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Caught @ Steam Fridays
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Photos of the Week
GaYBOR Bar Crawl
Santa Pub Crawl
Piano’s of Ybor @ MC Film
St. Pete Friends
Toys for Tots – Marines Hats in Window
Caught @ Carne’s
News Announcers @ MC Film
Party Limo @ Liquid Lounge
New York New York Pizza
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with Saint Tea Cup
Snowbirds Lady Nancy & Miss Rodger are Back!
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TAMPA PRIDE
March 28,2015
In the Heart of The GaYBOR District
in Historic Ybor City
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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 12-11-14
Annual GaYBOR Holiday Party
The 8th Annual GaYBOR Holiday Storefront Contest and Holiday Party is this Friday, December 12 at the Honey Pot on 7th Ave.
Everyone is invited and to see which store in Ybor City captures the bragging rights to the best Holiday Decorated Business.
Four categories and not all Holiday Awards are for business. The categories are: Best Decorated Retail Store, Best Bar/ Club, Best Decorated Office bldg and lastly the Best Decorated Residence in Ybor City.
All area businesses are invited and Everyone is welcome to attend the 7pm til ?? Holiday Party. FREE Appetizers by area restaurants, FREE Entertainment by many of the clubs performers in and out of drag, and FREE Holiday Cheer and networking from GaYBOR District members, a well deserved working Historic Ybor City organization.
SANTA Speedo Run (& Mrs Claus In Bras)
The 5th Annual Santa Speedo Run takes place this Sunday starting in Centennial Park in Ybor City. In addition to the men’s run is a Mrs Claus In Bras!
MC FILM being an Official Sponsor and your Red Speedo Headquarters for a full variety of fun Red running attire.
1pm registration and the 1 Mile Charity Benefit Run begins at 2 pm.
The annual event is sponsored by ASAP.
Santa to Appear in Ybor City Holiday Spirit Parade
The streets of Historic GaYBOR/ Ybor City will again be filled with snow & sleighs on Saturday Night for the Ybor City Holiday Spirit’s Snow on 7th Parade. This year beside planning for a heavy snow storm on 7th Ave, live reindeer will be on 16th St. along with 15 area high school bands performing and waking up the business district.
Don’t forget to get your pictures in Centro Ybor’s tall 34′ Christmas Tree.
Live Entertainment will begin performing at 5 pm on 7th Ave. Come early and find your special holiday gift at the many GaYBOR District stores and restaurants.
Hamburger Mary’s Turn-A-Bout
Hamburger Mary’s Ybor Annual Turn-a-bout Night had reversal clothing changes that were remarkable and some remarkably funny. From Management to servers to kitchen staff all went way out for this years charitable event.
The charity contributions will all go to the U.S. Marine Corp. TOYS For Tots. Hoping to beat last years $7500 donation, the whole crew did another fantastic job in entertaining all the crowd.
More charitable events all holiday season at Hamburger Mary’s, so stop on by!
Tampa Pride Benefit at Liquid
Tampa Pride Benefit at Liquid
Saturday night a benefit for TAMPA PRIDE was held at Liquid Tampa. The bar was packed with high enthusiasm. The bartenders wer full of graces. Mama, Chris Myers and CJ.
Thank You for the kind donation to TAMPA PRIDE.
Congratulation to the Crowbar on 8 Year Anniversary
Bear Night Saturday at Social
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Ralph Disney – VJ/DJ Disney
On of our naughtiest nephews!!! Disney has been spinning in all our favorite clubs. When not spinning at Hamburger mary’s in GaYBOR , Disney can be found under the I-275 overpass at Busch Blvd!
You Can Not Make this Up
In every old neighborhood in Florida there is an old big house that has been converted into a funeral home. In our neighborhood there was one of these funeral homes. It was located on Fremont Street next to the old interstate. One Halloween back on the mid 1980’s the local West Tampa Chamber of Commerce asked if they could borrow a casket from a funeral parlor for their planned Halloween Haunted House.
The funeral director gave them an old casket that had been in the garage rafters for many years. When the volunteers opened the casket there was a mumified body inside! After more investigation there were several other corpses found in this funeral parlor garage! Needless to say the funeral parlor closed. Many state investigations took place and was front page news.
It was later then remodeled and re opened as a controversial group home with taxpayers monies. Then when the interstate I-275 was expanded it was torn down.
WOW just think of stories those walls could tell!
From the MC Film Mail Bag
Grand Opening of Area’s First LGBT Welcome Center
(St. Petersburg, FL) December 10, 2014 – Tampa Bay’s LGBT Welcome Center will celebrate its Grand Opening Reception on Friday, December 12, 2014. After being moved a block down Central Avenue and undergoing a year’s worth of renovations, the historic Grand Central District bungalow is ready to serve the LGBT community living in and visiting Tampa Bay. The Welcome Center is located at 2227 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, FL 33713.
The Grand Opening Reception will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6:15pm featuring Lorraine Langlois, CEO of Metro Wellness & Community Centers – Tampa Bay’s LGBT Community Center, of which the LGBT Welcome Center is a project – along with St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman and community leader Brian Longstreth, who helped bring the project to fruition.
The general public is invited to attend the celebratory reception starting at 6:00pm, which follows the VIP reception hour for donors of the project at 5:00pm. Tampa Bay’s “Best Cabaret Act” (Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay), Scott Daniel and Matthew McGee of The Scott and Patti Show will host the event. The Welcome Center is the second of its kind in Florida, providing an inviting community space for residents and visitors to participate in enriching programs and events, get connected to area things to do and places to stay, and enjoy local Kawha coffee in a safe and inviting space. The Welcome Center also houses office space for the Grand Central District Association.
Metro Wellness and Community Centers currently has offices and LGBT Community Centers in St. Petersburg (3251 3rd Avenue North), Ybor City and New Port Richey in addition to its Thrift & Gift retail store on Central Avenue, located right next to the Welcome Center. Metro has been providing premier HIV services, social networking and other health and wellness programs for over 21 years to the four-county area of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando.
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Media Contact:
Chris Rudisill
Director of LGBT Community Center Services
727-321-3854 ext 238
ChrisR@metrotampabay.org
www.LGBTwelcomecenter.com
www.metrotampabay.org
The Grand Opening Reception will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6:15pm featuring Lorraine Langlois, CEO of Metro Wellness & Community Centers – Tampa Bay’s LGBT Community Center, of which the LGBT Welcome Center is a project – along with St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman and community leader Brian Longstreth, who helped bring the project to fruition.
The general public is invited to attend the celebratory reception starting at 6:00pm, which follows the VIP reception hour for donors of the project at 5:00pm. Tampa Bay’s “Best Cabaret Act” (Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay), Scott Daniel and Matthew McGee of The Scott and Patti Show will host the event. The Welcome Center is the second of its kind in Florida, providing an inviting community space for residents and visitors to participate in enriching programs and events, get connected to area things to do and places to stay, and enjoy local Kawha coffee in a safe and inviting space. The Welcome Center also houses office space for the Grand Central District Association.
Metro Wellness and Community Centers currently has offices and LGBT Community Centers in St. Petersburg (3251 3rd Avenue North), Ybor City and New Port Richey in addition to its Thrift & Gift retail store on Central Avenue, located right next to the Welcome Center. Metro has been providing premier HIV services, social networking and other health and wellness programs for over 21 years to the four-county area of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando.
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Media Contact:
Chris Rudisill
Director of LGBT Community Center Services
727-321-3854 ext 238
ChrisR@metrotampabay.org
www.LGBTwelcomecenter.com
www.metrotampabay.org
