The Skittle Squad Podcast

The Skittle Squad Podcast

Welcome to The Skittle Squad Podcast โ€“ Your Go-To Source for LGBTQ+ News, Events, and Laughter in Tampa Bay! The Skittle Squad Podcast, is a bold and vibrant new voice in the Tampa Bay LGBTQ+ community! Hosted by David Smith and Paul Fifer, in their show this dynamic duo covers the hottest topics, must go to local events, incredible nonprofit organizations, and promotion of LGBTQ+ safe spaces and businesses, all while serving up humor, insight and uncensored conversation. Subscribe to The Skittle Squad Podcast and get ready to laugh, learn and celebrate all things LGBTQ+ in Tampa Bay!๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Episodes

July 9, 2025 โ€ข 39 mins

Tampa Bayโ€™sย Drag Brunch Divaย is in the building and sheโ€™s spilling tea, sharing truth, and reminding us why drag is so much more than a performance.

In this episode ofย The Skittle Squad Podcast, weโ€™re joined by the award-winningย Brianna Summersโ€”business owner, entertainer, advocate, and creator of one of Tampa Bayโ€™s most iconic drag brunch entities.ย 

From surviving an abusive relationship to using drag as a lifeline for mental health...

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In this episode of theย Skittle Squad Podcast, we sit down withย Dee Rose, founder ofย FAMLeague Sports & Entertainment, Tampa Bayโ€™s go-to league for inclusive sports, events, and community connection.

We talk leadership, laughter, and what it means to build a space whereย everyoneย feels like they belong. From organizing kickball games and cruises to creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ folks and allies, Dee opens up about the power of s...

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ย Happy Pride, yโ€™allโ€”weโ€™re back!

Season 2 of the Skittle Squad Podcast is officially here, and weโ€™re kicking things off with celebration, connection, and some unforgettable stories (including our trip to Alcatrazย ).

In this premiere episode, weโ€™re joined by the one and only Alice Marie Grippโ€”educator, advocate, and fierce drag performerโ€”whoโ€™s out hereย changingย lives both on stage and in the classroom. We talk about everything from bat...

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In the season 1 finale of The Skittle Squad Podcast, we take a look back on a wild ride through 13 powerful, hilarious, and heart-opening episodes. From finding our flow as co-hosts to navigating vulnerable conversations about mental health, business, and identity, we reflect on a successful first season.


Weโ€™re joined by beloved community leaders David Fisher and Lee Manuel, two visionaries behind St. Peteโ€™s vibrant LGBTQ scene ...

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How the president of ๐’๐ญ. ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž is transforming advocacy by uniting activists, nonprofits, and alliesโ€”and why fitness fuels the revolution.


In this powerful and uplifting episode of The Skittle Squad Podcast, we sit down with ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐๐ฒ๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง-๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐กโ€”educator, CrossFit coach, nonprofit founder, and president of St. Pete Pride, Floridaโ€™s largest Pride organization. Amidst a statewide assault on LG...

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๐–๐ก๐ฒ "๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ" ๐๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญโ€”๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐”๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ


Can you build unshakable financial security as an LGBTQ+ person in todayโ€™s volatile world? Dean Hershkowitz, a seasoned financial advisor and advocate for queer economic empowerment, joins The Skittle Squad Podcast to tackle the hard questionsโ€”from market crashes ...

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๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ฆโ€”๐˜ช๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ


Meet ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ, the visionary leader transforming Tampa Bay's LGBTQ+ business landscape one connection at a time. As President and CEO of the Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber, Rene brings a powerhouse of experience from six different chambers across Texas and Florida to unite our sprawli...

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๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž & ๐‘๐ž๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐€ ๐‰๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ง ๐…๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ


๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐†๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ โ€“ How a Queer Artist Turns Heartbreak into Radiance (Nose Job Included!)


How do you paint resilience in every color of the rainbow? Meet ๐‘๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฎโ€”the Filipino singer-songwriter and LGBTQ+ beacon who turned loss into lyrics, stereotypes into sparkle, and even turning rhinoplasty int...

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๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก โ€“ How Skincare, Holistic Healing, and Unshakable Resilience Can Transform Your Life


Can adversity fuel your greatest comeback? In this powerful episode of ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐’๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐๐จ๐๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ, meet ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ ๐†๐ข๐›๐ฌ๐จ๐งโ€”a holistic health coach and skincare expert who turned a lifelong battle with acne into a mission to heal others. From corporate burnout to b...

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From surviving COVIDโ€™s wreckage to photographing Drag Race royaltyโ€”how a Black queer artist from Plant City turned trauma into frames that set the standard.


Meet ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง ๐‹๐ž ๐’๐ก๐š๐๐žโ€”Tampa Bayโ€™s award-winning queer photographer, RuPaulโ€™s Drag Race collaborator, and unapologetic voice for underrepresented performers. In this raw, riotous episode, Morgan reveals how he went from a novice with a camera to a force reshaping ...

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๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒโ€”๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

Meet ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ ๐†๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐งโ€”co-host of ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐  ๐†๐š๐ฒ ๐‘๐š๐๐ข๐จ ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐ง ๐–๐Œ๐๐… 88.5 FM, award-winning activist, and the literal reason The Skittle Squad Podcast exists. In this electrifying episode, the 24-year-old political science major proves that age is just a number when it co...

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๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ข ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜บ, ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ขโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏโ€”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฑ-๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ.


๐Ÿ”ฅ What would Rockell do? ๐‡๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ, ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ž ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ฌโ€”๐Š๐ˆ๐‚๐Š ๐‡๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐„๐‘.

Drag legend ๐‘๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ (18-year drag veteran, 30-year professional dancer, and T...

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๐‘๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐€๐ง ๐‹๐†๐๐“๐+ ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ซ๐ญ, ๐‡๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž & ๐”๐ง๐š๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐‰๐จ๐ฒ


๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต, ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฎ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ "๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ" ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜จ "๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด". ๐ŸŽจโœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿฆฉ


Award-winning entrepreneur, travel disruptor, and comedic force ๐‘๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ (๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ๐‚๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ.๐œ๐จ๐ฆ)...

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๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐“๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐šโ€™๐ฌ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ (๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐‡๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ซ๐ญ)


๐ŸŽ™๏ธ "Iโ€™m the Beyoncรฉ of Broadway Drag" โ€“ Meet ๐•๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š ๐…๐จ๐ฑ๐ฑ, Tampaโ€™s fiercest performer and Watermark Award-winning queen! In this electrifying episode of โ The Skittle Squad Podcastโ , Veronica reveals:


๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข...

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๐ŸŒˆ ๐„๐๐ˆ๐’๐Ž๐ƒ๐„ ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„: ๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐€๐›๐ข ๐๐ข๐ฑ โ€“ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐›๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐‚๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ŸŒˆ


๐ŸŽ™๏ธ "The world needs your messy, imperfect, glorious self."


In this powerful episode, ๐€๐›๐ข ๐๐ข๐ฑโ€”The Emo Cabaret producer, youth mentor, and queer iconโ€”gets real about:


๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž: From eating disorder recovery to creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ artists

๐ŸŽธ ๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ ๐ค๐ข๏ฟฝ...

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๐ŸŒˆ ๐’๐Ÿ๐„๐Ÿ: ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž, ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ & ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž: ๐‹๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐’๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐๐จ๐๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž!


Welcome to the very first episode!


Join hosts David and Paul as they sit down with Claire Elisan, founder of ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐‹๐š๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ, to discuss:


๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Holistic mental health care for the LGBTQ+ community (itโ€™s not just therapy!)


๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ How Project No Labels h...

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