Seattle Gay News
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 08, Volume 40, February 24, 2012
Mike Acerbo, Gay Time for singer-songwriter, Kate Clinton releases debut album Comedian talks election,
pissing off right-wingers, and her responsibility to be political by Chris Azzopardi SGN Contributing Writer
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Mike Acerbo
by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor
ments of cellos, fiddles, piano, recorders, brass, and guitars, the album unwinds into a fairytale full of dark imagery, with an otherworldly feel that rivals that of Florence + the Machine. “I titled the album after a song that I wrote when I had conceived
Chris Azzopardi: What’s the focus of the All Fracked Up Tour? Kate Clinton: Isn’t that a great title? It’s not easy to be thinking in November what will work in February, because everything changes so fast. My topics are always political and I’m barely
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Folk rocker Mike Acerbo released his debut album, The Search, February 14. Ten years in the making, the album combines a unique array of sounds, drawing comparison to the likes of Sufjan Stevens, The Avett Brothers, and Guster. With intricate arrange-
Times like this – election years, when politics are a comedian’s punching bag – were made for Kate Clinton, who has hilariously riffed on 30 years of stupid presidents and right-wing morons. In the midst of her All Fracked Up Tour, we caught up with Clinton to talk about the presidential race, progress made in the LGBT community and how comedy is a great tool for creating change.
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Seattle Art Museum salutes Seattle Women’s
Chorus shines in Valentine’s show
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Gauguin & Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise Seattle Art Museum Through April 29 Forget the sordid tales of the 13-year-old Polynesian mistress, the “abandoned” European wife and five children, the horrors of advanced-stage syphilis, the selfdoubt that haunted him throughout his career. Go to embrace the artistry of Paul Gauguin and many of the cultural artifacts of Polynesia that influenced him. The Seattle Art Museum’s splendid new show, Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise, brings nearly 60 major and minor works by French artist Paul Gauguin to Seattle for a relatively short stay. The exhibit at SAM’s downtown main building is in Seattle only until April 29 – a short time for such an important show. Seattle is the only U.S. see Gauguin page 32
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by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer Shot Through the Heart Benaroya Hall February 19 This past weekend, Seattle Women’s Chorus performed in a sweet and sassy program they dubbed Shot Through the Heart due to its proximity to Valentine’s Day and all the love songs
on the set list. Though they could never have envisioned it when artistic director Dennis Coleman was creating the program and planning the fun selection of songs, the performances took place the weekend after the historic vote that legalized samesex marriage in Washington state! Prescience? Tea leaves? So, the see SWC page 32
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Emii struts her stuff in “Stilettos” by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor
Pop recording artist and singer-songwriter Emii’s career is on the rise. Bursting onto the dance music scene with her first single, “Magic,” in 2010, Emii quickly earned a legion of loyal fans who love the pop star’s style, swagger, and talent. She’s worked with some of the industry’s top producers and even recorded the single “Mr. Romeo” with rapper Snoop Dogg. Currently, her infectious dance hit “Stilettos” is climbing the DJ Times and Billboard charts. She’s catching the attention of some of music’s biggest acts. Rihanna and Lady Gaga even subscribe to her YouTube channel. Emii recently spoke with Seattle Gay News about her new single, her Gay fans, and the fact that she may have recorded a drag queen anthem. The young star says that she records dance music because “it inspires us to have fun and let go sometimes.” “We all need a break from the drama, and dance music is that outlet,” said Emii. “I want to inspire people to kick the bad juju and enjoy life to the fullest.” Emii counts Michael Jackson, Gloria Gaynor, Aretha Franklin, and Madonna as artists who have inspired her.
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She recorded “Stilettos” because she says she is a “stiletto-rockin’ pop-dance diva with a love for adventure, fashion, and living in the moment.” “‘Stilettos’ is all about celebrating the little things in life that empower us,” she told SGN. “The song is meant to inspire and create excitement. Also, I wanted to record a song that would make people feel sexy.” “I love them dearly,” Emii says of her Gay fans. “They are family, and they inspire me!” Realizing that “Stilettos” is not only about girl power, but also all about the world of glamour and fashion that accompanies drag entertainers, Emii says she’s all for drag queens taking the song as their anthem. “I’d seriously be excited and honored to have a drag queen perform my song,” she told SGN. “I would be in the audience, cheering ‘Work it!’” Emii has performed across the U.S. and overseas. Most recently she performed in Beirut, Lebanon. “I haven’t performed in Seattle yet,” she said, adding, “but I will get there, and when I do, we will party!” For more information on Emii, including videos and discography, visit www.emii. net. nettw ork music group
Morgan Page a major player in electronic scene by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
Albert Rodriguez: When were you last in Seattle? Morgan Page: Last time was at a club called Republiq. I played there in May. In the past, I’ve played Last Supper Club and I played NYE at Showbox SoDo last year. Seattle is always a great time! Rodriguez: Any thoughts on Seattle, good or bad? Page: It’s by far one of my favorite cities! The local radio station that plays electronic music (KNHC) has been a big supporter and has helped build a big following in Seattle. The crowds are always really into it
and ready for anything. Rodriguez: You’ve mixed recordings for a wide range of artists, from Madonna to Stevie Nicks to David Bowie. Have you worked with any of them in the studio, or met them elsewhere? Page: I haven’t gotten to meet any of them – it’s all been long-distance work. Madonna will listen to your remix at her hotel wherever she is and give you a thumbs-up via the label. I met Bono the other day, but it wasn’t for a remix. He was like, “Who’s this guy?!” Rodriguez: Who are you most excited about seeing at Coachella? Page: Probably Gotye or Dr Dre. Electronic-wise, I’m looking forward to seeing Calvin Harris. Rodriguez: Electronic music got a boost at the recent Grammy Awards with Deadmau5 and David Guetta performing on the telecast. Is this a step in the right direction for the genre? Page: Definitely. It needs exposure – people think it’s all mainstream now, but it’s really just beginning. I’ve never been one to be selfish with music. The music is either good or bad, and I want good music to travel as far and wide as possible. Rodriguez: When, if ever, is the last time you played at a Gay club? Page: I played Neighbours in Seattle for the KNHC fundraiser last year, which was a great spot. Rodriguez: Which artists would you love to remix for that you haven’t yet? Page: Calvin Harris, probably. Rodriguez: Can you preview your Seattle show – set length, lighting, energy level? Most importantly, is “In the Air” on the set list? Page: I play about two hours of a wide variety of progressive and electro-house.
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The long list of artists Morgan Page has mixed records for reads like a global Live Aid lineup: Madonna, David Bowie, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Stevie Nicks, Adam Lambert, Norah Jones, Alanis Morissette, Florence + the Machine, Korn, the B-52s, and LaRoux among them. The Grammynominated electronic artist and producer began plying his craft in 1999, years before the dance music boom impacted the mainstream. Based in Los Angeles, Page will soon release a new album, In the Air (April 3, Nettwerk Records), which features the pulsating title track, already a worldwide smash. Set to perform at the sold-out Coachella Festival in two months, he’ll play a dozen dates leading up to it that includes a Seattle stop this weekend at The Showbox Market (Saturday, February 25) – visit www.showboxonline.com for ticket information. Reached in Germany earlier this week by email, Page kindly spoke about his music, tour and love for the Jet City. Here’s what Morgan Page shared with me inside The Music Lounge.
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You’ll hear my originals like “The Longest Road,” “In the Air,” “Fight For You,” and my favorite tracks by other artists. Every year it gets more high-energy and aggressive and more interactive with the crowd. Don’t be surprised if you get sprayed with champagne! Rodriguez: What’s the first thing you throw in the suitcase for an upcoming tour? Page: Bose noise reduction headphones – you have to bring these. I’ve learned to pack
light, so I swear by a Heys X-case for travel, too. Rodriguez: What does the rest of 2012 look like for Morgan Page? Page: New album In the Air is out April 3, tours in Australia and Asia, and lots of collaborations. Right now, I’m in Germany in some studio bunkers working on new material. But the song you really need to listen to is “Body Work” – it just came out, and it’s one of my favorites from the album.
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SGN’s 2012 Academy Awards predictions Merie
(The Iron Lady), Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn) Will Win: Davis. This is actually a tougher call than you would expect it to be, but I just feel like Davis has the momentum. Should Win: Streep. I didn’t like the movie – it’s easily the worst picture of the five nominees – but that doesn’t make Streep’s work as Margaret Thatcher any less incredible. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Nominees: Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn), Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) Will Win: Plummer. He’s had this in the bag since Beginners first hit theatres all the way back in June of last year. Should Win: Plummer. The guy is flatout incredible in the film, and as solid as the other nominees were in their respective features, none of them come even close to Plummer’s work here.
Descendants
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Nominees: Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Jessica Chastain (The Help), Melissa McPREDICTING THE REST Carthy (Bridesmaids), Janet McTeer (Albert Best Original Screenplay – Woody Allen, Nobbs), Octavia Spencer (The Help) Midnight in Paris Best Adapted Screenplay – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash, The Descendants Best Foreign Language Film – A Separation Best Animated Film – Rango Best Documentary – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Best Cinematography – The Tree of Life Best Editing – The Artist Best Art Direction – Hugo Best Costume Design – Hugo Best Sound Mixing – Hugo Best Sound Editing – Drive Best Visual Effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes Best Makeup – The Iron Lady Best Original Song – “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets Best Original Score – The Artist Best Animated Short – The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Best Live Action Short – The Shore Best Documentary Short – Saving Face Franco is Duhame l
It doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of drama in regard to Sunday night’s 84th annual Academy Awards telecast. While Hugo leads the way with 11 nominations, in reality it feels like an afterthought compared to The Artist and its 10 nominations, or The Descendants and its five. The latter two are films with all the heat and the buzz, and if there is going to be an upset, conventional wisdom has the latter coming out on top while the former sits in silent shock. All kidding and obvious puns aside, this year’s Oscar for Best Picture is without question The Artist’s to lose. Writer and director Michel Hazanavicius’ endearing poem to the early years of cinema – its melding of themes presented in timeless classics such as Singing in the Rain and A Star Is Born, its embracing of the silent film esthetic so complete and in such exacting detail – has been the talk of the awards circuit since November. It has swept the majority of the primary contests, and unlike the Republican presidential race, there hasn’t been a single upstart that’s come close to upsetting this frontrunner. It could happen, of course, as stranger things have certainly taken place in Oscar history (Crash beating out Brokeback Mountain; Shakespeare in Love besting Saving Private Ryan; Rocky knocking out Network, All the President’s Men, and Taxi Driver). But with the recent revelation (thank you, Los Angeles Times) that the Academy membership is 94% Caucasian and 77% male, with a median age of 62, this just doesn’t seem all that likely, and much like last year’s win of The King’s Speech over The Social Network this year’s Oscars feel vanilla and ordinary. Still, that doesn’t mean all of my predictions are going to pan out as expected. I’m guessing Hugo and The Artist tie with four wins apiece – not exactly an overwhelming victory by any stretch of the imagination.
BEST DIRECTOR Nominees: Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Martin Scorsese (Hugo) Will Win: Scorsese. I’m predicting an upset here (and a Best Picture/Best Director split), as the Academy’s love for Scorsese knows no bounds and I get the feeling they want to make sure Hugo goes home with something major and not just technical awards. Should Win: Malick. Love it or hate it, The Tree of Life is the most audacious, daring, and interesting film on the board. It is also the one we’re most likely to still be talking about a decade from now.
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Actors George Clooney (l) and Shailene Woodley in The
Will Win: Spencer. As close to a lock as anything at this year’s Oscars. Should Win: McTeer. If we’re basing it on their work in the nominated film alone, then McTeer should easily be the frontrunner here, as her work in Albert Nobbs was head and shoulders above that of all the other nominees.
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
pany and writer/director Michel Hazanavicius have this one in the bag. Should Win: The Descendants. Alexander Payne’s absorbing and emotionally stirring family comedy of grief and reconciliation had depth and nuance, and as such ends up being one of the more enduring achievements of this or any other year.
BEST ACTOR Nominees: Demián Bichir (A Better Life), George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), Brad Pitt (Moneyball) Will Win: Dujardin. As good as he is in the movie, and he is wonderful, his winning has the feel of Roberto Benigni taking home the statue for Life Is Beautiful in 1999. Should Win: Clooney. The best performance of his career, hands down, and it’s frustrating to think he won’t be recognized for it. Granted, you could say the same thing BEST PICTURE Nominees: The Artist, The Descendants, about Pitt’s work in Moneyball. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Hugo, BEST ACTRESS The Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, Nominees: Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), The Tree of Life, War Horse Will Win: The Artist. This contest is Viola Davis (The Help), Rooney Mara (The done. Over. Finished. The Weinstein Com- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Meryl Streep
Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer The Young Man from Atlanta Stone Soup Theatre Through March 10 Horton Foote was a prolific playwright and won the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta in 1995. It’s being produced by Stone Soup Theatre, though it’s not clear from this presentation why the script deserved such an award. Sometimes, for this writer, it’s not clear why awards are made for many scripts. The Stone Soup technical support is particularly strong for this piece, with a lovely understated set by Suzi Tucker, appropriate costumes from John Clark, and subtle lighting, also by John Clark. The main actors – Gordon Coffey, Maggie Heffernan, and Michael Way – are older actors, which is a wonderful change from the vast majority of plays. They all do a good job with their roles. The play appears like a straightforward, realistic family portrait: an older man (Coffey) is let go from a company he has given his life to and struggles to figure out how to handle his new status. But much more is involved in the script. There is a recently deceased son, the only child, who walked into a lake and drowned.
Yet the parents don’t seem to know much about him or his state of mind. They know so little that mother Lily Dale (Maggie Heffernan) must contact the son’s “roommate” over and over and over to hear him talk about her son and tell her what he was like. Then there is the surreal aspect that we never meet the “young man from Atlanta,” we just hear about him. What we hear paints him as an opportunistic leech. The son has a box of checks worth $100,000 that are made out to the young man, Randy, and the parents don’t know why. The play was written in the 1990s, but it is about the 1950s. That was a time when homosexuality was hardly spoken about at all, so while the unmarried son dies at age 37, and has a “roommate” and no female companionship, it still doesn’t seem to occur to the parents that he might be Gay. It’s likely that it does occur to most audience members. But even that isn’t a major element of the script. The mysterious “young man” is more of a who-do-you-believe character. It’s an exploration of taking someone’s word for it. Another young man shows up claiming to be a relative of Pete Davenport (Way), Lily Dale’s stepfather, who is also from the same Atlanta boarding house that the son and Randy lived at. He claims Randy is a liar, though this young man seems just as likely to be one as Randy is.
An interview with author Christopher Bram DRAPER SHREEV E
Christopher Bram
by Gary M. Kramer SGN Contributing Writer
able chronicle of how Gay writing became a catalyst for social change. In a recent email exchange, Bram discussed his book and the Christopher Bram’s new non-fiction book, risk-taking writers that inspired him and Eminent Outlaws, is a fantastic history of Eminent Outlaws. American Gay male writers and their literature. And Bram is as good a writer as the Gary Kramer: You are primarily known many folks he includes here. His engaging as a novelist, but have published non-fiction storytelling captures the essence of what essays in the past. What prompted you to make these bold, pioneering writers essen- write this particular non-fiction book? tial to our literary canon. From poet Allen Christopher Bram: Well, to be frank, Ginsberg to playwright Tennessee Wil- it’s harder to sell fiction in today’s book liams and novelists James Baldwin, Truman market than it used to be. I was already Capote, Gore Vidal, and Edmund White thinking about possible nonfiction projects among many others, he provides a remark- when another writer, Sam Wasson, phoned
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type to be taken in (even today) by scammers who know exactly how to pull those emotional strings. Much of the pacing is too slow, and the supporting characters are mostly dispensable – an issue with the script, not the players. There is a lot of “indicating” going on with the actors, instead of the kind of internalized feeling that we are more used to these days. Certainly, it’s a good choice, on paper, to produce a Pulitzer Prizewinning play. And for that reason, it’s a good choice to go see it. Just temper your expectations, enjoy seeing older people on stage, and see what you Man From Atlanta Maggie Heffernan and Gordon Coffey in The Young think at the end of the evening. For more information, to go www.stoneBoth of these young men, you see, want souptheatre.org or call 206-633-1883. money from the main characters. And these characters, older people who are desperate Discuss your opinions with sgncritic@ for connection and family, are the prime gmail.com. me. He was writing a book about the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s and wanted to know the state of Gay literature in the 1950s and 1960s. I filled him in for 20 minutes or so. “This is great stuff,” he said. “Where can I read it?” And I realized no such book existed, and it needed to exist. So I began writing Eminent Outlaws. It seemed to be a book I’d been preparing to write for my whole life without knowing it. I read many of the novels and poems I discuss as they came out – or the earlier ones as I came out. I am old enough to remember the anti-Gay press of the 1960s and 1970s, but young to come out of the experience unscathed. Kramer: What did you learn writing the book? Bram: Early on, I recognized that the story wasn’t just about my generation – the post-Stonewall generation – but also the generation before, the generation of Capote, Baldwin, and Isherwood. The presence of those two generations – fathers and sons, or uncles and nephews, if you will – really excited me. The story is so interesting, and necessary, that I’m surprised nobody has told it before. I assume other Gay writers hesitated for the same reason I hesitated: We want somebody else to write about us. But it’s hard to walk away from a great story. Kramer: What were your criteria for identifying an author as an “Outlaw” or “Pioneer”? E.g., Samuel Steward gets only a note in your book. Bram: It’s not an inclusive book and was never intended as such. I had no criteria for whom I included and whom I didn’t. I just concentrated on a handful of writers that best enabled me to tell the larger story – which often meant writers who meant the most to me. Afterwards, I went back and wove in some of the writers who didn’t come up naturally, not just Steward, but John Rechy, Lanford Wilson, David Leavitt, and others. Kramer: Risk seems to be a unifying theme in Eminent Outlaws, as well as in your own fiction. Why is this element such a critical component to Gay writing? Bram: I think risk is an important component to all good fiction writing, and not just Gay writing. Good writers stick their necks out and take chances. They write what they need to write – what they burn
to write – without thinking too much of the consequences. Almost all of the writers I discuss began their careers by writing something Gay, got kicked in the teeth, then tried to play it cool, but later came back to the subject. Some were quite cagy about it, such as Gore Vidal who avoided it after The City and the Pillar, then returned with Myra Breckinridge, recognizing he had hit upon something so polymorphously perverse it left the idea of “Gay” in the dust. Others, like Christopher Isherwood, swore off the subject after being slammed by the critics, tried to write something straight, and then said “Fuck it” and wrote A Single Man. Kramer: Do you feel that Gay men of letters today continue to create work that is challenging as it was when James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, and Tennessee Williams first burst on the scene? How has Gay writing changed – and is it for the better? Bram: They do, but readers are more experienced – more jaded, maybe – and more difficult to shock or challenge. Baldwin’s Another Country was a bestseller in the ’60s because it included straight and Gay and interracial sex scenes. Readers complained, but they still bought the book – they clearly enjoyed reading those scenes. People don’t read books for sex scenes anymore – they get their porn elsewhere – but challenging, exciting work is done in other areas. Kramer: You deliberately decided not to include yourself in your book, but how has your own fiction transformed over the years in terms of the stories you create and issues you explore in your work? Bram: I started with a very self-oriented novel, Surprising Myself, that wasn’t autobiographical, but was about all the issues that concerned me personally at the time: coming out, finding love, making peace with my family. But in everything I wrote since, I tried to get beyond that, to explore a wider world. It was always from a Gay perspective, but I wanted to take in as much new life as I could. Freeing me to do that, enabling me to explore other areas, was the fact that there were all these other Gay writers writing their own novels. None of us needed to worry about doing Gay Life 101 anymore— if there is such a thing. © 2012 Gary M. Kramer
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Edmund White’s irresistible Jack Holmes & His Friend
by Gary M. Kramer SGN Contributing Writer
Edmund White
adjust to my Gay life and find happiness.” Jack’s dabbling in psychology is used in the novel to get him to understand, and accept, his homosexuality. White observes that in the 1960s, coming out as Gay required three “necessary conditions,” which he enumerates: “Living far from your family, having an (independent) income and anonymity. New York City met them all, especially if you were from the Midwest. Women did not come out until the beginning of the 20th century, because they didn’t have an income of their own. They had to be married, or become actresses.” White uses the 1960s and its social codes as a way of talking about Gay liberation, which is one of the novel’s arcs. “Jack feels Will is incredibly tolerant to put up with a
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Gay friend,” the author insists. “By the end of the 1970s, Will realizes it’s trendy to be Gay, and people envy [Gay men] – there is a change of attitude going from pariah to icon.” Jack Holmes & His Friend ends in the early 1980s, with the onset of AIDS. The disease has important ramifications for both main characters and their sexual behavior and relationships. When asked if he felt is his own HIV-positive status prompted him to write about promiscuity and AIDS, White answered, “Maybe I’m sensitive to the issue because I am positive, but it’s realism. Everybody discussed AIDS then. It was a fact of life. The sexual behavior of many straight people who were swingers, and wife-swappers, and orgy-goers came to a screeching halt because of AIDS.” White takes a moment – and just pride – to mention his work founding the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in America, and being the first president of the oldest and biggest Gay organization in America. He also helped Foucault’s lover establish AIDES in France when White lived in Paris in the mid-1980s. While AIDS puts a damper on the characters’ promiscuity in the novel – Jack sleeps with countless men, and Will participates in orgies – White includes several purple passages in his book. And as the co-author of the aforementioned The Joy of Gay Sex, White certainly enjoys writing sex scenes. He declares, “My theory is that it’s fun to write about sex, because we all think about it all the time. It’s a major activity, like eating. I think books should try to reflect proAndrew Fladeboe
Gay man of letters Edmund White’s irresistible new novel, Jack Holmes & His Friend, chronicles the title character moving from the Midwest to New York in the 1960s and getting a job working for a magazine called The Northern Review. He soon meets and helps Will Wright get a job at the magazine. The men become fast friends, and Jack, who is Gay, falls in love with Will. And Will, who is straight, falls in love with Jack’s female friend Alex, eventually marrying her. Over the course of the novel, which unfolds over three decades, White alternates telling the story from the perspectives of each man. On the phone from Key West, the author explained how he came up with his characters and their trajectories. “I started with the idea of a straight man and Gay man who are best friends and one is in love with the other. I didn’t know how it would go, so I invented episodes. Once I got Pia [a woman Will has an affair with] – who isn’t based on anyone, but an amalgam of many Eurotrash women I know – she took over, so I had to reign her in. Straight men who have read the book are all enamored of her, and want to have sex with her. It’s funny how people think Jack is sexy and sympathetic, but no one is fascinated by Will.” White is candid about his inclusion of elements of his life – studying Chinese in collage, working for magazines and going for psychoanalysis – all thinly veiled. The opportunity to re-imagine his past appealed to him he disclosed. “I remember Nabokov, in his book Look at the Harlequins!, took a version of himself – a vulgarization of himself – and made a story. So I thought it would be interesting to invent a character to lead my life. I went to University of Michigan and then went to New York City [as Jack does]. I worked for Time/Life Books from 1962-1970, and Horizons, a hardcover magazine. That’s what I based The Northern Review on.” He continues, “I wanted to take someone who wasn’t ambitious, wasn’t a writer, who was better looking, had a bigger endowment and see what he would do in my place. The other character [Will] was pretty much invented.” White not only alternates between the characters, but he changes from third-person narration for Jack to first-person for Will. “I wanted Jack to be mysterious,” White admits. “There was some distance for the reader in the third person.” Still, he acknowledges, that writing the straight character in first person, particularly Will’s sex
scenes, were a challenge. The conversation shifts to explore White’s own sexual history with women. He explains that he did have sex with women years ago, as Jack does. Then he reveals, “I was engaged twice,” and elaborates, “That was characteristic of the ’60s – Gay guys trying to go straight.” White then introduces the element of psychology, which featured periodically in Jack Holmes & His Friend, stating that “People all tried going to shrinks to get straight. I was one.” White wrote a chapter called “My Shrinks” in his book My Lives, and confesses to having spent “20 years on couches.” “The only good one was Charles Silverstein, a Gestalt psychologist, and with whom I wrote The Joy of Gay Sex. He was Gay, so he was not trying to turn me straight, but help me
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portionally human experience as it occurs.” “My thinking is the opposite of pornography, which is onehanded reading, designed in rhythm and word choice to get you off. You should try to describe what actually happens, which is often comic – the body resisting or failing the spirit. You have romantic, erotic thoughts, but your body can’t deliver. You have premature ejaculation, or can’t get it up, or your body can’t move in that position. I like to write about sex a lot because you are alone when you write, and you think about sex.” Given that the author has published many acclaimed memoirs and biographies of Gay writers including Proust, Genet, and Rimbaud, does White prefer writing fiction over nonfiction? “I guess I feel that fiction is the higher art, in that even if your novels aren’t any good, only you could have written them.” This comment serves to explain why White made Will a writer of failed novels. “I think writers are more forthcoming, he suggests about the character. “When I’ve written biographies, like Genet, the best interviews were by writers, who are honest and remember details. They are interested in testifying to the truth and not parroting conventional wisdom. Even if Will is a failed writer, he’s sharp in the ways I’ve mentioned.” As for being a Gay writer – especially one included in Eminent Outlaws, Christopher Bram’s new book subtitled, “Gay Writers Who Changed America” – White demurs, “It’s an accident of history that you are. I was always quite out and eager to be identified as a Gay writer, where other writers are afraid of losing a larger audience, or being ‘just a Gay writer.’ If we Gays had the same amount of pride and self-acceptance as [other minorities] we’d see that ‘Gay writer’ is an honorable title.” Yet White draws a distinction that is also a parallel between straight and Gay. He states, “If you’re not straight, then you’re Gay. Gay reveals the reverse side of the tapestry and shows how the threads come out on the other side.” Curiously, one of the best passages in Jack Holmes & His Friend appears late in the novel, when Jack and Will discuss their sexuality honestly and openly. White practically balks at the mention of this candid exchange. “I hesitated to write that passage! It was too explicit, very ‘on the money’ dialogue as they say in Hollywood. The characters say what they think, which is successful only if you get all the juice out of the fruit. I felt I needed to say things about straight vs. Gay life.” White was also prompted by his lover, writer Michael Carroll, to include more action and dialogue in his novel, and less meditation and introspection. He recalls, “Michael gave me a lot of Richard Yates to read, and that encouraged me. I used this Yates method of scene, scene, scene, and action, action, action, which may be why it’s such a page-turner.” And readers – whether they are longtime admirers of White’s writing, or those discovering the author for the first time – will find much to enjoy in meeting Jack Holmes & His Friend. © 2012 Gary M. Kramer
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continued from cover stop for the dual exhibit of Gauguin’s work and many of the Polynesian “native” craft works that inspired him. After its Emerald City stay, the exhibit moves to Copenhagen, the only other stop in its two-city tour. SAM’s co-curators – Chiyo Ishikawa, representing European paintings and sculpture, and Pam McClusky, curator of art of Africa and Oceania – have done a brilliant job of combining Gauguin’s impressive works and major works of Polynesian culture. Major museums from around the world – the British Museum, the Auckland (New Zealand) Museum, Musee d’Orsay in Paris, New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the deYoung Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Yale University Art Gallery, and many others, including a number of private collectors – have loaned works for the exhibit. It’s probably the only time that these works will be on display together – a once-in-a-lifetime chance to relish the incredible creations by Gauguin and the works that inspired many of them. The two SAM curators start the show with a gallery of Gauguin’s works from his early
years in France. The gallery glows with the color of his French-inspired works before visitors enter the second exhibit space. There, a collection of “native” crafts show Polynesian works before and at the time of Gauguin’s first visit in 1891. The next gallery is devoted to Gauguin’s works during his first, two-year visit. He sent numerous paintings back to France where few of them sold – many of his major works never sold until years after his early death in 1903. Gauguin was always aware of his lack of financial success and often created works that he thought would impress European collectors. Some did, though many did not. Some of his critics note that he was torn between artistic inspiration and pandering to what he hoped potential buyers would respond to. The show alternates between Oceania – original works from diverse South Sea cultures – and Gauguin’s tropical works, with a few variations. One of the most charming paintings in the show is of flowers from his “European garden” in Tahiti. Basically, the show groups Polynesian and other cultural artifacts in separate galleries and Gauguin’s creations in others. It’s a clever presentation choice that intensifies the impact of the Gauguin works. One sad example of the lack of respect for
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Another great ELB song was performed by the small group Sensible Shoes. They filed out in bridesmaid’s outfits, singing about how even though they were Lesbians, they wanted to support the bride. Then the bride came out and sang about how nice it all is, especially since it’s her third marriage. Once the bridesmaids learn that, they sing about how it’s not fair for her to abuse marriage that way when they can’t even get married once, and stomp off. The afternoon was punctuated with real love stories from chorus members. While the stories were told by people who may not actually have written them, they were clearly true and heartfelt. Many were about samesex unions, but some dealt with straight relationships. Dennis Coleman said that the chorus wants to celebrate all kinds of unions (not just Gay ones). Silly interludes involved Cupid (Gretchen Savage), who took on a British accent and claimed that her female form had stayed that way for the last 100 years or so. Several of the songs were dedicated to a specific person from someone in the chorus. One such dedication was from Jennifer Davis to her 90-year-old mother in the audience, who had flown in for the occasion from Southern California. Act One was rounded out by a couple of ballads – “Heart, We Will Forget Him” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – and Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek.” Act Two started off with another appropriate song about ending a love affair, “So What?” It was an up-tempo song about how “now that we’re through, I’m going to be great” and acknowledged another common aspect of love. Some love song standards followed: “Embraceable You” and “My Funny Valentine.” A Holly Near song called “Simply Love” asked why it makes you uncomfortable just because she loves a woman. Another Sensible Shoes song was Lisa Koch’s “Back When We Had Sex,” which refers to another common issue, when long-time lovers kind of stop getting excited anymore. ELB arranged a contemporary song, “Candyman,” by Christina Aguilera, for a huge chorus to sing. “Fields of Gold” by Sting was performed, and then “Sing it Loud.” People in the audience were given permission – very unusual – to record this song for distribution on the internet, since the song is meant as a rallying song for same-sex marriage and the upcoming referendum campaign. After well-deserved bows, the finale was the “Shoop Shoop” song, capping off a suitably short program (sometimes the shows continued from the cover run well over two and a half hours!) with just the right mix of silliness and sweetness. whole concert turned into a celebration of Brava to all. and a rallying cry for same-sex marriage. Included in each performance were all-stars of the Legislature – Senator Ed Murray and Representative Jamie Pederson – who spoke continued from cover movingly about gearing up for a possible fight in the near future, as both a referendum keeping up with what’s going on. [Laughs.] against the new law and an initiative to call I can’t believe that anyone ever said, “What “marriage” a union of (only) one man and will we do without George Bush?” Like, are you kidding me? That got very boring beone woman are readying for signatures. They also noted that the fight for same-sex cause it was always the same: He’s bad. Oh, marriage has been going on in the legisla- yep. He’s bad. Azzopardi: Now you have Santorum. ture for six years (as we gained incremental Clinton: Ah, it’s a comedy gift. People rights), though Ed Murray has been working on it personally for 17. They got huge ova- drop off. Michele Bachmann drops off, but Rick Santorum, for some bizarre reason, tions from the enthusiastic audiences. Act One started off with “I Know What I is rising to the top. A friend of mine says, Want” by Susan Warner, which was a great “Cream rises but scum floats.” Azzopardi: What are your thoughts on way to emphasize that the character in the song knows who she loves, and that is it! the changes and progress within the LGBT Soloists Deirdre Pierson and Rachel Byrne community? Clinton: For a 40-year movement, we’ve were great. (The soloists were all so good, you’ll see this again and again in this re- made incredible changes. And it’s state-bystate levels, so that means there’s conversaview.) Next up was “Love, Don’t be a Stranger,” tion about LGBT rights in all the states – a new song by assistant artistic director Eric and that’s great. The great Mae West said, Lane Barnes, who often writes truly funny “It’s better to be looked over than to be oversongs. This was no exception. With the cho- looked,” and we’ve been really looked over. rus as backup, the great soloists were Clara But you can see the poll number changes on Cook, Laura Szczes, Maureen Warren, and America’s belief about marriage equality, so I think we’ve done our work. I think we Jaime Walrod. A highlight of the afternoon was a long still have a lot of work to do. I sometimes song by David Brunner, “All I Was Doing worry that people will just kick back and Was Breathing,” putting a poem by a wom- go, “Well, excellent, we got that,” but we an named Mirabai (1498-1547) to song, and still have a lot of work to do about race in which included an exquisite young lady, our community and poverty issues and vioSarvani Eloheimo, dancing in Indian rega- lence and bullying. Azzopardi: Does that mean you have to lia, and a marvelous mezzo soprano, Sheila work harder and be even more political? Houlahan. “native” art is a major work from the Auckland Museum. It’s a large wooden figural box, with two men forming the handles of the complete work. Created and signed by Patoromu Tamatea, the box was given to the Auckland Museum, which added a coin slot and a keyhole for a lock. It was used for donations to the museum, much like Plexiglas cases are used today. The box, with those modifications, was on display for decades until the embarrassed museum staff returned it to storage. Now once again on full artistic display, it has, sadly, not been restored to its original condition. In a nutshell, the figural box represents the disillusionment Gauguin found when he arrived on his first trip. The Gauguin works on display – many painted on burlap – could easily stand alone. Shown in context with Oceania originals, the South Sea works gain an added dimension. One glorious example: a fence in The Sacred Mountain (1892) takes its design from a motif in a small set of Marquesan ear ornaments. Seeing the painting alone, the fence is a stylistic delight. Knowing the source of the design simply adds to the impact. Another painting with associated impact is Tehamana Has Many Parents, the portrait of a lovely native girl in a black and white striped “Missionary” dress – high neck, long sleeves. She stares directly at the viewer, beautiful and eternally youthful. Discovering that Tehamana was Gauguin’s 13-year-old mistress and the mother of several of his children changes the whole impact. It’s still a stunning painting, but knowledge adds or alters the reaction. Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise opened with a flurry. The first 100 patrons dressed in sunshine yellow (a sacred color in Tahiti) were admitted free on the exhibit’s opening day. Discounted prices to the show are offered on First Thursdays in March and April. Student, senior, group, and military discounts are always offered. Museum members, of course, are always admitted without charge, which means that this may be the right time to join or renew membership. A free audio tour is included in the admission, and downtown museum tickets allow a free visit to the Seattle Asian Art Museum, in Volunteer Park, within the same week. Various special events, including numerous lectures, are also on SAM’s schedule. Complete information is available at www. seattleartmuseum.org or at (206) 654-3121. Highest recommendation. Check it out.
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Clinton: Oh yes, absolutely. I feel like the longer I’ve performed, the more political I’ve gotten. The difference is that when I began the mainstream community was really quite homo-ignorant, but now, whether they like it or not, they know there are Gay people – they’ve met Gay people – so that’s a big change. Azzopardi: How does comedy help you get your point across? Clinton: People let their guard down and become more open when they’re laughing. They let things in I don’t think they ordinarily would. I love my shows when a straight couple comes out and goes, “We’re Republicans but we laughed.” I’ve done my job then. Azzopardi: What are your thoughts on the One Million Moms who rallied against J.C. Penney because they chose an out Lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres, as their spokesperson? And what do you think of Ellen’s reaction? Clinton: I’m always happy when she speaks out because I love to hear her take on anything, whether it’s toilet paper or it’s to give her take on what J.C. Penney did and her sly humor that [One Million Moms] only has 48,000 people on their Facebook site. That’s a great example to people. Years ago, I met a young guy at a fundraiser meeting and we were talking and he said things like “What’s ACT UP?” “Who’s Larry Kramer?” And finally I said to him, “Where are you from?” [Laughs.] He was from Ohio and newly out and thought he was the only Gay person in the world. I said, “What made you come out?” And he said it was Ellen. It was the first time he realized he wasn’t the only one. Oh god, he was so funny. It was the season she came out on her show and he said, “It took me a season, too!” Azzopardi: You must hear similar stories, right? Clinton: Mm-hmm. The stories people tell me are wonderful: they had their first date at my show, they brought their mom. “We had some talking to do after, but she liked it.” [Laughs.] But it’s great. I feel very blessed to have this job. Azzopardi: By now most people must know what they’re in for when they go to a Kate Clinton show. But have you had angry right-wingers at your shows? Clinton: People have gotten up to leave and I just pretend they’re going to the bathroom. One time I was doing a show and these two couples just huffed out and made a big stink in the lobby and security said they wanted to go back there and teach me a lesson. I said, “Thank you for protecting me.” And they were like, “We weren’t protecting you. We were protecting them. We knew you’d turn the audience on them.” [Laughs.] Azzopardi: What are your thoughts and predictions on the presidential race this year? Clinton: It’s going to get uglier, and it’s going to be a fight, but I think that President Obama is getting his message out and reenergizing people. I think it’ll be four more years, which I’m very excited about. He started a lot of wonderful things and I really think the first couple of years of his administration were like cleanup on aisle five – they were going into different departments and cabinets, and it was just a mess. A lot of it was rebuilding, and they have wonderful people working; LGBT people are placed everywhere in agencies across the government and they’ve really just started to crank it out, and it’s good news. I hope we get four more years of being able to move things forward. Azzopardi: Do you think that once he secures four more years he’ll be more open to discussing LGBT issues? Clinton: Absolutely. It’s politics. But I think that he’s got plenty of sort of surrogates who are speaking up for him. I don’t get the sense that LGBT people are as impatient as they were. I do think with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the justice department’s commitment not to defend DOMA because parts of it are unconstitutional – and states like Washington and New York with marriage equality – the LGBT community, while still impatient, and that’s good, are getting more of the realpolitik of what he’s up against. Republicans are just
the opposing-only party – everything’s no, now. If you don’t like government, go golfing. That’s what I think. Azzopardi: Tell me about your cameo on Smash. Clinton: Wasn’t that great? Apparently NBC was showing trailers on American Airlines and people were screaming on the plane, “Kaaate!” Azzopardi: Lesbians like to fly American Airlines, huh? Clinton: Oh, they do. Azzopardi: What was that like? Clinton: Just a complete pleasure. The scene that I’m in, I had to act very non-impressed and not at all excited by this incredible girl singing in front of me, just belting out “Over the Rainbow” time after time – and it was staggering – but I had to act like it wasn’t that great. Azzopardi: That was a challenge? Clinton: Yeah. But it’s wonderful to be around such talented young people and to know that – hello! – Angelica Houston is anywhere on the set. Azzopardi: Would you like to do more TV? Clinton: I hope so. It’s so much fun and you reach so many people without having to go to their town! [Laughs.] Azzopardi: How do you feel about your friend Cynthia Nixon’s brouhaha, where she told a reporter she “chose” to be Lesbian? Clinton: I’m profoundly pro-choice. I love what she said. I thought it was great. And she’s very thoughtful and very outspoken, and she was probably talking along and having a little piece of celery and the whole room blew up. But she’s the real deal. It could be that we were born this way, but that really shouldn’t be our question. Our question should be, “Why is it so stigmatized?” “Why are we still fighting for LGBT rights?” “What is your problem?”
comes to music.” “One of the great things about art and music is that they transcend our differences and have the power to open up dialog and create connection where there may have been none,” said Acerbo. “I don’t listen to the radio and think, ‘That’s a Gay singer.’ I just hear a voice or song I like and dig it. Later I will find out about the artist and who they are. Their story is always secondary but equally compelling and powerful.” “I love my Gays,” he says of his Gay fans. “We ‘get’ good art, music, movies, etc. Most of my Gay fans don’t normally listen to my
style of music, but they appreciate and like it. I hear that all the time.” “Gay Pride for me is appreciating and acknowledging that my sexuality is one of the many gifts that God has given me,” he said. Currently, Acerbo is starting rehearsals with his band and will begin playing in New York City. “From there, I will eventually start to tour,” he said. “I just released a video that can be seen on YouTube for the song ‘Trilby.’” For more information, visit his official website, www.mikeacerbo.com.
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continued from cover of the idea to record an album about my own personal quest of self discovery,” Acerbo, 41, told Seattle Gay News. “Most of the material deals with my own conflicted journey through life. The people I’ve met, loves that I have lost, friends now gone.” When asked what type of audience he penned the album for, Acerbo answered, “I once read an interview with Stevie Nicks and she answered that question perfectly: ‘I write for people whose roots have been blown away.’ I was one of those people. That’s my audience, too.” “The album is a dark fairy tale,” he continued. “A personal story of loss, confusion, and struggle laced together with a bit of magic.” Acerbo said he loves all sorts of music, but “I really wanted to create my own sound that incorporated folk, rock, pop, Irish, country, and indie music.” “I very much wanted to create a record that you could sit with and listen to from start to finish and feel like you had been on a journey,” he told SGN. “The CD packaging was created larger, like a mini-record, with the beautiful artwork of Darcy May, and includes a poem I wrote. It has a storybook feel to go along with the music.” “I didn’t fully embrace music until my late teens,” Acerbo, who grew up in a middleclass family in the suburbs of New York City, said. “It was the perfect way for me to express myself and escape the confusion and difficulties I had at the time.” “I sing because I’ve always loved to,” he said. “There is always music in my head and the next best thing to that is having it in the air around me. I can’t help but want to sing – it’s compulsive, and I feel good when I do.” Acerbo identifies as a Gay man and does not hide the fact from his audience. “I do, however, consider myself a musician who happens to be Gay,” he said. “Being Gay is one of the many aspects of who I am; it is important that the community knows that I am, but I identify first as a musician when it
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Neighbours - Progressive House with DJ Randy Schlager from C89. 21+ with Valid ID. 9 pm - 4 am. *Cover charges as follows - 9 pm - 12 am, $5.00; 12 am - 2 am. $8.00; 2 am - 4 am, $10.00. 206-324-5358; www.neighboursnightclub.com. Neighbours Underground - “THE ORIGINAL VOGUE NIGHT” 9 pm - 2 am, $7 cover Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com. PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7pm. DJ Freddy King of Pants, 9 pm - midnight. R Place - HAPPY HOUR with Erik 2-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. $6.50 Gourmet Bloody Mary’s Lashes cabaret with Chablis and Company at 9pm DJ Flow spins on the 3rd floor at 10 pm VJ E spins the top Videos on the 2nd floor. Seattle Eagle - Underwear Party Night (watch for event listing) DJs HOTPLAY, KING OF PANTS, UPABOVE, KC+guests. Steamworks - 11:30 pm - 4:30 am DJ Chavez Swank - in Kent - Happy Hour, 4 - 7 pm. $2.50 wells, $2 drafts. Dancing with DJ Ricki Leigh. Twisted - Dancing with DJ Trent Von, 3rd Saturday of the month: Boys Night Out with wet underwear contest, Last Saturday of the month: “Diva-Licious” hosted by Madison Lane with Prime Rib dinner special. www.twistedineverett. com Vibe - in Kent - Absolut Saturdays! $5 Absolut Drinks. South Side Boogie Dancing, 9 pm - 2 am with DJ Dirty Dan. No cover. Wildrose - First Saturday each month, DJs & dancing. $5 cover. www.thewildrosebar.com.
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Changes - Open at Noon, Happy hour ALL DAY / NIGHT. Karaoke at 9 pm with Black Nail Productions. Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm. 9-Ball Pool Tourney at 6 pm - 16 players only. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - Re Quest T-Dance DJ John England 6 pm-12 am, Beer Bust $1 domestic drafts & $4 well drinks, Cover $5 @ 6 pm. www.cuffcomplex.com. Bottleneck Lounge - Check out ELIXER, a new “late night” Happy Hour every Sunday night from 9 - midnight. Featuring six, old-school, classic cocktails for just $6 a piece. This is a great way to sample outstanding cocktails at a smokin’ price. Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour Noon - 5 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls. “full service” food menu. Get your grub on! The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - NW Sports first on TV. Sound with early afternoon Mariners games. Pitcher special all day with free U-shell peanuts and pool. Neighbours - 9 pm - 2 am Entre Hermanos Noche Latina $5.00 cover 21+ with Valid ID.With DJ Luis. Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com. PURR Cocktail Lounge - 2 pm-midnight. Happy Hour until 7 pm. R Place - Happy Hour with Erik 2-7 $5.75 Wells $2.50 domestic drafts. $6.50 Gourmet Bloody Mary’s newest night on the Hill! SIN SUNDAYS HOUSE MUSIC ON THE 3rd Floor. 2 NEW rotating DJ’s every week watch the SGN for the ads.
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Seattle Eagle - Beer Bust $1 Drafts from 2-10pm Dj UP-ABOVE from 10-2 Twisted - Happy Hour all night! www.twistedineverett. com Vibe - in Kent - Happy Hour All Day! FREE POOL! Wildrose - Free pool all day. www.thewildrosebar.com.
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Changes - Happy Hour all day and night. Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm. See us at www.clubsilverstone.com. The Cuff Complex - “Free Games” ALL DAY! Tabletop games, pool, darts, pinball. Happy Hour 2 pm - 8 pm half price appetizers. www.cuffcomplex.com. Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on! The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily, Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Pint night with Happy Hour prices 8 pm-close. 9-Ball Pool Tourney at 7 pm. Neighbours - “MAD MESS MONDAYS” With Neighbours hottest new DJ: DJ AARON. No cover. Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com. PURR Cocktail Lounge - Happy Hour 4-7pm. Hamburger & Draft Beer $6.00 from 4pm -10.00 Black Nail Productions Karaoke 9pm to 1am. R Place - Happy Hour with Jeff 4-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special. FREE POOL ALL DAY ALL NIGHT. Seattle Eagle - Radio Dept. $4 wells all night Dj HOTPLAY from 10 pm - 2 am. Swank - in Kent - Happy Hour 4-7 pm. $2.50 wells, $2 drafts. Twisted - Game Night featuring Pool Tournaments and Wii Bowling. Happy Hour all night! www.twistedineverett. com Vibe - in Kent - $1 Domestic Drafts, $2.50 all bottled beers, $3 Touch Down Shots. FREE POOL! Wildrose - Pool Tournament 7 pm w/Prizes!
TUESDAY
Changes - $1.25 Domestic bottles. Hamburger $2.50, Cheeseburger $3.50, Bacon cheeseburger $4.50. Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm. Free pool all day - 2 tables. The Cuff Complex - Bear-aoke 8 pm-12 am with host Jonathan Jones. Peanut night with “Free Games” alll day. Happy Hour 2 pm - 8 pm half price appetizers. www.cuffcomplex.com. Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on! The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. 8-Ball Pool Tournament starts at 6:30 pm. Neighbours Underground - “DRAG IDOL” with your host Ryan Hazey 9 pm - 2 am. $6 cover. PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. Black Nail Production Karaoke 9 pm-1 am. R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7 with Jeff. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special. KARAOKE with Ben 9-2 am. Seattle Eagle - IN HEAT $5 Long Island Iced teas Dj KINGOFPANTS from 10-2 Swank - in Kent - Happy Hour 4-7 pm. $2.50 wells, $2 drafts. Twisted - $2 Tuesday featuring “Are You Smarter Than A Drag Queen?” trivia contest for $2, $2 tacos, well drinks and drafts all night! www.twistedineverett.com Vibe - in Kent - $10 Dizzy Pass - $1 you call it, 6pm to close. Karaoke 9pm-2am with José. Wildrose - Taco Tuesday. No cover.
WEDNESDAY
Changes - Happy Hour until 7 pm. Karaoke 9 pm. A Black Nail production. Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm. 8-Ball Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. Karaoke 9 pm-1:30 am hosted by Michael. The Cuff Complex - Free pool & Pitcher Special. Country Dancing 1st & 3rd Wednesday. POZ Social 2nd Wednesday. Dress Code Leather Social 4th Wednesday. Happy Hour 2 pm - 8 pm half price appetizers. www.cuffcomplex.com. Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on! The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Dart Tournament starts at 7:30 pm. Neighbours Underground - Roxy's House of Dolls with DJ Trent Von in the Neighbours www.neighboursnightclub.com. 206-324-5358. Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com. PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Gelliphish 7 pm-midnight. Re-Bar - D.A.I.S.Y. Age with Riz! Hip Hop and R/B from the 1990’s.YO! FREE 10 pm. R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7 with Jeff . $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts.WET show.All male wet underwear contest 3 rd floor. Hosted by Chablis $100.00 1st place $50.00 2nd place 3 rd place Porn. DJ E Rocks the 3rd floor top 40, R&B. Seattle Eagle - on the DOWNLOW $2 Dos Equis Dj KINGOFPANTS from 10-2 Swank - in Kent - Happy Hour 4-7 pm. $2.50 wells, $2 drafts. Karaoke - drink specials. Twisted - Karaoke Idol with Robin. All you can eat spaghetti for $5.50 and $6 Long Island Teas. www.twistedineverett.com Vibe - in Kent - $1 off all mixed drinks and shots. Karaoke 9pm-2am with José. Wildrose - Karaoke 8 pm-12:30 am. No cover; drink specials. www.thewildrosebar.com.
THURSDAY
Changes - Happy Hour from 12 noon til 8pm. Karaoke at 9pm A Black Nail Production. Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm. Dart Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - Pool tournament 7 pm. Karaoke 8 pm-12 am with host Jonathan Jones. Happy Hour 2 pm 8 pm half price appetizers. www.cuffcomplex.com. Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on! The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Weekly beer & cocktail specials. Kick off the weekend early. No DJ needed, you control the jukebox. Neighbours - Rock Lobster 80's night with DJ Trent Von. 9 pm - 3 am. $3 cover. 21+ with valid ID; 18+ from 2-3 am. www.neighboursnightclub.com. Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com. PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Thomas from 7 pm-midnight. R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7 with Jeff. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. ASS all male amateur strip show. Hosted by Chablis. $200.00 1st place $100.00 2nd place $50.00 3rd place DJ Flo’w Rocks the 3rd floor top 40 R&B. Seattle Eagle - BAREBACK Thursday $1 Off If You Take Your Shirt Off Dj TOAST from 10-2 Swank - in Kent - Happy Hour 4-7 pm. $2.50 wells, $2 drafts. Karaoke - drink specials. Twisted - Disco Delight! Dance music of the 70s and 80s. BOGO burgers and $2 Bud and Bud Light drafts. www. twistedineverett.com Vibe - in Kent - $3 wells, $4 Washington Apples. Wildrose - Cheap date night! $2 wells. Corn dogs & tater tots. www.thewildrosebar.com.
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Meetings Events Activities
TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 3227188. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm. ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with visible or hidden disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www.scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities.html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists. NOTE: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.
community calendar
SATURDAY - February 25
Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org. Michael Randall Ealy Social Justice Foundation Annual Meeting. 1-3pm. Ebenezer AME Zion Church, 23rd Ave & E Olive St. Panel discussion to strategize on how to hold police in the Seattle area accountable for their crimes. Panelist include two mothers - from Detroit & New York City - who won wrongful death lawsuits against their respective cities. A small donation will be requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 329-0562, mresjf@yahoo.com, www. seattlejusticenow.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center. org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.) Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks. For more information visit www.rainbowbridge club.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com “The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: A Portrait of Richard Hugo.” 8pm. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. A one-man performance by Turk Muller. Tickets: $16; students & seniors $14; groups of10-20 $12 each; groups of 20-30 $10 each. Night FantAsia 2012. 9pm-1am. Nijo Sushi Bar & Grill, 83 Spring St. Enjoy great food & drink among friends & guests. Entertainment with DJ Ericket & host Atasha Manila. This year’s non-profit is Pamilya, serving the Filipino-American LGBT community, in honor of Danny Vega. No cover. For details visit www.kwanchai.net
SUNDAY - February 26
February 25 thru March 4 recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County. Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@ yahoo. com or phone (360) 722-1664. Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.Freely Speaking.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7-9pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositive culture.org; www.nosafewordwriters group.org (Also meets 2nd Sunday, 1-3pm.) Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent. Meets 4th Monday each month. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday. (253) 474-8897. Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.
TUESDAY - February 28
For a directory of GLBT-friendly religious organizations in Washington state, visit www.sgn.org and scroll down the first page of either section to see Multifaith Works’ 2007-2008 Directory of Inclusive Faith Communities (some information may not be current). For information on GLBT-friendly Christian churches around the world visit www.gaychurch.org. Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Info 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org Ravenna United Methodist Church. 5751 33rd Ave NE. 8:30am-525-7988. Wallingford United Methodist Church. 8:30am & 11am-Worship (10am during summer). 2115 N 42nd St. 547-6945 (office); 285-5077 (George). Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 323-8382. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGayHiking Group/ Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am-Sunday Services. 200 8th Ave N. 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org. University Congregational United Church of Christ. All ages education 9am, Worship 10am. 4515 16th Ave NE. 524-2322; www.universityucc.org. Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.com All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10am-Worship. 500 Broadway E. 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). 322-7500. Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Every Sunday. Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards! Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 911 Stewart St. 682-3620. Rainier Valley Unitarian Congregation. 10am. 835 Yesler Way. 722-4880, www.rvuuc.org Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515. Living Water Fellowship. 10:30am-Worship. 7204 NE 175th St, Kenmore. www.livingwaterwa. com
Grace Gospel Chapel. 11am-Worship. 2052 NW 64th St. 784-8495. Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am-Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. 325-2421, www. mccseattle.org. Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6177, or Mike Chin (509) 990-0007. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www. dharmabuddies.org St Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am-Worship. 6512 12th Ave NW. 783-6733; www.stpaulucc seattle. com. Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step group (Narcotics Anonymous) open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattleal-anon.org Sojourner Truth Unity Fellowship Church. 12pmWorship & Fellowship. Rainier City Bldg, 1265 S. Main St. #106 (14th & Main). 380-1710. www.sojournertruth ministries.org. Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org “The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: A Portrait of Richard Hugo.” 2pm. Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. A one-man performance by Turk Muller. Tickets: $16; students & seniors $14; groups of10-20
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$12 each; groups of 20-30 $10 each. Daring Divorced Divas. 3-5pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. A support group for Lesbian women dealing with divorce, separation & transformation. To attend this group please contact the facilitator at daringdivorceddivas@yahoo.com. SASG 322-2427; www.sasgcc.org 7th Annual Academy Awards Party. VIP 4pm, General Admision 5pm. Cinerama, 2100 4th Ave. Join Three Dollar Bill Cinema & Gay City for their 7th Annual Aacademy Awards party. See Hollywood’s biggest stars shine on the biggest screen in town. With special guest Jinkx Monsoon. Enjoy light bites & delicious drinks as you celebrate the Academy Awards while supporting Three Dollar Bill Cinema & Gay City Health Project. 21+, ID required. Tickets start at $30. www.gaycity.org/oscars Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/ Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org Simply Sundays. 5:30-7pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Peer support for recovery from substance abuse. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday (except during the summer). Regular league bowling. Jeff, 932-3731. Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm-Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. (425) 226-2746. Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.
MONDAY - February 27
Women Facing HIV. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in peer support group for women living with HIV/AIDS. 322-2437. www.sasgcc.org SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in
Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals. Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBT MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-2505002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/ love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Different Drummers. Intermediate 7-8:15pm; Beginners 8:20-9:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do
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it! Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience a real sense of connection & spirituality. Drums are provided. For information & location call Dennis, 363-4500 or differentdrummers@mac.com Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older. 7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521. Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Tuesday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.) Ageless. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org FREE Beginning ASL Lessons. 7:30pm. The Elite, 1520 E Olive Way. Every Tuesday. Have you ever wanted to learn basic American Sign Language? If so, you can get some FREE beginning ASL instruction. Meets in the loft. 860-0999. Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Tuesday. Positive Outlook. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. A confidential support group for Gay & Bi men who have been living long-term with HIV. We come together to share our journeys both in the success we have had living with HIV as well as the challenges HIV presents to us. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org. Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI). 7:30-9pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E. Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Bellingham. 7:30-9pm. St James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St., Bellingham. Every Tuesday. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. (See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.) Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.
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FRIDAY - March 2
WEDNESDAY - February 29
Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. www.mature friends.org Women’s HIV+ Support Group in Tacoma. 1-3pm. Pierce County AIDS Foundation, 3520 S Pine St, Tacoma - 3 blocks east of Tacoma Mall. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month. (253) 383-2565. True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@ hotmail.com Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week. Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm. Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www.lotussisters.org. Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.) Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www.ingersoll center.org PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. PFLAG/Renton: 425235-4139. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www. seattle-pflag.org. Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo. com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month. ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494. Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups. yahoo.com/groups/gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)
Sex, Dating & Healthy Relationships. 7-8pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month. For LGBTQ youth that want to learn new things & explore all sorts of ideas around sex, identity & sexual relationships. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:30pm. FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com. Pride Skate Seattle. 9-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. First Wednesday of every month. $7 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+. After-party at Company, 9608 16th Ave SW, with drink specials & karaoke. www.southgaterollerrink.com
THURSDAY - March 1
Alcoholics Anonymous “Sober & Safe Group.” 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-2921912; www.babesnetwork.org. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. 4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave.
Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) Born This Way Kafe. 5-9pm. Cal Anderson Park Shelterhouse, 1635 11th Ave. Every Friday. A welcoming place where LGBTQ youth ages 13-19, friends & allies can gather, be themselves & have fun. 883-6110, randy.wiger@seattle.gov La Movida. 6-7pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Todos los Viernes. Una junta bilingue para la comunidad GLBTQ en recuperacion de adicciones. Para mas informacion visita entrehermanos.org o llame 322-7700. Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima. Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org. Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Tully’s, 19th Ave & Aloha St. Meets the 1st & 3rd Friday of every month. Metro routes 8, 12, 43, 48. 329-0793; http://seattleprimetimers.usa-50.com Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday. (253) 474-8897. Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) Pioneers & Warriors TM. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Friday. Peer support group for Gay & Bi men over 40 - honoring the past, accepting the present & embracing the future. Group attendance requires facilitator approval. Please contact Joel Davis at 261-6616. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm. Gay City, 511 E Pike St (temporary meeting location). Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www. seattle-al-anon.org
Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project every week! Please call before dropping in. 957-1776. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare. FREE. 622-5555 x 212. Write Your Heart Out - A Queer Youth & Allies Writing Group. 5:30-6:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. We all have a story to tell. What is yours? Write Your Heart Out is a safe place for Queer youth & allies 22 & under to explore one’s self thru the written word. Fiction, non-fiction & poetry will be encouraged & supported. 322-2515, www. lambert house.org Come Out For Yourself (COFY). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Peer support for people dealing with issues of sexual orientation. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month. The commission advocates for justice & equal opportunity & collaborates with & educates the public & private sectors about how to prevent & eliminate discrimination city-wide. 684-4540. Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. (425) 747-4937. Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14-22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)
(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. 9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www. borderriders.com Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 1st Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Rain City Jacks. West Queen Anne/Interbay. 1st Sunday each month, 2pm; 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month, 7pm. Location & membership details
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SATURDAY - March 3
(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) 3rd Annual Nubian Pride King & Queen Pageant. Door 6pm, Pageant 7pm. Highline Bar, 210 Broadway E. Honoring King Daquan & Queen Marion, with special guest Mariah Balenciaga from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. www.nubianprideproductions.webs.com
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provided upon request. RCJ is a friendly, sex-positive & non-profit private club. Membership required. Adult men only. Enrollment available at the door. www. raincityjacks.org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5033. PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.
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Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQ Allyship.org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169. American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver. us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/ Another-Gay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBT communities. Bent offers affordable classes & workshops for Queer-identified people. For more information or to sign up for a class, email bent. writing@gmail.com. Visit www.bentwriting.com or find us on Facebook. For upcoming events join our mailing list by emailing bent.news@gmail.com BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net. Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club is an umbrella organizing sponsoring LGBTQ-supported recovery meetings. CHAC is currently looking for a new home. www. chacseattle.org, 860-9560 or call 587-2838. (Groups formerly meeting at CHAC are currently meeting at SASG (Seattle Area Support Groups) and other locations. Check out the SGN’s Community Calendar listings to find these groups.) Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994. DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault. Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 511 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country. GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 511 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge. (The Library is located at Gay City’s offices, on the ground floor behind Kaladi Brothers Coffee - just follow the signs.) LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nw bears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks.org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www. seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band. com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flyinghouse. org.
Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familywork sseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, info@maybebabyseattle.org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/ proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Project at the API Safety Center, April, 4679976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN), 322-7061; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 3227061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; TwoSpirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164. Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/
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personal/glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 6826711; www.q-law.org Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235. Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBT-friendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook. Rosehedge/Multifaith Works - 324-1520; www. rosehedge.org Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschools coalition.org SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 6844503. Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. 323-1768. Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle. gov Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org Shanti - 324-1520; www.rosehedge.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling &
testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays. (425) 339-5298. Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail. com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcity softball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/ EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures. org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www. raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www. raincountrydance.org; Seattle Frontrunners: www. seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www. quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.thepride league. com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934. Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, Seattle Chapter - www.ttca.org; bruce@ttca.org; 1122 E Pike St PMB 905, Seattle, WA 98122-3934. Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 741 St Helens Ave, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Odyssey: www.gender odyssey. com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc. org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern. org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenof westseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealthywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 436-8671. Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa. org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.Matthews Place.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasis youthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/ Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 632-0662 ext 49 (non-emergency), 1-888-99-VOICE (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject. org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org
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