean’s honesty. The man and validation, dealing with tragedy most things in Bean’s life, nothing was we see in much of the book is all too human and finding a place in this world. simple. He was still married and played and not very heroic. He writes movingly of Bean was by all accounts the for the San Diego Padres while Sam lived how his self-enforced isolation hurt his wife, All-American boy—good-looking, in Maryland. Sam helped him clarify distanced him from his mother and forced him polite, athletic, a model student. He things with a simple question — “Do to miss the funeral of a longtime friend. was the kind of man mothers dream you want to live honestly or live a lie? It’s a vivid recitation of how the closet of their daughters marrying. Yet this Do you really want to be happy?” Bean ultimately punishes not just the person hiding seemingly perfect man, as we all now chose happiness. but also those around him. It will make readers know, had a secret, one that he The couple settled in to a life of cheer even more the admirable and honorable himself was only dimly aware of until domestic bliss, as Bean describes it — man Bean would become. his ’20s. romantic meals, intense love and great Read the Andy Zeffer interview with Bean To illustrate his general sex in a condo near the beach in San in next week’s issue of The Express. cluelessness about his sexuality, Diego County. However, Bean still lived Bean recounts an incident with a very much a double life, keeping his massage therapist while playing relationship totally separate from his college baseball at Loyola baseball world. Marymount. Billy Bean’s book Going the Other Way is In a humorous yet ultimately “As he massaged the kinks in available through The Express website at pathetic episode, he describes the panic my hamstring, I felt his hands inch www.OurWeeklyNews.com. he felt when two Padre teammates, Brad toward my inner thigh. … Closing Ausmus and Trevor Hoffman, came my eyes, I pretended nothing was happening. homosexuality. He writes of asking a cab over unannounced and Sam was forced to But the furtiveness of this spontaneous act driver in San Francisco to take him to the hide in the garage while Bean played straight was intoxicating. The hidden, physical Castro in 1989 and how he was too terrified with his buds. “ ‘When in doubt, lie’ became evidence of my excitement made it clear I to get out and walk around for fear he would the sad mantra of my double life,” he writes. wasn’t objecting. be recognized or bump into a teammate. The His life took a tragic turn when Sam was “I walked back to the locker room in a idea that the denizens of the Castro would diagnosed as HIV-positive (Bean daze. Had I really just allowed a strange man to recognize a journeyman barely hitting his consistently tested negative) and touch me, in public no less? … I blamed him weight seems the ultimate in paranoia, but eventually came down with an AIDS- and went running back to [his eventual wife] Bean accurately conveys the feeling closeted related illness. Bean describes the stark Anna. I made love to her with special vigor the people have that every move they make is terror he faced when he came home one next time we were together, then fell into a being watched. day and found Sam fevered and barely postcoital slumber, reassured of my normalcy.” His one-year stint with the Los Angeles coherent. He rushed him to the This desire to be “normal” and to keep Dodgers in 1989 brought Bean under the hospital where Sam later died. Numb up appearances dominates the first two-thirds tutelage of manager Tom Lasorda, buddies with grief, but still hiding his private of the book. Bean was good at being one of with politicians and Hollywood celebrities, life, Bean honored a team the guys, while at the same time begging off who happened to have a gay son, Tommy Jr., commitment later that day. when it came time to act like one with women. aka Spunky. Lasorda has always denied his “Once in a while, the team He was someone afraid of his own desires son—who lived a gay life in West Hollywood issues a statement that a player yet terrified to act upon them. and died of AIDS—was gay or died from the is excused … to attend to

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CYMK SARS and HIV Seen as Deadly Combination Researcher Says Death Toll will be Much Higher Among AIDS Population An alarm has been sounded for people were the right things to do to prevent deadly pneumonia is to boost the natural are 40 known cases in the United States. with HIV/AIDS by the head of the Paris- the spread of the disease. resistance of the carrier. “My strong advice would be for based World Foundation for AIDS Research “We are just beginning to learn how it The majority of SARS cases are in people exposed to the virus to reinforce and Prevention. is transmitted, the nature of virus…. It is China. In Hong Kong, 94 people have their immune system with antioxydants and Dr. Luc Montagnier, one of the team of very difficult to mount a policy of treatment died. In North America, the majority of immuno-stimulants,” Montagnier said. scientists who first isolated the HIV virus, and prevention,” he said, adding that so infections have been in Canada, with 132 —365Gay.com said Monday that the death toll from severe far the only treatment for the potentially confirmed cases in Toronto alone. There Newscenter Staff acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) will be much higher among people who have HIV/ AIDS than in the general population. Baghdad Looters Steal HIV from Lab “SARS is caused by another virus Looters who stole virtually everything [different from HIV], and it does from Iraq’s Central Public Health Laboratory not kill lots of people— in Baghdad last week also made away with around 4 to 5 percent [of several dangerous strains of viruses, those infected]. But if including HIV, cholera and black fever, the immune system ABCNews.com reports. The U.S. military is is depressed by worried that terrorists stole the viruses to AIDS, the toll use as weapons against the United States. would be much “The viruses that are lost, we have no higher,” idea where they went,” Iraqi chemist Rasa Montagnier said. Al-Alaq told ABC News. Montagnier, U.S. soldiers in Baghdad failed to protect speaking to the lab from looters, even after being warned journalists in Tokyo of the contents of the building before the following a medical war began. conference, said, “It “A building like this should have been would be very alarming if known to intelligence, and it should have people would be infected with been a high-category target to come and both SARS and AIDS.” secure this building,” said Peter Galbraith, a Worldwide, there have been 3,861 former U.S. diplomat who is now an ABC probable SARS cases that have been News consultant. American military members identified and 217 deaths. The numbers have been told to now consider the building are rising by the hour. a hot zone and have posted signs around Montagnier said isolating patients the facility in Arabic warning, “Stay away, suffering from SARS and placing extremely dangerous. Lab is polluted with suspect cases in quarantine early on viruses.”

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CYMK Egypt Tells EU to Butt Out on Gay Trials Human Rights Groups, Western Diplomats Condemn Persecution By Jon ben Asher arrested in a May 2001 police raid on a Nile 365Gay.com Newscenter boat restaurant on suspicion they had taken The Speaker of Egypt’s parliament has part in a gay sex party. unleashed a verbal attack on the European Human rights groups and Western Union for passing a resolution accusing the diplomats have condemned Egypt’s harsh Egyptian government of persecuting gays. treatment of homosexuals. Ahmed Fathi Sorour called the EU “No one has the right to give lessons resolution “unwarranted meddling.” The to the other,” Sorour wrote in the letter to letter was released publicly as a Cairo court Pat Cox, president of the European Union sentenced more than a dozen men to assembly. Other cultures must “respect the prison for “debauchery,” a term the right of the people [Egyptians] to choose Egyptian government uses to describe gay freely their legal system, and to protect their sex. The sentences were the latest in a religious and cultural values,” he wrote. series of high-profile gay arrests and Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank prison sentences. (D-Massachusetts) accused the Egyptian In March, a criminal court sentenced 21 ambassador of lying in statements made by In March, a criminal court sentenced 21 men to three years in jail on charges of men to three years in jail last month on Nabil Fahmy that gays were not persecuted practicing debauchery. charges of practicing debauchery. They were in Egypt. New Law in Mexico Bans ‘Sexual Preference’ Bias U.S. Neighbor Becomes Second Latin American Country to Pass Gay Rights Measure Last week, the Mexican Parliament against discrimination on the basis of unanimously passed a federal law that sexual orientation was Ecuador. prohibits discrimination based on several Article 4 of the Federal Law to Prevent categories, including “sexual and Eliminate Discrimination defines preferences,” the International Gay and discrimination as “every distinction, Lesbian Human Rights Commission exclusion or restriction based on ethnic or reports. The law creates the National national origin, sex, age, disability, social Council to Prevent Discrimination, a body or economic status, health, pregnancy, with the power to investigate language, religion, opinion, sexual discriminatory acts committed by public preferences, civil status or any other, officers. impedes recognition or enjoyment or rights Up to now, the only country in Latin and real equality in terms of opportunities America having nationwide protection for people.” Mexican Parliament Building

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CYMK Expressitorials Editorial Cartoons JOEL PETT Letters to the editor Does ‘The Express’ Lack Local News? I find it highly unusual that local found that the strongest opposition we faced straight publications such as New Times was not from the straight community that and City Link and an out-of-town gay lived there as they openly embraced the idea publication such as TWN find it but from the Key West Business Guild, which newsworthy to report on the City of Fort was comprised mainly of gay and lesbian Lauderdale’s harassment of the Gay and business owners. Lesbian Community Center of South The president of the guild at that time Florida (GLCC) yet any reporting about stated to me that the guild “didn’t want to this harassment by your publication is jeopardize our straight support in the glaringly absent. There have already Community.” Key West now has an annual been articles published by City Link and gay and lesbian pride parade, and a gay and TWN and one is in the works for New lesbian community center was formed that Times. You were notified of this oversees the parade and the events that harassment yet you have failed to report surround it. In addition, this year, a 1.25-mile- it in your publication. long pride flag will be unfurled from the Gulf How is it that your publication can of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. This event report on national and international is sure to receive national and international events that affect the gay and lesbian news coverage and give it further exposure community nationally and as a gay and lesbian tourist destination. Key Regarding Senator internationally, but you have failed to West is not afraid of its gay and lesbian report on this local event that directly community, so what is your publication and affects the gay and lesbian community the city of Fort Lauderdale afraid of? Santorum’s Stupidity that you live in? Do you wish to see the The most homophobic people I have We have editorialized our front-page countenance their stupidity. The right to GLCC close its doors? If so, why don’t encountered since my recent move to Fort headline. We have a right to do so. This is a speak out embraces the right to reply. Our you publish that in your publication? If Lauderdale are the members of my own community newspaper, and it is the gay reply to Santorum is that gays have you wish for the GLCC stay open, then community. Be proud and please do the work community we represent. We try to do it contributed to this country and our why are you ignoring this harassment you are held responsible for doing by better and more professionally than any community enormously. by the City of Fort Lauderdale by refusing reporting on this injustice and make this a Our lives have progressed politically to report on it? good place for everyone to live in. and have emerged personally. Whether it When my now deceased partner and is arts and culture, politics or professions, I sponsored the First Annual Gay and Richard K. Claycomb athletics or entertainment, gays are very Lesbian Pride Parade through a local Fort Lauderdale much a part of America, Mr. Santorum. business I had in Key West, Florida, we Always have been and always will be. So Editor’s Note: Not only has The Express reported on the GLCC flea market deal with it. Grow up. We are here, we are issue, we broke the story long before the publications Mr. Claycomb mentioned. queer, and we are everywhere. There might Our managing editor, Phil LaPadula, wrote “City May Shut Down GLCC Flea even be one of us elected to the United Market” in the March 10, 2003, issue of The Express, which was distributed to States Senate from Florida who is a local, national and international attendees of the March PrideFest event. Our member of your party and our community. story on the flea market issue was then picked up by other local media. Let’s stop playing games and The Express reports on all events, news, entertainment, personalities, apologizing for the Trent Lotts and Rick businesses and opinions that make up the community here in South Florida, Santorums of our world. Let’s out bigots across the country and around the world. and bastards whose viciousness and If at anytime you would like to read any story written by The Express staff, do a search at www.OurWeeklyNews.com. Our entire archive is online for your vitriolic words are designed to demean convenience and to record the events that make up our lives. Sen. Rick Santorum made lots of new friends and disgrace us. Let’s expose the Michael in the gay and lesbian community over the Savages for the hate-filled villains that past week. they are. Don’t allow any more preachers Deceitful Right-Wing Extremists Have No Respect to tell you that they love the sinner but for the Democratic Process in Florida publication anywhere in South Florida, bar hate the sin. That is a façade for their The following opinion editorial that protect all in our community from none. homophobia, a cover-up for their was submitted by the Unity Coalition of discrimination based on sexual Our achievements and discrimination, a disingenuous apology for Miami: orientation. Take Back Miami-Dade and accomplishments come from within. We their arrogance. Miami-Dade and Broward County Mr. Armesto de Gonzalez, a self- create our successes by applauding our No one is better than you because of voters have voted more than once, and proclaimed group that uses vague heroes and acknowledging our mistakes. Our who you are. Anyone has a right to say what their message was loud and clear—South references in scripture to promote fear, goal has been to present a forum that makes he or she wants. And you have a right, indeed Florida will no longer tolerate divisive non-truths and insecurity, spearheaded a us a better community. a duty, to reply. So let the word go forth on and discriminatory laws that hurt any questionable signature initiative that The Senator from Pennsylvania has behalf of the South Florida gay community individual or group in our community. ended in defeat at the polls. Several arrests made a fool of himself, and we will not stand that The Express will not stand silent in the When will the social extremist minority for falsification of documentation and silent, not look the other way, not ignore an face of homophobia. stop misrepresenting and deceiving using children and seniors to promote elected rectal unit that has disgraced his So stand up and remind your parents through thinly veiled religious their campaign of unfounded fear and party, demeaned his office and fundamentally and friends that it is not enough for them to references, to promote their agendas of deception were the final result by this stood up and called himself a bigot. Is that say they embrace who you are and tolerate hate and divisiveness within our overly zealous and extremist group of strong enough for you? what the Rick Santorums of the world believe. community? individuals. Is this the moral and just This man demeans who we are and how Tell them to pick and choose a side to be on. It is a sad day when an extreme few leadership we want our families and we live. He is our enemy. George Bush should Tell them not to decide is to decide. do not respect the democratic process community to pattern itself after? not be apologetic. Sure, Santorum is entitled We condemn, we censure and we and the will of the voting majority, and The Miami-Dade ordinance was to an opinion. It is an American birthright. demand the resignation of Rick Santorum. try to undermine our basic rights with upheld by voters, ensuring that all Miami- But we do not have to elect jerks to office, or Nothing less will do. underhanded and deceiving tactics. This Dade residents are treated fairly in was the case this week in Tallahassee, housing, employment and social when Attorney at Law Rosa Armesto de concerns, not a special or individual Gonzalez, who works for the Florida group. Is this not what Miami-Dade sees Department of Children & Families, itself as? Are we not an inclusive, tolerant attempted to sneak in an amendment in a community that welcomes individuals of civil rights bill to undo the will of the different colors, nationalities, religions voting majorities in Miami-Dade and and orientations to our community? Broward counties. Luckily, our elected The divisive tactics of the past must officials were not fooled. Her misleading stop. Using religion to justify and divisive tactics, the same used by discrimination is unacceptable. We go to Armesto de Gonzalez in the past, did not war on foreign shores to protect people work. from these lies. It is time that we stop the On September 10, 2002, Miami-Dade haters and false prophets of our county voters supported the existing law community.

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CYMK Price Lines Expressions Gay Ban Causing Military ‘Brain Drain’

‘Openly Gay Soldiers are Patrolling the Streets of Iraq...’ By Deb Price

As chairman of the has long since retired from The General Accounting Office, the Senate Armed Services Congress, and Clinton is no investigative arm of Congress, found that in Committee, Sam Nunn longer president, but the 2001 the Army had a 68 percent shortage of torpedoed President Clinton’s dangerous gay ban endures. Farsi translators and interpreters, a 50 percent proposal to allow gay men and Why do I call it dangerous? shortage of Arabic experts and a 37 percent lesbians to serve openly in the The requirement that the military shortage of Korean experts. Unfortunately, U.S. armed forces. The Georgia boot out anyone it discovers to those upsetting statistics don’t translate into senator did it by taking a be gay is causing it to throw a great photo opportunity—one powerful camera crew with him into a away precious human resources enough to jolt the sleepy Congress into submarine to show sailors that our nation simply cannot lifting the ban that jeopardizes the safety of packed inside, as tight as afford to waste. If the ghastly all Americans. sardines. terrorist attacks of 9/11 taught the Most Americans do get the picture, By appealing to the then- United States anything, it was though: 72 percent favor allowing openly widespread heterosexual that Americans have got to better gay Americans to serve, up from 53 percent queasiness about working in understand the rest of the world, a decade ago, according to the Gallup poll. such close quarters with including those countries and And now, SLDN is launching Operation anyone known to be gay, organizations that would do us Lift the Ban, a multi-year effort to persuade Nunn got restrictions on how harm. We have got, quite literally, Congress to repeal the un-American law that gay Americans can serve in “Gay men have probably served on submarines as long as to speak their languages. has already cost taxpayers $258 million— there have been submarines and have certainly fought in wars uniform written into federal law as long as there have been wars.” Yet among the 906 men and and that’s just the price tag for replacing the for the first time in 1993. Until women discharged last year 8,895 gay soldiers discharged so far. (For then, a presidential decree or simply because of their sexual details about lobbying Capitol Hill on June a Pentagon directive could have lifted the is, allowing them to tell the truth—would be orientation were seven linguists specializing 2-3, go to www.SLDN.org.) gay ban. disastrous. Military readiness, unit cohesion in Arabic—plus people with countless other “We are doing the educational work In the Senate hearings that led up to and morale would all suffer, the nation was vital specialties. The uproar that the now to build a coalition of allies in Congress passage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” military told. dismissal of the gay linguists caused on to win this,” SLDN’s director Dixon Osburn men with chests covered in ribbons As enacted by Congress, the gay ban— editorial pages failed to get Congress’ says. acknowledged that gay people have long which lets gay people serve if they succeed attention. So ousters continue. Today, openly gay soldiers are patrolling served honorably. In fact, if the truth be told, in remaining closeted—was essentially a At last count, the Servicemembers Legal the streets of Iraq—in British uniforms. It’s gay men have probably served on fantasy-protection act: It allowed those Defense Network (SLDN) had helped 24 time we follow the example of our closest ally. submarines as long as there have been straight soldiers who would rather not admit linguists under investigation for being gay, submarines and have certainly fought in that everyone lives and works in a very including ones fluent in Farsi, Arabic and Deb Price of The Detroit News writes wars as long as there have been wars. diverse world to pretend that all of their Korean—the mother tongues of President the first nationally syndicated column But, the brass adamantly insisted that comrades-in-arms are heterosexual. Bush’s “axis of evil”—Iran, Iraq and North on gay issues and is the co-author of allowing gay people to serve openly—that Fast forward 10 years to today: Nunn Korea. Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court.

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CYMK John and John Expressions Life Puts You Where You Need to Be We Miss Fort Lauderdale But Are Closer to Family By John Templeton

John and I have been in the Atlanta and our siblings live in this area of the her first child in September, and my area for almost three-quarters of a year. It world, and we wanted and needed to be youngest grandson will enter first grade doesn’t seem possible yet it is true. A year more closely involved in their lives. in the fall. ago, we were happily ensconced near the The issues going on in our family are My son is in the midst of his Ph.D. sand and the sea, and now we are living certainly not that special or unique— program at the university, and my between the urban lights of Atlanta and a there is the good stuff and the bad granddaughter is talking about going back cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. stuff. What is important, however, is that to school. I really miss the house that John and I John and I are here and in the midst of it This year, we have grown closer to created together that eventually became our all. our children, come to know and love our home in Fort Lauderdale: the canal, the lush When my close family friend died in grandchildren, and we have let them come landscaping, the art, the openness—a place Clayton, John and I were available to tend to know us. We have laughed at some that we could enjoy and share with our to her needs during her illness and things and cried at others. We have friends. afterward cope with the details of her encouraged some decisions, and kept our I miss the gym there, and the wonderful death. Our presence was never planned mouths shut about others. We have tried camaraderie between those of us who or even anticipated, but suddenly we were to be good parents and better friends. gathered most mornings to stretch and lift there as needed. On some days, I wonder if I knew what and mostly talk. I miss conversations John’s twins have recently started a we were getting into when we returned to revolving around men and real estate and construction business in Atlanta—wanting my privacy again. On remodeling and back to men again. There is sometimes took advantage of and sometimes Birmingham. The telephone rings almost other days, I wonder if we shouldn’t just no place quite like that gym—for better or slept through, but nevertheless knew that daily with “business” questions to John, move now to Europe or South America. worse. they were there. or the report of a new accomplishment, or Life puts you where you need to be, I miss driving down by the beach, or Mostly, John and I miss our friends even advice on some renovations. John and we have needed to be here—in this through Wilton Manors, and actually there—gym friends, poz and negative listens and responds, and I act as a area at this time—for the good times as anywhere in the area because you always friends, neighborhood friends, friends of Bill cheerleader. well as the sad times. It is not that we have saw skin—men without shirts—walking or W, my fellow volunteer friends, writing Our two oldest daughters have each the answers or the solutions to any running, sunning or surfing, bicycling or friends, young friends and old friends. John been going through a rough time. John’s problem; it is that we are here, able to offer skating. Tall men, short men, muscular men, and I had developed a real network of people daughter is struggling with marriage a shoulder, send up a cheer, be part of the hot men, tanned men—the visuals of the whom we loved and who loved us. I miss issues and professional goals. “Do I do support team, be a member of the family. area are unbeatable for any gay man, them. this or do I do that?” When people ask me if we made the whatever his taste. When people ask me if we/I made the One of my daughter’s sons is not right decision, I smile and say, “Yes.” Life I miss being part of the gay community right decision to move, I have to pause, dealing with his drug problem while the needed me to be here right now. there that enriched my life so much—the because I miss my Florida life and think other requires special attention and special GLCC, the gay men’s chorus, the plays and about it every day. But our purpose in schooling. For a single mom living on a John H. Templeton lives with his the movies, the art shows, the street fairs, moving from one place to another was limited income, it is not an easy time. partner of fourteen years, John M. the writers group. All those functions that I simple—our family. John’s and my children John’s youngest daughter is expecting Siegel, in Atlanta, Georgia. He can be reached at [email protected].

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CYMK Slouching Through Gomorrah Expressions Crossing the Ts Transgender Column Shows Perils of Poking Fun By Michael Alvear

The wigs were flying after my last letters in the word “menu.” column on the transgendered. It all started But I digress. Other than their ridiculous when I supported trannie rights and argued idea that you can support their causes as for showing them respect. But I did it with long as you don’t tease them, many Ts put the kind of 1-2-3, step-shuffle-kick (in-the- forth yet another lunacy that seems to be ass) that made Ts (the transgendered) choke universally shared: The belief that being on their hormone cocktails. called a “he” if you’ve turned into a “she” is Yes, the pain of gender confusion is tantamount to a gay guy being called a real. Yes, the exclusion of Ts from civil rights “Fag.” laws is unjust. Yes, deciding to live out of a Or that being called a “she” if you’ve gender identity that doesn’t match your turned into a “he” is tantamount to a lesbian body is a courageous act with sometimes- being called a “dyke.” deadly consequences. In other words, many Ts now consider But am I the only one that thinks a the pronouns “he” or “she” slurs if they linebacker in a dress wanting to be called a don’t fit the gender they identify with. woman is funny? Am I the only one who Huh? A whole gender is the source of sees the humor in a woman who has sex with slander? another woman while wishing she had a There’s a word for people who believe penis to attract men? Am I the only one who that you can “slander” men by calling them thinks this whole gender confusion thing women: misogynists. This is the kind of could be turned into a trans version of the anesthesia), I came away with a sad transgender listserve) reminds me of a logic you get when you have no ability to classic comic sketch, “Who’s on First?” conclusion: Ts have a harder time surviving question that humorists face all the time: Can laugh at yourself. Other than the ability to out-stare a satirical bullets that graze them than real you make fun of a group you don’t belong Here’s what I have to say to all the Ts mirror, I always thought gays and Ts had ones that hit them. to without sounding like a bigot? and TBAs: You deserve to live in dignity. one other thing in common—an ability to Apparently it’s not enough to believe that Can straights make fun of gays without You deserve to have laws that protect you. laugh at ourselves. Humor has always been laws should protect Ts. It’s not enough to being homophobic? Can whites make fun of You deserve to be called the gender you a life-saving coping mechanism for us—a believe that Ts have earned, by way of their blacks without being racist? Can gays make identify with. You deserve to have sex re- way of bringing dignity to the injustices we humanity, to be called by the gender pronoun fun of trannies without being transphobic? assignment surgery so your bodies match endure. they identify with. To be a true trans ally, you Of course they can. I’ve taken a lot of your minds. I just have one request. When Haven’t we always admired people for have to understand that they’re too brittle and heat for making fun of lesbians, yet I love you go under the knife, don’t forget to ask their ability to laugh at the comic angle of sensitive to be teased—especially by people my lesbian friends. In fact, I admire them to for the humor transplant. their painful plights? Apparently not. After who support their causes. the point that I wish gay men could be more Michael Alvear lives with Zoey & reading nearly 100 responses from Ts (most What a load of estrogen. The T over- like them. Well, sort of. I still think it’s weird Zack, his lesbian Labrador and girlie- of them calling for my own sex change— reaction to my column (it ran in many big that lesbians won’t go into restaurants boy Vizsla. He can be reached at without traditional surgical tools or cities and landed on just about every because they’re allergic to the first three [email protected].

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CYMK Pet Connection Expressions Springtime for Scratchy Tips to Help Ease Pet Allergies By Gina Spadafori

There’s a prescription allergy to be bathed frequently, and be kept allergies and my pets to co-exist. medication on the market now that combed and brushed. Ideally, a non- Like most allergy-sufferers, I find even makes me smile every time I see it allergic member of the household the most beautiful spring to be a season of advertised. That’s because the should assume this responsibility. misery at times. But since I started following manufacturer makes a big deal out Even cats should be bathed, by the the good advice that’s out there, I’ve been of promising relief not just from way. A weekly rinse in plain water able to muddle through even the worst days allergies to pollen or dust but also to has been shown to help people who without ever contemplating giving up any of pets. are allergic to these pets better the pets I hold so dear. Not that I ever would, That a drug company would tolerate them. of course. consider it important to make this • Establish an “allergy-free point suggests that the medical zone” in the bedroom. Ideally, pets The Scoop establishment is finally getting should never be allowed in the Over the years I’ve collected plenty of around to accepting the relationship bedroom, so as to assure allergy- grooming tools for my pets, but in the spring many of us have with our pets—even sufferers a good night’s sleep. To there’s no doubt which one gets the biggest those of us who are allergic to them. be honest, I’m less than perfect in workout: the shedding blade. A simple loop We don’t care if we wheeze. We this category. During times when my of stainless steel attached to a handle, the don’t care if we sneeze. We’re not other allergies are bothering me— blade has teeth that are ideal for grabbing dumping our pets. followed for years now, with good results. in the spring primarily—I kick out the pets. the dead, loose hair that’s so plentiful when This used to be a difficult point to make • Limit exposure to other allergens. Avoid Other times, one, two or all of them are allowed winter coats start to be shed. A daily whisking with some healthcare professionals. cleaning solutions, cigarette smoke and on the bed. of a pet with this blade will catch a lot of the Once I was rudely dismissed by an strong perfumes and consider using a mask I do, however, follow other bedroom fur that would otherwise end up in your allergist who insisted that eliminating pets when doing yard work and housework, guidelines closely, working to reduce allergy house or on your clothes. A few minutes of from my life was a condition of his treating especially at the height of the pollen season. triggers by keeping the bedroom sparsely daily effort make your pet’s coat look clean me. He told me if I wasn’t going to follow his • Let someone else do the dusting and decorated and frequently cleaned. I also wash and shiny. Even better: Many cats and dogs advice completely, he saw no reason why he vacuuming, if at all possible, and if not, invest bedding constantly to combat dust mites, love the sensation of being groomed with should waste his time seeing me. in a vacuum that filters the air it releases. I’ve and my pillows are made of non-allergenic this tool. The cost: Less than $10 at most That was fine with me: I didn’t want to had wonderful results with my Dyson material, no feathers. During the height of pet-supply stores, catalogs and websites. see him, either. The pets stayed; the allergist vacuum, from a company that has a model allergy season, I run an air cleaner at all times. went. actually designed for pet hair (it’s called the • Work with your doctor. Rather than These days, my allergies and asthma are “Animal”). The Dyson does an amazing job argue over my pets, I avoided doctors for Gina Spadafori is the award-winning under good control, thanks to the advice of of picking up pet hair (and everything else), years after that run-in with the pets-must-go author of Dogs for Dummies, Cats for doctors who are more understanding and to and not venting the allergens back out when allergist. After I almost died from an asthma Dummies and Birds for Dummies. She some wonderful medications that have come I’m vacuuming. attack—set up by a chest cold and triggered is also affiliated with the Veterinary on the market in recent years. I also have to • Keep pets well-groomed. The dirt and by a pet—I got serious about getting help. Information Network Inc., an give credit to my own dedication in following pollen that pets pick up in their coats can be These days, I work with healthcare international online service for veterinary a few rules to reduce the impact of my pets almost as bad as the hair and dander they professionals who are willing to work with professionals. E-mail her at on my allergies. Here are the basics I’ve generate themselves. It’s essential for pets me, prescribing medications that allow my [email protected].

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CYMK Health Editor Health Update State Senate Passes Malpractice Bills

Measures Do Not Include $250,000 Cap Proposed by House By Michael James

The Florida Senate on April 24 passed D.C. Mayor Criticizes Late last month, Williams submitted his African men were circumcised, some three bills that aim to help reduce the cost Council for Proposing budget proposal, and he and the council regions’ HIV prevalence rates could fall of medical malpractice insurance in the Cuts to HIV Programs have been conducting weekly negotiations from 20 percent to below 5 percent. state, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony since that time. The council is expected to Circumcision also reduces the risk of One bill (SB 564), which passed 34-6, Williams (D) last Wednesday said that the approve a final budget on May 6, and the contracting other sexually transmitted would cap non-economic damages in city council is “neglecting its neediest mayor can then either sign or veto the diseases, is more hygienic and makes malpractice lawsuits that involve residents” with proposed cuts to HIV/AIDS package. condom use easier, Green added. “This is emergency room procedures at $100,000. something tribal healers, the herbalists, A second bill (SB 562) would require Circumcised Men Less faith healers and witch doctors have malpractice insurers to reduce premiums Likely to Contract HIV known for years,” he said. to Jan. 1, 2002, rates and maintain those Circumcised men are less likely to Peterson said that the information in rates for one year. contract HIV during unprotected sex than the USAID report “looks profound and A third bill (SB 560) would allow uncircumcised men, according to a soon- wonderful,” but more information about groups of 10 or more physicians to form to-be-released USAID study, the Kaiser HIV and circumcision will be needed from malpractice insurance pools and allow a Network reports. clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda, which new Florida Medical Malpractice The report, which will be published are ongoing and being sponsored by NIH, Insurance Fund to provide coverage in the on the USAID website, shows a “strong Johns Hopkins University and the Bill & event that premium rates. Both of the bills association” between circumcision and Melinda Gates Foundation. passed on a 36-1 vote. HIV protection, Dr. Anne Peterson, Peterson added that female The three bills do not include a USAID assistant administrator for global circumcision has no protective benefit $250,000 cap on non-economic damages Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony health, said. against HIV and may even increase risk. in malpractice lawsuits not related to Williams said the proposed cuts to the The skin on the inside of a male’s “We are adamantly opposed to female emergency room procedures, a provision city’s HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment foreskin is “mucosal”—much like the skin circumcision,” she said. Although male programs is “irresponsible.” sought by the Florida Medical inside the mouth—and contains many circumcision can have some protective Association and Gov. Jeb Bush. programs and jobs for social workers, the Langerhans’ cells, which are target cells effect, the practice does not make one The state House last month passed Washington Times reports. for HIV, according to the Washington invulnerable to HIV. “People who are legislation (HB 1713) that includes the cap. The 13-member council has proposed Times. circumcised still get HIV,” Peterson said. The debate over the cap could prevent the spending cuts of $1 million from the health “HIV looks for target cells, like “It is still better to abstain, be faithful in resolution of differences between the state department’s HIV/AIDS prevention and Langerhans’; it’s a lock and key,” said marriage” or use condoms, he added. House and Senate bills before May 2, treatment programs, $2.5 million from the Edward Green, a Harvard University senior when the state legislature is scheduled to Child and Family Services Agency and $2 researcher who has studied circumcision adjourn. The state legislature may hold a million from mental health for service and HIV in Africa for 10 years. Although Michael James is the Senior/Health special session to resolve the differences monitors. “We worked hard to build a strong the foreskin is vulnerable to HIV infection, Editor for The Express Gay News and in the event that they cannot reach safety net for our most vulnerable residents, Green said that “the rest of the skin on the the Director of Public and Media agreement before Friday. and I feel these cuts are irresponsible,” penis is armorlike.” Green said that if all Relations for AIDS Project Florida. Williams said. He can be reach via e-mail at [email protected].

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CYMK Camp & Comedy Highlight Gay Film Fest’s Opening Night Community and Stars Come Out for Event’s Fifth Year By Mary Damiano part of the cultural fabric, the first showing for a gay audience. The The festivities continued at the City Arts & Entertainment Editor and come celebrate that movie, starring Busch, Natasha Lyonne and Club, a 55th-floor space renowned for its The Miami Gay & with us,” Vilanch said. Jason Priestly, is about the ultimate panoramic view of Miami. Guests dined on Lesbian Film Festival Before the film, dysfunctional Hollywood family and the dark shrimp, sesame chicken, calamari and brie, (MGLFF) got its fifth year Program Director Carol secrets they try to keep hidden. and enjoyed an open bar off to a successful start Coombes paid tribute to After the film, Busch greeted the At the party, Rucker told The Express Friday, April 25, with a MGLFF founder Robert audience, decked out in a glittering, gold what it meant to him to have his film chosen hysterical opening Rosenberg, who left the Judy-at-Carnegie-Hall style pantsuit. “I’m as the opening night film. “It was an absolute monologue by humorist festival last year amid thrilled that you enjoyed the show,” Busch thrill, being in this beautiful old movie palace Bruce Vilanch and the controversy. said. “We worked very hard to bring you a with a movie that is an homage to Hollywood campy movie Die, Mommie, “Robert Rosenberg, film with traditional family values.” films was just spectacular.” Die, starring popular actor as founder and director of The MGLFF runs through May 4. For more information and a complete schedule and writer Charles Busch. the Miami Gay & Lesbian of films and events, visit www.MGLFF.com. Because of behind- Film Festival, had the the-scenes leadership vision to bring the best of machinations in the past the new gay, lesbian, year, many people in the bisexual and transgender community thought the film to our community of annual celebration of queer South Florida. All the staff cinema would not take want to applaud and thank place. him for all his hard work.” But the Olympia Coombes’ statement was Theatre at Gusman Center greeted by wild applause in downtown Miami Carol Coombs in her vintage from the audience. boasted a packed house of gown at the opening night of the Director Mark Rucker Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival high-spirited movie fans and writer and star out for a good time. Charles Busch attended Master of Ceremonies Vilanch the opening night festivities. Before the film, entertained the audience with jokes they Rucker spoke of the film as being the result couldn’t use on the recent telecast of the of a long-held dream to make a movie starring Oscars and told the audience why the Busch. MGLFF is important. Die, Mommie, Die, a deliciously campy “A gay and lesbian film festival is a homage to Technicolor melodramas such as community statement every year that your Valley of the Dolls, got a rousing reception Photos by Mary Damiano community makes to the world that we are from the opening night audience. This was here and we’re not going away and we’re only the second screening of the film, and Master of Ceremonies Bruce Vilanch

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CYMK Can Gays Commit Adultery? Court to Decide Whether Law Only Applies to Heterosexuals By Michael J. Meade “The Lebanon Family Court is 365Gay.com Newscenter attempting to overturn several centuries If a married person has an affair of the accepted definition of adultery, with someone who is gay, is it which is heterosexual sexual adultery? That is the question the New intercourse,” wrote Mayer in legal Hampshire Supreme Court is filings with the Supreme Court in the considering. case. The case involves a divorce Some gay activists may view the between a Lebanon, New Hampshire, case as “anti-gay,” but Mayer says just couple in which the wife had an affair the opposite. with another woman. Adultery is Mayer, who is representing herself, grounds for divorce in New Hampshire argues in her brief that the laws of New but the “other” woman and the wife Hampshire are biased against gays and are claiming that under the state’s law lesbians. adultery can only be committed by “While homosexuals should be heterosexuals. liable for claims of adultery against them Robin Mayer was named as the as well as heterosexuals … until they third party in the divorce proceedings have experienced equality under the of David and Sian Blanchflower after law, they are vulnerable to attitudes and David Blanchflower accused his wife actions both overt and covert by some of having an “adulterous” relationship. courts,” Mayer wrote. Adultery is a misdemeanor crime Sian Blanchflower’s attorney, under New Hampshire law, and the Lanea Witkus of Newport, also filed criminal statute defines adultery simply a brief opposing a broad as sexual intercourse between a married interpretation of the New Hampshire person and someone who is not that state statute. person’s spouse. The criminal statute “The legislature knew exactly what doesn’t define the term “sexual it meant when it enacted the statute, intercourse.” and this court should not change that Mayer appealed to the Supreme meaning,” Witkus wrote. Court after a family court judge granted “The word ‘adultery’ meant the divorce and ruled that the legal activity that could result in offspring, definition of adultery should encompass an event impossible with same-gender same-gender sexual relations. couples.”

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CYMK By Charlene Lichtenstein For the week of 4/28/03 The temperature is rising as Sun and Mercury square Neptune and Mars in May. Let’s check the rear view mirror before we exceed the speed limit. Our desires can lead us to wasteful, slothful, mis-directed action. Hmmm, going my way cousin? ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 20) Gay Rams go off half cocked in their wilde pursuit of happiness. Merry May has you overspending and racing around with the wrong crowd. Eventually you find that words do not suffice. Use your mouth for more productive pursuits and don’t breathe a word.... TAURUS (APRIL 21 - MAY 21) If you find that your best laid professional plans lay an egg, cut yourself some slack. Don’t start new projects this month. Neptune, the planet of delusions has you building corporate castles in the sky. Anyone home, queer Bull? Guess not. GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21) Pink Twins have static on the psychic line and imagine all sorts of pleasant but bizarre scenarios. Some more fanciful excursions become detours. Stay in the right lane while May races along. By the summer you can accelerate beyond your speed limit. CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23) Hot pink Crabs get their claws caught in the nookie jar as the difference between friends and lovers blur. Neptune fogs your common sense and Mars goads you to action. Will they give you cabfare in the morning? Will you last until the morning? LEO (JULY 24 - AUGUST 23) Late nights at the office has your significant other significantly miffed. Or do you even notice proud Lion? Neptune dreams on and generates magnificent “what ifs” to your “so whats?” Eat dinner at home unless you want to tuck into frozen just desserts. VIRGO (AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23) You are tied to your desk this May. Queer Virgins are reduced to sunning by their desk laps and sticking their toes in sandy kitty litter as they dream of South Beach. Expect a small bit of respite. Why not take an entire hour for lunch for a change! LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) Gay Libras go off on wild tangents that can get you into all sorts of hot water (think hot tubs....). But all play and no work leaves you a dissipated old thing at the end of the month. Keep that youthful glow by looking before you leap. Splat! SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) Neptune and Mars have a way of upsetting the applecart of domestic bliss. Queer Scorps can't quite seem to achieve balance and get pulled in two directions at once. (is your thing??) Will you be able to get out from under. Do you really want to?? SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) Gay Archers say something to throw things offtrack and toss their credibility into question. This is especially troublesome at work where your careful efforts become confounded. So what else is new? Piece of advice - Key West is lovely this time of year. CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) Practical pink Caps usually have a close handle on their funds but May tosses your hard earned bucks into the blender. Planets whip you into a frenzy of fun, frolic and frittering as your fork it over. Will you get what you pay for? Do you care? Yippee! AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) There is more than enough wilde activity this May to keep Aqueerians fully entertained. Acquaintances make themselves at home in your home in every imaginable way. Relatives are added to the mix for flavor. I just love a parade. Don’t you? PISCES (FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20) Is May one of those months where you talk to yourself more often? The urge to make an impact on the world is too tempting to resist. But resist you must, Guppie. May will be the month to recharge, relax and reduce the stress. Meditate or medicate???

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For conducted by a licensed The Sunshine Cathedral was For information call HIV/AIDS community to help 6pm in Palm Beach Gardens. therapist, meets on Fridays at founded in 1972 and offers a 954.537.4111 x117. information contact Deborah: participants acquire the Call 561.3309.0088 or 561.841.7531. 1:30 p.m. in the David Posnack spiritual home to all people in Tuesday necessary cooking skills and Jewish Community Center, dignityusa.org for details. 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Call Wayne at for a good time every For more information call Fred or dignityusa.org for details 2817 East Oakland Park Blvd. registration, please call Ms. Fox Tuesday night at 9 p.m. at 954.981.9400 x207 or e-mail at 954.764.1488. For information call Partners Café, 625 E. Dania at 954.370.2140. [email protected]. Sisterhood of Etz Chaim- 954.537.4111 x117. Beach Blvd., Dania Beach, Free HIV Testing - 1st and 3rd Jewish women's social group SAGE Men Drop-In - 954.921.9893. Acoustic Open Mic Night- Fridays from 2-7 p.m. at the meets the third Sunday of Freeing The Writer Within- Every Wednesday at the Acoustic open mic will take GLCC. Anonymous and each month at the Sunshine Newly Diagnosed Group - Monday nights at Unity of GLCC. 1-3 p.m. 954.463.9005. place the last Thursday of each Confidential testing available, Cathedral - Social Hall, from Hollywood from 7-8:15 p.m. Meets at 7 p.m. at AIDS sageofbroward.org month. Sign-up starts at 7:30 as well as testing for Hepatitis 2-4:30pm. 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Human Rights Campaign – SouthernCountrySouthFlorida.org. third Monday of each month at p.m. Learn different Stonewall Library and Archives, Lauderdale, 954.463.9005. HRC Steering Committee meets 7:30p.m. at the Science of techniques in natural 1717 North Andrews Avenue in medicine. 2240 East Sunrise The Flamingo Freedom Mind Center in Wilton manors. the last Thursday of every Fort Lauderdale. 954.763.8565. Blvd., 954.566.6335. EvenSong - Please join us for Band- Our communities This is a group of Lesbians, month at the GLCC at 7 p.m. Free or $2 donation to support EvenSong every Wednesday at premiere gay and lesbian gay men and friends who No fee. the GLCCSF. concert & marching band is Small Business 7pm at The Sunshine Cathedral come together in a joyful, Counseling, by SCORE - now rehearsing at the GLCC MCC, 1480 SW 9th Ave., Ft. healthy and nurturing Tuesdays and Wednesdays Lauderdale Soccer Club Open Saturday on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. atmosphere to network (except holidays) from 1 to 4 Lauderdale. Evensong is an Tryouts - Sunset Park at 7 p.m. Flea Market – The GLCCSF is Rehearsals are open to all, at socially, grow spiritually and p.m. at the Main Library, 100 intimate gathering of people For further information call the place to be the 1st and 3rd any level of playing ability. S. 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Meet GLCC event is held on Pride South Florida- Meets Counseling, by SCORE - Business Card Exchange - email [email protected]. in the parking lot next to the Saturdays at 7 p.m. Please Park Ranger’s Parking lot. every second and fourth Tuesdays and Wednesdays meets the third Thursday of call the center for dates and Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at the Sage Luncheon & Program - Dinner afterwards. Call monthly themes, (except holidays) from 1 to 4 every month. 7:15 a.m. at the 954.462.7425 or 954.566.8413 GLCC, 954.463.9005. p.m. at the Main Library, 100 S. Holiday Inn Express, 3355 N. Meets the first Saturday of each 954.463.9005 month at 12:30 p.m. at or saafrontrunners.org for Tuesday Andrews Avenue, Fort Federal Hwy. 954.489.0307. Free HIV Testing- Tuesday and Sunshine MCC. Call more information. (Also meets Lauderdale. To pre-register call Society of Creative Thursday 5-8 p.m. and Saturday 954.786.5893 for reservations at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.) 954.357.7565. 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Thursday of each month. 6:30 Run-Walk and Talk- major works, spirituals, and Queer As Folk – Come view Lauderdale Eagle, 1951 NW 9 p.m. at APFL, 2817 E Oakland Beach walks every Thursday opera choruses. No audition Men’s Fellowship and the new season from 7:30 – Ave. (Powerline Rd.), Ft. Park Blvd. For information call evening with a group of women required. High school and Support Group- This group 8:30pm every Monday and Lauderdale, at 8:00 PM. 954.537.4111 x117. who take an active approach to college students along with meets the 1st and 3rd Sunday There is a $10.00 admission Thursday at Pride Factory, Reservations are required. health, and living while dealing adult singers are welcome. at the GLCC from 6-8 p.m. 845 North Federal Hwy. fee for non-members. Dues are $8.50 monthly/ $100 Meetings begin with a short with cancer, chemo, radiation and 954.463.6600. Free. annually and members business session followed by GLBT Youth Group of Broward recovery. 6:30pm at 2527 E. Catholic Mass- Every Sunday purchase their own attire. The at 10 a.m. with Father John Tuesday a demonstration or organized County- Youth ages 13-23 meet Sunrise Blvd. across the street Coming Out Support Group- Society meets each Saturday Joseph Reid at The Rectory, play time. Open play time from the Galleria Mall, next door every Thursday 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. afternoon promptly from 4:30 to 2749 NE 10th Ave, Wilton Meets every Tuesday at the wraps up the evening. Contact at the GLCC. Dinner at Denny’s to Wild Oats Market. Information: 7pm at Parkway Baptist Manors. 954.561.4545. GLCC from7:30 –9:30 p.m. [email protected] for on N Federal Hwy after meeting. 954.564.0880, Option 2, x123 or Church, 18000 NW 18th Ave. Everyone is welcome. 954.463.9005 more information. 954.463.9005 x225. [email protected]. 954.486.9164. To update, add or remove your non-profit listing email [email protected] or fax listing to 954.568.5110 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 28, 2003 31

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Fort Lauderdale.……...... …..954.566.9812 South Trust Building - 1 East Broward Blvd. Life & Health Insurance 456 W 51st Place Hialea...... 954.559.1999 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.630.8847 DERMATOLOGY Life, Health, Annuities, LTC, Disability Income Dr. Michael Cohen, D.C Dean Trantalis Peter Babinski, M.D., PH.D. West Palm Beach...... 561.624.6325 2631 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd., Ste. 104 2255 Wilton Drive Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.5406 LANDSCAPING Fort Lauderdale………………..954.566.2226 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.537.5558 ELECTRICIANS Blue Zebra Landscaping Elizabeth F. Schwartz, P.A. Gimbel Chiropractic Center 1017 SW 15th Ter 407 Lincoln Rd. 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Federal Hwy, Suite 20 Oakland Park ……...... 954.566.7222 A-Hinze Fence Contractors Fort Lauderdale...... 954.524.1112 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.630.2707 Marty Hinze, Owner Margaret Broenniman, Esq. CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES 721 NE 12th ST LAWN SERVICES Church of the Holy Spiritsong Fort Lauderdale...... 954.763.7658 Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning A+ Lawn Service [email protected] Deerfield Beach 33442 ...... 954.418.8372 FINANCIALSERVICES Fort Lauderdale...... … 954.294.8911 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.288.4064 Congregation ETZ Chaim A.G. EDWARDS Matt Gill, Investment Advisor Above & Beyond Lawn Service Randy Strauss 3970 NW 21st Ave. [email protected] 1231 NE 9th Ave Wilton Manors.……………….954.566.5297 Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.564.9232 Ft. Lauderdale, Fl...... 954.761.1060 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.540.6496

32 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 28, 2003 LEGAL EXPENSE PLANS OPTICIANS(cont) PSYCHOTHERAPY & REAL ESTATE(cont) Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc Dr. Jeffrey C. Hilton, O.D. COUNSELING Howard Elfman—Distinctive Homes Realty Cynthia Lyle……...... …... 954.916.2031 Broward...... 954.524.9400 Anita MacGregor, M.S., IMT.....954.254.2972 1512 E Broward Blvd., Suite 201 Curtis McCoy ...... …… 954.723.7745 South Beach...... 305.534.0539 Arthur Strauss, LCSW Fort Lauderdale…………..…....954.764.4552 LIGHTING PAINTING/WALLCOVERING West Palm Beach...... 561.721.0842 Keyes/Todd Paulk Luminosity Studio & Gallery Broward Boy’s Painters/ Jerry Asher Center - Couple Counseling 1520 E. Sunrise Blvd Tony Beall Fort Lauderdale...... 954.720.9605 Dr. Jay Asher ...... 954.565.1901 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.523.0796 981 NE 45th Street Do. It. Rite Wallcover + Painting Dr. Carmine Pecoraro, Psy.D. & Assocs. Keyes Company/ Al Kuntz Oakland Park...... 954.202.NEON Fort Lauderdale………...... 954.786.0287 Counseling, Evaluations & Psychological Testing 10101 S. Dixie Highway Professional Interior Painting Bill Mears LIMOUSINE & CAR SERVICES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.2723 Miami...... 305.596.3991 Wilton Manors...... 954.309.4089 Cora Wujceak, LCSW Kim Garvy, Broker/Remax Consultants Chauffeur Service/Custom Transportation Professional Speedy Painting Gus Flores 1909 N. Andrews Ave. 1625 SE 17th Street Causeway Broward, Dade, West Palm .....954.336.7849 Painting & general repair work around the house Wilton Manors………...... 954.567.1008 Fort Lauderdale……...…….…...954.767.1166 Sterling Services Fort Lauderdale...... 954.540.9316 Broward & Dade Counties...... 888.239.9200 Diana Promuto, LCSW, ACSW Russotto Realty Inc. PEST CONTROL 218 Commercial Blvd., Ste. 208M Craig White LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING Harper Bros. Termite & Pest Control Lauderdale by the Sea...... 954.771.5040 2242 Wilton Drive ...... 954.296.4236 IMS FINANCIAL SERVICES - th 2122 SW 60 Terr. John Marszalek, PhD, LMHC Re/Max Partners/Dan O’Flaherty Ita Schenkel, CLTC, CSA Miramar ………...... … 954.983.4149 1212 E Broward Blvd. Suite 204 2810 E OaklandBlvd Long-Term Care Insurance Specialist Hugh Turner Pest Control, INC. Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.829.9480 Fort Lauderdale..……...... …...954.396.5965 N. Miami Beach...... 305.653.5116 840 NW 33rd Street Joseph Munafo, MD Terry Bush/Re/Max Partners Oakland Park...... 954.564.0037 MASSAGE THERAPY Board Certified Psychiatrist Fort Lauderdale……...... ….954.661.4550 Brian L. Wright MS, LMT, CR PETS 1940 Harrison St. Shiatsu, Reflexology, Deep Tissue Brenda’s Birds Inc. Hollywood...... 954.648.0232 RETIREMENT Lic.# MA33341...... 561.582.1177 rd 324 NE 3 Ave. Lisa C. Niebling Ph.D., LMHC, CST Treemont on the Park Terry DiVincenzo, LMT Delray Beach…...... 561.278.5394 rd 11388 Okeechobee Blvd. 3881 NE 3 Ave., Oakland Park Swedish & Therapeutic Massage Royal Palm Beach...... 561.798.2310 Fort Lauderdale …...... …954.563.0276 Lic.# MA 022936 …...... …..954.491.8180 PET GROOMING Tom Clephane, LMT Rover the Rainbow Mari Alschuler, LCSW, RPT SCREEN PRINTING 929 North Federal Hwy., (Sears Town) Hypnosis, Career Counseling, Journaling Lic.# MA0019978...... 954.579.5044 Fastsigns Fort Lauderdale...... 954.525.6988 Dade & Broward ...... 954.243.5288 1747 N. Federal Highway MORTGAGES Yuppy Puppy & Co. Show & Pet Grooming Mark Rutherford, LCSW Alliance Mortgage Funding, Inc. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.566.8500 Catering to those who want the Very Best! West Palm Beach...... 561.835.6821 Brian "Tyler" Leonard Coral Springs...... 954.753.7647 2200 NE 26th St Fort Laud...... 954.568.0108 Robin Traiger, LCSW TAILOR Countrywide Home Loans PHARMACIES 2624 NW 6th Avenue Cassini Tailor Shop Rod Pans - Home Loan Consultant Wilton Manors...... 954.565.8650 th Commcare Pharmacy 934 NE 20 Ave Serving East Ft. Lauderdale...... 954.332.2357 2817 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ste# 303 Michael G. Mele, LCSW, P.A. Mortgage Bankers Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.5245 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.568.6212 Fort Lauderdale.…...... 954.564.8997 Carole Fawcett ProScript Pharmacy Services, Inc. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.972.3990 Orlando J. Gonzalez L.M.H.C., P.A. TITLE COMPANIES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.797.5041 Pride Mortgage Incorporated 407 Lincoln Road Suite 2F All County Title Company StatScript Pharmacy 2455 E. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 804 Miami Beach...... 305.531.1400 4875 N Federal Hwy 10th Floor pridemortgage.com 2605 N. Dixie Hwy. Patrick Mulhall, L.C.S.W., C.ST, C.HT, PA Fort Lauderdale.…...... …954.629.5525 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.565.9665 Wilton Manors…...... 954.568.3789 3475 Sheridan Street Suite 312 Scott Brill/GMAC Mortgage 500 W Cypress Creek Rd Suite 190 PHOTOGRAPHY Hollywood………...... ……..…954.894.8024 TRANSLATORS Fort Lauderdale...... 954.771.4420 Andy Armano Psychological Alliance, Pl Rio Bravo Translations, John Chellino Summit Mortgage/John Iarussi Fort Lauderdale...... 954.854.5679 Carole A. Wartenberg, Ph D Miami…...... …...... … 305.576.0031 Dennis Dean Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.567.2939 Laura Hohnecker Ph D Transcontinental Lending Group Fort Lauderdale…...…...... ….. 954.463.8299 8358 W Oakland Park Blvd #304 TRAVEL Mario Petri Noel de Christian Island Mountain Travel Fort Lauderdale...... 954.240.8090 Sunrise...... ………...... 954.742.7449 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.485.6659 2852 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd. Miami...... …...... ….. 305.553.2099 Susan A. Smith, L.C.S.W. MOVING/STORAGE Fort Lauderdale...... 800.622.4262 Shires Photography 6250 N. Andrews Ave Suite 108 Always Moving (licensed/insured) Fort Lauderdale...... 954.523.4527 Fort Lauderdale …………...... 954.730.4902 Know what your paying before you move. VETERINARIANS The Women’s Institute for Flat Rate PICTURE FRAMING Capital Plaza Animal Hospital Incorporation Therapy Dade...... 305.650.9080 Budget Framer 2372 N. Federal Hwy. Hollywood Pavillion 1201 N 37th Ave NationStorage, Inc. 263 E. Commercial Blvd. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.537.3505 Hollywood ...... …...... … 954.962.1355 812 NW 1st Street Lauderdale by the Sea……...... 954.267.9202 Dr. Vincent Guerrero, DVM Fort Lauderdale……...... ……954.525.4767 PICTURE FRAMING REAL ESTATE “House Call Veterinarian” MUSEUMS Smith’s Picture Framing and Art Gallery CHOICEONE REALTY/GMAC REAL ESTATE Fort Lauderdale…………...... 954.581.5334 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood 719 E. Broward Blvd. Guy Smith WATER PURIFICATION 1650 Harrison Street Fort Lauderdale...... 954.462.4391 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.629.3700 Ramco Water Services Inc. Hollywood…...... …...... …....954.921.3274 PLUMBING Coldwell Banker/Andy Weiser Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale 10605 NW 53st Akro Plumbing 2495 E. Commercial Blvd 1 E Las Olas Blvd Sunrise...... 954.873.6656 Miami...... 305.378.2504 Fort Lauderdale……...... 954.566.1015 Fort Lauderdale…...... …...954.525.5500 Coldwell Banker POOL SERVICES WEB DESIGN & HOSTING OFFICE EQUIPMENT Paul Nolan Skimmer's Pools Service and Repair TForce Communications, Inc. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.258.4654 Copyco P.O. Box 70021 Oakland Park, FL 33307 Design & Hosting, Training and Support 1700S Powerline Rd. Suite H-I Coldwell Banker/Tim Singer Broward County...... 954.938.0208 tforceonline.com Deerfield Beach...... … 954.881.7013 Realtor & Associates South Florida...... 954.564.0782 P.I. & DETECTIVE AGENCIES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.1373 OPTICIANS Intracoastal Detective Agency Darrin Spardello Community Real Estate WEDDINGS Downtown Opticians 1511 E Commercial Blvd [email protected] Rev. Geri Posner, Interfaith Minister 800 Broward Blvd Fort Lauderdale…....…...... 954.564.5455 Fort Lauderdale……...... … 954.764.6962 Palm Beach/WPB/Lake Worth...561.262.4780 Hollywood………...... 800.850.0358

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Jim McDonough and Henry Pereze at the East Coast premiere of Die, Mommie, Die

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Drag King contest judges Katrina, Allison and Carole

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MC of the Drag King contest MobyDick Devon Scamp performing at the Sea Monster

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