Pride on 7th

Can you share this in your dishing column?
 
Pride on 7th is back and thanks to all your valuable input, WE will grow stronger and larger.  We will make this a unique Pride celebration unlike any other.
This year, PO7 2.0 (Pride on 7th 2nd year)  will take place in amazing heart of Ybor City!!
We need your help to make this happen.  Please contact Jorge Alvarado or Mike Hammonds mikeee7432@aol.com  with your email address and phone number if you are interested in volunteering.
Full details to come in following weeks!
 
PEACE LOVE AND FIERCENESS

This Week At Chelsea Nightclub

VOTE AMY DEMILO!

Many of you many not know it, but Tampa is competing in the RuPaul Drag Race, Logo TV Ultimate Queen Contest, and our nominee is Amy Demilo. Amy resides in Tampa and has been performing for over 20 years, but you wouldn’t know it as she is flawless in every way! She can perform any genre of character or music, and has demonstrated such with her well-known Lady Gaga performance that has wowed both gay and straight crowds alike. Her grace, beauty, and Southern charm has made her the Sweetheart of many as Amy is never heard being negative; on the contrary, she always finds a positive word for her fellow Queens, and encourages them to reach their goals. Amy has won countless titles, most notable are:  2nd Alternate to Miss Gay USofA 2010 Overall Evening Gown Category Winner, Miss Gay Florida USofA 2010, Prelim to Miss Gay USofA, Miss Heart of Florida 2010, Miss GaYbor 2010, Miss Metropolitan Continental 2008, Prelim to Miss Continental, Miss Florida F.I. 2000, Miss Lakeland 1997, Miss Alabama Continental 1992, Prelim to Miss Continental, and former Miss Daytona Beach, and Miss Ft Lauderdale. No one deserves this title more than Amy, so please VOTE AMY DEMILO, and show her Tampa’s love. You may vote up to ten times per day, so click away and bring RuPaul to Tampa and make Amy Demilo RuPaul’s show host! http://www.logotv.com/contests/ultimate_queen/
 

RuPaul Official Tampa Viewing Location every Monday thru May 2011!

Join the Chelsea Nightclub and AlandChuckTravel.com for RuPaul Mondays from 9PM. Enjoy $4 Absolut Drinks, $3 Heineken Light Beers, Free Pizza, Free Parking and Win Free Logo TV Prizes! Buy a drink any night at the Chelsea and complete an entry form to win the Top Suite on the MSC Poesia’s RuPaul Cast Cruise in March 2012. Watch the Official Logo TV DVD, and win RuPaul and Absolut prizes during the Absolut Cocktail Cabarets, only seen on the DVD. Only at the Chelsea Nightclub can you win so much, and pay only for what you drink!

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From the MC Film Mail Bag…

IT’S TIME TO THINK PINK! 

The Tampa Bay Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s 4th Annual PINK WEEKEND is upon us, Feb 25 – 27!

Beginning  Friday, February 25th Sister Merry Widow will be hosting a Multimedia Art Show at PLAY (1701 E. 8th Ave Ybor City, Tampa )  The event will feature artists, fashion, performances by Rachael Sage and much, much more.  Proceeds will be going to benefit the Hillsborough Arts Council’s Arts EducationYouth Program. 8pm-11pm. $8 Cover

 

Saturday, February 26th will bring an evening of fun at the fabulous Flamingo Resort in St Petersburg .   Special performances by Alexis De La Mer, Iman, Bobbie York, and the Tampa Bay Sisters! 9pm-11pm. No Cover, but Donations Accepted! 

 

Finally, Sunday February 27th, it’s time to enjoy Sister Aggy’s yummy BBQ lunch and special entertainment by Melanie Minyon at Club City Side in Tampa .  The event will benefit the Francis House of Tampa Bay. 3pm-???  Never a Cover, but donations graciously accepted! Drink Specials, Jello shots and raffles, as well as antics by your favorite Tampa Sisters will keep the day going! Don’t forget to wear your PINK, and check into www.flsisters.org for more details.  You can also follow us on Facebook: Tampa Bay Sisters. Can’t wait to see you there!

 

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NOMINATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED!!!!

        The Richard L. Schlegel Legion of Honor Award for Emerging Activist is administered by the GLBTA Resource Center at American University in Washington, D.C. It recognizes a young individual (in high school or an undergraduate in college) who is living in the United States who has made outstanding contributions to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities. The recipient will receive a cash award and includes travel expenses for attending the awards ceremony.

The 2010 Richard L. Schlegel Award will be presented at the 14th annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally Resource Center Awards Ceremony on April 12th, 2011. Nominations will be accepted from now through Friday, March 4th.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please see the attached nomination form or visit our website at http://www.american.edu/glbta for an online form. For questions and/or concerns please call the GLBTA Resource Center at 202-885-3347 or e-mail Dani Nispel at glbta@american.edu.

GLBTA Resource Center
American University
201 Mary Graydon Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8164
202-885-3347
glbta@american.edu
http://www.american.edu/glbta
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Dear Carrie,

I’m Nuccia Hinckley, founder of The Italian School of Tampa located on 7th Avenue and newly appointed President of The Italian Club Ladies Auxiliary. I have been involved with the Italian Club and Ybor City for about three years now and I have worked intensely and continue to do so not just to promote Italian Culture and Language but also to recreate true Italian events that showcase the best Italian traditions. 
March 5th 2011, for the 3rd consecutive year, we will be celebrating The Venetian Carnival in Tampa, an event I celebrated for the first time in 2009 for a selected group of students and friends and that in just three years has taken a life of his own and is now becoming a real tradition.
I don’t want to take too much of your time by writing a long e-mail so I will just ask you to take a look at the flyer I’m attaching and check out the website where all the details can be found. 
I would like to invite you to participate and to pass this invitation to everyone involved in the GaYBOR District coalition. If you have any questions regarding the event please feel free to contact me via e-mail or phone and I will be happy to give you more details. I look forward to hear from you soon. 
Best Regards,
Nuccia Hinckley
813.766.8441

 

Dishing with Mark & Carrie 2-2-11

 BREAKING NEWS
The Department of Environmental Protection has proposed closing Ybor City Museum State Park.
 
 
Gasparilla Weekend
What a crazy wild fun weekend in GaYBOR! All of GaYBOR worked to make this the very best Gasparilla ever! TV celebrities, Drag Divas, male Models, Porn Stars, International DJ’s & more were all in GaYBOR!!!
Now get ready to the Krewe of Santiago Knight parade on Saturday Feb 12, 2011!!!

On the Campaign Road with Carrie West

What a super week of events. Tuesday, Tampa had a hurricane storm in January! The weathermen had gone out to warn us to “beware of the locally high winds and possible tornados'” It did storm. The Seminole Heights Neighborhood Associations grouped together and had planned a candidates forum at the beautiful Garden Club in Seminole Heights. During the storm we chanced the flooded city street to get there. Sure enough all the candidates had made the venture and about another 200 residents. “This election is very important to the future of this city.” the WMNF radio station moderator told the standing room only crowd. It was a great classy forum. Thank you for the opportunity to meet so many people. I did editorial board meetings with both of Tampa big newspapers. Gasparilla had us knocking at doors throughout north Tampa by Busch Gardens. We have been averaging 400 homes a day 3 days a week on what we call our “front porch politics walk.” A special Meet & Greet at Hamburger Mary’s Sunday was presented by the Gospel Brunch. A forum of all the District 5 candidates was  filmed for Women League of Voters on CTTV, City of Tampa Television channel 615.
This week will be no different, very busy and am excited meeting everyone on the campaign trail!
 
Coming Up
 

Meet & Greet Carrie West
Grand Central at Kennedy Condos
1208 E Kennedy Blvd.,  Tuesday, Feb 8th
 from 6-9pm
hosted by Scott Sparr.
 
 Meet & Greet Carrie West 
at Gaspar’s Grotto
1805 E. 7th Ave – Ybor City  
Tuesday, Feb 15th
6-9pm  

 
 
Tampa Bay Concierges Tour Historic Ybor City
 YCDC (Ybor City Development Corp) hosted the Tampa Bay Concierge Association for a social walk through historic Ybor City. Mark & I, being a YCDC board member took part in the 80+ members walking  tour. Stops at the Ritz Ybor, Hamburger Mary’s , King Corona, Green Iguana, and the Castle. Along the way Captain Morgan appeared getting ready for the annual month long Gasparilla Festivities. A nice welcome bag was also given to each of the areas hotel directors. They are always giving positive exposure to Tampa and Ybor City, to conventioneers, businessmen and tourists needing activities to do in Tampa. They give the best advise. Visit Ybor City 

Caught at G.BAR

10 Porn Stars and they were the one not working, just dancing of the floor! Who would have ever guessed that when the porn stars told their friends that they were “going to perform in GaYBOR”  they all said “We are going too!!”

DJ Able @ The El Gancho Party

The first circuit party for GaYBOR, El Gancho live up to all expectations  & more!!! In conjunction with the Gasparilla Invasions, there were 2 huge parties one was a Fetish at the Castle & the other a Circuit Party with DJ Able. All of GaYBOR opened their arms to the over 1,000 guests.

Congratulations to Miss Gay Florida US of A 2011 Delores Van Cartier

Once again the Honey Pot in GaYBOR was the world center of fabulous drag! An evening full of beauty, talent & just a little drama.  You can just image the reaction when the crowed learned that a pre op was a post op!!! The contestant was quickly escorted out of the building!. Congratulations to Bob Taylor the event organizer, the judges & all the beautiful contestants!
 
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Miss Gay Florida USofa 2010, Amy Demilo and her successor, Bob Taylor (Center)  Delores Van Cartier…Miss Gay Florida USofA 2011
 
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Stars of the Miss Florida USofA Pageant
Photo courtesy of Bob Tayler
L to R = Kathryn Nevets, Alexis Mateo, Champagne Bordeaux, King Ken Kartanyan, Trinity Taylor, Amy Demilo, Delores Van Cartier, Dominique Sanchez, Alisa Summers, Freklz, and Jocelyn Summers