SPL SPOTLIGHT
16 StPeteLifeMag.com March/April 2020
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the town’s rich heritage of art and a
vision towards an even more artistic
future. In June the town will unveil
a newly designed First Friday arts
event that has artists and locals
abuzz.
The annual Peace, Love & Pride
Festival takes place at the Historic
Casino Ballroom, the town’s entry
onto the National Register of
Historic Places and a landmark
anchor of both Beach and Shore
Boulevards to the serenely tranquil
bay along Gulfport Beach. To
say that Gulfport is an active and
visibly welcoming community for
the LGBTQIA+ crowd would be
true enough, though it seems to
somehow miss the point. Gulfport
welcomes all of its own and its
visitors to love and create in a free,
open and safe environment for
everyone, and the art produced here
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Laura Shepherd, far right, hosts a bi-weekly Facebook Live show from her Gulfport home.
Here she is interviewing members of the support group Operation Regroup.
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