This Saturday Tropical Heatwave…. Dishing with Mark n Carrie

Posted on April 23, 2026 by admin

Tropical Heatwave

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Ink Mania Expo Fl State Fair Grounds

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BINGO – GaYBOR District Coalition

Benefit Drag Show for KORI STEVENS

CONGRATULATIONS to the GaYbor District Annual Spring Bonnet Craw!!!

WorldPride Amsterdam will take place from 25 July to 8 August 2026!

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NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Sip-In at Julius’ Bar Building, one of the most significant sites in New York City’s LGBTQ+ history and an individual landmark, at 155–159 W. 10th St.

Located in the Greenwich Village Historic District, the building was the site of the pivotal 1966 demonstration when activists protested the closure of bars by city and state authorities simply for serving gay patrons. The protest, known as the “Sip-In,” became a defining event in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

LPC designated Julius’ Bar Building as an individual landmark in 2022, and today the site is recognized as an important monument to pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+ rights activism.

Learn more here: https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2663.pdf

Coachella

From Gay News https://www.facebook.com/joshhelfgott1

BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 Coachella just SOLD OUT its queer fans to MAGA Republicans for $850,000 — and I have the RECEIPTS.

While tens of thousands of queer fans were dancing at Coachella this weekend — wearing rainbows, dancing to queer artists, and trying not to faint when Madonna showed up — Coachella’s billionaire owner Philip Anschutz was writing six-figure checks to anti-LGBTQ politicians and hate groups.

Here’s EXACTLY where your ticket money went:

💸 $250,000 to the Super PAC keeping Republicans in Senate control while they push dozens of anti-LGBTQ clauses into federal spending bills as I type this.

💸 $125,000 to the Republican Governors Association whose governors signed a record number of anti-trans laws last year and are blocking trans healthcare access for kids AND adults across the country.

💸 $100,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association — the same group that SUED to strip LGBTQ+ student protections in schools, threatened Target for selling Pride merchandise, and helped install Pam Bondi, who spent her entire career as AG waging open war on trans people.

That’s NOT a coincidence.

In 2017, reporting EXPOSED Philip Anschutz’s foundation had donated to the vile ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’ — the group that has literally compared being LGBTQ to Incest — and the Family Research Council, a federally designated hate group. His response? He called it “fake news.” He said he stopped.

He DID NOT stop. He just got quieter about it. Now the checks are even bigger.

Here’s what makes this especially infuriating: the artists on those stages are fighting back!!!

Sabrina Carpenter — the HEADLINER — donates $1 per ticket to the Transgender Law Center and called Trump’s use of her music in ICE arrest videos “evil and disgusting.” Karol G spoke out about her Latino community being terrorized. These artists are doing the right thing. Then the profits go upstairs to a man who funds the machine terrorizing those same communities.

This is where the money goes. EVERY. YEAR.

I’m not here to shame anyone who went. Joy is resistance. Community matters. But we deserve to make decisions with our eyes open not under a fog of marketing designed to make us feel safe while the owner bankrolls our oppression.

So what do we do? We make it expensive to play both sides. We track the donations. We name the donors. We pressure the artists and sponsors to demand accountability. We make “Coachella” synonymous with corporate betrayal until Anschutz stops writing homophobic checks or stops pretending his festival is a “safe space” for us.

Thank you so much for being here with me.

If you appreciate Gay News, it would mean the world if you followed my page.

Who Else has been on the Tampa Submarine?

Top photo with the submarine along the riverfront in the 1980’s and today’s River Walk bottom photo. https://www.facebook.com/groups/561197530659297/

Bradley’s on 7^th

Utopia Road bar & Courtyard

The Disco Pony Nightclub

Showbar 4-19-26

Posted on April 20, 2026 by admin

Disco Pony Nightclub

Posted on April 20, 2026 by admin

Bradley’s on 7th

Posted on April 20, 2026 by admin

Utopia Road bar & Courtyard

Posted on April 20, 2026 by admin

DIVERSITY Makes for a Great Community … Dishing with Mark n Carrie

Posted on April 16, 2026 by admin

DIVERSITY Makes for a Great Community

Reason 101 Why we love living in Ybor City. DIVERSITY!!!!

There is so much fun diversity in Ybor City and area. One of our favorites is the Metro Meat Market. Once you enter, you immediately feel like you are visiting a friendly different country. The produce here is local, fresh and full of flavor. The meat department is incredible. Reasonably priced, helpful people and old-world charm. In the back is a cafeteria style, deli and hot food to go counter. Our favorite thing here is the bang bang shrimp!!! One meal is enough for 2 people to share. Walking to the front… stop and pick up something new to try for a drink. This family-owned store has been here for over 50+years. Located at 5028 E 10th Ave, in the mall north of 7^th ave on 50^th street.

https://metromeattampa.com/ https://www.facebook.com/metromeatdeli

What do you love about Ybor City?

MUST DO EVENTS THIS SUNday FUNday in Ybor City

VICTORY

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Good Bye Toyota

The Skittle Squad Podcast

Bradly Nelson the owner of Bradley’s on 7^th

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Who Else remembers 25 cent drinks?

Fun Ybor History by Martha Holmes – Tampa History

Frank Napoli owned the house at 2513 15th Avenue in Ybor City. Next to the house was a garage with a vault or cellar under the floor. The vault was ten to twelve feet deep, and hidden by a three foot trap door. He had the vault constructed when the house was built, for an unknown reason. He rented the garage to a young man named Nick Midulla, to keep his car.

On June 19, 1931, after 9:00 p.m, Mrs. Napoli was home alone, and heard Nick coming into the garage. She went out to check on him, and saw a light from inside the trap door. Upon looking inside, she saw Nick and two others lying in a heap, surrounded by sacks of liquor, and struggling to breathe. She yelled for help and many neighbors responded. Three of them managed with great difficulty and great risk to themselves, to pull the three men out of the vault and lay them on the driveway, still alive. They were taken to Centro Asturiano Hospital, where they died shortly after or on the way.

The victims were Paul Antinori, age 18; Vicenzo (Jimmy) Valenti, age 26; and Nick Midulla, age 28.

800 sacks of imported liquors were removed by jail trusties. An original theory of the police was that the three were murdered in a liquor war. A coroner’s jury was impaneled to determine the cause of death. Judge Parkhill and the six jury members went to the scene, and walked down the step ladder into the vault, where fumes still remained.

At least two physicians stated the cause of death was asphyxiation by marsh gas arising from the vault. The process could have been started by the decomposition of straw near the bottles. The coroner’s jury ruled accordingly. Midulla was likely the owner of the liquor. Friends said that the three went to obtain the liquor for a party that night. Complete details leading up to the incident remained a mystery.

Thousands of people attended the funeral ceremonies for the three victims, who were buried in L’Unione Italia Cemetery.

A cow is standing next to the garage. ©

Thank You Martha Holmes

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Tampa History

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City of Tampa first annual Earth Fair THIS SUNDAY, April 19!