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A Great Time and a Good Cause: Fresno’s 2019 Pride Parade and Festival

June 1st—only about a week away— marks the 29th annual Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade and Festival, celebrating the Central Valley’s LGBTQ community. Last year’s attendance broke records and, this year, the community hopes to continue the trend with the theme: “2GETHER.” One of the organizations taking part in the parade and festival this year is

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Persistence

I’ve lived in Fresno for most of my life. Despite that, I’d never visited the Forestiere Underground Gardens before LGBT Fresno invited me to join their tour. The place is easy to miss; it sits on West Shaw, right by the 99. The sign for the Gardens blends into the rest of the billboards that

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The Fabulous Tammie Brown

There are a few things you already know about the unmistakable Tammie Brown. Like her overdrawn lips, video bytes of her clapping back at RuPaul, and quizzical one liners – “C’mon Teletubby, teleport us to Mars”! You may not know that this RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) All-Stars Season One queen is a small-town Texas born

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Strong Women Done Well

I was able to catch Avengers: Infinity War on opening night. The culmination of ten years of dedication to the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) was coming to a close. After being a fan of Marvel comics since I was six, this was another moment in my nerdy history that I would cherish. I smiled, laughed,

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Is It Something I said?

Let me start by saying that this should be fun, but informative.  My idea is to get our community united, in one mind set, and that mindset is to UTILIZE that grey matter that we all are notorious for NOT using.  Relying instead on the easy, social media related BS to cloud our own thoughts. 

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Join Us: Tour Forestiere Underground Gardens

Take an hour long guided walking tour through Baldassare Forestiere’s creation. See a hand-built network of underground rooms, courtyards and passageways reminiscent of the ancient catacombs. Unique fruit producing trees, shrubs, and vines growing underground – some over 90 years old! Ancient Roman architecture – arches, vaults and stone-built walls. Underground micro-climates – temperature variations

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Remembering Stonewall 2019 Medium

Remembering Stonewall

REMEMBERING STONEWALL50 YEARS OF IMPACT FROM NEW YORK TO FRESNO MONDAY, MAY 65:30PM-7:30PM BOARD/WHITTEN RMSMITTCAMP ALUMNI HOUSEFRESNO STATE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Food and Drinks will be servedParking Code: 629978 Please join us for a celebration and reflection of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots with a screening of the acclaimed documentary Stonewall

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