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il Lugano Hotel/da Campo Osteria Launches Men's Night
Every Wednesday beginning June 12 with $4.00 Svedka cocktails/$6.00 Svedka martinis and $5.00 tapas specials in Lobby Bar from 4pm to close. PLUS 25% off dinner check in da Campo Osteria. ...
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- Florida’s First Gay Adoptive Parent Stands Up for Federal Law
Martin Gill knows firsthand the kind of protracted legal battle faced by LGBT families who want to adopt. He and his partner Bruce successfully fought the system in Florida to legally adopt the two young boys they had been fostering.
Now, Gill is taking the fight to the federal level. In a column published in the Miami Herald on May 28, Gill has put his face on the fight to pass the Every Child Deserves a Family Act.
ECDF is a federal child welfare bill that would eliminate discrimination ...
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- Study: Kids of Same-Sex Parents Happier, Healthier Than Average
A new study found that children of same-sex parents are doing equally well, and in some areas, better than kids from heteronormative families. The results come from what is apparently the world’s largest study on the issue, the Australian newspaper the Age reports.
Researches from Melbourne University in Australia collected data on 500 children, up to the age of 17, across the country. Based on a number of key health and well-being indictors the study, called the "Australian Study of Child ...
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- Local Gossip Columnist Dies
Former gossip and entertainment columnist known as Mrs. Beasely passed away this week from a heart attack. He was 74. His real name was Jay Lynch, but most people knew him as his pseudonym.
"For over 30 years Jay Lynch (Mrs. Beasley) was the most widely read entertainment/gossip columnists in the history of South Florida publishing,” said friend and former boss Brad Casey. “We could not wait for his weekly column that was choked full of tantalizing tidbits on people and places of our comm...
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Cindy McCain to Receive LGBT Honor
Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican senator and former presidential contender John McCain, will be honored with The Trevor Project’s “hero” award for her LGBT advocacy at this year’s ceremony.
The gay rights organization will hold its “Trevor Live’ fundraising gala in New York City at Chelsea Piers on June 17.
“As a parent you make your best efforts to teach your children everything but there’s always that moment of realization when yo...
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- ExxonMobil Votes Down LGBT Employment Protections for 14th Year in a Row
For the 14th year in a row, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil has voted down a resolution that would have implemented an LGBT nondiscrimination policy at the company.
About 81 percent of company shareholders voted to not implement the measure on May 29, according to the Dallas Voice. The 19 percent support for the resolution reportedly was the lowest ever.
The highest level of support was in 2008, with nearly 40 percent of shareholders in favor, but still falling short.
“ExxonMobil continu...
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- Men Sentenced in Fatal Beating Near Peter Pan Diner
From our media partners Sun Sentinel:
Two of the four men accused of beating and kicking a Wilton Manors man to death in 2009 were sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison.
Victor Gonzalez, 25, and Pargu Leandro, 24, each apologized to the family of the victim, Craig Cohen, 47, who died on Oct. 7, 2009, after being in a coma for six months.
Leandro and Gonzalez pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter, aggravated battery and strong-arm robbery for the April 6, 2009, beating. The two,...
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- Google Declines to Change Algorithm to Stop Interpreting ‘Gayest’ As ‘Worst’
If “gayest” shows up among search results for the word “worst” and vice versa, then that’s a reflection of how most people use the words and cannot be changed. This is Google’s response to a recent outcry over its search results.
An online petition is demanding the company to change its algorithm so that the word “gayest” stops being interpreted by the search engine as a synonym to the word “worst.”
For example, a search for the “gayest Disney movies” will take user...
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