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Jim Naugle

​Call it a match made in heaven.

Rick Santorum is best-known (among 20-something alt-weekly types, at least) as the evangelical homophobe who likened gay relationships to "man-on-dog" sex and consequently suffered the wrath of Dan Savage's revolting Google bomb.

Jim Naugle is known locally as the former mayor who wasn't afraid to piss people off with his strong opinions (our former reporter Bob Norman had a lovely visit with him in 2000). Those opinions have included paranoia about gay people having dirty sex in public.

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​You probably didn't need the experts to figure this one out, but Fort Lauderdale is a pretty gay place.

So gay, in fact, that the Advocate says it's the fourth-gayest place in the U.S. of A.

Wilton Manors is technically the gayest place in the country if we're basing this off on concentration of gay people, but the Adovcate uses some, uh, extra variables -- like the number of "International Mr. Leather competition finalists."

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​With the complete release yesterday of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau on same-sex couples, Wilton Manors is officially the second-gayest city in the country, and Fort Lauderdale is the gayest midsized city in the nation.

The statistics were compiled by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, and Wilton Manors has 139.63 same-sex couples per 1,000 households, trailing only Provincetown, Massachusetts, which has 163.11.

As for the midsized cities -- places with populations between 100,000 and 250,000 people -- Fort Lauderdale blew away the competition in concentration of gay households, with 35.80 same-sex couples per 1,000 households, beating out the second-gayest, Berkeley, California, which has 23.03 per 1,000.

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​The Christian Family Coalition -- a local gay-fearing clan -- loves to make ridiculous statements, and we've begun to chronicle their rise to Westboro Baptist "Church" status for their outrageous accusations.

The latest out of the CFC is that the Wilton Manors Business Association is a gang of "anti-American extremists and racists" for uninviting Rep. Allen West to speak at one of its events.

There's some debate going on as to whether the association was in the wrong about their takeback of the invitation over West's controversial views, which has led to the sane response to the situation from West, the slightly odd response from his wife, and now the completely insane response from the CFC.

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​The Pulp let y'all know last week that the Christian Family Coalition blew a gasket over Oakland Park's proclamation recognizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride & Equality Month passed by the city's commission.

In response, we received an underhanded thank-you note from the Christian Family Coalition's founder and executive director, Anthony Verdugo.

For those of you unaware of the Christian Family Coalition, it's about one "God hates fags" sign short of the Westboro Baptist "Church."

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​To the surprise of no one, the Christian Family Coalition is still going batshit insane against the gay community.

Today's freakout comes in response to the Oakland Park City Commission, which passed a proclamation recognizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride & Equality Month a few weeks ago.

As per usual, the bigoted extremists accuse the commission of being populated by, of course, "bigoted extremists."

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​Last week, the principal of Blanche Ely High School, Mr. Karlton Johnson, hauled an interracial lesbian couple into his office and threatened to suspend them for holding hands in the hallway. He'd warned them about this hand-holding business before, he said -- he was just upholding the school's rules, and he insists there was nothing homophobic or insensitive about his actions. (Even though when the school inadvertently outed one of the girls' as a lesbian when they called her parents to discuss the incident. So far, the district has failed to apologize.)

When the news got out there was the expected outrage. Elgin Jones wrote about it at The Florida Times; Steve Rothaus wrote it up at the Herald. Even Perez Hilton got in on the opprobium, calling Mr. Johnson "just wrong."

Well, maybe he is and maybe he isn't. The girls have claimed that Blanche Ely's heterosexual couples are never, ever disciplined for hand-holding, but that might not be as telling as it seems. Maybe Mr. Kalrton is so accepting of gayfolk that it never even occurred to him that making an example of an interracial lesbian couple might be impolitic. Who knows what's in another man's heart?

But Mr. Karlton's definitely guilty of something.
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