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‘DOUBT’ AT GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE

Did he do it? This is the maddening question that may or may not be answered in “Doubt,” the Broadway hit play about priests, young boys, and a nun that may or may not be on a witch hunt gone wrong.  The play was adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman; [...]

PARIS BOYS COME TO THE BEACH

Paris-based superbloggers OhLaLaMag.com paid a visit to Miami Beach, to pop some photos for their site:

The rest of the photos (lots of landscapes and palm trees) are here.

DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN FLORIDA

From Equality Florida:

Sen. Eleanor Sobel (Hallandale Beach) has introduced a statewide
Domestic Partnership bill (SB 1642). Equality Florida has been working
closely with Sen. Sobel in preparing this historic legislation. The
companion bill will be sponsored in the house by Rep. Richard Steinberg
(Miami Beach). As a Miami Beach City Commissioner, Rep. Steinberg
played a key role in passing Florida’s [...]

LOVE OF THE BOOTY

As I am a fan of the big butt, South Florida is like a walk in the clouds of heaven, with all the Latin men walking around jiggling their assets.  So it is with great pleasure I stumbled upon Beautiful Mag’s latest feature “Booty Shop”…

Click this link for the full photo spread: Booty Shop

GAY ADOPTIVE DAD DENIED STATE BENEFITS

I’ve tried to explain this story here in this post, but I end up re-writing the entire thing; it’s pretty convoluted, and it’s definitely not the most well-written story ever published so that doesn’t help.  But the point is still important, touching on the ongoing drama within Florida’s gay adoption ban.
The Key West adoptive father, [...]

VALENTINE’S WEEKEND

At The Bottom Line, in Fort Myers—a fundraiser for the Bob Rauschenburg Center for Living:

MIAMI LEVI UNDRESSED

Sacre bleu!  Hometown boy Levi Poulter, known as “Miami Levi” to fans of naked men, poses for some photos and interviews with weblog Oh La La Mag about living in South Florida, the wild world of male modeling, and what it takes to get a body like that.  We would take notes on his fitness [...]

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Love Shack, Baby
Blade chats with Kate Pierson of B-52’s before South Florida appearance—and before she [...]

GLBT Democratic Caucus Comes to Fort Myers

The Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus, an arm of the Florida Democratic Party representing Florida’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, will shake up Southwest Florida with its Winter Conference, to be held February 20 and 21 in Fort Myers. The conference is being sponsored by the Stonewall Democrats of SW Florida.
The Caucus will be [...]