Tucson Observer

Please join Reveille for their production of “Our Holiday Memories.”

Sit back and relax as Reveille takes you on a sentimental journey to the holidays of years gone by. Reveille members will share their photos and memories from their own personal holidays growing up, intermingled with songs of the season, sung in that gorgeous Reveille style. There will be laughter and tears as they travel down memory lane. Make Reveille’s holiday concert one of your holiday traditions.

Our Holiday Memories – Saturday, December 5 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, December 6 at 3:00 p.m. Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 East Adams Street, Tucson.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $10 students with I.D. or $20 at the door, and may be purchased from any Reveille member, online at www.reveillemenschorus.org, Antigone Books or by calling Reveille at (520) 304-1758.

Turnabout for TIHAN is an annual show put on by Tucson’s GLBT clubs and their bar staff. The staff request donations from their friends and customers in order to do a “turn-about” from male to female (or vice versa) and put on a fabulous show to benefit the work of TIHAN, the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (www.tihan.org)

The doors open at 5 p.m., and the show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. The evening also features a raffle.

Join us for Turnabout, featuring emcees Bunny Fufu and Janee Starr, along with your favorite bar staff in drag from participating bars (IBT’s, Woody’s, Colors, Coyote Moon Pub).

Event Details: Turnabout for TIHAN, tonight, September 6, 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Doubletree Hotel at Reid Park (445 South Alvernon Way).

Tucson Pride has announced the Grand Marshal’s for the 2009 Pride Parade to take place, Friday, October 9.

Organizers announced that Margaret Cho will be this year’s Celebrity Grand Marshal. Revered for her crass in-your-face style, Margaret Cho burst onto the scene in 1994 with her sitcom All American Girl and has since become one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed comedians of our time. In 1999, she chronicled her legendary struggles with network executives over her weight and ethnicity into a groundbreaking one-woman show, I’m the One that I Want, praised by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “Great Performances of the Year!” Margaret is currently starring in the all-new comedic drama series, Drop Dead Diva, on Lifetime, Sundays at 9pm ET/PT. Her latest stand up concert film, Beautiful, is airing on Showtime and will be available on DVD on November 17th. Tucson Pride is very excited to welcome Ms. Cho to the event. Margaret Cho will perform later that same evening at the Rialto Theatre.

This year’s Community Grand Marshal, Organizers said, is Desert Voices. Just ending their Platinum Season in Tucson, Desert Voices is an inclusive chorus organized to provide the opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) and supportive others to sing together in order to build community within & outside the chorus through our love of music; produce shows that are entertaining and musically excellent; perform music that reflects the lives of the LGBT community; promote an ongoing, positive presence and advance social change in the larger society.

This year’s Parade is moving back to 4th Avenue. The Parade begins at 6:00pm and will wrap up with a block party featuring some of this year’s Pride in the Desert entertainers as well as a surprise performance to be announced in September. Ms. Cho will join Desert Voices, this year’s Community Grand Marshal, for what is certain to be an evening full of pride and fun.