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Issue 28, Volume 45, July 14, 2017

Arts & Entertainment

Concert For America An important night of talent and causes

Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley host Concert for America – Photo courtesy of Jenny Anderson

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer CONCERT FOR AMERICA 5TH AVENUE THEATRE July 7

On Thursday July 7 the 5th Avenue Theatre was host to Concert For America.

The concert benefit is the brainchild of Sirius/XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, James Wesley. Mixing both

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Creatively intelligent Journey a fascinating piece of historical fantasy

If you love Jane Austen and musicals or maybe even just musicals, see what’s opening at Taproot!

Cayman Ilika, Nick DeSantis & Matthew Posner in Persuasion at Taproot Theatre – Photo by Erik Stuhaug.

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer PERSUASION (WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL)

TAPROOT THEATRE July 12 to August 19 Taproot Theatre is undertaking a brand

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Seattle Shakespeare Company’s FREE Wooden O Shakespeare in the Parks through August 6

Shakespeare in the Parks – Photo courtesy of Seattle Shakespeare Company

Journey – Photo courtesy of IMDB

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE JOURNEY Now playing During the 2006 peace talks between the Irish Republican Army and members of the British Government, staunch loyal-

ist and revered Protestant religious leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin representative Martin McGuinness ended up on the same plane heading back to Ireland. The pair had never spoken to one another until that flight. While what was saida remains an unknown, the assumption is that this brief conversation was the breakthrough that

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Summer is here and with summer comes free Shakespeare in the Parks!

Seattle Shakespeare Company’s free Wooden O productions for summer 2017 are Much Ado About Nothing and Pericles.

Both shows began performances on July 6 and will perform in park venues throughout the region through August 6. (See current performance schedule below.)

“Love and adventure is what we’ll have in the parks this summer,” said Artistic Di-

rector George Mount. “I’m happy to welcome back two fine directors to take us on the journey. I know that I’m really looking forward to some sun and Shakespeare this summer with friends.”

Jon Kretzu who staged Seattle Shakespeare Company recent indoor productions of Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost will direct Much Ado About Nothing. Annie Lareau, who directed As You Like It in the parks in 2015 will direct the company’s

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Celebrating 43 Years!

Tori Amos coming to Seattle in November, Melissa Etheridge to play Washington State Fair

Tori Amos – Credit: Decca Records

by Albert Rodriguez SGN Staff Writer There is nothing like seeing Tori Amos in concert. If you’re a fan and if you’ve seen her perform live before, then you know what I’m talking about. She’s like a strong storm that blows in and out of town, forceful and memorable and dramatic and unpredictable.

Amos, who interviewed with Seattle Gay News several years ago, has included an appearance in the Emerald City this fall, right around Thanksgiving, so don’t plan on going anywhere this year because she’s only in town for one night. The longtime LGBT ally is touring in support of her new album, Native Invader, which is scheduled for a September release (exact date TBA). Amos is set to play the Paramount Theatre on November 24 with tickets available now at www.Ticketmaster.com, in person at the Paramount box office, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Get tickets ASAP; I have a feeling this show is going to sell out.

Melissa Etheridge is returning to the Puget Sound, after a sold out concert just over a month ago at the Paramount Theatre. This time, she’s playing outdoors at the Washington State Fair, in Puyallup. The

Grammy and Academy Award winner will once again perform her “MEmphis Rock and Soul” show, a tribute to Stax Records with songs by Mavis Staples, Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas and more. Etheridge’s album by the same name was recorded at the historic landmark Royal Studios with a band comprised of preeminent figures from the Memphis scene, including veterans of some of the city’s most cherished recordings. It also features guitarist extraordinaire John Mayer.

Tickets for the show, priced between $28 and $48, are available for purchase now at www. thefair.com.

Jay Z is the man. What he does, no one else can. Regarded as a rap god, the multitalented artist is one of music’s all-time greats, who just released a new album a week ago called 4:44. The release of this record included a personal revelation from his own family, when his mother Gloria Carter came out as lesbian on the track “Smile.” Part of the song’s lyrics go like this: “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she’s a thespian.” Jay Z and wife Beyonce have been outspoken supporters of same-sex marriage and the LGBT community for years, and this might have something to do with it. “Smile” is likely to appear on

the hip hop icon’s set list when he embarks on the “4:44 Tour” this fall with a scheduled performance at Key Arena on December 13.

Tickets to see Jay Z in person are on sale now at www.LiveNation.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, or charge by phone at 1-800-7453000.

Jay Z – Credit: Business Insider

Speaking of coming out, Gavin Russom of the electro-punk group LCD Soundsystem came out publicly this week as a Transgender woman. “This is my fifth decade being alive,” she said in an interview with Grindr.

“And in each of those decades, there’s been a time where I’ve tried to say, ‘Hey, I think I’m transgender!’ My body rejected it in the same way that it now utterly rejects going into a men’s bathroom or when somebody calls me ‘sir’.” LCD Soundsystem recently headlined the Sasquatch Festival, replacing Frank Ocean who canceled weeks before the event.

Finally, rising hip hop star Taylor Bennett, brother of Chance the Rapper, shares his story on coming out bisexual earlier this year via social media. Read the in-depth interview at www.billboard.com.

Melissa Etheridge – Credit: Billboard

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Celebrating compromise: Nick Hamm on making The Journey a trip worth taking

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Nick Hamm’s The Journey is an intriguing flight of fancy. Inspired by a story involving Protestant religious leader Ian Paisley, a staunch British loyalist, and Sinn Féin representative Martin McGuinness, a highranking commander in the Irish Republican Army, the Killing Bono filmmaker was inspired to do something a bit unusual. As the story goes, during the 2006 peace talks in Scotland, the two men, who had never spoken a word to one another publicly, found themselves on the same flight back to Ireland. What was said, what they talked about, all of it was, still is, a closely guarded secret.

But it planted a seed that blossomed into a full-blown peace accord, the two men respectively becoming First Minister and deputy First Minister of Ireland in May of 2007.

Hamm, inspired by this story, couldn’t help but wonder what it might have been the two men spent their time talking about during this trip. “I thought that the relationship between these guys was so incredibly interesting,” the director mused. “I thought that, basically, this was one of the most interesting contemporary political relationships that I had ever come across. Here were two people who were severely opposed to each other on every level, and kind of hated each other with every fiber of their being, and yet managed to peel beyond that constituency and that base to other people and create a situation in Northern Ireland where they opened the door to peace.”

Having watched The Journey during this summer’s Seattle International Film

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Festival, I had the opportunity to briefly touch base with the filmmaker via phone a couple weeks after its local screening. We spoke at length about numerous aspects of the film’s creation, most notably on the essential themes Hamm wanted to emphasize. “The fact is that this relationship changed history and it made history,” he states. “It facilitated people to stop killing each other. That was the truth. That’s the truth of it. What I did is I fictionalized this one part of a relationship that took years to

come about. I think I fictionalized the essence of it, this relationship, because in the end I thought it was such an extraordinary testament to peace.”

Working with screenwriter Colin Bateman, Hamm moved the location of this meeting between Paisley and McGuinness to a car transporting the two to the airport being driven by a supposedly clueless chauffeur (portrayed by Freddie Highmore) clandestinely working for highly esteemed British negotiator Harry Patterson (John

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helped set the foundation for an agreement, Paisley and McGuinness going on to be named First Minister and deputy First Minister of Ireland in May of 2007.

Director Nick Hamm (Killing Bono) and writer Colin Bateman (Wild About Harry) play a fanciful game of what-if as it pertains to their drama The Journey, the pair imagining what potentially might have been said by Paisley (Timothy Spall) and McGuinness (Colm Meaney) during that 2006 trip. Moving the action off of the plane and into a car driven by a friendly chauffeur named Jack (Freddie Highmore), the movie plays out in something close to real time, this fictionalized take on their meeting a clever flight of fancy I thoroughly enjoyed.

Unsurprisingly, there’s not a lot in the way of plot. With Paisley wanting to return to Northern Ireland for his 50th wedding anniversary, McGuinness sees an opportunity to speak with his adversary alone, asking to hitch a ride under the assumption that if they travel together there will be no chance of an assassination attempt on either man. With British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s (Toby Stephens) blessing, veteran political operative and negotiator Harry Patterson (John Hurt) engineers things so that the car transporting the two will take the long way to the airport. He wants to give Paisley and McGuinness as much time alone as he can, hoping they’ll find some common ground which will allow the peace talks to move forward and lead to a resolution Protestant and Catholic alike will be satisfied with.

That’s pretty much it. McGuinness tries

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Colm Meaney as Martin McGuiness and Timothy Spall as Ian Paisley in The Journey – Photo courtesy of Holywood Reporter

to get Paisley to engage with him. Jack feigns ignorance as to who the two men are. Patterson monitors things as best he can remotely, trying to engineer little speed bumps in order to get the two men talking. And through it all, Paisley attempts to maintain an air of authoritative moral superiority as he measures the mettle of all involved, McGuinness in particular, trying to ascertain if this is a man he can work with no matter how great the differences between them might be.

There’s a lot of talking going on, and that’s entirely by design. But while most of it has a believable tone and patter, there are instances where things can feel more overtly theatrical than it’s likely either Hamm or Bateman intend. Additionally, unlike somewhat similar dramas ranging

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from Stephen Frears’ The Queen to Steven Knight’s Locke, there are instances where the script gets a little bludgeoning in regards to the points it is trying to get across and the themes it is attempting to address.

As to the plot dynamics concerning Jack, they’re both obvious and a little silly, and if not for Highmore’s giddy ability to be so gosh darn likable the character would likely have ended up being nothing short of ridiculous.

Thankfully, when the movie hits, it does so magnificently. This is a look at the Irish “Troubles” that frankly I’ve never seen before, the deft balancing act the majority of the drama manages to maintain consistently enthralling. What’s even nicer is that Hamm and Bateman manage to subvert expectation on multiple occasions, most

Hurt). Revered character actors Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney portray Paisley and McGuinness, the two seasoned veterans having a grand time verbally sparring back and forth as they bring these men to life.

Even so, by necessity the filmmakers had to blur the line between fact and fiction. “I tell you what,” explains Hamm.

“The actual plane ride was real. There were more people on the plane than just [them].

It was actually a private jet. They were flying them back to [Northern Ireland] for Paisley’s 50th wedding anniversary and there were two or three other people on that plane, a couple of government ministers. I saw video footage, because somebody had actually recorded 15 seconds of those two guys talking with each other because they realized it was actually a historic moment.

“What they both said in that situation?

There is no such thing as political absolute truth. That somehow gave us the license to dramatize what we thought would be a great story. In the end, it’s kind of a feelgood buddy movie. It’s like The Odd Couple in the back of a car.”

For this what-if scenario to work, it would take a pair of terrific actors to pull it off. Hamm found them in Spall and Meaney, and he never for a second failed to appreciate just how lucky he was to get them to play the parts of Paisley and McGuinness. “It’s really brilliant to watch amazing actors at the top of their game do something as powerful,” says the appreciative director. “I’ve watched it now in many different countries, with so many different

see NICK HAMM page 5 notably during a churchyard conversation where McGuinness bares his soul only to have Paisley not respond in the manner most conventional dramas would have boringly forced him to. This allows the film to resonate on a far more meaningful level than it ever would have achieved otherwise, putting the history these men have witnessed, influenced and survived into a complexly thought-provoking perspective that pulls very few punches.

Spall and Meaney are superb, each veteran character actor reveling in the opportunity Hamm has gifted them. The former is practically unrecognizable as the controversial religious and political leader, his bellicose rigidity concealing a psychological tactician who understands people more intimately than many realize. As for Meaney, he’s wonderful as well, and while he can’t quite shed his natural mannerisms or familiar cinematic persona, he still gives McGuinness a lived-in gravitas that seems to fit the IRA and Sinn Féin leader nicely.

I don’t know a lot of the true-life dynamics that went into this peace accord.

I’m slightly sure a case could be made that Hamm and Bateman minimize, if ever so slightly, all the hard work that went on by so many to see this conflict ended and a new Ireland born for all the world to see.

But Paisley and McGuinness did meet, and whatever was said between the two of them did help pave the way for the pair to govern in friendly tandem. The Journey does not claim to be historical fact, but that doesn’t make the creatively intelligent fiction it muses on any less fascinating.

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continued from page 4 audiences, and everybody responds to the power of those performances and what they ultimately deliver, which is an incredible amount of humor and a lot of emotion.”

Much of that humor and emotion is born from Bateman’s intelligently layered script.

Even though the idea for The Journey was his, Hamm knew it was vital that he let his screenwriter come up with the ins and outs of the actual story for himself. “Yeah, that is true,” responds the filmmaker. “I came up with the idea, but then as a director you can’t really legislate [the script]. It’s all about execution. It’s all about whether a writer can pull it off. If they can’t pull it off then it doesn’t matter how good the idea is, it just won’t work.

“What Colin did, I think, is compose something both intimate and public. He sort of managed to put two very public people in a private setting, and make them very, very human and very, very identifiable. As two politicians who reached beyond their base and reached beyond their own constituency, securing something that was pretty remarkable.”

But in telling that story, it was key that both the writer and director were on the same page thematically. It would have been very easy for the script to turn preachy, to beat the viewer over the head didactically with the themes and ideas Hamm and Bateman were hoping to address. This was a trap the director was determined to avoid.

“That’s actually the entire job of what we did in the editing room and the shooting of [the film],” says Hamm. “Each guy is kind of like a boxer in a boxing match, and they go round to round with each other. You watch a scene, you think McGuinness won this one or Paisley won that one. What you

need is to be able to cut away from the boxing match, so that the audience can breathe a little bit, and understand the context a little more and maybe follow a little bit of the peace story and see some of the great countryside, not just arbitrarily but in a cinematic way. You keep the movie going but when you cut back to them the audience wants to cut back to [Paisley and McGuinness]. They want to see them. They want to be part of those scenes.

“That’s the trick of it. If every time you cut back to the guys the audience is going, ‘Oh God, not again,’ you’d be in real trouble.

But because the reverse is true, they want to see what [Paisley and McGuinness] are doing. Also, there’s the time limit. We all know they’re going to the airport. So you know you’re not in the car forever. So you know you’re gonna throw all these different curveballs in there whereby the car gets a puncture and they end up walking through that churchyard. There’s a lot of stuff that happens to them to make the car journey longer.

But you still have to get to the airport. You have got to be plausible with that, because otherwise the audience won’t accept the fictional reality of what’s going on.”

Even with a few excursions outside, the bulk of the film does take place inside an automobile, the difficulties of shooting these conversations between the two men in a manner that would be consistently compelling not lost on the filmmaker. “I’m really, really, really good at shooting dialogue in cars,” he says with a laugh. “We sort of had a mobile studio. We took over a massive stretch of freeway and put the cameras in there with the actors. It was about rolling with the changes all the time, using the right shots and finding the best performance.”

As terrific as Spall and Meaney are inside the car, it is the moments when they step outside that hit home with the most emotional forcefulness, a key sequence in

a church graveyard in particular. McGuinness recollects on his life, the orders he’s given to his men and the violence those decisions have sometimes led to. It’s a heartfelt moment of honest recollection, but one that very easily could have lapsed into melodramatic treacle had Hamm and Bateman followed typical narrative convention.

“I’m so glad you point this scene out,” the director states proudly. “I think it’s probably my favorite scene in the movie.

We all think [Paisley] is gonna wrap his arms around McGuinness and tell him not to worry, that it will all be fine. That he agrees with his adversary. That this was a terrible thing. But Paisley doesn’t do that.

It’s his last attack on McGuinness, isn’t it?

He realizes that he’s maybe gone a little too far but it’s still a very clever scene because it’s the right scene. That’s completely what would happen. I think it’s a great surprise, that scene. And Spall just nails it.”

That’s not the only moment Spall is extraordinary, the veteran character actor having an even more explosive moment at a gas station after their driver’s credit card is turned down by a clueless attendant who has no idea who it is he’s refueling. “He kind of did become Paisley in that moment,” says Hamm. “It’s funny, trying to shoot that scene, because we were in the middle of the night at this small little gas station in the middle of nowhere and it was howling with rain. He couldn’t get it; he couldn’t get the speech. He felt it was way too tricky and we kept pausing filming and finally I told him to just go take ten minutes. Tim went off, sat down and listened to some of Paisley’s speeches. He just walked back in and sort of did it. He had found the tone for it. Even people in Northern Ireland, they kind of rock with laughter when this scene happens.”

As we chat about the actors, the conversation cannot help but turn towards the

late, great John Hurt, his appearance here as Harry Patterson, one of his last. “He was ill,” says Hamm matter-of-factly. “We knew he was very sick when he was shooting the movie. But John wanted to make the film; he wanted to say those words. I think he wanted to work up until the very last moment. There was a massive sense of denial with John, that he was actually as sick as he was. But everyone knew it, and he knew it, too. He couldn’t sustain many hours on set. He could only do a bit, and then we’d have to send him away so he could rest and then he’d come back again. But I’m so glad he is in the film, that he played this part.

His voice and his presence, I don’t know, it makes the movie eternal in some way.”

In the end, the story at the heart of The Journey is one Hamm feels audiences will respond to, this tale of reconciliation and forgiveness in the face of decades of mistrust and hatred one he feels has special resonance during this current tumultuous political climate. “The film is timely,” he states unequivocally, “and it is becoming more timely. The movie is a celebration of conciliation. It’s funny and it’s humane and it makes you have a very big emotional response to it. But, ultimately, it is a celebration of concession and a celebration of compromise.

“In a world where we practice intransigence at a kind of heavy level, it seems to me we’re in a period of time where politicians don’t speak beyond their base, that they only speak to their constituents. The movie shows two very brave people who choose not to do that, taking their constituents with them on a perilous journey towards compromise. It seems to me that’s what we’re ultimately celebrating with the picture; compromise and the ability to live together.”

Joyous Lost in Paris a farcical delight

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer LOST IN PARIS Now playing Asked to come to Paris by her beloved Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva), a former dancer currently waltzing away from nurses and doctors intent on placing her in a retirement home, Canadian librarian Fiona (Fiona Gordon) grabs her gigantic bright red backpack and quickly makes her way to Europe.

Once she gets there things quickly spiral out of control leaving her literally wet behind the ears. If losing all her identification, money and belongings wasn’t bad enough, it also turns out that Martha herself is missing, maybe even dead. With only a flibbertigibbet homeless man named Dom (Dominique Abel) to assist her, Fiona makes her way through Paris in a desperate search for her aunt, never losing an ounce of the hope in her heart as one catastrophe after another is arbitrarily tossed in her direction.

From the minds of idiosyncratic filmmakers Gordon and Abel (The Fairy, Rumba), the pair’s latest absurdist frolic Lost in Paris is as close to a modern Jacques Tati comedy as any I am likely ever to see. Blatantly calling to mind that French genius’ finest works like Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday or Mon Oncle, this comedy is a whimsical whirligig of nonsense and insight, real life and fantasy crashing into one another with witty abandon. It’s a joyous lark, and while character development is minimal, the gleefully ridiculous ebullience of the narrative is so intoxicating one almost doesn’t notice there’s precious little in the way of substance to any of the lunacy.

Almost. It did take me a little time to get into the swing of what Gordon and Abel were doing, and as talented as the filmmakers might be they struggle to maintain a consistent comedic tone. Also, unlike Tati

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their stabs at delivering any sort of social or political commentary rarely hit their targets, and as such the level of emotional authenticity that films like Playtime always seemed to manufacture with such effortless ease seldom materializes here. Instead, it all plays like a series of expertly staged vignettes working towards a common goal, the connective tissue holding these scenes together so tenuous it’s a moderately large surprise things end up working nearly as well as they ultimately do.

It certainly helps that both Gordon and Abel are deft physical comedians, both so willing to throw themselves headfirst into any sort of gag the chance the viewer won’t find at least a small handful of things to chortle boisterously over is practically non-

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existent. More, as directors the duo are so good at generating a sense of merry contentment that even moments of supposed tragedy, disappointment or anger have a craftily manufactured edge of delectable delight to them, my smile never leaving my face for even a second of the film’s 83 minutes.

But the ace in the hole is the late, great Emmanuelle Riva. The legendary actress appears to be having an outright blast, and her continued sense of elation as she walks around wearing her flip-flops throughout the streets of Paris is giddily palpable. Gordon and Abel stage as perfect a musical number as anything I could have dreamt of, Riva and fellow French icon Pierre Richard dancing with pretty much their feet and their feet alone as they sit on a quiet bench, the beatific

energy of this sequence sending my heart soaring into the stratosphere to the point I might have shed a couple of jubilant tears.

That’s Lost in Paris in a nutshell. While not particularly deep, while not too profound, Gordon and Abel are so intent on making the viewer smile, so obsessed with having each person sitting in the audience fill their hearts with happiness and love, coming up with something bad to say about the film proves to be impossible. As bits of fluffy fun are concerned this motion picture is a dance of delicious amusements, watching it an absolute pleasure I’m certain to indulge in whenever the opportunity to do so might fortuitously arise.

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new effort for their company, but one that is already looking to pay off solid dividends.

Friday night, they will open a world premiere musical in their “summer musical” spot. Tickets are already getting difficult to buy on select popular dates!

Why? It seems a whole lot of people like Jane Austen’s stories and the fact that local musical-writers Chris Jeffries (music and lyrics) and Harold Taw (book) have chosen to musicalize her novel, Persuasion, is making a lot of folks very excited.

Persuasion is Austen’s last book, published just after she died in 1817, and is the moodiest of her canon. Her heroine begins the book as a kind of “past her prime” older sister who had been persuaded (see the word, here, suggesting the title of the book and musical?) to dump a suitor, Wentworth, at the usual marriageable age of 19, because her godmother Lady Russell convinced her that he was not an appropriate alliance and it would haunt her and her children to be brought socially low by the match. However, ever since, she has regretted her choice.

Of course, Wentworth left for “the war” and became a captain and also wealthy and is now a much more eligible match. Eight years later, he arrives home again. But she is convinced that he could not possibly want to have anything to do with her.

Don’t mistake this for a drama, though.

It’s got a happy ending, and a lot of funny bits.

Jeffries and Taw used the somewhat somber and moody premise to introduce the first moments of their piece. Jeffries says, in an interview with both by SGN, “This book is hard to stage. But that’s one of the reasons we wanted to do it: because it’s a good challenge.”

Taw adds, “As a craftsperson, Austen is unparalleled. The novel is moody but there’s still incredible precision with structure. That was fun. It’s biting and funny and dark. She wrote in 1816 (contemporaneously). It felt like ‘right now,’ to us. I like this because of the darkness. I like dark subject matter.”

Jeffries says, “The roots of comedy are in ancient agrarian celebrations of winter turning into spring – the goddess that loses her love and then he comes back to her. One of the oldest stories every told. Anne (Elliot, the main character) is in the middle of premature winter, early frost. By the end, it’s like midsummer night and she’s in full bloom. And the crops are gonna be fine. It’s that elemental of a story. “[When we started working on the musical], I felt the big emotions needed big music and I was excited to write big mu-

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continued from cover Broadway and local talents (all whom have connections to the Pacific Northwest), the list of stars was a treasure trove of talent.

They gathered on the Seattle stage to perform and raise awareness (and money) for several national charities including: the NAACP, Sierra Club, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the National Immigration Law Center.

The concert started with the hosts (married couple) Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley taking the stage and explaining the purpose of the evening, while simultaneously streaming a live FaceBook feed. The entire cast of the evening was brought on stage to start the night by singing “What the World Needs Now.” This was the song that Seth/ James had Broadway talents gather to record (in a “We Are The World” way) as a benefit after the Pulse massacre in Orlando.

The recording is available on iTunes.

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Cayman Ilika, Nick DeSantis & Matthew Posner in Persuasion at Taproot Theatre – Photo by Erik Stuhaug.

sic but I had no idea what wheelhouse the music should live in. My starting point of reference was the gorgeous folk ballads of the British Isles. The music that introduces the two main characters was inspired by the mode and feel of old folk songs to express their heartbreak and longing, and to help link them as kindred ‘old souls.’ But they sing in other styles too. I love ballads, but a musical score needs variety and effervescence. Luckily, there’s also plenty that’s energetic and buoyant in English and Celtic music and dance – from Elizabethan music to fizzy operetta.”

Taw agrees. “What kind music world would it live in? I didn’t see it as “period music” or putting a novel on stage. It had to be reborn as a musical, a different art form.

That darkness, nostalgia, regret, fragility of life that Austen wrote about, she was looking at the world differently, internally.

Anne’s thoughts, instead of lots of dialogue.

And looking at the seasons. It takes place autumn to spring.

“Austen never depicts them young; you just know that they were once young. Now, Anne has wasted away. You see the reflection on the meaning of life.”

Asked about some nuts and bolts of the process they went through, Jeffries describes, “I was pretty clear from the beginning what the song moments were, but what worked for actual songs in those moments was not clear. There are places where we decided (after we wrote a song), this doesn’t need to be sung after all. And it was a matter of the right song for that particular moment. What kind of song was before it?

How long did we wait between songs?”

Taw says, “We had a strong agreement about the peak places where songs were needed. Always in service of the story.

Very character-oriented and story-oriented.

When things didn’t work, it was because it didn’t get at the things we were shooting for.”

Jeffries and Taw give an example of a song they feel reflects a pivotal moment in

Sierra Boggess lead the line-up of the evening’s individual performers. Listening to her belting out “I Have Confidence” from The Sound of Music, it was easy to see why she was the original “Ariel” from Broadway’s The Little Mermaid. Ms. Boggess later returned to the stage to sing the impeccably timed delight, “The Minute Waltz.” Other talents that followed were Bellevue’s own Megan Hilty (9-5 the musical, “SMASH”) who sang the hit song, “Let Me Be Your Star” from the television series “SMASH.” Kerry Butler sang a medley from her starring roles in the musical Hairspray, as well as her breakout solo from the musical Catch Me If You Can, “Fly, Fly Away,” and brought the house down.

Both shows got their world premier debuts at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, later moving to Broadway and winning several Tony Awards.

It wasn’t just Broadway talent that met on the 5th Avenue’s stage. Maureen McGovern sang her hit “There’s Got To Be A Morning After.” Melissa Manchester pulled double-duty not only with a solo per-

formance of “Come in Out of The Rain,” but also by appearing in the ensemble singing back-up. Dinah Manoff (I Ought To Be In Pictures, Grease) made an appearance to talk about the importance of the evening, and the charity beneficiaries. Local talents also played a part. Seattle’s own blondbombshell Billie Wildrick appeared with three other local ladies singing Peggy Lee’s classic, “I Am A Woman.” Caety Sagioan delivered an absolutely sultry version of Bricusse/Newley’s “Feeling Good.” Seattle’s own “Diverse Harmony” (the nation’s first gay-straight alliance youth chorus) appeared and sang beautifully. Seattle was also the first city (of a long line of concerts to be) that have included dance. The audience was treated to a performance by the Spectrum Dance Theater, and were blown away by their movements.

Between the acts, the two hosts reminded the audience (and live FaceBook feed) about the importance of what the evening beneficiaries stand for, and brought out various representatives from each organization. Through brief speeches, the figure-

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the show. Taw says, “The first version was a Lady Russell song.” Jeffries says, “It was a quartet for a long time. Now it’s a long solo with interludes because (another character) is the one we needed to hear from.” Taw says, “That was a kind of breakthrough in character development.”

They describe that the main characters go through a journey of rediscovering each other at a new period in their lives. Jeffries says, “Austen tells you that they’re soul mates. They share a depth the other characters don’t reach. You buy it as a reader, but on stage we need to see that they’re recalibrating their views of their relationship.

They thaw over time. Their relationship is better now because they’ve grown up.

They’ve learned not to take it for granted because they know how hard it is to live without it.”

Taw says, “The novel was criticized because Austen says, at the end, if two young people want to be together, no one should stop them. People thought that was a terrible moral. It’s embracing the uncertainty.”

Jeffries gets philosophical. “It doesn’t have to be a person. It could be a vocation or a passion. Something you’re ‘persuaded’ to set aside that you realize you don’t want to live without and don’t have to. This story could be taken as a metaphor for having had something precious in your life that you set aside or gave up on because you told yourself that other things were a priority.

But you always missed it. I hope this story says that it’s not too late to find that precious thing again, and be all the richer for having survived without it.”

Taw adds, “Or having suffered. In Persuasion, you get the sense that they are more worthy of each other because all was lost.”

They’ve already received feedback that is giving them hope that a wide range of audiences will enjoy the production. Jeffries says, “There’s a self-selecting audience that thinks they’ll love it and a self-selecting audience that thinks they’ll hate it. We hope we will surprise a lot of people in the second category and they’ll end up having a great experience.”

Taw says, “The Texas workshop (we did) had a lot of high schoolers in the audience, which were not our target audience, and I heard a lot of them say they didn’t expect to enjoy this. ‘I thought I was going to hate this!’ but didn’t. High schoolers had a perception of what seeing an Austen show meant. They were surprised how much they liked it!”

Jeffries sums it up. “Austen scholars love it, and so do high schoolers. I feel like we did our job!”

For information and tickets, go to www. taproottheatre.org or call 206-781-9707.

heads spoke about the work these charities do to combat the deplorable Presidential decisions on Travel Bans, environment issues, as well as immigration issues for LGBT and other communities.

Concert For America was conceived within days following the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. Using their connections from Broadway and films, husbands Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley reached out to their communities to gather talent that would donate their time for these important charities. The response was overwhelming.

Each city has a different lineup of talent and performances, and the concerts will continue across America to raise funding and awareness.

NOTE: Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make the concert. You can still help out by going to http://www.ConcertsForAmerica.com for donations, merchandise or a listing of the Concert for America touring/ performance schedules.

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Nelsan Ellis gave “True Blood” soul when it really needed it; played Gay cook on TV series

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Truth be told, I started to give up on “True Blood” around the time they introduced faeries. I was fine with vampires, witches, shapeshifters and were-panthers, but the storyline of Sookie Stackhouse being part faerie and assuming all its super powers was just silly.

But I kept watching the show, right down to the series finale a few years ago, for two reasons: Eric Northman (because Alexander Skarsgard is all kinds of yummy) and Lafayette Reynolds, who provided the HBO drama with some of its best scenes and one-liners. Which is why the untimely death of Nelsan Ellis, the actor behind the flamboyant, openly Gay character on “True Blood” for seven seasons, saddened me.

He was the saving grace for many poorly written episodes, injecting needed wit and shady dialogue, and just pure life, into scenes that would have otherwise flatlined.

Lafayette was a sassy short-order cook who took shit from no one, minding his

own business in the kitchen of Merlotte's Bar and Grill, but quick to assist his coworkers if he suspected trouble, even if it meant teaching a table of jerks a lesson for sending a burger back with the waitress because "it might have AIDS." He always wore a combination of men's clothes with feminine accessories, his face often layered with colorful makeup and when he wasn't offering his friends good advice, or a listening ear, he was giving the township of Bon Temps plenty of attitude.

In season three, Lafayette was given a boyfriend, the sexy male witch Jesus Velasquez (Kevin Alejandro) and it was nice to finally see a character with a heart of gold, yet tough exterior, find love deep in the bayous of Louisiana, where it's typically slim pickin’s for single Gay men. Kudos to “True Blood” creator Alan Ball for featuring a rare interracial same-sex storyline between African-American and Hispanic characters, and one that really seemed genuine.

In the book series authored by Charlaine Harris, on which the Emmy-nominat-

ed drama is based on, Lafayette's character is killed off, but he was beloved on the television show and thus was kept on through its entire run.

Even though Lafayette was very open about his sexuality, Ellis kept that part of his personal life to himself.

"I don’t answer that question, ‘Are you gay or not?’," he stated in an interview with Vibe. "When it comes down to industry people. But if it’s a regular person asking me, that just says that maybe I’m doing a good job. But when a casting director or an agent asks me that question it takes on a deeper thing that says, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this unless you are that.'”

Behind the scenes, Ellis made headlines when he criticized fellow actor Luke

“You quit your job because you don’t want to play a gay part?" Ellis told New York Magazine. "You make a big statement when you go, ‘I don’t want to play this part because it’s gay. You just made a statement, and it has ripple effects.”

Ellis died on July 8, at the age of 39, due to complications from heart failure. Ellis was married and the father of a young son.

He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2004. Many of his former “True Blood” cast members, including Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Carrie Preston, Sam Trammell, Joe Manganiello and Anna Camp, paid their respects to him on social media.

"I am speechless... I am heartbroken...

Rest In Peace my friend @OfficialNelsan,"

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Grimes for quitting the series in its final season when it's discovered that his character, a vampire named Kent, is bisexual and would begin a relationship with Lafayette.

posted Alejandro with an image of Jesus holding Lafayette in his arms.

Kevin Lin mows down Greensward

Greensward – Photo courtesy Shane Regan

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer GREENSWARD MAP THEATRE (WORLD PREMIERE AT 12TH AVENUE ARTS) Through July 29 Kevin Lin is fast becoming one of the go-to solid actors in our little town. Last year, he had two prominent roles in two very good productions. In Caught, at Seattle Public Theater, he played an artist and in Book-It’s adaptation of A Tale for the Time Being, he played a man forced to become

a soldier even though he could not kill. In Ghostlight Theatricals’ January production of The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, he played three different Watsons with very different personalities.

Now you can catch him in the middle of a sci-fi dystopian thriller-comedy by MAP Theatre. It’s also a world premiere by R. Hamilton Wright called Greensward. Lin stars as scientist Dr. Timothy Hei who has invented a most amazing kind of grass – it never needs watering or fertilizer or weedkiller or thatching or even any particular soil, and it only needs mowing once a year!

Just think of what a grass like that could do to stabilize desertification in Arizona or

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California, not to speak of Asia or Africa or the Middle East! And that news immediately attracts both a frenzy of news coverage and people who would like to control or destroy the product for their own nefarious reasons.

Dr. Hei is a naïve and socially awkward nerd who doesn’t quite realize what the world might want from him once they hear about the invention. He begins to be managed by a media consultant, April (Peggy Gannon) who puts him on TV programs and manages invites to international parties. He gets visited by threatening blacksuited guys named Kemp and Lothar (Jason Marr and Nik Doner) and meets Flora

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the eco-terrorist-feminist (Marianna de Fazio) and billionaire T. Scott (Ashley Bagwell) who made his fortune in lawn mowers.

With a spare set of patches of grass and some 3-D rotating triangular pillars by Brandon Estrella, director Richard Ziman keeps the hijinks rolling, the laughs landing, and the plot thickening. It’s a very fun ride with a contemporary environmental feeling that keeps twisting in satisfying ways.

You never know what’s going to happen until it happens, and the ending is not a foregone conclusion. Wright’s dialogue is smart and well-considered, scientifically plausible, and situated in a world where we absolutely believe that’s what powerful people might fight about. That’s not to say that things don’t get pretty outrageous along the way and when you see what’s under Bagwell’s cowboy hat, you’ll see what I mean.

The rest of the fun cast includes Melissa Fenwick, Bill Higham and Cole Hornaday.

Most people play multiple roles and each one is well-delineated and fun to watch. de Fazio and Bagwell, in particular, prove yet again that they love quirky roles that they can outrageously inhabit.

This is certainly well worth leaving sitting on your lawn drinking to drinking inside and hearing all about lawns. It’s suitable for all ages, too, so the whole family can have fun (for about 8 years and up).

Also, MAP has debuted an all pay-whatyou-choose ticket model that allows for all budgets to be accommodated.

For more information, go to www. map-theatre.com or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2940542 or call 800838-3006.

Discuss your opinions with SGNcritic@gmail.com or go to www.facebook. com/SeattleTheaterWriters. More articles can be round [***change to found] at MiryamsTheaterMusings.blogspot.com.

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Emmys 2017: RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ryan Murphy, Evan Rachel Wood, Kate McKinnon lead LGBT nominees for primetime TV awards

RuPaul Charles – Photo courtesy of The Television Academy; Kate McKinnon – Photo courtesy of NBC; Ryan Murphy – Photo courtesy of FX

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer A rather impressive list of nominees for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards was revealed on July 13, including many LGBT actors, writers and directors. Leading the way was RuPaul’s Drag Race, which landed its first nomination for Outstanding Reality-Competiton Program, and a second consecutive nod for its host, RuPaul Charles, who won last year and will vie again for Outstanding Host for a Reality-Competition Program. The show, now appearing on VH1, has reached global popularity after nine seasons with some of its highest ratings this past year, when Sasha Velour was crowned the winner. Adding onto the good news was RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, the half-hour sidekick show that features the contestants pondering their fate backstage before elimination, being nominated for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program. One of the series’ queens, Delta Work, real name Gabriel Villareal, was nominated in a technical category for

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hairstyling in the ninth season premiere episode that featured Lady GaGa. In total, Drag Race nabbed eight nominations.

Ryan Murphy got no love for his latest installment of American Horror Story, which was shut out in all major categories, but Emmy voters applauded his work on FEUD: Bette and Joan, an eight-part dramatization of the bitter rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while filming the classic film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The FX anthology series, renewed for a second season next year, that will focus on the flawed relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana, scored writing and directing nominations for Murphy, double leading actress nods for Susan Sarandon (Bette) and Jessica Lange (Joan), as well as a slot in the category of Outstanding Limited Series. In addition to this, FEUD: Bette and Joan: Inside Look earned additional recognition for Murphy, included in the race for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series.

Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton, both openly bisexual and both appearing in Westworld, were mentioned Thurs-

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day morning in the categories of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, respectively. Meanwhile, in the comedy field, Kate McKinnon was among a trio of Saturday Night Live (SNL) regulars – Leslie Jones and Vanessa Bayer are the other two – who will compete for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

McKinnon, the variety series’ first openly Lesbian cast member who slayed the parts of Hillary Clinton and Kellyanne Conway last season, won an Emmy last year.

Although the Transgender-themed show Transparent failed to get a nomination in a crowded, but strong roster of Outstanding Comedy Series entries, it did earn credit for its lead star Jeffrey Tambor and two of its supporting actresses, Judith Light and Katherine Hahn.

Laverne Cox, the first Transgender woman nominated for an Emmy acting award a few years ago, resurfaced in the race for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Orange is the New Black. Denis O’Hare, who appeared as a guest judge on the “Snatch Game” epi-

sode of RuPaul’s Drag Race last season, is up for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his brief role in the NBC drama This Is Us, where he’ll compete against another openly Gay actor, B.D. Wong, who is nominated for his work on Mr. Robot.

Meanwhile, veteran comedienne and actress Wanda Sykes, who shares twin children with wife Alex Niedbalski, is up for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance in black-ish.

Competing against RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program is another Gay-themed show, Gaycation with Ellen Page, which follows the Oscar-nominated Lesbian actress and her best friend Ian Daniels as they explore LGBT cultures around the world.

Overall, Westworld and SNL scored the most nominations with 22 each, Stranger Things got 18, This is Us nabbed 11 and the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s chilling book The Handmaid’s Tale grabbed 13, including well-deserved recognition for its lead star Elisabeth Moss.

The Emmy Awards will be televised live on September 17.

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SGN EXCLUSIVE: Jake Biondi releases seventh book in his popular BOYSTOWN series book in the entire BOYSTOWN series. In addition, fans will immediately notice the presence of a casket on the new book’s cover. That should give readers a clue about the twists and turns contained in the new book.

MK: What will make this different from the other six?

JB: I think this is the most emotional book in the series. Fans will learn more about the characters that they love as a particularly sad storyline unfolds. This one is a bit of a tear-jerker.

MK: Tell us about any new characters.

JB: Aiden Carmichael is the book’s only new character – and he’s one that fans will have a severe reaction to. This is a man who will do anything to get what he wants, except that what he wants isn’t revealed until the last few pages of the book. I have a feeling Aiden will be a character that fans love to hate.

MK: I know your dream is to get the series on TV. How is that going?

JB: It’s going really well. I’m working with two new TV producers who are themselves huge fans of the book series. That’s important because they understand the series well and want to bring it to TV in the most authentic way. The three of us should be able to share some more specific news in the near future.

MK: My Burning Question: Will there be an 8th season and when?

JB: Absolutely. I would imagine that Season Eight will appear around Christmas.

BOYSTOWN Season Seven is available in paperback and all e-book formats.

Fans may purchase an autographed copy of BOYSTOWN Season Seven at BoystownTheSeries.com MK Scott is a Seattle-based arts blogger. Check out his blog at outviewonline. com

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer SGN EXCLUSIVE: Jake Biondi releases seventh book in his popular BOYSTOWN series “It’s finally here and I’m so excited,” author Jake Biondi said of his seventh BOYSTOWN book in a press release, which he released on July 7th. “The fans’ wait is over and they can now discover what happened to their favorite characters whose lives were hanging in the balance at the end of the sixth book.”

The seventh book features a cover created by BOYSTOWN designer Anna Crosswell, who is responsible for the recent redesign of all BOYSTOWN book covers.

Featuring the image of a casket, the cover of BOYSTOWN Season Seven teases what readers will find inside its pages.

Biondi recently announced a re-launch of his entire book series with an exciting new look.

“It’s going to ‘wow’ readers from coast to coast,” Biondi said of the series’ new design. “I wanted the BOYSTOWN book covers and all the marketing materials to better represent the drama, excitement, and diversity of the BOYSTOWN series. The new covers hint at the story line twists and turns that readers will find within the books’ pages.”

Initial reviews of BOYSTOWN Season Seven are very positive.

“Page after page, the reader is confronted with corruption, treachery, and the pure evil that some people are capable of as they seek to control or destroy others.

“Although Biondi appears to have tempered the bitter Ciancio-Mancini dynastical feud primarily through the marriage of two leading family members, it is soon apparent that the festering hatred that the two families have for each other continues to brew under the surface as characters are revealed to have ties to these families that were not previously known. A very entertaining and high energy read by a masterful storyteller,” wrote Roger Ward in his review of the newest BOYSTOWN book.

“The saga is told masterfully through several subplots which include unforeseen twists and turns that will leave the reader

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For more information visit http://www. seattleshakespeare.org/ Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare’s screwball comedy features the bantering of two of his cleverest characters. For Beatrice and Benedick love is a game of wits played with guarded hearts. Yet everyone can see they’re meant for each other. Newly engaged Hero and Claudio conspire to trick the pair into admitting their affections and falling for each other. But schemes are afoot to ruin everyone’s happiness through dire accusations.

Will love win out in the end?

Pericles Set sail on the high seas for a summer adventure. Prince Pericles romances maidens, gets chased from port to port, finds his true love, and then loses her and his infant

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stunned and speechless.”

I chatted with Biondi last week via Facebook.

MK Scott: Boystown Season 7 is finally here! What are some key moments in this

book?

Jake Biondi: The book begins right where Season Six left off. The resolution of those cliffhangers takes a while, which is part of the reason why this is the longest

daughter in the storm-tossed sea. With only the stars and his heart as a guide, Pericles charts one man’s epic lifetime voyage to reunite with the family he thought he had lost forever.

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Pericles July 15 at 2pm – Volunteer Park; July 16, 20, 21 & 22 at 7pm – Luther Burbank Park Amphitheatre; July 23 at 2pm – Luther Burbank Park Amphitheatre; July 27, 28 & 29 at 7pm – Luther Burbank Park Amphitheatre; July 30 at 2pm – Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion; Aug. 4, 5 & 6 at 7pm – Luther Burbank Park Amphitheatre About Seattle Shakespeare Company Seattle Shakespeare Company is the Puget Sound region’s only year-round professional, classical theatre dedicated to producing the work of Shakespeare. The Company’s growing success stems from a deep belief in the power and vibrancy of Shakespeare’s words and ideas along with a commitment to artistic excellence on the stage.

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DARBY’S CAFE 211 5th Ave. S.E. - (360) 357-6229 LOVER’S 3959 Martin Way E. Suite D - (360) 456-7300 JAKES - 311 4th Ave. E. - (360) 956-3247

PORT ANGELES MAPLE ROSE INN 112 Reservoir Rd - (800) 570-2007

SPOKANE

ANDY’S 1401 W. 1st Ave. - (509) 747 - 0304 STRAY NIGHTCLUB 415 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 624 - 4450 NYNE BAR AND BISTRO 232 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 474 -1621

TACOMA

CASTLE SUPERSTORE 6015 Tacoma Mall Blvd. - (253) 471-0391 CLUB SILVERSTONE 739½ St. Helens Ave. - (253) 404-0273 THE FANTASY SHOP 2301 6th Ave. - (253) 272-6640 LOVER’S 7002 Tacoma Mall Blvd., #F - (253) 475-2271 THE MIX - 635 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-4327 RAINBOW CENTER 2215 Pacific Ave. - (253) 383-2318 SHAKABRAH JAVA CAFE 2618 6th Ave. - (253) 572-2787

TRI-CITIES

CLUB OUT & ABOUT 327 W. Lewis St., Pasco - (509) 543-3796

TUKWILA

LOVER’S 530 Southcenter Blvd. - (206) 248-5085

KENT

LOVER’S 25801 104th Ave. S.E. - (253) 852-1720 THE FANTASY SHOP 604 Central Ave. S. - (253) 850-8428 NASHVILLE’S SPORTS BAR (Drag Shows) 114 - Railroad Ave. N. - (253) 852 - 0909

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Meetings Events Activities

TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 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: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY - July 15

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 10:30am. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! 11am. Cal Anderson Park, 11th Ave & E Olive St. Part of nationwide protests. Sponsored by Refuse Fascism Northwest, Impeachment March Seattle, Indivisible North Seattle & Seattle Gay News.

Kitsap Pride. The Kitsap Pride Network invites you to participate in the 2017 Kitsap Pride event at the Evergreen Rotary Park (1500 Park Ave) in Bremerton. This year’s theme is Viva la Vida which encourages everyone to live their authentic life. For more information, visit https://facebook.com/events/139559479886267/ Recent years have had over 2,000 people attending this exciting event and this year is already looking to be our biggest yet. http://kitsappride.org/ Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org PNW G/B/Q Longhaired Men. 2pm. Locations vary.

Check the website or call for details. An informal social group for longhairs, growers, longhair admirers & their friends. We gather for brunch on the 3rd Saturday each month to socialize, chat & often go out afterwards for coffee or some activity. Please join us! For information & to RSVP: www.longhair.shorturl.com Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck. 2pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. behind Seattle Community College on Broadway. Meets 3rd Saturdays most months. Enter via the north parking lot and get a permit for free parking. There is a $4/person door fee (please try to bring exact change) to help cover the cost of the room. Please bring a dish that will serve 8 or more to share. Bus routes 8, 10, 11, 43, 49, 60 and the Capitol Hll Link Light Rail station and Capitol Hill street car are within a few blocks walking distance.

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 Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks.

For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com

SUNDAY - July 16

Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Gay Men’s Bowling in Lynnwood. 9:30am. Brunswick Majestics Lane, Lynnwood. 9:30am 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 Baha’i Prayer & Fellowship Circle. 10am. Pearl Warren Bldg, 606 12th Ave S. Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. Share prayers, readings, thoughts & music. All backgrounds, all faiths welcome. 391-2188.

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

All are welcome. 322-7500.

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.

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

July 15 thru July 23 that have been created and designed for the LGBTQ People of Color communities of the Pacific Northwest.

Follow the Northwest Pride of Color Facebook page to get up-to-date information on each event and learn more about the initiative. https://facebook.com/nwprideofcolor.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Seattle Unity Church, 200 8th Ave N. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Lotus Sisters South End/Columbia City Meditation & Dharma Discussion. 7-8:30pm. Meets 3rd Monday each month. Call 206-725-3608 or 434-5521 for details and location; www.LotusSisters.org. (Not wheelchair accessible.)

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

PFLAG/Bremerton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton. Meets 3rd Monday 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/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

PFLAG/Everett Monthly Meeting. 7pm. First Congregational Church of Everett, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Meets 3rd Monday 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/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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

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

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Queers, Crackpots & Fallen Women AA. 8-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - July 18

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

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. www.dharmabuddies.org. (Women may wish 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.” 783-6733; www. stpauluccseattle.com.

Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Tri-Cities 2017 Pride Festival - “It’s Just Love.” Pride March 1:30pm. Pride Festival 2-6pm at John Dam Plaza in Richland. Celebrate equality and acceptance in our local community. Live entertainment, booths, games and prizes! This year we are once again partnering with Club Out and About (327 W Lewis St, Pasco; www. cluboutandabout.com) our local and only Gay bar to turn up the volume on our celebration! https://gofundme. com/tricitiespride Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays an almost weekly recreational scrimmage game for LGBTQ players in Seattle. Perfect for individuals looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Seattle Poly Potluck & Discussion Group. 5-8pm. (contact for new location) Meets 3rd Sunday each month. For people interested in polyamorous, open, and ethically non-monogamous relationships. $5 donation; please bring a potluck dish. This event is open to the public. Look for us on Facebook or Meetup.

Visit us online www.sgn.org

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Women’s Commission Meeting. 5:30-8pm.

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

QTPOC Mixer with Gregorio Millett. 6-8pm. Still Liquor, 1524 Minor Ave. Come mingle at a mixer focusing on Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) and talk with the man who, among other important things, helped President Obama create our nation’s vision to end AIDS. This event is part of Northwest Pride of Color, a collection of events between Friday, July 14 and Sunday, July 30

LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Seattle Police Department LGBTQ Advisory Council Monthly Meeting. 6-8pm. Seattle Police Department East Precinct Community Meeting Room, 12th Ave & E Pine St. Meets 3rd Tuesday most months. An opportunity for the GLBT community to speak openly with the SPD to dialog on public safety issues, plan officer training on sexual-minority topics, suggest ways to improve communications & procedures, explore protection strategies to minimize Gay-bashing incidents, & address other related concerns. The Sexual Minority Community Advisory Council has been established by the SPD to increase relationships & communication between the community & the SPD. Members of the GLBT community are invited to attend. kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles.

6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Every Tuesday & Thursday JuneAugust. seattletennisalliance.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room). Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

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

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

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Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/Weds/ Fri: Evenings. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www. orcaswimteam.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am. More info: crystalmeth.org.

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

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

MONDAY - July 17

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

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

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

Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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

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FRIDAY - July 21

WEDNESDAY - July 19

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 True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

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

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com LGBTQ Allyship Queer & Trans Candidate Forum.

6-9pm. Southside Commons, 3518 S Edmunds St. We will be hosting candidates for Seattle Mayor and City Council Positions 8 and 9. How will Seattle ‘s next Mayor and City Council members represent the LGBTQ community. Learn more! www.lgbtqallyship.org Queer Sex Ed Night. 6pm doors; 6:30-8:30pm workshop. Planned Parenthood, 2001 E Madison St. FREE all-ages sex education extravaganza! Didn’t get “The Talk”? Want to learn something new? Or maybe you just need a bit of a refresher? Either way, we’ve got you covered! This workshop will be POC (Person of Color) -led and cover the fundamentals: safe sex, consent, and how to access sexual healthcare, with a special talke from Country Doctor about PrEP. Come take advantage of on-site HIV testing supplied by Lifelong, peruse some goodies on sale from Toys in Babeland, and enter our raffle. A light dinner will be supplied by Jemil’s Big Easy. Reserve a seat: https://goo.gl/forms/ oV2cxzGyu6kCfkpe2 The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm.

All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat.

Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome.

Seattle Gay Book Club. 6pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E (upstairs). Meets every Wednesday. This month’s title is Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets every Wednesday. Call 525-7295 for location. www.

LotusSisters.org.

Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

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

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www.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 Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing.)

HIV/AIDS Newly Diagnosed or Newly Dealing. 7:309pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave, Suite 200. Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month. Ongoing support group for anyone who is HIV+. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Mature Friends Pinochle Group. 7:30pm. Wallingford Community Senior Center, lower level of Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnywide Ave N. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org

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gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Debauchery. Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Meets 3rd Thursday every month. Queers stripping for Queers in a hot, anti-oppressive space, raising money for organizations that serve the Queer community. The show features stripteases, lots of audience interaction & even birthday lapdances on stage! Be sure to bring plenty of dollar bills - a portion of the proceeds goes to non-profits providing health & social services within the Queer community. Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Pay-what-you-can also available. www.lilydivine.com Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.) [summer break June 19-Sept 2]

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.

THURSDAY - July 20

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

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

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

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Seattle Tennis Alliance Summer Social Doubles.

6:30-8:30pm. Lower Woodland Tennis Courts, 5773 W Green Lake Way N. Every Tuesday & Thursday JuneAugust. seattletennisalliance.org Seattle LGBTQ Employees for Equality (SEqual).

12noon. Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave, Room 4070. Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month. Open to the public.

Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday each month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare. FREE. 622-5555 x 212.

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AA Ageless in Recovery. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A drop in AA group for older & wiser people 55+. www.sasgcc.org Re-Parenting Ourselves. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A peer support group for adult children of any addiction. www. sasgcc.org SLAA Road to Recovery. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. Ongoing 12 step group for sex & love addicts. www.sasgcc.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima.

Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing.)

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

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

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities. 6:30- SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets the 3rd & 8:30pm. Municipal Bldg, 600 4th Ave, Room 221. Meets 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun.

3rd Thursday each month. SCSM is made up of 15 www.sasgcc.org volunteer members who work to ensure that the City LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm. of Seattle fairly & equitably addresses sexual minority SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 - in the O’Neill Room.

Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for concerns. Meetings open to the public. 684-4514.

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14- details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; 22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every www.seattle-al-anon.org Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues SATURDAY - July 22 that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.) male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org GLBT Legal Clinic. 7-9pm. Meets the 3rd Thursday SUNDAY - July 23 each month. QLaw Foundation holds a monthly legal (See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) clinic addressing the legal needs of LGBT individuals & couples. Volunteer attorneys provide FREE 30-min- No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. Meets 4th Sunday ute consultations.To schedule an appointment, call each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support 235-7235. Clinic volunteers return calls on Tuesdays for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique between 12noon-3pm. www.q-law.org/legalclinic & commentary on each other’s work, information about PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside Monthly Meeting. 7-9pm. publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing First United Methodist Church, 1934 108th Ave NE, writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they Bellevue. Meets 3rd Thursday each month. Wheelchair welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are accessible. We offer support and education in a safe, to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, confidential, and welcoming atmosphere and serve East NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwritKing County communities including Bellevue, Redmond, ersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Tuesday, 7pm.)

Kirkland, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Bothell, Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30pm. SASG, 115 Woodinville, Duvall, Snoqualmie, and Carnation. The 15th Ave E Suite 201 - Ian MacKintosh Room. Topic: first half of each meeting is dedicated to support, the Observing and admitting to our prejudices. This meeting second half is usually a guest speaker. See http://com- is open to all members and the general public. munity.pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue. Contact us at info@ bellevue-pflag.org or 425-483-6642. PFLAG Bellevue/ COMMUNITY RESOURCES Eastside is a support and advocacy group, uniting mem- Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting bers of the LGBTQ community with friends, families, and for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQAllyship. allies. PFLAG does not promote one political or religious org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169. view and is inclusive to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us is a national support organization for parents, spouses Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/Another& families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. Gay-Social-Club/ Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane.

Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday com/guide.html listing at 6pm.)

BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for BiBuddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 115 15th sexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery binetseattle.org. group. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. 963-1994.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation & Gay men who are currently or previously married.

Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest.org Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone. For info, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis

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line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025.

In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equalrightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freelyspeaking.org Gay City promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing. 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

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

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

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians.net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; 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. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

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

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 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/ proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol. com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: 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: 425483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington State: www. pflagwsc.org.

PEOPLE OF COLOR: AARTH (African American Reach & Teach Health Ministry), 850-2070, www. aarth.org; Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth. org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, iya@ ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.

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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, 322-7061, www.pocaan. org and on Facebook; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Sistah Sinema, www.sistahsinema.com, info@sistahsinema.com; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 9854376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle.

Pierce County AIDS Foundation - 253-383-2565; www. piercecountyaids.org Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 682-6711; www.q-law.org; ‑Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235.

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. Or visit www. gaycity.org to view list of resources online.

Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233).

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. 323-1768.

Seattle LGBTQ Commission - 684-4503.

Seattle Out & Proud - www.seattlepride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Com-

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munity Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

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

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook.com/ socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.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 Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: 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

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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, 367-4064, www. teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.

SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Diversity: www. genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www. genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & ForeignBorn Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/ Olympia-Trans-Discussion-Group/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: ALISS - Aging Lesbians in South Seattle - Lesbian Group at the Southeast Seattle Senior Center. This is a gathering primarily for Lesbians but all are welcome to attend. Kate, 722-0317; www.sessc. org; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. 7205566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www. maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@ oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; 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, 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa. org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 1818 15th Ave @ E Denny Way; 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: 957-1665; www.llaa.org/HEYO; www.MatthewsPlace.com; The Mockingbird Society: 323-KIDS (5437), www.mockingbirdsociety.org; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www. oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS) Drop-In Center & Young Adult Shelter: 1609 19th Ave @ E Pine St., 726-8500; www.psks.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 - 360-6983335; www.kchaf.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Roots Young Adult Shelter: 1415 NE 43rd St., 632-1635; www.rootsinfo.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): 5247301 ext 111; www.streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter. org; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; YouthCare/Orion Center Young Adult Shelter: 1828 Yale Ave @ Stewart St. 622-5555; Youth in Focus: 723-1479; www.youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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