Tag Archives: Fort Lauderdale

Morning View – Watch For Gators

I’m in Fort Lauderdale, where I usually stay with Father Tony over on the beach. But since my ex and his husband have just returned from their five-year exile to Pennsyltucky, I’m spending a couple of days at their condo in a sprawling complex wrapped around an inland golf course. I’m told the above sign serves to remind residents to …

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FLORIDA: Broward County First In State To Order Domestic Partner Coverage

By order of the Broward County Commission, companies with five or more employees must now offer same-sex couples the same benefits they grant to married opposite-sex couples. Equality Florida reports: Broward is the first county Florida to adopt an EBO [Equal Benefits Ordinance]. In 2005 Miami Beach became the first city in the state to pass an EBO, and the …

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Fort Lauderdale Goes Tea Party: It’s Not What You Make, It’s What You Keep

Fort Lauderdale is plugging Florida’s lack of a state income tax with a campaign tag-lined, “It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.” In the clip playing hourly on cable news networks, that line is spoken by Wayne Huizenga, the former garbageman who founded Waste Management and Blockbuster Video and who ended up owning most of Florida’s pro sports …

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Domestic Partners For Fort Lauderdale

Yesterday Fort Lauderdale’s mayor and city commission unanimously authorized domestic partner benefits for LGBT city employees. All city perks currently offered to the legal spouses of city employees will be available.

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Quote Of The Day – Rep. Allen West

“I like chocolate chip ice cream, and I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream. So there’s no worry about me changing to vanilla. I like to, you know, ride my motorcycle. What do you want me to do? You want me to change my behavior and ride a scooter? I’m not into that. People can change their sexual …

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Lauderdale Wants Gay Honeymooners

Fort Lauderdale tourism officials are hoping that New Yorkers will consider South Florida when it comes to making honeymoon plans. Therefore, they’ve launched a contest. Just in time for New York’s first gay marriages set for Sunday, Greater Fort Lauderdale is launching a contest for gay newlyweds a chance to win honeymoon packages at The Royal Palms Resort & Spa …

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Coral Ridge Ministries Changes Name

One of the nation’s largest anti-gay groups is dropping its Fort Lauderdale-centric name and becoming Truth In Action Ministries.

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Afternoon View – Sunrise Drawbridge

When I used to live here it would piss me off to have to wait in hot baking traffic just so some billionaire could move his yacht though one of the drawbridges. Now I just wonder what the inside of the yacht looks like.

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Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

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Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

High winds and rough surf have the water closed for swimming for the third day since I arrived. Otherwise, the weather is sublime.

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Afternoon View – Lauderdale Intracoastal

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Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

The “no swimming” red flags are out due to the high winds. I’m told the other flag means “dangerous marine life.” Jellyfish, I presume, because the sharks are always there.

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Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

I’ll be in Fort Lauderdale for the next five days to hang with Father Tony and do some oceanside blogging from his high-rise balcony in between trips to South Beach for Winter Party events. Tough life.

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FLORIDA: Cops Capture Suspect In Murders Of Wilton Manors Gay Couple

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 …

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FLORIDA: Gay Couple Found Murdered In Their Wilton Manors Home

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 …

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SLIDESHOW: Fort Lauderdale JMG Readers

We had a fantastic group of guys show up for our JMG readers meet-up in Fort Lauderdale/Wilton Manors. Thanks to everybody for coming out! I’ll add some more photos from Father Tony’s camera shortly. Man, I look tired after a week at Island House. Yikes.

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Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

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FORT LAUDERDALE: JMG Reader Meet-Up At Georgie’s Alibi, Tomorrow At 9PM

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!

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FORT LAUDERDALE: JMG Reader Meet-Up At Georgie’s Alibi On Dec. 21st At 9PM

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!

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Morning View – Lauderdale Marina

It’s looks like a lovely day, but in the freak show standard of my vacations, the record-breaking wind chill in Fort Lauderdale this morning is 25 degrees. Which is colder than NYC was when I left yesterday. And it feels waaay colder than 25 on Father Tony’s 17th-floor oceanside balcony. But it’s supposed to be back in the 70’s in …

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