HIV education night
The COLOURS Organization Inc. will host a community-education event from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in the first-floor conference room of 112 N. Broad St. to raise awareness of HIV prevention and treatment efforts.
Rapid HIV testing will be offered, as well as a host of HIV resources. Refreshments will be served, and guests can also enjoy a screening of the film “Life Support,” starring Queen Latifah as an HIV-positive woman.
For more information, visit www.coloursorganization.org.
Out at Six Flags
Out in Events will stage the seventh-annual Out at Night at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., from 6 p.m.-midnight Sept. 24.
The private LGBT event will feature music and entertainment by DJs Seth Gold, Corey Craig and Rhino Starr, and guests can tour the expansive park and its myriad thrill rides — without waiting in the lines usually seen at Six Flags.
Advance tickets, which can be purchased at www.outinevents.com or at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St., are $45 and tickets at the gate are $60. Season passes will not be honored.
A portion of the proceeds from the event, which is expected to draw up to 10,000 people, will benefit the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
The event will be held rain or shine.
Vote for Philly
Philadelphia is among the cities that could be named the nation’s best LGBT tourism spot in an online LGBT travel competition.
TripOut Gay Travel, the tourism website of LGBT network Logo, selected Philadelphia as one of the six nominees for the Best U.S. Destination in its annual awards contest, which also honors the best of the best in global locales, resorts, hotels, bars and several other travel categories.
Philadelphia will compete against Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Provincetown, Mass.
To vote, visit www.tripoutgaytravel.com.
— Jen Colletta