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this dynamic duo of comedy is unstoppable. In preparation for her Seattle performances, the Seattle Gay News caught up with one of the Emerald City’s favorites:

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer LILY TOMLIN LIVE! THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE June 6-7 Without a doubt Lily Tomlin is one of the greatest American Treasures! Her diversity in humor has entertained, enchanted and made us think, all at the same time, through her various, memorable characters. She’s won almost every kind of award possible for such a performer: Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Daytime Emmy, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award. With her writing partner Jane Wagner, whom she married on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2013, after 42 years of being a couple, it seems

Eric Andrews-Katz: What is the average day in the life of Lily Tomlin?

Lily Tomlin: Oh! There is no average day, for Christ’s sake! Two days ago on Friday I was shooting this independent movie and we were doing a night shooting until 3 a.m. Then I had a date booked at a college in LA – Northridge. I did that show last night. Then I got up to come to Vegas to do a Mother’s Day matinee. Tonight, my cousins – who are visiting from Kentucky – are meeting me for a drink before I fly home to LA. Tomorrow will be … Oh! Out the window I see Lily page 4

2014 SIFF Preview Steven Knight An Interview with Carl Spence talks about Locke

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer 40TH ANNUAL SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL May 15-June 8 Featuring 198 features, 60 documentaries and 163 shorts from 83 different countries, the 40th annual Seattle International Film Festival

(SIFF) began with a bang last night with an all-star screening of Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley’s (12 Years a Slave) Jimi Hendrix drama Jimi: All Is By My Side. Running through June 8, and featuring a cavalcade of high profile guests including Quincy Jones, Richard Linklater, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Laura Dern, the festival celebrates its past, while bolting proudly into the future, embrac-

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ing cinematic exploration and all it imaginatively entails.

“It’s 40 years,” laughs SIFF Artistic Director Carl Spence. “There was definitely pressure to have a great festival. But there’s always pressure to have a great festival, the anniversary is nice, but it doesn’t really change that fact.”

This was the fifth year in a row I had the opportunity to sit down with Spence the day before the opening night film was set to screen, and in that time it’s never ceased to amaze me how genuinely excited the longtime SIFF programmer, staffer and executive is to see things get going. “We had such a great festival last year,” he says with a broad, genuine smile, “and as such, there’s always that question of how we’re going to top ourselves, how can we make the festival even better. But I think we have a pretty solid program [this year]. I’m particularly proud. For our 40th? Yeah.

This is a good program. I think the audience will be pleased.”

This is the festival number 21 for Spence, almost a decade of which have involved him in the position he has now. In all that time, he’s never

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Veteran screenwriter Steven Knight received an Academy Award nomination for writing the script to Dirty Pretty Things, director Stephen Frears’ moody and dark London-based illegal immigration thriller revolving around underground organ harvesting at a seedy hotel. He’s followed that up with acclaimed screenplays for tense, dramatic suspense flicks see SPence page 9 as varied as David Cronenberg’s

Eastern Promises and John Crowley’s Closed Circuit.

Yet as terrific as those efforts might be, nothing can prepare one for the intimate, quietly profound beauty of Locke. Knight’s second film as both writer and director (the first being the little-seen Jason Statham drama Redemption, a.k.a.

Hummingbird around the rest of the world), Locke is an action flick with no real action, a ticking clock thriller where nothing blows up or see Knight page 8

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Upcoming Exhibit: “Gender Personal” explores Trans identity at Kirkland Arts Center GENDER PERSONAL KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER May 24 - July 12 Free admission

What is gender? Are there only two? Is it an innate trait, or a social construct? Why should it matter? Seattle artist Jacqui Beck began to wrestle with these sorts of questions when her son Finnbar came out as Transgender three years ago. The award-winning artist explored the subject in depth using a multimedia approach showcasing her vibrantly primitive/expressionistic paintings, elegantly spare poems, photos, and taped interviews with eight Transgender individuals.

The results will be on display at the Kirkland Arts Center (620 Market Street, Kirkland) from May 24 to July 12. The opening reception for the exhibit will be on Friday, May 23 at 6:00 p.m.

In addition to the ongoing exhibit, Kirk-

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character based on those experiences. It was a big hit because it was something political and topical relating to something that the audience knew about. The other skits in the show were parodies. That character became the “Tasteful Lady” on “Laugh-In.” Andrews-Katz: You’ve talked about your mother in several interviews. Since it’s Mother’s Day, can you describe the relation-

ship you shared?

Tomlin: Let me say that my mother was a young, Southern woman who came up to Detroit. It was tough, but it was a great city to grow up in: political, gritty and vibrant. My mom was more innocent and, in some ways, I was more sophisticated than my mother. I was very protective of her, because she was so innocent, decent, good

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just saw someone skydiving with on a motorcycle. That pretty much sums up my average day … someone jumping out of a plane with on a motorcycle.

Andrews-Katz: Which was your first “character” that you created?

Tomlin: Consciously, I think it was “Grosse Pointe Matron” in a college show I did. I had other fantasies of being a doctor, but I got into this college show by chance.

The stuff they were doing was so sophomoric and collegiate, like take offs on “Gunsmoke” and other TV shows. The kid running the show said, “I wish we had another sketch.” Seeing what they called material, I thought: “I do stuff like that all the time, in conversations with my friends, and just being funny by making comments about something.” And I always kind of have done a Grosse Pointe Matron because it [Grosse Pointe, Michigan] was such a discriminatory section of Detroit. The Ford family was creating a “Debut” party for their daughter Charlotte, a big affair costing about a half a million dollars in those days. My mother’s maiden name was Ford by coincidence and she had read about all the proceedings in the Society Pages (when they still had Society Pages), and wanted to go see them. I rented this old beat-up junker of a car and we drove there, hoping and praying the car wouldn’t break down in Grosse Pointe; it would have been humiliating! So we went and I did this

but also the community at large by “opening hearts and minds to the natural place of gender variance in human experience.”

Laura, who is one of the interview subjects, said about her journey, “. . . it proba-

bly began before verbal for me. . . although I lived outwardly as a male for 52 years, the trappings and responsibilities that came along with having a male gender never felt appropriate to me, and that a female gender identity does feel totally congruent. That somehow feeling correct in my experience of my gender is pivotal to my sense of feeling happy and satisfied in this lifetime.”

Beyond an opportunity to share her subjects’ stories, Beck’s paintings, poetry, and photos aim to elicit an inner dialogue within the viewer. Her son said of the installation that he would really want the viewer to “spend some personal time with it, thinking about their gender, thinking about gender in the world, because I feel like they lay it all on me, and I’m happy to talk with them about it, but it’s like they want me to give them all the answers about gender, but I only got where I did by thinking about it myself.”

For some reason, many in society still find the concept of fluidity to be threatening or alien. Jacqui Beck’s “Gender Personal” finds the beauty and natural dynamism in the transformative process. For those of us who still live in the binary world of black or white, male or female, true or false – it is an eyeopening kaleidoscope. Go see it.

Painting by Jacqui Beck

land Arts Center will host a presentation on June 7 from 7-9 pm, where Beck will talk about her project, accompanied by slides and audio recordings. Special guests will participate in a discussion of gender “It won’t take long before – I think, I variance, followed by Q&A and refreshdon’t know – before even using ‘Lesbian’ ments. The vision of this format is to ben‘Gay’ ‘Bisexual’ will be recognized as ob- efit not only the gender-variant community, solete, because it is dependent on only two genders.” – Aiden, “Gender Personal” interview subject

Lily Tomlin as Ernestine, from Laugh-In

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and guileless. I was probably more parental in that sense. She was a very good mother.

When she was dying of osteoporosis, she turned to me and said, “The only thing I regret is that I would love to have been a Home Economics teacher.” She loved being a homemaker and was forever with a new recipe. She was a very engaging woman.

When I was a little girl I made a recording of my mother talking to my aunt and uncle. They were always telling such great stories. When I played it back, I realized how witty my mother was in those conversations. She was always dropping some footnote that was perceptive with a funny edge. She had loads of friends and people [of all ages] adored her.

Andrews-Katz: Do you have a favorite of your characters?

Tomlin: Oh Eric, I don’t have a favorite.

I would never have one. It’s like being a mother and being asked, which of your kids you’re fondest of; you can’t answer that.

Andrews-Katz: When Jane Wagner writes your material, do you plan it out together or do you do what she writes?

Tomlin: We talk about ideas and things to do. Jane is so verbally wonderful and brilliant and I’m always begging for her to write something. I’ll say we need something and she’ll do it. When she wrote Search [for Intelligent Signs in the Universe] I was on the road and she would suddenly send me material in the mail. I just flipped out it was so great! Reading Trudy [the bag-person] and all of her stuff and observations were wonderful. When she sent it to me originally, Agnes was about 60-pages long! I had to work on it and get it down to a reasonable time that could be performed. I was in Atlanta then, and put on a special midnight show to put on Agnes for the hardcore fans.

There was this one kid, a big fan who was there then, and every time he’s seen Agnes since, he says “You’ve ruined Agnes!” because I had to cut it back so much. She originally went on for an hour or more, and I had to cut it down to six or seven minutes.

Andrews-Katz: Most people don’t know that you studied mime? Why the interest there?

Tomlin: At that time – and it goes back to the early 1960s – I was from an inner city, diverse neighborhood in Detroit. Growing

up there you have the kind of awareness that kids in middle class neighborhoods don’t have, because everyone else around them is the same as they! I think it made me more politically and economically aware of the “haves” and “have-nots.” Anyway, I went to New York when I was about 19 years old, because I made a hit with the “Tasteful Lady” persona. I wanted to do it for a living, so after school I went to NYC. You didn’t want to be an actor [in those days] because it wasn’t considered a “high art.” Mime was about as close as you could get when performing. It was considered a good thing then – I know people make fun of it now – because mime was selfless. It was the time of Marcel Marceau and that heyday. Because my performance is so physical, I thought it would help develop the instrument, so to speak. I was naturally gifted at physical comedy, but I wanted to be really good in the art. I didn’t last long – about three to four weeks - because it was arduous.

Andrews-Katz: Congratulations on your wedding to Jane. Was there any other factor – aside from the legality – that made you decide to marry now after 40+ years of being a couple?

Tomlin: The fact that we could was the importance. We couldn’t get married before, and we wanted to be married! Even though I mock the institution of marriage, I still wanted to be married.

Andrews-Katz: Do you think Gaylebrities have an obligation to Come Out to the public?

Tomlin: Not really. We don’t know what someone else’s circumstances are like. I never feel that anybody should be pushed to anything. You just don’t know what’s going on with them at that time. Some people are more ready. Some people have more courage. There was a time when it took a tremendous amount of courage to Come Out and have support. There was so much backlashing, and if things went different politically, it could all be taken away in a minute.

I’ve been dumbfounded and thrilled by the last generation, the last 20-30 years, and kids who come up and absolutely demand that they can be themselves and be acknowledged. Jane and I often say [in a joking way] that in a way, we miss the times when you had to sneak around. It seemed more fun when it was more illicit.

Andrews-Katz: How do you prepare for a performance?

Tomlin: Other than just staying capable, I have no real rituals. I have to remember what to pack and not leave something out.

There are people who can go from a plane directly to a stage and perform, I cannot. I have a fantasy that I have a suitcase with compartments, so I don’t forget this or that. I get to my show and realize “Oh my God! I forgot to bring the right [character] bracelet,” or something you wear on stage. (I forgot to take off one of my personal bracelets once, and when performing Trudy the street person, she was wearing this very nice, gold-linked bracelet. It was something she wouldn’t have!)

Andrews-Katz: Your current show involves new interactions with some of your greatest characters. How do you decide what material goes into an eclectic performance like this?

Tomlin: Whatever you think is timeless and works. Or as long as it’s a good variety and the audience will be engaged. It is all intuitive. It’s what I think the audience will enjoy, or get a kick out of, or be transported and entertained by. I want them to have a rich experience.

Andrews-Katz: There have been times you’ve dressed up in a costume and interacted with people lined up outside the theater.

Do they recognize you off the bat?

Tomlin: Back in February 1977, it was snowy and miserable outside the box office. A lot of my hardcore fans were so much younger then and they were camped out in front of the box office waiting for tickets. I rode down in an ambulance with my friend and his boyfriend, and was dressed as Mrs. Beasley. We passed out coffee and donuts because I knew their mothers would be worried about them camping out. Lily wouldn’t have done anything, as she was unaware and insensitive. Mrs. Beasley did instead.

I do it for the hardcore fans and they know right off the bat it’s the character. They call to me by name and talk to me about Mrs. Beasley’s husband and know her children’s names (Vickie and Billy). They know everything about the character, so they really connect. When we took that show to LA it was pouring rain. I had an awning set up and performed as Bobby, the cocktail organist. I

Lily as Madame Lupe

Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment by Moment (1978)

Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin in All of Me (1984)

Lily as Tommy Velour

Lily as Trudy

Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler with Jeffrey Katzenberg from Big Business (1988)

Lily as Edith Ann

Lily as Agnus

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played the organ all day for them. I just love stuff like that. It’s like playing and it’s fun!

Andrews-Katz: If you were to be remembered for only one contribution, what would you hope it would be?

Tomlin: I honestly don’t know. I feel life is so essential. There was a time in the early ‘60s I was at the Emmy Awards.

They weren’t a big deal and on all the channels back then and it was a much simpler affair. I walked the red carpet with Lawrence Welk, so I dressed as the Champagne Lady. I mean you’re with Lawrence Welk; how could you not? I was in this gold outfit and Lawrence looked at me and said, “Lily, you look so feminine!”

Only the Mary Tyler Moore crowd got the connection and chuckled. When Ernestine was nominated in 1984, I did a takeoff on Flashdance. I dressed Ernestine up in a beautiful outfit made of bugle beads.

You want to have fun with street theater.

But I’ll tell you a story. Do you remember the dress Cher wore at the Oscars the year after she won? It was with the headdress and the feathers? I was going to wear that the next year at the Oscars, I mean everyone would have remembered it; nobody could have forgotten that dress in 1986! I never did it and regret it. I always said that if I had done it, it would always have been the thing remembered. They would have written it as my epitaph: “Remember the night she wore that dress”?

Lily Tomlin first appeared on the club scene in New York at such venues as Café Au Go Go and the Upstairs at the Downstairs.

She made her television debut in 1966 on “The Gary Moore Show” and then “The Merv Griffin Show.” She joined the cast of “Laugh-In” in December 1969, cementing herself as part of American history! She’s starred in six television specials, HBO’s acclaimed film, And the Band Played On, “Murphy Brown,” “Homicide,” “X-Files,” “Will & Grace,” “The West Wing.” Her movies include: Nashville, The Late Show, Moment by Moment (written by Jane Wagner), The Incredible Shrinking Woman, All of Me, Big Business, and the incomparable comedy, 9 to 5, among many other works.

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Moderately charming Night Out a faith-based surprise MOMS’ NIGHT OUT Now playing Allyson (Sarah Drew) needs a night to herself. While her marriage with successful architect Sean (Sean Astin) is a good one, the pressures of motherhood have been stressing her out more than normal of late. She’s longing for a night of adult conversation, meals not prepared in a microwave, feminine dresses and sparkly high heels, and if she doesn’t get one soon, the young mother might just end up having a nervous breakdown.

Allyson gets her wish. Sean will watch the kids for the night while she spends an evening on the town with her best friends from church, fellow moms Sondra (Patricia Heaton) and Izzy (Andrea Logan White). But things fall off the rails right from the start – dinner reservations made incorrectly and worry about whether or not their husbands are up to the task of taking care of the children weighing on all of them. Yet it isn’t until the trio run into Allyson’s sister-in-law, Bridget (Abbie Cobb), herself a single mom, that things truly fall to pieces – the discovery that her baby’s father has carelessly left the kid in untrustworthy hands sending all of them on a mad quest to remedy the situation.

Moms’ Night Out is the latest in a long string of faith-based cinematic productions to hit the local multiplex. Just this year we’ve seen the more blatantly Christian fundamentalist Son of God, God’s Not Dead and Heaven is for Real make major box office dollars.

Heck, even Noah, not without controversy over whether or not it was ‘Biblically accurate’ (whatever the heck that’s supposed to mean), has managed to make major hay as far as ticket sales go, the Darren Aronofsky directed effort making over $330-million worldwide.

That movie aside, as financially successful as the rest of that list might be, that doesn’t make any of the other features particularly good. Each of them beats the viewer over the head with their didactic points of view, not allowing for anything close to a dissenting opinion, looking at things like debate and discussion as facets to be avoided, as if they

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Alex Kendrick (l) and Sean Astin in Mom’s Night Out

were the plague. They are annoyingly judgmental, having preciously little to do with “Faith” and instead remain perfectly content to preach to the converted leaving everyone else to wonder what the fuss is about.

Funny thing, while Moms’ Night Out doesn’t follow a different game plan or come up with a new way to get its points across, it still, somehow, someway, manages to produce smiles, earn a couple of gentle tears and even generate a fair bit of laughter. Because it refuses to take things deathly seriously, because it allows for flaws, foibles, missteps and mistakes to be a part of the always ephemeral (and almost certainly ubiquitous) “God’s Plan,” gosh darn it all if the movie doesn’t have its own gentle, winsomely distracting charms. While not a film I’m going to be talking about much in the future (let alone remembering in any sort of great detail) I can’t say I didn’t have a moderately decent enough time watching it, a fact I’m admittedly more than a little bit shocked to be admitting.

Make no mistake, this thing is really nothing more than an extended sitcom (not

a surprise considering former “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Heaton is listed as a producer), brothers Jon and Andrew Erwin (October Baby) directing with a perfunctory exactitude that’s hardly subtle. As for the script written by Jon Erwin and Andrea Gyertson Nasfell (Escape) it is a model of “Modern Family” meets “Full House” meets “Growing Pains” simplicity, any connection to real life and actual parental problems more accidental than they are thoughtfully composed or intelligently planned.

But, unlike most films cut from a somewhat similar fundamentalist cloth, there is little that’s preachy or overbearing about this comedy, the filmmakers and the cast treating these travails as casually and as naturally as they can most of the time. Allyson’s trials and tribulations are at least cut from a recognizable cloth, and while many of the parental interactions feel more of the “Leave It To Beaver” generation than they do the Facebook and Instagram one, for some gosh darn reason that doesn’t make events less affecting.

More, when the movie does decide to preach,

it does so in a rather surprising, comparatively charming ways, a quiet moment between a frazzled mother and a tough-as-nails biker (nicely underplayed by country music superstar Trace Adkins) containing droplets of truth deftly intermixed inside the sermonizing.

Say what you will about the picture’s pointof-view and hard-line opinions, neither of which I have the heart or desire to defend, bash or anything in-between, it goes without saying I’d have a much higher tolerance for this sort of faith-based stuff, if it was presented in anything close to the same vein as this. I don’t agree with much of the subtext or thinly veiled politics not-so-cleverly hiding within the narrative’s layers (no shock there), but that doesn’t make it a total waste of time, either. Moms’ Night Out is a family-friendly sitcom masquerading as a feature film with more laughs than expected and enough heart to make the majority of the odious aspects borderline tolerable. For what it is, if taken with a grain of salt, it’s not too bad, and while not the greatest of recommendations, considering the alternative, it’s going to have to do.

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer GODZILLA Now playing It’s easy to have moderate to mixed to even low expectations as they concern Gareth Evans’ (Monsters) reimagining of director Ishiro Honda’s immortal and highly influential 1954 Japanese classic Godzilla.

This was a cinematic effort that significantly changed the game and in most corners is regarded as the greatest giant monster movie to have ever been made. More than that, though, it is a supremely moving and shockingly honest look at the nuclear age as seen through the eyes of a country and people who knew only too well its devastating dangers, the subtext and metaphors liberally sprinkled throughout impossible to miss and even harder to walk away unaffected by.

In the six-plus decades since, the titu-

lar creature has seen 27 official sequels, a handful of animated incarnations, a plethora of toy versions, and one ill-conceived remake released in 1998 directed by Independence Day impresario Roland Emmerich. The Toho Co, Ltd. icon has been paid homage to on multiple occasions (Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim being two of the more obvious examples), while countless rip-offs have attempted to steal the self-described King of Monster’s thunder more times than can be easily counted. (From Gamera to Transformers, DNA remnants leading back to Honda’s epic abound.)

So having a somewhat diluted sense of tired déjà vu as it concerns this latest incarnation of the titular behemoth isn’t entirely unexpected. Yet that doesn’t make it any less misplaced. Evans has done the unthinkable, crafting a modern Godzilla that not only pays deft homage to the creature’s glorious past,

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beings treat the planet is at the center of the carnage, the communal disrespect for the environment a key factor as far as the unleashing of the main threat is concerned. As for Godzilla, his presence is, in most ways that matter, Nature’s response as far as attempting to maintain balance is concerned, his tracking down and eradicating the newly birthed terror the driving force around which everything else continually revolves.

Not that things are as deep and as dour as that. Evans remembers the fun of these movies is in not only seeing the big guy in action, but also the unbearable suspense of waiting to see him both appear, as well as lay waste to, all that is in his path. Like the majority of the Toho sequels, humans are more like bugs to be swatted out of the way, an annoying inconvenience and little else, the big beastie standing in Godzilla’s way the true danger in need of being dealt with. Buildings crumble, bridges fall, all the while the military looks on castrated, unable to lift a finger in order to combat what it is that’s laying waste to all it comes into contact with.

The human element, save the glorious opening prologue, some wonderful bits between Cranston and Taylor-Johnson before they return to the power plant, and a bittersweet, eerily touching shipboard monologue from Watanabe, isn’t particularly strong. Juliette Binoche pops up briefly, adding a nice touch of gravitas to a pivotal early moment but is otherwise wasted. David Strathairn gets to do the stoic soldier thing as the Navy commander tasked with trying to find a solution to the monster mash currently threatening San Francisco; and while he’s fine in the role, it’s not like he’s doing anything noteworthy. As for Olsen, the Martha Marcy May Marlene scenestealer is wasted in a rather thankless part, and other than a deftly underplayed se-

quence where the young mother must make a heartrending decision regarding Sam, it isn’t like she’s got a whole lot to do.

Be that as it may, Evans unleashes scene after scene of surprising visual and dramatic eloquence, building tension with ease, allowing the talent hinted at inside his similarly-conceived debut Monsters to fully blossom here. Mixing in Alexander Desplat’s (Zero Dark Thirty) rousing score, not to mention utilizing György Ligeti better than anyone has this side of Stanley Ku-

brick, the director has an uncanny ability to get the pulse racing. He allows cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (Anna Karenina) to fill every corner of the frame yet still finds a way to leave clutter to a minimum, all that happens having an organic, almost delicate quality that belies the carnage and destruction taking place. Make no mistake, Godzilla roars to life with spectacular fury, this latest incarnation proving without a shadow of a doubt who the indisputable King of Monsters continues to be.

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but also makes many of its closest impersonators feel hollow and misguided when stood up next to it. Putting character first, leaving all its best moments for the ferociously frenetic, neck-snapping climax, the film is a monstrously entertaining disaster spectacle of nature run amok, humanity’s inability to deal with what is happening a potent reminder of what can happen when our planet rebels against the ills being carelessly done to it.

Opening in 1999 on a small Japanese island, Evans and screenwriter Max Borenstein (the long delayed medieval epic Seventh Son) waste no time dropping us right into the center of budding catastrophe, American nuclear expert Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) forced to make an unthinkable choice when the power plant he supervises suffers a bewildering meltdown. Almost 15 years to the day, his grown, Navy bomb disposal tech son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is forced to return to the scene of this calamity when it appears dear old dad has finally suffered nothing short of a full mental breakdown.

The truth is anything but, of course, a group of international scientists, led by Japan’s Dr. Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) and Britain’s Dr. Vivienne Graham (Sally Hawkins), studying a supposedly dormant creature apparently feeding off the remains of the destroyed power plant. When it awakens, all kinds of hell can’t help but happen.

Ford finds himself at the center of an epic battle pitting giant creatures one against the other, spanning the Pacific Ocean and heading straight into the heart of San Francisco, his home town, and also where his wife Elle (Elizabeth Olsen) and their son Sam (Carson Bolde) happily reside.

While admittedly nowhere near as deep or as prescient as Honda’s original effort, Evans’ take on the material does not skimp as far as larger social and political commentaries are concerned. The way human

Bryan Cranston in Godzilla

Unrelenting Locke a real time sensation courtesy of A24

Tom Hardy in Locke

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer LOCKE Now playing In many ways Locke is the thriller of the year, a real time, ticking clock masterwork of tension and suspense that’s as unrelenting and unmerciful as anything likely to see a release in all of 2014. In others, it is nothing more than a quickly paced melodrama of responsibility and regret, focusing entirely on a single character, the choices he has made and the price he is forced to pay, when the bill for his selfcentered actions come tragically due.

Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Steven Knight’s (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises) second film as director is a revelation, detailing a single 90-minute slice-of-life as a mildmannered, elegantly reserved and highly intelligent construction foreman makes a choice that changes his life forever. Set inside a car making an evening trek to London, the whole thing is a series of phone conversations, nothing more, certainly nothing less, each one detailing a string of problems the protagonist is desperately, yet calmly, trying to find ways to overcome.

The action centers on Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy). The night before the biggest con-

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struction job of his life – he’s supervising one of the largest non-governmental concrete pours in recent history – he makes the decision to drive to London. It’s a trip that will take roughly an hour and half, yet the repercussions of going will last a lifetime.

On the way there he must contact his wife and come clean with a startling revelation, speak with his boss and let him know what is going on, while also communicate with his second-in-command in order to get him ready to handle the job without him. He will have conversations with his children. He will speak with random local politicians to erase last second problems. He will even talk with the nurses and the doctors at a London hospital about the reasons he’s rapidly heading in their direction.

That is the movie.

There is no bomb. There is no despicable villain holding a loved one at gunpoint. No one is dying. The traditional tropes around which these types of scenarios typically surround are nowhere to be found. Knight has crafted an innately personal story of a man coming to grips with his mistakes and doing what believes is the right, consequences be damned. This is a stream of consciousness drama where so many little things – the score of a soccer match, local police remembering to cordon off the correct streets, the density and thickness of the concrete before it can be poured, and so on and so forth – all end up being more than the sum of their parts; and as such, I found myself inching closer and closer to the edge of my seat the nearer Locke came to his preordained destination.

Hardy is brilliant. Channeling the ghosts of Richard Burton and Alec Guinness, his Ivan Locke is a paragon of British stiff upper lip-ishness, cool and confident under pressure, doing all he can to make it sound and seem like nothing happening is actually getting to him on a visible level. But Hardy allows the emotional maelstrom to rumble and course through every pore, the frosty demeanor sheltering unspeakable turmoil – hearing his timber waver as his youngest recaps the televised soccer match or watching him clench as he tries to remain composed as he lets his wife know exactly what is happening and why is unimaginably painful.

The rest of the cast consists of voices on the phone, but that doesn’t mean Knight doesn’t give them due respect. Brit character actors like Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Danny Webb and Tom Holland all make appearances, their impact throughout undeniable. Wilson, in particular, has a handful of spectacular moments, her final conversation with Hardy sending shudders through my system I was feeling hours afterwards.

Knight understands and realizes it is the everyday that can be the most suspenseful, that the choices we make secondto-second and hour-to-hour are oftentimes more thrilling than anything our most fanciful imaginations can conjure up. Locke is an extraordinary adventure that takes the mundane, twists it into knots, and magically transforming it into something mesmerizing and masterful, the journey it ultimately took me on one I almost didn’t want to see come to an end.

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Sara Michelle Fetters: Talk to me about Ivan Locke. Where did he come from?

Steven Knight: The original thought was to create the most ordinary man in the world, the most boring man in Britain, and then take away any element that felt like “film” in the conventional sense.

He’s married. He has two kids. He’s a construction supervisor. He specializes in concrete, which is one of the most unglamorous materials there probably is.

Into that life I wanted to throw in a hand grenade, but not a real one, not a bomb or a death in the family or a car crash, anything like that. Just some sort of life-changing mistake an ordinary person could make. That sort of thing. Because, by doing so, we could then watch his life unravel in great detail.

That, but also related to the idea of how we all deal with phone calls, how our lives are accessible to everything at all times now, I thought it – that juxtaposition would be fascinating. You look at how people see how a certain individual is calling them and they shrug or they sigh, becoming a completely different person when they choose to answer, all of us doing this master class of acting seemingly every day, I wanted to capture that in some way, but in a situation of extreme stress.

Sara Michelle Fetters: I love that it is entirely accurate to call Locke a ticking clock thriller, but at the same time it is also a complete misnomer.

Steven Knight: It is. It’s one of those things where I hope people struggle to name the genre the film resides within. Just like any normal person’s life, the film doesn’t take place within a single genre. I hope [Locke] is seen as a bit of a comedy, a bit of a thriller, a bit of a melodrama, but at the same time you begin to feel that all of this is real, that everything happening was actually happening.

Sara Michelle Fetters: It’s a glorious reminder of both the stress and the beauty of everyday life, in a way, is it not?

Steven Knight: Absolutely. The begin-

ning, looking at all those cars, I hope that it suggests that unique bubble of life, that there is a story in every front seat and that you just pick one to take a look at. You pull away at the end and then there are potentially more. It’s never-ending. We’ve celebrated just one of them.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Yet, as ordinary as this might be, from a filmmaking perspective, I imagine this was quite challenging. You did make a real time film entirely set in the front seat of a car driving along the freeway to London revolving around a single physical actor. What was going through your mind as you looked at the challenges of making all of this happen?

Steven Knight: A low budget certainly helps in this instance, because by keeping the budget low you get freedom, you get left alone. So, once that was established, you get a bit of a space where you get to say, okay, we get to do this the way that we want to, no one is going to tell us what to do. I mean, whenever you make a film there is always a logical practical reason not to do the logical practical thing, there’s always a person standing there telling you that you can’t do something.

It’s like that “Simpsons” episode where there’s this film crew, and the person making the film says that when they need a horse they take a cow and paint it to look like a horse. When asked why they don’t just get a horse they respond by saying they tie a herd of cats together and use that.

On actual film sets, there’s always that feeling that you should be doing something different than what you’re actually attempting to do.

But with [Locke], it seemed logical to just get three cameras, put them on a vehicle, and then I would say, “Action,” and we would set out and film for the next 90 minutes. We’d have the other actors in a hotel room so they could actually take and make all the phone calls that transpire over the course of the film. We did our best to shoot [the film] twice per night, so when we were finished we ended up with 16 different movies that we then got to cut together the best takes from in order to arrive at our finished drama. It was the logical way to make it, and because we didn’t have huge financial backing there was never anyone looking over our shoulder telling us not to make it that way.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Tell me more about that process, going through the entire script two or three times a night, having the remaining cast sitting in a hotel room doing their scenes in sequence, essentially for real, as if they were performing a play, night after night after night.

Steven Knight: It just made sense. It allowed the actors, especially Tom, to calibrate their performances and to make their characters feel authentic. That first call is the first call, and by the time [Ivan’s] getting

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continued from cover has immanent dangers hiding around unforeseen corners. Instead, it is a real time saga of a man, Ivan Locke, played with breathtaking urgency by star Tom Hardy, making a life-changing decision and then dealing with the aftermath, everything happening during a 90 minute nighttime drive to London.

On his recent visit to Seattle I had the opportunity to sit down with the Oscar-nominated talent to talk about the film, his writing process and various other topics. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation.

that climactic, important call from his son, he’s been through the mill over the course of that real time journey. The only breaks were that every 30 minutes we had to change out the memory card in the camera, so every 27 minutes we’d have to pull over and get ready to switch those out. It was like a NASCAR pit stop. We’d change the lenses. Change the batteries. Change the memory card. Everybody out. Everybody in. Leave Tom alone so he stays in character. Back to filming.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Can you expound on your relationship with Tom? It seems like you two would really have had to have worked in highly intimate tandem in order to achieve your vision.

Steven Knight: He’s so brilliant. He’s so brilliant at becoming people. He became this person. Every night. Every time through. It was spellbinding. He’s able to make it look like all that’s happening, everything he’s feeling or saying, is coming that very second. It’s all so natural. The fact he loves theater and the fact he invested so completely into doing this so intimately meant that we never had concerns as to whether or not our star was happy, because no one would be happy if they were actually living through something like this. It was cold. It was rainy. He was stuck inside a car. Tom used all of that. He became Ivan Locke, body and soul. He was just brilliant.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Maybe it was because I’d literally just watched Night of the Iguana and Where Eagles Dare right before this one, but I felt like I could see a little Richard Burton in Hardy’s performance. Am I wrong, or was this something you noticed as well?

Steven Knight: Absolutely. You’re not wrong at all. The reason being, [Tom] listened to a lot of Burton before filming in order to get the accent for the character right.

It’s the Richard Burton accent, but it isn’t an impersonation or a trick. There is a decidedly Welsh quality to what Tom does that feels perfectly authentic. He was inspired by Burton, but he was also inspired by a number of other things as well, and this allowed him I think to make the character entirely his own. He was able to give Ivan Locke life.

Sara Michelle Fetters: How did you work with the other actors? You were on the mobile set with Tom and the film crew while the rest of your cast was off in a hotel room. What was that like?

Steven Knight: We spent five days going through the script with Tom and the other actors before filming began. Most of the direction for all the character stuff was done then, so when we went out onto the road we were all equipped with all we had to do. I kept communication [with the other actors] to an absolute minimum because I didn’t want to interrupt the reality of the situation. Other than the rare times we had to pull over to the side of the road, it was always, this isn’t a movie, this is a play, deal with whatever comes up.

Sara Michelle Fetters: You had some extraordinary British talent sitting in that hotel room. Did you ever worry that they were going to get bored? That they were going to want to go off and do something else? That they wouldn’t want to come in night after night and do the same things two or three times over?

Steven Knight: It was 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., every night, for over a week, and all they had was red wine and biscuits. But, seriously, all the cast bought into what we were trying to do completely, and I think the read-throughs really helped convince them all this was something we could pull off. And, that was key, because as you’ve said, these are some of the best actors working in Britain today, so it was important that we had them completely

on board with what we were trying to do.

After a few nights, I admit I felt obliged to show them some footage, because I felt like I needed them to know that this was real, that this was actually happening.

They saw the footage and realized immediately what was going on, what it was we were bringing to life. And, I mean, their performances are all so good. So real. It allowed us to try so many different variations in many of the scenes.

Because they were all so good, we could experiment with the idea that when people get shocking news, at first they oftentimes are initially okay, but then they slowly get worse before succumbing to some sort of eerie calm, the emotions roiling underneath. It’s like they build up to the shock. It’s like Ivan’s wife, played by Ruth Wilson, she gets angrier and angrier as the night goes on before really giving it to him at the end, yet sounds perfectly rational, almost calm, when she finally does so. People are one thing during one moment and then something completely different in the next; there is no uniformity as far as emotions are concerned.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Which is what makes Ivan so interesting, I think. He’s in pain. You can see it. Yet he maintains this level of control that’s almost unnerving. He’s almost a superhero, in this fashion, if you will.

Steven Knight: He is heroic. That’s the thing; he’s heroic in a very ordinary way. His job is always solving problems, sourcing things out, calming other people’s doubt and stopping panic from developing. That’s what he tries to do here. But his mantra of moving on to the practical next step? That’s never going to work.

Not in this situation. Watching him slowly realize that, but unable to change gears or switch directions, is kind of heartbreaking.

Sara Michelle Fetters: You shot Hummingbird with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Chris Menges. What did you learn from him that you were able to utilize here?

Steven Knight: It’s so interesting that you bring him up, because no one has really spoken about [Chris] and he’s such a huge influence. He was the one, when we were shooting Hummingbird, that would always ask, “Why are there so many trucks?” What he meant by that, when you turn up to shoot, there are all these trucks filling up the street, and he’s like 74, 75, and he’s embraced the digital technology, he wished he’d had these cameras when he was young. To that point, he doesn’t need all those trucks. Sees them as excessive. He wants to go in; he wants to find the truth in the image. He’s got this aversion to lighting things, wants to use as much of the natural energy and light of a given set as he can, and no he’s got the technology to be able to do just that. So, in other words, you don’t need all the trucks.

Sara Michelle Fetters: At the end of the day, what do you hope audiences take away from watching Locke? What do you want them to be talking about?

Steven Knight: The key for me was the Salt Lake City screening. We did Sundance, which was great, but in Salt Lake City I felt like we were showing the film to what I considered Middle America, not film people. There were middle-aged men, a lot of older women, it wasn’t an audience you’d expect to go to a somewhat experimental film of this nature.

Afterwards, there were all these really long handshakes, all these sincere emotions, and they weren’t remarking about the experimental nature of the making of the film, they were remarking about the emotional journey the character had just been on. They were really relating it to their own lives. I meant something to them.

So, that’s what I want. I want audiences to respond just like that. I’m so glad that responses like that are happening. I hope they continue.

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continued from cover lost sight of the bigger picture, keeping things in perspective even as SIFF has grown in both prominence and importance on the worldwide film festival stage. “You have to remember to try and put together a festival that people will want to attend,” he admits candidly, “that you program films that they want to come see. The pressure is putting a lineup together that mixes in all the elements we hold near and dear to both our hearts and to the history of the festival. We have such a big audience and we’re dependent upon them. The pressure is to engage with that audience, all corners of it, because if we don’t, then we haven’t lived up to the mission we set before ourselves.”

The fun part in sitting down with the longtime SIFF stalwart is discovering which titles get his pulse racing, which ones he’s energized for the audience to take a look at, especially when there are over 400 different cinematic programs of one sort or another to choose from. “There’s lots I’m excited about, but I’m thrilled we get to show Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s latest film,” states Spence. “It’s so good. Just great. But there are so many more, like The Way He Looks from Brazil. It’s one of my favorites, like a Gay-themed John Hughes movie with a South American twist.”

“I’m really excited people get to see Jimi: All Is By My Side. I always love André Benjamin, and he was here for Battle in Seattle, and this is such a better film, and I think he’s phenomenal in it as well. Dior and I is one I made a point to track down the filmmaker for, because I’d heard such great things. He sent me a copy to watch and I just absolutely loved it, so that is one film I’m particularly proud we are getting to showcase.”

“But most of all, I was surprised, and am now so honored, that Quincy Jones is attending the festival. I didn’t think it was going to happen. I love the film, Keep On Keepin’ On, and the thing about that film is that Clark Terry isn’t just a phenomenal musician, but that his interaction with other musicians, his mentoring, giving back to the community at large – he was the main mentor to artists like Quincy Jones, Miles Davis and others – is what he thrived on. It’s what he still thrives on. The fact we have him here, Quincy Jones here, and that his latest [student], Justin Kauflin, who is blind, will be here and will perform live at the Triple Door, that’s just magic.”

Speaking of Jones, he’s just one of the amazing talents being recognized for their achievements by SIFF in 2014. Not even six months after receiving his first Academy Award nomination, Chiwetel Ejiofor brings the Nigerian drama Half of a Yellow Sun to the festival, while Hollywood icon Laura Dern shows up with one of the summer’s most hotly anticipated titles, the young adult cancer melodrama The Fault In Our Stars. Fresh off its Sundance debut also comes Richard Linklater with Boyhood, the chronicle of a youngster’s transition

from adolescence to young adulthood featuring a single set of actors, filming taking place over a 12-year period of time.

“We really wanted to have some marquee names to help us celebrate our 40th,” admits Spence. “But just as much, we wanted their films to run the spectrum of big Hollywood features to small independent productions. The Fault In Our Stars is a big studio melodrama, but it’s also just a really good film. Chiwetel’s film, meanwhile, is this really small independent effort about two sisters living through the independence movement and civil strife in Nigeria, and in many ways it couldn’t be more timely. It gives good background as to why things are the way things are there [in Nigeria].”

“I put a lot of effort into making sure we had a lot of great films and great guests. With Boyhood, we had to have it. We debuted Richard’s Slacker way back when, so having him back for this groundbreaking effort just made sense.

But it’s all interconnected. Laura Dern is here this year, and she starred with Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet, a movie we showed at SIFF. Chiwetel Ejiofor just worked with our opening night writer/director John Ridley on 12 Years a Slave. None of which was on purpose, but all of which makes sense when you take it all in, when you look at the bigger picture.”

One of the biggest pieces of news was the announcement that SIFF would be returning to Capitol Hill’s iconic Egyptian Theatre, even though it has been closed for almost a year.

“It’s a flagship venue,” says Spence. “The festival has been screening there since 1980, so it was important to us to get those doors back open. We have a deal to use it for the festival, and we’re currently hammering out details to, hopefully, use it year-round. We’ve made an offer and are hoping for the best.”

“It’s just a great theater. We’ve had to do a few things to get it ready. We’ve put in new speakers. We’ve cleaned things up quite a bit. Everything looks and sounds terrific at this point but we’d like to do a lot more.

Hopefully, if our lease gets accepted, we’ll be able to do just that. There’s a nostalgic and a historic connection to that building I don’t want to see come to an end.”

With their current situation at the Uptown Cinemas, with a venue at the SIFF Film Center at Seattle Center, if the lease for the Egyptian does go through, the fact Spence and his team would suddenly be running five different screens in the city isn’t a thing that worries him. “It’s been a metamorphosis, for sure,” he proclaims. “We went from an organization that had a theater, to one that had a theater and a festival as a centerpiece. We then went to being just a festival, and as part of that we sold off the Egyptian.”

“But I’ve always loved having theaters.

When I was at the University of Washington, I helped spearhead the installation of the 35mm projectors in the HUB Auditorium. That’s where I first started programming films for exhibition. So it made sense to my mind to start programming year round when we first moved

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into McCaw Hall and, subsequently, when we took over running the Uptown. And, the thing that’s really important about that, is that had we not assumed the lease, that venue would still be closed. There wouldn’t be a movie theater in the Queen Anne neighborhood.”

It is the preservation of those neighborhood venues that seems to excite Spence the most and is without a doubt one of the driving forces behind his push to get the Egyptian back into working order. “Neighborhood movie houses are disappearing,” he states. “I don’t think that is up for debate. So, with that in mind, one of the great things about our doing year-round programming is that it preserves these neighborhood theaters and treats them with the respect they deserve.”

“But, selfishly, they also preserve festival venues. SIFF is right in the middle of the blockbuster movie season, so getting screens from the big chains is understandably difficult. Giving up screens in the middle of May and June is understandably counterintuitive to the industry, so by our running the Uptown and the Egyptian we ensure that those screens will always be available come festival time. We’ve shown with the Uptown that you can revitalize a theater and you can bring the audience back into the neighborhood. That has given us the confidence to consider the idea we can maybe continue to do this on a larger scale.

We’re making our own rules.”

[EDITOR’S NOTE: At the Opening Night Gala in McCaw Hall, the Seattle International Film Festival announced that is has purchased the SIFF Cinema Uptown (with the “Angels of the Uptown”) and has also signed a lease for the Egyptian Theatre (thank you, Seattle Central Community College), securing these two neighborhood landmarks as year-round SIFF Cinema and Festival venues.]

With our time coming to an end, our attention turns back towards the festival itself, in this case the broad and impressive list of LGBT-themed motion pictures screening during the festival. “It’s an impressive selection,” says Spence proudly. “The Case Against 8 is a great film and is definitely a documentary I think people should go out of their way to see.

There’s Me, Myself and Mum from French

director Guillaume Gallienne, which isn’t remotely politically correct and is about a guy who’s really effeminate and everyone thinks is Gay, including his mom, but isn’t; I think it’s terrific. There’s our Gay-la film Helicopter Mom with Nia Vardalos, about a mother who pushes her son to come out so he can win a college scholarship, even though he’s still in the process of assessing his sexuality.”

“That movie’s particularly interesting.

It’s groundbreaking, because it’s basically saying it is okay to not know your sexuality. That it’s okay to experiment, to figure things out. There’s neither a here or there and everyone around them is okay with that, they’re fine with the thought that their friend or loved one might be Gay but hasn’t yet come to any sort of conclusion whether or not they actually are.”

“There’s the great documentary To Be Takei about the Star Trek icon George Takei. I think people are really going to like this one. And there’s that film from Brazil, The Way He Looks, that I’ve already talked about. It’s one of my favorites. But there are number of exciting titles to choose from, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Bringing that one back for our anniversary for a midnight screening just feels right.”

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Body Diversity Photo Project Call for Art

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea), a social justice nonprofit, continues with another 2014 community forum combined with the BODY DIVERSITY PHOTO PROJECT. In February, SOSea focused on the Lesbian community. This time they are focusing on the Gay community.

The SOSea GAY LIFE COMMUNITY FORUM & BODY DIVERSITY PHOTO PROJECT is scheduled for 6:30- 8 p.m. at The Summit (420 E. Pike St.) May 20.

Some refreshments will be provided and wine will be available for purchase.

It is important to note that children and youth of all ages are welcome to attend this event.

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION The panel of speakers will feature a diverse group of Gay men that will discuss what it means to them to be Gay in 2014. The panel includes House Music DJ and Co-Creator/Radio Personality for “Now Serving” DJ Almond Brown, aerial arts enthusiast and bartender at Purr Andrew Flewelling, Peruvian recording artist and SOSea Director of Outreach to the LGBTQ and Allied Latin Community Jack Mozie, ordained

minister of Metropolitan Community There is no cap on the number of photos is May 18, 6 p.m.

Churches (first LGBT denomination in the you can enter into the contest. So enter as Questions? Sponsorship information?

US) Rev. Ray Neal, philanthropist and Se- many as you’d like!

Please contact SOSea at SocialOutreachattle recording artist Eric Blu, Seattle drag The deadline for photo submissions Seattle@gmail.com or 206-769-0238. queen Jessica Paradisco, and more.

In addition to the constructed conversation, a Q&A session will take place to ensure that we have a robust talk overall. No questions will be off limits.

The photography exhibit for the BODY DIVERSITY PHOTO PROJECT will be on display in addition to the forum. Guests may enjoy talking with the photographers that took the photo as well as the models that posed for the portraits.

The photos on display will be available for purchase at the forum.

CALL FOR ART SOSea has the topic selected so now they are asking for people to send in art.

“Please invite your expert or novice friends that are photographers to join us for this evening of honest discussion and exposure to Gay art,” said SOSea in a press release.

Submitting a photo is easy. Send your photo submission via email to SocialOutreachSeattle@gmail.com. The best 20 images will be displayed the evening of the event. All images should be hi-res, at least 5x7, and 300 dpi.

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Artwork by Karen Clark

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From May 15 to August 1, Seattle’s long-established Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) will present the 24th annual juried exhibition, “PostGlamism: Glam Art in the 21st Century” at the Seattle Design Center (5701 Sixth Ave. S., Ste 258). www.cocaseattle.org Each year, CoCA curators invite an independent juror to select the work from among the entries received, and is proud to have Michael Sweney as this year’s juror. Sweney currently serves as Manager for the Art in Public Places Program with the Washington State Arts Commission.

A member of the Tacoma Arts Commission and Tacoma Art Museum’s Collection Committee, Sweney’s work is informed by almost 20 years experience as an art dealer and curator in New York City (Charles Cowles Gallery) and Seattle (Davidson Contemporary). The exhibition features the work of 14 artists who embrace and glorify the concept of PostGlamism pop culture and history through a mastery of mediums in both small and large scale including: neon, glass, painting, photography, interactive video installation, found objects and performance.

This year’s artists are: Karen Clark (CA), Dixie Darling (WA), Christian French (WA), Jeff Gerber (WA), Troy Gua (WA), Vin Hill (WA), Virginia Jenkins (WA), Lauren Kalman (MI), Rebecca Maxim (WA), Lindsay McCoy (WA), Dylan Neuwirth (WA), Hadley Northrop (CA), Matthew D. Rowe (WA), and Glenn Tramantano (WA).

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NOTE: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY - May 17

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.

A History of Queering up the Hill: Walking Tour of Capitol Hill. 12noon-2pm. Meet at the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, 11th Ave & E Howell St. Must be 21+ to attend this walk. MOHAI members $20, non-members $25. www.mohai.org Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www. thegrimaldis aredead.com #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.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 The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www. thegrimaldis aredead.com “The Blood” & “Pot Roast, Aprons & June Cleaver” (5/15-5/18). 5/15-5/17 - 8pm; 5/18 - 6:30pm. Gay City, Calamus Auditorium, 1517 E Pike St. Gay City Arts presents two works of dance theater by Dani Tirrell, exploring love, hate & spirituality in the midst of discovering & maintaining one’s identity. Intended for those 13+.

Tickets: $16 general admission; $12 students/seniors. www.gaycity.org Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broadway & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown.

Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, nwchoirs.org #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.org Emerald City Trapeze Arts 21+ Show (5/16 & 5/17).

Doors 9pm. 2702 6th Ave S. A variety of flying trapeze & aerialists from around the world, followed by a live DJ & dancing all night. General admission $45, VIP $75 (includes private viewing balcony & restrooms, wine, coat check). emeraldcitytrapeze.com

SUNDAY - May 18

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. 323-8382. http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGa yHikingGroup/ 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.

Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month.

This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@ hotmail.com

May 17 thru May 25 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.

Seattle Women’s Commission Meeting. 5:30-8pm.

Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave Rm 221. Meets 3rd Monday each month (except December). SWC is a 20-member volunteer advisory board that advises the Mayor, City Council, & all City of Seattle departments on matters concerning women & women’s rights. Meetings open to the public. 684-4537.

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

PFLAG/Bremerton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton. Meets 3rd Monday each month. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 3257724.

PFLAG/Everett Monthly Meeting. 7pm. First Congregational Church of Everett, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Meets 3rd Monday each month. 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 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 - May 20

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. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-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 Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broadway & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown.

Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, nwchoirs.org Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck Social & General Meeting. 2-4pm. Seattle First Baptist Church Recreation Hall, 1111 Harvard Ave (at E Seneca St - enter thru glass doors on Harvard Ave.) Meets 3rd Sunday most months. Bring a dish to serve 6-8 people. $4 door fee covers hall rental. SPT is a social club for Gay men & their friends. www.seattleprimetimers.org.

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 Seattle PolyFidelity Discussion Group Potluck Meeting. 5-7:30pm. Meets 3rd Sunday of odd-numbered months at a poly-friendly location. PolyFidelity welcomes persons of all sexual orientations who are interested in

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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

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 Safe Schools Coalition Monthly Meeting. 3-5pm.

Planned Parenthood, 2001 E Madison. Meets 3rd Tuesday most months (schedule varies in summer). The Safe Schools Coalition: A Public-Private Partnership in Support of LGBT youth. All are welcome at meetings; lots of volunteer opportunities are discussed. 632-0662 ext 49; CRISIS LINE: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE; www.safeschoolscoalition.org.

Launching a Capitol Hill Arts District - A Community Forum. 5:30pm. Oddfellows Hall, 915 E Pine St. For details & REGISTRATION visit bit.ly/artsdistrictforum 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 Seattle Police Department LGBTQ Advisory Council Monthly Meeting. 6-8pm. Seattle Police Department East Precinct Community Meeting Room, 12th Ave & E Pine St. Meets 3rd Tuesday most months. The Sexual Minority Community Advisory Council has been established by the SPD to increase relationships & communication between the community & the SPD. Members of the GLBT community are invited to attend. kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Strength Over Speed. 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 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 Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm.

Meadowbrook Playfield, 10533 35th Ave NE (tennis courts at 32nd Ave NE). Every Tuesday & Thursday

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discussing responsible alternatives to monogamy. Followed by a Poly Party. For more information & location, www.scn.org/~spg #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.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 “The Blood” & “Pot Roast, Aprons & June Cleaver” (5/15-5/18). 5/15-5/17 - 8pm; 5/18 - 6:30pm. Gay City, Calamus Auditorium, 1517 E Pike St. Gay City Arts presents two works of dance theater by Dani Tirrell, exploring love, hate & spirituality in the midst of discovering & maintaining one’s identity. Intended for those 13+.

Tickets: $16 general admission; $12 students/seniors. www.gaycity.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.

The 33rd Annual La Femme Magnifique Seattle and Seattle Plus Pageant. 6pm doors; 7pm pageant.

Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Admission $20.

For more information and/or registration email Gaysha@ Gayshastarr.com.

The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www. thegrimaldis aredead.com Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - May 19

thru Sept. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian tennis club. $3 for members & first-time guests, $5 for returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com.

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.

Rain City Jacks. 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm; 4th Sunday each month at1pm. West Queen Anne/ Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sexpositive, 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.

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. 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 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.

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FRIDAY - May 23

WEDNESDAY - May 21

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. www.mature friends.org Women’s HIV+ Support Group in Tacoma. 1-3pm.

Pierce County AIDS Foundation, 3520 S Pine St, Tacoma - 3 blocks east of Tacoma Mall. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month. (253) 383-2565.

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. (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com 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.)

HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.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. www. ingersollcenter.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. http://groups.yahoo. com/group/ seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bearssubscribe@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

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 888-292-1912; 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.)

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. Drop-ins 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 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

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$25. FREE registration. No cover. www.seattlepride. org; 322-9561.

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.) #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.org

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.

Border Riders Motorcycle Club Meet & Greet. 8-9pm.

The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave (at E Pine St). Meets the Wednesday before the 3rd Saturday each month.

BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.org

THURSDAY - May 22

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 The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www. thegrimaldis aredead.com 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.

Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broadway & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown.

Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, nwchoirs.org 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 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 queerSpawn (5/23-6/7). Thurs-Sat 8pm. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave. A playfully significant look at a different kind of bullying. A heterosexual cisgender teenage boy with Lesbian mothers struggles with surviving high school in a small town. Tickets $15. www. brownpapertickets.com/event/647037 #Unprotected (5/15-5/23). All performances 8pm EXCEPT Sat 5/17 matinee at 2pm; Sun 5/18 at 5pm.

Erickson Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave. Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $15 student (425) 747-4937. rush. www.brownpapertickets.com, www.whimwhim.org Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm.

Triangle Recreation Camp Meet & Greet Cocktail Lower Woodland Park Courts 5, 6, 7 & 8. Every Tuesday Party. 9:30pm. Washington State’s only LGBTQ camp& Thursday. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian ground. www.camptrc.org tennis club. $2 for members & first-time guests, $5 for returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com.

SATURDAY - May 24 Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues Taste of Mirrim 3D Portraits. 1-4pm. Gay City Calathat relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a mus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. Distinctive & realistic male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org portraits in 3D. PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma. Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s PalMeets 4th Thursday each month. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) ladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www.

383-2318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. thegrimaldis aredead.com Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broadlisting at 6pm.) way & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown.

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. nwchoirs.org 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org queerSpawn (5/23-6/7). Thurs-Sat 8pm. Eclectic Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Theater, 1214 10th Ave. A playfully significant look at Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. a different kind of bullying. A heterosexual cisgender Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & teenage boy with Lesbian mothers struggles with surGay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, viving high school in a small town. Tickets $15. www. anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring brownpapertickets.com/event/647037 fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Triangle Recreation Camp Uniform & Military Party. our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ 9:30pm. Washington State’s only LGBTQ campground. www.camptrc.org gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SUNDAY - May 25 SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion (See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; Rain City Jacks. 4th Sunday each month at1pm; 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm. West Queen Anne/ www.sasgcc.org The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25). Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s Pal- request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sexladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead positive, non-profit and private. Membership required. but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www. Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035. thegrimaldis aredead.com Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat Vocalpoint! Motor City Revue (5/15-5/25). Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broad- 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Broadway Performance Hall, Broadway & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown. way & E Pine. Music from the glory days of Motown.

Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, Tickets: $18 adults, $12 students/seniors. 524-3234, nwchoirs.org nwchoirs.org Pride Idol. Contestant registration 6:30pm; Doors 7pm; The Grimaldis: A Musical Ghost Story (5/16-5/25).

Competition 8pm. OutWest Bar, 5401 California Ave SW. Sat - 2pm & 7pm; Thurs, Fri & Sun - 7pm. Hale’s PalKaraoke and original song competition. The 1st place ladium, 4301 Leary Way NW. The Grimaldis are dead winner each night wins $100, 2nd place $50, 3rd place but the show must go on! Tickets: $40 & $45. www.

Celebrating 41 Years!

thegrimaldis aredead.com queerSpawn (5/23-6/7). Thurs-Sat 8pm. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave. A playfully significant look at a different kind of bullying. A heterosexual cisgender teenage boy with Lesbian mothers struggles with surviving high school in a small town. Tickets $15. www. brownpapertickets.com/event/647037

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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 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.

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 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) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837.

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.

LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers.

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.

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 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: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ maybebabyseattle; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proud-and-loudfamilies-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org 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, 781-3565, 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 descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; TrikoneNorthwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle.

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 - 682-6711; 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.

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 - 684-4503.

Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons

Visit us online www.sgn.org

& their families. 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 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.pacific nwgra.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

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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 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.ingersoll center.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftm group.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/ Olympia-Trans-Discussion-Group/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://lbtqhealthywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493.

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 1425, 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, 206-326-9112, 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, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; 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, 509396-5198, 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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