Florida Agenda

By Cliff Dunn “The modern president is America’s shrink, a social worker, our very own national talk show host. He’s also the Supreme Warlord of the Earth.” Gene Healy, “The Cult of the Presidency” President Obama’s historic words last week announcing his support of full marriage equality for gay Americans was as simple as it [...]

By CLIFF DUNN Part 2 of a 2-part Series WILTON MANORS – In the aftermath of his nearly three-hour ordeal with a man whom he says held him against his will in his own apartment, Robert Jacobs, a seeingimpaired part-time resident of Wilton Manors, describes a twilight period of anxiety, confusion, and conflicting emotions which [...]

In the May 3 Agenda (“Wilton Manors Officials Take on Public Enemy Number One: PARKING”), we reported that the Wilton Manors City Commission had entered a “long-term lease with Kids in Distress for three lots located on NE 8 Terr.” The city will actually be leasing one lot from Kids in Distress, purchasing two other [...]

By Marc Paige When Mitt Romney selected a gay man, Richard Grenell, as his Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman, the Log Cabin Republicans, GOProud, and LGBT conservatives everywhere hailed this appointment as proof that Romney, in his heart, was a fair man who will do right by the gay community. But it took only [...]

CLIFF DUNN, EDITOR   “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” Oscar Wilde   I have a vivid childhood memory of my mother which had a lasting impact on the man I would become. Like a lot of kids, I had to endure bullies at various times [...]

By SCOTT GALVIN Recently, I was speaking to a Gay Studies class at Florida International University, my alma mater. A student asked me which one LGBT law I would change if I were empowered to do so. I’m sure most expected me to say I’d legalize gay marriage, the continued hot topic of the gay [...]

By CLIFF DUNN “God is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Anonymous My partner and I were watching a movie the other night. I can’t recall which one, or what it was about, but one thing that stood out was the signage. By this, I refer to signs being carried by one side in the [...]

By Rabbi NOAH KITTY Being both LGBT and Jewish is to be twice blessed, say Christie Balka and Andy Rose, and I believe them, although I have to admit that there are days when—as Woody Allen might quip—it doubles my chances of getting beat up in the schoolyard. Growing up Jewish taught me many lessons [...]

CLIFF DUNN, EDITOR   “Where they have burned books,        they will end in burning human beings.” -Heinrich Heine   Last week, hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of schools across the U.S. participated in the 2012 National Day of Silence, a day established to draw awareness to the evils of bullying and homophobic [...]

By NADINE SMITH It’s tax season, and once again gay married couples are caught between the truth and the law. Each year, the federal government demands thousands of gay married couples sign an IRS Form 1040 with this stern warning. “Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules [...]