SGN Jun 22, 2018 - Part 2

Arts & Entertainment

PNB’s Season Encore a warm and fitting tribute to Karel Cruz’ artistry

by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET

SEASON ENCORE

PERFORMANCE

MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL

June 10

This special one-night-only evening of dance revisited some of the liveliest and most romantic moments from Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2017-2018 season. The entire company was on hand to perform eight dances and excerpts from larger

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Majestic Rider a hauntingly intimate triumph

On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota sits a lonely trailer in the middle of the wide-open wilderness. Living there is cowboy Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) with his gambling-addict father

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Book-It’s The Picture of Dorian Gray both dark and amusing

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

Through July 1

If you know a little about the story of Dorian Gray, maybe you’ve heard of the novel about a man who doesn’t age and a

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portrait of him that does. Oscar Wilde, better known as a British playwright in the late 1800s, wrote the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in a serial fashion, which caught literary fancy and also was decried for destroying morality.

Book-It Repertory Theatre has taken a stab at turning Wilde’s novel into a play, which

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earning:

Cowboy Brady Jandreau sits tall in the saddle in The Rider

RIDER Now playing

It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. I was given the opportunity to speak with The Rider star Brady Jandreau, a young one-time rodeo star and professional cowboy making his debut in writer/director Chloé Zhao’s

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works, including the beautiful White Swan pas de deux from “Swan Lake” – the one with a corps of sixteen swans who frame the central duo with perfectly coordinated symmetry. Also on the program was a reprise of the lively “West Side Story Suite” given in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, and the spectacular Act Two pas de deux and coda from Balanchine’s “Nutcracker.” It was also a pleasure to see Christopher Wheeldon’s lovely “After the Rain” pas de deux that was performed only days earlier in PNB’s “Love and Ballet” program. The Encore evening was a particularly impressive and sentimental event because the company and audience bid farewell to Karel Cruz, one of PNB’s most cherished and memorable principals, who is retiring from the company this year.

Karel Cruz came to PNB via Cuba and Venezuela in 2002, and was promoted to soloist in 2007 and principal in 2009. He is unforgettable not only for his power and elegance, but for his height – at 6’4” he is unusually tall for a principal dancer, and a blessing for tall women in the company as well as for anyone who loves to see a kingsized cavalier in traditional story ballets or a star dancer who can bend in every possible direction in contemporary works. He is an exemplary partner in both settings, and, according to all reports, a generous and gentlemanly colleague. I will focus on the two dances that featured his final performances in Seattle (he will go with the company to Paris this summer). I’ll also spotlight a personal favorite of mine, Balanchine’s “Tarantella” set to Gottschalks’ fabulous score.

“Don Quixote pas de deux and coda” (1871)

Choreography: Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky

Music: Ludwig Minkus

This love duet was appropriately danced by Karel Cruz and his real-life partner, Lindsi Dec, the principal dancer he met and married in the company. It begins slowly with the man supporting his partner through a series of crisp architectural balances and turns, featuring a spectacular one-arm lift in which the man holds the woman overhead with one hand as she balances like a starfish in an ocean of air. This duet also shows off the ballerina’s ability to hold a pose on pointe, then twirl like a top, and the man’s ability to act like a pillar with a strong arm and anchored feet so that she can show off her skills safely and to the best advantage. Apart from striking poses like Mercury on a mission, the man only gets one showy moment, when he dashes up stage to his partner, leaping into splits in midair. With his long legs, Cruz is unforgettable in this moment, but even more affecting is his quiet, passionate partnering as Dec displayed her precise and difficult steps. Then, as if the genuine feeling between these two were not convincing enough, a tiny child toddled out at the curtain call with a bouquet almost as big as he was – Cruz and Dec’s little boy – who was swept up by his proud parents to take their bows both as dancers and as a beautiful family.

“Tarantella” (1964)

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

If you don’t know Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “Tarantella” – either in the composer’s piano version, or in Hershey Kay’s orchestral setting – then go straight to YouTube and listen to it. Better yet, watch one of the several examples of Balanchine’s delightful duet for a young, vivacious, flirty couple. Many famous dancers have performed it – Patricia McBride, Edward Villella, Mikael Baryshnikov, Alexi Radmansky – but nothing online will measure up to seeing it done in per-

son, so it was a real treat to see the adorable Angelica Generosa and her terrific partner Matthew Renko throw themselves into this Spanish-style folkdance with unrestrained gusto. During the seven minutes of exhausting solos and duets, the couple shows off all their skills in individual pyrotechnics and folkloric partnering – no showy lifts, but playful mirroring and unison movements that are a delight to behold. A big shout-out goes to the orchestra and pianist Christina Siemens for their marvelous playing of a famously difficult piece of music – a performance worth hearing in a concert hall in its own right, even without the dancing. This was a farewell performance for soloist Matthew Renko who, I hope, is taking his career to the next level. He is a wonderful dancer.

“Diamonds Pas de deux and Polonaise” (1967)

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

This section of “Jewels” shows us Balanchine at his best as he moves thirty-two dancers through intricate patterns while framing the central couple, who perform elegant figures as the cavalier partners his ballerina like a handsome shadow through a series a sparkling passages. The entire company takes the stage for the grand finale to music only Tchaikovsky could write without sounding pompous. The sheer invention of patterns as they form and melt to the music is reason enough to cheer this marvelous piece, but on this special evening Karel Cruz performed his last dance with the company in Seattle with one of his loveliest partners, Leslie Rauch – one of those tall ballerinas

who appears at her best with a great match like Cruz. And as always, in “Diamonds,” the stars are the corps de ballet, whose precision, unity, and grace suggest a better world, where art and beauty reign.

It was a fitting end to a wonderful season for PNB and a wonderful career for Karel Cruz. We were not told, in the program or from the stage, what’s next in store for this still-young and brilliant dancer, but I, for one, hope to see him re-emerge in some greater capacity as a dance company manager, a teacher, a guest artist – something that uses his unique talents. PNB’s roster of gifted artists is very deep, but we always miss the special ones we’ve loved seeing over long careers. Karel Cruz is one of those. I borrow a blessing from Walt Whitman: “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

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DORIAN GRAY

is an amusing switch for Wilde’s history. This adaptation by Judd Parkin is less “Book-It” in style, which uses a lot of narrative as dialogue, possibly because Wilde wrote so theatrically with a lot of conversation. Certainly, the adaptation flows extremely well.

It’s also much more amusing than I expected from what I knew to be a dark story: A young Dorian Gray (Chip Sherman) is painted by a besotted (Gay) painter, Basil Hallward (Jon Lutyens). Influenced by notorious Lord Henry Wotton (Brandon J. Simmons), Gray is drawn to “free spirit” ideals. Lord Henry leads Gray to honor youth and beauty and when Gray sees his beauteous

young portrait, Gray wishes that somehow he could remain ever young and the painting could age in his stead.

Of course, far from encouraging the downfall of society, Wilde’s tale is a morality play about hedonistic debauchery going wrong. Even as Gray discovers that his portrait both ages and reflects his inner evil, while he does not, he visits the worst heroin dens and follows the worst lifestyle. We know he’s heading for a fall at some point.

Wilde was a well-known homosexual in his time and paid significantly for that wide knowledge. He wrote the novel at age 26! And he followed a “free” lifestyle to a certain extent in that he openly sought the company of men. But he was subjected to criminal prosecution and jailed, and died penniless at 46.

One of the aspects I enjoyed the most in this production was the meticulous “style” that director Victor Pappas employed at every turn. The “Greek chorus” of servants, friends, society members, etc., played by Ian Bond, Anastasia Higham, Imogen Love, Jon Stutzman, and Michael Patten, were directed to amp up the ambiance with, for instance, sighing breath noises when the painting was revealed, all while creepily peering forward as Sherman approached the painting.

Simmons as Lord Henry employed a specific vocalization that added “pomp” and upper-crust-ness to his accent that heightened the amusing characterization. It can only be described as “a hoot” to watch him. While he took himself totally seriously (as all good comic characters should), his arch indifference to people and how he affected

them was much fun.

Additionally, the atmospherics of the technical support, from the empty cave of the painting frame by Pete Rush (allowing the audience to imagine any beautiful young man they like) to the moody lighting from Andrew D. Smith, enhanced that stylistic choice made by Pappas. The creepiness was also presented just slightly tongue-in-cheek so the darkness was lightened by humor. For more information, call 206-2160833 or go to www.book-it.org.

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Welcome back Kathleen Mullen as festival director for 23rd TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival

We are thrilled to welcome Kathleen Mullen back this season as the Festival Director for the 23rd TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, which runs October 11–21, 2018. Mullen previously served as Festival Director for the 2014 and 2015 festivals. The position was previously held by Danny Tayara, who left Three Dollar Bill Cinema at the end of May.

Kathleen Mullen has contributed to the planning, film programming, and execution of film festivals and art organizations nation-

ally and internationally for over twenty years. She has worked with the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, the Provincetown International Film Festival, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mullen holds a Master of Fine Arts in film production from York University. She has written and directed a number of short films, you wash my skin with sunshine and Sleep Lines, and an award-winning mid-length

documentary, Breathtaking. She is a dual citizen of the US and Canada and makes her life between the two countries.

“I am ecstatic to welcome Kathleen back for the season and partner with her as we put together the 23rd installment of TWIST,” said Ben McCarthy, Three Dollar Bill Cinema Executive Director. “Kathleen’s intimate understanding of our audience, paired with her expertise in film festival programming, will allow us to continue curating high-quality films for the festival that our community has come to expect.”

“I am very excited to be back as Festival Director of Twist and in Seattle, a community I feel at home in,” said Mullen. “I look forward to finding some of the best in LGBTQ2+ cinema for this year’s festival and having some fun doing it!”

Now in its 23rd year, Three Dollar Bill Cinema strengthens, connects, and reflects diverse communities through queer film and media. This is achieved through access to films by, for, and about LGBTQ people and their families, and a forum for LGBTQ filmmakers to share and discuss their work with audiences. Three Dollar Bill

Cinema’s core programs include TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival, and Reel Queer Youth.

Founded in 1996 as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival has grown into the largest event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. TWIST has gained industry and audience recognition for showcasing high-quality, relevant queer films, from those of emerging filmmakers to major motion picture premieres. An important venue in the Seattle film scene, TWIST provides unique opportunities for visiting and local filmmakers to engage with over 10,000 attendees. The 23rd TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival will take place October 11–21, 2018, in Seattle.

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Raucous Hearts Beat Loud a joyous gem

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

HEARTS BEAT LOUD

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It’s hard to imagine a film being released this year that will have anything close to the same amount of pure, unadulterated joy fused to its DNA as director Brett Haley’s (I’ll See You in My Dreams) latest character-driven drama Hearts Beat Loud exhibits with such intoxicating enthusiasm. A musical journey that follows a fatherdaughter relationship through the waning days of a New York summer before she takes off to attend college at UCLA, this movie couldn’t be more enjoyable. Haley’s crafted something memorably genuine, and along with Paddington 2, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and Wanderland this tightly structured little story about love, family, friendship, and kindness is a total delight I absolutely adored.

Frank Fisher (Nick Offerman) owns a small New York record store. His ambitious daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) dreams of becoming a doctor, taking college preparatory pre-med classes over the summer. The two of them also get together a couple of times a week for a jam session, father and child playing around with lyrics and music as they knock out some songs for what can only be assumed to be their own enjoyment.

But Frank marvels at Sam’s songwriting skills and her emotionally confident vocals, and as such he’s always joking that the two of them should start a band and play some local clubs to see what might happen. Secretly he uploads their latest song to Spotify, never dreaming that it might go viral. Meanwhile, even though she’s leaving for a California in just a few months Sam has started an unexpected romance with local girl Rose (Sasha Lane), the pair’s strong connection throwing something of a wrench into the young woman’s future plans.

For the most part it is Sam’s relationships with both her father and her girlfriend that drive Haley and co-writer Marc Basch’s (The Hero) script forward. There are a few additional subplots, most notably ones involving Frank’s decision to close his record store due to rising rents and the

way this subtly changes his friendship with landlord Leslie (Toni Collette). There’s also some stuff involving his aging mother Marianne (Blythe Danner) and how her struggles affect both he and Rose, but that section of the film is never developed as comfortably or as complexly as other facets of the story are. Overall, Haley and Basch’s screenplay balances its various ideas with confidence, the father-daughter story at the heart of things having a delicate naturalistic specificity that’s wondrous.

I love how natural everything feels. There is no condescension, no pandering to the audience’s baser melodramatic needs. Haley assumes his viewers have a brain, that they’re okay with putting certain pieces of the puzzle together themselves, all the while understanding it is that core relationship between a father and his only child that matters more than anything else. More than that, he allows the other characters who come in and out of their lives to be realistic, to not behave like standard genre drones who fit any number of stereotypical typecast roles a lesser story would insist they become. This is a film that oozes authenticity, making all that happens hit home in ways it never could have otherwise.

Leslie is Frank’s friend. She likes hanging out with him and is sincerely saddened when he informs her of his intention to close the shop. But she doesn’t need to blossom into a love interest, doesn’t need to be some female ideal who will help push her male associate’s story forward to the detriment of her own. The same goes for Rose. There is a knowing intricacy to her understanding of what is happening between herself and Sam that doesn’t need any additional exposition trying to put what’s happening into any greater context. Her silence can oftentimes speak volumes, Haley refusing to have her needlessly vocalize what is going on when the grace and cerebral majesty of Lane’s performance triumphantly speaks for itself.

I can’t say the subplot involving Danner works that well, and as magnificently as the filmmaker utilized the actress in I’ll See You in My Dreams, I honestly can’t recall a single second involving her happening inside this film. While little moments between her character and Clemons’s Sam brought a smile to my face, that doesn’t mean I can remember what those scenes were about or why they were supposed to matter. This is one case where Haley’s otherwise laudable

restraint works against him, and I do think the story would have benefited had these brief sequences been fleshed out a bit more than they frustratingly are. No matter. The rest of Hearts Beat Loud is so profoundly effervescent my adoration for it is beyond substantial. Not only are the songs Frank and Sam compose and perform magnificent, the emotions fueling them are equally tremendous. Offerman gives the type of relaxed, effortlessly determined performance that reminded me of what singer/songwriter Glen Hansard accomplished in John Carney’s 2007 classic Once. He disappears into the role, the veteran comedian and character actor simply mesmerizing throughout the film. As for relative newcomer Clemons, she makes even more of an impression here as Sam than she did in Rick Famuyiwa’s awardwinning Dope. Not only does she sing the heck out of every one of the killer songs, her chemistry with Lane is off the charts. Then there are the plethora of moments where Clemons and Offerman share the screen together, my heart bubbling over in pure, unabashed adulation for every one of them, the two actors crafting a fatherdaughter relationship that’s magnetically authentic in all of its rapturous minutiae. Haley’s movies tend to fly under the radar and, quite frankly, they need to stop doing so. I’ll See You in My Dreams contained an award-worthy turn from Blythe Danner that ranks as one of the decade’s crowning achievements. In The Hero, the filmmaker gave a role to iconic character actor Sam Elliott that on one hand defined his entire legendary career while on the other expanded it into new, deeply affecting corners of cinematic consciousness that were extraordinary. With Hearts Beat Loud, the talented filmmaker has composed a universally accessible human drama of music, romance, and family that brought tears to my eyes while at the same time had me wanting to leap out of my seat and give it a hearty cheer. Haley has done it once again, and here’s hoping audiences take the time to head out to the theater so they can experience this ecstatically raucous gem and see so for themselves.

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Wayne (Tim Jandreau) and his little sister Lilly (Lilly Jandreau), the young woman never seeming to let her battle against Asperger’s syndrome get her down. Once a rising star on the rodeo circuit, Brady had his skull crushed by a horse after a fall. He was in a coma for three full days, waking up with a massive scar on the side of his head and a warning from his doctors that he’ll likely never ride competitively again.

After Wayne sells his son’s favorite horse to pay some outstanding bills, Brady takes a job in a local convenience store to make sure his family can keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. He also regularly visits former professional bullrider Lane (Lane Scott) in the hospital whenever he can, his friend’s career cut short because of a horrific car accident that left him severely brain-damaged and with only limited use of his arms and legs. As time goes by Brady finds he cannot stay away from horses and resumes training them for local ranchers, all the while mulling a return to the rodeo circuit even if doing so goes against his doctors’ edicts.

I can’t imagine I’ll see a more visually gorgeous film in 2018 than writer/director Chloé Zhao’s (Songs My Brother Taught Me) award-winning drama The Rider. Utilizing her Pine Ridge locations to perfection, featuring hushed, painterly, majestic visuals courtesy of cinematographer Joshua James Richards (God’s Own Country), there is a minimalistic elegance to this film that couldn’t help but blow me away. More than that, though, Zhao has also com-

posed a story that tugs at the heartstrings, sparks the imagination, and challenges the intellect almost all in equal measure, her focus on the minutiae of life’s miseries and miracles incredible.

Granted, the reason so much of this motion picture feels real is because it is. Jandreau was an up-and-coming rodeo star who suffered a horrific head injury that has put his competitive career in jeopardy. His sister Lilly really does battle Asperger’s and does so with a positivity and a resilience that goes far beyond inspiring. Former bullrider Scott portrays himself in the movie and does so with a fearless openness that’s documentary-like in its nakedly raw candor. All of this helps the film ooze a form of truthfulness that cannot be faked, the austere grace of it all oftentimes magnificent.

But this isn’t a documentary. Jandreau might be playing a character that resembles him in real life, and his father and sister might be acting right alongside him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t giving a complex, touchingly personal performance. There is a haunting longing burning inside Brady that’s primal in its fiery glow, his connection with the land, the people who live on it, and the various horses he has the good fortune to become acquainted with bristling with a quiet realism that’s sublime. Jandreau is electrically alive for every second of the movie’s running time, commanding the screen in a way that would lead a casual viewer who knew nothing of his history to think he’d been doing so for his entire life.

There are moments where Zhao’s script almost becomes too weightless, too ephemeral, the wispy nature of the themes she’s so intimately trying to explore vanishing as

if they’ve been carried away by the winds blowing through deserted South Dakota plains. But she keeps her characters at the forefront of all that’s happening, the focus always on Brady and his interior battles. It gives the film an air of humane specificity that’s poignantly affecting, making this cowboy’s journey innately universal

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award-winning film, and when he picked up the phone the first words out of his mouth couldn’t help but make me smile. “Things are going pretty good,” he says nonchalantly after I asked him how he was doing, “just got done moving some cows. It’s a good day.”

Turned out Jandreau was outside working the range, taking a break from handling his herd to chat with me for a couple of minutes. For those familiar with the film, the thought of him being outside shepherding cattle and taking time out for a quick, friendly call feels entirely within character. But then, Zhao based her story for The Rider on happenings from Jandreau’s and his family’s lives. The movie is about a young, upcoming rodeo star named Brady Blackburn who has his dreams potentially curtailed after suffering a massive head injury that forces him to stop any sort of strenuous activity, including anything that puts him astride a horse. It’s the exact injury Jandreau suffered not too long before the filmmaker began trying to write her script.

“We already knew one another,” says a plainspoken Jandreau referring to Zhao. “I’d worked with her before. On another

in the process. I could go on, but I’d rather let Zhao’s sophomore narrative opus speak for itself. A naturalistic marvel of restraint, The Rider is a cinematic triumph I’ll not soon forget.

movie. We became friends and she just started asking me about my life. She asked me about my dad Tim. She asked about my sister Lilly. All of that stuff. Then she produced a 65-page script for us to look at and see if there was anything we weren’t okay with. We didn’t have any issues. Things just sort of happened from there.”

In the background I hear a few muffled moos, and Jandreau says something under his breath about how some of the cows are a little restless while I try to conceal a quiet chuckle. There’s something surreal about our conversation. It also feels wholly appropriate. In the movie, Jandreau gives a sturdy, emotionally evocative performance that is grounded in little details, which allow Zhao’s story to come alive in ways that are consistently surprising. Speaking to him now, I start to wonder how much of the cowboy’s performance was theater and how much of it was just the young man being so comfortable in his own skin he couldn’t be anything less than genuine.

I get that question a lot,” he says dispassionately. “I guess that’s to be expected. I can see how all of this must look odd to some people. But I’ve never acted a role that was about another person’s experiences. I imagine that would be weird. Playing a role based on my own and my family’s experiences is

just as weird as anything else, I’m guessing. On a certain level, even if some of it is based on me, it’s still just pretend, right?

“The first day of shooting we were actually shooting at a rodeo and they weren’t really prepared for us. Everything was hard to control. It was pretty chaotic just in general, but Chloé always seemed to know what to do, and I never saw her get frustrated. But the second day? We picked right up. At that point it just started to feel natural, the whole acting thing.”

Considering his competitive background and his time lassoing stardom on the rodeo circuit before his head injury, I can’t say this laid-back display of confidence on Jandreau’s part is surprising. “I pretty much felt comfortable from the getgo,” he states. “I’ve never really cared about what people think about me, to be honest, but you probably knew that. Or, I imagine you probably guessed it. So that’s one thing that really helped, I think. Chloé told me what she wanted and I tried to do it. Was pretty much that simple.

“I really think that’s what moved her towards having me be the lead role. The fact I don’t care what people think. We were going to make a film before my head injury. We just didn’t have a story yet. The way Chloé puts it, if she were going to make it about somebody else, if she were inspired to write this story because someone else had the head injury, would I still play the lead role? She always says I would have.”

It’s that trust that helped allow Jandreau to believe he would be able to portray the character. “Me and Chloé, we’ve always had a pretty good connection,” states the cowboy. “As we got to know each other better, that connection also got better, you

know? She knows what she wants. She’s very focused. Makes it really easy. I always felt like I was in good hands and she wasn’t going to steer me into a bum direction.”

Ultimately the movie truly was a family affair. Jandreau’s father, Tim, plays his character’s dad in the movie, while his sister, Lilly, plays the role of his sister in the story as well. Also in the film and playing himself is former rodeo star Lane Scott, an up-and-coming professional bull rider who was severely injured in a horrific car accident in 2013, spent seven months in a coma and awoke having to deal with catastrophic physical impairments he’s still struggling to overcome. “People watch this movie, especially people from here, they watch this movie and they think they just shot us being us and we’re just that cool and all that,” he says in regards to acting alongside his father and sister, “but it really wasn’t like that at all. This wasn’t a documentary. We would still have take after take. We would still change things up.

“There was a lot of improvisation because there were a lot of things that were dependent on nature. Most of the story is set outside. A lot of what we did was dependent on the weather, dependent on the mood of the horses, which a lot of times is also dependent on the weather. It’s like a big circle. Scenes with Lane in the hospital and at the rodeos were harder to control than you’d probably think. A lot of those had to be improvised. You never knew what Lane was going to do, what the horses were going to do, what the weather would be like; stuff like that.

I can hear the reticence in his voice where it comes to talking too much about his family or about his friend Lane. At the same time, Jandreau doesn’t mince words,

doesn’t try to conceal anything, even when the conversation turns back towards working with the horses. “There would be a part of the script where all it would say was, ‘Brady trains horses.’ and that would be it,” he laughs. “So I would just work with the horse as I would normally work with a horse. But as we were doing something, Chloé would be like, what if you did it at a different angle? So that would change how I would have to work through the scene. We would also have to work to make the horses feel comfortable. You’d be surprised all the things horses would be scared of, especially horses that are very rarely worked with.”

“But, then, you probably saw that I was also given a credit as the horse trainer on the film,” Jandreau adds without an ounce of conceit or pride, the young man just stating another fact as he sees them. “I had a lot of work to do on this film. I bet you could only imagine that I had a lot to do.”

There’s a moment late in The Rider where Brady’s character has to decide whether or not to put himself in jeopardy at a rodeo against his doctor’s orders. Zhao’s story eschews easy melodramatic convention, instead choosing a more enigmatic, and thus more authentic, outcome to this quandary, and it is one Jandreau is happy about. “The movie never says whether or not my character will ever ride again,” he boldly asserts. “It’s left open. Who’s to say he will never ride again? Things don’t need to be definitive. That’s not necessarily what life is, and the film leaves enough room for lots of different outcomes in so many respects.

“For all the viewer knows, I could be riding again at the next rodeo. Maybe I just didn’t ride at this one. Maybe I didn’t ride for reasons nobody knows about. Maybe I

just went and listened to the doctors, made a full recovery and started riding again sometime in the future. Maybe that’s what I’m gonna do next year.”

At this point it’s hard to know if Jandreau is still talking about the character or if he’s talking about himself, the two so intertwined separating them becomes increasingly difficult. He clears that up pretty quickly. “If you’re wondering, I do listen to my doctors,” he says gently. “But I do want to ride again in a rodeo. Who is to say that I won’t?”

“It’s not a movie about a story,” he continues after an introspective pause. “It’s not a movie about an event. It’s a movie about people. That’s what it is. It’s just us trying to be ourselves in a lot of aspects, but we still also have to present ourselves in a certain way. I was young for my injury and I was going through a lot of different emotions not being able to rodeo having brain damage. I was kind of an emotional wreck.

“But I might have had a horrible headache but still needed to act happy in a scene. Or I might have just gotten done joking around with my buddy and I needed to go look like I just had a horrific brain injury. It’s still acting, you know? It’s not all real. But working on the film did help me, I think. It was therapeutic. And life still goes on. And it’s going good. I got married. Been training a lot of horses. We’ve got a lot of nice looking horses standing around right now as we talk. And that’s life. Working and earning. That’s what it is about.”

Aggressively violent Upgrade an enjoyable sci-fi action throwback

by Sara Michelle Fetters

SGN A&E Writer

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Mechanic Grey Trace (Logan MarshallGreen), who specializes in fixing up old muscle cars for wealthy clientele, is on the verge of letting go. His wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) was brutally murdered, the quartet of killers purposefully leaving him a quadriplegic in order to inflict the maximum amount of pain and suffering as he sat and watched her die, unable to lift a finger to help her. Just as he’s about to give up on life, former customer and cybernetic genius Eron (Harrison Gilbertson) offers Grey an unreal opportunity, asking him to volunteer for a top-secret medical procedure that could allow him to walk again. He’ll implant a tiny microchip called STEM into the base of the quadriplegic’s spine, and if all goes according to plan it will provide a bridge between brain, bone, muscle, and tendon, not so much repairing those broken connections as allowing them to communicate with one another as if nothing were wrong.

But Eron didn’t tell Grey everything. Turns out STEM (voiced by Simon Maiden) can do more than just allow a quadriplegic to walk again. The chip can communicate with Grey directly, offering to help the grieving husband find those responsible for murdering his wife. Moreover, STEM can take over all of Grey’s motor functions if authorized to do so. This means that if Grey ends up in a situation that could potentially prove lethal, this little microchip can, almost at the flick of a switch, transform him into an unstoppable killing machine. Together, man and microchip join forces to solve the mystery of Asha’s murder, in the process uncovering a terrifying secret that could alter the way humanity interacts with technology forever.

Writer/director Leigh Whannell, along with James Wan one of the minds behind both the popular Saw and Insidious franchises, steps behind the camera for the second time with the original science fiction/ thriller Upgrade. This sophomore outing is a huge leap forward after the fine, reasonably entertaining but also almost instantly forgettable sequel Insidious: Chapter 3, this movie an engaging, incredibly energetic, and oftentimes thrilling bloody action flick that when over I wanted to stand up and cheer. Featuring a strong performance from Marshall-Green and a number of terrific, eye-popping set pieces that are as gripping as they are gruesome, this R-rated throwback is a burly enterprise chock-full of fresh ideas and assertively vicious thrills and chills. I loved it. Better, I can’t wait to head back to the theater and watch it again.

Drawing from a large pool of influences ranging from old-school pulpy Mickey Spillane/Raymond Chandler/Dashiell Hammett detective noir, to cerebral Ray Bradbury/Harlan Ellison/Philip K. Dick science fiction, to brawny John McTiernan/ John Sturges/Don Siegel cinematic action theatrics, Whannell has certainly done his homework. But instead of feeling like some hodgepodge of influences and ideas pulled

willy-nilly out of the ether with no concept of how to make them all mesh into something approaching a cohesive whole, the director does a fine job of making all these disparate elements organically fit together. As absurd as this story might be it still feels real, Grey’s descent into blood-splattered mystery oozing emotional authenticity no matter how unbelievable or extreme events themselves might eventually become.

The first time STEM and Grey join forces to battle a bad guy is the film’s high-water mark, and as great as everything that follows might be, the initial jolt of adrenaline when the human host allows his cybernetic companion to take over and save him is so extraordinary nothing that happens afterwards can quite equal it. Part of the reason for this is Whannell’s confident framing of the action, he and cinematographer Stefan Duscio (Jungle) playfully allowing the scene to take shape with a minimum of edits. The more important reason has everything to do with MarshallGreen’s suitably shocked performance. His character’s disbelief as to what his body is doing, and his eventual pleading that his attacker stop trying to hit him (because Grey doesn’t want to hurt him any more than he already has) is goofily perfect. All of which makes the petrified shock the actor showcases at the end of the scene all the more effective, the unanticipated grotesque glory of what transpires packing a flabbergasting emotional wallop I honestly didn’t see coming.

As good as Marshall-Green is - and he is very, very good - on the whole the quality of the performances varies wildly. Vallejo is lovely as Asha, the actress adding a layer of sweetness and cheerfulness that’s divine. Maiden is equally strong as STEM, the many layers of his verbal delivery fluctuating between understanding, tenderness, aggression, and authoritative dominance, his soothing mechanical cadence concealing a devilish duplicity that’s noticeably perceptible even if the reasons for his insincerity aren’t always clear. Best of all is Get Out scene-stealer Betty Gabriel as a curious police detective who begins to suspect there’s more to Grey than meets the eye, the manner in which she puts the pieces of this puzzle together containing a grizzled openminded gravitas that’s wonderful.

The villains do not fare nearly as well. Most of them come across as faceless nobodies the story has precious little interest in, almost all of them becoming nothing more than potential cannon fodder for Grey and STEM to dismember limb by limb. The exception is Benedict Hardie. He plays Fisk, a human-cybernetic hybrid who has intimate knowledge as to what happened to Asha and why she was singled out for assassination. I don’t quite get what the character actor is doing here. His performance isn’t so much bad as it is weird. I just couldn’t make heads or tails out of it, all of which makes his character’s third-act confrontation with Grey fall oddly flat at the most inopportune moment possible. As for Gilbertson, I just don’t have a lot to say, his work as the childlike tech genius nothing special, and as such my impression of the character and of his plans never changed at any point during the film’s reasonably wellpaced 95-minute running time.

None of which, thankfully, affected my overall enjoyment of the film. Whannell has crafted a nimble and nifty futuristic thriller that’s as brawny as it is brainy, and even if his story’s resolution isn’t as shocking or as much of a surprise as I’m certain it was intended to be, that doesn’t make it any less successful. Upgrade is a total blast, and if in the coming years this bit of muscular, blood-soaked science fiction silliness were to spawn a sequel I’ll be first in line to see what sort of aggressively violent trouble Grey and STEM get themselves into next.

Goofily dumb Fallen Kingdom embraces dino-sized absurdities

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

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Isla Nublar is about to be destroyed. It’s been three years since the Indominus Rex devastated the Jurassic World theme park and now the island, along with all its dinosaur inhabitants, is facing an extinctionlevel volcanic event. Former park supervisor Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) has become one of the world’s leading prehistoric environmentalists and she’s determined to see that the creatures on Isla Nublar survive to see another dawn. But when the U.S. government declines to save the dinosaurs she is forced to turn to corporate billionaire Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) for assistance.

A former associate of the late John Hammond, he and his executive secretary Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) are all too eager to help. In fact, they’ve already got a rescue team ready to go, armed to the teeth and led with militaristic precision by their oddly determined commander Ken Wheatley (Ted Levine). But for the mission to be successful the group must rescue Blue, the last surviving and most intelligent member of the pod of Velociraptors trained by fellow Jurassic World employee Owen Grady (Chris Pratt). It’s up to Claire to get his assistance, but considering their last conversation didn’t go all that well she’s not sure he’ll be happy to see her. Nevertheless, the only way things are going to work out for the dinosaurs is if the two of them can put aside their differences and return to Isla Nublar together, and with time running short there’s no guarantee they or the team Lockwood has assembled to assist them will be able to get to the island in time.

That scenario is nothing but a baitand-switch as far as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is concerned, screenwriters Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow crafting a farcically silly plot that ends up bringing many of the dinosaurs, including Blue, out to a secluded California estate to be sold off to some shady baddies for untold millions. Additionally, Owen and Claire face down an unstoppable hybrid dubbed the Indoraptor while also trying to protect Lockwood’s clever granddaughter Maisie (Isabella Sermon), the precocious, dinosaur-loving youngster the unexpected key to unraveling a terrifying mystery that could mean the end for humanity as most now know it. The movie feeds in so many

ideas, characters, and subplots there’s just no way award-winning director J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls) can do anything memorably substantive with most of them, the finished sequel an unrelenting hodgepodge of disconnectedly preposterous ideas that rarely coalesce into anything substantive.

Nevertheless, when this fifth film in the long-running franchise works it does so magnificently. Bayona stages some horrifying creature sequences, the final third of this flick becoming something of a gothic Alien variation with the Indoraptor stalking the halls of Lockwood’s house in search of its prey. He also transforms Blue into the film’s secret weapon, the intelligent Velociraptor this story’s most important character as she helps protect Owen while at the same time figuring out her place in this brave new world where human and dinosaur now coexist. It’s can be pretty darn thrilling, Sermon’s hauntingly ethereal presence a big help as far as that is concerned, and as convoluted, untidy, and downright stupid as events might get, I was still entertained just enough to not particularly care just how dumb things eventually turned out to be.

I do give Connolly and Trevorrow credit. The pair double down on the idea they broached in Jurassic World about the militarization of dinosaurs, taking that concept even further down the sci-fi rabbit hole than I anticipated they would. This allows the franchise to move in a somewhat new direction unlike that of any of its four initial entries, and while most of what transpires with regard to the genetic modification and splicing of the creatures is left to be explored in a future sequel, that they’re sticking with this scheme no matter how imbecilic it might be is kind of commendable. But the dialogue Pratt and Howard are forced to spout is well below the standard Connolly and Trevorrow set with their wondrous debut Safety Not Guaranteed, and there were definitely moments where I began to wonder if Claire and Owen even existed inside the same motion picture.

As for Bayona, he’s clearly picking up a paycheck, but that doesn’t mean he still can’t stage some crackerjack moments overflowing in visual ingenuity and bristling in viscerally unsettling elegance. There are sequences involving the Indoraptor hunting down Maisie that made my skin crawl, while a scene inside the dilapidated Jurassic World command center with streams of lava raining down through burnt cracks in the ceiling while a malevolent predator looks upon Claire and one of her petrified assistants as nothing more than an end-of-the-world snack got me to giggle in excited glee. The director is at his best, though, when he allows all of the prehistoric beasties to chomp down on a variety of victims, and there were certainly times I wondered what might have been had Bayona made a straightforward dino-themed horror flick instead of another installment in the Jurassic Park universe.

For those who find the missteps Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom takes on its way to setting up what I imagine will be the final part of this second trilogy inspired by Michael Crichton’s novel and Steven Spielberg’s 1993 adaptation far too numerous to easily get past, I can’t really say I disagree with their assessment of the film. It’s messy and absurd to an almost unfathomable degree, and the place the sequel takes both Pratt’s and Howard’s respective characters is frankly ridiculous. Even so, there’s just enough here that made me smile that I had little trouble enduring all of these blunders, Bayona doing just enough with the material to keep me happy, all of which helped make this bit of dino-themed silliness an exuberantly nonsensical rollercoaster I honestly enjoyed riding.

Muddled messaging aside, Incredibles 2 still an eye-popping animated extravaganza

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

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When we last saw the Parr clan, parents Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) and Helen (Holly Hunter) were cheering on speedster son Dash (Huck Milner) as he raced around the track during a school meet while also trying not to notice as their eldest, Violet (Sarah Vowell), attempted to hide her happy embarrassment after being asked out to a movie by a boy she’d been crushing on, Tony (Michael Bird). But before they’re even back in the car to talk about the day’s events, the city finds itself under assault by tunneling supervillain Underminer (John Ratzenberger). Leaping into action, Bob morphs into his superheroic alter ego Mr. Incredible while Helen puts on the mask of Elastigirl, and after ordering Violet and Dash, both with superpowers of their own, to look after their infant brother Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile) the pair leap into action - certain they, along with fellow hero Lucius Best a.k.a. Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), can save the day.

Things unfortunately do not go as planned, and while the Parr family and Frozone do save countless lives, the amount of destruction they cause to city property is substantial. Worse, they didn’t catch the Underminer, their failure to do so forcing each of them back into hiding as authorities let them know in no uncertain terms that superheroes using their powers to stop criminals, no matter how good their intentions might be, is still against the law. They could all go to jail, and no matter how unfair this might be, the thought she and Bob might land in prison for stopping bad guys leaving Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack parentless is just too horrible for Helen to even want to think about.

Thus begins Incredibles 2, the long-incoming sequel to Pixar’s 2004 Oscar-winning sensation The Incredibles, the entire Parr clan finding themselves at the center of a brand new adventure as they attempt to

make being a superhero legal again while also doing what they can to remain a loving family no matter what obstacles are put in front of them. In other words, pretty much the same basic side plot as the first filmonly this time, instead of Bob heading to a mysterious hidden island to secretly help lay the groundwork for superhero rights, Helen is the one who gets to put back on the mask and clandestinely battle baddies. This gender flip aside, writer/director Brad Bird is still obsessed with examining the family unit, especially as it pertains to how parents communicate with one another and their children, all of which gives this second visit with the Parrs as emotionally accessible and as intimately affecting a central core as that justifiably lauded first outing also had.

If anything, these family dynamics are where Bird’s sequel excels. The scenes of a tired yet determined Bob trying to figure out how to keep Dash interested and excited about his homework, while learning the best way to comfort Violet through her emotional travails involving Tony when he barely understands what’s going on with her, while also having his mind blown into itty bitty pieces when he discovers Jack-Jack has an unfathomable litany of powers he’s far too little to be able to fully control - all of that is wonderful. Bird stages these scenes with a knowing confidence that goes beyond a few simplistic jokes or a handful of creatively engaging set pieces. Instead, he digs deeper, discovering universal truths that flip through a handful of emotions with ease, producing a number of laughs, tears, smiles, and sighs with remarkable authority.

Surprisingly, it’s the Helen/Elastigirl side of the story that feels underdeveloped and ill-defined. She’s persuaded to come out of retirement by wealthy tech company scions Winston (Bob Odenkirk) and Evelyn Deavor (Catherine Keener), a brother-sister tag team who just so happen to also be superhero enthusiasts. They want to overturn the law that has kept heroes from utilizing their powers to fight crime, and they feel Elastigirl is the one to help make this happen. They’ll show the world just what it is she can do and in the process build up public enthusiasm to repeal the law, Winston feeling that popular

support is all they’ll need to convince politicians to do what they think is the right thing for the world.

It’s all perfectly staged, and Bird crafts a couple of show-stopping action sequences that easily put every other comic-book or superhero-based action film released this year, including Black Panther, to shame. One involving Elastigirl and a runaway elevated train is astonishing, everything from the animation to the editing to the camerawork to the performances all working in such terrific tandem I never wanted it to end. But the problem is these moments, as superb as they might be, just don’t have anything approaching the same sort of euphoric kick similar sequences in the first film had. More importantly, they rarely engage the emotions, and as impressive and as eye-popping as practically all of them are, I rarely felt anything more than appreciation for the technical skill it took to bring them to life.

I think this has something to do with the core themes rumbling throughout the center of Bird’s script. I’m not entirely certain the filmmaker knows what it is he actually wants to say this time out. Do people have the right to make of their lives what they want to, all obstacles and government shackles be damned? Or should the majority of those residing on Earth allow a precious chosen few to solve all problems for them, allowing themselves to be ruled by a powerful elite who supposedly know more about right and wrong than they do? Or is it some in-between utopia Bird is hinting at? Some sort of melding of social, cultural, and political ideals that will leave everyone satisfied and content?

I have no clue, and I’m pretty sure the maker of The Iron Giant and Tomorrowland doesn’t know either. In the end, what works about Incredibles 2 is the same thing that worked so brilliantly in The Incredibles: the relationships between each member of the Parr family. Even with their superpowers, these are real people struggling with real problems looking to overcome them together like so many real people living in the real world do each and every day. There is sublime joy in watch-

ing them learn and grow together as a family, the way in which they can understand and embrace their various differences and idiosyncrasies because they know doing so makes them a stronger unit and allows their bond to grow in strength to the point it becomes nigh-unbreakable.

I honestly didn’t care if Elastigirl solved the mystery of the hypnotic madman calling himself The Screenslayer (Bill Wise) trying to foil her return to crime fighting. The backstory to why Winston and Evelyn felt it was their duty to help her didn’t interest me either. But I did care about Helen and Bob’s friendship with Lucius. I was emotionally invested in whether or not Violet was going to be able to look beyond her schoolgirl crush and begin to see that her value as a woman and human being went far beyond whether a boy liked her or not. I did want to see Dash prove victorious in his battle to become good at math and I couldn’t wait to discover whether Bob would be able to find a way to help JackJack begin to control his blossoming superpowers. Most of all, I couldn’t wait to see the entire Parr clan back fighting against evil side-by-side, using their abilities in tandem as they trusted one another to do the right thing in order for them all to save the day. Together. As a family. As one.

Ultimately, Incredibles 2 matters because Bird understands we as an audience are fond of Bob, Helen, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack because they in turn love one another with selfless transparency. They’re the reason any of this has resonance, the reason we’ve been eagerly awaiting a new adventure featuring each them for over a decade. Even if the storytelling is a little tired, even if all of the themes aren’t nearly as clear or as direct as they were in the first film, this follow-up still has its heart in the right place. While I can’t call this sequel anything close to incredible, I still think it’s worth seeing, this animated action extravaganza a visually pleasing joy that, thanks to the Parrs and the Parrs alone, is awfully difficult to resist.

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Seattle Tennis Alliance - 2018 Seattle Classic Tournament (6/22-6/24). UW Nordstrom Tennis Center, 3833 Walla Walla Rd NE. See details under EVENTS menu at www.seattletennisalliance.org.

Dignity/Seattle Pride Pancake Breakfast. 9am-12 noon. Central Lutheran Church social hall, 1710 11th Ave. 30th annual event benefits Samaritan Center CareTeams, Food Lifeline, and Dignity/Seattle. Information at www.dignityseattle.org.

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. (206) 4488518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Positively Living Coffee Social. 9:30am-12 noon. Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. Anthony, 206-957-1600. Sponsored by LIfelong.

PrideFest Capitol Hill - “Rain to Rainbows” (including Family Pride and Queer Youth Pride). 12 noon9pm. Broadway E between E John and E Roy streets and in nearby Cal Anderson Park. Now in its 5th year, PrideFest Capitol Hill encompasses the LGBTQ Pride Festival on Broadway E as well as Family Pride (14pm) and Queer Youth Pride (4-7pm) in Cal Anderson Park. Free, all ages. Watch for updates at www.seattlepridefest.org.

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Green Lake Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 7201 E Green Lake Dr. N. Every Saturday starting 3/31 - Come Rain or Shine! - Meet at the Wading Pool (along the north end of the lake). Hot coffee and beautiful Rainbow umbrellas to use “just in case.” For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride. Seattle Pride 2018 Interfaith Celebration Service. 2pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E. This year’s theme is “Sacred Social Action: Beyond Thoughts and Prayers.” People of all faiths are invited to this annual celebration of diversity. (206) 325-2421. Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouthcenter.org. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. 8pm. Amphitheatre at Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd, Tulalip. Tickets start at $65. https://bit.ly/21fu85q.

“God Save the Queens!” - Seattle Men’s Chorus. 8pm. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. The British are coming! SMC presents a 50-year retrospective of British pop and rock from legendary artists including the Beatles, Elton, Queen, Sting, Coldplay, Adele, and many more. Featuring “America’s Got Talent” finalist Prince Poppycock. Tickets ($25-75) and more information at www. seattlechoruses.org or (206) 388-1400.

SUNDAY - June 24

(See PRIDE EVENTS CALENDAR for additional information)

Seattle Tennis Alliance - 2018 Seattle Classic Tournament (6/22-6/24). UW Nordstrom Tennis Center, 3833 Walla Walla Rd. See details under EVENTS menu at www.seattletennisalliance.org.

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

Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett 9:30am. Glacier Lanes, 9630 Evergreen Way, Everett. Every Sunday. Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards! Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com; www.gaysnohomish.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30am Worship, 11am Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org

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

University Unitarian Church. 9:30am & 11:15am Sunday Services. (Late June-Aug 9:30am only.) 6556 35th Ave NE. Interweave is the official name for LGBTQ groups in the Unitarian-Universalist family as a common thread of identification. UUC’s Interweave group meets the first Friday every other month (Oct, Dec, Feb, April & June) usually at UUC for a potluck, a summer picnic or whatever else we might dream up. Drop in & join us. www.uuchurch.org for details.

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Dollhouse returns June 20 with special Pride Cabaret!

DOLLHOUSE THE OPEN MIC SHOW

Central Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

All are welcome. (206) 322-7500.

East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am Sunday Service. 12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780.

Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. (206) 682-3620.

Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Workship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org

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

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am Worship. 2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984

Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. (206) 547-6945 (office); (206) 2855077 (George).

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship. 500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome. A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. (206) 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org

St. Clement’s Episcopal Church. 10:30am Worship. 1501 32nd Ave S. Great music. Dynamic preaching. Holy communion. Encountering the transformative and unconditional love of God in Christ. Join us! www. stclementseattle.org

Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $6.50 + $3 shoe rental. (425) 785-4729.

Welcome Table Christian Church. 9:45am Meditation; 10:30am Worship; Labyrinth 2nd Sundays 1-4pm. 1322

S Bayview St. Where people of all genders and sexualities, and families of all shapes & sizes are welcome and celebrated. A welcoming and affirming community since 1987. welcometablecc.org

Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating

unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org. Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. Contact Forrest Rode, (206) 920-6117, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Find us under “Dharma Buddies” under Meetup.com or DharmaBuddies.org. (Women are invited to contact our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.)

Seattle Pride Parade. 11am, 4th Ave & Union St. Proceeds north on 4th Ave to Denny Way and Seattle Center (site of PrideFest). Rain or shine. Free. www. seattlepride.org/pride-parade/ St Paul’s Episcopal Church. 11:15am (also 7:30am, 9am, 5pm). 15 W Roy St. We are an accepting, progressive, Anglo-Catholic parish, renewing its people for their Christian lives in today’s world through worship, spiritual formation, engagement in the arts, and acts of compassion. www.stpaulseattle.com

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

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

Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Green Lake Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 7201 E Green Lake Dr. N. Every Sunday. (See related listing Saturday at noon for details.) For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride. Seattle PrideFest - “Rain to Rainbows.” 12 noon8pm. The legendary Seattle PrideFest rally and party at Seattle Center, now in its 12th year. A celebration of LGBTQ arts, culture, and Pride, on four stages. Free. Watch for updates at www.seattlepride.org.

June 23 thru July 1

No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. See website for location. Meets 2nd & 4th Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org.

Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30-3pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201. Meets 4th Sunday each month in the Ian MacKintosh Room. www.seattleprimetimers.org Rain City Soccer Club - Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. We play an organized, 2-hour scrimmage on nice fieldturf surface. Sometimes there is a brief training/practice session before we play. Usually there is a “one-beer” after the scrimmage. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. Integrity is an international ministry of Gay & Lesbian Episcopalians, their friends & families, dedicated to education, support & service within the Church & the GLBT community. (425) 226-2746. Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - June 25

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Volunteer Park Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Every Monday starting 3/26 - Come Rain or Shine! - Meet at Black Sun sculpture across from museum. Hot coffee and beautiful Rainbow umbrellas to use “just in case.” For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride.

SLAA New Beginnings: 12 Steps of SLAA. 12-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201, in the O’Neill Room. Every Monday. SLAA step-study meeting starting with Step One in “A Gentle Path.” The meeting is open to anyone interested in doing 12-step work. No matter where you are in the steps, or if you haven’t begun, feel free to join us. Books, paper, and pens provided. You need only bring your willingness to grow! SOBER On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. (206) 3222437; www.sasgcc.org

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

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Seattle Unity Church, 200 8th Ave N. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Lotus Sisters South Seattle/Columbia City Meditation & Dharma Discussion. Gather at 6:45pm; sit at 7pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. Short presentation with discussion to follow. Oriented to LBTQ sisters. Email us or call (206) 550-5587 for details and location; www. LotusSisters.org. (Wheelchair accessible.)

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Everett AquaSox Pride Night. 7:05pm. Everett Memorial Stadium, 3802 Broadway, Everett. The AquaSox of the Northwest League take on the Tri-City Dust Devils. Purchase tickets through a special link at www. thegsba.org/events/2018pridesports with code PRIDE and receive an Upper Box ticket and Pride Night hat (while supplies last).

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

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

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

TUESDAY - June 26

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

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

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Alki Beach Walk. 2-3pm. 61st Ave SW & Alki Ave SW. Tuesday starting 3/27 - Come Rain or Shine! - Meet at Statue of Liberty statue. Hot coffee and beautiful Rainbow umbrellas to use “just in case.” For info, call ((206) 393-3400;. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride.

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

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle Evening Gathering. 6:30-8pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St, Rainier Ave S & S Holly St., Social Hall. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. This is a group primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Facilitator: Fai Coffin; Cost: FREE. Metro route 7. Wheelchair accessible. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org. Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets 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.

Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles. 6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Most Tuesdays & Thursdays. Courts #5, 6, 7 & 8. June-August. Weather permitting. Pre-pay online if possible. seattletennisalliance.org

No Man’s Land - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org.

PFLAG/North Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Haller Lake United Methodist Church, 13055 1st Ave NE. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. (206) 325-7724 or northseattle@pflagseattle.org. PFLAG, a national organization founded in 1972, provides support, education and advocacy for families and friends of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons and is committed to moving LGBTQ equality forward.

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 (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming classes for Gay men. IFor info & location call Dennis at (206) 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma 7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. A vibrant drop-in workshop for those of any spiritual belief. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org

WEDNESDAY - June 27

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

Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12 noon. Roosters Restaurant, 611 Broadway E. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month. Just drop in - no RSVP required. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Volunteer Park Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Every Wednesday. (See related listing Monday at noon for details.) For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride.

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True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley (206) 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org

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

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

Queer Seattle Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Every Wednesday. This month’s title: “White Houses” by Amy Bloom - an historical novel about Eleanor Roosevelt and celebrated journalist Lorena Hickock’s hidden love. https://faculty.washington.edu/ swittet/SGLBookClub/ Next month’s title: “The Grow House” by Nick DiMartino. Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma DiscussionNorth. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www. LotusSisters.org.

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

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

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

Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. Every Wednesday. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www. ingersollcenter.org

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

SEAMEC Monthly Meeting. 7pm. 1605 12th Ave, Suite 21. Meets 4th Wednesday each month. SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www. voteseamec.org

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

THURSDAY - June 28

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

Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.) Monthly Lunch Get-Together. 12 noon. Ballard NW Senior Center, 5429 32nd Ave NW. Meets 4th Thursday each month. Look for the A.B.L.E. sign on the table. We are Lesbians, 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of this group is to connect, socialize, and support each other. We have been meeting since 2015. The purpose of this group is to connect, socialize, and support each other. The group hosts evening potlucks, outings and get-togethers. Cosponsored by Puget Sound Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. (PSOLOC). Safe and Sober (AA). 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. (206) 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. (206) 720-5566 or 888-2921912; www.babesnetwork.org.

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Green Lake Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 7201 E Green Lake Dr. N. Every Thursday starting 3/29 - Come Rain or Shine! - Meet at the Wading Pool (along the north end of the lake). Hot coffee and beautiful Rainbow umbrellas to use “just in case.” For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride. 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 Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for persons living with HIV/AIDS, their friends, and for those who want to support them. 6pm. Trinity Lutheran Church, 2324 Lombard Ave, Everett. Meets last Thurs-

day each month. For further information, please call 360-202-3978. Sponsored by AIDS Project Snohomish County (APSC) and Gay Men’s Task Force.

B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. (425) 747-4937.

Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles. 6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Most Tuesdays & Thursdays. Courts #5, 6, 7 & 8. June-August. Weather permitting. Pre-pay online if possible. seattletennisalliance.org

Boys Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. (206) 322-2515 ext 16. www. lamberthouse.org

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ gayfathersseattle

Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org [NOTE: Please contact the facilitator prior to attending.]

FRIDAY - June 29

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

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Kubota Gardens Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 9817 55th Ave S. Every Friday starting 3/30 - Come Rain or Shine! - Meet at the corner of 55th Ave S and Renton Ave S. Hot coffee and beautiful Rainbow umbrellas to use “just in case.” For info, call (206) 393-3400;. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride. Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Ongoing 12step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org

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

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

Cascades Rainbow Community Center - in Mount Vernon 6:30-10:30pm. 1508 N 18th St, Mount Vernon. Most Fridays. Weekly social get-togethers including potlucks and movie nights for LGBTQAI folks in Skagit County and beyond. The Center has the largest LGBTQAI library in Skagit County with an online catalog of their collection. (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook. (Check Facebook page to confirm meetings.) Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fellowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org

Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

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

“Argentina in Revolt” – A Public Forum. 7:30pm. New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S. The public is invited to hear a first-hand account of the rising economic and political crisis sweeping over Argentina. Maria Alvarez, a socialist feminist and human rights activist from Buenos Aires, will give an eyewitness account of recent events in her country. Door donation $2-$5. A Summer Salad Buffet will be served at 6:30pm; an $8-$10 donation is requested. The event is co-sponsored by Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party. Work exchanges and childcare are available. (206) 722-2453

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

625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org; (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

SATURDAY

- June 30

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Let’s Talk About It! - The Black Community and PrEP. 11am-2pm. The 2100 Building (2100 24th Ave S), Art Room, 3rd floor. A roundtable discussion facilitated by Russell D. Campbell of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Lunch provided. RSVP to Vanessa Grandberry at (206) 461-6910 ext 12. “VJ & MD - Just the Two of Us.” 6pm. Egan’s Ballard Jam House, 1707 NW Market St. Pianoman Victor Janusz and his popular bandmate saxophonist Medearis “MD” Dixon bring a mostly-new line-up of material to this intimate concert. Tickets: $12-advance; $15 at the door, if available. brownpapertickets.com/event/3463379 “Speaking Out!” - Diverse Harmony and Spectrum in Concert. 7:30pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave at E Union St. With special guest Arnaldo Inocentes! Tickets: $20 general; youth 22 & under $5. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3496826. Creedence Clearwater Revisited and Blue Oyster Cult. 8pm. (Pre-show entertainment at 7pm.) Amphitheatre at Tulalip Resort Casino, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd, Tulalip. Tickets start at $55 through Tulalip Resort Casino website and Ticketmaster.

SUNDAY - July 1

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. Contact Border Riders for details and rendezvous point. Meets 1st Sunday most months. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/ PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.whatcompflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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

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

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org

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

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

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

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Networksupport & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911 Report domestic violence and sexual assault. Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www. equalrightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeaking.org

Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 860-6969. www.gaycity.org

Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

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

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

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

HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com

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

LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

LGBT MS Connection - (206) 250-5002; LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Lifelong AIDS Alliance - (206) 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org Lion’s Main Art Collective - www.lionsmain.org MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www. nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.com; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www.tacomaolderlgbt.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.) MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band. com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: (206) 388-1408, (206) 323-0750. www.seattlechoruses.org.

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

Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org

Olympia/Thurston County - www.RainbowCenterOly. org

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle Out & Proud Grays Harbor Coalition - http://outandproudgh.org

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

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

Pride Foundation - (206) 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org

Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay

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& Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. (206) 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org

Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx

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

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

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

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.voteseamec.org

Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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

Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. (206) 323-1768.

Seattle LGBTQ Commission - (206) 684-4503. www/ seattle.gov/lgbtq

Seattle Out & Proud - (206) 322-9561; www.seattlepride.org

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

Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org

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

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - (206) 860-3666; www.theabbey.org

Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays. (425) 339-5298.

South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.SouthSoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net

SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flag Football: www.cascadeflagfootball.org; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball. org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www. seattlegaybasketballassociation.com; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.theprideleague. com, Century 21 League; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, (206) 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@ camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934. Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org

TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity: www.genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: (206) 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: (206) 329-6651, www. ingersollcenter.org; Lion’s Main Art Collective: www. lionsmain.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; [trans] ACTION: Trans* & Gender Non-Conforming Sex Workers’ Support Group - a safe, peer-led space. mail@utopiaseattle.org; TRANSform Washington: transformwashington.com; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com

WOMEN: Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.): We are Lesbians 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of the group is to connect, socialize and support each other. ruthemilyvogel@gmail.com; Aging Lesbians in South Seattle (ALISS) - Lesbian Group at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center. This is a gathering primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. (206) 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Coming Out Women Support Group of Tacoma: www. comingoutwomen.org; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Puget Sound Old Lesbian Organizing for Change: http:// psoloc.org, (253) 777-3357; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol. com; Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network: BiSeattle. wixsite.com/SBWN; Seattle Girls of Leather: www. sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org; Women of West Seattle (WOWS): a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks. org, (206) 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Coyote Central: www.coyotecentral.org; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www. globeyouth.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way; (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: (206) 957-1665; www. llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace.com; The Mockingbird Society: (206) 323-KIDS (5437), www.mockingbirdsociety.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www. oasisyouthcenter.org; OUT There Adventures: www. outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 3257724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., (206) 7268500; www.psks.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www. facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, (206) 326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - (360) 698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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Entry fee: $10/dog

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We will be setting up on 4th avenue between Columbia and Cherry streets. You can join us between 12:45 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to walk in the parade.

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As with all of our cats, Miss Bella has been spayed, microchipped and vaccinated. All of our cats have been tested for Feline Leukemia/FIV and go home with a certificate for an examination by a King County veterinarian and their very own identification tag and collar. PLUS, most cat adoptions include 30 days of pet insurance from Trupanion – a great way to start off on the right paw.

One look into Humphrey's eyes and your heart will melt. This 2-year-old Catahoula Leopard Dog mix is a bit anxious when meeting new people, but show him the treats and you'll soon have a new best friend. Humphrey is not quite ready for dog parks but would do very well with patient adopters who can help him come out of his shell. He's eager to learn and you can teach him that other dogs and people are not so scary. Humphrey loves to go for walks and he'll be looking to you to set the pace and direction. He loves treats and takes them gently. At the end of the day, Humphrey happily will exchange a few kisses for a good massage, and then chill out for the evening. Does Humphrey sound like the canine companion you

want to share the world with? Come down and meet him today at Seattle Humane!

As with all of our dogs, Humphrey has been neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and behavior tested. He will go home with a certificate for a veterinary examination and an identification tag. PLUS, most dog adoptions include six weeks of training in one of our on-campus dog behavior courses - a great way to start off on the right paw!

Introduce to teenagers or older. Resident dogs required to meet prior to adoption. Cat-free home.