Florida Agenda

I recently watched Ken Burns’ incomparable 1990 documentary series, “The Civil War.” I won’t spend a lot of time extolling its many virtues—as documentary, as American history, as unparalleled storytelling, as explanation for the causes-and-consequences of many societal issues with which we still wrestle, more than 150 years after that violent struggle began—other than to [...]

Those who invoke the Bible to defend hetero-normative and homophobic views need to understand that the text can be understood in more complex ways than would make them comfortable. There are Biblical heroes who form non-traditional families of choice, there are couples who have covenantal relationships outside the cultural definition of marriage, and plenty of [...]

Carl Marzola is a familiar face in Greater Fort Lauderdale. His roots, which originate in upstate New York, were planted early in South Florida soil. While barely into his teens, Marzola moved to South Florida (in 1980). A licensed real estate broker, he is a member of the Florida Realtors and is the Broker and [...]

“No man can logically say he [doesn’t] care whether a wrong is voted up or voted down. He may say he [doesn’t] care whether an indifferent thing is voted up or down, but he must logically have a choice between a right thing and a wrong thing.” Abraham Lincoln “I know now that, even worse [...]

It appears that right now in South Florida, we have both a buyer’s and seller’s real estate market at the same time, although record low levels of inventory will eventually lead us more towards a stronger seller’s market.  Real estate, like any market, is driven by supply and demand, and “supply” in real estate is [...]

This Saturday, join thousands of your friends and neighbors  for the 5K Florida AIDS Walk and Music Festival, a heritage event created to raise awareness about the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic which remains at crisis proportions in Florida. The Walk and Music Festival raise money to support those Floridians—your friends and neighbors—who are living with HIV/AIDS. [...]

“May you live in interesting times.” Chinese curse I was reading a story last night, a pastiche of superhero tales that spans the era from the “Golden Age” of comics (roughly from the 1930s through the early 1950s), the “Silver Age” (the post-atomic 1960s and 70s), and more modern comic book fare. In the story, [...]

Last December, Florida’s former Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, told a group of reporters who asked if he regretted signing a petition banning same-sex marriage in the state constitution, “I think the best way to judge where my heart is, is to look at the deeds that I have done, whether as attorney general [or] as [...]

When it comes to community involvement, I’ve experienced my share over the years. Our early marches were based on a simple message of equality. We didn’t want to be fired from our jobs or not allowed to eat in a restaurant because we were gay. We often found ourselves adapting to the look and speak [...]

Jason Stuart has been funny for a very long time. He’s also been making people laugh for 30 years as a professional stand-up comedian. Breaking ground in nightclubs, on TV, and in movies, Stuart continues to ply his trade in comedy, too. A self-described “generic gay guy…who happens to be an actor and a comedian,” [...]