I knew I loved me some Starbucks! The coffee company joined a growing list of corporations who have endorsed gay marriage legislation in the state House and 
Senate.
Gay marriage supporters have supposedly secured the votes needed to pass a measure through both houses. INTERRRESSTTTINGGG.
If you’re in the gay Wilton Manors area make sure you stop by Starbucks 26th Street and say hi to the crew!
If you’re in the beautiful Fort Lauderdale area this weekend The Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society will be presenting its International Orchid Show. The event will take
place at the War Memorial Auditorium and will feature orchid exhibits, sales booths, door prizes and more.
Friday, January 20, 10am – 7pm
Saturday, January 21, 10am -7pm
Sunday, January 22, 10am -6pm
Presale tickets are $5 or $10 at the door. For more information click here.
Well, well, well it looks like men are starting to get in on the Botox action! We all know The Real Housewives are into, but it seems that more and more non-famous 
MEN are turning to the needle to help preserve their fountain of youth.
“Dubbed ‘Bro-tox’, this new age of male grooming is not limited to image-conscious metrosexual types- indeed 300,000 men in the U.S. had Botox injections last year alone.”
The shocker comes from the unlikely candidates who are going under the needle. Gay men and straight men alike are receiving Botox. ”Plastic surgeons agree that it is becoming more and more accepted for men to have fillers, and the trend is even helping them beat the recession.”
SOURCE: Daily Mail
That’s right, gents! Cult film icon John Waters wants you to have sex…in a voting booth…kind of.
Waters has teamed up with Milkcrate’s Aaron LaCrate to design a campaign button t-shirt that promotes have sex in a voting booth. That’s a way to encourage 2012 voting I suppose.
The shirts are $35 each and you can find them in multiple online stores by Googling “John Waters Voting Shirts.”
Wow, it’s been so long since they started building the joint that I totally forgot about it. Wilton’s Bier Garden & More is a brand new, upscale bar and dining/nightclub experience 
in Wilton Manors.
Conveniently located on Wilton Drive, The Garden has a huge selection of beer featuring over 100 bottled beers from around the world and 16 drafts on tap. Select wines and champagnes are also available.
The Garden also has a bites menu and features a “good sized patio.” Sounds intriguing to say the least…
Latrice Royale from Miami is the second plus-sized contender reppin large and in charge drag queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race! 
The show debuted in 2009 and each season features 13 drag divas who are tested through a series of tasks to find out who really is the baddest drag bitch. The ladies are graded on talent, uniqueness and nerve.
Each week, the contestants are judged based on a challenge and the bottom two are put up in a lip-sync for their lives where they basically duke it out. Latrice must be thrilled and we are even more thrilled for her. She is really putting the Miami and Wilton Manors areas on the map!
If you haven’t checked out her shows make sure you catch her at Palace and Bill’s Filling Station in Wilton Manors before she takes it to the big time! YOU BETTA WERK…
The latest anti-bullying video to go viral is a truly inspiration vid by a young man named Jonah Mowry. If you haven’t already seen this video take a second and watch. If you have seen this video it’s definitely worth watching again. Share this video, show it to you friends and post it everywhere you can.
And don’t worry, Jonah is doing great these days! He’s been tweeting back and forth with Perez Hilton and told him that he’s doing well and having fun like any other normal boy his age.
Thirty million people have died from HIV since it was first discovered some 30 million years ago. After years of progress in holding back the disease there is a
reported case of an alleged successful cure.
Timothy Ray Brown, 45, tested positive for the disease in 1995 and this year has been entered in scientific journals as the first man in world history to have HIV eliminated from his body.
In 2007, Brown was living in Berlin, Germany dealing not only with HIV but leukemia as well. Doctors gave him a bone marrow, stem cell transplant that had astounding results.
“The Berlin Patient,” as Brown is called, received stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV. Contrary to popular belief, one percent of Caucasians are actually immune to the virus. It is believed that this immunity stems from those that survived the Great Plague.
Today, Brown is being closely monitored by doctors at San Francisco General Hospital where doctors sought out a medical opinion from one of the most repsected AIDS researchers in the world, Dr. Jay Levy, who originally co-discovered the HIV virus.
Experts say that while Brown’s procedure may not be applicable to many other people due to the difficulty in doing stem cell transplants and finding the right donor, it does open the door to the field of cure research.
The number of serious crimes in Wilton Manors occurring within the first half of the year was down almost 6% from last year, according to The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement.
“Serious crimes” include the report of murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny and motor vehicle theft. From January through June 2011, a total of 317 crimes were reported in Wilton Manors, compared with 335 from the year before.
The numbers are as follows:
Murder: 0 in 2011; 2 in 2010;
Forcible rape: 0 in 2011; 0 in 2010;
Robbery: 18 in 2011; 16 in 2010;
Aggravated Assault: 12 in 2011; 10 in 2010;
Burglary: 63 in 2011; 77 in 2010;
Larceny: 215 in 2011; 211 in 2010;
Motor Vehicle theft: 9 in 2011; 19 in 2010;
Overall, the state of Florida’s crime rate dropped by about 2 percent.
