Starting this weekend, there are about a million LGBT events in the city. OK, that’s an exaggeration, but it really does seem like this is the start of the gay season.
On Friday, there is the Gay and Lesbian Latino Education Initiative fundraiser. Gay Day at The Zoo, The Attic Youth Center fundraiser and the Mr. Gay Philadelphia contest are on Saturday and opening day of the City of Brotherly Love Softball League is on Sunday, along with the Mr. and Miss Philly Black Gay Pride contest, which is the start of Philadelphia Black Gay Pride week.
The Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus is performing on Friday and Saturday, The Bike Stop is holding a Kinky Carnival on Saturday, there are more events than this and I’m tired already.
There’s GayBINGO on Saturday. The sports teams are gearing up and practicing. There are dance parties (Stimulus, Ultra and more).
And we haven’t even started on Equality Forum and Pride events, which are coming in the next few months.
If you can’t find something to do with/for/in the community, you aren’t looking or you aren’t interested. (And that’s OK too.)
And if ever a member of the LGBT community doubted the vibrancy of said community, take this weekend as a formal rebuttal to that.
After the winter’s record-setting snowstorms, the prospect of getting out and about is exciting. Sometimes, after being in the cold and dark for so long, one forgets how nice spring is and how much we enjoy warm weather. (We reserve the right to retract this statement if summer is ridiculously long, dry and hot.)
Now that the weather is warming (and cooling and warming … ), everyone can think about putting away the winter sweaters, hats and scarves and spending time outside in the sunshine.
If you have a garden, planting season is fast approaching.
If you have a backyard, grass cutting is still a ways off.
Tax season is (technically) over, and the primary still a month away.
Like your mom used to tell you, go outside and play.