They're Playing Our Song
Orlando (Fla.)
Music--Florida
Dance--United States
A poster for the Orlando Gay Chorus (OGC) concert, “They're Playing Our Song.” The event was held at the Annie Russell Theater at Rollins College, located at 1000 Holt Avenue in Winter Park, Florida, on Saturday June 18, 2005, and Sunday, June 19, 2005. “They're Playing Our Song” was sponsored by a range of organizations, including the Walt Disney World Company, Air Tran Airlines, and Watermark. Tickets were $20 in advance through Urban Think, the Center and, orlandogaychorus.org. Tickets were $25 at the door. The poster is various shades of brown and beige and depicts an abstract piano above the scripted title of the show. Featured artwork includes the logos of the OGC, who were celebrating 25 years, and various OGC sponsors across the bottom of the poster. <br /><br />The Orlando Gay Chorus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts and humanitarian organization part of GALA Choruses. Founded on Valentines Day 1990, OGC is not only one of the largest mixed gay choirs in the United States at over 100 members, but they also boast four smaller ensembles that perform annual concerts, cabarets, and a whole host of community events like Come Out With Pride, Orlando Museum of Art’s Festival of Trees, and World Aids Day memorial services. In 2017, the group performed at over 105 events, including 15 performances for the first anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub tragedy. Members come from all walks of life and all sexual and gender orientations, including straight allies. OGC lives by the motto “Singing the World to a Better Place” and strives to use music to change attitudes and build a stronger community.
<a href="https://www.orlandogaychorus.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Gay Chorus</a>
Original color poster: University of Central Florida Special Collections, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="https://www.orlandogaychorus.org/" target="_blank">Orlando Gay Chorus</a>
image/jpg
eng
Still Image
Annie Russell Theatre, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
40 Years of the Parliament House
Orlando (Fla.)
Hotels--Florida
Tourism--Florida
Homosexuality--Florida
Gay culture--United States
Lesbian culture
AIDS (Disease)--Florida
HIV infections--United States
<em>40 Years of the Parliament House</em> is a documentary film about the history of the Parliament House, a gay resort located at 410 North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, Florida. The Parliament House Motor Inn chain was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by Ned Eddy, Sr. and his two sons, Ned Eddy, Jr. and James "Jimmy" Eddy. The Orlando Parliament House was a 120-room hotel and the first motor inn established by the chain. The inn was designed by Alan Berman and was built on Orlando’s Rock Lake by Hodes and Cumming Construction. Parliament House officially opened on February 11, 1962. Ned Eddy, Jr. served as the inn manager and his brother, Jimmy Eddy, was the manager of the cocktail lounge. <br /><br />With the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort in 1971, came the construction of hotels and motels on International Drive, leaving the Parliament House Motor Inn outside the tourist district. The motor inn soon became a hotspot for prostitution as the OBT area declined. By 1975, the Parliament House was near bankruptcy. On March 27, 1975, William G. Miller (d. 1987) and Michael Hodge (d. 1992) purchased the motor inn and converted it into a gay resort. A couple of years after the deaths of Bill Miller and Mike Hodge, the Parliament House was sold to Susan Unger and Don Granatstein in August of 1999. Unger and Granatstein began renovating the resort, which had been in decline since Hodge's death in 1992. Renovations were completed in 2000. The Parliament House again faced foreclosure in 2010 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 25, 2014. Stakeholders approved a $14-million debt relief plan in February of 2015.
Bain, David
Original 34-minute and 24-second motion picture: <a href="https://youtu.be/pV7jKjWtZuA" target="_blank"><em>40 Years of the Parliament House</em></a>: <a href="http://www.floridalgbtqmuseum.org/%20" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc.</a>, 2015.
<a href="http://www.floridalgbtqmuseum.org/%20" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida, Inc.</a>
Strack, Joel
Hodges, Rebecca
Caladrino, Tim
Hamlisch, Marvin
Barnard, Ken
Ba'aser, Doug
Barber, John
Bebout, Vicki
Granatstein, Don
Lape, Bill
Studdard, Ron
Tilmon, Willie
Unger, Susan
Wanzie, Michael
<a href="http://ideasorlando.com/" target="_blank">IDEAS</a>
application/website
eng
Moving Image
Parliament House Resort, Orlando, Florida