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Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle's got egg on his face yet again.

After hearing from scads of activists, Focus on Fort Lauderdale has removed his offensive column from their website. In that column, the gay panicked politico revives his calls for vigilance against gay public sex. That mission garnered Naugle all sorts of press last year, most of it bad, and a national campaign forced him into silence.

Naugle refuses to apologize for the latest outburst, of course, and gripes about the piece's tardy publication: "[Naugle] said that he, too, 'was outraged,' because he wrote it in October 'when all of that was timely.'" Journalist Brittany Wallman informs readers, however, that Naugle addressed the issue just last month in his State of the City address. Naugle's memory has apparently gone down the crapper.

Jim Naugle simply can't quit. The Fort Lauderdale mayor used his column in the latest tax-funded Focus On Fort Lauderdale to again take on toilet trolling.

Naugle, who famously proposed robo-toilets to curb cruising, writes:

Imagine my dismay this past summer when I learned that a tourism website was listing one of our main children's parks as a location for men to meet for sex. And then, we discovered that other parks and public places were listed on other websites on the Internet.

Some denied that these activities were taking place. The Police Department made arrests, but I know the problem is not completely eliminated. I am hopeful that we are successful in curtailing these illegal activities in the future.

Floridian gay activists aren't having it - Fight Out Loud say Naugle's comments lead "to an atmosphere of hate and violence."

Jim Naugle would shit! New York City yesterday unveiled the big apple's first pay toilet (seen above, being adored by Dept. of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff).

The $100,000 throne costs a mere quarter - the same price as the NY Post - and allows the user 15-minutes of pure, unadulterated potty privacy. That seems like an awfully long time, but it is in Madison Square Park, home of the famous - and famously dirty - Shake Shack.

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A Daytona Beach potty be poppin' last Thursday - and then it be coppin'.

Floridian officials nabbed nine toilet trollers during a Sear's bathroom sting last week.

A high school athletics teacher and former city councilman and mayoral candidate Mike Shallow were among the men arrested. Such operations have become regular news since Senator Larry Craig's bathroom drama earlier this year, as have politico's involvement in such events. We are, however, taken aback by police chief Mike Chitwood's venomous reaction.

The reason that we did this sting is we all go to the mall; our kids go into the bathroom. That they could be susceptible to this kind of behavior is absolutely a disgrace.
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It's scumbags like this that erode the quality of life that we have here. What scares me is that these are people that we trust to be political leaders, these are people that we trust with our children.

Chitwood must be a Jim Naugle supporter.

The transgender tides are changing in South Florida, where city after city has been outlawing anti-trans discrimination. The Sun-Sentinel reports:

Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Tequesta and Oakland Park have approved nondiscrimination clauses this year either covering city employees or all residents. Oakland Park was the latest last week and Wilton Manors may consider adding transgender as well.

As the local governments step into equality, Palm Beach and Broward Counties, the latter of which anti-gay Jim Naugle calls home, are considering including trans folk in their non-discrimination policies.

Journo Patty Pensa cites Susan Stanton, formerly Largo City Manager Steve Stanton, as one of the biggest influences on the region. Stanton (pictured) got sacked last year after announcing her sex change. The story caught the national eye and helped elevate transgender into the upper echelons of political debate.

It's been a while since we trolled around Overheard in New York. At this point we'd thought we'd heard it all, but you'd be surprised. Check out this one-liner peeped on the D-Train": "She gay? Oh, well, then keep her away from me. I don't like gay people. They's too charmin'."

We're not sure whether we should be offended or, well, charmed. Unless, of course, she meant "Charmin," in which case she may be pledging allegiance to Jim Naugle. Hmm…

Here's another one, uttered by a teen to her friend after what "clipboard activist" (read: HRC?): "I don't get it. What are they doing, selling gay rights?" Yes, yes they are…

We may think Jim Naugle's a nutter, but the homophobe politico's got legions of fans. In addition to "protective" parents, the Fort Lauderdale mayor recently enlisted some wacky religionists, like this guy. A Sun-Sentinel reader John Ehlert wonders why Mr. Mathes Guice felt the need to go camo: Let me see if I have this "right":

The Fort Lauderdale mayor shows up with men, supposedly men of the cloth but who are wearing paramilitary uniforms. Can someone answer as to just when the church began to worship Ares, the god of war?
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All hail Ares. Someone might want to mention to God that he's been replaced.

Does the G-man get unemployment?

Michelangelo Signorile hosted homophobic mayor Jim Naugle on his show earlier this week. In his follow-up post over at The Gist, Signorile expresses regret for not taking a harder line against the Fort Lauderdale mayor.

In addition, the 46-year old homo-journo does point out something interesting: "family defender" Naugle did the sex-laced interview near a child.

Naugle did the interview from his car, on the cell phone, with his daughter or granddaughter in the car, who can be heard in the background. Yes, there was a child (had to be between 5 and 9 years old from the sound) in the car, while he's talking about sex in toilets while driving — this from a man whose whole campaign has been couched as protecting kids from sexual activity!

Though there's anything wrong with talking sex around kids - they're going to find out at some point! - Naugle's actions are a little…what's the word? Hypocritical!

For those of you looking for a great gay debate, tune into Michelangelo Signorile's Sirius radio show today at 3:30pm. The homo-journo will be digging into anti-gay Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle.

Let's hope for a bloodbath!

[If you don't have Sirius, click here for free three-day trial!]

No doubt Jim Naugle's left an indelible - and detestable - mark on Fort Lauderdale and the surrouding communities.

The anti-homo mayor made headlines when he first asked the city to pay for robo-toilets, a $250,000 investment he hoped would curb queer public sex.

The measure didn't go through, but it's raised sociosexual tensions to a boiling point.

Since then, we've already seen Naugle booted from the tourism board and censured by his peers, but the mayor's still sitting pretty and with loads of allies. While a number of black pastors lend Naugle their support, another group of black people are gearing up for a war of Biblical proportions.

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