Tabu bartender Larry Emeigh is running with his team in tomorrow's Cupid's Undie Run.

Tomorrow, while most of us are snuggled indoors away from the cold, 10 employees from Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar will be trotting around Fairmount — in their skivvies. The bar is participating in this year’s Cupid’s Undie Run, which benefits the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and team captain Freddy Shelley says a little Winter Weather Advisory isn’t going to stand in their way. ”This gives us a chance to do something outside as a group and to dress up and be goofy,” he says, “and, we didn’t want to wait for most of the other charity runs in October.”

Over the past few weeks, Shelley says the team has raised almost $4,000 for the run, making them the fifth-highest-earning local business in Philly. To generate funds, he says employees have reached out to friends via Facebook and several bartenders turned over their own earnings. “We’re always looking for fun opportunities to raise money. One bartender worked in his underwear for a few hours and donated all his tips.”

The one-mile run starts at 2 p.m. and it will loop around Eastern State Penitentiary. Team Tabu — the only all-gay business participating — shouldn’t be that difficult to spot. “We’re all wearing matching underwear, long red socks with white hearts, pink sunglasses and we’re going to paint little hearts on ourselves with body paint,” says Shelley. “Someone may go the cupid route and wear an adult-sized diaper.”

The deadline for donating is tonight at midnight. Currently the team is only $170 short of reaching the $4,000 mark. Click here if you’d like to donate.

UPDATE: Congrats to Tabu for blowing way past the $4,000 donation mark. By the time the midnight deadline rolled around last night, they racked up $4,960 for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Nice work!

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A month away from AIDS Fund’s 14th annual Black-Tie GayBINGO, the local nonprofit has announced it will present former State Representative Babette Josephs with its coveted Straight Person of the Year Award. The honor — which has previously been bestowed to folks like Governor Ed Rendell and Mayor John Street — recognizes straight allies in the community who have made significant contributions to the HIV/AIDS and/or the LGBTQ communities.

AIDS Fund says it was only a matter of time before Josephs, who was recently unseated by Brian Sims as representative of the 182nd Legislative District of Philadelphia, received the award, citing her “reputation as a lawmaker dedicated to supporting and advocating for LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS services. Josephs is one of the original members of the Pride of Philadelphia Election Committee and the Liberty City Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club. She made especially big waves in the late 1980s when she helped create a line item in the Pennsylvania state budget that allocated $1 million for HIV/AIDS preventative education and counseling. READ MORE