Wilton Manors
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BEAR WITNESS : an exhibition exploring the history, identity, and culture of the Bear community.
The Bears are probably not just the happiest of all the genres in the LGBTQIA+ community, but they are also among the best organized. They have played a powerful role in LGBTQ+ history, creating spaces of belonging, visibility, and connection. Currently packing the streets and beaches of Provincetown for the Annual Bear Week, more…
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Wilton Manors, Florida welcomes CHOCOLATE CITY its first (and long overdue) Black-Owned Gay Bar
Even though Wilton Manors, a small city in Florida that is a neighbor of Fort Lauderdale, has a significant queer population, it also has a mixed reputation regarding its attitude to diversity. Unlike Miami Beach down the road, whose last census showed that a population has some 53% foreign-born residents, and a significant portion of…
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Craig Lucas’s THE DYING GAUL play set after the AIDS pandemic is revived by Island City Stage in Wilton Manors
Craig Lucas has a very packed resume: actor, playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. (We should add, however, that he is not a South African musician; that’s a totally different gay Craig Lucas.) He came on QG’s radar in 1989 when his movie Longterm Companion made such a major impact on the queer community,…
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The Bears are coming out of their (Covid) Hibernation
The Bears are coming out of their (Covid) hibernation to start partying again. Next week on Saturday, March 26th, Urban Bear and Eagle Wilton Manors are joining forces for an epic event! ‘Bears in the Alley’ is a Tropical Street Fair and Dance Party in Wilton Manors, where hundreds of Bears, Cubs, Wolves, Otters and other Gay…
