local name global coverage december 25, 2019 vol. 10 // issue 52 A Day In South Florida SFGN’S ANNUAL PHOTO ISSUE IS A LOOK INTO YOUR LOCAL LGBT LIVES BEGINS ON PAGE 9 SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS @SFGN SFGN.COM NEWS HIGHLIGHT SouthFloridaGayNews.com @SFGN December 25, 2019 • Volume 10 • Issue 52 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 LGBT TRUCKERS HIT THE ROAD TO Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • Norm Kent [email protected] CEO • Pier Angelo Guidugli MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN TamPA BAY [email protected] Associate Publisher / Executive Editor • Jason Parsley Ryan Williams-Jent [email protected] Watermark Editorial Art Director • Brendon Lies [email protected] Digital Content Director • Justin Musial [email protected] Arts/Entertainment Editor • J.W. Arnold [email protected] Social Media Manager • Tucker Berardi [email protected] Food/Travel Editor • Rick Karlin Gazette News Editor • Sallie James HIV Editor • Sean McShee Senior Photographer • J.R. Davis [email protected] Senior Features Correspondents THE ORGANIZATION Jesse Monteagudo Correspondents HAS SIX CORE MEMBERS Dori Zinn • Donald Cavanaugh • Christiana Lilly • Denise Royal • David-Elijah Nahmod AND REPRESENTS MORE Contributing Columnists THAN 4,000 LGBTQ Dana Rudolph • Ric Reily • Terri Schlichenmeyer Associate Photographers AND ALLY TRUCKERS Carina Mask • Steven Shires Sales & Marketing LGBT Truckers. Photos via LGBT AND SUPPORTERS Truckers, Facebook. For ad placement in SFGN, NATIONWIDE. contact 954-530-4970 Sales Manager • Justin Wyse [email protected] GBT Truckers, an organization pageants, Miss New Face and Miss Florida within the LGBT community across the Senior Advertising Associate • Edwin Neimann dedicated to raising awareness about Trans Proud, and begin at 7 p.m. Entry is $5. nation,” LGBT Truckers VP and Marketing [email protected] Lthe growing diversity within the Each of the events will feature the group’s Director Bobby Coffey-Loy says. “We love Senior Advertising Associate • Clark Rogers trucking industry, is hitting the road in Rainbow Rider, a rig painted in the colors helping others and as the opportunity came [email protected] Tampa Bay to spread some holiday cheer. of the rainbow, marking the truck’s Florida about with Victoria, the VFW and Florida Distribution Services • Rocky Bowell The organization has six core members debut. Trans Proud, it certainly has created some Sales Consultant • Charles A. Reid and represents more than 4,000 LGBTQ and “We’re taking steps to create outings excitement.” National Advertising ally truckers and supporters nationwide. Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 [email protected] They will team with the Pasco County-based, equality-focused Florida Trans Proud to host Accounting Services by CG Bookkeeping Printing by Sun Coast Press a variety of events Dec. 25-28. Events begin with a “Meals for 18 Wheels” event in Dade City and an outing on Dec. 27 will follow at Busch Gardens Tampa. Organizers will close out 2019 with a year- end bash benefiting St. Petersburg’s VFW Post No. 39 led by Tampa Bay entertainer Victoria Michaels on Dec. 28. Michaels has SFGN WINNER of worked throughout the year to restore the & 5 FLORIDA PRESS CLUB Awards post’s 175-seat theater. And runner-up for The evening will feature two inaugural NLGJA Journalist of the Year South Florida Gay News is published weekly. 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Copyright © 2019 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 2 • 12.25.2019 HIVcare.org KINDER (SOUTH MIAMI) MIAMI (JACKSON NORTH) OAKLAND PARK 3661 S MIAMI AVE, STE 806 100 NW 170TH ST, STE 208 1164 E OAKLAND PARK BLVD, 3RD FL (786) 497-4000 (305) 405-0045 (954) 561-6900 SOUTH BEACH NORTHPOINT DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE 4308 ALTON RD, STE 950 6405 N FEDERAL HWY, STE 205 700 SE 3RD AVE, STE 301 (305) 538-1400 (954) 772-2411 (954) 767-0887 12.25.2019 • 3 CONVICTIONS Publisher's Editorial A CELEBRATION OF US x Norm Kent [email protected] of Steve McQueen’s 1969 Mustang from Who Should Get the 50-year-old San Francisco based police Norm Kent as he appears detective movie, Buliitt. on his radio show, The Person of the Year? Mc Queen was the best. Like so many of Norm Kent Show. First of all, Happy Hanukkah and Merry our own friends, he died too young. But after Christmas. seeing Ford vs Ferrari in the theaters this Our readers know that at the end of each weekend, I gotta have it. Great movie if you year, SFGN acknowledges and applauds love racing — even if you don’t. achievements in excellence within and for the Anyway, to the point of this column. Let’s LGBT community, national make this tenth anniversary figures and local champions. special. SFGN is a print We do not make our newspaper surviving, thanks selections based on singular SFGN IS A PRINT to you, in a digital age. No easy achievements within any NEWSPAPER task. We need your support calendar year, but rather by more than ever. Printing, saluting accomplishments SURVIVING, creative, and distribution personally and professionally costs are rising constantly. So over a lifetime. THANKS TO YOU, let’s celebrate who we all are Our choices reward and what we have achieved community members whose IN A DIGITAL AGE. together, while we can. lives have exhibited grace NO EASY TASK. Finally, feel free to email and dignity, voices and your suggestions for persons visionaries whose voyages WE NEED YOUR of the year, male and female, have withstood the test of ally of the year, and youth time. SUPPORT MORE activist of the year. Many are They have been straight worthy. A few are special . I allies like Hillary Clinton and THAN EVER. want to hear what you have respected journalists such as to say. Anderson Cooper. They could be conservative Get me the suggestions in or liberal, artists or authors, even politicians. the next week. Hope to see you January 15, or If you have a suggestion for next hear from you on the air any weekday from 3 week’s award winners, send it to me on to 5 p.m. on 1470 AM or wwnnradio.com. Facebook in my Norm KENT page, or to Thanks, and have a special holiday. [email protected]. Come January, our pages will salute local leaders for 2019. This will be particularly exciting in January, when SFGN celebrates its tenth anniversary — at a party you are all invited to. It will be held on January 15 at Greico Ford in Fort Lauderdale, and we expect over 350 guests. Please come. You are invited. We will open the doors, give away some awards, celebrate our successes, acknowledge failures, and maybe sell some cars. 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All information furnished regarding property for sale or rent or regarding financing is from sources deemed reliable, but Corcoran makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy thereof. All property information is presented subject to errors, omissions, price changes, changed property conditions, and withdrawal of the property from the market, without notice. Source: The Wall Street Journal, REAL Trends, June 2018 © Copyright 2018 Dow Jones & Company. All Rights Reserved. 12.25.2019 • 5 IN MEMORIAM Nite Club Law IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHCOCH If you drink, don’t drive. If you drive, don’t drink. If you do both, call us. SFGN Staff ohn Hitchcoch, former owner of Cubby Hole and long-time sponsor of South JFlorida Amateur Athletic Association, died recently from cancer. Here are a few quotes from people remembering him. “A true friend for 45 years... my mentor as a DJ who gave me my first break as a DJ. I will never forget him. I am sure those of you who knew him will not either.” — Kenny Silverman, Chairman of the SFAAA.