Tag Archives: Wilton Manors

JMG reader Richard tips us that Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Dean Trantalis just announced on his Facebook page that Craig Jungwirth, who is suspected of having made terrorist threats against Wilton Manors gay bars, has been apprehended in the Orlando area. See his message below. At this writing no further details are available. I’ll update this post shortly when more …

The suspect is a gay man with a lengthy criminal history who is very well known to the South Florida bear community, bar owners, and club promoters. Via Miami’s NBC affiliate: The Broward LGBT community is on edge after threats were made on social media. Some bars in Wilton Manors, like Rumors Bar and Grill, are stepping up security with …

The cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, and Miami Beach today jointly filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs suing for same-sex marriage in a Tallahassee federal court. Also joining the brief are the popular LGBT tourism town of Wilton Manors, the tiny Miami-Dade County town of Biscayne Park, and the government of Broward County (home to Fort …

Directly across from Wilton Manors’ all-gay strip mall and next door to the popular bear bar is Gaysha Sushi, whose menu includes the Wilton Rainbow Roll.

The dedication for the World AIDS Museum took place in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Wilton Manors yesterday. Father Tony Adams took the above photo and he sends us this email: I just went to the dedication of the fledgling World AIDS Museum in Wilton Manors. Magic Johnson was the special guest. He donated a jersey. He said that today …

From the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau: It’s not the size of the city that matters, with Greater Fort Lauderdale’s Wilton Manors beating worldwide competition to be named “Gayborhood of the Year” in the 2013 ManAboutWorld Editors’ Choice Awards. At the same time, the destination was recently cited to be the city with the highest concentration of same-sex …

At a Wilton Manors gay club last night I noticed this machine, which for $2 will charge your cell phone a whopping “25% faster than a wall charger.”  I’m betting we’ll start seeing these in airports and train stations right away. Unless they’re already out there and I just haven’t seen one.

Wilton Manors, Florida is arguably the hottest gay vacation spot in the nation and it may one day be home to the World AIDS Museum & Education Center. The proposed museum is the brainchild of local long-term HIV survivor Steve Stagnon, who unveiled the plans at a ceremony this week. Tony Adams reports at South Florida Gay News: Having managed …

Make your organist jokes now.

Submitted from Fort Lauderdale by Father Tony.

Although it’s a couple of miles inland, gay gay gay Wilton Manors calls itself “The Island City,” because its boundaries are defined by canals. Wilton Manors is known as a gay village, although its population is extremely diverse. Wilton Manors ranks 2nd in the U.S. for its percentage of gay residents as a proportion of total population, with 140 gay …

That is, gayest in terms of the percentage of self-identified same-sex couple households. I’m surprised that Wilton Manors is behind Provincetown, but that’s probably due to migration to the recently popular-with-the-gays Oakland Park, which is next door and comes in at #10.

The quislings at Gay Patriot are backing NOM’s contention that “homofascists” forced a Florida business group to rescind its speaking invitation to noted homophobe Rep. Allen West. Bowing “to pressure from gay activists who threatened a business boycott“, a gay South Florida business association has cancelled a meeting with U.S. Rep. Allen West. Seems that that Republican’s views on gay …

Local activists in gay-gay-gay Wilton Manors, Florida threatened to stage a boycott after a local business group invited virulently anti-gay Rep. Allen West to speak at one of their meetings. Under pressure, the business group rescinded their invitation to West. Story over? Nope. The unrepentant and inventive liars at NOM are trying to escalate this little low-level bit of local …

Florida police have captured a man driving the stolen vehicle of the Wilton Manors gay couple they suspect he murdered on Christmas weekend. Peter Serge Avsenew, 26, was captured near Dundee, Fl., miles away from where police said he murdered Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams on Sunday. The couple was found dead in their home by police. Avsenew, who …

South Florida Gay News reports that a gay couple was found murdered in their Wilton Manors home this weekend. The two men whose bodies were found inside their rented home at 2513 NE 8th Avenue in Wilton Manors were domestic partners Kevin Mark Powell, 47, and Steve Adams, 52, former residents of Hollywood, Florida. Their bodies were discovered by the …

Just a reminder that we’ll be having our Fort Lauderdale JMG reader meet-up at Georgie’s Alibi in Wilton Manors tomorrow night at 9PM. My apologies that this one is on a weeknight, but anything else doesn’t work with Xmas falling over the weekend. I’m looking forward to meeting lots of you tomorrow!

We’ll be having our Fort Lauderdale JMG reader meet-up at Georgie’s Alibi in Wilton Manors on Tuesday, December 21st at 9PM. Apologies that this one isn’t on a weekend night, but that doesn’t work out during Xmas week. I’m looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

Wilton Manors, the very gay small town just north of Fort Lauderdale, is slated to get a massive new resort. New York-based G Worldwide plans to break ground on a 700,000 square-foot resort at an estimated cost of $80 million in Wilton Manors. The luxury resort, scheduled for completion in 2011, will bring over 500 new jobs to the area …