Last night, Real World: Brooklyn made queer TV history, thanks to the first ever transgender cast member, a South Florida male-to-female named Katelyn Cusanelli. The introspective, self-proclaimed computer geek, who went to McPhatter Technical School in Davie and Palm Beach Community College talked to Riptide yesterday about hormone therapy, "escaping" from South Florida, and what it's like to have a camera shoved in your face 24 hours a day.A second GLBT cast member, JD Ordonez -- a gay Miami
One of South Florida's leading serious gay news sources, South Florida Blade, has shut down, according to reports. Its owner, Window Media LLC, which is the largest publisher of gay newspapers in the nation, has abruptly closed all of its titles. Originally founded in 2000 as the Express Gay News, it was bought by Window Media in 2003. The name was changed to South Florida Blade, styled after sister paper Washington Blade. The paper was edited by Dan Renzi, an occas
