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Pride in Sports What Makes Us Champa Bay Local sports teams celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion! Three professional sports teams which call Tampa Bay home are champions not only within their respective sports, but also in matters of inclusion. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Drawing on the strength of the diverse region, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers strive…

Things to Do in Tampa Bay Can’t-Miss Events in Tampa Bay LGBTQ+ Community Members’ Volunteer Day Each year, the Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber selects a local nonprofit member around the holidays to partner with for our Members’ Volunteer Day to give back to our community. In 2021, our members donated over 200 meals to Feeding…

Best of Tampa Bay: Beaches Beaches St. Pete Beach was recently listed as Tripadvisor’s No. 1 Beach in the United States in 2021. Featuring a friendly, laid-back beach town with a beautiful waterfront view, St. Pete Beach is home to County Park Beach, Pass-a-Grille Beach and the popular Upham Beach. Treasure Island Beach, known as an LGBTQ+ friendly beach,…

Best of Tampa Bay: Sarasota Sarasota With respect ingrained as one of the city’s values, Sarasota is a community committed to encouraging diversity in all its forms. Originally home to Native Americans who settled around 10,000 years ago, the land which is now known as Sarasota was discovered by the Spanish in 1513. Spanish maps…

Best of Tampa Bay: Tampa Tampa The third largest city in Florida, Tampa has a history as diverse as its residents. In 1886, Vicente Martinez Ybor established his cigar factory in Tampa. From the steps of the factory, Jose Marti, the so-called “George Washington” of Cuba, led the cigar workers to take up arms against…

Best of Tampa Bay: St. Petersburg St. Petersburg A melting pot of people and cultures, St. Petersburg formed from those setting up homesteads during the 1830s. After the Civil War, more settlers arrived, including the area’s first Black settlers, John Donaldson and Anna Germain, in 1868. John Constantine Williams of Detroit, Michigan moved to Tampa…

Visit and Play in Tampa Bay Celebrating a Diversity of Culture As the heart of Florida’s Gulf Coast, Tampa Bay features the best of blue skies and sunshine, with a sparkling waterfront and a century’s worth of Cuban culture. Like most of the United States, the Tampa Bay area was home to generations of Indigenous…