Event Type: Entertainment

Hollywood’s hiding a lot more in the closet than Tom Ford tuxedos, and megastar agent Jarrod Hilliard’s determined to keep it that way. When the corpse of a naked male prostitute is found in his client’s hotel room during the Golden Globe Awards, Hilliard and hotel manager Gage Holland are left to sweep things under the rug. Time to call in some favors… But when you work in the make-believe world of movies, everyone’s acting, and nothing’s what it seems in this hilarious jet-black comedy about what it means to be a “man” in Hollywood.

WARNING: Contains nudity!

18 and over only!

Join us for the largest pride event in Jacksonville, FL. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!

Be entertained by the most talented vocalist, bands, and dance groups that Jacksonville has to offer at the Festival & Cabaret!

Our Vendors bring that something special that you can only get at the Jax River City Pride Festival. Become a Vendor today as spots are limited and go quickly.

Jax River City Pride has the most talented local entertainers that Northeast Florida has to offer. National Titleholders, Queens, Kings, and Female/Male Illusionists will put on a show like no other.

Jax River City Pride Cabaret, the festival’s crown jewel, brings in nationally known performers, speakers, and entertainers from hit shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race, NBC The Voice, and America’s Got Talent.

Jax River City Pride Parade is a 1.5-mile celebration through the most prominent historic LGBTQIA+ community in Jacksonville and past thousands of supporters along the route. The parade ends in the 5 Points business district and is a prime spot to view the parade.

Jax River City Pride is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit All-Volunteer organization inspired to make a long-lasting impact in Jacksonville’s LGBTQIA+ Community. Celebrated in October, Jax River City Pride welcomes everyone to come together and enjoy the celebration of our diverse community in October.

All events are subject to change, but we’re confident this year’s celebration will be unforgettable!

Join us for a fun-filled Family Pride Night, celebrating love and diversity, where families can come together, enjoy, PLAY and create!

Come join us for a fun-filled evening at Dart Bar & Games and Keg and Coin!

Family Pride Night is an exciting in-person event where families can come together and celebrate their pride. We have planned an evening full of games, laughter, art and joy for everyone to enjoy. Get ready to challenge your family members to friendly dart competitions or try your luck at various arcade games. Our welcoming atmospheres ensures that everyone feels included and accepted.

So, bring your loved ones and let’s create unforgettable memories together! Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to celebrate family and pride. See you there!

TIGLFF IS BACK IN TAMPA WITH MORE QUEER FILM

A focus on queer families and iconic queer band The Indigo Girls packs a queer film punch into one long weekend. Nab your tickets to the opening night Tampa Theatre Double Feature (The Mattachine Family and Big Easy Queens – with live drag cabaret performance between screenings) and enjoy a diverse program celebrating and elevating LGBTQ+ voices from around the world. Queer film festivals like TIGLFF are more important than ever and we’re excited to welcome you and our talented filmmakers back to the Tampa Bay Area for another fantastic edition of the state’s longest-standing queer film festival.

Opening Night at Tampa Theatre. All other shows at AMC Westshore.

THREE WAYS TO FEST

Single Serve Ticket

$15 

•  A ticket to see any film Thursday-Sunday (including either opening night film – or get the Double Feature with live show in between for $25).

BUY A SINGLE SERVE TICKET

Most Popular Option!

Quad Feature – Buy 3, Get 1 Film *Free*

$45 

• Choose any 4 screenings to attend, for the price of 3 screenings ($15 savings)

GET YOUR QUAD FEATURE PASS

Highest Access!

Friend of the Fest Pass

$125 

•  See as many in-person screenings as you like during the festival
• On screen “Thank You” before each film as well as digital shout-out on the TIGLFF website + social media
• One complimentary drink in our Friends of the Fest Lounge
• Invitation to a pre-film afternoon behind-the-scenes tour of the historic Tampa Theatre*

BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FEST

*Arrive Theatre 5:20pm with tour beginning promptly at 5:30pm. Limited to just 30 Friends of the Fest Passes due to capacity for tours – we suggest booking yours now.

View Festival Schedule Here

GIW BEACH LGBTQ+ Festival – St Petersburg October 5 – 9, 2023 BUY WEEKEND PASSES NOW

Pandora Events has been celebrating women and the LGBTQ+ community for over twenty three years. We are excited to come to St. Pete Beach and host a weekend creating memories with all of you.

GIW BEACH October 5 – 9, 2023

Host Hotel-

Postcard Inn on the Beach

6300 Gulf Blvd.

St. Pete Beach, FL 33706

For more information visit

www.giwbeach.com

Get ready for a wickedly enchanting night at The Witches Ball, where spells, potions, and mischief will cast a spell on you!

Join us for a wickedly fun night at West End Trading Company! The Witches Ball is a spellbinding event where you can embrace your inner witch and dance the night away. Grab your broomsticks and put on your most enchanting costume for a night filled with magic and mischief. With fun music, bewitching drinks, and a hauntingly good atmosphere, this event is not to be missed. So gather your coven and get ready for a night of wicked fun with Ashley Satine and her show cast at Sanfords very own The Witches Ball!

We are converting The Saint Speakeasy into the LickHer Lounge, a space for women who enjoy the company of other women…for ONE night only.

We are converting The Saint Speakeasy into the LickHer Lounge for a Pop Up event, or as we like to say, a LickHer Pop!

Experience a classy yet edgy vibe in a space for women who enjoy the company of other women, and where authenticity is fully embraced.

Tantalize those tastebuds with our LickHer Lounge themed drink menu. All drinks are concocted with tongue pleasure in mind.

Light/tapas style food options available.

Enjoy burlesque shows throughout the evening.

ALL women are invited to join in on the fun! This is a space created for anyone who identifies within the female spectrum (lesbians, trans women, non-binary friends).

Limited VIP seating available (6-7 per table) Includes a bottle of rose, bottle service, VIP gifts and more! We are offering two seatings for VIP guests: Happy Hour 5-8PM and Late Night 8PM-12AM.

We also have a party room available for up to 10

$10 Cover Online

$20 Cover At Door

VIP Booths and Party Room ($300-1000)

Love! Valour! Compassion! – Terrence McNally‘s most honored and celebrated play about eight gay friends who spend the holidays over one summer at one’s beautiful hundred-year-old house in upstate New York, kicks off Island City Stage’s 12^th thrilling season. The show runs from October 12 – November 5.  

At a lakeside summer vacation house in Dutchess County, two hours north of New York City, eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together for Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover, Bobby, a legal assistant who is blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another – Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jeckyll, a sour Englishman, is a dance accompanist; die-hard musical theater fanatic Buzz Hauser is a costume designer and the most stereotypically gay man in the group. Only John’s summer lover, Ramon, and John’s twin brother James are outside the circle of friends. But Ramon is outgoing and eventually makes a place for himself in the group, and James is such a gentle soul that he is quickly welcomed.

Florida-born Terrence McNally is considered one of the most prolific and highly lauded playwrights, librettists and screenwriters in the last 50 years. His decades of works explored human relationships – frequently those of gay men. In addition to Love! Valour! Compassion!, McNally’s works include Bad Habits, The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Masterclass, and Mothers and Sons, among many others. McNally’s librettos for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime won him Tony Awards in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Additional credits as a librettist included The Full Monty, Catch Me if You Can, and The Visit. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit
in the United States. In 2019, he won a Lifetime Achievement Tony award. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.

The Love! Valour! Compassion!, ensemble cast features theatre veterans Chad Darnell, Robert Koutras, Bruce Linser, Saul Mendoza, Christoper Michaels, Matthew Salas, and Michael Scott Ross.

Love! Valour! Compassion! is directed by Michael Leeds and co-produced by Robert Korn and Alvaro Menendez. Set sponsor is Glenn Goldberg and Lighting Sponsor is Scott Bennett.

Island City Stage’s 12^th Season will also feature Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira (Jan. 18 – Feb. 11); Pulp by Patricia Kane; Music by Amy Warren & Andre Pluess with lyrics by Patricia Kane (Apr. 11 – May 5); Skintight by Joshua Harmon (May 30 – Jun. 23) and Die! Mommie Die! by Charles Busch (Aug. 29 – Sept. 22). 

Tickets for Love! Valour! Compassion! start at $40. A Mimosa Sunday performance sponsored by Tedd Davis and Brad Sterl will be held on October 22 with tickets at $55. The show runs three hours with two intermissions.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.islandcitystage.org, call (954) 928-9800 or email boxoffice@islandcitystage.org. Follow Island City Stage on Facebook at facebook.com/IslandCityStageFL and on Instagram at @islandcitystage1. 

Come Out St. Pete is celebrating its 6th year of diversity, inclusion and living a true and authentic life. In recognition of national Coming Out Day, celebrated on October 11th each year,  this year we’re excited to bring back our second annual Family Day celebration in historic Kenwood’s Seminole park, October 14th 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. The day’s events will include live bands, a DJ, local drag entertainment, a beer garden, local craft vendors, the unfurling of our 375 foot rainbow flag and will also feature a chili cookoff  with  two categories:  Restaurant and individual entries.

If you would like to place an entry in the chili cookoff click here.

If you would like to be a sponsor click here.

If you are interested in a vendor booth space fill out the form below. (Non Chili)

CASA Pinellas Launches First Annual Scavenger Hunt in Downtown St. Petersburg

Community partners, like Chad Mize and Ferg’s collaborate with CASA, to create a Violence Free Pinellas 

CASA Pinellas, our county’s certified domestic violence service provider, is uniting the community with a scavenger hunt on Saturday, October 14, 2023. Participants will raise funds and awareness in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, supporting and empowering the local community’s survivors and their families.

Involvement Opportunities:

·       Play: Create a team of 2-10 people and join the fun-filled scavenger hunt

·       Sponsor: Provide critical funds and make a life-saving impact to support CASA’s mission

·       Host: Highlight your business or organization by becoming a stop on the scavenger hunt

CASA Pinellas partnered with local celebrity artist, Chad Mize to create an exclusive design for the scavenger hunt. Participating in the scavenger hunt is the only way to snag the limited-edition Chad Mize x CASA canvas tote bag, and fundraising teams can earn Chad Mize x CASA T-shirts. Prizes will be awarded to teams that earn the most points and raise the most money to support CASA’s life-saving work. 

Early birds can score 20% off their registration fee now until September 14. To get started, visit www.givebutter.com/CASApinellas and purchase a ticket for the scavenger hunt. Then, build a team of 2-10 players and start fundraising. Each team member must register. Givebutter allows participants to build custom fundraising pages to share directly on social media or via email. Top fundraising teams earn super cool prizes, so start raising life-saving funds today.

11:30am: Kick Off at CASA Pinellas, 1011 1^st Avenue N

Grab your welcome packet and refreshments, then hit the town! Use your smart phone to track your scavenger hunt progress.

3:00pm: After Party and Awards at Ferg’s, 1320 Central Avenue

Enjoy a burger and beverage of your choice, live DJ, karaoke, and more at the After Party sponsored by Ferg’s. Prizes will be awarded for top fundraisers, top scoring team, best team decade costume, and best empowerment karaoke performance

CASA’s theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2023 is Eras of Empowerment. It celebrates CASA’s remarkable journey through the years and the many accomplishments of the anti-domestic violence movement nationwide. CASA has provided life-saving services to Pinellas County’s women, children, and men for nearly 50 years. In 2022 alone, CASA provided over 75,000 services, including pro bono legal help, safety planning, housing, mental health support, child services, hotline calls, and more.

About CASA:

Founded in 1977, CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse) is the official 501c3 domestic violence center based in Pinellas County, FL. In October 2022, CASA opened Florida’s only Family Justice Center, earning the 2023 National Purple Ribbon Award for Outstanding New Service Launch. CASA’s mission is to challenge the societal acceptance of all forms of domestic violence through advocacy, prevention, intervention, and support services. To learn more, visit www.casapinellas.org.

The Gulf Coast LGBTQ+ Center presents the Northwest Florida Pride Fest 2023

Set to kickoff on National Coming Out Day, October 11th, with our fourth annual “Out in the South” event in partnership with FSU-PC, with events scheduled each day leading up to our main Pride Fest on Saturday, October 14th, and a closing/farewell Drag Brunch on Sunday, October 15th! We are looking for sponsors, volunteers, vendors, entertainers, and more!

Anyone interested in sponsorship information for Pride Fest, please email info@gulfcoastlgbtqcenter.org.

Anyone interested in volunteering during Pride Fest, click here https://bit.ly/3mCmhs8 to complete the the Volunteer Application form.

Anyone interested in being a vendor or entertainer during Pride Fest, click here https://bit.ly/41wi8os to complete the Vendor/Entertainment Application form.

More info will be forthcoming in the coming months, but save the dates NOW, as this year’s Pride Fest is going to be vacation worthy! We even have hotel blocks with special rates for attendees, city and beach side! So let’s start planning now!

Northwest Florida Pride Fest, October 11-15, we look forward to seeing you all there!!

Project May Day invites the community to join us at Pridetoberfest, our third annual fall festival. We are hosting a family-friendly carnival and everyone is invited! Profits will be donated to JASMYN.

We’re going to have video games, a dunk tank, live entertainment, and so much more! This event is free-to-enter, and we have lots of fun surprises planned. We’re hoping to get a large turnout to help our younger LGBTQIA friends feel seen and safe, and to raise as much money as possible for JASMYN. For all the latest updates, be sure to like and follow Project May Day on all of our socials, and share this with your friends and family.

Queer Easels is back! And will be back monthly at the Gaythering – Highlighting Emerging Queer Artists in South Florida.

Join us for a night of Art, Music and Fun – Queer Easels is back and will be back the second of every month at the Hotel Gaythering! (with a small break in December 🙂 )

Vol.4 Will feature Frederico Alex Jones, Patrick Louis and +1 artist TBD

More details coming soon but we wanted to hold the place in your calendar now 😀

See you soon!

After the challenges of this year and the fight still to come, we invite you to join us as we celebrate the resistance and resilience of our community. At this year’s Suncoast Celebration, we will share the story of how our community has held our ground and *still carved out victories* in spite of those who aim to drag us backward.

Sponsors’ Early Admission at 6:30pm; Gala start time 7pm

Sponsorships available now: https://act.eqfl.org/a/srq2023

The category is Masquerade Ball for this year’s Suncoast Celebration. Costume attire is encouraged, and cocktail attire is suggested if you’d prefer. As always, we’ll provide heavy hors d’oeuvres, open bars, a silent auction, live entertainment, and an uplifting message from Equality Florida’s Safe & Healthy Schools Director Ian Siljestrom highlighting our fight on education. We’ll also recognize, honor, and uplift Sarasota’s own heroes in equality.

Fantasy Fest is an annual 10-day party in paradise for grown-ups. Started in 1979 by a small group of Key West locals, the party was created to bring visitors to the island in what was a typically quiet, but beautiful season. It worked. Fantasy Fest has grown every year since its inception and is now the wildest extravaganza around! Fun-loving revelers from around the globe bring their creativity and imaginations as they descend upon Key West each year in October for 10 days filled with costuming, parades, libations, and excitement!

For schedule of events, click here!

For event information, visit fantasyfest.com

Join South Florida’s Superstar Queens for an outrageously fun Halloween themed brunch!

BOOK NOW! THIS WILL SELL OUT!

YOU MUST ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 12:00PM TO BE SEATED.

GUESTS THAT ARRIVE AFTER THE SHOW HAS STARTED MAY BE TURNED AWAY.

NO REFUNDS.

EXCLUSIVELY at Tin Roof – join our cast of superstar Queens for this outrageously fun Halloween themed brunch!

SEATING :

12PM

SHOWTIME :

1PM

TICKETS :

$45 per person all-inclusive price :

• Brunch Buffet

• 1 Mimosa

• Show

(Upgrade to bottomless mimosas, add $15 per person.)

$330 6-Person “Front Row” table option ($55 each) :

• Only 3 Available

• Front Row Table, Directly In Front Of Stage

• Brunch Buffet for Each Person

• 1 Mimosa For Each person

• Show Admission For Each Person

• Additional Seats Can Be Added @ $55 Each

(Upgrade to bottomless mimosas, add $15 per person.)

SEATING RULES :

You MUST BE SEATED by 12:00 PM. Arrive early. Tickets not redeemed by 12:50PM will be considered late and may not receive ideal seating. Guests will not be permitted inside once the show has started.

AGE RESTRICTIONS :

21+ WITH VALID ID ONLY.

(Must present proof of age at the door with valid, non-expired State ID, Drivers License, Driving Permit, or Passport. No other forms accepted.)

FOR PARENTS :

This is adult entertainment – leave the kids at home!

Come Out With Pride, Inc. is the 501c3 non-profit, who host’s Orlando’s annual LGBTQIA+ Pride celebration. Every October, we gather around National Coming Out Day, knowing that for many, Pride may be the one day of the year people can live their true authentic selves. With over 210,000 guests in 2022, we are one of the biggest Pride celebrations in the Southeast and the largest single-day event in Central Florida. In addition, Come Out With Pride is a year round non-profit organization, creating accepting and inclusive spaces for members of our LGBTQIA+ community. We aim to change hearts and minds — and make it possible for everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies to live authentically.

“Chehantamo: How Are You?,” a new Seminole fine art exhibit will debut at History Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, October 22, prior to the start of Native American History Month (November). This collaboration with the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum will feature the perspective of contemporary Seminole artists through large scale digital works juxtaposed with historic artistic context.

Multidisciplinary photography, textiles, and more will provide a link to our shared future while acknowledging our shared past. The exhibit opens with a meet and greet at 2 p.m. on October 22 at the New River Inn History Museum and runs through January 6.

Curated by Tara Chadwick, “Chehantamo: How Are You?” will showcase mixed media, textiles, and digital art from multigenerational Seminole artists Nicholas DiCarlo, Danielle Nelson, Victoria Osceola, Samuel Tommie, Corinne Zepeda, and the late Elizabeth Buster.

Entry to the exhibit is free with general admission – $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and $7 for students (through age 22 with a valid student ID). Admission is always free for members, military and children ages six and under. Tickets are available online at http://bit.ly/HistoryFortLauderdaleTickets.

History Fort Lauderdale is proud to host a variety of engaging multicultural experiences, year-round. It seeks to bring awareness to the community through both traveling exhibits and multiple permanent exhibits including “Women Trailblazers,” “Fort Lauderdale – the Early Years,” “The African American Experience,” “Fashion & Musical Theatre,” “From Dugouts to Dream Yachts: the story of boatbuilding along the New River,” Seminole Arts & Culture,” “New River Archaeology,” and, most recently, “Take PRIDE, a retrospective on LGBTQ life in South Florida.” The nonprofit museum also hosts an artists’ collective collaborative space.

“Chehantamo: How Are You?” is sponsored by the following funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Jan and Ed Crocker Unrestricted Fund, Leo M. and Alice J. Rutten Fund and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Additional funding is provided, in part, by Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward County Cultural Council, and Visit Lauderdale. This organization is also sponsored by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts & Culture with additional support from Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.

For more information about History Fort Lauderdale, please call (954) 463-4431 or visit us online at historyfortlauderdale.org. Follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/ftlhistory, on Instagram @ftlhistory and on Twitter @FTLHistory. Subscribe to us on YouTube at youtube.com/user/FTLhistory.

The inaugural Food is Medicine Jumpstart Session—hosted by Holy Cross Health, Florida Health and Nutrition Coalition and the South Florida Hunger Coalition—will feature keynote speaker Dr. Scott Angle, University of Florida interim provost and national food is medicine pioneer.

Learn about culinary medicine during a roundtable discussion with Holy Cross Health, UF IFAS Extension, Healthy Teaching Kitchen VA, Living Hungry, the American Heart Association and The Poverello Center, a pantry that provides nutritious food and essential items to individuals living with critical and chronic illnesses. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet elected officials who support Florida’s Food is Medicine Bill.

The event is FREE for everyone. One hundred in-person attendees will jumpstart their morning with a healthy breakfast and 500 additional people are invited to attend virtually via Zoom.

For more information or sponsorship opportunities, please email maura@livinghungry.org.

Join us for an empowering screening of “You’re Loved”, a trans youth advocacy film!

Every day, trans+ youth suffer the devastating consequences of discrimination. These attacks increase rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation in trans youth. In 2022 alone, over 50% of trans+ youth considered suicide.

Join us to screen You’re Loved, a grassroots documentary highlighting trans+ youth, alongside mental health professionals and allies, as they tell their stories of resilience in an era of increasing injustice. This film inspires the positive action necessary to give trans kids hope – something they desperately need to survive.

After watching the film, you can participate in a Live Q&A with the filmmaker, Carys Mullins. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event officially begins at 7:00 p.m. The event is open to all ages.

Pizza and beverages will be sold to enjoy during the screening. The proceeds will go to Humanity Rising, a nonprofit organization empowering youth to change the world.

This screening occurs in place of PFLAG Riverview’s monthly meeting on October 24, 2023. You do not need to be a PFLAG member to attend.

This film touches on topics that may be triggering to some viewers such as bullying, hate crime, racism, transphobia, and gender dysphoria. Please view responsibility. You will be able to step out if you feel uncomfortable.

This is a private event. Attendees who cause disruption or act in a discriminatory or disrespectful manner will not be permitted to attend the screening and will be asked to leave immediately.

Thank you to Humanity Rising and PFLAG Riverview for supporting this event!

Join figurative painter and muralist Elio Mercado / Evoca1 for an intimate evening including a meet and greet and cocktail hour. Presented by the Castle Group and the Cathy and James Donnelly Family Fund at the Community Foundation of Broward, the event is free and open to the public.

To RSVP, email rvegas@bfabroward.org by October 24. For additional information, visit https://bfabroward.org/programs/arts-means-business/.

More information on BFA and sponsorship opportunities is available at www.bfabroward.org. 

A Nightclub at Sea. Monster’s favorite Halloween event…

Calling all witches, ghouls, zombies, monsters, and more! Join us for the most unique ways to celebrate Halloween. SarasotaOUT.com’s 4th annual Monsters Booze Cruise is a 2-hour nightclub at sea that features dancing, a drag show, and a costume contest. A full bar and snacks are available for purchase onboard. Guests must be 21+

Join us for our 7th annual Riverwalk Trick or Treat event, on Saturday, October 28, 2023, from 4 pm – 7 pm.  This is a FREE community event!  Children in costume and their families are invited to come and trick or treat along the Riverwalk as well as enjoy fun activities.  We will have over 50 treat stations participating along the Riverwalk from Water Works Park to Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. 

Don’t forget to sign up for the Costume Contest, in Water Works Park!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
4:00 PM – Trick or Treating Begins
5:00 PM – Costume Contest
7:00 PM – Trick or Treating Ends
SPONSORSHIPS
*Anyone interested in becoming a treat station for this event, please email info@thetampariverwalk.com
*Anyone interested in sponsoring this event, please email info@tampariverwalk.com

Get ready for a spine-chilling evening of tantalizing burlesque performances and sugary screams at Fright Night Delight!

Fright Night Delight – A Sweet Screams Burlesque!

Join us for a spooktacular evening of tantalizing performances at The Woodshed Orlando! Get ready to scream and swoon as our bewitching burlesque performers take the stage.

Located on Milner Boulevard in Orlando, FL, USA, this in-person event promises to be a frightfully fun experience. Prepare to be mesmerized by the sultry dances, dazzling costumes, and seductive routines that will leave you begging for more.

Indulge in the eerie atmosphere, as the darkness descends and the spirits awaken. Our performers will captivate you with their hauntingly beautiful moves and leave you spellbound.

Whether you’re a burlesque aficionado or just looking for a thrilling night out, don’t miss Fright Night Delight – A Sweet Screams Burlesque! Grab your tickets now and join us for an unforgettable evening of spine-tingling entertainment!

Prepare to be spellbound as characters such as the Phantom of the Opera, the machete-wielding Jason Voorhees, the enigmatic Nosferatu, and the electrifying Bride of Frankenstein (and more!) come to life like never before in this perfectly pinup performance!

3 Year Anniversary & Halloween Party at Pride Night at Davinci! 

Join us October 31st at Cafe Davinci for Pride Nights biggest Drag Show yet! 

Hosted by Aaliyah Nouveau with Coco Cavalli, Mya Valentine, Lia Zoe, Alexandria, Olivia Hoops Nouveau, Divine Kre8tive, Bobby Iman & Miss DeLand Pride 2023 Black Magix Royal! 

Showtimes at 9pm & 10:30pm with a Halloween Costume Contest at 12am! 

18 Welcome with valid ID

$4 Absolute 

$4 Rainbow Shots 

RSVP to keep up with all our updates and more to come! 

Love! Valour! Compassion! – Terrence McNally‘s most honored and celebrated play about eight gay friends who spend the holidays over one summer at one’s beautiful hundred-year-old house in upstate New York, kicks off Island City Stage’s 12^th thrilling season. The show runs from October 12 – November 5.  

At a lakeside summer vacation house in Dutchess County, two hours north of New York City, eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together for Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover, Bobby, a legal assistant who is blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another – Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jeckyll, a sour Englishman, is a dance accompanist; die-hard musical theater fanatic Buzz Hauser is a costume designer and the most stereotypically gay man in the group. Only John’s summer lover, Ramon, and John’s twin brother James are outside the circle of friends. But Ramon is outgoing and eventually makes a place for himself in the group, and James is such a gentle soul that he is quickly welcomed.

Florida-born Terrence McNally is considered one of the most prolific and highly lauded playwrights, librettists and screenwriters in the last 50 years. His decades of works explored human relationships – frequently those of gay men. In addition to Love! Valour! Compassion!, McNally’s works include Bad Habits, The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Masterclass, and Mothers and Sons, among many others. McNally’s librettos for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime won him Tony Awards in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Additional credits as a librettist included The Full Monty, Catch Me if You Can, and The Visit. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, and he also received the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit
in the United States. In 2019, he won a Lifetime Achievement Tony award. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.

The Love! Valour! Compassion!, ensemble cast features theatre veterans Chad Darnell, Robert Koutras, Bruce Linser, Saul Mendoza, Christoper Michaels, Matthew Salas, and Michael Scott Ross.

Love! Valour! Compassion! is directed by Michael Leeds and co-produced by Robert Korn and Alvaro Menendez. Set sponsor is Glenn Goldberg and Lighting Sponsor is Scott Bennett.

Island City Stage’s 12^th Season will also feature Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira (Jan. 18 – Feb. 11); Pulp by Patricia Kane; Music by Amy Warren & Andre Pluess with lyrics by Patricia Kane (Apr. 11 – May 5); Skintight by Joshua Harmon (May 30 – Jun. 23) and Die! Mommie Die! by Charles Busch (Aug. 29 – Sept. 22). 

Tickets for Love! Valour! Compassion! start at $40. A Mimosa Sunday performance sponsored by Tedd Davis and Brad Sterl will be held on October 22 with tickets at $55. The show runs three hours with two intermissions.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.islandcitystage.org, call (954) 928-9800 or email boxoffice@islandcitystage.org. Follow Island City Stage on Facebook at facebook.com/IslandCityStageFL and on Instagram at @islandcitystage1. 

“Chehantamo: How Are You?,” a new Seminole fine art exhibit will debut at History Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, October 22, prior to the start of Native American History Month (November). This collaboration with the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum will feature the perspective of contemporary Seminole artists through large scale digital works juxtaposed with historic artistic context.

Multidisciplinary photography, textiles, and more will provide a link to our shared future while acknowledging our shared past. The exhibit opens with a meet and greet at 2 p.m. on October 22 at the New River Inn History Museum and runs through January 6.

Curated by Tara Chadwick, “Chehantamo: How Are You?” will showcase mixed media, textiles, and digital art from multigenerational Seminole artists Nicholas DiCarlo, Danielle Nelson, Victoria Osceola, Samuel Tommie, Corinne Zepeda, and the late Elizabeth Buster.

Entry to the exhibit is free with general admission – $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and $7 for students (through age 22 with a valid student ID). Admission is always free for members, military and children ages six and under. Tickets are available online at http://bit.ly/HistoryFortLauderdaleTickets.

History Fort Lauderdale is proud to host a variety of engaging multicultural experiences, year-round. It seeks to bring awareness to the community through both traveling exhibits and multiple permanent exhibits including “Women Trailblazers,” “Fort Lauderdale – the Early Years,” “The African American Experience,” “Fashion & Musical Theatre,” “From Dugouts to Dream Yachts: the story of boatbuilding along the New River,” Seminole Arts & Culture,” “New River Archaeology,” and, most recently, “Take PRIDE, a retrospective on LGBTQ life in South Florida.” The nonprofit museum also hosts an artists’ collective collaborative space.

“Chehantamo: How Are You?” is sponsored by the following funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Jan and Ed Crocker Unrestricted Fund, Leo M. and Alice J. Rutten Fund and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Additional funding is provided, in part, by Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward County Cultural Council, and Visit Lauderdale. This organization is also sponsored by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts & Culture with additional support from Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.

For more information about History Fort Lauderdale, please call (954) 463-4431 or visit us online at historyfortlauderdale.org. Follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/ftlhistory, on Instagram @ftlhistory and on Twitter @FTLHistory. Subscribe to us on YouTube at youtube.com/user/FTLhistory.

3 Year Anniversary & Halloween Party at Pride Night at Davinci! 

Join us October 31st at Cafe Davinci for Pride Nights biggest Drag Show yet! 

Hosted by Aaliyah Nouveau with Coco Cavalli, Mya Valentine, Lia Zoe, Alexandria, Olivia Hoops Nouveau, Divine Kre8tive, Bobby Iman & Miss DeLand Pride 2023 Black Magix Royal! 

Showtimes at 9pm & 10:30pm with a Halloween Costume Contest at 12am! 

18 Welcome with valid ID

$4 Absolute 

$4 Rainbow Shots 

RSVP to keep up with all our updates and more to come! 

Ronnie Larsen Presents in association with Plays of Wilton (POW!) is presenting a production of the musical “108 Waverly” with book and lyrics by the Carbonell award-winning Dan Clancy and music by Lynne Portas in November 2023. This clever and heartfelt musical about love and relationships over 70 years is being directed by Carbonell award-winning director, Bruce Linser.   Two gay couples occupy the same apartment at the title’s location in Greenwich Village, New York City.  The two couples never meet as they occupy the space seven decades apart.  

Clancy’s narrative explores love and acceptance in consecutive lifetimes and delves into the impression that little has changed in attitudes regarding homosexuality in 70 years.  The first couple is set in the 1920’s when society’s moral tolerances of love were much narrower. They summoned exposure with every glance and continually risked their careers, family and way of life just to be together. Set in the 1990s, the contemporary couple braves the waters of commitment and responsibility in the carefree cruisy world of the modern gay man. Tackling the real issues of their respective times there is pallet of social issues pertinent to gay people of all eras. 

The stories are told in tandem on the same set and effectively portrayed with the creative use of lighting, props, and costumes. Lynn Portas has musically juxtaposed the two time periods by means of edgy, rockish musical themes against classic melodic styles. Coupled with the comprehensive writing style of Dan Clancy, 108 Waverly pops from the stage and gives its audience a unique insight of the distinctive lives of gay men on a broad scale.  Subjects the piece explores range from remaining “closeted to survive” to gay adoption.

Plays of Wilton has received  generous grants from the Broward County Cultural Division and Community Foundation of Broward to present this ground-breaking musical at The Foundry this Fall. 

Performances from November 2, 2023 to December 10, 2023

Thursday through Saturday 8 PM

Sunday at 3PM and 7PM

Tickets $25 to $50

Tickets available at https://ronnielarsen.com

Dining with the Stars is your PREMIER Semi-formal Event on the Treasure Coast. This year, Impersonators from all over Florida will be joining us for this amazing event.

Having grown in size over the last couple years this event will sell out quickly.

All Dining with the Stars Admission Tickets include buffet style meal, tea/water/coffee, and live Impersonation Show. 

Individual tickets as well as Sponsorship Tables are available. 

All Sponsorship Packets must be completed and return with a check or cash. No Credit Card Payments will be accepted. Please download the Sponsorship Form by clicking the Sponsorship Button. 

Hosted by Pride Alliance of The Treasure Coast

Guests will be treated to an “Evening at the Casbah” at the 14th Annual Ghost Light Society Soirée presented by UKG on Saturday, November 4 from 7 to 11 p.m. at The Parker, 707 N.E. 8th Street in Fort Lauderdale.

The Ghost Light Society’s annual soirée is one of the most anticipated events of the year bringing together more than 250 emerging philanthropists and community and business leaders to raise funds for arts-in-educations programs that serve more than 100,000 students annually at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

This year, the unique evening of dining and dancing onstage at The Parker will be even more exciting, as guests will also enjoy a live, intimate performance by multi-faceted musician, producer and songwriter Michael Glabicki and guitarist Dirk Miller of the multi-platinum band, Rusted Root. Formed in 1990, Rusted Root, led by Glabicki, inspired audiences around the world with its polyrhythmic, multicultural rock-and-soul music. Long-time fans and new listeners alike will enjoy hearing the duo perform the old Rusted Root favorites in an up-close setting. 

In addition to Presenting Sponsor UKG, event sponsors to date include Platinum Sponsors Akerman LLP, AutoNation, Crowe LLP and JM Family Enterprises, Inc.; Gold Sponsors Dutton Real Estate Services LLC, Haber Blank LLP and Catherine Niemeyer’s Allstate Agency; and Silver Sponsors A.J. Belt of Cushman Wakefield; BEIA; Farlie Turner Gilbert & Co., The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale; Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance; Greenspoon Marder; Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP; Nelson Mullins; Publix Super Markets, SouthState Bank and Stearns Weaver Miller.