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arcelo Crivella, bishop of Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom Mof God, was elected Mayor of Rio de Janeiro last week with nearly 60 percent of the city’s vote. The right-wing politician also has an extensive record of anti-LGBT views, according to PinkNews. Photo taken during the production of a video In the past, Crivella has categorized that will be shown at the homosexuality as a sin, classifying it as a Fall Forum. Photo: Facebook. “terrible ail” in his book “Evangelizing Africa,” CNN reports. Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, Rio de Janeiro has traditionally been a believes that Crivella will prioritize religious progressive city, hosting the LGBT-centered rights over human rights, thus harming 6th AnnuAl FAll Forum Will Focus Carnival and Pride Parade every year, as well progress made for the LGBT community. as being home to the 2016 Summer Olympics “Check some of his recent speeches on — which had a record-breaking 55 out-LGBT homosexuality,” Terto told PRI. “You’ll see that on internAtionAl lGBt riGhts athletes. he says things like ‘homosexuality is OK, but Michael d’Oliveira Crivella’s win, however, has the city’s we cannot forbid the religious people to say activists worried about the future of LGBT that homosexuality is a sin, that it’s something rights. perverted, dirty, that should be condemned.’” omestic LGBT issues are still Advocates, and one of the panelists for the “I think he represents a very risky climate Queiroz, Terto and other activists in Rio fear that is going on and growing really fast in that AIDS and HIV funding and outreach could important and far from settled. But, Fall Forum, said his organization tries to Brazilian society,” lesbian activist Jindera be cut under the new administration, or that Dafter five years of highlighting them change hearts and minds in a more personal Queiroz told Public Radio International(PRI). police mistreatment of the LGBT community in at Our Fund’s Fall Forum, David Jobin, CEO and organic way. Veriano Terto, activist and researcher at the Rio will only get worse if left unchecked. and president of Our Fund, thought it was By helping to change the culture of time to shed some light on international corporations, Roth hopes to change the culture LGBT issues. of the countries where those corporations are “They’ve been incredibly interesting located. Governments may not listen to human conversations but I felt, after five years, we rights advocates, he said, but they are more were ready to kind of turn the page and talk inclined to listen to businesses. about different topics. Not just ones that are “Corporations have a unique and FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES? in our back yard. We can think a little more powerful platform to speak from.” But it’s globally. People are being thrown off roofs, not about applying financial pressure, such being put to death for being gay and lesbian.” as when PayPal cancelled plans to open Our Fund, an organization that seeks to an operations center in North Carolina unite LGBT donors with LGBT organizations, after that state passed its controversial will hold its 6th Annual Fall Forum, also transgender bathroom bill. “It’s more subtle CALL JEFF DEAN known as the National LGBT Leadership than financial pressure. The first step is for DEFENSE ATTORNEY Forum, on Monday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. at the companies to provide a safe and nurturing NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale. environment. Jobin said a lot of members of the LGBT It’s not something that’s going to happen community with the resources to help make necessarily overnight but eventually that DUI a positive impact on LGBT individuals abroad can help a [pro-LGBT] platform.” will be at the Fall Forum. “I would be happy Roth adds that rather than be the “ugly if we came away with a more informed, more Americans” and use “neo-colonialism” to try sympathetic audience about these issues.” and “tell people what to do” on LGBT rights Domestic Violence According to the United Nations, many from the outside, the key is to work with nations, mostly in North Africa and the existing LGBT rights groups from within Middle East, still punish LGBT individuals and assist them in their mission. “Partnering Sex O enses with either jail time or the death penalty. And with them so they can do their work.” in some nations, such as Russia, while LGBT Joining Roth on the panel are Nadine relationships have been decriminalized, Smith, CEO of Equality Florida; Angeline individuals still face a lot of cultural and Jackson, executive director of Quality of Drug Charges religious persecution for who they are. Citizenship Jamaica; Micheal Ighodaro, To counter that persecution and help Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention and change the culture, Steve Roth, director of Graeme Reid, director of LGBT Rights global initiatives, Out & Equal Workplace Program, Human Rights Watch. Miami O ce: (305) 777-3595 1200 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1950, Miami, FL 33131 Admission is free but space is limited. Fort Lauderdale O ce: (954) 204-3633 Register at Our-Fund.org/forum2016. 110 SE 6th Street, Suite 1700, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

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riests do not have to report sexual abuse discovered during confession, Louisiana PSupreme Court ruled on Oct. 28. The decision came after a 2014 case in which a woman claimed a Baton Rouge Catholic priest did not report when she told him a longtime church parishioner sexually abused her. 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Code Evid. 511, and the priest is exempt from “F mandatory reporter status in such circumstances Louisiana Children’s Code. of LGBT couples, will come to the Stonewall “I think (the project has) turned out to be by operation of La. Child. Code art. 603, because A statement delivered Friday by The Baton National Museum beginning on Friday, Nov. a very historical document,” Proud spoke ‘under the … tenets of the [Roman Catholic] Rouge Diocese announced it was pleased by 10 through Dec. 11. of the project and book. The signifi cance church’ he has an inviolable ‘duty to keep such “the Louisiana Supreme Court’s recent opinion, Barbara Proud — known as B. Proud for comes from the people involved — both communications confi dential,’” the court ruled. which affi rms the sanctity of the Sacrament of short — created the project following the of the couples from the Proposition 8 case In other words, priests are not considered Reconciliation.” passage of Proposition 8, which took away agreed to become a part of the project. In the right for same-sex couples to marry in addition, the fi rst same-sex couples married California. in Washington D.C. and Delaware also “I began a quest that would celebrate participated. the long-term relationships in the LGBTQ Proud hopes in the future her exhibit “to community, the ‘marriages’ that in essence be in more public places like airports, so but not in rights, already exist,” said B. people outside of the community can see it.” Proud. “Recently, my work has taken a new As for other projects, Proud hopes she route, one of social documentary, as I seek to can create a series on trans couples. 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Scott Lively, evangelist. us pastor to Ask Judge to reject Photo Credit: Tim Pierce. uganda Anti-Gay lawsuit

(AP) A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. An East African gay advocacy group fi led the lawsuit in 2012 against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to fi le U.S. court actions for violations of international law. Lively’s Springfi eld church is known as Redemption Gate Mission Society. He has called the lawsuit “absurd” and “completely frivolous.” Lively said he has preached against homosexuality, but advised therapy, not punishment. The New York-based group Center for Constitutional Rights fi led the suit on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda. A hearing will be held Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Springfi eld on Lively’s request for summary judgment to keep the case from going to trial.

interests and behaviors, while ignoring that intolerance and INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL discrimination regrettably exist in various parts of the world, be it on the basis of color, race, sex or religion, to mention een moroccan Girls may Face frican nations seek to Get rid of 1st only a few.” tthree years Jail for kissing Aun lGBt expert (SFGN) Just sharing a kiss in Morocco is enough to land (AP) African nations are seeking to initially suspend and INTERNATIONAL you hard time. then get rid of the fi rst U.N. independent expert charged with Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code states that “any investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual person who ‘commits a lewd and unnatural act’ with an orientation and gender identity. omania: political dispute over individual of the same sex may be sentenced to six months Botswana’s U.N. Ambassador Charles Ntwaagae said Friday Anti-Gay-marriage referendum to three years of imprisonment.” that African nations want the General Assembly to delay r(AP) The leader of Romania’s biggest party has asked Due to this article, two teenage girls ages 16 and 17 must consideration of a Human Rights Council resolution adopted two colleagues to withdraw a bill calling for an anti-gay- stand trial for being caught in public displays of aff ection on June 30 that authorized the appointment of an expert to marriage referendum to be organized on the same day as on a roof, Omar Arbib of the Moroccan Association of monitor LGBT rights in order to discuss “the legality of the parliamentary elections. Human Rights reports to CNN Arabic. The Association will creation of this mandate.” Two Social Democratic Party senators submitted a draft send a lawyer to represent the girls in trial. Ntwaagae told the 193-member world body that a General bill to Senate Thursday, calling for a referendum on changing CNN also reports that the 17-year-old girl’s mother Assembly resolution introduced by African nations seeking the constitution to specify that marriage is a union between visited her in the adult wing of the prison and learned that a delay also calls for suspending the activities of the fi rst a man and a woman. The initiative is backed by a petition the teenager was “mistreated by other prisoners.” expert, Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand, who was appointed signed by almost 3 million people who fear Romania may Arbib calls for Article 489 to be abolished. on Sept. 30, pending a determination of the legality. legalize same-sex marriage. “Individuals cannot be punished based on their sexual The assembly is expected to vote on the African resolution Liviu Dragnea, chairman of the Social Democrats, said inclination,” he said. on Tuesday. Friday the two issues should not be mixed. The Moroccan Association of Human Rights isn’t alone in The Human Rights Council resolution establishing If Parliament approves the bill in 2 weeks, there will wanting to help the teenagers. The Alternative Movement the LGBT expert was adopted by a vote of 23-18 with 6 be a referendum on Dec. 11, together with parliamentary for Individual Liberties protested their arrest by publishing abstentions, reﬂ ecting the deep divisions internationally on elections. The current constitution says marriage is an act a photo with the group founders. The photo caption reads: gay rights. between spouses. “We are heterosexual and we support LGBT rights.” The U.N. has worked to improve the rights of the LGBT community in recent years but has repeatedly run into opposition from some member states - especially from countries in the Middle East and Africa as well as China and Russia. According to a U.N. human rights report last year, at least 76 countries retain laws used to criminalize and harass people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, including laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relationships among adults. Ntwaagae said African nations “are alarmed” that the Bucharest, Human Rights Council is delving into national matters and Romania. attempting to focus on people “on the grounds of their sexual

10 • 11.10.2016 NEWS national lGBtQ tAsk Force sides With stAndinG rock John McDonald

he National LGBTQ Task Force has jumped into the fray over the Dakota Access oil Tpipeline. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Standing Rock pipeline project and to stop the the Task Force is asking President Obama to project entirely — and commit to preserving all stop construction of the pipeline on sacred sacred Native American lands,” said Rea Carey, Native American lands. Tensions have reached National LGBTQ Task Force Executive Director, a boiling point as police and protesters clash in a news release. over the pipeline’s route through Standing Rock Speaking at a campaign rally in Ohio on Reservation. Tuesday, Obama told CNN, “As a general rule, my On Wednesday, the Task Force released the view is that there is a way for us to accommodate following statement: sacred lands of Native Americans, and I think “We proudly join LGBTQ advocates across that right now the Army Corps is examining the country in celebrating the rich history and whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline,” culture of First Americans. We’d also like to adding his plan is to “let it play out for several take this opportunity to express our solidarity more weeks” before coming to a final conclusion. with our Native American family, friends and Elsewhere, the Task Force is putting final community who are taking action to protect preparations together for its annual Miami drinking water against contamination in North Gala. Staged Nov. 19 at the Fontainebleau Miami Dakota. For generations, Native American Beach, the gala, now in its 20th year, will feature communities have been marginalized, stripped a performance by Tony Award winning actress of their land, forced to relocate, and denied Beth Malone. fairness and justice. We urge the President For more information, visit taskforcegala.org to go beyond his welcomed re-routing of the

NEWS local Wilton mAnors BAnk roBBer still At lArGe John McDonald

bank robber remains at large as authorities Aseek tips leading to an arrest. On Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a photograph of a bank robbery at Wells Fargo, 2520 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. The robbery occurred at 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 2. The robber, investigators say, entered the bank and demanded money from a bank employee.

Anyone with information as to the identity of the bank robber is urged to contact the FBI at 754-703-2000 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

11.10.2016 • 11 LGBTQIA bites Compiled by Jillian Melero l lesbian B Bisexual study: more GAy chArActers on tv, But nc house memBer comes lesBiAn/Bi Women keep GettinG killed oFF out As BisexuAl

(AP) A record number of gay characters are (AP) A North Carolina House member featured on broadcast series, but small-screen says he’s making public his bisexuality shows overall can be deadly for the female so people know members of the LGBT ones, according to a study released Thursday. community remain in the General More than 25 lesbian and bisexual female Assembly and will keep speaking up characters died on scripted broadcast, cable against discrimination. and streaming series this year, the media Democratic Rep. Cecil Brockman of advocacy group GLAAD found in its report on Guilford County told the News & Record small-screen diversity. of Greensboro (http://bit.ly/2elrPho) While TV remains far ahead of fi lm in gay For its annual report titled “Where We of his decision to come out. Brockman representations, the medium “failed queer Are on TV,” researchers tallied the LGBTQ is a fi rst-term legislator who faces no women this year” by continuing the “harmful characters seen or set to be portrayed in the opposition next week for a second two- ‘bury your gays’ trope,” the report said. period from June 2016 to May 2017. Counts year term. The violent deaths included characters were based on series airing or announced The only other openly gay member Poussey Washington (played by Samira Wiley and for which casting has been confi rmed. - Guilford County Rep. Chris Sgro - is on “Orange is the New Black”) and Bea Smith The study, which in 2005 began stepping down at the end of the year. (Danielle Cormack on “Wentworth”). examining other aspects of diversity on TV, Sgro leads the gay-rights group Equality It’s part of a decade-long pattern in which found record percentages of people of color North Carolina and was appointed last gay or transgender characters are killed to and people with disabilities depicted on spring largely to oppose the law limiting further a straight character’s storyline, GLAAD broadcast shows. LGBT rights known as House Bill 2. said, sending what it called the “dangerous” For full results, visit www.GLAAD.org/ Brockman voted against the law last Democratic Rep. Cecil Brockman. message that gay people are disposable. WhereWeAreOnTV16. March.

12 • 11.10.2016 LGBTQIA bites continued transgender t Attorney: chelseA mAnninG AGAin Attempts suicide in prison

(AP) Chelsea Manning attempted suicide for the second time in recent months while the transgender soldier remains imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classifi ed information, two of her attorneys said Friday. Manning’s attorneys, Vincent Ward and Chase Strangio, cited her prison conditions - Chelsea Manning. including the solitary confi nement that her legal team says she received as punishment Manning, arrested in 2010 was convicted for her July suicide attempt - as contributing to in 2013 in military court of leaking more their client’s fragile mental state. than 700,000 secret military and State Strangio, in an email to The Associated Press, Department documents to WikiLeaks. wrote Manning was an intelligence analyst in “After her July suicide attempt, I watched her Iraq at the time. begin to piece her life and spirit back together In 2014, the ACLU sued the U.S. only to have that shattered by the disciplinary Department of Defense over its refusal to proceedings brought against her and then treat Manning’s gender dysphoria. the unannounced initiation of her term of Manning staged a several-day hunger punishment last month,” Strangio wrote. “She strike in September until the Army agreed to has repeatedly been punished for trying to get her treatment for her gender dysphoria, survive and now is being repeatedly punished including surgery recommended in April for trying to die.” by her psychologist, the ACLU said.

11.10.2016 • 13 NEWS national Quist – Queer history With A tWist App encourages you to add more history dates Denise Royal

GBT History Month may be over but with The day or a few times a week to see the historical tidbits,” says Users can also contribute historical content to the Quist Quist app it’s LGBT history every day. The app Sarah Prager, Founder and Executive Director of Quist. app. Both historical events and notable locations can be Lis empowering people to explore and educate While the app is filled with many important facts and added by emailing [email protected] information can be themselves about LGBT history and historical sites. figures, they are far from a complete, definitive accounting entered at QuistApp.com/submit-event. Quist contains resources including a list of LGBT history of LGBT history. “There are a few reasons for that,” In South Florida, there are a few areas highlighted for online resources and a calendar of LBGTQ history events. explains Prager. “One is that we feature history of national their unique relevance in LGBT history. Among them – the Quist launched mid-2013, has been downloaded to more and international significance, so some local information Miami-Dade County Courthouse where Commissioner than 27,000 devices in 112 countries. It is available on the doesn’t make it in. The date of the first pride parade for Ruth Shack sponsored a human rights ordinance to majority of tablets and smartphones worldwide. On an every town in the world isn’t listed, for example. Then prohibit discrimination on the basis of homosexuality in average day, 300 unique users will visit the app, 9 percent we also have the restriction of being an all-volunteer 1976 and the World AIDS Museum in Wilton Manors. A of them for the first time. organization. We can only enter as much as we have the half dozen other South Florida locations are expected to be “Most users engage with us by checking the app every people-power for.” added soon.

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11.10.2016 • 19 ELECTION • the results are in trump deFies the odds, Wins the White house

Clinton supporters gathered at Clinton Street and President Street to watch election night unfold in New York. Photo: Hannah Long-Higgins.

By Lisa Keen Keen News Service

or a brief period of time Tuesday evening, it looked In other election news Tuesday night: Following the news of Clinton’s concession call to like heavily LGBT Broward County, Florida, might Trump, lesbian news commentator Rachel Maddow of Fgive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary • Democrats failed to win enough U.S. Senate seats MSNBC said, “it’s hard to overstate the political import Clinton the boost she needed to win that state’s critical to take over as the majority there, leaving Republicans of what this is. 29 electoral votes. If it had, the race would have been over. in charge of the White House and both houses of “Our country is about to face some serious crises, and It didn’t happen. Congress. Democrats did pick up two seats in the so buckle up, your country needs you,” said Maddow. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Senate, both supporters of equal rights for LGBT people: Trump took to the stage at his rally in New York City won the state with 49.1 percent of the vote to Clinton’s U.S. Rep Tammy Duckworth defeated incumbent at 2:54 a.m. 47.7 percent. And by 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, the New Republican Mark Kirk. LGBT community support was Reading from a teleprompter, Trump said the country York Times and some other media were projecting that split in that race, with the Human Rights Campaign owes Clinton a debt of gratitude for her service to the Trump had won the White House after apparently taking backing Kirk and other groups supporting Duckworth. country. Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes. Shortly thereafter And Democrat state Attorney General Catherine Masto “It is time for us to come together as one united CNN reported that Clinton had called Trump and won retiring Democrat Harry Reid’s seat for Nevada. people,” said Trump. “I pledge to every citizen of our conceded the election. land that I will be a president for all Americans and this The news defied nearly every poll prediction in the • North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who led is so important to me.” run-up to the November 8 election and dramatically that state’s efforts to pass the anti-LGBT law HB2 this “To those who have chosen not to support me in the altered the political landscape for LGBT rights in the year, appeared to have lost his bid for re-election. past,” he said he would “work together and unify our United States. Democrat Roy Cooper was 4,480 votes ahead of him great country.” Although Trump was to some the “most pro-gay” at 3 a.m. Republican presidential nominee ever, he has promised to name an Antonin Scalia-type justice to the U.S. • Oregon elected the nation’s ﬁ rst ever openly LGBT Supreme Court who can undo marriage equality. He has governor. Kate Brown, who assumed ofﬁ ce following a “ouR counTRy is abouT To promised to reverse “all” President Obama’s executive scandal involving the previous governor, won election Face some seRious cRises, orders, several of which have increased protections for in her own right Tuesday night, earning 51 percent of LGBT people. And he has urging allowing individual the vote; and, and so buckle up, youR states decide what rights LGBT people can enjoy. Exit polls conducted by the major television networks • The six openly LGBT incumbent members of the counTRy needs you." and Associated Press indicated that one in five voters U.S. House won re-election Tuesday night but none of said the U.S. Supreme Court was their top priority in the 12 other LGBT candidates for Congress –two for the - Rachel Maddow, MSNBC choosing a president. Senate and 10 for the House—won.

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As he left the stage, his campaign prompted by the success the independent played one of his most common theme candidate, Evan McMullin, was having in songs, the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t drawing votes away from Trump in Utah, Always Get What You Want.” potentially costing Trump six electoral By 3 a.m., Trump had 279 electoral votes. votes to Clinton’s 218. It takes 270 to win. According to media reports, the robo- Trump reached that goal by winning call said: “Evan has two mommies. His Wisconsin, a state many expected would mother is a lesbian, married to another go for Clinton. woman. Evan is okay with that. Indeed, In the final days of the campaign, Evan supports the Supreme Court ruling Clinton worked hard to get out the legalizing gay marriage. Evan is over 40 LGBT vote. During a campaign stop in years old and is not married and doesn’t heavily gay Wilton Manors, Florida, she even have a girlfriend. I believe Evan is a promised to call on Congress to pass closet homosexual. Don’t vote for Evan the Equality Act, work to achieve an McMullin. Vote for Donald Trump.” AIDS-free generation, “end the harmful (McMullin has said he loves his practice of the so-called conversion mother “very much” but believes in therapy,” and take on homelessness, “traditional marriage.”) bullying, and violence against LGBT In 2012, 76 percent of LGBT voters youth. She also promised to push for supported Democratic President gun control “so that what happened in Barack Obama, 22 percent supported Orlando can never happen again.” Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Exit Trump’s campaign issued a statement poll data late Tuesday night indicated to “strongly condemn” the anti- the vote breakdown in this election was gay activities of a white nationalist essentially the same for the Democrat, supporter, William Johnson, from Los with 78 percent voting for Clinton. But Angeles. Johnson funded a robo-call only 14 percent voted for the Republican in Utah October 31, calling an obscure Trump. Previously, the lowest support independent presidential candidate a from the LGBT community for a “closet homosexual.” Republican presidential candidate was Johnson’s robo-call was apparently 19 percent in 2008 for John McCain.

Trump and Pence. Photo: CNN.

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oters in Oakland Park returned Mayor Tim Lonergan and Commissioner VSara Guevrekian to offi ce and elected newcomer Matthew Sparks. Lonergan collected the most votes in the nine candidate fi eld with 4,353 votes. Guevrekian tallied 4,120 and Sparks got 3,645. Kent & Cormican “I am grateful that the voters of Oakland Park have placed their trust in me,” said Criminal Defense Law Center Lonergan in a telephone conversation with Mayor Tim Lonergan. SFGN late Tuesday evening. Photo: Facebook. Lonergan, a gay man, was endorsed by the 954.763.1900 Sun-Sentinel, Broward County AFL-CIO and Mitchell-Stollberg-Appleyard (2,083) and Dolphin Democrats among other groups. He Mitch Rosenwald (1,426). Herman, Stollberg- campaigned on improving Oakland Park’s Appleyard and Rosenwald are openly gay. Norman Elliott Kent & Russell Cormican “aff ordability, desirability, safety and quality A total of 28,369 people voted in Oakland 12 S.E. 7th Street, Suite 709 of life.” Park’s 16 precincts. While he returns to the Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Rounding out the fi eld were: Steven R. Arnst commission, Lonergan rotates out of the www.NormKent.com (3,628), Scott Herman (3,620), John Michael mayor’s seat and John Adornato III rotates in. Perez (3,226), Curletha D. Campbell (2,268), Both men are gay and married.

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lorida Representative David Celebrating the duo wins, the Victory Richardson survived an 11-hour Fund released the following statement: Fattack from his opponent to win re- “Florida increased its representation in election to the House of Representatives. the state legislature Tuesday night with With 42 of 43 precincts reporting in the election of Carlos Guillermo Smith district 113, Richardson collected 30,249 and the re-election of David Richardson. votes to 16,577 for challenger Jonathan Just fi ve months ago LGBT people were H. Parker. In the run-up targeted in the deadliest to the election, Parker mass shooting in U.S. had accused Richardson "i am honoRed To history, and these openly of being an “invisible” haVe such incRedible LGBT leaders were elected representative. on platforms of common “Our four year journey suppoRT in my sense gun violence continues,” said Richardson communiTy, buT prevention and advancing in a telephone conversation also glad ThaT my equality for all Floridians. with SFGN late Tuesday sTaTus as an openly Carlos and David will be evening from the Hotel gay man does noT critical LGBT voices in the Gaythering in Miami Beach. aFFecT my abiliTy state legislature, and are “I am honored to have such laying the foundation for incredible support in my To seRVe all oF The long-term LGBT political community, but also glad consTiTuenTs oF power in the state,” said that my status as an openly house disTRicT 113." Victory Fund President & gay man does not aff ect CEO Aisha C. Moodie-Mills. my ability to serve all of - David Richardson Both men are Democrats. the constituents of house Another gay Democrat, district 113.” Ken Keechl, was not so lucky. The Wilton Richardson will be joined in Tallahassee’s Manors attorney could not knock off lower chamber next session by another incumbent Representative George Moraitis, openly gay representative. Carlos Guillermo a Fort Lauderdale Republican. Moraitis Smith easily won his fi rst campaign for the won the district 93 seat with 43,951 votes to state house in Orlando’s district 49. 37,691 for Keechl.

11.10.2016 • 23 ELECTION • lgbt vote ELECTION • policies FloridA ‘GAyBorhoods’ vote heAvily in medicAl mAriJuAnA Approved FAvor oF clinton, most Amendments Solar-Energy Amendment Defeated Michael d’Oliveira Dan Sweeney Sun-Sentinel

n heavily LGBT and Democratic Wilton Manors, Oakland Park and Miami ith the passage of Amendment 2, the IShores, voters overwhelmingly voted for clock begins ticking this January for the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and U.S. WFlorida Department of Health, which Senate candidate Patrick Murphy. But even has six months from then to come up with with levels of support ranging from 60 to 70 to regulations governing Florida’s new medical 80 percent depending on the precinct, it wasn’t marijuana industry. enough to give those candidates the offi ce they The amendment had 71 percent of the vote, sought. Statewide, all the amendments passed with 60 percent needed to pass. Support was except for Amendment 1, which dealt with solar especially strong in Broward and Palm Beach energy. counties, where 75 percent of voters approved. In all three cities, which have the highest medical marijuana; Amendment 3, tax relief for It was a big comeback from 2014, when percentage of same-sex households in the state, disabled fi rst responders, and Amendment 5, a similar amendment failed to pass with 58 similar percentages were reported for most of the homestead tax exemption for seniors. percent of the vote. constitutional amendments. Voters in Wilton Wilton Manors resident Angel Duarte was Amendment 2 will allow marijuana use for Manors and Miami Shores overwhelmingly one of those in the minority on the homestead people with cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV/ voted “No” on Amendment 1. Only one precinct exemption for seniors. He supported the tax AIDS, PTSD, Crohn’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, in Miami Shores voted “Yes” on Amendment 1 relief for fi rst responders but not for seniors. ALS, multiple sclerosis “or other debilitating • Amendment 5, which clears up the language of a and it was only by a razor thin margin of 50.76 “Old age is just subsequent to life. Seniors get medical conditions of the same kind or class.” previous amendment giving a tax break to low-income to 49.24. But in most Oakland Park precincts, enough [help] already.” That “kind or class” language, meant to further seniors who have lived in the same property for at Amendment 1 either barely passed or barely On the solar issue, Wilton Manors resident limit who qualifi es for marijuana, was one of least 25 years. The tax break comes in on a property failed. Maya Sanchez also was in the minority. She three major changes proponents of Amendment worth less than $250,000, but it could have gone away But voters in the three cities were more similar voted yes. “I just felt like people should be able 2 made when crafting this year’s language. if the property’s value increased above that limit. This in their approval of Amendment 2 in favor of to choose their own energy source.” They also specifi cally required parental amendment changes that so that the tax break is on consent in the amendment language, one of the the value of the property at the time the senior citizen primary points of contention in 2014, despite applies for the tax break, and is not tied to rising and the fact that non-emergency medical treatment falling housing prices. The amendment passed with 78 requires parental consent. percent of the vote. This year’s ballot language also allows the state to limit the amount of patients a caregiver With passage of Amendment 2, the Florida can tend to at any one time. Allowing people Department of Health now has six months to other than patients to pick up the marijuana and create regulations for the new marijuana industry, deliver it is necessary because many of those including procedures for issuing marijuana who qualify are unable to get the marijuana patient cards, establishing qualifi cations for themselves. In 2014, another criticism was that caregivers, registering dispensaries and deciding the unlimited amount of patients per caregiver on what a proper dosage of pot is for any of the would mean drug dealers would become qualifying ailments. “caregivers” to sell their product. If the department does not create these Amendment 2 was one of four amendments regulations in six months, the ballot language Floridians considered this November, along allows any citizen of Florida to sue the with numbers 1, 3 and 5. Amendment 4, which department and get the courts to force the mandates that solar-energy equipment not be department to issue rules. counted toward any property’s value in terms Along with the required regulations from of property tax, was a rare primary-election the health department, it’s likely that the state initiative. The state Legislature moved it to Legislature will also pass laws regulating medical August to avoid confusion with another solar- marijuana in the upcoming legislative session in energy amendment. Of the remaining three: March, though it’s too soon to say what precisely lawmakers will do. • Amendment 1, a controversial solar-energy And the health department already has a head amendment that guaranteed Floridians the right to start thanks to the legislature. Two years ago, use solar energy, but also could have opened the the state Legislature passed a limited medical door to limiting net metering in the state, failed to marijuana law that allowed people with cancer, pass, garnering only 51 percent of the vote. By Nov. epilepsy and severe muscle spasms to receive 8, it had become the most expensive constitutional non-euphoric strains of medical marijuana in amendment campaign in Florida history, with more non-smokeable form. than $26 million raised by Consumers for Smart Solar, Some of the rules put in place in the wake of the group backing the amendment, most of it from that law’s passage could be carried over now, Florida’s utility companies. but other parts of that law may have to change. For example, the law limited the amount of • Amendment 3, which will allow the Legislature dispensaries to just fi ve — there are six after a to pass legislation waiving property taxes for ﬁ rst lawsuit allowed one more — and it’s unlikely responders who are permanently and fully disabled in those will be enough to respond to demand the line of duty, passed with 84 percent of the vote. under the new constitutional amendment.

24 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 25 ConviCtions publisher's editorial i Believe in tomorroW Norm Kent [email protected]

went out on a limb the other day and African American precincts. But it symbolized predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the something greater. It demonstrated that there Ielection. is an American divide which is particular and I had a hint things were headed in our pronounced, emerging, not diminishing. There direction. Early returns from some graveyards in are too many unhappy people at both sides of key Chicago precincts favored Hillary 2 to 1. I just the political spectrum., felt that angry white guys in the suburbs could Many of us just feel that we are not getting a not overcome that advantage. fair shake. We don’t have the faith we once had I wasn’t as sure as my words. I wasn’t as in the basic institutions which are supposed to confident as I sounded. But I wanted to defend protect and serve us, whether it’s a cop on the the ‘blue’ wall; hold the fort. I wanted to give the corner or a tag agency mailing you a new license impression of a winner who had already won- plate. We just don’t trust that our government because if you think you are beaten, you have can efficiently do what it is supposed to do, already lost. regardless of your political party. Trump’s I believed in America though. I believe we overwhelming majorities in suburban embrace rights and expand communities are testimony to protections. I believe we build the same. bridges not walls. I believe we The Republican This could have been a support the future not fears . I celebratory contest, where believe in vision not vitriol. nominee America, 96 years after granting Either way, elections are puRposely women the right to vote, proudly not unlike erections. When poisoned chose one as their commander you have them, someone gets The debaTe, in chief. We could have had a screwed. Honestly though, the debate of ideas and issues, on competitive candidacies of both knowingly and matters, as the Little Prince Bernie Sanders and Donald inTenTionally once dreamed, of consequence. Trump demonstrated early on TRying To skiRT Trump’s candidacy destroyed this year how angry today so The issues and that chance. many Americans are, regardless It was warming that so many of their status or class, religion insTead skeweR people left ‘I voted’ stickers by or race. his opponenT Susan B. Anthony’s grave. It’s a While Sanders could not get peRsonally. greater warning that one of the by the Democratic machine, most popular stickers on social Trump crushed the Republican media read ‘I vomited.’ That’s establishment. He defied logic, odds, even not surprising. sensibility, and chewed up and spit out 16 The Republican nominee purposely poisoned reasonably respected politicians, from sitting the debate, knowingly and intentionally trying governors to US senators. It changes the game to skirt the issues and instead skewer his forever. It means national celebrity, and a lot of opponent personally. money, not a political party, can seed a run for He did so wrongly, forever staining his name office. Make way for Oprah. and place in American politics. You see, he may How did a billionaire living a gilded existence tweet his way through life today, but he won’t became a populist representing the working get to change the libel laws or govern what class? Simple, really. He respected no one, historians record tomorrow. He can’t recall his attacked everyone, and whether it was the pope ugly words or repulsive comments. They are cast or the president, they all became fair game. And into the waters of history. his audience loved it. He was like a radio host Politics has never been for the thin skinned. sitting with his microphone, tweeting away the It has always been brutal, often personal, and Publisher Norm Kent had a foreboding sense of day, driving the world crazy with his stunning always adversarial. Ms. Clinton never expected bluntness. anything else. She was the First Lady when gloom about the outcome of this week’s election. The early returns which should have scared Republicans tried to unsuccessfully impeach her Read his July 27, 2016 editorial, ‘There Is Too Much Clinton were the surge in suburban white husband. of 1968 in 2016’ at http://bit.ly/2fflkkh voters and the decline in voters at urban How did that work out by the way? Most

26 • 11.10.2016 ConviCtions publisher's editorial people voting today probably don’t even restore justice to a corrupt system that he is remember. Our country has endured standing up to, for you. Not true ? He could nevertheless. We always do, because our care less. It was a lie that worked, and that constitution is greater than any officeholder. will motivate future contestants. They just rent space. You see, the real losers this year are the To become the interim tenant at 1600 American people. The legitimacy of our Pennsylvania Avenue, Mr. Trump knew electoral process has been compromised. he had to shift the debate away from the The bar for future candidates has been selection of the first woman president. reduced. The credibility of our two party So his opponent became ‘corrupt’ and system has been diminished. The integrity ‘crooked.’ Proof? Unnecessary. Credible? of our ‘one man one vote’ process has been Inconsequential. challenged. Our nation will be wounded, but Make things up. Throw enough mud we will survive that too. against the wall and something will stuck. I look forward to the next four years, and He does not need the Republican party. He the future of our country. I am confident had the American people. He was draining our economy will improve, technology will the swamp, and with a simple tweet he could advance, and health care will improve. I reach them all. don’t see disasters or calamity. I see diversity Mr. Trump’s purposeful threats that he and unity. would not authenticate the election because I see our lives immersed in the community the contest was ‘rigged’ and ‘fixed’ was not and our rights protected by our laws. I see only not sustainable, even his own party a melting pot of Hispanics taking a greater leaders would have to repudiate it. In fact, part in our cities and no walls being built many distanced themselves from it, playing to separate us, but bridges to unite us. I see right into Trump’s hands. citizens cultivating partnerships, not sowing How better to be a crusader and divisions. independent outsider than trashing even I see a world where terrorism will recede people in your own party and supposedly on and righteousness will rise. I see a planet your side? Principles? Meaningless. Policy? where climate change will be addressed and Purposeless. our environment guarded. I see light and If you were Donald Trump, It’s about rainbows, not darkness or despair. This is winning, even if you lose. Perception how I live my life, and its how I encourage becomes reality. What’s better proof about you to live yours. No matter who is president how badly the system is rigged if it can or who has the nuclear codes, I have to even sabotage a billionaire? ‘If the corrupt believe reason will prevail. system can beat me, with all my money, We have had good presidents and bad can you imagine what they can do to you?,’ presidents. Regardless, Americans endured, he said. You weren’t voting for the rich kid enriched ourselves, and carried on- despite who gropes women abusively or insults differences or divisions. So will we now. his adversaries meanly. You were voting to

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11.10.2016 • 27 ConviCtions if you could read my mind: A ptsd diary

David-Elijah Nahmod i Am sylviA f time travel were possible, I would go back to the early 1960s Iand give Sylvia a hug. Sylvia was a short, strange looking clearly see and hear what we were doing, yet (to my young eyes) woman who would they made no move to stop us. sit in the park across the street from the This went on for several days. Sylvia soon elementary school I attended. I now stopped coming to the park. realize that she was mentally impaired, One day, as our teachers led us down Bay which I was incapable of understanding as Parkway in Brooklyn towards the park, we a young lad in the second and third grades. spotted Sylvia across the street. “Look! It’s the Sylvia was a sweet, gentle woman. She retard!” we shouted, laughing uproariously always smiled at us kids and said hello at our own childish ignorance. “Hey, Sylvia, when our teachers brought us to the park you’re a retard!” for recess. For the fi rst and only time, we got a All that changed one day, when one of reaction. “Drop dead!” Sylvia screamed as her my classmates called Sylvia a “retard,” eyes fl ooded with tears. “Leave me alone!” laughing uproariously as he did so. Our maniacal laughter reached a fever pitch, from adults. In 2010 I was nearly driven do people still not know how to treat each Within seconds, the whole class joined and still our teachers did nothing. I never saw to suicide after a series of gay and lesbian other? Where is our compassion for each in, tormenting this poor woman who had Sylvia again. bloggers infl amed anti-gay and anti-Semitic other? Where is our humanity? done us no wrong. Our teachers sat nearby, Now, a half-century later, I can no longer hate against me for nothing more than a I regret few things more than how we kids talking among themselves. They could remember what Sylvia looks like. I seem to cheap laugh. Gay advocacy groups called me treated Sylvia on that blustery Brooklyn day recall that she was middle aged. I imagine an anti-gay bigot when I asked for their help those many years ago. My own eyes well up that she’s long dead by now. I barely gave her in putting a stop to this. with tears as I recall the tears streaming down a second thought after that last time I saw her, Fifty years after we kids tormented Sylvia to her cheeks. I can only hope that Sylvia had a sylVia was a sweeT, or for many years thereafter--so what has me the point of tears, nothing has changed. good life after I last saw her. genTle woman. she thinking about her now? Why didn’t our teachers stop us? Why Mostly, I hope that we as Americans, will Today, in 2016, I am Sylvia. I’m a middle didn’t they teach us the diff erence between one day take an honest look in the nearest always smiled aT us aged gay man who survived a childhood right from wrong? Why, after all these years, mirror. kids and said hello riddled with abuse from my own parents, which caused me to develop a fairly intense when ouR TeacheRs case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over David-Elijah Nahmod is an American/Israeli half-breed who has lived in New York bRoughT us To The the years I’ve had severe manic episodes, City and Tel Aviv. Currently in San Francisco, his eclectic writing career includes nightmares, fl ashbacks, and blackouts which LGBT publications, SF Weekly & monster magazines. A survivor of childhood gay paRk FoR Recess. I can barely remember. Through it all I’ve conversion therapy, he lives with PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. endured public ridicule not from kids, but

28 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 29 LIFESTYLE history Queer plAces

New historical tome tells us where our ancestors lived and died

David-Elijah Nahmod

lisa Rolle is an historian who has done 19th and 18th centuries – and much further her sight and hearing, and where she fi rst forced to live closeted lives during their her homework. The openly lesbian back – to revisit the lives of people who were met Sullivan, the author once again recounts earthly sojourns. Ewriter and editor is authoring a series known or believed to have been LGBT. the story of their relationship. Rolle then Rolle doesn’t forget the sunshine state of books which document the history of That book was a fascinating read which continues onward, letting us know where either. She opens the Florida section of Queer culture and the people who made that off ered a few startling surprises, such as other Queer Alabamians lived, and where Queer Places by naming the state’s gay culture happen. the inclusion of blind/deaf author/educator LGBT people can go to fi nd other Queers villages: Key West, South Beach, and even Her 2014 book “Days of Love: Celebrating Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, the woman when visiting the state. Wilton Manors, home of SFGN. Readers will LGBT History One Story At A Time,” who taught Keller how to read braille and to Later on in the book, in the section be taken to the various Key West Homes chronicles the lives and loves of those who communicate. Other than Sullivan’s short devoted to Washington DC, Rolle shows us of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) the came before us. With that book, Rolle took us lived, failed marriage in 1905, she and Keller where Keller and her “lifelong companion acclaimed playwright who wrote Southern on a journey back in time, across the 20th, lived together exclusively for 49 years. Is it Annie Sullivan” rest together at the National Gothic tales of madness, which were often really a stretch to believe that they may have Cathedral. infused with less than subtle references to loved each other? Rolle divides the book state by state. homosexuality. Williams’ success was all In Rolle’s latest book “Queer Places: Countless LGBT lives are remembered as we the more impressive when we realize that he counTless lgbT liVes Retracing the Steps of LGBTQ People Around visit the places where each of them lived, lived an openly gay life as early as the 1940s. the World,” Volume 1, Rolle serves as our worked and died. Hundreds of historical Rolle then takes us on a street by street aRe RemembeRed as travel agent, taking us on a trip to all fi fty photographs are included. tour of the Island city, showing us where we VisiT The places states. Rolle is our tour guide as we visit the But Rolle goes much further. She also lets other famous Queer writers penned their homes, birthplaces and gravesites of many of the current LGBT generations know where works. As she continues her journey across wheRe each oF Them the historical fi gures we learned about in her they can go to fi nd others like themselves SoFla, readers will learn that the state was liVed, woRked and earlier book. Volume 1 covers the U.S. The while travelling--yes Virginia, there really are in fact a haven for LGBT people for nearly a yet to be published Volume II will trace the gay bars and bookstores in Alaska. century. died. hundReds steps of LGBT people in the United Kingdom, Rolle walks through the streets of various At 600 pages, Queer Places is an exhaustive while Volume III will journey across the rest neighborhoods in numerous cities, such as and brilliant work. Readers might wonder oF hisToRical of the world. New York. Iconic buildings like the Dakota, if there’s a single street in the country that phoTogRaphs aRe Queer Places begins with Keller and among others, are photographed by the Rolle didn’t visit. Is there an historical Sullivan. Rolle takes us to Ivy Green, the author in all their glory as she lists the names archive whose records she failed to study? included. buT Rolle Alabama estate where Keller was born in of famous historical LGBT fi gures who once Rolle is without a doubt our most goes much FuRTheR. 1880. As we see the house where Keller lost occupied those elegant homes--many were important historian.

30 • 11.10.2016 LIFESTYLE ﬁ l m ‘lovinG’ recAlls First mArriAGe eQuAlity BAttle

SFGN chats with director

Photo Credit: Focus Features.

David-Elijah Nahmod

n June 12, 1967, the United States on the pervasive psychological threat that was Supreme Court struck down all hanging over them during those years.” Ostatewide bans on interracial marriage. The results are mesmerizing. Though it’s This decision was the result of a lawsuit fi led by largely speculation--both Richard and Mildred Mildred Loving, an African American woman- have passed on--Nichols presents a plausible -she and her husband Richard, who was white, look inside the couple’s private lives as they were a quiet, simple couple in Virginia. The eat their meals, watch TV and raise their kids Lovings had been arrested shortly after their amidst a facade of normalcy, all the while 1958 marriage. All the Lovings wanted to do knowing that either or both of them could be was to raise their family and love each other, arrested at any time. and they shunned the spotlight they were Actor Joel Edgerton, who plays Richard thrust into. Loving, said that he went to bricklayers In the new fi lm “Loving,” now playing in school. Loving had worked as a bricklayer and theaters, the lives of the Lovings and the battles is seen at work in several scenes – Edgerton they were forced to fi ght are recreated. wanted absolute authenticity in his portrayal “Is there anything you want me to tell the of Loving. He also said that he watched judge?” Richard Loving is asked by his attorney Nancy Buirski’s documentary fi lm The Loving as a court date looms on the horizon. Story so he could capture the nuances of “Tell him I love my wife,” Loving (Joel his character’s vocal mannerisms and body Edgerton) replies. It’s one of many powerful language. moments in a fi lm, which serves in part as a “In the documentary we see Richard and character study of the couple who fought the Mildred at home, interacting with each other original marriage equality battle. and with their kids,” he said. “This gave me As the story unfolds, some viewers might a chance to see how they walked and talked, indeed note the striking similarities between and how they lived their day to day lives.” the Loving story and the marriage battle Edgerton emphasized that he wanted to fought by the LGBT community more than do more than just mimicry. “What was going forty years later. In one particularly infuriating on between the two of them?” he wondered. scene, which underscores the injustices they “What was it they felt for each other? What were subjected to, the Lovings are told by a was going on when there weren’t cameras in judge that they can avoid jail time if they leave the room? I wanted to capture that.” Virginia and agree not return to the state for Nichols said that the scenes involving twenty-fi ve years. the couple’s arrests and court battles were “The LGBT marriage equality fi ght was historically accurate and not based on defi nitely in the back of our minds during speculation. “The fi rst two thirds of the fi lming”, director Jeff Nichols said after a recent events portrayed in the fi lm are pretty well press preview of the fi lm. “The two battles were documented,” he noted. “Their marriage more or less the same.” in Washington DC, the arrests, their exile Nichols added that while much of Loving from Virginia, even Mildred’s cousin telling was based on historical documents, little was her to write to Bobby Kennedy, it’s all been known about the years during which the couple documented.” lived under the radar as their case worked its The end result is a profoundly moving look way through the courts. back at a couple who would not give up. The “What were they doing in their day to day Lovings knew they were meant for each other. lives while the court case was progressing?” Like their LGBT counterparts decades later, Nichols wondered, as he explained how he they refused to accept the intolerance of the pieced the story together. “Since details of their world around them. As is often the case, love years in hiding weren’t available, I tried to focus won out.

11.10.2016 • 31 LIFESTYLE gaming ‘GAYMERS’ COME OUT

Annual LGBT gaming convention takes place this weekend in New York City

Tucker Berardi Photo:Facebook

hen people think about social is geared fully toward LGBT inclusion and that don’t primarily cater to a straight audience Developers want to play it safe and avoid progression and equal rights, the video advocates for a more accurate representation of can be seen as fi nancially dangerous. However, fi nancial pitfalls that “controversial” LGBT Wgame industry is certainly not the fi rst diversity in video games. contrary to popular belief, gaymers make up a content may lead to. But small-scale studios and place considered a forefront of change — if it is “We focus on creating a fun and safe space signifi cant portion of the gaming community. community “modders” have created content even considered at all. for gamers and gaymers of all identities to A 2006 “Gaymer Survey” from the University that has been widely appreciated, meeting with Recently, however, there has been a stronger have fun and hang out with like-minded of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with over much more encouragement than dissent. push for LGBT-inclusive gaming that has put folks. GaymerX is a ‘queer space,’ but is made 10,000 respondents, measured the sexual The PrideParade mod for Rock Star Games’ the spotlight on gamers, or “gaymers,” in the for everyone,” reads the description on the orientation of gamers based on the Kinsey Grand Theft Auto 5 was a collaboration LGBT community. GaymerX website. “We stand side-by-side with Scale — a measurement of sexual orientation between Stockholm Pride and some of the “Art normalizes a part of society that people any communities who have been left out of or as a spectrum. The results showed that only game’s community members and was very are currently afraid or unsure of,” YouTube discriminated in mainstream gaming culture, 28 percent of respondents were completely well received by fans. MogiiCraft is another Gaming personality Andrew and we are dedicated to providing a heterosexual, 23.4 percent completely example of popular queer content, and is a Eisen told SFGN, “Video games unique, safe, harassment-free space homosexual and the remaining 48.6 percent fan-made Minecraft server dedicated to LGBT and media helps to normalize “sTRaighT for all marginalized people.” falling somewhere in between. players. things that should already be The push for more representation As the survey shows, LGBT players are very “MogiiCraft is an LGBT+ Friendly Minecraft normal.” whiTe males in video games has gained common — and they are pining for more server, and we strive to have a good sense According to Eisen, the don’T deal momentum, but much of the LGBT representation and mainstream queer content in of community and friendliness,” read a post evolution of gay characters community and its allies remain games and storylines. However, it is ultimately on Reddit from user Purpleﬂ yingdragon. on television — from the wiTh issues disappointed in how diversity — or the job of game developers to incorporate more MogiiCraft is a server to chill out and build inclusion of ‘token,’ almost oF ‘eRasuRe’ lack thereof — is presented in games. LGBT representation in their projects. stuff either in survival mode, or creative. Or satirical characters to oR Professor Adrienne Shaw of The majority of big-studio game developers just have a chat with everyone. PvP is off , cause narratives completely centered Temple University is in charge of are straight white males, according to Eisen. hugging is better than killing.” around LGBT individuals — ‘oTheRing;’ the world’s largest and constantly And while it may not be on purpose, they tend If player-created LGBT content has been so has served as a precedent for we’Ve expanding archive of LGBT content in to design games with character representation widely received and accepted, then why is it social change. games. Shaw has seen the progression skewed heavily toward their own hetero- such a longshot for larger publishers to start Eisen pointed out that always been of LGBT inclusion in video games and normative demographic. doling out more inclusive plots and content? while TV is a bit ahead of TheRe.” has pointed out the obvious disparity “Straight white males don’t deal with issues TV and movies have already begun exploring video games in terms of queer between the diversity of the gaming of ‘erasure’ or ‘othering;’ we’ve always been queer stories much to the appreciation of their representation, there is still - Andrew Eisen community and the hetero-normative there,” Eisen said. “[They] are so used to things diverse audiences — it is time for video games an increasing push for LGBT YOUTUBE PERSONALITY tendency of the gaming industry. revolving around them [and] are not used to, or to do the same. media representation in games “Most games are focused are scared of, something new being introduced.” “Gaming is one of the youngest entertainment as well as the establishment of on mainstream heterosexual Game developers may also have some mediums but it threatens to stunt its growth an LGBT presence in gaming conventions. audiences,” Shaw said. “There is a lack of reservation in creating inclusive context because without acknowledging that there are many In early September, PAX West — a large queer world-building in games, usually there of marketing, according to Luke Karmali, a people who play games,” Karmali wrote. “Our game and media convention — held a panel are only rare LGBT characters in a primarily writer for video game news source IGN. world and other entertainment forms are more discussion titled “Queering up Misconceptions: heterosexual world … there seems to be more Openly gay game writer Lucien Soulban told inclusive than ever, and its time games caught LGBT Game Industry Life,” and answered queer representations in video games off ered Karmali in a 2014 IGN article that, “fears of up.” questions facing the industry such as the state as side content. Same-sex relationships damaging sales would be the main stumbling of queer content in games, and the struggle of options and LGBT content has been pushed as block in securing support for a homosexual balancing identity and fi tting in. optional content.” protagonist, asserting that unless publishers Visit GaymerX.com for Another gaming convention, GaymerX, Most consider the gaming audience to be were convinced otherwise, a gay lead is likely to more information about the taking place this weekend in New York City, largely heterosexual, and thus releasing games remain a pipe dream.” convention.

32 • 11.10.2016 Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Oakland Park/Wilton Manors SCUE BE PET RE NEFIT GY FU at DOG N FEST AND Struttin’ for Strays walk SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 11AM – 4PM

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 9:30 a.m. Registration for "Struttin' for Strays" walk 10:00 a.m 1.25 mile walk along Oakland Park's Main Street 11:00 a.m. Gates open, registration for lure course & doggy costume contest 11:00 a.m. Silent Auction in building - Auction closes at 2:00 11:30 a.m. Doggy costume contest 12:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony - Northeast High School Color Guard 12:05 p.m. Introduction of dignitaries and sponsors 1:00 p.m. Dachshund races 2:00 p.m. Blessing of the animals 2:30 p.m. Silent auction announcements 3:00 p.m. Polynesian dancers All Day: Lure course and Doggy kissing booth

Food The Garlic Knot Cash Outside the Box gourmet food truck Cash Spanx the Honey BBQ Cash Joji Yogurt Cash Beverages Funky Buddha Beer $5.00 White & Red Wine $5.00 Water $1.00 Snow cones Cash

Silent auction items located inside

Beneﬁ tting a variety of local animal rescue organizations

11.10.2016 • 33 LIFESTYLE food

The annual Taste of the Island. Photo: Facebook.

Goodbyerants Humpy’s; welcome & back raves free parking and more Rick Karlin

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye hiccups in service due to the opening were never corrected. And, Now Some Happy News Service issues weren’t the only problem. In order to create a Following a dispute with its landlord, Humpy’s Pizza has great restaurant, food that comes out of the kitchen has to be The Annual Taste of the Island on Nov. 14 at Richardson gone out of business. The beloved eatery, known as much for its consistent, both in quality and appearance. Sometime plates Park, 1937 Wilton Drive, will tantalize your taste buds as diners giant slices of New York style gourmet pizzas as for its delicious were beautifully presented, but more often they were a hot sample a wide range of culinary delicacies from more than cupcakes, closed unexpectedly after Halloween. An auction, mess and portion sizes varied wildly from visit to visit. It also 20 local South Florida restaurants and bars in a festive party selling off the businesses equipment and furniture, was held a helps if every diner’s meal comes out at somewhere near the atmosphere. The $30 ticket is a bargain when you consider that few days later, leading one to believe that there were no plans same time, which, more often than not, was not the case. those attending can sample the fare from more than two dozen to reopen. vendors. This year’s participating businesses (as of this writing) Humpy’s is just the latest business in the mall to close or A Peter Pan Pan include Angelo Elia Bakery Bar/Angelo Elia Pizza Bar, Another move after a dispute with management of The Shoppes of Perfect Party, Aruba Beach Café, BBQ Jack's, Blue Martini, Wilton Manors. In the past year; Out of the Oven moved to a I know I’m going to ruffle some feathers with this one; but Bubbles & Pearls, Burger 21, Chef Ray, Delacaseas, Dolce Salato, new location and Salt This Way shuttered its doors after being why the hell can’t we have a 24-hour diner that combines Edible Arrangements, Fitlife Foods, Funky Buddha Brewery, open just a few months. Earlier, Steel Gym moved to another decent food and good service? I’m specifically talking about Gym Sports Bar, The Ice Pop Shop, Kelly's Landing, Krave Jerky, location before shutting down completely. Steve DeJong, owner one of our community’s favorites; Peter Pan. I generally find Ocean Liquor & Fine Wine, Pizza Fusion, Rumors, Tee Jay, of Humpy’s said of Rivercrest Realty, the management company the servers at P.P. to be friendly and efficient; so I suspect the Tijuana Flats, Trader Joe's, Tropics, Warsaw and Whole Foods. for the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, “Basically, they’re raising problems seem to arise in the kitchen. During recent visits, All event proceeds will benefit the Wilton Manors Historical the rent to the point where it’s unmanageable…It’s really just a poached eggs arrived almost hard boiled, bacon requested crisp Society, the Kiwanis Club of Wilton Manors, the City of Wilton shakedown of small businesses and we’re being bullied.” came out limp (and you know how we feel about limp things!), Manors’ Leisure Services Department and the Wilton Manors Speaking of greedy real estate management, the complex steaks ordered medium rare are served charred and everything Development Alliance. For tickets and more information, go to housing Courtyard Café was sold last month for $6 million and looks like it was dumped on the plate from 10 feet above. TasteOfTheIsland.org. management recently installed meters in its parking lot. I get Recently, some friends and I stopped by for a late dinner. it; parking is becoming increasingly difficult along the Drive, After waiting 10 minutes for anyone to appear at our table (the Bohemian Chic but why penalize the customers of the businesses in your mall? waitress blamed the hostess, saying “I was on break and she After outcries from the community and the mall’s businesses, didn’t tell me I had a table.”) we placed our order. The soup that The original 1930s guesthouse located at The Confidante, parking is now free from 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Nick Berry, co- came with my dinner arrived promptly. Then there was a wait of 4041 Collins, in Miami Beach has reopened as Nina’s House. owner of Courtyard Café has managed to arrange additional almost 40 minutes before our entrees arrived, all of which were The poolside outpost, with its own entrance on 41st street, free parking for those dining at his restaurant (with a coupon, delivered with the wrong side dishes. The waitress explained, brings a bohemian, vintage vibe to the historic home. Decorated available in the café). “We ran out of the escarole you ordered so the kitchen subbed with surf boards, local artwork and antique leather furniture, corn.” We weren’t offered a choice of substitute beforehand. the new hangout will be open Thursday through Saturday Flaming Out Our server apologized, but again, blamed someone else, the evenings. Among the light bite menu offerings are; gator pibil kitchen this time. Okay, mistakes happen, but complaints with achiote, pickled onion, cotija cheese; and cauliflower In Oakland Park, Kelvin 3200 shuttered its doors, perhaps to the management each time have yielded a shrug and, “We tinga with chipotle tomato, oaxaca cheese and crema. Nina’s not as unexpectedly as Humpy’s but just as quickly. While sometimes run out of stuff” or an off-handed “Sorry.” Sorry is will invite local musicians, DJs and acoustic performers to the the food was great (I gave it a rave review), what I put down to right. Peter Pan is a sorry excuse for a diner. house on programmed nights.

34 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 35 FOR THE WEEKSFG OF NOVEMBER 10 - NOVEMBERN ITES15, 2016 WWW.SFGN.COM

J.W. Arnold [email protected] THU 11/10 Sizzling Strings PHOTOGRAPHY “First Comes Love,” a new exhibition of photographs by B. Proud, opens tonight at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives Wilton Manors Gallery, 2157 Wilton Drive. An opening reception will be held at 6 p.m. to celebrate the exhibit, which eloquently captures the faces and stories of real people, longtime couples who paved the way to legal and social change. For more information, go to Stonewall- Museum.org. FRI 11/11 CONCERT The South Florida Symphony, under the direction of Maestra Sebrina Maria Alfonso, opens its season tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale with “A Celebration of the Great American Songbook,” the CONCERT timeless melodies of Broadway, film and Friday 11/11 cabaret. The program will be repeated The Cleveland Orchestra opens its annual Miami residency this weekend at the Arsht Center with Samuel Barber’s on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 5 p.m. in the gorgeous Violin Concerto, featuring Gil Shaham, as well as Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival Overture” and Shostakovich’s Kaye Auditorium at Florida Atlantic Fifth Symphony. Music director Giancarlo Guerrero conducts. The program will be repeated on Saturday. Tickets University in Boca Raton. For tickets, go start at $39 at ArshtCenter.org. to SouthFloridaSymphony.org. Submitted photo. SAT 11/12 SUN 11/13 MON 11/14 TUE 11/15 ART COMEDY COMMUNITY THEATER “Adoring Adora,” an eclectic “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah Our Fund, the charitable foundation The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach photography exhibition by resident opens the annual Miami Book Fair benefitting the local LGBT community, opens its Broadway on Kravis series artist Henrique Souza opens tonight International at Miami-Dade College hosts its 6th annual National LGBT Rights with the 2015 Tony Award-winning play, at House of Art, 815 NE 13th St. #4 in tonight at 6 p.m. The South African- Forum tonight at NSU Art Museum, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Fort Lauderdale. For decades, female born comedian will discuss his memoir, 1 Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. Night Time.” When an autistic 15-year- impersonator Adora has been a popular “Born a Crime.” Noah, with a white The program will include an in-depth old falls under suspicion for killing his entertainer in the LGBTQ community and Dutch father and black Xhosa mother, discussion with international LGBT neighbor’s dog, the boy sets out to this exhibit captures her charisma and was literally born “illegal” during leaders on the victories and challenges identify the true culprit, which leads glitzy style. The exhibition also includes the Apartheid era. Tickets are $40 ahead beyond our borders moderated to an earth-shattering discovery and images by guest photographers Alexis and include a signed copy. Tickets by Nadine Smith of Equality Florida. a life-changing journey. Performances Trigoura and Frank Polanco. More and more information available at Free Admission with RSVP. More info at through Sunday, Nov. 20. Tickets start information at HouseofArt.com. MiamiBookFair.com. Our-Fund.org. at $27 at Kravis.org.

36 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 37 A&E book Book FAir spotliGhts lGBt Authors, Activists J.W. Arnold

Actor Alan Cumming and activist Jim “Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Obergefell will be among more than Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage a dozen LGBT authors participating Equality,” written with Debbie Cenziper, in the 33rd annual Miami Book Fair is free and will be held in Building 8 on the International, Nov. 13 – 20 on the Miami- Wolfson campus. Dade College Wolfson Campus. The busy book fair schedule includes The festival, one of the largest in the four additional free events focusing on country, brings hundreds of authors LGBT issues: to South Florida for eight days of readings, lectures and panel discussions, culminating in a free street festival that attracts thousands of book lovers. Cumming (“Cabaret” on Broadway, TV’s “The Good Wife”) will read from his new, light-hearted memoir, “You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures,” on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. as part of the fair’s popular “An Evening With….” Series. Tickets to the program are $15 at MiamiBookFair.com. Obergefell, one of the plaintiff s in the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to marriage equality, will participate Actor Alan Cumming is one of the LGBT in a panel discussion, “Marriage Equality authors appearing at this year’s Miami Means Love Wins” on Sunday, Nov. 20 Book Fair International at Miami-Dade College. Photo Credit: Francis Hills. at 3:30 p.m. The discussion of his book,

“THE ROAD TO MARRIAGE EQUALITY” Saturday, Nov. 19, 1 p.m. Learn about the road to marriage equality from Kevin Cathcart, former executive director of Lambda Legal; historian Lillian Faderman, author of “The Gay Revolution” and co-editor of “Love Unites Us;” and Miami attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, author of “Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise.”

“GENDER TRANSITIONS: TWO MEMOIRS” Saturday, Nov. 19, 4:30 p.m. Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality by a transgender woman, Kate Bornstein‘s “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us” breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed. “Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout” is Laura Jane Grace’s searing account of her search for identity and her true self.

“THE EDGE OF SPORTS: READINGS AND DISCUSSION WITH TWO AUTHORS FROM AKASHIC BOOKS” Sunday, Nov. 20, 2 p.m. In his latest nonfi ction book, “Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports,” Cyd Zeigler examines the history of how participation in sports has transformed for LGBT athletes. Jessica Luther’s “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape” is a meticulously researched and powerful exposé on the epidemic of cover-ups that surround sexual assault and college football players.

“AN AFTERNOON WITH SUSAN FALUDI” Sunday, Nov. 20, 3 p.m. “In the Darkroom” is Susan Faludi‘s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga, as she learns her estranged father has undergone sex reassignment surgery. Deirdre Donahue, contributing book editor at AARP, will interview Faludi.

For a complete list of Miami Book Fair International programs, events and participating authors, visit MiamiBookFair.com.

38 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 39 A&E art BernAdette ZiZZo: BreAst cAncer survivor And inspirAtion

Brittany Ferrendi Lesbian business owner’s story told through photos

feel inspired by that person,” three and a half months to cure it,” she said. spoke of Buzzi, whom she has known for said Bernadette Zizzo, a cancer She’s been in treatment and recovery the last six years. “I love her.” “Isurvivor, looking at a photograph ever since with various antibiotics. Three days after they met, the of herself. “You don’t think you’re looking But recently, out in the public for the fi rst photographer accompanied Zizzo into her well, because you always have that tired time in months, Zizzo saw a photograph double mastectomy surgery, which lasted feeling. Down, sleeping a lot, drained.” of herself up in Susan Buzzi’s “Resilient about eight hours. During the process of In 2011, Zizzo was diagnosed with a rare Women” photo documentary at the going in and out of recovery, Buzzi kept in form of breast cancer called LCIS. She was Broward Main Library, which ran through touch with Zizzo and occasionally visited familiar with the cancer — her own mother the end of October. her. had died from the same “Wow, I do look healthy “There were days when she could not illness. there,” she said, pausing even lift her hand out off the bed,” Buzzi She underwent a double heR phoTogRaph to admire the photo with a told SFGN. “She was so weak she would fall mastectomy upon doctor — which depicTs smile on her face. “Happy, asleep as we were talking.” recommendation, and heR laughing healthy.” “It’s been a road for her, a struggle. But received breast implants in Her photograph — which she still smiles, she still has that little drive their place. Shortly after, and leaning depicts her laughing and — well, it’s more than a little drive. She’s Zizzo contracted E coli and againsT a leaning against a sturdy got something inside her that just has to had to remove her implants. sTuRdy TRee tree — will be in the gallery keep going. As soon as you meet her, she’s “She never even left the — will be in until the end of October just eff ervescent.” hospital, it went bad so to celebrate Breast Cancer Although Zizzo is the co-owner of Art quickly,” said Debbi Burke, The galleRy Awareness Month. Frenzie, she has been out on disability Zizzo’s business partner unTil The end And like the tree, she sees while she recovers. Her business partner, at Art Frenzie, a gallery oF ocTobeR herself as “Stronger. Much Burke, has been there to support her along that specializes in framing. To celebRaTe stronger. Stuff to live for, the way. “They took out one right right?” “It’s been crazy,” Burke said of the away and the other right bReasT canceR Previously, Zizzo was surgery and recovery processes. “I’m her after that.” awaReness bedridden, causing isolation best friend and partner and we are just like It was about a year before monTh. with her friends and family, so I just try to help wherever I can.” they proceeded with any acquaintances. Despite all of the surgeries and more surgeries. “I haven’t seen anyone treatments, Zizzo looks forward. Last October, a diff erent doctor came since the last show (over a year ago),” she “I can’t ever say people are ever the same in and did implants. She wound up with a said. “I was a little nervous coming in (to after cancer, after the treatments,” said major infection, causing her to be in and the photo exhibit) because I hadn’t seen Zizzo. “But I can say, it makes you a fi ghter. out of the hospital for months — including anyone in a while, I didn’t know what to I believe the truth about all of this is, it’s needing to undergo six surgeries in eight expect.” what you’re made of. If you’re a fi ghter weeks to get rid of one of her infections. But her relationship with Buzzi, the inside, if you have the will, that’s what it’s “The infection got so bad that it turned creator of the photo documentary, inspired really about. Of all the people that I’ve met, into this major bacteria, they couldn’t her to participate in a photoshoot and you can see it in their eyes. It’s either doom fi gure out what it was, kept me there for attend the gallery. “She’s a doll,” Zizzo and doom and doom or it’s that fi ght.”

40 • 11.10.2016 11.10.2016 • 41 A&E theater comedy tAkes Audiences BAck to “lAvender scAre” J.W. Arnold handle with great facility.” ironically received its premiere just blocks away Payne referenced Island City Stage’s from the Supreme Court just as the Defense of et during the Red Scare of the producing artistic director Andy Rogow, who Marriage Act was struck down. 1950s, Topher Payne’s play, “Perfect will be opening the latest production of the Off “It really captured the zeitgeist of the SArrangement,” might sound like a sober Broadway hit in Wilton Manors this weekend moment,” Payne recalled. history lesson from an era when being gay or and running through Dec. 11. The gay-centric The play may be a historical piece, but there lesbian could destroy the most successful career theater company opened its 2015 season with a are still contemporary lessons to be learned. and shame entire families. successful production of Payne’s “Angry Fags.” “I fi nd that when you write a period piece Bob and Norma are two U.S. State Department Comedy or not, much research was involved you’re not just telling a story of ‘them then,’ employees tasked with identifying “sexual to get the facts right. Payne learned much about you’re telling a story of ‘us now.’ Arthur Miller’s deviants” within the highest ranks of the the period from David K. Johnson’s seminal ‘The Crucible,’ for example, about the witch government. But, there is a twist: Both Bob and volume, “The Lavender Scare: The Cold War hunts was written during the McCarthy era. It Norma are gay and they have married each Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal meant to teach a lesson about how those who other’s partner in an attempt to avoid their own Government.” don’t heed the lessons of history are doomed to detection. “When I initially became aware of this repeat them,” he added. “In the midst of all this heady discussion, I moment in history, it was one of those times Audiences may become frustrated with swear it’s a comedy,” promised Payne. “Imagine when you get really ticked off that you didn’t some of Payne’s characters who seemingly fail the conﬂ ict between what was on the front page already know about it,” Payne explained. “The to stand up for their rights, but Payne, a native of the newspaper in 1950 versus what Americans Red Scare is studied in history class and part of conservative Mississippi, relates to their Matthew Stuart Jackson and were watching on their television screens and of the lexicon; but, this (Lavender Scare) was concerns decades later. Erynn Dalton star in Island City the perfect lives these shows tried to present to happening concurrently and the eff ect it had on “We have a tendency to be baﬄ ed by those Stage’s production of “Perfect viewers.” galvanizing the American gay rights movement who choose to live closeted or very discreet Arrangement.” Photo Credit: Andy Rogow. Payne likens the result to a zany episode of has been lost to history in many ways. When I lives, but the queer people I was able to know “I Love Lucy,” as the couples emulate the idyllic fi nd something like that frustrates me. It’s what coming up, I’ve always had a place in my heart lives of married couples as modeled by sitcoms sends me to the computer and to work.” for the people who chose to live their lives that and commercials. During 2012 workshops of the play in way out of a feeling of necessity,” he said. Island City Stage presents Topher Payne’s “It’s all by design,” said Payne. “The absurdity Washington, D.C., he dug into local archives It can be frustrating, he admitted, but again, “Perfect Arrangement,” Nov. 10 – Dec. 11 at and farce of the masks they are wearing is tragic, and met many people who shared second hand he emphasized the importance of not repeating Abyss Theatre, 2304 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton but so ridiculous, you can’t help but fi nd it all accounts of the people who were forced to lead the mistakes of history and taking a moment to Manors. Tickets are $35 at IslandCityStage.org. funny. That’s a piece Andy and his team can double lives during the period. The play then laugh at ourselves when we can.

42 • 11.10.2016 SPORTS boxing First openly GAy pro Boxer to FiGht For World chAmpionship Brittany Ferrendi

e’ll be the first publicly gay boxer colored shorts in solidarity with his homosexuality while still to get the opportunity to win the LGBT community, is set to fight professionally active. He is currently Hthe World Boxing Organization against current undefeated champion married to his husband Juan Manuel lightweight championship title. Terry Flanagan on Nov. 26. Colon. ‘I’ve always been a proud gay boxer,” Cruz won 25 out of his 30 fights, In 2013, Cruz was inducted to the Puerto Rico’s professional boxer with one draw and the remaining four National Gay and Lesbian Sports Orlando Cruz told The Daily Mail. were losses. Hall of Fame alongside transgender “Now I will become the first openly The 35-year-old came out of male triathlete Chris Mosier and gay world champion.” the closet in 2012, making him professional football player Jerry Cruz, who often wears rainbow- the first boxer to publicly declare Smith.

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