Champions of Equality for South Florida’S Lgbtq Community Board of Directors

JUNE 5, 2016

#ChampionsOfEquality #LadyWindridge

BRUNCH ON THE BAY Honoring this year’s Champions of Equality for South Florida’s lgbtq community Board of Directors

Safeguarding American Values for Everyone

Elizabeth Regalado Chair

Raul Rodriguez Joseph Falk Owen Carhart Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary

Ron Bilbao Chester Dowdy Giselle Kovac

Alexander Palenzuela Ed Pascoe Trelvis D. Randolph

SAVE Foundation

Brian Adler Carlos Alzate Chair Board Member

Staff Tony Lima Executive Director

Justin Klecha Devin Cordero Director of Campaigns Marketing Manager

Charo Valero Alex Spriggs Field Organizer Events Manager BRUNCH ON THE BAY 2016 Host Committee

Brian Adler & Omar Suarez Caryn Lavernia Carlos Alzate Zammy Migdal & Jose Szapocznik Ron Bilbao & Maria M. Garcia Rick Morgan Herbert Brito David Norman Nancy Brodzki & Lettie Oks Alexander Palenzuela Owen Carhart & Eduardo Perichner Christopher Cooper & Carlos Lopez Ed Pascoe Luigi Devoto Trelvis Randolph Victor Diaz Herman & Kris Castellano Liz Regalado & Tenaj Davis

Dan DiMatteo The Very Reverend Doug McCaleb & Claudio Gonzalez Chester Dowdy & Lemuel Curtis Lamb Jr Lynare Robbins & Carmen Suero Joseph Falk Raul Rodriguez Sylvain Gouy Gene Sulzberger Steve Haas Christian Ulvert & Carlos Andrade Andre Hicks David Ward & Cecil Ybanez Giselle Kovac Caitlin Wood & Martha Schoolman

Honorary Host Committee

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Commissioner Kristen Rosen-Gonzalez Congresswoman Debbie Commissioner Michael Grieco Wasserman-Schultz Commissioner Micky Steinberg State Senator Oscar Braynon II Commissioner Ricky Arriola State Senator Dwight Bullard Commissioner John Aleman State Senator Jack Latvala Commissioner Joy Malakoff State Senator Gwen Margolis Commissioner Ken Russell State Representative David Richardson Commissioner Francis Suarez State Representative Holly Raschein State Representative Jose Felix Diaz Commissioner Willy Gort State Representative Councilman Harold Mathis Jose Javier Rodriguez Councilman Scott Galvin State Representative Shevrin Jones Councilwoman Ivonne Ledesma Mayor Carlos Gimenez Councilwoman Karyn Cunningham Commissioner Audrey Edmonson Mayor Peggy Bell Commissioner Barbara Jordan Councilwoman Mary Ann Mixon Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava Mayor Cindy Lerner Commissioner Sally Heyman Mayor Connie Leon Kreps Commissioner Rebeca Sosa Mayor Gary Resnick Mayor Philip Levine Commissioner Justin Flippen BRUNCH ON THE BAY

Welcome Tony Lima, SAVE Executive Director

Recognition of Elected Officials and Dignitaries Elizabeth Regalado, SAVE Board Chair

Presentation of Awards State Representative Holly Raschein Presented by State Senator Jack Latvala

Dr. Hansel Tookes III Presented by State Representative David Richardson

The Right Reverend Leo Frade Presented by The Very Reverend Dean McCabe

Roxanne Vargas Presented by Tony Lima

Hall of Champions Award: Gay 8 Festival Founders: Joe Cardona and Damian Pardo Presented by Brian Adler, SAVE Foundation Chair

Raffle drawing

The Lady Windridge will embark on a lovely cruise throughout Biscayne Bay promptly at 3:15pm and will return at 4:45pm dockside.

Performances by the Diva, Maryel Epps

Tea Dance tunes by DJ Chris “Smeejay” Hodgson IS Proudly SPONSORED BY:

Equality Angel Level Sponsors

Equality Advocate Level Sponsors

James G. Pepper Jon Kislak

James Tyrell & Roger Thomson

Liebe & Seth Gadinsky

Jim Stork & Ron Ansin

Equality Ally Level Sponsors

Brian Adler & Omar Suarez State Representative David Richardson

Raul Rodriguez Tony UlloA Don Hayden & Brian Thompson Alberto Moris

A word from SAVE’s Executive Director: Tony Lima

Dear Esteemed Champions of Equality Guest,

For the past nine years, SAVE has hosted some of the community’s most prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) luminaries for one very special evening. This year, we are proud to welcome several hundred community, political, and civic leaders to attend our annual Champions of Equality Awards Reception and Brunch aboard the Lady Windridge yacht in downtown Miami.

The past few years have been the most successful on record for equality in South Florida, with SAVE notching historic victories for transgender nondiscrimination in Miami-Dade County and for the freedom to marry for Floridians early last year after our court victory alongside the ACLU of Florida -- as well as for all Americans last June as a result of the Supreme Court’s historic ruling.

At the same time, in retaliation to these historic advances, we have seen anti-equality extremists rush bills through state legislatures in places like North Carolina and Mississippi that legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people and worse, threaten to throw transgender people in jail just for using the bathroom.

The catastrophe in the wake of passage of these laws in places like North Carolina and Mississippi has vindicated our aggressive fight to stop a similar “bathroom bill” introduced by a Miami lawmaker in the Florida House last year. We won that fight, but we expect similar proposals to surface in the legislature in the coming session -- all because of lingering bias and negative attitudes, especially towards the transgender community, among the voters who elect our state lawmakers.

It’s clear that the only way to fight such noxious proposals is to educate the voting public. So we joined forces with the Los Angeles LGBT Center to develop a comprehensive, groundbreaking technique to reach South Florida voters at a one-on-one level which we’re calling “deep canvassing” -- and the technique was proven uniquely effective in a study published in the journal Science on April 7th, 2016.

We also enlisted the help of Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen, who joined us with her son, Rodrigo, who is transgender, and her husband Dexter to produce our groundbreaking PSA, “Family is Everything,” on the importance of protections from discrimination for the transgender community and all Americans. The PSA, produced in both Spanish and English, made national headlines, with global outlets like the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Univisión and Telemundo covering it. It was even mentioned by Whoopi Goldberg on The View!

There is so much to celebrate this year, but there is also so much to defend, and it’s our responsibility to make sure that those who are standing up for equality have the support and recognition they deserve. That’s why we are so proud to honor State Representative Holly Raschein, Dr. Hansel Tookes III, The Right Reverend Leo Frade, NBC6’s Roxy Vargas, and the wildly successful inaugural Gay8 Festival and its founders Damian Pardo and Joe Cardona. I extend my most heartfelt congratulations to these leaders on their selection as SAVE’s 2016 honorees.

I have no doubt that so long as we can continue to count on active and generous supporters like yourself, we will prevail in the historic struggle our community faces to achieve and defend our equality. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for your support and for helping us get closer to equality.

In community,

Tony Lima Executive Director of SAVE [email protected] 2016 Champions of Equality Honoree The Right Rev. Bishop Leopold Frade

The Right Reverend Leopoldo "Leo" Frade made it his life's work as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida to fight for justice for the oppressed and for the LGBTQ community especially. His proud stance in favor of accepting everyone as God's children traces back back to his time as Bishop of Honduras in the 1980s.

In 1984, he remembers seeing a Honduran preacher on TV telling people that if they had a gay son, “He is demon processed,” encouraging them to beat the “demon” out of the person. “I said, ‘Oh my God, this guy is preaching to hundreds of people,’ and they were buying it,” he told the Miami Herald last May. “I thought it was important for the church to speak up. What I was preaching in Honduras was the fact that we cannot kill them or beat them — and it still happens today. I was called a devil’s agent.”

When churches refused to bury LGBT Hondurans who died at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, Frade’s church in San Pedro Sula did. “For a whole year we were the only church burying gay people in Honduras — in the whole country,” he told the Herald. In the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s, Bishop Frade has continued to stand with the LGBT community through his outspoken advocacy in favor of Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights Ordinance, most recently appealing to the County Commission to pass the trans-inclusive protections added as the culmination of SAVE’s efforts in 2014. SAVE is proud to honor Bishop Frade for his lifelong commitment and outspoken advocacy for LGBTQ equality in his high-ranking position within the Episcopal Church. 2016 Champions of Equality Honoree

State Representative Holly Raschein

Holly Raschein serves as the State Representative to the Florida House for the 120th District, encompassing southern Miami-Dade County and the Keys. In her role in Tallahassee, Holly has served South Florida’s LGBTQ community admirably as the House sponsor of the Florida Competitive Workforce Act, which succeeded this year in securing its first committee hearing in the Florida Senate after ten years of attempts.

In sponsoring the Competitive Workforce Act, Representative Raschein has demonstrated a unique willingness to work with members of both parties to get things done in Tallahassee. She has worked closely with all stakeholders, ranging from advocacy organizations like SAVE to Floridian businesses to the leadership of the State Legislature in order to build consensus around the way forward on this critical piece of legislation.

“I was proud to sponsor the Competitive Workforce Act in the House,” said Raschein in response to SAVE’s announcement. “It’s an honor to be chosen as one of SAVE’s Champions of Equality, and I promise that I will not let up on this issue until all Floridians are protected from workplace discrimination.” 2016 Champions of Equality Honoree dr. Hansel Tookes iii

Dr. Hansel Tookes III is an infectious diseases researcher for Jackson Memorial Hospital specializing in HIV/AIDS who served a stint on SAVE’s Board of Directors in 2014. SAVE is proud to honor him for his outspoken advocacy for IDEA -- a bill that sets up a crucial needle exchange program in South Florida -- since his days as a student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2010, when he and several classmates spent months interviewing intravenous drug users in Miami. In addition to having one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the U.S., like much of the rest of the country during this decade, “we have seen the outbreak of a heroin epidemic in Miami,” he told the Miami Herald of his studies. “We are seeing more and more patients hospitalized for infections directly related to use of dirty needles: heart infections, sepsis, abscesses. These infections are all preventable.” Dr. Tookes has visited Tallahassee every year since 2013 to lobby for funding for the needle- exchange program, which studies show significantly reduces the rate of HIV transmission among intravenous drug users at negligible economic and social cost by distributing clean needles for free, so that users are discouraged from sharing needles with others. After failing in three consecutive legislative sessions, the proposal finally passed early this year, due in no small part to the tenacious lobbying on the part of Dr. Tookes 2016 Champions of Equality Honoree

Roxanne Vargas

Roxanne “Roxy” Vargas is a daily reporter on South Florida’s NBC 6 and also contributes to NBC 6’s sister station, Telemundo 51 with reports in Spanish. She joined the NBC 6 News team in May 2007 and has been part of the NBC 6 family since 2003. Voted “Best TV Host” by the Miami New Times in 2012, she’s currently the host of NBC 6’s lifestyle and entertainment show, “6 in the Mix” which airs weekdays at 11:30am. As a member of the NBC6 news team, Roxy has pushed the affiliate for more inclusive coverage -- making NBC6 known for being the first local network affiliate in South Florida to cover LGBT rights as a mainstream issue.

Among various distinctions, Roxy has received five Emmy nominations for her reporting and hosting. In 2014, she joined an elite group of women around the world such as Brooke Shields, Demi Moore and Maria Shriver, and was inducted into famed fashion designer Donna Karan’s Women Who Inspire Program. She was humbled by the community when she was awarded Favorite Media Personality in the LGBT Visitor Center’s Pink Flamingo Awards and received and Ally Award from Aqua Foundation for Women earlier this year.

“At NBC 6 we are committed to equality for South Florida’s LGBTQ community, and I am so proud to accept this award on behalf of the entire NBC6 family,” Roxy told SAVE in response to the announcement. “It’s an honor to be chosen as a Champion this year, and I’ll continue to strive to shine light on the important stories that we all need to hear.” 2016 Hall of Champions Inductee

Gay8 Festival & Founders Damian Pardo + Joe Cardona Miami’s new LGBTQ Community Center

proudly supports SAVE’s Champions for Equality. Pridelines offers support and social opportunities for LGBTQ youth and adults. We also offer health services including FREE, confidential HIV/STI testing and holistic therapies for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Join us at our brand new Community Center in the Upper East Side to participate in our programs.

For more information, call us at (305) 571-9601, check us out online at www.pridelines.org, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Aqua Foundation for Women congratulates our friends at SAVE for another amazing year of great work.

From all of us here at Aqua, bravo! Congratulationsto the 2016 Champions of Equality

Rev. Leo Frade

Holly Raschein

Roxanne Vargas

Dr. Hansel Tookes III

YOUR Contributions Ensure Equality for All

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Hansel rallies and pulls no punches for the causes he believes in. Job well done! From the office of State Senator Oscar Braynon #ChampionsOfEquality #Champions2016 #TeamEquality

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