Seattle Gay News
Issue 28, Volume 43, July 10, 2015
Arts & Entertainment
20 music artists who were just as excited about Gay marriage as we were
Seattle Playwrights Circle’s “Short Shorts” and other playwriting groups
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer
Kelly Clarkson – Justin McIntosh/Getty Images
by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer When the Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriage across the country two weeks ago, a vast number of celebrities from Leonardo Dicaprio to Shonda
Rimes to Kate Hudson posted their elated reaction to the news via social media. Joining them were hundreds of musicians around the world, who stopped what they were doing and acknowledged the historic event. see artists page 4
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing a classic movie worth studying
SEATTLE PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE “SHORT SHORTS” THE PHOENIX THEATRE EDMONDS, WA July 17-26 There are a number of playwriting groups around town that toil together in support of new work. Some of them are kind of class-based, like Freehold Studios, and a spin-off of that group called Parley
(led by Freehold instructor Rebecca Tourino Collingsworth). Some of them are newer iterations where one applies to be part of a small group supported by a theater – Seattle Repertory’s Writers Group, and a musical writing group at 5th Avenue Theatre. There are three main large-group playwriting entities in town. Seattle Playwrights Studio meets a couple of Mondays per month at Burien Actors Theatre. They are presenting some shorts in a weekend there, from July 24-26. Last information about joining them included a minimal see “short shorts” page 5
Heading Inside Out – Peter Docter and Jonas Rivera on bringing Pixar’s latest marvel to life
by Gary M. Kramer SGN Contributing Writer I’VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING BY JULIA MENDENHALL ARSENAL PULP PRESS Lesbian film scholar Julia Mendenhall recently published her book I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing as part of the Queer Film Classic series published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Mendenhall’s book unpacks the various meanings and readings of Lesbian filmmaker Patricia Rozema’s quirky 1987 comedy. The film features Polly Vandersma (Sheila McCarthy), a self-described “person Friday” and amateur photographer, taking a temporary job at an art gallery run by Gabrielle St. Peres, who is known as The Curator (Paule Baillargeon). Gabrielle has a girlfriend, Mary Joseph (Ann-Marie MacDonald), which creates an unspoken love triangle. The film was a sleeper hit when it was released theatrically, but Mendenhall ad-
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mitted in a recent interview that she did not see I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing until ten years after it was made. “I was doing my dissertation at Temple University in 1997 on lesbian film and saw see mendenhall page 4
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer INSIDE OUT Now playing As of right now, Inside Out is my favorite film of 2015. The tale of an 11-year-old
girl, Riley, as told entirely by the five dominant emotions – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust – working with one another for control residing inside her brain, the movie is a marvelously entertaining journey into the psyche. It is a fun, funny and visually see interview page 6
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Celebrating 41 Years!
Eric Hutchinson interview on deck for August 7 by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer The first thing you might want to know about Eric Hutchinson, if you already don’t, is that he’s opening for Kelly Clarkson at Key Arena on August 12. The second thing to note is that he’s a terrific, eclectic singer-songwriter who combines multiple genres together for a spunky, refreshing sound. A few more interesting tidbits about him: he grew up just outside of Washington DC, he’s previously toured with Jason Mraz and One Direction, and he has a new album coming out later this summer. Buzz has steadily grown for the musician, who is said to currently reside in New York City; he was selected as AOL’s “About to Pop,” Yahoo’s “Who Next,” and MSN’s “One to Watch” artist, while also being featured on VH1’s “You Oughta Know” series. His catalog stretches back to 2003, although 2008’s Sounds Like This marked his major label debut. Hutchinson will interview with Seattle Gay News prior to his appearance with Clarkson, which also includes a performance by a cappella group Pentatonix. Look for the interview on August 7. For tickets to the concert, visit livenation.com. Among a new batch of shows recently announced is a solo acoustic performance by Gary Lightbody. The Snow Patrol lead vocalist and guitarist, who interviewed with Seattle Gay News in 2009, will embark on a West Coast tour by himself that includes dates in Portland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Napa, Los Angeles, and here
in Seattle. It’s assumed L i g h t b o d y, now taking up residence in Southern Ca l i for n ia, will play songs from his Brit Awardwinning band and maybe a few numbers from his side project, Tired Pony. He’s also been known to bust out some covers, so don’t be Eric Hutchinson – WBR surprised if he throws a Beyonce hit onto his set list. TickI will be attending and reviewing Tayets for Lightbody’s show, starting at $18 lor Swift’s mega concert at CenturyLink advance ($20 at the door), at the Showbox Field on August 8, so look for a review of SoDo Lounge (upper bar area) on July 29 the show the Friday after. Seattle Gay News are available at axs.com. also has a writer reviewing the George Ezra performance on August 11, and we’ll very There are a few sold out concerts to likely be in the audience when Kelly Clarkreport, which means unless you can find son entertains about 18,000 fans at Key someone willing to give up their tickets you Arena on August 12. are screwed. All tickets for Chris Cornell’s show at Benaroya Hall on September 29 Finally, whether you’re a fan or not, do are gone, as expected. The Soundgarden remember that bubblegum pop act One frontman sold out the exact same venue last Direction is in town on Wednesday, July October. And, both performances by Keb’ 15 for a huge show at CenturyLink Field. Mo’ at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, on July 27 Light rail trains and buses headed south of and 28, are also sold out. The Americana- downtown are expected to be crowded late blues musician will play one set on each afternoon through evening. night.
Inside composer Richard Strauss by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer RICHARD STRAUSS AND HIS HEROINES DVD This DVD is entitled Richard Strauss and His Heroines, a film by Thomas von Steinaecker. While it focuses on Strauss’ writing for especially strong women who were mostly outside society, the film also gives the viewer a surprisingly in-depth view of Strauss’ long artistic life and the events and people who influenced him. Because of two wars and the brilliance of that career, this is a truly interesting story. One might expect the musical excerpts to be in ancient, blackand-white video, but instead we get modern examples in good sound and lovely color from recent productions and concerts. While the “talking heads” are identified in subtitles, one must check the closing credits to identify the uniformly excellent singers in the well-chosen excerpts. Each of the speakers are insightful and informative. They include mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender (including a master class excerpt), Renée Fleming (plus two musical excerpts), Dame Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig, grandson Christian Strauss, and Rufus Wainwright (!). There are good English subtitles (as well as French and Korean!) for the German-speaking commentators, but the musical excerpts have none. The story attempts to put to rest less flattering rumors about the composer’s love
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life, stating simply that Strauss was true to his super-strong wife Pauline for 55 years. It also shows him in a photo with Hitler, but emphasizes his support for Jewish artists and his long-time assistant Alice, without whose dedicated work no useful archives of Strauss would exist. This support caused a fall from official composer of the Nazi state to “persona non grata” and the loss of his fortune.
cized his work. A fine operatic soprano herself, she even told baritone Hans Hotter that Strauss was clueless about the female voice. Those of us who revel in the composer’s love affair with the female voice and the consequent soaring music can attest to Pauline’s readiness to be hypercritical. The battles between von Hofmannsthal and Strauss are famous, yet the composer wrote that no artist ever had a more treasured partner than that poet. The musical selections are such good teasers that one may rush to the Internet to find copies of the complete performances. They include Der Rosenkavalier from the Salzburg Festival of 2004, Elektra from Salzburg 2010, Die Frau from the Mariinsky Theatre with Gergiev conducting, Salome from BadenBaden 2011 with soprano Iréne Theorin and conductor Gatti, and best of all “Im Abendrot” from the “Last Four Songs” with Renée Fleming and Abbado at the Lucerne Festival in 2004. I enjoyed this rewarding disc even more on second viewing. It includes as a bonus a fine mono video of Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting a complete Till Eulenspiegel with the Berlin Philharmonic (1951), and a six-minute excerpt from the film A Life for Music. The included booklet contains a fine essay that further illuminates the relationship between the composer and his wife.
The contentious but valued relationship with poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal showed again the composer’s inclination for strong partners, like his wife, who freely criti-
Reviewer Rod Parke can be reached at rmp62@columbia.edu.
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continued from cover Here are quotes from 20 artists that you may have missed who couldn’t hold back their excitement; a few of them are headed to Seattle in the coming days and weeks. “So happy to be alive on this historically fabulous day. Now I better be gettin’ some wedding invites!!” Kacey Musgraves – Grammy-winning country star, who not only posted this message, but also performed her hit “Follow Your Arrow” on NPR’s “Tiny Little Desk” concert series to mark the momentous occasion. She will perform at Bumbershoot in September. “So thrilled at the news of the Supreme Court ruling in the U.S. History being made at long last, reason to be proud right there.” Hozier – One of the strongest LGBT allies in the music industry as of late, who recorded a PSA for his fellow countrymen and women in Ireland to vote for Gay marriage there in May. He will perform at Bumbershoot in September. “And you can want who you want... Boys and boys and girls and girls #lovewins #FINALLY” Taylor Swift – THE biggest music artist on the planet right now, set to perform August 8 at CenturyLink Field. “Huge day for America. Happy to see the news. All the love.” Harry Styles – One Direction frontman and global teen heartthrob, who will ap-
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it on DVD. I identified with Polly way too much. I over-related to her. I was really shy. I thought the film was super sad, and I didn’t understand it quite frankly – there was so much going on. I didn’t know what to make of it at first, so I thought, I have to study it!” Her enthusiasm for the film is boundless, and she admitted with an infectious energy, “I love it even more now. It has all the hallmarks of a great classic. You can read it in a variety of different ways and find different meanings. That’s what makes it a great work of art.“ Mendenhall’s book presents several interpretations of the film. It is accessible to fans of Mermaids, as well as those viewers who have not seen the film. The author says that for her, much of the film’s appeal was how the characters of Polly, The Curator and her girlfriend, Mary Joseph, were very attractive to and reflective of her. “I think the film spoke to the zeitgeist of the time. It’s a very inspirational film. Polly is a quiet, underdog figure, and she is represented in a positive way.” She adds, “Director Patricia Rozema got letters from fans who said the film spoke to them, and that they identified with Polly, a quiet, everyday person.” I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing was a unique – and, as the author urges, important film – for LGBT viewers in the late 1980s because it was not a “typical coming out
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“Congrats to all our gay and lesbian “What an amazing day! #LoveWins” Tiesto – Considered to be the world’s fans on today’s Supreme Court ruling. biggest EDM artist, who usually plays in I’ve always believed in my heart that this “Yes! Supreme Court and Justice Ken- sports stadiums and arenas. He won his first was a just right 4 all” Billy Corgan – Frontman for The nedy laying it down. #dropsthemic #tieitup” Grammy Award in February. Smashing Pumpkins, producer, and solo Kelly Clarkson – Pop giant and longperformer. time LGBT supporter, who performs Au“Glitter bombs on glitter Bombs togust 12 at Key Arena. day!!! Oh yeah!!!!!” “Yay America. #loveislove” Young the Giant – Pop-rock band, Nathan Followill - Drummer of the “America showed TRUE COLORS to- who interviewed with Seattle Gay News a award-winning rock group Kings of Leon. day.” (A row of colored heart icons was in- few years ago and whose hit single “Cough cluded in his Tweet.) Syrup” was performed on “Glee” during an “Entre más personas felices, más reinZedd – EDM producer-artist featured emotional Gay teen suicide scene. ará el amor. Buena esa, Estados Unidos. on Ariana Grande’s single “Break Free”. He #LoveWins” (Translation: The more happy “Big day for human rights. See you towill perform at Bumbershoot in September. people, the more love will reign. Good one, night San Francisco! #Lovewins” Morgan Page – Grammy-nominated United States) “just woke up to the news! overJuanes – Latin music superstar from EDM artist, who interviewed with Seattle whelmed. JUNE 26th remember forever” Gay News in 2012. “gonna tweet something I never Colombia, who opened a world tour here in thought I would: !!!!!!!!!!!!! USA USA Seattle several years ago. “scalia’s mad there isn’t anyone from USA USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Jack Antanoff – Lead guitarist of the the southwest on the supreme court but is “WOW! So happy the supreme court pop trio .fun and lead singer of his other not concerned that there’s never been an made the right decision re: legalizing gay band, Bleachers, who will perform at The openly gay justice” marriage! Huge Congratulations to all! Ezra Koenig – Lead singer of the alter- EQUALITY 4 love! #LoveWins” Showbox SoDo on July 25. He posted two native rock group Vampire Weekend, who Tweets. Janelle Monae – Acclaimed R&B singcelebrated the decision by criticizing Jus- er, who sold out The Showbox SoDo two “It’s a great day in the USA. #lovewins” tice Scalia with multiple Tweets. This is one years ago. Sub Pop Records – Though not an ac- of them. He also retweeted a video of The tual artist, hometown record label Sub Pop Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC sing“So unbelievably happy to hear the ing the national anthem. Records shared its joyous reaction. news back home in the states. Progress.” Alex Gaskarth – Lead singer of the “REJOICING AND SMILING AND punk band All Time Low, who was per“Equality wins! What an historic day! #loveisthelaw” (a row of colorful icons – CHEERING AND YELLING AND forming at the Bravalia Festival in Sweden rainbows, hearts, lips, male and female fac- DANCING AND CELEBRATING!!!!!!!! when the news broke. YES!!!!!!!!!!” es – was included in his Tweet) Sara Bareilles – Singer-songwriter Jake Snider – Lead vocalist-guitar“Shame it took so long but HUGE win whose song “Brave” was embraced univer- for equality in the U.S.!!! Yay love, sex and ist for Seattle band Minus the Bear, who helped raise money for Washington state’s sally by gay fans in all parts of the world. marriage for all!!” Jack Barakat – Bandmate of Alex Gasmarriage equality campaign. karth from All Time Low.
pear with his band at CenturyLink Field this week, on July 15.
story.” It was not Desert Hearts, a classic lesbian romance from the era. Nor was it “political” like some of the films that heralded what critic B. Ruby Rich dubbed the “New Queer Cinema” around that same time. Mermaids, Mendenhall explains, “is of its own generation, genre, and grouping. It didn’t involve big, traditional romance. It was a representation of two women who made art, and it was a critique of the high art world. It was more queer than lesbian.” This last remark is significant because Rozema, who made the lesbian romance When Night Is Falling in 1995, did not want to come out publically when Mermaids was released. Mendenhall justifies why in her book. “Rozema says the film’s characters represents three sides of herself,” the author said. The filmmaker creates ambiguities in her film – such as: Is Polly in love with The Curator? Or is Polly asexual? – that Mendenhall explores in her book. She posits that Polly is polymorphously perverse; she experiences erotic gratification from the body and sensations, and experiences pleasure in looking and making art, as well as hearing the titular mermaids singing. “Polly is child-like, not childish. It’s a coming of age story,” Mendenhall observes. She also credits the director for being innovative in her storytelling, using a direct to camera narrative that has Polly providing videotaped confessions, as well as some handheld camerawork.
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“Some folks probably think it’s dated,” the author acknowledges, “But people still laugh at it. It’s really a quiet comedy. It has a Canadian sensibility and humor. It’s not our American, scatological over-the-top stuff. The wordplay in the film is corny. There are subtle touches of humor and irony and some laugh out loud funny stuff. It’s deadpan comedy. The film respects the audience to get the irony and the jokes.” When Mendenhall has shown the film in classes she has taught, she effuses, “students find it very funny.” “Studies in cognitive science indicate that art is healing. I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing is not only about the enjoyment of making art, but it is art itself. So it’s doubly, triply healing.” MendenJulia Mendenhall – photo by Dion Trinidad hall says, adding, “Polly is a lovable, relatable queer outsider. That’s why Mermaids is a classic.” © 2015 Gary M. Kramer
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Can Can presents The Buckaroos’ “50 Bales of Hay” at The Triple Door
Can Can presents “50 Bales of Hay” with Seattle’s iconic male revue The Buckaroos at The Triple Door this month. Tickets are still available for both shows as the Bucks take the stage to commemorate National Day of the Cowboy on Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25. The Buckaroo’s 3rd annual celebration finds nontraditional ways of helping preserve pioneer heritage and cowboy culture. Take those raunchy chapters of America’s highest grossing e-book and add a Western twist, along with 280 adoring fans. That only touches the surface of what to expect from this annual celebration of the male physique.
The seven male performers – known by their stage names Bronco, Slam, Slim, The Deputy, T-Bone Tucker (the long haul trucker), Houston and Hoss – combine a variety of dance genres including hip-hop, modern, comedy and tease into two hours of laughout-loud entertainment and audience participation. The Bucks will host “50 Bales of Hay” each night, starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance at www.thetripledoor.net and $30 at the door. VIP seating and celebration packages are also available for purchase and include bringing that guest of honor up to the stage for a once in a lifetime Buckaroos style “pampering.”
Buckaroo dollars known as “Buck Bucks,” as well as merchandise, including T-shirts, hankies, hats and undies, will be available for purchase at the show. More information, including purchasing tickets can be viewed online at http:// www.thetripledoor.net/Calendar/Events/ July-2015/Buckaroos--50-Bales-Of-Hay-. aspx?date=2015-07-24.
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a member of, is open to people who have a certain (fairly minimal) amount of playwriting experience and have had a play or two presented on stage somewhere. We generally have two “table reads” a month at a local library on Sunday afternoons during the “school year” and also in fall/winter, monthly public readings at Elliott Bay Bookstore. In July (17-26), we’re presenting at The Phoenix Theatre in lower Edmonds (less than a mile from the Shoreline Costco) a comedy shorts festival, “Short Shorts.” As with SPS and WARP presentations, this festival will be entirely locally written. (Paywhat-you-can tickets are available here: http://shortshortswspc.brownpapertickets. com/ There is a lot to consider in mounting a shorts festival. Choosing each other’s plays can be a bit tricky, considering you don’t want to have hard feelings for those not chosen. Casting a shorts festival, particularly in the summer time (when there are more venues available to rent), is a dicey proposition. Many people are on vacation, young people who ordinarily are in acting classes
are gone or busy for the summer, and those who are left get cast quickly in other summer productions. Rehearsal for multiple short plays, when there is generally no budget for rental spaces is another challenge. It can also be a challenge when actors are cast in multiple shorts so that their talents and interests are wellused for the event. But then different directors might run into scheduling problems with those same actors. Costumes are most often those found in people’s closets or picked up at thrift stores. Props are similarly found somewhere or made if necessary. Much of a shorts festival calls for the audience to bring their imaginations with them to fill in the blanks in a rudimentary set and environment. Sets are non-existent or sketched in with a few chairs and random tables. But that can be part of the fun, as well. In fact, for a playwright’s festival such as ours, the important aspect is that a new play gets a chance to breathe and the playwright can see if her play works the way she expected it to when she wrote it. I have the pleasure of seeing one of my
plays presented in this event, and finding out if people will find my sense of humor funny… and I also am helping bring a couple of others to life as a director. It’s hectic, but fulfilling, allowing me to flex my artistic muscles, when much of the rest of the time, I report on others’ efforts. I look forward to seeing you there!
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presentation of a play you’ve written and a commitment of perhaps $5/month to support their activities. A blog post gives this information: http://burienlittletheatre.org/ blog/2014/11/seattle-playwrights-studiowants-you/ WARP (Writers and Actors Reading and Performing) claims the title of longest running playwright support group in town. They create three shorts festivals a year and meet almost every Tuesday night at Stone Soup Theatre. They ask for donations for space rental. They also invite anyone who is at all interested and do not require any prior experience, either to come and be a reader for plays presented that evening, or for being established in any way as a playwright. So, they are clearly the most inclusive, and a great place to start, if you’re looking for a welcoming place to get your feet wet. More information at: http://warptheatre.org/ about-warp.html Seattle Playwrights Circle, which I am
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ABOUT THE BUCKAROOS The Buckaroos are a comedic male revue based in Seattle. A spectacular show built from the ground up, the Bucks put a comedic and theatrical twist on male revue staples such as Chippendales and Thun-
der From Down Under, in the spirit of The Full Monty. Prepare yourself for a night of scream-out-loud entertainment, comedy and exhibition of the male body along with the temptations that arise from a stage full of Buckaroos machismo. BUCKAROOS USA is a Can Can Production. More information is available at buckaroosusa.com. Courtesy of Can Can
NOTE: Addendum to my article last week on theater openings in July: Emboldened: The Rise and Fall of King Bolden the First, by Freehold Engaged Theatre program (at Theatre Off Jackson) July 23-August 3. Written by local playwright Reginald André Jackson, it’s about the life of Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden, an African-American cornetist regarded as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, which later came to be known as jazz. The piece is accompanied by an original score composed by D’Vonne Lewis. http://emboldened.bpt.me/
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green one again? What’s going on with that red guy? We knew we had to go back to the core elements behind who each of them are, compose some more lines specific to Disgust, essential to Fear. It was definitely a process back and forth. Sara Michelle Fetters: I’m glad you brought that up. That was one of the things I noticed. Almost all of the characters, all of the emotions, have some variation on a color from at least one of their compatriots. Disgust has that purple neck scarf, Fear that almost red – but not quite – bow tie. They’ve all got facets of the other emotions, even if they don’t necessarily realize that they do. It’s like they’re all growing up at the same time their host, 11-year-old Riley, is. Pete Docter: If you look at Mom and Dad’s emotions, they’re much more all uniform, especially Mom’s. At the beginning of life it’s more like the Wild West, all the emotions shooting off in their own way. As they get older, they get more sophisticated, more in touch with their counterparts. The emotions have to learn to work together. Sara Michelle Fetters: How much fun is it to play in a sandbox such as this? Where you get to come up with such a crazy sounding idea and then subsequently are given the freedom to just go nuts and see where your ideas lead?
continued from cover resplendent human adventure that shows what it is to grow and evolve, depicting how consciousness and personality are attained as we progress from birth, to adolescence, into our teenage year and eventually into adulthood. [NOTE: The SGN published Sara Michelle Fetter’s review of Inside Out in our June 26, 2015 edition. If you haven’t read it, you can find it online at www.sgn.org or pick up a back issue at the SGN office.] During this year’s Seattle International Film Festival I had the privilege to sit down with director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera to discuss the film, the thought process behind it, and the five-year journey to its eventual unveiling to mass audiences of all age groups. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation: Sara Michelle Fetters: I don’t know how much stock you’ll place in this, how much you’ll believe it, but I was talking to a fellow critic who attended the Cannes Film Festival and they were adamant that had Inside Out but been eligible it would have won the Palme D’or, that your movie was without question the festival’s most popular attraction amongst the critics. Jonas Rivera: That’s really cool to hear. Pete Docter: That’s awesome. Jonas Rivera: I mean, it was certainly a great response [from the audience], but you should hear what people tell you going in. You’re told to never expect the best. Pete Docter: They warn you, the publicity folks, those running the festival; Cannes is a world cinema marketplace. They let you know what they think. Poor Gus Van Sant. They kind of let him hear it a day or two before Inside Out debuted. So we just walked in to the screening thinking, let’s behave, let’s be cool and hope they like it, and then they gave us a really warm response. It was wonderful. But, we were asked to go with Inside Out. We were asked to go with Up in 2009, so being asked to attend [Cannes] twice is a really great honor. But winning? If we had been in competition? It’s really cool to hear that and I’m glad people are enjoying the movie but we sort of don’t breed the film to fight. Winning awards isn’t part of the equation. Being able to make a movie, to take it to [Cannes], to show it at a place that seems to appreciate and love film, that’s the biggest win. I think the biggest thing out of Cannes is we don’t think of these movies as conventional animated movies. We
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just think of them as films that happen to be animated, so being at the Cannes Film Festival is wonderful because it means that the cinematic world sees that, too. Sara Michelle Fetters: What I love about your films, this one just being the latest case in point, is that you trust kids. While you’ve obviously made this movie for everyone, for audiences of all ages, but at the same time you seem to understand children can handle some pretty deep, fairly complex subjects, oftentimes better than their own parents. Pete Docter: We’re pretty lucky in that we work with people like John Lasseter and they feel the same way. They’re smart. Not only do they get the technical stuff, the complexities involved with giving these kinds of films life, but they also understand the language of children. With kids, what’s the first language they speak? Well, that’s emotion. Right? Even if they don’t understand the specifics of what is being talked about, if they see a character is upset or fearful or happy, they respond to that. I think everyone at Pixar, I think we all get, understand and appreciate that fact. Jonas Rivera: We start off selfishly ignoring that there’s any difference [between adults and kids]. We just set out to make the kind of movie we would want to go see. You’re right, though, and John Lasseter is a champion of that sort of thing, trusting kids will go along for the ride even if the subject matter in theory might seem to be above their level of understanding. The reality? More often than not it isn’t. Pete Docter: The studio [Disney] is
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great at supporting us and letting us work that way. But, then, I think they have a long history of that, don’t they? One that goes all the way back to Walt himself. Sara Michelle Fetters: Talk to me about the writing process. How do you structure characters that are based entirely around a single emotion? When you’re putting all that together, what do you keep peeling away to make sure you stay true to that emotion yet at the same time are still able to craft a story that is compelling, complex and one audiences will find worthy of their attentions? Pete Docter: That’s the trick. Early on, we named the characters other than what they represented. I felt if you called them “Sadness,” if you called them “Anger,” than the subtext becomes the text and that’s not a good place to be as a writer. You always want to have a couple layers to things. Turns out, that was confusing to people. I was wrong on that. But, also, early on I think we made them [the characters] pretty one-note. We had to give complexity and nuance to them, especially with Joy. I mean, we can represent that physically; she’s got blue hair and a green dress so she’s probably the most wide, the most well-rounded as a character as the little elements essential to the others are more easily identifiable in her. But we really wrote the characters to their core emotions but understood elements of other emotions are what make anger or joy or sadness or disgust what they ultimately are. Sometimes we wrote them too broadly, and we’d have to step back and ask ourselves, who’s the
Jonas Rivera: It’s unbelievable. We have the greatest jobs in the world. It’s hard. We take it very seriously. Pete pitches this idea to John [Lasseter] about a little girl’s mind and then they say yes so that means we spend the next five years trying to make it work, making the film with all of our best friends each of us with a common goal. If you do the job right you make something that might actually be important to people. That’s really, really cool. Sara Michelle Fetters: Casting with every film is important. That just goes without saying. In an animated film, because the actors have to make it all work primarily with their voice, and I get as animators you do get to watch them give these performance and that does undoubtedly influence the compositions to a certain extent, if you don’t cast a film like this correctly how much trouble are you in? Jonas Rivera: It might not work. Plain and simple. It might not work. It’s a big part of it. There are so many great actors, though, and what we try to do is disembody them and just listen to the voice and not be charmed by say how beautiful or charming someone like Mindy Kaling is. You just listen to the voice. Pete does an amazing job of creating context and directing the actor in a way that leads them where we want to go. That helps a lot. But, yeah, the right or wrong voice, that’s the whole thing right there. I often think about Baloo the Bear in The Jungle Book. Anyone else other than Phil Harris? It’s not the same movie. But every producer or director will tell you this. Casting is such a fragile thing. It just is. Sara Michelle Fetters: But the freedom you give your cast members to create and to inspire. I was sitting through the credits and I noticed that you have three additional dialogue/story credits that you hand out, two of them to Amy Poehler, who plays Joy, and Bill Hader, who’s Disgust. Pete Docter: In both their cases, they sat at a writing table with us trying to figure this film out. In Bill’s case, I think he worked with us for close to a week and a half. He would sit in the writer’s room, discuss things with co-writer [Josh] Cooley, pace around and touch up sequences. A lot of stuff that didn’t seem huge but really was, they’d come up with something around that.
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him if he’d read the whole script all having. Someone who is just the way through. And he was like, always positive? You kind of in his patented Richard Kind sort of just want to smack them. You way, “I did, and I have to tell you don’t take them seriously. something, I’ve read through these You don’t feel as if there is a notes and I’ve read through the depth to that character. And script and I know the movie and I Amy, Amy just looked at us think it’s glorious and, this morn- and said, “I think I can help ing, it dawned on me…I’m the Wiz- you there.” ard of Oz with this.” Wow. What a She was very self-knowlcool thing to hear. It was just a real- edgeable. She played the line ly nice comment to hear from such really dead-on. How far can you go with enthusiasm but a respected actor. Sara Michelle Fetters: not be saccharine? Not be And I’m guessing you could say annoying? She always knew the same thing about Amy. She’s where that line was. [Joy’s] an acclaimed actress. She’s won the driver of the movie. EvEmmys. She gets recognized ev- erybody else doesn’t want erywhere that she goes. I just have to take the wheel, especially this, if you’ll excuse me for saying, Sadness, and she spends the fear that people will just say some- majority of the movie with thing along the likes of, yeah, she’s her. You know the first rule of terrific, but it’s just an animated improv where you never say movie so who cares. Will they rec- no? Sadness says no through ognize the complexity of all she’s the whole movie. Amy had to delivering? Will they notice just work off of that every step of how amazing her work with Phyllis the way. Jonas Rivera: I think the Smith, who plays Sadness, is? I feel like they won’t, and that just makes actors in an animated movie are oftentimes shocked by me feel terrible. Mindy Kaling as Disgust – piqualitygoods.com Pete Docter: Yeah. I hear what just how hard it is. I mean, I mean, we’d give them specific tasks, you’re saying. I think that, of everything Tom Hanks, who over the stuff like “Dream Production,” and we’d on the film, writing for Joy was the most course of making Toy Story Lewis Black as Anger – piqualitygoods.com know in our heads that this should be a re- difficult. Finding who that character was, won Academy Awards for ally funny scene. Then why wasn’t it funny, that was really hard. As such, Amy was the Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. But he exhausting. There is no context. There are yet? What were we not seeing? Bill would last person to be cast, and we were pretty once said voicing Woody was one of the no costumes. You just have to pull off these come up with little ideas, stuff that seemed honest about how much trouble we were hardest acting jobs he had ever had. It was performances. But, I mean, great actors do so simple but wasn’t as obvious as you great work, no matter what the difficulty. might think, stuff like cutting up to Fear as Sara Michelle Fetters: And yet, an the dream is going on, seeing Fear’s reacactor in an animated movie will never be tion. That wasn’t there in our original take, nominated for an Academy Award no matand Bill brought that in and suddenly you ter how worthy the performance might in had a viewing hole to see all the weirdness. fact be. If we’re with Fear watching this it suddenly Jonas Rivera: I don’t know. I mean, lisgot funny. ten, I’m with you, it’s frustrating, but I don’t Amy was the same thing. The first day think anybody ever thought an animated with her we didn’t even have a mic. We just movie would be nominated for Best Picsat in the hotel room and went through the ture, and it happened with Beauty and the whole script. The structure was all there Beast and then it’s happened again twice but she just kept finding all these places to more. Maybe slowly but surely people are add things, making it funnier but also findstarting to see the craft a little bit differenting ways to make it more emotional, give it ly. I’m with you on the level of frustration, additional depth. There’s tons of stuff that but I’m also hopeful that maybe if things those guys added. continue as they have this could possibly Sara Michelle Fetters: Then there are change. the animators. Sara Michelle Fetters: At the end of Pete Docter: Exactly. That was the the day, I think we can assume kids are goother point I wanted to bring up. I’ve got to ing to go nuts for this film, but audiences in give a plug to the animators. The animation general, when they’re walking out of Inside is the other half of all of this. We lean on Out, what do you want them to be feeling? them a lot for physical stuff. Stuff that the What do you hope they’re talking about? actors don’t have control of. Gestures. ExPete Docter: The thing I felt at the crew pressions. There’s a lot of information that wrap party; you make the film, you struggle you can pick up visually. They’re responwith it, you spend your entire time analyzsible for the majority of that. ing; so it wasn’t until I saw it with the crew Sara Michelle Fetters: Back to the acI could feel the movie; I stopped trying to tors for a second. Richard Kind plays the fix things and just sat there watching it; imaginary friend, Bing Bong. He’s fantaswas that you go through this wonderful catic! It’s an extraordinary performance, like tharsis ending on a positive and it just felt Eddie Murphy in Mulan or Shrek, or Robin so comfortably filling to me. You’ve been Williams in Aladdin. through this big experience, and I would Jonas Rivera: He’s so good. hope that the audience has this sense of real Pete Docter: And he was that good emotional filling, but also at the same time right off the bat. Usually what happens it gives them something to take home and is, you cast someone, then you record, but to think about. Maybe it opens the door as then as a writer you have to then adjust the to how a family thinks about themselves way you write to fit what they’re doing. The and about one another. About that process. vice-versa applies as well. You learn what That would be pretty cool. one another’s processes are and it just gets better and better as you go along. Richard, the first recording session, he came out of the gate and we were floored. So much of that stuff made it into the movie. One take. His first pass. It was amazing. Jonas Rivera: I had one of the best moments during the whole five years of making the movie with Richard. 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Emmys 2015: Transparent, Grace and Frankie, Tomlin, Cholodenko are potential nominees by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
A worthy field of LGBT-themed programs and openly Gay actors are expected to contend for TV’s top prize, the Emmys, when the nominations are revealed on July 16. Among the contenders is the critically acclaimed Transgender series Transparent and its stars Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light. The Amazon Prime show won two Golden Globes back in January for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Meanwhile, its creator Jill Salloway is a lock for directing the episode “Best New Girl,” following her Directors Guild of America win, and for writing its “Pilot” episode. Another freshman comedy with an LGBT angle, Grace and Frankie, is a dark horse in the Comedy Series field, though its co-stars, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, are favored to slip into the crowded Best Actress-Comedy category, as might Martin Sheen for Supporting Actor-Comedy. The Netflix sitcom focuses on two older women whose husbands leave them for each other. The short-lived series Looking, revolving around a group of Gay friends in San Francisco, and The Fosters, an ABC Family show featuring Lesbian parents and a recent kiss between 13 year-old boys, have both been submitted for consideration, though neither has the mainstream buzz or the momentum to be shortlisted. Several LGBT performers, besides Tomlin, are hoping to make the cut for acting nominations, including three-time Emmy champ Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and previous Supporting ActressComedy winner Jane Lynch, who has one last chance to be recognized for her work on the final season of Glee, as does fellow cast member Chris Colfer. Also on the preliminary ballot are Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Wanda Sykes (Alpha House), Portia di Rossi (Scandal), Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story: Freak Show), Conrad Ricamora (How to Get Away with Murder), and Jussie Smollet (Empire). Zachary Quinto, a previous nominee, submitted his work in Girls for Guest Actor-Comedy, as did Nathan Lane for Modern Family, and David Hyde Pierce for The Good Wife (Guest Actor-Drama). Straight actors playing Gay, Bisexual, or experimental characters might also hear their name called on Thursday morning, including Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Laura Prepon, and Natasha Lyonne in Orange is the New Black, two-time winner Eric Stonestreet in Modern Family, Tatiana Maslany and Jordan Gavaris in Orphan Black, and Cameron Monaghan in Shameless. Paris Barclay, the first openly Gay and first African-American director elected as President of the Directors Guild of America, could land a nomination for helming Glee’s “2009” or Sons of Anarchy’s “Red Rose” episodes, while Jodie Foster is likely to get her second consecutive nod for directing Orange is the New Black’s “Thirsty Bird” episode. Ryan Murphy is also on the long list for directing the “Orphans” episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show and Lisa Cholodenko, co-writer and co-director of the Oscar-nominated Lesbian-themed film The Kids Are Alright, is all but guaranteed a nod for directing the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge. This year, the Outstanding Drama and
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Comedy Series categories have each been expanded to seven nominees, instead of the usual six. And a rule change for guest acting submissions has resulted in an overabundance of supporting actor/actress hopefuls. In previous years, non-regular cast members were allowed to submit their work in the guest acting field regardless of how often they appeared on the show that season. Now, however, if they appeared in 50% of the episodes, or more, in that season they must compete in the supporting categories.
LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY Sure thing: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) Strong possibility: Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie), Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Lena Dunham (Girls), Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer), Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly), Laurie Metcalf (Getting On), Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Ilana Glazer (Broad City)
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in Grace and Frankie – Netflix
New for 2015 is the separation of variety shows (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, etc.) and sketch comedy programs, such as Saturday Night Live and Inside Amy Schumer. Lastly, Orange is the New Black was shuffled from Comedy to Drama this year. Here’s a look at the top contenders going into the Emmys announcement on July 16. COMEDY SERIES Sure thing: Veep, Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, Transparent Strong possibility: Silicon Valley, Parks and Recreation, Louie, Broad City Might sneak in: Grace and Frankie, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jane the Virgin, Fresh Off the Boat, Mom, Shameless, Girls LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY Sure thing: Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Louis C.K. (Louie)
Might sneak in: Anna Faris (Mom), Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat), Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback), Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project), Emmy Rossum (Shameless) SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY Sure thing: Ty Burrell (Modern Family), Tony Hale (Veep) Strong possibility: Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Martin Sheen (Grace and Frankie), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Fred Armison (Portlandia) Might sneak in: Adam Driver (Girls), Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation), Gary Cole (Veep), Laurence Fishburne (blackish), Josh Gad (The Comedians), Taran Killam (Saturday Night Live), Hugh Laurie (Veep), T.J. Miller (Silicon Valley), Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat), Ed O’Neill (Modern Family), Tony Shalhoub (Nurse Jackie)
Jeffrey Tambor in Transparent – Amazon Prime
Strong possibility: Tom Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Matt LeBlanc (Episodes), Billy Crystal (The Comedians), William H. Macy (Shameless), Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) Might sneak in: Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Anthony Anderson (black-ish), Joel McHale (Community), Don Cheadle (House of Lies)
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SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY Sure thing: Judith Light (Transparent), Allison Janney (Mom) Strong possibility: Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Jane Krakowski (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Anna Chlumsky (Veep), Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live) Might sneak in: Jane Lynch (Glee),
Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia), Sofia Vergara (Modern Family), Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory), Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live), Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie)
DRAMA SERIES Sure thing: House of Cards, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Empire Strong possibility: Orange is the New Black, Downton Abbey, The Americans, The Good Wife Might sneak in: Bloodline, Homeland, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, Better Call Saul, The Affair LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA Sure thing: Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Terrence Howard (Empire), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards) Strong possibility: Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Matthew Rhys (The Americans) Might sneak in: Kyle Chandler (Bloodline), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Clive Owen (The Knick), Kevin Bacon (The Following), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), James Spader (The Blacklist), Dominic West (The Affair) LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA Sure thing: Taraji P. Henson (Empire), Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Juliana Margulies (The Good Wife) Strong possibility: Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Robin Wright (House of Cards), Ruth Wilson (The Affair), Clare Danes (Homeland), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Keri Russell (The Americans), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) Might sneak in: Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Connie Britton (Nashville), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Eva Green (Penny Dreadful) SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA Sure thing: Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) Strong possibility: Joe Morton (Scandal), Jim Carter (Downton Abbey), Michael Kelly (House of Cards), Walton Goggins (Justified), Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), John Slattery (Mad Men), Jon Voight (Ray Donovan) Might sneak in: Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), Norman Leo Butz (Bloodline), Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife), Noah Emerich (The Americans), Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), Kevin Rahm (Mad Men) SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA Sure thing: Lena Heady (Game of Thrones), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) Strong possibility: Lorraine Touissant (Orange is the New Black), Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black), Kate Mulgrew (Orange is the New Black), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Christine Baranski (The Good Wife) Might sneak in: Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Sissy Spacek (Bloodline), Monica Potter (Parenthood), Betsy Brandt (Masters of Sex), Molly Parker (House of Cards)
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Insects run amok in gruesomely thrilling Stung Henriksen), all appears to be going just fine, Julia’s worries misplaced as she’s more than capable of picking up her father’s mantle and running things like a seasoned professional. Then Stung – bloody-disgusting.com the wasps arrive. Without warning the party comes by Sara Michelle Fetters under assault by the mutated critters, made SGN A&E Writer especially aggressive thanks to the geSTUNG netically modified fertilizer Mrs. Perch’s Now playing timorous son Sydney (Clifton Collins Jr.) has been using on the estate. Now trapped, Julia (Jessica Cook) is worried she won’t Julia, Paul, Mayor Caruthers and a small be able to keep her family’s catering busi- group of survivors must figure out a way to ness going in the wake of her father’s un- get through the night alive and get back into timely death. She’s headed to Mrs. Perch’s town to warn everyone about the venomous (Eve Slatner) annual garden party at her dangers heading their way. It’s going to be lavish country estate, tasked with putting a tough fight, but if anyone can pull out a on a top-notch show with minimal staff victory it’s the distraught caterer and the and even less of a budget, her only help cynical bartender, because if anyone is upthe woman’s undervalued maid Flora (Ce- set that this party has devolved into bloody cilia Pillado) and a sarcastic bartender, chaos it’s definitely them. In a lot of ways Stung reminds me of Paul (Matt O’Leary). With a small cadre of wealthy guests making merry, includ- a tongue-in-cheek melding of 1993’s suing the easygoing Mayor Caruthers (Lance per silly mutated insect creature feature
Ticks and last year’s wonderful Austrian import Blood Glacier. Featuring a number of impressive practical creature effects combined with better-than-average CGI (at least as far as low budget B-movies are concerned), this is a wonderfully pleasing blood-splattered chiller filled with more than its fair share of winning moments. Benni Diez, a former visual effects supervisor who worked on Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, does a pretty nice job as far as his feature-length directorial debut is concerned, treating Adam Aresty’s requisitely silly script with more respect than it potentially deserves while at the same time maintaining a low key sense of humor that keeps things from getting bogged down in unnecessary melodramatic excesses. Not that we’re talking anything awesome here. Unlike say 2013’s sensational Irish horror-comedy Grabbers, this effort is more than happy to stay true to its meager retro 1980’s-style sensibilities never rising too far above what is readily expected. While better than your typical SyFy Channel enterprise, Diez’s feature would still fit right at home on the channel, and there were moments where I kept thinking to myself all that was missing were a couple of commercial breaks and a segment urging me to watch the next episode of “Face/ Off.” The ham-fisted, not particularly wellrealized romantic longings shuttling back and forth between Julia and Paul don’t exactly help matters, while not enough time is spent with the one-percenters at Mrs.
Perch’s garden party to make their devolution into 7-foot-tall insects as delectably gruesome as it theoretically might have been. Yet, for fans of this sort of thing, Stung can be a heck of a lot of fun. Cook and O’Leary are exceedingly well cast as the youthful leads trying to make it through the night without being transformed into an insect, while old pro Henriksen actually gets to do more here than behave like a wickedly evil one-note madman, a part he’s unfortunately been frequently typecast in for the past two decades. The creature effects are sensational, especially the transformation sequences when they burst forth out of their human shells; and I particularly loved the fact that once unleashed, bits of skin, hair and viscera still cling to the wasps like gift wrap dangling from a half-open present. I get it. Stung isn’t exactly the sort of entertainment most are going to go crazy for. But for those who do like this type of thing, who are open to all its icky, sticky, gruesomely sadistic, blood-slathered charms, Diez has done a nice job of giving Aresty’s script life. It builds well, has some superb set pieces and offers up a relatively winning climax I was perfectly satisfied with. Could it have been better? Certainly, but that doesn’t make the film that does exist any less fun, and I for one don’t think I could have asked for anything more than that.
Initially intriguing Terminator reboot an irrelevant misfire by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer TERMINATOR GENISYS Now playing It’s hard to know where to begin where it concerns Terminator Genisys. The idea behind this fifth film in the long-running franchise is to reset the timeline much in the same way that 2009’s Star Trek changed things for that franchise and X-Men: Days of Future Past canceled both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine out of existence. It utilizes elements of James Cameron’s 1984 classic as well as his 1991 follow-up Terminator 2: Judgment Day, interacting with the former openly while at same time acting as if Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation never existed. While entirely unnecessary, at first director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) and writers Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry) have a good thing going. Starting in the future in a post-apocalyptic badlands where resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) is on the verge of finally winning the war against the Machines, and then moving backwards to 1984 where soldier Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) has been dispatched to save Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from assassination by a cyborg, a.k.a. Terminator, intent on erasing John from existence before he’s even conceived, things go immediately sideways when the 1984 Reese has been anticipating proves to no longer exist. In its place is a world where Sarah is under the protection of an older-looking Terminator she’s dubbed “Pops” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a newer liquid met-
al model, a T-1000 (Byung-hun Lee), has appeared with orders to assassinate Reese. Complicating matters even more, the soldier who thought he was being sent to save the future mother of humanity’s savior is now having memories of an alternate timeline where Judgment Day, the date the Machines started nuclear Armageddon, happened in 2017, more than two decades after it was originally supposed to have occurred. Convincing Sarah and Pops he isn’t crazy, the trio manage to jump 33 years forward, realizing as much as everything has changed, it’s still up to them to stop the Machines before humanity’s extermination begins. The 1984 stuff is terrific. Niftily staged, creatively imagined, the filmmakers play with Cameron’s original much in the same way Robert Zemeckis ingeniously toyed with Back to the Future during the climactic third of Back to the Future Part II. Old Schwarzenegger meets his younger (CGIcreated) doppelgänger in battle and the results are spectacular, while the utilization of the T-1000 in this new variation on the timeline is joyously realized. The look of constant, omnipresent befuddlement washing over Courtney as he tries to put the pieces together as quickly as he can is endearing, while Clarke’s early interactions with her charismatically robotic superstar protector strike a nice balance between comedy, melodrama and authentic human emotions. The worm starts to turn once we hit 2017, a feeling that something is off hard to shake. The moment John Clarke becomes a part of the action it’s clear that the filmmakers haven’t thought things out as clearly or as cleanly as they probably should have. They fail to come up with answers to all the questions and conundrums they have
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created, allowing Schwarzenegger to spout gobbledygook about timelines and alternate realities in order to hopefully smooth away any problems. It’s almost as if they’re purposely holding Terminator:Genisys – www.esquire.com back answers, saving them for future sequels they hope will entirely sure why this ends up happening, come later, forgetting that if they don’t at but both Jason Clarke and Emilia Clarke least make the attempt to make this adven- lose their grips on their respective Connors, ture even slightly plausible it’s doubtful this each having a horrible time trying to naviis going to happen anytime soon. gate the here’s and there’s of Kalogridis and It’s also here where Taylor starts to Lussier’s pointlessly convoluted screenplay. slowly lose control of the action sequences. They run out of angles and as such look lost What were clean, sharply defined and ener- as to what to do next, and while neither of getically organized suddenly become over- them are bad, per se, to say they end up bely frenetic, out of control bouts of visually ing less than memorable in roles that should upsetting nonsense filled with computer- be anything but is a massive hindrance as generated imagery that look more suited for far as maintaining interest is concerned. a video game than they do anything else. It All of which is something of a shame. all culminates in an absurd helicopter chase Initially, Terminator Genisys does show that’s beyond terrible, staged with all the all the signs of being a novel and invigoratflair and the panache of a swift kick to the ing new take on Cameron’s original sci-fi head than it is anything else. mythos. It plays with the events of the It’s designed, of course, to mimic a sim- previous films in almost ingenious fashilar sequence found in Terminator 2: Judg- ion, utilizing Schwarzenegger’s magnetic ment Day. Thing is, in attempting to outdo strengths to maximum advantage. But in what Cameron did, Taylor and his crew for- the pursuit of setting up a new world, as get about the laws of physics, allowing their well as planting the seeds for future seCGI visual effects wizards to go wild, eras- quels, the filmmakers fail to construct a ing believability in the process. You know self-contained story worthy of an audiwhy the helicopter chase was so amazing ence’s attentions, let alone their emotional back in 1991? Cameron found a way to do investment. It’s a robotic descent into Holit for real, that’s why, a lesson no one here lywood financed, corporate-driven stupidtook note of at least as far as construction ity, diluting a once powerful franchise to a of the final act’s major action set piece was place it had yet to travel to until now: irrelconcerned. evance. But the real issue is that, and I’m not
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Fox Theatre, 123 S Tower Ave, Centralia. $8 single, $20 family of 3-4 persons. www.brownpaper tickets.com/event/1761372 Emerald City Black Pride 2015 Bowling. 3-7pm. The Garage, 1130 Broadway. FREE bowling, food fun! Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.) Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks. For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com Seattle Reign FC vs. Western NY Flash. 7pm. Memorial Stadium, Seattle Center. For info & tickets visit reignfc.com Ian Schuelke Wants a Birthday Party. 10pm. The Jewelbox Theater at The Rendezvous, 2322 2nd Ave. Features standup & sketch comedy, magic, music & Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday more. $10 suggested donation benefits Bailey-Boushay afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay House. www.facebook.com/ianwantsatvshow guys in Seattle. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Emerald City Black Pride 2015 BBQ. 1-6pm. Alvin SUNDAY - July 12 Larkins Park, 1501 34th Ave E. FREE entertainment, Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit food, fun! www.rainbowcntr.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/ Gay Men’s Bowling - in Lynnwood. 9:30am. Bruns- Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic wick Majestics Lane, Lynnwood. 9:30am Every Sunday. Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards! & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimForce. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com; mers. www.orcaswimteam.org www.gaysnohomish.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. West Seattle Bowl, 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every & women who share their experience, strength & hope Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t with each other so they may overcome their sexual have to worry about how you bowl! $6.50 + $2 shoe addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction rental. (425) 785-4725. or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA Lotus Sisters Guided Meditation. 11am-1:30pm. International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Senior students lead the meditation, provide dharma Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s Cineoke! 6:30pm doors; talks or reflections & lead discussion. 329-5908; www. 7pm show. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. Meets 2nd Sunday LotusSisters.org; www.sasgcc.org (Meets in 2nd floor each month. It’s like Karaoke - only better! You’re the meeting room; no elevator.) star of your favorite movie musical. Pick any scene to Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson sing along to, while the film and lyrics are projected onto House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & expe- the screen. $8 cover ($5 for Three Dollar Bill Cinema rienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. members). www.threedollarbillcinema.org. Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 7:30pm. The 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. www.dharmabuddies.org. (Women may wish to contact K of M/Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.) charitable organization that raises money for various Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival (7/11 & 7/12). Volun- causes & organizations. 329-0886, mailbox@jetchapter teer Park amphitheater, museum lawn & conservatory kofm.com lawn. Sat 7/11 - 12noon-9pm; Sun 7/12 - 11am-9pm. Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 For a schedule of events, visit www.greenstage.org/sotf Broadway. Every Sunday. Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. MONDAY - July 13 Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit sasgcc.org www.rainbowcntr.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope www.sasgcc.org in order to solve their common problems. We believe Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org www.sasgcc.org
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LCS Foster Care Monthly Information Meeting. 6-8pm. 433 Minor Ave N. Meets 2nd Monday each month. LCS is a non-profit foster care program in King & Snohomish counties. LCS does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or sexual orientation. Couples & singles encouraged to apply. RSVP to April at 694-5713. Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St. Every Monday. A group and conversation about HIV for Gay & Bi men newly diagnosed and for Gay & Bi men facing the challenges of living with HIV longterm. www.gaycity.org. Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) PFLAG/Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. 206-325-7724 or info@pflagseattle.org; www.pflagseattle.org. PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality. PFLAG/Skagit County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Skagit Valley Food Co-op Bldg, Room 309, 202 South 1st St., Mt. Vernon. Meets 2nd Monday each month. PFLAG/ Puget Sound: 325-7724. Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday. (253) 474-8897. Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.
July 11 thru July 19 TUESDAY - July 14
Lost Lake Cafe benefits GSBA Scholarship Fund. As a part of the Lost Lake Cares Campaign, 10% of all proceeds for 24 hours will benefit the GSBA Scholarship Fund, sponsored by the GSBA. The scholarship fund awards educational scholarships to Washington state LGBTQ and allied students who exhibit leadership potential, demonstrate strong academic abilities, and who are actively involved in school and community organizations. www.lostlakecafe.com Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit www.rainbowcntr.org Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets 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. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Alzheimer’s Association’s LGBT Caregivers’ Support Group. 6:30-8pm. Elderhealth Northwest, 6555 Ravenna Ave NE (entrance on NE 68th St). Meets 2nd Tuesday each month. A free information and support group for care partners, family members and friends of individuals with dementia. For more information, contact group facilitator Caila Nickerson, 781-248-3524 (cell) or email: cailanickerson@gmail.com Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI). 7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson 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 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. No Safeword Writers Group. 7pm. Meets 2nd Tuesday 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. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositive culture. org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org. (Also meets 4th Sunday, 1pm.) Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older. 7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521. Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Tuesday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.) Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. 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, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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
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WEDNESDAY - July 15
Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit www.rainbowcntr.org Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. www.mature friends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm. All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat. Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome. Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week. Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets every Wednesday. Call 525-7295 for location. www. LotusSisters.org. Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.) 2015 LGBTIQ Forum on Homelessness - Trans Homelessness: Stories & Statistics. 6pm doors, 6:308:30pm panel. Bertha Knight Landes Room, Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave (use 5th Ave entrance). Sponsored by ECHO - EchoWA.org. Endorsed by Seattle LGBT Commission, Seattle Office for Civil Rights, Seattle Women’s Commission, Ingersoll Gender Center, Gender Alliance of the South Sound, Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, LGBTQ Allyship, Social Outreach Seattle, Seattle Gay News. HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm. FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org The Gay Uncle Time – A Celebration of Pop, Underground, Camp, Gay & Trash Culture of the ‘60s & ‘70s and Beyond! With Fabulous Special Guests. 7pm. The Rendezvous Grotto, 2322 2nd Ave. 3rd Wednesday each month. A combination salon, cabaret, classroom, story time visit with your favorite relative you never knew you had & a few of his fabulous friends. Picture John Waters subbing for Garrison Keillor on a $13 budget in a friend’s living room with special guests. $5 cash at the door. 21 and over. www.facebook.com/thegayuncletime. Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www. ingersollcenter.org Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebearssubscribe@yahoogroups.com Music Under the Stars. 7:15pm. Volunteer Park, 1400 E Prospect St. Seattle Chamber Music Festival and Seattle Parks & Recreation present a series of free outdoor musical evenings (July 8, 15 & 22). Features live music at 7:15pm by an outstanding student ensemble and an audio broadcast at 8pm of a Seattle Chamber Music Festival concert, featuring world-class musicians performing live at Benaroya Hall, provided directly to the park by KING-FM. www.seattlechambermusic.org/ community-engagement/in-the-park/ Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 8-9pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets the Wednesday before the 3rd Saturday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com
THURSDAY - July 16
United Indians of All Tribes Seafair Pow Wow (7/177/19). Fri: 4pm-10pm (Grand Entry: 6:30pm); Sat: 10am10pm (Grand Entry: 12 noon & 6pm); Sun: 10am-8pm (Grand Entry: 12 noon). Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way (Discovery Park in Magnolia). An intertribal gathering of song, dance & culture for Native Peoples of North America. It is a fun and social time as well as a time for the passing on of traditions and ceremony. Pow Wows are open to the public. Admission FREE on Friday, $5 Saturday & Sunday. Salmon dinner $15. Alcohol & drug free; no pets. www.unitedindians.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 Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org 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 Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday. (253) 474-8897. Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.) LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm. Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. (See Sunday listing at 12 noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org GaYme Night 4 the LGBT Community. 8pm-1am. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 3rd & 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun. www.sasgcc.org Seattle Butoh Festival (7/17-7/19). Fri-Sat: 8pm at Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle Central College, Broadway & E Pine St - Tickets: $22/$18; Sun: 12-3pm at Kubota Gardens - FREE. www.brownpapertickets. com/event/1352112. www.DaipanButoh.com.
SATURDAY - July 18
Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit www.rainbowcntr.org Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org. BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org. Seattle LGBTQ Employees for Equality (SEqual). 12noon. Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave, Room 4070. Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month. Open to the public. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday each month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare. FREE. 622-5555 x 212. Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Victory in Seattle: Victory Fund Seattle Summer Celebration. 6-8pm. Montlake neighborhood, address provided upon registration. Features Seattle Mayor Ed Murray & new Victory Fund President Aisha MoodieMills. Honorees: Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen and former Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark. Tickets $100 and up. www.victoryfund.org/seattle 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. Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities. 6:308:30pm. Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave, Room 221. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. SCSM is made up of 15 volunteer members who work to ensure that the City of Seattle fairly & equitably addresses sexual minority concerns. Meetings open to the public. 684-4514. Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Contemplative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every
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Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org GLBT Legal Clinic. 7-9pm. Meets the 3rd Thursday each month. QLaw Foundation holds a monthly legal clinic addressing the legal needs of LGBT individuals & couples. Volunteer attorneys provide FREE 30-minute consultations. For information and to schedule an appointment, call 235-7235. Clinic volunteers return calls on Tuesdays between 12noon-3pm. For information, visit www.q-law.org/legalclinic PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. First United Methodist Church, 1934 108th Ave NE, Bellevue. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Wheelchair accessible. See http://community.pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue. Info@bellevue-pflag.org or 425-483-6642. Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.) Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. 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, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Debauchery. Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Queers stripping for Queers in a hot, anti-oppressive space, raising money for organizations that serve the Queer community. Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the door. www.lilydivine.com
(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit www.rainbowcntr.org Knights of Mantra Campout: Game of Stones (7/177/20). The Long House in Redmond. $120, includes breakfast, lunch & dinner, all beverages, hot tub, indoor pool, showers, games. www.tinyurl.com/kofm campout2015 United Indians of All Tribes Seafair Pow Wow (7/177/19). Sat: 10am-10pm (Grand Entry: 12 noon & 6pm); Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. (See Friday listing at 4pm for details.) Kitsap Pride: Color Our World With Pride. 12 noon5pm. Evergreen Park, Bremerton. www.kitsappride.org Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org Seattle Butoh Festival (7/17-7/19). Fri-Sat: 8pm at Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle Central College, Broadway & E Pine St - Tickets: $22/$18; Sun: 12-3pm at Kubota Gardens, 9817 55th Ave S (in Rainier Beach) - FREE. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1352112. www.DaipanButoh.com.
SUNDAY - July 19
(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) Knights of Mantra Campout: Game of Stones (7/177/20). The Long House in Redmond. $120, includes breakfast, lunch & dinner, all beverages, hot tub, indoor pool, showers, games. www.tinyurl.com/kofm campout2015 United Indians of All Tribes Seafair Pow Wow (7/177/19). Sun: 10am-8pm (Grand Entry: 12 noon). Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. (See Friday listing at 4pm for details.) Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All backgrounds, all faiths welcome. 391-2188. Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@hotmail.com Seattle Butoh Festival (7/17-7/19). Fri-Sat: 8pm at Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle Central College, Broadway & E Pine St - Tickets: $22/$18; Sun: 12-3pm at Kubota Gardens, 9817 55th Ave S (in Rainier Beach) - FREE. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1352112. www.DaipanButoh.com. Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck Social & General Meeting. 2-4pm. Seattle First Baptist Church Recreation Hall, 1111 Harvard Ave (at E Seneca St - enFRIDAY - July 17 ter thru glass doors on Harvard Ave.) Meets 3rd Sunday Tacoma Pride Festival (7/10-7/18). For information visit most months. Bring a dish to serve 6-8 people. $4 door www.rainbowcntr.org fee covers hall rental. SPT is a social club for Gay men Knights of Mantra Campout: Game of Stones & their friends. www.seattleprimetimers.org. (7/17-7/20). The Long House in Redmond. $120, Seattle PolyFidelity Discussion Group Potluck Meetincludes breakfast, lunch & dinner, all beverages, hot ing. 5-7:30pm. Meets 3rd Sunday of odd-numbered tub, indoor pool, showers, games. www.tinyurl.com/ months at a poly-friendly location. PolyFidelity welcomes kofmcampout2015 persons of all sexual orientations who are interested in
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discussing responsible alternatives to monogamy. Followed by a Poly Party. For more information & location, www.scn.org/~spg
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Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQ Allyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169. American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us 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 Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994. DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault. Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country. GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 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 - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.mature friends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians.net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band.com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flyinghouse. org. Northwest 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. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.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: 568-7777, info@ nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org
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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.pflag seattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: 425-483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag. org, http://community.pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnw pflag.org; PFLAG Washington state: www.pflag wsc.org. PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo. com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Sistah Sinema, www. sistahsinema.com, info@sistahsinema.com; TrikoneNorthwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www. trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-6850164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle. Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 682-6711; www.q-law.org; Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235. Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook. Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233). SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org
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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. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 684-4503. Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families. 323-1768. Seattle Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays. (425) 339-5298. Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.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 capitolhill cycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@ gmail. com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.different spokes. 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.festivalofthe babes.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.seattlefront runners.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. thepride league.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, 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 TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www. SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter. org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup. webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www. facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 7220729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwest seattle; 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, 461-4493. Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www. globeyouth.org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.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; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space.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; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp. org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 3627282 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/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800273-TALK, www.yspp.org
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