This year, with the legalization of same sex marriage in Florida I am sure that we will see even more people participating in the St. Pete for the annual Gay Pride Parade and Festival. A League of Our Own is an LGBTQ bowling group that competes for an AIDS charity at AMF Lanes. People of all walks and from all over the world come together in St.
What started as a promenade became a parade and then a full Pride Month. This coffee social hour, every other Sunday, is meant to be an open space for the Sarasota gay community, but all are welcome. Tampa has an LGBTQ population of 5.9, the 5th largest in the country, and although it has been 40 years since Tampa held its first Pride, the fact remains that Anti-Gay laws still get passed. The first members of the Tampa Bay Pride Band had humble beginnings, rehearsing once a week with incomplete instrumentation at the Honeypot in Ybor City, performing two concerts a year at the Hive, an auditorium in downtown Tampa’s John F. St Pete Pride For 20 years, we’ve marched in rainbow-clad celebration of the spectrum of love and life.
Drag Queen Bingo Bonanza at McCurdy's Comedy Theatre: Once a month, Sarasota-favorite Beneva Fruitville (and her fellow drag queens, on occasion) take the stage at McCurdy's for a night of hilarious, sometimes-raunchy bingo.The group is membership-based, but you can buy $10 single tickets for happy hour events. It's a perfect opportunity for passersby to mingle with the local crowd. Dubbed G2H2, the revelers have been getting together for monthly outings for years now, rotating to different bars and restaurants around the city. They have brought Pride to the Venice area in June for three years now.
Venice Pride: Founded in 2018, Venice Pride is one of the younger organizations on this list.