Sunday May 27 Gary
Santis presents
White Fort
Lauderdale. The
annual event
traditionally kicks
off the summer
season in South
Florida. This year's
White Fort
Lauderdale features
DJs Manny Lehman and
Daisy Deadpetals
with a special
concert by America's
Got Talent's, Prince
Poppycock. Many of
South Florida's
greatest drag
entertainers will
also perform. Kitty
Meow, Daisy D, Sasha
Lords, Erika Norell
and TP Lords are
currently scheduled
to appear. The event
MC is Joe Posa and
hosted by Channel
7's Craig Stevens.
More
info after the Jump: White Fort
Lauderdale
Stonewall Summer Pride & Street Festival,
Gay Pride in Wilton Manors
On Sunday, June 24, Wilton Manors, Florida will host the 13th
annual Stonewall Street Festival on Wilton Drive from Noon -
10:00 p.m. This year’s event will feature a parade, exhibits,
activities and main stage entertainment. The street festival
will highlight local merchants and vendors targeted to all
segments of the community in the areas of health & wellness,
recreation and entertainment, travel and community resources. Updates on entertainment, parade
participants, vendors & exhibits will be available
on Mark's List leading up to the event. Location info and
details after the
Jump:
Stonewall
Summer Pride & Street Festival 2012
Beach Bear Weekend Fort
Lauderdale
BeachBear Weekend
was founded by Bob
Young, Shannon
Spotts, and Chad
Bush in 2011 to
bring men from all
over the world to
experience the
exciting and very
gay friendly Fort
Lauderdale and
Wilton Manors
Florida beaches,
nightlife and other
attractions. It's
been said that, Fort
Lauderdale is like a
cruise ship that
doesn’t have to
leave port, complete
with world class
beaches, the
Everglades, and wild
nightlife. Beach
Bear weekend
promises to "show
our visitors a hell
of a good time." Get
all of the details
after the Jump,
here:
Beach Bear
Weekend
Check out
all of the weekly specials at
The Stable.
About Gay and
Lesbian Fort Lauderdale and
Wilton Manors, FL
According to the Greater Fort
Lauderdale Convention and
Visitors Bureau, Fort Lauderdale
is "America's top Gay resort
area." The city actively pursues
Gay and Lesbian tourists. Fort
Lauderdale and city within a
city Wilton Manors
(affectionately referred to as
WilMa) are also home to a large
year-round population of Gay
residents. The city's
Stonewall
Library & Archives is the
largest-circulation LGBT library
in the United States. Wilton
Manors was the second city in
the country (after West
Hollywood, California) to elect
a Gay-majority city council.
Fort Lauderdale Beach has
recently seen a surge in the
building of mega hotels that
cater to the high end visitor.
In the past few years, Ritz
Carlton, Hilton, Westin, The
Atlantic and the
now famous
W Hotel Fort
Lauderdale with it's voyeur's
dream glass walled pool have
stolen the limelight from Fort
Lauderdale's long established
Gay Guesthouse culture. The
Guesthouses, including the
Coconut Cove,
Inn Leather,
The Elysium Resort,
The Grand Resort and Spa and
The Windamar Beach Resort nonetheless carry on
and are full to capacity
virtually every weekend. In many
cases, the Guesthouses offer the
same world class service as
their high end competition, at a
lower price and in a frisky
atmosphere that appeals to many
a Gay traveler.
Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs
host over 4,100
restaurants and
over 120 nightclubs (1/3 of them
are Gay or Lesbian oriented).
Many of the nightclubs are
located in downtown's arts and
entertainment district as well
as Wilton Manors, the
"Gayborhood of South Florida." The city is
also the setting for the 1986
movie Flight of the Navigator.
The International Swimming Hall
of Fame is located on
Fort
Lauderdale beach, and houses a
large aquatic complex as well as
a museum, theater, and research
library. Hugh Taylor Birch State
Park is a 180-acre (0.73 km2)
park along the beach, with
nature trails, camping and
picnicking areas, canoeing, and
features the Terramar Visitor
Center, with exhibits about the
ecosystem of the park. The Henry
E. Kinney Tunnel on US Route 1
is the only tunnel on public
land in the state of Florida. It
was constructed in 1960, and its
864-foot (263 m) length travels
underneath the New River and
Las Olas Boulevard.
Men
in Black 3
(MIB3),
starring
Will Smith
and Tommy
Lee Jones,
is the
sequel to
the 2002
film “Men in
Black II.”
The film
also stars
Josh Brolin,
Emma
Thompson,
Alice Eve
and Jemaine
Clement,
with Barry
Sonnenfeld
returning as
director,
and Steven
Spielberg
returning as
executive
producer.
Also opening
this week:
Chernobyl
Diaries,
starring
Jesse
McCartney,
follows a
group of six
young
tourists who
follow an
"extreme
tour" gudie
into the
city of
Pripyat, the
former home
to the
workers of
the
Chernobyl
nuclear
reactor.
After a
brief
exploration
of the
abandoned
city, the
group
discovers
that they
are not
alone.
Includes
movie
theaters in
Fort
Lauderdale,
Sunrise,
Davie,
Lauderhill,
Hollywood,
Plantation,
Pembroke
Pines,
Sunrise,
Weston,
Coral
Springs
and Pompano
Beach,
Florida
