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Get Hot, Cool Down with Girls Gone Pride

My friends at Girls Gone Pride have cooked up another hot event for Atlanta dykes.  The Girls Gone Pride Fire and Ice party is happening this Saturday, August 16, 2008 at Wetbar, located at 960 Spring Street, NW in Midtown Atlanta.

The Girls have arranged hotel discounts for out-of-town lesbians who plan to come to Atlanta for the party. A special Girls Gone Pride rate of $119 (plus tax) is available at the Georgia Tech Conference Center Hotel at 800 Spring Street, which is approximately 5 walking blocks or a one minute cab ride from Wetbar.  The room rate is for double occupancy.  If you plan to tripe or quadruple up with friends, it’ll cost you $10 more per person.

The rate is good for August 15th and/or 16th. Early arrival and later departures will be subject to higher rates. Individual reservations requiring a guarantee for late arrival must be secured with a credit card at the time of the reservation booking. Both valet parking and self parking are available. When booking a room, please reference “Girls Gone Pride.”  Reservations can be made by calling the reservations department directly at 404-838-2100 or 1-800-706-2899.

Girls Gone Pride events are always packed with lots of lesbians, good music and general fun.  The Wetbar is a great location, and it’s the first time the Girls have held an event at this trendy Midtown club.  Contact events@girlsgonepride.com for more information.

Girls Gone Pride Resurrects Atlanta Lesbian Nightlife

Those Girls Gone Pride have gone and done it again. The party promoter’s Resurrection Party last night at My Sister’s Room in East Atlanta brought out several hundred women for dancing, beer pong, a wet t-shirt contest and more. Holding a party on Good Friday took a fair amount of faith, but Girls Gone Pride proved they can draw a crowd despite traditional family holidays, even despite Jesus. A standing-room-only crowd danced to the combined mixes of DJ Yvonne Monet and DJ Duck. Red and green glow bracelets were available to announce one’s availability, even flashing devil’s horns for those who felt particularly less-than-holier-than-thou. It was both a Good Friday and a Wanna-be-bad Friday.

If you have never attended a Girls Gone Pride event, it is highly recommended. Girls Gone Pride Chief Partier Bird told me that the team will be up to some new tricks, just in time for the delayed Atlanta Pride celebration this July. A new Website is under development, and more parties in the planning. Stay tuned to Life on Q. We’ll let you know where you can go get pride, and girls, as soon as we do.

Short-Attention-Span Dating for Lesbians Returns to Atlanta

For single women without the time or patience for personals, or who find the bar scene wanting, Atlanta event organizers Girls Gone Pride are bringing speed dating for lesbians back for another round on February 17th. Girls Gone Pride Co-founder Deanna tells me that the age range for the speed dating events have really been varied. “We have younger, older and those who are in between. I think we ended up with around 24 or so women at the last one,” she said.

Bird, the other half of Girls Gone Pride, added that the fast-daters were from all walks of life. A creation of the hetero world, speed dating is a relatively recent social phenomenon, no doubt a result of the increasingly fast, multitasked American lifestyle. Instant gratification no doubt has its advantages when you’re trying to deal with work, Atlanta traffic, a somewhat limited lesbian bar scene and stand-offish dykes.

In an episode of Logo TV’s Big Gay Sketch Show last season (episode 101), a spoof of lesbian speed dating was about the funniest skit I’ve ever seen. In it, two lesbians complete an entire relationship in the short window they are given to “speed date.” The characters move in together, adopt cats, fight, cheat and break up in just three minutes. Now that is taking U-hauling to a whole new level. It’s probably worth attending Girls Gone Pride’s event, if only to see how dykes, stereotypically fast in moving from a meet to a marriage, deal with the speed-dating movement in real life. The February speed dating event will be held at Birdi’s in Decatur, starting at 6:30 p.m. There’s a $5.00 registration fee. For more information, you can check out Girls Gone Pride’s myspace page.