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Dixie highway • wilton Manors, Fl 33305 Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • norm Kent [email protected] chief executive offi cer • Pier Angelo Guidugli associate Publisher / executive editor • Jason Parsley [email protected] editorial art Director • Brendon Lies [email protected] Designer • Max Kagno Digital content Director • Brittany Ferrendi [email protected] associate editor • Jillian Melero [email protected] copyeditor • Kerri Covington arts/entertainment editor • JW Arnold [email protected] social Media Manager • Tucker Berardi [email protected] NEWSPAPER RELEASES NAMES OF Food/travel editor • Rick Karlin Gazette news editor • Michael d'Oliveira hiv editor • Sean McShee MURDERED GAY CHECHENS senior Photographer • J.R. Davis [email protected] Brittany Ferrendi senior Features correspondents Jesse Monteagudo • Tony Adams correspondents Dori Zinn • Andrea Richard • Donald Cavanaugh • Christiana Lilly • Denise Royal • ed up with a reportedly insincere shot in the night between January 25 and 26. Russian LGBT Network told International Sean McShee • Alex Adams • Gary Kramer • investigation on gay persecutions in Journalists were not able to locate any of the Business Times. The network has been David-Elijah Nahmod contributing columnists FChechnya, a Russian newspaper has persons, stating that anyone they questioned working on evacuating gay and bisexual Brian McNaught • Dana Rudolph • Wayne revealed a list of men who responded with “incredible Chechens from the country, helping at least Besen • Ric Reily • Steve Siler • Bil Browning were allegedly killed in a fear.” 40 so far. • Terri Schlichenmeyer associate Photographers gay purge. “as FAR AS They published the “As far as we know, the information in the Carina Mask • Pompano Bill • Steven Shires Novaya Gazeta, the names out of concern for Novaya Gazeta regarding 27 people being Russian publication that WE KNOW, THE the investigation, believing killed is true,” they said. “With regards to sales & Marketing fi rst broke the Chechnya it was not carried out with the sexual orientation of those killed, as far Director of sales & Marketing • Mike Trottier INFORMATION [email protected] story, published the names IN THE NOVAYA sincerity. as we know there are homosexual people in sales Manager • Justin Wyse of 27 perceived gay and “We are publishing these this list, but not all of them at all.” [email protected] bisexual men they believe GAZETA REGARDING facts because the state The Gazeta gave the Investigative advertising sales associate • Edwin Neimann [email protected] were killed in Grozny on 27 PEOPLE BEING represented by authorized Committee of Russia evidence of the victim’s sales assistant / classifi eds • Tim Higgins January 26. They were law enforcement agencies personal data and pointed to forensic [email protected] reportedly arrested in KIlled Is true.” did not leave us any evidence, insisting that their facts must be Distribution services • Rocky Bowell December 2016 and killed - Russian LGBT Network choice,” they MEMBERwrote. “That verifi ed. national advertising without any formal charges. is why we publish the list Chechen police and offi cials have denied Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 “According to our of those who, according the persecutions, including Chechen leader [email protected] information, the detainees were shot that to our information, were victims of the Ramzan Kadyrov. He told HBO, “This is accounting services by CG Bookkeeping night and were taken to various cemeteries, worst possible extrajudicial executions in nonsense. We don’t have those kinds of Printing by sun coast Press including Christian, and buried in hastily dug Grozny.“ people here. We don’t have any gays. If there graves,” the publication wrote, translated Not all of the men are necessarilyMEMBER gay, The are any, take them to Canada.” from Russian to English. The information comes from a source in the Interior Ministry. See the list of names in Russian on The murdered Chechens were reportedly of Novaya Gazeta’s website NovayaGazeta.ru. SFGNWINNER & 3 FLORIDA PRESS CLUB Awards And runner-up for MEMBER NLGJA Journalist of the Year OUR OTHER PUBLICATIONS South Florida Gay News is published weekly. The opinions expressed in columns, stories, and letters to the editor do not Get yours, on racks now! represent the opinions of SFGN, or the Publisher. You should not presume the sexual orientation of individuals based on their names or pictorial representations. Furthermore the word “gay” in SFGN Associated Press should be interpreted to be inclusive of the entire LGBT community. 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Copyright © 2017 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 2 • 7.19.2017 7.19.2017 • 3 Associated Press Texas ‘Bathroom Bill’ may shape 2018 GOP Primary Campaigns (AP) Though “bathroom bills” targeting transgender who don’t support the strict proposal that mimicked people fi zzled in deep-red states across the U.S., the a 2015 North Carolina law that sparked so much issue is still white hot in Texas, where the Legislature uproar and threats of costly boycotts that lawmakers is heading into special session prepared to revive it and there eventually rolled much of it back. No other state conservative groups are vowing revenge on Republican has approved such a law, despite similar bills being lawmakers who don’t approve it. introduced in nearly 20 states. Whether Texas eventually enacts a law requiring “To the extinct that someone chooses to lock arms transgender people to use public restrooms according with Joe Straus and promote his liberal agenda for the to their birth-certifi cate gender, the issue is looming state, and work with him to kill conservative legislation, large over Republican primaries set for March. Powerful we’re going to be looking for and back a primary business entities, from Apple to the NFL, oppose such challenger to that individual,” said Jared Woodfi ll, a a bill as discriminatory, but insurgent candidates have Houston attorney who is the group’s president. promised to brand lawmakers who dare reject it - or try Woodfi ll’s PAC donated nearly $2 million between to remain neutral in the face of so much outcry - as soft the 2010 and 2016 election cycles to 100-plus Texas on social issues dear to conservatives. legislative candidates and other conservative causes, The Conservative Republicans of Texas political and plans to spend lavishly to target moderate action committee says it’s ready to pounce on those Republicans up for election in 2018. Joe Straus, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. The award carries a $10,000 cash prize. Finalists for the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fi ction and nonfi ction will be announced Sept. 13. ew Boy Muppet in Afghanistan Promotes ay Irish Novelist Wins Ohio Literary Gender Equality Peace Award INTERNATIONAL N(AP) Last year, Afghanistan’s version of “Sesame Street” G(AP) Irish novelist, journalist and essayist Colm Toibin introduced a little girl character aimed at inspiring girls in is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award that the deeply conservative Muslim nation. Now a new Muppet celebrates the power of literature to foster peace, social ay Man Wins UK Court Battle for Equal is joining the cast: her brother, who will show boys the justice and global understanding, organizers announced Pension Rights importance of respecting women. Thursday. G(AP) A gay British retiree has won a legal battle to secure Zeerak, whose name means “Smart” in Afghanistan’s two Dayton Literary Peace Prize offi cials named Toibin, whose the same occupational pension rights for his husband that a offi cial languages, is a 4-year-old boy who enjoys studying wide range of work has drawn from his native Ireland, his life wife would enjoy. and learning. He joins 6-year-old sister Zari, whose name as a gay man and his travels as an international journalist, Five judges at the Supreme Court, Britain’s highest court, means “Shimmering,” on Afghanistan’s version of the show, for the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement ruled that if John Walker died, his husband would be entitled “Baghch-e-SimSim,” or “Sesame Garden.” Award. It’s named for the late U.S. diplomat who brokered to a spouse’s pension, provided they stay married. Both Muppets wear traditional Afghan clothing - the the 1995 Bosnia peace accords reached in Ohio. The 66-year-old launched a discrimination lawsuit when baggy trousers and long embroidered shirt known as a Among his novels are “The Master,” depicting the life of the company he worked for said it would not pay out spouse shalwar kameez for him and colorful native dresses and a the famed writer Henry James; “Brooklyn,” a coming-of-age benefi ts because his pension plan predated 2005, when gay cream-colored hijab, or headscarf, for her.