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Seattle Gay News

Issue 9, Volume 48, February 28, 2020

Arts & Entertainment

Three Dollar Bill Cinema Artistic dilemma – at a crossroads When no stories and needs our help have been told, who tells some?

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An Open Letter to the Community: We are reaching out to you today to inform you of some important updates regarding Three Dollar Bill Cinema. We are asking sincerely that you read to the end, as we need your attention and support.

There has been a lot of change during the last few years at TDBC: We moved

offices for budgetary reasons; we changed the festival name from SLGFF [Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival] to Twist to SQFF [Seattle Queer Film Festival]; and core staff members have left to pursue other projects. Many of you are pitching in to help us re-group because you love Three

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“20/20 Vision”

CoCA’s Annual Members’ Show to present over 128 artists in their annual exhibit

Artwork: Forgotten by Marissa Sohn

From March 5 through April 25, The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) (114 3rd Ave S) will feature over 115 members’ artworks in “20/20 Vision” with over 125 artists part of the exhibit’s digital slideshow and represented in the annual printed catalog. CoCA has been an artistic staple in Seattle since 1981 and continues its tradition of the annual members’ show to highlight the essential role of the arts as it contributes to a global conversation

Staged reading of XY at Village Theatre’s “2019 Festival of New Musicals”

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer We’re awash, these days, in commentaries about cultural appropriation and who gets to tell stories about marginalized populations. The book American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, sparked controversy

when it was revealed that Cummins is not of Latinx heritage, though her book “tells the story of a Mexican mother whose husband is murdered by cartels and who flees to America with her son, “says an article in Daily Beast.

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Charlie Parker’s Yardbird: Fabulous music, flimsy drama

Frederick Ballentine in Seattle Opera’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird – Photo by Philip Newton

and part of a five-year strategic statement to amplify the voices of underrepresented artists and communities.

“20/20 Vision” explores a wide range of creatives and celebrates artists of all ages and from a wide range of media. This annual show celebrates the true depths of creativity and is a unique opportunity for diverse members from across North America to network and exhibit their work as a community.

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by Alice Bloch SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE OPERA CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD

BY DANIEL SCHNYDER LIBRETTO BY BRIDGETTE A. WIMBERLY MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL February 22 & 23 (running through March 7)

Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, by composer Daniel Schnyder and librettist Bridgette A. Wimberly, is almost certainly the first opera ever written about a jazz musician. It was commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and has traveled to eight other American opera companies since its Philadelphia premiere in 2015. That also makes it unusual, for very few new operas are ever performed after their premiere.

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Celebrating 46 Years!

March brings fresh theater – even if it showers

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer At least five world premieres are opening this month. That’s an impressive number! Look for puppetry and programming for the youngest audience member to the oldest. Find a company you’ve never been to before and take a chance on their work!

Broaden your artistic horizon. Get outcher calendars!

Last Days of the Tsars, Witness, 3/13/22 (at Stimson-Green Mansion) (world premiere) A fully immersive experience, Last Days of the Tsars will plunge the audience into Imperial Russia circa 1917. Surrounded by figures such as Tsar Nicholas II, Princess Anastasia, and Grigori Rasputin, audience members will be free to roam throughout Stimson-Green Mansion and follow whichever characters they please.

Watch the unraveling of the Romanov household from an intimate vantage point, and explore the dark and mystical final days of the Russian Empire. www.witnessimmersive.com The Highest Tide, Harlequin Productions, 3/1-21 The beach talks to Miles O’Malley.

Obsessed with all things aquatic, 13-yearold, stature-challenged Miles loves combing the tidal beaches near his Puget Sound home in the middle of the night. When one of his discoveries lands him unexpectedly in the news, he is launched into involuntary celebrity, shaking his world in a way that is only topped by the Nisqually earthquake. www.harlequinproductions.org

Witness Immersive’s The Last of the Tsars – Photo by Joe Iano

Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter, Village Theatre, Issaquah: 3/12-4/29, Everett: 4/24-5/17 (world premiere) Gretl – yes, that Gretl – is now a single mom living in modern day Chicago, still suffering from the trauma of her fairytale childhood. Her exceedingly modern kids are fed up with stuffing their pockets full

Washington Ensemble Theatre’s Ugly (Black Queer Zoo) Photo by Kate Enman and Maria Baranova

Ugly (Black Queer Zoo), Washington Ensemble Theatre, 3/5-16 GUSH is WET’s series that presents contemporary theatrical works from artists outside of Seattle, curated by the Ensemble.

Written, directed, and performed by the internationally recognized choreographer Raja Feather Kelly, this event is part dance theater and part pop culture collage about black queer subjectivity in the mainstream and how to dismantle social erasure. www.washingtonensemble.org Funny Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling, Thistle Theatre, 3/7-22 (various locations) Based on a Japanese story, a funny woman jumps after a rice dumpling that bounced down into a crack in the earth.

She drops into another world made of Origami (folded paper). Following the road, she meets three statues of Jizo, who each warn her of danger. Unfortunately, an Oni (horned ogre) finds her and takes her to cook rice for them. The funny woman uses humor and her wile to adapt to changing situations. The show features puppetry and the arts of Japan and transformations of scale. (ages 3+) www.thistletheatre.org

Sister Act at The 5th Avenue Theatre – Photo by Mark Kitaoka

of pebbles, and dream of the impossible: a normal childhood. But when long-lost Uncle Hansel shows up at their doorstep, they are plunged into an unexpected adventure that brings the family together. This smart and sassy new musical is a riotous tumble of past and present that will leave you grinning from ear to ear. www.villagetheatre.org Saint Joan, ArtsWest, 3/12-4/5 George Bernard Shaw’s play about Joan of Arc from the siege of Orleans, through her trial and recantation, and culminating with the tragedy that transformed her into a legend. Shining a fierce light, Shaw shows the limits of an individual in a society dominated by political and religious forces.

A new, stripped-back staging by director Mathew Wright. www.artswest.org Europe, Thalia’s Umbrella, 3/12-4/4 (at 12th Avenue Arts) The best play about BREXIT was written in Scotland in 1994. (It’s also about a few other places.) In a time when words and ideas are divisive, David Greig writes a powerful play about two refugees who change a small town. The town is already

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reeling from layoffs at the local factory, and the fact that all the trains that link to Europe no longer stop in the town’s station.

Everyone in town, old and new, must decide where home is and what they will do to find, make, or keep it. www.thaliasumbrella.org

Sister Act, 5th Avenue Theatre, 3/13-4/5 (opens 3/20) Lisa Estridge stars in the feel-good musical comedy movie-turned-musical. Set in the 1970s in Philadelphia, when disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be a found: a convent! Using her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community. The show was nominated for five Tony Awards® including Best Musical. www.5thavenue.org

(Contains nudity, violence, and sexual assault) www.machatheatreworks.com The Fantasticks, SecondStory Repertory, 3/13-4/5 This classic musical is a funny and romantic story about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow them into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo’s words that, “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.” www.secondstoryrep.org Troilus and Cressida, Seattle Shakespeare Company, 3/17-4/12 It all began when Helen of Troy was fiercely abducted, and now for seven long years the Greeks and Trojans have been at war. Warriors cynically debate over the fate of their nations with little resolution.

Ensnared in the madness are the young Greek prince, Troilus, and a Trojan traitor’s daughter, Cressida. Their love is tested and exposed to the savage and corrupting influence of wartime politics. www.seattleshakespeare.org Babette’s Feast, Taproot Theatre, 3/18-4/25 Crossing thousands of miles in search of asylum, Babette finds safety across the fjords in a tiny mountain village. But petty squabbles and personal slights render the pious villagers as frigid and unforgiving as their surroundings. In one radical act of generosity, Babette prepares a feast so lavish it awakens grace to transform brittle hearts. www.taproottheatre.org

The Fifth Wave, Macha Theatre Works, 3/13-29 (at West of Lenin) (world premiere) Following a vicious attack, a young woman, Maxx, emerges as a feminist icon and changemaker for her generation. Decades of relative peace and calm follow for Maxx as she turns her focus to family and her career as a highly regarded professor. When a young man is accused of an assault on campus and finds an ally in Maxx’s daughter, her world begins to unravel. Maxx must confront the demons of her past even as she tries to protect her present life. How do we claim justice without letting our rage destroy all that we love?

Pipeline, Seattle Public Theater, 3/194/12 Dominque Morisseau’s play about Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, who is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? www.seattlepublictheater.org

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Grupo Corpo delights full house at UW’s World Dance series

Grupo Corpo’s “Bach” – Photo by José Luiz Pederneiras

by Sharon Cumberland SGN A&E Writer UW WORLD DANCE GRUPO CORPO MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS February 21 (also 2/22 & 2/23) The Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo returned to Meany Hall this last week – to the delight of a full house of dance lovers, many who were lucky enough to have seen them in UW’s World Dance series in 2011, 2014, and 2016. Once you’ve seen them, you won’t want to miss them again.

Grupo Corpo (translated as “Body Group”) is known for it’s combined aesthetic of traditional ballet with Brazilian popular dance. They are firmly grounded in samba – that fabulous national dance in which the upper torso is straight while the booty from the waist down moves in about sixteen different directions at once. If you can picture this happening with “samba arms” – the straight-out, elevated arms at shoulder length that bend in time with the weight-bearing leg – back and forth at terrific speed – you can imagine the strength and energy it takes for the basic moves, not to mention the variations that choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras invents to turn this sexy, energetic dance into choreography as intricate and serious as works by the best choreographers of modern times.

Grupo Corpo’s vocabulary of movement, while anchored in Brazilian dance, is also replete with lifts, leaps, and dizzying pirouettes, embedded in patterns of straight-leg kicks with flexed feet, backand-forth patterns of weight-shifting, as well as daring, strength-based partnering.

The male dancers are really big, muscular guys, while the women are distinctly smaller – though every bit as powerful – which enables a kind of partnering you never see in traditional ballet. Pederneiras is also given to a profile aesthetic, in which dancers rarely face the audience. It’s a good technique for this style of dance that features movement you want to see in all

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directions, not only from the front.

In two acts Grupo Corpo presented the audience with an early classic, “Bach” and a new work, “Gira.” Both are brilliant in entirely different ways, and demonstrate the range of this marvelous company.

“Bach” (1996) Choreography: Rodrigo Pederneiras Music: Marco Antônio Guimarães (based on the music of J.S. Bach) J.S. Bach’s sacred music is so familiar – even if you don’t know who composed it – that it can be electronically distorted without losing its impact. This wonderful dance unfolds to a kind of rubberized version of Bach’s great “Passion Chorale,” with tunes that church and concertgoers would recognize as “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring,” “O Sacred Head Sore Wounded,” and “Jesu Meine Freude.”

The dance opens in the dark, with four backlights low on the stage creating a mysterious, ghostly aura for the dancers, whose rapid footwork make a percussive accompaniment to the slow, solo voice singing Jesu meine freude (Jesus, my joy). Thus from the very beginning we have a sense of intense energy, mystery, and essential joyfulness, even though the dance is almost entirely in the dark. After that sequence, however, the lights come up to reveal an array of pipes hanging from the rafters, just out of reach from the floor, suggesting pipe organs. A man is clinging to one of the pipes, as if in a forest of music. This device comes back several times during the dance, as individuals and whole groups are lifted into the pipes and slide down them again, falling and rising from earth into that symbol of Heaven that Bach used so powerfully to create his music.

Pederneiras uses his athletic dancers in ways both exciting and astonishing. When dancing in side-by-side unison like twins or triplets – or even an army – the precision of their footwork and body gestures is magnified by the surprise of Brazilian movement in all parts of the torso, arms, and feet. The moves are speedy, airborne, and dizzying.

Each dancer can make vertical leaps in the

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Grupo Corpo’s “Gira” – Photo by José Luiz Pederneiras

air as high as half their own height, change directions in the air with a flexed leg at a 120 degree angle, and then land for a nanosecond before making the next leap. First I think Yikes! Then Wow! But the amazing athletics of these dancers is entirely at the service of great choreography – not the point of the exercise, as we saw with less evolved power dancing by troupes like Pilobolus and Bandaloop. Pederneiras demonstrated a range of ideas as complex and differentiated as the human psyche. At one point each man slowly drags his partner onto the stage by one arm, as though hauling the weight of the world behind him, while each woman – inert, rigid, corpselike – seems to embody the world’s sorrows and limitations. As the dance progresses the men lift their partners into the organ pipes until they seem fully inhabited, like birds in the tree of paradise.

These kinds of transformations occur constantly, from one dance sequence to the next. It was completely absorbing, both as dance and as ideas.

Costumer Freusa Zechmeister is to be congratulated for the black knee-length unitards, worn by both female and male dancers, that were exchanged in the second half of the dance for the same pattern in glistening gold. It was as though your idea that the first group of dances were about the life and struggles on earth, were confirmed when all seventeen dancers burst onto the stage in celebratory gol – translated from this mortal coil into a joyful eternity.

I, for one, found this dance to be as joyfully complex as humanity can be at its creative best, both as offered by Bach, by his re-composer Marco Antônio Guimarães, and by the wonderfully inventive and spiritual Rodrigo Pederneiras.

“Gira” (2017) Choreography: Rodrigo Pederneiras Music: Metá Metá This dance is based on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda, still practiced widely in Brazil, and a source of national identity. The dancers wore the typical layered white skirts of the priests and initiates of that faith, with bare upper bodies

(I think the women wore transparent supports, but the effect was the same – to focus the eye on the swirling, fluttering skirts).

The dance vocabulary was entirely different from “Bach” – directed downward to the earth – and expressing relationships between and among individuals as a mode of worship. It was fascinating to watch and beautifully expressed in eleven percussive musical sequences.

The men’s dance were particularly intriguing. Both my dance buddy and I were put in mind of whirling dervish dances in the Sufi tradition – men in long white gowns twirling in ecstatic, rhythmic circles as a method of reaching a higher awareness of God. In Gira, the men twirl, bounce, and march as one, depicting at once a unity and a range of variations that come together in a demonstration of powerdance-worship.

All the dancers’ necks were painted red, as though wearing a red collar, so that their head movements were alternately vivid or retreating, based on their positions. The most striking, subtle aspect of the dance, for me, was that dancers never left the stage, but instead retreated to shrouded chairs lining the three walls of the stage.

As dancers retreated from the central stage, they sat down and pulled the black shroud around them and totally disappeared. When they reentered the stage, they unzipped the shroud and seemed to appear out of nowhere, exploding onto the stage as though created or born in that very moment.

The juxtaposition of “Bach” and “Gira” showed a range of dance practice and religious contemplation that spanned centuries and continents, but that thrilled and challenged the audience just the same. It was, for me, the finest display of Grupo Corpo’s special talents that I’ve seen to date. I love it when choreographers display ever-increasing invention, and when their particular array of choreographic gifts become more and more assured and complex. Pederneiras has always been assured, but in these two dances, he shows that his work is growing in the complexities that make dance lovers really, really happy.

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continued from cover I wanted to love this opera, and I did love important parts of it. Schnyder’s music is beautiful and interesting throughout. I attended both performances of opening weekend and enjoyed the music even more the second time – so I think this is an opera that grows on the listener. The complex score features overlapping textures and tricky harmonies and rhythms, and quotes liberally from works in both classical and jazz repertoires: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, Stravinsky’s Firebird, Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are,” Louis Armstrong’s version of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” echoes of George Gershwin and Kurt Weill, and of course, music

by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Under the direction of conductor Kelly Kuo, the small orchestra played brilliantly, with particularly memorable solos by flutist Demarre McGill, bassoonist Seth Krimsky, trumpeter David Gordon, trombonist David Lawrence Ritt, and pianist Davic McDade.

The vocal performances were all excellent. In the insanely demanding role of Charlie Parker, tenors Joshua Stewart and Frederick Ballentine were both superb; Ballentine’s gorgeous high notes made him my favorite of the two. Soprano Angela Brown’s rich voice and skilled acting brought the character of Addie Parker, Charlie’s mother, to life. As Parker’s three wives, sopranos Shelly Traverse and Jennifer Cross and mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams differentiated these characters from each other and blended their voices perfectly in the ensembles. Mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock was a commanding Nica, the baroness in whose hotel room Parker died at age 34. Baritone Jorell Williams did a great job as Parker’s friend and collaborator Dizzy Gillespie; the pair’s duet “Message to the People” is a delightful tribute to bebop and Black power.

Stage director Ron Daniels and his pro-

Joshua Steward and Jorell Williams in Seattle Opera’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird – Photo by Sunny Martini

duction team have been with this opera since its premiere. The simple set designed

by Riccardo Hernandez, with effective lighting by Scott Zielinski and sound design by Robertson Witmer, conveys the atmosphere of Parker’s club Birdland and of the morgue where Parker’s body lies unidentified through most of the opera.

Costumes designed by Emily Rebholz are lovely and appropriate.

So why didn’t I completely love the opera? Unfortunately, I found the first twothirds of it dramatically inert. The main character is already dead at the beginning.

While Parker’s ghost haunts Birdland and tries to fulfill his dream of writing a great orchestral piece, the women of his life keep wandering through and interrupting his work with memories of their time with him.

Now and then his drug-dealer is pushed through in a wheelchair. The scenes are episodic and don’t build on each other.

The drama finally comes to life when Parker suffers a breakdown after learning that his two-year-old daughter has died.

In an amazing, surrealistic scene, Parker is committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital, where he kicks drug addiction (temporarily, anyway) and sees visions.

His journey from the agony of heroin withdrawal to the ecstasy of spiritual release is portrayed by McGill on alto flute and dancer Mikhail Calliste, in a stunning solo choreographed by Donald Byrd.

From this scene on, the dramatic action is gripping and satisfying. Wimberly found the perfect ending for the opera, with Parker, alone on stage, singing the final

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continued from cover The article continues, “Despite the sky-high sales, the book has been dogged by claims of cultural appropriation for its representation of Latinos and the migrant experience. Author Jeanine Cummins is not Latina... Cummins, who is Irish-American, said she did hundreds of hours of research and interviews for the book but critics have said it simplifies and glosses over the reality of immigration.” (https://www.thedailybeast.com/myriam-gurba-author-whosparked-american-dirt-controversy-placedon-leave-amid-calif-teacher-abuse-probe) But what exactly is cultural appropriation?

A Huffington Post article states, “Cultural appropriation is defined as ‘the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.’ While this sounds simple enough, … the lines between something that’s obviously offensive (blackface) and something that might be considered as embracing another culture (exotic cuisine) can be blurry.” (https://www.huffingtonpost. com.au/2017/10/25/what-exactly-is-culturalappropriation-heres-what-you-need-toknow_a_23253460) Continuing the example of American Dirt, the author’s work to do these hundreds of hours of research definitely helped her understand and respect the culture of the migrants from Mexico so that she could write about them. People certainly disagree that she should have. Indeed, if the publisher were interested in books from migrants about their experiences contemporaneously, it might be possible to find them or to cultivate them. However, Cummins wrote a book, she shopped it around, and it was compelling enough to interest a publisher and gain all kinds of accolades, including from Oprah.

Theater has had its share of plays and musicals that butt up against this kind of issue. An argument has been made that the classic Gershwin operetta Porgy and Bess, clearly written by white men, is cultural appropriation. In this case, though, it was

Hunter Bird and Oliver Houser – Photo courtesy of Village Theatre

written in a time when Black theater artists were not getting their work – if there was work to find, or if producers would “allow” them to – on Broadway, and the Gershwins required the work to be done with an allBlack cast, which gave Black performers a solid creative foothold. (https://afriendlyletter.com/george-gershwin-rhapsodycultural-appropriation) During a time when prejudice was rigidly enforced with racist structures, it might be said that only a Gershwin musical could have explored the lives of these poor Black characters and found a receptive audience.

Could the fact that white men wrote it help open the way for changes to the greater society to be interested in and accept more stories from Black artists directly?

Seattle Repertory Theatre staged David Byrne’s “concept album”-turned-musical Here Lies Love in 2017. In it, Byrne and Fatboy Slim (two white men with no known Filipino background) wrote about Imelda Marcos and the Philippine society of her early years. I had a terrible response to the musical, feeling like they reduced Marcos, for all her complicated history, still today a powerful political force in that country, down to that she was pretty, liked shoes, and had a drug problem!

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Yes, there were terrific Filipino-American performers in the production. But the story, to me, was a racist and problematic representation of that history. This would be one musical I would condemn, rather than support the idea that it educates audiences about the Philippines. (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Lies_Love) Village Theatre had such a dilemma in front of it during last summer’s Festival of New Musicals with its first presentation of the musical XY. The musical is about an adult born with “intersex” characteristics, circa about 1990.

Historically, similar to most intersex babies, the musical has us understand that the main character had surgery soon after birth and they were raised as a female. The character struggles with feeling different and eventually realizes that he identifies as a male.

The author and his director/collaborator, Oliver Houser and Hunter Bird, are not intersex individuals. It became a “passion project” for them when they were informed about this community and they spent some years writing the musical and researching the issue. They contacted InterACT, an organization that advocates for intersex youth, in order to make sure they had all the correct information about this unique human state.

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stanza of the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar: I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, – When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings – I know why the caged bird sings!

The exquisite aria that Schnyder wrote for these words simply must be heard.

For more information and to buy tickets, go to seattleopera.org.

Village chose to move forward with this musical from the Festival into the Beta Series where they just recently wrapped up a “developmental production”. The musical was presented by actors who memorized the script and music, on a set with lights and sound and costuming. So, a reasonable question for them is “why” do this particular work?

Village has recently been working to increase the artistic efforts of marginalized populations and suggested that this was one such effort. In addition to also connecting with InterACT, Village committed to making sure that non-cisgendered folks were part of the production in various capacities. They also hired a gender consultant to advise the production.

Writing a musical is hard work, often taking years to develop, and uses specific artistic skills such as writing music, understanding how to write lyrics and to what effect on the story, and writing the story and dialogue. Not everyone can write a musical!

The population of intersex individuals is very tiny, percentage-wise. Who knows if any of that group of people also writes musicals? The artistic impulse came from a man writing about an area that is not directly his story to tell. Still, he wrote a musical about it, he submitted it places, and gained acknowledgment of the quality of his work. It’s an intriguing and educational subject matter.

Audiences and the intersex community itself may benefit from being exposed through this musical to the subject area.

A lot of opinions spasm through our society these days in very instant and polarizing ways. So American Dirt is now to be boycotted – or not. There is little nuance and very little contemplation. This piece of writing about artistic cultural appropriation is an attempt at broaching the subject to discuss and explore, rather than to feed the polemics. OK? Let’s discuss…

Discuss your opinions with SGNCritic@ gmail.com. More articles can be found at MiryamsTheaterMusings.blogspot.com.

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The Best Summer Ever!, Seattle Children’s Theatre, 3/19-4/19 Playwright and storyteller Kevin Kling writes and performs, alongside a lively musician. In this charming tale, the audience is immersed in childhood summers at their purest. For nine-year-old Maurice Abernathy Anderson, a significant loss and one little lie means his summer just got more complicated. Featuring rousing sing-alongs, The Best Summer Ever! joyfully explores the way in which childhood is measured by sights, sounds, feelings, and love. (ages 8+) www.sct.org Sweat, ACT Theatre, 3/20-4/12 Lynn Nottage’s play, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives

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Dollar Bill Cinema as much as we do and want to see it continue. And, so do we!

The reality is that Three Dollar Bill Cinema is at a crossroads. We need to see that you, the community, support us. And, as we look towards the future of the organization, we need to hear from you about what you want to see from us.

Some people may ask, “Well, why is the organization relevant anymore when there is so much queer content to watch on TV and streaming services?” We’d like to discuss why we believe we matter more than ever.

Let’s think about this: Friendship, Chosen Family, Community, Support for LGBTQ+ filmmakers, and Visibility, especially for independent films that represent diverse communities. NONE of this happens when sitting alone in a room watching Netflix (even though it can be relaxing and fun). But going to the cinema to be transported to other worlds or to the realities of this world through documentary with likeminded people can be TRANSFORMING. None of us are safe from our rights being taken away by changing political climates, and it is absolutely necessary that we are vigilant about LGBTQ+ voices

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sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor in Reading, PA. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a fight to stay afloat. www.acttheatre.org Raisins in a Glass of Milk, ACT Theatre, 3/20-23 This will be a new play in the Raisins series based on 20-30 interviews with artists of color answering the question: “What does it mean to be an artist of color and how does white supremacy affect the way you make art?” ht t ps://a ct t he at r e.org /a ct lab/r a isins2020/ Changer and the Star People: Origin Myths of the Coast Salish and Dakota, Sound Theatre Company and Snag Productions, 3/26-4/13 (at Taproot Theatre) (world premiere)

being supported on all levels. Seattle needs a media arts organization run by and for LGBTQ+ artists, filmmakers, educators, activists, youth, and volunteers, and supported by the larger LGBTQ+ community and our allies.

Currently we are moving forward by building the TDBC board capacity (also open to new members) and planning our 25th Anniversary Fundraising Gala: Dinner and Auction on April 4 at SODO Park (3200 1st Ave S).

Our goal is to raise $175,000 by April 4, 2020. We want to sincerely thank the people who have bought tickets or sponsored a table to the auction as we are now $11,000 towards our goal. We are looking for your participation in this fundraiser in whatever capacity you are able to give.

Purchase a table for you and your coworkers and friends. Buy a ticket and attend the event. Donate an item or a service. Sponsor the auction. Make a donation to Three Dollar Bill Cinema if you can’t make the event. Volunteer. Spread the word through your networks and social media.

Your participation will ensure that TDBC is able to continue to organize the following landmark events this year and for many years to come: 15th Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival – May 7-10, 2020 (one of

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From emerging to established, the list of contemporary artists to show in CoCA’s Pioneer Square gallery is comprehensive.

The breadth of talent from across the US is great with art represented from New York, NY; Portland and Bandon, OR; Langley and North Vancouver, BC; Billings, MT. Members from across Washington state join together from cities to include Ilwaco, Chellan, Tacoma, Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Bellingham, Kenmore, Mercer Island, Kirkland, Sammamish, Lark Forest Park, Normandy Park, Olympia, Port Hadlock, Renton, Redmond, SeaTac, Shoreline, Snohomish, Bothell, Port Townsend, Port Ludlow, Yakima, Twisp, Vashon, Anacortes, Medina, Wenatchee, Waldren, Auburn, Richland and, of course, Seattle.

CoCA supports artists not only through their exhibitions, but also through meaningful local partnerships. The show was juried by artist and former CoCA Executive and Artistic Director Nichole DeMent.

She has served as the Executive and Artistic Director of CoCA for the past eight

What if we could imagine a future in which citizens of Native American Tribes reclaim power and spark a cultural revolution? Fern Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Roger Fernandes’ (Lower Elwha Klallam) share their respective Coast Salish and Dakota origin stories, by envisioning a Tribally Sovereign future through myth, multi-media, storytelling, puppetry, music, and dance. www.soundtheatrecompany.org When a Tree Falls, Trial and Error Productions and Ten Auras, 3/26-4/11 (at 18th & Union) (world premiere) 1991 Mill Falls, a fictional Washington logging town on the Olympic Peninsula.

The remote town is facing an economic decline in part because of recent legislation that restricts logging in Old Growth forests to protect the threatened Spotted Owl. The story revolves around African American twins, Rocky and Brianna, adopted by a white couple and raised in this fading

only a few transgender film festivals in the world) Seattle Outdoor Cinema (Queer summer film series – free and open to all!)

Reel Queer Youth – August 3-7, 2020 (video production and media literacy training for LGBTQ+ youth and allies ages 13-20) 25th Seattle Queer Film Festival – October 15-25, 2020 (bringing us diverse queer stories from around the world and inspiring members of our community to express themselves and share their visions through film and media art).

Over the past six years at TDBC, we have seen many positive changes: new audiences, younger people getting involved, excitement around our programs, and still loyal and wonderful supporters and members that realize the importance of being part of this community.

We want to make it beyond our 50th year!! The staff and Board of Three Dollar Bill Cinema are working very hard to be fiscally responsible, apply for grants, appeal to foundations, address issues of inclusion and diversity, and build a sustainable future.

When we imagine a world where we let longstanding community organizations like TDBC simply fade away, it fills us with a sense of loss. Where will we go to watch

years. This exhibition provides an extra special opportunity for CoCA artist members to receive recognition by the juror in this year’s catalog, as well as CoCA’s blog and newsletter. This year there will be two winners of the Artist & Craftsman Supply People’s Choice Award with each receiving a $100 gift card to Artist & Craftsman Supply. CoCA is thrilled to provide a direct link to such valuable resources for artists in the region.

Opening Reception is Thursday, March 5, 6-9pm, as a part of the Pioneer Square Art Walk. April Evening Hours for Pioneer Square Art Walk, Thursday, April 2, will be 6-9pm. Closing Reception and Announcement of People’s Choice Awards will be Saturday, April 25, 4-6pm. More info: www.cocaseattle.org/exhibitions/2020member-show “20/20 Vision” is made possible with support from Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, Artist & Craftsman Supply, Rock’s Studio, 4Culture, Elysian Brewing Company and CoCA Publishing Committee.

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town. But the family faces its own threats – mountains of bills, a looming eviction and a mother in denial. In this clear-eyed drama about unforgiving consequences, local playwright Amontaine Aurore invites us to look carefully at even our forced choices. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/4513633 3rd Annual “Intersections Festival”, at Theatre Off Jackson, 3/26-29 Intersections showcases performers in improv, sketch, stand-up, burlesque, storytelling, music, theatre, dance; focusing on equity in terms of race, gender, LGBTQIA+, and disability. Pay-what-youwill ticket option, ASL interpretation upon request, and the location is ADA accessible. Last year’s festival had 450+ audience members, experiencing 60 performers, over the span of four days. www.intersectionsfestival.com

the documentaries, features, and shorts that may not get widespread theatrical release or make it onto Netflix? Where will we go to find our community that also loves cinema, promotes visibility, and shares our points of view? Where will we go to flirt?!

This year’s 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Auction is critical to our future as a key arts organization in Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community. Please take a moment to consider supporting this very important (and very fun!) Three Dollar Bill Cinema Dinner and Auction at SODO Park (3200 1st Ave S), a new venue, with new Board members we’d like you to meet. (https://threedollarbillcinema.org) If you are unable to attend, please consider making a financial contribution or donating an item or service to our auction. (https://threedollarbillcinema.org) Thank you so much for your support and consideration, Kathleen Mullen Interim Executive Director Clay Warner TDBC Board President Courtesy of Three Dollar Bill Cinema

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Thoughtfully sincere Olympic Dreams goes for the gold

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer OLYMPIC DREAMS Opens February 28 The first narrative feature to be allowed to shoot inside the Olympic Athletes Village, Olympic Dreams is a strong, emotionally-pure indie drama that took my breath away. Working from an idea conceived by director (and cinematographer, sound technician and even costume designer) Jeremy Teicher and actress Alexi Pappas (herself an Olympic athlete, competing in the 10,000 meters at the 2016 Rio Olympics), and with a free-flowing, mostly improvised script credited to Teicher, Pappas and costar Nick Kroll, the level of human insight that is on display is nothing less than extraordinary. Putting it more bluntly, I loved this movie.

Set during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, the story begins with American cross-country skier Penelope (Pappas) arriving to compete at the games. A bit of introvert, she’s noticeably nervous and is prone to calling her coach and leaving long, rambling messages. The young woman struggles to introduce herself to her fellow athletes while also trying to maintain her focus before she has to compete in her lone event.

At the same time Penelope is preparing for her race, volunteer dentist Ezra (Kroll) has also arrived in South Korea. He’s always dreamt of bringing his talents to an event like this but had never had the courage to apply up until now. But in doing so Ezra has put his current romantic relationship on life support, his fiancé calling off their wedding because she can’t understand

Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas in Olympic Dreams – Photo courtesy of IFC Films

why he wanted to trek halfway around the globe to offer up his dental services for free to a bunch of international athletes.

What follows is a character-driven relationship drama as Penelope and Ezra meet by chance, form something of a connection and then wander around the Athletes Village and other Olympic sites for a handful of days after her event has concluded. It also follows them individually as they interact with athletes from around the globe, she in the dormitories and common areas, he in

the confines of his dental exam room. But mostly the focus is on Penelope and Ezra and their blossoming relationship, the way they end up connecting and understanding one another’s various needs the foundation upon which the entire film is built upon.

This one hit me hard. There are some stark, almost brutal truths I was noticeably shaken by, the consistent honesty of the dialogue and character interactions all facets of the production I found amazing. There is a mid-movie moment where Penelope drops

Spirited Call of the Wild an animatedly agreeable adventure

Harrison Ford in The Call of the Wild – Photo courtesy of Disney

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE CALL OF THE WILD Now playing

I haven’t read Jack London’s seminal classic The Call of the Wild since middle school, so it’s safe to say my memory of it isn’t fresh. That said, other than a few obvious changes (most involving the gender and racial identity of some of the book’s

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more, shall we say “problematic,” characters), none of which are what I’d call subtle, and a rather kid-friendly POV, I can’t say that I feel there’s much to complain about

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a truth bomb on Ezra pertaining to hopes, dreams and goals that knocked me senseless, one not needing to be a world-class athlete to fully embrace the universality of her words.

The rest of the movie is also this refreshingly open and candid for pretty much the entirety of its brief 85-minute running time. The way in which Teicher, Pappas and Kroll allow things to happen so subtly and with such restraint is sublime. The flurry of crazy emotional convolutions affecting Penelope and Ezra makes the connection they share all the more genuine, and I loved that this core creative trio avoided both romantic comedy and inspirational sports story clichés for the entire film.

Can the picture sometimes feel like a static travelogue with two people wandering around a strange or unique environment not doing much of anything but being tourists? I guess for some it could come across that way, but I can’t say that was the case for me. I got a kick out of watching Pappas and Kroll interact with a large swath of actual PyeongChang athletes, volunteers and staff, some of the best moments when Ezra is chatting up clients sitting in his dental chair and where Penelope is learning about Skeleton while luxuriating in a high-tech massage chair next to a Jamaican athlete.

As great as all of that stuff might be, and it’s all rather wonderful (just wait for the lovely beguiling simplicity of a scene in a South Korean beauty salon with Pappas and USA snowboarder Jamie Anderson), it is the scenes of interior contemplation that left me speechless. We barely see Penelope compete as it is the aftermath of her event that matters the most. We get to see who she is in these moments of personal reflection. We see the things that drive her to keep trying to exceed. We see how doing your absolute best can still feel like failure even when you’ve achieved something few will even ponder as being possible let alone put forth the effort to do so themselves.

What’s fantastic is that a viewer doesn’t have to be a world-class athlete to understand or relate to all that Penelope or Ezra are going through. Their travails are universal, and each and every one of us has pondered in our own way many of the questions they are and have suffered through a litany of similar highs and lows. Their relationship is timeless, echoing sentiments and ideas that can be found in somewhat similar dramas as seemingly disparate as Brief Encounter, Before Sunrise and Once.

While I’m not placing Olympic Dreams on their pedestal (at least not yet), I do still think this is a gold medal-winning piece of meditative entertainment worth making the time to go and see.

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Brahms: The Boy II a lazily uninspired sequel

Christopher Convery in Brahms: The Boy II – Photo courtesy of STX Entertainment

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer BRAHMS: THE BOY II Now playing After a debilitating home invasion that has left mom Liza (Katie Holmes) emotionally scarred and her son Jude (Christopher Convery) suddenly mute, dad Sean (Owain Yeoman) thinks it might be a good idea for them to move out of the heart of London and into the country in order to psychologically heal. They find the perfect situation in a lovely guest house located on a secluded estate, the primary mansion currently under renovation for reasons that aren’t initially entirely clear.

While exploring the surrounding property, Jude finds a well-dressed porcelain doll buried in the woods. After Liza cleans it up, the youngster immediately bonds to the toy, naming him “Brahms.” But even though both parents can see how the doll is helping their son put the trauma of the home invasion behind him, they are also noticing some worrying signs that maybe

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as far as Michael Green’s (Logan) confident screenplay is concerned. I never felt as if there was anything other than a solid respect for the source material, the writer’s ruggedly old school presentation of the narrative’s core aspects working beautifully.

The question mark for most viewers will undoubtedly be how director Chris Sanders (The Croods) and his talented creative team chose to visually showcase the material.

While the film is populated with recognizable human actors, most notably superstar Harrison Ford as wearily grizzled Yukon prospector John Thornton, the majority of the animal characters, specifically massive four-legged main character Buck (memorably described in London’s book as a St. Bernard/Farm Collie hybrid), are a mixture of performance capture and digital animation. It’s an interesting combination and one that, to me at least, does not always work, the seams between what is animated and what is practical frequently showing.

But there is just as clearly something to be said positively about this approach.

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Jude is bonding a bit too much with his new friend. It soon becomes apparent that Brahms might not be the healthy reparative influence both Liza and Sean first assumed, the doll’s sordid history a symphony of madness that could leave their family in a state of tragic ruination if left unchecked.

I’m not going to lie and say I was a giant fan of director William Brent Bell’s 2016 horror yarn The Boy. What I will admit is that this minor box office success did a heck of a lot more with its relatively simple premise than I anticipated. It played rather nimbly with the conventions of the “cursed doll” subgenre, screenwriter Stacey Menear coming up with a loopily inventive third act twist that, while not entirely making a lick of sense, couldn’t help but make me smile like a deranged purveyor of the loopily chaotic as I watched events conclude.

Pity Bell and Menear didn’t bring that type of creative eccentricity to their sequel, Brahms: The Boy II. While not necessarily poorly made or badly acted, that still does not mean that this follow-up doesn’t make all of the tiredly mundane and boringly obvious narrative choices their original

somehow avoided. It also retcons the more memorable aspects of The Boy, undercutting the terror that was generated in that effort by coming up with an inane, decidedly more concrete supernatural explanation for all that happened during that film and is also taking place here.

This is a lazy sequel. Bell and Menear add aspects of demonic possession (or something close to it) and, instead of allowing Brahms to be a cleverly creepy decoy that might misdirect the audience away from the true terror lurking behind the curtain, waste little time solidifying the doll as the primary source of the blossoming evil. The film also revels in pointless jump scares that rarely (if ever) feel organic to what’s happening up on the screen, making them exasperatingly obnoxious instead of joltingly suspenseful. There’s no imagination, no ingenuity, everything building to a crushingly obvious denouement that had me rolling my eyes in disappointment.

What’s most frustrating is that the premise for this sequel does show promise.

Considering the home invasion that begins the story, I feel there were definitely ways

the filmmakers could have utilized Brahms to once again play with genre tropes and clichés but in a far different way than they did in their earlier film. They do a solid job showing how this near-death incident has psychologically wounded Liza and Jude, so it’s possible to envisage how the doll’s appearance could have led either one or even the both of them to start questioning their own sanity.

Granted, I can’t judge the sequel on what it isn’t or what I felt it maybe could have been, I can only comment on what it actually is, and on that front Brahms: The Boy II comes up massively short of being anything even moderately enjoyable. Its twists are preordained. Its tricks nonexistent. Its insistence on revealing its secrets so early on in the story perplexing. This makes watching the sequel exceedingly difficult, and by extension also makes the first film look like an all-time horror classic instead of the amusingly resourceful, if still somewhat forgettable throwaway I originally felt it was back in 2016.

Unlike say the photorealistic animation of last year’s The Lion King remake, the creatures in this motion picture can convey honest emotion and do so with haunting effectiveness. While there is narration, unlike other animal-centered adventures like The Incredible Journey there isn’t an overabundance of it. Additionally, unlike past adaptations of London’s story (like the Clark Gable classic from 1935 or the Charlton Heston version from 1972) things can remain centered on Buck in a way they frankly never have before.

I liked this about Sanders’ film. It was almost as if I were truly seeing this Yukon world through Buck’s eyes, that I was trotting across the frozen tundra or running alongside a pack of hungry wolves right there next to him. It brought to life Buck’s journey for me in manner I hadn’t anticipated, reminding me of what it was like to read of the dog’s adventures back in my youth and silently thrill at the possibility of what it could have been like to head out and forge a new path into the unknown back during the tail end of the 19th century.

Not that all of the news is positive.

Other than Thornton, who is sort of a consistent presence even if he and Buck don’t

officially join forces until about halfway through, the remainder of the human cast do not get the opportunity to make a similar impression. The closest to doing so are Omar Sy and Cara Gee as the owners of a postal delivery dogsled team who first teach Buck about leadership and responsibility, both actors making the most of their limited screen time. But the rest? They’re mostly hung out to dry, familiar faces like Bradley Whitford (as Buck’s original owner) and Karen Gillan (as a spoiled aristocratic prospector who along with her brother is exceedingly ill-prepared for life in the Yukon) gone so quickly from the story if one blinks they’ll likely miss the both of them.

Then there is Dan Stevens. He’s portraying the brother of Gillan’s character, Hal, and his is a problematic villainous performance that’s more cartoonish than the film’s digitally animated animals are.

While Stevens isn’t necessarily bad, it’s equally clear this character has been reengineered in such a manner to erase some of the more culturally and racially insensitive aspects of London’s book, most of which would not play particularly well (for justifiable reasons) here in 2020. As such, Hal

is a violently over-the-top oaf who grows quickly tiresome yet still must make several appearances, especially if the ending of film is to remain true to the source material. I kind of loathed having him around, and as impressions go this isn’t the one I imagine Stevens was trying to make.

Yet I still rather enjoyed this new The Call of the Wild. Ford is outstanding, veteran cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan) shoots the material with meticulously expansive attention to detail and composer John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World) contributes a suitably rousing score that augments the on-screen action nicely. Special mention must also be given to actor Terry Notary who was the motion capture reference for Buck, and much like he’s done in the past playing Kong in Kong: Skull Island and Rocket in all three of the recent Planet of the Apes adventures, he adds a layer of emotional authenticity that’s outstanding. Sanders’ film proved to be an outdoor adventure worth going on, and I can’t help but think my 10-year-old self would have seen this in the theatre a good half-dozen times if my parents would have permitted me to do so.

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community calendar

Meetings Events Activities

TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.

SGN phone: (206) 324-4297. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org.

INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

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

NOTE: 10-digit dialing has come to the Seattle area.

The (206) area code must now be used to dial local calls. Location of meetings/events is in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY - February 29

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

Living Positively Coffee Social. 10am-12 noon. Cupcake Royale, 1111 E Pike St. Every Saturday. Casual social get-together for the HIV community. (206) 9571600. Sponsored by LIfelong.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step/12-tradition-oriented fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope to overcome sex and love patterns of addiction. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org.

Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 140. Monthly potluck meets last Saturday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouthcenter.org.

(Also Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

SUNDAY - March 1

Ravenna United Methodist Church. 8:30am. “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school” - 9:45am Worship. 5751 33rd Ave NE. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. (206) 525-7988.

Center for Spiritual Living. 9am, 11am & 5:30pm services. 6318 Linden Ave N. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! (206) 527-8801; www.spiritualliving.org Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am Sunday Services.

200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” (206) 622-8475; www.seattleunity.org.

Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am Zazen Instruction, 9:30am Zazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. (206) 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.org Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 9:30am. Glacier Lanes, 9630 Evergreen Way, Everett. Every Sunday. Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards! Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com; www.gaysnohomish.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30am Worship, 11am Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org University Lutheran Church. 9:30am Worship, 10:30am Coffee Fellowship, 11am Adult Forum & Education Hour. 1604 NE 50th St. All are welcome. We choose love. (206) 525-7074. universitylutheranseattle.org University Unitarian Church. 9:30am & 11:15am Sunday Services. (Late June-Aug 9:30am only.) 6556 35th Ave NE. Awakening spirit, nurturing hope, inspiring action. Interweave is the official name for LGBTQ groups in the Unitarian-Universalist family as a common thread of identification. www.uuchurch.org.

Central Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

All are welcome. (206) 322-7500.

East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am Sunday Service.

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

Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. (206) 682-3620.

Plymouth Church United Church of Christ. 10am Worship. 1217 6th Ave. Love your (LGBTQ) neighbor as yourself. (206) 622-4865, plymouthchurchseattle.org Queen Anne United Methodist Church. 10am Worship. 1606 5th Ave W. (206) 282-4307.

Unity Church of Kent. 10am. 218 State Ave S, Kent.

A welcoming congregation open to people of all races, religions, creeds & lifestyles. Join us any Sunday for an

February 29 thru March 8 Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social & charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. (206) 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/ Rain City Soccer Club Kickabout. Sunday afternoon usually at 3pm. Location varies. Join us for Seattle’s mostly-weekly mostly-LGBTQ pickup soccer game. We play an organized, 2-hour scrimmage on nice fieldturf surface. Sometimes there is a brief training/practice session before we play. Usually there is a “one-beer” after the scrimmage. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org PFLAG/Whatcom County (Bellingham) Monthly Meeting. 5pm. Community Food Co-op Bakery, 405 E Holly St, Bellingham. Meets 1st Sunday each month.

Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses, & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. www.whatcompflag.org; PFLAG/Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724.

Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info (206) 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv Shame to Grace (SAA). 6-7:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Sunday. Sex Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191. (206) 322-2437. www. peerseattle.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday. Regular league bowling. Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com.

[EXCEPT no bowling June, July & August.]

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

MONDAY - March 2

inspirational message, joyful fellowship & a fresh spiritual outlook. (253) 854-9747.

University Congregational United Church of Christ.

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

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am Worship.

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

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am Worship.

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

A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. (206) 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Columbia City Church of Hope. 10:30am Worship.

3818 S Angeline St. We are a progressive faith community rooted in God’s grace and acceptance growing together toward justice, love and wholeness. (206) 722-5651. www.ColumbiaCityHope.org.

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

(206) 622-7278; firstchurchseattle.org Northminster Presbyterian Church. 10:30am Worship.

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

St. Clement’s Episcopal Church. 10:30am Worship.

1501 32nd Ave S. Great music. Dynamic preaching.

Holy communion. Encountering the transformative and unconditional love of God in Christ. Join us! www. stclementseattle.org St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. 10:30am Mass. 2702 Broadway E (north of E Roanoke St). A welcoming and affirming Christ-centered community. (206) 329-2960. www.stpartickseattle.org Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $6.50 + $3 shoe rental. (425) 785-4729.

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

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1987. welcometablecc.org Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. (206) 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am Worship. Chapel at University Temple United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. (206) 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

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

Contact Forrest Rode, (206) 920-6117, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. Find us under “Dharma Buddies” on Meetup.com or at DharmaBuddies.org. (Women are invited to contact our sister meditation group at www.

LotusSisters.org.)

St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am Worship.

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

“We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” (206) 783-6733; www.stpauluccseattle.com.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 11:15am (also 7:30am, 9am, 5pm). 15 W Roy St. We are an accepting, progressive, Anglo-Catholic parish, renewing its people for their Christian lives in today’s world through worship, spiritual formation, engagement in the arts, and acts of compassion. www.stpaulseattle.com Just for Today (NA). 12-1:15pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step Narcotics Anonymous group open to anyone in recovery.

(206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/ Weds/Fri: Evenings; Tues/Thurs: Mornings. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St.

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

SOBER On Meds. 1-2pm. Peer Seattle 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. (206) 3222437; www.peerseattle.org Strength Over Speed (SOS). 2-3:30pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave #100. Peer support for Gay and Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437, www. peerseattle.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday afternoon listing.)

Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm.

Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every Monday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897.

(Also meets Fridays.)

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

(206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Every Monday. www. washingtongenderalliance.com

TUESDAY - March 3

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

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

LGBTQ+ Group. 1:15-2:15pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. Every Tuesday. A group for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 & their allies. Sponsored by YouthCare.

(206) 622-5555.

Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County.

“We will be discussing issues concerning the local Gay community & value your opinion, voice, comments, suggestions & attendance. Come join us as we build community in Snohomish County.” David, (425) 339-5238.

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

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Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youth ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org No Man’s Land - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. (206) 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

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

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

Seattle SAA helpline (206) 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Men’s Discussion Group. 7:30-9pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Tuesday. Peer group for Gay & Bi men. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. A vibrant drop-in workshop for those of any spiritual belief. (206) 322-2437; www. peerseattle.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline (206) 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org

WEDNESDAY - March 4

Mature Friends Walk Around Greenlake. 11am. Meet up at 10:50am with a group of older men gathered at the north end of the parking lot that is next to the boathouse along the southwest side of Greenlake. Every Wednesday. Walk around Greenlake followed by lunch at a local restaurant. www.maturefriends.org New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Saturday listing at noon for details.)

True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley (206) 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org Living Positively. 5-7pm. Lifelong, 1016 E Pike St., 3rd Fl. Every Wednesday. Social and support group for the HIV community with various topics for discussion and conversation. (206) 957-1600 or www.lifelong.org.

Sponsored by Lifelong.

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

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

LotusSisters.org.

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park, 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Every Wednesday.

Meet at Black Sun sculpture across for museum. (See Saturday at 9am.)

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

Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

Every Wednesday. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www. ingersollcenter.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Mature Friends Pinochle Group. 7:30pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.or PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. PFLAG/Renton: 425-235-4139. PFLAG/ Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724. www.seattle-pflag.org.

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the nationwide organization of GLBT Roman Catholics.

“We celebrate our inherent dignity with pride in liturgy, mutual support, work for justice, & social activities.”

Gender-inclusive & relationship affirming liturgies & prayer services. All welcome. (206) 325-7314.

Ski Buddies Monthly Potluck. 6-8:30pm. [Check website for details.] Meets 1st or 2nd Sunday each month (Oct-Apr). Come & hear about all the great ski trips & Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & winter activities Ski Buddies has planned. Whether you Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, snow board, downhill, cross-country, or telemark, there anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring are trips & events for you. Bring a potluck dish to share. fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, Ski Buddies is a non-profit GLBT & GLBT-friendly club community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or which meets regularly thruout the fall & winter, offering our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ camaraderie & deeply discounted skiing adventures for gayfathersseattle all levels of skiers & snowboarders. www.skibuddies.org Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm. Peer COMMUNITY RESOURCES Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Thursday.

Ongoing support group open to Gay and Bisexual men. Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org [NOTE: Please for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. contact the facilitator prior to attending.] org, allyship@yahoo.com, (206) 279-8169.

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherTuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

Gay-Social-Club/ FRIDAY - March 6 Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane.

Ageless in Recovery (AA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, com/guide.html 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Friday. A drop-in BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for BiAA group for 55+. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org sexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

New Beginnings (SLAA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 binetseattle.org.

Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Meets daily. (See Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Saturday listing at noon for details.)

Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Road to Recovery (SLAA). 12-1:30pm. Peer Seattle, Cascade Rainbow Community Center (Mount Ver1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Every Friday. Ongoing non) - (360) 840-8499 and on Facebook.

12-step group for sex and love addicts. (206) 322-2437; Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) www.peerseattle.org 963-1994.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Channel Q 103.3 FM - LGBTQ+ Talk Radio Network Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages News and information, pop culture and music. radio.com 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday. COLAGE unites people with LGBTQ parents and (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thurs- caregivers into a network of peers and supports them days 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.) as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, LGBTQ & Allies 18+ Free Friday Night Drop-In Vol- self-confident, and just leaders in our collective comleyball. 6-7:45pm. Miller Community Center, 330 19th munities - www.colage.org Ave E. Every Friday. (206) 684-4753.

DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Fighting AIDS). (206) 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest.

Redhawk Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday org afternoon listing.)

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Strength Over Speed (SOS). 6-7:30pm. Peer Seattle, Clinic, (206) 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Peer support for Gay and Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour Bisexual men recovering from crystal meth addiction. crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal www.strengthoverspeed.org. (206) 322-2437; www. assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network peerseattle.org support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Game Night. 7pm-11pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, (206) 568-7777 Ave, Suite 100 Every Friday. Card games, board games (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) and fellowship. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lam- 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual bert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. (206) 322-2515, Unit, (206) 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025. In an emergency call 911. www.lamberthouse.org Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western Equal Rights Washington - (206) 324-2570; www. dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.rain- equalrightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org countrydance.org.

Destiny/Unity AA Meeting in Tacoma. 7:30-8:30pm. Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeakChrist Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma. Every ing.org Friday. LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting. (253) 474-8897. Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities (Also meets Mondays.) by providing health services, connecting people to reLGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8-9pm. sources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100, Room 3. Ev- Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous ery Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experi- info or to schedule an appointment, (206) 860-6969. ence, strength & hope in order to solve their common www.gaycity.org problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEchanged attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS GLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, 24-hour number (206) 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon. information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT org; (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org people across the country.

Generations Aging With Pride empowers elder LGSATURDAY - March 7 BTQ adults to live with pride and dignity by promoting, (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) connecting, and developing innovative programs and Seattle Prime Timers Coffee & Green Lake services that enhance belonging and support, eliminate Walkaround. 10:30am. The Urban Bakery, 7850 E discrimination, and honor the lives of older members of Greenlake Dr N (at Wallingford Ave N). Meets 1st Sat- our community - (206) 393-3400; info@gapseattle.org; urday each month. Baked goods, soups & sandwiches gapseattle.org and espresso bar. All are encouraged to walk around GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Netthe lake afterwards. Metro 45, transfer to 45 from 26 & work - (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org 62. www.seattleprimetimers.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - (206) Oliver Amatist Author Signing & Spoken Word 363-9188; www.thegsba.org Performance. 2pm. The Neverending Bookshop. 7530 HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of PubOlympic View Dr #105, Edmonds. FREE. All ages. Oliver lic Health, provides confidential/anonymous information Amatist is the author of two books: “Time Within a Leaf” about & testing for HIV/AIDS. (206) 205-7837. For a and his new book “Dead Flowers”. “Dead Flowers” is comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations based on a true story and follows the adventures of a see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call homeless and disabled teen drifting through Oregon Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979. and Washington as he recalls memories of a terminally Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & ill childhood friend. Based on a true story this narrative Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. poem depicts true stories in regards to homelessness, imperialcourtofseattle.com LGBTQ rights, the prison industrial complex, and mental health. He will be presenting four FREE events at The Lambert House - (206) 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.

Neverending Bookshop (Edmonds) 3/7 @ 2pm, Green org Lake Branch Library (Seattle) 3/14 @ 4pm, Cafe Zippy LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; (Everett) 3/19 @ 7pm, Phoenix Tea Shop (Burien) 4/3 Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free @ 7pm. of charge.

SUNDAY - March 8 LGBT MS Connection - (425) 785-8593; lgbtmsconnections@comcast.net. Support group for LGBT per(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Lotus Sisters Guided Meditation. 11am-1:30pm. Peer sons with MS and their partners and their caregivers.

Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Meets 2nd Sun- Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. day each month. Senior students lead the meditation, Lifelong AIDS Alliance - (206) 328-8979, www.lifelonprovide dharma talks or reflections & lead discussion. gaids alliance.org (206) 329-5908; www.LotusSisters.org. (Meets in 2nd Lion’s Main Art Collective - www.lionsmain.org floor meeting room; no elevator.)

MEN: Gay City: (206) 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Dignity/Seattle Prayer Service. 6pm. Ravenna United Knights of Mantra: (206) 329-0886, www.jetchapterMethodist Church, 5751 33rd Ave NE. Meets 2nd Sun- kofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & day each month. Dignity/Seattle is the local chapter of over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.

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

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

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

THURSDAY - March 5

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

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

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

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

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

Rainbow Lunch on Thursdays. 12 noon-12:45pm.

Wallingford Community Senior Center, Lower Level, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N. Meets most Thursdays, except holidays. WCSC welcomes and supports the gender, romantic, and sexual minorities (GRSM, or LGBTQQIAA+) community! Join us at Rainbow Lunch on Thursdays to celebrate this integral group.

Expanded van service is available on Thursdays thanks to volunteering by Bruce Terrey of Mature Friends. In proud partnership with GenPRIDE, Mature Friends, and Lake City Seniors LGBTQ2+Allies. $4 members; $6 general public. Drop-ins encouraged. (206) 461-7825; info@wallingfordseniors.org.

Safe and Sober (AA). 12-1pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100. Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

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

Rouge at Maximilien. 5-7pm. 81a Pike Place Market.

Live Parisian music during First Thursday Art Walk.

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

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

(425) 747-4937.

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

Northgate Barnes & Noble Cafe, Northgate Mall, 401 NE Northgate Way. Meets 1st Thursday each month.

Come on into the bookstore at the north end of the mall. All are welcome. Northgate is served by many bus routes including 26X, 40, 41, 67 & 75. www.seattleprimetimers.org 21st Century Bowling. 7pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Thursday. Regular league bowling.

Jeff, (206) 932-3731; leagues@wsbowl.com. [EXCEPT no bowling June, July, August.]

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. Peer Seattle, 1520 Bellevue Ave, Suite 100 Every Thursday. A meditation/ recovery group. (206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month. ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

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

February 28, 2020

Celebrating 46 Years!

nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians. net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.com; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples.org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www. seattle primetimers.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

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

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County - www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle Out & Proud Grays Harbor Coalition - http://outandproudgh.org PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: (206) 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: (206) 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: (206) 568-7777, qpnd@nwnetwork.org, www.nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality with chapters in Seattle, Bellevue/Eastside, the Puget Sound region and across Washington state. PFLAG Seattle: (206) 325-7724, info@pflagseattle.org, and www.pflagseattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: (425) 483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington State: www. pflagwsc.org.

Peer Seattle (formerly Seattle Area Support Groups) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences.

(206) 322-2437; www.peerseattle.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: AARTH (African American Reach & Teach Health Ministry), (206) 850-2070, www.aarth.org; Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, (206) 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, (206) 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, (206) 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, (206) 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), (206) 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; Northwest Two Spirit Society, https://www.facebook.com/ groups/nw2spiritsociety/, Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, (206) 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; QBASS - Queer Black Alliance of the South Sound, (253) 256-1846, weareqbass@gmail. com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, (206) 322-7061, (206) 255-8951; Somos Seattle, somosseattle.org; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle, www.utopiaseattlewa.org; VietQ Greater Seattle, vietqorganization@gmail.com Pierce County AIDS Foundation - (253) 383-2565; www.piercecountyaids.org Pride Foundation - (206) 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Pride Lives - www.facebook.com/PrideLives/ Pride Radio 93.3 HD2 Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. (206) 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - (206) 682-6711; www.q-law.org Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - (206) 235-7235.

Queer Geek! - queergeekseattle.org Rainbow Center - Resource Center for Tacoma/Pierce County LGBTIQA community. Through education, advocacy and celebration, the Rainbow Center expands resources, and safe space for the LGBTQIA community.

Sponsors Tacoma Pride Festival. (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

Call (206) 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or

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SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.voteseamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) i- SEE LISTING for Peer Seattle.

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

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

Seattle LGBTQ Commission - (206) 684-4503. www/ seattle.gov/lgbtq Seattle Out & Proud - (206) 322-9561; www.seattlepride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, (206) 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org Sex Workers Outreach Project - https://seattle. swopusa.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - (206) 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

(425) 339-5298.

South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.SouthSoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flag Football: www.cascadeflagfootball.org;

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

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org Three Dollar Bill Cinema - TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival; Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival; Outdoor Cinema at Cal Anderson Park. www. threedollarbillcinema.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.

SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity: www. genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: (206) 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: (206) 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; Li-

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on’s Main Art Collective: www.lionsmain.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/ Olympia-Trans-Discussion-Group/262449878114; [trans] ACTION: Trans* & Gender Non-Conforming Sex Workers’ Support Group - a safe, peer-led space. mail@utopiaseattle.org; TRANSform Washington: transformwashington.com; Trans Resource & Referral Guide: kctransguide.org; Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network: Funding the collective liberation of Trans women of color – https://m.facebook.com/ TWOCSolidarityNW/; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange (A.B.L.E.): We are Lesbians 60 years (generally) and up, living (mostly) in the north half of Seattle. The purpose of the group is to connect, socialize and support each other. ruthemilyvogel@gmail.com; Aging Lesbians in South Seattle (ALISS) - Lesbian Group at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center. This is a gathering primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Kate, (206) 722-0317; www.sessc.org; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. (206) 720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Coming Out Women Support Group of Tacoma: www. comingoutwomen.org; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Puget Sound Old Lesbian Organizing for Change: http:// psoloc.org, (253) 777-3357; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol. com; Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network: BiSeattle. wixsite.com/SBWN; Seattle Girls of Leather: www. sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; Tacoma Older LGBT: www. tacomaolderlgbt.org; Women of West Seattle (WOWS): a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks. org, (206) 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Coyote Central: www.coyotecentral.org; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. (206) 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www. globeyouth.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way, with additional support groups organized in smaller towns throughout King County, (206) 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: (206) 957-1665; www.llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace. com; The Mockingbird Society: (206) 323-KIDS (5437), www.mockingbirdsociety.org; New Horizons: social services and shelter for homeless youth, 2708 3rd Ave (in Belltown), (206) 374-0866, http://namin.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter. org; OKAY! LGBTQ+ Outreach for Kent Area Youth: (253) 859-0699 ext 3034. OKAY! is an open support group for youth ages 13-19 who identify as LGBTQ+. A program of Kent Youth & Family Services; OUT There Adventures: www.outthereadventures.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/ Puget Sound: (206) 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; 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; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., (206) 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; (206) 451-SAFE, (206) 451-7233 (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): (206) 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): (206) 524-7301 ext 111; www. streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: (206) 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, (206) 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; The Vera Project: fuels personal & community transformation through collaborative youthdriven engagement in music and art. (206) 956-8372; theveraproject.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, (509) 396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): (206) 522-8412; YouthCare/ Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. (206) 622-5555; Youth in Focus: (206) 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): (206) 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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