GUYFRIDAY: “Love, Joey xoxo”
Joey Adami - photo by Joey Adami
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By Joey Adami
Fire Island
“Are you positive? I see. No, there is no message, but thank you very much.” Will hung up the receiver, and padded his way through the screen door and down to the deck.
“Yes, three round trips. Let me just get a pen and jot that down,” Grady said into his phone, reaching for a pencil, and winked as Will passed his way.
“Well, this blows,” Luke stated, looking up at patch of dark clouds. The start of the summer, Memorial Day Weekend, had been nothing but on and off rain showers, chilly winds and the looming threat of thunder.
“Now, let’s work on getting his things there,” Will said, looking out over the steel gray ocean, shaking his head in disappointment, and dialing his phone … Read more
Gathering at the Palace to Cheer Friends & Neighbors in Beltzer’s “Coming of Age”
James Beltzer - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The Grove’s James Beltzer introduced the documentary “Coming of Age in Cherry Grove,” his work-in-progress, to an appreciative audience, at the Grove Hotel’s Ice Palace on June 20, that had come to see their friends, their neighbors-and themselves-and to cheer.
We saw Bella, who was a few seats away from us, say onscreen that Cherry Grove is “like a Federico Fellini movie” and play Susan Boyle doing “I Dreamed a Dream.” We saw Panzi, bullhorn in hand and all in yellow feathers, leading last year’s Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines and, later, she and Bella and Rose Levine held forth about the origins of the Invasion. The Pines’ Robyn Bird spoke of videotaping the Invasion and claimed, “I’m trisexual-I will try everyone sexually. Read more
Imperial Court Raises Funds with Drag Tag Sale
Drag Tag sale - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On June 20, on the deck of the Grove Hotel/Ice Palace, the Imperial Court of New York (ICNY) held its annual Drag Tag sale, raising funds for Read more
Lee & Clara Get Married on the Beach
Lee Sharmat & Clara Bogetti - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Having gotten legally married in Connecticut in February, Lee Sharmat and Clara Bogetti celebrated, with family and chosen Cherry Grove family, with a wedding on the beach, off Aeon Walk, on a sunny June 19 afternoon.
Sherri Rase officiated at the ceremony under the chupah, others in attendance added remarks, the couple exchanged rings and vows, and Lee stepped on and broke the glass to ward evil spirits away from their union. Mazel tov!
Refreshments at the couple’s home on Aeon preceded the ceremony at the beach and a reception at Jumping Jack’s Seafood Shack restaurant followed it.
Bambie Sue Does the Pines: SAGE & So On at the Start of June
Alan Brockman - photo by Koitz
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By Gil Neary
The big community event of the first weekend in June in the Pines was the June 5 SAGE tribute party for Alan Brockman, long time former president of the Fire Island Pines Property Owners Association (FIPPOA) and still referred to by many as the mayor of the Pines. The entire Old Guard of FIP was in attendance at Whyte Hall, of course well peppered with current FIPPOA board members and Alan’s many friends and neighbors. Following the event there was a beautiful dinner party at the bay-front palatial home of Dr Ed Schulhaffer and Crayton Robey, Ed’s partner and the director and writer of “Where Ocean Meets Sky,” the documentary film about FIP that had aired on Logo. Read more
Obama Extends Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Federal Employees
President Barack Obama - photo submitted by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On June 2, President Barak Obama issued a memorandum to Federal Executive Department and Agency Heads extending benefits enjoyed by Federal heterosexual employees’ spouses and families to domestic partners and children of LGBT families. The memorandum instructs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Administrator of General Services to ensure that sex-sex domestic partners and their children qualify as immediate family members and dependents under the law, with regard to family and medical leave protections, child care services, and retiree pension annuities, for example, but stops short, according to Lambda Legal of guaranteeing family health insurance. Read more
Grove Remembers Losses at Reflective Memorial Day Service
John Nieman (at piano), Dominic DeSantis, Diane Romano & Michael Coffindaffer - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
At a reflective Memorial Day service, organized by Roland Michely and hosted by the Cherry Grove Fire Department’s Dominic DeSantis, at the Community House on May 31, Cherry Grove remembered those lost to us since the previous Memorial Day. Read more
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Passes U.S. Senate Committee & House of Representatives, But McCain & Colleagues Announce Plan to Filibuster
President Barack Obama, courtesy of Organizing for America
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by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On May 27, the United States Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, passed, by a vote of 16 to 12, an amendment to the National
Defense Authorization Act that would remove “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”(DADT)-the heinous 17-year-old policy whereby open gay and lesbians are discharged from military service-from federal Read more
QNews Congratulates Rob Ferri on Winning Mr. FI Leather 2010 Contest & Excelsior MC for 35th Run, ‘Under a Big Top’
Mr. FI Leather 2010 Rob Ferri gets sash from David Samuel Menkes as contenders Jerry McCormick, David & Todd look on - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On May 22, at the Ice Palace, Cherry Grove’s own Rob Ferri took both the Mr. Fire Island Leather and Mr. Meatrack titles at the 10th annual Mr. FI Leather contest, the centerpiece of Leather Weekend, which precedes Memorial Day Weekend. It was also the weekend of New York City’s Excelsior Motorcycle Club’s 35th anniversary Lust for Life run, which, with a circus/S&M theme, was billed as “Under a Big Top.”
Entertainer Ariel Sinclair and Mr. FI Leather 2008 Isaac, the creator of the contest, hosted the Saturday evening event and Chuck McTaigue served as DJ.
Decked out in black leather vest, chaps and jock, Rob, who performs in the annual Grove Doctor’s Fund Benefit show, which helps ensure the presence of a physician in the community, and who has also hosted dungeon nights at the Tides, responded to the MCs’ questions about his dragon tattoos and about Read more
NYS Court Affirms Lesbian Non-Biological Mother’s Visitation Rights
Susan Somer, Lambda Legal's Director of Constitutional Litigation, who represented Debra H. - photo from Lambda Legal.org
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The New York State Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, affirmed, on May 4, in the case of Debra H. v. Janice R., that a lesbian non-biological mother of a child could “seek visitation and custody rights at a best-interest hearing,” over the objections of her ex-partner, the biological mother, with whom she had entered into a civil union in Vermont.
Janice R. and her former partner, Debra H., who was represented in the case by Lambda Legal Director of Constitutional Litigation Susan Sommer, met in 2002, decided to raise a family together in a two-parent household, conceived their son using in vitro fertilization, and were joined in civil union in Vermont in November 2003, a month before their son, M.R., was born. According to Lambda Legal, Read more
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