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Play ball: Out at Wrigley date announced

candy — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:15:58 +0000

Tickets are now available for 2014′s Out at Wrigley, the largest annual LGBT sporting event in the country. This year’s game is set for Saturday, July 12, when the Chicago Cubs take on the Atlanta Braves in their now-100-year-old ballpark.

Last year’s Out at Wrigley was paired with the induction ceremony for the latest project of MTM Chicago’s Bill Gubrud, the driving force behind Out at Wrigley, and Jackie Weinberg of Supergurl Images: The National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame (NGLSHOF). The new organization, which seeks to recognize and preserve the history of individuals and organizations whose achievements have advanced sports and athletics for the LGBT community while also providing outreach and education to the sporting world to help make it a more welcoming and safe space for LGBT youth, inducted 26 members into its inaugural class in August 2013.

GaymerX2 launches Kickstarter campaign

candy — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:15:10 +0000

BY MORGAN WELCH
dot429

The first GaymerX, a convention by LGBTQ gamers for LGBTQ gamers, was a smashing success; now, the team behind it is gearing up for GX2, scheduled for July 11-13, 2014—and for those who want tickets, it’s advised they act fast.

According to the new Kickstarter, “Last year, over 2,300 awesome gamers attended the first GaymerX—and now it’s back with even more surprises for LGBTQ geeks!”

Must-go event: Long Island Spring Affair

Sidney — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:00:47 +0000

Carlyle at the Palace

BY SID MARCH
Lesbian.com

Long Island has spring fever! This Friday night May 3, Human Rights Campaign Long Island and Colette Lee Inc., bring you The Long Island Spring Affair, to be held at Carlyle at the Palace (1600 Round Swamp Road, Plainview, NY).

Featuring DJ Kimmie C, Hardbody Dance Crew, body-painted beauties and performances by legendary drag queens including Violet Storm and Miss Fire Island Ariel Sinclair, this spring fling will be a fabulous night full of surprises (and delicious passed hors d’oeuvre). Hosted by Frankie Fileti and Ms. Sinclair herself, the evening is a continuing celebration of marriage equality and more.

“It is time to raise a glass and celebrate all of our achievements while supporting the road ahead. And what better way to bring us all together than a Spring Fling at the very chic Carlyle at the Palace!” Said Bobbie Heichman, HRC Long Island Community Events Co-Chair.

You are probably familiar with the HRC, a major LGBT rights organization, but do you know Colette Lee? “Colette Lee Inc. produces top level events that benefit wide ranging organizations, from the Wounded Warriors to the Human Rights Campaign,” said Colette Morales, founder and President of Colette Lee Inc. “We’ve previously produced a fantastic fashion event with celebrities and designers with HRC Long Island, and we are thrilled to be back to co-host the hottest spring party on Long Island!”

So, we’re pretty into the body painting… (Photo: Lory Diaz)

So what are you waiting for? Get your tickets now.

Ticket price (cash only): $25 includes an annual HRC membership and passed hors d’oeuvre.

$250 VIP Ticket includes 4 entries to the event, 4 annual HRC’s membership, complimentary food and a table with Stoli bottle service

Check out the event details on Facebook. Remember, RSVPing to the Facebook event does not guarantee you admission, but you can buy your tickets in advance.

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Live Out Loud hosting 12th gala for LGBT youth

Sidney — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:00:06 +0000

BY CHRIS HUQUERIZA
dot429

LGBT non-profit organization Live Out Loud is hosting its 12th annual Young Trailblazer’s Gala featuring young professionals in the LGBT community on Tuesday, April 30th. Live Out Loud aims to inspire LGBT youth by connecting them with successful, established professionals in the community. The project was conceived in 2002 and awarded collegiate scholarships to LGBT youths from the New York tri-state area. This year, Live Out Loud will present 5 awards of $5,000 each during the gala.

Live Out Loud’s mission has always been “to empower, energize and enable Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth to live the life of their dreams through the celebration of the richness and diversity of our shared experience, the visibility of role models and the dissemination of information.” Past attendees of the gala include Lisa Lampanelli, Donny Deutsch, Thom Browne, Ariel Foxman, Michael J. Fox and Sandra Bernhard.

Tickets to the event, to be held on Tuesday, April 30th at the TimesCenter in NYC, can be purchased here.

Aqua Girl: Get ready to party for a cause

Sidney — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:17 +0000

The ladies of Aqua Girl’s float at Miami Beach Pride (Photo via Facebook)

BY SID MARCH
Lesbian.com

Miami Beach, are you ready for Aqua Girl? It its 14th year, Aqua Girl is a wild week of events for LBT women, with 100% of the proceeds going toward the Aqua Foundation for Women. Every dollar helps support lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in South Florida by fostering equality and funding grants, scholarships and initiatives. The party gets started May 15 (special VIP cocktail reception May 11) and runs through May 19.

With hot dance parties, side-splitting comedy shows, live music, pool parties and even bowling, brunches and dinners out, Aqua Girl has a little something for everyone… and as the largest charity women’s week in the USA, you can feel really, really good about having some fun in the Miami Beach sun.

Highlights for this year include a live taping of “The Derek and Romaine Show,” featuring an interview with Lauren Bedford Russell of ‘The Real L Word,” VIP receptions in both Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, “Fuego,” a steamy Latin Dance Party and “Temptation” featuring DJs Lisa Pittman and Zehno, as well as VOICE finalist Frenchie Davis.

For a full schedule of events, visit the Aqua Girl Events page.
To learn more, purchase tickets or make a donation, visit www.aquagirl.org

Want to win a pair of tickets? Just tag both @lesbiandotcom and @aquagirlevents in a sweet tweet or Facebook mention — #WeLoveAquaGirl — for your chance to win!

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OUTlander Spring Festival: LGBTQ answer to SXSW

Sidney — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:00:43 +0000

BY GLENNISHA MORGAN
Huffington Post Gay Voices

As an answer to the lack of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer artists at Texas’ annual South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival, The OUTlander Spring Festival has emerged. The five-day festival will showcase local, national and international LGBTQ performers, right in the midst of the more high-profile SXSW.

It won’t just be music. The OUT Project has teamed up with One More Lesbian and Tello Films to showcase a myriad of web series, presented at an event titled, “Main Screen.”

D.C. lesbians prepare to be Tagg-ed

Sidney — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:03:13 +0000

Eboné Bell of Tagg Magazine. Photo by Julian Vankim.

BY SID MARCH
Lesbian.com

Eboné Bell practices what she preaches. In a few short minutes of chatting, Bell treats me, a stranger, like a friend. “Are you coming to the party this Saturday?” she asks casually, not yet realizing that I’m several hundred miles away.

I so wish! Alas, I have Lesbian.com pieces to work on, another job, and a very controlling cat who would be supremely unhappy if I dashed off to this extremely exciting, big news, launch party for the absolutely fantastic Tagg Magazine in Washington, DC.

Bell is the driving spirit behind Tagg, the DC area’s brand spankin’ new bent ladies’ magazine. Made for women, by women, Tagg aims to be smart, savvy, and majorly community oriented. In fact, community and unity are the dominant themes of our whole conversation, and Bell’s amicable energy make it seem very real: Tagg doesn’t just aim to bring women together. Tagg will bring women together.

Tagg launched in the beginning of September with a fall issue featuring Project Runway’s Alicia Hardesty, but this coming weekend is the primo, grand celebration of its emergence into the DC/DelMarVa scene. Bell and her business partner have teamed up with the ladies of LURe, responsible for some big DC girl parties, to host an official launch at the legendary Cobalt. From 9p.m. to 10p.m. at Level One, Tagg will give the VIPs who have supported the magazine in its infancy some love with a swanky cocktail hour thank you. Upstairs, from 10p.m. to 3 a.m., there will be dancing, drinking, “TAGGing” and a wild good time. The locally legendary Destruction Dancers will perform a special routine on stage. A dance contest will grant the best dancer in the crowd a $200 prize. Raffle boys and girls will cruise the room, offering up tickets to try your luck for gift certificates, Washington Wizards seats, and an authentically signed poster and CD donated by Nicki Minaj, herself.

You’ve been TAGGed!

Bell has built Tagg from the ground up, her team consisting of herself, her business partner, and the numerous supporters and contributors who have graciously offered their creativity and skills to the project. They, too, felt there was something missing in the women’s community in the DC area, and have enthusiastically responded to Bell’s call to bridge the gap. From the constantly updated, well-designed website focusing on local events, lifestyle pieces, and LBT-relevant news, to the bi-monthly, full color, glossy print issues of Tagg, to the ongoing parties throughout the area, it is all intended to reach and unite the community. “We want […] everyone from the young professionals to the more established women who are living out in the ‘burbs, single family homes all the way out in […] Virginia or Maryland …we really want to make sure that this magazine speaks to them and everyone in between. We want to make it a people magazine, a local lesbian publication. We want to have local community.”

And while it is a lesbian publication, it’s not rigidly exclusive. Bell is not interested in drawing divisions based on gender or the nuances of personal identity and limiting the reach of community and interpersonal connections. A transguy gets “TAGGed” in one of their promo videos. Bell never leaves out bisexual women when referencing Tagg’s readers or audience. A well-known trans-rights activist, a transwoman, is quoted in their “That’s What She Said” feature. Tagg is voicing from the start that community is bigger and better when that community is welcoming.

“It isn’t about me or one other person,” Bell says. “How often can we have 600+ women in one space to network, connect, grow friendships, meet your future wife — you never know! We’re bringing everyone together and feeling like this is ours, that we finally have something in this community.”

Check out Tagg online: http://www.taggmagazine.com.

Tagg Magazine’s Official Launch Party will take place Saturday, October 20, at Cobalt, 1639 R St NW, Washington DC. The event will be hosted by the ladies of LURe/Bare, 10 pm to close with DJ Rosie.

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Festival of the Babes is heaven for lesbian soccer fans

Sidney — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:30:43 +0000

BY ABBY SOTO
TheSeattleLesbian.com

Think back to a few weeks ago when all of America was glued to their television screens watching Megan Rapinoe advance the ball down the field, lithely dodging Team Japan’s defense. You were sitting there wishing you could be magically transported to London for just one tiny moment. This weekend was your chance to have even more fun than that – Seattle’s 22nd annual Festival of the Babes – “a soccer tournament for lesbians and those willing to be mistaken for one,” which took place over Labor Day weekend at Maplewood Playfield.

This year 14 teams from far-off lands such as Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C. have converged on Seattle to celebrate soccer, lesbians and sportsmanship. The team that most exemplifies the spirit of “FOB-liness- teach(ing) us all the best way to capture that lightness of spirit in the midst of our competitive soccer obsession” will take home the FOB Team Spirit Award.

Dykeadence steams up New Orleans this weekend

Sidney — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:00:37 +0000

Some of the members of the Dykeadence committee, left to right, Laura Burns; Christine Johnson, GrrlSpot producer; Reina Rodriguez, and Sara Pic, Queerlesque! producer. Photo Credit: Flora

BY HEATHER CASSELL
GirlsThatRoam.com

Girls are making their mark on Southern Decadence. Once a sinful week long party for gay boys started more than 40 years ago, four years ago the girls busted into the party with Dykeadence.

Dykeadence is a five daylong celebration, August 30 – September 2, with dance and pool parties, burlesque shows and erotic readings, and more culminating joining in the annual Southern Decadence Parade through the French Quarter in New Orleans during Labor Day weekend.

Seed of passion

The grassroots event is turning into a grass fire since it started four years ago with a small group of women simply seeking to join in on the Southern Decadence party and parade.

Southern Decadence started as a farewell fiesta for a friend who was moving away from the Big Easy in the late 1960s that became an annual event. The party attracts more than 100,000 party goers annually in recent years, says Robert “Bobby” Revere, one of the organizers and promoters of the party, citing information from the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Tired of being on the fringe of the event, queer women developed their own complementary party that has rapidly grown from 300 women attending the first parties in 2009 to an estimated 1,500 last year, says Sara Pic, one of the founding Dykeadence committee members.

Last year was significant, it was the first year Dykeadence broke above the even mark by a few hundred dollars with Queerlesque! raking in $1,500 that covered production costs of the event with a little left over. Nearly all of Dykeadence events are open to the public for free. Organizers marked the party’s growth by incorporating and beginning plans for a foundation to support local organizations, Sara, a native queer woman of New Orleans, says.

Participants in New Orleans’s Dykeadence’s, a new addition to the legendary southern party Southern Decadence. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Dykeadence

Sinful delights

Organizers anticipate this year’s event to attract queer women travelers and their friends from New York to San Francisco, as well as from all over the South to hang out by the pool at the Get it Wet!, get hot and bothered at the Faster Pussycat Kinky Costume party, and work up a sweat at GrrlSpot’sFleurt.

Flurt is produced by Christine Johnson, director of GrrlSpot, New Orleans biggest women’s monthly parties.

The weekend’s events also include Queerlesque!, a burlesque show, erotic readings from some of New Orlean’s steamiest authors, social mixers and more leading up to the parade.

“I’m very excited about Dykeadence this year,” says Christine, who is also one of Dykeadence’s core committee members, in a June 13 new release announcing the event. “This year, we’re taking out all the stops.”

“It’s going to be a weekend filled with ‘just let yourself go,’” adds Sara. “It will definitely be memory making.”

Don’t miss out on one debaucherous moment. Sign up to get your Dykeadence updates while they are still hot.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Queerlesque! made $15,000. The correct amount was $1,500 covering the production costs and leaving only a few hundred dollars left over to help produce next year’s event.

To purchase reprints, contact editor [@] girlsthatroam [.] com.

Article originally published by GirlsThatRoam.com

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fiveTen shows pride in Oakland

Sidney — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:15:04 +0000

Photo: 510oaklandpride.com

BY HEATHER CASSELL
GirlsThatRoam.com

Showing pride in Oakland, two producers kick off Oakland Pride weekend with the launch of fiveTEN, a host of events throughout the weekend, starting Friday, August 31 and ending with a dance party on Sunday, September 2, that aim to go beyond LGBT Pride celebrating the East Bay city.

Christine, a 30-something freshly minted Oakland resident arrived in the Bay Area from her home state of Texas four and a half years ago, and began promoting parties throughout the Bay Area forming Eden Pride Events, formerly Movement Productions/Eden in the Bay. Her co-producer of the weekend even is Chaney Turner, a 32-year old Oakland native who owns SocialLife, a promotion and event production company in Oakland.