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| One of Pam's regular readers, 'Bean, and I had an interesting exchange with Nicky Grossman, regarding the Naugle debacle. Nicky Grossman works at the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Convention and Visitors' Bureau. Throughout the whole situation, I read with interest the various LGBT websites and other news sources covering it...after all, I just relocated last year to NYC after living most of my adult life in or around S. Florida. The one article that caused me to contribute my 2 cents (below) was this article from the Miami Herald: Businesses Hope Naugle Doesn't Deter Gay Tourism. I think my biggest "beef" at this whole thing was that while people were indeed outraged and did protest, the ones with the real "voices" in the community were more worried about the almighty GAY $$ than the abuse being heaved upon the citizens of the area...by citizens of the area. The whole article was how the tourism organizations wanted to literally squelch the story and keep it out of the MSM so as not to hurt gay tourism. Anyway, the email exchanges are below the fold, and your enlightening thoughts are, as always, welcome... ee |
| Julien Sharp :: More on the Toilet-Fixated Mayor |
First came the letter from 'Bean to Ms. Grossman: Nicki Grossman
GFLCVB
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Dear Ms. Grossman:
I just read your E-mail to Pam Spaulding, editor and publisher of the gay-and-lesbian blog "Pam's House Blend." In your E-mail, you state, "I wish to reassure you and your readers that Greater Fort Lauderdale is a warmly welcoming destination to ALL travelers. We stand united and proud that our destination has long been enjoyed by gay visitors and supported by the local gay community."
If Fort Lauderdale is truly such a great, accepting place, why did Fort Lauderdale citizens elect a bigot such as Naugle - thus leading to this bru-ha-ha in the first place?
And speaking for the Sunshine State as a whole, why is Florida a leader in (1) denying GLBT parents the right to have custodianship of their children, (2) not enforcing any authoritative property, power-of-attorney, or medical proxy rights for GLBT people, (3) pushing for a "Sanctity of Marriage"
amendment (state, federal), (4) resisting hate-crimes legislation and (5) tolerating violence against GLBT citizens (all key points that have come to light in the national media over the last few years).
Before I continue, let me take this opportunity on behalf of well-read, well-educated GLBT folks to thank you for your kind words. But with my thanks, I also invite you to put your words where the sun never
shines: your hate-filled Republican, Christian, cesspool-of-a-state will not get my travel dollars.
I am not a political football, Ms. Grossman. Neither am I stupid nor unaware.
The reality is I am a human being, Ms. Grossman. And I insist in being treated as a human being, too.
Therefore . . . If I want sun, I will travel among those who both vote and legislate me as a human being (which means Southern California - never Florida).
Go fix your local political problems before trying to white-wash the ugliness in your borders. We who have been victimized by people like you for so very, very, very long are just damn-sick-and-tired of the lies.
Mobeen Shirazi
Rochester, NY
Kindly, Ms. Grossman did reply rather quickly - and on a Sunday! Good morning. Thank you for sharing your comments and opinion with me. Believe me, as difficult as it may seem to comprehend, Florida is slow to enlighten; but the enlightenment has begun. I presently serve as the Chair of Visit Florida, our State's destination marketing organization. For the first time, this State funded association of over 3500 tourism entities in the state has created a GLBT marketing Task Force to insure outreach to ALL travelers. Enlightenment. The government in Broward County has recently passed an ordinance requiring businesses seeking to do business with the county to provide domestic partner benefits to their workers. Enlightenment. Every state, including New York and California, has politicians who succeed without actually representing the philosophies of all or even most constituents. Jim Naugle is one of those here in South Florida. His stint as Mayor ends March, 2009. He is term-limited at that point, and there will be new leadership in the City of Fort Lauderdale. Enlightenment arriving. Thank you again for your advocacy. Sincerely, Nicki Grossman
However, I still feel she was missing the point. So I replied... Thank you Nicki, for your comments. I was a resident of South Florida (South Beach) for many years. My partner and I moved to Manhattan last year for her job. Because of my copywriting business, we did buy a very small condo in SoBe at that time so I could commute a bit for clients, and we could have a place to escape from the brouhaha of the city now and again. We also of course had many friends there. While in Miami Beach, I was the editor of the Miami Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce newsletter for some time – in fact continued for one more issue after I moved here. I read the Herald online every day to “keep up.” What was very annoying – and alarming – for me was an article that appeared last week in the Herald that highlighted the “fear” by LGBT business organizations that the Naugle incident would hurt the almighty tourist $$, and that the leaders of the Broward/Ft. Lauderdale organizations wished to “hush” the story and not let it out of the confines of the city/county. Of course, with today’s internet and blogs, this was not possible. But reading that story, I was amazed that people would rather take the abuse, and subject possible visitors to such abuse, rather than really fight it. Perhaps it is this mentality that has allowed Florida to remain the single state in the country that prohibits ANY gay person from adopting…in a state with so many children languishing and then aging out of foster homes. Perhaps it is this mentality furthers the great likelihood that Florida will become the last “southern” state to ban gay marriage – and with it all the DP laws that have sprung up in bergs in South Florida. Either way, that amendment is likely to pass, and that is the day that we sell our place in Miami Beach, and never return. Why would we want to vacation in a place that would refuse me the right to see my partner in the hospital if we got into a boating accident and she was seriously hurt…or vice verse? Thank you, The Educated Eclectic
(note to Blenders: for this post I have not put my real name to keep 2 psycho family trolls from spewing vitriol all over my posts) Then Nicki did reply again... Your points are well made, and well taken. Nicki
And of course, since it is part of my personality to have the proverbial last word, I closed the thread... Thank you…I am most sorry that we even have to be having this sort of discourse in the 21st century…it should be a non-issue, shouldn’t it? So much hate still…sad. In friendship, [ee]
And my response is really just a big CRY as to why in the hell are these kinds of incidents happening...why would an elected officer of a city go to such lengths on a basically uninformed bit of information to embarrass and belittle a group of people who either 1. Pay that county's HIGH property taxes to live in paradise or 2. Spend their precious vacation dollars there?? So that's that. I leave you to decide if we made our point. We certainly tried. |
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