While out of towners plan their Diversity Weekends months in advance, the event has a way of sneaking up on busy business owners. So this is a reminder.

Spring Diversity Weekend is this weekend, April 3-6.

The earliest scheduled events offer gay and gay-friendly business owners the opportunity to meet and mingle with and hand out their business cards to visitors who will be shopping downtown later--and in the months and years to come.

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Harold Ellis, a member of the Mayor's Tourism Task Force, has conveyed an invitation to gay and gay-friendly businesses from the Pine Mountain Jamboree.

«Mike Bishop has invited all LGBT business owners and our supporters in Eureka Springs to attend his show at the Pine Mountain Jamboree on Wednesday, April 9th at 8 p.m.. We are also welcome to attend the pre-show that starts at 7:30. I think those of you who have not attended one of these shows will be pleasantly surprised.

Mike is extending the invitation as his guests. That means free!

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Get a Domestic Partnership Certificate --FREE--and reap special rewards from Eureka Springs businesses

Good things come in pairs, right? Like Domestic Partners. Spring Diversity Weekend, April 4-6, is the perfect time for loving couples to get their official Domestic Partnership Certificate from the City of Eureka Springs. There is no residency requirement.

And, as usual, Gay News Bureau will pick up the tab for the first three couples who--on April 3 or 4 only--take advantage of the only Domestic Partnership in Arkansas. Couples from 11 other states have already done so since the law went into effect in June 2007. In all, 156 couples have been officially recognized by the City of Eureka Springs since then.

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It's springtime, and the Gay News Bureau staff has been suffering from a variety of strains of spring fever.

Zeek is circling the globe, working on his art, and preparing for his gig as editor of ionArt Magazine. The last time we heard from Yip, he was working the C-Shift in rubber gloves, paper booties and a hairnet. (Hot? Or not? Readers: weigh in.)

Some of us are in the grips of a simple little home renovation that started with fixing a toilet that wouldn't stop running--which has now morphed into a whole house unravel that makes it impossible to sleep, bathe, cook, launder or get away from it all by sitting on the piers-in-space we used to call our «deck.» (Don't ask. We're a little touchy.)

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Eureka Springs, AR: Simply, The Place To Be...Really!

The Eureka Gras - Mardi Gras Extravaganza is without a doubt the most outrageous event in Eureka Springs, second only to Diversity!

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(EUREKA SPRINGS, AR) – Members of The Royal Barony of All Oklahoma will venture from their own realm to make multiple appearances on Friday, February 1 and Saturday, February 2 at the Eureka Gras Extravaganza weekend events.

Friday, Her Regal Highness Czarina I Kris Kohl and her royal court will be delivered by Eureka Springs Limousine to the Grand Kostume Masque Ball at the Basin Park Hotel. Eureka Springs TV will be on hand to record for later broadcast the 7:45 p.m. arrival of the royal procession, including Grand Marquis Roger Francis, Grand Marquesa Dominique LaRue, Lord Knight Protector Marc Acuff and First Lady in Waiting Miranda Ray.

On Saturday at 2 p.m., members of the Barony will «dress-out» in royal garb and crown jewels and join the Krewe of Wobniar («rainbow» spelled backward) for the Eureka Gras Parade at 2 p.m.

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Wow. All we can say is WOW !

First, we'd like to thank the Academy..whoops, wrong organization. We'd like to thank the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC), the tourism CO-OP headed up by the guru general manager of Eureka's Historic Hotels, Rev Phillip aka Flip Wilson, Rev. Vernon Payne, Randy Wolfinbarger of the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks, Marvin Peterson of the Great Passion Play (the Jesus story thing, not the gay men's board game).

Most of all, we would like to thank the American Family Association (AFA) for their generous donation of time, money, and endless never-ending hate of homosexuals to produce a full color, 28 minute (with lots of pretty pictures of Eureka Springs) travelogue movie about how Eureka Springs is being overrun with gays, lesbians, bi's, trans, and their friends and families. It's the greatest gay tourism promotion video we've ever seen.

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(Eureka Springs, AR)--The first and only Domestic Partnership Registry in the Arkansas continues to attract couples from around the state and nation. Last week, 13 couples joined the registry, 12 of them on Friday, Nov. 2, opening day of the city's annual Fall Diversity Weekend.

Gay New Bureau paid the $35 application fee for three randomly-chosen couples: Leah Smith and Rebecca Brown, and Heather Hodges and Brandi Willingham, all of Claremore, OK, and Darci Bohneblust and Jolene Hickman of Riley, KS. To mark the occasion, the couples also received gift bags with top hats and veils from eurekapride.com, free weekend transportation from Eureka Springs Limousine and discounts from local merchants and inn keepers.

Birds of a Feather: Leah Smith and Rebecca Brown flank City Clek MJ Sell

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Plus, money-saving offers from local businesses for new Domestic Partners

If you plan on taking advantage of the only Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas during your Diversity Weekend visit, let GayNewsBureau.com pick up the tab.

For the first three couples to register at city hall at specific times between October 31 and November 2, Gay News Bureau will pay the $35 application fee.

Here's how it works: Be the first in line at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31 or Thursday, November 1 to get a Domestic Partnership certificate on us. Or, be the first in line on Friday, November 2 between 10 and noon.

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