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Is Frivolity still on?
It is not known whether or not the Frivolity event scheduled for August 20 at the Rock Hall and the Great Lakes Science Center will occur or who it will benefit if it does.
Frivolity, which was heavily promoted at Cleveland Pride, was to benefit Synergy and promote the 2014 event. It was the second such event under that name. The first Frivolity, last year, drew more than 7,000 people.
Synergy has not officially cancelled the event, nor will they confirm its status to the press, its partner Positively Cleveland, or the venues.
"Right now I have it on hold," said Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vice president of marketing Todd Mesek. "If we have an event, we'll be ready."
The Great Lakes Science Center did not return the Chronicle's calls or e-mails.
Mesek said he has not been told whether Frivolity will happen or not, but he remains flexible. He added that the Rock Hall can accommodate last-minute events.
volity, even though Positively Cleveland is listed as an event partner.
"At this stage, we don't know if it is on or off," Roche said.
Sports Commission may host Games
Positively Cleveland and the Sports Commission announced July 26 that they are forming a joint partnership and will start to act more as a single entity.
Informed speculation and conventional wisdom is increasingly lining up around the Sports Commission eventually being awarded the license to hold the 2014 Games.
Roche said the agreement, which was in the works before the Gay Games, would allow the Sports Commission to leverage more resources toward it. Positively Cleveland is a much larger organization with a bigger staff and budget.
FGG spokesperson Kelley Stevens said non-LGBT organizations can be licensed to hold Gay Games, and that it has been done before.
Synergy founder and spokesperson Jeff Blogs were not the cause of problems
Axberg has not responded to numerous e-mail and phone requests on this matter.
Council members kept in the dark
Members of the Synergy Foundation Council, an advisory committee, have not been told the status of Frivolity, nor that Synergy's license to hold the Games has been revoked.
Council members sign a confidentiality agreement, but two have talked to a reporter.
Akron Stonewall Democrats president Chip Clupper, who has only been on the council a few weeks, said he's considering resigning, and hasn't been there long enough to know anything.
Positively Cleveland's Gronowski received a letter from Synergy July 23 notifying her that she is being excluded from the council. According to Positively Cleveland president Dennis Roche, the letter tells Gronowski she is "no longer suitable" to be on the council. So, her confidentiality agreement no longer applies.
Through Roche, Gronowski said Synergy never told members of the council about the license revocation, nor has it said anything about Frivolity.
Clupper said Frivolity is "on my calendar" but he doesn't know whether it will happen. Clupper was also not told about the license by Synergy.
The Chronicle has obtained a copy of an e-mail sent to council members by colleague Sheila Patterson calling press reports about Synergy "erroneous." Patterson did not respond for comment for this report. Roche has also not been told about Fri-
Other documents obtained by the Chronicle and interviews with sources close to events show that bloggers in Washington, D.C. and Boston were not the genesis of Synergy's problems with FGG. They just reacted to it.
This is contrary to the narrative being advanced by Cleveland Ward 3 Councilor Joe Cimperman.
Cimperman, who sponsored the ordinance appropriating the $700,000 and who traveled to Cologne in the fall, told WKSU 89.7 FM reporter Vivian Goodman on July 22, "Look at where the initial blogs came from. This conversation started about a week and a half ago in Boston and Washington. Why is that? If I'm in those cities, the answer to that question is, if Cleveland doesn't get it, we might."
People in the two competing cities are bitter that Cleveland beat them for the Games last year, and media in both cities have reported alleged foul play by Synergy.
However, the blogging only started because people in those cities were tipped "as a courtesy" by an FGG official when the license was pulled from Synergy on July 6. The bloggers may have known before Cleveland did. Their subsequent allegations had nothing to do with FGG's decision.
It appears that Synergy lost the license due to financial and reporting irregularities and over poor relationships and conflicts with FGG and partners.
FGG's statement concludes by saying that discussions will be held in Cologne concerning the 2014 license and that a decision will be announced "later in August."
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"The U.N. was founded on the premise that only through mutual respect, diversity, and dialogue can the international community effectively pursue justice and equality," President Barack Obama said. "Today, with the more full inclusion of the [IGLHRC], the United Nations is closer to the ideals on which it was founded, and to values of inclusion and equality to which the United States is deeply committed."
"The vote was a significant achievement for all those who work to see the United Nations embody its founding principles and advance the tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," said U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice.
Judge shuts TG widow out of estate
Houston-The widow of a firefighter killed in the line of duty is being frozen out of her estate by her former mother-in-law, who claims the marriage was a sham. Nikki Araguz was set to inherit half of the $600,000 "fallen hero benefit" after the
death of her husband, Capt. Thomas Araguz. However, Simona Rodriguez Longoria, Thomas Araguz' mother, claims that Nikki hid her transgender status from Thomas, and since she was "born male," the marriage is invalid.
Texas District Judge Randy Clapp froze all Araguz' benefits and joint property from the marriage, including income earned by Mrs. Araguz herself during the marriage. Longoria expanded her claims to Araguz' property and had the judge seize the life insurance benefit that was paid out to Araguz, all of which are now sitting in an escrow account.
The judge, however, is not allowing Longoria to spend any of the escrowed funds or dispose of any marital property.
Capt. Araguz' two sons by a previous marriage will get half of the $600,000 benefit, which they would have gotten anyway if Longoria had not filed suit.
Compiled by Brian DeWitt, Anthony Glassman and Patti Harris.