SGN Mar 16, 2018 - Part 2

Arts & Entertainment

Matter-of-fact Simon easy to love

by Sara Michelle Fetters

SGN A&E Writer

LOVE, SIMON

Now playing

Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) is gay. The popular 17-year-old hasn’t come out to anyone, yet. He’s not really worried what his best friends Leah (Katherine Langford) and Abby (Alexandra Shipp) will think; they will definitely support him. Same with his mother Emily (Jennifer Garner) and little sister Nora (Talitha Bateman); the two of them as progressively open-minded as

they come. Heck, even his ultra-masculine father Jack (Josh Duhamel) will likely end up in his son’s corner once the shock wears off, so in reality there’s no reason for the teen not to be honest with everyone and let them know what’s going on.

But Simon can’t find the words to come out. Instead, he’s struck up an anonymous online friendship with a fellow classmate, the two of them sharing intimate secrets about how they’re struggling with their sexuality, what attracts them in another guy and what their dreams and aspirations are

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by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer

SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS & SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS

“NOT IN OUR TOWN” MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL

Free Family Concert April 7 @ 2pm

Main Concerts

April 7 @ 8pm & April 8 @ 2pm

I was first seduced by Randy Rainbow’s humor about seven years ago when Rainbow was shooting and posting his short videos on YouTube. These videos featured outrageous edited phone conversations with such notables like Mel Gibson, Lindsey Lohan, Diane Sawyer and more. Lately, Rainbow has been making a splash with his political parodies of Trump and Kim Davis. His musical tribute to the first presidential debate of 2016 received 28 million views

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by Sara Michelle Fetters

A&E Writer

LOVE, SIMON

Now playing

Love, Simon is a high school-set tale of friendship, romance and sexuality made for the here and now. Based on the best-selling

book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, the movie is the story of Simon Spier (Nick Robinson), a popular 17-year-old kid with loving parents, an adoring sister and friends who would do anything for him. He’s also gay, and he’s fearful of coming out even if he’s relatively

by Kamna Shastri International Examiner Contributor

TASVEER PRESENTS

12TH ANNUAL AAINA

SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN’S FOCUS

PIGOTT AUDITORIUM

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY

March 23-25

Tasveer has made a name for itself in Seattle over the past decade and a half. In that time the non-profit organization that aims to engage the South Asian community through film and art has grown, boldly creating a space for South Asians to discuss

My Lorde, what a great show!

New Zealander makes triumphant arena debut with opening act Tove Styrke

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

LORDE WITH TOVE STYRKE KEY ARENA March 9

When Lorde performed in Seattle back in March 2014, she packed every seat at WaMu Theater. Three years later, she drew a near sell-out audience to Key Arena, the first arena tour of her short and successful career.

The New Zealand-bred singer-songwriter, who turned 21 in November, has kept a low profile the past couple of years, leaving fans guessing about her next move. Thankfully for them, Lorde returned with a new album, 2017’s Melodrama, and one of last year’s best alternative rock tracks, “Green Light.”

She began her set promptly at 8:45pm with “Sober” from the new album, which earned Lorde a recent Grammy nomination for Album of the Year; she won two awards in 2014. She didn’t appear to the audience until the second verse, climbing down from a raised podium on the stage.

This was a different Lorde. An older, definitely more confident and less shy Lorde than we saw at WaMu, where she came across as a bashful, goth-like teenager with a layered wardrobe who was just starting out; and she was. This time, she was perky, talkative, very confident and strutted on stage wearing a sparkly, flowerpatterned outfit that covered her breast, but not much else.

“It is one of our favorite places to come to in America!” shouted Lorde about Seattle to the crowd, flecked by young gay men in attendance, two of which were seated in the front row, dressed in matching metallic outfits with crowns, a toast to the artist’s best known hit, “Royals.” “This is the cool side of the country,” she added.

“Tennis Court” was performed beautifully by Lorde standing just off to the center of the stage with one of four backup dancers moving elegantly behind her.

“This is a good vibe from you,” she told concertgoers in between songs. “We love it here. We’ve been here a few times.” She told everyone that on her last Seattle visit

she went to a glassblowing class and got to make something to keep as a souvenir.

“This is a really old song,” Lorde said before lunging into a terrific delivery of “Buzzcut Season.” While singing “Hard Feelings,” she looked out to a venue illuminated by cell phones.

For a costume change, Lorde simply used a shadowed stage prop as a dressing room to slip into a long, sheer white skirt with splashes of gray and light brown with a matching bralet.

“Yellow Flicker Beat,” from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, was a highlight of the show with Lorde performing it front and center and a solo member of her dance troupe moving around in a high elevated glass box suspended above the stage that tilted from side to side throughout the number.

Having spent time alone back in New Zealand, sometimes just riding the subway by herself, Lorde became attached to the song “Solo” by Frank Ocean and at Key Arena she performed a touching rendition of it.

“I basically like songs about being alone,” she told fans.

She was teary-eyed at the end of “Liability,” looking around the arena. “This is so fucking unreal to me,” she stated, surprised at the strong turnout for the concert.

Another costume change happened just before Lorde did “Supercut.” She switched to an apple-red jumpsuit with thin black belt, dancing wildly to the song on stage.

“You gonna sing this one with me, Seattle?” she asked at the start of “Royals,” and a big sing-along followed. The main set drew to a close with “Green Light,” as the stage was entirely bathed in bright green lighting.

For an encore, Lorde tinkered with a beat machine on stage for energetic versions of “Loveless” and “Precious Metals.” The show concluded with “Team” and everyone again singing along.

This was one of the most memorable performances I’ve attended in recent years. It was electrifying and dramatic, captivating and cool, and the kind of show you just wanted to watch all over again from start to finish. If there was any doubt Lorde would go away after one album, I

can tell you first-hand that she’s going to be around for a while.

Opening for Lorde was pop-electro rising star Tove Styrke, who was quite impressive during a brief set that lasted all but 25 minutes.

At the top of Styrke’s set list was “Borderline,” and no it wasn’t a cover of the Madonna gem, it was the slick original title track of Stryke’s 2014 EP. Wearing highwaisted lime-colored baggy pants that appeared to be made from mesh, or tissue, and a white tee-shirt with bobbed blonde hair, Styrke was fascinating to watch in person, as her spunky attitude and fly dance moves – sometimes it looked like she was kickboxing – were fun to watch.

“Hello, Seattle,” said the young Swede.

“Long time, no see.”

She managed to squeeze in about six songs into her performance, including “Mistakes” and a praise-worthy cover of Lorde’s “Liability.” During “Change My Mind,” Stryrke got almost the entire arena, which was about two-thirds full already, to sway their hands in the air; she seemed to have the audience’s full attention.

Styrke wrapped up her set with her current hit single “Say My Name,” displaying more entertaining dance moves in between the verses. She made her exit, but certainly left us thinking about her and searching for her on Google; she’s one to keep your eye on. Styrke kindly met fans and signed autographs after her appearance at the merchandise booth.

“Celebrating

David Bowie”

showcased the legend’s music to great effect, but not much else

by Albert Rodriguez

SGN A&E Writer

“CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE”

BENAROYA HALL

March 10

David Bowie wasn’t in the building last Saturday night, but his spirit was certainly felt at Benaroya Hall where fans and some of the artist’s longtime band members paid

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in its first two days. He was subsequently asked by the cast of TV’s “Will & Grace” to parody a song which they performed during a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.

Now, Rainbow will be visiting Seattle for the first time to join the Seattle Men’s Chorus (SMC) and the Seattle Women’s Chorus (SWC) for “Not In Our Town,” their joint concert in song, at McCaw Hall on April 7 and 8. In addition to live performances of his wildly popular parody videos, Rainbow will sing hit songs with the Choruses, including the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning song “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman I had a chance to chat with Rainbow by email this past week.

MK Scott: Welcome to Seattle! You are performing with the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus. What can we expect?

Randy Rainbow: I’m so excited about it, and it’ll be my first time in Seattle! I’ll be doing some of my original song parodies and then joining the chorus to solo on a couple of special numbers. Don’t wanna give too much away.

MK: Since the idiot has been in office, your videos have been even more popular. What have been the pros and cons of this instant fame?

Randy: Not so instant. I’m one of those 8-year “overnight sensations.” It’s a fun ride. I’m on tour now so getting to meet fans all over the country has been a trip.

MK: Some of the responses have been big celebrities. Who surprised you the most?

Randy: The response from celebrities has been one of the most exciting parts for me. Some of them like Sondheim and Dick Van Dyke have been huge idols of mine since childhood so it’s quite thrilling. I guess the most surprising have been the news anchors and reporters who’ve reached out. The CNN people love me, and it’s mutual.

MK: I saw you in the new gay Orbitz ad with Bianca Del Rio. What was it like on that set?

Randy: So much fun. I’ve been a massive

tribute to him with a performance that featured music from his illustrious catalog.

The evening kicked off with Bernard Fowler, one of three men who rotated on vocals throughout the night, singing a solo version of “Bring Me the Disco King,” a track from Bowie’s 2003 Reality record, and “Rebel Rebel” backed by an assembled group of veteran musicians simply called the Celebrating David Bowie (or CDB) Band. He then performed two more numbers, “Moonage Daydream” and the wellknown favorite “Fame.” Fowler can definitely sing, but his vocals were too strong and husky, and at times too R&B, for Bowie’s edgier, alternative rock songs.

I much preferred the vocals of Mr. Hudson, a British artist who has collaborated with a varied list of colleagues from Jay Z to Miley Cyrus, who fared better on “Changes” and “Where Are We Now?” which appeared on a recent Bowie album, 2013’s The Next Day. His vocals were more on par with Bowie’s than either of the other singers.

The third vocalist was Joe Sumner, who interviewed with Seattle Gay News two weeks ago ahead of the show. Sumner’s vocals were perfect for “Space Oddity,” though his rendition of “Let’s Dance” sounded very karaoke-like, as if someone was singing it tipsy at a wed -

ding reception. He was great, however, on “Lady Grinning Soul,” a track that Bowie never sang live; he only recorded it in the studio. However, I really loved Sumner’s energy and his outfit, a funky multicolored suit that looked as if it had been plucked out from an ’80s time capsule.

Further on, Mr. Hudson sang excellent covers of “Ziggy Stardust,” “Five Years” and a gorgeous redo of “Rock n’ Roll Suicide,” a song that Bowie collapsed while performing it at Radio City Music Hall in 1973.

Fowler was rather impressive on “Suffragette City,” a song that seemed to fit him like a glove. The audience, which packed the floor level of the Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall and two entire balcony sections, was on its feet and clapping along. This was a crowd of mostly 40-somethings or older, those who grew up listening to Bowie’s music. But younger folks, some who accompanied their parents or have only recently landed upon David Bowie, also came out for the tunes.

The audience was full of diehards, many of whom wore Bowie tour tee-shirts and snatched up memorabilia quickly in the lobby before the performance started. A lot of them shared stories of seeing Bowie in person, or listening to his records in college, or even introducing his songs to their children.

Sumner, whose father is pop-rock legend Sting, drew the curtain on the main set with a terrific cover of “All the Young Dudes” featuring crafty guitar work from Earl Slick, who was impeccable all night.

A three-number encore included “Andy Warhol,” which featured a standout guitar solo from all-star musician Gerry Leonard, and the classic “Heroes,” which many in the venue sang out loud to. If you’re going to cap an evening of David Bowie songs with anything, it might as well be “Heroes,” perhaps his most beloved hit.

Strangely, there were no images of Bowie displayed anywhere, except on stage curtains at the very beginning before the lights were dimmed, and no video footage. Neither did the band rekindle any of the icon’s fashion forward statements, which boldly depicted the singer-songwriter’s taste for unconventional and androgynous style. No slide show, either. Mike Garson, the show’s emcee, told only two short stories and that was it; I was hoping for a really good behind-the-scenes, never-been-toldbefore story to take home with me.

“Celebrating David Bowie” was about his music, only – I get it – but I was craving something more than just listening to a bunch of his songs. I wanted to celebrate all of Bowie, not just his music.

fan of Margaret Cho’s for years, so to work with her on my very first commercial was really special. Bianca and I go back a long time to when we both had weekly shows at the same gay bar in NYC. It was a fun reunion and needless to say we had a blast.

MK: How long does it take you from conception to posting a song or video? Do you shoot or edit your own videos or do you have some help?

Randy: I’m still doing it all myself from my apartment. You have to work fast in the age of social media, and especially with the never-ending circus going on every day in the news. I usually turn my videos around in a day.

MK: I read that your Grandmother was very talented and an inspiration. What was your favorite memory of her?

Randy: I used to sleep over at her house on Friday nights when I was a kid and she’d

help me run lines for whatever community theater or camp show I was in at the time. She was the funniest. Joan Rivers, Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur and Betty White rolled into one Jewish Grandmother.

MK: What is next?

Randy: Working on lots of projects so stay tuned. Would love to bring what I’m doing with the videos to the next level. Maybe even leave my apartment.

MK: Burning Question: Have you, or would you ever join a Gay Chorus?

Randy: How presumptuous of you. I haven’t even officially come out yet.

Tickets to the SMC and SWC “Not In Our Town” concert at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Seattle performances are $25$78 and available at www.seattlechoruses. org or over the phone at (206) 388-1400. The Seattle area box office is open MonFri, 11am-6pm.

The Annual FREE Family Concert is at McCaw Hall on Saturday April 7 at 2pm. Enjoy an afternoon for music-lovers, big and small with our region’s largest singing ensembles and guest performers from the Washington Middle School choir. This onehour concert features family-friendly songs from Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, The Wizard of Oz, and Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen. Sing along, move about, and dance in the aisles of Seattle’s enormous McCaw Hall as you experience this fun, free, family celebration! Tickets are FREE, advance online reservations are recommended and can be made at www.seattlechoruses.org/ attend/concerts-events/family-concert/

MK Scott is a local arts blogger. Please check out his new online magazine at uniteseattlemag.com

positive all who care most about him would be supportive if he did so.

All the same, Simon strikes up an anonymous friendship with a fellow student from his school and in the process thinks he’s falling in love even though he has no idea who this person actually is. During his quest to discover his cybernetic pen pal’s identity, another one of his classmates secretly makes copies of all of the pairs emails and instant messages, threatening to release them to the student body if Simon doesn’t help him in his own quest to find a girlfriend. Not sure what to do, Simon compromises his friendships in order to keep his secret from going public, in the process learning that if he can’t be honest with himself, he can’t really expect others to be honest with him in return.

Robinson, a Seattle native who made his first notable impression in The Kings of Summer before moving on to be chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex in Jurassic World, arrived in town for a brief press tour to speak about Love, Simon. He was joined by the film’s director Greg Berlanti (Life as We Know It, The Broken Hearts Club) along with fellow rising star Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse, Tragedy Girls). I had the pleasure to sit down with the three of them in a suite overlooking the city at the top of the newly built Amil Arc apartments. Here are some of the highlights from our brief conversation:

Sara Michelle Fetters: Nick. What’s it like coming home to Seattle bringing a movie like Love, Simon?

Nick Robinson: It’s a cool feeling. I was saying before to someone else, it feels full circle to be coming back home with a film like this. I hope that people will see it. I hope that they’ll go out and see it because I feel like it has really got a message worth taking notice of and sharing with others.

Sara Michelle Fetters: For you, Greg, were you familiar at all with Becky Albertalli’s book before Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker’s script came your way?

Greg Berlanti: I was. People in my office had read it, really responded to it and tried to option it for us to make, only we ended up losing it to someone else. We

lost the bidding. They had sent gifts to the author and everything, but when we didn’t get the rights, by then it was on my radar, so I honestly didn’t take the time to read it myself at that moment. But then I got sent the script once the company that did option the book, Temple Hill, along with Fox 2000, had finished a draft. They decided to send it to me. I said to myself, “I guess I should read [Becky’s] book now!” By the halfway point, I’m wondering what’s going to happen next; I’m curious to know what it is these characters are going to do. By the end I was a crying mess. [laughs]

Sara Michelle Fetters: I ask this, because it’s been since 2010 since you stepped behind the camera to direct a feature film, having spent the last few years helping run all of those hit DC Comics television shows like “Arrow” and “Supergirl.” What was it about the material? When did you know you had to be the one to direct this film?

Greg Berlanti: I mean, I think for me directing-wise when it is something I haven’t written, this alarm goes off in me and it gives me a signal as to whether or not I’m the person for the job. For this one, I specifically knew when I finished the script I immediately wished I had had this movie when I was a kid. That’s when I realized I would do anything A) to be a part of it, but B) if I’m not a part of it, to just help them get it made, because it really is the kind of story that I think is just filling a void I didn’t even realize needed to be filled. The script spoke to me.

Sara Michelle Fetters: How about you, Alexandra? Where you familiar with the book?

Alexandra Shipp: The script was my introduction to the material. Once I read the script, even before I got it, I knew that this was something that I wanted to be a part of; the story really moved something in me. When I did read the script, what I loved was the language about the “other.” The language spoke to them, this friend group, all being equal, that this “other” didn’t matter. For me, that was something that I was just like, yes, people need to see that. They need to see that perspective, that whatever I’m doing with my own self has nothing to do with you. That’s important.

Then, I read the book and it just solidified things that much more for me. I was like, this is a movie that’s not only gonna save lives, but it’s gonna change people’s

perspective of things that they don’t understand. I think that’s the beauty of filmmaking and in theater and in shows like this, that we’re changing the way people see what’s going on in the world.

Sara Michelle Fetters: What I love about this property is when I said I was going to go see it about a month ago, a fellow film critic friend’s 12-year-old daughter went crazy. She was so insane that I was seeing this before she was. I had no clue that young people of that age were so excited for this story and for this film. What does that say to all of you? From a societal perspective. That not just high school kids but middle school kids, elementary school kids, they are all excited to see your movie.

Nick Robinson: I think it signifies, hopefully, a perspective shift that is happening and that kids are not necessarily growing up seeing things as black and white as previous generations. Actually, Jennifer Garner was talking about this the other day, how her daughters are talking about when they grow up they don’t know if they’ll marry a boy or a girl. They don’t really see a distinction between the two. I think that’s hopefully a good thing. It’s a sign of people growing up being so much more open and aware of the world around them.

Alexandra Shipp: Yeah, I think it’s a social commentative piece when it comes to the evolution of human beings and our ideas of understanding and compassion. I look at these young kids and I just think, “Oh my gosh! You have so much love.”

The amount of judgment that I felt growing up just having a White mom and Black dad, I can’t even imagine what my friends must have gone through, them being their own types of “others.” But kids these days, they just don’t see it that way. It’s so beautiful. It’s such a breath of fresh air and I love that they’re excited about this movie because this movie is for them. It’s for them. Just like Sixteen Candles and all of those movies were for us. This is one of those movies that’s for their generation; that not only speaks to their generation, but also plays into their moral vibration. This is not anything that’s necessarily new to them within society, but it’s definitely new onscreen, and that’s exciting.

Greg Berlanti: I think the best change always comes from kids. It’s nice what you’ve pointed out in the question. What’s so rewarding about it is that they’re not even doing the math in their heads. I would have been. I’ve said this before but, when I was 17, I would have been so afraid of people finding out I was gay that I would have been terrified to go to this sort of movie. I’d have been worried that more people would have thought I was gay or found out my secret. It’s really powerful to hear that kids aren’t thinking about it in those terms. They are just thinking how great this story is. Hopefully, they’re the ones who really spread the word, too. This is more in the hands of teenagers than adults because I think they know it’s for them. Hopefully they’ll spread the word.

Sara Michelle Fetters: While there are obvious issues in this movie that I’m sure you want people to think about and discuss after they watch it, at the film’s core, though, is a story of friendship.

Alexandra Shipp: Very much so. It’s the most important element in my opinion.

Sara Michelle Fetters: What was it like for all of you as a cast to develop that easygoing naturalistic camaraderie? And not just for you two, Nick and Alexandra, but with your primary co-stars Katherine Langford, Logan Miller and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. as well.

Alexandra Shipp: Well, Nick and Logan were already friends, so they had a head start on the rest of us. [laughs]

Nick Robinson: Only a little one. You fit in pretty quick. [laughs]

Alexandra Shipp: You all made it pretty easy. That helped. [laughs] Honestly, though, it’s all because of Greg. What’s awesome about Greg is that he got us all together for rehearsals, and then after those rehearsals he would have us all hang out doing what we all do. And so a lot of the friendship that you see on the screen was friendship that we had created in our own lives. Whether it’s inside jokes that made it into the movie, or like little things here and there that really brought us really close together, it was all pretty

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magical. I mean, we still hang out. All these months later we still hang out. I think that we will all be friends for life.

Nick Robinson: BFF’s.

Alexandra Shipp: Definitely. BFF’s. And I really hope so. I truly do. That would be really nice. These people to me, they mean so very much! When you work on a movie like this, the amount of love and integrity that goes into it to make it work, I don’t think that I’ll never not have these people in my lives because of what we went through.

Nick Robinson: I would agree with all of that. I think everyone came in with a fantastic attitude. They were all onboard pretty much from day one. The rehearsals really helped, too. They got us all onto more stable ground in terms of flushing out the relationships. I think what you’re seeing on the screen is not totally make believe up there. There’s a fair amount of realism.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Speaking of make believe, how hard is it to transition between smaller pictures like this one and the more gigantic ones, where it is all make believe and most of the time when you’re on the set you’re acting against things that are physically not there. Nick, you’re not really running from a Tyrannosaur. Alexandra, you’re not really battling Magneto in a sphere of crushed iron and rubble.

Nick Robinson: I think it’s very lucky that we get to do that. To be able to have both experiences. They’re both fun in their own way. The more human story, the more intimate story, it can ultimately be more satisfying. But they’re both fun. They’re both challenging. You are pretending for a

living. That’s pretty fun.

Alexandra Shipp: I think about it like food, because I do love food.

Nick Robinson: You’re getting your cake and eating it to? [laughs]

Alexandra Shipp: Don’t you finish my sentences. I can explain my own metaphors, thank you. [laughs]

Nick Robinson: Suddenly I’m very interested. And hungry. I’m now very hungry.

Alexandra Shipp: Shush! [laughs]

But, back to what I was saying. I like to think about it like food. . These big studio films, movies like X-Men. That’s like a fancy five-course meal. That’s like truffle everything. You know what I mean?

Greg Berlanti: Very expensive.

Alexandra Shipp: Very, very expensive. A little over the top, even.

This movie, this movie is like a homecooked meal. Both of them are delicious. Both of them are special. The comparison for me, though, is that while they both feel good, while they both taste good, one means that much more because someone you loved prepared that meal for you.

I love playing Storm. Playing Storm is so much fun. To get to play a superhero is amazing. But to do a movie like this means just that much more. I’m not gonna change the way people think with X-Men. But with something like Love, Simon? I really get to be that much closer to maybe doing just that. I really get to put more of my heart and soul spin on it. That is really exciting for me, because even though I love eating out, and I eat out almost every night, a homecooked meal is the best thing I could have. Love, Simon is that home-cooked meal.

Sara Michelle Fetters: I have to wrap things up so I leave you all with this ques-

Thalia’s Umbrella delivers brilliant premiere of The Impossibility of NOW

by Miryam Gordon, SGN A&E Writer

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF NOW

THALIA’S UMBRELLA

12TH AVENUE ARTS

Through March 31

A new play can make me giddy, especially

if I can’t guess where it’s headed and its subject area is “about” the human condition in a new and interesting way. We in Seattle are lucky to see a world premiere, being produced by Thalia’s Umbrella, before it inevitably goes out into the world and probably wins some cool award somewhere. Y York’s The Impossibility of NOW is an unexpected delight, a delicious and magical moment.

tion: At the end of the day, what do you hope people are talking about as they exit the theatre after watching your movie?

Greg Berlanti: These two have heard me say a version of this before but, for me, the movies of this brand that really moved me, especially when they were about young people, or when I was young when I saw them, they’ve stayed with me forever. I think that’s the thing. If you mark part of your life by them, by these films, and they remind you of a pivotal moment in your life, then they become a part of your own biography. You carry them with you. I think that’s always my hope for something like this.

Nick Robinson: I’ve said an answer similar to this as well, but I hope the people walk away feeling like they were included and were a part of something. That their perspective, hopefully, has changed or that they’ve gained some new insight that they may not have had before. I think that is one of the strengths of this film, and it’s what makes it a little subversive, too. The film is mainstream and it’s kind of pop. It’s something you’ve seen before. But it’s also told from a perspective that you haven’t maybe seen or listened to before. It’s a little alternative. A little rock ‘n’ roll. I hope that people walk away trying to figure out what exactly was different. Hopefully, it’s obvious for them. I hope that they take into account this new perspective and feel. That they give it a think, you know? You give it a think.

Alexandra Shipp: “Give it a think.” I like that.

Nick Robinson: Just use the old noodle. Let people feel like they were included and that they were heard.

Alexandra Shipp: I want to create allies. Yes. I want to create allies with this

movie. I want people to see this movie, see how the “other” is treated in this movie and to not allow something like that to happen in front of them. I really want to create soldiers for social injustice. For those moments when someone’s getting hurt or bullied or just treated wrong, I want someone to stand up and actually do something about it. I think that kids are headed that way. I think a movie like this really allows you to see that, even though that a person is weird or a nerd or a geek or a freak or a little bit different or whatever else you can think of, they’re still human. No one deserves to be treated like they are not human. No one.

The plot is fairly simple. Carl (Terry Edward Moore), a very successful writer, comes home from the hospital. He’s had an accident with severe head trauma and woke up remembering little to nothing about his prior life. Miranda (Betsy Schwartz), his wife, has been coaching him in all the life skills that he’s forgotten and is hoping he’ll get his memory back in time.

I don’t even want to tell you much more than Carl has come out of the hospital relishing everything he’s learning about life again. In particular, he relishes words and one can almost taste them as he rolls them out of his mouth into the air.

It’s a romantic comedy and there is another cast member, Anthony (Joshua Carter) and if there is too much more description, it might ruin your own discovery and enjoyment. Listening to the music of the words and where the story goes is half the fun of this 90-minute unfolding flower. It’s delightful and maddening.

The three cast members fit the characters like gloves. Moore’s enjoyment of discovery is palpable, and he seems so childlike. It’s completely appropriate for a man rediscovering everything.

Schwartz oozes subtext and “back story” in every scene. She is one of our town’s best actors, though not necessarily one of the best known. Here, every hesitation, every conversation, is filled with the kind of complexity that any long relationship might contain. Miranda loves her husband, but not all their history is pleasing to remember, and she has to walk among her own memories of hurt while helping Carl perhaps get his back.

Carter plays an “everyman,” seeming without much guile or planning, but Anthony does some surprising things that definitely stick an oar in Carl’s recovery. There could be reasons you would like Anthony to succeed, and ways in which his actions could be seen to be reasonable.

York’s dialogue is such fun to listen to. It feels both discursive like real conversation but also poetic and musical. Director Daniel Wilson has made the most of the script in this production. It’s hard to imagine the play mounted in another way.

Set and lighting by Roberta Russell creates a kind of triple function set. Massive, hung backdrops are made to look like imposing abstract wall art in a cavernous and cold large house, while an area with a table becomes a coffeehouse without any changes, and a large dentist’s couch becomes a dental office. Incidental music, composed and recorded by Mark Lutwak, Michael Sakarias, and Lucy Peckham (also the sound designer) is pleasant and light and sets the effervescent tone expertly.

Suffice to say that the message of the play is to try to live life “now,” and maybe after seeing it, you’ll have more ideas of exactly what that might mean by example. For more information, go to www.thaliasumbrella. org or https://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/3211271 or call 800-838-3006.

Discuss your opinions with SGNCritic@gmail.com or go to www.facebook. com/SeattleTheaterWriters. More articles can be found at MiryamsTheaterMusings. blogspot.com.

Rainbow City Band presents “Justice for All: Herstory” on Sunday, March 25

RAINBOW CITY BAND “JUSTICE FOR ALL: HERSTORY” SHORECREST

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

March 25 @ 2pm

Our “Justice for All” concert series has been established to celebrate civil rights and our unfinished journey toward equality and unity. Through our music, we plan to honor the LGBTQIA women, men, and gender non-conforming, people of color, immigrants, and other marginalized populations who have fought to make our country great. Our band was formed for Seattle Pride in 1998, and is a proud member of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association. This concert series takes us back to our organization’s founding as we reflect on the struggles and celebrate the triumphs that have led to our stronger and more diverse community. Each year we plan to present a concert with a different theme that exemplifies justice for all.

Our first concert is all for the ladies!

current issues and share stories.

Every spring, Tasveer organizes a women’s festival called Aaina, meaning mirror in Hindi and Urdu. The festival began in 2006, and in its 12 years it has offered up a variety of panels, open mics, and what has in recent years become a unique centerpiece for the festival: a South Asian version of the Vagina Monologues, called Yoni Ki Baat Yoni Ki Baat is a series of original, personal stories, performed by the womxn and trans persons who wrote them. They are bold, authentic and honest, and they open up conversations about women, sexuality and gender, topics that are often shied away from in normative South Asian cultures.

This year, Yoni Ki Baat will be directed by Uma Rao, and it’ll be the first of its kind, highlighting and celebrating South Asian womxn, trans, LGBTQ and gender nonconforming voices. Rao has been involved with Tasveer since the organization’s early years and has seen many a YKB performance. Over time, she noticed that as powerful as the stories were, she wanted to see something more on stage.

“I couldn’t help but notice that every year I was looking to find queer voices because I am a queer voice. I’ve seen it sometimes but it’s rare – and that just conflicts with my actual lived experience here in Seattle. There is a larger South Asian community that is queer, and I just think it’s time for our stories to be there,” said Rao.

This year, stories featuring the perspective of straight, cisgender women will be in the minority, standing beside the stories of LGBTQ individuals. Rao says it’s a way to flip the script and to consider another perspective, posing important questions: “What will people learn and what will people’s reactions be?”

Rao says she feels even more of an urgency to make sure that these voices are heard as our country’s political climate become increasingly hostile. After 2017’s divisive election, there’s a necessity for safe spaces that welcome sharing.

“Now we are living in dark times. I actually feel that way, and its cheesy but that phrase ‘all you need is love’ is really true,” said Rao. “I think we have to approach each other with love and take care of each other.”

LGBTQ voices are plentiful in the South Asian community, but their stories and experiences face the challenge of being shut down and pushed aside. Rao says that’s not because of a lack of love, but because these stories

We want to tell the stories of female writers and poets writing under pen names as men in order to get acknowledgment and acceptance for their creative work. With this “Herstory” concert, we celebrate composers you may not know, simply because of their gender, but who made and are still making huge contributions to the world of music. In our last concert of our 20th season we celebrate women!

RCPA is excited to begin a partnership with Visage Legs LaRue, a Seattle-based performer with a flair for the avant-garde. The Studio 54-era modern-day ladyqueen with a vaudevillian soul will be singing an arrangement of “True Colors” with the concert band. The band will also be joined by Alexandra Gardner, the Seattle Symphony 2017-18 Season Composer-inResidence. In addition to composing a new work for the orchestra while she is in Seattle, she will create a new community composition with LGBTQ youth affected by homelessness, as part of the Seattle Symphony’s Simple Gifts initiative. We are thrilled to bring to life her wind band work entitled “Perseids.”

We hope to see you at Shorecrest Performing Arts Center on Sunday March 25th at 2pm! Save time at the box office by purchasing your tickets in advance at https:// bpt.me/3362460

haven’t had the opportunity to be heard and understood by elders and parents who have been socialized into a very rigid understanding of gender and sexuality.

“Our community is starting to find these resources, but we’re not talking to each other,” said Rao, citing that there needs to be internal work within South Asian circles to educate, learn, and create a comfortable space for all its people.

Sumathi Raghavan is the program manager for Tasveer and says that while this year’s YKB production is exciting, it also illuminates just how much uncertainty there is in the South Asian community

about the LGBTQ experience.

“I’m eager to see the performances, I’m eager to hear what the conversation is like afterwards. I’m hoping that people will rise to the occasion and show their best selves,” said Raghavan.

Along with Yoni Ki Baat, Aaina promises a line-up of panels and presentations by South Asian women for South Asian women. Executive director Rita Meher said that the festival is becoming just what she envisioned 12 years ago. After starting the Seattle South Asian Film Festival in 2004, Meher felt that there was a lack of women’s voices in the festival’s films and conversations. That’s when Aaina

was born, a weekend dedicated to women and the unique perspectives they bring as South Asian people.

This year, the program features a networking event focused on how freelancers can find community, clients and courage to take the plunge into self-employment. Another panel will answer audience questions about changing immigration laws, addressing the complicated dynamics of being the spouse of an H1-B visa holder whose right to work in the United States is threatened to be revoked under the Trump administration. Given that many South Asians in Seattle are in the country with H1-B visas, this is an issue that has drawn concern within the community.

Raghavan also cites the amount of pressure the “model minority myth” puts on South Asians – whether they immigrated to or were born on American soil.

South Asians are often stuffed into a pressure cooker of smart and successful stereotypes that become an internalized measuring stick for the community. Amidst that pressure, “it’s also valuable to have a place where you can come and be a little more vulnerable and talk about what is not so great in your life,” said Raghavan.

Meher says there are many issues that need to be addressed and discussed in a way that is unique to people – regardless of their generation – who share the rich legacy of South Asia’s complicated histories and cultures.

Meher puts it this way: “We can just be ourselves and don’t need to explain too much to each other and focus on telling the story more genuinely and freely. I think it’s a healing space for all the South Asian participants who take place in that space, and they form this really deep camaraderie and friendship that is hard to get.”

This year’s program promises to be inspiring by pushing boundaries, challenging people to be vulnerable, and open their hearts and minds to one another just a little more than before. Storytelling is key to that journey.

“I think it’s an honor to witness stories,” said Rao. “Anyone sharing their story and being vulnerable is really powerful.”

Events will be held Friday, 7-10pm; Saturday, 12 noon-10pm; Sunday, 12 noon4pm. For more information, including the complete schedule of events and tickets, visit http://tasveer.org/

This story originally ran in the March 7, 2018 issue of the International Examiner Reprinted with permission.

Suitably thrilling Tomb Raider changes the game

by Sara Michelle Fetters

SGN A&E Writer

TOMB RAIDER

Now playing

It’s been seven years since businessman, philanthropist and archeology enthusiast Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West) mysteriously disappeared. In all that time his headstrong daughter Lara (Alicia Vikander) has stubbornly refused to believe he was dead. After discovering he had left her clues only she would be able to decipher, the young woman learns he went off to hunt for a mysterious island somewhere off the coast of Japan. With only his notebook to give her hints on where to search, and after hiring the son, Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), of a boat captain who originally took her dad on his ill-fated journey, Lara charts a similar course into the unknown.

What the pair discovers goes far beyond anything they could have imagined. For seven years, psychopathic madman Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins) has been stranded on an island searching for the tomb of a mythical priestess who was believed to have the power over life and death. It was this discovery Lord Croft was desperately trying to stop, the not-soamateur adventurer certain that if this crypt was opened the results would be globally catastrophic. Now it’s up to his daughter to finish what he started, Lara determined to make certain that Vogel pays for his crimes and the secrets hidden inside this tomb remain undiscovered.

Movies based on video games haven’t exactly had the best track record. Great directors like Mike Newell (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) and Justin Kurzel (Assassin’s Creed ) gave it their best shot yet still failed to deliver anything worthwhile, while the less said about adaptations like Doom, Hitman, Max Payne, Street Fighter, Warcraft, Need for Speed, Super Mario Bros., Wing Commander and so many others the better. The only truly successful effort was the Resident Evil franchise, which spawned six features (last year’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter being the last one), director Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2002 first film arguably the most enjoyable of the set.

Not that there isn’t something moderately positive that could be said about 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, both starring Angelina Jolie as the titular heroine. The first one, while a critical failure, proved to be something of a box office surprise while it also cemented Jolie’s status as a global

superstar. The follow-up, however, did not meet with the same fate. While moderately better received by critics, it was also clear audiences had felt burned enough by the initial entry in the erstwhile franchise they had no intention to come back for seconds. It seemed like this was the end of the line for Lara Croft as far as her cinematic adventures were concerned, and considering no other video game adaption outside of Resident Evil was making any sort of profit it was doubtful a Hollywood studio was going to take another chance on the character anytime soon.

Until now. Cutting itself off from the Jolie efforts entirely, using the latest, incredibly popular video game as its chief inspiration, Norwegian director Roar Uthaug’s Tomb Raider takes Lara Croft back to her roots, showcasing an energetic, emotionally unstable yet incredibly intelligent firebrand just beginning to find her way in the world after unspeakable tragedy has left her feeling lost and alone. While screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons (Trespass Against Us) hardly reinvents the archeological adventurous wheel, cribbing freely from Raiders of the Lost Ark whenever and wherever it can, they’ve still managed to craft an engaging yarn that puts more emphasis on its characters than it does on mindless action set pieces that do little to move the story forward. This is the first video game adaptation that proves to be worth watching start to finish, and while the bar for these sorts of films has been undeniably low from a historical perspective, that doesn’t make Tomb Raider any less entertaining.

Part of me isn’t surprised by this. Uthaug has a consistent track record of tak-

ing tired, overwrought genre entries and making something sensational out of them. His 2006 horror opus Cold Prey about a group of young snowboarders stranded at a secluded ski chalet has slowly spent the last decade becoming something of an under the radar slasher classic, while the director’s 2015 disaster epic The Wave was a legitimate Oscar contender after Norway submitted it as the country’s Best Foreign Language Film entry. The reason those features worked so well is that Uthaug put the emphasis on the characters first and crafting a compellingly authentic atmosphere for them to live in second while leaving the expected genre tropes of both in a distant third. He knew that to ratchet up tension and suspense one actually had to care about the individuals fighting for their lives, and while he had a noticeable flair for staging action it was also just as evident he wasn’t going to throw in some random jolt of adrenaline just because.

This is a director who has made his career trusting his audience, and it is that sort of touch he brings to this. There aren’t any real surprises, no real shocks as they pertain to Lara’s journey or the discoveries she is going to make while she is on it. But Robertson-Dworet and Siddons keep things moving at a crisp pace, constructing believable characters in relatively brief brushstrokes most of whom are complicated enough to stay interesting for all of the story’s 118 minutes. As for Uthaug, much like he did with Cold Prey, he doesn’t just jump right in as far as the death-defying craziness is concerned. While he does stage a couple of brief sequences of action, they’re based in character, each helping to define Lara as she takes her first steps into

the unknown. The first massive set piece doesn’t happen until almost the halfway point, and as crazy as it is Uthaug never loses sight of the fact that whatever happens has to affect his heroine on an emotional level otherwise there’s no point for any of these theatrics to exist.

It’s still pretty thin from a narrative standpoint, and as terrifying as Goggins is Vogel still isn’t the towering villain a film like this needs in order to be truly memorable. I also find it interesting that Uthaug and the screenwriters choose to put so much emotional emphasis on a scene where Lara is forced to defend herself in a way that results in the loss of life, her clearly distraught reaction to what she’s done obviously difficult for the young woman to deal with. But moments later she’s going after Vogel’s henchman with a bow and arrow as if she’s a seasoned soldier who has spent years on the battlefield, this sudden ease with which she is able to use lethal force not entirely convincing.

Who am I kidding? Tomb Raider is a total kick in the pants and I had a terrific time watching it. As strong as Jolie might have been as the character previously, she was never given the same freedom to evolve and emote as Vikander has been granted, and to say The Danish Girl Oscar-winner makes the most of the situation would be a decided understatement. She thrives as Lara Croft, constructing a three-dimensional adventurer who is just as apt to use her brain as she is her brawn, Uthaug refreshingly giving the actress the freedom to make the character her own. This is a good movie. Suffice it to say I honestly can’t wait to see it again. Here’s hoping general audiences end up feeling the same.

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JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E - 860-1818

KREMWERK - 1809 Minor Ave. #10 - 682-2935

THE LUMBER YARD - 9619 16th Ave. SW - 695-2007

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THE PINE BOX - 1600 Melrose Ave - 588-0375

POCO WINE ROOM - 1408 E. Pine St. - 322-9463

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5633 Airport Way S - 466-5954

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9630 16th Ave. SW - 762-3299

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Meetings Events Activities

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INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm. ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with visible or hidden disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www.scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities. html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists.

NOTE: 10-digit dialing has come to the Seattle area. The (206) area code must now be used to dial local calls. Location of meetings/events is in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY

- March 17

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.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.

Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. Meets 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org PNW G/B/Q Longhaired Men. 2pm. Locations vary. Check the website or call for details. An informal social group for longhairs, growers, longhair admirers & their friends. We gather for brunch on the 3rd Saturday each month to socialize, chat & often go out afterwards for coffee or some activity. Please join us! For information & to RSVP: www.longhair.shorturl.com

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. Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck. 2pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave (behind Seattle Central College). Enter via the north parking lot and get a permit for free parking. Meets 3rd Saturday most months. Cost: $4 per person (please try to bring exact change) to help pay for the meeting room rental. Please bring a dish that will serve eight or more to share. Within walking distance of Metro routes 8, 10, 11, 49, 60, Capitol Hill LINK Light Rail station, Capitol Hill streetcar. www.seattleprimetimers.org

Pink Pistols Seattle. 5pm. West Coast Armory Indoor Range, 13216 SE 32nd St, Bellevue WA. Monthly range meeting (target shooting/practice). Contact us on Facebook for more information/Confirm details.

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.

“Upbeat on Jackson” - Featuring Reggie Garrett & The Snake Oil Peddlers. 7-9pm. Ernestine Anderson Place, 2010 S Jackson St. FREE monthly concert series. Next concert: April 21 with Jim Page and Kat Eggleston. Sponsored by Low Income Housing Institute.

SUNDAY - March 18

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

Seattle Jewish Film Festival (03/10-03/18 & 04/14-04/15) www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.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.

Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets 3rd Sunday each month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All backgrounds, all faiths welcome. (206) 391-2188.

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Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets 3rd Sunday each month. This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@hotmail.com

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 may wish to contact our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.)

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

Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.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

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

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

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/Weds/ Fri: Evenings; Tues/Thurs: Mornings. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Preregistration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org

Radical Women International Women’s Day Celebration - “Working Women Rise Up: Many Fronts, One Struggle.” 2pm. 5018 Rainier Ave S. The event will feature a panel of speakers on crucial local issues, discuss the leadership role women are playing in it, how people can help and thoughts on how to buiild a powerful, multiracial movement led by working and poor

women. $5 door donation requested. Savory Italian Lunch Buffet at 1pm for $10 donation. 206-722-6057; www.radicalwomen.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

Leather Community Barbecue – BBQ Time. 4-7pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Celebrating Washington State Leather Pride Week. Presented by W.S.M.L.O. Seattle Poly Potluck & Discussion Group. 5-8pm. (contact for new location) Meets 3rd Sunday each month. For people interested in polyamorous, open, and ethically non-monogamous relationships. $5 donation; please bring a potluck dish. This event is open to the public. Look for us on Facebook or Meetup. Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. [EXCEPT no bowling June, July & August.]

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 - March 19

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

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) 322-2437; 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

Seattle Women’s Commission Meeting. 5:30-8pm. Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave Rm 221. Meets 3rd Monday each month (except December). SWC is a 20-member volunteer advisory board that advises the Mayor, City Council, & all City of Seattle departments on matters concerning women & women’s rights. Meetings open to the public. (206) 684-4537. PFLAG/Kitsap County (Bremerton) Monthly Meeting. 6-7pm. Kitsap Pride, 532 5th Ave #20, Bremerton Meets 3rd Monday 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.kitsappflag.org and on Facebook. kitsappflag@yahoo.com. (888) 636-0652. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic 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 PFLAG/Everett (Snohomish County) Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Stillaguamish Public Meeting Room #1, Robert J. Drewell Bldg., 3000 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Meets 3rd Monday 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.pflageverett.org; 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

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 - March 20

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic 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.

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

Seattle Police Department LGBTQ Advisory Council Monthly Meeting. 6-8pm. Seattle Police Department East Precinct Community Meeting Room, 12th Ave & E Pine St. Meets 3rd Tuesday most months. An opportunity for the GLBT community to speak openly with the SPD to dialog on public safety issues, plan officer training on sexual-minority topics, suggest ways to improve communications & procedures, explore protection strategies to minimize Gay-bashing incidents, & address other related concerns. The Sexual Minority Community Advisory Council has been established by the SPD to increase relationships & communication between the community & the SPD. Members of the GLBT community are invited to attend. kim.bogucki@seattle.gov

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

Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org

Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. (206) 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI). 7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room). Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at (206) 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com

Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com. [EXCEPT no water polo mid-June through Labor Day Weekend.]

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 - March 21

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

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

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 is “Necessary Errors” by Caleb Crain. https://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ [Next month: “The Sparsholt Affair” by Alan Hollinghurst.] 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

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hope to see you soon! Info (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org

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

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. 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

Mature Friends Pinochle Group. 7:30pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org

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

THURSDAY - March 22

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic 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.

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

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

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

“The Darker Side of the Rainbow” (3/22-3/25).

Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. “The Darker Side of the Rainbow” is a journey into self exploration - a celebration of Blackness & Queerness where six Black artists explore music, poetry, dancing and singing. Tickets: $15-$20 general; $12 students & seniors. Presented by Gay City Arts. 21st Century Bowling. 7pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Thursday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. [EXCEPT no bowling June, July, August.]

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 con-

tact the facilitator prior to attending.]

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.) [EXCEPT no water polo mid-June through Labor Day Weekend.]

FRIDAY - March 23

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

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

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

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. Every Friday. 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.

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

“The Darker Side of the Rainbow” (3/22-3/25).

Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. “The Darker Side of the Rainbow” is a journey into self exploration - a celebration of Blackness & Queerness where six Black artists explore music, poetry, dancing and singing. Tickets: $15-$20 general; $12 students & seniors. Presented by Gay City Arts. Game Night. 7pm-11pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Friday. Card games, board games and fellowship. (206) 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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

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

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

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room. Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 6250000; www.seattle-al-anon.org; (206) 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

Washington State Mr. & Ms. Leather & Bootblack Contest - Meet & Greet. 8pm-10pm. The Cuff Complex Dance Bar, 1533 13th Ave. www.wsmlo.org [NOTE: Contest will be held Saturday, March 24, 7pm, at The Cuff Complex.]

SATURDAY - March 24

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

March for Our Lives Seattle. 10am. Meet at Cal Anderson Park/Miller Playfield. Between Nagle Pl. and 11th Ave at E Pine St. and march to Key Arena. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/seattlemarchforourlives

Washington State Mr. & Ms. Leather & Bootblack Contest. 6pm doors; 7pm contest. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. $10 donation at the door. www.wsmlo.org

11th Annual Three Dollar Bill Cinema Dinner & Auction. 5pm. Block 41, 115 Bell St. Support Three Dollar Bill Cinema film festivals and programs, including Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Three Dollar Bill Outdoor Cinema, and Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival. Tickets: $150 - with VIP option for $250. (206) 323-4274; www.threedollarbillcinema.org.

“The Darker Side of the Rainbow” (3/22-3/25).

Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. “The Darker Side of the Rainbow” is a journey into self exploration - a celebration of Blackness & Queerness where six Black artists explore music, poetry, dancing and singing. Tickets: $15-$20 general; $12 students & seniors. Presented by Gay City Arts.

SUNDAY - March 25

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) Washington State Leather Pride Week 3/15-3/25 www.wsmlo.org

Washington State Mr. & Ms. Leather & Bootblack Contest - Victory Brunch and Emerald and Community Service Awards. 11:30am. Purr Cocktail Lounge, 2307 24th Ave E. Awards presentation begins

at noon. Several other organizations and groups will be presenting their annual awards at this event, including Seattle Men in Leather, Generic Leather Productions of Washington, Seattle Girls of Leather, Seattle Women in Leather and Sea-Pah, to name a few. [NOTE: Contest will be held Saturday, March 24, 7pm, at The Cuff Complex.]

Rainbow Walk for LGBTQ Elders 50+ - Green Lake Walk. 12 noon-1pm. 7201 E Green Lake Dr. N. Every Sunday starting 3/25 - 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) 637-0400. Wheelchair-friendly walk. Sponsored by Generations Aging With Pride. 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. This month’s topic: Taking Risks as Seniors. www.seattleprimetimers.org

“The Darker Side of the Rainbow” (3/22-3/25). Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. 6:30pm doors; 7pm show. “The Darker Side of the Rainbow” is a journey into self exploration - a celebration of Blackness & Queerness where six Black artists explore music, poetry, dancing and singing. Tickets: $15-$20 general; $12 students & seniors. Presented by Gay City Arts.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169. American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us

Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeaking.org

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

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

Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGBTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, connecting, and developing innovative programs and services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of our community - (206) 495-8312; 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.org; 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 & 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

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

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Call (206) 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; (206) 451-SAFE; (206) 451-7233.

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

Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html

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; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.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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