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 Tribeca Color Salon
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Ybor Museum
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Caught @ GaYBOR/Ybor City
TAMPA PRIDE
March 28,2015
In the Heart of The GaYBOR District
in Historic Ybor City
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Needed: Volunteers, Creative Minds, Donations
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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 12-3-14
Saturday Night Must Do Event
TAMPA PRIDE Meeting
TAMPA PRIDE’s next meeting is Tuesday, December 9 at 6pm at Hampton Inn & Suites.
Come out to Volunteer & Support TAMPA PRIDE being held March 28th, 2015!
WOW This Sunday
2 Fun bar Crawls & Turn-a-bout at Hamburger Mary’s in GaYBOR
HOLIDAY TREE SALE at MC FILM
We have a Great SALE for you on Holiday Trees. All Gold, Silver & Rainbow Holiday Tress.
We also have the new 2014 Mermen Ornaments, COLT Men’s Calendars, and Holiday Scented Handmade Glycerin Soaps for Gift giving or for yourself.
Pistol Pete, Xuba, Unico
Tampa Ranks #10 in Most Beautiful People in America
In a recent Huffington Post article they give credit for Tamp’s most beautiful people in part to Hamburger Mary’s GaYBOR! below is the article & link….
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-and-least-attractive-people/11
Most Attractive No. 10 Tampa, FL
These Floridians may have struck readers as a little vain: they placed in the top 10 for being both pretty and snobby. And like their fellow foxes in Miami, Tampa locals enjoy a good platform for their looks at the high-ranking nightclubs. But the party scene definitely runs along a wide spectrum here: you can choose from the chic rooftop EDGEat The Epicurean Hotel or the more raucous, swimsuits-and-volleyball Hogan’s Beach, owned by Hulk Hogan himself. Tampa also scored well for its burgers: you can see the local drag queen beauties at kitschy favoriteHamburger Mary’s in the historic Ybor City neighborhood.
Santa Speedo Run
The 5th Annual Santa Speedo Run & Mrs Claus in Bras which is a benefit run for ASAP is set for Sunday, Dec 14th. Hundreds of your friends and neighbors will be wearing so little to bennefit so much!
The action starts in Centennial Park in GaYBOR/ Ybor City at 1 pm. The run starts at 2 pm.
Registration is $35.00 Speedos on Sale AT MC FILM
Tampa’s Memorial Aids Park, Open or Transition?
We wanted to the Memorialize on Monday, Dec 1st, friends that had past from AIDS on World AIDS Day. One of the sacred places that holds great community memories, the small but visible AIDS Memorial Park on Tampa’s Bayshore Blvd. We had thought that is would be re-opened by now! When will it open?
It is still in a ‘Temporarily Closed’ state for final construction staging and parking for the new condo community complex being built on the corner of Platt Street & Bayshore Blvd.
The park is very representative of a past dark era of suffering disease and death in the Tampa Bay Gay community. Thousands of our friends and family died of this mysterious disease. At the time the local GLBT newspaper, Gazette offered free listing of friends and family that past from AIDS.
World AIDS Day is a time to remember our friends but also a positive reminder that a cure is just around the corner. Memories are what keeps us aware of the travesty. Money donated is a way to funding research for the ending of AIDS disease. Also a reminder to so many of us that HIV/AIDS is not a final death warrant! Major concerts and events happened around the world and occurred this week in keeping AIDS awareness.
The Tampa AIDS Memorial Park opened in 2005. At that time there was controversy in Tampa City Council of having a dedicated city park named for a killing & deadly disease. The park was past.Small as we have said and visible to Tampa Bay. Benches were to be erected but the walls were for sitting. The planned dozen landscaped trees were there for the sheer beauty of nature. The stone pavement sections took in the resemblance of the famous traveling AIDS Quilts with small paver patterns mixed with large pavers across the country. Subtly quiet but persevering.
The uprooting of new construction 3 years ago had us in an alarm of disarray if the park was going to be demolished, permanently deleted or relocated from the South Tampa Bayshore location. We were told back at that time that it would be a temporary parking and staging area for the construction parking going on. To many it was like a dagger going into your body.
We were told from city officials back in 2011 that after the construction of the new construction on the Bayshore Condos, that the Memorial Aids Park would be redesigned, landscaped and re-opened. Money was set aside by Crescent Community in providing the improved redesign and shady tree landscape.
Well, we all are hoping to see the newly designed park come back soon! A re-dedication of the community Memorial AIDS Park to remember and memorialize the friends that lost their battler with AIDS should be happening.
Your Thoughts???
This is on the City of Tampa’s website about the Tampa Aids Memorial Park.
CITY OF TAMPA WEBSITE :
AIDS Memorial Park is located on the southwest corner of Bayshore Boulevard and Hyde Park Place. The park serves as a memorial to those lost to AIDS, a place of solace for those living with or affected by the disease, and an inspiration for those continuing to work for progress against HIV/AIDS. There is a circular plaza providing views of the water and a contemplative garden area with custom-colored concrete pavers laid out in a pattern reminiscent of the Aids Quilt.
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Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Jeremy Fetters
We have had the pleasure of knowing Jeremy since the Suncoast Resort days. Back then he would sneak into the resort often in the trunk of cars! LOL .
It is very hard to get a photo of Jeremy by himself because everybody so loves and wants to party with him. Today you will find him at George’s Alibi bartending with our 1st Nephew of the week, Keith on a bar stool across from him.
You Can Not Make this Up
One very busy fall Sunday afternoon on the balcony in walked a group of 10 people all dressed in fantastic Goth. It turned out that they were the big group that had performed the night before at the Castle. As things started to quiet down I was talking with the group. One lady told me that her Great-Grandfather has killed in Ybor City by 2 lesbian prostitutes. The one put her spiked high heal in his head. OMG I replied! I had heard about the working girls and their ghosts are still here.
I point to the balcony across the street then told them this story. The gangster, Charlie Wall had owned the building. There was a speakeasy on the 1st floor and working girls up stairs. The legend is that when Charlie Wall was forced to close, the 2 lesbian lovers & call girls committed suicide in the bath tub on the 2nd floor.
Today everybody that has ever lived in this apartment say… At night they hear 2 pairs of high heel walking down the hall, then thumps on the carpet, followed by click in the bathroom. Then they hear water drops. The Goth group were very impressed by the story. Shortly after they left there they all were on the balcony across the street. The lady came back and thanked me.
