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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 13, Volume 40, March 30, 2012

Whitney Houston Catching up with Kristine W Dance diva on new music, keeping the Gays in line, and and her demons pressure to go country

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor

by Chris Azzopardi SGN Contributing Writer We all know Kristine W – or do we? In one of her most revealing interviews ever, the Gayadored dance-music powerhouse recently caught up with us to chat about the closeted Gay choir director who inspired her as a kid, her upcoming summer release and the pressure on her – a farm girl from Washington – to pursue country.

Chris Azzopardi: What’s new, Kristine?

Kristine W: Working on the new album. I just got out of the studio, and got my hard drive stuffed in my purse. We do sessions and put everything on our hard drive, so I run around with hard drives stuffed in my purse.

[Laughs.]

The new album is so fun. Bimbo Jones is a great production team

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the world as a young woman at the top of her game in the early 1980s. Some of the headlines Whitney Houston was the were kinder than others, as best. At the pinnacle of her in later year she publicly batcareer, no one could touch her. tled addiction. Her life ended Beautiful and talented, Houston grabbed headlines from see whitney page 31 the moment she captivated

Kelly Clarkson “Stronger” The 2012 GLAAD than ever Media Awards

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Kelly Clarkson ShoWare Center March 22 Kelly Clarkson has been through it all. The media has called her fat. Speculation about her sexual orientation has gone on for far too long.

Critics have asked, “Could Kelly make a comeback?” In many ways, since she won the very first American Idol 10 years ago, the music biz has been the best – and worst – thing that every happened to Miss Independent. But I’m here to tell you that Kelly is as relevant as ever and her fans are showing the love.

On March 22, Kelly brought her “Stronger” tour to Kent to promote her album of the same name. Thursday night in ShoWare Center, Kelly proved that what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

Kelly’s powerful voice never faltered during the nearly twohour show and the audience of Kelly Clarkson

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Anderson Cooper

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and Anderson Cooper were among the honorees at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on March 24. Glee’s Naya Rivera and Cory Monteith hosted the event.

The GLAAD Media Awards

recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. The awards also fund GLAAD’s work to amplify stories of LGBT people and issues that build support for equality. see glaad page 32

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Brutal Raid a coldly calculated thriller Sony Picture s Classic s

Iko Uwais (l) and Sofyan Alop in The Raid: Redemption

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN Contributing Writer The Raid: Redemption Opening March 30 A lot of people are doing cartwheels over the bizarrely titled The Raid: Redemption (I get why it’s called “The Raid,” it’s the “Redemption” part that makes no sense)

and it’s easy to see why. Seldom do I sit in a movie theater feeling my chest lump up into my throat. Rarely do fisticuffs and intricate fits of martial arts mayhem make me audibly cringe right into the center of my seat.

This movie had me shrieking. This movie had me yelping. And, by the time it was over, I felt as bruised and battered as its be-

leaguered hero, almost wishing the publicist had brought along a stretcher so I could be wheeled out on it instead of walking into the sunlight on my own accord.

But while the Indonesian import is light years better than writer, editor and director Gareth Huw Evans and fight choreographer and star Iko Uwais’ freshman effort Merantau, it’s still far from perfect, and for all the intensely insane hand-to-hand action pyrotechnics the story holding it all together is so threadbare and nonsensical it might as well not even exist. The filmmakers do little with the purposely simple premise, instead running on clichés in hopes the audience will be distracted by all the visual audacity, pumping up the volume and accelerating the action to hide a scenario barely worth the effort.

I’m nitpicking, of course, and considering how I usually tend to be a sucker for this sort of thing I should be doing somersaults. One part Rio Bravo, another Assault on Precinct 13, the movie is a hardcore martial arts rock ’em sock ’em adult playground filled with moments too pugnaciously awesome to even attempt to describe. Like watching classic Jackie Chan, I found myself repeatedly wondering how the heck they pulled off stunt after stunt, people flipping, falling, and flying all over the place to the point where the line between what was done physically and what was aided by either wires or CGI (or both) becomes practically nonexistent.

The plot? A team of elite, specially trained police officers is tasked to covertly enter a massive apartment building lorded over by the brutal Boss Tama (Ray Sahetapy) and bring him back, dead or alive. Highly skilled rookie Rama (Uwais) realizes something is wrong early on, and the only reason he survives after his team is discovered in the building is because his unit’s headstrong commander Jaka (Joe Taslim) orders him to fall back and provide protection for his fellow rookies.

I’m sure you can figure out the rest from there. Jaka and two others manage to make it out of the initial melee alive, while Rama bravely protects a fallen comrade, also a rookie, promising to get him out of the building no matter what. Tama sends his

two best killers, the unimaginatively named Mad Dog (Yayan Ruhian) and the mysterious Andi (Doni Alamsyah), to ferret out the survivors, while also offering lifelong rentfree sanctuary to any of the building’s tenants who bring him the heads of the intruding policemen. Rama must go from floor to floor to floor trying to complete his mission and to make it out of this rundown hellhole alive, engaging in a series of never-ending battles with a variety of opponents as he does so.

The thing is, even with a premise as basic and as simple as that, it feels like Evans couldn’t care less about trying to make something interesting out of it. All he seems to care about is how many bodies will hit the floor, how many attackers Uwais, Taslim, and the others can take on before exhaustion leads to their demise. Sure, he throws in a random plot twist regarding one of Tama’s lieutenants, but he telegraphs the darn thing so clearly that I can’t say it comes anything close to a surprise. Worse, it’s so matter-offact, so one-dimensional, that any chance for an emotional investment in the characters or their plight due to this revelation never happens, the movie remaining dramatically at arm’s length for its duration.

All the same, I can’t be too hard on the film. Magnificently shot by Matt Flannery (who also lensed Merantau) and superbly edited by the director, Evans understands how to make his action scenes sing in a way that feels intimate and new. He loves long takes, allowing all of Uwais’ stunning fight choreography to crackle and sizzle, and as I already stated, sitting in the theater I felt like every blow, strike, and kick was smacking across my body and face the same as up on the screen.

Had Evans spent as much time making Rama, Jaka, Andi, and the others interesting characters, had he exerted a little effort building up their relationships and making what happens to them matter, maybe I’d be willing to put this movie on the same pedestal as those aforementioned Howard Hawks and John Carpenter classics. But The Raid: Redemption never quite connects on anything more than a purely visceral level, leaving me frustratingly cold.

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer Stuck Washington Ensemble Theatre Through April 9 WET (Washington Ensemble Theatre) truly lives up to its edgy reputation in presenting a new homegrown work, Stuck. Jessica Hatlo developed this play after hearing a news report about a woman who had sat on a toilet for so many months that her skin literally grew around the seat and had to be surgically removed.

It is one of those too-unreal-to-be-true stories that is really stranger than fiction.

Could someone really sit on a toilet that long? And have a boyfriend who keeps her alive but doesn’t insist that she get up from the toilet? Really?

Hatlo tried to work backward to decipher how these people might have incrementally, day by day, found themselves in this horrific predicament. It sounds like a great premise, with inherently interesting characters.

As the play begins, Amy (Kay Nahm) and Daniel (Alex Matthews) are already months into this incrementally awful lifestyle. Danny takes care of Amy by feeding her and visiting her while she obsessively watches TV. He even sleeps next to her. He arranges not to have to even use the toilet by making sure he “goes” at work (except for one

emergency, where the audience is treated to him having to move his bowels onstage with impromptu equipment).

Amy is in the thrall of television – talk shows in particular. Aside from sleeping and watching TV, she apparently fantasizes about talk show hosts visiting her and solving her problems. There are many, many references to popular culture, so that has to be meaningful here, but aside from not having anything else to occupy her, the appearance of the hosts doesn’t explain much of anything, even though they try to ask her meaningful questions. Qadriyyah Shabazz and Chris Maslen provide humorous moments as Oprah, Dr. Phil, Clinton Kelly, Stacy London (from What Not to Wear), and others.

There is another character, the landlady, who is a really unnecessary and even destructive device in the play. The subplot implies that she might be hot for Danny. However, Jill Snyder-Marr is apparently directed

by Sarah E.R. Grosman to be a badly drawn caricature of an older woman (why would a 40ish person have a quavery, 80-year-old voice?), and written with absurd 1950s sensibilities. Note to play: Librarians don’t even “hush” people anymore.

There are some nice moments in the play where insight into how these people got into this situation begins to glimmer into sight.

Nahm and Matthews have good chemistry.

Nahm has a quirky, childlike neediness here

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Stuck on an interesting idea

Alex Matthews and Kay Nahm in Stuck

that serves her well. But the humor stops the insight and we never really reach a satisfying conclusion.

The play will definitely appeal to those who like odd concepts, raw humanity on display, and interesting ideas. It may not matter to you that no real conclusion is drawn. If you want something really differ-

ent, then get on over to see this play.

For more information, go to www.washingtonensemble.org or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222063, or call (800) 838-3006.

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Freud’s Last Session pulsates with energy

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one commented. (In actuality, probably no one noticed.)

In its mission statement, Taproot notes that it “exists to create theater that explores the beauty and questions of life while bringing hope to our search for meaning.”

Freud’s Last Session might well have been written to exemplify that credo. Another motto of the theater is on its stationery: “A theatre of hope. We value faith. We respect people. We celebrate theatre.” Well stated.

And, here, well delivered.

Like the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s recent outstanding production of Red, the arts vs. commerce tale of artist Mark Rothko and the creative process, Freud’s Last Session states its objectives, whips through the development, leaves the audience craving more, and ends on a high note. The playwright acknowledges that his script was suggested by a non-fiction book, The Question of God, by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. Several of this reviewer’s more “intellectual” friends made a quick request for Nicholi’s book at the Seattle Public Library.

The actors in the production are equally outstanding. Nolan Palmer has been performing on Taproot’s stages for 31 years. He simply has never been better. Matt Shimkus is a perfect C.S. Lewis. He plays the famous writer and philosopher as a wide-eyed innocent at 40 (which Lewis may well have then been). He’s the perfect foil to Palmer’s

Freud. And even if the two men never met, they should have. And thanks to the magic of theater, they have.

The script is of full of great one-liners: Lewis notes that “The greatest problem with Christianity is Christians.” He also remarks that while Freud professes not to believe in God, he “fills his life with dead gods,” a reference to the set, which recreates Freud’s London recreation of his original office in Vienna. Taproot’s Mark Lund, as usual, did outstanding work on the scenic and sound design. He started buying props – the statues of hundreds of Freud’s “dead gods” that fill every bookcase, every table, every surface – in June and remade many of them.

An all-important statue of Eros came from an internet purchase but had to be weighted, restyled, repainted – in essence, recreated for the production. Costumes and lighting are both tops.

While the play continues its unexpected popularity in New York, the producers have wisely opened the Chicago production using the two original New York actors – “direct from The Big Apple” always prompts ticket sales. At the after-opening party, Nolte mentioned that the Chicago production had sent a “break a leg” note for the Taproot opening.

“It was a wonderful gesture,” he noted. The New York producers also have a very clever ad campaign for the production, nearing the end of its second year. The small ad reads: “Freud’s Last Session. Join the conversation. Woody Allen, Barbara Walters, Neil Simon, Alec Baldwin, and Jerry Stiller all had a session. Schedule YOUR session today!” The celebrities, of course, had a session with Freud by attending the production (well, it’s possible that Woody Allen had more access, but that’s unlikely). It’s a clever ad for a rewarding play.

Seattle theater fans can bask in the fact that two spring productions are running concurrently in New York and in the Emerald City. The Seattle Rep’s upcoming staging of Clybourne Park, last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for best play, opens in Seattle only days after it opens on Broadway. (That show unexpectedly won the Pulitzer the week that the highly praised off-Broadway production was scheduled to close. It was too late to extend it off-Broadway or move officially to Broadway, so regional rights were released before the current Broadway production was announced.) It’s rare that Seattle has any play on local stages while still in New York, but having two such productions is doubly impressive.

Freud’s Last Session continues through April 21. (Opening-night fans of the production were already asking about an extension. Unlikely, but watch for details.) A special “senior matinee” is scheduled for Wednesday, April 11, at a special rate. Several student matinees are also scheduled.

Full details are available at (206) 781-9707 or at www.taproottheatre.org. Various student/senior discounts are offered. Highest recommendation.

Matt Shimkus (l) as C.S. Lewis and Nolan Palmer

by Milton W. Hamlin SGN A&E Writer Freud’s Last Session Taproot Theatre Through April 21 Taproot Theatre’s new production of Freud’s Last Session is full of exciting elements. It pulsates with energy and philosophy. It pits two incredible real-life people – Christian author C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, the “father” of modern psychoanalysis – in a debate of religion vs. science. In truth, the meeting in London in 1939, on the day Great Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, never occurred. The play is an imagining of two philosophies, clearly described as a fictional event in the play’s insightful program notes. (Unlike the current controversy about Mike Daisey and his The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, where many of the “facts” were fabricated, this fictional meeting is labeled as such.)

In a short, snappy 75 minutes, playwright Mark St. Germain involves us, delights us, challenges our concepts of faith, and makes us examine our ideas of science and philosophy – and it is terribly funny (and, in one scene, horrifyingly bloody). In short, it is the perfect play for our times. The opening night audience last Friday clearly loved the play and the production. And as an added

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bonus, this very contemporary work is making its West Coast premiere at Taproot while still playing in New York. An unexpected off-Broadway smash, the play has moved to several off-Broadway theaters and a loyal, word-of-mouth audience has followed its every move and turned it into a true New York rarity – a hit production of a straight play about ideas.

Praise goes to all involved in the production. Director Scott Nolte skillfully keeps the production moving briskly along. He is not afraid to let the humor – sometimes outrageous humor – take center stage (who knew that Freud could do stand-up comedy?) and he’s well aware that an evening of philosophic discussion about religion must keep moving to hold the audience’s attention. Nolte, artistic director and founder of Taproot (36 years ago), has done many outstanding productions for the small, intense company, but few have matched the overall success of this superb staging. Taproot probably has the most loyal audience in the Seattle area. Basically conservative, Taproot continues to stretch its boundaries – Freud’s Last Session includes Freud’s positive comments about homosexuality being “perfectly normal” and the opening-night party included whiskey-soaked chocolate cake from The Upper Crust, a local and very supportive catering company. And no

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by Jessica Price SGN A&E Writer Sharon Van Etten March 25 The Neptune Since her 2009 debut, Sharon Van Etten has unexpectedly connected with listeners in a musical landscape currently lacking realness and approachability in many of its female stars. The authenticity she possesses is seen to best effect in the success of only a handful of female singer/songwriters today – think Adele in terms of relatability and complete lack of pretension. Van Etten isn’t flighty like the sublimely talented Chan Marshall of Cat Power, but she is equally profound and a thousand times more straightforward. Van Etten can face a crowded theater – articulate and armed with a guitar or perhaps a harmonium – and you won’t have to hold your breath to see if she can deliver.

What first caught me about Van Etten’s music was the distinctive raspy drawl of “A Crime” from her second album, Epic. The plaintive vocals wrap around powerfully yearning lyrics and collide with driving guitar. Epic brings to mind the best parts of Fleetwood Mac, rather than anything on the ethereal end of folk. Van Etten’s songs possess distinct elements of rock, folk, and a touch of country. For all the heartbreak

and regret implied in her music, seeing her live at The Neptune last Sunday I was struck by just how upbeat the 31-year-old singer seemed to be. In fact, she was charming and downright chatty.

Wearing a plain white button-up and pleated, high-waisted trousers, the darkhaired singer drew inevitable comparisons to Patti Smith (literally, in the form of a fan’s note read aloud by the singer professing how “Patti Smith gorgeous” she is).

A hushed “Give Out” kicked off the set, but Van Etten quickly switched to the urgency of “Peace Signs” and “Save Yourself” from Epic, proving how seamlessly her folkish styling transitions to rock. Originally from New Jersey, Van Etten studied in Tennessee, and it shows in her mildly twangy roots and slight Southern drawl. “Kevin’s,” “Ask,” and “Leonard” had the theater completely spellbound. “Serpents,” the obvious standout from Tramp, directly channeled Sharon’s inner fierceness. With one selfeffacing encore, the band closed with a pair of songs from both major releases: stunners “One Day” and “All I Can.” Backing vocalist and keyboardist Heather Woods Broderick was a perfect foil to Van Etten’s deeper vocals. The three musicians making up the backing band were all individually talented (Woods Broderick, as well as bassist Doug Keith and drummer Zeke Hutchins), but sadly, didn’t feel like an excourte sy positiv ely pittsbu rgh

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Sharon Van Etten mesmerizing at The Neptune

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tension of Van Etten, instead restraining themselves to make way for the singer. A talent like her can actually burn a little brighter in a good pairing. Take, for instance, Tramp, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, which also includes vital contributions from Matt Barrick (The Walkmen), and Zach Condon (Beirut).

Sharon Van Etten’s distinctive songs and

“one-woman show” will take her far in the coming years. While we keep waiting for the careers of many of her contemporaries to stabilize, it seems that Van Etten is already there. It’s refreshing to come across a singer-songwriter so self-assured and truly interesting, one quietly growing stronger before our eyes.

En Vogue brought the party to Jazz Alley

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer En Vogue March 22 Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley These girls weren’t messing around. After a delayed start due to technical difficulties during their warmups, En Vogue took the stage at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley and cut to the chase. Their 75-minute performance, the first of six on four consecutive nights at the downtown venue, featured nearly every major hit by the successful R&B act.

In front of a house just a few seats shy of a complete sell-out, the group – Cindy Herron-Braggs, Terry Ellis, and Maxine Jones – began the show with shortened versions of “Love Don’t Love You” and “No No No (Can’t Come Back).” Each wearing black slacks and a sparkly top of the same color, the ladies then weaved several of their known songs into a 10-minute medley that included “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It),” “You Don’t Have to Worry,” “Lies,” and “Riddle.”

Right out of the gate, the trio sounded fantastic. Paired with the fact that they still look hot, En Vogue have not gotten old.

They’ve ripened.

“We appreciate the welcome,” the girls said on a quick break. Referring to this particular evening they exclaimed, “It’s about partying!”

Paying tribute to female artists who paved their way, the group reeled off a series of

covers from The Supremes, Cheryl Lynn, Donna Summer, Anita Ward, The Emotions, Labelle, and Tina Turner, to name a few. During “Ring My Bell,” Ellis reached her microphone down to allow a male fan at the front to sing the chorus. He did so fearlessly and with enjoyment. The atmosphere, by this point, was festive. The audience was clapping and singing, and some at the bar were dancing.

The second half of En Vogue’s set was slower paced, as the trio performed standard-length renditions of each song backed by a three-person band. It began with a ferocious belting of “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” and then a funky run-through of “Whatta Man,” which included a big hand wave from the crowd. After two numbers in a row from the Soul Flower project, an album released on an independent label, the Oakland-based unit played a smoldering version of “Free Your Mind,” where the women asked the audience to “pump your fists in the air.”

“Don’t Let Go” and “Hold On,” which found Ellis wailing on the intro, closed it all out. There were no encores, but there was enough rapturous cheer in the room to warrant one.

It’s hard to call En Vogue’s appearance in Seattle a comeback. They never went anywhere. The lineup has changed slightly, but they still look and sound great. They also appear to be having fun, leaving no doubt that there’s a lot more where this came from.

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continued from cover suddenly on February 11 by accidental drowning as the main cause of her death in the bathroom of her hotel suite in Beverly Hills. She was dead at 48.

I’m not interested in dragging Houston over the coals. Countless journalists and

“It was horrible and undeserved,” Don Ienner, who had been general manager of Arista, said of the incident. “That might have haunted her for the rest of her life.”

Some say – even Brown himself has alluded to it – that she married Bobby only because; she wanted to earn so-called “street cred” while putting to rest the rumor that she was Bisexual.

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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown in happier times

tabloid reporters who – for one reason or another – refuse to research addiction and the powerful grip it can have on a person have already done that. Houston was a great vocalist and entertainer. Some have called her the Queen of Pop. Unfortunately, Houston was also an addict, battling substance abuse, alcoholism, and anxiety. In February, she joined the ranks of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson as legends who, in their personal life, could never overcome the demons they fought to suppress with drug abuse. I will always love her, as many of you will, but it is important to acknowledge what helped destroy her. Like Houston, many Gay men have struggled with depression, substance abuse, and alcoholism. We tend to idolize and celebrate women who struggle with the very same – think Judy Garland and Amy Winehouse. It is important to understand that, without getting help, anyone could fall down that rabbit hole.

For some time, the press had accused her of having a sexual relationship with her friend and personal assistant Robyn Crawford, a female friend from her teen years.

“Our relationship is that we are friends,” said Houston, defending herself in a Rolling Stone article. “I mean, what kind of person am I – to be married and have another life?”

Crawford has never addressed the issue.

Brown, whose marriage with Houston officially ended in 2007, was quoted as saying that their marriage was “doomed from the very beginning. I think we got married for all the wrong reasons.

Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did. … I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children. The media was accusing her of having a Bisexual relationship with her assistant.

In Whitney’s situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not.”

Many credit Houston’s accelerated use of drugs – cocaine in particular – to her marriage to Brown.

In addition, like other stars, Houston missed being able to go out in public without being mobbed.

“That troubled her because she didn’t want to live a double life,” Winans told ABC’s 20/20 after Houston’s death. “She wanted to be that Jersey girl. And she fought hard to be her.”

it interferes with the electrical system of the heart,” Fishbein said. “An analogy might be a swimming pool pump. You can have a perfectly good pump, but if you cut the electrical cord, the pump stops working. If the heart stops pumping blood, all the organs are deprived of oxygen. The tissue dies and the person dies.”

Cocaine also increases the demand for oxygen, as it increases heart rate and blood pressure.

“The long-term effect is that cocaine causes the heart to be enlarged, which increases the risk of sudden death,” Fishbein said. “It also causes scarring in the heart, which increases the risk of a sudden cardiac death, and it causes accelerated atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries, which we associate with high blood pressure and smoking.”

When occlusion in the arteries reaches 75% narrowing, it is typically considered dangerous, but Fishbein says 60% occlusion for a woman of 48 is above average.

Although Houston had been a chronic cocaine user throughout her life, Fishbein said even a person with a normal heart can die of cocaine use and that if someone takes too much cocaine, he or she can die from even one exposure.

The question still remains, however, whether Houston died before or after she was submerged underwater in her hotel bathtub.

According to ABC News, “Medical examiners tend to say that someone has died of drowning if they are found in the water, and it is likely that water was found in Houston’s lungs. In the report released Thursday, the coroner lists drowning first.”

According to Fishbein, there are two potential scenarios in Houston’s case.

“People can have what are called agonal respirations. That is, you can have a gasping breath, even after the heart is stopped.

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HOW COCAINE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO HEART DISEASE Accidental drown-

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A VICTIM OF BULLYING While her tumultuous marriage to R&B bad boy Bobby Brown and battles with substance abuse tarnished Houston’s once golden image, the late 1980s and early 1990s saw a young woman grappling with painful challenges. Houston was hurt that some argued her music wasn’t “black enough.”

In an interview with 20/20, gospel singer BeBe Winans, her longtime friend, remembered Houston saying, “They’re saying I’m not black enough. I’m selling out.”

Rolling Stone writer David Browne reports, “A turning point seemed to arrive in 1989, when Houston was nominated for Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single by a Female at that year’s Soul Train Awards.

Seated up front, [Clive] Davis and Houston listened as the announcement of her name was greeted with scattered boos. The two looked at each other with baffled expressions.”

Some critics, said Browne, even dubbed her “Whitey Houston.”

“The criticisms seem silly now,” he wrote, “but at the time they stung deeply.”

ing, heart disease, and substance abuse are blamed for Whitney Houston’s tragic demise. The toxicology results have been revealed and what the coroner found was heart-wrenching.

As reported by ABC News on March 22, Los Angeles County Coroner’s chief, Craig Harvey, outlined the findings in the office’s preliminary toxicology report.

“We had approximately a 60% occlusion in the arteries, in the narrowing of the arteries,” Harvey said. “So, that condition, complicated by the chronic cocaine use, all combined to result in her drowning. The final cause of death has been established as drowning due to atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.”

According to the National Institute of Health, atherosclerotic heart disease is a buildup of plaque that narrows the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. It is not known how long the singer had the condition. But what is known is that her body took a serious beating after years of hard drug use.

The findings harkens back to the now infamous “crack is whack” interview Whitney Houston gave with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer. “It has been [alcohol, marijuana, pills, cocaine] at times,” Houston told Sawyer in the frank 2002 interview that delved headlong into her addiction struggles. “Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do.

It’s my decision; the biggest devil is me. I’m my best friend and my worst enemy.”

So what does it mean to be a chronic cocaine user? And how does it contribute to heart disease? Dr. Michael Fishbein of the UCLA Medical Center explained the shortand long-term effects cocaine has on the heart to ABC News, in an attempt to make sense out of what happened on February 11, during Houston’s final moments.

“The immediate effect of cocaine is that

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continued from cover to work with. It’s been a wild ride and very labor-intensive, but the next few months we’re going to be really churning and burning to finish it up. We shot the album cover with Mike Ruiz in New York this past week.

We’re just having a hard time coming up with a title. We’re all over the place.

Azzopardi: How do you approach new music?

Kristine W: I don’t want to be an ambulance chaser. I always find it annoying that someone does what the last five people have done, so I try to create stuff that’s different and tap into my audience and see what they’re feeling at the moment and do songs they can relate to.

A lot of songs on the new album will be new productions of my original hits. We’re doing a mix of brand-new material and a few of the No. 1s that we tend to do a lot, because if we don’t people start freaking out.

If there’s no “Land of the Living” or “One More Try,” you get hate mail.

Azzopardi: Weren’t you raised on a farm?

Kristine W: Yeah, totally. My grandpa was an alfalfa and wheat farmer and he raised black angus beef cattle for the Black Angus restaurant chain back in the day. So I kind of brought the ranch with me, because I have a little ranch where we perform. It looks like a little farmhouse, but it’s actually a rehearsal studio. We call it “the ranch.”

It’s on two-and-a-half acres, so we can be as loud as we want and nobody gets mad at us. I have my horses out there, and I have a sheep and a goat, and random animals that people drop off that they don’t want anymore. [Laughs.] My mom was telling me I remind her of Eva Gabor in Green Acres.

Azzopardi: Not many Gay people around, I assume.

Kristine W: Not really. When I was a kid, the first person that I figured out was Gay was my choir director – believe it or not, I figured that one out! [Laughs.] Obviously he wasn’t out at all, but my mom used to pretend to be his girlfriend and I was hip to the fact that he was definitely not her boyfriend,

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ARIES (March 20 – April 19): Rash impulses, touchiness and pushing yourself too hard will only invite trouble. Resisting those demons is a huge challenge right now.

Practice meditation, moderate exercise, patience, and sympathy. If you can’t be nice, take a long meditative walk.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20): Your financial intuitions are good, but you need to discuss them with your banker or accountant who might improve on them. Sexual innovation will help your partnership, but again, better to consult rather than to act on impulse.

GEMINI (May 21 – June 20): Charm wins attention and admirers, but real love and commitment take more. Think seriously about where you want to be in 20 years and discuss that with your (prospective) mate. Your boss’s insanity is not your problem; how you respond to it is.

CANCER (June 21 – July 22): Listen carefully to colleagues for chances to improve working relationships. Your personal relations are a bigger challenge as you feel pulled between love and work. Right now work has to come first. Your partner will understand.

LEO (July 23 – August 22): As your friends look to you for leadership it’s too easy to fall into pleasant routines. Take a creative challenge and push for something new and different. If you can wait a week or two to make any financial decisions.

VIRGO (August 23 – September 22): Errr … who’s being irritable and hypersensitive? It’s too easy to blame things on your partner. Even a long, strong marriage needs clear boundaries. Clearing the air can be helpful, but solutions will come later. Be patient.

LIBRA (September 23 – October 22): Your flirtatious instincts could upset your sweetie. Take care of what you already have going! A little fresh air and innovation are necessary to keep a relationship alive, but you have to work together on that!

SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21): Losing some friends could be good, but slow down and think hard about who you want in your future. A great new passion is probably just a passing fancy, but why pass it up? Just be careful of expectations and prophylaxis.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 20): Throw yourself into your work.

Even if you’re feeling disconnected and just running on momentum you can get a lot done. Seeking attention and promotion will backfire. Just keep your shoulder to the wheel. Rewards will come later.

CAPRICORN (December 21 – January 19): Rumblings close to home point to domestic trouble on the horizon. Those problems aren’t serious – yet. Take some time off from work; make time your mate. Work together on changes. Flowers or dinner out are nice surprises. Redecorating on your own isn’t.

AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18): Those cuties flirting with you are probably partnered. Nothing wrong with flirting as long as you’re careful. Getting too witty will undermine caution. Think ahead! Write down those bon mots that are too incendiary for conversation.

PISCES (February 19 – March 19): Domestic and professional relationships can bolster each other, but prioritize the professional for now. It’s hard to maintain focus and people are pulling you in different directions. Principles will offer direction. Focus on what is important in your life and who will fall into place.

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that he was her confidante or best friend. I was like, “Wait a minute!”

Azzopardi: What kind of influence did he have on you musically?

Kristine W: I remember I’d go over to his house all the time; I just adored him. He was one of my best friends and he gave me piano lessons and singing lessons. He and I were super tight. He always gave me the solos because I had this big ol’ voice, so I got to be the calling card as the church got fuller. People were talking about this kid who could sing really good. I brought an audience and helped make the church popular.

But he was my first. He was always around after my dad died when I was 3. I was about 8 years old when I realized that he was definitely not my mom’s boyfriend. In Vegas we call them a “shill,” where gamblers are hired by the casino to pretend that they’re gambling. So, she was that. He was a sixthgrade teacher, and she knew that if anyone caught wind that he was Gay, he would’ve lost his job – he would’ve lost everything.

So I learned early on how the party rolls.

When I was embraced by the Gay community, I just thought how proud he would’ve been.

Azzopardi: What was your mom like?

Kristine W: My mom was a working musician, so she performed six nights a week from 5 to 11 o’clock. I don’t think she had a hardcore passion for it; it was more about survival. She’s really good at the wigs; she looked like Liz Taylor. She had the black hair and beautiful blue eyes. And perfect boobs. I call her a musical therapist, because she sang half the time, talked half the time and knew everyone. It was like a Cheers atmosphere. And, for me, that’s where that comes from.

Azzopardi: How did you wind up taking the dance-pop route instead of going country?

Kristine W: There was a lot of pressure for me to do country because I was good at it. But I started winning these competitions in junior high as a jazz soloist, because my mom would perform on the weekends with jazz trios. I was around all these amazing musicians and people would constantly teach me old music. When I came to Vegas, there really wasn’t any style of music I couldn’t sing, because I grew up with a mom who sang country and sang jazz tunes and standards. My two best friends – one Mexican, one black – turned me onto all the killer R&B, soul, and dance music.

I remember the turning point was when I was a kid and I heard Donna Summer on the radio and that just stopped me in my tracks – her combination of a gospel voice with dance music. I remember being a kid and my mom going, “What’s wrong with you?”

Azzopardi: You have more No. 1s on the Billboard dance charts than Donna Summer and Whitney Houston, both of whom also have big voices. What are your thoughts on Whitney’s legacy?

Kristine W: While performing in Vegas, we did Whitney Houston medleys all the time. I remember us doing “Queen of the Night” and “I’m Every Woman.” We did a whole medley for my Vegas show. Nobody sounded like her. They’ve tried to emulate her, but she’s one of a kind.

I’m angry, because she was constantly surrounded by people. Why didn’t someone just say, “This is it, sister, we gotta clean this shit up”? It’s weird. I’ve been asking myself, “Why are you so mad about it?” But it’s sad.

They just watched a train go off its tracks.

It makes my heart ache. I wish I would’ve been her friend. If my Gay boys get out of hand, I figure out something.

Azzopardi: Have you intervened in the lives of your Gay friends before?

Kristine W: Oh god, yes. One, a really talented drag performer, lived with me for four or five months, and he got on crack.

Boy, did I witness some shit. His teeth were falling out, and to see how he deteriorated in a year was just shocking. But I turned his life around. He’s so successful now. I’ve never done any drugs, no pot, but I like my champagne. Pinot noir if I’m really partying hard!

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The pop and part-time country music star opened the show with “Dark Side,” from Stronger, her 2011 album, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with over 500,000 copies sold thus far. Right out of the gate Kelly made it known that she was going to take on her critics head-on as she attacked the song with ferocity after images of derogatory newspaper and magazine headlines flashed in the background.

Her voice sounded better than ever and the crowd exploded with energy.

“I was really hoping for an early show tonight,” she told fans. “I was really tired before I came out here but this crowd is really giving me some good energy. Keep it up!”

And they did. The crowd was on its feet for most of the show and, although Kelly used a teleprompter for some of the songs (you’d think she would’ve learned from the Super Bowl national anthem debacle), the audience seemed to know the words to every song.

Speaking of the crowd, I thought it would be 50/50 – half Gay men, half middle-aged women. But I was wrong. Although the audience had its fair share of queens and their friends, an astonishing crop of new tween girls sang along with every song – even the old stuff.

Wasting no time getting to the hits, Kelly ripped right into 2004’s “Since U Been Gone” (from the album Breakaway, which sold 12 million copies worldwide). Other songs from the album were performed as well, such as a rousing rendition of the title track – a song that Kelly told the audience, “really made my career take off.”

But it wasn’t all old stuff. Due to fans requesting newer material on Twitter, which Kelly admitted to the audience is “really cool,” she sang a number of the new tunes that have aided in her recent success.

Kelly often sings covers, but when she chose to sing The Beatles’ classic “Oh Darling,” her crystal-clear voice owned the room. She told the audience she was particularly happy to perform that song – at a fan’s request – because a member of her band is “the biggest Beatles fan in the world.”

A highlight of the show came when she sang a hologram duet with Jason Aldean, “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” showing her affinity for country music. “I grew up on country music,” she told the audience. “I just love it!”

Working two powerhouse songs out in a rocking medley, Kelly sang “Miss Independent” and a new single, “Mr. Know-it-All.” Kelly ended the show with a four-song encore, which included the mega-hit “Because of You,” “My Life Would Suck Without You,” and, of course, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).”

For anyone who thinks ShoWare Center is too out-of-the-way, think again. There’s plenty of parking, which saves time and cash (it was free or $5), and the venue is amazing.

There’s not a bad seat in the house and the sound system was perfect for a vocalist such as Kelly Clarkson – whose voice is as good, if not better, as it was when she first won over America on Idol.

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Photographs from the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York may be found at www.glaad.org/mediaawards.

Video clips of the ceremony will be released soon at www.youtube.com/glaad.

At the event, Broadway legend Bernadette Peters and actor John Stamos presented the Vito Russo Award to producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

The Vito Russo Award is presented to openly LGBT media professionals who have made a significant difference in promoting Chris Azzopardi is the editor of Q Syndi- equality for the LGBT community.

“I want to thank GLAAD for selecting us cate, the international LGBT wire service.

Reach him via his website at www.chris- to be honored, and for their extraordinary work every single day,” Zadan said in his azzopardi.com. acceptance speech. “When we did The Rea-

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gans, we had death threats for telling the truth about that president’s outright refusal to acknowledge the growing AIDS crisis in America. We would not have survived that ordeal; I must point out, without the help of GLAAD. They got us through the political firestorm leveled against us by the Republican National Committee. So we got to see first-hand what GLAAD’s capable of accomplishing when they mobilize the troops, and thank God for them.”

Zadan finished his acceptance by thanking his late friend and GLAAD’s founder, Vito Russo. “Some people become your heroes and they don’t even know it. [Vito Russo] was mine. And the lucky thing for me was I got to tell him while he was here. I want to thank … my guru and inspirational life-force Vito Russo, who is responsible for every aspect of my social consciousness that brought me to this stage tonight to get this award that bears his glorious name. Thank you so much.”

Meron accepted the award by saying, “I just love being Gay. [It’s] part of who I am, so it impacts the work that we do, and I love the work that we do. So it’s great.” Pointing to the youth in the balcony, Meron continued, “It’s great for you guys to understand that it’s really great to be Gay. I really thank GLAAD for this wonderful honor and it’s very, very meaningful to me.”

Also at the event, Weinstein Company co-chairman and outspoken anti-bullying advocate Harvey Weinstein presented a special recognition award to openly Gay high school student Katy Butler. Butler launched a Change.org campaign last month to advocate that the R rating of the upcoming documentary Bully be changed to PG-13.

Her Change.org petition has nearly 500,000 signatures.

Accepting the award from Weinstein, Butler said, “This award belongs to every student like me, who has been bullied and beaten just for being who they are. Please know that we’re working hard to make it better.

And judging from what we’ve already seen tonight, I’m thankful that we have groups like GLAAD on our side. Stay strong.” She continued, “A few weeks ago, I started a petition on Change.org urging the Motion Picture Association of America to change the rating of Bully … so students across America can see this life-changing film. I want to personally thank each and every one of the nearly half a million people who have signed my petition on Change.org. Your signatures, stories, and ongoing support have inspired a national dialogue on our nation’s bullying epidemic and have given hope to struggling students everywhere.”

Zach Wahls, who appeared in a GLAAD

Media Award-nominated episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show this year, received a standing ovation as he spoke to the crowd about the impact of his 2011 speech to the Iowa Senate, in which he spoke about his Lesbian moms. The viral video has received over 18 million views on YouTube.

Pariah stars Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans with the film’s producer Nekisa Cooper accepted the award for Outstanding Film – Limited Release.

Carson Kressley, who with Chaz Bono appeared on the GLAAD Media Awardnominated season of Dancing with the Stars, picked up the statuette on behalf of the show, which received the award for Outstanding Reality Program.

The award for Outstanding TV Journalism Segment was accepted by ABC News correspondent Josh Elliott for his report “Battle Against Bullying,” which aired on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. In his acceptance speech, Elliott thanked his father, who came out as Gay when Elliott was 13.

Openly Gay journalists Carolyn M. Brown and Chris Geidner shared the award for Outstanding Magazine Article for their stories in Black Enterprise and Metro Weekly respectively. Brown’s article “Black & Gay in Corporate America,” explored the increasing presence of openly Gay African American employees in the workplace. Geidner received the award for his four-part series looking back at the passage of the Defense of Marrage Act (DOMA) during the Clinton administration.

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“How does someone die in a bathtub?” he asked. “It’s not like they’re swimming the English Channel. So she had to have been incapacitated. And I think that was due to the cocaine causing an abnormal cardiac rhythm.”

Houston’s cause of death has been identified as accidental drowning and although accusing fingers have been pointed in the singer’s death (Bobby Brown’s sister blames Ray J, whom Houston dated for some time, for her cocaine use), the L.A. police department says it will not investigate the case any further.

Lt. Mark Rosen told the LA Times that the department has been focused on Houston’s case since she died on February 11, but the coroner’s report concluded there was no foul play.

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IN DEATH, A LEGEND IS BORN Whitney Houston is a legend, and rightly so – she was the voice of a generation. No one sounded like her then, and I doubt anyone will sound like her in the future.

She was a successful artist. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time.

Her records sold over 170 million copies worldwide. When Houston debuted her first album at age 22, she scored three No. 1 singles and her follow-up album, 1987’s Whitney, delivered four more number ones. She is also one of the Grammy Awards’ most celebrated artists. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No.1 Billboard Hot 100 hits.

When America was entangled in the Persian Gulf War, Houston performed “The Star Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV on January 27, 1991. Due to the overwhelming response to her vocal prowess while singing the anthem – many called it the best rendition they’d ever heard – it was released as a commercial single CD and video.

As the star of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992), Houston’s career was catapulted into superstardom. Its lead single “I Will Always Love You,” became the bestselling single by a female artist in music history. She would go on to star in Waiting to Exhale (1995), The Preacher’s Wife (1996), and the not-yet-released remake of the 1976 film Sparkle.

Yes, she disappeared for a while (much longer than her fans and admirers would’ve liked). And not just from music and film – the Whitney Houston we all knew and loved disappeared. A new, unrecognizable, rebellious Houston emerged. Her voice was hoarse. She was devastatingly skinny. She was photographed at nightclubs drunk and sweaty, clearly intoxicated. Her appearances on the reality TV show Being Bobby Brown were an embarrassment.

And then it happened. False hope. She was attempting a comeback and she almost got there. The public was willing to look the other way on the sketchy years of 1999-2007 in Houston’s life. Sure, when she released I

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Look to You in 2010, her voice wasn’t what it once was, but we didn’t care. After divorcing Bobby Brown and recording again, we wanted so badly for her to remain clean. Everyone was rooting for her.

But the demons came back. Her erratic behavior returned when she was on tour in Europe and her friends, family, and fans got the sad news in the spring of 2011 that Houston was once again back in rehab for drugs and alcohol. Bullied, hurt, and addicted, Houston would never obtain the comeback she – and we – so dearly wanted. On February 11, the demons went silent. Maybe now, she can finally rest.

I like to think of Houston in her heyday.

Voice stronger than ever, dressed in a beautiful gown, head held high – sober – stepping up to the microphone with a single spotlight illuminating her genius as she belts, “…and I will always love you.” That’s the Houston I choose to remember: beautiful smile, confident demeanor, and nailing those high notes with an ease that the rest of us mere mortals will never understand. As she slipped away from us, a legend was born.

Houston was buried in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, on February 18.

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FRIDAY

Bar Myx - Weekly drink specials and dancing with DJ Matt Stands! No cover!

Changes - Prime Rib dinner, $11.75; other dinner special, $8.25.

Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

DJ Dance 9 pm - 1:30 am. Hosted by Eric. Bear Night, 2nd Friday every month.

The Cuff Complex - Country Dancing w/ Rain Country 7 pm -11 pm, HiNRG Dancing - Alternating DJ’s 11pmclose. Cover $5 @ 9 pm.

Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

The Elite - No cover! 12pm -2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, $1 off call cocktails, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3.00 daily drink specials. Happy Hour, 3 - 7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun. - Thurs. 9 - 11 pm: $1.50 Miller drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3.00 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - No cover … ever!!! Start your weekend off right. Happy Hour 6 - 8 pm.Weekly beer & cocktail specials.

Neighbours Nightclub - House music with DJ Eric.

9 pm - 4 am 21+ * Cover charges as follows: 9 pm - 12 am, $5.00; 12 am - 2 am, $8.00; 2 am - 4 am, $10.00* **From 2 am - 4 am, 18+ with valid ID on main floor** www.neighboursnightclub.com.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm.

R Place - Happy Hour 4-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 drafts. Daily drink and bottle specials. Lashes Cabaret at 9 pm with Chablis & company.

Vibe - in Kent - $4 Jäger Bombs. South Side Boogie-Dancing, 9 pm - 2 am, with DJ Dirty Dan. Karaoke in the Main Room, 9 pm - 2 am. No cover.

Wildrose - www.thewildrosebar.com.

SATURDAY

Bar Myx - Weekly drink specials and dancing with DJ Trent Von! No cover!

Changes - Happy Hour till 7 pm. Free video games & pool all day & Night. Tacos 2 for $2.00 until sold out.

Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

DJ Dance, 9 pm - 1:30 am. Hosted by Eric.

The Cuff Complex - 1st Saturday Country Dancing w/ Rain Country 7 pm -10 pm, HiNRG Dancing - Alternating DJ’s 10 pm-3 am. Cover $5 @ 9 pm.

Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime.

Happy Hour Noon - 5 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls. “full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, $8 Stoli doubles, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour, 3 - 7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour, Sun.-Thurs. 9 - 11 pm: $1.50 Miller drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - No cover … ever!!! But get in early to beat the line. Capacity enforced for your comfort & safety.

Happy Hour, 6 - 8 pm.Weekly beer & cocktail specials.

Neighbours - Power Mix with DJ Randy Schlager from C89. 21+ with Valid ID. 9 pm - 4 am. *Cover charges as follows - 9 pm - 12 am, $5.00; 12 am - 2 am. $8.00; 2 am - 4 am, $10.00. 206-324-5358; www.neighboursnightclub.com.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7pm.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 2-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. $6.50 Gourmet Bloody Mary’s Lashes cabaret with Chablis and Company.

Vibe - in Kent - Absolut Saturdays! $5 Absolut Drinks.

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Wildrose - First Saturday each month, DJs & dancing. $5 cover. www.thewildrosebar.com.

Sunday

Bar Myx - T Dance! 3-7pm with DJ Lady Char, $1.00 Rolling Rocks. Dinner and a Movie at Bar Myx! Enjoy the newest releases on our big screens from 7 pm every Sunday! Dinner specials every week, $4 glasses of house wine, $1 doubles any drink! After the movie, one lucky customer will get to take the movie home…every week!

Changes - Open at Noon, Happy hour ALL DAY / NIGHT. Karaoke at 9 pm with Black Nail Productions.

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9-Ball Pool Tourney at 6 pm - 16 players only. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - “Bottom forty” 6 pm-close w/ DJ Nark + Riff Raff & Guests. Cover $5 @ 8 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour Noon - 5 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - NW Sports first on TV. Sound with early afternoon Mariners games. Pitcher special all day with free U-shell peanuts and pool.

Neighbours - 9 pm - 2 am Entre Hermanos Noche Latina $5.00 cover 21+ with Valid ID.With DJ Luis.

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Twisted - Happy Hour all night! www.twistedineverett. com Vibe - in Kent - Happy Hour All Day! FREE POOL! Wildrose - Free pool all day. www.thewildrosebar.com.

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Bar Myx - Bacardi Game Night! $4 Bacardi calls all night long, plus $9 Bacardi Pitchers! Mental Masturbation at 7:30 (with bonus questions and a bar match for the grand prize), followed by Beer Pong! Evening is hosted by our sassy bartenderess Karee Jo! Changes - Happy Hour all day and night.

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The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily, Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Pint night with Happy Hour prices 8 pm-close. 9-Ball Pool Tourney at 7 pm.

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Seattle Eagle - IN HEAT $5 Long Island Iced teas Dj KINGOFPANTS from 10-2 Vibe - in Kent - $10 Dizzy Pass - $1 you call it, 6pm to close.

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Bar Myx - $2 Bud and Bud Light drafts, and $4 Bud and Bud Light Mondos! $3 shots of Fireball, $5 well margaritas, $5 Nachos (beef, chicken or veggie) and 2 beef tacos for $2, 2 chicken tacos for $3 or 2 carne asada tacos for $4!

Changes - Happy Hour until 7 pm. Karaoke 9 pm.

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Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

8-Ball Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. Karaoke 9 pm-1:30 am hosted by Michael.

The Cuff Complex - Free pool & Pitcher special , Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Country lesson w/Rain Country 1st & 3rd Wednesday 7:30 pm, Poz Seattle social 2nd Wednesday 6 pm, Leather social 4th Wednesday 7 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Dart Tournament starts at 7:30 pm.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Gelliphish 7 pm-midnight.

Re-Bar - D.A.I.S.Y. Age with Riz! Hip Hop and R/B from the 1990’s.YO! FREE 10 pm.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Vibe - in Kent - $1 off all mixed drinks and shots. Karaoke 9pm-2am with José.

Wildrose - Karaoke 8 pm-12:30 am. No cover; drink specials. www.thewildrosebar.com.

THURSDAY

Bar Myx - $5 Long Island, Long Beach, AMF and Porn Stars! $4 with college or military ID! $8 Trashcans, and $3 Capitol Hill Dogs!

Changes - Happy Hour from 12 noon til 8pm. Karaoke at 9pm A Black Nail Production.

Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

Dart Tourney 7:30 pm. Hosted by RW & Co. The Cuff Complex - Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Pool Tournament 7 pm, Karaoke 8 pm-12 am w/Jonathan Jones Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

The Elite - No cover! 12pm-2am Happy Hour 5pm8pm, www.theeliteseattle.com Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Weekly beer & cocktail specials. Kick off the weekend early. No DJ needed, you control the jukebox.

Poco Wine Room - An intimate, cozy Capitol Hill wine bar featuring many NW wines by the glass. www.pocowineroom.com.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 3 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Thomas from 7 pm-midnight.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Vibe - in Kent - $3 wells, $4 Washington Apples.

Wildrose - Cheap date night! $2 wells. Corn dogs & tater tots. www.thewildrosebar.com.

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Meetings Events Activities

FOR A CALENDAR LISTING: Send details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 3227188. 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.

community calendar

TUESDAY - April 3

For a directory of GLBT-friendly religious organizations in Washington state, visit www.sgn.org and scroll down the first page of either section to see Multifaith Works’ 2007-2008 Directory of Inclusive Faith Communities (some information may not be current). For information on GLBT-friendly Christian churches around the world visit www.gaychurch.org.

Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2012 (3/30-4/1) www.deafspotlight.com/sdff Taste Washington! (3/31 & 4/1). CenturyLink Field Eevent Center, 800 Occidental Ave S. Experience Seattle’s wine & food weekend. 200 Washington wineries & the region’s top restaurants. For information or to buy tickets visit www.tastewashington.org Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 323-8382. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGayHiking Group/ Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. 9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www. borderriders.com

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

Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards!

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

Lotus Sisters. 11am-1:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 1st Sunday of every month. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@ yahoo.com; www.sasgcc.org Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies.

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6177, or Mike Chin (509) 990-0007. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www. dharmabuddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step group (Narcotics Anonymous) open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported.

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattleal-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. Perfect for guys looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org “Dina Martina - Ample Wattage!” 2pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. (See Saturday, March 31 at 8pm for complete details.)

Rain City Jacks. West Queen Anne/Interbay. 1st Sunday each month, 2pm; 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month, 7pm. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a friendly, sex-positive

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SUNDAY - April 1

MONDAY - April 2

Women Facing HIV. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in peer support group for women living with HIV/AIDS. 322-2437. www.sasgcc.org SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Social Dinner Club of Snohomish County.

Every Monday. An informal group of Gay men living in Snohomish County meet for dinner at Snohomish County restaurants. For information, location & to RSVP contact Ricardo at socialdinnerclub@yahoo. com or phone (360) 722-1664.

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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.

Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

SATURDAY - March 31

Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2012 (3/30-4/1) www.deafspotlight.com/sdff Taste Washington! (3/31 & 4/1). CenturyLink Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave S. Experience Seattle’s wine & food weekend. 200 Washington wineries & the region’s top restaurants. For information or to buy tickets visit www.tastewashington.org GLSEN Puget Sound GSA Leadership Summit.

9am-2pm. Meadowbrook Community Center, 10517 35th Ave NE. Features panel discussions & trainings.

FREE (or $10 with lunch). For complete information or to REGISTER visit www.glsenwa.org 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.

7th Annual Edible Book Festival. 12noon-3pm.

The Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N. A festival celebrating books, food & the people who love them. Entries will be judged & prizes awarded at 1:30pm, entries will be eaten at 2pm. Cost: $10. www. seattlebookarts.org SEAMEC Annual Meeting. 2-4pm. Capitol Hill Library, 425 Harvard Ave E. Hear a panel of state & local elected officials discuss the new same-sex marriage bill & LGBT equality issues in Washington state. seamec.sc@gmail.com Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2012 “Prism: LGBT Films & Panels.” 5-7:30pm. UW, Kane Hall Room 120.

Tickets: Adults $11; students with ID, seniors 65+ with ID $8. Weekend pass: adults $95; students & seniors $70. For complete information & schedule of films visit www.deafspotlight.com/sdff Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center. org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks. www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com “To the Stars & the Heavens Beyond” Concert in Edmonds. 7pm. Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 4th Ave N, Edmonds. Join Rainbow City Band & Rainbow City Orchestra for a concert of celestial proportions.

Tickets: $20 general admission, $15 seniors & children under 10. 425-275-9595, www.ec4arts.org “Dina Martina - Ample Wattage!” 8pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Brimming with new songs, new stories, new costumes, new audience gifts and BRAND NEW VIDEO! Like all of Miss Martina’s shows, it’s also brimming with (as the Village Voice says) “comedy that’ll make you piss your pants!” Tickets: $20 advance/$25 at the door. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218811.

Seattle Men’s Chorus - “The Beatles Come Together” (3/31 & 4/1). Sat 3/31-8pm; Sun 4/1-2pm.

McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. SMC’s all-Beatles Spring concert featuring over two dozen faithfully arranged songs. Tickets $20-$65. www.seattlemenschorus.org

March 31 thru April 8

& non-profit private club. Membership required. Adult men only. Enrollment available at the door. www. raincityjacks.org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5033.

Seattle Men’s Chorus - “The Beatles Come Together” (3/31 & 4/1). Sat 3/31 - 8pm; Sun 4/1 - 2pm.

McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, 321 Mercer St. SMC’s all-Beatles Spring concert featuring over two dozen faithfully arranged songs. Tickets $20-$65. www. seattlemenschorus.org Daring Divorced Divas. 3-5pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. A support group for Lesbian women dealing with divorce, separation & transformation. To attend this group please contact the facilitator at daringdivorceddivas@yahoo.com. SASG 322-2427; www.sasgcc.org PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/ Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org Simply Sundays. 5:30-7pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Peer support for recovery from substance abuse. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

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

Pride Idol 2012. 8pm. Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway. Are you the next winner? Grand prize $1000, weekly prize $100. Special guest performances every week. To REGISTER visit seattlepride.org/ pride-idol Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org GSBA Prime Time East. 5:30-7:320pm. Embassy Suites Bellevue, 3225 158th Ave SE, Bellevue. Meet other GSBA members & guests for drinks & hors d’oeuvres. FREE. www.thegsba.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month. Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County. “We will be discussing issues concerning the local Gay community & value your opinion, voice, comments, suggestions & attendance. Come join us as we build community in Snohomish County.” David, (425) 339-5238.

Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org Gay/Bi Prostate Cancer Group. 6:30-8pm. Gilda’s Club, 1400 Broadway. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

For Gay & Bi men diagnosed with prostate cancer. A safe space for emotional support on issues of treatment, sexuality, relationships & topics specific to Gay/ Bi men. FREE. 709-1400, www.gildasclubseattle.org Olympic Yacht Club Meeting. 6:30pm. Northwest Yacht Brokers Association, 901 Fairview Ave N Ste A-190 (at Chandler’s Cove on South Lake Union).

Meets 1st Tuesday each month. Monthly board meeting open to all OYC members & prospective members.

OYC is a Gay & Lesbian yacht club for people who own boats of any size or type & for people who enjoy boating. The club sponsors monthly outings. 709BOAT, www.oycnw.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 Different Drummers. Intermediate 7-8:15pm; Beginners 8:20-9:30pm. Every Tuesday. Hand drumming

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classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience a real sense of connection & spirituality. Drums are provided.

For information & location call Dennis, 363-4500 or differentdrummers@mac.com Friends in Adoption Monthly Meeting. 7pm. Childhaven Community Center, 1345 22nd Ave NE, Auburn.

Meets 1st Tuesday each month (Sept-June) with presentations by guest speakers on adoption-related issues. Friends in Adoption is an independent, nonprofit support & educational group made up of families touched by adoption. More info & to RSVP, call 2645136; friendsinadoption@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

Ageless. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org FREE Beginning ASL Lessons. 7:30pm. The Elite, 1520 E Olive Way. Every Tuesday. Have you ever wanted to learn basic American Sign Language? If so, you can get some FREE beginning ASL instruction.

Meets in the loft. 860-0999.

Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

Positive Outlook. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. A confidential support group for Gay & Bi men who have been living long-term with HIV. We come together to share our journeys both in the success we have had living with HIV as well as the challenges HIV presents to us. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7:30-9pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E. 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.

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

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FRIDAY - April 6

WEDNESDAY - April 4

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Women’s HIV+ Support Group in Tacoma. 1-3pm.

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

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

(425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:15pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week.

Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm.

Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St. Meets every Wednesday. Drop-in Buddhist meditation Sangha for LBTQ women. Lotus.sisters@yahoo.com; www.lotussisters.org.

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

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 PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those minorities. PFLAG/Renton: 425235-4139. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www. seattle-pflag.org.

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Emerald City Social Club. 7:30pm. Call for details & location - phone staffed most Tuesday evenings or leave message. Meets 1st Thursday each month.

ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals, primarily MTF, which offers confidential membership, private monthly meetings, frequent events on the town, & help in coming out. (425) 827-9494.

Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm.

Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring fathers & friends. You are not alone.

For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups. yahoo.com/groups/gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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.)

Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. http://groups.yahoo. com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemovie bears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Sex, Dating & Healthy Relationships. 7-8pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month. For LGBTQ youth that want to learn new things & explore all sorts of ideas around sex, identity & sexual relationships. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:30pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome.

MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. A structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www. washingtongenderalliance.com.

Pride Skate Seattle. 9-11pm. Southgate Roller Rink, 9646 17th Ave SW. First Wednesday of every month. $7 admission includes skate rental. Must be 18+.

After-party at Company, 9608 16th Ave SW, with drink specials & karaoke. www.southgaterollerrink.com

THURSDAY - April 5

Alcoholics Anonymous “Sober & Safe Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-2921912; www.babesnetwork.org.

Homeless Services for Youth, Ages 14-22. 1-4pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.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 Born This Way Kafe. 5-9pm. Cal Anderson Park Shelterhouse, 1635 11th Ave. Every Friday. A welcoming place where LGBTQ youth ages 13-19, friends & allies can gather, be themselves & have fun. 883-6110, randy.wiger@seattle.gov Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. 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 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.

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion. 7pm. Tully’s, 19th Ave E & E Aloha St. Meets the 1st & 3rd Friday of every month. Metro routes 8, 12, 43, 48. 329-0793; http://seattleprimetimers.usa-50.com LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm.

Gay City, 511 E Pike St (temporary meeting location).

Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday, April 1 at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday.

(253) 474-8897.

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

Pioneers & Warriors TM. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Friday. Peer support group for Gay & Bi men over 40 - honoring the past, accepting the present & embracing the future. Group attendance requires facilitator approval. Please contact Joel Davis at 261-6616. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org “Dina Martina - Ample Wattage!” 8pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. (See Saturday, March 31 at 8pm for complete details.)

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 Volunteer Drop-In Night at Lifelong AIDS Alliance.

4-7pm. LAA Volunteer Services Office, 1161 11th Ave. Every Thursday. Volunteer on LAA projects - assembling safer sex kits, helping with mailings, a different project every week! Get-togethers are highly social & offer “low impact” volunteer work & an opportunity to learn more about LAA. Please call before dropping in.

957-1776. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare.

FREE. 622-5555 x 212.

Come Out For Yourself (COFY). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Peer support for people dealing with issues of sexual orientation. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month. SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of Seattle Depts in matters regarding human rights. The commission advocates for justice & equal opportunity & collaborates with & educates the public & private sectors about how to prevent & eliminate discrimination city-wide. Meetings open to the public. 684-4540.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth. (425) 747-4937.

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14-22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org 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

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

No Safeword Writers Group. 1-3pm. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful.

For info & location, NSWG@sexpositive culture.org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org. (Also meets 4th Monday, 7-9pm.)

“Dina Martina - Ample Wattage!” 2pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. (See Saturday, March 31 at 8pm for complete details.)

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SATURDAY - April 7

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival. Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave S. Enjoy delectable artisan cheeses by Washington cheese makers. Benefits the Cascade Harvest Coalition. www.washington artisancheese.com “Dina Martina - Ample Wattage!” 8pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. (See Saturday, March 31 at 8pm for complete details.)

SUNDAY - April 8

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver. us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/ Another-Gay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBT communities. Bent offers affordable classes & workshops for Queer-identified people. For more information or to sign up for a class, email bent. writing@gmail.com. Visit www.bentwriting.com or find us on Facebook. For upcoming events join our mailing list by emailing bent.news@gmail.com BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org. Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network - www.sbwn.net.

Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club is an umbrella organizing sponsoring LGBTQ-supported recovery meetings including AA, Al-Anon, CLA, CML, GA, NA, SAA, SLAA, OA, XA & Spanish-speaking AA. CHAC is currently looking for a new home. www.chacseattle. org, 860-9560 or call 587-2838. (Groups formerly meeting at CHAC are currently meeting at SASG (Seattle Area Support Groups) and other locations.

Check out the SGN’s Community Calendar listings to find these groups.)

Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

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

Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 511 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) 363-9188; 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.imperialcourtofseattle.com In The Life - www.inthelifetv.org Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 511 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. (The Library is located at Gay City’s offices, on the ground floor behind Kaladi Brothers Coffee - just follow the signs.)

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

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

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworks seattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Maybe Baby, info@maybebabyseattle.org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/ proud-and-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@ aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: Deann, 568-7777, deann@nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Project at the API Safety Center, April, 4679976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN), 322-7061; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 3227061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; TwoSpirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164.

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

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Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 6826711; www.q-law.org Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235.

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBT-friendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

Rosehedge/Multifaith Works - 324-1520; www. rosehedge.org Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschools coalition.org SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 6844503.

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 Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov 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 Shanti - 324-1520; www.rosehedge.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shif trecovery.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.

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.emeraldcity softball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings.com/ EthylForever CarClub/; Festival of the Babes: www. festivalofthebabes.com; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcityhoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.out ventures. 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; Seattle Frontrunners: www. seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www. quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.theprideleague. com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, Seattle Chapter - www.ttca.org; bruce@ttca.org; 1122 E Pike St PMB 905, Seattle, WA 98122-3934.

Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 741 St Helens Ave, 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 Odyssey: www.genderodyssey. com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc. org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern. org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenof westseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http:// lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 436-8671. (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, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 6712838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 632-0662 ext 49 (non-emergency), 1-888-99-VOICE (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; YouthCare/ Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

Celebrating 39 Years!

QINERGY-BODY-WORK Non-Erotic Therapeutic Massage, men or women. 25 yrs exp, massage table or massage chair, no shower, convenient parking, small Queen Anne home office/studio, straight male (graphic artist, web author). 50% off 1st session ($45 for 1-1/2 hrs), travel extra. By appt only. Chris Pringer, Reiki Master, 206-286-0899. Add’l info via chalicebridge.com/ BMI-Brochure.html. 29/21 _______________________________

TED

Naked erotic touch - all are welcome, especially first-timers, mature men, people of color. Call 206-292-4TED. See slide show at —

www.292-4ted.com 14/3

_______________________________ W SEATTLE Professional and attractive therapist. Specializing in sensual & deep tissue. Laid back, friendly, clean and comfortable environment. Very affordable rates. 206244-6343. Marc. In/out. 14/3 _______________________________

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10 housemates

_______________________________ 2 GWM seek GWM to share 2 BR/2.5 BA townhouse in Renton near Valley Medical. $485/mo., incl utils. Own bedroom and full bath. 425-647-7379. 13/3 _______________________________ WEST SEATTLE CLASSIC Quiet GM, retired professional (and cat) seek GM to share large 3 BR/2 BA Tudor-style 1929 brick home. W/D, D/W, fireplaces, deck, large private yard with garden. Close to bus. $470 plus share utilities. Employed, responsible, non-smoker, no other pets. David, 206-9357762. 15/3 _______________________________ 11 for rent

11 FOR RENT

_______________________________ BEACON HILL, N - 1 BR, all utils paid, $710. FREE WiFi, parking, storage, intercom and laundry. Cats OK! Showing 4/3.

Call 206-618-5918 for appointment. 13/1 _______________________________

14 HELP WANTED

14 help wanted

_______________________________ FREE RÉSUMÉ AND JOB SEARCH WORKSHOPS South Seattle Community College’s WorkSource Center is partnering with the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System to offer résumé and job search workshops. For more information, contact South Seattle Community College WorkSource Center at 206-764-5304 or visit www. southseattle.edu for complete schedule. SGN/ _______________________________ 15 15 employment employment wanted

WANTED

_______________________________ DAY LABORER Expert in moving projects.

Strong, hard worker. References available on request. Alexander, 206-571-6353. 15/10 _______________________________ SEEKING WORK in the food, beverage and hospitality industry, office work, any type of non-licensed health care assistance. Available any time at your convenience for interview.

Please contact Vicentio M-Tate via email at vicentios@gmail. com or my cell phone at 206841-1487. 14/3 _______________________________

17 17 volunteers VOLUNTEERS wanted WANTED

_______________________________ SHANTI VOLUNTEERS build supportive one-on-one relationships with someone living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, or other life-threatening illness. We are seeking mature, compassionate, good listeners to provide emotional support to people in their homes, in hospitals, or in jails. Training and ongoing support provided. People of color and LGBT folks encouraged to apply. For more info, contact us at www.multifaith.org or 206324-1520 ext 228. SGN/ _______________________________ 19 19 computer services/ COMPUTER TECH/ photography

PHOTOGRAPHY

_______________________________ DETAILED BUSINESS & HOME COMPUTER SERVICES Best Price - Uncommon Solutions - Superior Results. 38+ Years Experience. Broke, slow, or needs help, let me fix it. DATA Recovery, Internet, Networking, Hardware, and Software. Very PATIENT. Call Randy. 1-954684-3829. Will travel. SGN/ _______________________________

NAKED PHOTOGRAPHY Soft touch to naked details.

Memories captured. You name the event. Call Randy. 1-954-6843829. Will travel. SGN/ _______________________________

19 19 home & garden

HOME & GARDEN

_______________________________ DAY LABORER Expert in moving projects. Strong, hard worker. References available on request. Alexander, 206-5716353. 15/10 _______________________________ www.mindfulcraftsman.com Custom Fences, T rellises & Gates. Will work with you in creating your heart’s desire. Contact Mark, 425-638-3286. 12/3 _______________________________

21 21 licensed LICENSED massage MASSAGE non-sexual

- NON-SEXUAL

_______________________________ 1hr-$45/1.5-$65/2hrs-$85 www.bodyworkman.com.

17yrs professional masseur.

Blissful, unhurried relaxation massage or beneficial Swedish/ Deep Tissue bodywork for tightness, tension, pain. JOHN LMP. 206.324.0682. 10am-9pm MonTues/ThuFriSat. 12/3 _______________________________

37 BODYWORK

37 bodywork

_______________________________ 1hr-$45/1.5-$65/2hrs-$85 www.bodyworkman.com.

17yrs professional masseur.

Blissful, unhurried relaxation massage or beneficial Swedish/ Deep Tissue bodywork for tightness, tension, pain. JOHN LMP. 206.324.0682. 10am-9pm MonTues/ThuFriSat. 12/3 _______________________________ AMAZING BODYWORK! Deep tissue, erotic bodywork by handsome, hairy-chested, hung therapist. Reasonable rates. Photos, phone number and reviews at website: www.amazingbodywork. com. Robert. 14/7 _______________________________ ASIAN (CHINESE/THAI) Young, muscular, 5’9”, 165, 28 y/o. Sensual/erotic bodywork.

Incalls North Seattle; anywhere else outcalls. 206-713-1459; if I’m out, leave message. $100-incall; $150-outcall. 14/4 _______________________________

DADDY Known for most styles of bodywork. Noon-9pm, by appointment only. daddymaster66@gmail.com; 206-328-5828. 13/3 _______________________________ EROTICALLY CHARGED nude full body rubdown from playful top, stimulating the senses. Get seduced. Incalls in Renton. Scott, 206-355-4469. 14/3 _______________________________ FRENCH TOUCH BODYWORK Experienced, friendly European masseur w/a table and sensual hands. In/Out. Luke, 206-3232427. 14/3 _______________________________ GREAT MASSAGE given by highly-trained, clean-cut, handsome guy. I have a clean, private studio just north of the UW. Call Matt, 206-774-9092. In calls/out calls/ hotels. 22/12 _______________________________ CORRECTED PHONE # HOT, FULL BODY RUB by 9”, hairy, uncut top. Mutual touch and more. Anytime. 206-9638644. 16/6 _______________________________

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_______________________________ FREE & ANONYMOUS HIV & STD COUNSELING/TESTING Walk-In or by Appt GAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT 511 E. Pike St. TUES-FRI: 3pm-8pm SAT: 12:30pm-5pm More Info & to Schedule Appt 206-860-6969 _______________________________

ENLIGHTENED HOUSE BOYS For starts, here’s what we do: light to dirty hauling away, lifting and moving, general handy-man jobs or maintenance issues.

Also: help with breakfast, meal planning, even delivered to you just ask. Shopping, cooking, storing and presenting your favorite foods - no problem. Cleaning: a whiz - and not just dishes. You might consider the upholstery and the small carpet and rug cleaning as part of a deep clean. We do reasonable windows reasonably well. Odd jobs are cool. Call us with a chore. Enlightened House Boys. 415-938-6319. 14/3 ______________________________ RAIN CITY JACKS Seattle’s own JO Club, RCJ hosts three group masturbation events every month. Safe, hot, friendly and fun. Adult men only. 888809-5035. info@raincityjacks.org; www.raincityjacks.org. 19/12 _______________________________

dress for the occasion use a condom to prevent hiv & other stds

DREAMSCAPE MASSAGE

Enjoy your First Massage at Dreamscape with $10 OFF! We are located at 619 Broadway E. 206-568-3771. DreamscapeMassage.com. SGN/ _______________________________ EXCEPTIONAL BODYWORK Release muscle pain & tension through deep tissue, trigger point & myofascial release. Specializing in back, neck & shoulder pain.

Insurance accepted. Matt Shafer, LMP, 206-524-7766. 22/12 _______________________________

JESSE JAMES MASSAGE

Call for spring deals!

Most insurance accepted.

Lic. # MA7881 206-369-4598 YesJesse.com SGN/

_______________________________ SPECIAL: $55/90 mins., $75/ 120 mins. Specialize in back, hip, neck, shoulder, extremity, neuromuscular disorders treatment, full-body relaxation. Professional setting 10am-midnight.

7 days/wk. Steve Chang, LMP. 206-497-7897. 13/3 _______________________________

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24 automobiles

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AUTO PRO

Automotive Maintenance & Repair ... Since 1971 422 E Pine St (Corner of Pine and Summit) 206-325-9944 www.autoprorepair.com OPEN: Mon-Fri, 8am-5:30pm Sat, 8am-2pm All Major Credit Cards Accepted SGN/ _______________________________ _______________________________ 36 escorts

36 ESCORTS

_______________________________ BROWN SUGAR color, 5’11”, smooth body and chest, 142 lbs, brown eyes, black hair, very open minded and also do bodywork.

Tony, 206-622-9585 anytime.

14/3 _______________________________ EUROPEAN GUY Friendly, masculine, great smile, hung, total bottom, good-looking.

Luke, 206-323-2427. In/Out. 14/3 _______________________________ TOTAL PLEASURE - 5’9”, 153#, attractive, hung Puerto Rican Black mix, catering to all service - mild 2 wild. In or out. 206-8566719. 14/3 _______________________________

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