Tag Archives: Tampa

The GOP has posted a series of videos in which local celebrities, athletes, politicians, and delegates celebrate Tampa, site of this year’s Republican convention. Sort of interesting for its rah-rah-ness.

Earlier this year the GOP awarded next year’s presidential convention to Tampa. But now GOP state organizations in Iowa and South Carolina say the convention must be relocated if Florida doesn’t move its primary to a date after theirs. Currently Florida’s primary is scheduled to be the first, an issue the GOP also squabbled over in 2008. Florida’s 2012 GOP …

Eugene Delgaudio, the self-titled Public Advocate of the United States, writes us today with the news that radical homosexual pirates were running amok at last month’s annual Gasparilla Festival in Tampa. The event is a full two weeks of seemingly family oriented events, with parades and treasure hunts around the city. But in recent years Radical Homosexuals have been intent …

Gothamist tips us that the new fan favorite of the Tampa Bay Rays is DJ Kitty, who now rallies the stadium from the Jumbotron at every game. Another video at the first link, news story about DJ Kitty here.

At a town hall meeting in Tampa today, an audience member said to President Obama, “Last night you talked about DADT. My question is, what are you doing now to put it in motion so that same-sex couples, homosexuals, are treated as equal citizens as the United States, i.e. same-sex marriage and 1000+ benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy after marriage?” …

Two weeks ago the Tampa City Council made a preliminary unanimous vote to extend employment and housing protections to transgender residents. The law will be finalized in a vote today, which has brought out the wingnuts with their now familiar and ridiculous claim that cross-dressing sexual predators will freely molest children in the city’s public restrooms. “This ordinance will give …

Here’s local Tampa news covering the “gay panic” claim of USMC reservist Jasen Bruce, who attacked a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron.

USMC Reservist Jasen Bruce, 28, who moonlights as a beefcake model, yesterday beat a robed Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron, claiming the man had groped him sexually and said “Alluha Akbar.” The priest, who speaks little English, says he was lost and asking for directions. Later Bruce recanted his claim that the priest spoke Arabic to him and …

Out lesbian Jane Castor has become the chief of police in Tampa, Florida. There are nine female police chiefs in Florida, including Pinellas Park Chief Dorene Thomas, according to the Florida Police Chiefs Association. Nationwide, about 300 out of 18,000 police chiefs are women, according to women-in-policing expert Dorothy Schulz of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New …

In what is becoming a national epidemic of assholism, a health care reform town hall meeting held last night in Tampa by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) erupted into screaming, pushing, and violence. Things get worse as the clip goes on. According to a detailed report on Daily Kos, the protesters were organized by Glenn Beck.

The NCAA Women’s Final Four basketball tournament is playing out in Tampa and the lady-loving-ladies are pouring into town. The Final Four games Sunday and Tuesday will showcase the nation’s best women’s basketball match-ups. But the tournament will also usher in what is widely believed to be the largest lesbian gathering in the history of the Tampa Bay area. Other …