Rainbow Boogie 2006 -- Montreal, July 28-31 -- World's First Gay Day at a Skydiving Dropzone

[mdrejhon 8]

Rainbow Boogie 2006 -- Montreal, July 28-31 -- World's First Gay Day at a Skydiving Dropzone!

WHO: Everyone is invited - all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered skydivers, and their straight friends!

WHEN: July 28-31st, 2006

WHERE: Nouvel-Air (30 mins from Montréal).
Yes! This is a dropzone sanctioned event!

OFFICIAL SITE: www.RainbowBoogie.com

I am one of the event organizers (and also the web designer) and we are currently in active talks with sponsors to help with things like loaning equipment and paying for ads. I have very good friends in the non-skydiving industry who is helping me market this event, but we can always use help/volunteers/media coverage. Contact me and the other organizers at info@rainbowskydive.com or through the website. The website is now up and running!

We have the Twin Otter confirmed (coming to Nouvel-Air, yay!) and three Beech-18 airplanes, so we have enough room to make this a big boogie. We already have enough tentative attendees to nearly fill a Twin Otter already, and we haven't even started advertising yet (adding ourselves to boogie listings, etc).

We have a few people booking airplane tickets already -- including a New Zealander, so this is already attracting attention. If this boogie interests you, don't miss it. There is DZ capacity to make this a fairly large boogie and we already have sponsors!

I have recruited a plane Load Organizer! Kirsten Johnson of www.skydivespaceland.com has tentatively agreed (schedule to be confirmed) to organize special jumps for attending experienced jumpers such as the World's Biggest Queer Formation Skydive, as well as the World's First Queer-SCR! Kirsten Johnson is a USPA AFF Instructor with accomplishments including Texas Skydiving League Medal Winner, National 8-Way Silver Metal, 4-Way Americas Cup Bronze Metal, Neches River Gold Cup, "Pink Mafia Sisters" member, and has lots of Wind Tunnel Time!

For your skydiver friends: www.RainbowBoogie.com
For giving to your whuffo friends: www.SkydiveGayDay.com
(Both point to the same website)

[Note: This message was posted with moderator permission. They agreed to watch this thread for any negative posts. If people wish to criticize or bash the "gay" aspect -- please go to the Speaker Corner or just leave us alone.]

[mdrejhon 8]

This is the Bonfire Thread on this topic (popular thread with many posts):
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2087291

[SkyDaemon 0]

Looking forward to it :-)

find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

[MarcieAlana 0]

Woo! Now if I could just find some other queer crwdogs... I can only think of one, right off.

CRW Diva #9
D-25905

[mdrejhon 8]

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Woo! Now if I could just find some other queer crwdogs... I can only think of one, right off.

I will be one by then (I am going to "CRW class" before then), and Martin will be.

We are attempting to negotiate a loan of some Lightning CRW rigs (or at least the canopies themselves). Keep tuned. We are keeping you CRWdogs in mind!

Also, I just got word that a gear store just offered gift certificates for use as prizes during our boogie. We'll add them to the Sponsors on the website. More details once things are finallized.

And keep tuned, we have other sponsors interested and negotiating with us for other things like freebies (free branded caps or T-shirts), and advertising, etc.

P.S.: To everyone: Don't forget to Register for Rainbow Boogie 2006 even if you are only interested and not sure you can make it. Your information will be kept confidential since we realize not everyone is out. Also mention in Comments section what kind of skydiving you are into (freefly, CRW, RW, etc). You don't have to register and you can just show up, but we would appreciate knowing how many burgers we need to buy for a free BBQ, and how many pilots we need for the day

[jump8r 0]

You go girls won't make it there but I'll try for 2007. Hope it's a great success.

Blue ones, Neil

[narcimund 0]

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Woo! Now if I could just find some other queer crwdogs... I can only think of one, right off.

My husband and I each have about 10 crw jumps and would love more, if you don't mind us being amateurs.

Raist says to edit this to add: "Assuming you're not a crazy loonie who's going to get us all KILLED!"

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[wmw999 2,447]

Something that was just posted in Bonfire probably bears repeating here: NouvelAir requires AADs, so make sure the rig you're jumping is so equipped.

Wendy W

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[mdrejhon 8]

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Something that was just posted in Bonfire probably bears repeating here: NouvelAir requires AADs, so make sure the rig you're jumping is so equipped.

Good reminder.

In case that is not possible, there are almost 30 rigs available for rental (Sabre's and Navigator's, all in Javelin containers), and you can always have fun with the people on the ground too!

Alternatively, get an older Cypres1 in its final 2 years for about $200-$400 used, they can be factory-checked and approved. There are a fair number of them in the dropzone.com Classifieds (button at top)

P.S. For anyone who just noticed this post, there are popular discussion threads about the Rainbow Boogie:
Bonfire Thread (Good) and Speaker Corner Thread (A sprinkle of Controversy)

[wmw999 2,447]

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Speaker Corner Thread (A sprinkle of Controversy)

We done hijacked that one now

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[mdrejhon 8]

Since the Bonfire (posted by me) and the Speaker Corner (posted by someone else) threads are so damn popular, we might as well close this less popular thread now. I kinda fell guilty about the cross post to the Bonfire, if it "looks" like one even though the message content are somewhat different.

(skymama, go ahead. But do it gently and nicely, please.)