An outdoor poolside photograph of partygoers at Mari Jean Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida on Sept. 13, 2026. Captured from behind, two men wearing cowboy hats and thong-style swimwear stand on a black walkway stage facing a pool deck decorated with blue-and-white balloon arches and large silver mirrored disco balls. On the left, a man in a beige cowboy hat turns slightly in profile, displaying full leg and body tattoos, while the man on the right wears a black cowboy hat. In the background, a performer poses on a raised stage near a yellow rubber duck prop beneath bright blue sun-shade sails and an overcast daytime sky.
Partygoers at Mari Jean Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida on Sept. 13, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker/Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

There are approximately 6,000 miles between Mykonos and the Mari Jean Hotel. That didn’t stop the St. Petersburg hotel and hotspot from hosting a big, gay, Greek pool party last Sunday. As part of the venue’s destination pool party series, a host of tanned torsos and bootyful catwalkers descended upon the venue as Veronica Foxx and friends entertained the crowd.

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This article appears in Sept. 10 – 16, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...

Dave Decker is a songwriter and photographer living in Tampa Bay.