Dishing with Mark & Carrie 10-16-13

What a GREAT Week!!!
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October is Big Month in the LGBT Community
    The month is full of historical GLBT events locally and nationally. Last week ended the 24th Annual Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Another great successful community event drawing thousands of attendees. This past weekend had Orlando PRIDE celebrating its biggest PRIDE event to date with over 120,000 participating. Congratulations to Orlando. We hope to start a Tampa PRIDE event soon!
    The hopeful 2018 Gay (Olympic) Games in Orlando’s bid was lost to Paris, France was announced this week. They said they will continue to try!
    The National Coming Out Day is October 11th. October is also National GLBT History Month. USF Tampa campus have events planned all month for National GLBT History Month education..
    The other big events locally are ALL Hallows Ball, the largest private Gay party in Florida. Not to be out done to the traditional Halloween parties scattered all over the region and country.
     Historically noted in 1979, the first National March on Washington For Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights took place, drawing an estimated 125,000 participants. The march itself was largely galvanized by the assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician to hold office in California. Speakers at the event included Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde and Harry Britt.
 
Halloween In Ybor City
    This year there are many more fun things planned for Halloween. There will NOT be a fence. There will be  HUGE Parties at all your favorite clubs. The “Ybor Merchant Association”  are planning “Fantasma Fest” There are many events planned including a “7th Ave Bed Race”   http://ybornow.com/fantasma-fest/
    The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce are planing on Fun Guavaween Eevnts. The full list is at http://www.yborcityonline.com/
 
Let the Count Down Begin!!!
The Christmas Holidays are right around the corner. “The Ybor City’s Historic Holiday Spirit” Celebrations have just been released. Visit the new fan page at https://www.facebook.com/SnowOn7th  Check out the new video at http://snowon7th.com/.
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New at MC Film
     2014 COLT Calendars have arrived and they are HOT….also arrived is the new limited edition 2014 December Diamond Mermen Ornaments and Magnets!!!
    Stop in MC FILM and see all the new fall underwear & swimwear arrivals from UNICO, XUBA and Andrew Christian.