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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 21, Volume 42, May 23, 2014

Time to have a ball with

Lady GaGa

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

LADY GAGA’S “ARTRAVE: THE ARTPOP BALL” KEY ARENA MAY 28 Remember when Lady GaGa made headlines?

Like everyday. Whether it was wearing a steak dress to an awards show, or pissing off the Catholic Church with her sinful smash “Judas,” or giving a rousing speech in support of Gay rights at the Na-

tional Equality March in Washington, DC in 2009. [Google “Lady Gaga Gay Rights Speech” to read about, and hear and see some of her extraordinary activism and advocacy on behalf of the LGBT community.] That was then.

In recent months, the diva’s career has taken a dip. Her latest effort, last year’s Artpop, has been both an artistic and commercial disappointment. To date, it’s sold just 685,000 copies domestically, compared to U.S. sales of 2.3 million for Born This Way. Even see GAGA page 7

an excellent opera staging of La Femme Magnifique Handel’s Semele Pacific MusicWorks and the UW School of Music present

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Darcelle XV (l) and Gaysha Starr hosting La Femme Magnifique

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Musicians performing in Semele

– it is the only one of his operas written in English, and it is most often performed as an oratoSEMELE rio. Under the expert guidance PACIFIC MUSICWORKS & of Stephen Stubbs, audiences in UW SCHOOL OF MUSIC Seattle were treated to the “real MEANY HALL deal” this weekend, with an May 18 imaginative opera staging that combined techniques of oratorio, Semele is a bit of an anomaly performance art, dance and digiamongst Handel’s vocal works tal media to reconceive the piece

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as something new altogether.

Also new to this performance was the collaboration between the professional musicians of Stubbs’ Pacific MusicWorks alongside amateur student performers of the University of Washington School of Music, where Stubbs now serves as facsee Semele page 5

On May 18, at Neighbours Nightclub, Diamond St. James Black, Gabrielle Grimaldi, LeTigre, Niikiita, and Jessica Paradisco competed for the title of La Femme Magnifique Washington; Celys St. James Black competed for La Femme Magnifique Washington-Plus.

The 33rd Annual Seattle La Femme Magnifique Washington/ Washington-Plus pageant, founded

by Darcelle XV Portland and produced by Gaysha Starr and Sinfinite

Productions, is billed as the “Search for the most beautiful and glamorous female impersonators in Seattle.”

Contestants in La Femme Magnifique Washington/WashingtonPlus were judged in the following categories, respectively: Black and White Look, Evening Gown Competition, Talent Competition and Show Girl Competition.

In the end, Diamond St. James Black won La Femme Magnifique Washington and Celys St. James Black was crowned La Femme see LA FEMME page 5

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Sheezus, take the wheel! Take it off my hands because here comes Lily Allen! The Grammynominated artist is swinging through Seattle on October 4, set to perform at the Paramount Theatre. Fresh from mocking Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love” music video, and also with the much-anticipated release of her new album, Sheezus, Allen is embarking on her first U.S. jaunt in several years. Her show will probably include the hits “Smile,” “The Fear,” “Not Fair,” “LDN,” and the title track from her latest record. At press time, ticket information wasn’t available, but I hope to have it for you soon.

The musical lineup for Bumbershoot has now been revealed. While it isn’t my favorite, in comparison to years past, there are a few artists worth checking out at Seattle Center Labor Day Weekend. Foster the People, J Cole, Wu-Tang Clan, Panic! at the Disco, Neon Trees, Big Freedia, Bobby Womack, The Head and the Heart, Gregory Porter, The Replacements and Elvis Costello are some of the performers slated to appear during the summer-ending festival right underneath the Space Needle. Exact dates are August 30 through September 1. For ticket information and the full roster of entertainers, including comedians and lecturers, go to www.bumbershoot.org.

If you prefer a mellow to raucous Pride Week, look no further than next month’s Earshot Jazz Summer Concert Series.

A trio of performances is scheduled for consecutive nights on June 26, 27 and 28 at Seattle Art Museum’s Plestcheef Auditorium. The first evening features trumpeter-composer Ambrose Akinmusire backed by a full band that includes tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown. Also on Thursday is saxophonist Darius Jones with piano trio Tarbaby, comprised of bassist/composer Eric Revis, pianist Orrin Evans, and renowned drummer Nasheet Waits. On the middle night, the group Human Feel (Chris Speed and Andrew D’Angelo on saxophones, Jim Black on drums, Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitars) performs, along with chamber-jazz brass

quartet The Westerlies (trumpeters Riley Mulherkar and Zubin Hensler, plus trombonists Willem de Koch and Andy Clausen), all former Seattle high school graduates. Rounding out the series on Sunday is Icelandic jazz pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs joined by bassist Thorgrimur Jónsson and American drummer Scott McLemore.

They’ll be followed by pianist-vocalistcomposer Dawn Clement, a Cornish College of the Arts faculty member, and her bandmates, Byron Vannoy on drums and Geoff Harper on bass. Tickets for each concert, priced between 18 and 24, are available at www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006.

Congratulations are in order to Clay Aiken, who has officially won a Democratic Primary in his home state of North Carolina. A close race with opponent Keith Crisco ended abruptly when the 71-year old died at his home, although Aiken had already secured a substantial lead to claim victory in the state’s second congressional district. The former “American Idol” finalist now faces a tougher challenge against GOP incumbent Renee Elmers in the General Election this fall.

Finally, Seattle Gay News will have a writer and photographer on-site for this year’s sold out Sasquatch Festival Memorial Day Weekend. The three-day event, taking place at The Gorge Amphitheatre, features an exciting lineup, including M.I.A., Foster the People, Big Freedia, Violent Femmes, Haim and Major Lazer, just to name a few.

This week is concert-heavy for Seattle The second of Animal Collective’s DJ sets at Neumos on May 29 is sold out.

There are still tickets for the May 28 show, This is the busiest week in music for but it’s likely to sell out as well, so buy Seattle, thus far, in 2014 with shows hap- them soon at www.neumos.com. pening everywhere.

Of course, Memorial Day weekend marks The lineup for the Capitol Hill Block Party the Northwest’s premiere music festival, Sas- (July 25-27) was recently revealed and inquatch, taking place at The Gorge Amphi- cludes Spoon, A$AP Rocky, Chromeo, Matt theatre. M.I.A., Outkast, Foster the People, and Kim, The War on Drugs, Odesza, A$AP Queens of the Stone Age, The National, Big Ferg, Beat Connection, Star Slinger, Budos Freedia, Neko Case and Cut Copy are just some Band, Tanlines, Dum Dum Girls, Robert Deof the acts performing at the three-day event long and many more acts that will converge on May 23-25. Seattle Gay News will have a inside a multi-block outdoor area by E. Pike writer and photographer on-site to cover all the St. and Broadway. Three-day passes for $125 action. Also this weekend, Northwest Folklife or VIP packages for $250 are available now Festival will be hosting musicians jamming all at www.capitolhillblockparty.com, where day and all night at Seattle Center. Go to www. you’ll also find a complete roster of artists nwfolklife.org for a complete guide. performing at the street festival.

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announced a date at the scenic venue on August 15 with special guest Steve Winwood.

I’ve seen them five times, at least, and every time it’s been a party with beach balls tossed around and happy people singing all the words to the group’s hits, from “Learning to Fly” to “The Waiting” to “Free Falling.” But they’re also expected to play fresh material from a new album, Hypnotic Eye, set for a July 29 release. Tickets will go on sale May 31, 10 a.m., at Ticketmaster.

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Did you know Jinkx Monsoon has a new album out? It’s so true. Last season’s winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race (by the way, congrats to this season’s winner, Bianco Del Rio!) has released her first recording, The Inevitable Album, featuring the leadoff single “Coffee and Wine.” The accompanying music video has been uploaded to YouTube. I don’t have imLana Del Rey will appear in her first SeFun in the sun? Think: road trip to The mediate information on performance dates for attle concert on May 27, which is already Gorge Amphitheatre for Tom Petty and the Seattle, but I’d assume a local show is in the sold out, at WaMu Theater with a set-list Heartbreakers. The veteran rock band has works. The Inevitable Album is in stores now. expected to include “West Coast,” “Summertime Sadness” and “Born to Die.” Then, the “Pokerface” diva herself, Lady GaGa, performs the next evening at Key Arena, her first time since 2009 that she’ll play a full concert in the Emerald City. Multiple Grammy winner Lionel Richie arrives three days later on May 31 for a show at Key Arena, where he’ll delight the crowd with favorites like “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” “You Are,” “Easy,” “Sail On” and “Hello.” Tickets are still available for Crowd at Capitol Hill Block Party 2012 Richie’s concert at Ticketmaster.

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continued from cover ulty. The program notes explained that this sort of collaboration can serve as a means to produce opera more economically, bringing rare repertoire to audiences unlikely to hear this music.

Keeping to an economical budget did not mean the performance lacked for creativity.

Kudos must be given to visual artist James Darrah and his team for their conception. Though sets were spare, an inspired use of video montages projected onto floating wisps of cloth contributed to the hypnotic, dreamy effect of the staging, ending in a literal disassembling of the stage in the final ensemble pieces to spectacular effect. Special mention also must be made to the ingenious presentation of the supertitles: traditional text projected above the stage for recitative; but for arias, the sung texts were presented in poetic forms, as part of the video montages, in elegant font, which only served to highlight the superb singing of the ensemble cast.

On to the singing: Haeran Hong made a rich-voiced and vivid characterization as the anti-heroine Semele, highlighted by her effusive performance of the famous “Endless Pleasure” and her blazing final aria.

As her father, Colin Ramsey as Cadmus opened the show with his resonant bass to memorable effect. Another aria, with Ramsey playing a second role as Somnus, the god of sleep, was also remarkable, with Handel’s amazing music, foreshadowing Wagner’s awakening of Fafner in The Ring Cycle in its exploration of deep timbres, stirring in slow harmonic development.

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continued from cover Magnifique Washington-Plus. Diamond and Celys also won $500 each and will compete in Portland, OR, Labor Day Weekend for the 2014 La Femme Magnifique International Pageant.

If they win in Portland, they will follow in the footsteps of Washington International Win-

On the other side of the vocal spectrum, soprano Valerie Vinzant was hilarious in her turn as the vixen-like Iris – the staging involved her falling off the stage at one point! – and her dexterous leaps in her upper range to match her leaps back onto the stage. Aaron Sheehan as Jupiter perhaps did not show enough color or variation in his voice to fully embody the leader of the Roman gods, but his winsome performance of the affective “Where’er You Walk” was nevertheless a highlight.

Last, but certainly not least, mezzosoprano Peabody Southwell was haunting in her dual performances as Ino and Juno. Her probing turn in the aria “Turn, Hopeless Lover” – essentially a duet between alto and cello – stole the show for the depths of emotion plumbed in her singing juxtaposed against the plangent playing of the solo cellist.

Mention also must be made for the excellent ensemble singing of the student chorus, with their incisive yet freshsounding choruses. Similarly, the small string, percussion and harpsichord ensemble also performed well, even though they displayed some raggedness in phrasing.

This small quibble aside, with this production following notable successes in past years, including their production of Monteverdi’s “Vespers,” as well as other rarely performed byways of early music, Stubbs and his ensembles continue to go from strength to strength with their innovative performances. With this production of Semele (and with what one hopes will continue to be a fruitful partnership with the UW School of Music), Pacific MusicWorks further anchors its place within Seattle’s vibrant early music scene. ner’s Coco Vaughn (‘86), Gaysha Starr (‘94), LaVanda Dela Rosa (‘96), Lily Armani (‘10), Lady Chablis (‘11), Athena Kiss (‘11), Amora Dior Black (‘13) and LaTrina Bidet (‘13).

GAYSHA STARR The May 18 pageant was particularly special for producer and local drag legend Gaysha Starr. Starr has won many titles, including being elected in 1999 as the first Asian Pacific Islander Empress Facebook

Darcelle XV (l) and Gaysha Starr hosting La Femme Magnifique

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of Seattle, Olympia XXIX, through a citywide vote. But where her real talent can be seen is when she is raising money for the community. Starr has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for countless charities both on stage and behind the scenes as a chairperson, producer, event planner and board member for different non-profits and social groups.

She produced “Bars Give Back” a citywide fundraiser for the Children’s Aid Society that raised over $10,000 for the victims of New York City after 9/11.

In 2010, partnering with Neighbours Nightclub and the Seattle Gay News, Gaysha founded “Gaysha Starr Presents.” Under this production name she led fundraising efforts for GLSEN WA (The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network of Washington), raising over $10,000 in one year through drag shows and pageants, and producing a 2011 Men of Neighbours calendar.

In 2011, Gaysha shifted her fundraising efforts to the Youth Suicide Prevention Program – to help protect GLBTQ youth from anti-bullying. She was voted president of the Asian Pacific Islander Council, a social group that empowers and supports GLBTQ Asian Pacific Islanders and also raises monies for various charities.

Most recently Gaysha has been a hostess/ emcee for some of Seattle’s largest events, including the Lifelong AIDS Alliance Gay Bingo from 2008-2010, the Red Dress Party 20102014, Bat N’ Rouge 2011, and the Capitol Hill Pride Festival Main Stage 2011. She became the lead hostess for Seattle Out and Proud in 2011 and hosted their Pride Idol Singing Contest for two years in a row, the Pride Picnic, Pride Pin Launch at the Hard Rock Cafe and also was a co-hostess of the Pride Parade.

Starr currently lives in Aspen, Colorado,

but returns to Seattle several times a year to produce or host events, where she still raises money for local charities and brings awareness to local causes.

For more information about Gaysha Starr, visit her website at www.gayshastarr.com.

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DARCELLE XV In keeping with tradition, right before the new La Femmes were crowned, Darcelle XV, led the crowd in singing “The Rose” by Bette Midler.

Darcelle XV is a legendary drag queen throughout the Pacific Northwest and has been performing shows over the past 40 years. With thousands of shows under her tiara, Darcelle XV and company (whose numbers have varied over the years, but hover around nine drag queens and a male dancer or two) at her Portland bar Darcelle XV Showplace, has performed shows in Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., San Francisco, Las Vegas and Reno, to name a few. She has even performed shows in England, China, and India.

With all that experience and history, it’s no wonder Darcelle XV created one of drag’s premier events: La Femme Magnifique. The pageant, now in its 33rd year, is, as Darcelle XV put it to the Seattle Gay News in 2010, “Glitz and glamour and a passion to win the crown.”

Seattle Gay News would like to congratulate La Femme Magnifique Washington 2014 Diamond St. James Black and La Femme Magnifique Washington-Plus Celys St. James Black on their reign and wish them luck in Portland.

To purchase tickets to La Femme Magnifique International/International-plus in Portland, Oregon Labor Day Weekend, go to www.lafemmemagnifiquepageant.com.

Future and past collide in latest X-Men spectacle 20th Century Fox

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past

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is never lost for a single solitary moment.

It is a little too streamlined at times, almost too straight-forward in both presentation and design, brushing past speed bumps and plot holes with maximum rapidity in hopes the viewer will fail to notice their existence.

Some of the characterizations are a bit nondescript, Lawrence in particular not given the same room to evolve like she was in XMen: First Class – and with so much of the narrative revolving around Mystique, this is a defect that’s hard to miss. The reliance on Wolverine/Logan is also getting a little tiresome. And while Jackman is as wonderful as ever, the fact this is his seventh appearance in so many films makes me wonder if filmmakers don’t trust audiences to buy a ticket if he’s not part of the adventure being presented.

But McAvoy and Fassbender are as sublime here as they were in First Class, each with far more to do this time, making their respective characters even more intriguing. It’s also nice to see Stewart and McKellan return to the series, the two having a grand time reinterpreting their versions of the iconic characters, each man now living in a world that’s descended to a point well beyond madness. Dinklage is an inspired addition, the veteran character actor giving Trask noticeable depth with gradations that go well beyond what’s hinted at within the confines of the script.

Singer stages a few bravura centerpieces, not the least of which is a magnificent prison break showcasing the cocky Quicksilver, charmingly portrayed by Peters, at his egocentrically eccentric best.

The biggest star, however, might just be John Ottman (The Usual Suspects), the veteran pulling double-duty for the director – editing the motion picture while also composing its score. He does exemplary work, his efforts in key towards making the film the enjoyable adventure it so exuberantly ends up being. X-Men: Days of Future Past isn’t perfect, that’s true; but that doesn’t make it any less fun, the road it travels down one worth traversing for both fan and newcomer alike.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past is nothing if not ambitious. Beginning in a dystopian, undefined and brutally apocalyptic future, and then going back in time, with the majority of the story taking place right at the tail end of the Vietnam War when American spirits ran low and suspicions of the unknown ran terrifyingly high, the movie is a furious maelstrom of emotions and ideas reeking of tragedy and soaked in regret. It embraces heartbreak and death, devastation and bloodlust course through its veins, and an aura of catastrophic despair lingers over everything, as if it were the Grim Reaper making ready to collect souls one after the other until none are left.

At the same time, the film also embraces the glorious resilience of the human spectacle in all its multifaceted marvel. It speaks to the best of who we are and what we can choose to be, finding redemption in chaos and showing how bad choices and ill-considered decisions do not have to define one’s character as far as the long run is concerned. The movie asks its heroes to journey into the heart of darkness and attempt to see the light cascading through the other side, showing how hope and faith can battle even the most despicable of demons even when said demons perilously lurk inside one’s very own soul.

Bryan Singer, returning to the series as director for the first time since helming X2: X-Men United in 2003, combines casts from the original trilogy and from 2011’s X-Men: First Class in order to tell a story where past and future collide, each side of the coin working in tandem with the other, supposedly for the greater good of all. Screenwriter Simon Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes), working from a story co-conceived with Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) and Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass), shows economic efficiency in bringing everything to life, the resultant film a time travel comic book adventure worthy of multiple viewings.

The idea is both hopelessly complex, yet also deliciously simple. With the world of

the very near future on the doorstep of total annihilation, former adversaries Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellan), a.k.a. Magneto, join forces with the surviving X-Men to fight for both human and mutant alike.

With the aid of Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), the team comes up with an ambitious plan to send Logan (Hugh Jackman), a.k.a. Wolverine, back in time to 1973, putting his older consciousness into the body of his younger self in order to stop current events from ever happening in the first place.

Problem is, the 1973 incarnation of Professor X (James McAvoy) is a shell of his former self, events in Cuba ten years prior combined with the current situation in Vietnam causing him to wallow in self-pity and depression.

But it is vital Logan brings the powerful telepath back to his senses, as it’s his skills that will be required to make sure Raven (Jenni-

fer Lawrence), a.k.a. Mystique, doesn’t unintentionally ignite a chain of events that will lead to worldwide Armageddon. They will also need the assistance of that time period’s Magneto (Michael Fassbender), but trusting him to do the right thing is close to impossible, the chances he’ll follow his own idiosyncratic path practically a given.

From there we’re off and running, Mystique out to get revenge for what she sees as the evil experimentation on mutantkind by scientist Dr. Boliver Trask (Peter Dinklage) while Logan hopes to use Professor X, Magneto and Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult), a.k.a. Beast, to convince her from letting her passions become homicidal. In the future we watch as the likes of Storm (Halle Berry), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore) and others are coldly dispatched by an unstoppable army of gigantic Sentinel warriors. In the past we are introduced to potential new heroes like Quicksilver (Evan Peters) while also making the acquaintance of villains-tobe like Maj. Bill Stryker (Josh Helman) for the very first time. Everything ultimately rams together on the White House lawn, survival incumbent on a precious few making the decision to go against their baser instincts in order to allow nature to take its natural course.

Like I said, it’s extremely ambitious, Singer and company adapting Chris Claremont’s classic Marvel comic in ways that are consistently intriguing and oftentimes surprising. Additionally, they right the X-Men ship, hitting the reset button in a way that doesn’t so much wipe X-Men: The Last Stand out of existence, so much as it allows filmmakers to not be handicapped by the cavalcade of bad choices and illconsidered decisions that film sadly made.

More importantly, however, it manages to take this convoluted scenario and present it in ways that are easy to process and even more fun to digest. It treats its audience with intelligence and respect but doesn’t skimp on action pyrotechnics and show-stopping sequences of mutant-powered excitement. The Sentinels are rendered spectacularly, while the human element that makes these characters so relatable

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Blended a frustratingly uneven SandlerBarrymore reunion Jim (Adam Sandler) is a single father managing a local sporting goods box store trying to raise three lovely young girls in the wake of their mother’s untimely death to cancer.

Lauren (Drew Barrymore) is a single mother who runs her own small business doing the best she can for her two boys after their selfcentered father Mark (Joel McHale) stepped his way out of the family portrait. The two of them are set up on a blind date that goes all kinds of wrong, and by the time it’s over neither wants to see the other ever again.

Just their luck, his boss Dick (Dan Patrick) and her best friend and business partner Jen (Wendi McLendon-Covey) are dating. More, they’re currently on the outs, meaning their big, week-long already paid for trip to Africa isn’t going to happen. Both Jim and Lauren are struck with inspiration, instantly snatching up the tickets of the party they’re acquainted with, hoping to gift their children a family vacation they’ll remember for the rest of their lives – neither thinking for a moment the other will have the exact same idea. Now the lot of them are in South Africa forced to eat, drink, and sleep with one another, Jim and Lauren needing to reassess their opinions about one another, if only to hopefully make things bearable for the kids they so selflessly love.

Blended is thankfully not a disaster. It has moments of surprising insight, beauteous warmth, and truly astonishing humor, magically bringing a smile to my face at times and in ways I didn’t for a second see coming. At the same time, the movie is also an almost unforgivable, annoyingly frustrating failure, reveling in stereotypes and ideas beyond odious, while also mucking around in sophomoric comedic bits that go one step below the lowest common denominator.

Talk about a mixed bag.

After a rocky start, the movie somehow, someway manages to hit something close to a pleasant stride as it allows Jim and Lauren to showcase their parental skills in stun-

ningly authentic ways. There is an inherent realism to both their situations that cuts through the sitcom pabulum, and I loved how honest the movie was in regards to parental responsibilities and what living up to them can oftentimes entail. I even didn’t mind the tricky harebrained lunacy that’s required to get both of them and their respective children to Africa, and as story devices go, this one didn’t strike me as near as stupid as I’d worried it would be before the picture began.

Once there, things pretty much go as anticipated. Jim’s daughters are wary of Lauren, while her sons despise Jim right out of the gate, both sides finding their preconceptions to be all kinds of wrong as they slowly get to know one another a bit more fully, while the same goes for the parents themselves. But intermixed inside all of this is bathroom humor so juvenile even Mad Magazine would find it in poor taste, gender stereotypes so horrific they’re borderline insulting, and racial observations so backwards they might as well be of a bygone century. A great scene is quickly followed by a putrid, borderline unwatchable one, every pleasant smile or gentle tear upended by an eye-rolling moment of ineptitude that cancels them out almost to the point of never having existed at all.

Shame, because say what you will about Sandler, and plenty can be proclaimed, the overall second-rate nature of the majority of his filmography speaking for itself, the one co-star he’s always been close to magical with has, without question, been Barrymore. While I don’t particularly care for 50 First Dates, their chemistry in that romantic Hawaiian frolic is nearly enough to make it worthwhile. As for The Wedding Singer, its charm and magnetic ebullience speaks for itself, that 1998 effort growing in both status and in importance with every passing year.

They continue to sparkle here as well, Barrymore once again achieving a graceful symbiotic emotional balance with her costar, the likes of which no other female lead has ever been close to equaling in any other ladygaga.com

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motion picture Sandler has appeared in. For whatever reason, believing the two of them as a viable couple is remarkably easy, and no matter how outlandish or far-fetched things might end up becoming, their connection one to the other is never, ever in doubt.

All of which makes Blended even more of a disappointment. Reteaming with their The Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, the movie is disjointed and unfocused, assembled with an infuriating randomness that causes individual scenes to more often

than not feel completely disconnected to the ones adjoining them. On top of that, Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club) and newcomer Clare Sera’s script transitions from reality-based humor to Sandler-style absurdities with lumpy, tetchy regularity, making maintaining a connection to anything that is happening impossible. The movie is a mess, and as enjoyable as it may be in parts, on the whole it’s still an exasperating misfire, wasting its inherent plusses and attributes to an almost unforgivable degree.

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worse, just one of the record’s three singles, “Applause,” has cracked Billboard’s top ten chart – “Do What U Want” rose to #13, while “G.U.Y.” peaked at #76. She didn’t earn any Grammy nominations or land on any critics’ year-end lists. And, that “vomit art” stint at SWSW backfired with unpleasant reviews.

Not only did Lady GaGa take her first tumble since skyrocketing to global fame in 2009, she also became irrelevant in pop culture. The trendsetting, news-grabbing, outspoken performer suddenly became uninteresting. It all went sour, like a bad romance.

But she’s a fighter, God bless her. And GaGa is plowing forward. The pop icon launched another massive world tour, “ArtRave: The Artpop Ball,” earlier this month in Fort Lauderdale. Through November, she’ll appear to audiences across the U.S. and Canada, and in Japan, South Korea, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and 18 European countries.

It lands here in Seattle next week, May 28 at Key Arena. It’s the first time in seven years that Lady GaGa brings her tour to the Emerald City; her two previous stops were at the Tacoma Dome. The show will

feature some of her earlier hits and selections from the new album; you can probably guess what’s on the set list. Without giving anything away, I am surprised that a pair of her better-known songs have been shelved and substituted with mediocre material from Artpop.

Guaranteed at any GaGa performance are a dozen costume changes, a few inspirational speeches, creative stage props and designs, and lots of Little Monsters, avid fans of the global star who often arrive in zany attire and excitement levels that rival kids on Ritalin. Her concerts have always been fun, eccentric and well ... a ball.

GaGa is expected to roam around the arena during the show, as there are multiple stages connected by funky-looking catwalks made of Lucite, said to make them translucent. For diehard monsters, the “Absolut Artpop Lounge” is a VIP experience that allows fans to see the Grammy winner up close, and also order drinks from an exclusive bar on the main floor, similar to what Justin Timberlake did when he came to Seattle in January.

Tickets for the Key Arena performance are still available via Ticketmaster. Two supporting acts are scheduled for the concert, Lady Starlight and Hatsune Miku, which gets underway at 7:30 p.m. Doors should open at 6:30 p.m, if not sooner.

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SIFF Film Synopses & Recommendations

by Herb Krohn SGN A&E Writer [EDITOR’S NOTE: Films listed without dates have already been screened.]

CASE AGAINST 8 USA Rating: Excellent Genre: Documentary This film is a solid comprehensive documentary about the political and legal battle to fight and overturn California’s Proposition 8, which limited marriage to heterosexual couples. The filmmakers obtained nearly complete access to the attorneys and plaintiffs as the effort to win marriage equality progressed through the courts. Additionally, the lives and families of the plaintiffs are profiled as is the unlikely alliance of the leading attorneys who were on opposite sides in the Bush v Gore election litigation. It’s a remarkable inside view of how marriage equality was achieved in California.

EASTERN BOYS France – Subtitled Rating: Above Average Genre: Suspense/Romance SUN MAY 25 | 9:00 PM | HARVARD EXIT TUE MAY 27 | 3:30 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN A businessman solicits sex from a young man at the Paris Nord train station and they set a date to trick for the following day at the john’s apartment. However, when a young boy shows up and forces his way in, followed by a group of thugs and thieves, the businessman finds himself a hostage at his own unwilling house party, while they rob him of everything of value. Eventually the young man shows up at the party, and then returns a day or two afterwards, alone and seeking to make the money in exchange for the originally promised sex. Slowly over time it becomes a regular thing, and emotions become involved. This is a story of an exploitation con turned romance as well as a glimpse into the lives of unfortunate young men from Eastern Europe, who move to Western Europe in an attempt to improve their lives. They often end up coalescing as gang members to survive.

DIOR AND I France – Subtitled Rating: Good Genre: Documentary FIGHT CHURCH A profile of designer Raf Simon’s debut USA fashion presentation for the House of ChrisRating: Good tian Dior, this is a film that will be greatly apGenre: Documentary preciated by those into the world of fashion. It MON MAY 26 | 12:30 PM provides a rare inside glimpse into this world RENTON IKEA of high-end design from conception to the disPERFORMING ARTS CENTER play on the runway, and the people who are in“Turn the other cheek” as the Bible says? Not strumental in making it all come together. so for many Christian churches who are forming fight clubs to develop camaraderie among THE DUNE their male members. This interesting and proFrance/Israel – Subtitled vocative SIFF documentary explores this pheRating: Excellent nomena and how these religious Christian leadGenre: Drama ers reconcile their beliefs with the idea of fightFRI MAY 23 | 11:00 AM | ing and injuring others for the fun of it. While PACIFIC PLACE it delves into the American Christian controWED MAY 28 | 9:30 PM | versy, the film actually avoids yet provokes the SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN global issue of religious fanaticism and extremAn aging openly Gay police officer who ism by those who pervert their interpretations specializes in missing person cases finds of religious doctrine to suit their personal ideals himself in the middle of what may be his and fulfill their need to engage in and perpetulast case before retirement, that of a bicy- ate violence. This is a film for thought as there cle mechanic who seems to have amnesia are so many issues left untouched by the filmand cannot or will not speak. Is the officer makers that need to be examined. seemingly being stalked by the mechanic?

Everything about this case peaks the inLAND OF STORMS terest of the office, including the location NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE where the unidentified cyclist was found.

Hungary/Germany – Subtitled This is a beautiful and engaging film that Rating: Average holds the viewer’s attention and interest Genre: Coming of Age, while revealing the mystery.

Romance & Coming Out Conflicts A young closeted German soccer player

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returns to his home in Hungary after a falling out with other teammates. He sets out to live in the deteriorating home of his grandparents, while his father continues to push him to rejoin his team. One night he catches a thief trying to steal his motorbike. They end up as friends and work together to fix the house. Of course, the sexual tension is too much; add in a visit from a teammate and sex partner and things get quite complicated. However, hostile heterosexist social pressure intervenes to hinder their relationships. What makes this film interesting is that it is one of the first Hungarian films to deal with Gay male sexual relationships, and the viewer can plainly see the parallels to an earlier era of Gay cinema in America especially with the ending.

SKELETON TWINS USA Rating: Average Genre: Family Drama Estranged suicidal twins who are brother and sister reunite after the Gay brother’s attempt fails. He goes back to upstate New York to visit for a while with his sister and her fiancé. Of course, all of their old skeletons come flying out of the closet, exposing them both for their faults, poor life choices. And why they were estranged is finally exposed.

TO BE TAKEI USA Rating: Excellent Genre: Bio-Documentary FRI JUN 6 | 7:00 PM | EGYPTIAN SAT JUN 7 | 4:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN A great biographical profile of actor George Takei whose most famous role as Sulu in the original “Star Trek” series is only one small role in this remarkable man’s life as an actor and recent Gay rights activist. As a child he was interned in the Japanese-American camps with his family, and he went on to become an icon for modern Asian American actors, even though he once had to play stereotypical characters to earn his living. He faced having to choose to live in the closet to maintain his profession, until finally he could no longer reconcile it when California Measure 8 passed. This well-made production is a perfect example of expert documentary filmmaking, conveying to the audience who this brave and famous person really is and what influenced his life and success.

TOM AT THE FARM Canada (Quebec)/France – Subtitled Rating: Average Genre: Psychological Suspense Tom, an advertising executive, travels to the country for the funeral of his former lover.

However, once he arrives at the family farm, he finds himself involved in a depraved family situation, where the delusional mother knows nothing of her deceased son’s sexuality, and his violent brother, who has identity issues of his own, seeks to prevent his mother from knowing the truth. Things go from awkward to strange to perverse, and border on extreme violence in this interesting tale. However, once it ends, too many questions are left unanswered.

The culmination doesn’t really make sense, leaving the audience hanging and wondering what was the purpose in this screenplay?

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW United Kingdom/USA Rating: Excellent Genre: Cult Classic What is there left to say about this most famous of cult classic films? We can mention this screening included subtitles prompting the audience to respond verbally as well as when to utilize the props contained in the goodie bag everyone received when entering the theatre. In 39 years and arguably one of the most viewed late night films in American history, Rocky has not lost any of its audience appeal and in fact has only become even more satisfying with age.

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG USA Rating: Excellent Genre: Bio-Documentary A brilliant influential writer, thinker and cultural icon who began writing at 15, Sontag’s experiences and provocative perceptions had a significant impact on the fledging LGBT movement. This well researched and put together documentary film examines her rich life from childhood to her passing, exploring what experiences made her into such an intellectual force in our culture.

VENUS IN FUR France – Subtitled Rating: Excellent Genre: Updated Classic Sexual Drama Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer (1836-1895) whose writings on human sexuality resulted in his name being adopted as the term for masochism. Venus in Furs is a novella he wrote, and this

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film is a modernized version of this written work. A contemporary playwright/director is seeking an actress to star in his production of this story. He finds himself completely immersed as a lengthy audition with an unlikely perspective performer becomes increasingly intimate and personal. This Roman Polanski film is a remarkable work of art, sometimes funny, often provocative, and occasionally disturbing it crosses the line between intellectualism and sexual fetish and perversion.

FRI JUN 6 | 9:30 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN SAT JUN 7 | 11:00 AM | EGYPTIAN

THE CIRCLE Switzerland Genre: Documentary Narrative TUE JUN 3 | 9:30 PM | HARVARD EXIT SUN JUN 8 | 12:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS Iran-USA-Italy Genre: Bio-Documentary THU MAY 22 | 9:30 PM | HARVARD EXIT FRI MAY 23 | 3:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN

Other upcoming SIFF Films of LGBT Interest: GAY-LA FILM PRESENTATION: HELICOPTER MOM WORLD PREMIERE USA Genre: Comedy WED JUN 4 | 7:00 PM | EGYPTIAN Followed by Gay-La Party at Q Nightclub Regular screening without the party: THU JUN 5 | 4:00 PM | EGYPTIAN

GERONTOPHILIA Canada Genre: Coming of Age & Aging SAT MAY 24 | 9:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN SUN MAY 25 | 11 AM | HARVARD EXIT LILTING United Kingdom Genre: Family Drama FRI MAY 30 | 7:00 PM | HARVARD EXIT SAT MAY 31 | 2:00 PM | EGYPTIAN

THE FOXY MERKINS USA Genre: Comedy FRI MAY 23 | 9:30 PM | HARVARD EXIT SUN MAY 25 | 4:00 PM | HARVARD EXIT

BOYS Netherlands Genre: Coming of Age

ME, MYSELF AND MUM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Belgium/France/Spain Genre: Coming Out & Gender Identity THU MAY 22 | 9:30 PM | LINCOLN SQUARE THU MAY 29 | 7:00 PM | EGYPTIAN SUN JUN 1 | 1:30 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN

FUTURO BEACH Brazil/Germany Genre: Romance

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Germany/Canada Genre: Experimental SAT MAY 24 | 10:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN THU MAY 29 | 10:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN SALVATION ARMY Morocco/France Genre: Coming of Age/Coming Out TUE MAY 27 | 6:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN FRI MAY 30 | 2:00 PM | SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN THE WAY HE LOOKS Brazil Genre: Coming of Age FRI MAY 30 | 9:30 PM | HARVARD EXIT WED JUN 4 | 4:00 PM | EGYPTIAN YVES SAINT LAURENT France Genre: Biopic Drama FRI MAY 30 | 8:30 PM | KIRKLAND PC SAT MAY 31 | 6:30 PM | PACIFIC PLACE

Just plane cool: Boeing Factory Tour is fascinating and educational Albert Rodriguez

Boeing factory tour

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

I’ve always loved being on a plane, but now my obsession has spilled over to the aircraft itself. I not only want to fly, I want to know as much as I can about what I’m flying on. I want to know which airlines go where, or what differs between a Boeing 787 and an Airbus A-380, and everything in between.

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There’s a name for people like me.

We’re called “AV Geeks,” short for “Aviation Geeks.”

The Future of Flight Aviation Center and Boeing Factory Tour in Everett provide a great opportunity for airline nerds and the general public to learn more about aircraft, and most importantly, to see them being constructed. Located 35 minutes from downtown Seattle, this attraction is open year-round from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s days.

Tours begin and finish at The Future of Flight Aviation Center, where visitors can explore the dynamics of flight and experience the very newest innovations in aviation. You can stand next to a four storey-high tail of a 747, stare directly into an enormous 777 engine, design your own airplane, or try piloting a flight on the “Innovator,” a state-of-the-art flight simulator offered for an added fee. The Strato Deck is an outdoor rooftop terrace that gives you an unobstructed view of the runways at Paine Field Airport and the entire Boeing manufacturing facility, which employs an estimated 40,000 people.

But the real treat is a shuttle-ride away: the Boeing Factory Tour. The building itself is remarkable: the largest manufacturing plant (by volume) in the world at 472,000,000 cubic feet, or 13,385,378 cubic meters with a ceiling height of 33 meters. It’s so big that Disneyland can fit entirely inside it, as can the Vatican City, Pentagon, and Buckingham Palace.

This is where the 747, 777 and 787 aircraft are made. (Another part of the compound, not open to the public, assembles the 767.) Visitors are escorted to a fourth level balcony that overlooks the assembly line. On one side you’ll see the early and middle stages of the 777, and on the other side you’ll spot sealed and/or painted 787s nearing completion.

It takes 47 days, from start to finish, for a 777 to roll out of production, while the

assembly time for a 747 is 107 days. Planes are put together from about 50,000 components and the process begins with the belly. Visitors are likely to see a 777 in this beginning stage at the Boeing plant.

A special machine is able to flip the belly to the bottom once it’s done, and then the rest of the aircraft can be formed around it. What’s fascinating is that the assembly line actually moves at an extremely low speed (a millimeter of a second, if memory serves me correct), although it’s impossible to notice this with the human eye.

Although visitors aren’t permitted on the ground floor, they are provided with excellent vantage points from the balcony.

After the tour, you’re whisked back to The Future of Flight Aviation Center and can shop at the Boeing Store for souvenirs, from t-shirts and children’s toys to purses and collector airplane models.

Currently, there is no transportation service between downtown Seattle and the Boeing plant in Everett, so visitors should plan on driving to and from the city. However, there are a few tour operators that will do pickups from downtown, such as www. toursofseattle.com. Admission, priced between $16 and $20 (depending on peak and off-peak season, reserved or walk-up) can be purchased on day of tour, or in advance at www.futureofflight.org. I recommend you check out this website before planning your excursion, as it has details and a fact sheet pertaining to the tours.

Not just for AV geeks, anyone who’s even remotely interested in aircraft would enjoy this nearby attraction. Especially for Seattle area residents, the plant is truly something to be proud of and show off – this is where many of those airplanes flying above our heads, the ones taking us on vacation to Hawaii or an extended holiday to Europe, are produced. It’s a perfect escape for out of town relatives, friends and kids of all ages.

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“Stroke: From under the mattress to the museum wall” New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum presents historical online exhibit of illustrations from Gay magazines from the 1950s to the 1990s – many have never been exhibited publicly before.

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Broderick, Harry Bush, Jim French (Colt), Oliver Frey, Kevin King (Beau), Michael Kirwan, Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), Antonio Lopez (Antonio), David Martin, Jim McMullin, Donald Merrick (Domino), Kent Neffendorf (Kent), Olaf Odegaard (Olaf), Mel Odom, Dominic Orejudos (Etienne), Benôit Prévot, George Quaintance, George Stravrinos, Rex, Robert W. Richards, Richard Rosenfeld, William Schmelling (Hun) and Frank Webber (Bastille).

This exhibit is currently on display at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in NYC through May 25. This and previous exhibits presented at the Leslie-Lohman Museum can be viewed online now and for the foreseeable future at www.LeslieLohman.org.

ards has curated: “The Gods of Erotica,” and “A Peter Berlin Retrospective.” At the Museum of the Society of Illustrators he curated “The Line of Fashion.” “If something moves me I’m willing to do the work to share it with people who otherwise might not have an opportunity to see what I’ve been fortunate enough to see.”

Richards is currently working on a book of fifty drawings and fifty anecdotes describing his encounters with the famous, the near famous, and the notorious.

About the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first and only dedicated Gay and Lesbian art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve Gay and Lesbian art, and foster the artists who create it. The Museum has a permanent collection of over 22,000 objects, 6-8 major exhibitions annually, artist talks, film screenings, readings, THE ARCHIVE – a quarterly art newsletter, a membership program, and a research library. The Leslie-Lohman Museum is operated by the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Inc., a non-profit founded in 1987 by Charles W. Leslie and Fritz Lohman, who have supported Gay and Lesbian artists for over 30 years. The Leslie-Lohman Museum embraces the rich creative history of the Gay and Lesbian art community by informing, inspiring, entertaining, and challenging all who enter its doors.

The Museum is located at 26 Wooster Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Admission is free, and hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6 pm, and Thursday, 12-8 pm. The Museum is closed Monday and all major holidays. The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization and is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code. The Museum can be reached at 212-431-2609. For more information, go to www.LeslieLohman.org.

About Robert W. Richards (curator) Time Out New York says, “Artist Robert W. Richards, whose signature oversized black glasses impart him with an artistic air, has drawn everything from the Paris Haute Couture to album covers and Broadway and cabaret posters and stars from Al Pacino, Lena Horne, Hugh Jackman, Ann-Margret and most recently Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming.”

But for his many admirers Richards is best known and loved for his skillful and captivating drawings of sexually charged men.

Next magazine states “He’s bound to go down in history as one of the gay community’s greatest and most influential artists.”

Now in his fifth decade of drawing, Richards is still operating at full tilt, occasionally pausing from his own work to curate exhibitions. At the LeslieCourtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum The Mechanic by Kent Neffendorf Lohman Museum, Rich- of Gay and Lesbian Art Courtesy of the artist

“Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall,” is a historical retrospective of sexy and erotic illustrations by artists who made work for the Gay male magazines from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Curated by New York-based illustrator Robert W. Richards, “Stroke” features 80 original illustrations by 25 artists. This exhibition of a forgotten body of work not only explores the male form, but for the first time ever, offers an examination of Gay male private life as experienced through magazines which were available on nearly every street corner in America – but often kept under their mattresses for fear of being discovered. The exhibition will feature some original illustrations, which appeared in the magazines, along with other works of art that have never been seen publically.

In the 1950s, when a large-scale effort sanctioned by the U.S. government was underway to crackdown on what was termed “sexual perversion,” Gay life was pushed into the closet. Regardless of those strictures, Gay men still needed to explore their own sexuality and true identity.

As a result, a number of magazines became available on drugstore magazine racks and newsstands and were distributed nationwide. Early titles included Grecian Guild Pictorial and Tomorrow’s Man and featured the work of great artists like Tom of Finland and Bob Mizer, both of whom were recently the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles (November 2, 2013 - January 26, 2014).

“Many of the early magazines pretended to be bodybuilding, strength and health journals,” says exhibition curator Richards. “Sometimes they were called ‘anatomy guides for artists.’ However, most of the men bought these magazines because they were Gay. It was nearly their only opportunity to see handsome, well-made, virtually naked men. Buying one of these publications required an act of courage, especially if the small-town drugstore owner knew the buyer and his family most of their lives.”

Although U.S. courts tried to ban sending naked male images through the U.S. mail, by the mid-1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed their distribution.

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By the late 1960s, with the impact of the “sexual revolution,” rise of feminism and the Stonewall Inn Riots, the demand for the magazines mushroomed. Later titles included Blueboy, Torso, Honcho, Mandate, and InTouch. Each issue typically featured masterful illustrations by major artists such as Antonio Lopez, Mel Odom, George Stravrinos, Richard Rosenfeld and others. Many of these artists also made work for mainstream publications such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Times, Playboy, etc. It was not until the advent of the VCR, then the DVD, and ultimately the Internet, that the magazines’ popularity declined and the demand for the wonderful illustrations eroded.

“This work has never been collected in one museum exhibition before,” says Museum Director Hunter O’Hanian. “What Robert Richards has done is pull together important work that played a vital role in people’s lives. This exhibition is important for people who remember the magazines.

They will get to see some of the original illustrations they loved years ago and some recent work. For those in their 20s and 30s, this exhibition will be an opportunity to understand the way that Gay men explored their own sexuality and intimacy a generation ago. Everyone will be moved by the gloriousness of art and the impact it had on so many lives. This exhibition expands Leslie-Lohman’s commitment to examining the diversity of the Gay and Lesbian experience through art.”

The exhibition will include 80 original illustrations, roughly half of which are drawn from the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s vast collection of more than 22,000 objects. Other pieces have been borrowed from private collectors and in some cases from the individual artists. Included in the exhibition will be artwork by: Neel Bate (Blade), Michael Breyette, Michael

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Meetings Events Activities

TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122.

SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 322-7188. E-mail: sgn2@ sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with visible or hidden disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www.scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities. html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists.

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

Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

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SATURDAY - May 24

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County. Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@ yahoo.com or phone (360) 722-1664.

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

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.Freely Speaking.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7-9pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. For info & location, NSWG@ sexpositiveculture. org; www.nosafewordwriters group.org (Also meets 2nd Sunday, 1-3pm.)

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

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

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

Meets 4th Monday each month. 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

Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org GSBA Young Professionals with Pride. 5:30-7:30pm.

Mezcaleria Oaxaca Rooftop, 422 E Pine St. Let’s welcome Mezcaleria Oaxaca to the Pike/Pine neighborhood & be one of the very first people to experience their rooftop patio! Advance registration: GSBA members $10, non-members $15, students $10. Walkins add $5. www.thegsba.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBT MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:30-8pm.

Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor. Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com.

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

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. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques.

Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 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

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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.

Taste of Mirrim 3D Portraits. 1-4pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. Distinctive & realistic portraits in 3D. 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. thegrimaldisaredead.com Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.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 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 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 Triangle Recreation Camp Uniform & Military Party.

9:30pm. Washington state’s only LGBTQ campground. www.camptrc.org

SUNDAY - May 25

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/TheSeattleGay HikingGroup/ Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Every Sunday.

Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards!

Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515.

Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies.

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com.

Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www.dharma buddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www. 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 Rain City Jacks. 4th Sunday each month at1pm; 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm. West Queen Anne/Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club.

May 24 thru June 1

Friendly, sex-positive, non-profit and private. Membership required. Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

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

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. thegrimaldisaredead.com 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 Pride Idol. Contestant registration 6:30pm; Doors 7pm; Competition 8pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Karaoke and original song competition. The 1st place winner each night wins $100, 2nd place $50, 3rd place $25. FREE registration. No cover. www.seattlepride.org; 322-9561. 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 Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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May 26

Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Bellingham. 7:30-9pm. St James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St., Bellingham. Every Tuesday. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. (See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.)

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

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WEDNESDAY - May 28

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm. Call for details, location & to make reservations. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@ hotmail.com 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 Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition.

For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www. entrehermanos.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www.ingersoll center.org Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebearssubscribe@yahoogroups.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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

Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com.

SATURDAY - May 31

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Butoh Festival (5/30 & 5/31). www.daipan butoh.com Seattle Erotic Art Festival (5/30-6/1). Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. www.seattleerotic.org Lez Stand Up (5/30-6/1). 8pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. The first coed show ever that is Lesbian, feminist AND funny. Features some of the best Queer comics in the Pacific Northwest. Bring a diaper because you just might pee your pants! Tickets $12. www.gaycity.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

SUNDAY - June 1

day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance.

4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave. Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project every week! Get-togethers are highly social & offer “low impact” volunteer work & an opportunity to learn more about LAA. Please call before dropping in. 957-1776. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org Happy Hour Meditation. 5:30-6:40pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Every Thursday. Join us at the end of your day in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 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 Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751.

Lavender Ever After: Film Screening & Conversation on LGBTQ Aging. 6-8pm. UW School of Social Work, Room 305, 4101 15th Ave NE. Screening of “Gen Silent,” a critically acclaimed documentary about the lives of six LGBTQ seniors. Kosher refreshments will be served.

Register at gensilent.brownpaper tickets.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 Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

THURSDAY - May 29 Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm.

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” Lower Woodland Park Courts 5, 6, 7 & 8. Every Tuesday 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of & Thursday. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian tennis club. $2 for members & first-time guests, $5 for AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of 22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a www.babesnetwork.org.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday

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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.

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

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

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Lez Stand Up (5/30-6/1). 8pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. The first coed show ever that is Lesbian, feminist AND funny. Features some of the best Queer comics in the Pacific Northwest. Bring a diaper because you just might pee your pants! Tickets $12. www.gaycity.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

May 23, 2014

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Seattle Erotic Art Festival (5/30-6/1). Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. www.seattleerotic.org Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride.

9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. 1st Sunday of every month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv Lez Stand Up (5/30-6/1). 8pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. The first coed show ever that is Lesbian, feminist AND funny. Features some of the best Queer comics in the Pacific Northwest. Bring a diaper because you just might pee your pants! Tickets $12. www.gaycity.org Pride Idol Wild Card Competition. Contestant registration 6:30pm; Doors 7pm; Competition 8pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Karaoke and original song competition. The 1st place winner each night wins $100, 2nd place $50, 3rd place $25. FREE registration. No cover. www.seattlepride.org; 322-9561.

listing at 6pm.)

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES brownpapertickets.com/event/647037 Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQ Allyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169.

Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us FRIDAY - May 30 Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherSeattle Butoh Festival (5/30 & 5/31). www.daipan Gay-Social-Club/ butoh.com Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane.

Seattle Erotic Art Festival (5/30-6/1). Seattle Center com/guide.html Exhibition Hall. www.seattleerotic.org BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for BiOasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, sexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. - www.sbwn.net.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thurs- Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org days 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & 963-1994.

Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthDIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fightoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org ing AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6:30pm-appetizers & socializing; 7:30pm-dinner. Ballard Odd Fellows DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: CriHall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Meets last Friday most sis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24hour crisis line for information, support, & medical women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lam- Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating

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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.

For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba. org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

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

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

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

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.flying house. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www. familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworks seattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, https://groups. yahoo.com/group/maybebabyseattle; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 5687777, deann@ nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www.seattlepflag.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,

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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. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 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 & 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 Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals.

Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979,

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www. emeraldcitysoftball. org, www.eteamz.com/ womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http:// Clubs.Hemmings.com/EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www. jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www. oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnw gra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.puddletown squares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer. org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@ gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA):

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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.

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www. glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 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, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 2975922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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Movie? Other? You decide.) on Saturday afternoon and evening and joining in the Lambert House Pride Parade contingent as we march down the middle of Fourth Avenue in downtown Seattle on Pride Sunday, June 29. To apply for a paid internship, or if you just want to volunteers, stop by Lambert House (1818 15th Ave. at E. Denny Way in Seattle) any day between 5-6 p.m. or phone 4:306:30 p.m., and ask to speak with J.D., 322-2515 ext *819. Questions? Ask for J.D. 22/3 _______________________________

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_______________________________ VOLUNTEER WITH YOUTH Lambert House, Seattle’s LGBTQ Youth Center, seeks a few volunteers for our drop-in and meals programs. Requires one-year commitment to a weekly shift.

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