Saturday, March 2, 2019

Today: Mardi Gras Carnival, 4 PM - 10 PM SLT

Second Pride is celebrating carnival on our virtual recreation of the Big Easy!  

Come join us with your most festive clothing! It's BYOB ("bring your own beads") if you have them! 
Today's Event Schedule

  •         4pm - 6pm:  DJ Nicco and Host Jai
  •         6pm - 8pm:  DJ Cole Delpiaz and Host John
  •         8pm - 10pm:  F-Squared 

Your Taxi:  Second Pride - Mardi Gras 2019 (SLurl)

There will be another celebration on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras). More on that later!

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The New Memorial For My Boys

When my, very much older (Oh he is so going to kill me for that!), brother Dejerrity surprisingly passed away last summer the need for a joint memorial arose for my late husband Ars, his and my brother Dej and (as we found when we cleared up Dej's parcel) Sterling, a k a Bobby, Dej's first husband and true love in SecondLife.

The old memorial which had stood for 8,5 years was starting to feel overwhelming and somewhat creepy, now that I was saner and calmer again. The question was where to place the new downsized memorial. As it happened The Laird's Gardner found true love and left his cabin, so a parcel was freed up, and after some discussion with my husband Tomais, we decided to move the memorial there.

The place is exactly where my and Ars "Quarreling Bench" used to stand (see my blogpost from 2011, The Quarreling Bench (url))
The new memorial site is on the east shore of the Southern Charm region and we have tried to make it a secluded place for the boys and those who visit with them. There is a bench for the visitors to sit on. The hanging lights on both sides of the memorial belong to Ars, who had left them hanging in the air when he passed away.

Tomais helped me and actually did most of the work under my benign leadership, which means that I approved of his excellent ideas from time to time.

I think my boys Ars and Dej would have approved. (I never knew Sterling as he had already passed away when I rezzed into SecondLife.)

Thursday, February 21, 2019

SP Board Meeting 02/16/2019 - Minutes Posted

To assist my dear sexy friend Cay (cayson.triellis) and my adorable husband Tomais, the minutes from the board meeting they attended and found bewildering, confusing or downright objectionable are now posted at the Second Pride website (url) under "Documents". This (url) is the direct link to the aforementioned document for the lazy buggers.

The minutes contain a lot of great news, here I will only mention a few select ones.

  • Second Pride is applying to become an LGBT+ Gateway to SecondLife. If approved by Linden Lab the organization would save USD249 per month in tier and can reduce its costs - thereby being able to donate more to charitable LGBT+ causes in first life.
  • Changes in the mission statement of the Bylaws accepted by the board, to be voted on by the Membership.
  • Members are - as has been mentioned in a previous post - invited to contribute with their ideas on an updated logo for Second Pride, a theme for the Festival in June, and additional services they would like from Second Pride.
  • The 15th annual Second Pride Festival will take place between June 14th and 23rd, 2019.
  • New and improved donation kiosks are now available.
Read all about it and more at greater length in the minutes!

P.S. The Build Director also promised Cay to consider reintroducing floats parade in the festival.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Second Pride Needs Your Talent & Insight

Second Pride is currently accepting submissions from the Membership (that’s you, or at least should be) in three areas. 

The areas are.
  1. New logo
  2. Theme for the festival in June
  3. Suggestions for other services that Second Pride can provide
Please take time to read the information at the Second Pride website (url) and even if you don’t think your idea is good enough, Second Pride wants to hear from you!

You will also find information on where to send your submissions there.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Second Pride, Board Meeting, Today 2 PM-3.30 PM, SLT

This is an open meeting and all members are welcome.

The tentative agenda of today's meeting can be found on the Second Pride website here (url).

Among other things, there will be a presentation of the ongoing discussions with Linden Lab about becoming an LGBT Gateway for SecondLife, a proposal for a new logo and much more.

Welcome, all!