Celebrate the end of Bear Season before their traditional winter hibernation. This Bear's Friday will be under the aegis of the biggest star of the LGBTQ+ community in the world, DALIDA. Join us for love songs, good wine (all LGBTQ+) and fabulous food!

Dalida is the  biggest gay icon in France and the Middle East. Her gay brother was her manager so she was always surrounded by LGBTQ+ folks. Many of her songs were inspired by her gay entourage. Dalida also had a very troubled life, which has endeared her to gay fans.

Dalida also had a knack for selecting the best, most innovative songs and creating amazing musical arrangements to showcase them. With over 170 million records sold worldwide, Dalida's first hit "Bambino" spent a record-breaking 39 weeks at #1 in 1956. (Michael Jackson's 37 weeks at #1 with "Thriller" is a close second.) The Diamond Disc (for 10 million records sold) was created for Dalida in 1981 (not Elton John, as commonly reported). Yet she remains almost unheard of in the English-speaking world.