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Photos of the Week 11-2-19

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Photos of the Week    

8 Years Ago
Karen @ The Reservoir
La France


Bradley’s on 7th
 
Steam @ The Honey Pot

Tea Cup

 


Tequila’s Ybor City 
 
  

Ybor Wine Bar
 
  



 
GaYBOR-Ybor City 
 
 
 
 

  

Dishing with Mark n Carrie, 11-8-19

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Nearly 100 LGBT candidates win on US election day in continuing ‘rainbow wave’

Almost half of the openly LGBT+ candidates claimed victory in US state and local elections this week, in a sweeping movement that’s been dubbed ‘the rainbow wave’.

Read More in The Pink News

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/07/rainbow-wave-lgbt-candidates-us-elections-danica-roem/?fbclid=IwAR3ntzOSrH5EbzXtud-UrfoTN4_8ygdrZ0__hbFOT7F-8z_os0eSJ7wbmcc

 

This Saturday Night

Metro Inclusive Health Annual Cocktail Party Featuring Deborah Cox

https://www.facebook.com/events/2215696528742639/

Divine & Little Mermaid

https://youtu.be/8IlMDI6VZuw

NY NY PIZZA

https://youtu.be/8RVuGUxDlKU

Renovation of historic Ybor factory uncovers ‘Cigar City Mafia’ secret

https://youtu.be/CF0uv7qJYE8

 

This SUNDAY

https://www.facebook.com/events/914024268931188/

Tampa Bay Rum Company

Blunderbuss Cane Vodka is distilled from molasses at the Ybor City distillery. No respectable pirate should invade the weekend without their Blunderbuss! Pick a bottle up at the Ybor tasting room for $21.99. Just in time for Thanksgiving are several new rums to try too. https://www.facebook.com/GasparsRum/

Tru-T

 

https://youtu.be/Ee_3S2w2Gzs

Thumbs UP

This week we had our kitchen backsplash installed. A good friend our ours recommend her guy. Eric the tile guy. He was not cheap but was fantastic. He was a bigger perfectionist than us. Eric and his helped did a great job and also cleaned up after. We would recommend Eric to everyone.  Triple R Services, Inc. Eric Robbins 813-328-9435 triplerservicesinc@gmail.com

 

SUNday FUNday

Bay Voices Offering Free Holiday Concert in Gulfport

For Immediate Release

Contact: Gulfport Public Library; (727) 893-1074

jpg attached: Bay Voices (photo courtesy of Bay Voices)

GULFPORT, FLORIDA: Returning for a fifth year, the Bay Voices men’s choral group will perform another popular holiday concert at the Gulfport Public Library on Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 p.m.  The Library is located at 5501 28th Avenue South.  This family-friendly event is free and open to the public.  Complimentary wine, soft beverages and cheese will be offered.

Bay Voices was formed in 2007 after several members of the former Tampa Bay Gay Men’s Chorus got together and realized how much they had missed singing together.  Since that time, the group has grown in popularity and renown and has performed concerts at venues including the Salvador Dali Museum, University of Tampa, International Plaza, the Sandpearl Resort and several local churches.  This will be their fifth holiday concert at the Gulfport Public Library, performing Christmas and Chanukah favorites to ring in the season.  Bay Voices are under the direction of Stephen L. Allen.  For booking information, contact John Lulias (Lulias@aol.com).  Find out more about the group at www.facebook.com/BayVoices.

The event is sponsored by the LGBTQ Resource Center in conjunction with the Gulfport Public Library.  The Resource Center provides collections, services and events throughout the year to the local LGBTQ community, its friends and family.  Find out more about the Resource Center and the Library on the web at www.mygulfport.us/gpl or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GulfportLibraryFL.

TAMPA PRIDE ZOO LA 2

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Thank You to the Tampa Bay community and beyond for again making Tampa Pride’s Kick Off Benefit PRIDE ZOO LA at Zoo Tampa a great success. It has taken hundreds of volunteers and hours preparing for this fun night.

The entrance of Zoo Tampa had stilt walkers and Brazilian dancers entertaining the ticket holders.

The walk to the Safari Pavillion let you experience the sights and sounds of monkeys, exotic birds and many of the wild animals making noises and calming down as the colorful sunset sky fell dark.

The Tampa Bay Pride Band played a variety of animal themed songs and zoo movie overtures. Anteaters, porcupines, ravens, and animals were displayed and wandered in the crowd near the zoo handlers.

Silent auction items this year included 3-night resort stays, Southwest Airlines & Silver Airways Airline tix up for bid, art work, spas, Rays, Buccaneer, Rowdies, Magic, Lightning sports tickets and memorabilia, Art & sculptures and local Tampa Bay merchants’ gifts.

Feeding the giraffes was a highlight at the parties start. Such long tongues they have! We were happy that all the Tampa City Council members attended along with other local political leaders. Rep. Adam Hattersly candidate for Congress, Kevin Beckner running for Tampa Clerk of Courts and both Tampa Pride 2019 Grand Marshals and the newly announced 2020 Grand Marshals were all in attendance.

The line up by the Tampa Pride Entertainment committee had a full night of excitement for the guests. DJ Greg Anderson introduced the Adriana Sparkle, who was the nights emcee. The colorfully glitter bearded performer/ MC was ‘Sparkticle’. Singing live was area singing wonder, De Delovely! She brought the crowd to its feet! She is really a singing star! Pose performers vogued the centered red carpet, Lady Janet uppt the energy with here gymnastic drag performance and Ms Amy DeMilo danced with charm, grace and beauty.

Tampa Pride gives out the annual prestigious “Tampa Bay Community Leader Appreciation Award” and this year’s recipient was given to Catherine Lowry Straz for her Tampa Bay involvement in local theater, Opera, Ballet, Bank Director, community activists, community organizer and Chief Executive of the Lowry Park Zoo and the top notch nationally rated, Catherine Straz Veterinary Hospital, one of just a few fully staffed animal hospitals in zoos across the country, at Lowry Park.

More upcoming TAMPA PRIDE events include; POSE Battle of the Houses, Mr/Ms Tampa Pride 2020, Tampa Pride & Paws, Grand Marshal GALA, VIP Sponsors Party, InterFaith Service, and more announced events.

PLAN:  Tampa Pride 2020 – March 28-29

Photos below by Dishing with Mark n Carrie

InterPride 2019 AGM & World Conference Athens, Greece Oct 17-20 2019

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InterPride 2019

AGM & World Conference

Athens, Greece Oct 17-20 2019

https://www.interpride.org/

 

InterPride is the United Nations to the LGBT+ Prides & Communities around the world. Mark & Carrie were honored to represent Tampa. At this year’s conference there were 664 people from 142 different countries.  Over the 4-day conference there were 40+ special workshops, 3 AGM meetings and many group breakdowns. It is interesting how so many different pride organizations have similar goals and situations to work thru. The conference was in English, French, Portages and Spanish.

The AGM (Annual General Meeting) & World Conference is held every year. Next year the AGM will be in Oslo Norway. At this year meeting Winnipeg, Canada & Guadalajara, Mexico competed to host AGM in 2021. The Winner was Guadalajara!  InterPride also co-hosts a World Pride ever 2 years. This year World Pride was in New York City. 2021 World Pride will be in Copenhagen, Denmark. Competing for World Pride 2023 was Montreal, Canada – Sidney, Australia & Houston, Texas.  All three gave exciting & interesting presentations. The winner was Sidney!

There were so many interesting things to learn. Even more interesting, new people to meet and many new friendships were started. At the start of the conference AGM there was a call to change the co-presidents. Currently there are 2; a female identifying & a male identifying person. The group wanted to add a Non-Binary co-president.  We thought the group handled the situation perfectly. After some bylaws were changed there was a 3rd co-President Non-Binary person added to the board.

Opening night there was a reception at The Residence of Netherlands Ambassador. Closing night was a dinner and Gala at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. (more below)

Our hosts in Athens Pride, Andrea Gilbert & Giannis Papagiannopoulos did an amazing job.  Incredibly well organized with every detail thought out. The volunteers made everyone feel welcomed. Athen Pride is 15 years old with 100,000 participants.  Following the AGM we took a 5 day cruise island hopping around Greece.