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LGBT Issues

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage; It Doesn't Mean Diddly for Florida Gays

    If you've got a TV or an internet connection, you've probably already heard about President Barack Obama's statement to ABC News that "I think same sex-couples should be able to get married."If you frequent Think Progress, you've seen the gigantic "THANK YOU OBAMA! PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSES MARRIAGE ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?

    If you've got a TV or an internet connection, you've probably already heard about President Barack Obama's statement to ABC News that "I think same sex-couples should be able to get married."If you frequent Think Progress, you've seen the gigantic "THANK YOU OBAMA! PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSES MARRIAGE ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Fort Lauderdale's Pretty Gay -- According to Gays, One of the Gayest

    ​You probably didn't need the experts to figure this one out, but Fort Lauderdale is a pretty gay place.So gay, in fact, that the Advocate says it's the fourth-gayest place in the U.S. of A.Wilton Manors is technically the gayest place in the country if we're basing this off on concentration ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Westboro Baptist "Church" Coming to Fort Lauderdale to Scare Children

    ​Fred Phelps and the rest of the "God hates fags" crew from the Westboro Baptist Church in Nowhere, Kansas, say they're coming to Fort Lauderdale on December 8.Remember, Fred Phelps told the Pulp back in July that he was gathering up the gang to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    GOP Debate Audience Members Make Fools of Themselves by Booing Gay Soldier (Video)

    ​Another GOP presidential debate in Florida last night apparently presented the opportunity for audience members to make asses of themselves on national television again, this time by booing a gay soldier stationed in Iraq.During the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, a question was given to Rick ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2011

    Epic Bitch Fight

    ​Another GOP presidential debate in Florida last night apparently presented the opportunity for audience members to make asses of themselves on national television again, this time by booing a gay soldier stationed in Iraq.During the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, a question was given to Rick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Allen West's Wife Claims the Congressman Likes Four Gay People

    This guy's got gay friends.​Rep. Allen West's wife, Angela, gave a sermon titled "tolerance" on her Facebook page last night, in response to the Wilton Manors Business Association cancelling the congressman's appearance due to his controversial views of homosexuality.Mrs. West says if they ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Allen West on Gay Soldiers: "People Can Change Their Behavior, but I Can't Change My Color"

    ​Well, it didn't take too long for Rep. Allen West to make a statement that people are seeing as more outlandish than his last one.West was asked by an audience member at a speech Saturday night about openly gay people serving in the United States military, according to the Tampa Tribune.His respo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Christian Family Coalition Thanks New Times for Calling Them a Gang of Weirdos

    via Flickr user the-g-uk​The Pulp let y'all know last week that the Christian Family Coalition blew a gasket over Oakland Park's proclamation recognizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride & Equality Month passed by the city's commission.In response, we received an underhanded thank-you ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    A Big Gay Parade

    via Flickr user the-g-uk​The Pulp let y'all know last week that the Christian Family Coalition blew a gasket over Oakland Park's proclamation recognizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride & Equality Month passed by the city's commission.In response, we received an underhanded thank-you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    The Unfortunate Lesbians of Blanche Ely High School

    ​Last week, the principal of Blanche Ely High School, Mr. Karlton Johnson, hauled an interracial lesbian couple into his office and threatened to suspend them for holding hands in the hallway. He'd warned them about this hand-holding business before, he said -- he was just upholding the school's r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

    ​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Did Allen West Just Compare Gays to Terrorists?

    West: Don't get gay on me.​It's April in the Year of Our Lord 2011, and most Floridians have reached an accommodation with Allen West. As summer looms and West's congressional career blossoms into maturity, he's almost begun to seem normal. He still hates Muslims, but at least he's polite about it ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2011

    OUT Yourself

    West: Don't get gay on me.​It's April in the Year of Our Lord 2011, and most Floridians have reached an accommodation with Allen West. As summer looms and West's congressional career blossoms into maturity, he's almost begun to seem normal. He still hates Muslims, but at least he's polite about it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Archbishop Wenski & The Pedophiles

    On a high holy horse.​"In our nation's culture wars," wrote Thomas Wenski, the Archbishop of Miami, in an editorial in Saturday's Sun Sentinel:...the two sides are fighting about the understanding of man and his relationship with reality. One side -- and today, "gay marriage" is its poster child - ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2011

    A Festival gets better

    On a high holy horse.​"In our nation's culture wars," wrote Thomas Wenski, the Archbishop of Miami, in an editorial in Saturday's Sun Sentinel:...the two sides are fighting about the understanding of man and his relationship with reality. One side -- and today, "gay marriage" is its poster child - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Surrogacy, From a Bioethics Perspective

    via knowabouthealth.com​This week's cover story about a gay couple who had twins through surrogacy in Panama raises ethical questions inherent to the surrogacy process. Though the couple in the New Times feature took every precaution imaginable to ensure that agreements with their egg donor and su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    How The Grinch Stole Allen West's Christmas

    Break ranks, soldier!​"What a week," wrote Congressman-elect Allen West to his supporters yesterday, "as we draw closer to a very Merry Christmas." On the evidence, Allen West defines "merry" a bit differently from the rest of us, for he spends the next fifteen paragraphs explaining Barack Obama's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Cal Thomas: Gays Will Keep Chaplains From Collecting Your Soul

    Cal Thomas.​Conservative columnist and over-syndicated radio blowhard Cal Thomas doesn't live around here, so he may not have seen our summary dismemberment of the suddenly-fashionable "chaplain's argument" against the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. But there he is, on the opinion page of our on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Top Five Reasons Charlie Crist Should Come Out Today

    Cheer up, Charlie, and come out of the closet!​Come out, come out wherever you are, Charlie. It's National Coming Out Day, and a mere three weeks before Election Day. Rumors have been swirling for years, but only you have the power to spin them into reality. Here's why you should seize the moment: ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    The Killing of Calvin Williams: If You're Black and Gay in South Florida, Down-Low Sex Is a Deadly Gamble

    Cheer up, Charlie, and come out of the closet!​Come out, come out wherever you are, Charlie. It's National Coming Out Day, and a mere three weeks before Election Day. Rumors have been swirling for years, but only you have the power to spin them into reality. Here's why you should seize the moment: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Mike Verdugo Fired for Gay Porn Role? Or for Complaining About Harassment by Hollywood PD?

    Photo from FacebookVerdugo speaking at a news conference yesterday.​The Mike Verdugo case isn't quite as simple as the Sun-Sentinel makes it sound. Nor is it as simple as the Miami Herald made it sound last January.Verdugo does not believe he was fired purely based on his having appeared in a gay ... More >>

  • Film

    July 8, 2010

    "La Mission": Watered-down Jungian Analysis Meets a GLAAD-Approved Weepie

    Photo from FacebookVerdugo speaking at a news conference yesterday.​The Mike Verdugo case isn't quite as simple as the Sun-Sentinel makes it sound. Nor is it as simple as the Miami Herald made it sound last January.Verdugo does not believe he was fired purely based on his having appeared in a gay ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    The Art of Writing ‘Gay’

    Photo from FacebookVerdugo speaking at a news conference yesterday.​The Mike Verdugo case isn't quite as simple as the Sun-Sentinel makes it sound. Nor is it as simple as the Miami Herald made it sound last January.Verdugo does not believe he was fired purely based on his having appeared in a gay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Westboro Baptist: Bringing Bigotry to a Location Near You

    ​The Rev. Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church may be a frothing looney, but he seems just as drawn to Florida's balmy winter days as any Jersey snowbird. Based in Kansas, Phelps has achieved fame for blaming just about all the world's ills on gay people (his website, godhatesfags.com, is a comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    With Barney Frank Joke, Rush Limbaugh Shows His Age... 10

    In a clip that has been making the rounds on blogs as well as on cable news networks, this week Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank responded to a protester who, carrying an Obama-as-Nazi poster, likened the president's health-care reform to Nazi policy. Besides failing to mention that Frank is&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Transsexual Charged Again With Back-Alley Silicone Injections

    via Flagler County Sheriff's OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client's botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    United Way Uncovers "Gay Agenda" in Broward

    Take the survey and RULESo. United Way has posted the "first ever web-based census and needs assessment" of Broward's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, 'and questioning' community." They put a poll up at www.lgbtcensus.com on June 21 that they say takes about 15 minutes to answer, but I've compl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    She’s DeLaria-ous!

    Take the survey and RULESo. United Way has posted the "first ever web-based census and needs assessment" of Broward's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, 'and questioning' community." They put a poll up at www.lgbtcensus.com on June 21 that they say takes about 15 minutes to answer, but I've compl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Interfaith Prayers, Ice Skating, and Leather Fetish?

    Winter Party Festival gets unpredictable

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2009

    Guys as Dolls

    Winter Party Festival gets unpredictable

  • Calendar

    December 20, 2007

    Business Cards and Beauty Treatments

    Winter Party Festival gets unpredictable

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2007

    The Silver Screens of Sodom

    Winter Party Festival gets unpredictable

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2007

    Rocky Horror Ensues

    Winter Party Festival gets unpredictable

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    God Hates You

    The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2006

    Biff! Bang! Paint!

    ArtExplosion is back with, well, you know

  • Arts and Entertainment

    May 12, 2005

    Best Supporting Actor

    Michael Polak for Take Me Out

  • News

    June 12, 2003
  • Subtropical Life

    May 15, 2003

    Best Place for Girls to Meet Girls

    Monday Night at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida

  • Subtropical Life

    May 15, 2003

    Best Politician

    Jim Naugle, Fort Lauderdale mayor

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Bookstore

    Barnes & Noble Booksellers

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Letters for April 4, 2002

    Listen up, Jebbie!

  • Arts and Entertainment

    May 17, 2001

    Best Independent Theater

    Gateway Cinema 4

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters for November 16, 2000

  • Film

    August 26, 1999

    Lesbian Lite

    Better Than Chocolate

  • Calendar

    June 10, 1999

    Night & Day

    June 10 - 16, 1999

  • Calendar

    April 1, 1999

    Straight Talk on Gay Art

    June 10 - 16, 1999

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Letters

    June 10 - 16, 1999

  • News

    August 13, 1998

    Letters

    June 10 - 16, 1999

  • Film

    August 6, 1998

    Don't Kiss, Don't Tell

    June 10 - 16, 1999

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