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Christian Ulvert, the Man Behind the Candidates Christian Ulvert (left), LOCAL NAME pictured next to his husband. GLOBAL COVERAGE Photo via Facebook. DECEMBER 23, 2020 VOL. 11 // ISSUE 51 PAGE 4 POWERBROKER CHRISTIAN ULVERT, THE MAN BEHIND THE CANDIDATES SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS @SFGN SFGN.COM NEWS HIGHLIGHT SouthFloridaGayNews.com @SFGN December 23, 2020 • Volume 11 • Issue 51 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 SKI CHAMPION COMES OUT AS GAY Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • Norm Kent [email protected] ‘IT’S A PART OF ME AND I’M PROUD OF IT’ Associate Publisher / Executive Editor • Jason Parsley [email protected] Kim Swan Editorial Art Director • Brendon Lies [email protected] Webmaster • Kimberly Swan fter struggling to keep his sexual [email protected] orientation a secret, Hig Roberts is the Social Media Director • Christiana Lilly first elite men’s Alpine skier to come Arts/Entertainment Editor • J.W. Arnold A [email protected] out as gay. In an interview with the New Food/Travel Editor • Rick Karlin York Times, Roberts said that by coming out Gazette News Editor • John McDonald publicly he hopes others are encouraged to HIV Editor • Sean McShee be themselves as well. Senior Photographer • J.R. Davis [email protected] “I just woke up one morning and I said, ‘Enough is enough,’” Roberts told the Times. Senior Feature Columnists Brian McNaught • Jesse Monteagudo “I love this sport more than anything — I’m so lucky and privileged to be doing this Correspondents Dori Zinn • Donald Cavanaugh — but I can’t go on another day not trying Christiana Lilly • John McDonald to achieve the person that I am meant to Denise Royal • David-Elijah Nahmod be. Which I think for each and every one Contributing Columnists of us, one of those main goals needs to be Pier Angelo • Terri Schlichenmeyer happiness and authenticity.” Dana Rudolph • Ric Reily One of the reasons why he decided Associate Photographers to come out was because of his younger Carina Mask • Steven Shires brother Murphy, who taught him one of his Sales & Marketing most valuable lessons: live every day as your For ad placement in SFGN, authentic self. contact 954-530-4970 Roberts told the Times that Murphy was Sales Manager • Justin Wyse the “most special person” [email protected] in his life, so when he died Senior Advertising Associate • Edwin Neimann at the age of 22 in 2016 [email protected] after a diabetic seizure ROBERTS SAID Advertising Associate • Thom Burnham during a hike, it was a • Noah Lebel blow that almost ended his THAT BY COMING Distribution Services career. OUT PUBLICLY Sales Consultant • Charles A. Reid So, after a break from National Advertising skiing, Roberts wore a Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 helmet with the slogan HE HOPES [email protected] “Send it for Murph.” OTHERS ARE Accounting Services by CG Bookkeeping Printing by Stuart Web Inc. Roberts wants to help Hig Roberts. Photo via @higroberts, Instagram. foster spaces where ENCOURAGED TO athletes are comfortable BE THEMSELVES realizing the potential we also have just as easy an ability to change enough to come out while have here, to change this,” that narrative for yourself,” he said to Out. SFGN WINNER of still playing. AS WELL. according to Out. “If it’s too scary to do it, you’re not a coward. & 5 FLORIDA PRESS CLUB Awards He hopes to get involved For now, he offers a You’re not a weak person.” And runner-up for with Olympic athletes in simple piece of advice for Roberts looks forward to living freely, the NLGJA Journalist of the Year the future, whether that’s “through agency queer athletes: be happy. way his brother taught him to. or managerial positions, getting involved in “You can drive yourself into the darkest “I am gay,” Roberts told the Times. “It’s SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS.COM, INC. IOC or the USSP, or groups like Wasserman realms of holes and loneliness. I think a lot part of me and I’m proud of it, and I’m ready — — Media Group or LA Foundation, who are of people are doing that right now, but you to be happy.” FOUNDED, DECEMBER, 2009 BY PIER GUIDUGLI AND NORM KENT South Florida Gay News is published weekly. The opinions expressed in columns, stories, and letters to the editor do not represent the opinions of SFGN, or the Publisher. You should not COVER 1: Hig Roberts. Photo via @higroberts, Instagram. presume the sexual orientation of individuals based on their names or pictorial representations. Furthermore the word “gay” in SFGN COVER 2: Christian Ulvert (left), pictured next to his husband. Photo via Facebook. should be interpreted to be inclusive of the entire LGBT community. All of the material/columns that appears in print and online, including articles used in conjunction with the AP, is protected under federal copyright and intellectual property laws, and is jealously guarded by the newspaper. Nothing published may be reprinted in whole or part without getting written consent from the Publisher, at his law office, at [email protected]. SFGN, as a private corporation, reserves the right to enforce its own standards regarding the suitability of advertising copy, illustrations and photographs. Associated Press Copyright © 2020 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 2 • 12.23.2020 12.23.2020 • 3 NEWS LOCAL THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN CHRISTIAN ULVERT HAS BEEN WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES Steve Rothaus ears before Christian Ulvert became advisor to many of South Florida’s most powerful politicians, Yhe feared coming out as a young gay man would wreck his blossoming career in government. Ulvert, then 22, was about to begin a Among his current and former political 2004 graduate assistantship in the Florida clients: Gelber, now mayor of Miami Beach; Legislative Democratic Caucus office. Back recently elected Miami-Dade County Mayor then, marriage equality and ending the Daniella Levine Cava; Miami-Dade State military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy were Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle; national and statewide hot-button issues, Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg; and Ulvert’s boyfriend at the time suggested state Sen. Jason Pizzo of Miami; state Sen. he tell his new caucus boss, Perry Thurston, Jr. of Fort state Rep. Dan Gelber, he’s gay. Lauderdale; state Rep. Allison “I remember going in to tell “IT WAS A Tant of Tallahassee; and Rep. Dan that I needed to share David Richardson (now a something and that I understood GOOD LESSON Miami Beach commissioner), it had an impact, and, if it was FOR ME, AND who in 2012 became Florida’s his decision, I would gladly step first openly gay state lawmaker. into a different role,” Ulvert IT KIND OF Ulvert also handles public recalled. LIBERATED affairs consulting for Magic “I’ll never forget: Dan looked City Casino, United Healthcare at me and said, ‘I can’t believe ME TO START and LIUNA Construction Trade you came in here and judged me. COMING OUT Union, among others. I believe in you and your work. “This business is all about So get back to work and never MORE.” relationship building and allow anybody — never give the - Christian Ulvert being validated,” said Ulvert, authority to someone to control who was Miami born into a your life and decide anything Nicaraguan family, and raised but your value based on your work.’ It was by a single mother and his grandmother. a good lesson for me, and it kind of liberated Ulvert attended MAST Academy high me to start coming out more.” school on Key Biscayne and eventually Today, Ulvert owns Edge Communications, became student body president for Miami- a 12-year-old company self-described on its Dade County Public Schools, an advisor to website as “Florida’s Premier Progressive the county’s school board. After graduation, Political Consultants.” Florida State University admitted him on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (left) and Christian Ulvert. Courtesy photo. TURN THE PAGE TO CONTINUE READING 4 • 12.23.2020 12.23.2020 • 5 NEWS LOCAL CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE a full scholarship to the school’s Service that eventually led to “a defining moment Scholars program. in my life” — getting to know his future “They accept eight to 10 students a year,” husband, Carlos Andrade. Ulvert said. “It’s very much like a class. It’s a They met in 2010, while Ulvert was full scholarship program. And we basically doing work for Gelber on his laptop at the immerse ourselves in civic engagement and Barnes & Noble Starbucks on Miracle Mile student service in the Greater Tallahassee in Coral Gables. “There was no place to sit area.” and [Carlos] basically said, ‘Would you mind Through the program, Ulvert met Gelber, sharing a table?’” who later encouraged him to enter FSU’s Ulvert, 38, and Venezuelan-born Andrade, master’s program in public administration who turns 41 on Dec. 21, have been together and policy. ever since. After Ulvert received his They got engaged in 2011 in master’s degree in 2006, New York City’s Central Park. Gelber hired him to be his “HE TAKES ON “He said we needed to talk and communications director and CAUSES. HE’S I thought, ‘Uh oh, he’s going to legislative policy advisor. end this,’” Andrade recalled. Ulvert founded Edge NOT AFRAID TO “Instead, he said, ‘Please marry Communications in 2008, the TAKE ON A CAUSE me.’” same year Gelber ran for state EVEN IF IT MIGHT Ulvert and Andrade, who senate. owns Fiori and Leaves, a Edge’s first political client: MEAN HE MAKES company that produces high- Gelber, who won his senate LESS MONEY end floral arrangements with race, and nine years later — OR UPSETS deliveries in Miami-Dade and also with Ulvert’s help — got Broward counties, wed two elected Beach mayor.
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