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Issue 42, Volume 41, October 18, 2013

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (7:30 p.m., Pacific Place) Wonderful documentary on legendary African-American comedienne Moms Mabley, as seen through the eyes of those she worked with and inspired, includ-

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ing the likes of Bill Cosby, Robin Williams, Sidney Poitier, Kathy Griffin, Eddie Murphy, and Harry Belafonte. A delightful, and somewhat surprisingly touching, film confidently directed by Academy Award winner Goldberg. (***)

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The last three days of the 18th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (SLGFF) are upon us, everything culminating Sunday night at Pacific Place Theater with a gala presentation of director Rodney Evans’ latest effort, The Happy Sad. Other titles of note include Whoopi Goldberg’s directorial debut, the fitfully funny and surprisingly poignant documentary Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (also known as Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You) and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason’s tragically devastating and intimately perceptive Bridegroom, chronicling a California man barred from attending his partner’s funeral by the man’s family.

The following are capsule reviews for some of the films playing Friday, October 18, through Sunday, October 20. Visit www. threedollarbillcinema.org for additional venue and ticket information.

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PATRICIA BARBER TOWN HALL October 26 If you haven’t listened to Patricia Barber before, you’re missing out on one of the most distinct musicians of today’s jazz scene.

Combining classical and jazz with unique and personal touches, she’s an original, for sure. Barber, who is openly Gay, released a new album in 2013 titled Smash, and she’ll familiarize Seattle fans with it when she appears October 26 at Town Hall, as part of this year’s Earshot Jazz Festival. For tickets, go to www.townhallseattle.org.

I spoke with the artist via telephone this week, and this is what Patricia Barber had to say inside The Music Lounge.

Albert Rodriguez: What do you remember about Seattle from your previous performances?

Patricia Barber: Well, Seattle does have a very specific meaning for me because my best friend from college lives there. So that’s what I think of when I think of Seattle. But I’ve had a bunch of different kinds of performances in Seattle. I played a little club that was part of Earshot Jazz Festival, then I played at the Art Institute, I think, which was one of my favorite gigs there. I played Jazz Alley and a kind of rock club, but I’ve always had wonderful times in Se-

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‘We’re all misfits’ Director Kimberly Peirce on the timeless appeal of Carrie

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss director Kimberly Peirce makes her return to multiplexes with the release of her interpretation of Stephen King’s classic horror tale of alienation and adolescence, Carrie. Starring Chloë Grace Moretz as the telekinetic title character and four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore as her reserved, religious fundamentalist mother Margaret White, the movie attempts to bring the tale into the modern world emphasizing the bullying aspects in ways Brian De Palma’s classic 1976 interpretation never could.

On a recent trip to Seattle I had the opportunity to sit down with the celebrated filmmaker to talk about her adaptation of King’s novel. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation: Sara Michelle Fetters: It’s probably the single question you’re most tired of answering at this point, but it simply still must be asked: Why Carrie? What is it about this story that drew you in?

Kimberly Peirce: First of all, Stephen

Peirce: The central story itself is as classic as Shakespeare, is as classic as a fairy tale – that Cinderella story turned on its head is timeless and it is amazing. So we start with that structure but what is undeniable is that over the last 40 years our world has technologically revolutionized. If we’re enjoying something, I’m going to film it, because that’s just what we do and we now have the resources at our disposal to instantly do just that. If it gets filmed, it’s probably going to get uploaded. If it gets uploaded, it’s going to be shared. That means tons more people are going to have access to this video than you or I ever intended. It could hurt people. It could help people. It is going to spread – the effect it is going to have ultimately out of our control.

And that’s extraordinary. For me, the challenge here was taking what King did and wrote about and making it utterly real and utterly modern for today’s world. Social media is sort of my atom bomb in the movie. Carrie has her moment in the shower and what is Chris doing? She’s filming. We know that this video is going to get out. We know the power it is going to have to de-

“I was never at odds with the material.

I was in synch with the material, so the question was how do I get what works so well on the page to work on the screen?“ King, he’s such a great writer. The story is amazing. Classic. Timely. Maybe more relevant now than it ever was before. I would also say, as with all my work but also what I love about movies and literature, it has an amazing central protagonist. She’s a misfit, an outcast, someone who has a hard time fitting in but wants love and acceptance like we all [do]. We can all relate to her.

Oh, and I forgot – she has superpowers.

And the superpowers are great because they’re kind of like a talent, because even if you’re a misfit if you’ve got a great [talent] you can kind of say, “Screw society, I’ll make the most of it in the world on my own.” But this is coupled by a Cinderella story because at the end of the day [Carrie] does want to venture out. She wants to be loved. She wants to dance with the handsome boy. She wants to wear the beautiful dress. She wants to have it all and we want that for her, because you fall in love with her and want to see her succeed.

At the same time, I have this sneaky suspicion you also want to see it all go to hell.

I’m going to say we love the highpoint of the Cinderella story but we also love to see it all turned on its head. I think we are engaged by destruction and I think the fact we love a revenge tale, as a human being, this fascinates me. That’s why Stephen King. That’s why Carrie.

Fetters: The bullying aspect of the story has become such a central topic of our time.

I like how we really get to see how bullying affects these kids all in the context of this supernatural coming-of-age revenge tale, even though we’re so familiar with the central story itself.

stroy. And, realistically, I think we all know this is going to climax at the prom.

Fetters: You are in some ways beholden to the genre aspects of the tale. At the same time, you want to remain true to this very human story at the heart of it all. How hard is it to balance the horror aspects with this intimate story of a little-girl-lost just trying to fit in?

Peirce: It’s a great question, and the great thing about King is that this balance is inherent in the DNA of the novel. You both love Carrie but he’s a horror writer, which means he writes horror, so you know things are going to go bad at some point. I was never at odds with the material. I was in synch with the material, so the question was how do I get what works so well on the page to work on the screen?

One answer is that it’s imperative to hire the right actress to play Carrie White. That was a big deal. We looked at hundreds of girls. Chloë Grace Moretz was right because you fall in love with her. You want to adopt her. Everyone I spoke to told me I was going to fall in love with her and I was like, no, not going to happen, I’m just going to work with her like any other actress – but by the end of the shoot I wanted to take her home with me. She’s wildly charismatic.

The camera loves her. She’s an incredible actress.

Fetters: What was it like to work with her?

Peirce: I got to take her on this amazing journey. She’s super-confident, very poised beyond her years, comes from a loving family, and knows her craft really well.

We took that all away from her. We started

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with the young woman who is full of talent and moved her into the skin of this fragile girl who was an outsider and a misfit. It was the best of both worlds. Chloë was still this gifted, talented, confident actress, but without her support system surrounding her she more easily became Carrie White, this fragile outsider with untapped superpowers longing to fit in.

So you ask how I keep the humanity up and the horror up? She’s piece one of the humanity because we love her. It was evident to me right away that [the movie] was not about identifying with anyone other than her. It’s the story of the misfit. We’re all misfits, so when the horror aspect takes hold, Chloë is equally amazing there as well.

She becomes the human monster, moving in reptilian ways having an incredible relationship with the camera that constantly amazed us. She’s my human monster, and once I knew I loved this girl I knew I could balance all the aspects of the tale in a way hopefully audiences would respond to.

Fetters: Then you add Julianne Moore to the mix.

Peirce: She’s one of our greatest living actresses. We love Julianne. She is infectious. You know she is going to make [Margaret White], a character that in lesser hands could be kind of inhuman, wildly human. What’s she’s doing to Carrie is monstrous, but at the same time she’s human, so in many ways she’s another human monster. They love each other. They’re feuding.

They’re ultimately at one another’s throats.

Julianne makes all of this believable in a way that makes the horror aspects all the more shocking. She’s incredible.

Fetters: The mirror aspect of all of this can be potent, so I imagine focusing on the duality of each situation was important.

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promising; they ultimately terrorize her.

She’s at the prom in this beautiful dress and looks fantastic, we empathize with her and are happy for her success; the blood comes down and the terror begins. Every scene feeds back to King’s book, going from positive to a kind of horror. Maintaining that balance and emphasizing those aspects were incredibly important.

Fetters: Were there ever any moments on your part, or on the parts of either Julianne or Chloë, where you felt the pressure inherent in stepping into shoes as big as the ones Brian De Palma, Sissy Spacek, and Piper Laurie filled back in 1976, when they brought their version of King’s story to the screen?

Peirce: I would say that what Sissy and Piper did was absolutely perfect, so, yes, we were all aware that these people made a fantastic, wonderful film. We were also aware that the source material was fantastic and that we were going at this from a perspective set 40 years later. For me, in particular, there were things that were important for me to accomplish. I wanted to make sure and bring Chloë inside Carrie White, as she is 15 and is going though many of the same things the character is. Let me bring Julianne into this film who’s brilliant and have her define a Margaret White that is appropriate and emblematic of this era.

Simply by approaching the King material from a modern perspective you knew it was going to be different. It’s why I do believe you can do Shakespeare over and over.

It’s why Cinderella can be retold. It’s why Grimm’s Fairy Tales are so timeless. It’s why I enjoy reading Oedipus over and over.

De Palma’s version was great and it is great, but that doesn’t mean there’s not space for two hopefully equally great adaptations of a fantastic story.

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Say ‘Aye’ to Captain Phillips Gripping true-life piracy tale is a heroic call to action

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Now Playing Calling Captain Phillips the best procedural to hit theater screens since last year’s Zero Dark Thirty isn’t hyperbole. While I’m not sure I’d stick director Paul Greengrass’ latest on the same instantly classic plateau as Kathryn Bigelow’s stunner about the hunt for Osama bin Laden – and I’m not even certain I’d mention it in the same breath

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with the filmmaker’s own 9/11 masterpiece, United 93 – none of that changes the fact this Somali pirate marvel is one of 2013’s best motion pictures. Featuring performances by Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi deserving of award recognition, showcasing kinetic filmmaking chops that electrify, devastate, and enthrall at every step, this based-on-fact thriller is terrific, everything building to a magnificent conclusion that came close to stopping my heart cold.

Richard Phillips (Hanks) is the captain of

the container cargo shipping vessel Maersk Alabama. He knows how dangerous the route along the Somali coast is, making sure his entire crew is on point, whether they comprehend the situation themselves or think he’s being a bit overcautious.

But the captain’s fears prove well-placed when the Maersk is attacked by pirates. Led by the lithe, calmly menacing Muse (Abdi), they are excited about the payday involved if they can capture the ship’s crew and cargo.

But Phillips manages to be one step ahead of them at every turn, handicapping their successful takeover with subtle leadership and clinical exactitude. Yet when push comes to shove he only sees one way to ensure his entire crew survives the ordeal – allow Muse and his men to take him captive, leaving the Maersk in a small emergency vessel and hope the U.S. military comes to his aid before they reach Somali shores.

Following closely Phillips’ memoir of the 2009 event (co-written by Stephan Talty), Billy Ray’s (The Hunger Games; Breach) ambitious script sports vice-like emotional controls allowing inherent tension of the story to come to light with gradual, unfathomable subtlety, putting the viewer in a state of constant, palpable worry. Greengrass keeps the focus directly where it needs to be, most notably on the relationship between Phillips and Muse, only shifting perspectives when the Navy, and subsequently the SEALs, arrive on the scene and attempt to wrest control of the situation from the pirates.

TOM’S TERRIFIC None of which would matter if the two actors at the heart of all this weren’t up to the challenge. Hanks hasn’t dug this far into a character in ages, probably since Saving Private Ryan, manufacturing a controlled, self-contained portrait of grace under increasing pressure that never boils over as it could in the hands of a lesser performer.

The two-time Academy Award winner doesn’t allow himself to overly emote until the situation itself demands it, the breadth of

emotions he travels through coming from a place of extreme authentic trauma and chaos he somehow, some way, makes immediate and relatable.

Abdi is his doppelgänger. The young actor – this is his first major credit – takes what could have been a stereotypical monster and makes him human, almost pitiable, his actions and his choices risible yet the consequences to both he and his men somehow remain tragic and heartbreaking. Abdi’s sly, serpentine presence is the film’s most amazing asset, the way he juxtaposes little insights into his own backstory even with events spiraling out of control in regards to his abduction of Phillips shockingly profound.

The technical aspects are all as faultless as you might expect them to be, veteran cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker) shooting things with a suitable, documentary-like verisimilitude that puts the viewer directly into the middle of the action. Same goes for Christopher Rouse’s (The Bourne Ultimatum) editing, his layering of images and sequences as good as it gets. The rest of these aspects are as topof-the-line as any of these cinematic facets could ever hope to be, all elements working in exquisite tandem with everything else allowing the core emotionalism at the heart of the story to shine through in every frame.

Greengrass directs with his typical consummate skill, controlling the action like a master composer making sure no instrument is out of tune or a single note could be construed as sour. His confidence assembling all of this together is, if not unexpected, still sensational, the man taking what could have been an inspiring, if not altogether unfamiliar, real-life tale of heroism and making it instead something universally accessible and cathartic all who view it could potentially learn something from.

Captain Phillips doesn’t present new ideas so much as it puts a mirror to the best and the worst of our inner natures, allowing us to make of that glimpse what we will – no more, and certainly no less.

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer CARRIE Opens October 18 Carrie was author Stephen King’s first published novel, hitting store shelves in 1974 and quickly becoming an instant bestseller. Two years later, director Brian De Palma had his first bona fide smash with the adaptation, his two stars, Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, both garnering Academy Award nominations. In 1999 a rather illconceived sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2, was brought to the screen with actress Amy Irving reprising her role as prom-night survivor Sue Snell, while a 2002 TV miniseries attempted to reinvent the character for a new millennium.

For a novel almost four decades old, that’s an awful lot of fuss, and in many ways it’s deserved. King’s book, a work of fiction from the prolific writer some still consider his best (I’m personally partial to The Shining and to It), is genius in its look at adolescence and high school, his insight into the outcast’s mind one of a kind. He manages to understand, empathize, humanize, and, ultimately, pity protagonist Carrie White, getting into her mind in a way that brings the horror home in ways that stick with the reader long after the last page has been turned.

Now comes a new, updated take on homely telekinetic firebrand Carrie. Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss director Kimberly Peirce and screenwriter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (“Big Love,” “Glee”) taking their shot at the character and her sordid, tragic tale. They are joined by teenage actress Chloë Grace Moretz in the title role and four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore as her fundamentalist Christian mother Margaret, all of them teaming to make Carrie come alive for a generation reared on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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stellar. While Peirce and company don’t embarrass themselves in any way, and while certain facets of the film can’t help but intimately resonate as they rightly should, overall this new version doesn’t quite come alive. It remains emotionally distant, never fully embracing the inherent tragedy at the heart of the tale. The movie doesn’t offer much that’s new, and while I respected much of this remake I can’t say my feelings were anything to make note of.

Even if you’ve never read King’s book or seen De Palma’s take on it, chances are you know what’s going on, as much of what transpires has entered the cultural lexicon to stay but, just in case, here’s a quick synopsis. Carrie White is a small-town highschool senior who lives with her reclusive, deeply religious mother, Margaret. She is constantly bullied at school, the local girls, most notably queen bee Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday), belittling her in every way, including taking a cell-phone video of a particularly unfortunate moment in the gym shower.

But Carrie isn’t altogether normal. The more emotional she gets, the more she is suddenly able to do things with her mind.

It’s a power she’s only just learning how to control, and something she knows to keep secret from her mother. Yet just as she’s getting the hang of these abilities Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), the sexiest boy in school, asks her to prom, his cheerleader girlfriend Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) wanting to do something she thinks would be nice for Carrie after the way Chris, herself, and the rest of the popular girls treated her in the shower.

If you don’t know what happens next, I’m not going to spoil it. Rest assured, prom night, much like Margaret predicts, doesn’t go well for Carrie, and the kids at school rue the day they decided to pick on someone they wrongly perceived as harmless.

In the process, Peirce and Aguirre-Sacasa, staying relatively close to King’s prose, attempt to analyze teenage life, high-school

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hierarchies, and religious-fueled paranoia, all of it packaged in an emotionally charged firestorm of revenge and retribution where simple kindness can be transformed into unthinkable tragedy in the blink of the proverbial eye.

FEW NEW INSIGHTS Problem is, as handsome as the production is, as good as many individual scenes might prove to be, on the whole I never felt like Peirce or Aguirre-Sacasa were bringing anything new to the conversation. The themes they are dissecting have been analyzed before with more depth and greater nuance, and as far as shock and awe are concerned they don’t come close to achieving anything near what De Palma did 27 years ago. So much of the film is rudimentary to the point of tedium, making caring about much of what’s transpiring exceedingly difficult.

At the same time, I admire Peirce’s restraint, her attempts to put character development first and terror-filled imagery a decided second. When the prom erupts she

keeps the focus on Carrie, just as it should be, allowing her monstrous devolution to hit home in ways it never would have otherwise. Additionally, early scenes between Moretz and Moore, especially immediately after the shower-room bullying, are very good, bordering on great, hinting at complexities to come that are frustratingly never as fully explored as I hoped they would be.

Would I feel different about this Carrie had I not read King’s book, if I weren’t familiar with De Palma’s classic take? Sorry to say, I just don’t think so. Sue’s character remains annoyingly one-dimensional, while Chris’s evil intentions are more nondescript than they are repugnant. Worst of all, the climactic showdown between Carrie and Margaret falls frustratingly flat, the emotional catastrophe born out of the prom’s fiery chaos not delivered upon when true evil and its repercussions finally gets its chance to be explored. The scares just never materialize, making our title character’s journey nowhere near as powerful or as impacting as it regrettably should have been.

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continued from page 5 to up the splatter quotient, if you will, to push the boundaries of that “R” rating and let the blood and gore flow freely?

Peirce: Well I always knew my aim was to keep the focus on Carrie. In general, I think with sex and violence you don’t want to go into pornography unless your aim is to make pornography. If you’re going to make pornography, do it and do it great. I love pornography. I love very violent films.

I love it all. But my focus as a director is to always make sure I am servicing the story and not allowing things to devolve into pornography. Now, I can only discover that line by trying different things and pushing boundaries. There are takes with the blood where there’s a hell of a lot more of it, just as there are scenes with the action where the carnage is far more pronounced.

But I always do this with my movies. I push things past the point that it services the story because I don’t always know what will service the story. So I push it to a level of pornography, not because I want to end up there, but because I want to go too far so I can say this or that doesn’t work and we can pull it back. At the same time, I’ll also discover moments where I thought I’d gone too far but discovered something magical. I’m a big fan of “get it perfect, now go farther.” Is there anything else the actors want to try? Is there anything else I want to try? I’d rather have too much in the editing room than not enough. I’d rather have Take Four be wrong and know why than have Take Two be apparently perfect but have nothing else of merit to judge it against.

Fetters: I know it’s off-topic but I want to bring it up quickly if I can: Stop-Loss, your second film. Were you at all surprised by the relatively tough critically reaction at the time, and are you even more surprised by the reassessment that seems to have happened?

Peirce: I’m humbled. The thing is, if you’re going to be a director you got to have a thick skin. The truth of the matter is that you’re the guy out there on the vaudeville stage doing the song and dance. If the audience likes it, you’re lucky, and if they throw bananas at you, then you just have to give a better performance the next time out. You have to take things as they come. But the fact there is a reassessment? I’m humbled and I’m happy. All I want to do is please

my audience and, with that film and with Boys Don’t Cry, I feel like the responses I got from those who watched them led me to believe I had.

Fetters: Is it in some ways a no-win situation for you? Boys Don’t Cry was such a sensation, got those Oscar nominations, won Hilary Swank the Academy Award – doesn’t that make it harder now to be treated fairly as a director when you have that sort of success right out of the gate?

Peirce: You have to take the wider perspective. You have to say how damn lucky I was that I was able to have that sort of success with Boys Don’t Cry. I was in grad school. I fell in love with the story. I didn’t care about commerciality. It [the story] was as Queer as Queer could get. I was living in the East Village with my buddies and we were all exploring our sexuality when Brandon’s story slapped us right in the face.

Thank God I didn’t care about anything else but character and story. I loved this kid Brandon Teena. I went to the murder trial.

It was my heart and soul. It was all I cared about. My friends were getting smaller opportunities in the business because I was so obsessed with this thing, with this story. I just struck true to my passion. It was my great fortune that it worked out. It was a miracle that the movie got made. Thank God for [producer] Christine Vachon. We stayed on that road. We fought the good fight. We made the movie we wanted to make. Hilary won the Oscar. The rest is history.

I had a lot of fears. I was amazed. I was worried we were going to release [the film] in Middle America and it might encourage homophobia. I was worried and knew we had to get it right. But the Queer community embraced it, which was never a guarantee.

Lesbians want to claim Brandon. Transsexuals want to claim Brandon. Everyone wants to claim him as their own. But my goal and my statement was always to let this person be who they are as an individual, nothing more, and everyone seemed to respond and embrace that. At the end of the day, [Boys Don’t Cry] will forever be one of the great joys of my life and I’ll be forever grateful for that, so if critics and audiences are a little harder on me because I made that film, I can take it because, seriously, look what I got. That was a dream come true.

I love that movie, so if you give me a hard time on [Carrie] because of your feelings for Boys, maybe you’ll give it back to me on the next one. I have to remember that.

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Fetters: You are obviously drawn to tales of people going through transformation.

Peirce: Of course. They’re good stories.

You can relate to them. I love their oddness and their difference; I love the idiosyncrasies that make them who they are. I just love

them. There’s no desire to look at them in the typical or expected way. I’m interested in the conventional people in so far as they tell Carrie’s or Brandon’s stories. The conventional people are not the right ones to tell their stories. I love the misfit. I love the outcast. The misfit represents all of us, and I think we’re lying to ourselves if act like we have graduated from being in that position ourselves. I think people want to think they are no longer the misfit but the truth is everybody, everyday has some instant where suddenly you’re the odd one out.

I guess I’m just willing to admit that, and as I love the oddball and the misfit I am fortunate to be in a position where I can hold onto my own gender identity and not have to make a big deal out of that fact. How fortunate am I that I get to do the career I do, that I get to be completely honest in my gender presentation – and I want everyone to be honest in their gender presentation – and that I get to tell stories that mean something to me personally?

Fetters: At the end of the day, what do you want audiences to take away from your version of Carrie?

Peirce: I want them to fall in love with her in the same way I wanted them to fall madly in love with Brandon Teena. I want them to go all the way down the well with her. I want them to fall in love with this mother-daughter story and identify with a girl who isn’t as far removed from them and who they are as they might initially believe. And, yes, I want them to have a delicious time with the revenge tale. When I say to people, isn’t it a blast to want revenge, everybody smiles that hesitant guilty smile and tries to look away. I just say go with it; just make sure you embrace Carrie White’s personal story and struggles at the same time.

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one Black and Gay, the other white and heterosexual, who start exploring their recontinued from cover lationships in increasingly challenging and intimate ways. While well acted, the movie SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 never feels natural or honest, the character Bridegroom beats and evolutions more contrived, and (12:30 p.m., Pacific Place) oftentimes nonsensical, than they are anyLinda Bloodworth-Thomason, the mind thing else. Frustrating. (**) behind classic television shows like “Evening Shade” and “Designing Women,” Raid of the Rainbow Lounge makes her directorial debut with this doc(11:30 a.m., Pacific Place) umentary chronicling Californian Shane Powerful chronicling of the 2009 raid by Bitney Crone and his battle to attend the fu- Fort Worth, Texas, police on a local Gay neral of Tom Bridegroom, his devoted and bar, an event that spurred the community loving partner of six years whose life was as a whole to take action producing real tragically cut short. As hard-hitting and as change that spread throughout the city – and intimately personal a statement as to why within the police department. Director Robmarriage equality matters as any a person is ert L. Camina weaves archival footage and likely to see. (***) interviews with people who were there with dexterous precision, allowing themes of acFrauensee (7:30 p.m., Pacific Place) ceptance, tenderness, reconciliation, and As a picturesque, visually resplendent community to come to the forefront with travelogue, Frauensee is rather glorious. somewhat surprising ease. (***) As a dramatic motion picture, however, this German Lesbian effort is sadly rather The Rugby Player tedious, the movie a rather clunky melo(12:30 p.m., Pacific Place) drama of friendship, sexual attraction, lust, United Flight 93 passenger and hero Mark and love that rarely goes anywhere of inter- Bingham is chronicled in this powerful est. Beautiful to look at, yes, but once the documentary that focuses in great detail on characters start talking about their lives and his complex and loving relationship with his their problems I couldn’t have cared less mother, Alice Hoagland (who is scheduled about a single thing that was going on. (**) to attend). Much of the footage used in the film was shot by Bingham, an aspiring filmStranger by the Lake maker himself, while interviews and recol(7 p.m., Pacific Place) lections with Hoagland augment the saga Stunning French import that’s never quite beautifully, allowing a full picture of this what you expect it to be, everything build- complex, passionate human being to take ing to a shocking conclusion that took me shape in increasingly fascinating ways. A somewhat by surprise. Writer/director Alain gem. (***1/2) Guiraudie deftly and seductively moves the viewer into smaller and smaller corners right along with his bewildered protagonist, and while certain twists aren’t quite as organic as they maybe should have been, overall this is a nicely suffocating thriller that more than gets the job done. (***1/2) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 The Happy Sad (6:30 p.m., Pacific Place) Director Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother) returns with this rather disappointing drama following two New York couples,

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teatro zinzanni

theater and stage Caesar: It’s not just a salad anymore Teatro ZinZanni goes Mediterranean with its latest show

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer

or sequined outfits are present to welcome you to the evening’s event. Enjoy a cocktail while waiting or peruse the gift shop, with HAIL CAESAR! FORBIDDEN OASIS a large collection of boas, masks, hats, and TEATRO ZINZANNI other fanciful items. When the doors open Through January 28 the host/hostess will direct you to your It would be hard to find anyone not famil- seat. Seating is usually “family style” – you iar with the wonderful Teatro ZinZanni. For sit in a comfortable booth ready to meet over a decade this part-dinner theater/part- new people or enjoy the company you are

A veteran to several stages in Seattle, Ferrante has become a staple at ZinZanni bringing his style of humor and perfect timing to each performance. circus has thrilled Seattleites and visitors alike with consistently fine entertainment as well as food. While the show changes every three to four months, the latest incarnation is titled Hail Caesar! Forbidden Oasis.

With the usual fanfare of acrobats, performers, dancers, comedians, and other specialty acts, Teatro ZinZanni continues to delight all.

Arrive early to enjoy the ambiance of the performing space. People in feather boas

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with. There are few if any bad seats to be had, since the action is mostly centered and moves about. The inner-circle seats on the floor are more expensive and offer a better chance of being picked to be part of the show, if that’s your desire. The performancFrank Ferrante in Hail Caesar! Forbidden Oasis es are enjoyable no matter where your line with the comic timing that ZinZanni audi- up and down the rope with graceful ease is of vision may be. ences have come to enjoy and appreciate. A something beautiful and breathtaking to veteran to several stages in Seattle, Ferrante watch.

SECRET LOVE SPICE Frank Ferrante plays Caesar and does so has become a staple at ZinZanni bringing When it comes to actual physical comedy his style of humor and perfect timing to there are few that can compare with Les Peeach performance. A mixture of all three tits Frères. This threesome of comic timing Stooges and an adult quick wit for impro- should be familiar to any longtime attendee visation, Ferrante is excellent as the Em- of Teatro ZinZanni. These men have slapperor longing for his lost love, Cleopatra. stick comedy down to a science and play off Dreya Weber plays the great Lady of the of each other so well that it’s difficult not to Nile, Cleopatra. Also a veteran of the Teatro get caught up in their routines. Leaping off stage, Weber delights in her sultry singing and onto one another’s shoulders until a huand comic behavior. As holder of the secret man tower is formed and then tumbling into “Love Spice,” she plays with her beloved a continuous rolling wheel of flesh and bone Caesar as much as with members of the au- are just some of the talents these men have dience. perfected. Another recognizable persona is A real-life married couple, the Dobas, Vita Radionova, playing the human Sphinx. play on the onstage comedy duo. Wayne As a Hula-Hoop artist, Radionova twirls Doba has been called “a throwback to the and spins up to 20 (if not more) hoops conold Vaudeville days” by the physical comic tinuously around her body simultaneously. genius Donald O’Connor, and for good rea- With the flash of sparkles and lighting, it is son. He provides the perfect compliment to truly a beautiful sight to watch this contorAndrea Conway Doba, whether he is per- tionist spin her magic. forming physical schtick or allowing Mrs. Doba to perform graceful acrobatic moveALL THIS AND DINNER TOO ments on the chandelier high above the auThe serving (and eating) of the food is not dience. Knowing how to perform with and only a production in itself, but it takes place riff off of each other, this couple provides throughout the entire performance. Ask wonderful humor throughout the evening. your server for your favorite cocktail or try The aerial ballet performers known as one of the house specialty drinks created for Duo Madrona make another appearance each show. The appetizer is a flaky dough in the current show at Teatro. Ben Wendel pyramid with sweet onions, feta cheese, and plays Dr. Harrington, an Indiana Jones-type roasted peppers, quickly followed by Egypexplorer searching for the Love Spice. Ra- tian yellow lentil soup with caraway cream, chel Nehmer plays the club’s secretary and and an arugula salad with lemon-tarragon announcer of sorts. After experiencing the vinaigrette. The main course options inLove Spice, the couple performs. Moving clude a vegetarian entrée, halibut with gracefully high above, this couple moves basil and fig chutney, or a Kurobuta pork and dances using their only source of sta- chop with baked apple-mint sauce. No matbility, a long rope, as an accessory. Moving ter which you choose, your taste buds will thank you. An extra option further explores the menu with a warm fava bean spread served with pita chips or an assorted plate of Kalamata olives, Marcona almond stuffed dates, and saffron chickpeas. For dessert a peach, ricotta, and pecan slice of baklava is served, for the full Mediterranean experience.

For an enjoyable and all-inclusive evening out, there are few better options than Teatro ZinZanni. While the performances are, admittedly, variations on a theme, each show is catered individually and presented with perfection.

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As sweet as it gets

Masterful Sugar Daddies is a theatrical treat not to be missed

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer SUGAR DADDIES ACT THEATRE Through November 3 Our fair city has been graced with the presence of a master playwright, the worldrenowned Alan Ayckbourn. He has been a prolific writer of comedies in England, and English-speaking companies around the world love to do them. He came here at the invitation of Kurt Beattie, artistic director of ACT Theatre, to direct his own play, Sugar Daddies.

The buzz about his manner as director was everything flattering that one would want to hear about a director: encouraging, giving, gracious, easygoing, open to actors’ questions and input. He even felt ready to rework and tweak Sugar Daddies years after its initial premiere. With an exquisite cast of five, his bittersweet comedy attains the best quality of comedy writing: you never know what is going to happen next until it happens!

We meet a young country bumpkin of a girl, Sasha (Emily Chisholm), who has moved to the city and in with her older halfsister Chloe (Elinor Gunn) to go to culinary school. Her modest aspirations are to exceed her parents’ roles of running a tea shop by running her own restaurant. Sasha’s warm heart has led her to bring home a “Santa” who has narrowly escaped being run over, and she tends to him with care.

Santa (Seán G. Griffin) seems like a lovely man, volunteering to entertain children at the local hospital. His appreciation for Sasha’s kind attention starts with an enormous bouquet of flowers, and then a trip to the opera and a dress for that occasion, and then more. Chloe is perturbed by Sasha’s trust-

ing nature and warns her that people have a dark side. Sasha is determined to believe only the best about “Uncle Val.” Even when downstairs neighbor Ashley (John Patrick Lowrie) tries to add to the cautionary messages, Sasha shuts him down. She seems to be enjoying the presents, the dinners, the discounts Val helps her receive from other women in his life on dresses and jewelry, etc. Val seems content to give this kind of largesse to her with only a request for her company, not pulling the relationship into some sordid sexual realm.

WHAT’S THE CATCH? Once the entire apartment is made over, with the help of a (courtesan-turned?) decorator, Charmaine (Anne Allgood), we are completely uncertain how far this all can go. While it has all been fairly amusing up to this point, we are aware that there is real danger here. Whether it’s emotional or psychological or physical is hard to say.

There are layers and layers here – the vulnerability of the young, the desire to believe the best of everyone, women’s dependence on male validation to feel good about themselves, the desire of a man with a long history to bask in the simple beliefs of a young woman’s esteem – yet it is quite humorous and an enjoyable production.

Chisholm has shown herself in many productions around town to be a consummate actor who throws herself into roles and makes what she does look so easy that it downplays her technical abilities. Her tiny transformations and changes in attitude are the main focus of the play, and she is almost always present on stage. She is the perfect presence to drive the actions in this story.

Griffin matches her toe-to-toe. His transformation from Scene One’s befuddled Santa to Scene Two’s confident Uncle Val is one

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of the best parts of the play.

Technical support is also, as usual for ACT, wonderful. Matthew Smucker’s set makes a marvelously ugly change from Act One to Act Two, and that’s a compliment. It’s part of the fun. Deb Trout’s costumes, which Chisholm often tugs down in discomfort, also add to the garish fashion that her character adopts. Lighting by Rick Paulsen and sound from Brendan Patrick Hogan also help create this one-set living-

room ambiance of apartment living.

Writer-director Ayckbourn knows exactly what he wants from his actors and expects them to provide it. This is a wonderful evening of story and subtext. If you were able to divine how the play ends well before its conclusion, please write sgncritic@gmail.com and tell me what gave it away for you. For more information, go to www.acttheatre. org or call (206) 292-7676.

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They’ll be your mirror New company’s first play puts strong female characters in the forefront

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer MIRROR IMAGES PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE (at Stone Soup Theatre) Through October 26 A new company is producing a new play by a local playwright. Playwrights’ Theatre is producing Mirror Images by Scott Timmons, and it boasts a quartet of fine female talent. Refreshingly, Timmons is able to craft dialogue that reflects feelings that women feel and dialogue that sounds like women really talking to each other. That is not always the case with male writers. In our society, even female writers often know their male characters better than their female ones, given how much of our culture reflects male focus and understanding.

Laura’s (Caitlin Frances) father has just died and she and her mother Anna (Maureen Hawkins), Anna’s best friend Ellen (Margaret Bicknell), and Laura’s friend Becky (Erin Ison), have just returned to Anna’s home from the funeral. As their conversation progresses, we immediately understand that there are secrets being kept.

Anna has a small chest that Laura has never seen the inside of. Anna also has never shared almost any of her life growing up in Germany before she emigrated to the United States. Laura also has a secret: Becky is more than a good friend. Laura, egged on by Becky, investigates items in the

chest, where there are a couple of Germanlanguage newspaper clippings and a picture of Anna with another man.

There are aspects of the plot that ought not to be disclosed in a review, but Anna’s history is revealed to be connected, as almost every German family was, to the Nazis and World War II, and it becomes a little more understandable that Anna did not want to talk about that period of her life.

That history may be one that many families, particularly those of German ancestry, don’t wish to examine. Even today, what our parents and grandparents did during that war still resonates.

SILENT GENERATIONS The parallel mystery has to do with why Laura feels she has to keep her Lesbianism a secret both from her mother and from her work. However, it’s also understandable, even now, why many professionals in high executive-type positions might think it would jeopardize all they have worked for if they were to come out.

The main pleasure is watching all these women work together – demonstrating their affection for each other, their friendships, their family relationships. The plot points are a bit on the obvious side, so the mystery is not very mysterious, but that doesn’t much detract from the production. Zachariah Robinson, the co-founder of the company and director of the play, manages the timing and the slow reveals with unobtru-

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sive deftness. He directs with a light hand, and the play proceeds simply, without fuss.

He gets able assistance from technical staff. The set, by John Clark, is quite meticulous – a closet interior that the audience can see when open is full of appropriate closet things. He created a modest but graceful living-room set with faux stone and tasteful décor. Age-appropriate costuming from Savannah Baltazar gives each character her style, and lighting by Gwyn Skone and sound by John Epperson are subtle sup-

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All in all, it’s a good maiden voyage, and a pleasure to see four strong women characters on stage. For more information, go to www.playwrights-theatre.org or www. brownpapertickets.com/event/437373, or call 1-800-838-3006.

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Sleigh Bells jingle at Showbox

Noise-pop duo gives Seattle an early present Press Here Publicity

Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells

by Jessica Price SGN A&E Writer SLEIGH BELLS SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET October 12 Sleigh Bells’ frontwoman Alexis Krauss is the “bad girl” you longed to be friends with in high school but were too afraid to sit with on the bus. She’s both beautiful and slightly menacing – a tiny but dynamic figure in denim cut-offs over the prerequi-

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Rodriguez: Will you be performing with a full band, or will it be a solo appearance?

Barber: It’s a quartet. In fact, I’m using a woman saxophonist from Seattle, Kate Olson.

Rodriguez: How many songs from the new album have you rehearsed for this tour, this performance?

Barber: We’ll do quite a bit of new material from Smash.

Rodriguez: As well as music from your

site lacey tights, a cropped black Everlast T-shirt, thick black hair, and mean tattoos.

Krauss radiated charisma and cool Saturday night at the Showbox at the Market, stomping all over the stage as if she owned it.

Which, of course, she did.

Touring on the heels of the brand-new record Bitter Rivals (their third release), Krauss and Sleigh Bells protégé Derek Miller filled out their live setup with an additional guitarist and drummer plus a baseline of pre-recorded samples. Together they previous albums?

Barber: Yes, that and some standards.

Really, I never know what I’m going to feel like doing and I just sort of do what I feel like, but I do feel like doing a lot of material from Smash.

Rodriguez: Does the set list change from city to city?

Barber: Oh, sure. Sometimes I get into something, but I don’t want to get bored or bore the band, so I do tend to change things up.

Rodriguez: Does a certain city, like Seattle vs. New York, or the weather, or the political climate ever factor into the set list?

Barber: Yeah, the political climate sometimes has me pulling out some of my more political songs. I just pulled out my re-work-

busted out a gorgeous racket, making pairs of hip boyfriends and their young, gazellelike lady friends lose their minds.

Opening with new songs such as “Minnie” and “Tiger Kit,” Krauss worked the room, spinning on her heels while playing to the dance-punk diva worshippers packed into the first few rows. When “Crown on the Ground” was unleashed in all its glory (the hit from debut album Treats enjoyed a resurgence last summer when it was featured in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring) the wooden floors of the Showbox started to sway and bounce with en masse dancing - always the mark of a memorable night at The Showbox.

The set was a relentless sonic assault of the best kind, plowing through new single “Bitter Rivals” as well as “True Shred Guitar,” “You Don’t Get Me Twice,” “Riot Rhythm,” and “Infinity Guitars.” Alexis’ powerful vocals more than held their own among the din; an encore featuring new track “Young Legends” crystallized her softer pop sensibilities as well.

A WINNING FORMULA With Bitter Rivals, Sleigh Bells have navigated the pivotal third-record turning point successfully by sticking with the formula we’ve come to adore – a surprisingly danceable wall of obliterating white noise coupled with airy, candy-coated pop vocals – while delivering something new in the process.

Amidst the trademark pseudo-metal guitar riffs that slice through clattering hip-hop beats, Sleigh Bells even flirt with a little acoustic guitar and piano as punctuation here and there. Alexis’ vocals now more directly reference her pop R&B influences (fittingly, classic tracks from Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, and Madonna were played pre-show). It could be a case of a band learning to edit the sound they’ve already discovered works quite well, and in the process they’ve shattered all their own rules.

It’s a side of Sleigh Bells we were hoping for, proving they’re much more interesting than the band we thought they were (and that band was already one we loved, turning out two acclaimed albums with Treats and Reign of Terror). Touring for Bitter Rivals, Sleigh Bells prove they’re not simply married in perpetuity to the loud/soft wallop they so expertly deliver. For now, clever experimentation will scratch that sonic itch – at least until album number four. ing of “You’re the Top,” which has Obama in it, the other night.

Rodriguez: When you’re composing new music, do the lyrics or music come first?

Barber: It’s never so simple. I wish there were a formula. It’s one way sometimes, the other way sometimes. It’s a combination of the two things – they kind of grow organically together.

Rodriguez: For anyone that hasn’t seen you in concert, do you interact with the audience?

Barber: Not very much. I’m not very chatty, usually. I have stage fright. In fact, I’m going through a real serious bout of it, so I’m pretty introverted and I can barely introduce the band about 40 minutes into the set. I have to concentrate very hard on the music itself, so that I don’t think about the stage fright.

Rodriguez: You tour everywhere. With what’s happening right now in Russia with the LGBT community, would you consider playing there, if asked to?

Barber: Probably not. It was hard there, anyway, not recently, and not for being Gay but it’s a kind of scary place. The people in Russia are wonderful, the audiences were wonderful, the concerts were packed. To get out of the airport, though, if you lose your papers, it’s so scary. So now it’s even scarier.

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Find the perfect Halloween costume at Goodwill

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Over the past year, 8,000 truckloads of household, estate, and community donations were meticulously culled for Goodwill’s Halloween costume product.

“That eerie bride’s dress and hat become the real ‘Ghost Lady’ attire,” said White.

“Pirate coats, boots, and belts are real. And the same for pilot, soldier, fireman, doctor, and nurse attire. Now a ‘She-Devil’ can wear that fantastic red dress and Prada.”

NO ORDINARY STORE So, where does the money go?

“Goodwill’s mission is not retail, but to fight unemployment and poverty in the region through free job training, placement, and retention services – fueled by retail sales at 33 stores, our online business, and unsold donation recycling and salvage efforts,” said White.

“Goodwill thrift stores have come a long way in the past five years, much to the glee of in-the-know last-minute school shoppers,” he continued. “New is the ‘fashion forward’ style of merchandising and store layouts, reflecting a Kohl’s or Marshall’s display of clothing and accessories. What has not changed is thrift store pricing – think 60 to 90% off for fashion brands.”

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor Want to find the best costume possible while giving back to those in need? George White, manager of public relations and communications at Tacoma Goodwill, says all you need to do is visit a Goodwill store

and you can do just that.

Tired of the plastic imitation pirate belt and boots, or cheap imitation doctor’s coat as a Halloween costume? What if you could visit a movie wardrobe department for your costume and pay only 20% of original cost?

“Now you can, thanks to modern Goodwill stores in Tacoma,” White said in a

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MORE ABOUT GOODWILL Goodwill Industries provides innovative job placement, career training, and education to connect Americans with a higher quality of life. As a unique nonprofit business, Goodwill thrift shop revenue and public donations fuel programs that help people with limited income, disabilities, and other disadvantages to overcome barriers to employment. This year alone, Tacoma Goodwill Industries will help 9,000 people with education, job training, and placement, so they can become independent self-supporting citizens. Of these, more than 2,200 people will be offered office, culinary, barista, catering, retail, custodial, warehouse, transportation, and logistics careers, thanks to partnerships with 800 companies across Washington. These critical career development and placement services are funded through generous financial gifts, grants, fees, commercial services, and the operation of 33 thrift stores throughout Western and South Central Washington. For more information, visit www.tacomagoodwill.org.

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some and led them on the path to international stardom even as he struggled with his own sense of belonging – he was Gay when it was a felony; he was Jewish during a time of rabid anti-Semitism; and he was from Liverpool, then considered a dingy port town.

“Freedom to Marry has long urged that the most effective way to continue winning over hearts and minds is talking about who Gay people are, why marriage matters, and the harms inflicted by the denial of the freedom to marry,” said Evan Wolfson, the group’s founder and president. “Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle tells the compelling story of a tremendously successful entertainment executive who lived at a time when Gay people were excluded from the public dialogue – not that long ago – and the costs of that exclusion. Brian Epstein’s story portrays the unnecessary, unfair, and unacceptable pain and price of telling some of our friends that they cannot dream of a life of love and commitment equally respected under the law. In a year when we celebrate our winning the freedom to marry in Epstein’s home country of Britain and a year of real momentum here in the U.S., we continue to imagine, as John Lennon urged, a better world – and are working to bring it home.”

The Fifth Beatle takes the form of a graphic novel that chronicles Epstein’s discovery of The Beatles, his work to sharpen them into stars and secure a record deal when no one else would sign them, and his overwhelming success in the midst of his personal obstacles – particularly his struggle with being Gay. Epstein suffered an untimely death at age 32 and has become a largely forgotten figure in Beatles history.

BROADWAY VETERAN Tiwary previously worked as lead producer for the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and as co-producer for the Broadway productions of The Addams Family and American Idiot.

In total, Tiwary’s Broadway productions have garnered a total of 25 Tony Awards stemming from 44 nominations. The Fifth Beatle is his first book and will be his first film.

“Growing up as the son of first-generation immigrants and becoming one of few producers of color in the entertainment business, I can relate to the outsider status that Epstein felt so many decades ago in Liverpool,” said Tiwary. “Epstein’s story and struggle served as an inspiration to me for years, and I’m hoping that The Fifth Beatle will inspire in turn – and that our partnership with Freedom to Marry will point our readers and viewers in a direction where they can make an immediate and important difference, by supporting a fight worth winning. A fight we are going to win.”

The book is scheduled for release on November 19. It includes an afterword by pioneering Gay cartoonist Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby; Wendel) about his own experiences with the struggle for marriage and the connection between the Brian Epstein story and Freedom to Marry. In addition, The Fifth Beatle is being adapted into a feature film and has secured unprecedented rights to The Beatles’ songs. Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen will produce the film, along with Tiwary.

Cohen won the 2000 Oscar for Best Picture for American Beauty and has been nominated twice more, for Milk (2008) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The film version of The Fifth Beatle will begin production in 2014.

COSTUME SHOPPING TIPS Killer Halloween costumes require brainstorming and access to wardrobe/props, so White recommends: • Combine ideas from online and store staff. Goodwill store inventory is unique so employees specialize in turning ideas into quality costumes. Staff has a costume idea book from years of experience and creativity. Google “50 best Halloween costumes” for endless ideas, then bring them in.

• Shop early and often. A couple of stores within minutes of each other allow you to browse thousands of unique products. Donations come out several times a day, and

unlike other retail the inventory is unique – meaning a vast selection at each store.

• Think outside the Halloween department. The aforementioned Ghost Lady attire would include a dress from wedding and gown, a hat from accessories, and shoes from the shoe department.

Above all, know your money is helping someone get a job. Goodwill trains and places people with the help of 800 companies throughout the region. Its programs serve the people hardest-hit in this economy, such as transitioning veterans, older job seekers, people with limited income for education/training, and persons with disabilities. By shopping at Goodwill, you are also helping the environment by keeping usable clothing and other items out of landfills.

TRUE TO THE MUSIC “I’m thrilled that Freedom to Marry will be partnering with The Fifth Beatle graphic novel,” said Cohen. “I hope that by embracing the music of the Beatles, the message of love that they are famous for, and the talent of the Gay man who made it all possible, viewers around the world will be inspired to get involved with Freedom to Marry so that the much-needed work of full marriage equality can continue.” Cohen is a longtime LGBT activist and supporter of Freedom to Marry as well as the current president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the group behind the recently victorious Supreme Court case that declared Prop 8 unconstitutional and allowed marriages for same-sex couples in California to resume.

A longtime straight ally of the LGBT community, Tiwary’s support of Freedom to Marry goes back nearly a decade, when

he and his then-fiancée requested that their wedding guests make donations to Freedom to Marry in lieu of wedding gifts. Freedom to Marry will serve as a sponsor of the book’s launch party in New York City on November 19.

ABOUT FREEDOM TO MARRY Freedom to Marry is the campaign to win marriage nationwide by working to win the freedom to marry in more states, grow the national majority for marriage, and end federal marriage discrimination. The campaign partners with individuals and organizations across the country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage.

For more information on Freedom to Marry and its Roadmap to Victory, visit www. freedomtomarry.org. – Info submitted by Freedom to Marry

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SATURDAY - October 19

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (10/10-10/20). www.threedollarbillcinema.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.

Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org Reel Queer Youth Film Screening. 1pm. AMC Pacific Place Cinema, 600 Pine St. Features four films made

by Queer youth in Seattle this summer. www.facebook. com/pages/reel-queer-youth/208139612538906 Haunted Trails at Bastyr University (10/18, 10/19, 10/25 & 10/26). Trick-or-Treat, 5-6:45pm; Children’s Carnival 5:30-9pm. Bastyr University, 14500 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore. Features trick-or-treat for children 8 & younger plus activities for teens & adults. For tickets visit www.hauntedtrailsbu.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details.

Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org. (Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks. For more information visit www.rainbowbridge club.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com “Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men Around the World” - Book Launch. 7pm. Elliott Bay Books, 1521 10th Ave. Author David L Chapman shares examples of his visual ephemera. Guests include local bodybuilders. Light snacks & beverages will be served. FREE. www.cbsd.com “A Tribute to Heroes” - Rainbow City Band Fall Concert. 7pm. Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 4th Ave N, Edmonds. Tickets: $20-adults; $15-seniors/ children 10 & under. www.rainbowcityband.com “Cafes, Cabarets, Clubs” - Musical Experiences in Concert. 7:30pm. Greenlake United Methodist Church, 6415 1st Ave NE. Tickets: Adults $22, Seniors $17, Students $12 (18 & under). www.musical experiences.org

SUNDAY - October 20

For information on GLBT-friendly Christian churches around the world visit www.gaychurch.org.

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (10/10-10/20). www.threedollarbillcinema.org Hiking Group. 8:45am. Uptown Espresso, 500 Westlake Ave N. Every Sunday year-round, rain or shine for moderate to strenuous day hikes. 3238382. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSeattleGay HikingGroup/ Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. 323-1659, www.seattle sotozen.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.

Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am.

Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month. This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@hotmail.com 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)

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October 19 thru October 27 Catholic Parents Support Group. 7pm. St Benedict’s Parish Center, 1805 N 49th St. Meets 3rd Monday each month. This is a drop-in peer support group for parents, family members & friends of GLBT persons.

The group offers a safe, supportive & welcoming space where concerned persons can share their experiences, struggles, joys & resources. The invitation is also extended to educators & counselors who may encounter homosexual issues in their student/parent populations.

(425) 462-9411, 542-2549.

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

PFLAG/Bremerton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton. Meets 3rd Monday each month. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 3257724.

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

Sex, Dating & Relationships. 7-8pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Meets the 1st & 3rd Monday of every month. Talk about sexual health & safety, as well as different types of relationships. Ask questions and get answers from people who really know their stuff. 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday.

For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - October 22

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 (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 121:30pm. Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported.

The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.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 Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck Social & General Meeting. 2-4pm. Seattle First Baptist Church Recreation Hall, 1111 Harvard Ave (at E Seneca St enter thru glass doors on Harvard Ave.) Meets 3rd Sunday most months. Bring a dish to serve 6-8 people. $4 door fee covers hall rental. SPT is a social club for Gay men & their friends. www.seattleprimetimers.org.

Discussion Series - One Hemisphere, Indivisible: Permanent Revolution & Neoliberalism in the Americas. 3-4:30pm. 4710 University Way NE, Suite 100. This timely book by Guerry Hoddersen, journalist & feminist organizer, examines the roots of the US economic crisis & its relationship to the upheavals across Latin America, with special emphasis on the role of women, immigrants & US labor in building crossborder solidarity. 713-8056, fspseattle@mindspring. com, www.socialism.com/seattle Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/ Weds/Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men

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& 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.

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

MONDAY - October 21

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.

Seattle Women’s Commission Meeting. 5:30-8pm.

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

Meetings open to the public. 684-4537.

LGBTQ Community Town Hall on Police Acountability. 6pm. South Side Commons, 3518 S Edmond St. Opportunity for community feedback on DOJ’s recommendations for reform of Seattle police. Sponsored

by LGBTQ Allyship.

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

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

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

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 October 22 18th Annual Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation. 5:30pm. Seattle Central Community College, Broadway & E Pine St. 206-264-5527; Oct22seattle@hotmail.com; on Facebook; www.october22.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions?

Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBT MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor.

Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-2505002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com.

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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 Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com Ageless. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for maturing Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

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

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

(360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

(See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.)

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 - October 25

WEDNESDAY - October 23

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm.

Call for details, location & to make reservations. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community.

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

(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. http://faculty.washington.edu/ swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Spooky Halloween! POZSeattle Monthly Social #2.

6-8pm. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. Come out to see the scary decor & sample the great Halloween themed foods prepared by the CC’s kitchen crew. This event is free (except for the cost of beverages) & is for all HIV+ men & theirs friends, regardless of age, shape, size or color. www.pozseattle.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.

Parks & Green Spaces Levy Public Meeting. 6:307:45pm. Capitol Hill Library, 425 Harvard Ave E. An opportunity to provide input on specific design elements. The project is located at 200 Summit Ave E. Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

Strengthening Lesbian Relationships. 6:30-8:30pm.

Jewish Family Services, 1601 16th Ave. Explore how to build a healthier, stronger relationship with a woman you love. Facilitated by G Dorsey Green, PhD. $20 per person at the door or $15 in advance. Space is limited. To REGISTER call 861-8784 or email familylife@jfsseattle.org Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1505 Broadway. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide

Visit us online www.sgn.org

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm.

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

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

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Waxie Moon in “Fallen Jewel.” 8pm. Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave. A gender-bending look at life, love & all that other stuff, while also being one of the biggest shout-outs to Seattle ever committed to celluloid. Waxie Moon & director Wes Hurley will be in attendance. Pre-show hosted by Aleksa Manilla. 18+.

Tickets $20. Benefits Seattle Counseling Service.

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.)

information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group.

7-9pm. Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www. ingersollcenter.org Rain City Jacks. 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month, 7pm; 1st Sunday each month, 2pm. West Queen Anne/Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a friendly, sex-positive & 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 Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups. yahoo. com/group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebears-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 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. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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

THURSDAY - October 24

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober 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.

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

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! Please call before dropping in.

957-1776. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org Happy Hour Meditation. 5:30-6:40pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Every Thursday. Join us at the end of your day in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Dropins welcome. We meditate silently for 25 minutes, followed by a short open discussion. No admittance after 5:45pm to respect those who are meditating. www.healingandtransformationcenter.com 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 PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma.

Meets 4th Thursday each month. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) 383-2318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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

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Border Riders Weekend Run (10/25-10/27). Silver Falls State Park, Silverton, OR. www.borderriders.com 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 (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

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 Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6:30pm-appetizers & socializing; 7:30pm-dinner. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Meets last Friday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 6:45pm.

Gay City, 517 E Pike St (temporary meeting location).

Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www. seattle-al-anon.org Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm.

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community.

FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

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

SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Meets the 3rd & 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun. www. sasgcc.org

SATURDAY - October 26

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Border Riders Weekend Run (10/25-10/27). Silver Falls State Park, Silverton, OR. www.borderriders.com Halloween Haunting for Witches & Hellraisers.

7:30pm. 1903 NE 82nd St. Festive costume party for feminists & other seditious souls. Scream-worthy snack plates $7. Benefits Radical Women. 722-6057, rwseattle@mindspring.com, www.radicalwomen.org/ seattle.shtml Lambert House Halloween Dance. 8pm-12midnight.

All Pilgrim’s Church, 500 Broadway E. DJs, dancing, costume contest with prizes. No drugs, no alcohol, no hate. Hosted by Aleksa Manilla. LGBTQ youth & allies ages 14-22 welcome. Suggested donation $5-$15.

SUNDAY - October 27

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Border Riders Weekend Run (10/25-10/27). Silver Falls State Park, Silverton, OR. www.borderriders.com Run Scared 5K Run or 4K Walk. 9:30am. Seward Park. FREE kids dash. Costume contest. Benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. www.runscared5k. com

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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/

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Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBTQI 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 - www.chacseattle.org Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 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 Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) 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.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www.imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

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

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

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

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; 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

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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 Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@ yahoo. com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN), 322-7061; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164.

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

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

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

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities,

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and those who love them. 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. 323-1768.

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

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

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhill cycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@ gmail. com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.different spokes. org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby.com; Emerald City Softball Association: www. emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz. com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: http://Clubs.Hemmings. com/EthylForever CarClub/; Hiking Group: 323-8382; Jet City Hoops: www.jetcity hoops.org; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor

education & recreation activities, www.outventures. org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www. puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@ gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle 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.thepride league.com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www. teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 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 Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter. org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup. webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www. facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc. org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbian concern. org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http:// lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot.com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493.

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth. org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206-957-1665, jessicah@ llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter. org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag. org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch. org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook. com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 206326-9112, www.facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - 360-698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space.org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 - Sarah Hardin, 425271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www. thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@ chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/ Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www.yspp.org

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