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local name global coverage August 29, 2018 vol. 9 // issue 35 OUT AND LOUD HOUSE REP. COMES OUT Page 2 LESBIANS WHO TECH • PAGE 12 CUBAN YOUTUBERS • PAGES 14, 15 VATICAN SHOCKER • PAGES 22, 23 SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS @SFGN SFGN.COM NEWS highlight SouthFloridaGayNews.com @SFGN August 29, 2018 • Volume 9 • Issue 35 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 FLORIDA HOUSE REP. SHEVRIN Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • Norm Kent [email protected] Chief Executive Offi cer • Pier Angelo Guidugli JONES COMES OUT [email protected] Jones is the fi rst gay black man in the Florida House. He represents Associate Publisher / Executive Editor • Jason Parsley Dylan Bouscher West Park, Pembroke Pines and Hallandale Beach. [email protected] Editorial hevrin Jones is a three-time Florida Shevrin Jones. Art Director • Brendon Lies [email protected] state House representative and Digital Content Director • Brittany Ferrendi Spreacher’s son — and now openly gay. [email protected] Jones, 34, is now the same age his older Copyeditor • Kerri Covington brother was when he died last year of a Arts/Entertainment Editor • JW Arnold [email protected] pulmonary embolism. He told the Miami Social Media Manager • Tucker Berardi Herald that contributed to his realization that tberardi@ufl .edu he wanted to start “living my truth just a little Food/Travel Editor • Rick Karlin Gazette News Editor • Sallie James bit more.” HIV Editor • Sean McShee He told his brother, who died one year ago Senior Photographer • J.R. Davis on Sunday Sept. 2, he was thankful to not be [email protected] judged. Senior Features Correspondents “There’s not a second that goes by that I Jesse Monteagudo • don’t think about him. It’s the love of people Correspondents and those things that has helped us through Dori Zinn • Donald Cavanaugh • Christiana Lilly • all of this.” Denise Royal • David-Elijah Nahmod Jones, who takes blood thinners for a Contributing Columnists Brian McNaught • Dana Rudolph • Ric Reily • Terri similar condition his brother experienced, Schlichenmeyer maintains that his family supports him even Associate Photographers if they do not support the lifestyle. Carina Mask • Pompano Bill • Steven Shires “My family has been very loving and just want the best for their child and I don’t want Sales & Marketing anyone to confuse that with my parents’ Jones lives in Hollywood with his partner, serve in the Florida House of Representatives. For ad placement in SFGN, support of the lifestyle,” Jones said. “My who has quietly been introduced to friends In 2012 two openly gay men were elected contact 954-530-4970 parents are very conservative Christians, and colleagues. When Jones took offi ce to the House, David Richardson and Joe Sales Manager • Justin Wyse [email protected] and they have their beliefs and I respect their in 2013 he was married to a woman. They Saunders. A third gay man, Carlos Guillermo- Senior Advertising Associate • Edwin Neimann beliefs, but they love their son.” divorced in 2015. Smith, was elected in 2016. [email protected] Jones’ father delivers sermons at Koinonia He chose to come out by allowing Equality Daniel Sohn, town commissioner in Senior Advertising Associate • Clark Rogers Worship Center in Hollywood, where he Florida, the largest LGBT rights organization Haverhill, applauded Jones’ decision to come [email protected] Advertising Sales Associate • Kewan Smith added that he has not faced bullying or in the state, to include him on its list of out. Sohn, elected earlier this year in the Palm [email protected] harassment as a result of coming out. But he’s openly gay endorsed candidates. Beach County town, also identifi es as LGBT. Advertising Sales Associate • Anthony Pennetti no stranger to judgement and mixed signals Jones won a seat to the state House in June “Shev has overcome so many personal [email protected] either. in his fourth consecutive election without challenges the last few years,” Sohn said. Distribution Services • Rocky Bowell, Lee Curtis “Church is a hospital. Everyone goes there opposition. His district, 101, includes parts “He is more than just an elected colleague, I Sales Consultant • Charles A. Reid to be helped. It’s unfortunate that the church of Pembroke Pines, West Park and Hallandale consider him like a brother. Brothers know National Advertising where everyone goes to be uplifted, that you Beach. things that others don’t. Here’s what I know: Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 have those same people who are not loving,” “I was fi ghting for the LGBTQ community living a life committed to service makes [email protected] Jones said. “It’s sad, but there’s so much love before this became public. I will continue to you think hard about your life and how you Accounting Services by CG Bookkeeping MEMBER out there that their miserable lives that they do that and still stand fi rm. My policies are want to live it. Shev has chosen to rise above Printing by Sun Coast Press live does not sway or discourage me. I’m more not going to change, my politics is not going negative situations and live his own truth.” encouraged than anything. Those church to change. Jones said. “I’m still the same Shev members who lack in love and say they follow Jones that people knew prior to me being Christ, they should go study his life a little bit public.” SFGN WINNER of more.” Jones is the fi rst openly gay black man to John McDonald contributed to this report. & FLORIDA PRESS CLUB Awards MEMBER 5 And runner-up for NLGJA Journalist of the Year SEE OUR NEWS IN VIDEO Cover 1: Pope Francis. Cover 2: Shevrin Jones, photo via Facebook. South Florida Gay News is published weekly. The opinions Online now! expressed in columns, stories, and letters to the editor do not represent the opinions of SFGN, or the Publisher. You should not presume the sexual orientation of individuals based on their names or pictorial representations. Furthermore the word “gay” in SFGN should be interpreted to be inclusive of the entire LGBT community. 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