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local name global coverage October 12, 2016 vol. 7 // issue 41 south florida gay news COMFORT RETURNS Transgender conference returns to Fort Lauderdale Lexi Dee (left) with Richard Gray. Photo by Steven Shires. PAGES 38 - 40 ELECTION SEASON LGBT HISTORY MONTH IN FULL SWING DELVES INTO PAST STRUGGLES Pages 16 - 21 Pages 26 - 27, 30 - 36 SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS SOFLAGAYNEWS SFGN.COM Comments from SFgn’s SouthFloridaGayNews.com online outlets October 12, 2016 • Volume 7 • Issue 41 THE OPENING LINE Compiled by John McDonald 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Photos: Facebook, Twitter. Publisher • Norm Kent [email protected] NEO-NAZI WEBSITE DECLARES WAR ON Chief Executive Offi cer • Pier Angelo Guidugli Associate publisher / Executive Editor • BREITBART EDITOR MILO YIANNOPOULOS Jason Parsley [email protected] Editorial Art Director • Brendon Lies michael walters – [email protected] Girls, Girls, you’re BOTH racists! Yiannopolous is a scourge Designer • Charles Pratt on the LGBT community, and this sort of nastiness he’s Editorial Assistant • Jillian Melero [email protected] managed to bring on himself. The lunatics are starting to Webmaster • Brittany Ferrendi eat their own. Perhaps that’s the only way to rid society of [email protected] their nasty, hateful rhetoric is to let them have their cage Arts/Entertainment Editor • JW Arnold [email protected] match and see which ones crawl out of the slime pit when News Editor • John McDonald the bell rings. [email protected] Social Media Manager • Tucker Berardi [email protected] Food/Travel Editor • Rick Karlin tom Carlin – Gazette News Editor • Michael D'Oliveira It’s best when both parties wipe each other out and you just sit there eating Senior Photographer • J.R. Davis popcorn..... 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MUSIC DANCE and MORE Lexi Dee (left), President of the Southern Comfort Conference, with Richard Gray, the LGBTQ Managing themirrormag.com SouthFloridaGayNews.com THE 1 September 2016 GUIDE TO THE DRIVE 1 Director for the Greater Fort Lauderdale CVB. Photo by Steven Shires. Copyright © 2016 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 2 • 10.12.2016 NEWS highlight AMENDMENT ONE DEBATE POWERS UP John McDonald hances are you are beginning to Proponents of Amendment 1 include receive messages about Amendment 1. utility companies such as Florida Power C The fi rst constitutional amendment & Light, Duke Energy, Gulf Power and on the ballot this November in Florida Tampa Electric. In a mailer from a group deals with energy policy and solar power calling itself Consumers For Smart in particular. 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If you do both, call us. Kent & Cormican ISRAELI LEADER REMEMBERED Criminal Defense Law Center 954.763.1900 FOR COMMITMENT TO PEACE John McDonald Norman Elliott Kent & Russell Cormican 12 S.E. 7th Street, Suite 709 ributes continue to pour in for French President Francois Hollande said Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 departed Israel President & Prime Peres was an “ardent defender of peace and www.NormKent.com TMinister Shimon Peres, who passed on a faithful friend of France.” Wednesday. He was 93. Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize in “Shimon Peres led with unshakable 1994 for his role in the Oslo Accords, a set humility and a fi rm commitment to our of agreements between the government common humanity,” said Stuart Milk, Co- of Israel and the Palestine Liberation founder and President of the Harvey Milk Organization (PLO). Foundation. “An optimist and visionary, In one of his fi nal interviews with the President Peres worked tirelessly to heal press, Peres told Time Magazine the Oslo wounds and lay the foundation for peace, we Accords were a direct result of an ability have lost a giant among global leaders.” to persuade France to help build a nuclear A Nobel Prize winner, Peres was the last weapons facility in the Israeli city of of Israel’s living political leaders involved in Dimona. the founding of the Jewish state. He served “Dimona helped us achieve Oslo,” Peres as the ninth President of Israel from 2007- told the magazine. “Because many Arabs, 2014 and twice as Prime Minister. out of suspicion, came to the conclusion that “It is undeniably heartbreaking and poignant it’s very hard to destroy Israel because of it, that we have lost Shimon Peres as we approach because of their suspicion. Well, if the result the Jewish High Holidays, when the Jewish is Dimona, I think I was right.” people are introspective, working to renew “Shimon’s life traced his country’s our commitments to family, community, social extraordinary journey,” said U.S.