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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 30, Volume 42, July 25, 2014

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Beyonce and Jay Z

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer ON THE RUN TOUR: BEYONCE AND JAY-Z SAFECO FIELD July 30 The family that plays together stays together, right? It’s looking that way for Beyonce and Jay Z. Music’s coolest couple not only share a bed and two year-old daughter, but they now share the stage on a 16-city road outing that finds them performing their biggest hits in football, soccer and baseball stadiums around North America. The “On the Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay-Z” kicked off June 25 at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium to a capacity crowd and has since touched down in Cincinatti, Foxborough, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto, East Rutherford, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, Dallas, Chicago and Winnipeg; the Seattle concert is third to the last show and the duo’s only Northwest appearance.

Between them, the R&B queen and the hip-hop giant own 36

Grammys and have sold over 300 albums worldwide, and together have placed two singles on the charts, “Drunk in Love” and “Part II (On the Run),” both of which are expected to be on the set list at Safeco Field. Other songs that potentially will be played during the two-hour performance are “Diva,” “99 Problems,” “Halo,” “If I Were a Boy,” “Tom Ford,” “Ring the Alarm,” “Holy Grail,” “Crazy in Love” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”.

Beyonce and Jay Z are also philanthropists, raising money on this tour for the Shawn Carter Foundation, an organization that helps people facing socioeconomic challenges to further their education through scholarship funds, annual college tours, study abroad experiences, counseling initiatives and holiday/toy drives. Something else to note is that both artists have also been outspokenly supportive of LGBT rights, from samesex marriage to the coming out see Beyonce page 4

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Shot over a 12 year period, Boyhood tells the story of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he ages from six to 18, looking at snapshots of his life at varying stages as he evolves into a young man ready to make the trek to college. Patricia Arquette stars as his divorced single mother, while Ethan Hawke appears sposee Book Club page 5 radically as his happy-go-lucky

dad, Lorelei Linklater rounding out the cast as older sister Samantha, also going from eight to 20 over the course of the film’s 165-minute running time right before our eyes.

It’s an audacious undertaking, and one that acclaimed writer/director Richard Linklater didn’t undertake without some small modicum of trepidation. “It’s just one of those crazy ideas that you have,” he says with a smile. “I was trying

to make a film about childhood, but I couldn’t find a spot to begin. You’re limited. You’re seven, you’ve got to make a film about a seven-year-old. All my ideas were so spread out, though, and I didn’t want to be handicapped to being stuck at one place in time.”

“I’d kind of given up on the idea; then it hit me. One flash. My whole adult life has been about storytellsee Linklater page 7

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Celebrating 41 Years!

Vancouver Pride on deck next weekend It’s that time again, when our friends up North are at their proudest. Vancouver Pride happens next weekend with block parties, bar events, and, of course, the Pride Parade on Sunday, August 3, that runs from downtown to English Bay. The parade steps off from Thurlow and Robson at 12 noon, traveling down Robson to Denman, then along Denman to Beach Avenue to Sunset Beach.

In its 36th year, crowds from throughout British Columbia, Washington state and other Northwest areas are expected to converge in the thousands to celebrate unity, equality and the LGBT community. Aside from the parade, which starts at noon, the Davie Street Party on Friday (4 p.m.-midnight, $10) and Pride Festival and Market on Sunday (11 a.m.-6 p.m., free) are two events not to miss. For a complete lineup of activities, listing of grand marshals and other information, visit www.vancouverpride.ca.

For those on a budget, yet needing to bust out of Seattle for a day, take advantage of the close proximity of Tacoma. It used to stink, literally, because of its pulp mill industry, but changes to the air quality and city landscape in the past 10 to 15 years have really made it a pleasant spot to spend an afternoon or overnight at. Recommended to see and do are the Museum of Glass (www.museumofglass.org), Tacoma Art Museum (www.tacomaartmuseum.org) and Washington State History Museum (www. washingtonhistory.org) – all located next to each other in downtown; Ruston Way Park for a waterfront picnic or dinner with scenery; America’s Car Museum (www. lemaymuseum.org) for vintage automobile sightseeing; the 6th Avenue District (www. on6thave.com) for eating and shopping with

the hipster crowd; and a live show at either Pantages Theater, Rialto Theater or Theatre on the Square, which now comprise Tacoma’s redeveloped Theater District (www. broadwaycenter.org). Hotel Murano (www. hotelmuranotacoma.com) and Courtyard Marriott (www.marriott.com) are both located in downtown and within a half block of light rail stations (tip: light rail is free).

If you’re car-less, you can travel to Tacoma via Sound Transit by bus or commuter train; inquire at www.soundtransit.org.

Tempe, Arizona has one of the most active live theater scenes in the country – believe it, or not – and a huge reason for this is ASU Gammage, located on the campus of Arizona State University. Opened in 1964, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed auditorium hosts a slew of live musicals and other productions, sometimes direct from Broadway. Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, the Executive Director for ASU Gammage and Assistant Vice President for Cultural Affairs, leads the way in bringing top-notch shows to Tempe. She’s a lovely, energetic woman who’s heavily involved in arts and culture, and she’s also a Tony Award voter.

ASU Gammage celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year with a kick off event, an open house, on September 28, but most importantly the launch of a brand new season begins with 2013 Best Musical winner Kinky Boots on September 16-21, followed

by Pippin on December 2-7, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on January 13-18, Dirty Dancing on February 1722, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella on March 10-15, Motown on April 21-26, and The Phantom of the Opera on May 27June 7. Looking ahead to next year, Chicago will play March 27-29 and Wicked on August 26 through October 4. For tickets and information, go to www.asugammage.com.

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You can travel between downtown Phoenix and Tempe by light rail, and either walk to ASU campus from the Mill Avenue train station or take a short cab ride.00 Get ready for another new hotel in downtown Seattle, the Palladian. Part of the ultra Gay-friendly Kimpton chain of hotels, the Palladian will occupy the corner of 2nd and Virginia, across the street from the Moore

Theatre. This was originally the site of the Calhoun Hotel, built in 1910, then became the Palladian Building. The new hotel will feature 97 guest rooms, 1,100 square feet of meeting and event space, and a sophisticated restaurant and adjoining lounge. It will become the fourth Kimpton property in Seattle when it opens this fall (no specific date yet) joining the Alexis, Hotel Monaco and Hotel Vintage Park.

Ten album releases to get excited about the Moonlight,” on August 5. Maybe, just maybe, she’ll perform a couple of mixed versions of her songs when she saddles up to Everybody from Madonna to Frank Snoqualmie Casino on August 20.

Ocean to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are in the planning stages for their next 3) Sparks – Imogen Heap albums, if not already in the studio. But She’s a little out there, but we love her for some recordings are already completed that. The British experimental-pop artist and set for release in the coming weeks drops her fourth studio effort, Sparks, on Auand months. As we settle into the second gust 18. Though the album is new, most of the half of 2014, here are ten records to get 14 tracks have already been released as part of super stoked about. the Grammy nominee’s idea to deliver them to fans in piece meal dating back to 2011.

1) Trouble in Paradise – La Roux Okay, this album is actually in stores 4) My Everything – Ariana Grande now. But it’s so good that it couldn’t be The next big thing could be Ariana Grande, omitted from the list, especially when who at 21 years old is quickly becoming a “Uptight Downtown” is clearly one of household name. That’s because her single 2014’s best singles, thus far. Now a solo “Problem” (with Iggy Azalea) stormed the act, the androgynous looking singer-pro- charts this spring and her follow-up hit, ducer embarks on an upcoming tour that “Break Free,” is getting a lot of airplay in brings her to The Showbox Market on the U.S. and international market. I fell head September 19. over heels for this girl when I saw Grande croon elegant versions of hip hop songs with 2) Dance Like You Don’t Give A...Great- Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” My est Hits Remixes – LeAnn Rimes Everything is released on August 25. Grande Blue, she isn’t. Grammy-winning country is an LGBT ally; her brother Frankie is Gay. artist LeAnn Rimes is kicking up her stilettos...er, cowgirl boots...on her forthcoming 5) V – Maroon 5 offering, a remix album of her bestest sinThe bad news is that Adam Levine is off gles, from “How Do I Live” to “Can’t Fight the market. The good news is Maroon 5 has

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a new album coming out September 2. The hit-making pop group’s latest record, V, features 11 fresh tracks, including a collaboration with Gwen Stefani called “My Heart is Open.” However, “Maps” is the official lead off single.

6) Crush Songs – Karen O Karen O has made a name for herself outside of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Aside from earning her first Academy Award nod this year for “The Moon Song” (from Her), she’s appeared on various motion picture soundtracks and directed several music videos on her own and with former beau Angus Andrew. Her debut full-length release hits store shelves on September 8.

7) Everything Will Be Alright in the End – Weezer The kings of whimsical rock are back, Weezer. The SoCal alternative band haven’t released anything since 2010, but that’ll change on September 30 with Everything Will Be Alright in the End featuring the first single, “Back to the Shack.” A final cut of songs is still being decided, though the album is expected to include 8 to 10 tracks.

8) Super Critical – The Ting Tings

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The duo that gave us “That’s Not My Name” are at it again. English pop act The Ting Tings return on October 20 with Super Critical, which features the brand new single, “Wrong Club.” In total, there are 9 tracks on the album ranging from 2:37 to 4:14 minutes.

9) Put Your Back N 2 It – Perfume Genius From Death Cab to Cutie to Pretty Girls Make Graves to Minus the Bear, a number of Seattle acts have risen to fame on the most interesting names. Add to the list Perfume Genius. Behind this moniker is singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas, an Emerald City transplant from New York, who unveils his sophomore effort, Put Your Back N 2 It, on September 23.

10) Listen – The Kooks Talk about your fun English rock bands, The Kooks are such a blast to listen to and see in concert. That’s why the anticipation of their forthcoming record, aptly titled Listen, is beyond normal excitement level.

Besides 11 fresh cuts, it also features a new drummer, Alexis Nunez, who completes the four-piece group that has seen a series of fill-ins since Max Rafferty’s departure. The Kooks play The Showbox Market on September 29.

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Nick Carter and Jordan Knight book Showbox concert from their forthcoming album, Encyclopedia (out September 23), as well as songs from 2011’s Portamento and 2010’s selftitled debut. For tickets, visit www.neuby Albert Rodriguez mos.com. Andrew McMahon, former lead SGN A&E Writer singer of Something Corporate and Jack’s Another week, another batch of live shows Mannequin, heads to Seattle for a solo perto tell you about. First up, and of particular formance at The Neptune on October 22 to interest to Backstreet Boys and New Kids on boost his 2013 EP The Pop Underground. the Block fans, is the pairing of Nick Carter and Jordan Knight at The Showbox SoDo If you were considering a roadtrip to The on November 20. They just released a joint Gorge for this year’s Watershed Festival on single called “One More Time,” the first cut August 1-3, stop considering. The three-day from their collaborative album entitled Nick festival is completely sold out and will in& Knight (September 2 release). The former clude performances by Tim McGraw, Lady boy band members are taking their little act Antebellum, Kip Moore, Jake Owen, Billy on the road this fall with live appearances in Currington, Eli Young Band, Lonestar, Joe Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando, Diffie and Cassadee Pope.

Boston, Houston, Seattle, and many more.

Although both men are straight – Carter got Shania Twain has announced the final perhitched recently – Knight’s brother Jona- formances of “Shania: Still the One” at The than, also part of BSB, is openly Gay. For Colosseum at Ceasars Palace. The Grammy tickets, go to www.showboxpresents.com. winner’s two-year residency in Las Vegas

will close out with 16 concerts between October 8 and December 13, totaling over 100 shows in its span. I attended and reviewed her June 6 performance, which I thought was quite impressive and really showcased the country star’s remarkable career with a set list that included many of her top hits, from “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!” to “That Don’t Impress Me Much” to her signature ballad “You’re Still the One.” Tickets for the remaining concerts, featuring a 13-piece band and 6 backup dancers, are on sale now at www.thecolosseum.com or www.axs. com (keyword: Shania Twain). For more details, go to www.shaniainvegas.com. Definitely see this show, if you’re visiting Las Vegas in the coming months.

Finally, I’m working on upcoming interviews with Jason Mraz, Lisa Fischer and The Kooks. When confirmed, I’ll announce the print dates here in The Music Lounge, or follow @SGNMusic1 on Twitter for updates. huffingtonpost.com

Meshell Ndegeocello has booked a date at The Triple Door, set to appear September 19 at the downtown venue. The Lesbian singersongwriter was in Seattle a few months ago to participate in a music-mentoring program for local students. Log onto www.thetripledoor.net for tickets and further information.

Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, who has interviewed with Seattle Gay News, is scheduled to appear October 24 at the Moore Theatre. She’s on the road continuing to support last year’s release, Silver Bell.

For tickets, go to www.stgpresents.org. Indie pop group The Drums are returning to the Emerald City for a concert on October 9 at Neumos, where they’ll play selections

Nick Carter and Jordon Knight

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continued from cover of fellow entertainers and athletes (Frank Ocean, Jason Collins, etc.). A year ago, Beyonce posted this message on Instagram, “If you like it you should be able to put a ring on it,” followed by #Wewillunite4marriage equality! And Jay Z was one of the first rappers to weigh in on Gay marriage, declaring his approval shortly after President Obama spoke about it during a national address.

A very limited number of tickets remain for the concert as of press time, aside from a batch of premiere seating offered by resale. For tickets and more on the tour, go to www.beyonce.com/tour or www.livenation.com. Safeco Field personnel were very disorganized last summer when Paul McCartney appeared to a sold out audience. It took literally an hour to get from the front gate to my seat on the in-field. If you have field tickets, immediately inquire about wristbands upon entering the venue to save yourself time. Also, note that the baseball stadium has a retractable roof, so rain or shine the show will go on.

Light rail is recommended to/from the event. Seattle Gay News is hoping to attend the performance, so look for a possible review in next week’s issue.

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A new perspective on recording classical music

by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer I feel like I’m about to commit a mortal sin against all high fidelity enthusiasts around the world. One of the two surround-sound Blu-ray discs reviewed here has clearly abandoned all hope of achieving the “holy grail” of sound recording, namely to re-produce in your home the sound you should hear at a good live performance. Instead the engineers have created something I have always wanted to hear: the sound you might experience while sitting in the middle of the players.

My sin is that I like it!

No, it’s not the only way I want to hear this music; it’s not even my preferred way.

But it IS exciting and different in a way that reveals, in its extreme clarity and intimacy, elements of the music I would not otherwise notice. At Columbia College in a class I took with Lionel Trilling, a student criticized D. H. Lawrence’s point of view as “adolescent.” Trilling, whose patrician manner had previously rather put me off, suddenly rose in my estimation when he replied, “Let’s not put down an adolescent point of view; it might have something to teach us!” Just so, I think these engineers, by abandoning traditional aims, have presented us with a new look at, say, the last movement from Beethoven ‘s “Symphony No. 7.” Balances are pretty screwy, making me hear stuff from the brass, for instance, that I had previously missed. It’s fun, hearing new things in over-familiar works.

Tacet The recording company, Tacet (www. tacet.de), calls its process “TACET Real Surround Sound.” The classical artists are described as the composers’ “assistants.” Thus, Beethoven’s “assistant” is conductor Wojciech Rajski of the Polish

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Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. This irreverent manner might be said to extend to the recording philosophy, which seems to embrace fun and excitement over proper decorum. Imagine sitting in the middle of the symphony orchestra for this Beethoven! The tempi are fast; the players are very together and intense; and you’re getting more prominent woodwinds and brass than you’ve ever heard before in Beethoven. You’re surrounded by string sound, and the tympani is in your lap! It’s loud and damned exciting.

The clarity of everything is astounding, even in the loudest passages.

The only exception I take to the sound is a slight over-brightness, giving us lots of buzzing high overtones and leaving us a little shy of the lowest frequencies. Those low sounds, however, are present in abundance in some of the many test tracks, as in track 2, which is that of a dynamite explosion. Likewise, track 3, a fantastic recording of a helicopter, has whomping bass and tremendous impact as the chopper seems to fly directly overhead!

This Blu-ray, by the way, is called “More power and ideas – for your surround sound system!” (TACET B 154) It is 77 minutes long and, along with many short test tracks, contains moderately long excerpts from the above-mentioned Beethoven (plus part of the second movement from his 8th symphony), a piano selection from Ravel’s “Miroirs,” a complex choral selection by Bach, two animals from Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of Animals,” the “presto” section from Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 4, the “presto” from Mozart’s “Divertimento in D,” and some especially lovely selections from chamber works such a Beethoven string quartet, and Schubert’s “Octet in F major.” The approach this company takes to surround sound is perfect for the intimacy of the

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Think you don’t like poetry? I don’t much, either. But I make exceptions. And I say the name of C. P. Cavafy with the deepest respect, because for me this Greek man is possibly the greatest Gay poet who ever lived. Here, try one of his poems: THE NEXT TABLE Can’t be more than twenty-two years old.

And yet I’m sure that, just about the same Number of years ago, I enjoyed that very body.

It’s not at all a flaring of desire.

And I only came to the casino a little while ago; I haven’t even had time to drink a lot.

This very body: I enjoyed it.

And if I don’t remember where – one slip doesn’t signify.

Ah there, sitting at the next table now: I recognize each movement – and beneath the clothes I see once more the naked limbs I loved.

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Does that maybe speak to you a little?

I hope so! For the month of August, read some Cavafy poems. With the precision of a surgeon, he can describe the heart

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it unless your system has, like mine, very good subwoofers. The more obvious flaw is that loud passages are muddied by what stereophiles like to call a “traffic jam,” in which the sounds get messy instead of remaining clear (as they do in the TACET disc above). In fact, the overall sound lacks impact, especially if compared to the ancient RCA recording (originally on LP) of the same work with the Boston Symphony Naxos The second Blu-ray disc is a 5.1 DTS- under Charles Münch.

HD surround recording of Berlioz’ “HarSo, I highly recommend the TACET disc old en Italie” on Naxos NBD0042. The if you seek adventure in classical music performance, with the Orchestre National sound, but I say take a pass on the Naxos de Lyon conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Berlioz disc. is fine enough, but the sound is flawed in several ways. First of all, and most unforReviewer Rod Parke can be reached at giveable, is a constant very low-frequency rmp62@columbia.edu. rumble...so low that you would not hear chamber music presented. All the artists are excellent, especially pianist Markus Schirmer and the Auryn Quartet. The piano is writ large, with our ears nearly inside and under the lid...again different from concert sound but wildly interesting and fun, especially in the picture painting of Ravel’s “Une barque sur l’Ocean.”

of a quiet, older Gay man better than anyone ever. I’m plowing through the only biography of him right now called Cavafy by Robert Liddell – it might be in libraries – because I want to know more. But his poems are what we’re reading. There are a number of translations of his Complete Poems and Collected Poems: the Rae Dalven original in English, the Barnstone, and then the new awesome Mendelsohn. The Dalven is the one that made him famous. But they all work. If this guy hits you in the heart, believe me, you will want to buy the $35 Mendelsohn translation with its glorious footnotes and notes. You should be able to find used copies of the Dalven in many places, since it was reprinted and the only version for years. But August is FREE. You don’t need to buy a thing. Go online to the Official Website for C. P. Cavafy. It’s amazing! His poems are all there. But if you grow to love him like I do, you’ll want a portable collection to carry with you.

The poem that changed my life is called “The City.” When I first read it, the poem spoke to me and altered my way of thinking. It’s still super powerful. Watch out. Many of his poems are taken from mythology or history – but the ones you will go crazy over are the Gay ones – they

are meticulous, word precise, so hot and filled with longing and desire the pages practically steam.

Cavafy was huge for E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, and W. H. Auden, to name but a few. Find a poem by Cavafy that speaks to you. Come to a meeting and read it and tell us why. Easy! That’s all we’re going to do for August. We’re going to share knowledge of this private, private man who opened up his secret longings to the world. Let’s understand his poems in light of his life. The more we share and know, the better. Haven’t been to a meeting for a while? Perfect time to come back. No homework necessary. Read a Cavafy poem or two before you come.

How easy is that? Let’s celebrate this wise older Gay man who makes exquisite word choices to express his heart. Cavafy is one of the true giants in the Gay canon. If you’ve never read his poems before, prepare to learn what poetry can do.

The Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club meets every Wednesday from 6-7:30 p.m., at SASGCC (Seattle Area Support Groups Community Center) (303 17th Ave. E. at E. Thomas St.). All GLBTQ folks are welcome to participate in this FREE book club. For more information, visit http://faculty.washington.edu/ swittet/SGLBookClub/

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Linklater’s Boyhood takes joy in life’s minutia BOYHOOD Now playing It is doubtful I will see a better movie than Richard Linklater’s Boyhood in 2014. Without question, I won’t see a more ambitious one. Filmed over the course of 12 years, following the evolution and growth of a child into a young man, the film is one of the more unlikely and intriguing coming of age tales ever put to celluloid.

But if it were only that? If it were only a cinematic hat trick where a core group of actors and filmmakers reunited every 365 days or so to film segments of a broader tale with no real idea where things were heading?

While we’d still have something of interest to talk about, it’s less likely I’d have cared near as much or responded so wholeheartedly to all that transpired during the film’s mesmerizing 165-minute running time. Linklater doesn’t sit on his laurels, doesn’t allow the conceit itself to do all the talking, composing a mesmerizing, heartfelt and bracingly authentic narrative journey one almost can’t help but relate to body and soul.

We meet Mason (Ellar Coltrane) in 2002.

His Mom (Patricia Arquette) and Dad (Ethan Hawke) have recently split up, he and his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) left in the former’s care. Over the next dozen years the kids make their way through school, their father becomes the man he’s supposed to be (and not the one he fantasized about in his own youth) while their mother finishes her own education making more of herself than she imagined possible. Questions of self and identity arise, Mason progressing from boy to man right before our very eyes.

Linklater is obsessed with the moments between the moments, the big, potentially melodramatic stuff mostly taking place offcamera. What the filmmaker is interested in is seeing how people react to those things,

looking at how they shape and mold a life over the course of time. Why and how Mom and Dad broke up isn’t interesting; how the kids continue to relate to their parents in the aftermath is. First kisses are nice, but what is it that leads to the second or third one?

What songs made up the soundtrack of our lives? What quiet moment spoke the loudest? What argument hurt the most? Which conversation resonated the strongest? These are the things that matter, and as such this is where the director focuses all his attention.

It’s remarkable stuff, filled with drama, intrigue, suspense, laughter, tears and all the rest that comes with that. Not so much a life in total but a snapshot of one being formed, elements internal and external colliding and collapsing in and onto themselves as naturalistically as waves hitting the shore or the wind sweeping across a desert plain. No need for extra embellishments as the inherent mechanics of growth and maturation speak clearly for themselves, Linklater remembering truth is far stranger, and thus more enchanting, than fiction, infusing it inside his narrative spectacle with beguiling, almost monumental ease.

Considering the difficulties that are presented in an enterprise such as this, the hardships on the actors are relatively obvious. Shaping a single, distinct performance over the course of years had to be a challenge, especially considering your two unknowns (Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater, the director’s daughter) will be essentially portraying their actual journeys from child, to teen, to adult as it actually happens.

Hawke in many ways gets off easy. Not only does he have some modicum of experience doing something sort of similar with the director as far as the pair’s Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight are concerned, but just by the nature of his role he isn’t required to show up every year of Mason’s development. Still, he does a nice job, a few signature scenes near the end where Dad admits some pretty big truths to his high school graduate son crackling with Washington Times Communities

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requisite authenticity.

All the same, it is Arquette who does the heavy lifting. Unafraid to look her age throughout, eschewing movie star glamour at every turn, she’s the one who is there every year, every moment, taking care of her two children best she knows how, while at the same time trying to put her own life into some semblance of recognizable order. It’s a carefully composed and utterly distinctive performance, consistently pulsating with energy and life. The actress mines deep, emotionally complicated emotional terrain yet never does so in a way that would pull focus from the central character, augmenting Mason’s story never overshadowing it.

Linklater, never one to shy away from a challenge, goes above and beyond, weaving the smallest facets of his saga into a tightly wound, virtually indestructible web I couldn’t have escaped from even if I had wanted to. He remembers that life, just life, nothing more, is more moving, more profound, more interesting, entertaining and inspirational, than any superhero flying through the air at the speed of sound or spaceships blasting through hyperspace with lasers blazing away could ever be. Boyhood isn’t just about Mason’s life, it’s about all our lives, reveling not so much in the destination as it does in the joyous minutia of the journey itself.

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It’s not surprising Hawke was onboard with the idea right from the jump. Considering his long relationship with the filmmaker, as well as the pair’s artistic triumph (working alongside Julie Delpy) with Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, each sequel nine years removed from its predecessor, his leaping at the chance to be a part of this decade-long endeavor doesn’t come as a huge surprise.

“He embraced the idea immediately,” proclaims Linklater. “I remember the look on his face when I broached it with him.

He was like, yeah, that’s such an incredible idea. Yeah. We should do it. He was part of the team even before I had a full idea let alone the initial makings of a script.”

But did Patricia Arquette know what she was getting herself involved with when she agreed to be a part of the film? Did she know just how much of herself she was going to need to add to the equation to make sure the picture would work? Just by the nature of the beast, her character is required to be a part of each year of Mason’s maturation, Mom the primary caregiver attempting to give her children the best life she can.

“Yeah, she knew,” says Linklater. “She’s fearless. Patricia tells me she remembers our initial conversation. She said I called her up and asked her what she was going

continued from cover ing and narrative, cinema; I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about that. I think that’s what allowed me to have this idea, to push the boundaries of cinema in a certain way storytelling wise. Why couldn’t you just film a little bit every year? We’ll see the kids grow up and the parents age in one movie at the same time in the same tone. It’s a cool idea, but so impractical. But, you know, why not?”

All of which made for what was arguably the longest 39-days shoot in movie history – the director, his cast and his crew assembling once a year for 12 consecutive years fleshing out the trajectory and the dramatic arcs of the story as they went along. “We think we’re the longest scheduled production in history,” he states with a laugh. “We’re certainly the longest post-production. It’s pretty mindboggling. But, like I said, it’s so impractical. I think that’s why no one has done it before us.

It doesn’t make any sense.”

“In some ways it tells you how much of a business making movies is. The artists got it. Ethan was like, what a cool idea, he understood it immediately. He and the other artists I talked to about it engaged right away. But business people? They were speechless. They thought it was insane.”

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they feel? I was going for that. Why do you remember that one weekend? Why do remember that particular camping trip? What was it about that argument that mattered? Of all the things you remember about your childhood why do you remember that? I wanted the movie to feel like a memory. Which, if you think about it, is interesting, because even as we were shooting it – at least early on – we knew we were shooting a period piece even though we were currently in the present. To know you were in the past tense even when you were in the present, it was fascinating. It was such a unique process.”

Linklater pauses for a moment, collecting his thoughts as he tries to put things in even more personal perspective. “I think for the most part you can’t help but reflect your own personality,” he admits. “I think I’m more of an introverted listener than I am an extroverted talker. I’m not that outgoing, necessarily, so I’m a little more contemplative. I think my characters end up a little more like that, maybe.”

As for audiences and how they relate to this particular film, the director knows how he doesn’t want them to feel, even if he’s less certain as to what pieces of his opus they’re going to latch onto the strongest. “I hope they’re surprised that the movie doesn’t feel like an experiment,” says Linklater with a shrug. “It sounds like one, I think, but I don’t want people coming out after watching it feeling like that’s what it was. I hope that they’re surprised that they are pulled in on a narrative flow. I’d like them to be talking about how they related to it, there’s so much commonality. We’re so much more similar than we are different, and that’s what it means to be human, and I hope people find that common ground between one another as it relates to growing up. Which pieces will resonate strongest for them?

That I can’t begin to know.”

As for his own plans and where he goes from here, that’s a little less certain. Not that Linklater’s complaining. “I’ve got a lot of things I’m trying to do,” he admits with a knowing, somewhat sheepish grin. “The thing about doing this for so long, I have a big backlog. Early in the career it was always going from the next film to the next film to the next film, but over time a couple of them don’t happen, they get put on the backburner. I’ve spent a lot of time writing and developing different things, and there are so many ideas I’d like explore, so I’ve got a decade-long backlog of things I’ve been trying to do.”

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to be doing 12 years from now. I said she would be looking for a part and I’d be trying to get a movie made, the same stuff we were already doing. Why not make sure we had something to work on each and every year while went about that part of the business?

Sure enough, here we are.”

“But, 12 years, as an adult, once you reach a certain age you can conceptualize that. But as a six or seven-year-old? You can’t fathom what a decade is going to look like. That’s what I think made this idea so fascinating.”

That was also part of the problem. Finding adult actors willing to take on such a project was one thing, but finding children, let alone also finding parents, all of whom would be up for the challenge? That was a different thing altogether.

“My daughter insisted on being in it,” recollects the filmmaker. “[Lorelei] says she doesn’t remember it that way, but I tell you it’s absolutely true. She acts sometimes like I burdened her with this, but the truth is I would have been disowned by my own kid at eight had I not let her be a part of the film. Soon she realized what it was she’d signed up for and that she didn’t really want to act, but by that point it was too late. Lorelei jokes that she asked me to kill her character off, but that was never going to happen. She was a trooper, though. I’m proud of her and her performance.”

“For Mason, though, the film is so much from his point of view that I had to spend a lot of time casting the role. I met a lot of kids.

It was important to me that they already be actors, they needed to have headshots and resumes because that would indicate to me they had family support. I needed to know they understood the undertaking; that I wasn’t going to whisk their child away from their normal life. I wanted it to be a positive thing. Something they could all track, look forward to every year. And that’s what I think it was. Heck, movie sets are fun for kids.”

Not that his star had any idea what it was he’d signed himself up for. “He couldn’t,” says Linklater plainly. “In the end, you were really signing up the parents because at sixyears-old Ellar had no idea what it was we

were asking of him. The parents were responsible for this big life decision.”

“For Lorelei, at least I knew where she would be every year, so letting her be a part of the film wasn’t that difficult a decision. For Ellar, anything could have happened. His family could have moved away. He could have decided he didn’t want to do this anymore. Anything could have happened, so I really had to trust the parents and put my faith in them that he would see things through until the end.”

“The irony is that Ellar ended up being the most solid. Patricia and Ethan, we were always having to juggle their schedules.

Lorelei kept wavering about how much she wanted to do it every year – mainly, just because I’m her dad. Had I been anyone else I don’t think she’d even ponder complaining, let alone [consider] trying to quit. But Ellar?

He was a rock. He was there every year ready to go. He became a full-blown collaborator as he got older. We’d just hang out and chat and I’d find out what was going on in his life.

Some of that got put into the script.”

That sort of collaboration was in many ways by design. Linklater knew that whatever narrative he came up with initially was going to be influenced by the maturation of his stars, there likes, dislikes, experiences and aspirations a vital part of the story he was wanting to tell.

“I got to spend the year between each period of filming gauging where they were,” he explains. “I always had to figure out what would work for the film developmentally, what would fit into the larger narrative structure. But that was a luxury. I had a year to ponder the next episode, to watch the edited footage we had compiled up to that point. I got to think about the relationships, think about what would be what. It was a collaboration with time.”

“I always told Ellar the movie was going to pretty much go in whatever direction he goes to a degree. My preconceived ideas were always going to meet his reality, at some point they were going to meld together. I don’t think there was ever any question as far as that goes.”

The glorious thing about Boyhood is, in the end, just how simple it actually is. The director doesn’t throw in a lot of unnecessary baggage, doesn’t have anybody getting into a shootout, doesn’t have mustache-

twirling villains popping up at inopportune times or unforeseen cancers ripping away loved ones with melodramatic ferocity. He just lets things happen as they would, using a documentary-like approach in order as he follows Mason along his 12 year journey.

But what’s it all about in the end? That’s not a question Linklater likes to be asked.

“Anything but that question,” he laughs.

“It’s life. Individually, some of the moments we live are pretty banal, but cumulatively there’s an effect, and experiencing them is how we know we’re alive. Moments take on meaning. Relationships grow. Things get infused with more emotion. You become more involved with the passage of time.”

“That’s what I wanted to happen here. I wanted people to get involved with this family and what it was that was going on with them. But I think that’s what makes the film something of a tough sell. They hear the idea and they think it’s probably going to be a great movie, but it also sounds like one they’ll rent instead of go out to see. They think that, if they’re going to pay money, if they’re going to park the car and get concessions and buy that ticket, they have to have some sort of mind-blowing experience. Hollywood has sort of taught everybody over the years that a lot of firepower and visual razzle-dazzle is what is important. That’s unfortunate.”

The director’s commentary on modern Hollywood is particularly noteworthy in some ways, as it isn’t just in concept where Boyhood eschews convention. For a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing into a man, the filmmaker isn’t interested in many of the big signature melodramatic moments most stories like this usually focus on.

“We’ve done that,” states Linklater emphatically. “We’ve seen that. That didn’t interest me. I had all this time to think about it. To look at what I wanted to showcase and explore. Do I show the first kiss? You know what, no, because for one thing I’ve seen it a million times, there’s nothing special cinematically about that. Also, no, because in my own life, that first kiss, it’s not what you think it is, it’s like I was an extra in a movie remembering it how I was supposed to remember it and not as it actually happened. But what about that third kiss? That fifth kiss? What about those moments that wouldn’t fit into anyone’s movie version of their own memories? What does that movie look like?”

“That’s what was interesting to me. Those moments are your moments, they’re your memories. What do they look like? How did

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer I ORIGINS Now playing Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) is a talented young molecular biologist currently studying the evolution of the human eye.

He is aided by his new assistant Karen (Brit Marling), a woman who possesses a keen intellect and an extremely creative mind. Better, she also shares her lab partner’s infatuation with the eye, believing if they can unlock its secrets, maybe they can also shed light on ageold questions of evolution, humanity and faith that have been vexing science and religion alike for generations.

Against his own common sense, Ian has fallen madly in love with the beautiful

Sofi (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), a free-spirited model whose belief in a hereafter is as strong and as wild as the heterochromia that gives her eyes their exotic, uninhibited multicolored allure. They have a connection that’s as deep as it is ephemeral, as powerful as it is nondescript, their mutual desires coming close to overwhelming common sense, leading them to make decisions and go in directions they otherwise would not have traveled in.

The trailer for I Origins gives away far too much as far as I’m concerned, yet even with that being so, I’m going to leave my description of what transpires during the film to those two paragraphs.

This second narrative effort from Another Earth writer/director Mike Cahill, the movie is a beautiful treatise on self, human understanding, religion, science and most of all faith. It moves,

shifts and evolves in naturalistic fastidiousness, everything building to a magnificent conclusion that speaks volumes, but does so in a way that allows the viewer to put the pieces together in virtually any way that they would like.

Make no mistake, this film is a marvel.

Differentiating between the science fact and the science fiction is close to impossible, Cahill handling all facets of his complex yet soulfully intimate scenario with confident ease. There is a point where the metaphorical complexities inherent in all that is taking place threaten to overwhelm the proceedings – a time after Ian has arrived in India, of all places, on a mission, impossible to put into proper context or explain with any ease. Yet the filmmaker makes these new events palpitate with poignant urgency, allowing for a meeting between adult and child that’s a one-on-a-kind, generational mind-blower, yet one that keeps the inherent melodramatics to a minimum.

The key is Pitt. His performance is as multifaceted as they come, navigating difficult emotional terrain yet doing so with a realistic naturalism that’s impressive. His Dr. Ian Gray is a man of science and reason whose heart has been broken clean in two, discovering things about the world he never knew possible, while trying to reconcile his beliefs with the almost otherworldly aura these new experiences begin to generate. Pitt, an underrated talent who to my mind has never gotten his full due, is always doing something interesting, making the character come alive with vital, innately genuine grace every step of the way.

Cahill doesn’t make easy movies, that fact made more than clear with his almost too nondescript sci-fi think-piece Another

Earth. He wants his audiences to work, to decide for themselves what is going on and why, leaving it up to them to discover the truth behind the mystery and the science making the magic rumble to vivacious life.

Suffice it to say, this sort of handling and style works wonders as it pertains to things here, allowing the director’s ruminations about faith and religious dogmatism to be more effective and meaningful than 2014’s faith-based trifecta of Son of God, God’s Not Dead and Heaven is for Real combined managed to spawn.

Put simply from a filmmaking perspective his growth from one movie to the next is astonishing, signature moments coming alive with a bracing legitimacy that I never saw coming. One spectacular scene involving a broken down elevator is amazing, Cahill allowing cinematographer Markus Förderer’s (Hell) camera to linger on Pitt’s impressively nuanced performance before slowly unleashing a devastating reveal. It stopped my breath, instantly, with almost brutal effectiveness, the tears flowing down my cheek as unsettlingly genuine as they were sincerely generated.

As I’ve already stated, I’m being purposely nondescript as far as the main narrative dynamics are concerned. But having an outline of the plot, knowing its ins and its outs, none of that in the end is all that important. What is significant is the connection Cahill managed to make between me and his story – about how he managed to get me so emotionally entwined with this ocular mystery – all leading to revelations that blew me away about who we are and why we’re here. I Origins is an unforgettable journey into the heart, the eye truly becoming a window into a soul, more personal and affecting than any I could have anticipated beforehand – my own.

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ence fact with the needs of science fiction?

Where is that line? Do you want the audience to be able to figure out where the line is? Want them to be able to see or ascertain what is fiction and what is fact?

Mike Cahill: With this movie, there is a great deal of science fact. All the experiments in the film are real. I have the great fortune of having two of my best friends in the world, and my two older brothers –

they’re all actual scientists working in the field of molecular biology. The thing about scientists, there’s a caricature of them that’s oftentimes presented in popular culture and I wanted to get away from that. I wanted to really capture the truth of what it is these guys are about. They are people of great passion. They have great romances. They see Cahill page 18 indiewire.com

Mike Cahill’s I Origins follows molecular biologist Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) as he attempts to chart the evolution of the human eye in the hopes of answering age-old questions both science and religion have been fascinated with for centuries. He is aided by his assistant Karen (Brit Marling) while at the same time is engaged in a passionate love affair with free-spirited model Sofi (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), his relationships with both women shaping and molding his life in increasingly unforeseen directions.

The movie is a beguiling mystery of self and identity that got under my skin, staying with me for days afterwards as I mulled over all of its fascinating twists, turns and secrets.

It is a science fiction drama where truth, lies and everything in-between crash together in increasingly unforeseen ways, everything building to a shattering conclusion that is as shocking as it is beautifully life affirming.

To say more about the plot would be to ruin the surprise, all of which made sitting down with the talented writer/director to discuss his film more than a bit difficult. Even so, here are some of the highlights from our conversation, and while there are potentially a few spoilers here and there, for the most part we did our best to keep them at a minimum.

Sara Michelle Fetters: After Another Earth and now this, I think it is readily apparent you are fascinated with concepts of identity and of self. You seem to want to get an intimate idea of who we are as human beings and how we compose our personalities over time.

Same time, how do you make the jump from your first narrative feature to I Origins?

Mike Cahill: There are two deep things as human beings that we have to deal with and that’s death and loss. We need to make sense of them. If there is a way to construct a movie, no matter how elaborate, that through the use of love we can look at and diminish the fear of death and the pain of loss, then I think we have something special. This has been the goal of great writers and thinkers and filmmakers since the dawn of storytelling. And I guess, in my way, I’m just making my attempt to make my little contribution.

In all seriousness, and to answer your question, the eye seemed to be this rich canvas where poets and spiritualists and science all had put down a lot of ink. For me, it was an intriguing dream, and so I composed this script utilizing the eye as a means to construct a drama that would hopefully diminish our fear of death and diminish our pain from loss. At least, that was the hope.

Sara Michelle Fetters: How hard is it, then, when you tackle something like this to balance the ideas inherent in the sci-

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

SATURDAY - July 26

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.

Jockstraps & Glitter. 2pm. Cal Anderson Park, 11th Ave & Howell St. A strip kickball match benefiting The Sister’s Granting Fund, Seattle Quake RFC & Seattle Humane Society.

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.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com Imperial Court of Seattle King & Queen of the Seas Pageant: “Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.” Doors 6pm, Show 7pm. R Place, 619 E Pine St. $5 suggested donation. imperialcourtofseattle.com; facebook.com/ ISCSORE

SUNDAY - July 27

For information on GLBT-friendly religious/spiritual organizations in the Greater Seattle area, call or email Rick at the SGN office: 206-324-4297; sgn2@ sgn.org.

Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Ravenna United Methodist Church. 5751 33rd Ave NE. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school;” 9:45am worship. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. 525-7988.

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 8:30am & 11am-Worship (10am during summer). 2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984 Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. 547-6945 (office); 285-5077 (George).

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/TheSeattleGayHikingGroup/ Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am-Sunday Services.

200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org.

University Congregational United Church of Christ.

All ages education 9am, Worship 10am. 4515 16th Ave NE. UCUCC is an open & affirming congregation. 5242322; www.universityucc.org.

Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30amWorship, 11am-Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

All are welcome. 322-7500.

East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am-Sunday Service.

12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780.

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 Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. 682-3620.

Rainier Valley Unitarian Congregation. 10am. 835 Yesler Way. 722-4880, www.rvuuc.org

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.

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am-Worship.

500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome.

A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Living Water Fellowship. 10:30am-Worship. 7204 NE 175th St, Kenmore. All GLBT welcome. Pastor Susan George. 963-0807. www.livingwaterwa. com Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@ wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Grace Gospel Chapel. 11am-Worship. 2052 NW 64th St. Oldest independent church ministering primarily to the Gay & Lesbian community. An exciting fellowship ... a place to believe, a place to belong. 784-8495.

Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am-Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

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

Contact Forrest Rode, 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.dharmabuddies.org St Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am-Worship.

6512 12th Ave NW. An “open & affirming” congregation.

“We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” 783-6733; www. stpauluccseattle.com.

Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of

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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 Bat n’ Rouge. 1-6pm. Bobby Morris Playfield. Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Ave. A fun fundraiser featuring Dykes vs. Drag Queens softball. A benefit for Seattle Area Support Groups Community Center.

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

Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.

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

Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

July 26 thru August 3 recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County. Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@yahoo.com or phone (360) 722-1664.

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

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org No Safeword Writers Group. 7-9pm. Meets 4th Monday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafe wordwritersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Sunday, 1-3pm.)

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

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

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

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

Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun.

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

TUESDAY - July 29

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 Meet & Greet. 5:30-7:30pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Advance registration: $10 members, $15 nonmembers, $10 students. Walk-ins $5 more at the door. The GSBA’s Young Professionals with Pride is dedicated to providing Seattle’s LGBT and allied young professionals with unique and valuable opportunities to enhance personal and professional development through social, educational, and philanthropic activities. RSVP to www. thegsba.org or 363-9188.

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 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, MONDAY - July 28 www. lamberthouse.org SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm.

E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in Meadowbrook Playfield, 10533 35th Ave NE (tennis

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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 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.)

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SATURDAY - August 2

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Northwest Bears Potluck and Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear admirers. www.nwbears.com.

SUNDAY - August 3

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride.

9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com 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.

St Aelred’s Independent Catholic Church in Olympia.

5pm. Olympia Unitarian Church, 2200 East End St NW, Olympia. Meets 1st & 3rd Sundays each month. Worship for the GLBT community & friends in the Roman Catholic, Anglican & other liturgical faiths tradition. Fr. Bob Withrow, (360) 664-5449.

WEDNESDAY - July 30

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 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 Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm. Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www. lotussisters.org.

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

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

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. 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.

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Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

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 Teenage Dreams: Summer Movies at Cal Anderson Park. Dusk. 1635 11th Ave. Four Fridays in August - 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22. This week: “Bring It On.” Presented by Three Dollar Bill Cinema. www.threedollarbillcinema.org

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who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every 445-2411; www.washingtongender alliance.com.

Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a THURSDAY - July 31 male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible 12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group.

BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group www.babesnetwork.org.

Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance. our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ 4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave. gayfathersseattle Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion every week! Get-togethers are highly social & offer “low group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relaimpact” volunteer work & an opportunity to learn more tionship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; about LAA. Please call before dropping in. 957-1776. www.sasgcc.org www.lifelongaidsalliance.org FRIDAY - August 1 Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recov- Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org overspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Question- Columbia City Beatwalk. 7-10pm. Columbia City Galing Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for lery, 4864 Rainier Ave S. 1st Friday each month, May location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside thru September. Columbia City retailers, restaurants & Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. cafes combine the love of good music with good books, fine dining & provocative art. An evening of folk, reggae, (425) 747-4937.

Seattle Tennis Alliance Social Doubles. 6:30-8pm. R & B, ethnic music & more. Admission to all venues: Lower Woodland Park Courts 5, 6, 7 & 8. Every Tuesday $5. www.columbiacitybeatwalk.org. & Thursday. STA is Seattle’s premier Gay & Lesbian First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima. tennis club. $2 for members & first-time guests, $5 for Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community returning guests. http://sta.clubexpress.com.

Westside Unitarian Universalist Contemplative & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276.

Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net.

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

DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www. nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

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

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837.

For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service orga-

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nizations 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: 888-8095035, www.raincityjacks.org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

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

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, 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: 6946727, 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/proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@ nwnetwork. org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www. rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www.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. multi-culturalhealth.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, 10am5pm, 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; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle.

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.

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

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

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.tacomalesbian concern.org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealthywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools.

330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org.

GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattlepflag.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 groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail. and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Dif- Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; ferent Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes. Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoaliorg; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhen- tion.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), rugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); www.emeraldcity softball.org, www.eteamz.com/ Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs. Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Hemmings.com/EthylForever CarClub/; Festival of Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Projthe Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Hiking ect: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops. Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVen- 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth tures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www. Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, out ventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.

Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: Squares: www.puddletownsquares.org; Rain City 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): Dance Association: a country-western dance orga- 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program nization catering to the LGBTQ community but open (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT TALK, www.yspp.org ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefront runners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orca swimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www. otter polo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quake rugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattle tennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www.team seattle.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,

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

Seattle Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) Ezine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody. com/step/steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

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life as well. She’s incredible.

Sara Michelle Fetters: I know we’re coming close to running out of time, and while I do want to talk about Brit and your ongoing relationship with her, we’d be remiss if we don’t get into a conversation about Michael.

Mike Cahill: He’s brilliant. I have admired Michael for a very long time. He makes so many outstanding, idiosyncratic choices. He is always bold, unique, [and makes] unanticipated decisions as to how it pertains to the character and to the movie. He’s just fascinating to watch and to work with. I knew he would just kill it here. He brings so much to the table. As Ian, I think he’s just mesmerizing, bringing so much of his fine-tuned instrument to the role and to his performance. By all accounts he makes the movie what it is.

I don’t think we’d be talking if he hadn’t delivered in the way he did.

Like the elevator scene – we only did one take of it – and it’s this big, pivotal moment the whole movie more or less rests upon, but we could get away only doing it once because Michael’s just so damn amazing. Before we shot it, Michael was like, I’m going to go there, I’m going to go all the way there, and it will probably mess me up, so hopefully we won’t have to do it more than once.

So, we cover the scene with multiple cameras almost as if we’re filming this huge explosion or some crazy action sequence, but it’s really just Michael sitting there, letting every ounce of himself out for all the world to see. He worked so hard.

He gave so much of himself. Michael becomes his characters, bringing this level of authenticity that’s almost unbelievable.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Not to go into too great of detail, did you ever worry you were holding the scene for too long? That you were letting too much time pass before the big reveal?

Mike Cahill: I think we did it just exactly right. It’s always hard to tell. I cut out the sound just as we experience the trauma from his point of view because I wanted that disassociation with the senses to happen for the audience as well. Also, the idea that there’s still lucidity, that there’s still something going on, it was important I think to make sure Ian discovers what’s happening in real time, and not just in some unrealistic, sensational way. Makes it more powerful, hopefully, I think.

Sara Michelle Fetters: At the end of the day, what do you want the audience to take away from the film? What do you hope they’ll experience?

Mike Cahill: I want them to think that Michael Pitt is a genius. I want them to think Brit Marling is a genius. I want them to think all of the actors are amazing. But, what I really hope? What I really hope is that, afterwards, when it’s over, people will look deeper into the eyes of their loved ones, they’ll look closer than ever before, memorizing every little detail. That’s what I hope they do.

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talk about music and literature. They go out and have beers. They party. They watch YouTube. They are real, three-dimensional and interesting guys and girls with great senses of humor who also happen to have their main goal not be financial, but instead increasing the sum total of human knowledge. Discovery. Breaking barriers.

To me, that’s so noble. That’s exciting. As such, I wanted to see their stories represented accurately. At least, that was the goal.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Same time, you’re presenting this sort of character, revolving things around a person of science, attempting to show him three-dimensionally without resorting to cliché, but in doing so you’re extremely upfront about his religious beliefs. Or, more to the point, lack of them. For all intents and purposes, Dr. Ian Gray is an atheist and probably does not believe in God. What I think is interesting, however, is that in the movie you never actually say there is no God. You never purport religion is a fallacy. In a 2014 filled with socalled faith-based hits, this movie might just be the most faith-centered film I’ve seen. How is that possible?

Mike Cahill: That’s wonderful for you to say. I’m so glad you’ve pointed that out.

I appreciate that so much. I strove to not get bogged down in the language of religion or faith, not to have actual discussions about the existence of God, but to instead let people take a look at their own beliefs and their own concepts of faith and come to their own conclusions as to what is going on and why. We tried to avoid using any terms that are loaded where it comes to faith by keeping things as close to the scientific realm as we can. And, because of that, we can have these characters come face-to-face with this strange, unusual, mind-boggling data and then watch as they grapple with that.

It’s not far-fetched to imagine what occurs in this film to be real. Biometrics is real. India really does have the world’s largest iris scanning program. Eyes and irises really are unique for everybody. All of that is legit. So, what happens when characters of science and of data are faced with information that cannot or should not exist? What happens when they use science to prove that what they are seeing, and should not be seeing, is in fact real?

Those are questions I find interesting and hoped the audience would as well.

Sara Michelle Fetters: There are three signature moments in the film that took my breath away. One involves an elevator, a sequence I don’t want to go into too much detail about for obvious reasons.

Another is the final scene which, again, we probably shouldn’t talk a lot about, so we don’t ruin it for the viewer. But there is another scene, a moment between Pitt

and Marling where he talks about his former relationship and he admits something to her there that really resonated with me.

It’s rare to hear someone in a movie talk about former or lost loves quite like this.

Mike Cahill: That scene was a tough one. I went in wanting to show the strength of Ian and Karen’s relationship, that they could be this honest with one another and not be hurt by the truths being said. At first, I thought we needed to have them hugging and kissing, snuggling up to one another, doing things in something of a traditional fashion as Ian makes his declaration.

When we got to the set, I thought, this isn’t right, that we needed to do this scene in the opposite way, to do the unexpected.

I wanted to put them in the most difficult of situations and standoffs in order to see how they would get out of it in a way that honestly showed their relationship for what it is, that spoke to the inherent truth of their love. So I rewrote the scene to reflect this change, almost on the spot, and, after I did, I started to wonder how the heck we were going to pull this off.

Sara Michelle Fetters: You chose to have faith in your actors.

Mike Cahill: Yes. Exactly. It’s all Michael and Brit. They’re just brilliant. [They] brought so much humanity to the scene.

They’re so intimate. So human. You see that their bond is incredibly deep, stronger than the soap opera, petty vulnerabilities and insecurities that can’t help but exist. They value their partnership. They value their love. Most of all, they value the truth behind their relationship, and about who they are as both a team and as a couple, so Michael can make the declaration that he does. Not without fear, there’s always fear, but steady in the knowledge his honesty will strengthen their mutual bond. Both actors are so good in the scene in my opinion. They transcend the moment. They truly do.

Sara Michelle Fetters: The relationship between Michael and Brit makes a great counterpoint to the one between Michael and Astrid. The latter is so picturesque, so angelic, in its way, almost French New Wave, if you will, while the former feels extremely grounded, concrete, devoid of the flighty ephemeral effervescence, yet in a way that’s equally touching.

Mike Cahill: The heart of the movie is really about these two very different types of love. Take away the science. Take away the tragedy. Take away the fantastical sci-fi elements. What you are left with are these two incredible romances, both of which couldn’t be more different from the other, yet each is equally heartfelt and important. One of them ends without closure. The other, totally different in texture, tenor and feeling, yet just as deep and potentially long-lasting, still lives in the shadow of the one that came before, and I think that is something anyone who has ever been in their fair share of impor-

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tant relationships can hopefully relate to. In science fiction, the idea is that you can strip away the sci-fi elements and still have a story, still have a movie, because you’re just using those fantastic elements to get closer to human elements anyway.

Sara Michelle Fetters: How hard is it to figure out how much you want to tell the audience and how much you want to leave to them to figure out for themselves?

You do have a tendency to put the audience to work, I think, which to my mind isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Mike Cahill: I do have a tendency to put the audience to work. That is very true. But, I really respect the audience. I think they can handle it. When I was at Georgetown [University] I saw three movies in one week: Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape, Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red. That week changed the trajectory of my life. All of the sudden I was like, cinema, wow, this is incredible.

I honestly don’t think I knew what cinema was until that week. Didn’t fully understand that it was an art form. It transmits an emotion that cannot be transmitted in any other form. I mean, if you think about Red, there’s a moment where Irène Jacob’s image is frozen on the screen in the same compositional as the advertising billboard that existed earlier in the film. It’s like this metaphysical, metaphorical moment that unlocks these secrets and adds so much meaning, but it’s up to the audience to figure all of that out without Kieslowski spelling out the answers. Even talking about it now I get chills. It’s this feeling you have when you experience it, a feeling you’ll likely keep feeling far into the future.

Now, that feeling, that feeling is owned by me as an audience member. It’s mine. Hopefully, that’s the same sort of feeling, or some facsimile of it, that audience members will experience when they watch Another Earth or they watch I Origins. But, I mean, I’ve only made two movies. I’m still working at this. But that’s the experience that I’m after.

I want to let the audience own their experience watching my film. Sure. Yes they have to work for it, but that work can hopefully lead to a great pleasure they’ll take with them long after my story has ended.

Sara Michelle Fetters: I love that you brought up Kieslowski because I was going to say that, in a way, you’re two-thirds of the way through your own sort of metaphorical trilogy along the lines of Blue, White and Red, both Another Earth and I Origins not only sharing some similar thematic musings but also a leading lady, Brit Marling.

Mike Cahill: You’re right! I guess now she and I have to make a third movie. I wonder what it should be? I’ll have to think on that.

Honestly, I think for the rest of my life I’ll still be scratching at all these metaphorical questions more than likely. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to work with Brit for the rest of my

(l to r) Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Michael Pitt, Mike Cahill, Steven Yuen and Brit Marling at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival

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