SUNDAY, 4PM SLT – the final encore presentation of The Love Ball only at Second Pride Glitter & Gore 2024 presented by Grant Valeska! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Second%20Pride%20East/137/87/42	Click the link in the menu above for the full schedule

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The Back to the 80s Second Pride 2024 Wrap Party is going on now! Full schedule below.
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Friday
2-4pm DJ Lucifer & Host Karmel – Hottest Club Cuts & Remixes
4-6pm DJ Emz & Host Reky – Weekend Warm-Up
6-8pm DJ Averil & Host Ed – The Oxygen Show
8-10pm DJ Tim – Rockin’ Into The Night

Saturday
8-10am DJ Mordecai & Host Christa – Saturday Morning Cartoon Party
10am-12pm DJ Joc & Host CountryGal
12-2pm DJ Juliet
2-4pm DJ Lucifer & Host Joyce – Best Of Club Cuts & Remixes
4-6pm DJ Hads & Host Bri – Calling You Back To The 80s
6-8pm DJ Angelo & Host Stefanie – 80’s Late Skate!
8-10pm DJ Rock & Host R’ryvnn – Rockin’ Saturday Night

Sunday
10am-12pm DJ Sonic & Host Keri – Disco Magic
12-2pm DJ Jan & Host Devamayi
2-4pm DJ Mia & Host Kathryn – Sunday Retro Party
4-6pm DJ Raye & Host Reky – Undie Sunday Beach Party
6-8pm DJ JMichael & Host Kathryn
8-10pm Movie Night: Nimona (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fuHRyQbOc)

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It has been an amazing 10 days, and it all comes to an end (for now) today/tonight! It’s a full day of fabulous performers, culminating in The Love Ball and closing party brought to us by Grant Valeska! Come show your colors with us all day and celebrate ALL the performers, sponsors, vendors and others that have so generously given their time, energy, and funds to make this happen!

Second Pride will return with Glitter & Gore 2024 in October, so if you want to volunteer, sponsor, or support in any other way, contact us! Planning begins almost immediately. Performers and Hosts will be able to sign up in September! The theme of “Love…it’s all we need” will continue through the 2024-2025 season!

The Second Pride regions are open all year round. All the stores, tents, beach booths, rides, photo ops…EVERYTHING is available to you year-round. Want to have a party at Second Pride? Just contact us and we’ll hook it up! Have an LGBTQ+ club or organization that needs a place to meet? We can help with that too!

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Updated June 30th

Total Raised at Second Pride 2024: L$ 2,921,019

That’s $10,577 USD! And we’re not done yet!

Thank you to the following for throwing benefit events for Second Pride 2024!
If you want to do a benefit before, during, or after Glitter & Gore 2024, talk to us!

Synnergy Pre-Pride Party
Back to the 80s Second Pride 2024 Wrap Party
Nocturnal Soul MC Event
Veil of Night Pride Festival
Land of Tru Colors Nude Skin Sunday Benefit

Thank you to the donors at the encore performance of Lady Gaga – The Love Ball for pushing our total even higher! Donations at ALL kiosks through June 30th will be added to the total.

This post will be updated with new totals periodically. There is also an accounting update available here which will be revised some time after June 30th.

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Full schedule will be posted on this site very soon!

And the closer on the 16th is going to be AMAZING!

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Edited May 20th, 2024 for clarity around what charities Virtual Hope provides services for in Second Life, and to define more clearly the holdup with Tilia.

Donations are made directly through Virtual Hope and Tilia. Our donations and funds are held much more accountable now than ever in the past, since the requirement is that a third party, Virtual Hope, processes them, and Tilia themselves does the wire transfers. This requirement was established by Linden Lab, and Virtual Hope also handles all donations to American Cancer Society. These donations would be verifiable by both Virtual Hope and Tilia since they processed them, in addition to the acknowledgement letters from the charities themselves.

Donations are logged in not one but two ways. We keep copies of the Linden transaction logs monthly and the kiosks provide a log of all donations, which is why we require donations not be made to any person or avatar but only to a kiosk. It’s all tracked properly this way.

Now the not-so-great news. Three donations are waiting on Tilia to move forward. We are waiting on Tilia to authorize the charity accounts to sell their Linden on the LindeX. Once that is done, we once again will be waiting on Tilia to actually process the wire transfers.

The funds are secure and well-documented. Tilia has consistently been a source of pain in processing donations, and they continue to be. Derrick Linden and Virtual Hope are both working to try and cut through the red tape, and we expect these to be sent in the near future.

These are the donations currently holding due to Tilia:

$ 4,513 USD for LGBTQ Freedom Fund – L$ 1,259,861
– this is from last June

$ 4,513 USD for It Gets Better Project – L$ 1,259,861
– this is from last June

$ 2,854.57 for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS – L$ 807,801
– this is from Halloween 2023, Holidaze 2023, and Mardi Gras 2024 combined.

All other donations have been completed and acknowledged. The amounts going back several years are listed along the left side of the website. Acknowledgement letters/receipts are posted in the main thread here but are scattered throughout. We will work on gathering those in on place under documents in the next week or two. UPDATE: This has been completed…acknowledgements from the charities are now available back to 2019 under “Documents” from the top menu.

Additional information:

Current balance in the Second Pride account: L$ 3,975,649

L$ 18,000 of this has been donated toward Second Pride 2024 from new vendors.

Subtracting the donations above that are waiting to be delivered, that leaves a General Fund balance of: L$ 630,126, which is slightly less than we have carried for many years now. This number fluctuates slightly due to expenditures for decor, etc. but remains in the 600K-700K range. Yes, these funds are accounted for in the Bylaws, and would be donated in the event of a crisis. They would go to the last charity that we raised funds for at the time.

Also, Tilia’s rules even make it INCREDIBLY difficult to set up a new charity to receive donations from us. We have not chosen the charity for June 2024 yet, but will announce it, or them, soon. We will likely be supporting one of the charities already set up that we have raised funds for recently rather than trying to get a new charity or charities pushed through. This is not a bad thing, as they are all worthy recipients of our member’s help.

As always, feel free to contact me, Tootsie, or Petr directly if you have questions. Posting anonymously on random, potentially malicious websites is not the best way to get questions answered in a direct and timely manner. We are always available.

Lee McKay
Chairman
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