GaYBOR Featured member of the Week

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Joe Vigliarolo
The owner of JJ’s Cafe & Bar, Fresh Mouth & Centro Cantina. Joe is a founding member of the GaYBOR District Coalition. Always the first to raise his hand and pitch in to helps with the many GaYBOR Projects. This past week Joe donated food to the GaYBOR Holiday Party and was on the GaYBOR Bar Crawl. In Ybor City there are many choices to party & eat at. We suggest spending your money with business who support you.  Viva La Joe & Viva La GaYBOR!!!

Documentary, Poets to Benefit GaYBOR

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Cigar Magazine presents “Censor This!” on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. at The Buzz, 710 Harbour Post Drive on Harbour Island.

This event will feature the latest film in Cigar City Magazine’s monthly documentary series, the 20-minute documentary “UnBanned.”

UnBanned: In June 2005, five of the Hillsborough County Commissioners voted to ‘ban’ Gay & Lesbian events in the county of Hillsborough. The same five commissioners ‘banned’ a Gay & Lesbian book display in a library that celebrated and honored Gay & Lesbian authors during Gay Pride month. In 2005, censorship was alive and well in Hillsborough County.

Following the film, poet and author, Venus Jones and Friends will perform during an open mic poetry session called, “Dear Haters”

All poets are invited to bring their poems about diversity, pride, tolerance, and unconditional love to the Buzz for a night dedicated to freedom of speech and expression.


The event will also be visited by Mitzi Gordon’s Bluebird Books Bus. Bluebird Books (www.thebluebirdbus.com) is a mobile project space housed in a converted short bus – part bookshop, part art house, all literary – celebrating the art of the book in all forms. The bus will feature a host of LGBT and counterculture book for the event.

Admission is a $5 suggested donation. Proceeds will benefit GaYBOR District Coalition.

The GaYBOR District Coalition is dedicated to forming a broad-based coalition, representative of the various interests of GLBT owned and friendly businesses, property owners, and residents for the purpose of promoting economic growth in the Ybor City National Landmark Historic District and prosperity of its members.

This event is part of Cigar City Magazine’s monthly documentary series. Every second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at The Buzz, Cigar City Magazine presents a documentary about Tampa.

For more information, contact Paul Guzzo at paulguzzo@hotmail.com or Lisa Figueredo at publisher@cigarcitymagazine.com.

WTF – Rick Perry???

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WTF – Rick Perry???
I am So Very Proud of my fellow Americans!!! As of today 3,222,763 people have viewed this. 10,806 like  &
441,247 hit DISLIKE  America has Spoken!!! There is no place for discrimination in our country.

Romney Grilled on Gay Marriage by Gay NH Veteran
When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney sat down next to a patron wearing a Vietnam veteran’s cap, Romney wanted to ask him about his military service. But 63-year-old Bob Garon wanted to talk about gays in the military — because he is a gay veteran. Garon was sitting in a booth across from his husband, Bob Lemire, at Chez Vachon, a must-stop diner for politicians looking for votes in the New Hampshire primary. Garon and Lemire eat there nearly every morning. The owners call them “The Bobs.” www.BigGayNews.com
Will Gingrich Lead the Pack?
Trying to play safe and stick to the GOP rightest, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he supports the ban on same sex marriage to a conservative Iowa group.  He would support a national constitutional amendment banning same sex marriages! Of course this isn’t being bigoted. Questionable because of his change of position a few years ago on equality and gay rights issues. Gingrich’s gay half sister says she supports President Barack Obama.