Hello to my friends at GBMNews. Many of you who have followed my article know that recently I moved from Columbus, Ohio to Ft. Lauderdale Florida. The move was primarily for professional reasons but one of the advantages to moving to the ‘Venice of America” is its very gay friendly environment and its international cultural flavor.

Columbus, Ohio- Pride is an annual celebration for gay and lesbian communities throughout the United States and in other countries around the world. It’s a time when we, as gay men and women take time to be proud of our accomplishments as gay professionals, paraprofessionals, students or whatever else it is we do in our the day to day operations of our lives.

Pride is Columbus is no different – or is it?

Marketed as the largest pride parade in the Midwest (assuming Chicago is not included), Columbus’ pride is a hugely well attended event – even by Ohio standards. Coordinated by Stonewall Columbus, the Gay community center of central Ohio, the parade and subsequent festival held all the traditional sights you’d expect to see at gay pride including, drag queens and kings, leather daddies and their pups, hard muscled men, feminine and butch lesbians. I would be remiss if I didn’t include sexy white twinks and their straight female counterparts (an entirely different editorial story all together - stay tuned friends).

Columbus, Ohio - The Launch of the Columbus, Ohio Brutha2Brutha Social and Activity Network was held at Blacklick Metro Park just outside of Columbus on Saturday May 19th and was a lightly attended and successful event.


B2B; the brainchild of facilitators Ric McDaniel and Frank Caldwell, is
being designed to provide Professional Gay African American men with
opportunities to participate in recreational, social, educational and self
improvement activities and events of interest to the community.