Photos of the Week
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Caught @ Steam Fridays
Caught @ G.BAR
Caught @ Bradley’s on 7th
WELCOME!!!
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn
Caught @ Hamburger Mary’s
Caught @ MC Film
Happy St. Pete PRIDE
Photos of the Week
WELCOME!!!
Happy St. Pete PRIDE
WELCOME!!!
Happy St. Pete PRIDE
Dishing with Mark & Carrie 7-2-13
Happy 4th of July
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THANK YOU Tampa Bay!!!
It was with a great honor to have been selected as Grand Marshals at last weekends St Pete Pride Parade Carnival.
We just want to shout out a very heartfelt, ‘THANK YOU Tampa Bay!!!’ for making us your choice in Florida’s Largest Gay Pride event and highly honored, St Pete PRIDE celebration this year a most humbling and memorable day for us.
Thank You…
Mark Bias and Carrie West
MC FILM
Thank You Bill & Steve @ Promo Printing for the Wonderful signs.
Thank You Daddy Eric Siglin for sharing your new classic Mercedes Benz with us!!!
Thank You Judy B. Goode, JB, John, Cookie & hundreds of Fans for the street signs.
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Mayor Buckhorn’s Immediate Dream
What an exciting week and time for the GLBT community and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. First, at the Annual GaYBOR Mayor’s Luncheon last Thursday, he was honored by GaYBOR District Coalition with a standing ovation. He was given the GaYBOR Award for the positive GLBT contributions he has asserted and proclaimed in our local community.
The well attended event had the mayor speaking of the diversity Tampa has had and still instills in all the citizens. “It was just one of many things the world noticed at last years RNC National Convention in Tampa.”
Then added, “Wouldn’t a new baseball stadium do wonderous things to our Tampa’s downtown?” as he grinned! One thing about our boisterous mayor he knows how to throw out some high eye brow zingers!
The revitalization of the Hillsborough River as the center of Tampa activity and not a barrier to Tampa’s new growth was echoed throughout the mayors speech. He consistently talked of Tampa’s national spotlight and development and trying to live by the old 1980’s nationwide slogan,‘Tampa: America’s Next Great City.’
He recognized the hard work and positive direction GaYBOR District has on Tampa’s economy. Helping make recent changes by the Hillsborough County Commissioners to the 8 year old county’s gay pride ban. About Tampa’s long record for accepting and showing diversity for new businesses looking to relocate or add a satellite site to the area. Lastly, an appreciative Thank You for working as a team player to the GaYBOR District Coalition!
Our labeling of Mayor Buckhorn as, “Tampa Bay’s Mayor” furthered his exposure to the Tampa Bay GLBTA community as being the highest ranking elected official in the St. Pete Pride Parade. The overzealous enthusiastic record breaking crowd of over 150,000 GLBTA parade watching attendees saw the mayor wave and walk the 1.5 miles parade route in the rainy day event.
Bigger Than Ever… St Pete PRIDE
Bigger Than Ever… St Pete PRIDE
Celebrities, politicians, cars, businesses, marching groups, floats and of course the Wells Fargo Bank’s team of horses with the stage coach all celebrating at this years St. Pete Pride Festival event. Over 140 units were in this years GLBTA PRIDE parade and over 300 street festival vendors were set up all along 8 blocks on Central Ave. It turned out to be the largest ever event of the festivals history. It was a bit rainy at times but of the over 150,000 festival attendees but it seemed like no one really wanted to leave. This was an increase of the est 100,000 anticipating being there.
The week was strong with sentiment about the 2 U.S. Supreme Court positive GLBT rulings dealing with federal recognized gay marriage rights with states having legalized same sex marriages with the DOMA ruling and California’s Prop 8 ruling on same- sex marriages legal in California. The courts have decided in favor of the GLBT causes in both cases. Joyous victorious celebrations were continued through the weekend at St. Pete Pride.
It brought even more people out to the PRIDE event that was a recorder breaker. This was the first time in the 11 year history, that rain poured on the parade but little to overshadow all the great news stories of the week.
Florida’s largest Gay PRIDE event had revelers from all over the country attending. We met up with a large number of people from Texas, Georgia, Illinois and New York besides from all over the Sunshine state in attendance.
“It was simply awesome!” we heard a lot of people saying. Rainbows were the true colors of choice again all over the Central Ave. streets.
Mark & I were truly honored as this years St. Pete PRIDE Grand Marshals.
Congratulations Pride’s Executive Director Erik Skains and the board and volunteers of this years St. Pete Pride festivities. The pics tell the story….
Sherrill Smith, Movie Location Mgr In the House
It was an honor to meet Sherrill Smith, movie set locator manager, at MC FILM the other day. You may know her by some of the past movie locations she found. She is on a scouting mission for a new movie set to be shot here in Tampa Bay. (Ybor City)
Her lists of movie set locations include; Spring Breakers, Dolphin Tale I and shortly Dolphin Tale II, Donnie Brasco with actor Johnny Depp, Mad Money, 2 Fast 2 Furious and 50 other movie & CSI TV series location sets.
A couple of weeks ago Academy Awards actor, Ben Affleck was walking around Ybor City. Coincidence??
Now Sherrill, tell us the next movie & movie actors in the movie set to shoot in Ybor City!
She only said, “Soon!”
It’s A HUGE HIT!!! “Juicy Sundays”
Sunday Fun Days has Heating up!!! Start with Sunday Brunch at Hamburger Mary’s, Carne’s, Bernini. The Craziest afternoon Party is on the Balcony at Hamburger Mary’s “Tea Cup” https://www.facebook.com/tea.cupybor has created the perfect Sunday FunDay Cocktail called SHAZZAMM!!! He only creates it on Sunday afternoons. After one you all be yelling SHAZZAMM!!! The balcony party goes on until 10 PM. The party then goes across the street to newly remodeled LEVEL III. “JUICY SUNDAYS” No cover all night and FREE DRINKS from 10 PM – 11 PM. Join Tea Cup on the roof top & Party the night away!!! FMI https://www.facebook.com/YBORCLUBS
You Can Not Make This Up.
There was a huge big box closed-up club in Ybor City. The big club went on the auction block. The new owners were trying to lease out the newly acquired club with potential new promoters. They noticed things started to go missing in the closed club. Sound equipment, expensive lighting, furniture, even sinks were missing. The new owners changed the locks and the problem still continued.
Then on one hot summer afternoon the realtor & club owner was showing the club. The electricity was turn off so they were going thru the club with big flash lights. All of a sudden the club was full of bright light!!! To the shock of everybody inside, the sky light had just been opened. Then dropping in came a ladder.
People started to crawl down the ladder and into the club. The startling sight almost made the club owner have a heart attack!!
To the surprise of the intruders they were stopped and asked, “What the Hell Are you F**king Doing?”
They said that they “heard noises from next doors and were checking out that everything was OK.”
LOL LMAF!!! The police were not called but suddenly nothing else went missing.
GaYBOR Member of the Week
Flamingo Auto Group
The first to raise their hands to volunteer. The Flamingo Auto Group (FAG) has become a staple of all major GLBT events in Florida. Classic, new or anything in between. The club is open membership for anyone, guys or girls interested in cars! Did you know that…. The Tampa Bay based group has actually broke off and started 2 more clubs in Florida. There are now clubs in Central Florida (C-FAG) & Southern Florida (So-FAG)
Become their facebook friends today at
Mark & Carrie Nephieu/Niece of the Week
Paul Kramer
A graduate of USF, Paul in now engaged to Tessa Shiver. We are all so excited for the Happy Couple.
Viva La GaYbor!!!
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