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April 14, 2003 www.ExpressGayNews.com Volume 4, Number 15 Assault on Dignity Bill Protecting Students from Abuse Stalls After Fundamentalist E-Mail Blitz By Phil LaPadula pressure from constituents who support minute flurry of calls and e-mails from the Managing Editor it. right-wingers probably caused the bill to The Florida Senate Education The decision to be tabled. Committee on April 9 “tabled” a bill that “pass” on the bill Winfield expressed seeks to protect students from harassment came after a last- disappointment about and abuse based on their sexual minute telephone, e- the committee’s move orientation, race and several other criteria. mail campaign by the but noted that it was The Dignity for All Students Act was read Liberty Counsel, a the first time that a before the committee, but the senators right-wing religious GLBT-inclusive bill had then tabled the measure without debating group that opposes the measure. In an e- been read in the Florida Senate. The group or voting on it. mail to its members, the Liberty Counsel is now appealing to everyone who The move means that the bill is argued that the bill’s provisions to protect supports the bill to contact members of probably dead in this year’s session of the students from harassment and physical the Senate Education Committee to ask legislature, but there is a chance that it abuse based on their sexual orientation them to bring it back for debate (see could be brought back for debate if would “violate students’ rights to freedom contact numbers at end of article). members of the committee receive enough of expression and religion.” In its e-mail to members, the Liberty “It’s a total distortion of what the bill Counsel complained that the bill threatens attempts to do,” said Brian Winfield, religious freedom because “‘harassment’ Brian Winfield, director of communications for Equality Florida, which has been director of communications for Equality is not defined, leaving it open to subjective working to pass the Dignity For All Students Florida, which has been working to pass bill for two years. the bill for two years. He said the last- See Dignity on Page 6 Spiritual Groups Unite to Feed the Hungry Cooperative Feeding Program Opens the Edward W. Smith Jr. Family Nutrition Center By Michael James Senior Editor The Sunshine Cathedral and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale were the locations for the second annual Interfaith Empty Bowl event, which took place on Thursday, April 3. Two dozen other community-based and spiritual organizations also participated in the fundraiser that helps to feed the hungry through the Cooperative Feeding Program (CFP). Marti Foreman has been leading the charge against hunger for the past seven years, serving as CFP’s executive director. “When the organization was first started by a group of Lutheran churches in 1985, we handed out sandwiches to the homeless.” The organization has grown over the years ad now includes case management, help in finding employment, housing, eyeglasses and many other services. The Empty Bowls event raised

approxiamately $12,000 through the event Photo by Steven Shires and matching grants. Money was raised by serving soup in handmade ceramic Participants in the Empty Bowls II event included Marcie, Denise, Amy, Pat, Doug, Dick, Bill, Cathy and Jeanne. bowls at a cost $15 a bowl, participants BREAKING NEWS Story on Page 13 See Empty Bowls on Page 3 Doctors Cuenca and Heglar to Join APFL Staff

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CYMK Seniors Taking AIDS/HIV Responsibly and Seriously APFL Launches New Outreach Effort to Address a ‘Growing Problem’ By Michael James STARS (Seniors Taking AIDS/HIV Senior Editor Responsibly & Seriously) was recently At the 15th annual National HIV/AIDS launched to address what Kent calls an Update Conference (NAUC) March 31-April “overlooked HIV/AIDS risk group.” 2, which was presented by the American “HIV among seniors is a developing Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the medical issue that needs to be addressed topic of HIV/AIDS in the senior community promptly,” Kent added. “Seniors need to was addressed by experts from across the be aware of how AIDS/HIV can affect country. They conceded that seniors were them.” He says that one of the problems involving seniors is that the symptoms of HIV/ AIDS mimic the aging process. Kent said APFL will be using Peer Educators to deliver educational counseling and testing. “By using people within the age group, we will be able to deliver educational counseling and testing effectively. We hope the program will enlighten seniors to the fact that they are not immune to this disease, and they can prevent the onset of such a disease.” Data show the number of seniors infected with AIDS/HIV is growing and, not only ill-prepared to deal with the illness with the counseling and education STARS but were also uneducated as to how it is will provide, they hope to slow the statistic, transmitted and how to protect themselves. ultimately resulting in its decline. Suellen Cirelli of Help Understand and The project provides peer counseling, Guide Me (HUG Me) of Orlando, stated that professional training and networking among bringing attention to the issue in her area organizations serving older adults with was a challenge. “No one wants to think of AIDS/HIV, websites, a video library and an anyone under 20 or over 50 as having sex or AIDS/HIV information database. using drugs, so the issue is usually With an exchange of dialogue and risk overlooked.” assessments, Kent says the STARS staff will She went on to say that her program be able to personalize education and took the stance: “Build it and they will come... counseling for the older adult and “allow us And they did.... This is a growing problem to make referrals to support groups, give and it needs to be addressed before it gets AIDS/HIV counseling and testing, along worse.” with medical care and treatment.” Norm Kent, executive director of AIDS Kent added, “Our outreach specialists, Project Florida (APFL), says, “Adults and trainers and STARS volunteers offer seniors have sex too. Awareness and educational instruction in venues including education can protect, prolong and adult residential communities, retirement enhance their lives. It falls upon us to lead homes, conferences, health fairs, community the way.” events and places of worship.” For more information about the STARS program, contact Marc Anthony at 954.537.4111, ext. 106.

Empty Bowls from front page kept the bowls. The event also marked the grand opening of the Edward W. Smith Jr. Family Nutrition Center. Foreman said, “This is our permanent center, placing all of our services under one roof—food services, pantry, community kitchen, social service offices, and the Workforce One kiosk.” The organization was chosen as the 2001 United Way Agency of the Year.

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CYMK Lambda Legal Celebrates 30 Years of Courting Justice West Palm Beach Fundraiser Highlights Local and National Cases Chip Alfred America in downtown West Palm Beach. engaging in consensual sex. The two men were Palm Beach Correspondent About 150 people packed the charged with “deviate sexual intercourse with In a crowded West Palm Beach restaurant, including newly elected West another individual of the same sex” and thrown restaurant, a young man named Derek Henkel Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel, County in jail. shared his horrifying stories of being bullied, Commissioner Jeff Coons, Lake Worth Lawrence and Garner claim that Texas’s beaten and harassed as a gay high school Mayor Rodney Romano and Palm Beach law against homosexual sodomy violates student in Reno, Nevada. County School Board member Paulette their constitutional right to privacy and their “Six students tied a lasso around my Burdick. Burdick has been an outspoken right to be treated the same as heterosexuals. neck and they were going to drag me from supporter of the School Board’s new anti- If Lawrence and Garner win this case, their pick-up truck,” Henkel said. “I would discrimination policy, which specifically with Lambda Legal’s support, it could probably not be alive today if they knew protects GLBT students. invalidate sodomy laws in 13 states, how to tie a lasso properly.” “We have several recent milestones to including Florida. Henkel suffered abuse like this for years celebrate,” said Tony Plakas, executive There’s also a South Florida lawsuit that’s in the Reno school system, and school director of Compass, Palm Beach County’s captured the attention and backing of Lambda officials only made matters worse. They Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Legal—the case of Dr. Fred Sternbach and ignored him. They blamed him. They referring to the school board’s new policy Stephen Miller of Boca Raton. transferred him from one bad situation to and the local momentum of the human rights According to Sternbach, the couple another. movement. “If you are housed in Palm Beach submitted a rental application to Boca’s Nobody would protect him. Nobody County, if you are employed in Palm Beach Royal Colonial Apartments and it was would help him. Finally, he dropped out of County or if you are schooled in Palm Beach rejected because they are gay. The school. County, you will have a right to equal Derek Henkel suffered abuse for application form asked for the relationship years in the Reno school system, Henkel felt he had nowhere to turn, until protection and consideration under the law,” and school officials only made between the two prospective tenants, and he contacted Lambda Legal, a national Plakas said. matters worse Sternbach wrote “partner.” The two men organization that provides legal advocacy Rand Hoch, event co-chair, received a claim they were denied an apartment by the and helps defend the rights of the GLBT special honor for “15 years of tireless equality for 30 years, and he looks forward property manager, Peggy Watson, who said, community. With the help of Lambda Legal, commitment to the community.” Hoch to the day when there won’t be any more “We don’t rent to partners.” Henkel won his case against the Reno school founded the Palm Beach County Human battles to fight. “Hopefully, in 30 years, we’ll It’s lawsuits like these that Lambda system and received the largest pre-trial Rights Council and helped develop the anti- be out of business,” he said. Legal looks for—cases at the grassroots settlement of its kind—more than $400,000. discrimination policy for the Palm Beach In the meantime, Lambda Legal is level that can have a positive impact on the “It sent a message—if you bash, you County School Board. involved in some landmark litigation, including outcomes of similar cases across the nation. pay,” Henkel said. “There’s going to be Hector Vargas, Southern regional the case of two Texas men that has gone all the Lambda Legal raised more than $30,000 accountability. Our communities are going director of Lambda Legal, said, “We’re way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Searching for a in West Palm Beach. This money will help to be accountable for educating our youth.” hoping that we can enact what happened in suspected crazed gunman, Harris County them keep on fighting for clients such as Henkel’s case is just one of the many Palm Beach County in many communities, sheriff’s officers instead found John Lawrence Derek Henkel, Lawrence and Garner and success stories of Lambda Legal, which and it can happen nationwide.” and Tyron Garner in Lawrence’s apartment Sternbach and Miller. celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday, Vargas said he is proud to be part of an March 30, with a fundraising dinner at organization that has been fighting for For more information, visit www.LambdaLegal.org.

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CYMK creates an intimidating or hostile On March 16 and 17, about 100 Dignity from front page environment for one or more students participated in Lobby Day in interpretation.” The group argued students...” Tallahassee to push for passage of the bill. that the bill would “prohibit The right-wing group also According to Winfield, legislators have constitutionally protected speech argued that the bill “collides with also received numerous calls in support activities including [students] telling parents’ rights to direct the of the bill. “Oftentimes, when our people other students what the Bible has to upbringing of their children” showed up in a state legislator’s office to say about homosexuality.” because it requires “civility, lobby for the bill, they were told that the But Winfield said the group was citizenship and character education” legislator had already received calls presenting a distorted interpretation for all students in kindergarten supporting it,” Winfield said. of the bill. “It’s not about students through grade 12. They also Winfield said two senators have told sharing their religious beliefs; it’s contended that the act “opens the the bill’s supporters that the bill is dead about students being bullied and door for schools to teach our for this session, “but that’s not entirely ridiculed simply because they’re children that homosexuality is an accurate,” he said. “It could be brought different,” he said. “The irony is that acceptable lifestyle.” back. They’re just telling people that to religion is one of the categories that Nadine Smith, executive director stop the calls.” the bill specifically protects against of Equality Florida, characterized the The bill has been endorsed by more bias.” right-wing group’s claims as than 150 organizations, including the Winfield noted that the bill “misinformation.” She appealed to Florida Education Association, the would not prohibit a student from members of the gay community and NAACP, the ACLU, the League of Hispanic expressing his views about others who support the bill to make Voters and the Florida AFL-CIO. homosexuality to another student in their voices heard. “It’s critical that The legislature’s decision to table the a non-threatening way. “I certainly we keep the pressure on,” she said. bill came a day after a federal appeals court believe that if a school wants to have “We have to let the legislators know handed down a landmark decision that a debate on this subject, it would be that our community is just as holds schools liable for not protecting appropriate,” he said. committed and supportive as the far students from anti-gay harassment. The Furthermore, Winfield pointed right. And we will hold legislators ACLU had filed the suit on behalf of five out that the bill contains more than accountable when they cave in to high school students in Santa Clara’s two paragraphs defining “harassment.” be considered harassment, it must be extreme misinformation campaigns.” Morgan Hill Unified School District who The bill defines harassment as “verbal or “conduct that substantially disrupts or is Winfield noted that many of the charged that school officials refused to physical conduct directed at a student reasonably expected to substantially estimated 1,400 calls and e-mails that the take any action to protect the students from based on that student’s real or perceived disrupt educational operations or right-wing group generated came from ongoing anti-gay harassment. One identity or expression of race, color, substantially disrupts an individual outside the state of Florida. “We feel it’s a student was hospitalized after an anti-gay religion, national origin, marital status, sex student’s benefits, opportunities or state bill, and the people who will be attack (see story on page 15). or gender, disability, or sexual orientation.” performance or an individual student’s affected by it should voice their opinions,” According to a recent study, 70 It further clarifies that for the behavior to physical or psychological well-being; or he said. percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students have been verbally or physically harassed. In a national survey published by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, 87 percent of students said they witnessed anti-gay harassment on a daily basis. While they haven’t given up on moving the bill in this session, Winfield said the group was plotting strategy for next year as well. “We’ll be spending the majority of this year doing in-precinct office visits,” he said. Equality Florida is urging supporters of the Dignity for All Students Act to call the following members of the Senate Education Committee (in priority order): Sen. Dave Aronberg, 850.487.5356; Sen. Lee Constantine, 850.487.5050; Sen. Ken Pruitt, 850.487.5088; Sen Larcenia Bullard, 850.487.5127; Sen. Anna Cowin, 850.487.5014; Sen. Charlie Clary, 850.487.5009; Sen. Stephen Wise, 850.487.5027; Sen. Lisa Carlton, 850.487.5081; Sen. Jim Sebesta, 850.487.5075; Sen. Ron Klein, 850.487.5091; Sen. Frederica Wilson, 850.487.5116. Get-Away Plan CNN reported in February that Charles Edward Jones was convicted of robbing a Wachovia Bank in Miami with the key evidence being DNA. The court matched the DNA on two gold teeth that were knocked out of his mouth when he was struck by a school lunch van when he stepped into a street immediately following the heist. Also, Jones also accidently fired his gun into his pants when he tried to stuff it into his waistband. It was not reported whether there was any damage caused by the misfire.

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CYMK Artists, Show Your Work Museum Partners with includes seven steam locomotives, seven Gay Italian-American Club Ongoing—Anyone interested in showing Dade Heritage Trust diesel locomotives, 15 passenger cars and Forming Now—A new Gay Italian-American their paintings, sculptures or photographs Now until April 30—Each weekday, all 16 freight cars with four cabooses. In Social Club is forming in Fort Lauderdale. at the Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts Miami-Dade Heritage Days participants will addition, the museum has a variety of Chuck Murabito and some friends have (SMOFA) in the summer of 2003 through receive complimentary admission to the industrial arts related equipment and been working to get this group organized. the winter of 2004 should bring two pieces Gold Coast Railroad Museum, 12450 SW Florida history displays ranging from a 1909 The first meeting is scheduled for early May of their original works, or three photographs 152nd St., Miami. Case farm steam tractor to an operating at the Italian American Civic League building to SMOFA. The Gold Coast Railroad Museum was narrow-gauge steam locomotive with in Wilton Manors. The group will explore SMOFA is located at 7080 NW 4th St., founded in 1957 by a group associated with passenger cars. Italian food, culture, language and fun. Plantation. For more information call the University of Miami who were trying to For further information, visit Being Italian isn’t a requirement. Anyone 954.583.3551, e-mail [email protected] save pieces of Florida’s history that were www.GoldCoast-Railroad.org , send e- interested should contact Chuck at or visit the museum’s website, rapidly disappearing. The collection mail to [email protected] or call 954.257.0922 or e-mail at www.smofa.com. 305.962.9341. [email protected].

Love Letters Doug Houston Art Exhibit Business Luncheon Now to April 26—Love Letters, Now through April 26—ArtsUnited, the April 16—The Cities of Oakland Park and A.R. Gurney’s wonderful tribute nonprofit organization that uses the arts Wilton Manors Chamber of Commerce will to a lifelong love, is presented to present a positive message about the host a business luncheon at Simply Delish, with different actors each night. gay and lesbian community, will feature 2287 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors. The topic of Presented by Edge Theatre local photographer Doug Houston’s the luncheon is “The Miracle of Corneal Thursday, Friday, Saturday at work in an exhibit at the Stonewall Library Refractive Therapy,” which will be presented 8pm, at Piccadilly Gardens, 35 and Archives, 1717 N. Andrews Ave, Fort by Dr. Cynthia A. Hardy. NE 40th St, Miami Design Lauderdale. The meeting starts at noon and costs District. Door $10, students/ For more information, call $15 per person. For more information about seniors, $8. Call 305.531.6083 954.530.2723 or go to the luncheon, contact Mike Levy at or 954.733.8735. ArtsUnitedOnline.org. 954.568.7755. A - FI

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CYMK Holy Week Services at David’s Custom Caterers, 6501 West at 10am in their personal helicopter to start Florida Drag Kings April 17, 18 and 20—The Church of the Holy Commercial Blvd., in Tamarac. the egg hunt. Immediately following the hunt, April 19—The Second Annual She King SpiritSong will hold services at the Gay & Rabbi Cathy Nemiroff and Cantorial there will be opportunities to get photos tournament is coming back to Fort Lesbian Community Soloist Michael Greenspan taken with Mr. Cottontail and to buy a snack. Lauderdale this year. Hundreds will gather center of South Florida, will officiate. The entire menu Admission is free. For more at Ultra Saturday’s located 1717 N Andrews Ave., Fort is strictly Kosher for Passover, information, call the Parks and at the Sea Monster nightclub Lauderdale. On Thursday and there will be a choice of Recreation Department at in downtown Fort at 7:30pm, you can baked chicken, roast brisket of 954.390.2115. Lauderdale, to witness the partake of the Last Supper, beef or a vegetarian dish. competition. This year’s Good Friday service is at Tickets to the Seder are $45 Splendor in the Pool “She King” Competition will 8pm. Bow the Knee and for synagogue members and April 19—Nadadores Swim showcase some of the best Easter Sunday service is $50 for guests. Call the Team presents “Splendor in the drag king entertainers in our at 10am. Synagogue at 954.564.9232 Pool” from 7 to 10pm at Florida state as they compete for For more for reservations and details. International University, over $1,000 in cash and information, contact Biscayne Bay campus diving prizes. 954.418.8372, or visit EGGstravangza deck, NE 151st St, Miami. The event will be held at www.cohss.org. April 19—The “Spring Tickets are $35 in advance and Sea Monster Nightclub, 2 EGGstravangza” is planned as $40 at the door. South New River Drive W., Passover Dinner a multi-activity day for children Festivities include dinner, Fort Lauderdale at 9pm. April 17—Congregation up to 10 years of age at Wilton cash bar, dancing, strip ’n swim Mo B. Dick Admission is $7 for Etz Chaim, a spiritual Rabbi Cathy Nemiroff Manors Elementary School, race, Zoo14 Swimsuit Fashion anyone 18 years old and home for gay, lesbian, 2401 NE 3rd Ave., Wilton Show, DJ Shannon, show by the over. For more information, call bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Jews and Manors. The event is produced in Nadadores and more. For more 954.288.8691 or check out www.ultra- their friends in South Florida, will hold its cooperation with the City of Wilton Manors information, call Mario Chyzyk at events.com for up-to-the-minute event annual second-night Passover Seder at Recreation Volunteers. 305.573.8388 or visit information. 7pm. The Congregational Seder will be held Mr. Cottontail and Mayor Stork will arrive www.nadaodores.org. HA - PS

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CYMK Outstanding Dads WIN Charity Golf Tournament Commitment to Eliminate Racism and Hate airwaves to attend the event. The luncheon April 23—The Fort Lauderdale April 27—The event includes trophies, Luncheon. The YWCA of USA established will be held from 11:30am to 2pm. For more Philharmonic Society will host An Evening raffles, prizes, auction and a catered buffet. this annual event in 1992, as another step information or to RSVP please contact With Our Outstanding Dads of Broward. Proceeds will benefit Kids in Distress and forward in its long history as a leader in the Natasha at 305.377.9922 ext. 203 or send Cocktails will be served at 5pm, and dinner WIN. 7:30am registration and 8am shotgun fight for racial justice and equality. e-mail to [email protected]. will be served to the sound of jazz at 6pm. start at Carolina Club, 3011 N. Rock Island The YWCA of Greater Miami will be Casual attire is recommended. The event Rd., Margate. $65/WIN members, $75/ celebrating this important day with a Congregation Etz Chaim will spotlight 12 men in the community and nonmembers and $25/buffet only. luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Holds Holocaust memorial honor them based on various criteria. www.womeninnetwork.com/events.htm. downtown Miami. Renowned actress April 29—Congregation Etz Chaim, a The event will be held at the Hyatt Sharon Gless, a long-standing YWCA spiritual home for gay, lesbian, bisexual Regency Pier 66 Panorama Room at 2301 Eliminate Racism and Hate supporter who was helped by the YW as a and transgendered (GLBT) Jews and SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale. For more Luncheon teen, will be the keynote speaker. their friends in South Florida, will hold a information, contact Julie Madsen at April 25 —You can help promote tolerance The YWCA invites everyone who wants memorial service for Yom Hashoa, 954.735.6827 or Melanie Camp at and stand up to hate in our society by taking to counter an increasing number of voices Holocaust Memorial Day, on Tuesday at 954.565.8608. part in the YWCA National Annual Day of preaching hatred and intolerance on our 7:30pm. Etz Chaim’s Yom Hashoa service will be conducted by Rabbi Cathy Nemiroff and Cantorial Soloist Michael Greenspan and will be held at the multi-purpose room of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale at 3970 NW 21 Ave. All are welcome. For more information, call the Synagogue at 954.564.9232.

Enter the Salon, Stage Right May 4—ArtsUnited, the nonprofit organization that uses the arts to present a positive message about the gay and lesbian community, will sponsor an Art Community Salon on Sunday from 7 to 10pm at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale. In the tradition of the salons of Europe, ArtsUnited creates an inviting atmosphere for artists and art lovers alike to come together and learn more about art in South Florida and meet fellow artists. This sixth salon in the series will feature the City Theatre as the host artist. Members of the theatre company will unveil their “Summer Shorts” schedule of events, and perform several short readings followed by a brief discussion. Attendees will have an opportunity to make reservations for the “Summer Shorts” performances in Fort Lauderdale and Coral Gables. Dress is casual. Wine and desserts served. Admission is $5 for members, $10 for the general public. Anyone who is anyone in the art community will be there. For more information, call 954.530.2723 or look for us online at www.artsunitedonline.org.

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CYMK Florida Stingrays Holding Tryouts at the Orange Bowl Women Breaking Through the Lines of Professional Football By Jeremy Jones discouraged with other professional teams, Local Correspondent such as the Miami Fury, and were looking for There was a time when the only figures in other options. Belden, a former Miami fury the spotlights of professional sports were men. player and vice president of sales and But times have changed. marketing, then joined with Bartolo to start In recent years, women have become a their own team. prominent presence in sports such as tennis, “I remember calling Angela and asking golf and basketball. Today, even professional her if she had an interest, and it took her all of 10 minutes to say yes,” Bartolo recalls. Both Belden and Bartolo agree that the team has been warmly welcomed into the community. The organization has already secured sponsorship from such businesses as O’Brien Financial, Gold Coast Skating, Dr. Yu Chiropractic, Hollywood Ale House, the Pizza Loft of Davie and several gay and lesbian supporters. More are expected within the coming weeks. football is no longer out of bounds for women. Belden is expecting to draw between 2,000 For the past five years, the Women’s and 3,000 fans per game, which she thinks is Professional Football League (WPFL) has been encouraging when one considers that The giving women from all walks of life a chance at Florida Marlins are expecting only 7,000 fans living their dreams. From housewives to on average for their professional men’s baseball secretaries, women are getting the chance to team. “We have the most talented players, play tackle football professionally. and we are going to do very well,” Belden says. This year, the WPFL introduced several According to the owners, the team’s new teams to its organization, including The strategy is long term. The Stingrays will Florida Stingrays. practice at a facility in Broward County, and Co-owned by football entrepreneurs the league itself has partnered with PAX-TV Angela Belden and Lizz Bartolo of The Florida to promote the organization through Titans, the organization will draw upon the commercials. No television coverage is interest of women desiring to play professional planned for the games at this time. sports. The team plans to recruit the best Bartolo’s husband John, will coach the soccer, lacrosse, rugby, track and field athletes team. John Bartolo is currently coach of the to compete in their inaugural season. Miami Fury and a former coach for the Dania The season will be composed of a 10-game Beach Titans of the Southern State Football schedule, with The Stingrays having some 60 League. players. Home games will be played at the Players making the team will not be paid Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami on Saturday but will have insurance and travel benefits afternoons beginning with the season opener provided to them. Each player will sign a scheduled for Aug. 2. one-season contract, after which they will Even though the WPFL and The Florida have to try out for the team again the Stingrays are not endorsed by a major sports following season. entity such as the NFL, Belden and Bartolo The Stingrays will hold one more try- have high hopes for their team. “We feel it will out session on April 13 at the Orange Bowl grow every bit as exciting as the male Stadium at 9am. Pre-registration is $70 with competition,” Belden says. walk-ups costing $70. Participants should Developed in September 2002, The be prepared to complete any drills that are Stingrays stemmed from a need for a more done at a professional football try-out. No professional teams and Bartolo’s love for football experience is required. business. “Wether it’s selling tacos or For more information on The Florida pantyhose, I have a great love for business,” Stingrays and the try-outs, visit the team’s says Bartolo, who also has her own cosmetic website at www.FloridaStingrays.com or line. the WPFL’s website at According to Belden, players had become www.Women’sProfessionalFootball.com.

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CYMK Senate Committee Approves Insurance Regulation Bill The Florida Senate Banking and state, according to department Moreover, plan members have little Insurance Committee has approved spokesperson Nina Banister. However, the recourse when the insurers collect legislation (SB 1676) that would make it a department has issued cease-and-desist premiums but later refuse to pay claims felony to operate an unlicensed health orders to 10 unlicensed carriers since because the companies are not licensed insurance company and would allow victims February 2000, the Sentinel reports. by the state. of such fraud to file civil lawsuits against Such companies may initially pay By targeting the operators of the carriers, the Orlando Sentinel reports. medical claims using the collected unlicensed health plans and giving recourse Unlicensed insurance companies often insurance premiums, but shut down to consumers, the bill would augment market policies to small employers as a way without notifying customers when claims legislation passed last year making it a third- to pay lower group rates by joining with other cut into their revenue. The health plans degree felony punishable by up to five years employers. The Florida Department of do not maintain cash reserves to pay in prison and a $5,000 fine for an insurance Financial Services is unsure of the number unexpected large claims, as the state agent to sell policies underwritten by an of unlicensed health plans operating in the requires licensed health plans to do. unlicensed carrier. Regulators are “hopeful” Unlicensed insurance companies often market policies to small employers as a that the bill will pass in the full legislature. way to pay lower group rates. —www.KaiserNetwork.org Hollywood Commissioner Apologizes for Comments A city commissioner has apologized for you,” he said on April 2. warning residents that “you will have a Carol Hoehn, a pediatric nurse, told pervert or a homosexual living next to you” Oliveri during the April 3 meeting, “I want if the city allows another adult entertainment you to know I’m offended for anyone to say business to open. my sexual category throws me into a Sal Oliveri apologized April 3 to a small pedophile category.” group of gay residents and said he Oliveri said he meant to talk about understands homosexuality has nothing to pedophiles, not homosexuals. do pornography. “Everyone who is righteous has a right He said he had been upset about an to live the way they do,” Oliveri said. agreement the city reached with the owner Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti also of a new adult entertainment business spoke to the upset constituents. “I almost opening in Hollywood. The city had a moral choked when he made his comments, and I obligation not to settle a lawsuit filed by the wondered if he meant it that way,” the mayor business owner, he said. said. “Sal has made some of the most “Wake up America ... otherwise you’ll outrageous statements. In a democracy, you have a pervert or a homosexual living next to get all kinds.” —The Associated Press

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CYMK New Doctors Head APFL Clinic Team Heglar and Cuenca Move Over to Florida’s Oldest HIV/AIDS Service Organization By Michael James St. Christopher, and lives just blocks away Senior Editor from the APFL clinic. AIDS Project Florida (APFL) has Cuenca was the chief resident at announced that it has hired a new medical Montefiore Medical Center in Social Internal team to administer its health clinic at 2817 Medicine, having graduated from medical East Oakland Park Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale. school in the Philippines. His father, too, was Joining the staff by April 28 will be two a doctor. doctors who are members of the American APFL Executive Director Norm Kent Academy of HIV Medicine, and who have announced the appointment Friday. “Our both been working locally at the Clinic St. clinic and clients demand and require a Christopher. cohesive team of full-time physicians who Dr. Robert Heglar and Dr. Michael will be available for outreach, protocols and Cuenca have partnered with each other in cutting edge care,” Kent said. HIV care since their days of residency at the Kent explained that he tapped Heglar Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, and Cuenca because “both physicians had in 1998. demonstrated a history and commitment to Both physicians served together on the professionalism and compassion.” board of directors of the Bronx Lesbian & Kent added that the doctors “are ready, Gay Health Resource Consortium, which they able and eager to serve the needs of the helped create and foster. clients” at APFL, one of Florida’s oldest HIV/ Heglar is a graduate of Jefferson AIDS service organzation, serving 4,000 Medical College in Philadelphia. Licensed in clients annually. both Florida and North Carolina, the multi- “In the next few weeks, Dr. Rafael faceted physician also holds a law degree Quinones and Dr. Julia Torres will be moving from Duke University School of Law. He is a on to new opportunities that will hopefully board-certified family medicine practitioner enrich each of them,”Kent stated. who has admission privileges to Imperial “Our agency is grateful that both have Point Hospital. so admirably served our clients as Cuenca is a bilingual internist who works professionally and competently as they Dr. Michael Cuenca is a bilingual internal full time as the lead HIV specialist at Clinic have.” Dr. Robert Heglar also holds a law degree medicine specialist who was the head For more information about APFL, visit their website at www.APFL.org. from Duke University and worked with HIV specialist at Clinic St. Christopher. the Bronx Gay Health Consortium. www.ExpressGayNews.com

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CYMK Political Veteran Takes Reins of GLFSF Phelps Ran Successful Campaign Against Anti-Gay Forces in Palm Springs By Phil LaPadula Mary Bono,” Phelps says). Managing Editor Bono won anyway, even David Phelps, the new though many political executive director of the Gay observers viewed her as and Lesbian Foundation of unqualified and simply South Florida (GLFSF), is a “living off of Sonny Bono’s veteran of heated political name.” battles in another sunny gay enclave—Palm Springs, ‘Good Evening, California. Phelps arrived in Mr. Phelps …’ South Florida about a month Besides his campaign ago after leading a work, Phelps also worked for successful fight to save Palm the Special Olympics for six Springs’ annual White Party years, first as international from an anti-gay mayor who communications director had targeted it for and later as head of the termination. public affairs department. “There are many During his tenure with the similarities between the Special Olympics, he also GLBT population in South served as a speech writer for Florida and Palm Springs,” Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Phelps says. “There are a lot His other communications of wealthy individuals who experience includes writing for are looking for ways that the Advocate’s online they can contribute to the publication. community.” GLFSF’s three major As GLFSF’s new head, fundraisers are the Winter Phelps plans to identify and Party, which was just held woo those wealthy recently; AquaGirl, which individuals to build the takes place in May; and the organization’s base of “There are many similarities between the GLBT population in South Florida and Palm Springs,” Phelps Recognition Dinner, says. the new executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Foundation of South Florida, pictured here with individual donors and Deyna Hodges, a gay-friendly city councilwoman in Palm Springs, California. scheduled for October. Last corporate sponsors. “I want year, the featured speaker at to increase the amount of revenue from there. For a variety of reasons, the religious welcome for the party, but in 2001, the Recognition Dinner was Sen. Hillary individual and corporate donors, so that right has been focusing on Palm Springs.” Kleindienst refused to issue the official Clinton. we’re not so dependent on our three When he first arrived in Palm Springs, welcome. The mayor had highlighted drug- The organization is currently fundraisers,” he explains. he ran his own marketing-communications related incidents at the White Party as a reviewing its grant applications for 2003. Phelps says he will focus on “house business, but quickly became immersed in reason to do away with it, Phelps says. Between 1994-2002, the foundation gave parties, individual contacts and word-of- city politics. In April 2002, he served as 138 individual grants, totaling $814,578, to mouth referrals” to expand the campaign manager for Deyna Hodges, a Bashed on 55 organizations. Recipients of GLFSF organization’s donor base. gay-friendly city council candidate who Right-Wing Radio grants have included the Miami Gay & was running in a special election against a In a city that once elected Sonny Bono Lesbian Film Festival, Arts at St. John’s, South Florida: Palm candidate backed by Mayor William as its mayor, the city council race was GLBT Youth of Miami, the Gay & Lesbian Springs of the East? Kleindienst, who is considered hostile to heated even by Palm Springs’ standards. Community Center of South Florida, the His political and communications the gay community. “I was actually called a ‘faggot’ on the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education experience should serve him well in his new “The mayor of Palm Springs was quite radio,” Phelps says. “And one member of Network (GLSEN), Greater Bethel AME position. Phelps was active in politics at homophobic, and he was trying to seize the opposition referred to me as the Church, Jewish Family Services, Miami an early age in his native Australia before control of the city council,” Phelps ‘queer’ who took over the campaign.” Beach Senior High, Project YES, South moving to Palm Springs. The move to explains. “He wanted to do away with the But when the ballots were tallied, Beach AIDS Project, Stonewall Archives South Florida should be an easy transition White Party.” Phelps’ candidate, Hodges, won with 66.7 and the NAMES Project. for him because the political demographics According to Phelps, the White Party percent of the vote. Phelps shares a last name with the of Palm Springs and South Florida are so is the single largest revenue generator for After the Hodges victory, Phelps ran notorious anti-gay minister Fred Phelps. similar. In fact, both areas have large Palm Springs, boosting both gay and non- the Democratic Congressional campaign But he prefers to think of his other populations of gay residents and religious gay businesses. “The city provides certain of Elle Kurpiewski, a flight attendant who namesake—Jim Phelps, the lead character fundamentalists that frequently clash in facilities, such as the convention center, ran against Sonny Bono’s widow, Mary on the 1960s TV series Mission Impossible. the political and cultural arenas. for the party,” Phelps says. “If the mayor Bono. Sonny Bono’s mother, Jean, publicly He seems well prepared for his new “About 35 percent of the permanent had achieved a 3-2 majority on the council, endorsed Kurpiewski (“She can’t stand mission here in South Florida. population in Palm Springs is gay and he could simply direct the city not to lesbian,” Phelps says. “But there’s also an welcome the party.” The city had For more information about the Gay and Lesbian Foundation of South Florda, older, more conservative population living traditionally issued a proclamation of call 305.572.1841, 305.798.6506 or visit www.GLFSF.org.

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CYMK Book with Intersex Narrator Wins Pulitzer Prize ‘Middlesex’ Was Also Nominated for Lambda Literary Award Intersex Society of America A novel that describes eight decades in defines the condition as a “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably the life of a Greek-American family as seen “congenital anomaly of the smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, through the eyes of its intersexed narrator reproductive and sexual as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, has won the Pulitzer Prize for literature. system.” A person with an Michigan, in August of 1974.” Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides has been intersex condition is born called “brilliant” and “astonishing” by with sex chromosomes, external genitalia or generation Greek-American family, Calliope reviewers. an internal reproductive system that is not (now Cal) Stephanides is physiologically a In the most general of definitions, considered “standard” for either male or hermaphrodite and is more male than female. someone who is intersexed possesses the female. Eugenides describes how as a teenager sexual organs of both male and female. The Raised as a girl by her second- Calliope begins to grow a moustache and Landmark Ruling for Gay Students’ Dignity U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Schools Must Respond to Harassment From Staff Reports students from ongoing anti-gay In a case brought by the American harassment. The students, four girls Reviewers have called Jeffrey Eugenides’ Civil Liberties Union and the National and one boy, were repeatedly abused book “brilliant” and “astonishing.” Center for Lesbian Rights, the U.S. both physically and verbally. One Court of Appeals for the western states student was hospitalized after a group comes to terms with “her” changing body, issued a historic decision today that of male students shouted “faggot” and ultimately changing “her” name to Cal. holds school officials liable for failing other homophobic slurs while hitting The story shares the thoughts, feelings to protect students from anti-gay and kicking him at a school bus stop in and intimate details of the lives of Cal’s harassment. The court held that a full view of the bus driver. grandparents, parents and other family school must take steps to eliminate A female student, Alana Flores, members. harassment when it learns that lesbian, found a pornographic picture taped to In this omniscient first-person mode, the gay and bisexual students are abused her locker. A handwritten note attached reader gets an epic family saga, a journey “This decision is long overdue,” said Kate Kendell, at school. director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. to the photo read, “Die, Die … Dyke from 1920s Greece to 1960s Detroit to “This decision is long overdue,” bitch, Fuck off. We’ll kill you.” When contemporary Europe. Eugenides says he got said Kate Kendell, NCLR’s executive director. the motions is not enough. Schools have to Flores sought help from the school and asked the idea for Middlesex after reading a book “Finally, it’s clear that schools can no longer really deal with the problem of anti-gay for a new locker, the principal said, “Yes, sure, by French philosopher Michel Foucault that stand back and turn a blind eye to the kind of harassment.” sure, later. You need to go back to class. Don’t contained a memoir by a 19th-century debilitating harassment that so many lesbian, The decision comes in a lawsuit brought bring me this trash anymore. This is hermaphrodite. gay and bisexual students face every day.” on behalf of five high school students in disgusting.” Middlesex was nominated for a 2002 Matt Coles, director of the Lesbian and Santa Clara’s Morgan Hill Unified School The case, Flores v. Morgan Hill Unified Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender Gay Rights Project of the ACLU added, “The District who charged that school officials School District, will now return to the federal category and was also nominated for a court made it very clear that going through refused to take any action to protect the district court for trial. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

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CYMK Senate Approves Bush Nominee Conservatives Seek Despite Gay Republican Opposition Tymkovich Compared Homosexuality to Bestiality to Stifle Day of Silence From Staff Reports Republicans in approving Tymkovich’s By Mark Worrall Yet there are no indications schools Despite opposition from the Log Cabin nomination to the court, which is expected 365Gay.com Newscenter are bending to the pressure to cancel Day Republicans (LCR) and prominent Senate to play a major role in upcoming civil rights, Conservative groups across the of Silence Events. Democrats, the U.S. Senate has AIDS and gender-related cases. country urged parents to demand schools For the second year in a row, U.S. confirmed President Bush’s In a press statement prior to cancel this year’s Day of Silence, which Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York) nomination of Timothy the vote, LCR said it opposed the took place April 9. has introduced a resolution calling on Tymkovich for the U.S. Court Tymkovich nomination because The national Day of Silence is Congress to recognize the efforts of of Appeals. his record “reflects problematic organized by the Gay, Lesbian and students in organizing the Day of Silence. In a law journal article, views of gay and lesbian Straight Education Tymkovich, the former solicitor Americans and laws that would Network. Students, faculty general of Colorado, compared protect them.” LCR also cited and staff take a vow of homosexuality to cockfighting, Tymkovich’s use of silence to protest the bestiality, suicide and “inflammatory rhetoric in discrimination and prostitution. As solicitor connection with commentary on harassment that can silence general, Tymkovich also gays and lesbians.” It marked the lesbian, gay, bisexual and defended Amendment 2, a ballot initiative first time that the gay Republican group transgender students in passed by Colorado voters in 1992 that opposed a major Bush appointee. schools. prohibited local governments in the state “While we support President Bush on a Conservative Christian from passing laws protecting gays and wide range of issues, we must respectfully groups from the Family lesbians from discrimination. The U.S. disagree with the choice of Timothy Research Council to Supreme Court declared the law Tymkovich to sit on the 10th Circuit Court of Courageous Christians unconstitutional. Appeals,” said LCR Executive Director United mounted a massive Seven Democrats joined all 51 Senate Patrick Guerriero. “We look forward to campaign to get local events working with the White House on nominees cancelled. Three Die in Latrine Pit who support the president’s promise of a “This silence is ironic considering Also for the second year, California Gov. Three men fell to their deaths into a 40- compassionate conservative agenda.” that sexual deviants, who comprise a tiny Gray Davis will officially recognize the Day foot latrine pit in Mombasa, Kenya, in March, The law journal article “shows that percentage of the general population, are of Silence with a proclamation. all because the first man chivalrously climbed Tymkovich buys into some of the worst anti- among the most vocal and aggressive The Day of Silence was started by down a ladder into the pit to retrieve a gay rhetoric and ideology concerning our special-interest groups working to impose students in 1996 and was observed in 2002 woman’s cell phone but fell off and community,” Winnie Stachelberg, political their fascist vision of unfettered sexual by more than 150,000 students in nearly suffocated. The other two men then climbed director of the Human Rights Campaign, told license on the majority of decent, moral 2,000 schools who registered with GLSEN. down, but also fell off, attempting to rescue The Washington Blade. citizens,” said CCU executive director A full list and additional information can the one before him. Democratic senators Patrick Leahy, Steve Klein. be found at www.dayofsilence.org. A search crew finally brought up the Edward Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Herb Kohl three bodies four hours later, but no cell and Mark Dayton spoke out strongly against phone. —BBC News the Tymkovich nomination. www.ExpressGayNews.com

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CYMK Don’t Be an April Tax Fool Local Expert Offers Tips for Last-Minute Filers By Phil LaPadula But what about people who have filled insurance costs. “It went from 60 to 70 The April 15 deadline doesn’t apply to you. Managing Editor out all the forms and calculated their taxes, percent this year,” Madison says. “Beginning You won’t be penalized for filing late, but The clock is ticking down to the April 15 but simply don’t have the money they owe with the 2003 tax year, self-employed people you have to file before the IRS will send your deadline and you still haven’t filed your 2002 the IRS? “They should file the return and can deduct 100 percent of health insurance refund. taxes. Maybe you don’t have your request an installment agreement,” Madison premiums.” paperwork in order, you haven’t had time to advises. “If they just request an extension, Self-employed people will need Schedule crunch the numbers, or you started but they will still have to pay a penalty for late C, Schedule SE and Form 1040. Those with a became hopelessly confused by the forms. filing.” mortgage will also need Schedule A. Don’t panic. You still have options to Those who are rushing to prepare their Taxpayers with interests and dividends prevent the IRS from swooping in and taxes on time should keep a few things in exceeding $1,800 will need Schedule B. And draining your bank account with their hefty mind. “They don’t want to underreport their people with stocks will need Schedule D. You penalties and interest charges. income,” Madison says. “And they don’t can download the forms at www.IRS.gov or You may want to consider filing an want to miss any itemized deductions, such pick them up at the local library. extension, which will give you until Aug. 15 as charitable donations or any business People with dependent children and to pay. But here’s the catch: If you owe expenses from their employer that were not some low-income self-employed people may money, you still need to estimate what you reimbursed.” benefit from the “earned income tax credit.” think you owe and send the IRS a check by Self-employed people should make sure Check the IRS website to see if you qualify. April 15. they have receipts to prove their expense People with last-minute tax “Unless all of the taxes you owe are paid deductions in the event of an audit. Some of questions, can call the IRS helpline by April 15, you will be penalized, even if the deductions that self-employed people at 800.829.1040, but Madison you file for an extension,” explains Thomas may qualify for include a computer, office cautions that there is usually a long M. Madison, Jr., a certified public accountant supplies, a second phone line, a cell phone, wait in the final weeks before the who specializes in tax consultation and Internet service and contributions to an deadline. “It’s easier to get preparation. “If you send in an overpayment individual retirement account (IRA). Those through in the morning than in the along with your extension request, however, who have home-based businesses can also afternoon,” he says. the IRS will issue a refund when the taxes are deduct part of their rent or mortgage, but Tax preparers such as filed.” only if their office is in a separate room used Madison charge based on the Madison says he is swamped with calls exclusively for the business. amount of time spent on the in the final days before the deadline, and he With the soaring costs of health return, and the fees vary often advises clients to file for an extension insurance, it’s especially important for self- depending on the complexity of Thomas M. Madison Jr., CPA is located at 2701 and pay an estimated amount. Taxpayers can employed people to remember to take their the returns. E. Oakland Park Blvd., Suite C. For information also file for a second two-month extension health-insurance deduction. Beginning with By the way, if you know that about tax preparing and a free initial consultation, after the initial four-month extension, but it the 2002 tax year, self-employed taxpayers you don’t owe any money and call 954.561.8959, visit www.madisoncpas.com must be approved by the IRS. can now deduct 70 percent of health- are due a refund, you can relax. or send e-mail to [email protected].

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CYMK Expressitorials Editorial Cartoons JOEL PETT Letters to the editor Bush and Far Right Caused 9/11 and Profit from It The buzz all over ultra-conservative and put them on the Internet chasing men talk radio is that you better support this who chat with children. president and this war or else. Or else Ashcroft effectively sold his pitch to what? You’re going to threaten our the American people, that it’s more patriotic right to dissent? Who are these important to go after men on the Internet right-wingers and what are they up to? than it is to go after men with terrorist These verbal terrorists can be heard designs on our country. evenly spread across the AM radio Ashcroft played the pedophile beginning with foul-mouthed fascist “boogey man” card, and the price we all Todd Schnitt and resting at the other end paid for that shameless squandering was of the dial is shameless sex-per promoter those terrible images of straight, gays and Steve Kane. (Kane coined the phrase perhaps pedophiles too leaping to their “erection ejection” for one of his per deaths from those burning twin towers on sponsors—British Diagnostics—which 9/11. This event was so successful for the among other things supports the conservatives and Ashcroft that it is often sexualization of small children.) Buoyed quoted for the reason Bush’s poll points by the events of 9/11, conservatives were boosted. continue to use that event in their rallying Even though these conservatives call for an illegal war. Too bad they don’t caused 9/11, the American people support The Pinnacle know the “truth” about 9/11. If they did, them nonetheless. they would impeach George W. Bush and I think it’s because the American arrest John Ashcroft. people are so damned afraid that the Sept. 11 didn’t have to happen. The natural reaction is to get behind the of Toxic Cynicism genesis of that horrible day actually leader—even though the leader is corrupt. began when Bush stole the election from I believe there’s another dictator who fits Al Gore and installed John Ashcroft as this profile. His name is Saddam Hussein. Right-Wing Assault on Dignity Bill Is a New Low attorney general. Ashcroft’s first order By Phil LaPadula harassment and abuse. Among other things, of business was to reshuffle Janet Reno’s Arthur Slater Managing Editor it requires the training of teachers to respond agents guarding our nation from terrorist Lantana, Florida Wednesday, April 9, was a national Day to and prevent cases of harassment and of Silence in many schools around the violence. And it requires that existing country. It was a day for all students to reflect “civility, citizenship and character on the psychological damage and indignity education” curricula address these issues. Florida Log Cabin Republicans Salute Troops of anti-gay harassment and physical abuse The religious fundamentalists talk about The following is a message to U.S. while possibly sacrificing their lives— that many students God and “values,” but their troops—both gay and heterosexual— knowing that under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t endure on a daily basis relentless assault on this bill sent by the Florida Gold Coast Log Tell, Don’t Pursue” military compromise just because they are The religious is just another indication Cabin Republicans: the ignorant and bigoted view such different. that they have no The members and friends of patriotic duty to country as unacceptable. April 9 was also a day fundamentalists conscience. Their blind Florida’s Gold Coast Log Cabin Let our sisters and brothers witness that of silence at the state talk about God and faith keeps them from Republicans salute all servicemembers we hold them in the highest esteem for legislature in Tallahassee. On seeing the destructive who have courageously gone forth to the extra mile they travel in silence to that day, the Senate “values,” but their effects of their mean- serve our country, protect its diverse further demonstrate the diverse tapestry Education Committee chose relentless assault spirited words and actions. citizenry and share our understanding America truly represents. to remain silent on the on this bill is just They talk about of “life, liberty and the pursuit of We deeply and sincerely mourn the Dignity for All Students Act, “protecting the children,” happiness” with others who may not loss of life and any pain and suffering which includes protections another indication but they are the worse have experienced such cherished being endured. Our prayers are with all for students who are targets that they have no kinds of hypocrites, as they freedoms. our service personnel, their loved ones of harassment and physical continue to turn a blind eye We likewise thank those loved ones, and our leaders as we ask for a speedy abuse based on their real or conscience. to this insidious form of their family members and friends who and safe return home of personnel and a perceived sexual orientation. child abuse. They refuse to now address the void in their lives calm that will not only serve all of us but The Senate committee even acknowledge the because one of their own has ventured those in lands where peace and freedom tabled the measure without even debating it. suffering of countless gay and lesbian outside of the comfort of home and safety are long overdue. The legislators apparently didn’t want to hear children—and those who are simply perceived of community to defend the about the pain of children who are victims of to be gay or lesbian—who are harassed and Constitutional rights and freedoms we Florida Gold Coast anti-gay abuse in the schools. They didn’t want often physically assaulted just because they are guaranteed and subsequently enjoy. Log Cabin Republicans to hear about the destroyed self-esteems; they appear to be different. They are really only We take special note of the women www.LCRFL.org didn’t want to talk about the issue; they didn’t interested in protecting their backward and men who are committed to serve— 954.LCR.1995 want to debate it. Perhaps on another day, they superstitions and religious delusions. will be ready to listen. But on April 9, in the I take this issue personally because I was conservative-dominated Florida state the frequent target of anti-gay harassment as a legislature, silence was golden. young schoolboy in in the early ’70s. I was This Above All... In the last week before its scheduled targeted mostly because of my voice and April 9 hearing, the dignity bill was the target mannerisms. At the time, I didn’t even know I was To Thine Own Self Be True! of a right-wing radio, e-mail and telephone gay; in fact, I didn’t have my first sexual experience campaign that apparently succeeded in killing until I was 21 years old. I was slammed against the measure for this year. In a ranting e-mail, lockers and kicked from behind on more than one the Liberty Counsel, a far-right occasion. I was called a “faggot” and a “parrot.” fundamentalist group, argued that the bill’s The attacks were always unprovoked. Back then, provisions to protect students from there was absolutely nowhere to turn; in fact, I EXPRESS harassment and abuse based on their sexual didn’t even know that a gay community existed. orientation would “violate students’ rights Years later, I harbor no grudges against the to freedom of expression and religion.” perpetrators. After all, they were just kids, and no Apparently, the radical right sees anti-gay one was teaching them how to behave like decent YOURSELF! harassment and violence in the schools as a human beings. But I’ll be damned if I’ll remain “sacred ritual.” It’s obvious that they view silent while another generation of gay youth is crushing the self-esteem of 15-year-olds as a destroyed—their shattered self-esteems leading “holy rite of passage” for other 15-year-olds to alcohol, drug abuse, AIDS and even suicide. seeking to prove their “manhood.” I urge everyone to contact members of The Liberty Counsel’s contention that the Senate Education Committee to ask them Letters to the Editor: the dignity bill “opens the door for schools to bring this bill up for debate. I further 1595 NE 26th Street to teach our children that homosexuality is suggest that Florida’s gay community make Wilton Manors, FL 33305 an acceptable lifestyle” is the pinnacle of the passage of this bill a top priority. Or by E-mail: [email protected] toxic cynicism. This is not a sex-education Nobody has a “God-given right” to bill; it’s a bill to protect students from harass and torment another human being.

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CYMK John and John Expressions Wearing a ‘Scarlet S’

Syphilis Was An Unwanted Souvenir from a Trip to New York By John Templeton John and I spent a glorious month in on my back and side, and I became the emotional trauma. I was worried New York last year: shopping, the theater, aware of an itching in the palm of my about my health, but more so, I was the museums, the excitement of the hand—two clear possible symptoms embarrassed, afraid of what other city. Naturally, while we were in the city, I of secondary syphilis. My physician people would think. I didn’t want to insisted that we go to the bathhouse. What drew blood, and quickly diagnosed be seen. I wanted to hide. I didn’t would a trip to New York be without that I me—secondary syphilis. Apparently want to go to the gym and have other thought? In my mind there was something I had not fully recovered from the men stare at my IV pump. I was very exciting about being in a different bout with syphilis last summer. afraid that friends would think that place—with “sophisticated” men. John and Somewhere between Florida and my HIV status had taken a turn for me on vacation. What could be better? We Georgia, my medical follow-up had the worse, afraid that they would went, we came home, and that was that gotten lost. somehow know that I had syphilis, Nothing great. After giving me my first shot of that I had acted very foolishly and A few months later, I was diagnosed with penicillin, my physician told me that stupidly, that I was sexually a sexually transmitted disease—syphilis. I I would need a spinal tap to be certain promiscuous. I was ashamed, was shocked. I had not really given any that the disease had not progressed mortified, uncomfortable and self- thought to the possibility that I might be into the spinal fluid, which would conscious every time I went out of exposed to something—that kind of thing demand another kind of treatment— the house. I felt as though I was happens to other people. a scary thought. A brain scan was wearing a big Scarlet S on my What an experience! I felt dirty, used, required in order for me to have a forehead—S for syphilis. ashamed—all of those not good feelings spinal tap. Being claustrophobic, the This week, I will be freed from about myself that I get sometime. John was thought of being in that long white tube was that I had developed neurosyphilis and that my pump—free to move about as I wonderfully supportive. My doctor was terrifying, but I had no choice but to do what treatment would require two weeks of choose. Hopefully, I will be free from any sympathetic, helpful, nonjudgmental, but my doctor thought was needed. So I found continuous intravenous therapy. further health problems connected with very concerned because of my HIV status. myself enclosed in that narrow space with Suddenly, I found myself tethered to a syphilis. I already know that I will need to be His nurse could not have tried harder to make music being piped in and an occasional portable IV pump, nurses coming and going checked regularly to ensure that the treatment the weekly penicillin shots easier. The lady technician’s voice asking if I was all right. from my house, medications being delivered was effective. from the health department was gentle in her For me, it was 45 minutes of sheer terror. by UPS, learning how to connect and A little fun evening in New York: questioning of me about my sex habits—who, Luckily, the scan was negative, and a needle disconnect an IV pump, switching one bag syphilis, secondary syphilis, neurosyphilis, where, how, how often. was inserted into my spine to draw off fluid— of IV fluid for another, taking a shower while health concerns, painful shots, brain scan, It was a difficult time, but three weeks not a fun procedure. keeping one arm dry, having to ask John for spinal tap, an IV pump, a Scarlet S. later, after three very painful shots in my butt, It never entered my mind that the test help in changing the dressing. All Was that evening out in New York worth I was ready to move past the experience. would have serious results; I was too busy overwhelming, and yet by taking one step at it? Think about it. Hopefully, I had learned my lesson (again) beating myself up for my foolishness in New a time, I began to learn how to manage my about causal sexual experiences. Someone York. I was living too with the illusion that own care. John Templeton is retired and lives with would think that I would have already learned regardless of the outcome after a shot or two Perhaps worst than the physical his partner, John Siegel, in Fort the lesson, but I am slow to learn. or three at the most, all would be well again. limitations of being tethered to the pump and Lauderdale. He can be reached at A few weeks ago, John noticed a rash Two days later, my physician called to say the treatment routine that was required was [email protected].

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CYMK Price Lines Expressions The Desert Is Blooming New Mexico Bans Job Bias Against Gays By Deb Price Only three months into the new state Legislature reflects the Sept. 11 tragedy: legislative season, New Mexico has terrific Lawmakers, seeing that terrorists made no news to share: The cultural crossroads that distinctions among victims, moved quickly mixes pueblos and high tech companies is to treat gay victims and their surviving becoming the 14th state to ban job partners no differently than heterosexuals. discrimination based on sexual orientation. For example, the Legislature expanded the The desert is finally blooming for gay state’s on-the-job death benefits program to New Mexicans, who’ve sowed seeds for a include surviving partners of Sept. 11’s gay dozen years. victims. Last November, they helped elect a gay- “Our challenge this year is to expand friendly governor, Democrat Bill Richardson. legislators’ consciousness that our gay and “My advice to activists in other states,” lesbian families need protections all year, not says Gloria Nieto of the Coalition for Equality just on one tragic day,” says lobbyist Ross in New Mexico, “is don’t show up at the last Levi of the Empire State Pride Agenda, New minute and say, ‘We want this.’ We showed York’s gay rights group. up early to raise money for candidates and To help do that, the Pride Agenda asked to show we were part of the team.” two similarly situated gay men to tell To the delight of spectators with lawmakers how New York treated them fluorescent labels reading “Another New Image courtesy of www.Merecie.com differently: Because of the exception made Mexican for Civil Rights,” both the state by the Legislature, Larry Courtney was House and Senate recently passed the states are weighing bills to give gay couples California is considering a bill to ensure eligible for workers’ compensation death breakthrough bill. the state-level rights and responsibilities of that a gay couple’s child cannot be taken benefits after his partner of 14 years was The Legislature also passed a hate marriage, without using the word “marriage.” away from the surviving parent because of a killed in the attack on the World Trade Center. crimes bill to enhance penalties of assailants “At the state level, gay and lesbian tragedy. The measure would build on the But Bill Valentine was denied benefits after who target a victim because of race, religion, families are being talked about like never statewide domestic partnership registry his partner of 21 years, a flight attendant, sexual orientation or gender identity. Gov. before,” notes Seth Kilbourn, national field California created in 1999 — expanding it to died when his American Airlines flight Richardson has pledged to sign it as well as director of the gay Human Rights Campaign. give gay couples comparable rights to our crashed in New York two months later. the discrimination legislation (which covers “Gay groups are bringing forward gay men married counterparts. State lawmakers, long willing to ignore employment, housing, public and lesbians to tell their compelling stories. New York is seeing movement on inequities suffered by their gay constituents, accommodations and credit, and applies to That is really having an effect on lawmakers.” couples’ rights as well, following the are showing signs of listening. gender identity as well as sexual orientation). In California, Lydia Ramos recently told breakthrough late last year when the New Mexico’s victories come as many lawmakers about the nightmare she endured Legislature and governor joined together to Deb Price of The Detroit News writes legislatures are turning their attention to in a custody battle with relatives of her make it the 13th state banning anti-gay job the first nationally syndicated column on those of us who are gay. daughter’s biological mother, Lydia’s partner, discrimination. gay issues and is the co-author of Courting Much of that activity is positive: Seven who had died in a car accident. The change of heart in the New York Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court.

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CYMK On The Right Expressions Who’s Fighting the War? People Don’t Join the Armed Forces to Fight By William F. Buckley, Jr. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, is very by comparison with others. But even in the others. The reason is that “blacks believe bright and very witty and a public figure who bloodiest war of the 20th century, casualties they have a better chance of color-blind rivals Barbara Walters for omnipresence. But were, measured as percentages of those who success inside the military than in the civilian he can also be counted on to attempt an served, slight. There were 16 million in the world,” as Lisa Burges of Stars and Stripes invidious construction of almost any feature military in World War II and under 1 million summarizes. This translates to more blacks, of American life that can possibly be casualties, 671,000 wounded, 292,000 killed. as a percentage of the population, than whites represented as anti-black, his latest being the One casualty out of 16 serving. who make the military their chosen charge that we ought to abandon the The percentage of black Americans in profession. volunteer military and go back to a draft. the military is 20, compared to 13 percent of If Mr. Rangel is saying merely that Suppose that there were no African- military careers are marginally more American minority? Suppose that everyone attractive to blacks than to whites, he won’t was white, from which it would follow that be questioned, but the political-ethnic point everyone in the military was white. Would disappears. The study of Stars and Stripes Mr. Rangel still call for a return to the draft? relies on a report released by the Department The logic of his argument would require him of Defense in January. We do vainly to to do so, though the political bottom would correct the impression, but we try: “In terms fall out of his brief. If everyone were white, of Vietnam, the widespread impression that there would still be a higher percentage of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York blacks died in disproportionate numbers poor 18-year-olds than less-poor joining the during the Vietnam War is actually a myth.” Army, but the data would not be affected by join the military because of economic Blacks accounted for 10.6 percent of all ethnic correlations, and therefore would not conditions,” Rangel said. Americans who served, and 12.5 percent of attract the kind of attention Mr. Rangel seeks What’s wrong with that is — just all fatalities. The percentage of blacks of to attract. to begin with — the formulation. military age at that time was 13.5. Any cause that can be tied to ethnic People who join the military do not do so in the U.S. population. As it happens, most Not much is left of Mr. Rangel’s idea. attachments becomes noteworthy. Fifteen order to fight wars. They do so knowing that black service members, we are informed in There are some Americans (I am one of them) percent of American children have bad teeth! such wars as are fought, they will fight. If a Stars and Stripes, hold administrative and who believe in national service for everyone, In the nonpolitical world, such a finding is young man signs up to be a policeman, he is medical jobs. Why should that be? One major but the distinction here is an extension of the filed in attics. Fifteen percent of American not signing up to engage in shoot-outs with reason is that those skills learned in the very idea of a voluntary military: National blacks have bad teeth is a finding that goes armed robbers, but shoot-outs with armed fighting units of the military are of no use service should be voluntary, not compulsory, to Congressman Rangel, and on to the world robbers will be with policemen. when leaving. Accordingly, many blacks seek but social pressures to serve should be at large. Young men who volunteer for the out Army training, for instance in medical militantly in place, doing day and night duty But it’s worth examining his analysis, if military have a very good statistical units, that gives a substantial advantage by exerting pressure on young men and only to advise him that some of us are willing probability of avoiding much of the military when going on to civilian trades. women to give a year of their lives to the to take the trouble. “It’s not fair that the people conflict that brings death or wounding. The There is another factor, which is that country that protects their lives and their that we ask to fight the war are people who war we are currently engaged in is unbloody, blacks tend to re-enlist at a higher rate than freedom.

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CYMK Prudential Report Finance Understanding Orders Can Prevent Disappointment

Limiting Surprises When You Buy or Sell a Listed Stock By Dan Pye

While some people may like executed. surprises, some unexpected events However, limit orders are not can be rather disappointing, foolproof. For example, your order may especially when they involve possibly go unfilled even though the financial matters. price of the stock reaches your buy or Along those lines, a basic sell point if the specialist dealing in the understanding of what actually stock has a number of limit orders at the happens after you place an order same price ahead of yours. When he with your financial advisor may help reaches your order, there simply may be you to avoid some of the surprises no more shares available at your specified that uninformed investors price. sometimes face when buying or Also, most experts agree that it is selling a security and discovering advisable to monitor the price of your that the price they ultimately paid stock, even when you have a limit order or received was not what they in place. To illustrate the importance of expected. doing this, let’s say you’ve placed a limit Most orders you place through order to buy, and the price of the stock your financial advisor are handled comes very close to—but does not electronically. Let’s say that you reach—our limit order price. If the stock place a market order to buy a stock rises from that point, you will have missed listed on the New York Stock the opportunity to realize a gain if you’ve Exchange (NYSE). Your financial misjudged what’s been occurring with advisor immediately relays this order Most orders you place through your financial advisor are handled electronically. the price of the stock. electronically. Computerized order- Unpleasant surprises like this can be routing and reporting systems called “DOT” know exactly how much you’ll be paying Essentially, a limit order protects you avoided for the most part if you understand and “Super DOT” complete the trading loop for the stock. To avoid this, you could from buying at a price you believe to be too how to correctly use these and other types within seconds. This includes transmission specify the price you expect to pay by high or selling at one that is too low. Your of orders. We can explain in greater detail of an order to the NYSE for execution, and placing a “limit order.” For example, you financial advisor calls for the purchase or how they can work most effectively, and help communication to all appropriate might offer to buy shares at a price below sale of the stock at a specific price. The limit you determine whether you should consider participants that the trade has been the most recent trade. If a seller willing to order is then given to a specialist to execute making them part of your personal completed. sell at that price can’t be found, your order when your price is reached. If it isn’t reached investment strategy. Call for an appointment If you have authorized your financial will not be filled. within the specified time, your order is not at 954.713.0768. advisor to buy shares “at the market,” your A limit order may be limited to a day, or order will be filled, or completed, at the it can be left open until you cancel it, in Dan Pye has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry. He is best price available. In essence, when you which case it is referred to as GTC: “good currently Vice President of Investments and Associate Branch Manager with place a “market order” like this, you don’t ’til canceled.” Prudential Securities. He lives in Palm Beach with his partner of 18 years, Peter and their yeIlow lab, Diva.

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CYMK Commercial Closet Business Positive and Negative Spending Are Advertisements for HIV Drugs Up or Down? By Michael Wilke

Two years into a recalcitrant economy, This print ad for AIDS drug Sustiva, a The early part of this year is have HIV drug advertisers dropped once-daily non-nucleoside reverse “producing nicely,” Landry says, spending in some publications because of transcriptase inhibitor, or NNRTI, that but the highly secretive drug tough times or repercussions from old features a gay marriage has caused some advertisers have offered no long- trouble for DuPont Pharmaceuticals Co. attacks on ad images of hunky guys? The campaign features persons term commitments, “so I have no POZ magazine has experienced a steady with HIV reaching life milestones, idea what’s in store for the drop in direct-to-consumer HIV drug including buying a new home, celebrating remainder of 2003.” Recent issues advertising every year since 1999, its a 40th birthday and getting married—but of his magazines carry ads for the union is two men. Despite the strongest year, according to publisher and competitiveness of the category, AIDS GlaxoSmithKline’s Combivir, CEO Brad Peebles. While he declines to give drug ads have never before had such gay- featuring Magic Johnson (along dollar figures, he says that 2002’s total DTC specific creative, let alone taken on a with a similar looking HIV ad revenue was just half that of 1999. “It’s contentious issue like gay marriage. education campaign), Bristol- According to the company, the gay just not the same economic opportunity it marriage ad garnered just a couple of Myers Squibb Co.’s Sustiva and once was,” Peebles says. negative letters after running in a medical Abbott Laboratories’ Kaletra. Two years ago, AIDS activists and San journal for infectious diseases, yet this General media spending for Francisco supervisor Tom Ammiano was enough for DuPont to rethink its some brands has fallen, but more media strategy. charged drug companies with making HIV DuPont spokesman said, “We cannot are modestly up. Four-year-old look too sexy. The Food & Drug advocate or denounce any lifestyle Sustiva, which once carried unique Administration agreed with the criticisms ‘choices’ as a company, and it was not ads depicting a gay male marriage, and issued a warning to drug marketers that our intention, so we pulled the ad from slipped to $600,000 in ad support certain publications. We felt it would be criticized some of their ads for using images best to place the ad only in specialized from $710,000 in 2001, according ranging from “robust individuals engaged publications geared toward the market.” to Competitive Media Reporting. in strenuous physical activity to healthy- Glaxo’s two-year-old Trizivir (a looking individuals” and concluded they are advertisers to pack up and leave. “What worked a few years ago doesn’t work combination of previous brands Retrovir, “misleading because they imply greater Howard Buford, president of New York- now,” he says. “It’s unclear to me what role Epivir and Ziagen) fell from nearly $1 efficacy than demonstrated by substantial based Prime Access, which has handled a the economy plays, but it is more product million in 2001 to $216,000 last year, evidence or minimize the risks associated number of drug company clients, says, “I’ve lifecycle-driven than macro-economy with HIV drugs.” been in meetings regarding HIV medications driven. Few Non-HIV Drugs and they were skittish about going forward “There was such a large explosion of Reach Gay Media Intimidation or a with advertising to meet the demands of ads because that’s where the epidemic was Overall, drug advertising hasn’t yet Changing Market? community groups. There was a fear of at the time and where treatment was. There developed into a strong business for gay Indeed, once common images of severe criticism, regardless of the direction were lots of patients ready for that media, so don’t expect headache or cold muscular guys hiking and biking have given they took the advertising.” combination. It’s Marketing 101—the remedies anytime soon. Landry notes “not way to a series of everyday-looking people However, POZ’s Peebles attributes the companies were seeking a return on their much progress on pharmaceuticals outside contemplating their conditions. One change at his publication less to the investment. Fast forward to today, where of the HIV virology category.” One of the advertising industry executive now economy or attacks on representation in ads there are more and more drugs competing biggest spenders has been Unimed speculates that those attacks caused some and more to the changing marketplace. for a smaller and smaller number of patients. Pharmaceuticals for Androgel testosterone Suddenly, there are choices.” treatment, which exceeded $5 million in advertising last year, according to CMR. Publications Stay Flush Propecia’s budget from Merck rose AIDS activists have long criticized drug dramatically in 2002 to $1.2 million from companies for their huge profit margins, under $200,000 in the previous year. which for some regimens can cost about Peebles says he thinks today’s HIV ads $15,000 annually, about the same price as are “more appropriate, but I miss the single full page ad insertion in some aspirational aspect. There seems to be a lot magazines. It seems a worthy investment if of people standing around ‘thinking’—it’s even a few new patients are landed from an a long way from those trippy images of ad. Indeed, while POZ has had its difficulties, molecules they started out with.” HIV drug advertising appears to be doing POZ carried a cover story in 2001 about better at The Advocate and Out. the ad imagery issue, Peebles says. “What was According to publisher Joe Landry, upsetting was a positive image of an HIV- HIV drug ad spending “started off slowly positive person was considered a threat to in 2002, but picked up momentum in—the prevention. We got into the absurd situation second half of the year—ending above of what a ‘true’ image of a person with HIV 2001” total revenues. He adds that there should look like. People take sexual risks for all are “no long-term signs that things have sorts of reasons, and I think it’s simplistic to been adversely affected.” think that it is based on ad imagery.”

Michael Wilke’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Advertising Age, Brandweek, The Advocate and elsewhere. This column and over 750 gay-themed ads worldwide, spanning 30 years, can be found at CommercialCloset.org.

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CYMK Health Editor Health Update CDC Braces for Mystery Illness ‘Epidemic’

Executive Order Issued to Authorize Quarantine of SARS Cases By Michael James Last week, world healthcare Health Resources and Services AIDS Brochure Recalled officials told the U.S. Senate that Administration press release. The Florida Department of Health on the global epidemic related to the The 12 grants, awarded under the Friday pulled an HIV/AIDS educational booklet mystery respiratory illness is a Title III Early Intervention Services following complaints by civil liberties groups serious threat, but nothing to panic program of the Ryan White CARE Act, about the booklet’s religious content, the over, according to The Washington will go to community-based clinics, Miami Herald reports (Miami Herald). Times. hospitals, public health departments and The American Civil Liberties Union of “What we have here is an universities in nine states. The grants will Florida had demanded that the state remove epidemic ... causing problems in help fund testing and referral services, from its inventory an HIV/AIDS booklet virtually every corner of the globe,” medical evaluations and clinical care, oral called A Christian Response to AIDS, which Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of healthcare, drug adherence and includes quotes from the Bible and a picture the Centers for Disease Control and of Jesus. Howard Simon, executive director Prevention, told the Senate Health, of the Florida ACLU, said that the purpose Education, Labor and Pensions Health and Human Services Secretary of the brochure was to promote a particular Committee. “We’re taking it very Tommy Thompson last Thursday religious viewpoint rather than to educate announced $3.8 million in grants to seriously. We have to be prepared help provide outpatient and primary people about HIV/AIDS. for this to continue to spread.” care services to low-income people Simon said that the state health As of last Monday, 2,301 cases who are either living with HIV/AIDS or department bought about 13,500 copies of of severe acute respiratory are at risk of contracting the virus. the 16-page brochure in 2001 and 2002. syndrome (SARS) had been Health department officials said that the reported internationally. An brochure was on a list of state-approved additional 148 cases were suspected nutritional counseling, outpatient mental HIV/AIDS education materials. in the United States, involving 30 health services and outpatient substance Tom Liberti, director of the Florida states, she said. The disease — which has to passengers returning to the United States abuse treatment. Bureau of AIDS, wrote to local health flu-like symptoms of fever, aches, dry cough from overseas. Thompson said, “Today’s grants will agencies and groups to inform them that and breathing trouble — has been blamed help get people in to be tested and see “effective immediately no state or federal for 98 deaths worldwide since November in Medically Underserved that they receive early treatment to slow money is to be spent on the purchase and/ China, Canada and India. No deaths have Communities Get Money progression of the disease.” HRSA or distribution of this brochure.” been reported in the United States. Health and Human Services Secretary Administrator Elizabeth Duke said that the President Bush has issued an executive Tommy Thompson last Thursday grant recipients—all of which have Michael James is the Senior/Health order listing SARS as a communicable announced $3.8 million in grants to help received such funding for at least the past Editor for the Express Gay News and disease and authorizing a quarantine if provide outpatient and primary care three years—”have a track record of the Director of Public and Media necessary. The CDC has alerted people not services to low-income people who are providing outstanding services to people Relations for AIDS Project Florida. He to travel to the affected areas and has issued either living with HIV/AIDS or are at risk living with HIV/AIDS who need it most” can be reached via e-mail at 300,000 yellow health alert notices on SARS of contracting the virus, according to a (HRSA release, 4/3). [email protected].

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Meet GLCC event is held on Pride South Florida- Meets Tuesdays and Wednesdays Business Card Exchange - email [email protected]. in the parking lot next to the Saturdays at 7 p.m. Please Park Ranger’s Parking lot. every second and fourth (except holidays) from 1 to 4 meets the third Thursday of call the center for dates and Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at the Sage Luncheon & Program - Dinner afterwards. Call monthly themes, p.m. at the Main Library, 100 every month. 7:15 a.m. at the 954.462.7425 or 954.566.8413 GLCC, 954.463.9005. S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Holiday Inn Express, 3355 N. Meets the first Saturday of each 954.463.9005 month at 12:30 p.m. at or saafrontrunners.org for Tuesday Lauderdale. To pre-register Federal Hwy. 954.489.0307. Free HIV Testing- Tuesday and Sunshine MCC. Call more information. (Also meets call 954.357.7565. Society of Creative Thursday 5-8 p.m. and Saturday 954.786.5893 for reservations at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.) Sponsored by Broward Long-Term Survivors – Gay Anachronism- Meets the first 8am-12 at AIDS Project Florida, and information. 2817 E Oakland Park Blvd. For County Library/Bank of Men’s Group- PFLAG- Meets the second Monday of each month at 7:30 sageofbroward.org p.m. at Borders. The group is further information call America Small Business Drop-in group meets at 6:30 Sunday of every month from 954.537.4111 x100. 3-5 p.m. at the Unitarian dedicated to researching and Resource Center. p.m. at AIDS Project Florida, The Miami Oratorio Society- 2817 E Oakland Park Blvd. For Universalist Church. For recreating the Middle Ages in The South Florida Thursday South Florida's multi-cultural information call PFLAG at the present. 2240 East Bondage Club- further information call chorus is looking for new 954.916.9252 or visit Sunrise Blvd., 954.566.6335. Meets the first Tuesday of Art Therapy – Held the third 954.537.4111. members interested in singing geocities.com/pflagftl each month at The Ft. Thursday of each month. 6:30 Run-Walk and Talk- major works, spirituals, and Queer As Folk – Come view Lauderdale Eagle, 1951 NW 9 p.m. at APFL, 2817 E Oakland Beach walks every Thursday opera choruses. No audition Men’s Fellowship and the new season from 7:30 – Ave. (Powerline Rd.), Ft. Park Blvd. For information call evening with a group of women required. High school and Support Group- This group 8:30pm every Monday and Lauderdale, at 8:00 PM. 954.537.4111 x117. who take an active approach to college students along with meets the 1st and 3rd Sunday There is a $10.00 admission Thursday at Pride Factory, Reservations are required. health, and living while dealing adult singers are welcome. at the GLCC from 6-8 p.m. 845 North Federal Hwy. fee for non-members. Dues are $8.50 monthly/ $100 Meetings begin with a short with cancer, chemo, radiation and 954.463.6600. Free. annually and members business session followed by GLBT Youth Group of Broward recovery. 6:30pm at 2527 E. Catholic Mass- Every Sunday purchase their own attire. The at 10 a.m. with Father John Tuesday a demonstration or organized County- Youth ages 13-23 meet Sunrise Blvd. across the street Coming Out Support Group- Society meets each Saturday Joseph Reid at The Rectory, play time. Open play time from the Galleria Mall, next door every Thursday 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. afternoon promptly from 4:30 to 2749 NE 10th Ave, Wilton Meets every Tuesday at the wraps up the evening. Contact at the GLCC. Dinner at Denny’s to Wild Oats Market. Information: 7pm at Parkway Baptist Manors. 954.561.4545. GLCC from7:30 –9:30 p.m. [email protected] for on N Federal Hwy after meeting. 954.564.0880, Option 2, x123 or Church, 18000 NW 18th Ave. Everyone is welcome. 954.463.9005 more information. 954.463.9005 x225. [email protected]. 954.486.9164. To update, add or remove your non-profit listing email [email protected] or fax listing to 954.568.5110 30 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 14, 2003

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Cherry, Certified Rinancial William Borawski Business Acct & Tax Svc West Palm Beach...... 561.436.1261 Planner(R) West Palm Beach...... 561.627.7778 [email protected] BOAT CHARTERS Fee-only financial planning Nelson Sabbagh, CPA Fort Lauderdale...... 800.211.1202 x12955 Airboat Tours West Palm Beach ...... 800.435.2463 Accounting & tax services Fort Lauderdale.……...... 954.389.0202 INSURANCE Miami ...... 305.632.0865 Florida Gay Cruise DENTISTS Allstate Insurance/Karl Grace Thomas Marshall Madison, Jr. CPA, P.A. Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.524.1234 21ST Century Dental 2701 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Ste. C 2171 Wilton Drive Miami...... 305.933.GAY9 Don Nadel, D.D.S, M.P.H Wilton Manors……….....……..954.537.5321 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.561.8959 3038 N Federal Highway Build H BOOKS/VIDEO/AUDIO Correct Coverage Insurance/ AIR CONDITIONING Fort Lauderdale...... 954.568.9788 Jim Rakvica LAMBDA Passages Bookstore Andrews Dental ACA Air Conditioning Fort Lauderdale……...... 954.565.1731 Dade...... 305.754.6900 2654 N. Andrews Ave. 4700 West Prospect Road, Ste. 109 Singer & Associates, Wilton Manors……...... …..…954.567.3311 Fort Lauderdale ……...... …..….954.492.5510 BONDSMAN Life & Health Insurance Brandy Bail Bonds Bal Harbour Dental Center th Life, Health, Annuities, LTC, Disability Income APARTMENTS FOR RENT Fort Lauderdale…………...... 954.463.4333 2026 NE 19 St. Palmetto States Properties, Inc. Fort Lauderdale.…...... …….954.566.5428 West Palm Beach...... 561.624.6325 Studios – 2-Bedrooms; $600-1500 CARPET CLEANING Oakland Park Dental LANDSCAPING Fort Lauderdale...... 954.525.0210 House Carpet Cleaning Howard R. Cunningham, D.D.S. Blue Zebra Landscaping Tim House, Owner 2020 E Oakland Park Blvd 1017 SW 15th Ter ARTS & CULTURE Fort Lauderdale...... 954.360.0069 Fort Lauderdale.……...... …..954.566.9812 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.1149 1650 Harrison Street CEMETERIES DERMATOLOGY Exotic Landscaping Design Hollywood...... 954.921.3274 Lauderdale Memorial Ceneteries Peter Babinski, M.D., PH.D. PO Box 4580 Studio Gallery 425 www.browardcemeteries.com Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.5406 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.567.4133 David Mulvenna proprietor Fort Lauderdale.…...... …..954.745.2140 R.H. Ireland & Sons Hollywood...... 954.924.8574 ELECTRICIANS 3080 S. Oakland Forest Dr. CHIROPRACTORS The Electrician ATTORNEYS Fort Lauderdale ……...... 954.240.9701 Cabieses Chiropractic Centers 1536 NW 5th Ave Ft Lauderdale Tropical Theatre THE HIRING OF A LAWYER IS AN IMPORTANT Broward, Palm Beach, Dade.....954.522.3357 1776 N Pine Island Rd Plantation. 1139 NE 17th Way DECISION THAT SHOULD NOT BE BASED SOLELY 456 W 51st Place Hialea...... 954.559.1999 UPON ADVERTISEMENT, BEFORE YOU DECIDE, Fort Lauderdale...... 954.524.1112 Dr. Michael Cohen, D.C EVENT PLANNERS ASK THE ATTORNEY TO SEND YOU FREE EVENTors, INC. WRITTEN INFORMATION ABOUT HIS OR HER 2631 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd., Ste. 104 LAWN SERVICES QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.537.5558 Event & Meeting Planning for Any Occasion Fort Lauderdale…...... 877.9.EVENT.5 A+ Lawn Service Bruce J. Kirsch Esquire Gimbel Chiropractic Center Fort Lauderdale...... … 954.294.8911 3800 S. Ocean Drive, Ste. 218 Dr. Bruce Gimblel/Dr. Denise Gimbel FENCE SERVICES Above & Beyond Lawn Service Hollywood...... 954.456.0220 1907 North Andrews Ave. A-Hinze Fence Contractors 1231 NE 9th Ave David L. Jacovitz, Esq. Wilton Manors...... 954.567.1924 Marty Hinze, Owner Fort Lauderdale...... 954.540.6496 South Trust Building - 1 East Broward Blvd. Monaissa Chiropractic & Wellness Center 721 NE 12th ST Fort Lauderdale...... 954.630.8847 11200 Pines Blvd. Ste 101 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.763.7658 LEGAL EXPENSE PLANS Dean Trantalis Pembroke Pines...... 954.880.0101 Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc 2255 Wilton Drive Peele Chiropractic FINANCIALSERVICES Cynthia Lyle……...... …... 954.916.2031 Fort Lauderdale………………..954.566.2226 Dr. Kathy Ragone/Dr.Beth Cooper A.G. EDWARDS Matt Gill, Investment Advisor Curtis McCoy ...... …… 954.723.7745 Elizabeth F. Schwartz, P.A. 3296 NW 9th Ave. [email protected] 407 Lincoln Rd. Ste 4D Oakland Park ……...... 954.566.7222 Ft. Lauderdale, Fl...... 954.761.1060 LIGHTING Miami Beach………………….305.674.9222 CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES Edward Jones Investments Luminosity Studio & Gallery Jeffery Seth Selzer, PA Darcy J. Beeman Tony Beall Church of the Holy Spiritsong 2550 NE 15 Ave. Fort Lauderdale...... 954.566.4252 981 NE 45th Street Deerfield Beach 33442 ...... 954.418.8372 Wilton Manors………………..954.567.4444 Morgan Stanley Oakland Park...... 954.202.NEON Congregation ETZ Chaim Jerome & Fischer, PA Stephanie Small - Financial Advisor 3970 NW 21st Ave. 4331 N. Federal Hwy. Ste 403 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.267.5672 LIMOUSINE & CAR SERVICES Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.564.9232 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.489.1011 Smith Barney - David Starkey, Sr VP Chauffeur Service/Custom Transportation Holy Angels Nat'l Catholic Church Law Offices of Robin L. Bodiford, PA 350 E LasOlas Blvd, Suite 1200 Broward, Dade, West Palm .....954.336.7849 2330 Wilton Drive 2550 N. 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32 www.ExpressGayNews.com • March 31, 2003 MORTGAGES PHARMACIES(cont) PSYCHOTHERAPY & RETIREMENT Alliance Mortgage Funding, Inc. StatScript Pharmacy COUNSELING(cont) Treemont on the Park Brian "Tyler" Leonard 2605 N. Dixie Hwy. 3881 NE 3rd Ave., Oakland Park Susan A. Smith, L.C.S.W. 2200 NE 26th St Fort Laud...... 954.568.0108 Wilton Manors…...... 954.568.3789 Fort Lauderdale …...... …954.563.0276 6250 N. Andrews Ave Suite 108 Countrywide Home Loans Fort Lauderdale …………...... 954.730.4902 SCREEN PRINTING Rod Pans - Home Loan Consultant PHOTOGRAPHY The Women’s Institute for Fastsigns Serving East Ft. Lauderdale...... 954.332.2357 Andy Armano Incorporation Therapy 1747 N. Federal Highway Pride Mortgage Incorporated Fort Lauderdale...... 954.854.5679 Hollywood Pavillion 1201 N 37th Ave Fort Lauderdale...... 954.566.8500 2455 E. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 804 Dennis Dean pridemortgage.com Fort Lauderdale…...…...... ….. 954.463.8299 Hollywood ...... …...... … 954.962.1355 TAILOR Noel de Christian Fort Lauderdale...... 954.565.9665 REAL ESTATE Cassini Tailor Shop Scott Brill/GMAC Mortgage Fort Lauderdale...... 954.485.6659 th CHOICEONE REALTY/GMAC REAL ESTATE 934 NE 20 Ave 500 W Cypress Creek Rd Suite 190 Miami...... …...... ….. 305.553.2099 Guy Smith Fort Lauderdale...... 954.764.5245 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.771.4420 Shires Photography Fort Lauderdale...... 954.629.3700 Summit Mortgage/John Iarussi Fort Lauderdale...... 954.523.4527 TITLE COMPANIES Coldwell Banker/Andy Weiser Fort Lauderdale ...... 954.567.2939 All County Title Company PICTURE FRAMING 2495 E. Commercial Blvd th Transcontinental Lending Group 4875 N Federal Hwy 10 Floor Budget Framer Fort Lauderdale……...... 954.566.1015 Mario Petri Fort Lauderdale.…...... …954.629.5525 263 E. Commercial Blvd. Coldwell Banker Fort Lauderdale...... 954.240.8090 Lauderdale by the Sea……...... 954.267.9202 Paul Nolan TRANSLATORS MOVING/STORAGE Fort Lauderdale...... 954.258.4654 Rio Bravo Translations, John Chellino PICTURE FRAMING Miami…...... …...... … 305.576.0031 Always Moving (licensed/insured) Coldwell Banker/Tim Singer Smith’s Picture Framing and Art Gallery Know what your paying before you move. Realtor & Associates TRAVEL 719 E. Broward Blvd. Flat Rate Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.1373 Island Mountain Travel Fort Lauderdale...... 954.462.4391 Dade...... 305.650.9080 Darrin Spardello Community Real Estate 2852 E. Oakland Pk. Blvd. NationStorage, Inc. 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Dixie Highway WATER PURIFICATION Fort Lauderdale…...... …...954.525.5500 Intracoastal Detective Agency Miami...... 305.596.3991 Ramco Water Services Inc. 1511 E Commercial Blvd OFFICE EQUIPMENT Kim Garvy, Broker/Remax Consultants 10605 NW 53st Fort Lauderdale…....…...... 954.564.5455 1625 SE 17th Street Causeway Sunrise...... 954.873.6656 Copyco Fort Lauderdale……...…….…...954.767.1166 1700S Powerline Rd. Suite H-I PSYCHOTHERAPY & WEB DESIGN & HOSTING Russotto Realty Inc. Deerfield Beach...... … 954.881.7013 TForce Communications, Inc. COUNSELING Craig White Design & Hosting, Training and Support OPTICIANS Anita MacGregor, M.S., IMT.....954.254.2972 2242 Wilton Drive ...... 954.296.4236 Arthur Strauss, LCSW tforceonline.com Downtown Opticians Re/Max Partners/Dan O’Flaherty West Palm Beach...... 561.721.0842 South Florida...... 954.564.0782 800 Broward Blvd 2810 E OaklandBlvd Asher Center - Couple Counseling Fort Lauderdale……...... … 954.764.6962 Fort Lauderdale..……...... …...954.396.5965 WEDDINGS Dr. Jay Asher ...... 954.565.1901 Dr. Jeffrey C. Hilton, O.D. Terry Bush/Re/Max Partners Rev. Geri Posner, Interfaith Minister Dr. Carmine Pecoraro, Psy.D. & Assocs. Broward...... 954.524.9400 Fort Lauderdale……...... ….954.661.4550 Hollywood………...... 800.850.0358 Counseling, Evaluations & Psychological Testing South Beach...... 305.534.0539 Fort Lauderdale...... 954.463.2723 PAINTING/WALLCOVERING Cora Wujceak, LCSW Broward Boy’s Painters/ Jerry 1909 N. 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Rod Rigdon, of Oakland Park, taking an Express Coffee Break at Stork's

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Chris Yoculan presenting ArtsUnited plaque to Dough Houston

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Jim McDonough at the Lavendar Writes John Ramos, Gordon DuVall at Stars of Series at Borders the Rainbow

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Arthur Caponi at Empty Bowls II at MCC Jeanne Trembly, Cathy Tullo at Empty Bowls II Photo by Carole Fawcett

Jonni Javier & Charlotte Browne of the UK's World of Wonder at Chicklette Love

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Carol White, Allisoon Burges, S.F. and Karen Brown at Chicklette Love Alex Crotts, Denise Silvestri at Empty Bowl II At MCC Sunshine Cathedral

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