Blog – Page 6 – Philly AIDS Thrift

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Brooks

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? I work here full-time as the Clothing Manager.

How long have you been working at Philly AIDS Thrift? Four years.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here? Umm…My soul. S-O-U-L, soul.

What do you like most about our store? Our cause. Our mission which is to raise funds for HIV and AIDS organizations in the city that support awareness, prevention and healthcare.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod? I Need Air – Magnetic Man.

What’s your least favorite mode of transportation? The bus.

How good a swimmer are you? Pretty good!

What would you name the autobiography of your life? “What the F*** is this S***?!”

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate. I’d say it’s worth more than that, because every time I look at a picture of you I have about fifty thousand!

He’s such a charmer!

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Stephen

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? I shop and work here.

How long have you been working at Philly AIDS Thrift? About six months.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

My favorite thing I bought here is this great sweatshirt with whales on it that I really like.

What do you like most about our store?

I love the people that work here, the people that volunteer here and the people who shop here.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod? Top played

song?

Probably some old fiddle tune that I listened to fifty times so I could get it just right when I was learning it.

Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed? I do not have a closet.

Which are better Legos or Lincoln logs, and why?

Legos because they have Star Wars versions.

What’s your lucky number? 27

What was the last bone you broke and how did it happen? I think I broke a finger once. Do eyes count as bones because my eye got broke once. I think I was in a hot tub or something and I got a scratch and it got infected. I don’t think I’ve broken a bone really that badly except for a finger, but I don’t even want to think about that because breaking a finger would be terrible for as a musician and I don’t want to consider the possibility.

Getting to know you…

April 26, 2013

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Chris

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? Shop and Donate

How long have you been coming to Philly AIDS Thrift? Two years.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

A vintage Laurence Kazar sequenced jacket. I paid thirty five dollars for it and originally back in the late eighties, it would have been something that you paid like two hundred dollars for.

What do you like most about our store?

The amazing finds. I always find the rarest things and the coolest stuff. Some of my best pieces in my closet I got here.

What’s

the #1 top played song on your iPod?

You guys are gonna think it’s a little corny, but she’s my favorite. I play Jennifer Lopez, Feelin’ so good.

Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?

Yes, yes I do and whatever else…the free coffees!

Who was your high school

crush?

Haha I like a lot of people! Hmm…I had a big thing for Bruno Mars. That’s when he was first coming out, my senior year.

What occupation did you want to be when you were a kid?

Fabulous! I’ve achieved it!

If you could have a private audience with Mayor Nutter, what would you talk to him about?

About really shaping up the city, there’s a lot of things that light needs to be shed on, like the crime.

Getting to know you…

April 19, 2013

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Mike B

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? All of the above!

How long have you been with Philly AIDS Thrift? Almost a year.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

My family portrait of the Dukes of Hazzard (in photo). Although I really wish I had bought that Chair Aerobics VHS.

What do you like most about our store?

The electronics and music and DVDs! And the love.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod?

Little fugue in G minor for organ. If

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this iPod’s a Bach-in, don’t come a knockin!

What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?

Batman. Superman. Scary ghost. Give me candy.

Who really killed Kennedy?

I don’t know, but I take comfort in the fact that he never lived to see Dancing With The Stars.

As a follow-up question, who, then, is responsible for killing the radio star?

Everyone blames video, but I say it was print.

And finally, if you could cast out one state from the Union, which would it be and why?

Maryland. Worst. Drivers. Ever.

Mazzoni Center Announces 2013 Elixir Honorees

April 13, 2013

Three of Philly’s LGBTQ community’s “leading ladies” will

be recognized at this year’s event.

Originally posted on http://blogs.phillymag.com/gphilly by Josh Middleton on 4/15/2013 at 1:22PM

Three hard-working women behind Philly’s LGBTQ community will be honored at the Mazzoni Center’s 2013 Elixr event. Themed “Leading Ladies,” the Center’s Elisabeth Flynn says the evening is “both a nod to the outstanding women we’ve chosen to honor with our various awards … and a reflection of what we’re raising money for, which is expanded women’s health services at Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine. And the honorees are:

Dean of the Drexel University School of Public Health Marla Gold (pictured, right) will receive the big-momma Peter Mazzoni Award for her “pioneering achievements and contributions to HIV care and public health in Philadelphia, and her advocacy on behalf of LGBT health and wellness.” Since she became dean in 2002, Gold’s LGBTQ-centric accomplishments include launching the school’s Program for LGBT Health and an online LGBT health certificate program.

Philly AIDS Thrift co-founder Christina Kallas-Saritsoglou will receive the 2013 Ally Award and Police Liaison Committee Member Jaci Adams will take home the 2013 Activist Leader Award.

The event will take place on Sat., May 18 at Loews Philadelphia hotel and will include all your usual gala-type trimmings — an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and a buffet. Vocal trio Hotsy-Totsy and DJ Carl Michaels will provide the musical accompaniment. For more information and to buy tickets, check out mazzonicenter.org.