Celebrating Stonewall 50 and WorldPride!

This Sunday June 30,2019 is NYC PRIDE and the 5oth Anniversary of Stonewall. For the 1^st time ever NYC will also be hosting WORLD PRIDE! Estimates of the crowd started at 4 million and now are over 7+. There is a very large group going from Tampa. Look for TAMPA PRIDE in the Parade space #11. If you are in NYC on Sunday you are welcome to walk with Tampa PRIDE.

https://youtu.be/SIJHExXrNV8

June 22, 1969 Judy Garland Died

Judy Garland, the gay icon once called the ‘The Elvis of Homosexuals’, died on June 22 in 1969. Gay mythology long connected her funeral with the Stonewall riots and therefore the birth of the Pride movement. QN Magazine wrote a must read about Judy.

https://qnews.com.au/friends-of-dorothy-judy-garland-died-50-years-ago-today-qn-magazine/

Friends of Dorothy

The Rainbow Flag

The most lasting symbol of the LGBTIQ communities, the Rainbow Flag, was perhaps partly inspired by Garland’s most famous song.

Over the Rainbow speaks to anyone whoever wanted to escape prejudice and persecution with its promise of a place of freedom and happiness.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true

https://youtu.be/4wkSBZb2aoI

Teck Data St. Pete Pride Parade

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St Pete Pride Festival

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Online Auction

NOT YOUR ORDINARY AUCTION!!! For 28 years we lived in our former home. When moving time came, we took what we truly enjoyed and left everything else. 100’s of you came to our estate sale and we thank you.  The stories we have heard about the sale have had us rolling with laughter. There still was a huge number of things left over so we decided to hire MAXSOLD.com and do an online auction. Racks of costumes, New jewelry, 1,000’s of movie posters, historic pool table, hot tub and the list goes on and on.  The auction goes until July 4,2019 7:30PM Please take a look at the items and I not for you tell a friend.

https://maxsold.maxsold.com/auction/tampa-florida-usa-downsizing-online-auction-w-north-a-street-16709/bidgallery/

7^th Ave Bricks

There is talk about rebricking 7^th Ave in Ybor City. The problem is the bricks were given away in the 1960s.  We actually have some of these bricks in our gardens. Read the interesting story by Paul Guzzo Tampa Bay Times

http://www.tampabay.com/tampa/tampa-is-interested-in-re-bricking-seventh-avenue-but-they-cant-find-the-bricks-20190625/?fbclid=IwAR3-2W200BBxq4ygwgIehM_xzIAjJ8XmqNCPFcqX9mX5o_pZ67-r1834C_4

Seventh Avenue in 1965 after the city removed the bricks. Notice Bradley’s on 7^th and The Honey Pot in this photo. [Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center]

Ybor City Cinderella

https://www.facebook.com/events/394331031176462/