The best plans to celebrate Pride in Buenos Aires
Casa Brandon is well known to foreigners visiting Buenos Aires who seek that beautiful vibe we have here: good energy, good company, and a feeling of home. Founded by Lisa Kerner, it is an indispensable space for Buenos Aires' queer culture.
Fun fact: it's an unclassifiable, affectionate space where there's always something happening.
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Time Out
30-06-2025
- Time Out
The best plans to celebrate Pride in Buenos Aires
LGBTIQ+ Cultural Center in Villa Crespo, home to Brandon for Equality. Since 2005, it has been an activist meeting point with shows, films, poetry, books, cycles, and community. They also support projects like Editorial Brandon, Brandon Records, and their queer library. Some of South America's most beloved singers, like Susy Shock, are a stable part of the lineup. Even John Waters shined here, visiting after a BAFICI screening at the 'pink little house.' Casa Brandon is well known to foreigners visiting Buenos Aires who seek that beautiful vibe we have here: good energy, good company, and a feeling of home. Founded by Lisa Kerner, it is an indispensable space for Buenos Aires' queer culture. Fun fact: it's an unclassifiable, affectionate space where there's always something happening.
The National
22-06-2025
- The National
Scotland's events in support of Pride go well beyond marches
On June 17, 1995, organisers expected only 500 people to turn up for the march along Princes Street, through the Old Town, up the Mound, where it finished in the Meadows with a festival. Now, three decades on, the events in support of the LGBT+ community in Pride Month go well beyond marches. Festival Fortnight is one of the annual pride events celebrated in Scotland. The two-week festival takes place all over the country and aims to encourage LGBT+ people to play sports, as well as try new things and be more active. Founded in 2010, Festival Fortnight's organiser LEAP Sports Scotland (Leadership, Equality and Active Participation) works to achieve greater inclusion for the LGBT+ community within sports. READ MORE: Thunderstorms and floods set to hit parts of Scotland as warning issued 'The original idea was just having some sort of concentrated time over Pride month to really bring the LGBTIQ+ sports community together, but also to give an opportunity to more mainstream sports to really open their doors and engage with the community,' explains Munro Stevenson, LEAP participation and engagement manager. 'When I say mainstream sport, I mean more sort of traditional sports clubs that are maybe a bit wider in scope, who maybe don't have as many LGBTIQ+ members, but the festival gives them a great opportunity to have pride-themed events or pride-themed open sessions to really welcome the LGBTIQ+ community into their spaces.' Festival Fortnight is running for the 11th year, with last year's events seeing a total of 2000 attendees at more than 100 events all over Scotland. This year's lineup has more than 120 events scheduled. The festival is open to all members of the LGBT+ community as well as its allies. It's designed so that age and experience or skill levels are not limiting factors to anyone, since inclusion is one of the main goals of the festival. Stevenson says: 'A lot of people just don't think sport is for them. Whereas initiatives like this and specific sort of LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces can really show them they can be themselves in a positive environment, and what we find is that it's a real great way of getting people back into sport and physically active.' Festival Fortnight offers a variety of activities, ranging from beginner classes, to sports-themed quizzes, mini leagues, sport swaps, film screenings and panels. 'I think it's really important to have these events in more rural communities, just, you know, particularly when the LGBTQ+ community aren't as visible as maybe they are in Glasgow and Edinburgh,' adds Stevenson. 'It's always great to see that kind of queer joy when people are, you know, climbing up hills up in the Highlands or engaging in their local communities, and I think these communities are really vibrant as well. So, it's just great to see them out there having a great time.' Festival Fortnight aims to remove many of the barriers preventing queer people from participating in sports, as well as increasing their visibility with sports and bringing attention to wider equality and human rights issues in sport. READ MORE: BBC officially axes documentary on Gaza doctors over 'impartiality' concerns Stevenson continues: 'You could find a really nice, lovely community group right on your doorstep that ends up being friends and people you can engage with and meet on a regular basis as well. 'I think it does a lot of awareness raising as well. So people can learn a lot about specific LGBTQ+ issues in sport.' Dundee Deuces, an LGBT+ tennis and pickleball club, was launched last year during Festival Fortnight and has grown to almost 70 members. Wesley Rennison, the club's welfare officer, says: 'It gives people a space where they can come and relax and enjoy. Be themselves and be social and not need to be on, constantly thinking, is it okay to be me in this space? They know as soon as they arrive, it's OK to be themselves in that space.' Rennison adds: 'That means that some of the exhausting defences that we have almost every day in our lives, we can just relax and not be tired out by those. 'If just for that two-hour session playing tennis or playing pickleball, or if people don't want to play, they come along and they just sit and chat.' Festival Fortnight doesn't just offer sporting activities, as Stevenson explains: 'We have film screenings and panels, for example. Pride football club ran a film screening. 'We also have the Glasgow Raptors, our inclusive rugby club – they're running a drag show next Friday night. So, you know, that's maybe a bit adjacent, but it's a rugby team putting on a drag show.' 'Obviously sports are very good for people's mental health as well as physical health,' Rennison adds. 'But actually, for me, it's about bringing people together in a space where they feel safe and secure. 'What we found is actually that the sport is almost incidental. Not completely incidental, but it's that they're being together, it's a sense of belonging.' The first pride march in Scotland took place nine years before the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act was passed and carried the feeling of pride paired with politics. Since then, Pride has grown throughout the country and is celebrated in many Scottish towns and cities, and in 2021, Scotland became the first country in the world to embed LGBT+ education into the curriculum. Festival Fortnight started on June 14 and will run until June 30, with events running all over the country. Three decades on, marches continue across Scotland, too.
Daily Mail
28-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Anguish in Oklahoma over plans to open enormous new Disney-style mega theme park
Locals and theme park enthusiasts are angered by the continuous delays and lack of communication about a $2.5billion Oklahoma theme park that is supposed to rival Disney's Magic Kingdom but is still not open. The American Heartland theme park in Vinita - located 65 miles East of Tulsa - is estimated to bring in nearly 5million patrons per year when it opens, according to its website. That is, if it ever opens. Many locals are beginning to think the expensive project will never come to fruition as development has been stalled, the open date has been delayed three years, and not a single announcement from the company has come in. In fact, the park's Facebook page hasn't even been updated in six months and many think that's a sign the project is underwater. 'I think it's an overambitious scam that will never be built,' Terri Lynn Coop, who used to live in Tulsa, told Another resident John Waters agreed telling 'It's not delayed. It's never going to happen.' The development of the theme park has hit many obstacles since it was first announced in July 2023 and broke ground in October of that year, including owing companies money Many feel similar to Coop and Waters, taking to the company's Facebook page to point out the lack of updates. 'Not a single post in six months, wow, that just kinda speaks volumes,' Daniel Hannaford wrote on Facebook. 'This park is NEVER gonna happen,' John B. DeHaas agreed. 'Keep blowing smoke,' Cara Bellew said. Many have begun questioning if the park has already gone 'belly up'. The park was set to open in Fall 2026, with its 750-RV area supposed to open in Spring 2025. They broke ground on the RV area in March 2024 and that's the last construction update the theme park - which is owned my Mansion Entertainment Group - put out on its Facebook page. However, in October, the company confirmed to News 2 Oklahoma that it was facing construction delays as it awaited approval for its new design plans. The theme park had to update its plans for the RV area to accommodate it being built on a flood zone, pushing the opening date out three years, according to the outlet. However, local Rich Lauchner doesn't believe them when they say it will open then. 'I've been in construction all my life. I know how long it takes to put these places in. I don't think they can do it in three years,' he told News 2 Oklahoma. 'I don't see it. They haven't even started on it yet.' However, some residents are still hopeful the park will open eventually and they'll get to enjoy it with their families. 'I am so hopeful that we will really see this come to fruition,' Lauren Losawyer wrote on Facebook. 'Praying all the Nay Sayers are wrong and this will be a great place for family fun for years to come.' Sarah Chamberlain, a longtime local, told News 2 Oklahoma: 'Nothing good is built overnight. 'We live in a world where everybody wants everything from a microwave, we drive thru, we want it now. And it's going to take some time I think for something good and big to come out of this.' The development of the theme park has hit many obstacles since it was first announced in July 2023 and broke ground in October of that year. A Canadian design firm, Forrec, said the park owed it $5.5milllion in unpaid invoices and field a lien in Craig County District Court in May 2024 for the money, according to Construction Drive. Kansas-based company, Crossland Construction, which was tapped to work on the RV park, also filed a claim against the theme park. Property owner OGB Holdings also said the park owes them $352,429 for labor, according the outlet. In May, it faced an additional setback when state legislators declined a $35million water and wastewater improvement plan, according to Construction Drive. has reached out to American Heartland and Mansion Entertainment Group for comment. With each new setback and delay, locals aren't too sure the large patch of land will ever rival the Happiest Place on Earth.
