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June 2, 2003 www.ExpressGayNews.com Volume 4, Number 22 See Story on Page 11 Local Team Goes to Bat Marlins First Major League Team to Advertise Long-Term with a Gay Newspaper, ‘Express’ By Michael James estate to sports and leisure.” Kent week. Senior Editor applauded the Marlins for “stepping up The team has also given Kent extra The Florida Marlins made history to the plate and going to bat for the gay tickets to disburse as promotional giveaways this week when they became the first community.” on his popular morning drive radio talk show, major American professional sports Kent added, “It is now time for us to aired daily on WFFL, 1400-AM. The show franchise to enter into a long-term support their team.” In the midst of a 13- celebrates its first anniversary this week, and advertising contract with a major gay game home stand, the Marlins this week is broadcast each morning live from the newspaper. begin interleague play. The Fish host the Floridian Restaurant at 1410 East Las Olas The Express, the largest gay Oakland Athletics, featuring Cy Young Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. weekly newspaper in the State of Award Winner Barry Zito, and then the In addition, The Express has agreed to Florida, and the Marlins have entered world champion Anaheim Angels. partner with the state’s two largest AIDS into a season-long promotion. The Michael Wilke, founder of service agencies, Care Resource and AIDS promotional deal will culminate in an CommercialCloset.org, said, “This is Project Florida, to run an AIDS Awareness AIDS Awareness Night on Aug. 11, another step toward the parity of night on Aug. 11. The Marlins play the which will benefit AIDS Project interests between the gay market and Dodgers that evening, and representatives Florida and Care Resource. sports teams, and is contrary to the from each agency will distribute AIDS Sean Flynn, vice president of stereotypes that gay men aren’t education literature. homas Jefferson marketing for the Florida Marlins, interested in sports.” The Commercial Kent also announced the game will likely announced that the team’s initiative Closet website follows market trends in feature one of the local gay choruses singing is one more effort to “adopt a policy advertising directed at the gay and the national anthem, and a surprise guest to of inclusion for all South Florida lesbian market. throw out the first ball. Stated Paul Hyman, sports fans.” The team, in an effort to boost stated, “This is something I really wanted to As part of the advertising package, the the Broward County director for Care attendance this year, has engaged in a see. It is important to show the gay Marlins will receive a quarter-page ad each Resource, “We are proud to partner with the popular $2.5 million marketing campaign. community as active participants in all week in The Express, from now until the end Marlins and The Express to help bring AIDS Norm Kent, publisher of The Express, aspects of our society, from finance and real of the season. The ads began running last awareness to our community.” ACLU Demands End Accusations Against Cops Corroborated to School’s Anti-Gay Censorship Policy Harassment Witnessed at Park; Local Attorney Representing Three Men By Phil LaPadula Principal Silences Students Who Managing Editor Took Part in ‘Day of Silence’ Two more people have come forward to From Staff Reports say they witnessed harassment of gay men After a high school principal forcibly at John Lloyd State Park in Dania Beach. In removed stickers from students’ clothing addition, The Express has learned that a during a silent protest to raise awareness of local attorney is representing three other gay anti-gay violence, the American Civil Liberties men who say they were arrested and Union demanded today that Luther Burbank unjustly charged by another officer. Two of High School stop censoring teens who took the men were arrested at Hollywood Beach part in the protest. The ACLU also insisted and one at John Lloyd State Park. that the school promise not to punish students “I have been witness to this harassment,” who take part in such actions in the future. said John Cahill of Fort Lauderdale in a letter “We’re appalled at this school’s actions to the The Express. “I have seen Officer Jones against a group of peaceful, law-abiding take people back to their cars for ID. Gay students,” said Ken Choe, staff attorney for people are being singled out and straight the ACLU’s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project. people are looked over.” “The school violated the Amnesty International “There is only one sign posed, which Club’s right to free expression by telling it that says, ‘Keep Off the Plantings,’” Cahill noted. it could not sponsor Day of Silence. It then did “This leads someone to think they are new John Llyod State Park in Dania Beach has been the site of several incidents that a the same thing to individual students who were plantings, not existing growth. local attorney is saying is gay harassment. File photo peacefully taking part in it. Then the school “I am all for protecting the environment, and ended up having to pay a $170 fine, even on their door—just keep that in the back of violated the federal Equal but when you cannot sit on a bench, which though he says he had no idea he was doing your mind, Mr. Reilly…” Access Act when it abolished the club is nowhere near the sea grass, or go to the anything wrong. Bergholm declined The Express’s just because some of its members had acted bathroom, for fear of being labeled a pervert, Reilly said he spoke with Lt. Karen request for an interview last week, saying independently to organize the protest. Mr. or take a walk along one of the many paths, Bergholm of the Department of she had been instructed by her supervisor Rodriguez told these students that they were this has gone too far. Officer Jones’s Environmental Protection, Division of Law not to speak to the press. Lucia Ross, public being disruptive, but it’s obvious who was supervisor has no clue what is going on at Enforcement. “I explained to her that I was information officer for the state parks, has really causing problems at school that day.” the park.”(Complete test of Cahill’s letter is on the beach and saw and heard what was not returned phone calls from The Express. The school shut down the Amnesty on page 18.) going on, and she said to me, ‘Well, he was Meanwhile, Russell Cormican, an International Club because some of its Albert G. Reilly said he witnessed the on the plantings.’ My next response to her attorney with Kent and Cormican, is members had led the protest. The students arrest of Kevin Hiza, one of several gay men was, ‘There are no signs, no warnings, representing three other gay men who were were participating in National Day of Silence, who have received citations for sitting on a nothing in the park brochure. Her response arrested by an Officer S. Lopez and accused an annual nationwide student action in which part of the beach that park officials say is was, ‘Mr. Reilly, you know murder is against of committing lewd acts. All three men restricted, even though there are no signs the law, right. Well you don’t go and murder See ACLU on page 3 demarcating it. Hiza had to appear in court your neighbor even though there is no sign See PARK on page 3 www.ExpressGayNews.com • June 2, 2003 1

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CYMK ‘Positive Perspective’ Show Is On The Air AIDS Project Florida Starts Weekly HIV/AIDS Talk Show on 1400AM By Tim Dehnhoff Martin, was a long-term advocate tuning of your system in the form of Courtesy Spirit News of HIV/AIDS and education and acupuncture.” Daily, Spencer will add three It is not often you find someone who sharing the trials and tribulations of or four Chinese herbs into water and modify loves their work and is truly excited about being HIV-positive himself. “He was the regiment accordingly. making a difference. Those are the qualities a pioneer at outing himself as a gay Spencer receives acupuncture about that Will Spencer exudes. His buoyant man in Lauderdale at a time when it three or four times a month depending on outlook, articulate manner and unselfish was not so accepted and an amazing his schedule, indicating he receives the attitude have launched him into yet another public speaking advocate.” Spencer ‘Tongue and Pulse’ method in which his genre—that of radio talk show host. added. tongue is examined and his pulse is taken. Sitting in a flat in Barcelona with his dog, Spencer, who was once a There are other methods of Chinese Spencer received a call from Norm Kent, Millennium Club member and helped acupuncture Spencer added. Executive Director of AIDS Project Florida, launch the popular ”Nights of ”I want people to understand there are APFL, encouraging him to consider to Remembrance” fundraising alternatives to death and dying. In Western continue his work with the organization in extravaganzas, has served as a valued medicine the idea is to take a pill or some some capacity here in Broward County. member of the board of directors for medicine. People should know that APFL is Spencer, who has been affiliated with CenterOne. the only agency in Broward County that is APFL on and off for the past 12 years, Spencer has been a longtime providing alternative treatments to medicine, decided to leave the decadent streets lined supporter and participant of APFL Spencer said referring to the acupuncture with Antonio Gaudi’s architecture early this (formerly CenterOne) and various HIV available as part of the Holistic Program at year and return to Fort Lauderdale to assume organizations in the area. His civic APFL. a post as development director and better involvement includes The United Upcoming radio topics will include yet, radio talk show host. Way and the Broward City Council discussion on whether the AIDS vaccine “Positive Perspective” on 1400 AM on among others. ”I would like to works or not. In the future, callers and an Will Spencer at work in his office at APFL WFFL can be heard on 7 am on Sunday eventually initiate another fundraiser, Photo by Tim Dehnhof array of guests will be added to the program. mornings. The 30-minute segment is taped '’Dining Out for Life,’ and turn it into Perhaps Spencer”s mantra can best be at The Floridian, “The Flo,” on Fridays and a national program,” Spencer noted, alternative to Western medicine. For over a summarized in a loosely-based quote from later aired. indicating that he would have to tie the event decade he has followed innovative President John F. Kennedy. It is something This radio segment is designed to give into larger organizations. approaches to Chinese medicine as his total to the effect of, “If one person can make a HIV/AIDS members in the community a Interestingly enough, Spencer does not treatment regimen. difference, then we shall all try to make a chance to learn more about how to improve take the traditional medications for his HIV. Spencer refers to his regime as “herbal difference.” the quality of their lives. In fact, what he chooses to use is an treatment remedies backed with the fine- James Crystal Broadcasting and its record. They all deny that they were wouldn’t let him do it. He told me, ‘I’m not General Manager Steve Lapa has agreed to PARK from front page engaging in any type of sexual activity. “They going to admit I did something that I didn’t donate the air time for the program to vehemently deny that they were engaged in were standing having a conversation with do.’ heighten the awareness of HIV in the any kind of sexual activity. another man on the beach,” Cormican said. “We’ve had many different, unrelated community according to Norm Kent, also a “There are two things going on here,” “There was no touching, no groping, no people coming in with the same story, and radio personality for several years. Cormican said. “One is this Officer Jones guy, kissing.” that’s usually an indication that it’s true,” “I was personally very touched when who is using this environmental ordinance Cormican said he believes their stories. Cormican said. Norm Kent asked me to do the show. I see as a ruse to harass gay guys on the beach. “Often when you have people arrested for Cormican noted that there have been the value of sharing my experiences,” The other is this Officer Lopez who is public sex, they’ll tell their lawyer, yes, I did reports of public sex on the beach in the past. Spencer said, noting that he has been HIV- accusing people of engaging in lewd acts.” it and I got caught. The difference with these But now he thinks police are just “jumping positive for more than a decade. Two of the men Cormican is representing cases is that they are not only denying it, the gun” and arresting anyone who even “I am here to talk about real stuff. Truth- were arrested on Hollywood Beach just south they are adamantly denying it. Two of the looks gay before they do anything. “They’re telling. Things that really happen to me as a of John Lloyd, and one was arrested on John guys are willing to stand up in court and just assuming that anyone who’s a gay man positive individual. I try to keep the Lloyd Beach. Lopez was the arresting officer challenge this. One of the guys was going to is there to engage in that activity, and they’re information balanced and inclusive. I am not in all his cases. plead out the case, but his conscience sweeping up a lot of innocent people,” he just here to promote APFL,” Spencer adds None of the three men has a criminal said. “The show is about enhancing the quality of life. Letting people know they can choose See ACLU on page 3 stickers that explained what the day was all 25, Rodriguez spent much of the day other alternatives, that there is not just one students take a day-long vow of silence to about, and we made sure students knew they confronting students in the hallways and way of getting from point A to point B,” illustrate the silence in which lesbian, bisexual, should speak in classes where they have to, cafeteria, demanding that they remove “I Spencer says. gay and transgender people often suffer like Spanish class.” support Day of Silence” stickers from their The show is loosely based on the work discrimination and violence. Andrew Rodriguez, principal of the clothing, and removing them himself if they of the late Tom Martin and is named in his “We were really careful to make sure that downtown San Antonio school, had didn’t comply immediately, at one point even honor. Martin, a former client of CenterOne, what we were doing was legal and didn’t previously warned the school’s Amnesty tearing a female student’s shirt. By lunchtime, hosted a radio show 10 years ago by the interfere with school,” said Andrea Adame, a International Club that he would not allow it to according to students, Rodriguez was entering same name on WTFL. He passed away nearly senior at the high school who helped organize sponsor Day of Silence activities, so a group classrooms and interrupting instructional time eight years ago but his spirit lives on through Day of Silence Activities. She added, “All we of students went forward with their plans while to demand that students take the stickers off the show. were doing was being quiet and wearing acting independently of the club. On March their clothing.

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CYMK Medically Needy: The Done Deal New Medicaid Co-Pays Could Put Strain on the Sickest Patients, Experts Warn By Phil LaPadula budget’s approval in its May 28 edition. “This is just one facility in a state of Managing Editor But only two sentences were provided for thousands,” he stated. “A majority of these The Florida legislature approved a the Medicaid Medically Needy program in people don’t have the money to pay for their budget May 27 that includes full funding a sidebar titled “Budget Highlights” that rent, nevermind coming up with $75 to pay for the Medicaid Medically Needy program, simply listed budgeted items. There was no for 10 medications.” but the final bill includes co-payments that mention of the issue in the main story on He also said that although there is a activists say will cause financial stress for the budget’s passage, while the Everglades potential for private funding, there is a big the sickest patients, including everyone on bill and the school class-size amendment price to pay for that money. “There are Medicaid. each received extensive coverage. organizations that are willing to step up to Besides the drug co-payment that The Rettinger noted that the May 28 edition the plate on a temporary basis to help people Express reported on last week, the was the first time that Sun-Sentinel had get the medications they need. But, these legislature also tacked on a $15 co-payment even mentioned the drug co-payments. He groups are usually helping people through for visits to hospital emergency rooms, also ridiculed the paper for running a photo emergencies by paying light bills and which will also affect everyone on Medicaid. of a staged demonstration in a previous mortgage payments. Now they’re going to Nevertheless, advocates expressed relief edition showing Bush supporters holding have to make heartwrenching decisions that that the Medically Needy program, which up signs thanking the governor for saving could very well force people out of their 27,000 Floridians rely on to pay for their the Medically Needy program. homes so that they can stay alive. It’s very medical needs, will continue for another year. Bush had provided no funding for the scary.” “I am very pleased to at least have the program in the 2003-2004 budget proposal “This boils down to nothing more than program the way it currently exists,” said Local activists say Florida Governor Jeb that he submitted to the legislature, which a tax on the sick. Our governor should be Bush (pictured) is “doing nothing more than Derek Hankerson, an HIV patient who relies [putting] a tax on the sick.” sparked the grassroots campaign to save ashamed of himself,” said Rettinger. on the program. “It will cause an additional the program. At press time it was learned that Florida financial burden, but at least I can get my take certain medications.” For example, if he Michael James, director of public has just received a federal economic stimulus medications.” develops a fungal or eye problem, he may relations for AIDS Project Florida (APFL) package that would give the state $1 billion Under the new deal, everyone on need to add an antibiotic to his regimen. said that the co-pays are going to be more over the next two years. Roughly half of the Medicaid will be required to pay 2.5 percent “If you budget for the good times, if troublesome than some have projected. money must be spent on healthcare, of the cost of each prescription drug up to a you get really sick, you’re in trouble,” he “When this started, we were talking about according to the Miami Herald. maximum of $7.50 per prescription per month. says. 27,000 people and how to prevent them from However, Democratic leaders say Hankerson said he can survive with the new Bill Rettinger, a transplant patient who losing their prescription coverage. Now Republicans will hold the money until next arrangement, but it will be difficult for him to has been fighting to save the program, we’re talking 1.9 million of the state’s sickest year, a move Senate Democratic Leader Ron work out a personal budget because the criticized the mainstream media’s coverage people being told they have to pay even Klein calls “irresponsible.” number of medications he takes varies from of the issue. He noted that newspapers such more to get the lifesaving medications.” “This money could be used now to month to month. as the Sun-Sentinel and The Miami Herald James stated that the medicaid patients provide economic stimulus. Instead it’s “I take 21 different meds, but not every did not provide much coverage. For example, who use the APFL facility on east Oakland going to sit in a bank so they can say next month,” he explained. “There are times when the Sun-Sentinel devoted three full pages, Park Blvd will need a quarter of a million year they won't raise taxes. That’s I have specific problems that require me to including half of the front page, to the dollars to get their medications for the year. irresponsible.”

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CYMK Lights, Camera . . . ‘Welcome to Wilton Manors’ ‘Wilton Drive TV’ to Debut June 9 at Business Association Meeting Move over Deco Drive. The famous Vision founder and a Wilton Manors to inform them on the happenings within the learned from the production of last year’s South Beach strip is no longer the only street resident. “Business owners, city employees city and in their government in an objective, feature film, thus avoiding many of the in the area with a TV show named after it. It and politicians have given us a warm yet entertaining manner.” setbacks and errors they had to overcome for may not have a fancy theme song and welcome, and we’re glad everything is Wilton Drive TV was the result of a that project. celebrity guests yet, but Wilton Drive TV will moving along rather smoothly.” conversation between James, who is also the “Everything in life is a learning debut June 9, with a mission to showcase The project did see a minor setback senior editor of The Express, and Wilton experience,” he says. “You can read every the Island City. Local residents can catch a when the company that was committed to Manors Mayor Jim Stork when James stopped textbook and go to every class in the world. sneak preview at 11:30am, June 9, during the doing the final editing suddenly But when you actually apply that Wilton Manors Business Association dissolved. But James pooled his knowledge, you’ll quickly learn that the (WMBA) luncheon at Georgie’s Alibi. resources and charged ahead with his world is not a textbook example with The pilot episode for the much- commitment. answers tucked neatly in the back of anticipated program was funded by groups “We’ve done this type of project the book. My team knows how to think such as Wilton Manors Main Street, the city before; it’s just a lot of leg work,” he on their feet and make things happen, of Wilton Manors, WMBA and the Wilton says. “I was hoping to have some help whether it’s the camera operator, Manors Historical Society. along the way, but things happen.” director, segment producer, graphic Camera crews from Field of Vision Media The program is being produced designer, computer programmer or Group, Inc., the company producing the in a newsmagazine style to inform and into Stork’s Café to get a cup of coffee. James talent.” show, have been crisscrossing the Island City educate the citizens about the city. The pilot says, “Mayor Stork called me over to the James hopes Wilton Drive TV will help shooting footage of parks, restaurants, episode will focus on five major areas: counter—he knew I had just finished shooting Field of Vision develop high-technology jobs politicians and businesses to fill the pilot government, business, history, the Wilton a feature film—and asked what I thought about in Wilton Manors. “The entire purpose is to episode. The program is expected to Manors Main Street Project and a television show for Wilton Manors. I employ local people who are talented and broadcast on Comcast channel 18, entertainment and nightlife. immediately said, ‘Let’s do it.’ It’s a great skilled and develop the industry,” he says. “We augmenting the scrolling text that has been “You might be surprised how many opportunity for my crew, and a great vehicle are already talking with several people about there for 10 years. residents aren’t aware how their city for the city, residents and businesses to reach various projects. I’ll put the right projects “It will be a great way to communicate government works or the resources available a target audience. It’s the perfect win-win together with the right people through Field of to our residents all of the varied to businesses,” James says. “The pilot situation.” Vision and, with the help of my team, cultivate opportunities for nightlife, dining and episode will be something that can be The show is produced entirely digitally, a very promising industry that will be very everything else the city has to offer,” said broadcast for the next year and still be timely. which keeps the overhead low when it comes beneficial to the area.” Joseph Gallegos, Wilton Manors City It’s sort of a Wilton Manors primer, a to television programs, James explains. Field The pilot episode will broadcast on Manager. Gallegos is hoping the exposure documentary of sorts.” of Vision has built a computer-based editing Channel 18 in Wilton Manors after it has been will be good for business and civic life in the Future episodes of the show will be timely, system specifically for the project. approved by the city. city. “There are some vacant storefronts in focusing on the upcoming events within and James says, “The cost of renting editing our main street, and we would like to see new around the city that month. James says, “Right time is ridiculous, plus time has to be scheduled. For more information about Field of businesses come,” he said. now you have to read channel 18. When we’re Sometimes you get the best results when Vision Media Group, visit their website “We’ve had a great response from the producing the monthly episodes, people will you’re editing in pajamas at 2am.” at www.FieldOfVision.us, send an community,” says Michael James, Field of have an entertaining and engaging program He says his team is applying information e-mail to [email protected] or call 954.530.2806.

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CYMK Fusion Inhibitors Enters th Fight Against AIDS Melee over New Drug’s High Price Price and Access May Dim Fuezon’s Effects By Tim Dehnhoff practice and my clients have been excited the other previous HIV drugs. Health Correspondent for the past few months. HIV patients are Possible side effects of Fuzeon vary. The U.S. Food and Drug generally well-read and could not wait for Reactions to the skin where Administration (FDA) has approved this new drug to come up.” Fuzeon is injected may cause 'Fuzeon,' the first in a revolutionary new “My clients are like sponges itching, swelling, redness, tenderness, The European Commission, with class of fusion inhibitors specifically absorbing this new information fast and hardened skin and bumps but the reactions perhaps a more rigorous drug sanction, has formulated to block HIV. are usually mild to moderate. Also, patients also announced the approval of Fuzeon for Fuzeon, medically named ‘enfuviritide’ with HIV get bacterial pneumonia more often use in the European Union's current 15- is referred to as a fusion inhibitor and than non-HIV patients. member country. leads the first new class of anti-HIV There are some allergic reactions According to the Centers for Disease therapies and is greeted with a and side effects depending on a Control and Prevention up to 900,000 people bittersweet welcome. person’s combination therapy. are living with HIV in the United States , and Unfortunately the story It is highly complex and the another 40,000 infections are reported each about Fuezon appears not to be manufacturing process for Fuzeon is year. about its miraculous effectiveness in very complicated, requiring 44 Roche has a Reimbursement Assistant clinical trials but its strenuous ingredients, about three times the norm. Program and a Patient Assistance Program manufacturing process and subsequent There are 106 steps involved, more than four set up for clients in need of the drug. price. times the average. They have spent the last 15 years Because of its amino-acid base and According to an Associated Press focusing on HIV/AIDS drugs. Roche complex laboratory procedure, the drug have been fixated on this development for report, the average AIDS patient takes a combined with Trimeris Inc., a will be made available to only a few quite some time,” Dr. Sprianth said combination of drugs that costs around biopharmaceutical company specializing in thousand patients at an unprecedented “Although there is a second class of $14,000. Yearly treatment for people in viral disease have produced this fusion cost. these new drugs coming along, the level of advanced stages of the disease costs inhibitor. The drug, the first serious therapy to excitement is always highest when you have between $20,000 and $27,000. Trimeris Inc., also has a second fusion be introduced in seven years designed the very first one (Fuzeon),” Sprinath said, Analysts say Fuzeon’s pricing suggests inhibitor product candidate , T-1249. T-1249 for the treatment of HIV-1 infection is to adding the HIV field is always excited about Roche could turn a profit in three years. The has received fast track status from the FDA be used in treatment-experienced patients the potential for new drugs that are industry average for a new drug is 16 years, and is in Phase I/II clinical testing. Fuzeon with other retroviral agents. approved. although some blockbusters make money in is not a cure for HIV/AIDS and does not Fuzeon is produced by Roche, the According to a recently published five to 10 years. prevent the transmission of HIV. prescription drug unit of F Hoffmann-La study in the revered, 'The New England Roche LTD, Nutley, New Jersey, is a leading Journal of Medicine, the results appeared research-based health care enterprise that optimistic. Two, 24-week studies were ranks among the worlds leaders in conducted. Those patients who received pharmaceuticals and diagnostics and is Fuzeon were twice as likely to achieve based in Switzerland. undetectable levels of the virus than those Heather Van Ness, media who took the combination therapy without Local Priest Presides spokeswoman for Roche, noted the media Fuzeon. attention this drug has received. What is remarkable with Fuzeon is that “Everyone has reiterated the breakthrough it blocks HIV’s ability to infect healthy Over Mobile Ministry has surpassed the expectations and given CD4 cells when used with other anti-HIV the patients much more options,” she said medicines. Fuzeon can reduce the amount Father Reid Launches Adopt-a-Grandparent Program suggesting the price initially is set at of HIV in the blood and increase the By Phil LaPadula Grandparent program to provide $20,000. amount of CD4 cells. The idea is to then Managing Editor companionship to the residents of the nursing “Physicians are very happy to see this keep your immune system healthy and The small chapel on NE 10th Ave in homes and assisted living facilities that he drug become available and we are getting fight infection. Wilton Manors is tastefully decorated with visits. So far, nine people have signed up for a lot of support from the industry,” Van As a result of this unique mechanism stained glass, candles, a traditional Catholic the program, including gay men and lesbians. Ness said adding that Medicare has picked to block the CD4 cells, Fuzeon is effective altar and the Stations of the “Many of the residents at up the drug in all 50 states and about 94% in patients with prior exposure to Cross. But Father John Reid, Independence Hall and of the private practices are reviewing the antiretroviral therapies and who may have pastor of Divine Mercy Williamsburg Landing have medication. already developed resistance. The long- American Catholic Church, family and friends who may “No other complex peptides are being term effects of Fuzeon are not know at this isn’t confined within those live too far away to visit on a made at this scale. The manufacturing of time. walls. He presides over a very regular basis,” Reid says. this drug was a daunting task that not Because Fuezon is not in a pill form mobile ministry. A typical day “We’re hoping this program many companies wanted to take on,” Van but rather injectible, many patients in is likely to find him celebrating will enrich the lives of the Ness said adding this complicated peptide studies suffer injection site reactions mass at the Independence Hall seniors as well as the is a different compound with different including redness and bumps. assisted living facility or volunteers.” Volunteers are properties. “We are at a different region of According to Dr. Sprinath, Fuzeon’s marrying a couple on the beach asked to visit their adopted the viral envelope.” side-effects for treatment, “appear to be with his partner of 20 years, grandparent at least once a Dr. Latha Sprinath, M.D., Infectious nothing enormous that I would have to Larry Turner, by his side. week. No monetary Disease Consultant has a private practice stop the drug. The side-effects appear to “We’ve moved from investment is required, and in Boynton Beach. “I have a very large be a little better perhaps, not as bad” as being a church within walls to Father John Reid training will be provided. going into the community to Reid says he knew he bring the mass to people,” wanted to be a priest when Reid says. he was eight years old. “But I didn’t pursue He is currently working with two it because I’m gay,” he says. He worked for assisted living facilities for the elderly. He 18 years as a psychologist in Boston before celebrates mass at Independence Hall on moving to South Florida. Saturdays at 5:30 and 7:30pm, and at He doesn’t believe in advertising his Williamsburg Landing on Mondays at 10am. sexual orientation, but if anyone asks, he will Reid also performs commitment tell them that he and Larry are a couple. “If ceremonies for gay and lesbian couple as you’re hung up on your sexuality, then you well as marriages for heterosexual couples. can’t be real,” he says. “A lot of the straight couples find me on the About five or six people typically attend Internet,” he says. “I’ve married people at his Sunday masses at his home-based chapel hotels and on the beach.” His wedding clients on NE 10th Ave. Zoning restrictions forbid have ranged from divorced heterosexual him from even advertising the facility. But he couples who were rejected by the Roman says it doesn’t really matter. Catholic Church to a recent commitment “The chapel is just where the energy ceremony between an Italian and Jewish comes from,” he says. “We venture out from lesbian couple. He has also presided over there.” funerals “for people who haven’t been in a church for a long time.” For more information about the Adopt “We see ourselves as a bridge-building a Grandparent program or Sunday church,” he says. masses, call Father John Reid, Reid recently launched an Adopt a 954.567.1930.

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CYMK Singing the Praises of a Vocalist Former Philharmonic Singer, Mark Glickman, Is Dedicated Community Volunteer Chip Alfred Center, and was a sponsor of Compass. Palm Beach Correspondent a recent fundraising event for He says he wishes more people Mark Glickman used to the Lambda Legal Defense and would dig into their pockets. “It’s sing with the Florida Education Fund held in West disturbing to me to see the financial Philharmonic. Now he sings Palm Beach. He participates in struggles of many of the gay charities the praises of community the “Building Relationships that are doing such wonderful work,” involvment. That Last” sessions and the he says. “I want to see people getting A 13-year resident of Boca Urban Tribe community social more involved and being more Raton, Glickman is the events in Boca Raton. charitable.” Glickman thinks if everyone executive director of The Mark is also an in the gay community would contribute Jewish Community accomplished singer who five percent of their annual income, it Foundation of Southern Palm performed for 13 years with would solve many of the financial Beach County. He says he’s the Florida Philharmonic, problems the organizations in our always been very involved in where he served as president community face. Jewish charities, but several of the chorus liaison So what would Glickman like to see years ago, after hearing committee. happen in Palm Beach County? “I’d like Elizabeth Burch of the Human How does he do it all? “I to see the gay organizations here Rights Campaign speak, he guess I’m able to be involved become more visible,” he said. “There made a decision to start in so many community are so many worthwhile groups trying devoting as much time to the activities because I’m single,” so hard to fight for our rights.” gay community as he did to he says. “Maybe I’m single He says he’s seen a dramatic change the Jewish community. because I’m involved with so in the gay community in the past 20 He started going to pride many community activities.” years, and is optimistic about the future. events in West Palm Beach Glickman says it’s “I think we’ve made some great strides,” and Fort Lauderdale. He joined also helped to arrange financing for “The important to give time to the community, he says. “I’m looking forward to more Congregation Etz-Chaim in Fort Open Door,” an outreach program of the but it’s just as important to give money. progress in gay rights and gay life in Lauderdale. “Wow! Here’s a place where Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service in Boca He contributes 10 percent of his annual South Florida.” I can be both gay and Jewish,” he says. that targets gay and lesbian seniors. income to various charities, including If you have a Palm Beach County news “It’s amazing how much Mark does Joan Ensink, director of senior the Human Rights Campaign, the story, e-mail your information, press in the community,” says Rabbi Greg service and special projects for Ruth National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, releases or photos to Chip Alfred at Kanter, former spiritual leader of Etz- Rales, says, “Mark is a man of Equality Florida, the Lambda Legal [email protected]. Chaim. “Most people could not keep considerable skills and talent. He’s Defense and Education Fund, and pace with Mark.” given his time and his energy to the Within six months, Glickman was causes he believes in.” serving on the board of directors of Etz- Glickman is a supporter of Compass, Chaim as vice president of fundraising. He Palm Beach County’s LGBT Community OurWeeklyNews.com

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CYMK Beat of the Future and enjoy entertainment Through June 21—The Gay Men’s Chorus and refreshments at the of South Florida is embarking on a exhibit opening fundraising project—a drawing for a seven- reception, to be held from day Caribbean, Alaska, Bermuda or Hawaii 6:30 to 9pm Wednesday, cruise for two, courtesy of Norwegian Cruise June 4, at the library. Line. The exhibition and Tickets for the cruise drawing are $5 reception are free and each, and only 600 tickets will be issued. open to the public, The winning ticket will be drawn at the Gay sponsored by Broward Men’s Chorus of South Florida “Beat of the County Libraries Future” concert on Saturday, June 21, at Division, ArtsUnited, Inc., the Amaturo Theatre in the Broward Center Publix, and the Broward for the Performing Arts. The winner does Public Library not have to be present at the time of the Foundation. drawing. The winning ticket holder will be Some of the artists notified by phone and certified mail. subjects themselves dictate which voice United and Proud! featured in the exhibit include: Jose Arce, For more information, call should be heard. He calls this par apathetic Month of June— Broward County Library Tony Beall, J.W. Calcaterra (Pompano Bill), 954.832.0060. Tickets are also available method his “anti-stylism.” and ArtsUnited, Inc. will present “United and Robert Cauvel, Dennis Dean, Steed Jay through GayLauderdale.com. “Shot In the Heart: The Anti-Stylism of Proud! An Exhibition in Celebration of Gay Edwards, Abby Frank, Mario Garcia, James Photographer J. Garner” will appear at the and Lesbian Pride Month” from June 1 to 30 Goodson, Jerome Guzy, Don Hanover, Steve Shot in the Heart RaZoo Gallery, 3038 N Federal Hwy, Monday in gallery six at the Broward County Main Shires, Joel Shapses, Sanjay Sood, Chris Month of June—Photographer John Garner, through Saturday 11am-6pm and Sundays Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Yoculan, Vilma Zeno, and Zuska. explores his subjects with the true freedom from 1-6pm. For more information call Lauderdale. For more information and reservations, of many different visual styles, letting the 954.663.3888. The public can meet the featured artists call 954.357.7464.

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Three Years, Cars and Ave. This event is sponsored by Broward Highway, Coconut Grove. A solo dance June 7-15. The world’s largest Rainbow Motorcycles County Libraries Division, ArtsUnited, Inc. choreographed by Esaias Johnson, a flag will be carried through Key West down June 1—The South Florida branch of the and the Broward Public Library Foundation duet and trio by Ray Sullivan, a quartet Duval Street. For more information, visit Lambda Car Club International, Flamingo as part of the American Heritage Series, by Laura Murphy, and a quintet by Italy’s www.PrideFestKeyWest.com. Auto Group South, will celebrate their third which is funded by the North Broward Paolo Mohovich will be performed by Anniversary at the Bahama Hotel on Fort Hospital District and American Express. For Nancy Raffa and Yann Trividic, as well Pride Books Talk Lauderdale Beach. more information about Pride Month as dancers from the dance company. June 11—Mary Britton, Surprised by Peace, They are inviting the public to attend this programs, call 954.537.7464. Call 305.365.7900, email E. Robert Dunn, Echelons End, Rev. Jerry Classic Car & Bike Show. This will be a [email protected], or visit Stephenson, Out of the Closet and Into the judged car show, and you will have the Here She Comes, Miss www.MiamiContermoraryDance.org for Light, and Ricki Stuart, Botticelli of Brighton chance to select the car of your choice for Glamouresse more information and tickets. beach and Ride at Your Own Risk, will the “People’s Choice Award,” to be June 1—Get ready for Pageant, the beauty speak about their works. presented at the end of the day. contest spoof in which an all-male cast vies Joan Armatrading Concert “Writing Out” will be hosted in the The Car Show will be held 11 to 4pm in for the title of Miss Glamouresse. July 6 — Singer-songwriter Joan Bienes Center for the Literary Arts on the the parking lot of the Bahama Hotel, located Pageant runs through Sunday, June 1, Armatrading will bring her Lover’s Speak sixth floor of the Main Library, 100 S at 401 North A1A, Fort Lauderdale Beach. at the Ciullo Centre for the Arts, 201 Tour to South Florida Sunday, July 6, 8pm, Andrews Ave. There will be a poolside barbecue, and ased Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Showtimes when she performs at the Carefree Theatre, This event is sponsored by by Peace, E. Robert Dunn, Echelons End, are Friday, 8pm, Saturday, 2pm and 8pm 2000 S. Dixie Hwy. West Palm Beach. Broward County Libraries Division, Rev. Jerry Stephenson, Out of the Closet and and Sunday, 2pm and 7pm. For tickets and Tickets start at $42.50 and can be ArtsUnited, Inc. and the Broward Public Into the Light, and Ricki Stuart, Botticelli of more information, call 561.835.9226. purchased through Ticketmaster. For more Library Foundation as part of the Brighton beach and Ride at Your Own Risk, information, visit www.Fantasma.com. American Heritage Series, which is will speak about their works. “1 to 5” funded by the North Broward Hospital “Writing Out” will be hosted in the June 6—Miami Contemporary Dance Taking Pride in Size District and American Express. For Bienes Center for the Literary Arts on the Company presents “1 to 5” at Ransom June 7-15—The longest ever Pride flag will more information about Pride Month sixth floor of the Main Library, 100 S Andrews Everglades Theater, 3575 Main be unfurled at PrideFest Key West 2003, programs, call 954.537.7464.

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CYMK Extraordinary Voices of Ordinary Mothers National Organization Honors Those Who Work Toward HIV Prevention in Miami-Dade By Mary Damiano Arts & Entertainment Editor In February, Miami was named the national headquarters of Mothers’ Voices. The local chapter of Mothers’ Voices, The organization was previously the national not-for-profit organization that headquartered in New York City, where it works to educate parents, educators, and was founded in 1991 by mothers whose advocates about how to communicate with children had died of AIDS. There are kids about HIV prevention, recognized people several other chapters in Atlanta, Rhode in the community who have made a difference Island and Houston. as their Extraordinary Voices 2003. Mothers’ Voices presents programs in The awards were handed out during their homes, schools and community centers annual luncheon, held May 8 at the New and tailor their programs to fit a group’s Parrot Jungle in Miami. Glenna Milberg of needs. They offer a two-day training WPLG-TV Channel 10 served as emcee of program which teaches parents about the event. parent-child communication, sexual health Jorge Marsuli, director of the People for and HIV/AIDS prevention. the American Way, the force behind the SAVE They also offer workshops designed Dade campaign, was honored for his for mothers and daughters, aimed at humanitarianism and fight for civil rights; making teenage girls feel comfortable Judy and the late Roy Weissel were honored talking with their moms about sex and for their commitment to HIV prevention; and making decisions about sexual health. Judge Seymour and Edith Gelber were Mothers’ Voices also does outreach into recognized for their impact on the lives of spiritual communities, to assist spiritual children through their work in the judicial leaders in raising awareness and facilitating system and the school system. discussion about HIV and AIDS in places Deborah Roffman, author of several of worship. They also train church and books about talking to kids about sex, was Miami-Dade Commissioner Jimmy Morales, Jorge Marsuli (director of the People for synagogue members to deliver messages honored with the Friend for Life Award. the American Way, the force behind the SAVE Dade campaign) and Barbara Gaynor of Mothers’ Voices at the Extraordinary Voices 2003 awards about HIV prevention and healthy Roffman also gave the keynote address sexuality to their congregations. encouraging parents to bring a healthy to Holder, Florida is third in the nation in older standards of behavior that keep discussion about sex education to family life. infection rates, and Miami has the highest rate women from insisting that their partners Before the awards luncheon, Dr. Cheryl of infection in the United States, about 60 cases use condoms. She urged everyone to be For more information or to become Holder, Mothers’ Voices board member, gave per 100,000. She also spoke of the rise in AIDS tested. “If you’ve ever had unprotected involved with Mother’s Voices, visit a presentation about the spread of AIDS on cases among senior citizens, and attributed sex, you should know your HIV status,” mvoicesfl.org. both national and global levels. According much of that to increased use of Viagra and Holder said. RE - Z

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Dade Cultural Alliance Plans for Future Guest Speakers Enliven Meeting with Action Plan By Mary Damiano don’t have to tell you that,” said Lilia Arts & Entertainment Editor Garcia, co-chair of the Dade Cultural The movers and shakers in the Alliance, referring to the battering the Miami-Dade arts community arts have taken in the state’s budget. gathered May 13 at the Moore At the meeting, new board members Gallery in the Miami Design District were named, and Garcia was honored to discuss the state of the arts in as member of the year. After the Florida and zero funding for cultural business of the organization was taken programs. care of, Michael Spring, director of the The occasion was the annual Miami-Dade Department of Cultural meeting of the Dade Cultural Affairs, told the audience that the key Alliance (DCA), an organization to getting municipal funding was to help comprised of leaders in local theater, elected officials see the value of arts art and cultural groups. The goal of and cultural programs in people’s lives. the DCA is to increase public Sherron Long, executive director of awareness of the arts, motivate the Florida Cultural Action Alliance, people to support a cultural life and spoke about the government raiding the advance and expand the arts. arts trust funds and money earmarked “This is a challenging year, I Joe Adler, Harvey Burstein, and Betsy Kaplan at the annual meeting of the Dade Cultural Alliance for cultural programs. Arts programs, (DCA), an organization comprised of leaders in local theater, art and cultural groups Long said, are now in competition for funding with every other program in the Activist to Run for Supervisor of Elections state. Long echoed Spring’s comments From Staff Reports election process should be something you at the forefront of efforts to set up a domestic about elected officials, and urged groups A prominent lesbian activist will run can take for granted, that when you cast your partnership registry in the county and to to make a special effort to reach out to against Miriam Oliphant for Broward County vote, you know it will be counted. I felt almost provide benefits to the same-sex spouses of politicians, inviting them to events and Supervisor of Elections. Jamie Bloodworth, compelled to run and bring my business county government employees. She served helping them see the impact the arts have a member of the county’s Democratic background to the office.” last year on the county advisory board that in the lives of citizens. She also spoke Executive Committee, told the Sun-Sentinel As reported by the Sun-Sentinel, recommended updates to the county charter. about the need for cultural organizations that she was disturbed by the controversy Bloodworth, a service and network She has also served on the county’s to band together to lobby for funding, surrounding Oliphant’s tenure and thinks she engineering manager for American Express, Commission on the Status of Women, its beseeching arts leaders not to give up. can bring management experience to the said she has 20 years of experience Human Rights Board and the United Citizens “What we have lost this year we have got office. overseeing budgets, large projects and for Human Rights. to gain next year,” she said. “There has been so much in the news employees. Bloodworth is a former president of the For more information on the Dade about the office, and that shouldn’t be,” Bloodworth, who has spent the last 20 local chapter of the National Organization Cultural Alliance or to become a member, Bloodworth told the Sun-Sentinel. “The years with her partner, Beverly Cothern, was for Women. visit www.DadeCulture.org.

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CYMK Roche, the prescription drug unit of F Hoffmann-La Roche LTD, Nutley, New Jersey, is a leading research-ba pharmaceuticals and diagnostics and is based in Switzerland. Women’s Alliance Seeks to Put ‘L’ Back in GLCC Group to Address Range of Needs from Social Events to Healthcare By Jennifer Blancaflor Women in Network (WIN) meetings, Florida community. attendees for feedback. Donna Woessner Special to The Express Round-up and Girls Night Out. The Alliance Another surprising survey result had to asked what the plan is for making the The Women’s Alliance, a relatively new also ran notices in The Express, TWN and do with women’s awareness of local human Women’s Alliance the “bedside phone South Florida organization, held its first on GayLauderdale.com, resulting in a number rights ordinances. Among the women who number” for the lesbian community. general meeting Tuesday, May 20, at the Gay of surveys being completed via e-mail. answered, 50 percent were unaware of their Sordellini expressed hope that eventually, & Lesbian Community Center of South when women call the GLCC, they will be Florida (GLCC) in Fort Lauderdale. Focused transferred to the Alliance. Other women on discovering and meeting the needs of asked about a physical space for the Alliance. South Florida’s female LGBTQ population, Co-chair Naomi Parker looks forward to the group’s members say they are intent having a women’s space at the GLCC. on putting the ‘L’ back into GLCC. Volunteer Coordination Committee Chair The group aims to be an umbrella Ronnie Dowd urged women to get involved organization for the lesbian community. with the Alliance. “It’s up to us to make the “Each of us does our part for the women’s GLCC what we need it to be,” said Dowd. community,” said executive committee co- She asked people to fill out the volunteer chair Tina Sordellini of She magazine. “Each forms, whatever their availability or interests. of us can only do so much, but together “We’ll find a place for everyone who wants we can do that much” Sordellini said. to volunteer,” she said. The Alliance wants to help meet Formally created in January of this year, women’s needs in every area of their lives, Preliminary survey results were county ordinances regarding same-sex the group’s first executive committee was put from entertainment and education to presented at the meeting. When asked what discrimination. into place in March and is comprised of nine healthcare and civil rights issues. They plan, services they were most in need of or looking Women also rated the types of social women from the local community. through fundraising, volunteer efforts and for, women ranked social activities number events that interest them. Musical events The Alliance endeavors to become the the dedication of various committees, to one, followed by physical health, financial topped the list, followed by film and theater, organization to call for women in the South begin offering a variety of services and services, leadership training and mental nightclubs, seminars and sporting events. Florida area. Sordellini says the organization activities to women via workshops, seminars, health services. Already in place in the social arena is wants to “get the words ‘Women’s Alliance’ social events and referrals to professionals Startlingly, only 44 percent of the women Girls’ Night Out, a monthly film screening on women’s lips” in South Florida. sensitive to the needs of the women’s surveyed knew the purpose of a pap smear. event. Generally held on the second The next general meeting of the Women’s community. It is statistics like this that make getting Thursday of the month, Girls’ Night Out takes Alliance is tentatively scheduled for the week In an effort to determine what those accurate health information to women a over the Cinema Paradiso in downtown Fort after Stonewall Pride. More information will be needs are, the Alliance conducted a 40- priority for the Alliance. Many women have Lauderdale to show an LGBTQ oriented film. available at the Stonewall Pride Events. question survey of 600 women in the tri- expressed trepidation about informing their Proceeds of Girls’ Night Out benefit the county area. Questions ranged from queries healthcare provider about their sexual Women’s Alliance. Next month’s night out Information, a calendar of events and about human rights ordinances to orientation. The Alliance hopes to put a will feature Lifetime Guarantee, a comedic contact information for the Women’s relationship status. Alliance members referral program in place to connect women documentary about lesbian singer Phranc Alliance can be found at distributed surveys to women from numerous with healthcare professionals acquainted breaking into the world of Tupperware. www.WomensAlliance.com. booths at Pridefest 2003, Palm Beach Pride, with and responsive to the LGBTQ The executive committee asked meeting

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CYMK Lavender Ink and the Far-Right Finks American Family Association Assails Pro-Gay Comics Newsarama.com reports that the American variety of comic books have promoted the nonprofit organizations Family Association, a far-right pressure group, ‘gay’ agenda, including DC Comics’ The (such as the Muscular is attacking the content of comic books, Authority and Superman, and Marvel’s The Dystrophy Association including what the group sees as pro-gay Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, The Flash and the Make-a-Wish messages. In an “alert” sent to members, the [actually a DC publication], Uncanny X-Men Foundation) to sever ties AFA complains, “Along with this hedonistic and Star Fleet Academy.” with comic book view of sexuality in comics comes a promotion Other complaints from the AFA have conventions that donate a of homosexuality. In a two-part Green Lantern to do with scantily clad females (even in portion of their proceeds to comic, published by DC Comics, ‘gay’ teenager comic books specifically aimed at mature charities, since the AFA Terry Berg is shown kissing his boyfriend. After audiences) and a “false religious attempts to paint such three thugs beat Terry, the storyline turns into atmosphere.” The AFA alert appears conventions as hotbeds of a blatant promotion of hate crime laws. A alongside the group’s attempts to get pornography. Gephardt’s Gay Daughter will Campaign Full Time Chrissy Gephardt will join her father’s Gephardt said she ran to the bathroom presidential campaign full time, stumping and threw up. “It just hit me that I had a on her father’s behalf and showing that massive crush on her,” Gephardt told the gay children are part of families just like St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Sunday’s everyone else, she said. edition. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, his She said she kept her feelings to wife, Jane, and daughter Chrissy, 30, have herself for months. started speaking publicly about Chrissy “I thought I could talk myself out of Gephardt’s sexual orientation. it,” Gephardt said. Gephardt said he isn’t worried about She was married to a doctor, Marc damage to his political career, and that he Leibole, and didn’t want to hurt him. only wants his daughter to be happy. She said she went through months of Image courtesy Marvel Comics Chrissy Gephardt was married and in therapy, but finally woke up her husband graduate school for social work at one night and told him. She told her Washington University, when she became parents a month later. friends with a classmate, Amy Loder. She and her husband divorced in One night Loder told Chrissy November 2001, and she embarked on a Gephardt that she, Loder, was gay. new life with Loder.

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CYMK ‘Cross-Cultural Publishing House’ Revises History Porter’s Novels Peek into Closets of Hollywood and the ‘New South’ By Phil LaPadula “I’m going to focus on when he was the Managing Editor beefcake king and his affairs with beautiful Writer Darwin Porter lives in New York women,” Porter says. “Reagan had leading City now, but he admits that Florida is “very lady-it is.” much in my blood.” His prolific career has Porter is also the author of taken him in many different directions— Hollywood’s Silent Closet, a sexually including a travel writer for the Frommer’s charged exposé of tinsel town at the dawn guidebooks, social satirist of Southern life of the talkies. The book centers on Kansas and, more recently, an unauthorized and cowboy Durango Jones, Charlie Chaplin’s unabashed Hollywood biographer. chaffeur who also served as a “switch- But like a snowbird, the Miami native hitting” escort to the stars. always seems to return to the Sunshine “We are a cross-cultural publishing State, which has been the setting for much house,” Prince explains. “We straddle all of his writing—including Butterflies in Heat, kinds of subcultures—the gay world, the a gay-themed novel set in Key West that lesbian world, Hollywood. We are shocked the literary world when it sold a interested in a revisionist view of American million copies in the 1970s. history.” So it’s not surprising that he and his publisher, Dan Prince of the Georgia Literary A Sultry Spoof of Association (GLA), are planning more visits Southern Life to the state to promote Porter’s newest It is certainly a stark view as well. To books. The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart, say Porter’s books are graphic and candid a shocking journey down the “bi-ways” of would be an understatement. In fact, they Bogie’s early life, was just released June 1. rip away the pretenses to reveal a reality And Goin’ South, a satirical novel about gay that is as glaring as a blazing summer day life in a small Georgia town, will hit the in the South. shelves in September. In February 2000, the Georgia Literary Prince, who is president of GLA, will Association published Porter’s Midnight deliver a lecture titled “Voices from Other in Savannah, a sultry spoof on John Eras: American History Through the Berendt’s classic Midnight in the Garden Lavender Lens” at Stonewall Library on June of Good and Evil. 20. Porter is also planning visits to South “Berendt never really got into the Florida in the coming months. raunchy aspects of what’s happening in For Porter, trips to Florida are filled with Savannah, and we did,” Porter said. The flashbacks to the dawn of his writing career book rewrites the character of Danny in Key West. All it takes is a glance at the Hansforth and pokes fun at many picture of Tennessee Williams and his lover, aspects of the whole Midnight Frank Merlo, that sits on Porter’s desk to phenomenon, including Clint flip back the pages of time to those early So it’s not surprising that Eastwood’s “sanitized” movie days when the city was a magnet for famous Darwin Porter and his publisher, version of the book. Dan Prince of the Georgia writers and celebrities. Literary Association (GLA), are But Midnight in Savannah planning more visits to Florida was just a precursor to Porter’s Tennessee Williams and to promote Porter’s newest soon-to-be-released roasting of Key West’s Gay books. The Secret Life of the Peach State in Goin’ South. Humphrey Bogart, a shocking Underground journey down the “bi-ways” of The book centers on a wealthy Porter met Williams and Merlo while Bogie’s early life, was just man who is mercilessly persecuted working as the Key West bureau chief for released June 1. And Goin’ after he decides to launch a gay The Miami Herald in 1959. He became South, a satirical novel about newspaper in a small Southern gay life in a small Georgia town, friends with the couple, and it was Porter’s will hit the shelves in town. Porter based the story on a introduction to Key West’s then September. real-life incident he witnessed in underground gay scene. the ’90s while living in “[Williams] was the hottest playwright controversial nature, and Washington, Georgia, a small town in America then,” Porter says. “He was the Darwin was producing such where Jefferson Davis dissolved first major writer of the theater who had taken material, so it was a perfect the Confederacy in 1865. on the subject of homosexuality. But he had match,” Prince recalls. The pair, Based on Porter’s writings, the to write undercover. I saw him as a sort of who are now life partners as old CSA has been resurrected breakthrough artist.” well as business partners, have lately, or maybe it never really died. Porter credits Key West, where he still co-authored 42 editions of the Porter calls his book the “most owns a home, with sparking his current Frommer’s guides. The Georgia devastating portrait of the ‘New fascination with the lives of celebrities. Literary Association was South’ ever written” and the “most While living in Key West, he interviewed founded in 1997, evolving from redneck novel in history.” Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis and a library social group that “But instead of getting up on President Harry Truman. hosted wine and cheese a soapbox, I tried to make it Porter was even invited to tag along parties. satirical and entertaining,” Porter with Truman on his morning walks. Porter’s latest tomes says. Nevertheless, Porter “[Truman] told me, ‘I will start telling you enhance his reputation as a maintains that it’s pretty grim for about American history because it’s obvious “crossover” writer who any gay person trying to establish that you don’t know a goddamn thing about straddles both the gay and straight manuscripts produced by his late partner, a business in the “New South.” American history,’” Porter recalls. worlds. “My characters would sleep with Stanley Haggart, whose mother worked Porter, however, is quick to point out But his tenure at the Herald was cut anyone,” Porter declares. for the Brady family. The Brady’s son, Bill, that South Florida is an oasis of tolerance short when he accepted an offer from a New was a “very close” friend of young Bogart. in the region, which is one reason the York publisher in 1960 to produce travel Young Bogie: ‘Here’s Porter also obtained many of the vintage writer enjoys visiting here to unwind and guides for Frommer’s, which was then a Looking at You, Kid’ photos in the book from the Brady estate. relax after one of his many trips for small, shoe-string operation. He quickly The Bogart book is a perfect example. “The difference between this book Frommer’s. broke new ground by being the first It paints a picture of a bi-curious Bogie and others is that we assumed that Bogart Porter and Prince are now working on mainstream travel guide writer to recommend who “experimented” with a male friend as had a life before he married Lauren Bacall,” Frommer’s guides to Scotland, Portugal gay bars and restaurants. “It was considered a teenager, was kicked out of the Phillips Porter says. and Switzerland as well as a guide to train very shocking back then,” Porter says, Academy for engaging in “suspicious Porter has been in contact with a travel in Europe. “Frommer’s now wants noting that Frommer’s now publishes activity” of a gay nature, procured male Paramount Pictures executive, who has to appear more cutting edge in their travel Frommer’s Gay and Lesbian Europe. escorts for a bisexual Howard Hughes, and expressed interest in making a mini-series copy,” Porter says. “They don’t want Porter and Prince met in 1982 while married a lesbian, Helen Menken, producer based on the book. ‘vanilla’ writing anymore.” Prince was working for The New York Times of the first lesbian Broadway play, whom The Bogie book is just the first in a Porter’s novels are anything but selling copyrighted material to European Porter alleges participated in a ménage a series of steamy bios that Porter has in vanilla. They are over-the-edge romps publications. “I was consistently involved trois with Tallulah Bankhead. the pipeline. He is planning to pen one through uncharted landscapes of with the marketing of literary material of a Porter wrote the book from about former president Ronald Reagan. America’s cultural history. 16 www.ExpressGayNews.com • June 2, 2003

CYMK Australian Revises Gay Consent Law By Ahmar Mustikhan government’s bill. Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network Russell Turner, whose son is gay, is The Australian state of New South being credited with playing a major role in Wales (NSW) ended anti-gay age having the bill adopted. discrimination when its Upper House of “Russell Turner gave a voice to all the Parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to lower parents in NSW who love their gay and the age of consent for gay men from 18 to 16 lesbian children,” Cerise said in a statement. — the same as with heterosexuals and GLRL spokesman Rob McGrory said the lesbians. passage of the bill last week by an Arguing in favor of the bill, NSW’s state overwhelming majority through the state’s government minister for corrective services Lower House was reassuring. Bob John Debus said, “This is not a radical However, Christian Democrat member proposal. It’s a reform that would see NSW of Parliament Gordon Moyes said lowering simply catch up with other states and the age of consent would only allow more jurisdictions around the world.” sexual assaults on children. The 23-16 vote brings NSW in line with The AIDS Council of NSW (ACON) all other Australian states. welcomed the move, saying it was overdue. Australian newspaper The Age cited Homosexuality was decriminalized in NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby NSW in 1984. Along with Western Australia, (GLRL) spokeswoman Somali Cerise as it was considered one of the least liberal saying the parents of gay children had regions in the country, according to GLRL. gained an advocate when a member in the Five years back an attempt to modernize the Lower House of Parliament broke ranks consent law was voted down in the Upper with his party to vote for the state House by a 20-19 vote. Canada: Party Leaders Back Gay Marriage By Ben Thompson The third person running for the 365Gay.com leadership, John Manley, the deputy prime Nearly all of the major Canadian political minister, also issued a statement supporting party leaders expressed their support on legislation granting gay marriage. Tuesday for providing equal marriage rights With a Liberal majority in the House of to same-sex couples. Commons, the next leader of the party will All three contenders for the leadership automatically become prime minister. of the governing Legalizing gay Liberals, plus the marriage also has the leaders of three of the support of three of the four opposition parties four opposition parties, in Canada’s parliament, ensuring passage if Tuesday expressed their legislation is brought in. unequivocal support for Tory leader Joe providing equal Clark, New Democratic marriage rights to same- Party leader Jack Layton, sex couples. and Bloc Quebecois Only the leader Gilles Duceppe opposition Canadian issued statements Alliance Party has Tuesday saying they refused to endorse would support a gay legalizing gay marriage. marriage bill if it were At a Parliament Hill news conference on introduced by the Liberal government. Tuesday, representatives of the Liberals, “With three out of four opposition Tories, New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois parties supporting equal marriage for same- released statements supporting marriage. sex couples, together with all Liberal Paul Martin, the man likely to succeed leadership candidates, it is clear that the retiring Jean Chretien as prime minister, discrimination against same-sex couples’ said in a statement that if the Court of Appeal right to marry will soon be a thing of the in Ontario follows the recent ruling by the past,” affirmed John Fisher, director of British Columbia high court that denying advocacy for Egale Canada, the country’s marriage to gays and lesbians is national lesbian, gay, bisexual and unconstitutional, “Parliament should act.” transgender rights organization. Martin pledged he would not take the “This unprecedented support from our issue to the Supreme Court of Canada if there national leaders confirms the unanimous is a favorable ruling in Ontario. But he also judgments of courts across Canada, and said that “any legislation should affirm that recent opinion polls which demonstrate no church, synagogue, mosque or religious majority support amongst Canadians for institution can be forced to act outside its providing same-sex couples with the equal faith.” right to marry,” Fisher said. Martin is the frontrunner in the Liberal The House of Commons Justice and leadership race. Fellow contender Heritage Human Rights Committee has been looking Minister Sheila Copps said she would not at various ways of recognizing gay and wait for a decision in the Ontario court if she lesbian relationships. The proposals have were prime minister. included granting civil unions, allowing gay “The right of same-sex couples to marry marriage and having the government get out is a critical issue for me because it is a of regulating marriage altogether. fundamental issue of human rights. It is a The committee will deliver its report to fundamental test of leadership. I believe that Justice Minister Martin Cauchon next the role of the leader of the Liberal Party, the month. Meanwhile, Cauchon has not said role of the prime minister is to stand up for whether he will appeal the British Columbia minorities,” she said. decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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illi i d ki d Expressitorials Letters to the editor

Mark Foley and His Partner Have Foley’s Self-Hatred Got Him What He Deserves a Right to their Privacy I fear you have totally missed the the staunchest supporters of Attorney I have read your recent article motivated you to write this article and point about the Mark Foley Affair [in General Ashcroft’s draconian clamp [Straight on Gay column, “The Outing why? We haven’t learned one thing “Outing Violates Right to Privacy,” down on civil liberties in the last two of Mark Foley,” by Norm Kent] about Mark Foley. Search Light column, May 26 Edition]. years or so. Where was Mark Foley regarding the outing of Mark Foley, who You are right about one thing: The two men in Texas are not in arguing that it was wrong for people to is seeking nomination for U.S. Senate. “Homosexuality should not be a barrier public life and haven’t to my invade the privacy of others? Missing You speak of his private sexuality and to political achievement.” Perhaps if you knowledge acted in a manner that is in action again. public candidacy as being swept up into had made that your posture you would hypocritical. Mark Foley has, and Mark Foley has gotten what he the center of sensational publicity and have been included in the discussion of continues to do so on a very regular deserves. I hope that he still, even at this yet, you appear to have done a great the issues. The cause we should all be basis. late hour, “comes out” and says, “I am a job of “chewing him up and spitting him advocating is that we be judged by the In spite of allegedly being in a 19- proud gay man who has been in a loving out” yourself. quality of our character. That’s what year relationship, his own sense of relationship for 19 years. Further, I deplore You seem to be caught up with your people should see first, our character— self-hatred—how else can one explain the comments of some of my Republican own agenda and have failed to realize Mark not our sexuality. He may have been it—is such that he doesn’t believe that colleagues in the U.S. Senate and the Foley has achieved success as a asking the press to do just that. that relationship should have the same House of Representatives in recent years. congressman and is a positive gay role Shouldn’t you be doing that through legal standing as those of his I am not a child-molester, nor do I behave model. Why should he have to place his your editorials? heterosexual neighbors. His own like a kleptomaniac or an alcoholic, and sexuality at the forefront of his campaign? A voter has a right to know where a sense of self-hatred is such that he certainly do not regard myself as akin to a Why can’t we focus on who Mark Foley candidate stands on the issues. If you believes that gay men and lesbians polygamist or a bestialist.” is and what he believes in. Perhaps the want to know, ask the question. Don’t should not be allowed to fight for their I shall not stay awake waiting for issues wouldn’t be newsworthy. All we project. When is the last time you asked own country. His own sense of self- such a statement. Nothing would please do know about Mark Foley is that he is candidate if their position on an issue hatred is such that he doesn’t believe me more though than to find out that gay and doesn’t want to discuss it. was “colored” by being “colored or that gay and lesbian couples (such as Mark Foley has a backbone, but, as I I understand how difficult it is for straight or Jewish or rich or poor?” the one he allegedly belongs to) are said, wake me when the press statement people to come out and publicly discuss One of the last things you say in not entitled to the same tax breaks as comes out. their sexuality, particularly in the climate your article is that Mark Foley would heterosexuals. of hate we all live in. However, I do make an admirable United States senator. And ignoring gay issues for the Richard Moore believe that we don’t have to perpetuate Shouldn’t you have told us why? time being, Mr. Foley has been one of Via E-Mail the hate through sensational journalism. You pleaded with Congressman It is important for all people to be Foley to help the gay community. He can honest—not just gay people. When do much more for the gay community as asked if he is gay, Mr. Foley should have a senator in Washington than he can Hypocritical Republicans said yes and moved on. He has a right satisfying the “voracious journalists” I actually would like to comment on invaded after what they did to the to his privacy. His partner has a right to who want to present him as being gay LaPadula’s article [“Outing Violates Clintons. Hypocrisy thy name is his privacy. and nothing more. Privacy,” by Phil LaPadula, May 26, Republican. I don’t know how well you know Thank you for your indulgence. Issue 130] about privacy. Mark Foley, but I don’t think you can It is so funny when Republicans Gil Williams reasonably assume to know what Jack Crowley complain about their privacy being Spring Hill, Florida motivates him and why. What has Fort Lauderdale Editorial Cartoon JOEL PETT Witness Denounces Harassment at John Lloyd Beach This [harassment at John Lloyd beach] plantings, not existing growth. has been going on for too long. Gay people I am all for protecting the are being singled out and straight people environment, but when you cannot sit are looked over. on a bench, which is nowhere near the I have been witness to this harassment. sea grass, or go to the bathroom, for fear I have seen Officer Jones take people back of being labeled a pervert, or take a walk to their cars for ID. This harassment is along one of the many paths, this has uncalled for. gone too far. I am glad to see that someone has Officer Jones’s supervisor has no printed an article in the paper and often clue as to what is going on at the park. thought why it hasn’t been printed in the Please advise if anything is going Sun-Sentinel. to be done with this matter. On the instances when I have seen And I wish all of the guys who were people harassed, there was no kind of foul singled out by this vigilante officer are language or resistance on the part of the acquitted and do not have to pay this people being cited. ridicules fine. There is only one sign posted, which says, “Keep Off The Plantings.” This John Cahill leads someone to think they are new Via e-mail

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CYMK Straight on Gay Expressions Rants & Reflections on Key Issues of the Day The Pridefest on Wilton Drive is a Waste of Time By Norm Kent Publisher Remember that old song by Leslie Gore, GLCC, in their parking lot and at their their vote on whether your life and ‘It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to?” facility. If this were a legitimate partnerships are legal and legitimate. Well, I am playing that refrain today. commemoration honoring Stonewall, we Can you imagine for a moment what will It’s my paper, and I will scream if I want to. would hold it in a library and have a sober happen if the Supreme Court validates the The first issue that warrants my forum addressing issues like our gay statute in Texas that criminalizes commentary has to do with the Pride festival West Palm Beach congressman hiding in homosexuality? Do you think maybe that set for later this month, which our a closet, declaring rumors of his will get us off our collective asses and stand newspaper is sponsoring this year by homosexuality as being ‘repulsive.’ up and be counted, Republicans and underwriting five full page ads. I have to You want to parade down a street and Democrats alike? Do you think then the tell you I bit my tongue on this one. The celebrate pride while your governor is closeted federal judges, state attorney same cast of characters that gave you last eliminating the medically needy program generals, and congressman will get up and year’s festival are volunteering to create this and threatening every one of your HIV say, “Hell, no, I just won’t take it anymore?” year’s event, and I genuinely hope it positive friends? Maybe you should be Why do I as a publisher find more succeeds in its goal of raising monies for This week I received an impassioned marching your ass up to Tallahassee. courage in a high school kid named Richard some charities. plea from the network of volunteers You want to celebrate the success of Cortez who stood up to Fred Phelps then I Truthfully, though, I think it is an desperately trying to put the GLCC back gay pride when legislators at the federal find in our local federal officials? Bob Graham unnecessary exercise in redundant self- together. Man, it was like a cry from level are trying to redact same sex wants to be a waiter for a day in Iowa to run Humpty Dumpty. gratification, with the same booths and the partnerships, the military is still pushing for president? Hey, Bob, how about working same businesses and the same people I run the largest AIDS clinic in South ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ and state lawmakers a day at Costello’s? You tell me what this showing up to walk the same street under Florida, offering on-premises medical are trying to sneak through bills to great liberal governor and senator has done the same skies that threaten a June rainstorm. services. You want to do something useful eliminate local gay rights ordinances? I to support gay rights in this Neanderthal For what? To hawk a bunch of cheap instead of sitting for a day under a canopy don’t think so, Mary. You should be on a state. merchandise and cruise a street in a city that handing out cold pizza? Donate your money podium shouting, at every closeted No, I am sorry, another parade in Wilton already has two dozen bars in it? Same party, to us. Become a volunteer. Get tested. Get politician and elected legislator. Manors holding my breath to see if the different night, or in this case, different year. treated. Offer us your aid. But we are not Meanwhile, on our state beaches and donated dollars get directed to a charity Do we really need an annual pride fest in alone in needing help. This week I received in gay bars, law enforcement stings are instead of someone’s greedy pocketbook is Fort Lauderdale at Holiday Park in March and an impassioned plea from the network of starting to go beyond the pale of reality, with not my way of celebrating gay pride in June then another one on Wilton Drive in June? volunteers desperately trying to put the the beach and bar Gestapo arresting gay men of 2003. There are too many other causes Who are we kidding? There’s a gay rally every GLCC back together. Man, it was like a cry for simply being seen with each other, and that warrant your attention, devotion, and Thursday evening at Georgie’s, and every from Humpty Dumpty. making conversation. The thought that they time. Another parade is just not one of them. other Tuesday when the mayor gets the city Still, when I think of all the dollars might go home and have sex is too much for Speak to me when you are ready to march. commission together. The bottom line is that going to set up these booths, and pay for the penis police too bear. And all this is this street festival is an unnecessary diversion security, and the expenses of this festival, going on while a group of nine jurists sit in of your resources, energy and dollars. It is, why not just bypass it and give the GLCC Washington, D.C., playing with their Norm Kent is the publisher of The candidly, a waste of time. the money? At least hold the event at the spittoons and briefs, and resolve to cast Express and can be reached at [email protected].

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CYMK Price Lines Expressions The Accidental Activists Child’s Birth Leads to Challenge of Anti-Gay Nebraska Law By Deb Price Donna Colley and Margaux Towne- Their family’s The most adamant foes of basic Colley of Omaha didn’t set out to be gay- vulnerability at the gay civil rights have a very good rights activists. But their son, Grayson, had hospital made Grayson’s reason for trying to silence those of big plans for them: He insisted on being born mothers determined to us who are gay: When gay people nine weeks early. secure legal protections. speak up and say to friends, The couple’s plan had been for Grayson Because they live in neighbors and lawmakers, “I’m no to be born back in gay-friendly Vermont, Nebraska, they’ve had to different from you; I want to protect where the women had gone the previous year start a giant step behind my family,” then fair-minded to be legally joined in a civil union. That where they would be even Americans tend to respond, “That’s binding status confers on same-sex couples in the 35 other states perfectly reasonable.” all the state-level rights and responsibilities (including Michigan) that The more Grayson’s moms tell of marriage, including automatically making overtly ban same-sex their story—that their newborn each partner the legal parent of a child born marriage. needed his second mom by his into their relationship. In 2000, Nebraska incubator—the more their fellow Grayson instead chose to make his debut amended its state Nebraskans will follow the path in Nebraska, after biological mom Margaux’s constitution to bar any public opinion is taking in other blood pressure skyrocketed and she had to sort of government states. Recent polls in be rushed to an Omaha hospital. At birth, the recognition of same-sex Massachusetts and a county in New influential little guy weighed only 2 pounds, couples. “This is the most Jersey—states where same-sex 2 ounces. anti-gay family law in the marriage is being weighed in the country,” says attorney “You know when they hand you the Donna Colley (left) and Margaux Towne-Colley (right) of Omaha courts—show majority support for baby in the towel? Well, with Grayson, it was, Tamara Lange, who is with with their son, Grayson opening marriage to loving gay ‘I see the towel, but where is the baby?’” the American Civil couples. recalls Donna, who in has zero legal rights in Liberties Union. “[Gay couples] are The Constitution, after all, guarantees all Progress can’t come too quickly. Nebraska as Grayson’s second parent and essentially disenfranchised. They can’t ask citizens the right to petition our government “We feel strongly that we have Margaux’s partner. Suddenly, Donna found for a city domestic partnership registry or a for redress of grievances.) obligations and responsibilities as parents, herself totally dependent on the kindness of state law prohibiting discrimination in Ironically, the Nebraska case is perhaps and we want to honor those,” Donna says. the medical staff to let her oversee her son’s hospital visitation.” the best illustration yet of just how “We want to take care of our family just like progress in the neonatal intensive care unit Grayson’s moms are among five unstoppable the movement for full legal other families.” as Margaux recovered from the C-section and Nebraska gay couples participating in a equality for gay families has become. Far a pregnancy-related illness. federal lawsuit seeking to have their state’s from keeping gay voices from being heard Luckily, the family’s ties were respected. clearly unconstitutional prohibition struck by making it pointless for gay couples to Deb Price of The Detroit News writes Yet, as Donna wisely stresses, “You hate to down. (The U.S. Supreme Court already told appeal directly to state and local officials for the first nationally syndicated column rely on your good luck. A good parent wants another-state—Colorado in 1996—that it legal safeguards, the Nebraska amendment on gay issues and is the co-author of certainty rather than just hoping people will couldn’t make it harder for gay citizens than has awakened and energized the state’s gay Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians be nice.” their heterosexual counterparts to pass laws. community. v. the Supreme Court.

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CYMK Prudential Report Finance Financial Advice for the Graduate

Welcoming a Young Person to the Real World of Budgets By Dan Pye Graduation time is upon us, and what an which you have accustomed them. Just be in a savings or money market account without it. Help them find a reliable insurance exciting time it is. Like young robins taking seeing the hard reality of the numbers on where it earns competitive interest, but is agent who advises them on car and health those first tentative flights from the nest, off paper can be a sobering experience in its own readily available and is not subject to the insurance. Point them in the direction of a go those new grads into the real world. New right and one that instills a valuable lesson vagaries of the equities market. Without an financial advisor who can help them with jobs, new relationships, new opportunities about learning to live within one’s means. emergency fund, there won’t be cash disability and life insurance. and new obligations await them. As a partner, If it turns out nothing is left over at the available to fix the car the first time it breaks it’s hard to resist offering advice gleaned from end of the month or there is a shortfall, down, pay for an uninsured medical expense, Save for Retirement years of experience. Some of the most encourage your new grad to tighten up on or get by following a most unexpected lay If there is anything left after creating an valuable advice concerns personal financial the expenses. off. emergency fund, reducing debt and buying planning. Here are a few tips for the new Once a budget is developed, a next step insurance, it should be used to start saving graduate about to embark upon a career. is to create a cash-flow projection over a Reduce Debt for retirement. This is especially true if an reasonable period of time, such as six months Even before they are out of college, most employer offers a Section 401(k) plan that Creating a Budget or year. Basically, all that is involved is students learn to use a credit card. One of matches employee contributions. It’s too For better or worse, many young people extrapolating the budget over several months. the best gifts you can give a new graduate is good of a deal to pass up, and it’s never too starting out on their own have little idea about Total the income expected for the period and to pay off their credit card debt, so they start soon to start. how to create a budget. Chances are, this is net it against anticipated expenses. The value with a clean slate. Then, advise them to do the first time in their lives that they have a of a cash-flow projection is that can help your their best to keep the balance at zero. Credit Conclusion regular income and are responsible for new grad learn to how to plan for a major cards should only be used for emergencies Start your financial plan early in life and payment of their own expenses. purchase. by people who have not accumulated an stick to it. First, show them how to set up a monthly A net-worth statement sets forth an emergency fund or for convenience by Note: This article provides general budget that lists every item of income and individual’s assets and liabilities. The people who have adequate income and net information for the subject matter covered. expense. Income items include salary, interest difference is referred to as net worth. Most worth to pay off the balance monthly without It is not intended to render legal or tax advice. and dividends from investments you, their new grads have few assets early on, but may impacting their other financial objectives. An individual’s particular circumstances parents or their grandparents have given have significant liabilities due to college New graduates may fall into the first category, should be discussed with a personal tax or them. Expenses include items such as rent, loans. Take the time to explain the link but rarely into the second. legal advisor, as Prudential Securities is not utilities, food, clothing, parking, gas, between the budget, the cash-flow projection Beyond controlling credit card debt, a tax advisor. entertainment, education loan repayment and and the balance sheet. your new graduate should make a concerted taxes. The budget can be on paper, an Excel effort to pay off college loans before incurring spreadsheet or a software program such as Emergency Fund new debt for major purchases such as a new Dan Pye has over 20 years Quicken. Hindsight reveals that life is full of automobile or a home. experience in the financial services Once everything is netted out, they’ll surprises. Some of them are good, some we’d industry. He is currently Vice be surprised to see how little is actually left just as soon forget about. Once your grad Insure Risks President of Investments and over. Part of the value of creating a budget is has a budget and a cash-flow projection, he About the last thing most young people Associate Branch Manager with to help the new grad come to grips with the or she is in a position to put some cash aside want to spend money on is insurance. But, Prudential Securities. He lives in reality that unless you to continue foot the for emergencies. Most experts recommend because they have little or no net worth and Palm Beach with his partner of 18 bill, they can’t initially afford the lifestyle to three to six months salary. This cash should limited income, they can ill afford to be years, Peter and their yeIlow lab, Diva.

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CYMK Varnell’s Voice Expressions The Rate of Gay Progress Polls Show Steady Increase in Acceptance Over Past 25 Years By Paul Varnell There is no doubt that Americans are should be considered legitimate. This is a about gays die and are replaced in the becoming more tolerant of, accepting of and/ 20-point rise in 21 years, about a percentage population by younger people who lack anti- or comfortable with gays and lesbians. point each year. gay attitudes because for them a visible gay Virtually every public opinion survey shows That is what I think the average rate of presence in their lives and among their friends small increases in support for gay equality gay progress has tended to be. You could is an everyday matter. over previous surveys. even get roughly the same result if you Keep in mind, for instance, that while 60 The reasons seem not far to seek: the averaged the 17-point change on the legality percent of the adult population thinks increasing visibility of gays in the mass issue and the 32-point change on homosexuality should not be illegal, 75 media, popular culture and news stories; the employment discrimination to get an average percent of the college freshmen agree. If the increasing number of gay people coming out change of 24 or 25 points over 26 years. youngest age group is 15 points more gay to family and friends; the presence of more To provide a double check, similar supportive than the average, then the oldest open gays in workplaces, churches and The Gallup News Service recently longitudinal data are available from the age cohort is at least 15 points more anti-gay neighborhoods. More people are meeting released results of the gay-related annual survey of 250,000 college freshmen than the average, a 30-point divergence. gays personally, unlearning earlier questions in Gallup’s 2003 Values and conducted by the Higher Education To be sure, college freshmen are more impressions that gays are strange or Beliefs survey and included some Research Institute at UCLA. In 1977, the liberal on gay issues than non-college 18 interesting comparative data from threatening. previous years. survey found that 47 percent of freshmen years olds, but follow-up surveys have But is there a way to get a handle on thought it was important to have “laws shown that students become even more gay how fast this change in attitudes toward gays Clearly, the rate of attitude shifts on gay against homosexual relationships.” By 2002, accepting throughout their college years, and is happening? Perhaps so. issues depends on which issue. Gallup only 25 percent agreed, a 22-point decline the age difference shows up in other surveys The Gallup News Service recently analysts suggest that change on the legality over 26 years, or not quite one point a year. too, so the general point holds. released results of the gay-related questions of gay sex is slower than that of employment And on a question about civil marriage As young people grow older, the gay in Gallup’s 2003 Values and Beliefs survey discrimination because the legality issue taps for gays, when the question was first asked attitudes of each age group come to resemble and included some interesting comparative into people’s sense of public morality, while in 1997, only 51 percent of the freshmen those of the one below it from a decade earlier, data from previous years. the employment issue draws on people’s approved, but by 2002, 59 percent approved and because of the increased visibility of The survey found that in 2003, 60 percent attitudes about discrimination and fair play. of it, an eight-point increase in only five gays, people in the youngest age group keep of voting age Americans think So perhaps the most significant question years. becoming more gay accepting than the homosexuality should be legal. Back in 1977, in the survey was the one that asked simply Does all this mean that Americans as people previously in that age group. when the question was first asked, the survey if homosexuality “should be considered an individuals are changing their minds about The encouraging news here is that while found that only 43 percent thought acceptable alternative lifestyle.” More than gay people and gay issues. No doubt some the rate of change is no doubt variable in the homosexuality should be legal. This is a 17- the others, this question gets close to the do: parents who discover they have a gay short term, it seems fairly constant in the long point change in 26 years. root of public attitudes about our lives and child, people who find a valued co-worker is term, and there seems little the religious right The next question it asked was whether loves and people’s respect for our sense of gay, people who move into friendship circles can do to slow or stop it. homosexuals should have “equal rights in who we are as people. where there are open gays. terms of job opportunities.” In 1977, 56 In 1982, when this question was first But a larger part of the change probably Paul Varnell can be reached at percent said they thought so, but now in asked, barely 34 percent said yes, stems from the plain fact that older people [email protected]. 2003, 88 percent say they think so, a 32-point homosexuality is a legitimate lifestyle. Now, who grew up in more intolerant times and change over 26 years. in 2003, 54 percent—more than half—say it invariably hold the most negative attitudes

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CYMK QuestionMark? Advice Can’t Get a Break During Summer Break State’s Lack of Acceptance Makes Student Long for Florida By Mark Rutherford LCSW

Hey Mark, I’ve been to Maine and know that it is a I just got finished with college in Boca very conservative atmosphere up Raton and came back home (to Maine). I there. Whereas I think it is great that you wish I never had come back to this state. don’t sacrifice yourself for your Every day I have had a fight with my family surroundings, be careful. The club party because they do not accept me being gay. I scene is lost on most of the locals up there. have tried talking with them. Nail polish and eyeliner will cause you My mother doesn’t like that I wear nail to stand out as well as continue to cause polish and eye liner. It’s not much, you know. your mom distress. I’m not saying don’t do I was prepared I thought, but I am not happy it. Just be aware that your presence has an being home. What do I do? Florida is just so impact on people. You might get stares and different from Maine. I am here for the even comments about your appearance. Be summer, and then go back to college in the prepared for them and take fall. I’m getting my own apartment with some them with a grain of friends, so I’m really looking forward to it. salt. Sometimes you might What should I do? I want to move out of my even run across someone who house, but I am not sure yet. is just inquisitive rather than Garrett judgmental of the way you look and even your life. Hey Garrett, A thoughtful response It sounds like you’re not in the best of may help you join the ranks of situations for the summer. I think many of us apartment. your activist-minded gay have been there before. You get a taste of In the meantime, I suggest you forefathers. The process of what it’s like to be an out and proud gay take this opportunity to talk with your changing mainstream opinion person and then, suddenly, you’re shoved mom about your sexuality. It doesn’t from bad to good often right back in the closet again. It sounds like have to be a part of every happens at the most obscure you’re resisting and continuing to be conversation, but you can find subtle level—person by person. Take yourself even in an unfriendly environment. I ways to work it into your talks every this opportunity to see whose commend you for that. once in a while. You could look at it minds you can change. Think Here are a couple of suggestions. First like your gift to her—a gift of enlightenment. changed. Your sexuality is just a part of who of it as one long homework assignment. Let off, remember it’s only for the summer. This Hopefully, it will open the door for the you are. If you two haven’t talked much me know how it goes for you. attention to a timeline will help you get two of you to have more meaningful about you being gay, I can recommend some through. Keep thinking, “It’s only six more conversations about the things that really great books for you. The Family Heart, by weeks, or only 42 more days.” It will put matter to you. Of course, she may not see it Robb Forman Dew, is a great one from a Mark Rutherford is a licensed things into perspective for you and help keep the same way. All you can do is try. Tell her mother’s perspective about her gay son. You psychotherapist in private practice in you focused on your friends and your new you love her and that nothing about you has can find it online or at most big bookstores. South Florida. He can be reached at 561.835.6821 or by e-mail at [email protected].

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CYMK Man to Man Health & Fitness Letting Our Shields Down Abstinence ‘Propaganda’ Leading to Condom Ignorance By Stephen Fallon, Ph.D Our leaders suffer from a logical decreased the state’s high teen pregnancy study was the first to also document the disconnect. While the president seeks rates or gonorrhea rates. dangers of applying condoms too late or approval of a Star Wars missile defense shield, In Naples, Florida, ninth-grade teacher removing them early. our shields of last resort against life- Colin Nicholas was fired recently for In interviews, the men explained that they threatening sexually transmitted diseases demonstrating proper condom use. His didn’t feel condomless entry at the start of sex (condoms) are labeled “inappropriate” and prop—a banana—was deemed not age posed a serious risk, since rectal tissues would “ineffective.” appropriate. Seriously. not yet be chafed and only pre-ejaculate would Ideologues fear safer-sex education. The be leaking out. As for reentering after sex, they best defense against STDs, conservatives feel, How Well Do Condoms felt that post-coital dripping posed no threat. is denial. Don’t talk too explicitly about gay Really Protect? (Another study found that 59 percent of sex, and maybe homosexuality will fall out of Condoms break in 0.4-2.3 percent of uses, women also delayed condom use too long.) fashion. Scare teens with misleading “facts” to ban abstinence-only sex education.” The and slip off during withdrawal in 0.6-1.3 percent. The authors warned, “Our study about condoms, and maybe they’ll abstain from truth might indeed threaten their propaganda Most gay men have learned not to lubricate a demonstrated that a considerable proportion sex. (If abstinence is a better defense than machine. In a hearing on the proposed bill, condom with anything oil-based (oils of homosexual men do not apply the condom shields, why don’t we just save $11.8 billion students testified that “they had been taught disintegrate the condom more quickly). Most, prior to penetration and that this practice on the missile shield and ask our enemies to abortions were likely to lead to death or sterility, too, know to pinch the tip while they roll a results in HIV transmission.” Though ruptured abstain from attacking us with missiles?) that condoms are rarely effective, that parents condom on (leaving space to catch for the rectal tissue increases HIV’s ease of entry, Last year, the Office of Health and Human who give their children condoms don’t love or sexual fluids). tissues do not have to be torn for HIV to get Services launched a specious audit of all trust them and that tampons can get lost in a Condoms that appear intact after use in. The rectum absorbs fluids even when it’s federally funded HIV-prevention programs, woman’s uterus.” (Not all states fear medical decrease semen exposure by 125,000 times, intact (that’s why we give some patients targeting especially programs for gay men. No accuracy. New Mexico’s House of even if microscopic holes were present. Overall, medicine in suppository form). And pre- smoking gun of “obscenity” was found, yet Representatives just passed such a bill.) condoms reduce HIV risk by 85 percent. ejaculate does carry HIV, though not as conservatives continue to try to outlaw honest Indiana students subjected to that state’s Condoms only reduce syphilis transmission consistently as in ejaculate. discussion of safer sex wherever possible. most popular abstinence program are taught: by 29-50 percent, and chlamydia and gonorrhea Shields only protect if we know how to “You could have a condom covering your entire by 50 percent. Why don’t unbroken condoms employ them. That’s what our leaders should Protecting the children body, and if you are exchanging body fluids, there provide even higher protection? be teaching. When ideologues want to promulgate an is always the risk of disease. The only safe way is argument that would never stand up to adult to stay out of the ‘underwear zone.’” Despite this Continue to Teach Proper Stephen Fallon is the president of scrutiny, they sneak it into classrooms. scare tactic, Indiana’s chlamydia cases rose 40 Condom Use Skills4, Inc., a Florida based consulting Claiming to protect the innocents, they cleverly percent from 1996 to 2000, with most new A new study finds that 12 percent of HIV- firm. Stephen speaks on gay lifestyle and brainwash the next generation of voters. infections striking 15- to 19-year-olds. positive and 4 percent of HIV-negative men health issues, and provides technical In Washington state, conservatives In Texas, students are protesting the used condoms wrong while bottoming. Some assistance and grant writing services to pounced upon a bill that would require sex abstinence-only education that then-governor handled the condom too roughly during community organizations, health education provide only “medically accurate” George W. Bush signed into law in 1995. application, either because of excitement or departments and schools. information. They called it “a back-door attempt Censoring facts about safer sex has not drug or alcohol use. More importantly, this www.Skills4.org “Creating the tools for better health, education, business and life.”

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CYMK Health Editor APFL Health Update Bush Pushes Banned Food

AIDS Bill Sends Genetically Altered Food to Ailing Countries By Michael James

Global AIDS Bill Promotes year for five years to international HIV/ use of a rapid HIV test, approved by the HIV/AIDS Organizations Banned Genetically AIDS programs, with up to $1 billion in FDA in November 2002 and approved get Creative with Modified Crops fiscal year 2004 going to the Global Fund for expanded availability by HHS in Fundraisers A provision of the five-year, $15 to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. February. Los Angeles-area not-for-profit HIV/ billion international AIDS bill signed into Some African countries have not The CDC wants to offer the test in AIDS organizations are increasingly foregoing law by President Bush last week accepted genetically modified food all federally funded clinics, as well as in traditional fundraisers, such as black-tie hotel encourages the African and Caribbean because of the E.U. ban. Rep. Frank places where there are people who may banquets, in favor of themed parties, shopping countries receiving HIV/AIDS assistance Balance (D-N.C.), who sponsored the not have access to routine medical care, sprees and athletic events in an effort to spur to also accept U.S. food aid, including provision and who represents a district such as homeless shelters, jails and charitable giving in the “sluggish” economy, genetically modified foods that have been with corn farms, said that he is substance abuse treatment centers. the Los Angeles Times reports. banned by the European Union, the concerned that HIV/AIDS patients will Dr. Rob Janssen, CDC’s director of A decrease in charitable giving, Washington Post reports. not receive vital nutrition without U.S. HIV prevention, in April said that the combined with competition for donations The law (HR 1298), sponsored by Rep. food aid, according to the Post. government will invest most heavily in among the area’s 160 HIV/AIDS Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), authorizes $3 billion a initiatives that offer HIV testing and organizations, are driving the shift toward CDC AIDS Policy counseling to HIV-positive people, more creative fundraising efforts, according ‘Shakeup’ Endangers which could jeopardize approximately to the Times. “We’re constantly trying to be Prevention Funding $90 million in annual federal funding for creative to be accessible to more people and AIDS advocates locally are community groups. Janssen said that the consequently raise more funds,” Craig concerned that a CDC “shakeup” of changes could be in effect by July 2004. Thompson, executive director of AIDS the country’s AIDS programs could Florida AIDS advocates fear that the Project Los Angeles, said. endanger funding for prevention change could jeopardize funding for its The new fundraisers have been efforts, the Sun-Sentinel reports. The neighborhood outreach, condom successful for some groups, such as the CDC has said that the current emphasis distribution, safe-sex education and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation, on community outreach prevention peer counseling campaigns, forcing which raises about $1.5 million of its $20 million programs has proved ineffective, citing some projects to shut down. annual operating budget at an annual carnival an increase in new HIV infections. Bill Darrow, a public health with attractions such as human bowling, The agency has therefore decided professor at Florida International featuring celebrities in large plastic spheres. to shift its focus to HIV testing. The University, told the Sentinel, “I see this Event organizers say that donors “have more strategy, outlined in the April 18 issue [plan] as a receding or ebbing of the fun at these events and are more likely to give of the agency’s Morbidity and cutting-edge work that we’ve been again the next year,” the Times reports.

Mortality Weekly Report, calls for HIV doing.” He added, “The CDC has been Source: Kaiser Networks to be included among the diseases, such promoting community involvement and as syphilis, rubella, group B Strep and leadership in HIV prevention efforts, and Michael James is the Senior/Health Editor hepatitis, for which pregnant women are what I see now is that is all gone. This for the Express Gay News and the Director of Public and Media Relations for AIDS already tested. The plan also urges local seems to be political and ideological Project Florida. He can be reach via e-mail health authorities to make widespread rather than scientifically based.” at [email protected].

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CYMK By Charlene Lichtenstein For the week of 6/2/03 Pride month is busting Out all over and revs up with a rollicking planetary charge. Saturn, with its whips, moves into pliant Cancer on the 5th while retro Neptune, Uranus and Pluto spice up the stew. See you in the pride parade ... and pack your map! ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 20) Proud Rams are in for a psychic boost as Uranus blasts your closet off its hinges. This blast of fresh air may place you at odds with family when sour Saturn enters your home and family sector. Deal with it and deal with them. ‘Nuf said. TAURUS (APRIL 21 - MAY 21) Intimacy is anything but this Pride month. Retro Pluto puts a rocket in your pocket. Be sure that you do not set it off prematurely.... But alls well that ends well if you can think of the right thing to say. Can you think of the right thing to say, queer Bull? GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21) Venus and Sun highlight your finer points while retro Uranus may make your career moves blunt and bold. No sooner do you think you are on the top of the heap when you suddenly view life from the bottom of the pack. But maybe that is your thing?? CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23) Pink Crabs are powerful this Pride month. But don’t let it go to your head. In love and sex, retro Uranus and Neptune are ripe for mayhem and chastisement. Those who “kiss and tell” wind up with a frog instead of royalty. At least it will taste like chicken. LEO (JULY 24 - AUGUST 23) Proud Lions are leaders of the Pride Parade with Jupiter in their own sign. Show the wilde masses how it is done with style and a sense of humor. Saturn and retro Uranus cut you down to size if your ego becomes too big for your body. Does size matter?? Heck yes! VIRGO (AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23) Your efforts on behalf of the community reach global proportions. Spread the good gay cheer, queer Virgin. Retro Uranus places a tack on your domestic superhighway but it is just a way of encouraging you to take stock and appreciate who you have. LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) If you have been paying your professional dues, Saturn provides a nice payoff this Pride month. But if you have been slacking off this humorless taskmaster puts you on the rack. Dear queer Libras find respite among friends. Ah but will they hire you...? SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) You are at your pinnacle of performance thanks to lucky Jupiter. Don’t stop the motion as Pride month gets fully underway, gay Scorp. The secret is to set your course and set sail while the opportunity presents itself. Sit on your thumbs in the fall. SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) A bolt out of the blue is needed so expect a bolt this Pride month. Saturn and retro Pluto upend your landscape and clear away debris. Will you haul it away uncomplainingly, gay Archer? Retro Neptune has your tongue in a twist. Use it wisely and don’t say a word .... CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) Jupiter increases your sexual appetite while Saturn suggests a diet. Pink Caps may be tempted to quaff their thirst at the office water cooler but you should sip your tall cool one at home even if the taste is a bit lukewarm. Next month the well may be dry... AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) Aqueerians make an unusual first impression this Pride month. Could it be retrograding Neptune or that peekaboo faux leopard tutu?Don’t let naysayers rain on your pride parade. When you got it, flaunt it. Just don’t spend it all in one place. PISCES (FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20) Guppies start Pride month with a Uranian bang and things become uncontrollable from there. Why ask why, cousin? Swim through the Neptunian funk and fog and apply all that mystique into creative enterprises. Rainbow body painting anyone??

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Cunningham, D.D.S. 2020 E Oakland Park Blvd Life, Health, Annuities, LTC, Disability Income Fort Lauderdale...... 954.525.0210 House Carpet Cleaning Fort Lauderdale.……...... …..954.566.9812 West Palm Beach...... 561.624.6325 Tim House, Owner ARTS & CULTURE INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICE Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Fort Lauderdale...... 954.360.0069 DERMATOLOGY Affordable Interiors 1650 Harrison Street Peter Babinski, M.D., PH.D. CEMETERIES Window Treatment Specialist Hollywood...... 954.921.3274 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.5406 Lauderdale Memorial Ceneteries 12 Years Exp..in FL...... [email protected] Studio Gallery 425 www.browardcemeteries.com ELECTRICIANS Ft. Lauderdale...... 954.629.5829 David Mulvenna proprietor Fort Lauderdale.…...... …..954.745.2140 The Electrician Hollywood...... 954.924.8574 LANDSCAPING 1536 NW 5th Ave Ft Lauderdale Blue Zebra Landscaping CHIROPRACTORS Broward, Palm Beach, Dade.....954.522.3357 ATTORNEYS 1017 SW 15th Ter Cabieses Chiropractic Centers A1 Electric Service THE HIRING OF A LAWYER IS AN IMPORTANT DECISION Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.1149 THAT SHOULD NOT BE BASED SOLELY UPON 1776 N Pine Island Rd Plantation. Scott Conley, Master Electrician ADVERTISEMENT, BEFORE YOU DECIDE, ASK THE Exotic Landscaping Design 456 W 51st Place Hialea...... 954.559.1999 Pager...... 954.875.9873 ATTORNEY TO SEND YOU FREE WRITTEN INFORMATION Dr. Michael Cohen, D.C PO Box 4580 ABOUT HIS OR HER QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.8090 2631 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd., Ste. 104 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.567.4133 Bruce J. Kirsch Esquire Fort Lauderdale...... 954.537.5558 EVENT PLANNERS R.H. Ireland & Sons 3800 S. Ocean Drive, Ste. 218 Gimbel Chiropractic Center EVENTors, INC. 3080 S. Oakland Forest Dr. Hollywood...... 954.456.0220 Dr. Bruce Gimblel/Dr. Denise Gimbel Event & Meeting Planning for Any Occasion Fort Lauderdale ……...... 954.240.9701 David L. Jacovitz, Esq. 1907 North Andrews Ave. Fort Lauderdale…...... 877.9.EVENT.5 Tropical Theatre South Trust Building - 1 East Broward Blvd. Wilton Manors...... 954.567.1924 1139 NE 17th Way Fort Lauderdale...... 954.630.8847 Monaissa Chiropractic & Wellness Center FENCE SERVICES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.524.1112 Dean Trantalis 11200 Pines Blvd. Ste 101 A-Hinze Fence Contractors 2255 Wilton Drive Pembroke Pines...... 954.880.0101 Marty Hinze, Owner LEGAL EXPENSE PLANS Fort Lauderdale………………..954.566.2226 Peele Chiropractic 721 NE 12th ST Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. Elizabeth F. Schwartz, P.A. Dr. Kathy Ragone/Dr.Beth Cooper Fort Lauderdale...... 954.763.7658 Cynthia Lyle……...... …... 954.916.2031 407 Lincoln Rd. Ste 4D 3296 NW 9th Ave. FINANCIALSERVICES Curtis McCoy ...... …… 954.723.7745 Miami Beach………………….305.674.9222 Oakland Park ……...... 954.566.7222 A.G. Edwards Matt Gill, Investment Advisor LIGHTING Jeffery Seth Selzer, PA [email protected] Luminosity Studio & Gallery 2550 NE 15 Ave. CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES Ft. Lauderdale, Fl...... 954.761.1060 Tony Beall Wilton Manors………………..954.567.4444 Church of the Holy Spiritsong Edward Jones Investments 981 NE 45th Street Jerome & Fischer, PA Deerfield Beach 33442 ...... 954.418.8372 Darcy J. Beeman Oakland Park...... 954.202.NEON 4331 N. Federal Hwy. Ste 403 Congregation ETZ Chaim 3970 NW 21st Ave. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.566.4252 LIMOUSINE & CAR SERVICES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.489.1011 Morgan Stanley Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.564.9232 Chauffeur Service/Custom Transportation Law Offices of Robin L. Bodiford, PA Stephanie Small - Financial Advisor Holy Angels Nat'l Catholic Church Broward, Dade, West Palm .....954.336.7849 2550 N. Federal Hwy, Suite 20 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.267.5672 2330 Wilton Drive Sterling Services Fort Lauderdale...... 954.630.2707 Smith Barney - David Starkey, Sr. VP. Margaret Broenniman, Esq. www.nationalcatholic.faithweb.com Broward & Dade Counties...... 888.239.9200 Sun. 11 am, Wkdys incl. Sat. 5:30 pm 350 E LasOlas Blvd, Suite 1200 Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning Fort Lauderdale...... 954.762.3012 LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING [email protected] Wilton Manors..954.565.4642 or 954.731.8173 IMS FINANCIAL SERVICES Fort Lauderdale...... 954.288.4064 House of Divine Mercy- FLORIST Ita Schenkel, CLTC, CSA Randy Strauss New Catholic Communities Boat Blossums Wholesale Florist Long-Term Care Insurance Specialist Wilton Manors.……………….954.566.5297 2749 Northeast 10th Ave. 3001 Griffin Rd. N. Miami Beach...... 305.653.5116 Wilton Manors...... 954.561.4545 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.961.9141 ATTORNEYS--IMMIGRATION LAW Sunshine Cathedral, MCC MASSAGE THERAPY Fernando J. Gutiérrez, EdD, Esq. 1480 SW 9th Ave. FURNITURE & ANTIQUES Brian L. Wright MS, LMT, CR Member CA Bar, Am. Imm. Lwyers. Assn. Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.462.2004 Bar & Stool Emporium Shiatsu, Reflexology, Deep Tissue 80 SW 8th St. #2000 Miami...... 305.423.7063 2201 N. Dixie Hwy. COMPUTER SERVICES Lic.# MA33341...... 561.582.1177 Shari L. Moidel, Esq. Fort Lauderdale……...... 954.566.7966 Terry DiVincenzo, LMT 3471 N Federal Highway Suite #300 Affordable in Home Training / Cargo Trouble Shooting Swedish & Therapeutic Massage en-vision.com/ShariMoidel 2301 NE 26th St. Lic.# MA 022936 …...... …..954.491.8180 Fort Lauderdale ………...... … 954 566.1610 Broward/ Dade / West Palm.....954.925.1801 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.568.5944

32 www.ExpressGayNews.com • June 2, 2003 MASSAGE THERAPY (cont) PHARMACIES PSYCHOTHERAPY & REAL ESTATE (cont) Tom Clephane, LMT Commcare Pharmacy COUNSELING (cont) Russotto Realty Inc. Lic.# MA0019978...... 954.579.5044 2817 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ste# 303 Craig White Fort Lauderdale...... 954.568.6212 Orlando J. Gonzalez L.M.H.C., P.A. 2242 Wilton Drive ...... 954.296.4236 MORTGAGES ProScript Pharmacy Services, Inc. 407 Lincoln Road Suite 2F Re/Max Partners/Dan O’Flaherty Alliance Mortgage Funding, Inc. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.797.5041 Miami Beach...... 305.531.1400 2810 E OaklandBlvd Brian "Tyler" Leonard StatScript Pharmacy Patrick Mulhall, L.C.S.W., C.ST, C.HT, PA Fort Lauderdale..……...... …...954.396.5965 2200 NE 26th St Fort Laud...... 954.568.0108 2605 N. Dixie Hwy. 3475 Sheridan Street Suite 312 Terry Bush/Re/Max Partners Countrywide Home Loans Wilton Manors…...... 954.568.3789 Hollywood………...... ……..…954.894.8024 Fort Lauderdale……...... ….954.661.4550 Rod Pans - Home Loan Consultant Psychological Alliance, Pl Serving East Ft. Lauderdale...... 954.332.2357 PHOTOGRAPHY Carole A. Wartenberg, Ph D RETIREMENT Mortgage Bankers Andy Armano Laura Hohnecker Ph D Treemont on the Park Carole Fawcett Fort Lauderdale...... 954.854.5679 3881 NE 3rd Ave., Oakland Park Fort Lauderdale...... 954.972.3990 8358 W Oakland Park Blvd #304 Dennis Dean Fort Lauderdale …...... …954.563.0276 Pride Mortgage Incorporated Fort Lauderdale…...…...... ….. 954.463.8299 Sunrise...... ………...... 954.742.7449 2455 E. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 804 Noel de Christian Susan A. Smith, L.C.S.W. SCREEN PRINTING pridemortgage.com Fort Lauderdale...... 954.485.6659 6250 N. Andrews Ave Suite 108 Fastsigns Fort Lauderdale...... 954.565.9665 Miami...... …...... ….. 305.553.2099 Fort Lauderdale …………...... 954.730.4902 1747 N. Federal Highway Scott Brill/GMAC Mortgage Shires Photography The Women’s Institute for Fort Lauderdale...... 954.566.8500 500 W Cypress Creek Rd Suite 190 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.523.4527 Incorporation Therapy Fort Lauderdale...... 954.771.4420 Hollywood Pavillion 1201 N 37th Ave TAILOR Summit Mortgage/John Iarussi PICTURE FRAMING Cassini Tailor Shop Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.567.2939 Hollywood ...... …...... … 954.962.1355 Budget Framer Transcontinental Lending Group 934 NE 20th Ave 263 E. Commercial Blvd. REAL ESTATE Mario Petri Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.5245 Lauderdale by the Sea……...... 954.267.9202 Bob Benson/Infante & Associates Fort Lauderdale...... 954.240.8090 TITLE COMPANIES PICTURE FRAMING [email protected] MOVING/STORAGE Fort Lauderdale...... 954.261.9956 All County Title Company Smith’s Picture Framing and Art Gallery th Always Moving (licensed/insured) Choiceone Realty/GMAC Real Estate 4875 N Federal Hwy 10 Floor 719 E. Broward Blvd. Know what your paying before you move. Guy Smith Fort Lauderdale.…...... …954.629.5525 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.462.4391 Flat Rate Fort Lauderdale...... 954.629.3700 TRANSLATORS Dade...... 305.650.9080 PLUMBING Coldwell Banker/Andy Weiser NationStorage, Inc. Rio Bravo Translations, John Chellino Akro Plumbing 2495 E. Commercial Blvd 812 NW 1st Street Miami…...... …...... … 305.576.0031 Miami...... 305.378.2504 Fort Lauderdale……...... 954.566.1015 Fort Lauderdale……...... ……954.525.4767 Coldwell Banker TRAVEL MUSEUMS POOL SERVICES Paul Nolan Island Mountain Travel Skimmer's Pools Service and Repair Fort Lauderdale...... 954.258.4654 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood 2852 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd. P.O. Box 70021 Oakland Park, FL 33307 1650 Harrison Street Coldwell Banker/Tim Singer Fort Lauderdale...... 800.622.4262 Broward County...... 954.938.0208 Realtor & Associates Hollywood…...... …...... …....954.921.3274 VETERINARIANS Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.1373 P.I. & DETECTIVE AGENCIES Capital Plaza Animal Hospital 1 E Las Olas Blvd Darrin Spardello Community Real Estate Intracoastal Detective Agency [email protected] 2372 N. Federal Hwy. Fort Lauderdale…...... …...954.525.5500 1511 E Commercial Blvd Palm Beach/WPB/Lake Worth...561.262.4780 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.537.3505 Fort Lauderdale…....…...... 954.564.5455 OFFICE EQUIPMENT Howard Elfman/Distinctive Homes Realty Dr. Vincent Guerrero, DVM Copyco PSYCHOTHERAPY & 1512 E Broward Blvd., Suite 201 “House Call Veterinarian” 1700S Powerline Rd. Suite H-I Fort Lauderdale…………...... 954.581.5334 COUNSELING Fort Lauderdale…………..…....954.764.4552 Deerfield Beach...... … 954.881.7013 Keyes/Todd Paulk M. Ross Seligson, Ph. D., PA (PY2686) WEB DESIGN & HOSTING 1520 E. Sunrise Blvd OPTICIANS Lic. Psychologist. Indiv. & Couples TForce Communications, Inc. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.523.0796 Downtown Opticians Psychotherapy. Design & Hosting, Training and Support Keyes Company/ Al Kuntz 800 Broward Blvd 915 Middle River Drive Suite 401 tforceonline.com 10101 S. Dixie Highway Fort Lauderdale……...... … 954.764.6962 Fort Lauderdale 33304...... 954.563.2800 South Florida...... 954.564.0782 Miami...... 305.596.3991 Dr. Jeffrey C. Hilton, O.D. Anita MacGregor, M.S., IMT.....954.254.2972 WEDDINGS Broward...... 954.524.9400 Asher Center - Couple Counseling Kim Garvy, Broker/Remax Consultants South Beach...... 305.534.0539 Dr. Jay Asher ...... 954.565.1901 1625 SE 17th Street Causeway Rev. Geri Posner, Interfaith Minister Dr. Carmine Pecoraro, Psy.D. & Assocs. Fort Lauderdale……...…….…...954.767.1166 Hollywood………...... 800.850.0358 PAINTING/WALLCOVERING Counseling, Evaluations & Psychological Testing Broward Boy’s Painters/ Jerry Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.2723 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.720.9605 Cora Wujceak, LCSW Do. It. Rite Wallcover + Painting 1909 N. Andrews Ave. Fort Lauderdale………...... 954.786.0287 Wilton Manors………...... 954.567.1008 Professional Interior Painting Bill Mears Diana Promuto, LCSW, ACSW Wilton Manors...... 954.309.4089 218 Commercial Blvd., Ste. 208M Professional Speedy Painting Gus Flores Lauderdale by the Sea...... 954.771.5040 Painting & general repair work around the house Eric Schoenfeld, PHD Psychologist Fort Lauderdale...... 954.540.9316 224 Datura St. Suite 402 Downtown West PalmBeach.....561.804.9595 PEST CONTROL John Marszalek, PhD, LMHC Harper Bros. Termite & Pest Control 1212 E Broward Blvd. Suite 204 2122 SW 60th Terr. Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.829.9480 Miramar ………...... … 954.983.4149 Joseph Munafo, MD Hugh Turner Pest Control, INC. Board Certified Psychiatrist 840 NW 33rd Street 1940 Harrison St. Oakland Park...... 954.564.0037 Hollywood...... 954.648.0232 Lisa C. Niebling Ph.D., LMHC, CST PETS 11388 Okeechobee Blvd. Brenda’s Birds Inc. Royal Palm Beach...... 561.798.2310 324 NE 3rd Ave. Mari Alschuler, LCSW, RPT Delray Beach…...... 561.278.5394 Hypnosis, Career Counseling, Journaling Dade & Broward ...... 954.243.5288 PET GROOMING Mark Rutherford, LCSW Rover the Rainbow West Palm Beach...... 561.835.6821 929 North Federal Hwy., (Sears Town) Robin Traiger, LCSW Fort Lauderdale...... 954.525.6988 2624 NW 6th Avenue Yuppy Puppy & Co. Show & Pet Grooming Wilton Manors...... 954.565.8650 Catering to those who want the Very Best! Michael G. Mele, LCSW, P.A. Coral Springs...... 954.753.7647 Fort Lauderdale.…...... 954.564.8997

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Photo by Steven Shires Photo by Steven Shires Derrick Henderson, Sen. Mandy Dawson, Michael Galvin and Johnathon Manto, a and Bill Rettinger day in the park

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Bill Mattax, president of the Wilton Manors Business Association is interviewed by Mike James of Field of Vision Media Group for Wilton Drive TV

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Matt and Paul Hugo at the Boardwalk John S. Lenhard of Sterling Limousine Services

Photo by Pompano Bill Photo by Pompano Bill Photo by Pompano Bill Photo by Pompano Bill 20 man jacuzzi at Elysium Gary Mercado, Elysium owner Joe Germain with Nork Tony Dee of Shubert Guest House

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