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Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Wednesday, February 28 @ Bongo's Cuban Cafe
Bongo's Cuban Cafe ~ Wednesday, February 28th
The first MDGLCC luncheon will be held on Wednesday, February 28th at Bongo's Cuban Cafe, 601 Biscayne Blvd. Miami.
Doors open at 11:00 A.M. - Registration begins at 11:30 A.M. The panel will begin at noon with a seated lunch.
Scheduled speakers are State Representative Dan Gelber, Miami-Dade Attorney General Katherine Fernandez-Rundle , City of North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns and, Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora.
Reserve now for this luncheon; members $35 in advance/non-members and at the door, if available $45 - Bongos Cuban Café is located in the heart of Downtown Miami adjacent to the AmericanAirlines Arena 601 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida - tel: 786.777.2100
Lobby tables are available for members and community groups however, you must reserve in advance. - Please call the Chamber @ 305-573-4000 or email info@gogaymiami.com to reserve your place at this important event
Gay spirituality fair at FIU on Monday
The Rev. Irene Monroe, left, will lecture at noon at Graham Center room 150. Monroe, a graduate of Harvard's divinity school, is a lesbian writer who'll tell her story about growing up in a Catholic orphanage and ``the traditional black church.''
A spirituality fair with representatives from about two-dozen gay-welcoming congregations in South Florida takes place 3 p.m. at Graham Center.
An open forum with Monroe begins at 6:30 p.m. in Graham Center room 243.
All events are free. For more information, call FIU's Gisela Vega at 305-348-4196.
-- STEVE ROTHAUS
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Gays tap into spirituality
Nan Van Den Bergh grew up in a religious household: born Baptist, raised Protestant, baptized at 12. ''I was pretty involved as a youth,'' Van Den Bergh recalls. ``I had a minister who was very intellectual. He gave me a lot of validation and feedback .''
As a teenage feminist, Van Den Bergh felt less and less comfortable at church and abandoned organized religion.
Then, in the 1970s on the beach of San Diego, Van Den Bergh was writing poetry: ``I felt something was working through me, a voice through me. It made me feel I could reconnect with organized religion.''
Van Den Bergh eventually came out as a lesbian and found Dignity, an Episcopal ''welcoming and affirming congregation.'' She attended services and took communion for the first time in years.
Now 59 and a professor at FIU's School of Social Work, Van Den Bergh wants to help lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth reconnect with their spiritual sides. She and university co-workers have organized ''Spirituality LGBT Style,'' an FIU fair supported by many of South Florida's gay-friendly congregations.
''I never want a child who is LGBT to ever feel he or she is not a child of God because of their sexual orientation,'' Van Den Bergh said.
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Bombshell shook lawyer's life
Lawyer Richard Milstein, who has looked into Anna Nicole Smith's private life in the past week, says the public might be surprised to know she was generous and good-hearted.
Richard Milstein, a respected arts patron, civic activist and family-law attorney, didn't know much until last week about bombastic sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith.
''I heard she was this generation's Marilyn Monroe,'' Milstein, 60, said Friday. ``I didn't follow her. I didn't know she had a reality show. I didn't see her in the tabloids or Playboy.''
Milstein quickly got up to speed on the world-famous centerfold who died suddenly Feb. 8 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood.
As Smith's mother, her boyfriend and her ex-lover battled over where she would ultimately spend eternity, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin asked Milstein to represent someone in the case who can't yet speak for herself: Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.
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Editor & Publisher: Suze Orman comes out Sunday in The New York Times
By E&P Staff
NEW YORK -- In an interview for The New York Times Magazine this coming Sunday, financial guru and TV host Suze Orman gets on Deborah Solomon's case for not looking out for her own money, partly because "you are a woman." This inspires Solomon to ask Orman if she is married.
Orman says she "has a relationship with life," so Solomon presses her, and Suze then reveals that her "life partner" is Kathy Travis and, "We're going on seven years. I have never been with a man in my whole life. I'm still a 55-year-old virgin."
Orman says they'd like to get married, and both "have millions of dollars in our name. It's killing me that upon my death, K.T. is going to lose 50 percent of everything I have to estate taxes. Or vice versa."
Pressed again, she says that estimates that she is worth $25 million are "pretty close."
She says she has about a million dollars in the stock exchange, because if she loses it all "I don't personally care."
Guardian of Smith's baby shuns the spotlight
A week's worth of testimony and accusations came down to one man's sense of responsibility and a few minutes of proceedings behind closed doors.
For a few minutes, the courtroom was closed and the minute-by-minute details about Anna Nicole Smith's life, death, body and baby were out of sight.
The man who drew the curtains on the weeklong court performance was Richard Milstein, an unassuming, accomplished Miami attorney.
After Thursday's compromise to bury Smith in the Bahamas, Milstein was ambushed by the media. He declined requests for appearances on evening news shows.
''I've been in this for one week,'' Milstein said. The ''task was to keep one thing in mind -- the best interests of the child.'' Milstein, the court-appointed guardian for Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn, was the one Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin gave the responsibility of finding a final resting place for Smith.
Milstein's friends and acquaintances said Thursday the 60-year-old lawyer was the perfect choice to advocate on behalf of the 6-month-old girl.
''Richard is a mensch. In a time of crisis, Richard is always still waters,'' said Jorge Mursuli, vice president of People for The American Way and former chairman of SAVE Dade.
"He runs deep and is a very stable force, particularly when there is a lot of chaos. I can't think of a better person to be a stable force in the middle of a circus.''
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