A Year of Gay Independence

Top 10 Friends and Foes of 2003

December 29, 2003 Volume 4, Number 52 See story on page 16 A Year of Gay Independence

See story —and New Challenges on page 3 Court Victories, New Friends and Old Foes Highlight 2003

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On Tuesday, Aug. 12, the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus sang the national anthem prior to the Florida Marlins game at Pro Player Stadium.

Michael Stark, left, and Michael Leshner kiss after their marriage in Superior Court in Toronto on Tuesday, June 10, 2003. The couple have been together for 22 years and were finally allowed to marry following a court ruling Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Frank Gunn)

Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man to be consecrated as an Epicopalian bishop

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Naomi Parker, teacher and activist, with her daughters, Jamerah and Bria, in May.

Photo by Carole Fawcett

Sumi, Dori, Janita, Sophia, Mona Ashlyn, Isa and Dori at Aqua Girl’s Pool Party.

This 1.25-mile-long was unfurled sea to sea in Key West June 15, 2003, as part of the island’s gay pride festival. Eleven days later, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Lawrence v. Texas.

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Pridelines services grant recipiants, Rose, Priscilla and Natal.

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, left, Photo by Steven Shires looks at his Ten Commandments monument on Aug. Photo by Pompano Bill 22. The Judge has called for the confinement and Ann Bannon, author of many lesbian novels, with Hollee execution of gay people. (AP Photo/Monotogomery Sir Ian McKellen, recipient of the International Media Lane at Bannon’s appearance at the Stonewall Library Advertiser/ Julie Bennett) Award, at the Gay & Lesbian Foundation of South Florida in January. Recognition Dinner, Nov. 22

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2 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 A Year of Gay Independence —and New Challenges Court Victories, New Friends and Old Foes Highlight 2003 By Phil LaPadula comments in an Associated Press interview in which he compared homosexuality to Managing Editor bigamy, polygamy, incest, bestiality and adultery. In the years and decades to come, 2003 may become known as the gay community’s The candidacy of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) for the U.S. Senate revived the 1776. In many ways, it was a year of independence and emancipation for the gay and contentious issue of “outing.” After New Times re-outed Foley (The Express and lesbian community nationwide. other gay publications had already reported on Foley’s not-so-hidden secret), the The landmark Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court ruling in June, which struck congressman lashed out at Democratic activists as “rumor-mongers” who were trying down the sodomy statutes and decriminalized the lives of millions of gay and lesbian to “drag him through the gutter.” In September, Foley dropped out of the Senate race, citizens, was the centerpiece of the year. Many activists regard the Massachusetts but not before posting a statement on his Web site praising virulently anti-gay Judge court ruling in favor of gay marriage as “Gay Independence Day II.” But it remains to Roy Moore for his Ten Commandments fight. be seen if that ruling will have the same broad, liberating impact as the sodomy ruling, The mainstream media ignored Judge Moore’s hateful, anti-gay words when or whether it will instead fuel a backlash that could benefit the radical right more than reporting on his crusade to keep a Ten Commandments monument on state property the gay community. in Alabama. But The Express didn’t ignore the judge’s homophobia, pointing out his A highlight of the year for the local gay community was the election of Dean mean-spirited remarks when he advocated executing gay people in an opinion that he Trantalis as Fort Lauderdale’s first openly gay commissioner in March. Trantalis, co- wrote in February 2002. Moore spoke at the Rev. Kennedy’s “Reclaiming America for author of Broward County’s domestic partnership law, won by 50 votes over John Christ” conference before being fired from his job as chief justice of the Alabama Albee, benefiting from his support in the gay community as well as his position on Supreme Court for defying a federal court order. reining in over-development in the city. In October, gay activists accused President Bush of aligning himself with the far While the year saw the elevation of old friends like Trantalis, it was also a year in right after he after he issued a proclamation in support of the so-called “Marriage which the gay community made new friends in unexpected places. Justice Anthony Protection Week,” an anti-gay event organized and sponsored by several far-right Kennedy, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, surprised groups. many observers when he penned the progressive majority opinion in Lawrence v. As the year wrapped up, The Express itself made news when the paper’s founder Texas, which declared that gay and lesbian people are “entitled to respect for their and publisher Norm Kent sold the 4-year-old weekly to Unite Media. The new owners private lives. The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by promised to enhance the paper and continue its emphasis on local coverage with “a making their private sexual conduct a crime.” strong focus on national issues.” Meanwhile, the South Florida gay community also made new friends in the world So here we are with new captains at the helm about to guide the South Florida of professional sports—an industry that has not been known for its tolerant attitudes GLBT community through the uncharted waters of an election year. toward homosexuality. On March 24, the Florida Panthers hockey team made history, Before 2003 sinks beneath the horizon, here’s a look back at some of the top becoming the first professional sports franchise in South Florida to engage in a stories of the year: partnership with an AIDS service organization to promote an HIV awareness night. In June, the Florida Marlins baseball team became the first American professional sports Norm Kent Takes the Helm at CHC/CenterOne franchise to enter into a long-term advertising contract with a gay newspaper, signing Jan. 13, 2003- Express Publisher Norm Kent will soon be wearing another hat. The a deal with The Express and also agreeing to host an AIDS Awareness Night at Pro 53-year-old attorney and radio talk show host has agreed to become the executive Player Stadium on Aug. 11. director of Community Health Care/CenterOne (CHC/CenterOne). In October, the local gay and lesbian community lost one of its best friends when “The agency is the oldest and largest HIV service provider in Broward, and it philanthropist and writer John Graves died. The packed house and at the MCC Sunshine needs to be given a new voice, greater advocacy and more attention,” Kent said. Cathedral for Graves’s memorial service was testament to the affection that the Panthers Goal: A Cure National Hockey League community felt toward a man whose generosity was crucial to the Sunshine Cathedral, Club, AIDS Project Florida Team Up the Stonewall Library and many other GLBT organizations. Jan. 27, 2003- This weekend, the Florida Panthers will make history by hosting the Despite the ground-breaking advances in 2003, it was also a paradoxical year for first ever National Hockey League All Star game in South Florida in their home arena, the gay community. Reports throughout the year of a resurgent HIV epidemic and the Office Depot Center in Sunrise. soaring syphilis rates in the gay community tempered the elation about the court On March 24, they will make history again, becoming the first professional sports victories. And the continual reports of harassment and false arrests of gay men in franchise in South Florida to engage in a partnership with an AIDS service organization John Lloyd State Park raised serious concerns about civil rights violations and made to promote an HIV awareness night. The Monday evening game, against the popular many people question just how gay-friendly South Florida really is. New Jersey Devils, will be promoted as “Skating for a Cure.” People with HIV and other serious illnesses had to fight for their lives after Gov. Jeb Bush eliminated funding for the Medicaid Medically Needy program that they Wansiki Foundation Washes Out rely on to pay for their medications. After a long grass-roots lobbying campaign, the Feb 3, 2003- Over the past 15 years, the Wansiki Clinic has continued to deliver one- Florida legislature finally agreed to restore funding for the program, but with co-pays on-one services to the HIV community in the face of numerous financial crises, but its that put more financial hardship on the people in the program. world came crashing down last week, when its founder disappeared amidst allegations The war of the words between the far right and the gay community heated up of financial mismanagement and possible fraud. with some of the most incendiary rhetoric to day spewing from the mouths of people The clinic, whose funding sources were due to expire on Feb. 28, was suddenly like talk show host Michael Savage and Sen. Rick Santorum. Savage was fired from his shut down only a few days after county officials discovered vast irregularities in their job at MSNBC after referring to a caller as a “sodomite” and telling him to “get AIDS finances and the delivery of its complement of social services. an die.” Santorum kept his job as a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate despite his See YEAR IN REVIEW on page 4

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 3 YEAR IN REVIEW from page 3 Abandoned by Bush? Hines has had had to face the issue of hate head on. Feb. 10, 2003- Derrick Hankerson has been living with HIV/AIDS for eight years. Kantaras Case Hailed as Landmark Transgender Since he retired on Social Security disability, Henderson Ruling has relied on the state’s Medically Needy Share of Cost March 3, 2003-The case of Michael Kantaras, a transgender man who was recently program for money to buy his medications and provide awarded custody of his two children in Clearwater, Florida, is being hailed by human other services not covered by Medicare. “On my current rights activists and legal experts as a landmark decision that validates the lives of regimen, I’ve been very successful in regaining a healthy transgender people. and happy life,” he said. The court ruled that Kantaras should serve as “the primary residential parent” for But Hankerson’s restored health—and possibly his his two children—his former wife Linda’s son, whom he had adopted, and a daughter life—are now in jeopardy since Gov. Jeb Bush eliminated Linda Kantaras had conceived during their marriage with donated sperm. funding for the Medicaid program that is a lifeline to him. Several factors figured into the court’s decision, including the legal definition of The program’s possible demise also affects thousands of marriage in the state of Florida, “parental alienation” and medical evidence regarding other people living with HIV, transplant patients as well as transsexual people. people suffering from a variety of catastrophic illnesses. Funding for the program is scheduled to expire on April 30 City May Shut Down GLCC Flea Market unless the Florida legislature acts to restore it. Gov. Bush March 10, 2003- For more than two years, vendors have set up booths in the parking lot has not included any funding for the program in his 2003- of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida (GLCC) to sell everything 2004 budget. from antiques to plants, jewelry, original silver productions andContinued “Jerry’s Jams.”on Next Page “If this program ends, it really will cause a health Held the first and third Saturday of each month, the increasingly popular flea market crisis—both a physical health crisis and a mental health raises much-needed money for the GLCC. But the flea market may soon be shut down by Photo by Steven Shires the city of Fort Lauderdale. Its operators recently received a citation from the city. The Derrick Hankerson crisis, as well as a financial crisis—for me,” Hankerson said. citation accuses the market’s operators of “engaging in a business without first obtaining an occupational license,” a violation of city code 15-28. But here’s the Catch 22: There’s Broward County’s Teacher of the Year no way of obtaining such a license. Speaks Out on Hate Crimes Dean Trantalis Wins ‘Squeaker’ to Feb. 24, 2003- Now that the initial surprise and excitement have passed of being named Broward Become City’s First Openly Gay County’s Teacher of The Year, Connie Hines is Commission speaking out on a topic she is all too familiar with— March 17, 2003-It was like a pregnant pause in history— hate crimes. waiting for the last two precincts to report in the Hines, an openly gay teacher from Sunrise Middle breathtakingly close Trantalis-Albee city commission race. School who received the district’s highest honor, At Trantalis headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, they waited— recently spoke to an assembly of her peers on the issue and waited. Finally, one of the precincts reported, and of hate crimes at the Broward’s Teachers Union in Trantalis was still clinging to a razor-thin 35-vote lead. Tamarac. At about 10:30 p.m., the Trantalis camp calculated that it “I’m not an expert, but I have experienced it,” Hines was mathematically impossible for John Albee to win based told her fellow colleagues. In fact, experiencing personal Photo by Steven Shires on the number of voters in the final, unreported precinct. acts of hate led Hines to take a pro-active stance on the So the confetti and balloons were let loose. Fort Lauderdale City Commission candidate Dean Trantalis with his issue and to admit to her students and colleagues that campaign volunteers and staff, advanced to a run off. had just elected its first openly gay city commissioner. she was gay. From hate letters to shrewd comments,

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Local Gay Politicos Weigh in on the War mail to its members, the Liberty Counsel argued that the bill’s provisions to protect students March 24, 2003- As the bombs began to fall on Baghdad last week, many people took from harassment and physical abuse based on their sexual orientation would “violate time out from their daily routines to watch TV coverage of the war. But the debate students’ rights to freedom of expression and religion.” about the controversial conflict—and the protests—never took a break. Senators and Protesters Unite Against Budget Cuts The Express interviewed several gay and lesbian political leaders. While they April 21, 2003- About 150 people, many carrying pieces of art and placards protesting expressed a wide range of opinions, the majority opposed the U.S.-led war. In fact, only the state’s proposed zero funding of the arts, gathered at the Broward County one, a spokesman for the local Log Cabin Republicans, voiced support for President Government Center in Fort Lauderdale Thursday, April 17, at a press conference and Bush’s policy. But he is not alone in the gay community. Express publisher Norm Kent rally designed to show the dire consequences of the proposed budget cuts and the also supports the war effort. extent of opposition to them. Syphilis Cases Exploding Sen. Steve Geller, Sen. Walter “Skip” Throughout South Florida Campbell and Sen. Debbie Wasserman March 31, 2003- A local healthcare task force has decided Schultz spearheaded the press conference, that “shock and awe” ad campaigns have not prevented the which was one of many noon gatherings explosion of syphilis infections in Broward County. The task held throughout Florida on Thursday, in force, which consists of employees of the county health an effort to inform citizens and urge them department as well as community leaders, is now formulating to make their voices heard to state a new awareness campaign to educate people about the threat legislators. of syphilis infection, particularly as a gateway to HIV infection. Wide Range of Groups According to data provided by the Broward County Denounce Santorum’s Health Department, the number of infectious syphilis cases Anti-Gay Remarks increased 177 percent in the county in 2002. The county also April 28, 2003- Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R- reported a 456 percent increase in new syphilis cases in the Pa.) interview with the Associated Press hit population of men who have sex with men (MSM). The number like a bomb last Monday, leaving a billowing of new infections jumped from 32 cases in 2001 to 178 cases in Photo by Mary Damiano cloud of press statements in its wake. The 2002 in the MSM category. Of those 178 cases, 85 percent Sens. Skip Campbell, Steve Geller and Debbie Wasserman at the senator’s comments comparing were co-infected with HIV. April 17 rally against state budget cuts affecting the medically needy homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest, program and the arts. Bill Protecting Students from Abuse bestiality and adultery were quickly Stalls After Fundamentalist E-Mail denounced by a wide range of groups and Blitz individuals, including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Log Cabin Republicans, April 14, 2003- The Florida Senate Education Committee on April 9 “tabled” a bill that the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) and presidential candidate Howard seeks to protect students from harassment and abuse based on their sexual orientation, Dean. race and several other criteria. The Dignity for All Students Act was read before the The AP interview was published on Monday, April 21. By mid-day Tuesday, press committee, but the senators then tabled the measure without debating or voting on it. releases from a wide range of groups were flooding the e-mail in-boxes of newspapers The move means that the bill is probably dead in this year’s session of the legislature, all over the country. As the week progressed, the statements denouncing Santorum’s but there is a chance that it could be brought back for debate if members of the committee remarks continued to pour in, with an increasing number calling for the senator to receive enough pressure from constituents who support it. resign his post as chairman of the Republican Conference, the third highest party The decision to “pass” on the bill came after a last-minute telephone, e-mail campaign position in the Senate. by the Liberty Counsel, a right-wing religious group that opposes the measure. In an e- See YEAR IN REVIEW on page 6

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 5 YEAR IN REVIEW from page5 Budget Impasse Leaves Medically Needy in Limbo Stealth Bill’ Killed May 5, 2003- The long-term fate of the Medicaid Medically Needy Share of Cost May 19, 2003-The mayor of Lake Worth and a statewide civil rights group have program remains in limbo, as the Florida Legislature adjourned May 2 without passing expressed outrage over a “stealth bill” introduced in the Florida Legislature that would a state budget. But a spokesperson for Sen. Mandy Dawson said the senator is very have overturned every local gay rights ordinance in the state. confident that the program will be fully funded when the legislature returns for a special In the closing days of the regular legislative session, Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, session on May 12. attached an amendment to a civil rights bill that would have repealed civil rights “The Senate leadership, the House leadership and the governor have all promised protections in local ordinances for all categories not included in state laws, including that the program will be fully funded for the next fiscal year without the $450 ‘spend- sexual orientation. The amendment was killed by voice vote in committee, but its down’ requirement,” said Rona Silberman, chief of staff for Sen. Dawson. conservative supporters have promised to bring it up again. Harassment at John Lloyd State Park? ‘Bag-a-Fag’ Tactics Continue May 5, 2003- In the first reported cases of what would be numerous incidents over the May 26, 2003- Two more gay men have come forward to complain about harassment at course of the year, two local gay men say a state park officer harassed them when he John Lloyd Beach State Park. Both men said they were harassed by the same park gave them citations and threatened to “take them officer, D. Jones, who was the subject of an article in the May 12 down to the station” for sitting in a restricted part of edition of The Express—in which two other local men said they John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Dania Beach. were given citations and threatened with imprisonment by a The two men, who were cited in separate belligerent Jones. incidents, each face a possible fine of $500 and/or jail Tony Rubeo received a written warning from Jones for sitting time for sitting in an environmentally protected area on a restricted part of the beach. Rubeo, like the two men quoted in just above a part of the beach that is a popular hangout the May 12 article, said he was unaware that he was sitting in a for gay men. Both men say they were unaware that restricted area. they were sitting in a restricted area. Marlins First Major League Team to Rep. Mark Foley ‘Re-Outed’ Advertise Long-Term with a Gay May 19, 2003- Whether he wanted to make it an issue Newspaper or not, Republican Rep. Mark Foley’s homosexuality June 2, 2003- The Florida Marlins made history this week has now become a national news story. Last week, the when they became the first major American professional sports Broward edition of New Times ran an article declaring franchise to enter into a long-term advertising contract with a major that the U.S. Senate candidate is gay. Staff writer Bob gay newspaper. Norman’s column, highlighted on the front page of The Express, the largest gay weekly newspaper in the State of New Times, relied on articles that were originally Florida, and the Marlins have entered into a season-long promotion. printed in The Express, but made only passing The promotional deal will culminate in an AIDS Awareness Night references to the paper. on Aug. 11, which will benefit AIDS Project Florida and Care The lengthy feature revealing the “open secret” Resource. of Foley’s sexuality ran in the May 8 edition of New Sean Flynn, vice president of marketing for the Florida Marlins, Times. Norman concedes that it is “no revelation to announced that the team’s initiative is one more effort to “adopt a political and media types” that the Republican policy of inclusion for all South Florida sports fans.” congressman is gay. “Everyone knows it, though no newspaper outside the gay press has ever really Republican Rep. Mark Foley See YEAR IN REVIEW on page 10 touched the issue,” he writes.

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www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 9 YEAR IN REVIEW from page 6 second thought. “They asked if we would raise the flag, and I’m happy to do it,” the Alleged Con Artist Patric Henn Taken into Custody mayor said. “We have a significant and important gay population in West Palm Beach that’s been very instrumental in the development of a number of our neighborhoods.” June 23, 2003- Party boy Patric Ian Henn is on his way back to Fort Lauderdale, but this time it won’t be courtesy of a first-class airline ticket paid for by the American Local Activists Rejoice at Court’s New Red Cross. ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ The con man who lied about his lover dying on 9-11 at the World Trade Center in June 30, 2003-What a difference 17 years makes. On June 30, 1986, when the Manhattan will be heading to the Broward County Jail in shackles, to answer charges of Supreme Court upheld Georgia’s sodomy law in a bitter defeat for the gay community, theft and grand larceny. Georgie’s Alibi didn’t even exist and Wilton Manors was a sleepy little town that did Henn is accused of falsely claiming that his purported partner, Jeff Anderson, not even warrant a mention in anybody’s gay travel guide. perished on September 11, 2001, thus entitling him to partnership and survivor benefits. Seventeen years later, on Thursday, June 26, 2003, Georgie’s Alibi was the site of a Using phony addresses, false social security numbers, and making up stories about a local celebration after the Supreme Court announced its landmark decision in the case ‘Louis Vitton’ lifestyle, Henn duped charitable agencies into paying him over $70,000 in of Lawrence v. Texas. cash. In declaring that gay and lesbian people are “entitled to respect for their private Gay Man Acquitted in John Lloyd Park Case lives,” the court reversed its earlier ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick and decided that June 23, 2003- A local gay man who was cited for indecent exposure while sitting on a Texas police had no right to enter the home of two gay men and arrest them for having beach at John Lloyd State Park in a white swimsuit has been found not guilty after consensual sex. In his majority opinion in the 6-3 ruling, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy defending himself in a Hollywood court. defended the rights of gay people. “The state cannot demean their existence or control Judge Lee Jay Seidman declared Tracy Faulkner, a registered nurse, not guilty of their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime,” he wrote. two counts of indecent exposure after examining the swimsuit and hearing testimony Savage Axed at MSNBC from Faulkner and the arresting officer, David G. Pius. In his citation, Pius said the July 14, 2003- MSNBC canceled Michael Savage’s Sunday night cable show, Savage swimsuit was “less than fully opaque.” Nation, on July 7 after Savage referred to a caller as a “sodomite” and said he “I am thankful to live in a country where a regular person can defend himself “should only get AIDS and die.” Savage made the remarks during the against injustice and win,” Faulkner said. “I am also grateful to the bailiff, who July 5 airing of his show. followed us to the parking lot to congratulate me. She said more people should Meanwhile, The Express has learned that the remarks and the stand up for themselves. And I am most thankful to Judge Lee Jay Seidman subsequent firing are having a ripple effect on Savage’s other career as for his fairness and patience.” a “shock jock” radio host. As of July 10, five stations had pulled out of Mayor Agrees to Raise Rainbow Flag Savage’s syndicated radio talk show, according to the Gay & Lesbian Over City Hall in West Palm Beach Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which led a campaign to persuade advertisers not to sponsor Savage’s TV show. Radio stations in Portland June 23, 2003-West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel just added a splash (Oregon), Minneapolis, Seattle, Boston and Denver have dropped Savage’s of color to City Hall. But she didn’t have the building painted, and show from their programming. she’s not redecorating her office. On Saturday morning, June 21, Frankel made history by being the first mayor of West Reprint of Alvear Column on Lesbians Palm Beach to raise the colorful symbol of gay pride—the Sparks Outrage rainbow flag—on the City Hall flagpole. July 14, 2003- Sometimes old news comes back to haunt a On June 6, Frankel received a letter from Compass, community—and opens up old wounds in the process. That Palm Beach County’s LGBT Community Center, requesting MSNBC canceled was certainly the case last week after The Express reprinted a Michael Savage’s the display in honor of the Stonewall Gay Pride Sunday night cable 2001 article by syndicated columnist Michael Alvear in its July Celebration. Frankel said she didn’t give the request a show, Savage Nation Continued on Next Page

10 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 7 “Collector’s Edition” of memorable opinion columns. In fact, by referring to “sinners” while endorsing the legal codification of a ban on The republication of the column, titled “The Lesbian Embrace of All Things Ugly,” same-sex marriage, Bush was the e-mail generator of the week in gay cyberspace. sparked widespread outrage in the community. The Express received numerous letters Numerous GLBT groups rushed off press releases denouncing Bush’s remarks from both lesbians and gay men, who condemned the column as promoting bigotry, Man Arrested at John Lloyd Park for Saying, stereotypes and separatism. Besides the letters, the Women’s Alliance of South Florida and the Dolphin ‘They’re Arresting Someone Over There’ Democratic Club issued statements denouncing the column and The Express’s decision Aug. 4, 2003-A man was arrested July 25 in John U. Lloyd State Park for telling another to reprint it. man, whom he thought was a park patron, “They’re arresting someone over there,” according to the man and his lawyer. For uttering those words, he was charged with Gay Chorus to Perform at “obstruction of justice” for interfering with an undercover operation and jailed for 15 Marlins Home Game for AIDS Awareness Night hours. July 21, 2003- The newly renamed Ft. Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus will make history At the advice of his attorney, Russell Cormican, the man has requested to remain on Aug. 12, as it becomes the first gay chorus ever to perform the national anthem at a anonymous because he is a schoolteacher. But he said that after the case is settled, he Florida Marlins game. would be willing to go public and testify in a state investigation or a class-action suit. The event is the culmination of an unprecedented season-long advertising and The Express has learned that the arrest is part of an ongoing undercover operation promotion partnership between the Marlins and The Express. The Marlins franchise is in the park, which has been stepped up in recent weeks. one of the first American professional sports teams to enter into a long-term advertising Hoffman Re-arrested in Brutal Murder contract with a major gay newspaper. Aug. 4, 2003-Fort Lauderdale police have re-arrested a man who was originally charged The chorus will perform at the invitation of AIDS Project Florida and Care Resource but not prosecuted in the murder of Michael Sortal, a Fort Lauderdale gay man whose at an AIDS Awareness Fundraiser, which will also be held Aug. 12 during the Marlins body was found March 15, 2001, in his apartment on NE 11th Street. game at Pro Player Stadium in Miami. The fundraiser will benefit AIDS Project Florida Kevin Hoffman, 27, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the case and Care Resource. along with Geoffrey Sean Kennedy. Kennedy was found guilty in January 2002 and City Hall’s Gay Killer sentenced to life in prison. After he was sentenced, Kennedy agreed to testify against July 28, 2003-It started out as just another shocking story about “homeland insecurity.” Hoffman. But in February 2003, Kennedy changed his story and claimed that he was Despite Tom Ridge’s rainbow-of-terror color codes and a tough-talking attorney general, alone at the time of the murder. That information, along with the contamination of DNA a man was able to walk into New York’s City Hall on Wednesday, July 23, and gun down evidence at a police lab, led to the release of Hoffman in June 2003. But at the time of his a city councilman in broad daylight in a city that has been on “high security alert” since release, Fort Lauderdale police spokesman Mike Reed told The Express that the Sept. 11, 2001. But in a New York minute, the story quickly spiraled down a dark subway department would arrest Hoffman again if new evidence or witnesses surfaced. tunnel of intrigue to end up in the blazing headlines of New York’s brash tabloids by Apparently, that is exactly what happened, and Hoffman is once again facing murder Friday morning. It is now a twisted tale of “outing,” gay domestic violence, AIDS and charges. blackmail. Mark Foley Comes Out—in Support One thing seems certain: The shots fired by Othniel Askew that killed New York City Councilman James Davis will reverberate through the gay world for some time to of Defense of Marriage Act come. Aug. 11, 2003-U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate took an unexpected turn in northern Florida last Wednesday. Bush and Pope Seek to Prohibit Gay Marriages Questioned by a Pasco County Republican leader about being too soft on gay Aug. 4, 2003-At his press conference on July 30, President Bush made it clear that he rights issues, Foley defiantly pointed out that was not the case, reminding the audience wouldn’t be throwing rice at a gay or lesbian wedding anytime soon. Instead, he threw that he not only opposed gay adoptions but had supported the Defense of Marriage some cold water on the optimism of many gay and lesbian couples, who had dared to Act in 1996. believe that their relationships might soon have the same legal rights as heterosexual unions. Continued on Next Page

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 11 YEAR IN REVIEW from page 11 Foley’s campaign has hit a number of roadblocks since New Times reporter Bob gay issues. But those few words were apparently enough for most of the mainstream Norman did a front-page feature on his homosexuality. Foley has steadfastly maintained cable news media to bestow upon him the label of “pro-gay rights Republican” immediately that issues relating to his sexuality are private questions that he refuses to answer. after he announced his candidacy in California’s recall election. Main Street Makeover Last week, several regional and national gay rights groups issued statements pointing out that Schwarzenegger’s “pro-gay rights” label is undeserved since his positions on Aug. 11, 2003-As news of the pending sale of the Shoppes of Wilton Manors and the gay issues are unknown. In fact, they point out that Schwarzenegger has not taken a property behind it surfaced last week, the rumor mill was as busy as the Shoppes position on any gay and lesbian issue and has dodged questions about gay issues. parking lot on a Thursday night. But while the Shoppes plaza and the city’s Main Furthermore, they note that Schwarzenegger’s recent hiring of Bob Stutzman as campaign Street, Wilton Drive, are likely to get a makeover soon, city leaders are insisting that the spokesman raises serious concerns about his commitment to gay rights. Stutzman was area’s gay businesses will remain. one of the leaders of Proposition 22, an anti-gay initiative that was on California’s ballot Talk of a possible gay exodus emerged after a local newsletter, Island City News, in the 2000 election. reported that the Shoppes of Wilton Manors and the adjacent property had been sold to a developer for $15 million. But the realtor who is handling the sale, Dennis Bellehumer, HIV Community Mourns Loss of Activist told The Express that no deal has been reached Aug. 25, 2003-On Wednesday morning, Aug. 20, the routine work day at AIDS yet. In fact, the property is not even under contract. Project Florida (APFL) was interrupted not only by an hour-long blackout, but an The ‘Ex-Gay’ Coverup e-mail from Executive Director Norm Kent announcing the news that John C. Weatherhead, the previous executive director, had died the previous night at the Aug. 11, 2003-Wayne Besen, author of a soon to age of 53, an apparent suicide. be released book that discredits the so-called “ex- “We mourn today the loss of a friend,” Kent said. “For those who did not gay” movement, is accusing the Coral Ridge know John, our agency was privileged to have his stable hand and calm direction Ministries and other groups of concealing the manage this facility for many years. For those of us who knew him, we were lucky downfall of an HIV-postive “ex-gay poster boy,” to have shared time with such a strong spirit who had the vision to guide this who allegedly engaged in unsafe sex with a group agency through its most turbulent times.” of Virginia men. Besen called upon D. James Kennedy and his Media Ignore Homophobia of Judge ministry to apologize for the cover-up of Michael in Ten Commandments Story Johnston, who was once the star of a church-backed Sept. 1, 2003- In recent days, reports about Judge Roy Moore’s defiance of a federal national advertising campaign proclaiming himself court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of Alabama’s “free from the sin of homosexuality.” state judicial building have dominated the media. Images of prayerful protesters According to Besen, Johnston contacted the vowing to prevent the monument’s removal in the name of God have filled the TV right-wing groups back in December 2002 and told screens and front pages. Reports indicate that most people view the story as a classic them that he had experienced a “moral fall” and was church-state battle centering on a pious man standing up for his religious beliefs engaging in unsafe sex. Besen charges the groups against what he sees as “godless liberalism.” But there is a lot more about Judge Roy did not go public about Johnston’s downfall until Moore that the mainstream media is not telling the American public. Wayne Besen Besen contacted them two weeks ago. In February 2002, Moore called for the confinement and execution of gays Groups Say Schwarzenegger and lesbians after the Alabama Supreme Court handed down a decision denying a Does Not Deserve ‘Pro-Gay’ Label lesbian mother custody of her child. In his opinion, Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, called homosexuality “a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act Aug. 25, 2003- As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character had little to say, so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it.” Moore also wrote: “The State carries preferring to let his Uzi do the talking as he blew people away in icy silence. As a the power of the sword, that is, the power to prohibit conduct with physical penalties, politician, the real-life Schwarzenegger has also been a man of few words, at least on Continued on Next Page

12 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 such as confinement and even execution. It must use that power to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle, to not encourage a criminal lifestyle.” On Friday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) posted a statement on its website denouncing the mainstream media for ignoring Judge Moore’s “virulently anti-gay comments” in its coverage of the Ten Commandments story. Foley Drops Out of Senate Race Sept. 1, 2003- U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) has dropped out of the race for a U.S. Senate seat, citing concerns about the health of his father, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. “He’s always been there for me, and I have to be there for him,” Foley told the Palm Beach Post. In a letter to supporters, Foley said he decided to drop out of the race after discussing his father’s illness with his sister and close adviser Donna Winterson. “After agonizing discussions with Donna and other family members over the past few days, we agreed that now is not the time to continue a demanding statewide campaign,” Foley wrote. Meanwhile, the gay community was left wondering about Foley’s commitment to gay rights. Despite many pro-gay votes in Congress over the years, Foley shocked and disappointed many gay-rights activists again recently when he posted a statement on his website praising Roy Moore, the Alabama judge who has advocated executing people for being homosexual. Foley urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Moore’s case for keeping a Ten Commandments monument on state property in Alabama. “Roy Moore isn’t standing in the schoolhouse door, he’s standing up for all Stephen Miller and Fred Sternbach received a $75,000 settlement in a housing Americans’ constitutional rights,” Foley says on his website. discrimination case. GLAAD Targets James Dobson, Boca Couple Awarded $75,000 in Bias Suit an Anti-Gay Fixture on ‘Larry King Live’ Oct. 6, 2003- In 2002, Fred Sternbach went to the Royal Colonial Apartments looking Sept. 22, 2003- In February, James Dobson appeared on Larry King Live and declared for an apartment for himself and his partner, Stephen Miller. What Sternbach says he that hurricanes are caused “by the presence of sin in the world.” On Sept. 5, Dobson, received there was anything but the royal treatment. Now Royal Colonial will have to who heads the right-wing group Focus on the Family, appeared on Larry King Live and pay the piper—to the tune of $75,000. said that allowing same-sex couples equal rights “will destroy the family, which will Sternbach and Miller said they were denied an apartment because they are gay. In destroy the nation, and I think will eventually have a major impact on Western 2002, Fred Sternbach went to the Royal Colonial Apartments looking for an apartment Civilization.” for himself and his partner, Stephen Miller. What Sternbach says he received there was Critics point out that James Dobson has become a kind of fixture on Larry King anything but the royal treatment. Now Royal Colonial will have to pay the piper—to Live—sort of an unofficial co-host—appearing on the show six times in the past two the tune of $75,000. years. In fact, based on past history, one can reasonably calculate that the chances of Sternbach and Miller said they were denied an apartment because they are gay. Dobson appearing again on Larry King Live within the next year are at least as good as Bush Plays ‘the Gay Card’ the chances of a hurricane appearing in the Atlantic in September. Oct. 13, 2003- In 1992, critics accused the first President Bush of playing “the gay But some people are now questioning why King has granted Dobson a permanent card” when his reelection campaign ran into trouble. In fact, Newsweek magazine soapbox and has not provided equal time for opposing viewpoints to counter Dobson’s referred to the 1992 Republican Convention as a “Festival of Hate” because of its one-hour diatribes. Last week, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation launched strident anti-gay, mean-spirited tone created by Pat Buchanan and other speakers at a campaign to object to what the group refers to as Dobson’s “unchallenged platform” Continued on Next Page on Larry King Live.

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 13 YEAR IN REVIEW from page 13 harassment, “selective enforcement” and false arrests targeting gay men at John U. the convention. Lloyd State Park in Dania Beach. The inquiry was announced at a town meeting at Today, as his approval ratings sink to new lows, George W. Bush is being accused Dania Beach City Hall Nov. 13. of stooping to the same divisive tactics to rally his conservative base. Last week, At the meeting, a victim of the alleged harassment testified, as did a local hotel national gay rights groups leveled their harshest criticism to date against the president owner who said two of his guests had been harassed at the park and that the situation after he issued a proclamation in support of the so-called “Marriage Protection Week,” had negatively impacted his business and was a threat to tourism in Dania Beach. The an anti-gay event organized and sponsored by several far-right groups. Express has published a total of 11 articles on the John Lloyd Park issue since April, Award-Winning Gay Philanthropist John Graves Dies not including several letters to the editor and an editorial. Articles on the harassment issue have also appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald Oct. 20, 2003- Dr. John Graves—a local within the past two weeks. philanthropist, historian and writer, State Sen. Steven Geller co-chaired the meeting with state Rep. Timothy Ryan. whose generous donations provided the Geller said he had received a letter Nov. 7 from Thomas S. Tramel, III, director of the lifeblood to many GLBT organizations— Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Division of Law Enforcement, confirming passed away on Monday, Oct. 13, at that the investigation would take place. Geller had requested that the Inspector General’s Broward General Hospital, apparently Office conduct an investigation of the John Lloyd Park incidents. from heart problems. He was 65. ”There is an issue here,” Geller said, noting that if the allegations are true “they are In November 2001, the Association serious allegations against state employees.” of Fundraising Professionals recognized Graves’s contributions by naming him No More Roy Moore Outstanding Philanthropist for 2001. Nov. 17, 2003-Thou shalt not use the judicial bench as a political pulpit to advance Graves was the first openly gay man ever your personal agenda. That could well be the epithet for Judge Roy Moore, who was to receive the organization’s award. fired from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Nov. 13 for Graves was also known for his lectures defying a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the on historical topics at the Metropolitan rotunda of the state supreme court building.

Community Church’s Sunshine Photo by Pompano Bill Moore was not fired for his virulently anti-gay diatribe from the bench in February Cathedral, where he was a member, donor 2002, which the mainstream media ignored when reporting on the Ten Commandments John Graves and supporter. dispute. In issuing a court opinion that denied a lesbian mother custody of her three Hustler Sentenced to 25 Years for Killing Local Man children, Moore described homosexuality as “an inherent evil, and if a person openly engages in such a practice, that fact alone would render him or her an unfit parent.” Oct. 20, 2003- A male prostitute, who had admitted killing one gay man and attacking Moore went on to note, “The State carries the power of the sword, that is, the power to another, has been sentenced to 25 years in Florida state prison after pleading guilty to prohibit conduct with physical penalties, such as confinement and even execution. It second-degree murder. must use that power to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle, to not Adam Ezerski, 21, had been charged with first-degree murder for the killing of encourage a criminal lifestyle.” Anthony Martilotto, 39, a Weston resident whose body was found in a Fort Lauderdale The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay political organization, issued hotel room on July 26, 2001. At the crime scene, Martilotto’s red 2001 Ford Mustang was a statement Nov. 14 applauding the Alabama Court of the Judiciary’s unanimous decision missing, and Ezerski’s fingerprints were found in the room. to remove Moore from the bench. “Roy Moore has consistently shown that he is not Ezerski pled guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of robbery, capable of separating his own personal agendas, ideologies and bias out of his rulings Assistant State Attorney Anthony Loe told The Express. on the Alabama State Supreme Court,” said HRC National Field Director Seth Kilbourn. United Way President Says Right-Wing Group Miracle in Massachusetts! Posted False Information on Boy Scouts Nov. 24, 2003- Following on the heels of last summer’s landmark sodomy ruling, last Nov. 10, 2003-The Christian Family Coalition posted false information on its Web site week’s Massachusetts court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage could be called “Gay regarding United Way’s position on funding the Boy Scouts, the president of United Independence Day II.” Way of Miami-Dade County said Friday. Declaring that the state “failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for In May 2003, United Way of Miami-Dade voted to end funding to the Boy Scouts denying civil marriage to same-sex couples,” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court because of the organization’s policy of excluding gay scouts and scout leaders. The ruled Nov. 18 in favor of seven same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses. vote followed a decision by national Boy Scout officials not to implement a sensitivity But those couples will not be walking down the aisle just yet. In the case of Goodridge training program aimed at addressing the gay issue. et al v. Department of Public Health, the court gave the Massachusetts legislature 180 The Christian Family Coalition, a right-wing political group, recently posted a story days to come up with a solution that recognizes the rights of gays and lesbians to on its Web site, titled “United Way of Miami-Dade Restores Funding to South Florida legally marry. Boy Scouts!” But Harve Mogul, president of the United Way of Miami-Dade County, “Without a doubt, this is the happiest day of our lives,” Gloria Bailey told the told The Express that United Way of Miami-Dade has not changed its position and has Associated Press. Bailey and her partner of 32 years were among the seven same-sex no intention of restoring funding to the Boy Scouts. couples who sued the state for the right to marry. “There is no change in our position,” Mogul said. “We are not funding them. We are not going to fund them. It’s a lie.” Turning Over a New Page: Express Changes Hands Dec. 1, 2003-As of Dec. 1, The Express begins a new chapter in its life as South Pet Groomer from Hell? Florida’s gay and lesbian community newspaper. The 4-year-old weekly has been sold to Unite Media, which works with Window Nov. 10, 2003- Like many gay couples, Wilton Manors residents Brian Butler and Skip Media to publish a number of gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines throughout Geel thought of their dog, Spike, as their child. One can only imagine their sense of loss the United States. when the 16-year-old miniature poodle died suddenly after a trip to the groomers. “We saw The Express as a vibrant newspaper inside a growing community,” said In a deposition filed with the Wilton Manors Police Department, Butler accuses Steven Guerrini, president of Unite Media, LLC., which recently also acquired David Mark Goldstein, the owner of Happy Pawz pet grooming shop in Wilton Manors, of Magazine in Atlanta. beating his dog to death. Goldstein is currently the subject of a criminal investigation. “As a publisher of gay media, it’s a great opportunity for us to serve the Fort John Lloyd Park Probe Launched Lauderdale area. The Express is a profitable paper, and it’s solid in the community, and Nov. 17, 2003-The Florida Inspector General’s Office will look into allegations of Continued on Next Page

14 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 we want to continue that. It’s a successful, well-liked paper.” Department, told The Express. Guerrini said the paper’s emphasis on local news and features will not change. Gay Bashing on the High “We pride ourselves on local coverage with a strong focus on national issues,” he said. Seas Alleged Victim Goes Public with John Lloyd Park Ordeal Dec. 15, 2003-Two members of a gay and Dec. 8, 2003- Outraged over the way he was treated by state park officers, a local lesbian group traveling aboard Royal schoolteacher has decided to go public about his ordeal at John Lloyd State Park in Caribbean’s cruise ship Monarch of the Seas Dania Beach and is planning to sue the state of Florida for false arrest. sustained serious injuries after being Claude Lessard was arrested for “obstruction of justice” July 25 after he remarked attacked by two heterosexual couples on a to a man who had approached him in the park, “Be careful. They just arrested someone three-day cruise. The victims and witnesses over there.” The man turned out to be an undercover officer. of the attack say the altercation occurred Lessard’s case was featured in the Aug. 4 edition of The Express, but, at Lessard’s solely because the assailants believed the request, his name was withheld at the time because he is a teacher in the public school victims to be homosexual. Steve Garrod of Seattle suffered multiple system. Lessard said he decided to go public for two reasons: First, he thinks the lacerations to his head and face and Steve Garrod (right), 27, of Seattle and bruises to his body after being attacked incident has jeopardized his teaching career. Secondly, he thinks it was a totally bogus J. Gardner, 34, of California were traveling and called a “faggot” by four people on arrest motivated by prejudice against gay people. with Outcruising.com, a GLBT travel group, Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas. on a three-day Halloween cruise from Los Garrod was part of a group of 100 gay and Man Arrested for Looking at Another Man lesbian passengers on the ship. His Dec. 8, 2003- A man was arrested Nov. 28 and charged with an “attempted lewd and Angeles to Ensenada. The ship left Los female friend was also attacked and lascivious act” for looking at a naked man in the changing room of John Lloyd State Angeles Oct. 31. According to Garrod, the seriously injured. Park in Dania Beach. The man’s name is being withheld at the request of his attorney, following evening after a masquerade party, Russell Cormican. the group was in one of the ship’s bars when two heterosexual couples began harassing According to Cormican, his client was changing into his swim trunks when he members of the group, calling them “fucking faggots.” noticed another man who had undressed. Both men were arrested and taken to jail. The Gay Community’s Stormy Engagement Cormican said his client, a 59-year-old man, was taken to jail in his bathing suit with no Dec. 22, 2003- In January 1999, local attorney and activist Dean Trantalis (pictured, right) shoes and shirt. His car, a 1993 Cadillac Seville, was towed. co-authored Broward County’s landmark domestic partnership law. Four years later in March “Now it’s apparently illegal at John Lloyd State Park to look at other people,” 2003, Fort Lauderdale’s gay and lesbian residents rewarded Trantalis by helping to elect him Cormican said. “There’s no allegation in the police report that anyone was touching the city’s first openly gay commissioner. One would expect Commissioner Trantalis to be an anything. You have one guy standing there in a changing room looking at another guy outspoken advocate on the front lines of the gay marriage battle. But Trantalis sounds a little who didn’t have his clothes on.” like a reluctant suitor on the issue. Police Investigating John Chambers for Of course, Trantalis staunchly believes that gay and lesbian partners should have the Misappropriating Funds for Personal same marital rights as heterosexual couples. But in an interview with The Express, Trantalis questioned the strategy of pushing the gay marriage issue to the top of the gay movement’s Dec. 8, 2003- John Chambers, the former treasurer of Pride of Greater Fort Lauderdale agenda at this point in time. He worries that an overemphasis on gay marriage has diverted (PGFTL), is being investigated for allegedly misappropriating the organization’s funds, attention and resources away from other gay issues, such as fighting to end employment Wilton Manors police confirmed last week. discrimination. In a recent press statement, PGFTL, which produces the annual Stonewall Street “It has pushed aside a lot of the other issues that affect the gay community,” Trantalis Festival on Wilton Drive, announced that it had turned over the organization’s books says. “We still have 90 percent of the state of Florida that allows employment discrimination and financial records to the Wilton Manors Police Department and would hold a press against gays and lesbians. We still have over two-thirds of the United States that allows it conference once the investigation is complete. legally. Why are we so complacent that we can say we’re on to the next subject—marriage? Chambers is being investigated for alleged misappropriating funds “for his own It becomes a distraction and does a disservice to the main thrust of the gay movement.” use,” Det. Pete Bigelsen, public information officer for the Wilton Manors Police

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 15 TThehe ExprExpressess’s Top 10 Friends and Foes of 2003 Hall of Fame Hall of Shame

Commissioner Dean Trantalis—Co-author of Sen. Anna Cowin—For her snide and mean- Broward County’s domestic partnership law, spirited efforts to kill the Dignity for All Students Act. Trantalis was elected Fort Lauderdale’s first Cowin introduced amendments referring to openly gay city commissioner in March. bestiality, necrophilia and phone sex as part of a devious strategy to block debate the bill.

The Florida Marlins—In August, the Marlins became the first professional sports franchise to Sen. Rick Santorum— “Man on dog.” Need we sign and long-term advertising contract with a gay say more? newspaper, The Express.

Michael Savage—Fired from his job at MSNBC Justice Anthony Kennedy—A Reagan after telling a caller to “get AIDS and die,” Savage appointee, Kennedy surprised many high court is the most extremist person to ever be given his observers with the progressiveness of his opinion own show on a major U.S. network. Shame on in Lawrence v. Texas. MSNBC.

Judge Roy Moore—The mainstream media ignored Moore’s Bill Rettinger and Derrick Hankerson— virulent homophobia when reporting on his Ten Commandments For their persistent efforts in fighting to save crusade, but The Express did not. In a court opinion denying a lesbian mother custody of her children in February 2002, Moore the Medicaid Medically Needy Share of went as far as to suggest that gays and lesbians should be Cost program from the budget ax. confined and executed to protect children. Thou shalt not use the judicial bench as a political pulpit. Good riddance.

Gov. Jeb Bush—For his lack of compassion in Connie Hines —For her courage in speaking out eliminating funding for the Medicaid Medically against anti-gay hate crimes after being named Needy program in his state budget proposal without Teacher of the Year. even warning anyone that he was going to do it.

Jeffrey Woodard—The Jupiter Christian School student who was expelled after a teacher found President George W. Bush—The most anti-gay out he was gay. Woodard and his family have and right-wing president in history, he jumped into shown courage by showing up at the Gay and bed with the radical right with his support for the Lesbian Foundation of South Florida’s anti-gay “Marriage Protection Week.” Recognition Dinner and by suing the school.

Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.)—Not only for not having Vicky Keller—For fighting with Rettinger and the courage to disclose his sexual orientation Hankerson to save the Medically Needy program. during his campaign for the U.S. Senate but for posting a statement on his Web site praising rabidly anti-gay Judge Roy Moore. Shame on you Congressman.

Nadine Smith—For her tireless efforts in leading Equality Florida in the fight for dignity and respect for James Dobson—the “co-host” of Larry King Live GLBT students throughout the state. The Dignity for has declared the hurricanes are caused by sin and All Students Act has still not been passed, but it gay marriage will destroy Western Civilization. received a reading this year in the Republican- controlled state Senate, a first for such a bill.

Sen. Mandy Dawson—For fighting in the state The Rev. James Kennedy—For inviting some of legislature to save the Medicaid Medically Needy the most extremist, anti-American, anti-democratic program. ideologues to his “Reclaiming America for Christ” conference in Coral Ridge.

Wilton Manors Mayor Jim Stork—for his high- Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.)—For being profile leadership and for making sure gay busi- the chief sponsor of a proposed constitutional nesses are included in the Main Street Program. amendment declaring that marriage is reserved for one man and one woman.

16 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 17 EDITORIAL PAGE In 2003, the Stars Lined Up for Us Mars, Richard Chamberlain and the Judge who Accidentally Granted a Divorce Looking back on the past year, I’m straight neighbors for advice on such matters pleased to see that in addition to writing as where to buy tires (thanks Cool Neighbor about the various ephemera of gay life (just David), I hope they’ll pick me for the show, if how does Carson spell “jeuje”?), I also only to get someone to finally clean out my weighed in on the issues that made 2003 the gutters. biggest year in homo history: the Looking ahead, however, Texas, Canada and there is still much to be done. Massachusetts court decisions, For instance, recently an the election of a gay Episcopal Iowa judge got in a heap of bishop and, of course, Liza’s trouble for granting a divorce divorce. to a lesbian couple who were And which pressing issue joined in a Vermont civil union. generated the most reader mail, Republican opponents claim you ask? My hair. the divorce is a tacit Letters to the editor In what is surely the gayest recognition of the couple’s year ever, that has got to be about union or, as I like to call it, Article on Arts Dispute Failed to Mention the gayest thing I’ve ever heard. “reality.” I assume the next step ArtsUnited’s Shortcomings OK, I asked for it. I was in will be the Defense of Divorce I’m a gay playwright and founder of a performing arts production company. I need of tonsorial advice, and Ordinance, or DODO, which have performed events out of ArtServe for 2½ years, and I have been a member of dozens of you voted at www.MarcAcito.com. affirms that divorce can only occur between and participating artist for ArtsUnited for two years. I recently read your article on Yet, despite my best efforts to convince you a man and a woman. Winner of this year’s ArtsUnited’s complaints about ArtServe’s latest actions and mission [Dec. 15 that long hair was the grooming choice of DODO Award goes to Sen. John Kerry, the edition] and wanted to respond. Chris Yoculan did not come to you with clean gay liberation, readers voted 4 to 1 in favor Democratic presidential candidate who said, hands. of the close-cropped “Clooney.” “Marriage is an institution between men and As the article states, ArtsUnited is now having to find a home for their Who am I to argue with the will of the women for the purpose of having children;” ArtExplosion event. I understand that Yoculan came with complaints and a few people? I cut it off. this despite the fact that he himself is in a names of individuals or organizations that have conflicted with ArtServe. However, Also in the mailbag, one reader sent this childless marriage. your front-page article did not quote sources from artists who have succeeded opinion regarding the induction of the gay And in Louisiana, a 7-year-old boy was because of ArtServe’s support. I am one of those artists. bishop: “I’m just thankful that the church’s sent to the principal’s office when he admitted ArtServe has been accommodating to my production needs, some being greater founder, Henry VIII, and his wives Catherine to a classmate his moms were gay. The child than others. ArtServe staff has assisted me financially by providing storage space of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne was sent to detention and forced to for my materials, posting advertisements and hosting a reception for opening of Cleeves, Catherine Howard and Catherine repeatedly write, “I will never use the word nights. They also allowed much of my equipment, props and set pieces to stay in Parr are no longer alive to suffer this latest ‘gay’ in school again.” the auditorium during a run. ArtServe maintained professionalism and diplomacy assault on Christian values.” I’m sorry, but something is definitely when listening to my needs and granting privileges that I earned. ArtsUnited Amen, sister. wrong when children in rural schools are more seems to express that ArtServe does not assist artists. I’m telling you they do. In other news, Mars came closer to the open and courageous than celebrities in It’s my opinion that ArtsUnited was not permitted to host their event at Earth than it has in nearly 60,000 years, while Hollywood. ArtServe, partly because of how they conducted themselves at ArtExplosion 2003. both Richard Chamberlain and Tab Hunter Look at it this way. Imagine it’s 1963. I can only speak from my own experience. I found Yoculan erratic, verbally finally came out after nearly the same length You’re a black actor on a sitcom and the Rev. aggressive, immature and completely unprofessional when communicating with of time. Martin Luther King calls: “Hey, I’m doing me and managing my participation with ArtExplosion 2003. And he holds an Since nothing irritates me more than this march on Washington for civil rights, administrative position at ArtsUnited. Hollywood celebs waiting to come out until and I’m going to do this ‘I Have a Dream’ Yoculan informed me that he had taken my platforms and other materials out no one cares, I drove out to an observatory speech and I want you there.” And you say, of the storage room for ArtExplosion. He did not ask for permission. When I needed to see some real stars and get a look at the “Sorry, Marty baby, I’d love to, but it might them to set up for my event (I was in the last week of rehearsals for a play), Yoculan red planet. jeopardize my sitcom.” reacted by losing his temper and using profanity, sometimes leaving voicemail What a waste. For all I knew, I could History does not look kindly on such a messages and saying I was trying to “f***k up his event.” He also did not give me have been looking at a guy across the parking person. ample time to move my equipment out of the auditorium and displayed histrionics lot holding a flashlight. To say that Mars Personally, I think the reason more about that too. When I asked for resolution with ArtServe staff as mediators, was closer to the earth was like driving from readers wrote about my hair than any other Yoculan stormed out of the meeting after calling me a “cheap bastard” when I New Jersey to Delaware and announcing issue is that gays have the Makeover Gene, asked that my performers not pay their set admission. you’re closer to the Equator. the biological predisposition to improve I responded to Yoculan and Williams with a letter, asking for resolution and None of that dampened the undeniable things. And wherever we’re working our better communication. I asked for a working relationship with ArtsUnited. I also fact that 2003 was the Year of the Queer. makeover magic, things are improving—be wanted more notice if they wanted my materials moved (not one day). They did not In a sure sign we’ve arrived, Comedy it in the courts, the churches or the schools. respond to my letter. I then met with Maureen Kohler about my complaints and Central announced its own version of Queer 2003 was a stellar year for the history of began to learn of other artists who had conflicts with ArtsUnited. I asked Maureen Eye for the Straight Guy called “Straight Plan civil rights, but I hope that in 2004, the stars to consider not having Yoculan’s group for 2004. Whether or not I was part of her for the Gay Man.” Each week, a group of will finally come out. decision, I’m not sure. I hope so, because I was disgusted with Yoculan’s group, as sloppy straight guys called “The Flab 4” will And that, my friends, is The Gospel an artist and as one of their members. descend on some hapless homo, presumably According to Marc. I find much upset with the article you printed about ArtServe’s denying access to redecorate his house with a milk crate Marc Acito’s first novel, How I Paid for of ArtExplosion for 2004. I find your sources were limited and speaking one collective coffee table and teach him how to belch on College, will be published in September. conscious that was biased and misleading. cue. Write him at [email protected]. Since this was important enough to make front-page news, I think someone As someone who regularly relies on my might want to explore this matter further with other sources that are relevant to ArtServe’s decision. Also, I encourage some exploration of ArtsUnited’s staff and how they conduct themselves when they hold events, when they communicate with members and how they conflict with one another. Yoculan told me of several conflicts between him and the organization’s founder. I also think someone might want to explore how ArtsUnited discriminates against gay and lesbian artists, who are a part of their mission. Perhaps, speaking with artists who have worked with ArtsUnited or are no longer members would give you front-page news. Robby Kendall Fort Lauderdale

Editor’s Note: The article in The Express included an interview with Maureen Kohler, executive director of ArtServe, who gave ArtServe’s side of the story.

18 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 BEST OF 2003 Printed on June 16, 2003 The Declining Role of Gay Bars New Social Outlets Mean Clubs will Have to Innovate to Attract Business Gay bars have long been the But fully a decade ago one bar manager the lessening of oppression and increasing economics: As alcohol and coat check prices paradigmatic locus of gay presence and commented to me, “People are drinking less.” social acceptance, many gays no longer need rise, less affluent gays make each drink last visibility. Before there were gay bowling That might be true enough, but it merely the bars as much. Now, if they go, it is for longer. Partly too, we who are older and more leagues and bridge clubs, before restates in consumption terms amusement, not relief. reluctant to put much alcohol into our there were gay religious and the fact of a decline in bar Fourth, gays now have far more ways to systems. And fewer of us of all ages need political groups, before there business. There are several meet and socialize with one another than alcohol to relax; we are relaxed already. were gay pride parades, before possible reasons. patronizing bars. Sports leagues and Frankly, too, the widespread use of drugs there were gay enclaves, there One clear reason is AIDS. It recreation groups, political clubs, church means that some men are already chemically were gay bars. would be hard to say what groups, gay employee organizations, even saturated and will nurse one bottle of water For decades, even proportion of urban enclave gay AIDS support groups—all are ways for gays all night. centuries, the historians assure men died of AIDS, but many, to get to know one another and enjoy some What then of the future? No doubt there us, gay bars and taverns served perhaps most, of those who died sort of conviviality without standing around will always be gay bars. After all there are as places of refuge, places for were socially and sexually active in a bar. Nor should anyone overlook the rise singles bars for heterosexuals, so why not gays to meet, relax, chat with in the gay community and, as of alternate venues such as gymnasiums and analogous bars for gays. But gay bars are no friends, find a date or just have such, many were regular patrons coffee shops with heavily gay patronage. longer the necessity they were, so they will the comfort of being among of gay bars. Most of us have to figure new ways to lure people like themselves. People can still fill a page or more Special events? Special nights for patrons rather than assuming we will who know of no other gay institutions know of well-known community members affinity groups? Pleasant doormen? turn up just because we are gay. there are gay bars. who died and no doubt many others Special events? Special nights for So it is interesting that in the last decade less well-known were also regular Better bathroom facilities? Better affinity groups? Pleasant doormen? or so, despite greater social acceptance of patrons of the bars. smoke removal? Some actual price Better bathroom facilities? Better gays and the increasing numbers of gays A second reason is the rapid competition? If they want our smoke removal? Some actual price coming out and living their lives openly, the spread of Internet access in the past competition? If they want our number of gay bars in many large cities with decade. If gay bars were the primary business, they will have to prove it. business, they will have to prove it. established gay communities seems to have place to socialize with the hope of With a keen sense of loss, this leveled off and is slowly declining. Just as finding a date or trick, they now have serious Fifth is the “gay diaspora.” More and column notes the recent death of significant, weeknight patronage has fallen competition from online personals, Internet more gay men seem to be moving from the psychologist C. A. Tripp, author of The off, and bars that were jammed on weekends chat rooms and AOL instant messaging that gay enclave to other parts of the city and Homosexual Matrix, the best book ever are now merely full. make it possible to find a partner—or at least suburbs, doing so in greater numbers than written about homosexuality. Through his In the short term, the current economic have the titillation of looking for one, without new gays are moving into the enclave. That writings, he now joins, in Yvor Winters’ sluggishness is one factor. So are the dot- leaving home. means that, for them, the clusters of bars that words, “the dead, alive and busy.” com business contraction, the post-Sept. 11 A third reason is that for a long time serve the enclave are suddenly less falloff in the travel business and the decline bars were places of physical and convenient to visit, so they are less inclined in donations to arts organizations, all of psychological safety when the rest of society to take the trouble. Paul Varnell can be reached at which disproportionately impact the gay felt oppressive. Bars were the one space Finally, I suspect that bar manager was [email protected]. community. where gays could feel comfortable. But with right: Gays are drinking less. Partly, it is

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 19 BEST OF 2003 Printed on July 14, 2003 Marriage Changes Everything Gay Nuptials in Canada Offer Spouses a New Beginning Standing in Toronto City Hall’s wedding province’s highest court opened the “his husband,” “her wife” and “the chapel, Joyce gently took my hand. Harp institution of marriage to us on June 10. newlyweds” in articles. music softly filled the air. And Canada’s federal The welcome to gay Leaving Canada, I had to return the black-robed official smiled government is now drafting Canadians and foreigners to the airline ticket counter to check sweetly and began: legislation to make marriage our tennis rackets. I explained to the “This ceremony of available nationwide to all who come to marry could U.S. Customs agent, “My spouse marriage in which you come to loving couples regardless of not be warmer. City Hall thought she could take them as a be united is one of the oldest sexual orientation. carry-on item.” No one blinked at my and most beautiful ceremonies Joyce and I had long had a gay pride flag flying new, accurate terminology. in the world. And this it will be been deeply committed to Our first U.S. legal form to fill if you have it in your heart to marrying as soon as it alongside the bright red out after marrying was our Customs beautify and sweeten it by your became possible. We Canadian Maple Leaf…. declaration. For the first time in 18 tender mindfulness of each eagerly collected lesser years of traversing the globe, we other and your patient efforts government And the town’s newspaper each noted that we were traveling to enhance your life together,” acknowledgements of our seamlessly began saying with a “family member.” declared Officiant George McConnachie, relationship: In 1993, we became the Back home, Joyce and I know whose cherubic cheeks and gray hair made first registered domestic partners in our “his husband,” “her wife” we are part of a new generation of him look like a young Father Christmas. hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland. trailblazers. Some states, courts, Tears welled up in my eyes as I realized On July 2, 2000, we were legally joined and “the newlyweds” in hospitals and businesses will that after 18 years together, Joyce and I were in a civil union in Vermont. articles. respect our marriage; others will try being legally wed. In a lovely ceremony on And now we are legally married. to justify discriminating against us. June 27, we exchanged vows, then rings and When U.S. states begin opening Clearly, there are many joys and a kiss before our officiant pronounced us marriage to same-sex couples, we won’t challenges ahead for us. “spouses.” need to be among those in line for a marriage we had come to marry—and everyone For now, though, these newlyweds Spouses. In the minutes, then hours license. Instead, we’ll join other married well- cheered. are concentrating on planning our Hawaii and now days since that life-changing wishers in celebrating from the sidelines. The welcome to gay Canadians and honeymoon and on cherishing these moment, Joyce and I have been dizzy with Joyce and I have both been surprised foreigners who come to marry could not be special first days of marriage: We can see the thrill of adjusting to our new status. Just by how changed we feel. After exchanging warmer. City Hall had a gay pride flag flying in vivid Technicolor what a blessing our as George McConnachie had hoped, our vows, we spent the weekend in Toronto, alongside the bright red Canadian Maple relationship is. hearts have joyfully rushed to embrace giving us a chance to test drive being Leaf. Marriage clerks took turns saying marriage as a fresh start, as a chance to newlyweds in a wonderfully accepting city. congratulations and taking our photographs. Deb Price of The Detroit News writes the first nationally syndicated column on gay forgive old hurts and begin again—this time We stopped calling each other “partner” and “You need more photos of the two of you issues and is the co-author of Courting with more maturity and boundless delight. began using “spouse.” When shopkeepers, together,” one said, as she borrowed my Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the We are among the hundreds of gay cab drivers, hotel clerks and waiters asked camera and told us to keep smiling. And the Supreme Court. couples who have wed in Ontario since that why we were visiting Canada, we explained town’s newspaper seamlessly began saying

20 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 BEST OF 2003 Printed on November 17, 2003 Opening the Floodgates of Hell Column on Gay Bishop Brings Fire-and-Brimstone E-mails There are a lot of pissed off Here’s a sample (the really rabid stuff— was much more welcoming of all people abomination of a life that he lives and the Episcopalians out there. And a lot of them things that included phrases like “faggot before gay leadership became common. Now, example that he sets for the world.” seemed to be pissed off at me. dyke”—I deleted when I received if you don’t affirm that gays are OK as church From Richard Rouse: “God destroyed OK, actually I don’t know them. These are the more leaders, whomp!, you are out the door! Such Sodom for its homosexual activity, and God that they were Episcopalians, thoughtful letters.) tolerance, such compassion!” is surely destroying the Episcopal church because although a few From “Joey W.” who wrote a From an anonymous correspondent: for the same sins. All you have to do is look identified themselves that way, mock AP story, including made- “The town of Sodom was filled with people at the membership decline over the past 30 most did not. So let’s just say up names: like you, people who thought all sin was just or so years, and you will clearly see it dying. that they are people concerned “Today, the first pedophile fine and the only problem people were God’s blessing has been removed, and the about the future of the bishop was consecrated in the those who spoke up against the sin, Churches that are faithful to His word are Episcopalian church. Apiscopal Church [sic]. . . . . causing great distress and division. Your the churches that have growing Last week, I wrote a column Fortunately, once people in the heart is hardened, your eyes blind, and membership.” about Gene Robinson, who was pews realize that nothing has you will never be enlightened. None of these changed my mind. But recently consecrated as an changed for them, the “Your column was the silliest, dumbest they all radiate with so much pain and Episcopalian bishop—the first controversy is bound to die away comment on this whole fiasco that I have anxiety and fear. These, then, are the people openly gay person to be so chosen. In the quickly. “I knew there would be a lot of read yet, and I have read columns from we are facing when we set out to be column, I lauded his bravery and said, “It is pressure,” said Rev’d Chowstelar, “but in around the world. included in our churches. Ordinary people not Robinson who is splitting the church. It order to show that the church can be “We have been loving and tolerating who are worried that the church now is is the conservatives who are pulling away, inclusive, it was important for me not to give and caring for homosexual people for many not the church they grew up in, everyday who have announced they are unable to in. With my consecration, the cause of all years now. Most of us have good people who see moral decay all around with commit to working through these issues.” sinners has been advanced greatly—all of relationships and friendships with only themselves to hold back the flood. I also said, “Changing the churches is the murderers, rapists, thiefs, and embezzlers homosexuals in our lives. The protest here People who still think of us as pedophiles, important, because it hits people at the core who up until now have been denied access is that they are now being put in teaching as Sodomites, as twisted people who of their belief system. Because of this, to the ministry will be free to follow my and leadership positions in organizations despise God. Robinson is not just incidentally important. example. After all, it’s not their fault—and which are supposed to believe in the What can we do in the face of this? He’s not just a footnote to a controversy. He it’s about time that the Church got kicked Bible, when they clearly follow their own Simply continue. We do not need to is the key that will help change thousands of into the real world. People who think they path. We are hearing men’s voices, not the win all hearts, and we will not. We are such hearts.” have a right to believe some outdated voice of God.” a threat now because the tide is slowly Since then I have been flooded with mail. doctrines just because that’s what they were From Robert Willett: “I will truly pray turning in our favor. We need to hold fast Deluged with mail. Most of it negative. Most taught have to be enlightened—and if they for you and your twisted view on what is and have faith that eventually we who are on of it from (presumably straight) concerned won’t agree, we’ll kick them out!” right and what is wrong. The church of God the side of justice and equality will prevail. citizens around the country who have been From Emily Volz: “In the Washington, will not be better for this travesty, and many so hurt by this situation that they needed to D.C. Diocese most of the newly ordained God-fearing people will be put through hell Jennifer Vanasco is an award-winning point their bitterness somewhere—so it came ministers are now gays. You may think this is by those actions. God does love the man syndicated columnist based in Chicago. E-mail to me. wonderful, but unfortunately the Episcopal who is the new bishop, but he hates the her at [email protected].

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 21 BEST OF 2003 Printed on May 5, 2003 Leave the Animals Alone! Right Wing’s Promotion of Bestiality Is Appalling By Phil LaPadula “friend of the court” brief. official. If she had, we could have at least documented cases of people being harassed What do U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and The exploitation of innocent animals is respected her for standing up for her beliefs. and even physically attacked because other Florida state Sen. Anna Cowin have in something that really gets my dander up, so Instead, she chose to oppose it in the most students perceived them to be gay, whether common? Bestiality. I’m going to make this very clear: Leave the undignified way imaginable, proposing snide or not they actually were. There have also A couple of weeks ago, Cowin proposed animals alone! Sen. Santorum, stop sniffing amendments referring to bestiality, been documented cases of students a series of amendments, including one that around that schnauzer! Sen. Cowin, stop necrophilia and phone sex—with the committing suicide and physically attacking referred to bestiality, to block debate on the cooing over that collie! All you right-wingers transparent purpose of blocking any serious other students because this form of child Dignity for All Students Act, which seeks to out there, keep your paws off our pets. debate on the proposal. abuse is allowed to continue unabated. protect students who are targets of By conjuring images of people But Cowin is apparently blind to all of harassment or bullying because of having sex with animals, Cowin was those facts. Perhaps she is too immersed in their sexual orientation, race or other obviously trying to dehumanize gay the fantasy world of Internet bestiality porn inherent characteristics. Then, on Sen. Santorum, stop and lesbian students—or students sites. April 21, in his now infamous who are perceived to be gay or lesbian. Santorum, on the other hand, is a typical interview with the Associated Press, sniffing around that But she only succeeded in bringing lap dog for the American Talibans of the far Sen. Santorum compared same-sex disrespect upon herself and dishonor right. And we shouldn’t expect the Senate or human relationships to “man on dog” schnauzer! Sen. Cowin, upon the Florida legislature. Her the Bush administration to put him on a leash relationships. actions, therefore, do not deserve to anytime soon. The radical right apparently stop cooing over that be treated with dignity or even taken Moreover, forcing him to resign may not thinks bestiality is best. In fact, they collie! All you right- seriously. Garbage in, garbage out, even be desirable. While I certainly see the seem absolutely obsessed with cross- senator. value in speaking out strongly against such species carnal relationships. No one wingers out there, keep Legislators debate issues and bigoted remarks, every great play or movie is talking about such bizarre pass laws to address real problems or needs a villain to make the heroes stand out anomalies except the ultra- your paws off our pets. ongoing situations that have been and glow against the backdrop of their conservatives. Oh sure, you can carefully documented by personal darkness. stumble upon a bestiality porn site testimony and statistical data. The last Sens. Santorum and Cowin have a right on the web while doing some innocuous task, Since she’s a Florida legislator, Cowin’s time I checked, no student had come forward to their opinions. If the rest of us don’t like such as fact-checking the author of Beauty beastly maneuvers hit close to home. complaining about harassment because of the howling, we can just get out of the zoo— and the Beast. But it’s the far right that is Considering that the first part of her name his or her proclivity for having sex with which in this case is the U.S. Congress or the drawing attention to this rare phenomenon, spells “cow,” one can only imagine what kind animals. Likewise, no teenage necrophiliacs Florida legislature. and Cowin and Santorum are certainly not of skeletons the Cowin’s family has in their have stormed out of their crypts to demand the only ones doing so. Just last week, it was closet—or perhaps in their barn. their rights in the classroom. These are bogus Phil LaPadula is the managing editor of The Express. You can reach him by revealed that President Bush’s nominee for a Sen. Cowin could have opposed the issues manufactured by extremists for calling 954.568.1880 or sending e-mail federal appeals court vacancy, Bill Pryor, also dignity bill in a dignified, professional manner, deceitful purposes. to [email protected]. compared homosexuality to bestiality in a which one would expect from an elected There have been, however, plenty of

22 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 BEST OF 2003 Printed on September 15, 2003 ‘Why Are You Still Single?’ Familiar Question Is Insult Disguised as a Compliment “Why are you still single?” movies with. I used to answer the “Why are you still relationship? Wouldn’t you at least be dating It’s a Trojan Horse question. People One friend gave the universal reply of single” question with a question of my a lot? If you were all that, wouldn’t you be in wheel it out as a compliment, but the soldiers the Single & Wounded: “I just haven’t found own—”Why are you still married?” But demand? of insult leap out as soon as the the right guy.” that’s not a good maneuver if you want Every single man who doesn’t want to question’s asked. What a crock. I meet the people to pay for the drinks. Then I tried be single asks himself these questions. The “Why are you still single?” “right guy” all the time. All putting a bumper sticker in my car that said, answers, like our plans for Saturday night, is the diplomatic way of saying, single men do. The problem is, “I’m Dating Your Husband.” But the karma aren’t pretty. And neither is some of the “What’s wrong with you?” they never think advice you get. A friend actually Sure, on the surface it’s a you’re the right guy. suggested that dating is like picking fruit compliment. I mean, you Every man you think at the grocery bin. “Don’t go for the wouldn’t ask a homeless person is Mr. Right thinks perfect pieces,” he whispered the same question. Or a mentally you’re Mr. Fright. And There’s a conspirationally. “Go for the bruised fruit. ill person. Or a programming vice versa. You’re a It’s cheaper, and they’ll be grateful.” executive at Fox. stink bomb to the guys certain glee in Presumably, he meant the store You don’t ask people who you want and “da managers. have nothing going for them why bomb” to the guys discovering the I do have one friend that actually they’re going nowhere. It’s much more you don’t. gave me some good advice, though. exciting to ask the dreaded “single” question It’s the kind of tragedy that fatal flaw that “You’re single because you’ve chosen to somebody who seems to have it all— comedy is made of. to be,” he said. brains, brawn and beauty. The question never used to keeps Mr. Perfect “Bullshit,” I said. “That may have First, there’s a genuine mystery to it. bother me when I wanted to be been true when I wanted to be single. In Second, and most importantly, because single. But now that I want to lose those days, I consciously chose to be there’s a certain glee in discovering the fatal my singleness the way my friends from finding single. But what about now? How can flaw that keeps Mr. Perfect from finding Mr. in committed relationships want to you say I’m ‘choosing’ to be single when Right. lose their partners, it bothers me a Mr. Right. I’m aching to be in a relationship?” I guess you’re lucky if people think lot. “Because,” he said, in an enough of you to ask the question. Better to First, of course, is the pity that observation that took me weeks to be seen as marriage material than radioactive always accompanies the question. understand. “You’ve chosen to believe material. Now, I enjoy being pitied as much as the next seemed all wrong. in the things that keep you single.” A group of us got together one day and guy. You can get lots of married friends to I hate the “single” question because the a smug, happily married friend lorded it over pick up the tab that way. The problem with words echo in my ears long after my feeble us. “Why are you guys still single?” he being pitied is that you become pitiful. And attempt to answer it. It’s easy to be seduced Michael Alvear is the author of Men Are Pigs But We Love Bacon. E-mail him at asked, in the kind of tone people use when that’s when you realize even you wouldn’t into thinking that you’re somehow defective. [email protected]. they actually have someone to go to the date you. After all, if you weren’t, wouldn’t you be in a

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 23 BEST OF 2003 Printed on September 8, 2003 Deceptive ‘Tina’ Can’t Be Tamed The False Freedom and Delusions of Crystal Meth Can Destroy Good Friendships Let me describe how things will go Then something will happen. Maybe you’ll enough to get “high,” just enough to carry in a strange way, you’ll also feel liberated. when you start using crystal have a wearying week at work, and just you through the day. Then you can catch Late that night, one of the party guys methamphetamines (also known as “Tina,” want an energetic escape from your back up to your sleep schedule that night. will invite you over. It will seem refreshing “crank” and “ice”). worries. Maybe you’ll see some At the office the next day, the staff to be around another person with positive Somebody will give it to you guy you like dancing with the meeting will seem monotonous. Everyone energy. You’ll stay up with him all night, free at a nightclub or a party. same group that had offered you is plodding along in baby steps, when the sharing philosophies and passions. You’ll They’ll say that it’s not Tina the last time. This time solutions to the business challenges are feel a special bond with him, and you won’t exactly healthy, but that it’s you’ll excuse yourself from your all laying themselves out in your mind. be surprised when he impulsively kisses a fun and low-risk friend, just so there are no Why can’t other people see how simple you on the balcony as sunrise comes up. indulgence for an occasional misunderstandings the next day. this all is? When you get home that The kisses, and the sex that follows in the weekend, just like any other This night will be hot tub, are just a testament to the club drug—ecstasy or even better than the spiritual connection you feel with Special K, or GHB. first one. You’ll enjoy him. There won’t be any condoms You’ll try it, and you’ll Tina’s boost with none The next night, one of your around, but one night certainly feel invigorated, more alive of the first-timer’s new friends will call you isn’t going to matter when the than you’ve felt in ages, and, anxieties dampening world is giving you gifts of well, horny. You probably won’t hook up the mood. You’ll stay out all while you’re pacing understanding and connection. with anyone, because you’re aware that night, spilling out from the club anxiously, still trying to get You’ll be late for work that you’re not really thinking normally with to an after-hours party. You’ll feel day. No problem: you’ll stay late this stuff churning through your brain. happy and free. Guys will be to sleep. You’re worried that to make up the time. That night, You’ll decide that you handled your first drawn toward you (and why Monday morning is you’ll visit your friend again, experience quite responsibly. shouldn’t they be? Everyone approaching. What if you apologizing for your late arrival. A friend of yours, someone like me, wants to be around happy He’ll say that he understands, and will seem a little distant on the phone the people.) You’ll hug, kiss, dance finally get tired just when explain that he quit his own job next day or the next week. No, you hadn’t and flirt. you need to be at work? recently. Offices and retail stores realized that you had ignored your friend, The next night, one of your are places for small people with or kept him waiting for you for four hours new friends will call you while small ideas. He’s going to open a at the club. You’ll feel a little insulted that you’re pacing anxiously, still nonprofit agency, and really put your friend is making such a big deal of trying to get to sleep. You’re his time on Earth to good use, one night’s schedule, but you’ll remember worried that Monday morning is evening, you’ll call me, or a friend like me, helping people. that he is your friend, and probably means approaching. What if you finally get tired bubbling over with enthusiasm about You won’t mind so much the next week well. just when you need to be at work? these new ideas. when your own boss says that he has to You won’t use Tina again for a long Fortunately, he’ll explain that a little hit of You’ll be disgusted to hear a negative let you go. You don’t need an office to time, or at least it will seem like a long time. Tina can help. Of course, you won’t take tone in your friend’s response. He’ll say make a difference out there. And what does that you’re oversimplifying matters, and it matter that they repossessed your car? that you’re not being realistic. You’ll hold Weeks later, you’ll bump into your the phone in your hand, mouth agape, in friend leaving the nightclub just as you’re shock. Your friend is jealous of you! Of heading in. He’ll say that you seem to have course! lost weight, and you’ll accept what you Now you’ll buy Tina every weekend, assume is a compliment, looking down at and maybe a few times each week just to your rock-hard, defined abdominals. You’ll keep the creative juices flowing. One time be glad that you shared a moment with you’ll take too much (hey, you can admit that old friend; apparently he’s come to when you make a mistake). Sleep will evade accept the new you. He’ll linger, staring you for three nights in a row. You’ll feel into your eyes with a sad sort of love for like you’re going crazy, bored beyond you. As a gesture, you’ll invite him to have belief, as the stale nights roll by. One a drink with you, but he’ll decline. And afternoon, crashing with fatigue but still you’ll turn away, absorbed into the too antsy to sleep, you’ll call that old welcoming blackness of the club. friend, out of boredom. He’ll sound as weary as you feel. He’ll explain that he Stephen Fallon is the president of Skills4, doesn’t want anything to happen to you, Inc., a healthcare and disease-prevention and that people on Tina often end up consulting firm that specializes in gay lifestyle and health issues Visit his Web making bad choices. site at www.Skills4.org. If you need You’ll be disappointed that he can’t sources for any medical information cited just be a friend, but instead insists on in his columns, e-mail him at lecturing you. You’ll cradle the phone, and [email protected]. feel sad that the friendship has ended. But

24 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 BEST OF 2003 Printed on January 27, 2003 The Face of AIDS Is Still Very Much Staring at Us Each Day AIDS Project Florida Needs Your Dollars and Dedication At AIDS Project Florida, the continue, the mission must is still a cause worth fighting for today. be for the first national center providing healthcare facility formerly go on and the concern needs We may have become complacent and legitimate counseling and HIV care for known as CenterOne, there is a to be enhanced. comfortable, but we have all spent too seniors. It will be to enhance the quality sign in the second-floor office For the past few years, much time thinking with the wrong head. of life of those in need. of the deputy director that is at the statistical rate of AIDS We need to sit down not on a pincushion I just saw Les Miserables at the once frightening and has increased by 5, 6 and but on a pin, and scream out loud like we acoustically challenged Jackie Gleason foreboding. It reads: “0,000,000 now 7 percent. have just been stuck in the derriere. Theatre in Miami. One of its more Cured.” In the past few years, Wake up, my friends, to the show that meaningful and stunning songs is the In the clinic, on the third more and more persons have never ends, to the disease that has not number after the barricades have been floor, you see the real faces of been developing resistance gone away. In bar guides each week, the defended and the students fighting for AIDS. There are the emaciated to protease inhibitors, and faces you see with dashes between the freedom have been slaughtered. The patients waiting for infusions, those relying on them are dates of their births and deaths are the survivors gather in a tavern and pay chemotherapy and new research treatment often visited with a host of other problems. symbols of lives shortened by the length tribute to those lost with a moving piece, protocols that might give them hope in the An AIDS agency is more than art of this disease’s reach. titled “Empty Chairs and Empty Tables.” face of hurt. auctions and red ribbons. It is about We need your help. We need you to act If you believe as I do that no matter While our lives get caught up in our doctors working extra hours, caseworkers more carefully, play more safely and party what we have done, we still need to do gyms and board meetings, we lose sight dealing with people in crisis and more responsibly. We need you to suit up more, then contact me in my new offices at of harsh realities. We are worried about volunteers reaching out a little bit more as you strip down, and we need you to stand 954.537.4111, at extension 133. city commission candidates when down every day. up and be counted again—because the life If you believe, as I do, that it is time the block from our homes, we have friends, More agencies and advocates, all you save may be your own. we stopped looking beside us and seeing all too many of them, worried about silent partners working for a healthier AIDS Project Florida has reinitiated empty chairs and empty tables, then join continuing their lives. tomorrow, have joined the battle today. its Millennium Club, saluting donors of with me in advocating AIDS research, For 19 years now, from its first meeting Poverello has its food bank, Care Resource distinction who commit to a cure by writing providing financial support and reaching in the basement of the Marlin Beach Hotel, has its AIDS Walk Miami and the Wansiki a check or allowing us to process your out to our communities with a new level of the agency formerly known as CenterOne Foundation struggles to offer immediate credit card. How will this money be spent? commitment, a greater level of care and a has been a source of hope and a helping aid. Tuesday’s Angels offers direct It might be on a clinical research trial heightened sense of concern. We must do hand for those in search of a cure. financial support, and our government that provides a new treatment protocol. It no less. Indeed, we must do much more. For 19 years, it has been an advocate provides funding under grants with names might be for a van that transports non- I ask for your help. Become a hero. in the face of apathy, a mission fighting that mean little to some of you, like Ryan ambulatory patients to a clinic to see a Become a partner. myopia, a concern winning the battle White, Chaffee Foundation or HOPWA. doctor. It might pay for a prescription, or a against complacency. But as we sit here in All these tasks and efforts add up to caseworker for counseling. It might buy a Norm Kent is the director of AIDS Project Florida and can be reached at 2003, for all the potions, protocols and one common reality: The battle is still not toy for a child in the waiting room while [email protected]. protease inhibitors, the advocacy must won, and a cause worth fighting for then her mother goes for healthcare. It might

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 25 26 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 2004 Looks Like a More Sobering Year for Gays Progress Likely to Continue, But National Politics Muddies the Waters In most ways, 2003 seemed to be a year Also on the positive side, industrial marriage and probably supports a To be sure, the most plausible of accomplishments: The Supreme Court productivity started what appears to be a constitutional amendment prohibiting it. He Democratic presidential contenders win no struck down 13 state sodomy laws, the sustained growth. The Dow broke the 10,000 seems more concerned about AIDS in the rest prizes, but at least they are better on gay Massachusetts Supreme barrier again and seems likely of the world than in the United States. While issues. All say they support some sort of Judicial Court struck down the to go further. Inflation is likely he urges “tolerance” for gays, he seems unable same-sex civil unions. And the leading state’s prohibition on same-sex to continue at a contender, Howard Dean, is marriage, Wal-Mart, the gratifyingly low level. likely to be the most open in nation’s largest employer, Saddam Hussein’s capture Those good things about the support of civil unions since he added sexual orientation to its secures the end of his economy and foreign affairs has a record to justify it. All nondiscrimination clause and Stalinesque dictatorship, except the evasive General Clark Queer Eye became an instant, weakens the opposition to also mean that President explicitly favor an end to “Don’t widely discussed hit. a democratic Iraq and Ask, Don’t Tell,” although they But 2004 looks far more like hastens the reduction of Bush, the least gay-supportive do not bother to explain how a mixed bag. On the positive American forces there. candidate, seems likely to win they could push repeal side, same-sex couples seem These are things to be legislation through a poised to be able to marry in grateful for, and President re-election in November. Republican Congress. Massachusetts some time in Bush deserves some credit On the other hand, none of 2004. New Jersey seems certain to adopt for them. the plausible Democratic some sort of civil union legislation. MTV— But those good things about the to say a single word in our favor. contenders favors gay marriage any more than without Showtime—will finally launch a economy and foreign affairs also mean that Not only is Bush likely to be re-elected, President Bush does, although all say they long-delayed gay-oriented cable channel. President Bush, the least gay-supportive but Republicans seem likely to increase their oppose a constitutional amendment More large and mid-sized companies will add candidate, seems likely to win re-election in majority in the Senate by two to three seats prohibiting it, and Dean advocates federal domestic partner benefits and more Gay- November. Bush continues to support and in the House by six to eight seats, making entitlements for couples with civil unions. Straight Alliances will be formed in high “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” despite its obvious nondiscrimination legislation and repeal of the The key question then is, do they support schools. failure and injustice. He opposes gay military gay ban non-starters. the Defense of Marriage Act with its discrimination against any legally married gay couples? Only Dean and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry oppose DOMA. But even if the others support DOMA’s stipulation that the Constitution’s “Full Faith and Credit” clause should not force recalcitrant states to recognize out-of-state gay marriages, what argument can they offer in favor of the federal government itself discriminating against gay couples? If they support federal nondiscrimination laws, which they say they do, on what principle do they think the government itself should discriminate? Probably the principle of “I want to win.” I said Bush “probably” supports a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage. Who knows? In his Dec. 16 interview with the ill-prepared Diane Sawyer, Bush said, “If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment….We may need a Constitutional amendment”…. “It [the Defense of Marriage Act] may be undermined at this point.” The words to notice are: “if necessary,” “we may need” and “may be undermined.” Everything is in a tentative mode. Bush certainly sounded as if he would have no trouble supporting an anti-gay marriage amendment, but he avoided making a specific endorsement or saying what would trigger an endorsement. It is a complicated game of signals Bush is playing, trying to suggest something to everyone while avoiding anything specific. Most likely, Bush is waiting to see a) where public opinion jells and b) if the election looks so close that he needs to generate religious conservative zeal on his behalf. Ironically, that could well mean that the more likely Bush seems to win, the less pressure he will feel to endorse the amendment. Nobody said politics was simple. Whatever happens in national politics, we can look forward to gains at the state and local level as more jurisdictions approve nondiscrimination laws or domestic partners registries. More important in the long run, we can expect more visibility in the field of popular entertainment and more support in the private business sector as more companies adopt favorable employment practices and/or initiate marketing outreach to gays. So our progress toward equality will continue despite the ups and downs of national politics. Some of Paul Varnell’s previous columns are posted at the Independent Gay Forum (www.indegayforum.org). His e-mail address is [email protected].

www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 27 By Charlene Lichtenstein For the week of 12/29/03 Let’s lock the door on 2003 and cross the threshold into 2004. Whew! Our new year is full of surprises as Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto all snuggle in mutable signs. Don’t rest on your laurels! Stand up and be counted! Will you be number one or number two?

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 20) Focus on your mental and spiritual health as Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter orbit mutable signs. Life may drive you to distraction so Find any excuse to relax and recharge to find your point of balance. But watch where you point that thing, buster.

TAURUS (APRIL 21 - MAY 21) Friends are a grand source of surprises throughout 2004. Queer Bulls become the one to know and gain entry to all hot spots. Intimate relationships can tip you horns over hooves and transform you for better or worse. How bad can that be, loverbull?

GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21) 2004 is the year to hoist your flag on the corporate masthead. But there will be more to life than your career, pink Twin. Pluto and Jupiter demand that you respect to partners and family. It is lonely at the top without someone on the bottom to prop you up. CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23) Undercurrents have a way of channeling your small craft in the right direction throughout 2004. Gay Crabs go far on their expansive ideas and hard work. Where will life lead you? It depends on where you want to go....

LEO (JULY 24 - AUGUST 23) 2004 is the year to explore the Outer limits of your sexuality. Anything and anyone can happen! Proud Lions may wind up tossing out long held tenets. There are experimental cubs who take things to extremes. Nipple clamps anyone?

. VIRGO (AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23) Queer Virgins either find exciting elements to a particular partnership or decide to drop it and run amok through a barrage of lovers. Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter have you weighing and balancing the you, me and we. Will you fall head over heels? We hope!

LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) Explosive surprises kaboom in the most mundane areas of your life through 2004 as Uranus teaches you to be open to change. Let’s unleash your sordid secrets. Is it true what they say about you, gay Libra? Anything would be an improvement.

SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) Proud Scorps burn their candle at both ends in 2004 thanks to sparky Uranus. You are the party epicenter but have a tendency to go overboard. By the time 2004 limps to an end, you may be a shell of a scorpion. Avoid nutcrackers, unless that is your thing.

SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) Uranus riles you in 2004 to implement change before the ropes of obligation strangle you. Even now you tire of the routine in your career and yearn for a new look and proud new you. Ready or not, change is afoot. Get ready to gallop or at least trot. CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) 2004 is a time to unfurl banners, release manifestoes and storm barricades for reform. Your communication is empowering; Jupiter broadcasts it globally and Pluto reveals buried opportunities. Can you find the gem in the trash? Some Caps are into trash. AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) Uranus upends finances in 2004. Aqueerians splurge on expensive, delicate trifles but your heart becomes a bull in a china shop when you rampage through fragile intimacies. Keep an eye on the bottom line and see that the price matches the quality.

PISCES (FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20) Uranus moves into your own sign and puts pizazz in anything you do. So just do it, Guppie! Hard work pays off, but you also need nerve and pluck. Don’t let others grab the credit and the glory. Stop being a pin cushion for every backstabber in 2004.

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34 www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 29, 2003 The Lunatics are Running the Asylum ‘What the Butler Saw’ is Classic Farce with a Modern Edge

Sandra Ives, Peter Haig, Michael D. Vines, Autumn Horne, John Felix and Oscar Cheda.

Review by Mary Damiano lecherous psychiatrist’s attempt to seduce a his performance is full of guilty pleasures. What the Butler Saw is not only a funny Arts & Entertainment Editor young woman who has applied for the Autumn Horne is wonderful, and has the play, but it remarkably manages to tie up First off, there’s no butler in What the position of his secretary. When his wife distinction of playing the sanest character in every loose end with a pretty red bow. It’s Butler Saw, now playing at the GableStage comes in unexpectedly, her arrival sets off a the bunch. just the thing for an evening out over the theatre in Coral Gables. bizarre chain of events involving One of the real treats about What the holidays. There is, however, nearly two hours of crossdressing, gender confusion, adultery, Butler Saw is the beauty and complexity of What the Butler Saw runs through Jan. misunderstandings, misidentifications and shock treatment, rape, blackmail, burocratic Orton’s language and syntax. The dialogue 11 at the GableStage Theatre at the mishaps that will keep audiences wondering incompetence and a very particular part of is rapid fire and boasts a rhythm that few Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., what could possibly happen next. Winston Churchill’s anatomy. modern plays can match. Coral Gables. Showtimes are Friday and But what else would one expect from What the Butler Saw is the kind of play Paul Mazer’s set is terrific, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday gay playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered that would fall flat in lesser hands, but director accommodating the character’s comings and at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35. There will be before this play was ever produced. Orton Joe Adler keeps the show moving and guides goings. Travis Neff lights the stage in that a special New Year’s Eve performance was known for his wicked sense of humor his cast through more than 140 separate bright white light only institutions seem to Dec. 31 at 8:30 p.m., followed by a and anarchist views, both of which found a entrances and exits. The cast of six play their have, yet still manages to flatter the actors. champagne supper at the Biltmore. Tickets for New Year’s Eve are $100. To home in his work. parts to the hilt and manages to find subtlety Estela Vrancovich’s costumes are deceivingly purchase tickets or for more information, The plot, convoluted as it is, is set in a in this broad comedy. simple, and are appreciated more and more call 305.445.1119 or visit Gablestage.org. British asylum in 1969 and all stems from a John Felix is the picture of lechery, and as the play goes on. Ft. Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus Sets a Holiday Mood ‘Seasons of Love’ a Stunning Concert Review by Mary Damiano arrangements of traditional pieces, including Another light moment was “Miss crown jewel of the evening was the chorus’ Arts & Entertainment Editor “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and Twinkleton’s School for Sensitive Boys,” performance of Handel’s “Hallelujah Is there any better way to get into a “Joy to the World,” there was still room for which mused about a wonderful school Chorus” from The Messiah. What a holiday mood than by listening to the Ft. some fun. One of the lighter pieces was called where sensitive young men could be performance—majestic, emotional and Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus? “The Long Christmas Dinner.” While themselves, cared for by their teacher Miss joyous. The chorus’ holiday show, Seasons of Jonathan Peterson sung a narration of what Twinkleton, described as a cross between One of the things that made Seasons of Love, was a festive respite so close to the happens when a man brings his boyfriend Doris Day, Endora from Bewitched and Auntie Love extra special was that the chorus was holidays, and a real holiday gift to the South home for Christmas to meet the family for the Mame. The chorus clearly enjoys these comic accompanied by live musicians. The string Florida community. Despite a few technical first time, Ross Carson and Bill Blaber sang pieces and they do them as well and with as section was made up of musicians from the glitches, the Ft. Lauderdale Gay Men’s the parts of the couple, Roger and Steve, much detail as the more complex choral music. old Fort Lauderdale Philharmonic, and the Chorus, under the direction of Todd Wiley, voicing their thoughts as they endure the Hanukkah was remembered in two brass and percussion was performed by local turned in an elegant performance, full pride holiday meal. The rest of the chorus acted songs, the more serious “Bashana Haba’ah” musicians, including college and high school and emotion. as the family, a Greek chorus if you will, to and the upbeat “Boogie Woogie Hanukkah.” teachers. The full sound of the brass and While the opening night show of the give their two cents on the situation. It was Although the chorus’s rendition of the strings enhanced the voices of the chorus, weekend on Saturday, Dec. 20 was more of a a well-executed number that added some lovely “O Holy Night” was truly magnificent, lending their vocals more weight and traditional concert, with wonderful comedy to the concert. featuring a soaring solo by Alex Crotts, the richness.

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