Seattle Gay News
Issue 40, Volume 45, October 6, 2017
Arts & Entertainment
A cheerful, talent-packed Tales of Armistead Maupin music festival in Las Vegas Maupin to appear in Seattle October 16 ends in tragedy
Armistead Maupin – Photo by Christopher Turner
by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer Country singer Jason Aldean – Photo courtesy of ticketmaster.com
by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer This is the third time in less than two years that I’m writing about a mass murder at a music event, something I hope doesn’t become the norm. The attack at the Bataclan in Paris, the bombing at Manchester and the shooting at last weekend’s Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas were all acts of terrorism. All were senseless. Though
not directly music-related, the Pulse nightclub tragedy in Orlando is a fourth mass murder also falling into this time frame. Country music fans from all over the world had convened at a 15-acre makeshift live performance venue called MGM Resorts Village at The Lot, across from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, on September 29 through October 1. The Route 91 Harvest Festi-
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Jafar’s spell:
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN IN PERSON BENAROYA HALL ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL October 16 Armistead Maupin is one of the best American gay, storytellers of the contemporary time. His beloved chronicles, Tales of the City, became blockbuster classics and have become a part of Gay history.
Appearing at Benaroya Hall on October 16, Maupin has published his memoir, Logical Family, which was released on October 3, and also has a new documentary film based on his life, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, will be screening at the TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival’s Opening Night Gala on October 12 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown. NOTE: Those choosing to attend the TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival screening of The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin can enter to win a pair of tickets to meet Mr. Maupin in person at Benaroya Hall on October 16.
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Seattle Women’s Chorus is FIRED UP for their 15th Anniversary Concert Season
An interview with Jonathan Weir
Jonathan Weir (Jafar) in Aladdin (North American Tour Original Cast) – Photo by Deen van Meer
by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer DISNEY’S ALADDIN, THE MUSICAL PARAMOUNT THEATRE October 12-29 Jonathan Weir is no stranger to playing the villain. He’s played Scar in Disney’s The Lion King and now tours the country with the Disney production of Aladdin.
He’s playing the villain Jafar in the current Disney tour. Eric Andrews-Katz: Who were your earliest influences in becoming a performer? Jonathan Weir: I had my first real theatrical experience of seeing a live show, when I was living in Saint Louis. My family took me to the Muny [an outdoor venue] and saw The King and I. It was starring
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Morrissey, Ed Sheeran announce new Seattle concerts by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Great news for Morrissey fans, he’s coming back. The alternative singer-songwriter, who is also a proud vegan, is returning to Seattle for a concert in the weeks ahead, set to appear November 2 at the Paramount Theatre. The accomplished solo artist, as well as frontman for legendary rock group The Smiths, released the leadoff single, “Spent the Day in Bed,” last week from his forthcoming new album Low in High School. He usually performs a varied set list from city to city, but no doubt he’ll probably introduce newer material when he comes to town in early November. Tickets are on sale now at www.STGPresents.org. Another big new show to announce is Ed Sheeran, who performed to a huge crowd at the Tacoma Dome this summer. He’ll play to a larger audience at CenturyLink Field next summer as part of a 15-city North American stadium tour that kicks off in Pasadena on August 18; Seattle is his second stop on August 25. The “Shape of You” singer-songwriter will also visit New Orleans, St. Louis, Fargo, Atlanta and Houston, to name a few, on his 2018 itinerary. Tickets are on sale at www.Ticketmaster.com. Wanna see two country superstars for the price of one? Then, saddle up to the Tacoma Dome on November 4 for a concert featuring Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. The Nashville power couple are acclaimed, Grammy-winning artists in their own right, but have also collaborated on stage and recorded music together in the 11 years they’ve been married. You’ll hear a lot of good music from these two, likely their respected top hits and a few duets. Tickets can be purchased at Ticketmaster. com/garthbrooks, via phone at Ticketmaster
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val lineup featured a stellar list of mostly Nashville-based acts, including Maren Morris, Jake Owen, Lee Brice, Brothers Osborne, Big & Rich and its three headliners, Jason Aldean, Eric Church and Sam Hunt. An estimated 22,000 people were in attendance for the three-day event, which had quickly established itself as one of the nation’s premiere country music festivals in just four short years. It was during Aldean’s closing set on the final evening, Sunday night, of the festival that a sniper perched on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel opened fire on the large crowd gathered about 400 yards from the resort. Within minutes, the shooter took the lives of over 50 innocent people (the latest death toll was 59) and hundreds more were injured. Aldean, who won back-to-back ACM Awards for Entertainer of the Year in 2016 and 2017, interviewed ten years ago with Seattle Gay News, right about the time he began the climb to superstar fame. Yep, this hunky, broad-shouldered, cowboy hatwearing, Georgia-born, Southern daddy spoke with me by phone in early 2007. And he was very sweet, even inviting me backstage to a show at the Tacoma Dome when he was booked as an opener (I wasn’t able to make it); now, he can fill arenas from coast to coast as one of country’s biggest touring acts. Everybody’s been to a concert before, some more recent than others. The last show I attended was Janet Jackson at Key Arena, two weeks ago. The last open-air performance I went to, similar to the Route
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Express (866-448-7849 or 800-745-3000), or the Ticketmaster app on mobile device. Other new shows to tell you about: JaRule & Ashanti on November 10 at The Showbox SoDo, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band on November 11 at Key Arena, Walk the Moon on February 16 and 17 at The Neptune, Jacob Sartorius on February 18 at The Neptune and The Darkness on April 3 at The Showbox Market. If you had plans to see The Kooks next month at The Showbox Market, you’ll need to adjust those plans. The English rock band has rescheduled its entire fall North American headlining tour due to being stuck in the recording studio making their next album that is also due next
year. The Kooks will now be playing Seattle on June 1, 2018 at the same venue, so hang onto your tickets. Finally, the music world recently bid farewell to another distinguishable artist, R&B great Charles Bradley. The soul singer got a late start in the industry working as a James Brown impersonator under the moniker “Black Velvet,” which eventually led to him being discovered and recording his own material under the Daptone Records label. Bradley, who had performed in Seattle in recent years at smaller venues, such as The Neptune, died from stomach cancer on September 23 at the age of 68.
91 event, was when I saw Death Cab for Cutie at Bumbershoot in 2016. I never used to think anything like this would ever happen at a live show, that is until it started happening. The Las Vegas victims, like those in Paris and Manchester, were a random assortment of people – nurses, teachers, librarians, city government employees, military veterans, small business owners, single moms, beloved grandfathers. They were just enjoying music on a warm fall evening with friends, family and colleagues; just having a good time. Many were from out of
Owen, who was on stage with Aldean when the shooting began, described the incident vividly on social media by saying, “This shooting was going on for at least 10 minutes. It was nonstop.” Bob Rich, half of the duo Big & Rich, recalled the experience by stating “It’s like watching your family out there going through this. It’s unbelievable and it makes you want to bawl your eyes out, to be honest with you.” Aldean posted two statements on social media after the attack, the second was an emotional plea for unity. “At the end of the
“At the end of the day we arent Democrats or Republicans, Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans and we are all Americans and its time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE!” – Jason Aldean town, who were probably staying overnight in Las Vegas, perhaps venturing out to a casino floor, hotel bar, or casual restaurant after the concert, then sleeping the long afternoon and night off in their rooms. But they never made it back. They never left the concert grounds. Among those injured were members of the Josh Abbott Band, who received shrapnel wounds during the attack. Guitarist Caleb Keeter wrote a living will and goodbye messages to his partner and family in fear that he wouldn’t survive the deadly assault.
day we arent Democrats or Republicans,” he said on Instagram. “Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans and we are all Americans and its time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE!” Although pop acts Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Celine Dion regularly perform in Las Vegas, as part of exclusive casino residencies, neither had a scheduled concert on Sunday night. The Las Vegas attack is the deadliest mass murder on American soil in modern US history. Please keep the victims and their loved ones in your thoughts.
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A true heart breaker: Rock legend Tom Petty dies two months after performing in Seattle by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer The rock music world shrunk again this week with the passing of rock legend Tom Petty, who performed in the Emerald City with his longtime band, The Heartbreakers, just seven weeks ago to a sold out audience at Safeco Field. I was at his latest Seattle show, in the eleventh row on the field with a perfect view of Petty and amongst very enthusiastic fans who stood, sang and danced from beginning to end; some even danced with complete strangers. That’s a typical Petty performance; the crowd just really gets into it. I was fortunate to see him in concert five times at five separate venues – The Gorge, White River Amphitheatre, Tacoma Dome, Pemberton Festival (British Columbia, Canada) and Safeco Field – and each show took on the atmosphere of a giant backyard party, especially when they jammed outdoors at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Petty, with his Heartbreakers and as an occasional solo act, was a major mainstream rock artist selling millions of records around the world and inspiring generations of performers after him, many who represented more of an alternative sound, like Seattle’s own Eddie Vedder. The Pearl Jam frontman was a friend of Petty’s, who collaborated on “The Waiting” with him at White River Amphitheatre in 2006, the same show Stevie Nicks appeared at, as well, and dueted with Petty on their ’80s hit “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” The Safeco Field show included nearly two dozen songs, including fan favorites like “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “Refugee,” “Into the Great Wide Open,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Learning to Fly,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” “American Girl,” “You Wreck Me” and what has become Petty’s signature hit, “Free Fallin’.” The Seattle performance was part of the 40th anniversary of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who released their self-
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titled debut in 1976, when they were still based in Gainesville, Florida. Most of the band members migrated to the West Coast in the years that followed. Their last studio recording was 2014’s Hypnotic Eye, which earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Petty went into cardiac arrest early on October 2 at his Malibu residence. CBS News erroneously reported his death, as did Rolling Stone magazine, as he was still clinging to life. But later that evening, at 8:40pm Pacific time, his family released an official statement notifying fans and music
industry colleagues that he had passed away peacefully with his loved ones and the Heartbreakers by his side. Live musical tributes were offered by Coldplay, Sheryl Crow and Govt Mule during their respective performances, while a long list of fellow musicians offered kind words and expressed their condolences via social media, including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Bon Jovi, Shania Twain, Def Leppard, Lorde, Travis Barker, Jack Antanoff, Rick Springfield, The Lumineers, who opened the Safeco Field show on August 19, and Laura Jane Grace of
Against Me!, who interviewed with Seattle Gay News last month. The list goes on and on because, as Alice Cooper best put it, “It is so rare to find someone who commands such universal respect in the business. This man delivered a wealth of great songs to his fans and to the world and that is something to celebrate.” Tom Petty was 66 years old, a multiple Grammy winner, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and truly one of the absolute best songwriters and musicians there ever was.
Pink bringing “Beautiful Trauma World Tour 2018” to Seattle next spring by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer
Pink – Photo by Sølve Sundsbø / RCA Records
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Coinciding with the release of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma, Pink officially announced the dates of the North American leg of her upcoming world tour, which includes a performance in Seattle next spring. It’s expected the pop star will add more shows to the tour, perhaps in Europe, South America and Australia. But you won’t have to travel that far to see her, as she’ll appear at Key Arena on May 13, 2018. Pink remains a very close ally of the LGBT community and has gone as far as calling herself an “honorary lesbian.” From a 2012 interview with the Huffington Post she stated, “When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was an honorary lesbian of Los Angeles. I wasn’t gay, but all my girlfriends were.” She then credited her LGBT support base by saying, “They’ve been the most loyal part of what I do. They’ve been my most loyal friends, to be honest. I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk. They’re my honesty in an ocean of bullshit.” In June, Pink celebrated Pride Month by posting an Instagram photo of her tod-
dler son Jameson wearing a tee-shirt with a rainbow. Within minutes, it received over 160,000 likes. On August 31, the punk’ish singersongwriter was presented the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMAs and gave an emotional, empowering speech about embracing your true identity that centered around a conversation she had with her daughter Willow. The speech followed another explosive live performance by Pink that included some of her biggest hits, like “Raise Your Glass,” “Get the Party Started” and “Fuckin’ Perfect.” Tickets for all dates of the “Beautiful Trauma World Tour 2018” will go on sale Friday, October 13 at 10am at www.LiveNation.com, or charge by phone at 1-800745-3000. For more information, visit www.pinkspage.com/events.
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Chris Botti jazzes up Seattle Symphony’s Seattle Pops concert by MK Scott SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE POPS CONCERT WITH CHRIS BOTTI BENAROYA HALL October 1 After years of missing famed trumpeter, Chris Botti, perform live in Seattle at such local venues as Jazz Alley, I finally got my opportunity, but this time he was part of the Seattle Symphony’s Seattle Pops concert – one of my favorite series – at Benaroya Hall this past weekend. Botti performed with one of the top jazz pianists around, Geoffery Keezer, along with drummer, Lee Pearson and Michael Olatuja on bass. The program included some incredible solo work by violinist, Caroline Campbell, guitarist, Leonardo Amuedo, and vocals by Sy Smith and Rafael Moras. Accompanied by the Seattle Symphony conducted by Lawrence Loh, this concert was a mixture of familiar ballads, jazz, rock and American songbook standards. During Act One, Botti’s trumpet screamed with passion with such songs as “Gabriel’s Oboe,” “Concierto de Aranjuez,” and “When I Fall in Love.” Joined by Smith on vocals, both had opportunities to perform up close to the audience.
Speaking of the audience, drummer Pearson saluted famed drummer, Dennis Chambers (Santana, Steely Dan) who attended the performance. Chambers survived a health crisis this past year and appreciated the praise. In his honor, Pearson’s performed a drum solo that was incredible. But it was the violinist’s (Campbell) solo that really rocked the house with folk, country, classical, and rock. (Hey, Botti and Campbell even did Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir”!) A close second was Moras’ rendition of Andrea Bocelli’s “Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò).” To close the show, Botti and Smith, along with their accompanying musicians and the Symphony, performed an unforgettable, “Let’s Stay Together” with the audience dancing in the aisles. Coming up in January at the Seattle Symphony Pops: Broadway stars Jeremy Jordan and Betsy Wolfe will appear in “Broadway Today,” January 12-14 at Benaroya Hall. For more information, visit seattlesymphony.org. MK Scott is a Seattle-based arts blogger. Check out his blog at outviewonline. com. Photos courtesy of Seattle Symphony.
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continued from cover SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS FIRED UP SAINT MARK’S CATHEDRAL October 13-14 & 20-21 Artistic Director Paul Caldwell leads Seattle Women’s Chorus (SWC) into their 15th Anniversary season with FIRED UP inside Capitol Hill’s historic Saint Mark’s Cathedral. For five performances, SWC will bring heart and soul to songs of protest and social justice with a repertoire that pulls from many modern social movements. FIRED UP features music that rouses the masses, speaks truth to power, and cements public consciousness. Traditional pieces by Woody Guthrie complement contemporary music by singer, songwriter MILCK. The sounds of works by Mari Esabel Valverde and Abbie Betinis will fill Saint Mark’s Cathedral, as well as a stunning piece by 14-year old YouTube sensation Isolde Fair that was inspired by Hillary Clinton’s concession speech. Collectively the concert shines a spotlight on music that grew from human rights protests and marches and was influenced by some of this world’s great motivators: Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Lazarus, Maya Angelou and Victor Hugo. Northwest Girlchoir joins SWC for a special set and together through song, these strong, multi-generational female voices, remind us of Seattle’s crucial role as a harbinger of social activism. Isolde Fair will make a special guest appearance at the October 20 and 21 performances. Performances are Friday and Saturday October 13-14 and 20-21 at 8pm with a 2pm matinee on Saturday October 21. Tickets to the Seattle performances are $25-$48 and available at SeattleChoruses. org or via the phone at (206) 388-1400. The Seattle area box office is open Monday through Friday, 11am-6pm. About Northwest Girlchoir During the span of four decades, the choir has empowered and inspired thousands of girls and young women in our
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region to lift their voices in chorus with others, through outstanding music education, dynamic choral performances, and an enduring community. Northwest Girlchoir performs in Seattle and across the Puget Sound, partners with local arts organizations, and tours nationally and internationally. Concert repertoire includes a diverse mix of classical works, world music, and contemporary choral pieces. Over 250 girls and young women, grades 1-12, from the greater Puget Sound region make up the entire choral program at Northwest Girlchoir. About Isolde Fair She is 14 years old, in 8th grade and has always related to the world through music, playing the violin since age 5 & writing songs on piano at 8. She wrote “To All the Little Girls” as a music class assignment inspired by Hillary Clinton’s concession speech; it has become an empowering
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message that has resonated with listeners around the world. She has performed her song at Lincoln Center and has won numerous awards for both her violin playing and songwriting. About Seattle Men’s Chorus/ Seattle Women’s Chorus The internationally renowned Seattle Men’s Chorus (founded 1979) and Seattle Women’s Chorus (founded 2002) comprise the largest community choral organization in North America. Both choruses stand out as the largest LGBTQ-identified men’s and women’s choruses in the world. Along with the small ensembles, Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes, the choruses comprise one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest, most vibrant and successful music organizations, performing in Seattle’s most prestigious venues for an annual audience of more than 30,000 patrons. Flying House Productions is the not-for-profit organization that
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governs and manages the Choruses. Collectively there are 650+ singing members along with staff, volunteers, and associate members who support both Choruses. They are a leading voice for the LGBTQ community and offer more than 30 outreach events and main stage concert performances annually. Our Mission Our voices transform society through innovative and entertaining programs that build community, illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ people and their allies, expand inclusion, and inspire justice. Our Vision A more harmonious world that celebrates the unique identities and talents of all people. Courtesy of Seattle Choruses
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Is Einstein relatively great or relatively not? You decide. by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer RELATIVITY TAPROOT THEATRE Through October 21 Many times, when we find out negative information about famous folk, that information might end up impacting our feelings about the contributions of those famous folk to our world. Often the negative information is about actions these famous folks took in their lives that changes our perceptions of them from heroic to “terrible human,” in the extreme. We’ve seen that very recently with Bill Cosby, changing some from loving his shows and comedy albums to not being able to listen to them at all. In the past, media didn’t reveal things like infidelities about people like John Kennedy, Jr. or Martin Luther King, Jr. – and we know now that adultery was part of how they negotiated the world. But does that matter to people? Mark St. Germain, who seems to love to write plays about real people and real events, has written a play about Albert Einstein. He of the Theory of Relativity fame and the fuzzy white hair and German accent. A persistent interviewer shows up at Einstein’s home and refuses to be kicked out. She has a plausible story and even a contract that says anything she asks that he does not want published will be cut out of her story. The play has two real people in it: Albert Einstein (Dennis Bateman) and his household manager Miss Dukas (Pam Nolte). The reporter (Candace Vance) is fictionalized, but she comes to ask many penetrating questions of him. As her questions get more pointed, we understand that she has found evidence that Einstein has a girl child that he seems to have possibly abandoned. Indeed, we now know that Einstein did have a daughter, Lieserl, who was born during a difficult time in Einstein’s first marriage and who contracted scarlet fever, and then disappeared from any further documentation. Speculation expounded in a book titled Einstein’s Daughter included
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continued from cover Pernell Roberts (from “Bonanza”). I remember the couple in front of me, at the end of the musical, when the King dies. Anna is at his side and his hand falls to signal his passing. The women in front of me started to cry, and her boyfriend put an arm around her. I remember thinking “something on stage can make that happen.” When I was in ninth grade, I did theatre and felt like I found a home and a place. Andrews-Katz: You grew up one of 10 kids in your family. Where do you fall in the lineup and do you think it was a desire to stand out that encouraged you to go into acting? Weir: I’m the youngest of the group. Certainly, in many ways, we are all products of our environment. There were eight boys and two girls in my family and I was the only boy that didn’t play sports. I was more engaged in pretend worlds, acting out with the neighbor kids. My brothers and I would put on Disney albums (Peter and the Wolf…) and we would act it out. I took a lot of ribbing, in retrospect, but I process the world through creative viewings. Andrews-Katz: You do a lot of work with the Writers Theatre in Chicago. How did you first get involved with them? Weir: I moved to Chicago after grad school. While working with Steppenwolf Theatre I turned Equity. It was for a show
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that she had died or been adopted out to another family, or even entered a convent. The reporter tries to get Einstein’s side of the story, but she also seems to carry a judgment about his apparent abandonment of his child. She believes that it undercuts his achievements as a scientist because those achievements were perhaps done at the expense of his being a good father. Taproot’s rolling National New Play Network production is, as usual, a beautifully rendered technical affair, with stellar costumes, set and lights (Sarah Burch Gordon, Mark Lund, Brian Engel). Bateman does a great job as Einstein, avoiding imitation, but immersing himself into the real life Einstein. Nolte adds a bit of comedy, but also a stalwart protection of him from a very loyal supporter.
Vance has a difficult job. She has to be a bit judgmental and officious, but she does, in the script, elicit areas of information that Einstein would rather not address. Her character reveals her own issues that propel the story forward, giving justification to her attitude. Still, it’s not the easiest character to like. Personally, I think that when we learn that people have done things that are criminal in nature, it’s hard to keep previously laudatory feelings for them. Committing adultery, especially since it’s so apparently ubiquitious, is not nice, but it’s a more private issue between spouses and their marriage difficulties. Does it make me not want to believe in Einstein’s theory because he was a bad father? Well, it’s much harder to argue with science than with a TV person-
ality’s body of work… So, no. But your conversation on the way home might be entirely different from my perspective. This is a fast-moving one-act play that is worth delving into that mystery. For more information, go to www.taproottheatre.org or call 206-781-9707.
called “Stepping Out.” Writer’s Theatre was quite influential as I worked with some phenomenal actors there. I’ve worked all over Chicago in all different kinds of venues, but I’ve now done over 10 productions with Writers Theatre. As actors, we long for an “artistic home,” and I’ve been fortunate enough to find one and string together a career. Andrews-Katz: You’ve played The Governor in Candide? Do you prefer “children’s musicals” or more complex work like Candide? Weir: I’m going to take exception and say, I don’t think Disney’s Lion King and Aladdin are exclusively children’s shows. They are both very different – especially Aladdin – from the animated features. There’s enough to appeal to those that grew up with the movie, but in the show we draw much more of adult audiences. There’s sophisticated humor that is accessible to kids, but both shows have adult themes. It’s about someone trying to find who they really are. I don’t see much of a difference between Candide and Aladdin. Andrews-Katz: You’ve played Disney villains before (Scar in The Lion King). What is it about the villain that you are drawn to as an actor? Weir: I think the villains are drawn to me! I had a unique experience with Lion King. I was the standby, and then left the show. I’d go back in every few months – including Broadway a few times – for 13-14 years. It’s always more fun playing
the antagonist, it’s usually a strong point of view. For whatever reasons, Disney buys what I’m doing. I’m pretty much a nice guy, so I enjoy when I get to play the opposite. Andrews-Katz: Have children or parents ever “booed” when you take your curtain bow? How do you deal with that? Weir: It’s a little odd, but you have to take it as a compliment. It happens. Currently, we are in Minneapolis and it happens here a lot. At first I thought, “Did I do something wrong?” but then I realized they bought into what I was doing. Andrews-Katz: What are the moments during the show that you just say to yourself, “Wow. I’m a part of all this”? Weir: There are several. The first moment is the opening number “Arabian Nights.” It’s the full company on stage at one point. We are comprised of some of the most talented, creative, loving and supporting people I’ve ever worked with so it kind of unites us at the beginning of each show. With everything happening in our current times, it’s so gratifying to have an audience (especially on an Opening Night) that gives themselves over to the story. They respond to the energy of the cast and it’s reflected back to them. The audience seems to relax, laugh and enjoy themselves. That’s another moment, when I hear that robust feedback from the audience. It’s a special thing. Andrews-Katz: Do Disney villains get a fan base? Do they get stalked at the stage door or do children tend to shy away from you?
Weir: In Chicago we [the cast] would go to the stage door and there might be 50 or 60 people waiting to see Jasmine, or Aladdin or the Genie, so sometimes I take my time in heading out. One night, the cast members came back into the theatre and said there was a kid waiting to meet me. There are a lot of young kids that are truly “villain” fans - we can only hope it doesn’t imply anything further. Overall people are supportive and want to connect with the actors. I’ve had a lot of enthusiastic support, but not any real stalkers. Andrews-Katz: If you could play any role – regardless of any limitation – what would it be and why? Weir: I’m going to stay with the Disney family and say Ursula. She’s the “other great villain” I’d love to play. There would probably be hundreds of women that would stab me if I got the role. Andrews-Katz: Gender-bending roles are happening more every day. I wouldn’t rule it out; you could get your chance. Weir: True. It could happen. Ursula is such a delicious character and a landmark role as well. The great thing with Disney is that there usually is a good balance. I’d also like to play King Lear, and that is something so NOT Disney.
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Jonathan Weir continues in his role as Jafar in Disney’s Aladdin. Aladdin will play at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre October 12-29.
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Bleakly comic American Made a cruise-powered satire
Domhnall Gleeson & Tom Cruise in American Made – Photo by David James / Universal Pictures
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer AMERICAN MADE Now playing In 1978, TWA pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is approached by a gregarious, excitably determined, well-dressed stranger calling himself “Schafer” (Domhnall Gleeson). He knows a lot about Barry, including some extracurricular activities involving some of his flights that aren’t exactly legal. But he’s just fine with that. In fact, he’d like to make the pilot a proposition and put him to work for his country. Only caveat? Barry can’t tell anyone about what it is he’s doing. Not his friends. Not his shrink. Not his priest. And sure as heck not his wife Lucy (Sarah Wright Olsen). Thus begins the crazy true story American Made, a rambunctious and rowdy piece of satirical biography that reunites Cruise with his Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman, the movie a cheerfully chilly jaunt through the heart of darkness that proves to be one of the fall season’s most entertaining surprises. Playing like the bleakly comic antitheses to 1986’s unapologetically jingoistic box office classic Top Gun that initially helped propel its star to international stardom, Seal’s story is the American Dream flipped on its head, Gary Spinelli’s sharply observant script cutting its protagonist little slack as it makes its way towards its suitably hardhearted conclusion. Seal is basically an opportunist who leaps into things without taking the time to look where he might be landing. When the mysterious Schafer comes his way asking him to clandestinely take aerial photographs of communist guerilla camps in countries throughout Central America
for the CIA? Sure. Great idea. When he’s then tasked with delivering bribes to Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega in exchange for inside information pertaining to his country? Certainly. All part of the job. When a trio of Columbians, a group that includes Pablo Escobar (Mauricio Mejía), ask him to help them get their cocaine into the United States without law enforcement catching on? Hey, as long as the CIA is fine with him doing it, there’s no reason for him to not earn a little extra cash. When the U.S. Government gets the idea to run guns to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua and they want him to be the one to do it? Seal will just add it to his to-do list. After all, he’s the man who always delivers. All of this and more happened, the former airline pilot transforming himself into a spy, smuggler and money laundering entrepreneur in less than a decade. Seal played all sides against one another, finding new angles to make money as he did so, in the process becoming one of the wealthiest men in American without anyone knowing it other than his CIA handler and his wife Lucy. She forces him to reveal the truth after their family is forced out of their Louisiana home overnight in order to stay one step ahead of the Drug Enforcement Agency relocating on CIA orders to middle of nowhere Arkansas, realizing at that moment her husband is no longer working for TWA. Told through videotapes left by Seal in order to make sure there was documentation for everything he’s asked to do (as well as for the tasks he decides to take on all on his own), Spinelli’s script is structured somewhat like Martin Scorsese’s 1990 classic Goodfellas and Adam McKay’s 2015 Oscar-winner The Big Short. It’s also similarly light and bouncy in presentation while also containing a cold-blooded satiri-
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cal edge, same as they both did. But where those movies dug deep to get to the center of the matter, looking for the truth in every harebrained scheme, incident of financial malfeasance, death-defying escape from justice, and blood-curdling instance of automatic weapon fire, this one never quite shows the same passionate urgency to do the same. Even so, this does not mean Liman and Spinelli pull their punches; it just means a few of them don’t hit nearly as hard as I hoped they would. The pair shortchange Lucy, and as good as Olsen might be, the character never comes alive in the same way Lorraine Bracco’s Karen Hill did in Goodfellas. She was the perfect counterpoint to Ray Liotta’s Henry, his descent into gangster largess slowly but surely corrupting her as well. Much the same happens to Lucy, and while at first her husband’s willingness to sell himself to the highest bidder, even to Columbian drug cartels, while also being the CIA’s Central American lapdog sickens her, after a while the financial windfall works its evil magic upon her. With that in mind, this should be her story just as much as it is Barry Seal’s, their relationship, the fact it was able to withstand so much carnage, chaos, weirdness and insanity, the thing I found myself most interested to learn more about only to be frustrated when this doesn’t happen. Thankfully, Liman has Cruise, and he knows just how to utilize him. Much like Edge of Tomorrow, he takes what people have liked and been drawn to about the actor, his cocksure confidence, his roguish charm, his smug self-assurance in his belief that his actions are always the right ones, and then proceeds to deconstruct it bit by deliriously devilish bit. Seal is a cad, but his captivating magnetism is still undeniable. That only makes the man’s senseless self-
ish stupidity all the more destructive, both for himself and his family. Cruise embodies all of this with ease, delivering a complex, ferociously dynamic performance that ends up being a vibrant, electrically kinetic reminder of just how great an actor he can be when he’s sufficiently challenged. Then there is the story itself, a piece of history that proves once again that truth is always stranger than fiction. If Spinelli’s script doesn’t necessarily do a wonderful job of depicting the complexities of the relationship between the Seals, it happily goes in the exact opposite direction where it comes to showing the inherent hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy during this time period. I continually rolled my eyes at Schafer’s machinations, the gleeful way in which he subverts the rule of law, international diplomacy and just common decency. It’s all amusingly terrifying, the sheer joy Gleeson showcases portraying the character equally so. Liman has always proven to be an idiosyncratically fascinating filmmaker, moving between small independently produced projects like Swingers, Go, Fair Game and The Wall and larger, studio-financed efforts like The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Edge of Tomorrow with relative ease. American Made sits someplace in the middle of these two sensibilities, the film showcasing a political engagement that’s moderately abnormal for a Hollywood production while at the same time remaining a spectacle-fueled vehicle for its abovethe-title star, Cruise. If it isn’t always as focused or as deep as I wanted it would be, that does not make the finished feature any less invigorating, this romp into arrogant American excess a tragic flight of fancy well worth taking.
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Intense Super Dark Times a terrifying teenage drama by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer SUPER DARK TIMES Now playing Teenagers Zach (Owen Campbell) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Sitting someplace in the middle between being a part of the high school in-crowd and social outcasts, they more or less get to go about their daily lives in some semblance of peace, free from the pressures of being in any one clique or having to face a bully’s violent insults as they make their way towards graduation. There is tension between them, though, lovely fellow student Allison (Elizabeth Cappuccino) catching the eye of both boys. But that’s not the worst of it. There’s a new danger, and it involves their other friends Daryl (Max Talisman) and Charlie (Sawyer Barth). While messing around with some of Josh’s older brother’s toys, including a razor-sharp samurai sword, something happens while the group is outside in the woods adjacent to town. This event adds a macabre pall over the pair’s friendship, and it’s one that has Zach particularly nervous. Things are going on in
town that have him spooked, and now he’s concerned something is going to happen to Allison, and for all he knows Josh is the one right at the center of all the madness. Even though it’s set in the early 1990s and concerns itself with a close-knit group of kids dealing with the indescribable, director Kevin Phillips’s feature-length debut Super Dark Times is not some erstwhile “Stranger Things” variation. It is instead an exceedingly dark, uncomfortably tense coming of age drama about teenagers making the worst decision imaginable only to discover the repercussions of keeping such indescribably terrifying secrets exorbitantly leads to madness and tragedy. This is a bleak, uncompromising drama that isn’t for the faint of heart or the easily offended, the place things end up at one no child of any age should ever have to experience. It’s undeniably effective, Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski’s script doing a fine job of setting the stage by making sure Zach and Josh’s friendship is a real one, the bond they share immediately apparent right from the first off-color joke bantered back and forth between them. As part of that, there’s also real tension that runs between them, too, each knowing the other so well that it becomes virtually impossible to hide
any of the emotions they might be feeling at any given time. I liked the fact that, where Zach feels compelled to give borderline outcast kids like Daryl and Charlie the benefit of friendly companionship, Josh isn’t so certain this is always a good idea. There is real tension here, neither quite believing what the other is seeing is real, all of which ends up helping inadvertently fuel the tragedy that will change the lives of all four teens forever. I’m not as fond of the third act twist, and while I’m perfectly okay with the psychological chaos that sinks its teeth into one of the two boys, I’m not altogether certain the Halloween dynamics of it all suits the dramatic scenario Collins and Piotrowski have concocted. This moment of carnage feels forced, untidy, and while Phillips composes the sequences with laudable restraint and attention to detail, the switch from tightly wound catastrophic drama to full-blown high school-aged horror happens far too inelegantly and with too much rapidity for my contentment. Even so, there is a refreshing candor to this film that’s wonderful. I was fascinated watching Zach attempt to navigate his way through a maze he played far too large a role in the creation of, his understanding of what his and Josh’s decision to keep a
dreadful secret has unleashed immediately obvious. Additionally, relative newcomer Campbell, likely best known for extended arcs on “Boardwalk Empire” and “The Americans,” proves to be an intriguing talent worthy of keeping an eye on. He manages to give Zach a multidimensional complexity I found compelling, and whether he’s timidly waltzing towards romance with Allison or uncovering inconsistencies in Josh’s temperament he’d never taken note of before, the young actor soars. Granted, the entire cast is solid, Tahan and Cappuccino particularly so. I also liked that the primary adults that are involved with this story, while requisitely clueless as to all it is their kids are doing, they’re all for the most part still concerned enough with their respective lives to have at least the faintest inklings that something might be wrong. It helps give things an extra layer of realism that helps make the third act transition a little easier to swallow, otherwise it’s fairly likely I might have ended up more on the angry side of frustrated which wasn’t a place I wanted to go. Super Dark Times might not earn its blood-soaked finale, but that doesn’t make what happens up to that point any less compelling, Phillips in the end proving himself to be a strong directorial talent worth keeping an eye on.
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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer BLADE RUNNER 2049 Now playing Los Angeles. 2049. A Blade Runner (Ryan Gosling) is tasked by his commander Lt. Joshi (Robin Wright) to continue to hunt down renegade Replicants and send them into “retirement.” In order to complete his mission, he discovers the need to track down a fellow Blade Runner, former LAPD detective Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), still considered the best man to have ever held this position. But he went missing in 2019 after completing his most difficult assignment, covering his tracks so well no one has uttered his name, let alone seen him alive, these past 30 years. Still inspired by the classic novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by the great Philip K. Dick, with a script conceived by returning screenwriter Hampton Fancher and co-written with Logan scribe Michael Green, all of it overseen by executive producer Ridley Scott who turns over the directorial reins to Sicario and Arrival impresario Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 is every bit as ambitious as the 1982 science fiction classic it follows in the footsteps of. It is a movie overflowing in big ideas and stunning images, its story still transpiring within a dystopian noir future where the line between human and artificial has been blurred into nothingness. This is a worthy, thoughtful and intelligently composed sequel, and much like Scott’s original film this follow-up is guaranteed to provoke passionately heated debate and discussion that will continue long into the foreseeable future. This chapter in Rick Deckard’s ongoing tale is even more convoluted than the story charted out in the previous Blade Runner. Its themes are bigger. Its ideas are bolder. Its concepts even more adventurous. But it can also feel moderately pretentious and self-important, Fancher and Green’s script wrapping itself into circles in order to ensure all of the various pieces fit together while at the same time still relate back to the 1982 film. It’s all pretty clever, but it can also feel moderately mechanical, some of the bits contained within the story’s midsection not always cracking with the same vigor as the stuff surrounding it almost consistently is. Even so, Villeneuve is a directorial magician, and even at over 160 minutes in length this sequel never feels padded or overlong. While methodically paced, there is still a driving intensity that’s undeniable. Villeneuve never wavers, refuses to turn away, the sights and sounds he chooses to showcase all adding another layer to the
Scenes from Blade Runner 2049 – Photos courtesy of Alcon Entertainment / Warner Bros.
mystery, each answer he offers up signaling a new question that also needs to be resolved. He weaves through Fancher and Green’s screenplay with mesmerizing skill, and no matter what visual wonders are unleashed or how many psychological conundrums are posited, it is the human story at the center that always stays in focus. It is this idea of what makes one human that is at the core of what is going on. Pulling even more from Dick’s source material than the initial film did, all of the concepts and ideas relating to consciousness, to whether or not it can be proven what sort of creature has a soul and which kind does not, those are the topics of most concern. Replicants are made, grown in a lab and engineered to take orders. But can they evolve? Do they have a consciousness that is unique unto them and to no other? Do they long for the touch of another? Do they lust? Do they love? Heck, do they actually dream of electric sheep? These are the burning questions that Villeneuve and company keep in constant focus, and everything that ends up transpiring throughout the film has everything to do with the answers theorized by humans and Replicants alike. I can’t say enough about the performances. Gosling, Ford, Wright, all three are outstanding, as are fellow supporting
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players like Dave Bautista, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Mackenzie Davis and especially the spellbinding Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks. Thing is, as great as they all are, and as complex as their performances all become, I can’t tell you a thing about anything it is they are doing. To spend even a syllable doing so would spoil a number of the film’s more captivating surprises, each second of the motion picture delivering one reveal after another, and these actors and the characters they are all portraying each feed into that in a multitude of unforeseen ways. What I can say is that Roger Deakins (Hail, Caesar!, Prisoners) once again proves why he is considered one of the alltime greats behind the camera. It would have been easy for the veteran cinematographer to have rested on his laurels, been content to offer up visual compositions that emulated Jordan Cronenweth’s spectacular visions from the original motion picture without putting his own distinctive stamp on the material. Instead, each image is its own clue to solving the narrative riddle, Villeneuve granting him the freedom to make this world his own just as long as the visuals all add something to the story and don’t just stand out because they’re inventively gorgeous. It took Blade Runner time to finally be
recognized as a classic. Its original 1982 incarnation was not what was intended, but thanks to the dedicated cult following the film achieved over the years, Ridley Scott was allowed to present something close to what he wanted in 1992. In 2007, he was able to return to the film one more time, offering up what he called his “Final Cut,” and while this version didn’t differ too significantly from the one he released 15 years prior, that does not make it any less definitive. I feel pretty safe in stating Villeneuve isn’t going to have to worry about re-cutting his sequel. It’s hard to imagine this motion picture isn’t exactly what the director intended, Blade Runner 2049 an enthralling science fiction tour de force that will likely only get better and more emotionally invigorating with each additional viewing. While I still have questions, I felt the same way when I discovered the original film way back when I was still in elementary school. Over time, I’ve come to regard that one as a masterpiece, even the so-called “flawed” versions Scott was never satisfied with. Part of me feels I’m going to end up feeling the same about what Villeneuve has done here as well, and unlike tears in rain my excitement and enthusiasm for this franchise is not likely to vanish anytime soon.
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continued from cover Eric Andrews-Katz: Who were your earliest influences in becoming a writer? Armistead Maupin: I fell in love with a book called Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther – the inspiration for the movie [of the same name]. It was a series of beautiful essays of domestic English life on the verge of World War II. It was originally serialized for the London Times. To this day I think it is some of the most beautiful writing. Christopher Isherwood was another big influence in that he was a “Queer” writer that called himself queer. He became my friend and mentor, encouraging me to keep doing what I’m doing. I think we [as writers] need that. Andrews-Katz: You’ve said you possessed “story telling instincts” since you were 8 years old. What were the first signs and how were they expressed? Maupin: I made my friends sit around the camp fire. I retold them the ghost stories of North Carolina [where I grew up]. I developed a habit of putting myself to sleep by telling myself stories. I’d do serials actually, picking up that night from where I left off the previous night. I had several of them going on in my head at the same time. I use that technique to this day and go to sleep working on things. I believe the subconscious helps me with the process. Andrews-Katz: In 1974 you “came out.” What was your coming out process like for you? Maupin: That depends on what you call “coming out.” I did it several times. There was a feature article about me in 1974; then there was my coming out to my family in Tales of the City, when Michael wrote his own coming out letter to his parents. That was mine to mine. Andrews-Katz: Did you actually reprint the letter you wrote to your parents about coming out? Maupin: Not quite. My parents were
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subscribing to the Chronicle at the time. I knew they would get it when they read it. I also warned them I would be in Newsweek’s article, and they would be describing me as a “homosexual columnist.” In true fashion, they left town when the article came out. I have often used journalism as a way of explaining myself to the world. When I actually DID come out, I had the entire city [San Francisco] behind me as they were all reading Tales of the City, and cheering me on. My parents were about 3000 miles away. My mother had a hard time with it, but my father was a bastard about it. I was spared a lot of the drama that some people go through because none of that was around me. I had to piece it together on my own for my memoir. Andrews-Katz: Given the chance to go back, is there anything you would change about the first six Barbary Lane books? Maupin: I would have populated it with more people of color. By the time I realized that it was a fairly worldwide operation; I had already started the cast. It was hard to bring in other characters that stacked up. I had invented D’orothea Wilson when someone wrote and told me that she wasn’t like any black woman she’d known. She was more of a white woman in black skin. So I made it who she was; it was covering my ass. I might have changed that. The rest of it turned out pretty well. For a while I was flying by the seat of my pants inventing stuff day-to-day. Andrews-Katz: Do the Barbary Lane characters ever put restrictions or limits on accomplishing other works? Maupin: Oh, no. [chuckling] I never felt the urge to do anything else. Once I realized what I had, I knew I would have something kind of timeless and important, if I just stayed with it. No one sits down and says, “I’m going to write a novel” without being overwhelmed. If you take it a day at a time, you can creep in on something big. And I did. Andrews-Katz: What made you decide to write your memoir, Logical Family?
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Scenes from The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin – Photos courtesy of Twist Film Fest
Maupin: It was something to do with my age of 73. It was a chance to tackle the form. I admire a lot of writers that can write autobiographical, or pretend autobiographical, and I wanted to do it. Andrews-Katz: What is the most surprising thing that readers will discover when reading your memoir? Maupin: It depends on how well they know me now. If they’ve ever heard me speak in public, they know about my dark, conservative past. There’s the fact that the first person to give me a writing job was Jesse Helms. Or maybe it’ll be the fact I was a virgin until 25 years old, which is of course linked completely to having been a frightened conservative who was trying to please his father. Andrews-Katz: Tell us about the documentary premiering at the TWIST festival on October 12, 2017. Maupin: It’s directed by Jennifer Kroot (who also directed To Be Takei) and codirected by Bill Webber (who worked on the films We Were Here and The Cockettes). I’ve admired both of them as artists.
I’d seen Takei about two months before Jennifer called and said she wanted to do a documentary about me. I loved Takei so I accepted it immediately; it has political content, humor, and knew she’d do the same for me. Andrews-Katz: What contemporary writers’ career would you wish you could have – if not your own? Maupin: David Sedaris. He makes me laugh. He makes me admire his sentences, and he lives in a cottage in England. That’s enough reasons. And he’s a nice man. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City first appeared as a satirical column in a Marin County newspaper in 1974, later to be picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976. His later attempts with novels, Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener, diverged from (the first six) Barbary Lane books, and didn’t garner the same fanfare, so Mr. Maupin went back to write three more books chronicling the events of the San Francisco “Barbary Lane” family he created.
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Ellen Page in Flatliners – Photo by Michael Gibson / Columbia Pictures
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer FLATLINERS Now playing For a film that apparently did not screen for domestic press whatsoever, director Niels Arden Oplev’s (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dead Man Down) remake/ sequel/reimagining of the 1990 cult favorite Flatliners isn’t nearly as bad as doing such a thing would lead most to believe. That does not, however, mean it is surprisingly worthwhile or even moderately entertaining. Much like the Joel Schumacher version starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon, Oplev’s film is attractively cast, has an intriguing idea at its center and begins rather well before repeatedly shooting itself in the foot as it makes its way to its impressively stupid melodramatic conclusion. Screenwriter Ben Ripley (Source Code) reworks Peter Filardi’s original story and does nothing to improve on it, and as such it is impossible not to wonder why this new take was given the greenlight in the first place. Haunted by the tragic death of her little sister in a car accident, genius first-year resident med student Courtney (Ellen Page) is obsessed with learning what happens to a person’s consciousness as they transition into death. Utilizing research articles born from a similar project she discovers in some old medical journal, she decides to take these tests into the future utilizing modern technologies and techniques honed by physicians over the past two-plus decades. Tricking friends Jamie (James Norton) and Sophie (Kiersey Clemons) to
assist her, Courtney is going to die for a full minute, recording her brainwaves during the transitory period while also trusting her two fellow students can bring her back to life before it’s too late. Joined later by two more ambitious residents, Ray (Diego Luna) and Marlo (Nina Dobrev), the experiment proves to be a success. Emboldened by what Courtney has accomplished, one by one all of the students decide to take the plunge into death for successively longer period of times. But these journeys into the limbo between life and death are not without their risks, and soon all who take the plunge are having bizarre, violent visions that feel all-too-real. Courtney begins to believe the group has brought something back with them, and if they can’t put the pieces together and solve this scientific puzzle soon, a more permanent form of death they won’t be able to come back from will likely come calling. Plot-wise, this isn’t all that different than what Filardi conjured up back in 1990. But while an intriguing concept ripe with potential, Ripley’s script is more than content to run in virtually the exact same circles without attempting to go in a different or potentially more interesting direction. Other than an unexpected incident involving one of the main characters that’s far more deadly than anticipated, the melodramatic superciliousness of the central emotional constructs are as tired and unintentionally laughable as ever. Things still boil down to the fact past sins are the ghosts that will haunt us forever, with forgiveness, either from the aggrieved party or from one’s self, the only way to stave off madness. Page is very good, as is Luna, while Clemons has some terrific early moments
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before the story suddenly throws her character under a metaphorical bus, making Sophie a whiny childish jerk who becomes increasingly unlikable. Still, these three are the standouts as far as the actors are concerned, each fully invested emotionally as they attempt to give their respective characterizations complexity and nuance. Unfortunately, Dobrev and Norton do not fair near as well, the former a particularly weak link, her performance becoming even more frustrating and off-putting as Marlo’s story evolves into something loathsome and selfishly disgusting as it moves along. As impressively modern and as technologically advanced much of Niels Sejer’s (A Royal Affair) production design is, I can’t say Oplev uses any of these interiors in an eye-catching manner. He and cinematographer Eric Kress (Colossal) aren’t in a showy mood, attempting to ground all of this science fiction-horror-melodrama craziness in a practical, tactile reality that’s nowhere nearly as fantastical as the one manufactured by Schumacher for his version. While an interesting change of pace, it also allows the sheer idiocy of the scenario to take center stage with brutal rapidity, augmenting a weakness in a way that makes it more noticeable than it otherwise might have been. Still, Oplev opens the movie nicely, Courtney’s initial foray into the unknown viscerally enthralling, Diego, Marlo, Jamie and Sophie’s frantic attempts to bring her back to the land of the living equally so. But it all falls off a narrative cliff with stunning speed, the last half a frantic, schlocky mess that slams the viewer over the head time and time again with its syrupy emotional excess. The goodwill generated by
the opening act is quickly forgotten about, the last scenes having me rolling my eyes in stupefied disbelief as I tried to contain a few involuntary giggles. Still, nothing about this Flatliners is painful; I didn’t hate myself for taking the time to see it. If anything, the only thing the movie did was make me question what it actually was. Is it a sequel? While the character Kiefer Sutherland shows up portraying has a different name than the one he played in 1990, there are some notable similarities between the two which made me wonder if they might be one and the same. Or is it a full-blown remake, completely unattached to Shumacher’s original in every way? No reference is made to the prior experiment and other than Sutherland’s appearance and the odd, purposefully vague medical journal article connections between what happened 27 years ago and now are few and very far between. Not that it matters. This Flatliners makes all of the exact same mistakes as the original, stranding its talented and attractive cast in ways that grow increasingly ridiculous as things move towards a climax. I still think the core of the story remains interesting; it’s just how its developed and brought to life that’s a waste of time. While nowhere near so terrible to warrant keeping the film hidden from press before its release, that doesn’t make it some unheralded, unappreciated gem, either. This new version is sadly D.O.A., and I can’t imagine anyone is going to have the desire to resurrect this story from the afterlife again for a third attempt anytime soon.
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Initially compelling Mountain an emotionally facile survival yarn by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US Now playing Thanks to a massive snowstorm about to hit the region, photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) and neurosurgeon Ben Bass (Idris Elba) are stranded at a nondescript Idaho airport even though they simply must get to Denver by morning. She’s getting married. He’s got an important surgery. Even though they’re complete strangers, a combination of panic and need leads them to pool resources and charter a plane flown by the charming Walter (Beau Bridges), the affable pilot more than happy to get them to their destination before the storm makes flying anywhere at all impossible for the foreseeable future. After a horrible in-flight accident having nothing to do with the weather downs the plane, Alex and Ben awaken in the freezing cold to discover they’ve crashed on the side of a mountain, no hints of civilization to be found. At first they make the most of the situation, sheltering in the ruined carcass of the aircraft. But after a few days it becomes apparent help isn’t coming. Even though Alex’s leg is horribly injured, Ben doing the best he can to patch her up with the materials available at the crash site, the pair set off down the side of the mountain hoping they’ll find help. Based on the best-selling novel by Charles Martin, the romantic survival disaster melodrama The Mountain Between Us features two exceptional actors elevating subpar material to a place where the resultant motion picture could almost be considered worthwhile. Working from a script written by Chris Weitz (Cinderella) and J. Mills Goodloe (The Age of
Adaline), acclaimed director Hany AbuAssad (Paradise Now, Omar) does what he can to authentically ground things in a compellingly visceral realism that might overshadow the more melodramatic elements not-so-subtly hidden inside the story. His crisp handling, coupled with the confidently assured performances of Winslet and Elba, is almost enough to save the day, and if not for a limp, unintentionally hysterical final act there would likely be something surprisingly powerful to talk about here. But this is not the case. Once Alex and Ben get down off of the mountain and descend into the perilous snow-covered forests below, this tale takes a decidedly syrupy turn that the movie cannot recover from. Things that were subtly developed are suddenly spelled out in bright flashy neon, both characters doing and saying things that have been completely outside of what was established during the story’s first two-thirds. It ends up playing like a thirdrate Harlequin Romance Novel from the 1980s more than it does anything else, the majority of the goodwill generated by the opening acts lost with a speed that’s frustratingly astonishing. Pity, because for a while there I was fascinated by what Abu-Assad and the screenwriters were choosing to show me, so much of this story filled with richly compelling nuances that held me anxiously spellbound. The opening plane crash is stunning, as are the scenes immediately afterwards with Ben awakening to discover Alex perilously injured, their few supplies strewn about who knows where out in the snow and absolutely no way to call for help. His only sentient companion turns out to be Walter’s beloved pet, an excitable dog that doesn’t seem to care for him at all, the freezing surgeon constantly giving the animal a griz-
Kate Winslet & Idris Elba in The Mountain Between Us – Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox
zled glare almost as if he’s wondering what he needs to do to get the canine to warm up to him. Both Winslet and Elba are wonderful. They slip into the roles with ease, the chemistry oozing off of them hot enough to accelerate global warming to its catastrophic breaking point all by itself. Winslet, in particular, is a model of strength and resilience, yet at the same time still does a superb job of making the paralyzing fear bubbling just underneath her character’s surface resonate without it becoming overpowering. I loved just about everything the Oscar-winner was doing here, and even when the film transitions into maudlin, puerile banality there was still something about the actress’ work that kept me curious to discover what she was going to do next. Even so, when air gets let out of this balloon the result comes close to being catastrophic. The movie transitions from being some erstwhile combination of The Edge, The Revenant and Alive (sans cannibalism, of course) to emulating some old Hol-
lywood weepy from the 1940s or ’50s. But where films like An Affair to Remember, Old Acquaintance, Brief Encounter, Written on the Wind or Humoresque could be broad and bold with their overripe emotions in large part thanks to the inherent theatricality of their respective stories, in a yarn that’s supposed to be as realistic as this one those elements are nothing short of facile. Much like the plane crash that begins this particular tale, The Mountain Between Us bangs into the side of a metaphorical cliff leaving all kinds of wreckage in its wake, the fact any elements worth extolling the virtues of survived at all something of a minor miracle in and of itself.
Captivating Gook a lively L.A. riots drama by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer GOOK Now playing It is April 29, 1992. Today is the day the verdict in the Rodney King trial is going to come in, all of Los Angeles on pins and needles wondering what it is going to be. But at the rundown women’s shoe store run by Korean American brothers Eli (Justin
Chon) and Daniel (David So), it’s another morning like any other, the pair bickering back and forth in a somewhat playful manner with both themselves and customer alike. Even their unofficial shop assistant, 11-year-old Kamilla (Simone Baker), shows up for work, and while her older siblings Regina (Omono Okojie) and Keith (Curtiss Cook Jr.) urge her to stop going to the shop, she keeps going back each day to spend time with the two close-knit brothers all the same.
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There’s not a lot more in the way of plot as far as writer, director and star Chon’s latest outing behind the camera Gook is concerned, the talented filmmaker’s sophomore effort an ambitious and thought-provoking comedy-drama hybrid that captured my attention right from the first frame. Shot in richly evocative black and white by Ante Cheng and centered on a performance from marvelous newcomer Baker that’s stunning, the movie has an energetic vitality I instantly respond to. This is a very good film, sometimes a great one, and even when it stumbles and loses its way towards the end I still found myself eagerly interested to discover everything Chon’s opus was aching to show me. The movie is exceedingly frank as far as its central conversations are concerned. Chon doesn’t try to soften any blows, going right to the heart of the racial questions posited early on, allowing them to expand in complexity and purpose as Los Angeles begins to explode after the Rodney King verdict is announced. Even though things are set during an event that happened a quarter century ago, it’s apparent the filmmaker is keenly aware he’s also telling a story that’s as much about the here and now as it is this specific moment in recent history. The racial discussions happening throughout are far from simplistic or rudimentary, this fearless multidimensionality giving Chon’s script an impressive edge
that’s invigorating. It can feel a little uneven at times, bursts of low-brow comedy bursting through at random moments that don’t always work. There’s also the matter of why exactly Regina and Keith are uncomfortable with Kamilla spending so much time at Eli and Daniel’s shoe store, the key to solving that particular mystery fairly easy to decipher. It all gets a little structurally lumpy as the narrative winds its way towards conclusion, the last act overflowing in convenience and coincidence, all of which allows things to get wrapped up in a tidy little bow that’s not altogether believable. Even so, Gook was very easy for me to fall in love with. Playing out like some sort of imaginatively structured combination of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Kevin Smith’s Clerks, Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine and August Wilson’s Fences, Chon does a grand job of crafting a piece of spirited pop entertainment that also plays just as well as dynamically scripted social commentary in the exact same breath. Best of all, he’s found a beguilingly talented rising star in Baker, the youngster giving a dexterous, emotionally astute performance that feels like it should be well beyond her years, happily proving not to be. This is quite the little movie, and I cannot wait to discover what other stories Chon feels like exploring next.
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Tasveer South Asian Film Festival presents LGBTQ-focused shorts program on October 9
The Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (TSAFF), taking place throughout Greater Seattle October 6-15, is the largest festival of its kind in the U.S. Along with 18 features and 38 shorts representing 11 countries, TSAFF is also bringing Virtual Reality films to the fest, as well as visiting talent from around the world, and more. On Monday, October 9, for their Centerpiece Gala, TSAFF presents three LGBTQfocused shorts at the Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Avenue) from 7-10pm.
I Am Bonnie – Bonnie has been on the run from his family and sports fraternity since failing “sex test” right before the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998. A born Intersex, raised by poor, illiterate and confused parents as a girl child named “Bandana,” s/he went on to become one of the finest strikers in Indian women’s football in her/his short career. Photo courtesy of Imagine India Film Festival.
Poshida: Hidden LGBT Pakistan – Holding a mirror up to the Pakistani media, this rare and authoritative investigation spotlights a serial killer who preyed on gay men and the hunting of transgender women for TV entertainment. With unprecedented access, the film uncovers the hidden experiences of transgender men and lesbian women whilst dissecting the legacy of British colonialism and the impacts of U.S. government’s gay rights advocacy in Pakistan. Photo courtesy of CCA Glasgow
Escaping Agra – After being held against their will in India when their gender and sexual orientation is discovered, Naveen Bhat battles their parents in court and pieces their life back together. Photo courtesy of Frameline. Tickets for the LGBTQ-focused short program are $12 general admission and $10 student/senior. For complete information about the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, visit tsaff. tasveer.org/
Gay City Arts Season 5: RESISTANCE! Gay City Arts launches their 2017-2018 Season In these frightening times, many of us find ourselves under attack – because we are trans or nonbinary, and laws are being written about where we are allowed; because we are LGBTQ and shamed for how we love and experience desire; because we live with disabilities and our bodies refuse to submit to the demands of capitalism; because we are black and indigenous and brown and we live in fear of violence from the police; because we aren’t the shapes or sizes named desirable; because we are undocumented and are called illegal in this state; because we are trans and cis women still fighting for the right to make choices about our own bodies. The resistance against our current administration is beautiful, multifaceted and strong. Gay City Arts is thrilled to have the opportunity to rise to meet it, to be part of a new movement growing defiantly up out of the center of what has been cut down. The joy we feel to be part of the swell is why the theme of Gay City Arts Season Five is: RESISTANCE! October 5-8 – Femmes of Vulgarity – Multimedia Art Showcase | Kara Phoebe – Come be immersed in queer/trans black femme exploration of sensuality, sexuality and erotica. Let’s Find Glory in the Vulgarity! October 19-22 – Get Mad! – Variety Show | Kayla Rosen – A celebration of the ways our madness defies the confines of oppression and helps us dream new possibilities into being November 9-12 – A Certain Type of Brilliance – A Femme Showcase | Liz Cruz – A celebration of femmes’ ability to use our vulnerability and creativity as our greatest assets in resistance to oppression. November 17-18 – Ordinary Cruelty: A Cabaret – Variety Showcase | Amber Flame – Poetry, Burlesque, Comedy & Music December 15-16 – Somebody Get Me A Chainsaw – One Man Show | Mark “Mom” Finley – Mark Finley’s unbelievable stories, funny songs, classic performances, and maybe even a giant dildo!
January 11-12; 20-21 – Crip Resistance: To Exist Is To Resist – mixed media: spoken word, film, music, performance | Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha and billie rain – Come witness Seattle based disabled queer artists performing new work honoring and reflecting on the resistance wisdom of our disabled queer ancestors.
March 8-11 – Queer, Mama. Crossroads – Theater, Play, Drama, Vignettes | Anastacia Renee – Queer, Mama. Crossroads uses the audience as witness to dissect layers of systemic police brutality, racism, queer voices silenced to discover what happens when they are banished to the land of crossover.
January 13-14 & 18-19 – Bet Ya Ungodly Things – Solo Dance-Theatre | Neve Andromeda Mazique-Bianco – A Black, One Femme, Folk-Science Dance Fable Set Up-South
March 22-25 – The Darker Side Of The Rainbow – An African American Response To The Wizard Of Oz | Garfield Hillson
February 8-10 – Cupid Ain’t @#%! – Spoken Word | J Mase III An Anti-Valentine’s Day Poetry Movemen featureing the bitterest of TQPOC poets talking about failed relationships, love, sex and Cupid that devil himself. February 22-25 – Yes, Ms. White Lady – Living Memory | Imani Sims An exploration of Black Femme/Non-Binary Identities through the literary and performing arts as a way to resist micro aggressive behaviors we experience daily.
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April 5-8 – Hijx De Su Madre: Mutaciones, Cruzadas, Desvios, Relajos, Desmadres, Metamorphosis y Time Travel Along Las Fronteras del Ser – Multimedia/Multimedium Experimental Play | Alé Abreu, Norma Alicia Pino, and Fabian Romero – An intergenerational Afro-Indigenous Two-Spirit art collaborative, explores the fluid landscape of bodies, borders, y ser.
SCHEDULE & TICKETS All shows presented at the Calamus Auditorium at Gay City (517 E Pike St). Showtime: 7pm. Tickets: $15-$20 general admission; $12 students/seniors/disabled. www.gaycity.org/arts/ ABOUT GAY CITY ARTS Art is the voice, spirit and conscience of every community and is a vital tool for community reflection, dialogue and pride. Through Gay City Arts, Gay City collaborates with local LGBTQ artists to galvanize an audience for queer arts, foster the development of LGBTQ artists and works, and facilitate artistic excellence that is accessible. Gay City Arts is committed to presenting challenging, dynamic and excellent queer art across a wide range of disciplines, including theater, music, dance, film, spoken word, literary and visual arts.
May 10-13, 17-20 – Fallen Star – OneWoman Play | Tobi Hill-Meyer – A Trans Superhero Turns Villain and Tries to Take Over the World
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TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: (206) 324-4297. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm. 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.
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Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. (206) 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org. Crystal Meth Anonymous. 10:30am. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sun @ 6:30pm. crystalmeth.org. Emerald City Softball Association Field Day. 2-4pm. North SeaTac Playfields. S 128th St & 20th Ave S, SeaTac. New player clinic and skills assessment. Players of all skill levels welcome. For more info email membership@emeraldcitysoftball.org. Rainout day and league information at emeraldcitysoftball.org. Northwest Bears Potluck and Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear admirers. www.nwbears.com. 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. “Femmes of Vulgarity” - A Multimedia Arts Showcase by Kara Phoebe (10/5-10/8). 7pm. Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Come be immersed in the celebration of and exploration of black and brown trans/ queer artists as we embrace all the facets of sexuality, sensuality, and erotica that our souls and art have to offer. Come uplift space for your local femme magicians! Tickets: $15 General Admission, $12 Students, Seniors, Folks with Disabilities, $20 sponsor ticket, FREE Radical Hospitality ticket. www.gaycity.org/arts/ Seattle Leather Daddy and Daddy’s Boy Contest. 6pm Doors; 7pm Contest. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Sponsored by Seattle Men in Leather. www. seattlemeninleather.org “Divas Live” - Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle 2017-2018 Pageant. 6pm doors; 8pm pageant. Highline Performing Arts Center, 401 S 152nd St, Burien. The Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle Pageant is the annual fundraiser for local non-profit U.T.O.P.I.A. (United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance) Seattle which provides sacred spaces to strengthen the minds and bodies of QTPIs (Queer and Trans Pacific Islanders) through community organizing, political engagement, and other stewardship. Our mission is integrated into the pageantry system. Contestants identify culturally as Asian, Native Hawaiian, and/or Pacific Islander. We are in search of an ambassador who is able to represent the diverse cultural communities of the Pacific. Join us in celebrating the art of drag through an API cultural lens. Tickets: $20 advance; $25 at the door. Advance tickets at brownpapertickets.org.
SUNDAY - October 8
Center for Spiritual Living. 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am Zazen Instruction, 9:30am Zazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. (206) 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.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 [NOTE: Location updated 7-28-17] University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 10:30am Coffee Fellowship, 11am Adult Forum & Education Hour. 1604 NE 50th St. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Workship. 1217 6th Ave. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship. 500 Broadway E. (206) 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.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. Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org. Lotus Sisters Guided Meditation. 11am-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. Senior students lead the meditation, provide dharma talks or reflections & lead discussion. (206) 329-5908; www.LotusSisters.org; www.sasgcc.org (Meets in 2nd floor meeting room; no elevator.)
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.) Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 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 SLAA New Beginnings. 12 noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E #201, O’Neil Room. Meets daily (except Saturday). SLAA 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. www.sasgcc.org Seattle Leather Daddy and Daddy’s Boy Contest Victory Brunch. 2-5pm. Diesel, 1413 14th Ave. Sponsored by Seattle Men in Leather. www.seattlemeninleather.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 Rain City Soccer Club - Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Dignity/Seattle. 6pm-Prayer Service. Ravenna United Methodist Church, 5751 33rd Ave NE. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. Dignity/Seattle is the local chapter of the nationwide organization of GLBT Roman Catholics. “We celebrate our inherent dignity with pride in liturgy, mutual support, work for justice, & social activities.” Gender-inclusive & relationship affirming liturgies & prayer services. All welcome. (206) 325-7314. Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength &
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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. www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. LCS Foster Care Monthly Information Meeting. 6-8pm. 433 Minor Ave N. Meets 2nd Monday each month. LCS is a non-profit foster care program in King & Snohomish counties. LCS does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or sexual orientation. Couples & singles encouraged to apply. RSVP to April at (206) 694-5713. Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. crystalmeth.org. 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 Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.) PFLAG/Seattle Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Meets 2nd Monday each month. (206) 325-7724 or info@pflagseattle.org; www.pflagseattle.org. PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality. PFLAG/Skagit County Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Skagit Valley Food Co-op Bldg, Room 309, 202 South 1st St., Mt. Vernon. Meets 2nd Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. Tasveer South Asian Film Festival LGBTQ Shorts Program. 7pm. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave. Featured films are “I Am Bonnie,” “Poshida: Hidden LGBT Pakistan,” “Escaping Agra.” $12 general admission; $10 student/seniors. More info: tsaff.tasveer.org. 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 Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday. (253) 474-8897. Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. www.washingtongenderalliance.com hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual Queers, Crackpots & Fallen Women AA. 8-9pm. addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. Open or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, women only AA group. www.sasgcc.org SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. TUESDAY - October 10 Ski Buddies Season Opening Potluck. 6pm. Hooverville Bar, 1721 1st Ave S. Monthly potluck meets 1st Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, or 2nd Sunday each month (Oct-Feb). Come & hear Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See about all the great ski trips & winter activities Ski Bud- Sunday afternoon listing.) dies has planned. Whether you snow board, downhill, cross-country, or telemark, there are trips & events for LGBTQ+ Group. 1:15-2:15pm. Orion Center, 1828 you. Bring a potluck dish to share. Ski Buddies is a non- Yale Ave. Every Tuesday. A group for LGBTQ youth profit GLBT & GLBT-friendly club which meets regularly ages 13-24 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare. throughout the fall & winter, offering camaraderie & (206) 622-5555. deeply discounted skiing adventures for all levels of LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), skiers & snowboarders. www.skibuddies.org Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. ConfiPresbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets dential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am. - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org crystalmeth.org. Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www. strengthoverspeed.org. [EXCEPT no bowling June, July & August.] “Femmes of Vulgarity” - A Multimedia Arts Showcase ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle Evening by Kara Phoebe (10/5-10/8). 7pm. Calamus Auditorium Gathering. 6:30-8pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Center, at Gay City, 517 E Pike St. (See Saturday listing for 4655 S Holly St, Rainier Ave S & S Holly St., Social Hall. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. This is a group details.) www.gaycity.org/arts/ primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm Worship & Fellowship. Facilitator: Fai Coffin; Cost: FREE. Metro route 7. WheelSt. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave chair accessible. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org. E. (425) 226-2746. Alzheimer’s Association’s LGBT Caregivers’ SupNoche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 port Group. 6:30-8pm. Elderhealth Northwest, 6555 Broadway. Every Sunday. Ravenna Ave NE (entrance on NE 68th St). Meets 2nd Tuesday each month. A free information and support MONDAY - October 9 group for care partners, family members and friends of Fabulous [LGBTQ] Aging! Conference. 8am-5pm. individuals with dementia. For more information, contact Tukwila Community Center, 12424 42nd Ave S, Tuk- group facilitator Caila Nickerson, (206) 781-248-3524 wila. A one-day conference with workshops, vendors, (cell) or email: cailanickerson@gmail.com services, resources, stories and performances on how Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist to better implement person-centered care to LGBTQ Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Elders is sponsored in part by the Washington State Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Department of Social and Health, Aging and Long-Term Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of Support Administration and the Northwest LGBT Senior sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org Care Providers Network. Featuring Caregivers, Providers, Service Professionals, Adult Family Home Staff, LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:30Assisted Living Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Home 8pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, Care Agency Providers and Staff. Featuring Mistress of James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Ceremonies Aleksa Manila and Bingo Hostess Sylvia Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS ConnecO’Stayformore. FREE admission. For more informa- tion is a support group with the goal of providing a safe tion and to register in advance visit FabulousAging.org. environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and Registration will also be available at the door. the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support
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for one another. Contact Shelly at (206) 250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com. Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. (206) 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7pm. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org. (Also meets 4th Sunday, 1pm.) Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older. 7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. (206) 545-3521. 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 What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. www. sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Tuesday. Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com. Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org
WEDNESDAY - October 11
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 Highline College LGBTQIA Week Resource Fair. 12 noon-2pm. Student Union, Building 8, 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines. The event will be held outdoors weather permitting. At least 40 campus and community organizations will be participating. A DJ will be spinning up some tunes during the fair. Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12 noon. Roosters Restaurant, 611 Broadway E. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday. Just drop in - no RSVP required. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. 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 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 POZ Seattle Monthly Social. 6-8pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Food, music, 50/50 raffle. $5 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. www. pozseattle.org. The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm. All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat. Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome. Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www.LotusSisters.org. Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org
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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. 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 “StageFright” - Youth Open Mic - For Aspiring Writers & Performers, Ages 14-24. 7-8pm. Richard Hugo House, 1021 Columbia St. Meets 2nd Wednesday each month. FREE. Everyone welcome to attend. StageFright not only features young folk, but is also MC’d by young folk & attended in great majority by young folk. Richard Hugo House is a community gathering place where writing & reading is celebrated & explored thru events, performances & programs. (206) 322-7030; www. hugohouse.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. Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 8-9pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets 2nd Wednesday most months - check website to confirm date. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com
THURSDAY - October 12
TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival (10/12-10/22) twistfilmfest.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Morning. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.) Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of AA. 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. Seattle Prime Timers Card Games. 2pm. Ballard NW Senior Center, 5429 32nd Ave NW, Arts & Crafts Room, 2nd Floor. Hearts, Bridge and/or Cribbage depending on who shows up. Walk to dinner afterwards at Red Mill Totem House. Beginners welcome. On Metro routes #44 and 17X. www.seattleprimetimers.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 Capitol Hill Arts Walk. 5-8pm. Participating shops & galleries in the Pike/Pine corridor. 2nd Thursday each month. www.caphillchamber.org Queer Parent Networking Dinners. 6-8pm. Northwest Network Community Engagement Center - phone, email or visit website for location. Meets 2nd Thursday each month. Open to all LGBT, Two-Spirit, Queer & Questioning families - including parents, co-parents & other people who have a significant role in the life of a child. RSVP requested to facilitate planning for dinner and childcare. (206) 568-7777 or qpnd@nwnetwork.org. www.nwnetwork.org Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. (425) 747-4937. Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. crystalmeth.org. Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. (206) 322-2515 ext 16. www. lamberthouse.org PFLAG/Whatcom County-Bellingham Monthly Meeting. 7pm. First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. Meets 2nd Thursday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of
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GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. (360) 7331500; www.whatcompflag.com; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. 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. 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. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)
FRIDAY - October 13
TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival (10/12-10/22) twistfilmfest.org AA Ageless in Recovery. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A drop in AA group for older & wiser people 55+. www.sasgcc.org Re-Parenting Ourselves. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A peer support group for adult children of any addiction. www. sasgcc.org SLAA Road to Recovery. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. Ongoing 12 step group for sex & love addicts. 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. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www. strengthoverspeed.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. Visit www.cascaderainbow.org and on Facebook for complete details. (360) 840-8499. Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.) 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 Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday. (253) 474-8897. LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room. Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org “Fired Up” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert. 8pm. St Mark’s Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E. SWC brings heart and soul to songs of protest and social justice. Tickets: $48, $38 & $25. www.seattlechoruses.org or 206-388-1400. (Also 10/14, 10/20 & 10/21 matinee & evening.)
to adventures in explaining how babies are made, to everyday tasks of teething and curfew negotiations. The event includes a resource fair from 2-3pm with LGBTQ community groups and family organizations. Tickets: $5 or use the code “twoqueer” for two free tickets. townhallseattle.org “Come Together” Fundraising Celebration & Dinner - with Cleve Jones, author & AIDS & LGBT Rights Activist and Linda McVeigh, retiring CDCHC Executive Director extraordinaire. VIP Reception: 5:30-6:30pm; Main Event including dinner and program 6:30pm. Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), 860 Terry Ave N. Tickets: $135 includes dinner and program. A benefit for Country Doctor Community Health Clinics. Georgetown Art Attack. 6-9pm. 2nd Saturday each month. Reflects the industrial-strength character of the neighborhood. For information stop into Georgetown Records at Airport Way S & S Vale or visit www.georgetownneighborhood.com Ballard’s Second Saturday Artwalk. 7-10pm. Pick up maps at participating shops & galleries located in the Ballard business district (Ballard Ave NW & NW Market St area). Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Enjoy an evening of art as local galleries & businesses showcase artists from Ballard & beyond. (206) 784-9705; visitballard.com “Fired Up” - Seattle Women’s Chorus in Concert. 8pm. St Mark’s Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E. SWC brings heart and soul to songs of protest and social justice. Tickets: $48, $38 & $25. www.seattlechoruses.org or 206-388-1400. (Also 10/13, 10/20 & 10/21 matinee & evening.) “VJ & His Autumn Crooners.” 9pm. Egan’s Ballard Jam House, 1707 NW Market St. Singer/Pianoman Victor Janusz and Saxophonist Medearis Dixson host “Autumn Crooners” starting off with their own sultry set, inviting Singers Marilyn Deering, KC Compton, Arwen Dewey, Alejandro Acosta, Singer/Pianist Liz Latham, and Egan’s fave Dan Czaran to serenade you! Sambas, standards, reverie. Warm up your Fall at Egan’s charming Supper Club. ALL AGES. Tickets: $12 advance; $15 day of. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3093506
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(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival (10/12-10/22) twistfilmfest.org Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All backgrounds, all faiths welcome. (206) 391-2188. Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. 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 Our Seattle: Meet the Candidates. 4-6pm. Rainier Arts Center (formerly Rainier Valley Cultural Center), 3515 S. Alaska St. & Rainier Ave S. In partnership with the City of Seattle Democracy Voucher Program, Town Hall Seattle, The Municipal League of King County, The Washington Bus, The Seattle Public Library, Rainier Beach Action Coalition. 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.
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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 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 SATURDAY - October 14 Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) 963-1994. TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival (10/12-10/22) DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation twistfilmfest.org Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest. A Gathering of Men in Edmonds. 8:15-11:30am. org Edmonds UUC, 8109 224th St SW, Edmonds. Meets DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis 2nd Saturday each month. Men gather monthly for Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County drumming, singing, storytelling & sharing of life experi- Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour ence. We create a safe, confidential & sacred space crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal in which a man can speak his truth from the heart, to assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network heal & empower himself. We are fiercely non-political, support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay non-sectarian & non-judgmental. All men are welcome. Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 www.agatheringofmen.org (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce “Parenting While Queer” - A Conversation with County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) LGBTQ Parents About Identity & Family. 2-3pm com- 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual munity resource fair; 3pm program. Plymouth Church, Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 1217 6th Ave. Seattle families come in all colors of the 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence rainbow! This event is bringing together parents from Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence across the LGBTQ spectrum to share about their home Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. lives - from navigating inquiries from curious strangers, Report domestic violence and sexual assault.
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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. 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 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,
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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 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 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. Seattle Out & Proud - (206) 322-9561; www.seattlepride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov
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Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - (206) 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays. (425) 339-5298. South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.SouthSoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade 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.
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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; 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; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle - 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; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: (206) 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@ oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives. org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol. com; Seattle 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; 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) 3222515, 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.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., (206) 726-8500; www.psks.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www. pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www. facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, (206) 326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - (360) 698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org
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