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Issue 8, Volume 42, February 21, 2014

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

PAUL SIMON & STING KEY ARENA February 19

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Individually, Paul Simon and Sting are expert musicians. They each have massive catalogs of solo and collaborative work. They each own multiple Grammy Awards, platinum records and top accolades from their respective countries – Simon is a Kennedy Center Honoree, while Sting has been designated the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). They’ve each stayed true to their rock and folk roots, but have dabbled in pop, zydeco, Latin and world music, among others. And, each has earned legendary status on their own merit.

Together, they proved to be an unbeatable pair at Key Arena.

Playing to a packed house on Wednesday night, each artist performed mini sets of signature material and then dueted on several numbers. Overall, fans got 2 hours and 30 minutes of classic tunes with no breaks and minimal interaction between songs.

The show began with both men walking on stage quietly and getting right to business with a folksy version of “Brand New Day,” followed by a nice run-through of “The Boy see sting page 7

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Stranger by the Lake: Oscars 2014: Watch the An interview with Alain Guiraudie awards at Purr on March 2

Christophe Paou (l) and Pierre de Ladonchamps

by Gary M. Kramer SGN Contributing Writer STRANGER BY THE LAKE Opening March 7 Stranger by the Lake, written and directed by Alain Guiraudie, depicts a love triangle that develops at a cruising area. Franck (Pierre Deadonchamps) befriends newcomer Henri (Patrick d’Assumçao), but he lusts after Michel (Christophe Paou). Even though Franck spies Michel drowning his boyfriend, Ramière (François-Renaud Labarthe), he can’t resist coupling up with the murdering hunk.

However, once their affair begins, Franck is frustrated that his relationship with Michel is limited to their lakeside assignations. Curiously, both men lie to Inspector Damroder (Jérômre Chappatte), who is investigating Ramière’s death. This seductive erotic thriller – which is shot in a series of hypnotic, repetitive sequences – plays with issues of attraction and voyeurism, as well as trust and truth as the characters strip down on the beach, swim naked in the lake and stroke and sometimes suck each other off in the woods.

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

Gravity or 12 Years a Slave or American Hustle? Matthew McConaughey or Leonardo DiCaprio or Chiwetel Ejiofor?

“Happy” or “Ordinary Love”?

Jennifer Lawrence or Lupita Nyong’o? We’ll know next weekend when the 86th Academy see Stranger page 8 Awards are presented live on

March 2, emceed by everyone’s favorite Lesbian, Ellen Degeneres. Bette Midler will perform for the first time ever on the show, which will also feature performances by Keren O, Pharrell Williams and U2.

Seattle Gay News invites everybody to an Oscars Viewing Party at Purr (1518 11th Avenue), where not only can you watch the red carpet arrivals and awards

ceremony in their entirety, but you can win a gift bag of prizes if you guess the winners correctly in key categories. The event will be hosted by Barbie Humphrey and guests can enjoy “Happy Hour” specials all night, so arrive early to have drinks and food, and to snag a good seat.

Doors open at noon. There is no cover charge and Oscar ballots will be furnished at no cost.

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theater and stage

Book-It’s Frankenstein tells the real story Chris Bennion

Connor Toms in Frankenstein

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Through March 9

We have taken a ghost story by a remarkable 18-year-old woman, written in the early 1800s, and stretched it all over the place by now, with movies of various sorts and successes, all the way up to the over-the-top hysteria of Young Frankenstein. The novel has sparked inspiration

and adulteration and a classic “creature” that is known the world over; though often the creature is named Frankenstein, which is incorrect.

David Quicksall has adapted and directed the current theatrical production of Frankenstein for Book-It Repertory Theatre. As is Book-It’s mission, he has gone back to the book and what we see on stage is crucially not a horror story, with blood and gore, though there is some of that. It is a distillation of a novel of unfettered ambition, passion without boundaries, and a cautionary tale of where human endeavor should fear to tread.

The adaptation has much to recommend it: including a talented cast headed by an intense and focused Connor Toms as Frankenstein, a young man who describes his folly in pursuing his passion for chemistry by forming and animating a quasi-human being. He tells his tale to a ship’s captain (played with gravitas and enormous patience by Frank Lawler) after being rescued improbably in the waters of the Arctic Sea. The cautionary tale is of a young man’s passion for science, an obsession with discovery, and some very unlikely science fiction. In some ways, the holes in the story become more obvious, and the leaps of logic more difficult for an audience member to make. But it certainly is a ripping good tale.

Frankenstein gives life to a creature and is so horrified by what he has done that he rejects the creature, abandoning him completely to death or uncertain life, and tries to forget all about him. The creature (improbably – here is one of those leaps you just have to accept) not only finds a way to live, but also learns English and how to read, all by himself, and then finds a way to find his creator, Frankenstein. The

creature, in retribution, then murders everyone who is important to Frankenstein.

The creature’s longing for human contact is pretty palpable; but however much ardor Jim Hamerlinck displays as the creature in this production, and it’s considerable, the director creates a certain emotional distance from the audience that fails to stimulate our empathy to the degree that could be accomplished, partly because some of the creature’s story is told by voice-over.

The fluid set design by Andrea Bryn Bush featuring many curtains billowing in stage breezes, a dim and evocative lighting scheme by Andrew D. Smith, eerie and cataclysmic sound and some terrific original music by Nathan Wade, and precise costuming by Jocelyne Fowler, all provide great atmospheric support.

I continue to wish that theaters would help their playwrights/adapters by giving them top-notch directors who can team up with them to bring out the best of each quality. Book-It is somewhat unfortunately wedded to a concept that the adapter is the best one to direct a production. I disagree with this and think that Book-It would have great synergy if they allowed teams of two to create their productions.

There are particular moments that a different director might have improved.

Quicksall is both a great adapter and a solid director. I think just better one at a time, in my, as they say, humble opinion.

Due to a small amount of nudity, the production is not for children, perhaps under sixteen. For more information, go to www.book-it.org or call 206-216-0833.

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by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer VENUS IN FUR SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE Through March 9 So, an actress walks into an audition late.

Very late. And the director/adapter is tired and frustrated, having auditioned dozens, he lets us know, DOZENS of young women, who can’t even begin to speak the language of his play. His masterpiece is an adaptation of an 1870 novel, Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. But the actress dispenses with the novel as “S&M porn,” offhandedly, challenging and taunting the director to allow her to audition, since she’s already there.

Thus begins Venus in Fur, by David Ives, the latest production at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a co-production with Arizona Theatre Company. Michael Tisdale and Gillian Williams, two actors from ATC, and director Shana Cooper mount this electrifying, titillating, challenging, funny, whiplashing, rolereversing, sexuality-exploring one-act.

The somewhat lengthy (100 plus) minute one-act is a fast-paced exploration of both the subject of the novel, masochistic relationships (named after author SacherMasoch), and who’s on top. Is it the slave

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or the master? Is a woman by definition the weaker sex, or does the man give over to serve the woman?

What makes this play particularly fun is the lightning fast switches from modern vernacular and slang back to 18th Century refined speech. Williams is fantastically good at the minute moments of back-andforth, with a faint New Yorkese, and brash American style, giving way in parts of seconds back to a pseudo-British refinement.

Tisdale starts out promisingly, but does not plant himself firmly enough in the “asshole” category to hang on to his ascendance in the face of Williams’ immediate disarmament.

He does a good job, but when he has to change to a certain submission, the change is undercut by too much passivity at the beginning.

David Ives’ play is very well written and very fun, particularly at the beginning, though he doesn’t end up challenging the male/female relationship nearly as much as he promises. And the ending seems like he decided he had written a long-enough play and had to finish it somehow.

The very first sentences Ives has the man say are completely unbelievable to me: that he couldn’t find any good female actors. Ives may not know that there are dozens of fantastic female actors for every male, because so many women develop theatrical skills for so few fe-

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Venus in Fur electrifying

Michael Tisdale (l) and Gillian Williams in Venus in Fur

male parts! So, it undercuts his understanding of women, and as the play goes along, so do his postulates for feminine power.

Director Shana Cooper plainly revels in the strength of the female character, but unfortunately doesn’t help her create levels of intimacy or a real sexual chemistry with her male counterpoint, and therefore the production misses any highs or lows. The first half of the play feels fun and involving, but it flags and then stays about the same for the last half.

Ives’ decision to transform the female into an archetype (at the end) seems in a perverse way to suggest he is not at all comfortable

with real human female sexuality. In a battle of sexual power, only a Goddess can win over a lowly man, not a real woman. And in that dilemma, Ives fails to illuminate anything useful or new about our sexual lives.

The play is smart enough, then, to end up disappointing. Both a testament to and a failure of a set up that has promise, but does not cut through the musty ideas of female sexuality that continue to hamper us in the rest of life.

For more information, go to www.seattlerep.org or call 206-443-2222. Discuss your opinions with sgncritic@gmail.com or go to www.facebook.com/SeattleTheaterWriters.

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Marisol a challenging play open to many interpretations

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer MARISOL THE COLLISION PROJECT (AT THE INSCAPE BUILDING) Through February 22

there is the possibility of “winning” somehow, in this world?) are probably outside the grasp of those who don’t follow the hierarchies of angels and the traditions of Catholic Hell.

If immersing yourself in a world that is different and challenging is part of why you love to attend theater, then this production is definitely for you. If you like your stories laid out

with few questions and endings that wrap everything up, you’ll want to steer clear.

For more information, go to www.collisiontheater.org or www.brownpapertickets. com/event/431244 or call 425-891-1778.

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A new company, The Collision Project, is debuting their maiden work, Jose Rivera’s Marisol. The company is comprised of people who have been part of other small companies around town, but say they want to “foster unusual collaborations within highly theatrical, yet simply staged stories.” They want to do that in “cross-disciplinary” experiences.

This production of Marisol, however, does not clearly demonstrate a cross-discipline of any other artistic medium; though it is an interesting and challenging choice of work and the actors eagerly embrace the challenge.

Choosing Jose Rivera makes The Collision Project stand out, since few of his plays have been mounted in Seattle, at least in recent years. Marisol is challenging because it is open to so many interpretations. It is a surreal and non-linear premise that begins with a young woman on a New York subway possibly being murdered with a golf club, but maybe that’s someone else who shares her name.

Perhaps the world is ending. A guardian angel (Shermona Mitchell) comes to Marisol (Carolyn Marie Monroe) and tells her that she

must leave to join an angel army against a senile God. Marisol must make it on her own.

Marisol isn’t sure who she can trust: A coworker (Libby Barnard) who turns out to be the sister of the man, Lenny (Ben D. McFadden) with the golf club? A society woman (Jill Snyder-Marr) who has been arrested for using her credit card over the limit (Jill SnyderMarr)? A man with an ice cream cone (Carter Rodriguez)? A man who has been set upon, gasolined and set on fire, and now oozes burns (also Carter Rodriguez)?

The play has many possible themes running through it. The themes call out for a director to choose among them to find the way to thread the needle for the production, rather than throw spaghetti at the wall and see which sticks. Director Ryan Higgins makes a credible stab at the play, but does not help the audience understand the way through it very well. The play does not crystallize in a way that could help.

The rudimentary sets are gritty and roughly painted. They succeed in creating a down-at-the-heels world in low-income New York City. But if we’re to be transported to a realm between worlds, there are few signposts to help us know that we’ve been torn off the Earth.

Rivera’s play is full of Catholic references, which are likely opaque to those who are not steeped in that tradition. So his meaning and the potential redemption Marisol might achieve (Is that what the end means? That

Carolyn Marie Monroe (l) and Shermona Mitchell in Marisol

Books

Tenth Annual Golden Crown Literary Conference to be held in Portland this summer During the Tenth Annual Golden Crown Literary Conference, in Portland, OR, July 9-13, 2014, the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) will host educational seminars/workshops for readers and writers as well as provide opportunities to meet published authors. Social events will include author chats, karaoke nights, meet and greet parties and special activities for new attendees. There will be pitch sessions as well, in which an aspiring author will be offered the chance to pitch a book idea to several Lesbian publishing companies.

Authors Lori L. Lake and Ann Bannon will offer special presentations.

The culmination of the four-day event will be presentation of the annual Goldies, the Golden Crown Literary Awards for excellence in Lesbian literature. In 2005, the first Goldie awards were given in four categories: romance, mystery/ thriller, sci-fi/fantasy, and debut author. As of 2013, Goldies were given in twelve regular categories plus four special awards: The Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, The Lee Lynch Classic Award, The Directors’ Award, and The Trailblazer Award. In 2014, eBooks will be added.

Links are online at www.goldencrown. org to make it easy to register for the conference and to book hotel reservations at the Red Lion Hotel on the River Jantzen

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Beach. The website also has links where one can nominate books for the Goldies, sign up to be a sponsor, and offer ideas for sessions, panels, author chats and classes. Attendees can also sign up to mentor a novice writer or be mentored by a professional in how to improve a manuscript for publication.

The Golden Crown Literary Society Conference is a great opportunity for readers, authors, aspiring writers, editors, publishers, and media to learn about and meet colleagues as they explore Lesbian literature.

Membership in the GCLS is not required to attend.

For more about the conference, as well as a tentative schedule, please visit the GCLS website at www.goldencrown.org The Mission of the Golden Crown Literary Society: The Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) is a literary and educational organization for the enjoyment, discussion, and enhancement of Lesbian literature. Our goals are to support and strengthen quality Lesbian literature by providing places for readers and writers to interact, to encourage and assist new writers and established authors, and to recognize and promote Lesbian work.

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The King’s Singers in concert Benjamin Ealovega

by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer THE KING SINGER’S EARLY MUSIC GUILD TOWN HALL February 15 What is there to say about a concert that so approaches heaven?! The King’s Singers (British, of course) are known, as the program says, “for their spot-on intonation, impeccable vocal blend, flawless articulation of the text and incisive timing.” Aside from musical perfection, they are also a heap of fun.

Six singers (two countertenors, tenor, two baritones and a bass) are all quite young except for the lead countertenor, David Hurley. They sang without instruments, which were not missed. With over 150 recordings on numerous labels, The King’s Singers are very committed to modern choral music.

Those who are well acquainted with early music recognize the striking similarities between some new music and that of the Renaissance. Thus it was that this sold-out concert filled the first half with works, in alternating order, by two composers, one modern and one early.

The evening’s theme was “In Memoriam Josquin des Prez.” Jean Richafort (c. 1480c. 1547) was possibly one of des Prez’ pupils, and his Missa pro defunctis (featured here) was a memorial to des Prez, written only 11 years after that composer’s death.

Though Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) is a twentieth century composer, his style in these works so resembles the earlier artist that my untrained ear was sometimes not sure which was which, as we heard first one man and then the other.

The King's Singers

The first half of the program gave no hint of the personalities of the performers; in their black suits and white ties, they concentrated on alternating parts of Duruflé’s Quatre Motets sur les chants Grégoriens with sections of Richafort’s Missa pro defunctis.

They sang with little vibrato but avoided the dry sound of straight tones, except when they held a final note, tuning it to harmonic perfection. The beauty of their sound, even in the dry acoustic of Town Hall, made our trip from Whidbey Island through a driving rain more than worthwhile.

After the interval came the fun.

With each of the six singers now showing distinct personalities, the precision and perfection of articulation nonetheless remained intact. Early music from Mexico and Catalonia provided vehicles for flamboyant humor and musical delights. These tunes also gave solo opportunities to each of the singers, giving us a welcome chance to experience each voice that had been previously somewhat hid-

den in the perfect blend of the group.

Similarly, each artist introduced some of the songs that were not identified in the printed program. Delightful British wit peppered each intro. This combined with the playful nature of the songs to whip the audience into a sea of smiles and eruptions of applause.

Encores were American pop tunes, beautifully sung even if the harmonies briefly slipped into those overly sophisticated bits that draw attention to the skills of the arranger and away from the charm of the original work. Those who did not have a ferry to catch were invited to stay and meet the singers. Given the charm of these men, I’m sure that would have been rewarding indeed. Actually, I just visited http://www.kingssingers.com/ and found ample chances to meet the guys in a series of short videos on the right side of their website. Enjoy!

Reviewer Rod Parke can be reached at rmp62@columbia.edu.

Tori Amos unveils Seattle concert date courtesy of Youtube

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Multi-talented, eclectic singer-songwriter Tori Amos has announced a return to the Emerald City. The artist, beloved by Gay men and women all over the world, will appear July 17 at the Paramount Theatre, where she performed on her previous win-

tertime visit. Remember when she sang that mesmerizing version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?” Well, maybe she’ll do a song about sunshine this time around. Amos is set to release her 14th studio recording, Unrepentant Geraldines, on May 13 and will surely include material from it on her upcoming tour. She also collaborated with author Samuel Adamson,

serving as composer for a new musical called The Light Princes, which bowed to London audiences last fall. At press time, the only ticket information available was a pre-sale for fans who order Unrepentant Geraldines at www.myplaydirect.com/ tori-amos. Amos has interviewed with Seattle Gay News twice and continues to be a strong ally of the LGBT community.

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

A reunited Nickel Creek to play Paramount Theatre courtesy of Sugarhill Records

In an interview with Seattle Gay News two weeks ago, Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket revealed that bluegrass trio Nickel Creek had reunited. He was right. The Grammy-winning three-piece, whom I’ve previously met backstage at the Paramount Theatre, will release their first album in 9 years on April 1 entitled A Dotted Line, which will be boosted by a tour that includes a Seattle date.

Nickel Creek is set to appear May 17 at the Moore Theatre, part of a four-month tour that already includes sold out shows in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Boston and Nashville. Tickets for the Seattle performance go on sale February 21 (10 a.m.) at Ticketmaster, or online at www.LiveNation.com, or by calling (877) 784-4849.

Were you considering seeing Robin Thicke live at WaMu Theatre? Stop considering. The devilishly handsome singer has axed his March 26 performance in Seattle, and there are no current plans to reschedule it. Ticket refunds are available at your point of purchase, or visit www.ticketmaster.com for information.

“Same Love” in the United Arab Emirates? Yes, indeed! Four-time Grammy winners Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will fly nearly 7,500 miles to the gulf nation for a performance on April 25. The Emerald City-based duo will appear in the capital city, Abu Dhabi, on the man-made Yas Island, marking their first-ever Middle Eastern live show. Tickets are priced between

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continued from cover in the Bubble” and a sweet acoustic rendition of “Fields of Gold.” There were joint sessions during the night, but there were also portions of the concert when Simon and Sting had the stage all to themselves.

Sting spoiled us with a wonderful set that included “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Englishman in New York,” “Driven to Tears,” with an added violin solo, and “Walking on the Moon” that definitely had a splash of reggae.

“I gotta say,” said Sting with a grin. “I’ve never been a fan of American football, but . . . that was great.” The crowd roared with pride.

They combined forces for an enthusiastic delivery of “Mother and Child Reunion,” and then Simon nabbed the spotlight with solo performances of “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” with a jazzy-funky twist , “Graceland,” “Dazzling Blue” and a splendid

take on “Still Crazy After All These Years.”

I lost count of how many instruments were used by a large band that stretched from one side of the stage to the other, from chimes to washboards, trumpets to recorders, saxophones to a variety of guitars. There were no stage props or background graphics; we simply got two musicians in prime form entertaining us for over two hours.

After a fun duet of “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard,” we got Sting all to ourselves again, looking ever so gorgeous in fitted jeans, tight long-sleeve shirt, dark-colored sports coat and his head shaved with just a dusting of hair. “Message in a Bottle” was marvelous, though “They Dance Alone” was probably the weak point of his set. We all rocked out to “Roxanne,” as the stage lighting turned to blood red, while “Desert Rose” showcased Sting’s impressive vocals – the man still has some amazing pipes!

“The Boxer” featured both artists taking

turns at singing the verses, and Simon followed with a dazzling solo session that included spirited renditions of “The Obvious Child,” “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and “You Can Call Me Al.” The short, gray-haired veteran flapped his arms and made hand gestures while he sang, and he encouraged everyone to clap along. He certainly seemed more upbeat and less serious than when he performed a few years ago at WaMu Theater.

A three-number encore kicked off with “Every Breath You Take,” prompting many couples to cuddle or hold hands, followed by a brass section-infused “Late in the Evening” as the entire arena was on its feet dancing. Sting’s powerful vocals again stood out on “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as the crowd joined in the chorus. The finale

$80 and $161 USD, or $1000 USD for a table. Special guests, who will open the concert, will soon be announced.

Weeks ago, I mentioned a Tokyo billboard tied into a Madonna project. A tour announcement? New album release date?

It’s neither. The Material Girl is actually launching her own skin care product line in Japan’s capital at Omotesando, a cosmetics boutique that will sell “MDNA Skin” at their shop beginning February 23. The products are said to be targeting female consumers and no word yet on whether Madonna will expand her line to add men’s items. The pop queen is expected to put out a new album in 2014.

You snooze, you lose. These concerts are now sold out: G-Easy on March 7 (The Showbox Market), Bring Me the Horizon on March 24 (The Showbox SoDo), Young the Giant on April 5 (The Showbox Market, tickets for the April 6 performance still available), Bastille on April 8 (The Showbox SoDo), Ellie Goulding on April 23 (Paramount Theatre), The 1975 on April 24 (The Showbox Market), The Glitch Mob on May 3 (The Showbox Market, tickets for the May 4 performance still available) and Lindsey Stirling on May 21 (The Showbox Market), And, the Lorde concert on March 24 (WaMu Theatre) is close to selling out.

Finally, the performers lineup for the upcoming Oscars telecast will feature Idina Menzel, Keren O, Pharrell Williams and U2. Seattle Gay News is co-hosting an Oscar bash on March 2 at Purr.

was a stripped-down cover of The Everly Brothers’ “When Will I Be Loved,” as both musicians strummed acoustic guitars.

There appeared to be much respect between Paul Simon and Sting, a friendship that gave way to an ultimate collaboration, a full tour that afforded fans of both men to see them in action together. Musically, they complimented one another well, and they spoke highly of the other – neither had an ego and neither over shadowed the other. Even more astounding is how pure they remain as artists; you still get a real organic sound from each of them.

Although I’d love to experience them individually in the near future (I’ve seen Simon and Sting once on their own), I wouldn’t miss a second opportunity to witness them together again.

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Sting performs in Juan-les-Pins, France

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film and Television

Fiery Pompeii a volcanic star-crossed love story For a disaster movie, based on an actual historical event, no less, Pompeii is remarkably restrained. For a gladiatorslash-revenge-slash-star-crossed-loverslove-story directed by the man behind Resident Evil, Event Horizon, Alien vs.

Predator and Mortal Kombat, Paul W.S. Anderson, it is shockingly even more so.

Sure it is in 3-D. Of course the CGI visual effects threaten to overwhelm the proceedings. Without question a few of the performances, I’m looking at you, a supremely miscast Kiefer Sutherland, are hyperbolically comical and hysterically over the top. But, stunningly, surprisingly, almost to the point of dumbfounded disbelief, the movie doesn’t try to do too much or overplay its hand, and if not for a hackneyed, unintentionally silly conclusion, the film comes curiously close to being worthy of a somewhat half-hearted recommendation.

Sadly, the last 15 minutes, the point when all you-know-what breaks loose and it’s every citizen for themselves, is Anderson at his absolute worst, the director engaging in many of the overly theatric, exceedingly melodramatic tricks that have undone just about every single motion picture he has ever made. He’s a B-movie wunderkind with aspirations of becoming an A-list auteur, and while the material moderately lends itself to the latter, his sensibilities behind the camera always seem to provoke the former to come oozing out of him come what may.

You can think of the movie as some odd-duck assemblage of Gladiator, 2012, Dante’s Peak and Titanic thrown into a blender and mixed with devilish relish. The story, credited to three writers (with an uncredited assist by Downton Abbey and Gosford Park scribe Julian Fellowes), is a silly

hodgepodge of a number of clichés, yet the majority of the dramatics are reasonably better developed than initially surmised. I was more invested in the proceedings than I had any right to be, the more intimate moments affecting an authentic emotional reaction I couldn’t have anticipated.

The plot itself is pure cheese. Milo (Kit Harington), the sole survivor of his tribe of Briton horse lords, has been raised a slave since childhood and taught the gladiatorial arts by his owner. He is sent to Pompeii to take part in an annual festival, his skills appearing to be a solid match for reigning champion Atticus (Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje), the wise barbarian one win away from achieving his freedom.

While there, Milo comes into contact with the beautiful Cassia (Emily Browning), daughter of the city’s wealthiest merchant Severus (Jared Harris). He is also reunited with the Roman General turned corrupt Senator, the malevolent Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), who was responsible for the slaughter of his entire clan. With friendship developing between he and Atticus, love in the air as it relates to Cassia and vengeance building every time he looks upon Corvus, Pompeii’s beautiful mountain Mount Vesuvius is rumbling to life, unimaginable mayhem and tragedy on the docket no one in the city is prepared to face.

The love story between Milo and Cassia is pretty silly, yet still works better than it has any right to; while Harris and co-star Carrie-Anne Moss, playing his strongwilled wife Aurelia, add a little gravitas to the proceedings I found nice. As for the build up to the eruption itself, Anderson handles it all nicely, and while he doesn’t stray far from the standard Irwin Allen playbook (he was the man behind The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and a slew of ‘70s disaster epics) he still gives it enough of his own idiosyncratic spin to

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Kit Harington in Pompeii

keep things interesting.

But the real reason to watch is AkinnuoyeAgbaje. He’s an actor who has deserved better for some time (just look at his wonderfully nuanced work in the short-lived British action series Hunted for proof) – his nonsense roles in Thor: The Dark World, The Thing and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, just to name three, not exactly making the most of his talents.

He gives Atticus real weight, true heft, mining territories and exploring nuances that the script barely hints at. His moments have an authority to them nothing else in the movie can touch, making his penultimate bout against Corvus’ second-in-command Proculus (Sasha Roiz) and his final actions post-eruption memorably rousing and tragically moving in ways so much of the rest of the movie simply is not.

If only those final 15 or so minutes weren’t such, please excuse the wording, a disaster. Anderson throws logic (what there is of it; this genre isn’t exactly known for its practical applications of little things like physics, continuity or scientific realism) completely out the window, the final se-

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continued from cover Director Alain Guiraudie’s film is incredibly atmospheric and uninhibited. Viewers will be breathing heavy during the erotic trysts and as the tension increases in the final reel as a series of violent murders occur.

Guiraudie spoke (with the assistance of a translator) to Seattle Gay News about creating his seductive, erotic thriller.

Gary M. Kramer: Your entire film is shot on a nude beach, in the water, and in the woods. The all-male cast appears more frequently than not sans clothes. Can you discuss what you spent on costumes and locations?

Alain Guiraudie: [Laughs, answers in English]. The beach was free. The costumes were 1,500 Euros. Expensive!

GMK: Your film is very much about voyeurism and the male gaze. The men on the beach look at us, the viewer(s). There is a scene in which Franck spies a murder. There are also the men in the woods looking at other guys having sex. Can you talk about this visual theme?

AG: The theme of voyeurism wasn’t really something that was predominant for me. I think what I was more interested in was about “how to look and how things look.” One of the questions I was interested in answering was,

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quences an implausible hodgepodge of stupidity and cartoonish buffoonery that blew my mind. Horses have the magical ability to outrun unmitigated chaos, splinters of wood in the hands of a girlish neophyte can pick the most complex of locks and fleeing survivors pause to pick pointless fights making any chance of survival close to impossible.

Admittedly, it all ends as it must, on that front I give Anderson and his team credit, but the staging coupled with the maudlin theatricality of the presentation of the climactic gestures is too much to bear, the snickering and giggling heard throughout the theatre as the screen faded to black not exactly intentional.

Pompeii is better than it has any right to be, especially considering the director’s track record, but that just makes its descent into lunacy, madness and melodramatic excess all the more off-putting, the movie sadly nothing more than a volcanic disappointment that lays waste to almost all of its more laudable and celebratory properties.

“How do you show naked men on the beach?

How do you film them when you are opposite them?” So it was really more a question of how to show things, and how people saw things than voyeurism itself. Going back to the example of shooting naked men on the beach, when you are looking directly at them, if they have their legs spread out, their sexual organs are going to appear large in the image. So I thought I could move the camera slightly off to the side, but in the end, we decided it was better to do it in this very frontal way.

GMK: Why was that?

AG: Because that’s how it is! I did it that way, because I’ve gone to these kinds of nude beaches. That’s the way it is – you look directly at them, and that’s what you see.

This is really a film where nothing is hidden. There were some things that need to be hidden, but nothing about the body needs to be hidden. The other thing I was interested in doing – and I don’t know if it is linked to voyeurism – was addressing the whole question of point of view and how do we look at things? How are the ways we look at things received by the object that we are looking at? What I also thought was interesting was to play with the idea that you can oftentimes have the same look. One day that look is from one point of view and it can seem very benevolent, very inviting, and very loving.

But the next day, you can be looking at the

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GMK: You deliberately show Michel drowning his boyfriend in the water through the trees. Why did you make this murder unambiguous?

AG: I wanted the viewer to know exactly the same information that Franck knew. I wanted the audience to be with him, and I didn’t want viewers to get involved on a psychological level with Franck trying to determine should he tell the police, or should he not tell the police? I didn’t want it to be a psychological film in that respect, so it was really obvious for me to let the audience know. The main thrust of the plot is here is Franck being caught between his desires and the ethical and moral questions – should I turn this guy into the police because he just killed someone?

GMK: Can you talk about the love triangle between Henri, Franck, and Michel?

AG: I think what is very interesting is that it posits two very different approaches to what is love and what is desire. On the one hand, you have the relationship between Franck and Michel, and it’s something very sexual, and the desire is all consuming and that is the primary aspect of that relationship. But then you have the relationship between Franck and Henri. Again, it’s a relationship that’s more disturbing. It’s less clear what it is about. It’s certainly friend-

ship, but you can also say that it’s a love relationship between Franck and Henri, too.

The way I deal with desire in the film is this idea of the “spiral quality of desire” – this circular movement that goes between Franck and Michel and Franck and Henri.

The way they all interact with each other – the circular motion – really became evident during the editing process.

GMK: How did you work with your actors?

AG: I think a large part of the work was actually done during the casting process. What was important there was to find two actors that would work together well as a couple. When they actually did come together, a lot of that work had been done in advance by casting them. We would then take the script and discuss the scenes. With the sex scenes, there was much more intense discussion.

GMK: What can you say about filming the explicit sex scenes?

AG: We had a lot of discussions, and did a lot of rehearsing. It was really exploring where I could take them, and how far the actors were willing to go. I wanted the actors to invest something of themselves in the characters they were portraying. I didn’t want to stuff them into a pre-designed mold of who or what these characters were going to be. Through the rehearsal process and in talking to them about the sex scenes in particular, we worked on the positions, and the “choreography” as it were. Because we did so much preliminary work, when the time actually came to shoot it, it went very, very easily. © 2014 Gary M. Kramer

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Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises a soaring tale of imagination, heartbreak and love Touchstone Pictures

Scene from Miyazaki's The Wind Rises

While the English language voice actors are listed in this review, I personally have not seen this dubbed version of the film. That said, I cannot imagine my opinion of Hayao THE WIND RISES Miyazaki’s achievement would change a Now playing single bit if I had, the masterful eloquence of this intimately haunting achievement ab[NOTE: I watched the original Japanese solutely universal no matter what language language version of The Wind Rises (with the characters themselves are speaking.] subtitles) back in early December of 2013 in preparation for writing my end-of-year Since he was a young boy, Jirô Horikocolumn and compiling my 2013 Top Ten list. shi (voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has

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longed to fly. Due to being nearsighted, becoming a pilot is impossible. But designing airplanes? Following in the footsteps of his idol, Italian aeronautical engineer Caproni (Stanley Tucci)? That is possible. More, it is exactly what he is going to do.

Legendary filmmaker and animator Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, apparently the director’s final production, is a stunningly beautiful aria to creativity, longing and love that speaks to the very core of who we all wish we could be and the price that so often must be paid when we reach for the stars. It is a somewhat fictionalized chronicling of one of the most vicious and lethal aircrafts ever invented, the Zero Fighter, used with such precision and accuracy by the Japanese in WWII. At the same time it is also a look at a man caught between letting his imaginations soar and accepting the price that must ultimately be paid if he is to see his designs take flight, the movie ultimately a poetic chronicling responsibility and regret that’s heartbreakingly universal.

The beauty of Miyazaki’s script is that it doesn’t gloss over any facet of the complex, deeply internal, melodiously fragile story it is trying to tell. Jirô is crafting a war machine, that fact never in doubt, but his reasons for wanting to ride upon the wind’s curves and float amidst the billowing clouds are anything but militaristic. More than that, he intimately understands the social and political complexities he is embroiled in, knowing his engineering achievements can be a springboard towards greater advancements in the future that will hopefully be more peaceful in application and usage.

On top of that, The Wind Rises is a poignant love story, Jirô losing his heart to quiet, winsomely beautiful artist Nahoko Satomi (Emily Blunt) knowing full well that

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doing so is in neither of their mutual long term interests (the reasons for which I will not go into here). Their storyline allows the themes Miyazaki is attempting to explore to echo even deeper into the viewer’s soul, giving the film a timeless, almost ethereal quality that is omnipresent and all-encompassing.

The animation is, unsurprisingly, stunning. What’s most interesting is that, in most ways, the film is one of Miyazaki’s least fantastical, existing in a real, tactile world showing Japan of the 1920s and ‘30s as it in most respect probably was. At the same time, the filmmaker lets his imagination fly into incredible, eye-popping directions during Jirô’s dream sequences, his conversations with Caproni having a devil-maycare ebullience speaking to the very heart of what it is the animator is talking about.

The use of color, the idiosyncratic designs of many of the aerials filtering throughout the protagonist’s brainpan, all of it is continually exquisite, everything working in dynamic tandem with the hypnotic story being magnetically told.

If this really is Miyazaki’s final motion picture, and, as he’s in his mid-70s, who can blame him if it is, then the Studio Ghibli founder and animation titan goes out on something akin to an all-time high. While it is impossible to say whether or not The Wind Rises is better than prior classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away or Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, that it deserves to be equated with each of them on relatively equal footing goes without saying. This movie is a titanic achievement that I’m still mulling over, so many pieces of it speaking with such unabashed eloquence calling the finished film an instant classic is almost a no-brainer.

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How a marriage saved a Gay man’s life courtesy of Twitter

Liza Monroy

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Liza Monroy is a 34-year-old writer, whose memoir, The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love, was published Tuesday, has an extraordinary story to tell about love and law-breaking and how she went to extreme lengths to keep her friend here.

You hear about them all the time: sham marriages; you know, people who get together

one of those married men with children who still go looking for boys online and on street corners, fooling myself and not living my life,” explained Emir.

But in Boston, Emir could be himself, and when Monroy and he spent their last semester in Los Angeles, she says “he was in his element, interning from sun-up to midnight for a studio producer.”

The trouble was that his student visa was about to expire in December 2001.

Monroy said he’d religiously entered the

“He told me how, when he was in high school, he’d heard about Gays being beaten up and left to die by the highway, with nobody batting an eyelid,” Monroy said. for whatever reason, but love is out of the question; maybe adoration, criminal intent, friendship or who knows what, but never love. Well, not the kind of love that a traditional husband and wife say “I do” to anyway.

So yeah, that is the type of marriage that Monroy would agree to when she married her best friend Emir. According to Section 274 of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, the maximum punishment for alien smuggling is a fine of $25,000 and 10 years in jail. For the alien, the penalty is immediate deportation.

“And we were about to take the risk,” Monroy told the New York Post.

Emir (not his real name) kept going and they had been married for more than a year, but it wasn’t until the morning of his green card interview that we finally got around to exchanging rings.

Monroy and Emir first met in film class at Emerson College in Boston, in 1999.

“I’m the only child of a single mother and, from the very start of our friendship, Emir became the brother I never had,” she said.

“We had this connection because we both considered ourselves “international students” – outsiders, if you will. He is from the Middle East and, though I’m American, most of my childhood and teenage years were spent abroad because of my mom’s job in the Foreign Service.”

Emir was out to their friends in the U.S., but not to his family back home, because in his country, Gays are seen as less than human.

“He told me how, when he was in high school, he’d heard about Gays being beaten up and left to die by the highway, with nobody batting an eyelid,” Monroy said.

According to Monroy, before he moved to America, his mother had confronted him about, what, in her words was “a phase.” She begged him to never reveal that side of himself to his father. He was the typical Muslim patriarch and, according to his mom, would have disowned Emir on the spot and even divorce her, too.

“I knew that if I stayed, I would always be

green card lottery every year since he was a freshman, but he had about a 1 percent chance of being among the 55,000 people randomly chosen as winners.

Then 9/11 happened, and suddenly it was even harder for Emir to find work, because, says Monroy, of his “Arabic name and the way he looked.”

“Who will hire me after this?” he said. “If I go back, I’m required to enlist in the mandatory military service. Can you imagine what they’ll do to me in there?”

Monroy recalled that over the previous year, she’d told Emir many times that she would marry him if he ever had any visa issues, so he could get a green card.

“I loved him, not in any sexual sense,” said Monroy, adding, “but like a member of my family.”

But she says Emir never took the offers seriously, partly because she says, “I don’t think I’d meant them seriously.”

But now, with the increasing likelihood of him being sent home, she was convinced it was the only solution. “So, at a West Hollywood party on Halloween night 2001 – me dressed as a cat and Emir as Harry Potter – I took a gulp of my cocktail, hopped off the bar stool and got down on one knee. “Will you please agree to be my blushing bride already?” I asked.”

Monroy and Emir were married in Las Vegas, Nov. 17, 2001, and the ceremony was presided over by an Elvis impersonator.

“Do you promise to walk each other’s hound dogs?” he asked.

“It was fitting for who we were and what our marriage was about,” Monroy said. “We shared our first – and only – kiss on the lips as The King jiggled his hips.”

After that, the two had to live together for the minimum two years for the green card to become permanent. Monroy told the New York Post that the challenges they faced as a “couple” were strangely typical, even though the marriage was so different.

“There were the usual issues about whose turn it was to cook and who did the house-

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keeping,” she said. “He’d get irritated because I’d leave a mess. I’d get mad that he often seemed to be out partying with his friends without me.”

Eventually, the couple moved to Manhattan where they settled into a two-bedroom apartment in the East Village. Newly armed with his employment permit, Emir edited movies and Monroy got a position at a talent and literary agency.

“It was a fun, carefree time because, in New York – the city of immigrants – we felt anonymous,” she said.

She tried not to tell other people about her “arrangement,” but Monroy got cavalier about it. “I was 22 and obviously wanted to date guys,” she said. “The odd time I really liked someone, after a few dates, I’d drop in the fact that Emir and I were married. It was a litmus test. If they freaked out about it, I didn’t want to be with them.”

Emir, meanwhile, was much more cautious about telling anyone. He had a lot more to lose.

The green card interview was in August 2003.

“Although I was nervous, I didn’t think it would be too much of a big deal,” Monroy said. “We had bought the wedding bands, our photo album, our documents and all our ducks were in a row.”

In fact, the experience was terrifying, she says. “I began to sweat the moment we passed through the metal detectors in the building in Federal Plaza. After an interminably long wait, our names were called.”

“Why is there a note in your file regarding a call to our tip line about you two having married solely for the gentleman’s green card?” the man asked.

“My heart started racing. It could have been any number of people who knew Emir and I were married but he was Gay,” Monroy said. “I tried to hide my panic.

“Probably an ex-boyfriend with a personal grudge,” I said, thinking on my feet.”

“Are you aware that taking shortcuts to get a green card is illegal?” said the agent.

Next, he asked us how often we had sex and then took Emir into a separate room and, five minutes later, returned alone. He looked Monroy directly in the eye and said

“Tell me. Is your husband circumcised?”

Monroy says she totally blanked. Amazingly, Emir and Monroy had never seen each other naked.

“We were very conservative, always changing in our own rooms and dressing at least in shorts and T-shirts in the communal area of the apartment,” she said. “I’d never walked in on him when he was in the bathroom.”

She began to cry and when she refused to answer, the agent got up and left the room.

“That’s it, I thought. Emir is getting deported,” she thought. “But then the agent came back in. Emir was with him. To my relief, he wasn’t handcuffed.”

“We’re going to do an investigation,” the agent announced. “You’ll have to come back for another interview.”

Crushed, they left INS in silence. It was the middle of the day, but we went to a dark bar and ordered two Cosmopolitans.

“I am fucked,” said Emir.

But he wasn’t. Just three weeks after the interview, Emir checked his e-mail. “What?

No way! This can’t be real!” he shouted. He had won the green card lottery! That 1-in1,000 gamble had paid off.

The two no longer had to prove their marriage was real. Because Amir had gotten into America legitimately, the investigation was scrapped.

Monroy says “It was an incredible relief after going through all the emotions, ranging from desperation to fear. We actually stayed married and lived together in the East Village for another year. It was a safe, comfortable place for us to be.”

Inevitably, though, it was time to move on.

“We had to submit paperwork to the co-op board and, to my horror, I remembered that Emir’s name was all over my tax returns. The board needed to know he didn’t have rights to the property. We had to get divorced.”

Currently, Monroy is happily married and working at a university in California. Emir is now a U.S. citizen, a successful screenwriter and settled in New York City with his longtime partner.

Looking back, Monroy says she still doesn’t regret what they did for one second.

“It was an act of true love,” she said.

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SATURDAY - February 22

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. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

BABES Network Annual Self Care Retreat. 10am4pm. Seattle YWCA. Come join us for a day filled with fun games, food, relaxation & an educational workshop. RSVP to 720-5566.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details.

Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks. For more information visit www.rainbowbridge club.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com Frank Olivier’s Twisted Cabaret (2/6-2/23). Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. For tickets visit twistedcabaret.com

SUNDAY - February 23

For information on GLBT-friendly Christian churches around the world visit www.gaychurch.org.

Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 3238382. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGay HikingGroup/ Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 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. 323-1659, www.seattle sotozen.com Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont 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 Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. 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! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515.

Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies. Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@ gmail.com. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www. dharma buddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. 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 625-0000; www.seattleal-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Rain City Jacks. 4th Sunday each month at1pm; 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm. West Queen Anne/ Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sex-positive, non-profit and private. Membership required. Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www. raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.

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Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/ Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA 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 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday (except during the summer). Regular league bowling. Jeff, 932-3731.

Frank Olivier’s Twisted Cabaret (2/6-2/23). Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. For tickets visit twistedcabaret.com Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - February 24

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County.

Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@yahoo. com or phone (360) 722-1664.

Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St. Every Monday. A group and conversation about HIV for Gay & Bi men newly diagnosed and for Gay & Bi men facing the challenges of living with HIV longterm. www.gaycity.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7-9pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful.

For info & location, NSWG@ sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwriters group.org (Also meets 2nd Sunday, 1-3pm.)

Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent.

Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

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

For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - February 25

Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides

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February 22 thru March 2 training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards. 5:30pm.

Seattle Marriott Waterfront, 2100 Alaskan Way. Features Keynote Speaker Michale Guest, first opnely Gay US Ambassador (to Romania, 2001-2004). Tickets: GSBA members $140, non-members $160.

Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions?

Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBT MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor.

Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-2505002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com.

Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/ love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

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

Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction.

Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older.

7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521.

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Tuesday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday.

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Ageless. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

WEDNESDAY - February 26

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org

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Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm.

Call for details, location & to make reservations. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community.

For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett.

Every Wednesday. Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@ hotmail.com POZSeattle’s 2nd Monthly Social. 6-8pm. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. Meet inside for drinks, tasty food from CC’s kitchen, socializing and a whole lot of fun.

For all HIV-Positive men and their friends, regardless of age, shape, size, color, or gender. $2 suggested donation to help defray expenses. No one turned away for lack of funds. www.pozzeattle.org.

Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week.

Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm.

Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www.lotussisters.org.

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

“Lesbian Life Forum & Body Diversity Project.”

6:30-8pm. Seattle City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes Room, 5th Ave & Cherry St. The focus of this forum will be discussions about living life in work, social, and business as it pertains to Lesbians in the Seattle community. Panelists include Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark, (Ret.) Judge Anne Levinson, Aretha Alexander (Seattle Parks Department), Angela Hughes (Sistah Sinema), Fran Dunaway (Co-Founder, Tomboy Exchange), and Sarah Toce (The Seattle Lesbian).

A photography exhibit for the Body Diversity Photo Project will be on display in addition to the forum. Guest may enjoy talking with local LGBT photographers about their displayed work. The focus of the photography will be “Lesbian Life.” This event is presented by Social Outreach Seattle. www.socialoutreachseattle.com and on Facebook.

HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www.ingersoll center.org Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo. com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome.

MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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

THURSDAY - February 27

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-2921912; www.babesnetwork.org.

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

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Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday.

(253) 474-8897.

Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm.

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. 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 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Fantastic.Z Theatre Company 2nd Annual Original Works Festival: UpClosePersonal (2/27-3/2).

Thurs 2/27, Fri 2/28 & Sat 3/1 - 8pm; Sun 3/2 - 2pm.

Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. This show will feature several short plays & one-acts by talented young writers from our community, focused thru Fantastic.Z’s Queer lens.

GaYme Night 4 the LGBT Community. 8pm-1am.

SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 3rd & 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun. www. sasgcc.org

SATURDAY - March 1

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Northwest Bears Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6-10pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear admirers. www.nwbears.com.

Fantastic.Z Theatre Company 2nd Annual Original Works Festival: UpClosePersonal (2/27-3/2).

Thurs 2/27, Fri 2/28 & Sat 3/1 - 8pm; Sun 3/2 - 2pm.

Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. This show will feature several short plays & one-acts by talented young writers from our community, focused thru Fantastic.Z’s Queer lens.

SUNDAY - March 2

Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance.

4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave. Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project every week! Get-togethers are highly social & offer “low impact” volunteer work & an opportunity to learn more about LAA. Please call before dropping in.

957-1776. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org Happy Hour Meditation. 5:30-6:40pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Every Thursday. Join us at the end of your day in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Dropins welcome. We meditate silently for 25 minutes, followed by a short open discussion. No admittance after 5:45pm to respect those who are meditating. www.healingandtransformationcenter.com Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org 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 14-22. 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. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma.

Meets 4th Thursday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) 383-2318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm.

Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone.

For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups. yahoo.com/groups/gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Fantastic.Z Theatre Company 2nd Annual Original Works Festival: UpClosePersonal (2/27-3/2).

Thurs 2/27, Fri 2/28 & Sat 3/1 - 8pm; Sun 3/2 - 2pm.

Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. This show will feature several short plays & one-acts by talented young writers from our community, focused thru Fantastic.Z’s Queer lens.

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

FRIDAY - February 28

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.)

Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6:30pm-appetizers & socializing; 7:30pm-dinner. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Meets last Friday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community.

FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. 9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www. borderriders.com Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 1st Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Fantastic.Z Theatre Company 2nd Annual Original Works Festival: UpClosePersonal (2/27-3/2).

Thurs 2/27, Fri 2/28 & Sat 3/1 - 8pm; Sun 3/2 - 2pm.

Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. This show will feature several short plays & one-acts by talented young writers from our community, focused thru Fantastic.Z’s Queer lens.

PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

Gay City Health Project & Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s 9th Annual Academy Awards Party Benefit.

4-9pm. Fred Wildlife Refuge, 127 Boylston Ave E. Hosted by the vivacious Robbie Turner. Tickets: $35-general, $100-VIP. www.gaycity.org.

Purr and the Seattle Gay News present A Night at the Oscars Party. 4-9pm. Purr Cocktail Lounge, 1518 11th Ave. Watch the Academy Awards event on Purr’s many large flat screen TVs. Enjoy cocktail specials and the annual Oscar prediction contest with gift basket prizes. No cover. www.purrseattle.com.

Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. 1st Sunday of every 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 325-6051, www. seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/ Another-Gay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBTQI communities. Bent offers affordable classes & workshops for Queer-identified people.

For more information or to sign up for a class, email bent.writing@gmail.com. Visit www.bentwriting.com or find us on Facebook. For upcoming events join our mailing list by emailing bent.news@gmail.com BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net.

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org

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

Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) 363-9188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www.imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nw bears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks.org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www. seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. (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: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flyinghouse. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworks seattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, info@maybebabyseattle.org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/ proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo. com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African

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descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164.

Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/ personal/glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 6826711; www.q-law.org Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235.

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

Rosehedge/Multifaith Works - 324-1520; www. rosehedge.org Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschools coalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233).

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them.322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 6844503.

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. 323-1768.

Seattle Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers &

other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail. com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball. org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/ EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures. org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnw gra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletown squares.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 Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@ aol.com, www.teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.thepride league.com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle

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Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www. teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc. org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern. org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenof westseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http:// lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth. org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag. org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch. org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook. com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 206326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - 360-698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, 425271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www. thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@ chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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