Celebrate the New Year at Starburst
Tickets for the 2011 CAMP Rehoboth Starburst Gayla dinner and dance are now available online. This popular women’s event sells out fast, so make your reservations now!
Allen Lerch: New Mr Double L 2011
The 2011 Mr. LL Leather competition brought out the best of Rehoboth’s leather community. Pictured left to right: Bob Sprout, Joe Jameson, Matt Bronson, and the winner, Allen Lerch.
Save the Date! Women’s FEST Set for Spring 2012
Mark your calendars for CAMP Rehoboth’s Women’s FEST. Don’t miss comic Suzanne Westenhoefer, comic Poppy Champlin, legendary musician Tret Fure, and special guest Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer. It’s four days in April to dance, golf, dine, laugh, and enjoy the best of Rehoboth Beach. FEST pass and tickets will be available soon.
World AIDS Day in Rehoboth Beach
The Rehoboth Beach community will come together Thursday, Dec. 1 for the annual Candlelight Walk and Service of Remembrance and Hope in recognition of World AIDS Day. The walk starts at 6:30 p.m. at the bandstand and ends at All Saints’ Episcopal Church on Olive Ave. The service includes the reading of the names of those in our community who died from AIDS. World AIDS Day schedule and details.
Jazz Fest Honors Sydney Arzt
Sydney Arzt (center) is celebrated on the 25th anniversary of Sydney’s Music Revival. The Bethany Blues event featured more than two dozen artists in a benefit for Delaware Charitable Music.
CAMP Chorus Sings of Long Last Love!
The CAMP Rehoboth Chorus will celebrate the season of love at its winter concert on Saturday, February 11 at Epworth Methodist Church. Tickets are $15 and available online.
New Directions for CAMP Development
Celebrating three years of work, the CAMP Development Advisory Board reorganizes for the new year. Pictured are: Murray Archibald, Charlie Lee, Beth Cohen, Deb Qualey, and Milt Gordon.
Holiday Spirit! Scrooge! Returns to Clear Space Theatre
The Clear Space Theatre Company invites you to experience Scrooge!—a holiday tradition the whole family will love. Journey to the heart of 19th century London in their original musical version of the classic tale filled with ghosts, greed, and great Christmas cheer. Visit the Clear Space website for performance schedule and ticket information.
Tying the Knot! DE Civil Unions Set to Take Effect Jan. 1
Many in Delaware’s LGBT community plan to “tie the knot” when the Civil Union law takes effect on Jan. 1, 2012. The legislation affords same-sex couples all the rights given to married couples under Delaware law. Congratulations to Mario Rocha and Tom Holmes who couldn’t wait until January and were married on November 5.
Holiday Ornament for HIV Consortium on Sale at CAMP
The Delaware HIV Consortium is pleased to offer a commemorative holiday ornament. This year’s ornament called “Joy and Wonder Fill the Season” is made of solid brass with a 24kt gold and enamel finish. The ornaments ($20) are available at CAMP Rehoboth. Decorate your tree with a beautiful ornament while helping people with HIV/AIDS in Delaware.
Letters World Tour!
Letters visited South Africa with Janet Layden, Sue Fortier, Sheila Maden, and Carol Lazzara; Avignon, France with Don Peterson, Jeff Richman, Michael Rose, David LeSage, Gerry Oosterholt, and Denny Saulman, and Hawaii with Carol Loewen, Debbie Grant, Dee Duddy, and Sandy Roberts. Finally, it was fall foliage time in West Virginia with Ed McHale, Tom Shovlin, Rich Morgante, Tom Bowman, Michael Davis, Dennis Shuell, George Hooper, and Richard Wiglarz.
PFLAG-Rehoboth’s Bus Trip to NYC for St. Patrick’s Day
PFLAG–Rehoboth Beach is planning a group bus trip to NYC on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, 2012. The price is $50 per seat, which includes a $10 donation to PFLAG-RB. The buses depart from the Epworth United Methodist Church parking lot at 7 a.m. and leave NYC for the return trip at 7 p.m. What you do in in New York is up to you. You have the day on your own to soak up the city: watch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, see a show, go to a museum, or just people watch!
For more information, or to reserve your seat, contact Linda or Howard Gregory or call 302-841-1339.
Four Authors Entertain with Words at Proud Books
Come meet Huffington Post writer and equality activist Rabbi Andrea Myers, author of The Choosing and J. Lee Watton, author of the memoir Out of Step on Saturday, November 19, from 2-4 pm at Proud Books on Baltimore Ave. in Rehoboth.
Myers, a hilarious storyteller and advocate for LGBT rights will read from her own tale of choosing to convert to Judaism, becoming a rabbi, and fighting for marriage equality.
Milton resident J. Lee Watton, whose memoir Out of Step is creating quite a buzz nationally will be at Proud to read and discuss her experiences as a Navy WAVE in 1965, caught up in an anti-gay witch hunt. Now that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has been repealed, stories like Watton’s are front and center to preserve the history of the gays in the military fight.
Joining Watton and Myers will be Rehoboth novelist Stefani Deoul, whose book The Carousel won the Independent Publishers’ IPPY Bronze Medal, Mid-Atlantic Best Fiction, and Delaware Press Association Fiction Book of the Year.
Completing the quartet of writers will be A&M Books’ publisher and author Fay Jacobs. Her latest compilation of essays, For Frying Out Loud–Rehoboth Beach Diaries recently won the National Federation of Press Women Non-Fiction Book of the Year for Humor, a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year, Honorable Mention for Humor, and an American Library Association Over the Rainbow Award.
For information, call Proud Books at 302-227-6969.