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NOW HIRING!!!
From: yana.moreland@hyatt.com
To: dishingmcfilm@aol.com
Sent: 8/6/2012 8:26:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Diversity Recruitment Notification – Hyatt Hotels of Tampa Bay

Hyatt Regency to GaYBOR Notice For Equality

Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Hyatt Regency Tampa, & Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers which do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, veteran’s status or any other group protected by law. Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Hyatt Regency Tampa, & Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. To achieve our goal of equal opportunity, Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Hyatt Regency Tampa, & Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach maintains an affirmative action plan through which it makes good faith efforts to recruit, hire and advance in employment qualified minorities, females, disabled individuals and Vietnam era and special disabled veterans. We would appreciate GayBor’s assistance in the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Hyatt Regency Tampa, & Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach’s efforts to achieve its affirmative action and equal opportunity goals.

We will email you a copy of our current employment openings listing to enable GaYBOR to better identify qualified applicants, or feel free to visit our website at WWW.HYATT.JOBS for our most current openings.

To confirm GaYBOR’s intent to abide by our policies and to refer applicants without discrimination, please sign the certification below, reproduce the signed certification and return it to Yana Moreland, Area Recruiting Manager at, yana.moreland@hyatt.com, or at 301 S. Gulf View Blvd., Clearwater, FL 33767

Very truly yours,

Maureen Lucido

EEO Coordinator

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TELEPHONE 727.348.6682

 

THE SHOWCASE REPERTORY COMPANY TO PERFORM ORIGINAL COMEDY,

“DINNER FOR SIX” – a play in two acts

On August 16-17, 2012, ShowcaseArtsFoundation, Inc. (SAFI) will present an original play, Dinner for Six, at the Stageworks Theatre in Tampa. An additional performance will be August 18, 2012 at the SAFI Theater in Clearwater, which will be a dinner show.

Cost for Stageworks performances will be $10 with show time at 8 p.m. and doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Cost for the dinner show at SAFI will be $20 advance, $25 at the door with dinner at 7 p.m. and show time at 8 p.m. (Ticket price includes dinner and one complimentary glass of wine.) For ticket information or directions visit www.ShowcaseArtsFoundation.org or call 727.348.6682. All proceeds to benefit the Showcase Arts Foundation.

Dinner for Six is written and directed by Lil Barcaski, President and Founding Member of SAFI. Lil has written several full-length and one-act plays and is a member of StageWrights, the play-writing arm of the Stage Works Theater.

Dinner for Six, the company’s first original full-length production, features veteran and newcomer actors’ Dutch Steendam
Robert King
LeAnn McDonald
Michael Cote
Cintia Alencar
Tom Fassel
Elizabeth Dow
and Rafe Banks.

As the result of too much wine at a dinner party, a group of friends decide to produce a play that two of them saw while on a trip to New York with their high school drama club twenty five years earlier. The play had a profound impact on them and in their memories was “the greatest play ever”. Once they are knee-deep in the commitment to do the play, they realize that their perceptions as teens may have been a bit off. To add even more twists, the young man they hire to fill the lead role will change their lives forever.

Dinner for Six will take you on a journey of friendships and laughter. Don’t miss this hilarious, twisted comedy that explores sexual identity and the parameters of relationships.

 

ShowcaseArtsFoundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit ensemble theater company located in Clearwater, Florida. Troupes perform throughout the Tampa Bay area. SAFI cultivates awareness of the arts in the community, including theater, dramatic and comedic improv, film, and writing.

The Showcase Arts Foundation consists of several performance troupes:

  • ● The ShowcaseRepertoryCompany performs sophisticated and experimental plays at locations throughout Tampa Bay.
  • ● TheImprov–ables are an improvisational comedy troupe.
  • ● RisqueBusiness performs murder mysteries and Vaudeville-style comic revues.
  • ● The FilmDivision creates films that are developed and produced entirely by SAFI members.

 

SAFI is always seeking new members who are excited about theater, film, and performance in general, whether as an actor or crew. Members have access to free workshops year-round and can participate in many stage and film productions.

For more information and tickets call 727.348.6682 or visit www.showcaseartsfoundation.org.

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“THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM” :: Call for submissions

TEMPUS PROJECTS invites you to submit artwork for consideration in an upcoming exhibition The Elephant in the Room to be held at Creative Loafing in Tampa, Florida during the RNC. This exhibition is scheduled to open on Friday August 24, 2012 and run through August 31, 2012. Reception time and date TBA.

 

ENTRY DETAILS

 

ELIGIBILITY – The call for submissions is open to all artists, working in any media. All forms of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, performance, video, film, audio and digital/graphic art are eligible for review. All works must be politically themed.

 

SUBMISSION FORMAT –

Email Submissions – All images should be submitted digitally to tempusprojects.art@gmail.com with a submission form. Entry fees should be sent via Pay Pal to the same email address. To ensure that your submission is sorted properly and reviewed please included “ELEPHANT / your name” in the subject line of the email. The submission deadline for images and submissions fees is: Monday August 13, 2012 6:00 PM.

 

NOTIFICATION – Artists will be notified of acceptance or decline no later than Wednesday August 15, 2012. Notification will be made via e-mail. Accepted works must be received by Monday August 20, 2012. Accepted artists will be contacted with details for art work delivery.

 

COMMISSION – There will be a 40% commission on any sales made during this exhibition or from the TEMPUS PROJECTS website.

 

ENTRY FEE – There is non-refundable $10 entry fee for three digital image files; $5 for each additional file. Submit as many works as you wish. Send your submission fee via pay-pal to tempusprojects.art@gmail.com.

 

***Please contact us at the email address above if you don’t have a paypal account and can not acquire one, for other payment options.***

 

For more information on this open call for submissions, contact Tracy Midulla Reller @ tempusprojects.art@gmail.com

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THE SECOND ANNUAL JEFF NORTON AWARDS
Monday, August 20, 2012
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From: Jerame Davis <stonewalldemocrats@stonewalldemocrats.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Subject: A Stonewall Democrat’s Perspective
To: Carrie West <MCFILMFEST@gmail.com>

Yesterday, the Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reported that the DNC Platform Drafting Committee, which included NSD founder Congressman Barney Frank, voted unaminously to approve a platform plank in support of the freedom to marry. This past weekend, during the Platform Drafting Committee’s public hearings, National Stonewall Democrats was among several organizations that offered testimony to the committee.

Aaron Zellhoefer, an LGBT delegate from Minneapolis, Minnesota, testified on behalf of NSD at the hearing. His testimony, which we’ve included below, is a powerful personal perspective that gets right to the heart of this debate. We hope you are as proud as we are to have been represented by someone with such passion and conviction.

The 2012 DNC convention is only one month away and we want to have a strong presence in Charlotte to engage the record number of LGBT delegates, like Aaron, expected to attend.

Please contribute today to our Stonewall Convention Fund and show your support.

Testimony before Democratic National Committee
Platform Drafting Committee
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 28, 2012
Aaron Zellhoefer

Good morning Mr. Chairman, Governor Strickland.

Greetings, Members of the DNC Platform Drafting Committee and fellow Democrats.

My name is Aaron Zellhoefer and I am speaking on behalf of the National Stonewall Democrats, the national voice of LGBT Democrats, the largest LGBT organization working with the Democratic Party and working to elect Democrats across the country. I bring greetings from our Executive Director, Jerame Davis, our board, and local affiliates, LGBT Democratic clubs and caucuses from every state.

As a point of personal privilege, I would like to also take this opportunity to congratulate National Stonewall Democrats founder Congressman Barney Frank on his recent marriage to his long-time partner, Jim Ready. The entire Stonewall Democrats family wishes you both the happiness and fulfillment you both deserve.

We are here today to advocate for the passage of a plank that speaks specifically to full marriage equality in the national Democratic Party’s platform.

This is the Time

Some may think that this is a leap for our Party, that the Party is not ready, or that it may be politically unwise to do this now. We say that as LGBT individuals, we are ready for marriage, and over 70% of Democrats – including President Obama – now agree. Change never comes easily, absent risk, nor when it is most convenient. Please also consider that failure to act at this moment in history may be, at best, a lost opportunity, at worst, a serious political error. The strong step on behalf of civil rights that our party took in its platform in 1948 (at the urging and leadership of Minnesota’s own Hubert H. Humphrey) was a strong statement of the ideals that our Party stands for. Just as importantly, it forged a national Democratic coalition that serves us well to this day.

President Obama made history by becoming the first sitting President of the United States of America to be outspoken in support of the freedom to marry. His leadership for our Party and our nation has forever changed the dynamic of this conversation and has created the opportunity to once again stand on the right side of history and to strengthen our diverse national coalition. Young people today, of all stripes and persuasions, are searching for the political party they’ll call home. Let’s make sure we’re speaking to their ideals of inclusion, freedom and diversity.

Upholding Marriage

Some think that we as LGBT individuals want to change the definition of the word marriage. To the contrary, we are seeking to join marriage, not change it – to affirm the ideals of strong families that are built on love, commitment, responsibility – supported by friends, family and the larger community.

When women were finally afforded the right to vote, did we have to change the word, “vote”? When our schools were desegregated, did we redefine, “school” or “education”? When we allowed openly gay people to join the army, did we have to change the word, “army?”

The freedom to marry the person you love builds families, strengthens the institution of marriage, and moves us one step closer to realizing full equality for all Americans.

State Battles this Year

In Minnesota we will be voting this November on whether we should change our state constitution to permanently limit the freedom to marry. Your leadership on supporting marriage equality right now, this year, will send a strong message and will be a huge boost in our efforts to not be 31st state to have changed their state constitution to limit marriage to only opposite sex couples. Rather, we could become the first state to vote no and reject one of these hurtful and harmful amendments. Three other states, Washington, Maine and Maryland, are also facing ballot measures in defense of the freedom to marry. Let’s all say together, “The politics of division stop here and stop now. This Party – our Party – will not stand for it.”

Love – and Practicality

I love the idea of marriage equality for just that reason…Love. To be sure there are numerous practical matters, provisions in our laws that allow us to care for and protect our families – to carry out the activities of life with some measure of dignity and confidence. In the state of Minnesota alone, there are at least 515 laws to which committed LGBT couples have no access. An examination conducted by the GAO in the aftermath of the passage of DOMA revealed over 1,100 federal rights and protections from which gay couples are barred. These range from areas that affect our lives as fundamental and far ranging as end of life issues, health care, health crises, credit, taxes, inheritance, legal relationships, public services, raising children, property ownership, and so on.

Dreams and Aspirations

On April 20th of this year, I celebrated my 10th anniversary with the man I love, my partner Kevin. The next day, I was elected and given the honor to represent Minnesota as a national delegate to the Democratic National Convention this September in Charlotte. To say the least, it was an exciting and momentous weekend. As I was running to be a national delegate I promised to work hard to see our Party pass a plank in our platform to include marriage equality.

It is important for me to tell you how much this means to me on a personal level. My brother Adam is getting married to the woman he loves in September. It is very exciting and heartwarming to watch him planning for that day, but I’ll confess that I’m also a little envious. I can’t wait for the day that I can have the same opportunity. I can’t wait until the day that I’m able to get down on one knee, and not say, “Will you civil union me?” or “Will you domestic partnership me?” Rather I can’t wait until the day, where I’m able to go out for a romantic dinner, followed by a walk by one of Minneapolis’ beautiful lakes, with the stars twinkling above. I’m guessing that I will have butterflies in my stomach — that exhilarating feeling so hard to describe, and be able to get down on one knee and ask, “will you marry me?” – with the full knowledge of what that means – that we’ll be actually getting married in every sense of what that word means.

I can’t wait to call my mom and dad and tell them the good legal news. I can’t wait to call my brother and ask him to be my best man. I can’t wait to call my best friend Brian and tell him the good news. And I can’t wait for that special day that we all dream about for years. With all of our family and friends, Kevin and I will able to say, “I do,” to marriage.

Today, I ask you to say, “I do.” National Stonewall Democrats asks our fellow party members, to say, “I do,” — not to change marriage, but rather to include LGBT individuals in the full light of equal rights with the understanding that our right and freedom to marry the person we love builds lives of dignity and vitality.

I ask you to say, “I do,” to making my dreams – and the dreams of millions of gay and lesbian Americans – become reality.

Thank you for your time.

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Dishing with Mark & Carrie 7/30/2012

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Disappointed in FL Gov. Rick Scott
    Watching the 2012 Summer Olympics in London we were reminded how very disappointed we are in our sitting governor. An NBC Television commentator from the downtown Olympic Park was talking about a participating Olympic stadium event location located 128 miles from London. He said, “It’s just a quick short ride away by the high speed train.” Just a sore reminder of how Gov. Rick Scott gave away our next generation bullet train between Tampa & Orlando on the I-4 corridor. The governor should have been thinking of the needed Florida jobs- then and still, future economic growth, environmental safety, air pollution implementations and the future trending to all America with the new high speed train technology.
    Tourism is the #1 business in Florida! How could he just give away the Florida High Speed train? Several years ago Tampa & Central Florida were considered as a location for the International Olympics. Many facilities are already in place here in Tampa, St. Pete, Lakeland & Orlando. Public stadiums, College facilities & Hotels are all here now.The Olympic Village was to replace the old run down projects near downtown Tampa. The good news is that the projects were torn down to make way for the new Encore Re-development Project. Due to the depression only one building has been built there and that one is a public housing unit.
    We hope our next Governor will get it right and put us back in the running again. Central Florida hosts to the 2020’s Summer Olympics?
RNC Preparations in GaYBOR/Ybor City
What do you notice in this photo?
    GaYBOR/Ybor City have been very busy preparing for the GOP National Republican Convention. Tampa’s biggest convention ever is only 3 weeks away. With the #1 industry in Florida being the Touristism Industry, it looks like GaYBOR/Ybor City will be Switzerland during the convention to visiting delegates and protesters. Many preparations are going on to insure that both sides have the time of their lives in GaYBOR/Ybor City.
    The cell phone companies are upgrading and increasing high tech services here. Since we are a national historic district this can present problems. Take a closer look at the Centro Ybor Sign. There are new black cell phone towers attached to the signs poles. On top of the garage there are new cell phones towers attached to the light poles. There are even some hid on top of the Hampton Inn. Security will make GaYBOR/Ybor City one of the safest places in town. There have even been air quality monitors installed on 7th ave.
    The huge grassy lots between 15 &17 just south of the interstate will be parking for charter buses & VIP limos. This past weekend you might have noticed the huge police present here. Some of the 1000’s of out of the area police officers are getting acquainted with Tampa and our historic district. Many sheriff & police dept. officers and their horses are seen training here now. This is going to be party Tampa will remember for a life time! Be sure to plan on a trip here during the convention.
A lesson for our Community.
    This week there was quite the unintentional scare to our LGBT family. Thankfully this story has a good ending. A popular bartender told his friends we was going to Orlando and left at 9pm Tuesday. About 1 AM Wed he called and said he was on his way home back to Tampa. When he wasn’t back the next day his roommate & friends started to get concerned. Everybody said this was not like this person. Not to show up for his day job, to feed his beloved best pal dog & to have his always on the cell phone turned off.
At midnight that day everybody was super concerned. After midnight a missing person report was filed. By 8 am Thursday there was a huge cry for help on facebook.
    Our community came together quickly as a family looking and giving any information about this person. Thursday afternoon he walked in to his apartment. We can only imagine what it must be like for a parent to have a child go missing. It has to be 100 times worse than this. With that all said, This is 2012!!!
    With all the crazies out in the world there is NO REASON not to call and tell your friends or family where you  Remember 2000 with the Tampa murders by Steve Lorenzo and 4 missing guys killed in Tampa? We are very proud of our LGBT family.
People Are Talking
    We are proud of our local neighbors and one especially. This past weekend Laughing Cat Restaurant owner, Franco came running over to tell us his 7 year old daughter Christina had beaten the computer at professional level Chess. Not once but 3 out of the 4 games! We have a prodigy amongst us!  Congratulations to the downtown Floridan Hotel. After years of being closed up for a decade and many years of $$$millions of dollars in renovation the hotel is a Tampa gem again! Bradley Nelson from Bradley’s on 7th is celebrating a big birthday August 13th! Happy Birthday Brad.
    There is a new county/city proposal for the demolition and of building a new Robert W. Saunders, Sr Public Library on Nebraska Ave. It will be in partnership with a new African American Cultural Center at the same location. The new building from the architects has a lot of Ybor City historical flavor & decor added on the new designed brick building. The local artist stone mural by Joe Testa Secca entitled “Symbols of Mankind” on the front of the existing building will be taken down, saved and put on the new 2 story library outside entry. There will be a continued covered walkway between the new library and Booker T. Washington Elementary School next door.
    Wow a new Hot Dog wagon has appeared in Ybor City, CJ’s Weiner & Nuts. A lot of work is being done at the old Opa Taverna on 7th Ave. More restaurants are appearing in the historic district. The 2012 RNC has a lot of open venues and closed. Party and headquarters are all over Tampa and GaYBOR/ Ybor City including Fox News headquartered at Tampa Bay History Museum, AOL at the Cuban Club in Ybor. Confidentiality agreements at know  great known venues including Italian Club, Honey Pot, Tampa Theatre, Hamburger Mary’s and Carne Chop House! Be on the lookout for Republican Presidential VP hopefuls running around Tampa!
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Johnny Apple Seed Gay Activism
    For years we have been leaving GLBT magazines out in the public. Places like the DMV, doctors offices, meetings, restaurants almost anywhere in public. It used to be magazines like The Gazette, Stonewall, Encounter & TLW. Now days it’s the Watermark & HOTspots magazines. You can just imagine who will find the magazine. Planting seeds of knowledge one magazine at a time. Recently we went to a seminary at the Stetson Law Collage. The lecture room was large and set up like a court room. It got us thinking about our friend Tom Dyer, who is a lawyer and owner of Watermark Magazine. As we were leaving we put a copy of Watermark on our chair & slide it back in. With a big smile on our faces we said this apple seed is for Tom! We thought, wonder what law student will find it & how it might help.
FETISH CON 2012
The Kinkiest Straight event we have ever been to!!! This is the 12th Annual Fetish Con. The group will take over the Tampa Hyatt Hotel Downtown. There are many events planned including a trade show, Aug 2-5 www.fetishcon.com If you do not have tickets just go to the Hyatt Lobby Bar and take it all in!!!  Every fetish imaginable is here!!! In GaYBOR stop by MC Film and check out the new line of “Mr. Leather.” Faith Michael will be performing at Liquid Tampa. Check out this Fetish video shot in the dungeon at the Castle in Ybor City. HOT HOT HOT!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7GWh7ShoxE&feature=relmfu

You Can Not make This Stuff Up!!

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Hotel History Re- Approached
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    This week after several years of massive renovations the newly named Floridan Palace Hotel is re opening in downtown Tampa. It has been restored meticulously to the great grandeur of yesteryear. It is even taking back the post office space and have returned the large beautiful convention center. Originally built in 1927 at a whopping cost of $1.9 million. At one time the hotel with 19 floors was the tallest building in Florida. It stayed the tallest structure in Tampa until 1966 when the Franklin Exchange Building was completed. It was honored to be guest home quarters to movie stars including Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez and an overnight to singing sensation king, Elvis Presley. Also mobsters, judges and regional political figures did business at the famed hotel. The open 3 story dining room was a place to be seen! Politics, legislation and business ideas had a lot of creation and beginnings in this historic hotel gem.
    The Official VIP Party was Saturday night. Lights on the outside upper floors highlighted the Tampa skyline. Classic 1920 cars were adorned around the hotel. The street all blocked off. The big tall 1 story red neon lettered rooftop sign, Floridan Hotel was shining bright in the clear sky all over and above the city lights. Monday, July 30 will be the first night open to over night guests. Congratulations to hotelier and investor Antonios Markopoulos for a super 7 year renovation undertaking to the National Register of Historic Buildings designated Tampa footprint.
    Our first time in the old run down hotel was in early 1980’s. Our friend Jack was staying there as it was a rooming house then. His room was on the 7th floor. Jack S. insisted we go with him to see the view of Tampa from up there. We had just moved here from Minneapolis, MN where we were used to old tall buildings and sky scrapers. This was one of the scariest elevators we had ever been in. It squeaked, squawked and shook all the way up & down. It even missed the floor landing by a foot plus! Some of the residents in the hallways were even scarier!
    Then in 2005 our friend and realtor, Manny Alvarez had keys & took us inside. We unscrewed the outside containing entry boards to enter. At this time the building had been condemned. Hopes were in talks to have a gay investment group buy the building, renovate and open as a gay hotel. The city was taking offers of its sale. It was like a over done scene from a horror movie. The elevator shafts were open with no cars. The smell was very musty and the walls were moldy & somewhat wet. There was at least a half foot of dirt and bird droppings, woven cob webs & trash everywhere with birds flying above. Most of the windows were in tack and original. The carved worn marble floors still glistened when brushed with our feet. Then we looked up in the lobby to the old restaurant space and there were the beautiful crystal chandeliers in place and covered in dust far away from the reach of vandals or building thieves.
    In 1986 Dr Walt Banks, a local gay doctor & founding member of the MCC Tampa Church here, told us a chilling legend story about the hotel. In the 1950’s there was an annual secret Good Friday Easter Party in the Floridan penthouse. The party was of gay men from MacDill Air Force base and local businessmen. In those days gay was considered a mental illness and an undisputed military court marshal offense. The Tampa police & MP’s heard of the party & decided to raid it. Blocking all the stairwells, elevators & doors. They knocked on the door and rammed it open. You can just imagine what went thru the terrified guests inside the party. 2 of the men was said to instead of facing the police & court marshal jumped out the window & to their deaths. This day became known as “Black Friday” in the Tampa GLBT community.
    Most recently as a member of the Barrio Latino Commission we were given a VIP still in renovation tour of the madam building. Large steel girders open in the center of the building going from the ground level to the top of the building. Rooms in the transition state with state of the art large 3 room bedroom suites almost completed on the top floors. Another great historic Tampa building coming to life again!

Featured GaYBOR Member of the Week

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Patrick Hanley
Chief at Beaune’s Wine Bar / West Palm Wines
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Patrick is a familiar face here in GaYBOR/Ybor City. The first thing Patrick did when he joined the team at Beaune’s Wine Bar / West Palm Wines was to suggest they join GaYBOR right away! Many members have been stopping by & falling in love with the fantastic food & great wines here. FYI Did you know Beaune’s is located in the fastest growing new Gay Neighborhood in Tampa Bay???