What’s all the fuss about?

As the year comes to an end and the tourist season begins in South Florida, The Cabanas Guesthouse & Spa is prepared as ever to host another great year. With that being said, we would like to say “thank you” to all of our wonderful guests. It is you, the customer, who helps make The Cabanas such a great place to stay. We appreciate our customer loyalty and strive to constantly improve their experience. Whether it’s your first or your fifth time staying with us, you can rest assured that we will go above and beyond to provide you with the most comfortable and relaxing stay imaginable. To all of our return guests, we look forward to seeing you all again soon. To our new guests, or those who’ve never stayed with us, take a look at what the others have to say….

“Nice big rooms, friendly staff. Great pools and 24 hour jacuzzi. Good atmosphere.”

“We have stayed at other resorts in Fort Lauderdale but none come close the experience you get at the Cabanas.”

“This was the third time I have stayed at The Cabanas. In between, I’ve stayed at a lot of guest houses in FL. I like to try everywhere, but I always seem to end up back here.”

“I have already booked another trip and a few friends have done so as well. I can’t say enough about this place!!! STAY HERE for sure!!!!”

“Definately will be coming back and definately highly recommed this place, and believe me we are not easily impressed!”

“I love Fort Lauderdale. I love this staff. I love The Cabanas. John, Bill, David – I feel like they have, over the years, evolved from owners/staff to friends. A great feeling that is, too.”

“I’ve stayed in a few other guesthouses since my first time here, but ended up back here again…I think this one is my favorite.”

“The service, standards and whole experience was completely superb!”

“Every time we go we meet interesting people from all over the country and end up spending hours by the pool with new friends. Trust me and stay here – you’ll thank yourself. We’ll be back next year!”

“They made my partner and me feel at home. Any requests were taken care of gladly. It was our first trip to South Florida. It won’t be our last. We have been to other guest houses. This was by far the best experience we have had. The people were friendly and NO ATTITUDE. It seemed like everyone was having fun.
Thank you to John and David Our Hosts. We will definately be back.”

“When we think of planning a vacation to FTL, our first thought is The Cabanas.”

“Once you stay at the Cabanas in Wilton Manors, I guarantee you will never want to stay anywhere else in Fort Lauderdale!”

“The Cabanas is to be highly recommended to the discerning gay traveller. John and his staff run a great ship and take wonderful care of their guests and their comfort.”

“There will be no question as to where I stay on my next visit to Fort Lauderdale — I can’t wait!”

Naked came the diner: Clothing optional eateries and bare stand-up comedy shows are booming

Nude dining takes place under the auspice of Ordover’s monthly meals, where, according to the New York Post  article, around 50 diners – whose motto is “no hot soup” – show up at specific ‘venues’ including the Mercantile Grill on Pearl Street and Pete’s Downtown in Brooklyn.

Non-sexual nudity in public dining and entertainment places is booming. According to the July 21, 2008 article titled, Clothing Optional Restaurants, Yoga Studios Where? NYC, “nude dining and yoga exercise are becoming the new rags within the clothing optional community.” There are plenty of photos of nude diners at that site. Also see the New York Post article of July 21, 2008 titled, The Naked City, by Adam Nichols.

Not only are there nude city restaurants, nude eateries inside yoga clubs, but there’s also a “midtown stand-up comedy joint,” according to the NY Post article titled, “The Naked City.” The article reports, “They’re served by regular restaurant staff – forced by city laws to keep their clothes on.”

According to another article, Nude dining in NYC – natural and healthy or kinky exhibitionism? published July 26, 2008, “There are 50 members of the Optional Diners club.”  This article also notes, “Their motto is ‘No Hot Soup.’” None of the restaurants they’ve approached to rent have turned them down, nor has wait staff batted an eye – which may be a telling commentary of their usual customers.

Then there’s the Naked Comedy Showcase, whose team of nude stand-up comics, male and female, perform a naked stand-up comedy show once a month at the People’s Improv Theater in Chelsea. For nude dining and comedy researchers, the NY Post article names the midtown Manhattan Yoga club where people show up to eat in the nude as well as work out the yoga exercises naked.

According to the Naked Comedy Showcase, site, it’s the creation of Andy Ofiesh, a stand-up comedian from Boston, Massachusetts. “For years Andy has organized hosted naked comedy shows featuring Boston area comics doing stand-up in the nude.”

Andy’s first naked comedy show in a public venue was at Improv Boston. He also played in the nude at the Edinburgh Fringe. “Encouraged by the success of the shows at Improv Boston and at The Fringe in Edinburgh, Andy organized an ongoing monthly naked comedy show at Improv Boston.”

Some people feel more natural without clothing. Psychologically, performing on stage in the nude in a comedy club or eating in the buff in front of clothed food servers are two ways of becoming more vulnerable to the lonely crowd when in public. Imagine how difficult it is to recruit stand-up comics to perform naked at a comedy club.

There’s a long history of people performing in the nude. But the new attraction is the audience arriving in the nude in a public setting to eat and to be entertained.

If your idea of fun is relaxing poolside at a Fort Lauderdale clothing optional gay resort, then look no further than The Cabanas Guesthouse. The Cabanas is the ultimate gay resort, located just steps away from the heart of Wilton Manors.  Book your reservations today at The Cabanas!

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Huge Fort Lauderdale Crowd Shows Support for Gay Marriage

Huge Fort Lauderdale Crowd Shows Support for Gay Marriage
by Patrick Berkeley

The last election was a roller coaster for the GLBT community. The most gay-friendly president in history was elected while a strew of anti-marriage and anti-adoption laws were all passed through in California, Arkansas, Arizona, and Florida.

For days after the election, protests raged on throughout California, sometimes even turning violent, while in Florida people remained complacent.

Until Saturday, November 15th when protests throughout the entire county, including cities in Florida, were all taking place at 1:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Fort Lauderdale had a huge turnout, with over 1,000 people rallying on the streets outside of city hall in downtown.

A rainbow flag was held across the steps in front of the building with different minorities, sexualities, and genders all holding a piece. A woman in the front cried out, “But I’m straight, should I still hold it?” and the organizer of the event, Bishop SF Ma-Hee, proclaimed, “It’s okay, we want everyone fighting for us.”

And that was certainly a huge element of this event: people from all different backgrounds standing together for one cause. Older Fort Lauderdale residents in wheelchairs rallied alongside children. A mother nursed her child in one area, as two older lesbians held hands, waving miniature rainbow flags.

Rabbi Andrew Jacobs came to the speaking area holding his young son donning a Mickey Mouse hat. He explained to the crowd his purpose in attending: “I believe in a God that has no patience for these forms of hate…on behalf of the Jewish community we fight this lack of tolerance.”

There were many different religious organizations showing support. Bishop Reed of the Christian faith began the protests with an invocation, asking, “God the courage to believe we are indeed loved.”

The rally focused on using religion to help the GLBT cause, countering all the discriminatory ways religion has been used to keep gay equality from happening.

Bishop SF Ma-Hee led the Fort Lauderdale branch of this huge protest, and she brought a spirit of electricity to the crowd, jumping around and shouting different chants and words of strength.

She repeatedly asked participants to stay away from any forms of violence in the protest. The recent California protests were marked by sporadic instances of violence when protesters targeted the Mormon church (thought to have contributed lots of money to helping the marriage bans getting passed).

Bishop SF Ma-Hee also brought up another controversy concerning the election results: the idea that the surge in black voters led to the anti-gay marriage amendments getting passed.

As a black woman herself, she said she was particularly offended by that. “We have allies in the African-American community,” she spoke. “People who are racist and prejudice are also, always, homophobic.”

At that, she introduced Andrew Lewis, an African-American president of the Democratic Black Caucus of Broward County.

“Barack showed us what is possible. He showed us how to do it. Our voices should not be silenced. It’s not just about people who speak up with hate but also those who stay silent in the face of such hate. Silence is NOT harmless,” he said, calling to mind the words of civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.

Also standing along the steps of city hall were protesters holding up signs of pictures of gay men and women killed in hate crimes, representing the organization Gay American Heroes.

Back in February, Simmie Williams Jr. was killed in a gay hate crime in Fort Lauderdale, and his mother showed up to speak, “We want you all to have equal rights like anybody else.”

The recent shooting death of a student at Dillard High School with gay subtext also affected the proceedings.
Kyle and Freddie, two 17 year old students at MacArthur High School were at the rally.

They are both members of the gay straight alliance at their school. “There’s not anything gay enough as a teenager, nowhere to really be gay,” Freddie said. “It’s nice to see this many people, as friends, loving everybody, except amendment 2.”

An event that started mainly through organizational efforts by Join the Impact using the website Facebook, the national protests were thought to be a huge success with over a million participants and more upcoming actions already planned.

These same sentiments were echoed at a similar rally in Miami Beach where Mayor Matti Bower addressed a large crowd and urged people to “never give up the fight.”

On December 10, Join the Impact is supporting “A Day Without a Gay” in which the GLBT community is encouraged to call out “gay” from work, and focus that time on helping the community, and not spending any money, contributing to the economy. After that, another protest is scheduled for January.

For a city that once seemed uninterested, Fort Lauderdale is strongly building up its gay supporters. Bishop SF Ma-Hee compared the GLBT cause to the recent rocket ship Endeavor’s trip to the space station.

“At 8:55 Friday night, we saw flames flying in the sky, from the rocket Endeavor. We endeavor too. We endeavor to put an end to bigotry.” And the 1,000 people holding up signs, banners, and flags cried out, “yes we can.”