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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 …

As I mentioned this morning, I’m spending a few days at the Fort Lauderdale home of my ex and his partner. While they were at work today I noticed that they’d placed the Xmas stocking embroidered with my late cat’s name on the box containing his ashes. (We always had stockings for the pets.) I left Ripley with Ken when …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

“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 …

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 …

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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!