SGN Sep 27, 2019 - Part 2

Arts & Entertainment

Morrissey, Lana Del Rey kick off fall season at WaMu Theater

by Jessica Price

A&E Writer

MORRISSEY & INTERPOL

WAMU THEATER

October 1 @ 7:30pm

LANA DEL REY

WAMU THEATER

October 2 @ 8pm

October 1 – Morrissey & Interpol @ WaMu Theater 7:30pm:

As an early fan of The Smiths and Morrissey, I never expected the tribulations that casting my lot with such a complex figure might entail. One night in my youth I’m twirling to “How Soon is Now?” and the next I’m faced with a rollercoaster of

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Some of Everything Is Illuminated muddies a great story

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE

Through October 6

The new Book-It Repertory Theatre stage adaptation of Everything Is Illuminated has some lovely elements and drives to some horrific revelations about

Full lineup announced for the 24th annual Seattle Queer Film Festival

Tickets and passes on-sale now

SEATTLE (September 10, 2019) –

Three Dollar Bill Cinema has announced the full lineup of films and events for the 24th Annual Seattle Queer Film Festival (SQFF24). The largest festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest opens Thursday, October 10 and runs through Sunday, October 20.

SQFF24 features the most recent in queer cinema from 28 countries, includ-

ing Argentina, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, France, Germany, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The lineup of 66 programs includes 155 films, 43 feature-length films, and 106 shorts. Of the 155 films, 58% are directed by women, and they include 96 transgender filmmakers and creatives.

see SQFF page 6

Seattle’s MEN IN DANCE presents 2019 Adjudicated Choreographer Showcase

October 4 & 5

October 4 @ 8pm

October 5 @ 5pm & 8pm

Seattle’s MEN IN DANCE is excited to present our upcoming 2019 Adjudicated Choreographer Showcase. For the third biennial year the Company is presenting and adjudicating five new choreographers, caresee MEN IN DANCE page 4

Sept

Touring

Pacific MusicWorks presents “Sanctuary in the City” concerts

We all need a little more beauty in our lives and Pacific MusicWorks is here to help.

We believe that music can make the world a better place, even in the smallest of ways. That’s why we created Sanctuary in the City, our series of FREE noontime concerts on the first Wednesday of the month, October to May, at Christ Our Hope Catholic Church at The Josephinum – where Downtown meets Belltown, (1902 2nd Ave) and you can enjoy 45 minutes of beauty in the midst of your day. These concerts bring together music lovers of all ages and from a wide variety of backgrounds, and are an easy and accessible way to introduce friends to the joy of listening.

Join us on Wednesday, October 2 at 12:10pm as soprano Linda Tsatsanis, violinist Tekla Cunningham, and harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky present BACH: Conversations in Counterpoint - a look into some of Bach’s most personal and intimate music, from arias that explore our relationship to the sacred to a sonata for violin and harpsichord that broke the boundaries of conventional instrumental writing.

Check out our entire season of Sanctuary concerts at http://www.pacificmusicworks.org/sanctuary

FALL CONCERTS

extreme highs (a post-Smiths victory lap of sublime solo releases) and extreme lows (a series of pithy, uninspired solo releases, a nasty court battle over The Smiths’ profits, and a meandering if not passionate autobiography badly in need of an editor). And let’s not forget the most recent misstep: Morrissey as reactionary figure performing on “Jimmy Fallon” while sporting the badge of far-right political party For Britain.

It’s been a winding road, which is a shame considering that Morrissey’s newest album, California Son, is extremely satisfying and… incredibly fun. Apart from being mired in weird personal controversy of his own doing, the album of covers comprises his best-sounding work in years. It’s the covers record that disciples of Morrissey lore have dreamed of: everything from Jobriath to Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Buffy Sainte-Marie are represented here. California Son finds Morrissey’s voice in top form, brimming with sheer passion and ever-present humor in this tribute to some of his favorite songs. This album should be a huge hit – if only Morrissey’s music could save him from himself. Tickets available at www.tickemaster.com

October 2 – Lana Del Rey @ WaMu Theater 8pm:

Much like the 500ft woman she portrays in the video for cover song “Doin’ Time”, Lana Del Rey’s body of work looms large in the musical landscape of the twenty-tens. The decade started with the slow-burning, precocious success of Born to Die and ends with the gorgeous, reflective soft-rock soundscape of Norman Fucking Rockwell! Though the typical Lana themes of endless summer and heavily-romanticized Americana still apply, the now 34-year old artist seems to be composing music that’s more personal, less cult of personality with each release. The lyrics are both intimate and broadly wistful, revealing bits of her closely guarded relationships while alluding to the long shadow cast by national events that endanger our shared right to a beautiful American future. As for the album

These concerts are FREE to the public, but rely on your donations and sponsorships to continue bringing great music to our community. For more information on this and other Pacific MusicWorks concerts and events and how to make a contribution visit pacificmusicworks.org.

title, “It was kind of an exclamation mark: so this is the American dream, right now,” she explained to Vanity Fair. “This is where we’re at – Norman fucking Rockwell. We’re going to go to Mars, and Trump is president, all right.” Such is the state of our cultural

landscape in the final half of 2019. Let the music of Lana Del Rey wash over you for one night at the WaMu Theater on October 2. Verified resale tickets are still available at www.ticketmaster.com

Whim W’Him’s “Choreographic Shindig V” an evening of exciting new works

by Sharon Cumberland SGN A&E Writer

WHIM W’HIM

SEATTLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE

“CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG V”

ERICKSON THEATRE

OFF BROADWAY

Sept 13-15 & Sept 18-21

Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance has caused three new dances to enter the world via the annual “Choreographic Shindig.” This year it’s a set of triplets, each as welcome as the other – one funny, one more curious, another more dramatic – but all equally worthy to take their places in the roster of new works by rising young choreographers. What makes this annual event so interesting is that the seven dancers who bring these works to light have chosen which

fully selected from applicants around the country, to present their work to three groups of audiences October 4 at 8pm and October 5 at 5pm and 8pm at Velocity Founders Theatre (1621 12th Ave #100, across the street from 12th Ave Arts) on Capitol Hill. Tickets are $20 Friday/Saturday evening; $15 Saturday matinee; with student/senior/working artist discounts. www.menindance.org

This year all five Choreographers have strong ties to Seattle and are making it their home base at least part of the time each year. They and their pieces are:

Daniel Ojeda who works both in Seattle and Boise, ID where he performs and choreographs for Ballet Idaho. He has also recently created works for Treefort Music Fest and ARC Dance in Seattle. Daniel’s work “The Unnatural Pattern” is a small group piece addressing toxic masculinity and its role in contributing to bullying.

“See-Saw” – Photo by Stefano Altamura

applicants for the commissions are selected to build dances on their bodies.

In the past there have been up to eight choreographers using anywhere from two to seven dancers, but this year there were only three dances, each deploying the full complement of seven in fascinatingly different ways. For me, it’s a miracle that these dancers can remember so many moves – all so different, all to sound-and-music-scapes that defy easy memorization. I always come from these events admiring the Whim W’Him dancers as much as the choreographers, especially because improvisation is a large part of some of the dances.

Here, in order of appearance, are the three new-born works, presented in the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, which has the distinctive characteristic of no backstage – which means the dancers have to “exit” by standing against the side walls waiting for their cues. No protection there – no chance to grab a

Beth Terwilleger who has had pieces produced in London, NYC, and at 12 Minutes Max and The Converge Dance Festival in Seattle. Beth was also the Creative Director of The Califa Arts Collaborative in Austin, TX and currently leads The Gray in Seattle. Her piece, “This is the Reactability of the Appetizer” is a quartet playing with the differences and similarities of the energy of men and boys in our society.

Elise Meiners Schwicht who has worked with the SALT II Contemporary Company, and has also created work for the Converge Dance Festival. Elise has also performed roles for the Utah Valley Civic Ballet Company. Her piece “he kept him” features five dancers and explores how a single man is affected and changed by a group of men who surround him and are interacting with him.

Nahshon Marden (they/them) who recently appeared with The Sensible Theatre Company in Seattle, and participated in the GSBA’s Equalux Fundraiser. They have also appeared with the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre,

swallow of water or a band-aid, or to sit down and catch their breath – or even to look at the ceiling and try to recall what comes next. They are 100% exposed.

“See-Saw” (2019)

Choreography: Joshua Manculich

Music: Michael Wall

This dance began with a bulletin board facing the audience on which we were invited to post something from our “bucket list” – an achievement we hope to accomplish before we “kick the bucket.” Quite a few audience members complied, and the dancers came on stage, collected the notes, and passed them out to the audience, so that each person who received one got a desire that they had not expressed. It was an interesting idea, but as abstract as the dance that followed was, so that the gesture seemed somewhat arbitrary. Program notes told us that Manculich was thinking

and California’s Bare Outlines. Nahshon is creating a duet for the Showcase called “BOYDMGD” dealing with the themes of what it is to be a male witness of the victim/ enabler/perpetrator in our society.

Joel Hathaway, a freelance artist, who has served as a Company Performer and Resident Choreographer for the Missouri Contemporary Ballet company. Joel also danced with the Milwaukee Ballet II Compan and is creating a group piece about finding the courage to “make a change” in one’s life.

The MEN IN DANCE Board of Producers look forward to bringing these pieces to Velocity Dance Center and to helping these artists strengthen their choreographic works while educating the audience in the creative process and getting the community engaged in conversation around choreography.

To best assist with this we have invited six dance professionals to give feedback and discuss the artists’ works in two evenings of panels moderated by Gerard Theoret.

On Friday, October 4th at 8pm, discussion will feature a panel including Shirley

about childhood dreams, and what happens to them when adult responsibilities crowd them out. There were some very playful, childhood movements – cartwheels, twirling – and some very disciplined, grown-up movements – coordinated balances, group constructions over and against solo dances – which supported the ideas in the program. But I wonder what I’d have thought about the dance if I hadn’t read the notes? It was certainly a work about the evolution of consciousness, and the two-steps-forward, one-step-back pattern of growing up. The ending was particularly beautiful, with one dancer falling into the arms of his companions as each one set him up again so he that could fall into the arms of the next person. It was a wonderful evocation of group care and support – how it takes a village to raise a child. I guess if my post-it note had said “I hope I grow up before I die” I would have come close to the message in “See-Saw.”

Jenkins, artistic director of DanceJENKINSDance; choreographer and Cornish College of the Arts Dance faculty Laura Ann Smyth; and Jerry Tassin of Spectrum Dance and the International Ballet Academy. Saturday, October 5 at 5pm features an informal audience discussion where audience member get to openly ask their questions and share observations with choreographers. The evening performance at 8pm will feature another panel of experts including world renown dancer and choreographer Bill Evans; founder of eXit SPACE Marlo Martin; and artistic director of PriceARTS, Noelle Price.

All five works will be featured at every performance.

For more information, visit menindance.org

Courtesy of Men in Dance

“The Smile Club” (2019)

Choreography: Kyra Jean Green/collaboration with dancers

Music mixed by Pascal Champagne

Kyra Jean Green’s very funny, very clever dance would certainly stand alone without program notes, but the notes in this case were illuminating. She was inspired by how the city of Budapest, in the desperate and dreary years of the 1930s, tried to cheer up its citizens by forming “Smile Clubs,” on the theory that if people would just smile, even if they were miserable, they would feel better. It was a common idea during the worldwide depression, famously expressed in the Charlie Chaplin song “Smile” (1936) with lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons:

“Light up your face with gladness/Hide every trace of sadness/Although a tear may be ever so near/That’s the time you must keep on trying/Smile, what’s the use of crying?/You’ll find that life is still worthwhile/ If you’ll just smile.”

But Green’s dance exposes the magical thinking of masking stress and sorrows with pretended happiness. She enlisted the acting talents of the dancers to use facial expressions conveying a tremendous array of emotions, and incorporated these extremes of feelings into each phase of the dance. It was truly funny to see the dancers plaster fixed grins on their faces while moving like robots through repeated motions, or trying to maintain grins that melted into tragedy. The veil of happiness became thinner and thinner as the dance progressed, and as Green manipulated classic theatrical tropes like the wind-up doll whose feelings wind down and the mask of Joy hiding a face of tears.

My favorite moment in the choreography came during a sequence to “Mr. Lonely” (1964) by Bobby Vinton, about a soldier stationed far from home and wishing for a letter. The central dancer was a man weeping, as the six other dancers lined up on either side of him, rotating around him like spokes of a wheel making all kinds of solo contortions and grotesquely happy faces as the song, and the central dancer, became increasingly sad. In another brilliantly weird move, Green has the dancers place artificial smile masks over their mouths and do a Broadway style chorus dance with head pops and arms flung wide like the June Taylor Dancers. (You’re probably too young to know who

they were – YouTube it! The effect was ironic, as though you could cross your eyes and see happiness, uncross them and see sorrow. I love to see this kind of inventiveness in dance, and to see the dancers themselves willing to be so vulnerable as to make faces and gestures so far outside their normal vocabulary. I can hardly wait to see Kyra Jean Green’s next project.

“Laurentide” (2019)

Choreography: Yoshito Sakuraba

While both Manculich and Green have won prizes and fellowships for their choreography, they are emerging artists, while Sakuraba seems to have arrived already. He is the most internationally commissioned dance maker in this group, with works made for companies all over Europe as well as Israel and the U.S. His project for Whim W’Him was inspired by the Laurentide ice sheet, that covered all of Canada and the Northern U.S. twenty thousand years ago. It was two miles deep and very heavy –Sakuraba claims in his program notes that as the weight of the ice decreased by melting, the gravity in parts of Canada became

lighter than in other places – a claim my dance buddy scoffed at, giving me a minilecture on why that wasn’t possible. I can’t pass it on to you, because I didn’t understand it, and it doesn’t matter to the dance, which was fascinating in its own right. The dancers mentioned in the post-performance talk that they weren’t told about the subject of the dance directly, but given instructions to think about weight and heaviness at certain sections.

The choreography opened to an apocalyptic soundscape of screeching that could hurt your ears as the lights came up on two dancers making desperate, fendingoff gestures. Metalic and machine sounds dominated for a while and then ran down as though the plug was pulled – a message about endings, loss, and finality. I was less interested in the narrative dimension, however than in how Sakuraba moved the dancers through a series of inventive constructions and patterns. There was an ingenious circle walk in which dancers created concentric circles that changed patterns as the relationships of dancers to one another changed. There was a vertical line of all

seven dancers in which the first dancer started a sequence of movements that were taken up in turn by those behind him oneby-one, which allowed the viewer to see each movement not once, but seven times, while the line created an ever-more complex pattern. There was a sequence around a horizontal line of all seven dancers in which alternate individuals were doing two different patterns of gestures, one-two, one-two down the line, like a checkered table cloth.

Sakuraba has a really amazing ability to move groups of dancers. I’m glad he was inspired by an idea that caused him to make this dance up, but the idea is far less interesting than the dance itself. This is lyric dancing – the feeling is primary, the story is implied. The dancing is great.

See Whim W’Him’s next performance, XPRESS, at Cornish Playhouse from January 17-25, 2020 with dances by choreographers Sidra Bell, Ihsan Rustem, and Olivier Wevers, Founder and Artistic Director of Whim W’Him.

“Throughout this year’s festival, we reflect on the last 50 years since the Stonewall Riots, where queer rights are today, and the vast amount of work we have to do for the future,” said Ben McCarthy, executive director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema. “We’re proud to bring to Seattle a variety of authentically queer stories that would otherwise go unseen without this festival. It’s important, now more than ever, to provide a space for the LGBTQ2+ community to come together to see themselves reflected on screen, especially when our rights and protections are being threatened daily at home and all over the world.”

“We are excited to bring a wide spectrum of LGBTQ2+ stories from near and far, with local films like GOOD KISSER and SEATTLE’S QTPOC MUSIC SCENE. For SQFF24 we are featuring a record number of films from Latin America and twelve short film programs, including QUEER YESTERYEAR, which reflects upon queer history,” said SQFF24 Festival Director Kathleen Mullen. “We have something for everyone – from the world premiere of Seattle-made film NO DOMINION: THE IAN HORVATH STORY to the Queer Palm winner and Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay, the sumptuous PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE.”

The festival will take place mainly on Capitol Hill this year, bringing the festival back to its roots in Seattle’s historically queer neighborhood.

• The full festival program and online ticket sales launch September 10 at seattlequeerfilm.org.

• Tickets and passes also available through the festival box office located at SQFF24 HQ at Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center at 517 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122. Pre-festival box office hours are:

• Wednesdays, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2: 4:00–8:00 p.m.:

• Saturdays, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28, 10/5: 11:00am–3:00 p.m.:

• Monday, 10/7 through Wednesday, 10/9: 4:00–8:00 p.m.

• Film venues include Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center, the Northwest Film Forum, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, and the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP).

GALAS & CENTERPIECES

Opening Night: SID & JUDY

• Thursday, October 10, 6:30 p.m., SIFF Cinema Egyptian

• Director: Stephen Kijak; USA; 2019

• Northwest Premiere

• Expected guests: Director Stephen Kijak

• Opening Night Gala Party following the film at the Rainier Chapter House Director Stephen Kijak (WE ARE X, NEVER MET PICASSO) has uncovered never-before-seen recordings, photographs, and insights from the archives of Judy Garland’s third husband, producer Sid Luft (A STAR IS BORN and “The Judy Garland Show”), based on his memoir “Judy & I: My Life with Judy Garland.”

First-person accounts of Garland’s career and Sid and Judy’s tumultuous marriage are narrated by Emmy winner Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) and Academy Award nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (THE HATEFUL EIGHT, “Atypical”) in this documentary from Showtime. Judy Garland’s status as an icon for the whole LGBTQ2+ community – her death may even have partly inspired the Stonewall riots – is highlighted through her queer following, including transgender activist and

Closing Night:

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

• Sunday, October 20, 7:00 p.m., SIFF

Cinema Egyptian

• Director: Céline Sciamma; France; 2019

• Seattle Premiere

• Closing Night Gala Party following the film at Queer/Bar Desire can be a powerful force, capable of consuming the heart like a roaring fire. Set in 18th-century France, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE follows Marianne, a young painter commissioned to undertake the wedding portrait of reluctant bride-tobe, Héloïse. Pretending to be her companion, Marianne discreetly observes her muse by day and secretly paints her by night. The intimate moments they share during their daily walks along the beach spark the flames of a passionate romance that defies their fate, which has been imposed on them by the norms of their conservative and repressive society.

Winner of the Queer Palm and the Best Screenplay prizes at the 2019 Cannes

Film Festival, out lesbian director Céline Sciamma (WATER LILLES, GIRLHOOD, AND TOMBOY, Best Narrative, SQFF 2011, and co-writer of BEING 17) wraps us in an elegant and seductive canvas, where each frame of the film becomes a stunning work of art, thanks to its breathtaking cinematography. Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel deliver monumental but nuanced performances, freely inhabiting the fascinating female-centric world Sciamma constructs. An arresting and provocative drama, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is one of the most beautiful and fervent romances in recent years, one that everyone will fall in love with.

Documentary Centerpiece: FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO

• Sunday, October 13, 7:00 p.m., SIFF

Cinema Egyptian

• Director: Daniel Karslake; USA; 2019

• Seattle Premiere

• Expected guests: director Daniel Karslake and other special guests

• Centerpiece Gala Reception to precede the film at a TBA location FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO weaves together stories on the

national political stage and in the homes of four families caught in the crossfire to show how both church and state distort doctrine to justify continued resistance to LGBTQ2+ equality. Equal parts tearjerking and affirming, this update of his award-winning 2007 feature FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance; Audience Award for Best Documentary; SIFF), documentarian Daniel Karslake summarizes the last twelve years of conservative Christian efforts to undermine LGBTQ+ rights.

Narrative Centerpiece: END OF THE CENTURY

• Wednesday, October 16, 7:00 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Lucio Castro; Argentina; 2019

• Seattle Premiere

• Expected guest: director Lucio Castro

• Centerpiece Gala Reception to precede the film at Poquitos Capitol Hill

Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirtysomething Argentinian poet, is cruising the streets and beaches of Barcelona when he spots Javi (Ramón Pujol), a brawny Spaniard living in Berlin. A series of chance encounters leads to a revelatory one-night stand, Javi discloses something that causes the film

to dive into the past. Through fascinating temporal shifts, the film explores the possibilities of what was, what could have been, what is, and what might be. END OF THE CENTURY (Jury Prize for Best First Feature, Frameline) delivers an emotional and erotic exploration of relationship what-ifs driven by the uncertainties of romantic connection, the challenges of long-term commitment, and the allure of personal freedom.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

SELL BY

• Friday, October 18, 7:00 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Mike Doyle; 2019; USA

• Guests scheduled to attend

• Northwest Premiere

Does every relationship have an expiration date? Adam (Scott Evans, “Grace and Frankie”) and Marklin (Augustus Prew, “Special”) appear to be the perfect couple on social media. But after five years, their relationship has succumbed to financial disagreements, career path arguments, and a lack of sex, leading to questions about commitment and trust. Meanwhile, their support network crumbles around them as Cammy (Michelle Buteau, “Tales of the City”) and Elizabeth (Kate Walsh, “Grey’s Anatomy”) navigate guy issues of their own. Through it all, hope persists as the group put the pieces of their lives back together. Actor Mike Doyle makes his feature directorial debut with this engaging, relatable, modern-day romantic comedy with an ensemble cast that features Patricia Clarkson and Zoe Chao.

SAME BUT DIFFERENT:

A TRUE NEW ZEALAND LOVE STORY

• Saturday, October 12, 6:45 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Nikki Si’ulepa; 2019; New Zealand

• West Coast Premiere

This charming romantic comedy follows single mom and actor Rachel, who is immediately smitten when she meets Samoan filmmaker Nikki at a small indigenous film festival where they both happen to have entries. Usually confident and accustomed to being pursued – primarily by men she is not interested in – Rachel bumbles through new territory as she attempts to woo Nikki. Hilariously awkward yet relatable situations ensue, highlighted by the palpable chemistry between actresses Robyn Patterson and Hannah Martin, as well as a strong supporting cast. This fun romp, based on the real relationship between writer-director Nikki Si’ulepa and producer Rachel Aneta Wills, is full of Kiwi and Pacific Islander humor that’s sure to delight.

GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH

• Monday, October 14, 1:30 p.m., Museum of Pop Culture

• Directors: David Charles Rodrigues; 2019; USA

• Seattle Premiere

They’re bringing heart to the heartland! Galvanized by the 2016 election and a resurgence of faith-based anti-LGBTQ laws, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus sets out on a one-week, 25-performance tour through the Bible Belt. Though they know they can’t change an entire region in just seven days, they hope to use their musical talents to find common ground with the communities some members escaped from long ago. “We can sing, and we can love,” says artistic director Tim Seelig in this uplifting documentary, winner of the Audience Award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

FABULOUS

• Thursday, October 17, 7:15 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Audrey Jean-Baptiste; 2019; France

• Northwest Premiere

Originally from French Guiana, Lasseindra learned voguing, runway walking, and body-dropping dance battling from her found family in New York City’s underground, before moving to Paris to establish her own House of Ninja and foster the French ballroom scene. In this documentary addressing overlapping struggles regarding

race, religion, culture, and queerness, director Audrey Jean-Baptiste captures Lasseindra’s return to her rigidly gendered home country, where she teaches voguing workshops to LGBTQ+ youth. Her determination to live an authentic life on her own terms proves inspirational to her students, who, through dance, learn to love themselves and be proud, confident, and fabulous.

NO DOMINION:

THE IAN HORVATH STORY

• Saturday, October 12, 12:00 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Margaret Mullin & Nel Shelby; 2019; USA

• Expected Guest: director Margaret Mullin scheduled to attend

• World Premiere

This documentary salutes the life and accomplishments of the late dance champion and AIDS activist Ian (Ernie) Horvath. After a successful career as a professional dancer and founding artistic director of the Cleveland Ballet, he became a fierce advocate for creating a more secure future for American dancers and their companies. Horvath was also a passionate AIDS awareness activist during the crisis of the ’80s, most prominently by helping arts organizations with employees suffering from the disease. The virus tragically claimed his life in 1990. As a tribute to Horvath, dancers from across the country collaborated to perform his last choreographic work for this film, restaged in Seattle by Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist (and the film’s codirector) Margaret Mullin and Paul Gibson.

INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE:

FORCES OF NATURE

• Saturday, October 19, 4:45 p.m.; Northwest Film Forum

Explore the resilience and strength of two-spirit and LGBTQ identities. Curated in collaboration with Longhouse Media.

SPECIAL EVENTS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS

QUEERING THE SCRIPT

• Sunday, October 13, 1:00 p.m., Northwest Film Forum

• Director: Gabrielle Zilkha; 2019; Canada

• Seattle Premiere

From queer subtext in the ’90s to explicit girl-on-girl romances in the present day, QUEERING THE SCRIPT charts the history of television portrayals of queer women. Award-winning director Gabrielle Zilkha (STOP CALLING ME HONEY BUNNY) interviews the creators and stars, who are integral to queer representation, and the fangirls, whose enthusiasm and activism sustain it. Featuring conversations with Ilene Chaiken (“The L Word”) and Lucy Lawless (“Xena: Warrior Princess”), this documentary celebrates LGBTQ+ TV fandoms, while calling for increased visibility for all queer women (particularly women of color) and battling tired tropes.

QUEER CASTING:

PANEL DISCUSSION

Following QUEERING THE SCRIPT, stay for what is sure to be a lively panel discussion tackling queer casting in film and

television. Should Hollywood cast only queer actors in queer roles? What does it mean to have fans as part of the conversation of storylines and casting? Be a part of the conversation as industry professionals parse this hot-button issue. The panel will be moderated by Jeremy Blacklow, director of media entertainment at GLAAD, and is co-presented by SAG-AFTRA.

HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE ALLY

• Tuesday, October 15, 5:15 p.m., Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center

• FREE Have you witnessed someone being discriminated against, treated with total disrespect, or blatantly ignored? Do you feel overwhelmed or guilty about not knowing how to help? In this powerful workshop, you will learn techniques and gain the tools needed to become an effective ally to and advocate for those who are targeted because of their race or anyone being treated unfairly or discriminated against, through interactive exercises and discussion. Be sure to bring a notebook!

Anastacia-Renée, who will lead the workshop, is an award-winning, multi-genre writer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. She served as the Seattle Civic Poet from 2017 to 2019 and the 2015–17 poet-inresidence at Hugo House. The author of five books, she also teaches poetry and workshops at Hugo House and local libraries, high schools, and universities.

HOW TO BE A TRANS ALLY

• Saturday, October 19, 3:30 p.m., Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center

• FREE Are you new to transgender concepts? Want to learn how to be a good ally? Join us for two short films, and then stick around for a presentation and discussion with a representative from Gender Diversity, a local organization that provides education about gender-inclusive schools and support groups for families, and produces the Gender Odyssey conferences. Bring all your questions to this educational evening, and

come away with a working vocabulary and a more solid understanding of how to be supportive to trans, nonbinary, and gendernonconforming folks!

IMMERSIVELY QUEER: VR SHOWCASE

• Saturday, October 19, 1:30-4:00 p.m., Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center

• Curated in collaboration with North Bend Film Festival

• FREE

In this free presentation, SQFF is pleased to partner with the North Bend Film Festival, which has curated a showcase of VR/360 experiences, including some of the best immersive work in the contemporary queer storytelling space.

Started as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in October 1996, the Seattle Queer Film Festival has grown into the largest event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, gaining industry and audience recognition for showcasing the latest and greatest in queer film, from major motion picture premieres to emerging talent. An important venue in the Seattle film scene, the festival provides unique opportunities for visiting and local filmmakers to engage and entertain the Greater Seattle region’s LGBTQ and allied community. For more information, visit threedollarbillcinema. org/seaqueerfilmfest.

Three Dollar Bill Cinema is a nonprofit arts organization that provides access to films by, for, and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and a forum for LGBTQ filmmakers to share and discuss their work with audiences. Annual programs include the Seattle Queer Film Festival, Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Three Dollar Bill Outdoor Cinema, and Reel Queer Youth. For more information, visit threedollarbillcinema.org.

Courtesy of Three Dollar Bill Cinema

Opal Peachey previews Violet’s Attic: A Grand Ball for Wicked Dolls , her new madcap show at Café Nordo

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer

VIOLET’S ATTIC: A GRAND BALL FOR WICKED DOLLS CAFÉ NORDO

Through November 24

Café Nordo returns for their 11th season with Violet’s Attic: A Grand Ball for Wicked Dolls, and you’re invited… if you dare! Be whisked away to a world that hauntingly tantalizes all five senses with bone-chilling live music, frighteningly unique dining, and the hair-raising story of a lonely girl and her dolls.

The dolls bop, twirl and jiggle to choreography by Alyza Delpan-Monley and an alloriginal score performed live during every performance, beginning with “The Dance of the Broken Joints” performed by Justine Davis. Composed by Annastasia Workman, the music of Violet’s Attic draws inspiration from the works of Cosmo Sheldrake, Danny Elfman, and Seattle’s own late great Circus Contraption. The band consists of Workman who plays piano, accordion, toy piano, glockenspiel, Dayton Allemann on guitar and flute, and Even Mosher who plays trumpet, vocals, and kaoss pad. All three use a host of toys and household items to add percussion to a darkly-tinged and whimsical score.

After last June’s production of the Champagne Widow, I once again spoke to

Cafe Nordo’s spokesperson and star, Opal Peachey about the show, food and what is next. We chatted by email this past week.

MK Scott: From being the Champagne Widow to Violet’s Attic, tell us about this current role? What attracted you to this role?

Opal Peachey: I am very much a part of the ensemble for Violet’s Attic. I am a twin porcelain doll, one of many voices of our grand puppet master, Violet! The Champagne Widow and Twin Dolly with the Long Hair are very different roles and

I think these roles highlight the amazing opportunities I have as a Nordo company member. Terry (the playwright for Violet’s Attic) wrote these parts with the actors in mind, after a series of developmental workshops when we played with dolls and adopted their physicality.

MK: This show is directed by Erin Brindley. What has been the best thing about working with her?

Opal: The best part of working with Director/Chef Erin Brindley is her deep commitment to creating stage magic in the Nordo

space. She sets the bar very high for what we can accomplish, with each production.

MK: How scary is this show?

Opal: I don’t think the show is very scary. I would describe it as a “monster comedy” or relate it to a mind-bending episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

MK: Is the food created to complement the show or vice versa?

Opal: This is different for each production at Nordo, but in this particular case, I believe the idea of serving gigantic savory candy as the food for a doll tea party was the jumping off point for the wicked doll plot line.

MK: Bohemia is coming back in January. What is coming up for you at Cafe Nordo?

Opal: Bohemia is a big part of 2020 for me. Stay tuned for a big announcement on October 17th about the rest of my year.

Violet’s imagination comes alive at Nordo’s Culinarium (109 S Main St, Seattle WA 98104, 206-209-2002) through November 24, Wed-Sat 7:30pm; Sun at 6:00pm. The show is suitable for audiences 18 and older. Single tickets are $89.00 and includes the performance and a prix fixe menu. Beverage and cocktail service additional. Online Box Office: bit.ly/WickedDollNordo

MK Scott is a Seattle-based blogger. Check out his site at uniteseattlemag.com.

people’s experiences during the Holocaust. The small cast of Sean Lally as the writer Jonathon Safran Foer, Peter Sakowicz and Michael Winters as Jonathan’s tour guides in Ukraine, and ensemble supports Shanna Allman and Susanna Burney, all do excellent work to bring this story to life.

However, the adaptation by Josh Aaseng, an experienced adaptor who also directs this production, is of a book whose style is so specific and special that it’s probably impossible to put over as a successful stage play. If you have not read the book, you would do well to read it ahead of time or to read at least a synopsis.

There are two basic stories that are pretty clearly rendered. The main one is Jonathon Safran Foer’s writing of a book while journeying to Ukraine with a small picture to find the woman in the picture. Foer’s grandfather was saved from the Nazis by this woman and Foer wants desperately to find her and learn more, if he can. The secondary tale is about the guide family: the young American-loving, English-mangling grandson who drags his grandfather into the quest at the demand of his authoritarian and abusive father (Burney in one of her multiple roles).

Both of these men contribute to the book by writing letters to each other that include sections of chapters. Part of the charm of the relationship is that Alex is at first reductively dismissive of Jews as stupid but comes to admire Jonathon’s intellect and understanding.

There is another part of the story that is important in the book, but muddies the stage production almost to failure. Foer is searching for Trachimbrod, and the history of the shtetl (a village where only Jews lived when they were not allowed to live freely in “regular” towns) is bound up in another long-ago relative, the woman Brod. With fanciful shadow puppetry, the stage production tries to tell this story as well, and the cast gamely acts out a perhaps-fictional story of a baby girl (Brod, played by Allman in one of her roles) being born in the river,

after the death of her mother and father in a carriage accident. The baby is taken in by an old, childless man who loves her. Somehow, the town celebrates this myth-founding every year as Trachimday.

You will hear the story of how she meets The Kolker, who is the man she bears children with who are the progenitors of Foer’s line. Also the story of how The Kolker gets a saw blade buried in his head and he becomes known as The Dial. But none of these stories help us understand much and indeed stagecraft-wise are so distracting that they overcome the rest of the compelling journey.

It would be one decision to include them and leave their portion in the past, but Aaseng has decided to sprinkle parts of that story into the rest of the confusing current stories. Since even the names The Kolker and The Dial are not described well enough for us to understand why this man needs

these extra names, it interrupts the flow of the evening. I had to look up the synopsis to understand what this information was and why this man was important to the story. There are secrets to be revealed, likely some of the reason the “illumination” of the title is included. Perhaps the illumination also includes family relationships, historic revelations, the meaning of real love, what happened to the disappeared shtetl, and the perpetuation of anti-Semitism. It could also mean “embellishment” as in the story-making of the characters and the myths to make reality more exciting.

Aaseng does a great job in helping bring Alex to life as he practices his English and tells fanciful tales to Jonathan. Sakowicz charms and makes us laugh. He seems to be channeling “SNL’s wild and crazy guys” sometimes. Winters also, as his grandfather, is both funny, curmudgeonly, and then

sadly pathetic in that role.

Evocative and lovely live music is provided by Michael Owcharuk and Brooke Haze. Sometimes it is too loud and overpowers, but if that were adjusted, it makes for a special touch.

Audiences might want to know that there are very intense descriptions of Nazi atrocities in the town of Trachimbrod. Certainly they are critical to the story and the essential reason it was written. It’s Foer’s family history, after all.

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Breezy Downton Abbey an enjoyably witty “Upstairs/Downstairs” melodrama

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

DOWNTON ABBEY

Now playing

Having never seen an episode of the BBC television series, I honestly didn’t know what to expect walking into a screening of Downton Abbey. I figured with writer/creator Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) delivering the screenplay at worst I’d be in for some wittily amusing bits of dialogue, and with a cast featuring the likes of Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuppence Middleton, Geraldine James and Jim Carter I knew it would certainly be exceedingly well acted. But I didn’t know what else to expect, and as I knew nothing of these characters, their backstories or any of their various interpersonal situations, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was going to be more than a little bit lost.

I shouldn’t have been worried. While Downton Abbey will undoubtedly please fans of the series more than it will newcomers to the material, this movie is nevertheless a great deal of breezy fun. Not particularly substantive, never aiming to do more than send the audience out of the theatre with a jolly smile planted upon their faces, none of that matters much as far as the grand scheme of things is concerned. Fellowes has written a shrewdly mischievous script that overflows in agreeable subplots, director Michael Engler (The Chaperone) orchestrating the action with a relaxed confidence that suits things just about perfectly.

Not that this handsomely mounted production is going to be a motion picture I’m going to be talking about much in the foreseeable future. It’s almost instantly

Nifty Haunt scares up a labyrinth of malevolent tricks and treats

by Sara Michelle Fetters

SGN A&E Writer

HAUNT

Now playing

Harper (Katie Stevens) isn’t interested in doing anything this Halloween. She’s ready to break free of her abusively drunken lout of a boyfriend, so going out and partying with her roommate Bailey (Lauryn Alisa McClain) doesn’t feel like a great idea. But Harper is convinced to join in the evening’s frivolities anyhow, and even though she declines to wear a costume that doesn’t mean that, eventually, she’ll be ready for whatever the night has to offer. Or maybe not. Harper and Bailey are joined by friends Angela (Shazi Raja),

Mallory (Schuyler Helford), Nathan (Will Brittain) and Evan (Andrew Caldwell), and after things at a downtown club grow boring, the group decides to go find a decent haunt (aka a haunted house in an industrial setting) and experience a couple of Halloween scares. The one they choose is decidedly off the beaten path. But the warehouse setup is suitably ominous and the guy out front getting attendees to sign safety waivers while collecting their cellphones is beyond creepy. Harper and her pals decide to give the place a shot, and in the process enter inside a macabre, blood-curdling labyrinth whose thrills and chills might be far more lethally literal than anything the six college students are ready to deal with.

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forgettable, and while it is easy to see why these characters and their stories made for such massively popular television, Fellowes hasn’t exactly written a scenario that makes moving the action from your local PBS station to the local multiplex worthy of so much fuss. All of this feels more like a pilot for a spin-off or handful of years later continuation of the original show, and if Engler’s film ends up doing good box office it won’t surprise me at all if a sequel or a new series is announced rather quickly.

The plot is fairly straightforward. The residents of the Great House at Downton Abbey, most notably Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (Bonneville), his American wife Cora (McGovern) and their fastidious daughter Lady Mary Talbot (Dockery), are honored to learn their home will be the site of a royal visit from their Majesties King George V (Simon Jones) and Queen Mary (James). The staff is even more excited, and even though new head butler Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier) appears to be over his head preparing for this visit, everyone working in the Great House takes pride in the knowledge they’ll be able to showcase their skills in front of the King and Queen.

With a synopsis that simple, leave it to Fellowes to stuff in about seven or eight various subplots that deftly intermingle with the core narrative. Retired butler Mr. Carson (Carter) is asked to temporarily resume his duties when Barrow doesn’t appear to be up to the task. Widower Tom Branson (Allen Leech), an Irish Republican but still very much part of the family, believes he might be under government surveillance. Violet Crawley (Smith), as drolly crotchety as ever, is looking forward to matching wits with the Queen’s Lady in Waiting, Maud Bagshaw (Staunton), a distant relative with whom she shares a complicated past. The Downton Abbey staff, led by Miss Baxter (Raquel Cassidy), Mr. Molesley (Kevin Doyle) and Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt), plan a minor revolt when they are refused the opportunity to cook, serve or clean for the King and Queen personally during their visit.

But all of that is only a small handful of the numerous strands Fellowes and Engler are juggling. There are at least four more

subplots (at least), each of them vying for a viewer’s attention along with the others I’ve already mentioned. At times it can all feel like six or so episodes of television that have been condensed into a two-hour plot for no other reason than the filmmakers believe they can do it. That they accomplish their task is a testament to the skill of all involved in making this movie a reality, but that does not mean things still don’t feel moderately overstuffed. There’s so much happening that some of the twists and turns of this royal visit can come across as being malnourished. Worse, a few of them are downright silly, a major one concerning Branson, Lady Mary and a mysterious gentleman monitoring the Irishman’s every move undeniably so.

Thankfully the cast is so universally stellar these various missteps and miscalculations aren’t worth spending any time marinating upon. Leech is wonderful as Branson, The Imitation Game actor so charming his crooked smile alone was enough to get my heart to flutter while I sat there in my seat. Dockery is equally outstanding, as are Froggatt, Staunton, Bonneville and especially a magnetically stalwart Carter. As for Smith, unsurprisingly she steals the show, the delectable relish with which she verbally attacks Fellowes’ most melodiously pithy bon mots beyond compare. The film is also deliciously shot by Ben Smithardl (Blinded by the Light) and euphorically scored by series composer John Lunn, while Anna Robbins’ (Wild Rose) exquisite costumes are irrefutably spectacular.

Look, Downton Abbey didn’t make me feel like I needed to rush out and watch the Emmy-winning series any time soon. It isn’t a movie I’m going to be remembering in all that great of detail by next week, let alone come the end of the year when awards chatter is in full swing. But none of that makes the film less entertaining, Fellowes and Engler doing a fine job making this “Upstairs/Downstairs” melodrama worth watching whether the viewer is a die-hard fan of the source material or a complete newcomer who hasn’t the faintest clue who these people are or why any of us should care about them.

Hypnotic Ad Astra an emotional moonshot of catharsis and fury

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

AD ASTRA Now playing

Astronaut Maj. Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is the son of a bona fide hero, deep space pioneer H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). He was the commander of the illfated Lima Project, an attempt to head out to the furthest reaches of our solar system to probe the Universe for intelligent life other than human. But he and his crew disappeared 16 years ago near Neptune, and the only information the Earth learned about their mission was in large part thanks to the selfless actions of Clifford McBride.

Or so the story goes. After a massive energy surge emanating from the Lima Project’s last known coordinates decimates electronic devices, large, small, and in-between, all over the planet, government and military officials let Roy in on a well-kept secret: they’re not positive his father is dead. They think his ship is causing these deep space surges, and if they’re not stopped all life on Earth could be put in lethal jeopardy. Officials want the Major to head to the U.S. base on Mars and send his father a personal message, understanding they’ll be able to track his exact location if he responds. But Roy soon begins to believe there is more going on than what he’s being briefed about, and one way or another he is going to learn the truth, even if he has to travel all the way to Neptune himself to do so.

If you’re a fan of writer/director James Gray, I cannot imagine in a million years that you would believe that the acclaimed filmmaker’s science fiction spectacle Ad Astra is anywhere nearly as straightforward as that synopsis makes things sound. The Two Lovers, The Immigrant, We Own the Night and The Lost City of Z auteur has delivered a complex, thoughtfully minimalistic interstellar saga of family, fatherhood, responsibility, grief, courage, sorrow and forgiveness that is as emotionally ethereal as it is affectingly introspective. While not without its thrills, this is nonetheless heady stuff that almost couldn’t care less if the viewer is visibly excited by any of the impressively mounted action set pieces, which take place up on the screen. Instead, Gray is aiming a lot higher, his heady mission into deep space piercing both the heart and the psyche in almost equal measure.

Am I sure it all works? No. I am not. Some of the passages are so minimalist they’re close to invisible. After traveling to Mars and sending the message to his father, Roy finds himself squashed by military and political subterfuge only to find an unexpected ally in the base’s commander, Helen Lantos (Ruth Negga). But the reasons for their partnership are almost too convenient, too coincidental, and considering Gray’s personal style is to let audiences piece things together for themselves with little extra in the way of assistance on his part, I just never fully believed the tidiness of their relationship. Additionally, Roy’s whole mission is just too ominous and vital for it to be conducted with such slapdash disdain for his welfare, and I couldn’t help but think there were better ways for the powers that be to keep things top secret while also ensuring the most vital component of their plan didn’t inadvertently get his brains blown out traveling across the lunar landscape of the Moon.

All of that said, Gray is such an exquisite cinematic craftsman it’s unlikely I could have torn my eyes away from the screen even if I had wanted to try and do so. An opening sequence depicting the repercussions of the first energy surge, leading directly to a massive orbital freefall on Roy’s part, is jaw-dropping in its inten-

sity, as is an emergency landing sequence on Mars where the Major is forced to take command of a spaceship even though he knows doing so could have unexpected repercussions relating to his primary mission. A moon buggy chase sequence and firefight is magnificently staged, while the brutally cathartic silence of the film’s final act had me sitting on the edge of my seat in rapt attention even as my eyes welled up with tears thanks to the gallantly pure authenticity of the emotions being presented for me to soak up and feel.

Gray’s script, written with Ethan Gross, is like a broodingly sincere outer space mashup of Solaris, Apocalypse Now, The Mosquito Coast, The Searchers, First Man and Mutiny on the Bounty. Roy’s journey becomes one more of self-exploration than anything else, and it is an open question if by the time he reaches his final destination he’ll instantly destroy whatever (or whomever) he finds instead of trying to understand what it is that’s going on and why it is his father abandoned him and his mother 16 years ago to go on this apparently oneway mission. In the process of all of this Pitt, already on something of a career high after Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood, delivers one of the finest performances of his career, his work ranking right up there with his turns in Moneyball The Tree of Life, 12 Monkeys, Killing Them Softly and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford rather splendidly.

While I am fascinated by, and undeniably enjoyed, Gray’s movie quite a bit, several vexing annoyances still gnaw away at me, most of which I’ve already mentioned. I think in some ways I’m most annoyed by how he does nothing with Liv Tyler, and if I’m going to watch a sci-fi adventure where she’s forced to be earthbound pining away for her loved ones hurtling through the unknown terrors of Space I’d probably choose Michael Bay’s Armageddon instead of this. While that’s overstating things considerably the talented actress is still wasted in a rather thankless role, and while I understand why her part is structured as it is that doesn’t mitigate my dissatisfaction with how she was being utilized. Honestly, though, who am I kidding? Gray is just far too talented for me to get too angry about any of that. With Ad Astra,

I find I can’t stop thinking about the film. I keep pondering many of its various nooks and crannies with almost unwavering intensity, and part of me can’t wait to get a closer look so I can better dissect all it is the filmmaker is attempting to do. This is science fiction that refuses to take the easy way out or to bow to traditional genre convention even when the opportunity to do

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If this were a normal haunt then the latest feature from A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods likely wouldn’t be particularly interesting. But as it is anything but normal, the pair’s directorial sojourn Haunt ends up being a well-plotted, suitably sinister little shocker that proves to back an agreeably malevolent little punch. Even if their scenario isn’t exactly original (last year’s Hell Fest was just the most recent flick I can think of to tread down a somewhat similar path), the duo still craft a successful motion picture that knows what it is doing, doesn’t insult the intelligence of its audience and never overstays its welcome. While not much happens that is unexpected, watching Harper and her friends battle for their lives against a bloodthirsty adversary is still a heck of a lot of fun, Beck and Woods manufacturing an atmosphere of apprehension and dread that kept my eyes glued to the screen for all 92 freewheeling minutes of the movie’s running time.

I like that the filmmakers aren’t afraid to take their time setting up their scenario and fleshing out their characters, while in the same breath are also eager to get right to the unnerving carnage not too soon after the six college kids step inside the not-sofaux haunted warehouse. Harper, Nathan, Bailey and to a lesser extent Evan manage to make just enough of an impression that their life or death journey through this lethal industrial maze actually meant something to me. As for Angela and Mallory, while they aren’t given very much room to resonate, Raja and Helford play their parts with just enough pizzazz I wasn’t that upset that Beck and Woods failed to give them as much to do as they did their co-stars. Most importantly, Stevens makes Harper

just that conveniently presents itself. This is a daring bit of storytelling subterfuge that will only grow in resonance as time goes by, the final pieces of its complicated puzzle an emotional moonshot of catharsis and fury unlike anything I could have imagined trying to fit together beforehand.

a plucky heroine worth rooting for. I liked how much fragile emotional honesty she brought to her performance, her character a pleasantly vivacious “final girl” who isn’t meek and who’s willing to get her hands dirty when the situation suddenly calls for her to do so.

It’s all a little too straightforward, and after it becomes apparent to all six characters something horrible is going on I can’t say the filmmakers do much to conceal that there are really only a couple of destinations their overall story can finish up at. There’s also a lame and convenient subplot concerning Harper’s much talked about boyfriend that would be annoying if not for the belligerent brutality Beck and Woods unleash when they abruptly bring it to conclusion. But overall I like that the pair never really explain the reasons why the ghouls running the haunt are so murderously inclined, and the fact it is never clear whether or not there’s a supernatural element to all of this adds an aura of uncertainty I found suitably unsettling. The directors also make the most out of production designer Austin Gorg’s claustrophobically minimalistic sets, cinematographer Ryan Samul’s (We Are What We Are) camera navigating the cluttered nooks and crannies of this spooky environment with spirited aplomb.

Is the film great? Heck no. Is it incredibly entertaining? Unequivocally yes. I had a sensational time watching Harper and her gang run for their lives, and while I could nitpick much of what happens to proverbial death, the whole film is just such gleefully unapologetic horrific fun I can’t work up the desire to try and do it. Beck and Woods have made a nice little genre gem with Haunt, and I look forward to picking this one up for my personal library so I can revel in all its nifty tricks and treats again relatively soon.

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SATURDAY - September 28

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

Positively Living Coffee Social. 10am-12 noon. Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. (206) 9571600. Sponsored by LIfelong. New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step/12-tradition-oriented fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope to overcome sex and love patterns of addiction. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org.

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

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouthcenter.org. (Also Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

2019 Rainbow Ball. 6-11pm. Seattle Renaissance Hotel, 515 Madison St. A masquerade dinner, dance and auction benefitting Rainbow City Performing Arts. Tickets: $125. www.rainbowcityband.com

SUNDAY - September 29

Ravenna United Methodist Church. 8:30am. “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school” - 9:45am Worship. 5751 33rd Ave NE. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. (206) 525-7988. Center for Spiritual Living. 9am meditation; 9:30am & 11am services. The Mountaineers, 7701 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! (206) 527-8801 ext 203, www.cslseattle.org

Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am Sunday Services. 200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” (206) 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org. Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am Zazen Instruction, 9:30am Zazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. (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 Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30am Worship, 11am Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org

University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 10:30am Coffee Fellowship, 11am Adult Forum & Education Hour. 1604 NE 50th St. All are welcome. We choose love. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.” All are welcome. (206) 322-7500. East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am Sunday Service. 12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780.

Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. (206) 682-3620. Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Worship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org

Queen Anne United Methodist Church. 10am Worship. 1606 5th Ave W. (206) 282-4307. Unity Church of Kent. 10am. 218 State Ave S, Kent. A welcoming congregation open to people of all races, religions, creeds & lifestyles. Join us any Sunday for an inspirational message, joyful fellowship & a fresh spiritual

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outlook. (253) 854-9747.

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

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

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

First Church - First United Methodist Church of Seattle. 10:30am. 180 Denny Way. (Enter on 2nd Ave N for worship.) Welcome to First Church, a progressive community advocating for the homeless and hungry, and creating a refuge of inclusive Christianity. First Church is a proud member of the Reconciling Ministries Network. (206) 622-7278; firstchurchseattle.org

Northminster Presbyterian Church. 10:30am Worship. 7706 25th Ave NW. A village church in the city open to all. (206) 783-3402. www.northminsterpres.org (Conveniently located a block from the Metro #40 bus route.)

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

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

Welcome Table Christian Church. 9:45am Meditation; 10:30am Worship; Labyrinth 2nd Sundays 1-4pm. 1322 S Bayview St. Where people of all genders and sexualities, and families of all shapes & sizes are welcome and celebrated. A welcoming and affirming community since 1987. welcometablecc.org

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

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

community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. Contact Forrest Rode, (206) 920-6117, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Find us under “Dharma Buddies” on Meetup.com or at DharmaBuddies.org. (Women are invited to contact our sister meditation group at www. LotusSisters.org.)

St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am Worship. 6512 12th Ave NW. An “open & affirming” congregation. “We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” (206) 783-6733; www.stpauluccseattle.com.

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

Just for Today (NA). 12-1:15pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step Narcotics Anonymous group open to anyone in recovery. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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

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

Rain City Soccer Club Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. We play an organized, 2-hour scrimmage on nice fieldturf surface. Sometimes there is a brief training/practice session before we play. Usually there is a “one-beer” after

the scrimmage. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437. www. peerseattle.org

Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. [EXCEPT no bowling June, July & August.]

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

MONDAY - September 30

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

SOBER On Meds. 1-2pm. Peer Seattle 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. (206) 3222437; www.peerseattle.org

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 2-3:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437, www. peerseattle.org

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

Meditation Class for LGBTQ Seniors. 6:30pm. GenPride Senior Center, 401 Broadway E, Suite 223. Free class every Monday for LGBTQ seniors, their caregivers and allies. Beginners welcome. www.gapseattle.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

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

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

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

TUESDAY - October 1

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

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

LGBTQ+ Group. 1:15-2:15pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. Every Tuesday. A group for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 & their allies. Sponsored by YouthCare. (206) 622-5555. defeatHIV Community Advisory Board (CAB). 5:307:30pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway @ E Jefferson St. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. CAB builds community involvement in order to advance defeatHIV’s clinical research into a potential gene therapy cure for HIV infection. If you want to learn more about our efforts to ensure that all of Seattle’s communities that are affected by HIV have a strong voice in the cure research of defeatHIV, please come to one of our community dinner meetings. More info, contact Michael Louella, (206) 667-5810; mlouella@fredhutch.org

Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County. “We will be discussing issues concerning the local Gay community & value your opinion, voice, comments, suggestions & attendance. Come join us as we build community in Snohomish County.” David, (425) 339-5238. LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, (425) 271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. peerseattle.org

Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youth ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org No Man’s Land - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues

to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org

Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Colonial room).

Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.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. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. A vibrant drop-in workshop for those of any spiritual belief. (206) 322-2437; www. peerseattle.org

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Bellingham 7:30-9pm. St James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St., Bellingham. Every Tuesday. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. (See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.)

***Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com. [Info out of date]

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 2

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

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

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

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

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

Southeast Seattle Lesbian Evening Group. 6pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. RSVP to Kate Hawkins (206) 722-0317. www.sessc.org. FREE. Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma DiscussionNorth. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Every Wednesday. Call (206) 525-7295 for location. www. LotusSisters.org.

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

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

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

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

PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday 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/Renton: 425-235-4139. PFLAG/ Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org.

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

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday.

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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.

Pride Skate Seattle. 8:30-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. $8 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+, with 21+ bar. Performances, roller skating, and fun! See you there! www.southgaterollerrink.com

THURSDAY - October 3

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

ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle Lunch Gathering. 11:30am-2:30pm. Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 S Holly St, Rainier Ave S & S Holly St., Arts & Crafts Room. Meets 1st Thursday each month. This is a group primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Facilitator: Fai Coffin; Cost: Free for gathering; $5 suggested donation for lunch. Metro route 7. Wheelchair accessible. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org.

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

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Safe and Sober (AA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.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 (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

First Thursday Art Walk in Downtown Seattle/Pioneer Square. 5-9pm. Art galleries in Downtown Seattle/Pioneer Square host opening night receptions. Seattle Art Museum is free today.

Rouge at Maximilien. 5-7pm. 81a Pike Place Market. Live Parisian music during First Thursday Art Walk. Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month. SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of Seattle Depts in matters regarding human rights. The commission advocates for justice & equal opportunity & collaborates with & educates the public & private sectors about how to prevent & eliminate discrimination city-wide. Meetings open to the public. (206) 684-4540.

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

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

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Northgate Mall, 491 NE Northgate Way. Meets 1st Thursday each month. Monthly social meet & greet. Look for your fellow Prime Timers at a table in the Food Court at the south end of the mall. Northgate is served by many bus routes including 26X, 40, 41, 67 & 75. www.seattleprimetimers.org

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. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100 Every Thursday. A meditation/ recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month. ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

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. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Thursday. Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org [NOTE: Please contact the facilitator prior to attending.]

FRIDAY - October 4

National LGBTQ Health & Longevity Conference. 8:30am-4pm. Bell Harbor International Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way. To register and more information: http://genevents.org/conference/ Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Friday. A drop-in AA group for 55+. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12-1:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Friday. Ongoing 12-step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

LGBTQ & Allies 18+ Free Friday Night Drop-In Volleyball. 6-7:45pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E. Every Friday. (206) 684-4753.

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

Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. peerseattle.org

Game Night. 7pm-11pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100 Every Friday. Card games, board games and fellowship. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

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

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

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

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Every Friday. 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; (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org

Seattle Leather Daddy & Daddy’s Boy Contest Meet & Greet. 8-10pm. The Cuff Complex Patio, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Sponsored by Seattle Men in Leather. seattlemeninleather.org

SATURDAY - October 5

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Generations Celebration: Honoring LGBTQ Elders, Bridging Lives of All Ages. 5-10pm. Bell Harbor International Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way. FREE for elders 70+. For more information and tickets, visit http://genevents.org/gala.

Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. International 2019-20. 6pm. Highline Performing Arts Center, 401 S 152nd St, Burien. The Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. pageant is the annual fundraiser for local non-profit, U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle. U.T.O.P.I.A. (United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance) provides sacred spaces to strengthen the minds and bodies of QTPIs (Queer and Trans Pacific Islanders) through community organizing, community care, civic engagement, and cultural stewardship. Our mission is to integrate into the pagentry system. Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. International offers a unique blend of glamour and elegance to the traditional world of pageantry. Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. International is a fun family-oriented event filled with all the glamour and excitement pagentry has to offer. We are in search of an ambassador that is able to represent the diverse cultural community of the Pacific. Join us and celebrate beauty, pride and culture at the Miss U.T.O.P.I.A. International pageant. Tickets: $20. www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/4304618

Seattle Leather Daddy & Daddy’s Boy Contest. 6pm doors; 7pm contest. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). $15 cover. Sponsored by Seattle Men in Leather. seattlemeninleather.org

SUNDAY - October 6

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Leather Daddy & Daddy’s Boy Contest Victory Brunch. 10:15am-12:30pm. Backyard, 3820 S Ferdinand St., Ste 102. Sponsored by Seattle Men in Leather. seattlemeninleather.org Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/

PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.whatcompflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info (206) 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html

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

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

Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Vernon) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities - www.colage.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - (206) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979. Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - (206) 322-2515; www.lamberthouse. org

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

LGBT MS Connection - (425) 785-8593; lgbtmsconnections@comcast.net. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Lifelong AIDS Alliance - (206) 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org

Lion’s Main Art Collective - www.lionsmain.org MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www. nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.com; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: www.raincityjacks.

org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www. seattle primetimers.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band. com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: (206) 388-1408, (206) 323-0750. www.seattlechoruses.org.

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

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

Olympia/Thurston County - www.RainbowCenterOly. org

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

Out & Proud Grays Harbor Coalition - http://outandproudgh.org

PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: (206) 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: (206) 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: (206) 568-7777, qpnd@nwnetwork.org, www.nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org

PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality with chapters in Seattle, Bellevue/Eastside, the Puget Sound region and across Washington state. PFLAG Seattle: (206) 325-7724, info@pflagseattle.org, and www.pflagseattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: (425) 483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington State: www. pflagwsc.org.

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

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

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

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

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. Call (206) 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT com-

community calendar

munity. www.voteseamec.org

Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) i- SEE LISTING for Peer Seattle.

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

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

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

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

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

Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org

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

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

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

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

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

SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flag Football: www.cascadeflagfootball.org; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball. org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education

& recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www. seattlegaybasketballassociation.com; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.theprideleague. com, Century 21 League; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, (206) 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@ camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org

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

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

TRANSform Washington: transformwashington.com; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com

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

YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Coyote Central: www.coyotecentral.org; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www. globeyouth.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way; (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: (206) 957-1665; www. llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace.com ; The Mockingbird Society: (206) 323-KIDS (5437), www. mockingbirdsociety.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org; OKAY! LGBTQ+ Outreach for Kent Area Youth: (253) 859-0699 ext 3034. OKAY! is an open support group for youth ages 13-19 who identify as LGBTQ+. A program of Kent Youth & Family Services; OUT There Adventures: www.outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., (206) 726-8500; www.psks.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www. pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www. facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, (206) 326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - (360) 6983335; www.kchaf.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; The Vera Project: fuels personal & community transformation through collaborative youthdriven engagement in music and art. (206) 956-8372; theveraproject.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

SEATTLE

SEATTLE

BATHS

CLUB Z - (men)

Pike near Boren - 622-9958

corner of Pike & 11th

1117 Pike near Boren - (206) 622-9958

(stairs behind Wildrose) - 568-3240

HOT HOUSE SPA & SAUNA - (women)

STEAM WORKS - (men)

SW corner of Pike & 11th

1520 Summit - 388-4818

(stairs behind Wildrose) - (206) 568-3240

STEAM WORKS - (men)

1520 Summit Ave - (206) 388-4818

RESTAURANTS & BARS

88 KEYS - 315 2nd Ave. S. - 839-1300

BALTIC ROOM - 1207 Pine St. - 625-4444

RESTAURANTS & BARS

THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE

2328 E. Madison St. - 323-1098

BALTIC ROOM - 1207 Pine St. - (206) 625-4444

C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE

THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE

1701 E. Olive Way - 726-0565

2328 E. Madison St. - (206) 323-1098

CAPITOL CIDER - 818 E Pike St. - (206) 397-3564

1533 13th Ave. - 323-1525

RETAIL SHOPS

DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - 322-1080

GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - 324-2577

HOT MAMA’S PIZZA - 700 E. Pine St. - 322-6444

BABELAND - 707 E. Pike St. - (206) 328-2914

JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. E. - 441-9729

CASTLE SUPERSTORE #17

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

1017 E. Pike St - (206) 204-0126

DIEGO PELLICER - 2215 4th Ave. S - (206) 624-0070

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

DOGHOUSE LEATHERS

MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - 325-6537

715 E. Pike St. - (206) 257-0231

NEIGHBOURS - 1509 Broadway - 324-5358

OUT WEST - 5401California Ave. SW

EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - (206) 323-7437

FANTASY UNLIMITED

THE PINE BOX - 1600 Melrose Ave - 588-0375

POCO WINE ROOM

2027 Westlake Ave. - (206) 682-0167

1408 E. Pine St. - 322-9463

1510 1st Ave - (206) 624-1784

POKE BAR - 1542 12th Ave - 402-5178

HASHTAG - 3540 Stone Way N - (206) 946-8157

PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - 324-2854

HERBAN LEGENDS - 55 Bell St - (206) 849-5596

HERB(N) ELEMENTS

PURR - 1518 11th Ave. - 325-3112

R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - 322-8828

11013 Lake City Way NE - (206) 535-8769

RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - 233-9873

LAUGHING BUDDHA TATTOO

ROOT TABLE 2213 NW Market St. - 420-3214

1534 Broadway - (206) 329-8274

THE CANTERBURY - 534 15th Ave. E. - 322-3130

CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD

C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE

2103 N. 45th - 545-8363

1701 E. Olive Way - (206) 726-0565

THE CANTERBURY

SEATTLE EAGLE - 314 E. Pike - 621-7591

SHORTY’S 2222 2nd Ave - 441-5449

THE NEW YORK XCHANGE

STOUT -1530 11th Ave - 397-3825

225 Broadway E. - (206) 726-3300

TOULOUSE PETIT

ONYX LEATHER

601 Queen Anne Ave N - 432-9069

KENT

WILDROSE - 1021 E. Pike - 324-9210

ZIPPY’S GIANT BURGERS

5633 Airport Way S - 466-5954

9614 14th Ave SW - 763-1347

LOVER’S - 25801 104th Ave. SE - (253) 852-1720

THE CRESCENT - 1413 E. Olive Way - 720-8188

534 15th Ave. E - (206) 322-3130

THE CUFF COMPLEX

CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD

2103 N. 45th - (206) 545-8363

THE CRESCENT

1413 E. Olive Way - (206) 720-8188

THE CUFF COMPLEX

1533 13th Ave. - (206) 323-1525

DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - (206) 322-1080

GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - (206) 324-2577

HOT MAMA’S PIZZA

700 E. Pine St. - (206) 322-6444

JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. - (206) 441-9729

JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E - (206) 860-1818

KREMWERK - 1809 Minor Ave. #10 - (206) 682-2935

THE LUMBER YARD

9619 16th Ave. SW - (206) 695-2007

MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - (206) 325-6537

NEIGHBOURS - 1509 Broadway - (206) 324-5358

THE PINE BOX - 1600 Melrose Ave - (206) 588-0375

POCO WINE ROOM

1408 E. Pine St. - (206) 322-9463

PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - (206) 324-2854

QUEER BAR - 1518 11th Ave - (206) 687-7491

R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - (206) 322-8828

RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - (206) 233-9873

ROOT TABLE 2213 NW Market St. - (206) 420-3214

SEATTLE EAGLE - 314 E. Pike - (206) 621-7591

SHORTY’S 2222 2nd Ave - (206) 441-5449

STOUT -1530 11th Ave - (206) 397-3825

THE SWALLOW -9608 16th Ave SW - (206) 257-0217

UNICORN - 1118 E Pike - (206) 325-6492

UNION - 1318 E. Union St. - (206) 328-1318

WILDROSE - 1021 E Pike - (206) 324-9210

ZIPPY’S GIANT BURGERS

9614 14th Ave SW - (206) 763-1347

1605 12th Ave. #8 - (206) 328-1965

OZ - 3831 Stone Way N - (206) 251-0630

UNICORN - 1118 E Pike - 325-6492

PACIFIC NORTHWEST SHOP

4411 Wallingford Ave. N. - (206) 535-6920

PANACHE - 225 Broadway E. - (206) 726-3300

PONDER - 2413 E Union - (206) 420-2180

RUCKUS - 1465 E Republican St - (206) 257-4805

TABOO ADULT VIDEO

9813 16th Ave SW - (206) 767-4855

TRUE LOVE ART GALLERY & TATTOO

1525 Summit Ave. - (206) 227-3572

UNDER U 4 MEN

709 Broadway Ave. E - (206) 324-6446

UNCLE IKE’S

2310 E Union St - 1-800-GET-DRUGS 501 15th Ave E - 1-800-GET-DRUGS 9822 15th Ave SW - 1-800-GET-DRUGS

WILD AT HEART 1111 NW Leary Way - (206) 782-5538

BELLINGHAM

LOVER'S

193 Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862

RUMORS CABARET 1119 Railroad - (360) 671-1849

DES MOINES

ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO 2 21635 Pacific Hwy S - (206) 878-7780

EVERETT

ADULT AIRPORT VIDEO 11732 Airport Road - (425) 290-7555

LOVER’S - 112 SE Everett - (425) 353-3607

LOVER’S - 3402 Broadway - (425) 252-8754

THE FANTASY SHOP 604 Central Ave. S - (253) 850-8428

RETAIL SHOPS

CASTLE SUPERSTORE #17

NASHVILLE’S SPORTS BAR (Drag Shows) 114 - Railroad Ave. N - (253) 852-0909

1017 E. Pike St - 204-0126

DOGHOUSE LEATHERS

1312 E. Pike St. - 257-0231

LA CONNER

EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - 323-7437

HASHTAG - 3540 Stone Way N - 946-8157

NEW YORK EXCHANGE

THE HERON INN & WATERGRASS DAY SPA 117 Maple Ave. - (877) 883-8899 info@theheron.com

225 Broadway E. - 726-3300

ONYX LEATHER - 1605 12th Ave. #8 - 328-1965

OZ - 3831 Stone Way N - 251-0630

OLYMPIA

PANACHE

225 Broadway E. - 726-3300

DARBY’S CAFE

RUCKUS 1465 E Republican St. - 257-4805

211 5th Ave. SE - (360) 357-6229

THE FANTASY SHOP 9630 16th Ave. SW - 762-3299

TABOO ADULT VIDEO 9813 16th Ave SW - 767-4855

LOVER’S 3959 Martin Way E, Suite D - (360) 456-7300

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

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

UNDER U 4 MEN

ORCAS ISLAND

709 Broadway Ave. E. - 324-6446

UNCLE IKE’S

BROWN BEAR BAKING, LLC

29 N Beach Rd #1966, Eastsound - (360) 855-7456

PORT ANGELES

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

BELLINGHAM

SPOKANE

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

THE BLIND BUCK

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

GLOBE BAR AND KITCHEN

DES MOINES

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

NYNE BAR AND BISTRO 232 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 474-1621

EVERETT

KENT

LA CONNER

TACOMA

OLYMPIA

PORT ANGELES

SPOKANE

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