Capital Rainbowfest, the annual Trenton Gay Pride event, will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 1 to 6 p.m. in Trenton’s picturesque and historic Mill Hill Park. A $5 donation is requested. Capital Rainbowfest VI  features live music and entertainment, a beer garden, a street festival, a wide variety of food and drink, a kidspace activity area, dozens of merchants and artisans, many business services and over 20 community organizations, central Jersey's largest display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will also be on available for viewing.

Capital Rainbowfest VI to Pride Festival Program guide

Capital Rainbowfest (CRI) will be a bigger and better gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed (GLBTI) Pride Festival in Trenton New Jersey than ever before. Your business or service in addition to being there on Sunday, September 14, 2008 in Mill Hill Park in downtown Trenton, New Jersey may also participate year-round with advertising support in our central New Jersey Pride Festival Program Guide.  The  booklet will have a full color cover and will be filled with information about the full day of events at Capital Rainbowfest VI and all of the incredible and supportive business people in our area.

Festival goers will be checking out the guide throughout the afternoon and will be taking it home with them as a reminder of a great day in New Jersey's State Capital. The entertainment schedule and biographies on the entertainers will be included as well as information on the sponsors and the history of the event since its early beginnings as a neighborhood picnic for the GLBTI community.

We are expecting over 2,000 people to this years  event. Your advertising in this great festival guide will show your support of  the many volunteers and festival organizers and of the entire GLBTI community.  To be inlcluded, you need to respond before August 20, 2008 to be included in the festival guide.

Capital Rainbowfest VII Event Program Book Advertising information and prices.

Please print this frame, circle the size of your ad, and mail with a check or money order today to:  CRI Inc., PO Box 299, Trenton, NJ 08602-0298. Your ad can then be sent by electronic email to outinjersey@earthlink.net with CRI Ad in the subject line or can be enclosed with your payment.  The deadline is August 20, 2008 for your postmark on your envelope.  No ads can be placed without payment by mail.

If you have any other questions about advertising in the festival guide, please call Out in Jersey, our festival guide media sponsor at 609-213-9310.

ARCHIVED NEWS FROM 2005 Capital Rainbowfest IV is below:

Capital Rainbowfest IV  To Cast Colors Over Downtown Trenton
New Jersey's Fall Pride Classic Returns to Mill Hill Park
September 18. Josh Zuckerman and Band Leads Unprecedented
Entertainment Line Up

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Trenton, August 18 -- Capital Rainbowfest IV, New Jersey's Classic Fall Pride Event, returns to Mill Hill Park for the fourth year this September 18 from noon until 6 p.m.

Vendors, exhibitors, food, fun and displays of interest to the gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual and intersexed (GLTBI) communities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania will again fill the park with festive cheer, while new attractions offer added appeal to both first-time and veteran visitors.

The festival is open to all; the $5 suggested donation supports the ongoing work of Capital Rainbowfest. Vendors, exhibitors, donors and volunteers are still being actively enlisted; please visit www.capitalrainbowfest.org to learn how you can support this 501(c)(3)-registered organization.

Trenton's first-ever GLTBI Pride Parade is the centerpiece of this year's celebration, according to Capital Rainbowfest's Vice President David Nixon. He promises the march, to include a women's motorcycle brigade, female impersonators, and many of the state's
GLTBI support and political groups, will be  "absolutely fabulous."

Then, as MC of the afternoon's entertainment, he will appear as Ms. Dhyana Nixon, introducing scheduled and special guests while offering her own unique interpretations of classic Motown, soul and disco hits.

The entertainment begins promptly at noon. Scheduled to appear are:

The New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus (www.njgmc.org): The Chorus strive through song and act to demonstrate and share our pride in themselves and their community. The men are from throughout Mercer county and the state.

LADYJAM (aka the Rev. LaDana Clark): A courageous entertainer on a mission, LADYJAM promotes good clean FUN using hip-hop music to deliver her heartfelt
anti-drug, anti-violence, anti-racism, and anti-smoking message. The Rev. LaDana Clark lives in Plainfield.

Pandora Scooter (www.pandorascooter.com): A Highland Park native, Pandora Scooter brings her high-energy spoken-word performance pieces back to Trenton, where
she is a favorite draw at the Trenton Q-Nite (www.tglca.com/page4.html) coffeehouse.

Then, live from New York City, it's Fagapalooza! (www.fagapalooza.com), featuring four of the always-evolving cast of Manhattan's longest-running queer music showcase. The Capital Rainbowfest IV edition of Fagapalooza! includes singer/songwriter Kris Landherr (www.krislandherr.com), techopoppers Rubberlegs (www.rubberlegs.com), gender-distender singer Yolanda (www.yolanda.net), and the goth-house musical stylings of *V*I*R*G*O* (www.intraxis.com/virgo/.

At 4 p.m., New Jersey's own Josh Zuckerman (www.joshzuckerman.com), just back from a whirlwind tour of Japan, will take the state with his band for a full 45-minute set. If you only got a taste of Josh at Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, come to Capital Rainbowfest for a bigger, more satisfying portion of this up-and-comer's powerful pop music.

Capital Rainbowfest IV ends the day with our friends Amy Schindler and Maire Tashjian, known to all as Virago (www.viragomusic.com). The duet consists of Amy calling an audience to attention with riveting vocals and bold acoustic guitar riffs. The songs come alive
with ethnic flair as Maire adds a variety of percussion instruments to them. Their instruments
include a full drum set, surdo, or Brazilian bass drum, conga drums, bells and ganzas or shakers.

PLUS: The CAPITAL RAINBOWFEST IV AFTERPARTY starts at 2 p.m. at BUDDIES PUB, 677 S. BROAD ST., TRENTON and runs until closing at 2 a.m. Enjoy complimentary food, faaabulous cocktails, and dancing until (almost) dawn!

And it's all in Trenton, on what has always been a beautiful Sunday afternoon in autumn. There's grass, shade, room to sit, short lines and plenty of parking. For directions, please visit www.capitalrainbowfest.org.

For more information, please contact capitalr@capitalrainbowfest.org, or send mail to CRI,
PO Box 299, Trenton, NJ 08602-0298

Media: For more information and story suggestions about how a small, dedicated band of GLTBI volunteers are helping to make Trenton a better city for everyone, please contact Dennis C. McGrath, Capital Rainbowfest PR Coordinator, at
denniscmcgrath@yahoo.com.
Capital Rainbowfest Steps Off
On Its Own
New 501(c)(3) Status Means Contributions to the Festival Are Now Tax-Deductible

For Immediate Release

Capital Rainbowfest, Inc. (CRI) is pleased to announce that it has officially filed with the Internal Revenue Service and incorporated as a stand-alone cultural and social entity. Previously, Capital Rainbowfest was a project of the Trenton Gay and Lesbian Civic Association; but with this new identity, Capital Rainbowfest can benefit from more favorable donation rules and insurance rates while its former parent, TGLCA, is relieved of fiscal responsibility and potential liability issues associated with the production of a world-class Pride Festival in the capital city of New Jersey.

What this means is that donors to Capital Rainbowfest can now deduct most or all of the value of their donations, which they were not able to do when making donations to TGLCA.

"This is exactly the same tax status under which most Pride Festivals operate," noted CRI Chair Tom Burns. "We were at a disadvantage because potential donors could go elsewhere to give and receive a valuable tax benefit in return for their generosity. Now, we have removed that particular obstacle."

Donors have asked TGLCA for this benefit for years, Burns added.

Because CRI's charter includes social and cultural activities, Burns said that Capital Rainbowfest itself may be just the beginning for more LBGTI-supportive activities in the greater Trenton/Mercer County."Rainbowfest isn't limited to Trenton civic issues. We can do things that TGLCA can't, or shouldn't."

The Capital Rainbowfest planning meetings take place every second and fourth Wednesdays at the offices of TGLCA, located at 986 S. Broad St (close to Chiacchio-Southview Funeral Home), Trenton. More information can be found at
www.capitalrainbowfest.org; or e-mail capitalr@capitalrainbowfest.org

The Capital RainbowFest mailing address is:

Capital RainbowFest, Inc.
PO Box 299
Trenton, NJ  08602-0298