local name global coverage September 2, 2015 vol. 6 // issue 35 s o u t h f l o r i d a g a y n e w s CHECKKC OUTTUO THEEHT NEWWEN GaGaWiltonznotl ManoeonaM rstte ITINSERT IN CENTER pages 18, 34 - 35 Keeping America safe from Rentboy escorts SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS SOFLAGAYNEWS SFGN.COM SouthFloridaGayNews.com comments from sfgn’s The opening Line online outlets SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 •VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 35 Compiled by John McDonald 2520 N. DIXIE HIGHWAY • WILTON MANORS, FL 33305 PHONE: 954-530-4970 FAX: 954-530-7943 Photos: Facebook. PUBLISHER • NORM KENT Ted cRuz says [email protected] an open Letter CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER • PIER ANGELO GUIDUGLI To The Owners of Tropics Gays should be able to discriminate against Christians ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER / EXECUTIVE EDITOR • JASON PARSLEY [email protected] debbie chamberlin – SFGN embarrasses Luimar zibetti garza – Editorial ART DIRECTOR • BRENDON LIES themselves yet again. Very And flowers around the world just shake their blooming [email protected] unprofessional on both sides, heads at our self proclaimed “intelligence.” Dude....it’s a DESIGNER • MARTIN GOULD but this is the kind of pissy f**ken bouquet of flowers just trying to either stay planted [email protected] writing you save for yourself and live, or die while somebody else smiles at their fading INTERNET DIRECTOR • DENNIS JOZEFOWICZ and never allow to see the petals ..... light of day. If the editor pitches a public [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANT • JILLIAN MELERO bitch fit, how can any reasonable person ....seriously, pick a “new” analogy and git over yourselves... expect to see fair, balanced reporting under [email protected] ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR • JW ARNOLD that kind of management? (It’s okay, ya gotta be a bit autistic to understand.) [email protected] NEWS EDITOR •JOHN MCDONALD patrick smith – Jeff britt – steve wichmann – [email protected] Sounds like two How about Idiot. Would sell his mother Senior Features Correspondents immature individuals discrimination is just for the presidency. JESSE MONTEAGUDO • TONY ADAMS trying to see who has the illegal .. Duh Food/Travel Editor bigger dick. RICK KARLIN Correspondents craig Ross – homeland security Raids Rentboy.com DORI ZINN •ANDREA RICHARD • DONALD CAVANAUGH CHRISTIANA LILLY • DENISE ROYAL • SEAN MCSHEE I support Norm Kent and GARY KRAMER • DAVID-ELIJAH NAHMOD his article. Old queens John gianni caminiti – move here and act like I just finished reading the Complaint. It felt as if I were reading the Ken Starr Contributing Columnists Report. Was it really necessary to go into detail about rim chairs, fisting, scat, BRIAN MCNAUGHT • DANA RUDOLPH • WAYNE BESEN they own the drive, please RIC REILY • STEVE SILER • BIL BROWNING bitch get your wheelchairs watersports, dick size and foreskin? Why are my tax dollars for Homeland TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER and know your place. The Security going for an investigation into the consensual activities of adults? The world does not cater to you two. Never complaint is devoid of any sex trafficking, tax evasion, or money laundering charges. If those Staff Photographers liked Tropics and wouldn’t spend a dime crimes were suspected they should have been included in the complaint. Mayor DeBlasio J.R. DAVIS •POMPANO BILL •STEVEN SHIRES there. Old queens in this town are the & President Obama should be ashamed of themselves. Seems like Homeland Security’s Sales & Marketing worse, they are bitter bitches purpose is to protect the nation from Rim Chairs. Damn, and I just had mine reupholstered. DIRECTOR OF SALES &MARKETING • MIKE TROTTIER [email protected] Mike braun – SALES MANAGER • JUSTIN WYSE So law enforcement should ignore all crime except the worst crimes? You’re [email protected] brilliant. How about Dante go get a legal job so as not to distract law enforcement ADVERTISING SALES ASSOCIATE • EDWIN NEIMANN from having to bother with his law breaking? [email protected] ADVERTISING SALES ASSOCIATE • CINDY CURTIS [email protected] carl szulczynski – ADVERTISING SALES ASSOCIATE • JIM ALBRIGHT I have to respectfully disagree with the writer of this piece. I have vast experience [email protected] and first hand knowledge of escorting and review sites. If Rentboy isn’t enabling SALES ASSISTANT • DEVON WOODS the sex trafficking of minors they won’t be prosecuted for it. If they are evading [email protected] DISTRIBUTION SERVICES •BRIAN SWINFORD taxes or are involved in any schemes in which any government official could be compromised or blackmailed, it’s an issue of National Security. NATIONAL ADVERTISING And let’s face it, if it’s promoting prostitution and/or glamorizing it to our youth, don’t we as RIVENDELL MEDIA 212-242-6863 “family” have an obligation to give them other options instead? After all, I didn’t wake up one [email protected] morning as a starving teen on the street and decide to be a hooker because I didn’t want to ACCOUNTING SERVICES BY CG BOOKKEEPING work in retail. Let’s try giving our youth a hand up rather than a hand down their pants for a few lousy bucks. Let’s not glorify the men who take advantage of the hungry kids and act like Cover: it’s a part of gay culture because it shouldn’t be. The Homeland Security raid on the office of the escort service RentBoy.com spurs debate. South Florida Gay News is published weekly. The opinions expressed in columns, stories, and letters to the editor do not Out Now! represent the opinions of SFGN, or the Publisher. 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A Carly Cass. a later time with an official statement. year later, Jackson, was accused of a hit and run Cass, a board member of the Palm Beach inside a West Palm Beach parking garage, but County Human Rights Council, said she those charges, which included a driving with was discussing LGBT issues with friends a suspended license citation, were eventually when Jackson “injected himself into the dropped, reports the Palm Beach Post. conversation.” “He (Jackson) just doesn’t seem to have any “He started by calling us all Socialists and boundaries,” Hoch said. then he got angrier and slurs were said,” Jackson, 25, claims to be the chairman of Cass told SFGN in a telephone call Monday the board for the Black Republican Caucus of afternoon. South Florida. Cass, however, says the issue is k. o The alleged incident occurred on Tuesday, not about color or party and has received words bo Aug. 25. Cass said Jackson was removed from of support from Republicans and Democrats, ce the sports grill and escorted to his car. It was alike. Fa : the first time Cass had met Jackson and it was “This incident proves we still have work to os ot memorable. do for human rights in Palm Beach County,” Ph “It was a heated moment,” Cass said. Cass said. “It was a personal discussion, but his Palm Beach County Human Rights Council behavior was inappropriate. We need to work Founder Rand Hoch said Jackson has, in together to ensure equality and safety for all.” Lesbian says RepubLican ThReaTened recent years, operated on the fringe of the Cass said she has yet to receive an apology Palm Beach County political scene. In 2012, from Jackson. To beaTheR ‘Like a Man’ Jackson campaigned for the West Palm Beach John McDonald Sean P. Jackson. hat was intended to be a friendly and eventually stated, “You want to be a man, gathering of local activists turned I’ll beat you like a man.” Winto an ugly encounter with threats The joint social event was sponsored by the of violence last week. Palm Beach County YoungDemocrats and Palm Inside the Bru’s Room Sports Grill in Beach County Young Republicans. Boynton Beach, Carly Cass, a lesbian, says she SFGN contacted the offices of the Palm Beach was accosted and nearly assaulted by Sean County Republican Party seeking confirmation P. Jackson, a Palm Beach County Republican of Jackson’s affiliation with the party. Ryan Party operative. Jackson, Cass said, grew angry Hnatiuk, a GOP spokesman, said he was 9.2.2015 • 3 community announcement David Jobin. ouR fund hiRes new ceo/pResidenT Stonewall Museum’s David Jobin to replace Anthony Timiraos Stonewall Museum huck Loring, Board Chair of Our Fund, with a bright future and a strong Board of announced today that their Board Directors” commented Mr. Jobin. Cof Directors has named David Jobin, “David stood out among the national pool the current Executive Director of Stonewall of candidates because of the impressive National Museum & Archives, as Our Fund’s record of success he achieved at Stonewall next CEO/President. A national search was and prior non-profit organizations he ran,” launched in the Spring of 2015 when Our says Our Fund’s Board Chair Chuck Loring, Fund’s founding President & CEO Anthony adding, “the entire search committee was Timiraos informed the Board in agreement that having of Directors of his wish to someone with David’s retire at the end of his five During Mr.