Friday night Ken & Lloyd, owners of Scandals celebrated a birthday and on hand were hundreds of friends and supporters to wish them well. The Dean & Lee country duo led the crowd in song. As you know Scandals has become a favorite watering hole for South Florida's Country Western fans. Drive by any night and you'll see a parking lot filled with cars that K-Mart could only hope were their shoppers…..LOL….. and happy birthday to our favorite Cowboys, Ken and Lloyd. 

A tremendous number of South Floridian's decided to check out the first Fort Lauderdale Rentboy Pool Party at the Windamar Beach Resort and nobody left disappointed! The weekend of events included an opening party at Boardwalk, an after party at Steel and the weekend wrapped up at Voodoo Lounge. We can't possibly mention all of the Rentboys and Video Stars that attended, but let’s just say everybody with a ticket got more than they bargained for. The Pool Party itself was worth the price of a VIP pass alone. Marks Lists own Misty Eyez MCd the festivities and DJs Miik and Lydia Prim spun for the pool party crowd. Check out the photos of this fabulous weekend in the Mark's List Mad Paparazzi area.

Unite Fort Lauderdale is organizing an event to demand Mayor Jim Naugle’s resignation for his derogatory and divisive comments. The protest will take place on Tuesday July 24 at 4pm at the Fort Lauderdale City Hall (100 N. Andrews Avenue). They ask everyone to please come out even if it’s after 5pm, as the protest will go on for hours. Please come out and show Mayor Naugle our community means business and will not tolerate blatant bigotry or indifference!!!

The Pride Factory is the exclusive Florida retailer for official Bush’s last day and Hillary merchandise. Check them out for lots of fun stuff!!!

Attention all Dr. Frank-N-Furter aficionados & Transylvanian wedding guests…the ultimate interactive film experience, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, is returning to Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival’s (FLIFF) Cinema Paradiso.  The original New York style showing of the cult classic with live performances by a shadow cast will be held every other Friday at the bewitching hour of Midnight (12:00AM).  Attend the final dress rehearsal showing Friday, July 20 at Midnight for only $5 general admission/FLIFF members get in free.  The Grand Opening performance will be held August 3 at Midnight. Tickets for August 3 and thereafter will be $8 general admission, $7 students and seniors, and $5 for FLIFF members. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is considered to be the longest running film release in history, is sure to become a Fort Lauderdale tradition.  Theatre-goers are encouraged to toast newlyweds Brad & Janet in full dress (or drag, be that may) & bring the necessary accompaniments (aka props) to enhance everyone’s experience in the castle (YOU know the drill!)  For those first-timers to the event, this includes: a newspaper, noisemakers, glow-sticks, playing cards, rubber gloves.  NO Hot Dogs, Toast, Rice or Confetti please.  And, to get you started with the proper paraphernalia … Prop Bags will be available, at each show, for $3. If you’ve never been to a Rocky Horror screening, you’ll be witness to the strange world of the ‘Transsexual Transylvanians’ during this campy, sexually-charged 1975 musical, featuring Wolf’s Unfaithful Handymen’s live shadow-cast.  Starring then up-and-coming stars Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien (the creator) & Meat Loaf (pre-Bat Out of Hell album).  This not-to-be missed event is hosted by Cinema Paradiso’s theatre manager, Frank Connell.  When Cinema Paradiso hired Frank, it was unknown at the time that Frank had a unique relationship to the Rocky Horror community. Frank, known as “Wolf” began when he was 11 years old with the New Rochelle, NY cast in 1986. After moving to Florida in 1989, he continued with various Florida casts in Ft. Pierce and West Palm Beach.   In 2000 he joined the NYC cast until 2003 when he returned to Florida and joined the Hollywood cast.  He has continued as a regular cast member for over 20 years and has one of the few privately owned prints of the film.  Cinema Paradiso is located at 503 SE 6 Street in downtown Fort Lauderdale on the south bank of the New River just East of Broward County Courthouse. Cinema Paradiso offers a full beer and wine menu, concessions and the most comfortable and plush stadium seating in South Florida and their new FLIFF's Reel Café offers an assortment of beverages and snacks for get-togethers on their covered outdoor Paradiso Patio.  Operated by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Cinema Paradiso is South Florida's most unique year-round, art house movie theater presenting independent films and events. PARKING:  is free at street meters after 6pm nightly and all day on Sundays. You can also park for free at the County Courthouse Parking Garage Monday through Friday from 4:45pm and all day and night on Saturday and Sunday. FOR MORE INFORMATION please visit www.FLIFF.com or call 954-525-3456 ext 101.

Local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) seniors have recently formed a group to promote fun and informative activities for the GLBT senior community, called the  “Not-So-Serious-Seniors” and have announced their first event “Name that Tune” to be held on July 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida (GLCC).  The fun-filled event is a spin-off of the popular 1950’s show ‘Name That Tune’ and will challenge their memories to name the songs of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s, and to “Name that Tune”.  Fun prizes will be awarded to the winners.  Ken Merrifield, one of the founding members of the group, who has also served as a volunteer at the GLCC for over two years, shares “Our objective with ‘Not-So-Serious-Seniors’ is to create activities which are ‘participatory’, and ‘fun’ for seniors to interact actively more so than passively such as watching a movie or television program together for example”.    “This event”, contributes another founder of the new group, Jan Kronholm “this is a pilot for our plans to hold a different activity or themed program at least once a month starting in September at the GLCC.  We are encouraging seniors to join us, to have fun and be a part of the beginning of this ‘Not-So-Serious’ group and to contribute ideas for future events that will be enjoyable and rewarding”. Marc Hansen, local emcee extraordinaire for the Gay community, and bingo caller at the GLCC on the 2^nd Saturday of every month, will be the Master of Gay Ceremonies, at ‘Name That Tune’. Café-style seating, free refreshments, door prizes, floor prizes, and more will be part of the fun. There is a $5.00 admission charge to attend this event where a good time and good people are guaranteed not to be disappointed. “We only ask that people come and join us in being part of a fun-filled event where we can share memories and play some games with a theme of some of our favorite old songs” adds Kronholm.

Paul Hyman, Executive Director, GLCC contributed his overwhelming support for the Not-So-Serious-Seniors “This social and fun group is a fantastic complement to existing senior targeted programs and organizations that the GLCC supports, including Primetimers and S.A.G.E.”  Prime timers meets on the first Sunday of each month from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.; S.A.G.E., Seniors Acting in a Gay Environment, also utilizes the GLCC facility and holds weekly meetings on each Wednesday and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.   Merrifield, who also attends the S.A.G.E. meetings on Wednesday which are for men, and Thursdays for men and women, is especially excited about starting a “Not-So-Serious-Seniors” group as it “offers another important social outlet which is an important addition to his current involvement at the GLCC with S.A.G.E. as well as his volunteer contributions which he enjoys regularly.” Not-So-Serious-Seniors, as well as S.A.G.E. are two of over 50 community organizations and groups, which utilize the GLCC facility as their home. For more information about the ‘Name That Tune’ event or the ‘Not-So-Serious-Seniors’ group meeting at the GLCC, please contact Ken Merrifield at 954-561-0988 or Jan Kronholm at 954-428-2998. The GLCC is a non-profit organization, providing information, education, advocacy, support, human services, cultural experiences, and social opportunities to foster personal development and quality of life for the entire community. For more information about the GLCC, or to learn ways individuals or businesses can provide support, please contact Robert Boo, Director of Development at the GLCC at 954-463-9005 or rboo@glccsf.com. 

“I’d rather she be dead than gay,” confesses a mother who, unfortunately, got her wish.  She lost her daughter to suicide and talks about it in the heart-wrenching and yet unifying feature documentary, God and Gays: Bridging the Gap.  Filmmakers, Gathering founders and life partners, Luane Beck and Kim Clark, created God and Gays: Bridging the Gap to offer an intimate look into the lives of people raised in Christian homes and who struggle, knowing – or fearing, their homosexual path.  Now, they host the largest, most impressive line-up of qualified speakers on the country’s most non-discussed topic, can you be Christian and be gay? With the religious right and mainstream Christianity teaching emotionally traumatizing ex-gay therapies, celibacy or subtle and equally as harmful forms of tolerance, it’s the perfect time in history for the God & Gays Gathering. The God & Gays Gathering features progressive Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong, previous ghost writer to Jerry Falwell Rev. Dr. Mel White, evangelical minister’s wife Peggy Campolo and ex-Exodus group leader Darlene Bogle plus many more together in Nashville, TN. Considered a central location for people all around the Bible belt area to attend, Gathering founder Kim Clark hopes, “anyone who is tired of being asked to vote on marriage equality and hearing only fear as the reason to keep people divided and are ready to deal with the human side of the debate around homosexuality and religion in a safe, accepting environment is welcome. We are ready for the parents and friends of gays, lesbians and transgender people to come so we can support them as they will and do get flack from society for not disowning their loved one. We are ready for the gay person with nowhere to go safely, who has contemplated or attempted suicide to instead invest time in him or herself, in what they’re going through and how to work with their faith to be the solution, not the problem. We’re ready for the church leader, the teacher, the therapist, to give them support in leading their groups to learning more on what it’s like to be gay and religious. The goal is empowerment. Get people out of victim status and they become more of who they are, how God made them.” Clark is best known for her quote, “comfort zones are slow dream killers” and lives by it on a daily basis, which is what got her through making God & Gays: Bridging the Gap and creating several support services like the Gathering. Her partner, Luane Beck, originally made the film based on Clark’s own personal struggle with being gay and Christian.  Since premiering, they’ve toured the country speaking to large groups, showing the movie, receiving thousands of emails, letters of support and stories about changed lives. God and Gays: Bridging the Gap is a rare opportunity to get questions answered, challenge the myths about gay people, and to put a human face on a hot political issue. The story is uniquely told by the people who live the struggle, judgment, fear and ignorance of others every day. “This is about real human beings, contributors to society, educated, kind, God-loving people. This is for real and people deserve to see and hear the stories of the people whose lives they will affect,” says Producer Kim Clark. God and Gays: Bridging the Gap unifies Christianity and sexual preference in a time where church denominations are on the verge of dividing, in an era where history doesn’t repeat itself, but people repeat history. Editors:  For an EPK and free viewing of the movie trailer, go online to http://www.godandgaysthemovie.com. About Zernus Productions: Writer, Director and Actor Luane Beck started Zernus Productions to produce her first feature-length narrative drama Intentions in 2001. Award winning documentary producer Kim Clark joined in 2003 and together they focus their true-to-life stories with social integrity and unification in mind, heart and soul. Learn more about the nationally distributed Intentions at http://www.zernusproductions.com

Delux Wednesdays brought to you by Jon Elu productions in Delray Beach features a big birthday bash for their house Queen Daisy Deadpetals on July 18^th. They also feature no cover, and $2 cocktails.  

Milancita.com presents the 3^rd anniversary of the Charity Fashion Show in aid of Union Positiva, a bridge to health in HIV-AIDS on Wednesday July 18 at Discotekka Nightclub in downtown Miami. The night will be hosted by Sophia Divine and feature fabulous entertainers.  

On Wednesday July 18^th, Boardwalk features Video Star Barrett Long live on stage. I addition Wednesdays features there New Meat contest hosted by Nina St Marcos. 

On Saturday July 21^st Score presents their 9^th Anniversary featuring DJ Abel and hosted by JP Calderon (Janice Dickenson modeling Agency & Survivor) and Elaine Lancaster with a special performance by international recording artist Tamara.

Banana Twinkies, they were the original flavor, but during the war bananas were very hard to get and expensive, so they made a substitute flavor as most of us have grown up on, well now over 50 years later the BANANA Twinkie has resurfaced and is available here in 10 packs or as a single – also limited time only milk & dark chocolate covered Banana Twinkies – called Moon Pops.

Banana Crème Reese Peanut Butter cups – this week is the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death and he loved PB & Banana sandwiches, so this is why these are now available – it is also call the KING size cup, so they are larger than normal and have his face on them in collector packs.

Dark chocolate MINT 3 Musketeer

New... over 75 Piece Fairy Princess Kit with Pumps, wings, light up wand & flashing crown and much more.

For the New Englanders Penuche Fudge is Exclusively available in 3oz cups and 13oz. boxes – this is Brown Sugar Fudge and there is nothing like it. Also from this family owned business in New Hampshire is Caramel Corn and Maple Caramel Corn, which is outstanding.

For the Dark chocolate lovers don’t forget they have over 90 types of Dark chocolate bars from 46% cocoa – 100% cocoa and over 20 types of Dark covered fruit, nuts, and marshmallow.

For Diabetics there is an extensive line of Sugar Free candy, chocolate, single and boxed for gifts.

Every product on the shelves there are guaranteed to be the best – if it is on the shelves they stand behind it, because Antonio personally taste every product and hand pick everything. To The Moon Marketplace is a great stop for last minute gifts, cards, novelties and party supplies. Something for all ages and genders. The greeting card selection is like none other. It’s a must see, the know every card caption so if you cant find a card, just let them know a little about the person and they will show you some selections.

Logo, a division of Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation today announced they will co-present an historic televised forum on issues of importance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community with the leading 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, including currently confirmed and in alphabetical order, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The one-hour event will be held 6 p.m. EDT Aug. 9 in Los Angeles before a studio audience and broadcast live, without commercial interruption, exclusively on Logo’s 24/7 cable television channel as well as through live streaming video at LOGOonline.com.  Logo is the nation’s leading television and broadband channel for the LGBT audience and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization. This event, which marks the first time in history the major presidential candidates will address a live LGBT television audience, is part of MTV Networks’ award-winning pro-social efforts and dedication to engaging its audiences on the issues that are most important and relevant to them. The event also continues the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s efforts to educate and bring awareness to issues of equality and fairness that continue to affect the lives of LGBT Americans. The candidates will appear sequentially and engage in conversation with co-panelists Melissa Etheridge, performer and advocate, and Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.  The panelists plan to cover a range of issues including relationship recognition, marriage equality, workplace fairness, the military, hate crimes, HIV/AIDS and other important issues. “In the 2008 presidential election, issues of concern to the LGBT community have already been at the forefront of the national conversation,” said Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.  “From the repeal of “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” to the recent signing of a civil unions bill in New Hampshire, there is no doubt that voters will demand answers to important questions affecting our community.” “We're honored to give the presidential candidates an historic opportunity to share their views directly with the LGBT audience,” said Brian Graden, President, Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Group, and President, Logo.  “This forum continues MTV Networks’ tradition of engaging vital niche audiences with voting and the electoral process.” The forum will include significant online components at LOGOonline.com and HRC.org, including online question submission.  The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Logo invited the leading Democratic and Republican candidates to participate in the forum. The LGBT vote is considered a decisive electoral force and according to exit poll data make up approximately 4 percent of the voting population.  Los Angeles was chosen as the site for the event because of the state’s early primary election, on February 5th, 2008.  The event will take place at Studio City, CA, at HD Vision Studios and this event represents the first live event airing on Logo.