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Documentary About Gay Adoption Shows Disgusting Side of Freedom of Speech By DMITRY RASHNITSOV CNN, the only 24 hour news network that has chosen to stay bi-partisan on the political spectrum, is dedicating a significant amount of Internet bandwidth to an area called “Gay in America”. One of the first television hours dedicated to this [...]

I am at this club to have a cocktail and it smells like chicken fingers in here.  I almost feel like I want to throw up. I was having a good weekend and then the muffler fell of the back of my car and I was stranded with nothing to do for days.  I had [...]

Did someone catch your eye but you were to afraid to say hello? Think someone is straight but want to find out for sure? Send your parting glances to the Florida Agenda at troym@jumponmarkslist.com, and we’ll make sure to connect you and your future mate. Stonewall St. Festival You sang a couple of songs and [...]

Making Your Own Fireworks Summer is here: the humidity is high and the daytime temperatures are even higher. antibiotics no prescription With the July 4th holiday this weekend, thoughts turn to barbeques and basking in the Florida sun, sipping on a Mai Tai by the pool and fireworks. If you’re not into heat, humidity and [...]

Intoxiskate Promoter Turns Talents to Help Others and Faces Personal Tragedy By Bob Kecskemety Early in June, Intoxiskate promoter and Matty’s bartender, David Rohrig, 31, realized there was a need in the community to provide a website database for troubled LGBT youth in Broward County. He realized there were online sources, but a young person [...]

Speakers Give Faces, Voice to Epidemic By DMITRY RASHNITSOV Three years after Todd Murray was diagnosed with HIV he decided he wasn’t going to let the disease take over his life. Murray founded the group Hope’s Voice, which is dedicated to providing programs, educational lectures, events and campaigns that reach the hearts and minds of [...]

By Dmitry Rashnitsov The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new rules for hospitals that would protect patients’ rights to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including visitors who are same-sex domestic partners. The new proposed rules implement an April 15, 2010, Presidential memorandum, in which the President tasked HHS with [...]

Case stems from Washington State Petition That Tried to Protect Names of “Everything-but-Marriage” Repeal Petition Signers BY DMITRY RASHNITSOV Washington State voters were worried that they would be harassed after signing a petition to repeal the state’s “everything-but-marriage” gay rights law. They did not want their names revealed, however, the Supreme Court of the United [...]

New procedure Can Detect HIV Days Earlier Than Current US Tests BY DMITRY RASHNITSOV A new HIV test created by Abbott Pharmaceuticals is claiming to speed up the process by which people will get their results. Currently, most people who get tested for HIV will give a swab of their mouth or a few drops [...]

By DMITRY RASHNITSOV Last weekend saw the crowning of Mr. and Mrs. Stonewall locally, but that’s peanuts compared to the competition that the city of Montreal, Canada is staging. The first ever Queer of the Year is going to be crowned this summer! Everyone in the LGBT community is eligible to enter. First visit www.QueerOfTheYearContest.com [...]