Drew Aizpurua, Paul Harris & Frankie Wingerter celebrate their b-days in Winston celebrates Todd's b-day Oz’s Ruby Slipper lounge @ Tubby’s Golden Lantern

New Bar Barons Toby & Al hail Aletha & Bartender of the Year from Club LAX, formerly Jeff @ Lafitte’s Sanctuary in Metairie

snap paparazzi Josh, Sara & Clair Billy’s bartender & DJ flank bar @ Good Friends Bar baron Chuck @ 4 Seasons Coca Milian on stage @ Oz in Metairie

Tubby’s Golden Lantern Bartender Josh

Brandon Montgomery, Joey Sammy Naquin & Randi Holmes Benitez, Brodie Meche, Belinda @ Bourbon Pub Bee & Ryan Exsterstein @ Oz 4 Seasons Bar Baron Chuck with Chris & Devin

Koo, Marty & Don @ JohnPaul’s

Keith & Peter join House DJ Eddie @ Club LAX

Oz’s Tommy Elias with Bourbon Pub & Parade’s Julien Artressia & Leggio ~ New Orleans, Metairie Photos by Devin Black, Tony Ringing in The New Year Louis Sachs Legendary Nicole Dubois on stage Gary & some of his buddies @ @ the Parade Lords of Leather Fetish Ball @ JohnPaul’s

Susan Reyes, Girlnation Nyc & Shelbie Heart, Corynne Deville & Jonny Passion & Cat having a owner Sandy Sachs @ Bourbon Monica Synclaire @ Oz cocktail @ Club LAX Pub & Parade Richie & Keith @ JohnPaul’s 26 • The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM • Jan. 18-31, 2011 • Official Gay Mardi Gras Guide• GayMardiGras.COM Gay EasterParade.COM • SouthernDecadence.COM • Jan. 18-31, 2011 • The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM • 27 because they are so new and their website pub. They have daily drink specials and is not up yet, I do not have a lot of info about you can keep up with their events and out & about in mobile their schedule of events. Keep tuned in for specials at www.themidtownpub.com. more info. I have attached quite of few photos of In midtown just minutes from down- the past few years at a glance (see page town Mobile there is The Midtown Pub. 24). Great times were had by all right here They offer Sunday Brunch with Pro Foot- in the wonderful city of Mobile and I hope by Bob Brunson ball, Karaoke on Tuesday’s, Amateur male that all of you outside our city will take a Email: [email protected] dancers on Wednesday, dancing on Fri- little time out this year to join us for some day and Saturday nights and college foot- of our great events throughout the year. "Just a little history in The Krewe of Pheonix will be holding ball on Saturday evenings. They also have There is so much growth and so many their 2nd Annual Ball “Tributes” this year on the greatest jukebox in town! Owners, wonderful changes happening in our beau- preparation for a great Friday, February 4 at Fort Whiting Armory. Darrell and James do a great job and keep tiful city by the bay. Come on out and see New Year!" Congratulations! It’s wonderful to see that a very friendly atmosphere going at their for yourself! Happy New Year!!! our community is growing and is capable nother year has come and gone of supporting two organizations. Keep up and Mobile has once again the good work. You can check out their the pink pastor Aproved that it just keeps mov- website for more information at ing up on the charts of great places to www.kreweofpheonix.com. enjoy whether you are gay or not. The gay All the bars in Mobile are filled with community in Mobile has grown leaps and friendly staff offering you that good ol’ by Rev. Clinton Crawshaw bounds and offers such a great variety of southern hospitality and a mixture of activi- Email: [email protected] bars that have so much to offer in the form ties throughout the week. BigEasyMCC.COM of entertainment. Mobile also offers won- At B-Bob’s, many changes have been derful gay friendly hotels, bed and break- made over the past few years. There is a Devon servicing construction workers on a fasts, incredible restaurants and many tour- Honoring the Past & great new bar upstairs with a new stage mattress in the back of a Ford Van. Brian ist attractions to fit almost anyone’s lifestyle that has been raised to make it much Looking to the Future was abused as a kid, and brought up in and interests. easier for seeing the shows. Jerry contin- children’s homes, so that by the time I met Our Pride festival takes place in April... ew year always brings to mind ues to bring you awesome entertainment him he was fascinating, but seriously dam- this year on April 29, 30 and May 1. Mobile the future, and occasionally throughout the year. There are drag shows aged. Alabama Pride continues to grow and is Nthe present, as in ‘I am going every Thursday, Friday and Saturday that Brian’s life made wonderful anecdotes one awesome celebration for the GLBT to the gym’ or ‘I will NOT eat the King cake’. include a regular cast of very talented but was hard to live with, on one occasion community. It includes daytime events in I have however spent a lot of time thinking performers including Miss Cie, Venus he bribed a psychiatric nurse at a hospital downtown Mobile’s Historic Bienville about the past just lately, and especially Shante’ Da Viss, and this years incompa- he was being treated at for depression with Square with vendors from all across the the special role we all have in keeping alive rable addition Regine Phillips. Also, em- the offer of sex, got riotously drunk with country. The Pride celebration also offers those who live within us, and no longer live ceeing the Thursday and Saturday shows him and cavorted down the main street of a wonderful “Mardi Gras like” parade with in the world. as well as hosting the hilarious and fun Torquay sitting in a shopping cart singing fabulous floats and many different bars Over the years I have encountered A Tuesday night bingo is Mobile’s very own showtunes! The nurse was dismissed, and organizations joining in to celebrate LOT of death, maybe a hundred and fifty Miss Gay Pride and Miss B-Bob’s, Brian moved on. the pride of the south throughout our Gulf funerals, six suicides of those dear to me, Jawakatema Davenport. B-Bob’s also of- He used to make spoof porno movies Coast area. It also offers a wonderful array a spell as a hospice chaplain tending and fers you great guest entertainers through- with names like ‘gymslip jamboree’ and of entertainment from local talent to na- befriending those close to death and sev- out the year such as many world renowned ‘front bottom fandango’ (front bottom in tional and internationally acclaimed re- eral close encounters with my own mortal- drag performers from RuPaul’s England is baby talk for vagina) with him in cording artists. In past years we have ity. (ie; Bebe Zahara Benet, , bad drag performing half hearted sex acts enjoyed artists such as Josh Zuckerman, This could be depressing, but instead, Nina Flowers), Australia’s Drag Diva with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth Cynthia Manley, Bonnie Pointer of the it has become a matter of PRIVELAGE to , Miss Gay Florida Amy and a bottle of gin in his hand. This used to Pointer Sisters, Abigail, Kristine W, two- me. For some of those departed I am the Demilo, former Miss Gay Universe Candi amuse him immensely; his main claim to time Grammy Award winning Jennifer only one left to mourn them and remember Stratton and many, many more. fame was that he could smoke a cigarette Holliday and many more. The three day them. When I say their names I may be the B-Bob’s has also had internationally from a highly unusual orifice. He had an long Mobile Alabama Pride Festival is defi- only person on Earth left to speak their acclaimed recording artists such as Tif- imaginary Aunt – ‘Aunty Glad’ who he used nitely an event not to be missed so you names. Brian Smith, Hilda Vale, Ivy Bun- fany, Expose’, Thea Austin, Pepper to blame whenever he turned up late, or should mark your calendars now and start ker, Dolly Button, Mrs. Firth, Mr. and Mrs. Mashay, Abigail, Amber, Ultra Nate’, Martha whenever money went missing. making those hotel arrangements. Keep Godliman - all people who lived some- Wash, Jeanie Tracy, Vicki Shepard, Colton Brian moved in with an elderly queen an eye on their website at times extraordinary lives, but with no-one Ford, Jacinta and even Aiiiya from Real called Leslie Vinnicombe, a local florist, www.mobilealabamapride.com for special left to tell their stories. World Cancun. B-Bob’s hosts multiple who sported an enormous blonde bouffant deals on hotels, the schedule of events I am beginning to write the story of my drag pageants, is host to the Gulf Coasts hairdo, and who lived in a white and gold and the entertainment line-up for this year life as it interacts with these precious and Bear and Leather contests and is also one apartment filled to the brim with Ostrich spectacular event. Kudo’s go out the the extraordinary souls. The first chapter I have of the largest and hottest dance clubs and feathers. Leslie’s only daughter was to be Board of Directors and all the volunteers begun is titled ‘My life with Brian’, and I on the Gulf Coast with a video bar, pool married, and he foolishly took along Brian; for the incredible job that they continue to thought I would tell some of his story in this table, darts and vending machines down- at the reception Brian went up to the do with our Festival each year. column, as it is sufficiently colorful to pre- stairs. In 2010 B-Bob’s celebrated its 18 groom’s father and asked if it was true that 2010 also brought about quite a few clude publication in more conservative year anniversary! See the website at all fat guys had small dicks (!), the father changes in our community. As many people magazines! www.b-bobs.com punched him out and Brian fled, to call do not know, Mobile is the original home of I first met Brian at a cheesy gay night Just around the corner at Gabriel’s, Leslie at 4am, naked as a jaybird from a Mardi Gras and the oldest annual carnival in 1987 in Exeter, a city in the rural South- Carl and Elvin keep a busy schedule going telephone booth on the other side of town celebration in America having begun in west of England. We were allowed our for you as well. Gabriel’s offers a very cozy with no recollection of the evening at all. 1703, 15 years before New Orleans was weekly blast of freedom on a Monday atmosphere and has become known as Eventually, Brian moved to London, founded in 1718. Because of the growth night, and I had just started attending, as I “Mobile’s Favorite Neighborhood Pub”. and was proud to be the only known per- within our gay community we are now very had moved out of the family home after They offer karaoke 2 nights a week, major son ever thrown out of the roughest hustler proud to have two gay Mardi Gras organi- coming out, and was living in a room in the sports on the new BIG screen TV, Trivia bar in Soho - he was turning tricks for free zations (or mystic organizations) and there- city. Brian was easily the most exotic thing nights, and foam parties on their garden in the cellar bathroom, and the other hus- fore two fabulous gay Mardi Gras balls. I had ever seen, his mother was from patio. Gabriel’s is also host to a variety of tlers complained that he was ruining busi- There are over 40 mystic organizations in Belize, he was golden skinned, lean and special events and fundraisers throughout ness! Mobile, with many parties, balls and pa- goodlooking, as well as being morally bank- the year and is considered home to the Eventually time and tide caught up rades that span over a multi-week time rupt and exotic in behavior as well as AQUA fundraising events. You can find with Brian, his drinking became habitual, frame and the streets of the city are packed origin. He was from a very difficult family more info at www.gabrielsdowntown.com. and the sadness of his childhood never left for weeks with all of these fun filled events. background, one of seven children, all of Across the parking lot from B-Bob’s him. At 33 he found copies of his childhood The Order of Osiris will be holding whom were gay and lesbian, and their and Gabriel’s you will find downtown social workers reports, and discovered the their 30th Annual Ball “Thirty and Dirty” this mother – Consuelo was universally known Mobile’s newest bar, Bacchus. It is down- true scope of the abuse he suffered – he year on Friday, February 11 at the Civic as ‘can swallow’ by family and friends town Mobile’s only smoke free bar and had been found as a toddler with cigarette Center. Congratulations on 30 spectacu- alike. She had come over from Belize (or offers videos and a patio for smoking cus- burns all over him, dirty and neglected, lar years!!! You can go to British Honduras as it had been) in the tomers with an outdoor pool table. In 2010, and as he looked the truth in the eye he www.orderofosiris.com for more informa- sixties to find a better life. She found Brian’s Bacchus was purchased by Leigh and father, who exploited her outrageously by tion. [continued on 43] Traci. You can find them on FaceBook, but driving her around building sites in South

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