SGN Jan 25, 2019 - Part 2

Arts & Entertainment

Whim W’Him presents an exceptional evening of contemporary dance Cris Williamson to headline Pizza Klatch Gayla/Concert/Auction in Olympia February 2

by Sharon Cumberland

SGN A&E Writer

WHIM W’HIM SEATTLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE

“3 x 3”

CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER

Through January 26

Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance is distinctive in its commitment to the commissioning and performance of new works in all of its programs. Founderchoreographer Olivier Wevers creates more opportunities for emerging and experienced dance-makers than any other company in Seattle – or probably in the nation. While

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GLAAD ON OSCAR NOMINEES: Record number of LGBTQ-inclusive films nominated for best picture

LOS ANGELES [January 22, 2019] –

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today applauded LGBTQ-inclusive and out nominees for the 91st Academy Awards.

GLAAD, which counts the number of LGBTQ characters in releases from the

seven largest film studios in its annual Studio Responsibility Index, also spotlighted a record number of LGBTQ-inclusive films nominated for Best Picture.

The LGBTQ-inclusive films A Star is Born, Green Book, The Favourite, and see OSCAR NOMS page 8

KLATCH GAYLA/ CONCERT/ONLINE AUCTION WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (OLYMPIA, WA)

February 2

Pizza Klatch is thrilled to host Cris Williamson in concert at their Pizza Klatch Gayla/Concert/Online Auction on Satur-

And the 2018

day, February 2, at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts (512 Washington St SE, Olympia 98501) to benefit their exceptional program supporting LGBTQ+ youth in Thurston County public schools. Pizza Klatch provides 29 weekly lunchtime support groups to LGBTQ+ youth and youth allies in all 14 high schools in Thur-

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Gypsy Rose Lee Award Nominees are!

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer

For the eighth year in a row, theater critics in Seattle have banded together to honor excellent theater in town over the past year. Anyone who is on the “inside” of this small

industry knows that there are fewer and fewer places where people can write about theater, unless they establish a blog or other online outlet! However, there are still a few of us left trying to help audiences find great work.

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Alonzo King Lines Ballet’s “Figures of Speech” a poignant reflection on endangered languages

by Sharon Cumberland SGN A&E Writer

UW WORLD DANCE

“FIGURES OF SPEECH” ALONZO KING LINES BALLET MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

January 10

In this fascinating dance program the Alonzo King Lines Ballet company performed twenty short dances to the recorded sounds of dying, endangered, or extinct languages, such as Ainu from Kuril and Tsishima Islands, Mountain Maidu from the Sierra Mountains, Sámi from Northern Scandinavia, and Ladino from Jerusalem. Also included were Native American languages: Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa. The healthiest, least endangered languages included were those with provincial status: Euskera from the Basque countries and Hawai’ian from the Aloha state.

The audience was given three ways of encountering these languages. A projection on the back scrim showed a white line on a black background that would take the shape of the written or phonetic representation of the language moving in a single line that – sadly, effectively – was swallowed up by a moving cloud behind it, as though the language itself were being eaten alive. At the same time we heard recordings of the language being voiced, either by a living speaker or in scratchy archival recordings of last speakers. The dancers themselves enacted a kind of translation of these languages – not literally, I suspect, but emotively – as though the language could feel itself weakening and dying.

A lone woman opened the concert to the sounds of Ainu, which has only ten native speakers on Kuril and Tsishima Islands and an ethnic population (presumably living elsewhere) of 15,000. She entered the stage dancing what was clearly a lonely, anguished expression of loss that wove beautifully with the recording that the audience could not understand. The effect was profound: No one can understand me, and when I die, no one will understand the voice of my ancestors. Of course, this is not strictly true because if there were not linguistic anthropologists working to preserve and understand dying languages we wouldn’t have this much.

Happily, some languages can be revived and reclaimed by L2 speakers. As the program explained, L1 are native speakers, and

PIZZA KLATCH

ston County and one middle school, reaching between 300 - 400 youth every week throughout the school year. The Gayla is Pizza Klatch’s single largest fundraising event and provides a significant portion of our operating budget.

Joining the iconic American lesbian feminist singer and songwriter for this important Gayla fundraiser/Concert and online Auction will be the hysterical and social justice focused The Righteous Mothers, storyteller and comedian El Sanchez, “they make magic out of any moment,” and their fabulous emcee, youth drug counselor by day and Diva by night: the fabulous Aleksa Manila. There is also a fabulous VIP reception, chance drawings, the BEST PHOTO BOOTH ever! and cupcakes and pizza. Tickets are $25-$67 for the concert and $127 for the VIP Reception and Meet & Greet (which includes the show). Student and senior discounts are available. For more information and tickets, visit www.washingtoncenter. org/event/pk-2018/ or phone (360) 753-8586.

L2 are speakers who are not native but who speak in the locale of the language. The best example of a recovered language is Hawai’ian, which is the official language of the state (the only state that has an official language) and which is a required subject in the schools. Euskera is the most robust with an ethnic population of over two million and never needed to be reclaimed. Its endangerment, however, is from being overwhelmed by French and Spanish in its traditional territories. At a conference in Barcelona some years ago I listened to impassioned appeals by Basque-speakers for the preservation of its culture and languages – and noticed that all the street signs are in both Spanish and Euskera. Using dance to evoke the dilemma of language preservationists while making music of the words themselves is a brilliant idea. The twenty short dances in this program – solos, trios, small groups and the full company of eleven dancers – expressed the emotions surrounding the pride and anxiety of cultures losing their connection to their own pasts as their languages languish. The feeling is a bit like (if I may make a local com-

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Singer, songwriter, musician, activist and recipient of Americana Music’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Cris Williamson is one of the most important figures from the women’s music movement that took root in the 1970s. Cris’ first album, Changer and the Changed made NPR Music’s Top 150 Albums Made by Women. (Cris Williamson singing Waterfall – https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=xDPWpWY-n1g)

The Righteous Mothers are returning to the Gayla stage back by popular demand. “I don’t know of any group that can move me so quickly from gales of laughter to tears of sorrow – and joy.” – Carolyn Prouty (The Righteous Mothers – Old Fat Naked Women for Peace – https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=OINStsPwgQ4)

El Sanchez is Seattle Trans/Queer/Latinix Comedian who weaves together a unique mix of embarrassing personal stories, nerdy obsessions and social politics. (El Sanchez –https://youtu.be/v7iRvwbVvJk)

The word emcee doesn’t do justice to the extraordinarily talented Aleksa Manila. Drug counselor by day, drag diva

parison to another phenomenon of vanishment) seeing Old Seattle disappear inexorably under a forest of cranes and high-rises. That sinking, confused feeling some of us get trying to find our way around when our old landmarks are gone – the homes of our memories – is something akin to the feelings evoked in this program.

The dances themselves were flowing and energetic, performed by beautifully powerful men and women of great diversity, which underscores the universality of the language groups represented and those not represented but still doomed. Linguists believe that 6,000 to 7,000 endangered languages will be extinct by the year 2100, so Alonzo King and company have foregrounded an important and melancholy problem. It was wise to choreograph languages that have managed to survive, along with those that may yet have a chance, so that the loss of so much human culture would not produce a hopeless sense of human extinction.

The program asks, but can’t really answer, a serious question: How will the loss of these languages affect humanity and the memory of human wisdom and accom-

by night. Winner of the 2018 Humanitarian Award, Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA). Aleksa Manila is a consummate entertainer. (www.aleksamanila.com)

ABOUT THE ONLINE AUCTION

Every year, our Gayla includes an online auction where participants can bid on a large variety of donations provided by local businesses and residents. This year, we will be working with Silent Auction Pro to host our online auction. Please be sure to go to pizzaklatch.org/gayla to register for our auction. At the Gayla itself, the auction will still be done ONLINE through computers, phones and IPads. There will be volunteers at kiosks onsite to help you bid. By registering early you will not have to stand in long lines when you arrive. You also can opt for an express checkout allowing you a fast, easy exit at the end of the concert/auction. If you can’t make it to Olympia for the Gayla concert you can still participate in the online auction via pizzaklatch.org/gayla or simply make an online donation or write a check and mail it to Pizza Klatch, 1311 4th Ave E, Olympia WA 98506. (360) 339-7574.

plishment? In ballet terms, there is another question that occurred to me: How can so many languages be represented by a single dance language – the dialect, if you will, of a single choreographer? In the best of all possible worlds, this project would belong to twenty choreographers, each one taking a language and presenting it in their own very different movements. Then we could begin to see in dance the difference and diversity of these cultures. As it was, the dances were thoughtful, full-bodied, powerful, and committed. King uses wide stances low to the ground, engaged facial expressions and intricate group movements. Taken together with the languages flowing around them, the twenty dances were moving and effective.

Still, one language is hard put to express a variety of languages, but instead can only express the complexity of a culture and the sorrow of losing its language. After a while, the voices of the already-lost languages became the most poignant element of the dance – the old women with their shaky chanting telling us about lives and legends we can no longer understand.

ABOUT PIZZA KLATCH

OUR MISSION: To foster resiliency in LGBTQ+ youth and create a safe and positive school experience through support, education and empowerment.

Pizza Klatch is in all 14 high schools in Thurston County and one middle school providing 29 weekly lunchtime support groups to LGBTQ+ youth and youth allies, reaching between 300 - 400 youth every week through the school year.

LGBTQ+ students endure a multitude of issues including discrimination, family rejection, bullying, domestic violence, relationship violence, homelessness, addiction, mental health, anxiety and depression. Based on our 2017 survey of Pizza Klatch participants, 90% reported they had heard LGBTQ+ slurs at school said in a derogatory way and 91% percent reported they had experienced physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse.

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WHIM W'HIM

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many companies will present an evening of commissioned works in a season of revivals and classics, Whim W’Him presents only new works in all of its annual programs. This extraordinary commitment to the creativity of artists – both dancers and dancemakers – is like a fertile field with a varied and fascinating array of crops. The company is small – seven talented dancers who work together for an impressive thirty-five weeks a year, many of whom have worked with each other over the ten years of the company’s existence. Compared to companies that create works for larger forces, Whim W’Him’s size is ideal for the demands of a dozen or so new works per year.

The first program every season is the “Choreographic Shindig,” which invites as many as eight emerging choreographers – chosen by the dancers themselves – to create new works. The second program is generally given over to more established choreographers as Whim W’Him’s reputation and resources increase with each passing year. The third event is generally a full-length work by Olivier Wevers, involving other artists, such as the Skyros Quartet and The Esoterics choral group in his wonderful setting of the poems of Cavafy in last year’s “Approaching Ecstasy,” or in the upcoming “Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater” in conjunction with Early Music Seattle.

The current “3 x 3” program showcases two very celebrated choreographers – Yin Yue from China and NYC, and Seattle’s own Zoe Scofield – as well as Olivier Wevers, whose choreographic duties this year, including his current work in “3 x 3”, “Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater” in February and the full-length “The Little Prince” this coming June, seems to mark a new level of creative output. Here are the “3 x 3” dances in the order they were performed:

“The Most Elusive Hold” (New Creation)

Choreography: Yin Yue

I’ve never seen a work by Yin Yue before, but I’ll be on the lookout for her in the future after seeing this terrific dance. The work is clean, geometric, exciting, and complex. Five dancers in street clothes move to a variety of pulsing sounds by Emptyset, Shifted, Machinefabriek and others, creating an endless kaleidoscope of movement while somehow preserving the individual containment of each dancer. I was reminded of DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man – that double image of a nude with arms outstretched within a square embedded in a circle – showing the perfection of human proportions while forever enclosing the individual in a perfect sphere. No matter how much the dancers combined and re-combined themselves, or flung out their arms, legs, toes, it was as if they were moving within individual spheres as a kind of hyper-individualism. I must say that this was my favorite dance of the evening – I could have watched it repeatedly and never unpacked the intricacy of its combinations, or tired of watching the dancers describe their Vetruvian circles of light.

“This mountain” (New Creation)

Choreography: Zoe Scofield

I last saw Zoe Scofield’s work as part of zoe | juniper’s “Clear and Sweet” at On the Boards in 2016, a memorable work inspired by Sacred Harp singing – that strange tradition of Christian hymnody in which singers “shout” the hymns to fasola tunes. It was an unforgettable event, uniting dance and mystery with this weird old American hymn tradition. Scofield revisits the tradition in “This mountain” (“mountain” is not capitalized) by mixing the hymns with snatches of Bach’s Goldberg Variations as seven dancers emerge from behind a black partition as if dazzled by some entity situ-

ated behind the audience. They are dressed in what could be described as “praise costumes” – white garments that conjure up a choir or a group baptism. The dancers approach the mystery, tumbling the front row backwards in an endless regression before breaking into various configurations that range from folk movement to the dance equivalent of speaking in tongues. One of the most striking images was a rectangle of bright light that lay like a carpet on the stage, beckoning each dancer to enter the light as the others stood back and watched in fascination. The tension between the dark scrims and the carpet of light created a universe of exploration without a sense of threat. I love Scofield’s willingness to probe the mysteries of faith without apology – especially in an historical moment when the dire effects of immoral power are threatening our country and the world.

“Trail of Soles” (New Creation)

Choreography: Olivier Wevers

Continuing in that moral vein is Wevers’ new work in which the dance space is

defined by empty shoes arranged in various patterns. In his program notes Wevers references the “65 million refugees worldwide” who “have been forcibly compelled to leave their home to escape famine, climate change, war, and persecution.” The seven dancers whose anguished, intense movements convey these losses move the shoes into new paths and shapes as the dilemma of homelessness unfolds. Shoes are the perfect, simple metaphor for both home (the shoes parked under the bed, the shoes in the closet, the shoes waiting by the door) and for the unanchored wandering of the desperate refugee (the sore feet, the worn-out soles, the endless journey, the suffering souls). Wevers’ choreographic gift is narrative in character: he is a dancemaker who uses familiar objects to tell stories, whether through images of devils, silent film stars, umbrellas and bowler hats, or shoes. Like a good poet, he calls upon our associations with concrete items to supply hints about the meaning of dance structures that might otherwise remain abstract. I love abstraction in dance, such as Yin Yue’s offering of pure movement onto which I can formulate my own ideas about

containment and proportion. But I also love the more literal revelations into the artists’ minds, especially when they address the major concerns of the audience and times. Wevers’ powerful moral voice empowers choreography to grapple with the war between injustice and hope. As he pointed out in a post-performance discussion, the selection of choreographers for a program such as this one is governed not only by talent—and he can have his pick, since what choreographer would turn down an opportunity to make a new dance with such marvelous resources? – but also by a certain sensibility. He didn’t define that sensibility, but I think that I can: it’s an aura of realistic optimism, in which hope for humanity trumps injustice.

There’s still time to see Whim W’Him’s “3 x 3” at Cornish Playhouse (201 Mercer St.) through January 26. For more information and tickets, visit www.whimwhim. org or call brownpapertickets at (800) 8383006.

Marxiano Productions’ Bohemia at The Triple Door a beautiful classical work of erotic art

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer

BOHEMIA THE TRIPLE DOOR

Through January 26

Last year was the triumphant debut of Bohemia at the Triple Door, a big splashy production of incredible dance numbers, glamorous costumes with an intriguing story and brought to you by Marxiano Productions, returned this past weekend.

Marxiano Productions’ triumphant production of Bohemia which debuted at The Triple Door last year returned to The Triple Door mainstage January 17 for a nine-day performance run through January 26. It’s a big splashy production with incredible dance numbers, glamorous costumes and an intriguing story that you won’t want to miss.

Bohemia is a musical set in 1890s Prague that combines stories of historic artists like Sarah Bernhardt, Frédéric Chopin and George Sand interwoven with beautiful green fairies, aerial numbers, dance, burlesque, classical piano battles, comedy, and original songs by Siano, Peachey and Dayton Allemann.

The story centers around the famous Czech composer, Antonín Dvorák (Siano), who has hit a wall prior to composing his magnum opus. In a move of desperation he turns to a bottle of absinthe for inspiration. In this macabre and mystical dream cabaret, Dvorák is visited by the ghost of the late composer Frédéric Chopin (Peachey) and a host of scantily clad green fairies. Chopin and many other famous Bohemians guide Dvorák as they search for the true source of inspiration and grasp at artistic immortality.

Bravo to the gender-bending performance of Peachey’s Chopin dancing with his lover George (Claire Marx). Bravo as well to the closeness of the dancing between the two male fairies as performed by Hisam Goueli and Bo Mellinger. This year, Siano got to cuddle up with both Goueli and Mellinger. I also appreciated the added humor that was absent from last year’s production.

GYPSY NOMS

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To that end, the annual critics’ award still chugs along, at least for one more year. Spanning dozens of theater companies and productions, from large and prominent to small and humble, the Gypsy Rose Lee Awards honor the excellence found in as much professional theater as we reviewers can attend in a year. Named in honor of the famed theater entrepreneur and Seattle native, Gypsy Rose Lee, and in a nod to the vast numbers or theater practitioners forced to travel the country to earn their living, the Gypsys seek to acknowledge the excellence of the Seattle theater community. (The group’s online presence is at www.facebook.com/SeattleTheaterWriters.)

The winners will be announced February 1, 2019.

And without further ado, arranged in 33 categories in two divisions (Large Theaters and Small Theaters), the 2018 Gypsy Rose Lee Award Nominees are (by category, in alpha order by name):

Excellence in Production of a Play

(Large Theaters)

Frost/NixonStrawberry Theatre Workshop

Native Gardens - Intiman Theatre

The Picture of Dorian GrayBook-It Repertory Theatre

The Wolves - ACT Theatre

Two Trains RunningSeattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage

From the staging to the classical music this production is pure art. While the sexiness of burlesque stars Goueli and Pamela Turpin (as Sarah Bernhardt) is appropriately chaste on the main stage, their dance behind the curtain allowed them to reveal themselves more explicitly and the audience was teased with erotic beauty.

(Small Theaters)

An Octoroon - ArtsWest

Hand to God - Seattle Public Theater

Hir - ArtsWest and Intiman Theatre

Skeleton Crew - ArtsWest

The Nether - WET

Excellence in Production of a Musical

Annie - 5th Avenue Theatre

Hairspray - Village Theatre

Kiss Me, Kate - 5th Avenue Theatre

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and GrillArtsWest

The Noteworthy Life of Howard BarnesVillage Theatre

Excellence in Direction of a Play (Large Theaters)

Juliette Carrillo - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

Sheila Daniels - The Wolves (ACT Theatre)

Rosa Joshi - Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

Malika Oyetimein -

And in This Corner: Cassius Clay (Seattle Children’s Theatre)

Victor PappasThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Peggy Gannon - Year of the Rooster (MAP Theatre)

Kelly Kitchens - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Jay O’Leary - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Brandon J. Simmons - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Jennifer Zeyl - Hir (ArtsWest and Intiman Theatre)

This classic production is everything that dinner theater is meant to be. I hope to see more shows like this at the The Triple

Excellence in Direction of a Musical

Valerie Curtis-NewtonLady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (ArtsWest)

Brandon IvieThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Steve Tomkins and Timothy McCuen Piggee - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Male) (Large Theaters)

Andre G. BrownAnd in This Corner: Cassius Clay (Seattle Children’s Theatre)

Jim Gall - Native Gardens (Intiman Theatre)

Eugene Lee - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

(Small Theaters)

Evan Barrett - Hir (ArtsWest and Intiman Theatre)

Ben Burris - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Lamar Legend - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Ryan SchlechtASL Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sound Theatre Company)

James Weidman - The Nether (WET)

Excellence in Performance in a Musical as a Lead Actor (Male)

Joshua CarterThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

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Joshua Castille nd E.J. CardonaThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (5th Avenue Theatre)

Nick DeSantis - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

Timothy McCuen Piggee - Annie (5th Avenue Theatre)

Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Female) (Large Theaters)

Mary Ewald - Timon of Athens (Seattle Shakespeare Company)

Sarah Harlett - Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

Kirsten Potter - Ibsen in Chicago (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

Amy Thone - Frost/Nixon (Strawberry Theatre Workshop)

Dedra D. Woods - Wild Horses (Intiman Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Nabilah AhmedA Small History of Amal (Forward Flux Productions and Pratidhwani)

Sunam Ellis - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Tracy Michelle Hughes - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Gretchen Krich - Hir (Artswest and Intiman Theatre)

Eleanor Moseley - Wit (SecondStory Repertory)

GYPSY NOMS

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Excellence in Performance in a Musical as a Lead Actor (Female)

Caitlin Frances - Disenchanted (Mamches Presents)

Cayman Ilika - Kiss Me, Kate (5th Avenue Theatre)

Felicia LoudLady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (ArtsWest)

Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Male)any non-lead (Large Theaters)

William Hall Jr. - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

Chip ShermanAnd in This Corner: Cassius Clay (Seattle Children’s Theatre)

Brandon J. SimmonsThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

Michael Winters - Timon of Athens (Seattle Shakespeare Company)

Joseph Steven Yang - The Great Leap (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company)

(Small Theaters)

Jose Abaoag - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Martyn G. Krouse - Hand To God (Seattle Public Theater)

Charles Leggett - Hir (Artswest and Intiman Theatre)

Christopher Quilici - Peerless (ArtsWest)

Shane Regan - Year of the Rooster (MAP Theatre)

Excellence in Performance of a Musical as a Supporting Actor (Male) - any non-lead

Peter Crook - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

Chris Ensweiler - Matilda (Village Theatre)

Jeff SteitzerThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Female)any non-lead

(Large Theaters)

Cheyenne Barton - The Wolves (ACT Theatre)

Julie Briskman - Timon of Athens (Seattle Shakespeare Company)

Christine Marie Brown - The Wolves (ACT Theatre)

Sarah Harlett - Frost/Nixon (Strawberry Theatre Workshop)

Annette Toutonghi - Ibsen in Chicago (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Allyson Lee Brown - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Caitlin Frances - Smoke and Dust (Macha Theatre Works)

Annelih GH HamiltonDon’t Split the Party (Transparent Storytelling Group)

Gabriella O’Fallon - The Nether (WET)

Jéhan Òsanyìn - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Excellence in Performance of a Musical as a Supporting Actor (Female) - any non-lead

Ann Cornelius - Matilda (Village Theatre)

Lisa Estridge - Mamma Mia (5th Avenue Theatre)

Robyn Hurder - Kiss Me, Kate (5th Avenue Theatre)

Shaunyce Omar - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

Jasmine Jean SimThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Excellence in Performance as an Ensemble:

(Large Theaters)

And in This Corner: Cassius Clay -

Seattle Children’s Theatre

(Sydney Andrews, Andre G. Brown, Andrew Lee Creech, Brace Evans, Bria Samone Henderson, Lamar Legend, Charles Leggett, Cobey Mandarino, Chip Sherman)

Native Gardens - Intiman Theatre (Julie Briskman, Sophie Franco, Jim Gall, Phillip Ray Guevara, Gloria Alcala, Yolanda Suarez)

The Picture of Dorian GrayBook-It Repertory Theatre (Ian Bond, Anastasia Higham, Imogen Love, Jon Lutyens, Michael Patten, Chip Sherman, Brandon J. Simmons, Jon Stutzman)

The Wolves - ACT Theatre

(Cheyenne Barton, Emma Bjornson, Christine Marie Brown, Madilyn Cooper, Meme Garcia, Rachel Guyer-Mafune, Emilie Hanson, Alyssa Norling, Zoe Tziotis Shields, Martha Kathryn Smith) Two Trains RunningSeattle Repertory Theatre & Arena Stage

(Eugene Lee, Nicole Lewis, William Hall Jr., Carlton Byrd, Reginald Andre Jackson, David Emerson Toney, Frank Riley III)

(Small Theaters)

5 Lesbians Eating A QuicheFantastic.Z Productions

(Jessica Severance, Jana Gueck, Jane Martin, Jessica Stepka, Alexandria Stevens)

A Small History of AmalForward Flux Productions & Pratidhwani (Nabilah Ahmed, Gurvinder Pal Singh, Abhijeet Rane, Meenakshi Rishi, Varsha Raghavan, Jay Athalye)

An Octoroon - ArtsWest

(Lamar Legend, Mike Dooly, Jose Abaoag, Jessi Little, Heather Persinger, Dedra Woods, Jéhan Òsanyìn, Jazmyne Waters)

Hand to God - Seattle Public Theater

(Ben Burris, Sunam Ellis, Arjun Pande, Hannah Mootz, Marty Krouse)

Hir - Artswest and Intiman Theatre

(Gretchen Krich, Charles Leggett, Adrian Kljucec, Evan Barrett)

Crew - ArtsWest

(Tracy Michelle Hughes, Allen Miller III, Charles Wright, Allyson Brown)

Year of the Rooster - MAP Theatre

(Brandon Ryan, Shane Regan, Mia Morris, Zenaida Rose Smith, Lantz Wagner)

Excellence in Set Design (Large Theaters)

Catherine Cornell - MAC BETH (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

Shawn Ketchum Johnson - Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

Misha Kachman - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

Pete Rush - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

Matthew Smucker - Matilda (Village Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Lex Marcos (with Mandy Greer)Parliament Square (Pony World Theatre)

Christopher Mumaw - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Tristan Roberson - The Nether (WET)

Julia Hayes Welch - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Burton Yuen - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Excellence in Costume Design (Large Theaters)

Ron EricksonThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

Alex Jaeger - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

G.W. (Skip) Mercier - Ibsen in Chicago (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

Rose PedersonThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Melanie Taylor Burgess - Matilda (Village Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Cherelle Ashby and Jonelle CornwellShe Kills Monsters (Theater Schmeater)

Amy Baldwin5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (Fantastic.Z Productions)

Kat Henwood - The White Snake (ReACT Theatre)

Sadiqua Iman - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Pete Rush - Hir (Artswest and Intiman Theatre)

Excellence in Lighting Design (Large Theaters)

Robert J. Aguilar - MAC BETH (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

Geoff Korf - Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

Sherrice Mojgani - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

Andrew D. SmithThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

Matthew WebbThe Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 (Seattle Children’s Theatre)

(Small Theaters)

Ryan Dunn - The Nether (WET)

Emily Leong - Peerless (ArtsWest)

Thorn Michaels - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Thorn Michaels - Ironbound (Seattle Public Theater)

Rick Paulsen - Lonely Planet (AJ Epstein Presents)

Excellence in Sound Design (Large Theaters)

Erin Bednarz - MAC BETH (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

Brendan Patrick Hogan - Frost/Nixon (Strawberry Theatre Workshop)

Johanna MelamedThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre)

Christopher Walker - Ride the Cyclone (5th Avenue Theatre and ACT Theatre)

Rob Witmer and Meghan RocheRichard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

(Small Theaters)

D.R. Amromin - Silhouette (Annex Theatre)

Mariah Brougher - The Nether (WET)

Stephon Jamaa’l Dorsey - Skeleton Crew (ArtsWest)

Matt Starritt - An Octoroon (ArtsWest)

Rob Witmer - Hand to God (Seattle Public Theater)

Excellence in Musical Direction

Dennis CastellanoThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (5th Avenue Theatre)

Zhenya LavyThe Maids/Vexations (Akropolis Performance Lab)

RJ TanciocoThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Excellence in Choreography or Movement

Al BlackstoneThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Alice Gosti (movement) and Peter Dylan O’Connor (fight)Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective)

Michele Lynch - Kiss Me, Kate (5th Avenue Theatre)

Crystal Dawn Munkers - Hairspray (Village Theatre)

Excellence in Local Playwriting

Christopher DimondThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Nathan Kessler-JeffreyDon’t Split the Party

(Transparent Storytelling Group)

Joy McCullough-CarranzaSmoke and Dust

(Macha Theatre Works)

Lauren Yee - The Great Leap (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company)

Y York - The Impossibility of Now (Thalia’s Umbrella)

Excellence in Local Composing

Christopher Dimond and Michael Kooman -

The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Village Theatre)

Scotto Moore - Silhouette (Annex Theatre)

David Molina - Two Trains Running (Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage)

Excellence in Video Design

Ahren Buhmann - Parliament Square (Pony World Theatre)

Tristan Roberson - The Nether (WET)

Suzi Tucker - Veils (Macha Theatre Works)

ABOUT SEATTLE THEATER WRITERS

Founded in 2010 by Miryam Gordon and comprised of local writers and reviewers, Seattle Theater Writers is a group of critic/reviewers dedicated to raising public awareness of theater practitioners and the work produced by professional theater organizations. Seattle Theater Writers’ hope is that these awards might encourage theater attendance and enjoyment of our rich cultural offerings. Born from this mission are the annual Gypsy Rose Lee Awards, recognizing excellence in Seattle theater across 33 categories.

The participants in this year’s award process were R. Barron (www.seattlegayscene.com), Miryam Gordon (Seattle

Gay News and miryamstheatermusings. blogspot.com), Rosemary Jones (www. seattletheateranddance.com), Dusty Somers (freelance critic), and Michael Strangeways (www.seattlegayscene.com).

To support the reviewers’ nominations, STW has established an Auxiliary of theater-going members, some of whom are also theater practitioners and all of whom are ardent fans of theater. All members go to multiple dozens of productions per year, many over 100. The Auxiliary supports our Round Two (of the three “round” process) in the selection process where points are given to the dozens of nominees and individuals select their top five in each category. The Auxiliary points are used to support STW members’ choices as we pick our nominees and winners.

For more information, go to www. facebook.com/SeattleTheaterWriters. The Notes section of the Facebook page shows the evolution of the awards.

Visually Elastic Moon an imaginatively self-indulgent drama

by Sara Michelle Fetters

SGN A&E Writer

DON’T COME BACK FROM THE MOON

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There’s a lot to like about Bruce Thierry Cheung’s solo directorial debut Don’t Come Back from the Moon. A frequent James Franco collaborator (he shot The Sound and the Fury and The Adderall Diaries for the actor/producer/director and co-directed the 2018 dystopian sci-fi action film Future World with him), the veteran cinematographer’s purposefully minimalist adaptation of author Dean Bakopoulos’ novel Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon is disquieting in its hypnotically austere minimalism. Moving the action from Detroit to a windswept rundown town somewhere in the southern California desert on the Salton Sea, this is a coldly bleak story of youth searching for answers during a summer of senseless loss and abandonment, the resulting answers bracingly affecting even if they aren’t particularly surprising.

But the movie just as equally cannot help but feel a little slight, more of a visual and emotionally visceral exercise in crafting a consistent mood and setting a dynamic tone than it is anything else. With his use of expressive close-ups coupled with long expansive shots of seemingly never-ending desert vistas of a dilapidated, crumbling community on the verge of being gobbled up by the sand, the film is undeniably visually impressive. But the use of narration and chopped-up conversations that only take shape in the vaguest of ways can’t help but come across like a cinema studies major attempting to emulate Terrence Malick at his most self-indulgent. These various elements frequently feel as if they are working at cross-purposes for a great deal of the narrative, and even at a brief 82-minutes I still found sitting through Cheung’s debut without squirming a little more difficult than it arguably should have been.

There is still a lived-in quality to this tale that I cannot deny. I loved the first half hour or so, the portions where Cheung, cowriting the script with the Bakopoulos, introduces us into this world and sets up the conditions the various characters all find themselves forced to deal with. The ethereally barren strangeness of both the locale and the bizarre events are fascinating, and I loved the way the director submerged me right in the center of it all with practically no explanation whatsoever. Cheung and his cinematographer Chananun Chotrungroj utilize their poetically sparse and majestically vacant environment with mesmeric precision, the expressive, tragically persuasive charms of this introduction undeniable.

The basic thrust of the plot involves

an entire community of abandoned wives and kids where all of the men for one reason or another have slowly left to explore their options elsewhere. The teenagers have labeled this as, “going to the moon,” all of them urging one another not to do the same once they’re old enough to make their own way in the world. Events are centered on 16-year-old Mickey (Jeffrey Wahlberg), his father Roman (Franco) taking time to teach him how to drive before slipping out of town himself to who knows where, leaving the teen to take care of his emotionally devastated mother Eva (an outstanding Rashida Jones) and younger brother Kolya (Zackary Arthur). In some ways he’s better off than many of his friends, some like the lovely Sonya (Alyssa Elle Steinacker) or his volatile, bird-loving cousin Nick (Hale Lytle) left entirely on their own after their respective dads disappear. How does the community react? The kids, especially the teenagers, find a number of varying ways to vent their anger including staying out late partying or scrounging the crumbling buildings and factories for bits of scrap metal they can trade for items like a used bicycle or a few eggs to make breakfast with. Mickey’s mom tries to fight through her own grief by opening up a makeshift barber shop in her kitchen, taking a few bucks here and there to cut the hair of the local kids or some of

the remaining adults who haven’t bolted for the great unknown. One of those individuals ends up being one of the lone males (Henry Hopper) still around who is hoping to land a job as a grocery store clerk. Much to Mickey’s frustration he ends up falling for Eva, and it’s an open question whether or not the teen is going to let their romance run its course or if he’ll do whatever he can to stop it before it can begin.

While some of that sounds relatively straightforward, in reality very little of it actually is. Cheung designs things in a way that it all ends up becoming a stream of consciousness mash-up of emotional disparities that bounce off one another as if they were a rubber ball trapped inside a hollow cube being shaken by a cantankerous child. Mikey’s voiceover tends to overexplain things, and his constant allusions to the surface of the moon can grow obnoxiously tiresome. But the openhearted clarity of the central story is refreshing, and the way the filmmaker manages to keep such precise focus on Mickey’s attempts to put all these pieces together is impressive. There is also a naturalistic grace to his growing attachment to Sonya that’s expressively rich, making her surprise decision to forgive her father (Robert Scott Crane) all the more heartbreaking because of this.

The film’s third act gets a bit jumbled.

Mickey decides to go looking for answers outside of his Salton Sea community, the discoveries he ends up making too ambiguous and vague to be as deeply moving as I think Cheung intends them to be. I also felt like, as hopeful and moderately heartwarming as the final moments might be, the last few scenes rang slightly a bit hollow as far as I was concerned. I just didn’t buy that the choices Mickey was making were wholly genuine, and while the idea that this circle of abandonment and capitulation to life’s indignities has hopefully come to an end felt sincere, it just didn’t seem to me this teenager was the one who was going to be able to accomplish such a feat with anything approaching lasting success.

Granted, having not read Bakopoulos’ book I could be reading this story’s intentions all wrong. More than that, even though Future World was something of an eye-rolling disaster, Cheung showcases a confidence with actors and an impressive imaginative flair that makes me believe this young director is a talent worth keeping an eye on. If I don’t love Don’t Come Back from the Moon that doesn’t mean I still didn’t find much to be intrigued by and bewitched with here, this visually elastic piece of a cinematic poetry a dramatic curiosity I’m happy I took the time to see.

OSCAR NOMS

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Bohemian Rhapsody received nominations for Best Picture. Four of the eight films nominated for Best Picture are LGBTQinclusive, the highest number of LGBTQinclusive films that have ever been nominated for Best Picture in a single year. The two most recent Best Picture winners highlighted LGBTQ stories, Moonlight and The Shape of Water. GLAAD also applauded Best Picture nominations today for films Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman, which featured predominantly Black casts and stories.

GLAAD social media posts on nominees: https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1087714289161510912

“Today’s list of Oscar nominees reflect a banner year for LGBTQ inclusion in film and a signal that the Academy and its members are rightfully prioritizing diverse storytelling at a time when audiences and critics alike are calling for more,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “The diversity across the full list of nominations should be celebrated and will no doubt lead to more inclusive, culture-changing films. The majority of the LGBTQ-inclusive films highlight the stories of LGBTQ people throughout history showing that LGBTQ people and issues have always existed and that now is the time to tell these powerful and moving stories.”

If Beale Street Could Talk received a nomination in Best Adapted Screenplay for Barry Jenkins, the film was adapted from the novel of the same name by legendary gay author and activist James Baldwin. Additional LGBTQ nominees included:

• Writer Jeff Whitty, for co-writing Can You Ever Forgive Me? with Nicole Holofcener

• The Live Action Short film Marguerite, which tells the LGBTQ-inclusive story of an aging woman and her nurse who develop a friendship that inspires the woman to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.

• Documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who were nominated for their Netflix Documentary Short, End Game.

• Composer/Lyricist team Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman for Original Song for writing “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns

• Shaiman was also nominated for Original Score for Mary Poppins Returns

• Best Actor and Best Actress additionally included multiple nominations for LGBTQ characters – Rami Malek was nominated for his portrayal of queer music icon Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Melissa McCarthy as lesbian biographer Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite

• Mahershala Ali is nominated in Best Supporting Actor for playing gay musician Don Shirley in Green Book. Also nominated in the category is Richard E. Grant who played gay character Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are nominated in Best Supporting Actress for The Favourite

GLAAD previously announced that nominees for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor outstanding LGBTQ images in the media, will be

unveiled on Friday, January 25 live from the Sundance Film Festival. Actress Mj Rodriguez (Pose) and actor Nico Santos (Crazy Rich Asians, NBC’s “Superstore”) will host the nominee announcement via a live-stream on GLAAD’s Facebook page hosted by AT&T.

GLAAD’s 2018 Studio Responsibility Index, which maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ people in films released by the seven largest motion picture studios and their subsidiaries during the 2017 calendar year, found an alarming drop in LGBTQ characters and representation. GLAAD found that of the 109 releases from major studios in 2017, only 14 (12.8%) of them included characters that are LGBTQ, a decrease from the previous year’s report (18.4%, 23 out of 125), and the lowest percentage of LGBTQinclusive major studio releases since

GLAAD began tracking in 2012. Not one of the 109 releases included a transgender character. GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is scheduled for release later this year.

About GLAAD

GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love. For more information, please visit www. glaad.org or connect with GLAAD on Facebook and Twitter.

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Timely Acceptable Loss an explosive misfire

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

AN ACCEPTABLE LOSS

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Former national security advisor Elizabeth “Libby” Lamm (Tika Sumpter) can’t forget the past. She’s haunted by her part in an aerial strike against a terrorist stronghold in the Middle East. Persuaded by then Vice President Rachel Burke (Jamie Lee Curtis) to falsify parts of a report that made this attack possible, believing that doing so will potentially end the war on terror for good, once the full ramifications of their actions are clear the growing disgust she feels begins to eat away at her soul. While initially playing the part of a good soldier, doing what she can to help convince the American public of the legality of the administration’s actions, since then Libby has secretly written a memoir chronicling every aspect of the plan to conduct that air strike. It is a report Rachel Burke, now President of the United States, understandably does not want to become public.

Martin Salhi (Ben Tavassoli) is a promising graduate student at a prestigious New England university of Middle Eastern descent. When Libby Lamm is hired to teach one of his classes the young man is noticeably shaken. He begins to stalk his new professor, surreptitiously chronicling every step she makes. Martin has his own reasons for wanting Libby held responsible for her part in the American military’s air strike against his homeland. He’s also noticeably curious as to her recent actions that he’s been clandestinely observing, putting his original plan to hold her personally accountable for what he views as nothing short of the mass slaughter of innocent civilians on pause until he learns what is going on with the former government official and why she’s being so strangely secretive.

That’s the overly complex setup to what’s happening in writer/director Joe Chappelle’s (Phantoms) political thriller An Acceptable Loss, a well-intentioned ticking clock suspense yarn where tension is hard to come by and anything approaching an emotional investment in the outcome is practically non-

existent. Additionally, the subplot involving Martin isn’t believable, his character arc inexplicably transforming into something out of 3 Days of the Condor or The Parallax View in a manner that is forcibly nonsensical. His involvement with Libby is absurd, and as the entire last third of the story hinges entirely on the decisions he makes and very little else this is a gigantic problem the film cannot hope to recover from.

Not that the central scenario isn’t interesting. Libby’s crisis of conscience isn’t half as compelling as her back and forth discussions with Rachel also prove to be. While not exactly subtle, they have a strength and a resonance that’s fascinating. While one does hope the answer to this moralistic argument is obvious, that the viewer would never choose to unleash the level of unimaginable carnage these characters do and then face having to live with the repercussions of their actions, it’s unnerving how matter-of-factly Chappelle treats this debate. Thanks almost entirely to Curtis’ chilling, confidently high-

minded performance, Rachel’s reasoning for changing U.S. policy in regards to first strike attacks and the need for collateral damage, no matter how massive it might be, have a bone-rattling immediacy that reminded me of statements made by a number of politicians roaming the halls of Congress and residing within the White House right this very second.

It’s fairly clear what Chappelle is trying to do. He’s placing a mirror to the current political miasma and asking the viewer to question everything they think they hold dear. The filmmaker does so by taking this story to its abhorrent extremes, showing in no uncertain terms what could happen when a Presidential administration is allowed to go unchecked by the rule of law and given free rein by a Congress disinterested in conducting their oversight responsibilities. Rachel is like an amalgam of Dick Cheney, Donald Trump and Martin Sheen’s authoritarian political candidate with a backbone made out of string cheese

that the actor portrayed in David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone, Curtis playing her character with such determined gravitas I found I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. But so what? The thriller aspects do not work, especially once Libby and Martin stop working at cross-purposes. The entire will-it-or-won’t-it get published aspect surrounding the former’s memoir isn’t interesting. Worse, it also isn’t suspenseful. Nothing feels real or authentic, and there was never a second I believed what was transpiring could take place in anything even passingly resembling the real world. The last act is especially bothersome, things building to an expected conclusion that’s nowhere near as shocking as is undeniably the intent.

Sumpter was magnificent in 2016’s Southside with You, the actress a rising star I expect great things from in the future. While she does what she can here, Libby is such a mess of a character it’s remarkable the actress makes her anywhere near as compelling as she does. But Chappelle’s writing for this smart, determined woman is all over the map, and there were many moments where her decisions made so little sense, especially as they pertained to Martin, that I might have rolled my eyes in irritated frustration on more than one occasion. Sumpter can only do so much to mitigate all of this psychologically discombobulated madness, and that Libby isn’t a total disaster as the protagonist has more to do with her talent and resolve than it does anything relating to the director’s script. I almost feel bad for disliking An Acceptable Loss as I do. Chappelle has something to say, and I don’t think there’s any minimizing he has a point in regards just how bad it might be to put unscrupulous, race-bating fundamentalists in charge of whether or not to utilize the nuclear button. But the sermonizing is as plodding and as tiresome as the inept plotting of the suspense-thriller aspects of this tale unfortunately prove to be. For all of the film’s high-minded aspirations, it’s just too silly and stupid to be able to live up to any of them, Chappelle’s drama an explosive misfire that’s nothing short of a complete waste of time.

Scarecrow Video and film critic Robert Horton present Scarecrow Academy: “1959: The Greatest Year in Film History”

Local 501(c)(3) Scarecrow Video, the largest private video library in the world, is partnering with Seattle Weekly film critic Robert Horton to present “1959: The Greatest Year in Film History,” a yearlong series of film screenings and discussions celebrating one of the most important years in cinema.

1959 marked a high point of Hollywood studio filmmaking, the rise of new independent cinema, the great flowering of international movies, and the beginning of the French New Wave. The year represents the bridge between cinematic mastery bred in the silent era and the stirring tumult that would arrive in the 1960s.

Join us on 2nd and 4th Saturdays at 1pm in the Scarecrow Screening Room for the best films from the year including North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and A Bucket of Blood

Each program will include an introduction, screening, and post-film discussion. These events are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged at blog. scarecrow.com/scarecrowacademy

WHAT: Scarecrow Academy –1959: The Greatest Year in Film History WHEN: 2nd and 4th Saturdays, January 26th Through May 11th at 1pm RSVP at blog.scarecrow.com/scarecrowacademy WHERE: The Screening Room at Scarecrow Video, 5030 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

ABOUT SCARECROW VIDEO

Storytelling is at the heart of film’s ability to inspire empathy. Over a hundred years ago, we began using film to tell our cultural stories. Scarecrow Video is devoted to gathering and sharing as many of these cinematic stories as possible. With its vast collection of 132,000 titles, Scarecrow is one of the most important video libraries in the world. Scarecrow Video became a nonprofit in 2014 to continue the founding vision of uniting people through film, and just celebrated its 30th anniversary as an institution and landmark. But, much like public radio and television, Scarecrow Video will not be able to continue without the support of its community. Find out how you can help.

Nearly every night Scarecrow offers free films, lectures, and unique programming in The Screening Room. The space is also available to non-profits and community groups, all in an effort to build communities around our shared love of film. Providing a physical space for all to convene around film arts and culture is just one way that Scarecrow gives back to the community. Other free programs in which Scarecrow fosters community through film include:

Children’s Hour – Using short videos from the Scarecrow archive, storybooks curated by the Seattle Public Library, and interactive activities centered on a theme, Children’s Hour offers auditory, visual, and tactile learning in a fun environment – all at no cost to families.

Silver Screeners – Scarecrow partners with Seattle senior and community centers to deliver film screenings and discussions for older adults who might otherwise be unable to access films from the collection.

Movies in the Park – In partnership with Magnuson Park Community Center, City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and Seattle Parks and Recreation, Scare-

crow hosted free, family-friendly movie nights. Hundreds of attendees explored other cultures through four unique, familyfriendly films and children’s activities without needing to leave Seattle.

ABOUT ROBERT HORTON

Robert Horton is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the longtime film critic for the Everett Herald and Seattle Weekly. He is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine, and the author of Frankenstein (Columbia University Press) and Billy Wilder: Interviews (U. Press of Mississippi).

He has been a Fulbright Specialist, an adjunct professor at Seattle University, the curator of the “Magic Lantern” film program at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and a speaker with Smithsonian Journeys. His work is linked at the website The Crop Duster.

Courtesy of Scarecrow Video

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JAKES - 311 4th Ave. E - (360) 956-3247

TOYS IN BABELAND - 707 E. Pike St. - 328-2914

UNDER U 4 MEN

PORT ANGELES

709 Broadway Ave. E. - 324-6446

MAPLE ROSE INN 112 Reservoir Rd - (800) 570-2007

UNCLE IKE’S 2310 E Union St - 1-800-GET-DRUGS

SPOKANE

501 15th Ave E - 1-800-GET-DRUGS 9822 15th Ave SW - 1-800-GET-DRUGS WILD AT HEART 1111 NW Leary Way - 782-5538

ANDY’S - 1401 W. 1st Ave. - (509) 747-0304

THE BLIND BUCK

BELLINGHAM

204 N. Division St. - (509) 343-9425

GLOBE BAR AND KITCHEN

LOVER’S 193 Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862

204 N. Division St. - (509) 443-4014

NYNE BAR AND BISTRO

RUMORS CABARET 1119 Railroad - (306) 671-1849

232 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 474-1621

DES MOINES

EVERETT

KENT

LA CONNER

TACOMA

CASTLE SUPERSTORE

OLYMPIA

PORT

SPOKANE

TRI-CITIES

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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, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: (206) 324-4297. 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: 10-digit dialing has come to the Seattle area. The (206) area code must now be used to dial local calls. Location of meetings/events is in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY - January 26

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. (206) 4488518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Positively Living Coffee Social. 10am-12 noon. Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. (206) 9571600. Sponsored by LIfelong. Children’s Film Festival Shorts: “Journeys, Genders and Identity.” 11:30am. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. Celebrates beautiful and complex stories of identity and diversity. Suitable for ages 11 and up. Copresented by Three Dollar Bill Cinema. Tickets and info at https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step/12-tradition-oriented fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope to overcome sex and love patterns of addiction. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 140. Monthly potluck meets last Saturday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.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.oasisyouthcenter.org.

(Also Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

“Music and Medicine.” 7:30pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Guest conductor Henry Lebedinsky leads the Early Music Seattle Orchestra on a journey into the world of early modern medicine, from the humorous to the terrifying. Music includes Marin Marais’ “Tableau of a Gallbladder Operation,” selections from Lully’s “The Love Doctor,” and works by Charpentier, Geminiani, Farina, and Zelenka. Tickets ($20, $30, $40) and info at www.earlymusicseattle.org.

SUNDAY - January 27

Center for Spiritual Living. 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org

Ravenna United Methodist Church. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school” - 9:45am Worship. 5751 33rd Ave NE. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. (206) 525-7988. Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett 9:30am. Glacier Lanes, 9630 Evergreen 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; www.gaysnohomish.org

University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 10:30am Coffee Fellowship, 11am Adult Forum & Education Hour. 1604 NE 50th St. All are welcome. We choose love. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org

Central Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.” All are welcome. (206) 322-7500. Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Worship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org

University Congregational United Church of Christ. 9am all ages education; 10am Worship. 4515 16th Ave NE. UCUCC is an open & affirming congregation. (206) 524-2322; www.universityucc.org.

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am Worship. 2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984 Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. (206) 547-6945 (office); (206) 2855077 (George).

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship. 500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome. A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. (206) 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Northminster Presbyterian Church. 10:30am Worship. 7706 25th Ave NW. A village church in the city open to all. (206) 783-3402. www.northminsterpres.org (Conveniently located a block from the Metro #40 bus route.)

St. Clement’s Episcopal Church. 10:30am Worship. 1501 32nd Ave S. Great music. Dynamic preaching.

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Holy communion. Encountering the transformative and unconditional love of God in Christ. Join us! www. stclementseattle.org

Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. 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! $6.50 + $3 shoe rental. (425) 785-4729.

Welcome Table Christian Church. 9:45am Meditation; 10:30am Worship; Labyrinth 2nd Sundays 1-4pm. 1322 S Bayview St. A welcoming and affirming community since 1987. welcometablecc.org

Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation. 10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. (206) 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org

Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 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, (206) 920-6117, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Find us under “Dharma Buddies” on Meetup.com or at DharmaBuddies.org. (Women are invited to contact our sister meditation group at www. LotusSisters.org.)

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 11:15am (also 7:30am, 9am, 5pm). 15 W Roy St. We are an accepting, progressive, Anglo-Catholic parish, renewing its people for their Christian lives in today’s world through worship, spiritual formation, engagement in the arts, and acts of compassion. www.stpaulseattle.com

Just for Today (NA). 12-1:15pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step Narcotics Anonymous group open to anyone in recovery. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm. 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 (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/ Weds/Fri: Evenings; Tues/Thurs: Mornings. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org

No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. See website for location. Meets 2nd & 4th Sunday 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, www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org

Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201. Meets 4th Sunday each month in the Ian MacKintosh Room. This month’s topic: “How Do We Go Forward in the New Year?” Coffee and tea will be served. Info: www.seattleprimetimers.org

Rain City Soccer Club - Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. We play an organized, 2-hour scrimmage on nice fieldturf surface. Sometimes there is a brief training/practice session before we play. Usually there is a “one-beer” after the scrimmage. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous 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 (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. Integrity is an international ministry of Gay & Lesbian Episcopalians, their friends & families, dedicated to education, support & service within the Church & the GLBT community. (425) 226-2746.

Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Capitol Lounge, 916 E Pike St. Every Sunday. Go-go dancers at

10:30pm; drag show at midnight. 21+ ID required. $10 cover. Co-sponsored by Entre Hermanos.

MONDAY - January 28

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

SOBER On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. (206) 3222437; www.sasgcc.org

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 2-3:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St, downstairs space. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org

Lotus Sisters South Seattle/Columbia City Meditation & Dharma Discussion. Gather at 6:45pm; sit at 7pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. Short presentation with discussion to follow. Oriented to LBTQ sisters. Email us or call (206) 550-5587 for details and location; www. LotusSisters.org. (Wheelchair accessible.)

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 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

Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma 7:30-8:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Monday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897. (Also meets Fridays.)

Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Every Monday. www. washingtongenderalliance.com

TUESDAY - January 29

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

LGBTQ+ Group. 1:15-2:15pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. Every Tuesday. A group for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 & their allies. Sponsored by YouthCare. (206) 622-5555.

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 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. Youth ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org

No Man’s Land - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 7-8:30pm. 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. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI). 7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Colonial room). 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 (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at (206) 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma 7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. A vibrant drop-in workshop for those of any spiritual belief. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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 (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org

WEDNESDAY - January 30

Mature Friends Walk Around Greenlake. 11am. Meet up at 10:50am with a group of older men gathered at the north end of the parking lot that is next to the boathouse along the southwest side of Greenlake. Every Wednesday. Walk around Greenlake followed by lunch at a local restaurant. www.maturefriends.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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 (206) 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org

Living Positively. 5-7pm. Lifelong, 1016 E Pike St., 3rd Fl. Every Wednesday. Social and support group for the HIV community with various topics for discussion and conversation. (206) 957-1600 or www.lifelong.org. Sponsored by Lifelong.

GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group for GLBTQ+Youth (14-20) serving Snohomish County & surrounding communities. 6-8pm. Phone or email for location. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett. Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com

Queer Seattle Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Every Wednesday. This month’s title is “The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai, a novel of urban life in the early years of the AIDS crisis. https://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma DiscussionNorth. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www. LotusSisters.org.

Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park, 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Every Wednesday. Meet at Black Sun sculpture across for museum. (See Saturday at 9am.)

Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. Every Wednesday. 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. No fee, donations welcome. www. ingersollcenter.org

Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org

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.washingtongenderalliance.com.

THURSDAY - January 31

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. 12-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. (206) 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Safe and Sober (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs-

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day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Young Professionals With Pride Mixer. 5:30pm. Unexpected Productions, 1428 Post Alley. Appetizers, craft beer, comedy show including improv, songs, and stories with audience involvement. Meet 100+ of your fellow LGBTQ young professionals (ages 21-39). Tickets ($15 members, $25 others, $10 students) and info at www.thegsba.org or (206) 363-9188.

Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for persons living with HIV/AIDS, their friends, and for those who want to support them. 6pm. Trinity Lutheran Church, 2324 Lombard Ave, Everett. Meets last Thursday each month. For further information, please call 360-202-3978. Sponsored by AIDS Project Snohomish County (APSC) and Gay Men’s Task Force.

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 1422. 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. (206) 322-2515 ext 16. www. lamberthouse.org

Community Meeting on Volunteer Park Amphitheater. 7-8pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E. Learn more about the Amphitheater replacement project as it moves through final design phase. The design team will be on hand to answer questions and provide updates. Free, open to public. For more info contact David Graves, strategic advisor, at 206-684-7048 or email DavidGraves@seattle.gov.

21st Century Bowling. 7pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Thursday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org [NOTE: Please contact the facilitator prior to attending.] 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.)

FRIDAY - February 1

Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. A drop-in AA group for 55+. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Ongoing 12-step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.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.)

LGBTQ & Allies 18+ Free Friday Night Drop-In Volleyball. 6-7:45pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E. Every Friday. (206) 684-4753. Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www. strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437. Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fellowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.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. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org

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.

Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every

Friday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897. (Also meets Mondays.)

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room. Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org; (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

SATURDAY - February 2

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) Trans Resource Fair. 12-4pm. 12th Avenue Arts building, 1620 12th Ave. Job fair, legal clinic, informed consent clinic, and more. Presented by Ingersoll Gender Center. More info at http://bit.ly/transresourcefair.

SUNDAY - February 3

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/ PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.whatcompflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info (206) 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169. American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html

BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org.

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org

Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Vernon) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook. COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities - www.colage.org

Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest. org

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, (206) 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 Networksupport & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 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, (206) 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 - (206) 324-2570; www. equalrightswashington.org

Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org

Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeaking.org

Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 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.

Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting, and developing innovative programs and services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community - (206) 393-3400; info@gapseattle.org; gapseattle.org

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org

Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - (206) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org

HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 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, (206) 328-8979. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com

Lambert House - (206) 322-2515; www.lamberthouse. org

LGBT Library - 517 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.

LGBT MS Connection - (206) 250-5002; LGBTMSConnection@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 - (206) 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org

Lion’s Main Art Collective - www.lionsmain.org MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www. nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.com; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 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; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.) 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: (206) 388-1408, (206) 323-0750. www.seattlechoruses.org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com

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, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle Out & Proud Grays Harbor Coalition - http://outandproudgh.org

PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: (206) 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: (206) 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: (206) 568-7777, qpnd@nwnetwork.org, www.nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality with chapters in Seattle, Bellevue/Eastside, the Puget Sound region and across Washington state. PFLAG Seattle: (206) 325-7724, info@pflagseattle.org, and www.pflagseattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: (425) 483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington State: www. pflagwsc.org.

PEOPLE OF COLOR: AARTH (African American Reach & Teach Health Ministry), (206) 850-2070, www.aarth.org; Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, (206) 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, (206) 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, (206) 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, (206) 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), (206) 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; Northwest Two Spirit Society, https://www.facebook.com/ groups/nw2spiritsociety/, Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, (206) 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; QBASS - Queer Black Alliance of the South Sound, (253) 256-1846, weareqbass@gmail. com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, (206) 322-7061, (206) 255-8951; Somos Seattle, somosseattle.org; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle, www.utopiaseattlewa.org; VietQ Greater Seattle, vietqorganization@gmail.com Pierce County AIDS Foundation - (253) 383-2565; www.piercecountyaids.org Pride Foundation - (206) 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Pride Lives - www.facebook.com/PrideLives/ 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. (206) 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx

Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - (206) 682-6711; www.q-law.org

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Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - (206) 235-7235. Queer Geek! - queergeekseattle.org

Rainbow Center - Resource Center for Tacoma/Pierce County LGBTIQA community. Through education, advocacy and celebration, the Rainbow Center expands resources, and safe space for the LGBTQIA community. Sponsors Tacoma Pride Festival. (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.voteseamec.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. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - BiSeattle.wixsite. com/SBWN and on Facebook.

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. (206) 323-1768. Seattle LGBTQ Commission - (206) 684-4503. www/ seattle.gov/lgbtq Seattle Out & Proud - (206) 322-9561; www.seattlepride.org

Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov

Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - (206) 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. South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.SouthSoundQCal.com 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 Flag Football: www.cascadeflagfootball.org; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball. org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; 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; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www. seattlegaybasketballassociation.com; 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.theprideleague. com, Century 21 League; 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, (206) 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 Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org

Three Dollar Bill Cinema - TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival; Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival; Outdoor Cinema at Cal Anderson Park. www. threedollarbillcinema.org

TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity:

www.genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: (206) 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: (206) 329-6651, www. ingersollcenter.org; Lion’s Main Art Collective: www. lionsmain.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; [trans] ACTION: Trans* & Gender Non-Conforming Sex Workers’ Support Group - a safe, peer-led space. mail@utopiaseattle.org; TRANSform Washington: transformwashington.com; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com

WOMEN: Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.): We are Lesbians 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of the group is to connect, socialize and support each other. ruthemilyvogel@gmail.com; Aging Lesbians in South Seattle (ALISS) - Lesbian Group at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center. This is a gathering primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. (206) 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Coming Out Women Support Group of Tacoma: www. comingoutwomen.org; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Puget Sound Old Lesbian Organizing for Change: http:// psoloc.org, (253) 777-3357; 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 Bisexual Women’s Network: BiSeattle. wixsite.com/SBWN; Seattle Girls of Leather: www. sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org; Women of West Seattle (WOWS): a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks. org, (206) 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.) 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; Coyote Central: www.coyotecentral.org; 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. (206) 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, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way; (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: (206) 957-1665; www. llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace.com ; The Mockingbird Society: (206) 323-KIDS (5437), www. mockingbirdsociety.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org; OKAY! LGBTQ+ Outreach for Kent Area Youth: (253) 859-0699 ext 3034. OKAY! is an open support group for youth ages 13-19 who identify as LGBTQ+. A program of Kent Youth & Family Services; OUT There Adventures: www.outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., (206) 726-8500; www.psks.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www. pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www. facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, (206) 326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - (360) 698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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