South Florida Gay News shuts down; OUTSFL to open June

Contents:

• SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH
• TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’
• FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
• SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS SHUTS DOWN; OUTSFL TO OPEN JUNE
• SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS STAFF LOOK BACK AT LEGACY, HOPE FOR REBIRTH

South Florida Gay News released s last issue on May 25, 2023. When LGBTQ activist and South Florida Gay News founr Norm Kent succumbed to pancreatic ncer April, his team knew they wanted to keep his legacy — and the newspaper — alive. Wyse and Parsley published their last issue on May 25 and cid to shut down South Florida Gay News (SFGN).

"There are so many stori out there that need to be vered, and this year, this legislative ssn pecially, ’s jt been an onslght, one after the other, " Parsley says, potg to a rerd number of bills targetg LGBTQ people Florida, cludg the "Don’t Say Gay" expansn bill and legislatn rtrictg e of state funds for trans healthre. Before SFGN, Kent found another lol LGBTQ news outlet 1999, Exprs Gay News.

TEAM OF NOW-FUNCT PUBLITN: SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS ‘MAY BE GONE. BUT WE ARE NOT. STAY TUNED’

For stance, Tony Lima, former executive director of one of South Florida’s most proment LGBTQ advocy groups, SAVE LGBT, was oted om his posn 2019 after his actns rponse to a hate crime that jured two gay men at Miami Beach Pri the year prr.

FLORIDA’S LGBTQ ADVOT ARE RALLYG TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

However, the state attorney and vio footage suggted otherwise, acrdg to the SFGN article, "SAVE Gala Stunner: Acced Gay Bashers Celebrated. Police officials claimed Verdugo was fired bee he had not disclosed that he acted a 15-mute gay porn scene three years before he beme an officer. Lol NewsOUTSFL to serve LGBTQ+ muny startg JuneMIAMI – After more than a of service to the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny, the South Florida Gay News has e to an a short statement, SFGN publisher Jason Parsley, Jt Wyse, and the SFGN team announced on Thursday that was no longer “feasible” to ntue nng the publitn.

Deane School of Law at Hofstra Universy 1975 and was a proponent of legalizg marijuana the 1980s and 90s, The Miami Herald and The Sun Sentel reported on his work as an advote for vulnerable homels teenagers — some of whom had been disowned by their fai for beg, who ntued makg headl for his advocy work, was also a lumnist for Playbill magaze and he had a rad show on WFTL AM before gog to niche publishg about four years of lnchg Exprs Gay News, Kent sold to Wdow Media, which ran as South Florida Bla and later went out of 2009, The Miami Herald reported that a new LGBT newspaper was gog to lnch January 2010. This weekend, Javi Gomez is travelg nearly 500 om his native Miami to Florida’s pal Tallahassee to plead his se agast a piece of legislatn LGBTQ advot are llg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Some exposure to LGBTQ topics – what means to be gay, queer or transgenr, and why ’s wrong to discrimate agast LGBTQ people – might have helped alleviate the pa they flicted, he said. Many advot have lled Florida home for s: Galv, a cy uncil member North Miami, remembers beg the only gay kid his Miami high school senr class. Schools are already often hostile environments for LGBTQ kids – nearly 33% of LGBTQ stunts ag 13 to 21 said they missed a day of school over the urse of a month bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, and more than 77% said they avoid school functns bee they felt unsafe or unfortable, acrdg to the most recent Natnal School Climate Survey published by the GLSEN (the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network) 2019.

SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA

8% of LGBTQ stunts said they heard “gay” ed a negative way, and more than 95% of them heard homophobic slurs while at school.

Miami high school stunt Gomez said wasn’t until he found out one of his teachers was gay that he started to experience somethg that felt like nfince. They’ve served learship rol wh those muni for years – Orlando has had Commissner Patty Sheehan, the first out gay elected official central Florida, acrdg to the cy, sce 2000, and Galv has served on North Miami’s cy uncil for almost as long.

SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS SHUTS DOWN; OUTSFL TO OPEN JUNE

He’s the print of his high school Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, and leads after-school urs on queer history and ballroom culture, semars wh doctors on safe sex, and viewg parti for “Pose” and “Legendary, ” seri that star queer and trans people of lor. The “South Florida Gay News” is no more.

Kent, an attorney who waged battle on the ont l of gay rights, died on April 13 at 73. Parsley started workg for Kent 2011, helpg the paper fe a reputatn as a feisty advote for the gay muny. John Fre, the first openly gay mayor of Wilton Manors, says he didn’t re too much for Kent but he did read his paper.

“The newspaper was a valuable rource for the gay muny, ” Fre said. TheSouth Florida Gay Newsannounced late May that would no longer publish.

SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS

“When Norm Kent died April, we had hoped to ntue his legacy of hard-nosed journalism through South Florida Gay News, ” reads a note om Publisher/Edor Jason Parsley, Associate Publisher Jt Wyse and the edorial team.

Instead of ntug the publitn, members of the team told theSouth Florida Sun-Sentel they will lnch a new publitn lled Out South Florida, which is onle June 6, Out South Florida posted to Instagram, "Last week the South Florida Gay News shutdown. LOCAL NEWSPublished: May 26, 2023, 6:56 PMUpdated: May 26, 2023, 8:05 PMTags: lol newsSouth Florida Gay News announced is shuttg down, but the staff will be openg a new venture June named OUTSFL.

Takg the field wh the team will be the Gay Men’s Chos of South Florida (GMCSF), who will sg the natnal anthem. Details Queer News Tonight Lol 26 May 2023 Hs: 4 In this week's issue by South Florida Gay News, powered by Queer News Tonight, Pri Fort Lrdale is willg to take your money but ref to say where 's gog and how 's beg spent or even who is nng the anizatn.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

Communy Ralli Around Gay Bashg VictimA night out wh iends and a walk home while beltg out Cher songs.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Our roundup clus sir rmatn on ncerts, exhibs, panels and benefs staged to memorate the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy (a pivotal moment gay and lbian history), as well as some events that are jt for fun, such as a “RuPl’s Drag Race” tour stop.

Wilton Manors Historil SocietyWilton Manors’ first Gay Pri Para 2000.

The exhib featur llag that chronicle gay life om the 1970s to the mid 1990s, focg on 10 of the artist’s ceased iends. Temple Beth El of Bo Raton will clu Tropil Wave, which is a vol ensemble om the Gay Men’s Chos of South Florida, a Shabbat Service.

SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS CEAS PUBLITN, REEMERG AS OUT SOUTH FLORIDA

The Gay Men’s Chos of South Florida will perform a ncert of songs om the Disney songbook, cludg “The Ln Kg, ” “Mary Popps, ” “The Ltle Mermaid, ” “Zootopia” and “Co. "They're g me to get ved to gay Halloween so they n meet hot girls! Well, you don't have to wa to sre an ve to South Florida's gayt Halloween event, SAVE's Halloween Ball.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.