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7.24.2019 • 3 LGBTQIA bites By Cameren Boatner Bisexual B T Transgender Valkyrie confirmed as Marvel’s first bisexual superhero Trans woman’s killer dodges a hate crime

Tessa Thompson’s character Islan Nettles, 21, was walking Valkyrie will be the first LGBT home in Harlem in 2013 when superhero in the Marvel Cinematic she ran into James Dixon. Dixon Universe in the 2021 film, “Thor: Love began flirting with her, but once and Thunder.” he realized she was transgender, Thompson has said in the past that he pushed Nettles, she pushed her character is bisexual, but at the back, and he punched her in the San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, face, knocking her to the ground, she said that in the next film, Valkyrie, causing a brain injury that later who was crowned king of Asgard, killed her. “needs to find her queen,” according But while Dixon was charged to International Business Times. with first and second-degree President of Marvel Kevin Feige even manslaughter and first-degree confirmed Valkyrie is LGBT in an assault, he dodged a hate crime, interview with Collider: thanks to the “gay and trans “Yes that’s the case, and will be the panic defense,” which sums the case not just with [Valkyrie] but with defendant’s actions up to be a Delores Nettles, the mother of Islan Nettles, holds up her daughter’s picture. Photo via Facebook. other characters in some of the movies result of the victim’s gender or we talked about today,” he said. sexual orientation, according to Director of Development for the National LGBT Feige said along with Valkyrie being VICE News. Bar Association Seth Rosen told VICE. the first bisexual superhero, there will “Lawmakers have to understand On June 19, New York legislators voted to ban also be an LGBT character in the 2020 Tessa Thompson at San Diego Comic that this is a defense that devalues the panic defense, making it the sixth state to do film, “The Eternals.” Con. Photo via Marvel Studios. the lives of LGBTQ+ people,” so.

4 • 7.24.2019 LGBTQIA bites A Asexual Asexual teen murdered one day after coming out

Bianca Devins, a 17-year-old Instagram influencer, came out as biromantic asexual to her followers during a Q&A. One day later, she was murdered. Brandon Andrew Clark, 21, partially decapitated Bevins with a knife and called 911. He then proceeded to stab himself in the neck, take pictures of her body, and post them online, according to Out. “I have seen the pictures. I will FOREVER have those images in my mind when I think of her. When I and close my eyes, those images haunt me,” Kaleigh Nicole, Devins’ step- mom, wrote on Facebook. “Imagine Bianca Devins via Instagram. sitting there, in disbelief and praying to God that this is all some mistake even being able to yell out and scream or and that your baby will walk through cry because your soul has now just been the door any minute. Now imagine broken.” seeing those pictures and having Clark was charged with second-degree everything in you break. Imagine not murder.

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7.24.2019 • 5 news international By Cameren Boatner

around Exploring LGBT News Events Across the world the Globe Europe Carribean Polish Gay Pride march met with Gay man challenges violence, protest gay sex ban in Dominica The Polish city, Bialystok, held its Polish neo-Nazis via @PiotrFijakowsk1 on Twitter. A gay man in Dominica, an island in the SFGN file photo. first ever Pride march Saturday, drawing Carribean, filed a legal claim challenging about 1,000 attendees, protected on laws that punish gay sex with prison and both sides by police. psychiatric confinement. But the parade also drew anti-gay The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal protestors, throwing flash bombs, rocks, Network told the Thomson Reuters and glass bottles at the crowd, according Foundation the man is trying to prove to CNN. There was also an outdoor that the law violates Dominican people’s prayer vigil and a picnic to “defend constitutional right to privacy, freedom Christian values.” Some activists think of expression, and freedom from the backlash against the march has to degrading or inhumane punishment. do with politicians and other prominent Gay people are considered criminals in figures in Poland using anti-LGBT Dominica, and when the man who filed speech. the lawsuit faced violence, police didn’t “We are in the middle of an ongoing step in. wave of hateful propaganda, which is “He has suffered extreme abuses ... fueled by both the state and the Catholic The police deployed stun grenades including being attacked in his own Network told the Reuters. Church,” Hubert Sobecki, co-president and pepper spray to disperse the far- home, and the police did nothing about Gay sex is currently punishable with of LGBT organization Love Does Not right, violent protestors, and the march it,” Morice Tomlinson, senior policy up to 12 years in prison in Dominica. Exclude, told CNN. ended soon after. analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Asia Africa

Two suspects arrested in Malaysian Activists ‘mortified’ at appeal against gay sex tape scandal legalizing gay sex A gay sex tape leaked last month, Mohamed Azmin via Facebook. Botswana’s High Court ruled to outlaw Photo via Gay Umbrella Botswana’s Facebook. rumored to show Malaysian Economic colonial-era laws that criminalize gay Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin, and sex last month, but the attorney general police have confirmed they’ve made two decided to appeal the ruling. more arrests in connection to the video. While the laws are rarely enforced, Gay sex is illegal in Malaysia, and rights groups say they promote can land you in prison for 20 years, discrimination against the LGBT according to Gay Star News. Since the community, according to VOA News. video came out, Azmin denied being one And while gay communities find hope of the men shown having sex, and police in the initial ruling to overturn the laws, have accused the video’s distributors of activists say the appeal is a step in the creating a scandal to end his career. wrong direction. “We will investigate who is behind this “My heart was saddened by that, I felt ... it is understood that some of suspects’ mortified. We were moving forward; remand would end soon but we would we were making progress, but now it is apply for an extension to enable us to like we are two steps back,” Botswanan investigate further,” Police Inspector musician, and one of the country’s few General Abdul Hamid Bador said, video is most likely authentic, but out public figures, Motswafere Sithole according to Channel News Asia. facial recognition couldn’t identify the said, according to VOA News. to review the High Court’s judgement. Bador said police found that the individuals in the tape. A date for the hearing has yet to be set

6 • 7.24.2019 NEWS national

Photo via CNN. New Republic retracts controversial Pete Buttigieg op-ed Mariah Cooper Washington Blade

he New Republic, a magazine that New Republic editor Chris Lehmann covers art and politics, has retracted claimed to CNN that the op-ed was intended Ta controversial op-ed about Pete to be taken as satire. Buttigieg written by openly gay literary critic “The New Republic recognizes that this Dale Peck. post crossed a line, and while it was largely NBC News reports that the op-ed, titled intended as satire, it was inappropriate and “My Mayor Pete Problem,” references the invasive,” Lehmann told CNN’s Brian Stelter. South Bend, Indiana mayor However, Peck shared the as “Mary Pete” throughout story on his Facebook page the article. Peck also refers to “The New Republic and appeared to indicate that Buttigieg as “the gay equivalent recognizes that the story wasn’t meant to be of Uncle Tom.” satirical. Peck questions Buttigieg’s this post crossed “So I took your all’s advice ability to be president because a line, and while and made my view on Mary Pete Buttigieg came out later on in it was largely public. I guess I’m not going to life. get a cabinet position now. Or “The last thing I want in intended as an NEA grant. Or be honored at the White House is a gay man satire, it was the Carnegie Center and get to staring down 40 who suddenly inappropriate and have my Aretha moment where realizes he didn’t get to have all I drop my mink on the stage. the fun his straight peers did invasive.” But maybe if I’m lucky I’ll still when they were teenagers,” - Chris Lehmann get to make a president cry,” Peck wrote. New Republic editor Peck wrote. “(Entre nous: The In another part of the op- New Republic went with the ed, Peck writes that the difference between nice title. My suggestion was ‘Basic Bitch.’)” Buttigieg and the other “well-educated Despite the publication’s apology, the reasonably intelligent white dude who wanna magazine suffered at least one sponsorship be president is what he does with his d—.”‘ hit. The League of Conservation Voters has The article was published on Friday and cut ties with an upcoming climate change by Saturday, it had been taken down by New forum co-hosted by the New Republic. Republic after it was slammed on social “The offensive piece by this author, and media for its offensive content. the choice to run it, are inconsistent with Editor-in-Chief Win McCormack issued an our values and LCV is withdrawing our apology to Buttigieg and to New Republic’s participation in the presidential primary readers. candidate climate forum previously “I want to extend our sincerest apologies announced in New York City on September to Mayor Buttigieg, as well as to our readers 23,” LCV’s President Gene Karpinski said for an article that was inappropriate in a statement. “We will remain focused on and offensive,” McCormack said in the the important work of elevating the climate statement. “We have high standards at The crisis in this election and encouraging all the New Republic, but sometimes we fall short. candidates to be prioritizing solutions.” Yesterday we made a mistake, but we remain Buttigieg commented on the controversy, committed to honoring the tradition of high telling the Associated Press, “I appreciated standards and journalistic integrity that have that [the] article was taken down. I don’t been the hallmark of The New Republic for think it really reflects the New Republic that more than 100 years.” I know.”

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7.24.2019 • 9 NEWS local A Plan For Your Pet What happens to them if something happens to me?

Damon Scott

ost people don’t want to think about it, let alone Mknow what their options are. That is: what will happen to their pet after they die or can no longer provide adequate care.

But according to Sue Martino, it’s a Program to its clients. scenario to be considered sooner rather Participants are expected to set aside than later. $10,000, whether through a will, life Martino, the executive director of the insurance, real estate, or stocks or gifts from Pet Project for Pets, said the wheels started a retirement plan. The commitment can turning for her after attending “Coffee and be managed through Our Fund or the Pet Conversation” events at The Pride Center at Project. The Pet Project option also offers a Equality Park. Those sessions are part of the life insurance package. center’s senior services activities, and often Martino said 10 individuals have signed include topics about financial planning, up in a little more than a year. Sue Martino. Photo by Sergio Tirado. wills and other end of life issues. “What a lot of pet owners don’t think Martino has spoken at Coffee and about are the potential costs that can are done and all the needs and services are assist pet owners living with HIV. Conversation about the Pet Project, too. arise with their pets, whether it’s cancer provided for the pet, Martino said. “[Those living with HIV] were saying, “On numerous occasions people have or diabetes treatment,” Martino said. ‘Our social workers, our people are telling come up to me afterwards and said, ‘What “It’s important because people have to be us we can’t afford to keep our pets, what do happens to my pets if something happens to responsible for their animals if something Furry mission we do?’” Martino said. “Some people had me; what program do you have?’” she said. happens to them.” no family, everybody turned The Pet Project — which provides pet She said that while family and friends Martino, 64, has been at away. All people had was their food and other services for economically often pledge to take care of a pet if something the Pet Project since 2007. “My passion has animal.” challenged clients — didn’t have such a happens, it doesn’t always work out. She was named one of SFGN’s always been for The Pet Project places pets program, so Martino started to develop one. “They’ll say that, but it’s a burden; maybe “Out 50” this year, dubbed in foster care if someone is in One of her previous volunteers who is because they have other animals already “The Pet Rescuer.” animals and people the hospital and in permanent now on the board, Rex Vacca, helped to and then your animal comes in and disrupts Before landing in South who are seniors. homes when someone dies. establish the Pet Legacy Program. Vacca everything or maybe the animals don’t Florida as a real estate agent, It’s not a shelter, but Martino had worked for the Neptune Society, which get along. It’s a lot to expect or ask from she operated one of the first My mom had has developed relationships helps people plan for cremation services. someone,” she said. lesbian bar-clubs in New York [multiple sclerosis]. with the Humane Society of Martino also made inroads with As part of the program, the staff members City. She is married to Maggie I know what Broward County and Broward representatives of Our Fund in Wilton at the Pet Project take a detailed profile Martino, the hotel manager County’s Animal Care and Manors, and after a year of research and of the pet so that when the time comes at Aqua Hotel at North Beach disability is, so I Adoption Center to provide conferring with two veterinarians, the they can find a home that is most closely Village in Fort Lauderdale. have a soft spot for vaccines and other services Pet Project started to offer the Pet Legacy associated with the pet’s lifestyle. Site visits In case you were wondering, those things.” (like spaying/neutering, the couple has three cats and heartworm tests, flea and tick two dogs. - Sue Martino medication) for those who “On numerous occasions people have come up The Pet Project operates out Pet Project Founder qualify. of a building at 2200 NW 9th “We give [clients] food, to me afterwards and said, ‘What happens Ave. in Wilton Manors. It runs a thrift shop we help with vet care, we are a unique to my pets if something happens to and a warehouse — where clients come on organization. We keep pets in their homes the first Saturday of the month to get pet with their families. We give the people what me; what program do you have?’” food and supplies, as well as referrals for they need,” Martino said. - Sue Martino reduced cost veterinary services. As HIV diagnoses have transitioned out Pet Project Founder The nonprofit was founded in 2002 to of being a death sentence, particularly since

10 • 7.24.2019 NEWS local Feature pets the late 2000s, the Pet Project expanded to Can five-year-old Maxie help people with any disability or illness who are financially strapped. A good Girl (ID 616872) be part of Today it serves more than 1,500 clients your family? This gal, and pets between Broward and Miami-Dade counties. About 95 percent of clients are part with the great smile, is of the LGBT community. Prequalified clients pick up a two to three good with kids ages 5 month supply of pet food and supplies. For Photo courtesy of Pet Project. and up. She also enjoys those in Miami-Dade, a box truck is used to distribute the food. Clients qualify by (July 27) and “Pushups for Pets” (Nov. 23). the company of other Martino said the Pet Project is always in providing a Social Security or disability dogs, but will do best in a award letter. Martino said she will also help need of pet food, donations and volunteers. people who are temporarily out of work. There is a large backyard at the facility home without felines since “My passion has always been for animals where she needs volunteers to help with pet and people who are seniors,” she said. “My parties on the weekends. she likes to chase them. mom had [multiple sclerosis]. I know what “We want to let the community know we Maxie enjoys going for disability is, so I have a soft spot for those have this space. You want to do your dog’s things.” birthday party: here you go, we’ll give you a walks, is alert and potty- couple little swimming pools, we have doggie Furry opportunities toys, we have a BBQ grill, you know, knock trained. Stop by to meet yourself out, rent the backyard,” she said. Maxie her and she might be your Martino said that while the thrift store “It’ll help us with pet food and it’s a great provides some funding, at best it is about thing for the community. The community perfect match. one-third of the budget. Another third can come anytime actually.” comes from writing grants to foundations For more information, to qualify, donate The adoption fee for dogs over 6 months is $100 and felines over 6 months are $30. When you adopt from the Humane and corporations and the final third comes or volunteer, go to ThePetProjectfl.org or call Society of Broward County the dogs and cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, receive preliminary vaccinations, cats from hosting events, like the “Bowl-a-Thon” 954-568-5678. are feline leukemia tested, and dogs over 7 months are tested for heartworm. They also receive a flea/tick preventative, a 10-day limited health care plan from VCA Animal Hospitals, 30 days of Trupanion Pet Insurance and a bag of Purina ONE pet food. The HSBC opens daily at 10:30 and is located at 2070 Griffin Road, a block west of I-95. For more details call 954-989-3977 ext. 6. To see who else is looking for a home visit www.humanebroward.com. Bowl-a-thon for Pets The 4th annual Bowl-a-Thon set a fundraising goal. takes place July 27 at Manor Lanes The Pet Project is hoping to raise Serving the underserved. in Wilton Manors, located at 1517 NE $20,000 during the event. The entry The voice of the South Florida LGBT community. 26th St. Registration is from 9-9:45 fee is $50. Those who can’t attend a.m. and bowling begins at 10 a.m. can donate to the event online as The event serves as one of the Pet well. Project’s main fundraisers of the year. Participants can expect door Those interested in participating can prizes, a raffle and an after party at register online to start or join a team. Smarty Pants in Fort Lauderdale, As part of the registration, you can located at 2400 E. Oakland Park Blvd.

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7.24.2019 • 11 NEWS national Gilead hit with more lawsuits over harmful side effects of AIDS drug

Lou Chibbaro Jr. Washington Blade

nother two lawsuits were filed last significance of the liability that they are facing week in California against the U.S. based on their conduct,” which could amount Apharmaceutical company Gilead to billions of dollars, he said referring to Sciences, Inc. by several dozen patients who Gilead. claim the company withheld from the market “And second of all is simply to plant the for more than a decade a drug for treating HIV idea in Gilead’s mind that ultimately the best that it knew was safer and more effective than resolution of this is to compensate the people the drug it promoted during that period. who were harmed,” Weinstein said. The two personal injury lawsuits accuse “For years, Gilead represented its TDF- SFGN file photo. Gilead of intentionally continuing to promote based medications as safe and effective, the HIV medication tenofovir disoproxil misleading Plaintiffs, their doctors, and the over the TDF-TAF issue. of an as yet undeclared amount on grounds fumarate (TDF), which was known to cause medical community into believing that no That case, Adrian Holley, et al vs. Gilead that Gilead violated “Strict Products Liability serious kidney and bone damage, so it could safer alternative design existed that would Sciences, Inc., was filed in March 2018 and is – Failure to Warn” requirements; engaged in profit from the drug before its patent on the have saved Plaintiffs from TDF’s dangerous one of several TDF-related cases filed against “Negligence and Gross-Negligence—Design medication was to expire in 2015. effects,” says one of the two lawsuits filed July Gilead in federal court in California. Defect and Failure-to-Warn” related to the At the same time, the lawsuits charge, Gilead 12 in Alameda County, California, Superior In its motion to dismiss, Gilead argues that harmful effects of TDF; Fraud; and “Breach of withheld from the market a far Court. plaintiffs have failed to provide sufficient Express and Implied Warranty.” safer version of the drug called “Indeed, it was Gilead that evidence that “newly acquired information” The Smith v. Gilead lawsuit was filed five tenofovir alafenamide (TAF), “Gilead owed discovered and helped develop surfaced that would have allowed Gilead days after a separate lawsuit accusing Gilead which it knew would more its consumer the safer design around the to “strengthen warnings contained in TDF of the same allegations of failing to adequately effectively treat HIV without same time it developed TDF medication labeling after 2008.” alert patients to the harmful side effects of causing any of the serious side patients the in the mid to late 1990s,” the Gilead has stated in the past it has included TDF and withholding the release of the safer effects caused by TDF. safest possible lawsuit says. “Gilead, however, warnings about possible harmful side drug TAF was filed in San Diego County The lawsuits charge that shelved TAF, the safer design, effects of TDF for people who have a history Superior Court under the case name Timothy many patients taking one of drug, but opted in 2004. Gilead marketed and of kidney or bone-related ailments. The Williams, et al vs. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. five Gilead HIV drugs for which to withhold that sold only the dangerous and lawsuits, however, have charged the company “This case is a shocking example of TDF was a key component less effective design – TDF and with failing to issue an alert that TDF could corporate greed,” said Elizabeth Graham, one needlessly suffered debilitating drug from the TDF-based combination pills – cause serious kidney and bone damage for of the lead attorneys with Grant & Eisenhofer, and sometimes fatal kidney and for approximately 15 years,” the people who did not have a history of kidney an Oakland, California-based law firm that bone damage as well as damage market in the lawsuit continues. or bone-related problems. filed the San Diego case on behalf of the to their teeth. Also adversely name of profit.” “Then, when its monopoly “Plaintiffs still have not alleged, inter plaintiffs it is representing. alia, facts supporting when they or their impacted by TDF, the lawsuits - Elizabeth Graham on those TDF drugs was about “Gilead owed its consumer patients the claim, were HIV-negative Personal Injury Lawyer to expire, Gilead sought and doctors were exposed to any alleged safest possible drug, but opted to withhold people taking the Gilead drug received approval from the U.S. misrepresentations, what misrepresentations that drug from the market in the name of Truvada, which contained TDF, as part of the Food and Drug Administration to sell, and they or their doctors were exposed to, or if or profit,” Graham said in a statement. HIV prevention regimen known as PrEP. market TAF-based drugs, allowing it to extend how their or their doctors’ conduct changed Liza Brereton, an attorney with HIV In response to these and as many as a dozen its exclusivity on tenofovir and keep its HIV based on any such misrepresentations, Litigation Attorneys, a law firm created to or more similar lawsuits filed by HIV patients drugs branded and priced high to increase its as required by the Federal Rules of Civil focus on personal injury and class action and PrEP users in state and federal courts in profits,” the lawsuit says. Procedures 8(a) and 99(b),” Gilead attorneys lawsuits filed against Gilead related to TDF, California over the past two years, the AIDS A spokesperson for Gilead Sciences didn’t state in their motion to dismiss the federal said judges with the multiple California state Healthcare Foundation on Monday called on immediately respond to an email and phone lawsuit. courts in which the pending lawsuits against Gilead to create a $10 billion fund “for victims message from the Blade asking the company The motion to dismiss makes no mention of Gilead have been filed have scheduled a harmed by its TDF-based drugs.” to comment on this and other similar lawsuits the other key allegation in this and the other hearing in Los Angles for July 30 in which the Michael Weinstein, executive director of filed against it during the past two years over lawsuits — that Gilead withheld the release of cases were expected to be consolidated into AHF, the nation’s largest AIDS advocacy and the TDF and TAF drug allegations. the safer HIV drug TAF to enable it to reap its one large case. HIV/AIDS patient care organization, said a Gilead’s attorneys disputed the allegations profits from TDF until its patent on that drug “So it’s taken a while but pretty soon we’ll large compensation fund would benefit both that the company failed to adequately alert expired in 2015. be all in front of one judge in one court and Gilead and the more than 1,000 patients that patients and doctors of the adverse side The lawsuit filed on July 12 in Alameda things will be moving pretty quickly,” Brereton are plaintiffs in the multiple lawsuits against effects of TDF in a July 10 motion filed in the County, entitled Gary Smith, et al vs. Gilead said. Gilead over the TDF issue. U.S. District Court for the Northern District Sciences, Inc. includes 41 plaintiffs who are She said the cases in federal courts will “We had two goals in putting this out,” of California in a motion calling for the court seeking financial compensation for damages continue as separate cases. said Weinstein. “One was to underline the to dismiss yet another lawsuit filed against it Washington Blade courtesy of the National LGBTQ Media Association.

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7.24.2019 • 13 column letters to the editor An open letter to straight People

know that you think you have had a hard life. I know that you feel the need to celebrate your straightness, with parades, etc. That is your I right as an American citizen. But before you do, consider this: • You have likely never been told that your “heterosexuality” was a mental illness. • You have likely never experienced a childhood terrified and confused by being born different. • You have never been constantly bullied, harassed, and threatened, in school just because you were born straight. • You never had to hide your “straightness,” terrified that people would find out. • You have never been denied housing, or a promotion, or even a job, because you were straight. • You never had your family turn their backs on you because you were straight. • You never had to deal with a horrific plague in your community and hear people say it was God’s judgement on you for being straight. • You’ve never had to bury dozens of friends and loved ones because you were straight. (Yes, I, too lost a partner of 6 years. I lost count of all of the funerals I went to in the 90’s.) • You don’t NEED to march and crusade for “straight rights;” you already have them. • LGBTQ people aren’t trying to get “special rights.” We just want EQUAL rights. The right to simply EXIST. • You haven’t had to spend the last 50 years fighting for the right to marry the person that you love, or just simply to BE A PERSON, and be treated like one. When you whine and complain about the Gay Agenda, remember this: Our only “agenda” is simply to have what you have always had, and taken for granted. While it’s your freedom as an American citizen to have your own beliefs, we ask you to just think before you speak. Your actions are often hurtful... to a community that has experienced more hurt, struggle, and pain than you will EVER know. Be kind. You don’t have to agree with us. You don’t even have to like us. What you do have to do is respect us and simply leave us alone. EXAMPLE: I grew up and went to school with a guy with whom I reconnected on Facebook just a couple of years ago. He is heterosexual, a former pastor, absolutely believes in God and loves his family. He and I may have different views but he has always been extremely respectful, and often likes and comments on photos that I post of myself and my husband. I don’t say his name because I don’t want to embarrass him by holding him up as an example, but Like it or not, he is an example of the way we should all treat each other. Gay, straight, black, white, Christian, Muslim… it doesn’t matter. Whether or not we agree with other people, we have to respect their right to exist.

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7.24.2019 • 17 lifestyle food South of the Border Part 2 Rick Karlin Skip the Tex-Mex, and try out these authentic Latin American cuisines.

ast week, the opening of Almacen de Empanadas prompted a look at the varied cuisine of Mexico’s different regions. Empanadas can be found in Lalmost every other country in Central and South America. The cuisine of these countries differs as much as the terrain, weather and natural resources do. Some of the countries still show strong influences of their indigenous peoples; others still hold on to the traditions of the Spanish colonists while some have been heavily influenced by other European and Asian settlers.

s you head south from Mexico and rice is still a staple, and black beans are enter Central America, Honduras, predominant. Arepas, a pancake made ANicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica of cornmeal, accompany many meals in and Panama, have, for the most part, more Venezuela and Colombia while potatoes in common with Caribbean are ubiquitous in Ecuador countries than they do with and Peru. Peruvian cuisine Mexico, showing much Colombia, also exhibits strong Asian more colonial European influences from early influences. The oneVenez uela, Ecuador settlers coming over from exception to this is Mexico’s and Peru tend Japan and China. Bravo Peruvian Cuisine via Facebook. neighbor Guatemala, which Southern South America features more extensive use to have wider, (Chile, Argentina, Paraguay of chilies in its cuisine. The open fields and and Uruguay) are among the fertile farmland in Central countries with the highest Argentina Ecuador America, combined with consequently, per capita consumption of La Rural Argentine Steakhouse, 7351 Mi Lindo Ecuador, 8726 NW 26th St., temperate weather, makes cattle are easier beef in the world. The sole SR 7, Parkland; 954-775-0641, Doral; 305-718-8577, facebook.com/ it an area rich in produce. exception is in Patagonia, laruralgroup.com milindoecuador Plantains, whether sweet or to raise, so you’ll the southernmost region starchy, accompany almost find beef used of Argentina and Chile, Bolivia El Salvador every meal. While tortillas more extensively. where the Andes Mountains Bolivian Restaurant Las Americas, 2772 El Tamarindo, 712 Atlantic Shores Blvd., are used, pupusas, a thick ramble down to the coastal SW 8th St., Miami; 305-639-8836, Hallandale Beach; 954-456-4447; corn meal cake often stuffed areas. The scrublands here facebook.com/restaurante.boliviano eltamarindocafe.com with cheese, vegetables and meat, are also are more conducive to the raising of lamb popular. Pork is the predominant meat. and goat. Seafood dishes also abound in Brazil Honduras Northern South America, Colombia, Argentina and Chile, with each country Cafe Brazil Restaurant, 1436 E Atlantic La Costa Honduran Cuisine, 1855 S. State Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, tend to having large coastal borders along the Blvd., Pompano Beach; 954-782-5235, Rd. 7, Fort Lauderdale; 954-626-0714, have wider, open fields and consequently, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. facebook.com/CafeBrazilRestaurant lacostafl.com cattle are easier to raise, so you’ll find Again, the influences of European beef used more extensively. Seafood settlers mingle with those of the Chile Nicaragua dishes are also prevalent, especially in indigenous people to create a vast and Viva Chile Lindo, 4950 S. State Pinolandia,1290 N. Military Trail, West the coastal areas of Peru and Ecuador, varied cuisine. In this part of South Rd. 7, Hollywood; 954-327-2888, Palm; 561-429-4620, facebook.com/ where ceviche-style dishes are common. America, you’ll find many dishes using vivachilelindo.com pinolandiawpb Vegetables such as bell peppers, onions, legumes, pumpkin and olive oil. Chile tomatoes and garlic (often referred to as and Argentina are also renowned for Colombia Peru “sofrito” when together) are the seasoning their vineyards which produce some of Las Colinas, 2724 N. Andrews, Bravo Peruvian Cuisine, 2925 NE 6th base for many dishes and recipes. White the best wines in the world. Wilton Manors; 954-390-7410, Ave., Wilton Manors; 954-533-4350, lascolinaslatinfood.com facebook.com/bravoperuviancuisine Venezuela So, where can you sample some of the diverse foods of South and Central La Casserola, 6941 SW 196th Ave, Pembroke Pines; 954-470-5021; lacasserola.com. America? While there are many Latin fusion restaurants in the area, the following places serve up the real deal and are either owned or operated by Hungry for more?  Visit SFGN.com/FOOD! natives of the countries listed. I’ve limited the list to independently operated places serving authentic food. A few of the countries are not represented by restaurants in this area. Rick Karlin is SFGN’s food editor. Visit SFGN.com/Food to read his previous reviews. Have a culinary tip to share? Email Rick at [email protected].

18 • 7.24.2019 lifestyle two guys and a dog Reminiscing with Surprises

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e laid on our backs on the raft, with the slight breeze off the mountains gently rocking us in Tupper Lake. WLincoln chose the cool, soft pine needles on the shady point instead. We began to reminisce. It’s a luxury of one’s post-retirement years. My mind is free of work-related details, so I get to focus keenly on Ray. It’s fun to try to recall the beginning of a conversation. Ray was talking about how thin he was in the photo of him kissing me in my dashing Zorro costume. For several years, I dressed up for Provincetown’s Carnival parade. I was Merlin, the Maharishi Yogi and Rafiki, the wise baboon in “The Lion King.” “I was really sick that summer,” said Ray. “I spent most of it in bed. You were out on the boat every day. “I know. I had a great summer, riding the wakes of the ferry and whale watching boats. Did that upset you, or hurt you that I wasn’t around?” I asked, hoping to be assured “no.” “It was a really hard summer. I was Acceptance lonely, and I thought you were angry at SFGN file photo. me,” he replied. of the other, “I wasn’t angry with you.” “It felt like it. I think it was that summer as they are, that turned me off on Provincetown.” unless it “I love our hand holding,” I told him, “like “Why can’t you be more direct?” “I’m sorry,” I said, and I was. “But you walking down the hill together.” “Why can you say things less harshly?” didn’t want my attention when you were impacts your “I like taking your arm,” he said. “Just say what you want. You always think something sick.” I want answers to all of the questions that pop better is going to come along.” “No, you’re right. I didn’t want you life negatively, into my head about Ray. I’ve been with him for 43 “There are better choices than pulling into the first fast around, fussing over me, but I missed such as with years, but so much of that was spent being busy, food restaurant we see.” you.” and creating patterns of living that facilitated “I don’t want to talk anymore about it.” We stayed silent then as we rocked in abuse, is key to our busyness. The busyness has ended not only “How can you just fall asleep without reconciling? I’ll be the hot sun. I was both glad to know about a relationship because we’re no longer at a job, but also because up all night.” his feelings and sad. But, I’d rather know I’ve let go of the need for everything to be perfect Acceptance of the other, as they are, unless it impacts than not know. lasting. and under control. I no longer jump up and down your life negatively, such as with abuse, is key to a There is more than one behavior I to straighten this, and fluff that, so I now have relationship lasting. You shouldn’t stand for unrepentant regret. The same is true of Ray. Sometimes time to get to know my husband better. Doing so drug abuse, but failing to talk with the same gentle nuance we talk about the wounds of coping with the other’s failings, means talking, asking questions, listening to the answers is not a reason to call it quits. but we mostly spare the other from feeling any further guilt and reflecting on what I’ve heard. Ray is far less a romantic than I am, but we make room about it. And the number of failings, though remembered, Having deeply intimate relationships in our lives is a for each other’s difference in thinking, seeing and feeling. were few, and far outweighed by the extraordinary feelings privilege denied to many others. I don’t want to take any of We may not share the types of men we find attractive, associated with deep, abiding love. mine for granted. That’s why I ask. but we share values. We prioritize loving kindness over Tonight, Ray and I walked in the dark down the grassy hill “You’re a much deeper thinker than I am. You’re a great financial gain, freedom of spiritual beliefs over adherence to the dock, naked and holding hands so that neither fell. observer. You don’t miss a thing,” said Ray. “I just don’t to tradition or dogma and fairness over personal or national Lincoln didn’t go into the water, but watched anxiously as we think that way.” advantage. each swam in different directions, I to the raft and back, and Many of us are frustrated in politics that the other side I’m enjoying these reflections, reminiscences and Ray close to the dock’s ladder. doesn’t see things the same way we do, or communicate in expressions of appreciation and joy. Life is constantly “I think this is one of my favorite things to do in life,” I told the same way. But the same frustration, to varying degrees, changing. I want to be prepared for the changing ending him, “skinny dipping with you in the dark, cooling off before can exist in a marriage, and if we don’t allow for it, we suffer. my chance to better know my best friend. we go to bed.” “Me too,” he said as he handed me a towel. “I know we don’t have a lot of physical contact, but what’s your favorite form of it?” I asked him. Brian McNaught has been a leading educator on LGBTQ issues globally since 1974. He has “Yes we do,” he protested, “but I’d say it’s our kissing.” made his many books and DVDs available for free at Brian-McNaught.com. The New York Times named him “The Godfather of gay diversity training.”

7.24.2019 • 19 lifestyle photos Bruthaz party at the Grand Miami Beach Bruthaz held its Wet 'N Wild pool party and fashion show at the Grand Resort and spa July 20, 2019.

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7.24.2019 • 21 lifestyle photos Coming out to outsocial outsocial held a mixer benefiting the smart ride at the grand resort and Spa wednesday, July 17, 2019.

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J.W. Arnold [email protected] Cirque Spectacular THU 7/25 Comedy Producer Ronnie Larsen has extended his Naked Comedy Tour through this weekend with three new naked comedians. New York City standup comics Isaiah Mueller, Drew Lausch and David Piccolomini will bare all— even their “funny boners”—in this evening of one-liners at the Foundry at Wilton Theater Factory, 2306 N. Dixie Hwy. in Wilton Manors. Tickets are $35-50 at RonnieLarsen.com.

FRI 7/26 Concert In the mood for a concert tonight? Jennifer Lopez will be playing to tens of thousands of fans July 25 – 27 at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. Meanwhile, at Circus the Fillmore Miami Beach, Carly Rae Thursday 7/25 Jepson will be performing her biggest Cirque du Soleil returns to South Florida with its hit arena show, “Corteo,” playing at the BB&T Center in Sunrise through hits in the Jackie Gleason Auditorium. Aug. 4. “Corteo,” Italian for solemn procession, is a joyous event, a festive parade imagined by a clown. Featuring the Tickets for both concerts are pretty Canadian troupe’s unique blend of the artistic and athletic, the show transports the audience into a theatrical world of fun, hard to find, but where there’s a will, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. More information at CirqueDuSoleil. there’s a way! Tickets at Ticketmaster. com. com. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com. Photo credit: Cirque du Soleil.. SAT 7/27 SUN 7/28 MON 7/29 TUE 7/30 Theater Theater Film Television Don’t be a square, man! Experience Michael Aman’s world premiere It’s Movie Monday and this week, “Orange is the New Black” returns a new musical in the works: “Orange comedy, “Looking for Dick, Finding we’re headed to the local cineplex for its seventh and final season Juice the Psychedelic Musical” will be Jane,” runs through Aug. 4 at Empire for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon on Netflix this weekend. Tonight, performed in concert on Friday and Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Dr. in Fort a Time in Hollywood.” Leonardo binge on this critically acclaimed Saturday in the Abdo New River Lauderdale. The two smart one-act DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a and beloved series about the Room at the Broward Center in Fort comedies offer a look at what makes washed up actor and his stuntman experiences of the colorful inmates at Lauderdale. Afterwards, share your a family a “family,” and include a clever struggling to adapt to industry changes a women’s minimum security prison in thoughts with the show’s writers. whodunnit and some gender-bending in 1968 Tinseltown. Did we mention Connecticut. Netflix’s most watched The show features colorful hits from fun, too. Michael Bush directs and that Sharon Tate is their nextdoor original series made history with famous bands who didn’t make it local favorites Sharyn Peoples and neighbor and Charles Manson makes the casting of transgender actress to Woodstock. Tickets are $10 at Harry Redlich star. Ticket are $35 at a cameo? Check local listings for Laverne Cox and non-binary actor BrowardCenter.org. EmpireStage.com. theaters and show times. Asia Kate Dillon. Watch at Netflix.com.

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Greta Schiller, John Scagliotti and Robert Rosenberg, right, pictured in 1984, chronicled early LGBT culture in the Emmy Award- winning documentary, “Before Stonewall.” A remastered version is currently screening at local theaters. Photo via First Run Features.

s the LGBT community continues to in large, cosmopolitan cities like New York, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Los Angeles and San Francisco. AStonewall riots, a 1984 documentary “The reviews were very positive. When screening in local theaters reminds audiences the New York Times review came out, we that gay and lesbian community and culture were so relieved,” he said, but regardless didn’t spring up overnight. of the reviews, audiences responded The film, “Before Stonewall,” co-directed by enthusiastically to the landmark film. “I still Miami director, producer and film distributor remember people standing up during Q&As Robert Rosenberg, traces LGBT visibility and and crying. Older people said they never identity as well as homophobia in America in thought they’d ever see the story of their the decades leading up to the landmark riots. younger days on a movie screen.” Rosenberg, a New York native, was a young Rosenberg, who went on to found the gay filmmaker living in the city in the early Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now 1980s. He had become acquainted with John OUTshine) and direct the Coral Gables Art D’Emilio, a doctoral student at Columbia Cinema, still feels “straight America” is University who was completing his doctoral surprised to learn that there was a thriving dissertation on LGBT history, and thought the LGBT community in many cities before the subject was perfect for a documentary. summer uprising in 1969. “I was curious and thought it could be “It’s still big news. You can’t say that we a great movie,” recalled Rosenberg, who didn’t come from nowhere. The opponents to enlisted friends director Greta Schiller and gay rights will always argue [homosexuality] is producer John Scagliotti to join the project, abnormal, but we show that at least through which took nearly four years to fundraise, the 20th century, LGBT community and research, film and edit. “Of course, we didn’t cultural activity was bubbling up,” he said. have the internet and LGBT studies were just In conjunction with the Stonewall beginning to become a ‘thing’ in colleges.” observances this year, the film was digitally Rosenberg and his colleagues placed ads remastered and re-released nationwide, in gay newspapers seeking photos, home including in theaters in Miami-Dade, Broward movies and people with stories to tell. They and Palm Beach Counties. This week, the film networked at gay and lesbian community begins a week-long run at the Classic Gateway centers and sought commentary from the Theater in Fort Lauderdale. leading activists, journalists and artists of the “Even though there have been many, many day. The film includes interviews with Ann books and films since, [ours] is still extremely Bannon, Martin Duberman, Allen Ginsberg, relevant and we need to preserve these Barbara Gittings, Harry Hay, Mabel Hampton, voices,” Rosenberg added, noting that more Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, Audre than two dozen of the people interviewed for Lorde, Richard Bruce Nugent and Jose Sarria. the film have since passed away. “These are More than three decades ago, a important stories that still deserve to be told.” documentary about gay history only screened

“Before Stonewall” is screening on July 26 at the Movies at Delray, 7521 W. Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach; July 26 – Aug. 2 at the Classic Gateway, 1820 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale; and July 28 at Tower Theater, 1508 S.W. 8th St. in Miami. Rosenberg will conduct Q&A sessions following the Delray Beach and Miami screenings and on July 27 in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, go to FirstRunFeatures.com.

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