Mark & Carrie Celebrate 38 Years of Bliss
We want to Thank everyone for your kind wishes, emails and cards. 38 Years, who would of thought! We wish & want your honeymoons to be as long as ours.
TAMPA PRIDE 2015 RB Sponsor Flags
The TAMPA PRIDE 2015 Rainbow Sponsorship Flags for the upcoming TAMPA PRIDE events , March 28th being held in GaYBOR/ Ybor City are popping up all over Tampa and St. Petersburg. The colorful 3′ x 5′ Rainbow flags have the Tampa Pride Pirate Ship with the huge anchor announcing being a Proud Sponsor printed in the lower 1/3 part of the rainbow symbolic flag. Tampa hasn’t had a Gay Pride Parade since 2002.
“One thing that gets the GLBT community upset is having the Rainbow flag upside down and/or having wording put with the flags colors being reversed.” says Carrie West, President of TAMPA PRIDE 2015 and co- owner with partner, Mark Bias (TEACUP) of the MC FILM , which is a Gay Pride Store and Gay Visitor Information Center in GaYBOR/ Ybor City.
The TAMPA PRIDE 2015 rainbow flags are a charity benefit drive for the upcoming TAMPA PRIDE Celebration. Support the businesses that support the Tampa Bay GLBT community.
Be a part of TAMPA PRIDE by volunteering, sponsoring, donating or just getting involved by telling your friends, neighbors and associates. www.TAMPAPRIDE.org
TAMPA PRIDE Rainbow Flags are available at MC FILM and are $100 each.
Gasparilla, St Patrick’s & TAMPA PRIDE Parades
This is the time of year that gets you out of your house and onto the streets. In the next 2 months Tampa will be showcasing over 5 huge area colorful marching events. This is the time to get engaged to the area if you are a newcomer. For the well seasoned “Tampa-ista” generations, this is the time for outrageous costuming like no other place. Cheers…Cheers!! Tampa transitions the beginning of the year to unexpected essences of inner rousing out-of-doors entertainment.
The Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Parades (Kids and day parades) are all about pirates and 120 social organizations promenading Bayshore Blvd, the Sant’ Yago Knight Parade (February 14) processions down 7th Ave,is geared to community social groups. In March comes the Roughrider’s St Patricks’s Day Parade (March 14) is all the Irish flair with a large entourage brigade of Teddy Roosevelt dressed soldiers marching and securing the famed 7th Ave street. 100 other area participating themed Krewes add dimension and sheer party flavor.
The newest addition this year is of course the county’s re-invented after 13 years, TAMPA GLBTA PRIDE Parade (March 28) also flaming down historic 7th Ave during the sunny daytime festivities with an important accent on the countywide acceptance of diversity. Maybe this is the time for you to explore yourself and join in on the rebound beginning of the new TAMPA PRIDE 2015!
Visiting Tampa Bay & Ybor City tourists and locals will have an elated prismatic Rainbow horizon of electrifying fun. www.tampapride.org
These are just the spring time parade festivities but other huge exciting area events include Ybor City’s Fiesta Day, the Florida State Fair, Centennial Park Annual Flan Festival, the GLBT Gasparilla Softball Classic in Tampa, the start of area spring MLB (baseball) season, the Great Fiesta Italia Festival, the Gasparilla Art Festival and the Florida Strawberry Festival.
21st Annual Gasparilla Softball Classic
The Annual Gasparilla Softball Classic brings in thousands of softball players from North America. The tourney has brought in gay softball teams also from England in the past. Here is this years schedule.
When usually busy this years classic will coincide with the Saturday night Sant’ Yago Knight Parade activities.
GaYBOR/ Ybor City will be a very busy weekend.
Thursday 2-12-15
Early Registration Party at City Side 7-10PM
Friday 2-13-15
Welcome Party Double tree Hotel 12 noon – 6pm
Registration Hamburger Mary’s, in GaYBOR 7-10PM
Saturday 2-14-15
Let the games begin. Sant’ Yago Knight Parade 7PM
Sunday 2-15-15
Final rounds. Tournament Closing Event @ Hamburger Mary’s, in GaYBOR 6-10
Ride the GaYBOR Float & Be a Part of the GaYBOR Krewe
NEW at MC FILM for Valentine’s Day
A SALE!!! New 2015 Swimwear & Underwear arriving with a Pre Spring SALE! Don’t forget your Valentine’s Cards and Special Silver and Stainless Steel Classic Rings that are life lasting.
See all the new TAMPA PRIDE Decorations for the March PRIDE Season.
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