Florida Agenda

By Cliff Dunn Photo: Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida Members  sing the National Anthem at this year’s  Florida AIDS?Walk in Huizenga Plaza The inaugural season of the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida (GMCSF) will end with a bang the weekend of June 17 and 18, with the East Coast premier of Metamorphosis: Change [...]

Photo: Rich Rodriguez, Mister Ramrod 2011 Zak Enterline and Steve Whitney, proprietors of Fort Lauderdale’s oldest gay bar, Ramrod, are sending a contestant to the 2011 International Mister Leather (IML) competition, this year being held in America’s Second City, Chicago. Rich Rodriguez of Wilton Manors, who was crowned Mister Ramrod, is Chi-Town-bound this Memorial Day [...]

LGBT Greater Fort Lauderdale:  The Future is in Your Hands Part 6 of 6 By BOBBY BLAIR & CLIFF DUNN “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” – Abraham Lincoln “We few, we happy few, we [...]

By Cliff Dunn Tonight, May 12, Juiceblendz hosts its Pride Center Night from 6 to 10 p.m. The event will be held at the Juiceblendz store in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, 2248 Wilton Drive, with 20% of all proceeds from the purchase of smoothies, wraps, or sandwiches benefiting the Pride Center at Equality Park. [...]

The Mayor and City Commission of Wilton Manors are inviting business owners and concerned citizens to a chat-and-chew on May 17 at 9:00a.m., in the city’s Hagen Park Community Center. The Small Business Roundtable will include coffee and refreshments as well as presentations by officials about recent business-friendly initiatives, business incentives offered by Broward County’s [...]

IGLTA: Countdown to Convention Part Four of a Six-Part Series By CLIFF DUNN With just over two weeks remaining until the delegates and attendees to the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) 28th Annual Convention descend on Greater Fort Lauderdale, preparations are under way for the range of events, seminars, meetings and parties that [...]

By CLIFF DUNN You may not have gotten your invitation to attend the Royal Nuptials between His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales and his future consort, Kate Middleton (bear in mind the couple sent out 1,900 invites, so yours may just be lost in the mail), but Cliff Mulcahy and John Zieba, the owners [...]

IGLTA: Countdown to Convention – Part Three of a Six-Part Series By Cliff Dunn Although he might not be consciously aware of it, Reece Darham is an exponent of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s admonition that “there are no second acts” in life. This can be witnessed in the almost monomaniacal way the chairman of the Rainbow [...]

By Cliff Dunn   It Must Be Gelato, ‘Cause Sorbetto Don’t Shake Like That To officially mark the most recent expansion of their comfort food empire, Shawn Bombard and Nick Berry – of the eponymous Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Café, Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Café at the Saloon, and Shawn & Nick’s Gelato Station – [...]

Anticipation, Expectations Build in Run Up to Delegates Arrival for Summit Part Two of a Six-Part Series By Cliff Dunn As part of its ongoing efforts to promote gay-owned businesses in Broward County, the Rainbow Business Coalition (RBC) of Greater Fort Lauderdale is partnering with the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) to welcome [...]