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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 48, Volume 40, November 30, 2012

An exclusive interview with Naomi Wolf, author of Vagina: A New Biography

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by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer NAOMI WOLF TOWN HALL December 4 It could have been an in-yourface, affronting question for feminist icon Naomi Wolf – to ask how her new book, Vagina: A New Biography, could be of interest to the largely male readership of a Gay newspaper, in a recent phone interview prior to her December 4 appearance at Town Hall. But Wolf was able to roll right into an answer, as you’ll see below.

Naomi Wolf first made a splash in feminist literature two decades ago with her book The Beauty Myth, which she wrote in her 20s.

It focused on how society has constrained women into all sorts of ideals of beauty and then created a multibillion-dollar business to

show women what they have to do to achieve those ideals. This no longer seems quite as radical a notion as it may have for some back in 1990.

TOOL FOR SUBJUGATION In fact, her newest book recapitulates a number of ideas in a different light, this time focusing more exclusively on the cultural inhibition of women’s sexuality and the ways in which that has allowed society to better control women through disincentivizing them from accepting their own creativity and leadership.

Vagina: A New Biography lays the groundwork for examining new neuroscience that shows that a complex web of nerves in women creates more than three different possibilities for sexual orgasmic response, giving the lie to older books that state that women

who cannot orgasm vaginally and must rely on clitoral stimulation are somehow deficient, stunted, or not sufficiently educated about how to have “real” orgasms.

But a bigger value in the book is a discussion about how a woman’s whole self is connected to her sexual well-being and her ability to give time and attention to relaxing fully and expanding her sexual experience. Wolf makes the argument that it is only through this gift of a “Goddess array” of time and attention that a woman can truly gain understanding of her whole person, with oxytocin (a relaxant) and dopamine (a hormone and neurotransmitter) releasing all of her capabilities in other areas of life, from her ability to be selfreliant, to creating art, to nurturing her family.

MEN LIKE VAGINAS, TOO It’s pretty clear why women might want to read this book, whether they’re straight, Lesbian, Bi, or Trans. It’s also clear that men who love women in sexual relationships might be interested in learning more about how they can please their partners and deepen their intimate connections. But what about men who are fathers, sons, uncles, cousins, brothers, friends? How might this book impact them?

Wolf responds with a laugh, “I feel like, isn’t it just about insight?

I read Faggots [presumably refersee wolf page 33

Gay rap star Honey Bucket does drag her way I’ve always said that my favorite drag queens are character actors. In fact, I don’t even see them as drag queens per se, because the characters they become are so much bigger than, oh, let’s say … Lady Bunny. I’m talking about the comedic genius of Dina Martina, and the dark comedy lyrics performed

by BenDeLaCreme. The list of drag queens who sing badly, but oh-so-beautifully, just got a little longer and a lot more talented. I’m speaking of course, about Mizz Honey Bucket (pronounced “Bouquet,” darling).

“Before I ever thought of doing drag,” explained Eric Lowell, the man behind the character Honey Bucket, “I drove by a Honey Bucket and made the correlation with Keeping Up Appearances and the character Hyacinth Bucket.” (Hyacinth Bucksee honey page 30

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer

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Shannon Englehart-Franklin

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor

BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS BENAROYA HALL November 30December 22 (Featuring Ana Gasteyer, Nov. 30-Dec. 1) The latest celebrity to guest-star with the Seattle Men’s Chorus is a comedic favorite with real singing chops. Ana Gasteyer will make two appearances with the chorus at Benaroya Hall: Friday, November 30, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, December 1, at 2 p.m. You likely know her from her stint on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002, where her Ana Gasteyer

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movies and film

Visually audacious Life of Pi another triumph for Lee

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer LIFE OF PI Now showing Life of Pi isn’t an easy movie to talk about. Not because it has problems (though there are one or two) or because it does not entertain (it does that in spades), but more because its themes and morals are as

Rhythm & Hues.

Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) and a fierce Bengal tiger named Richard Parker must rely on each other to survive an epic journey in Life of Pi.

ephemeral and as ghostly as the story spun by its central protagonist, Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan). Based on the lyrical, time-bending novel by Yann Martel, director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain) and screenwriter David Magee (Neverland) have crafted an elliptical visual poem where truth and fiction meld into one, discovering the heart and soul of the matter more important than solving the riddles revolving

Bruce Vilanch wigs out

The veteran actor/writer/comedian stars in a Gay reworking of A Christmas Carol

by Jorjet Harper Special to the SGN Six-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch plays Fezziwig in the new film Scrooge & Marley, a contemporary retelling of the classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol, screening Wednesday, December 5, at the Rendezvous JewelBox Theater in Seattle.

“I play a different kind of Fezziwig,” says Vilanch. “He’s a guy who owns a disco in the ’70s and he’s Auntie Mame – Rosalind Russell. He’s a pretty fabulous character.”

In Dickens’ original story, Mr. Fezziwig is young Scrooge and Marley’s boss. He’s a generous, ethical businessman who treats his employees like family, cares about their welfare, and throws lively holiday parties.

He is forced to sell his business to avaricious corporate interests who care nothing about worker morale. Scrooge and Marley, grown more callous over time, side with the heartless new owners.

TRADITION WITH A TWIST Although Scrooge & Marley is a modern, Gay-themed retelling of A Christmas Carol, Vilanch’s character follows the traditional Dickensian arc. “He’s a jolly old soul who gets caught up in his vices and gets caught up in their chicanery. Eventually, he’s something they [the spirits] show Scrooge, to show him what a bad guy he has been through the years. Fezziwig’s kind of a poster child for excess, but at the same time, he’s brought down by the hand of somebody who is genuinely sinister. And he’s not. I like him.”

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Dickens’ Fezziwig symbolized the end of an era he knew well, the Industrial Revolution. The author saw it as a time when small businessmen and local industries like Fezziwig’s were disappearing, swept away by more ruthlessly profiteering business practices and cutthroat corporations. The Fezziwig in Scrooge & Marley also symbolizes the end of an era: the pre-AIDS Gay culture.

“Fezziwig is the end of that party that was going on in the Gay community in the ’70s, that was ended by the AIDS epidemic,” explains Vilanch. “Suddenly everything got very serious and everything that we were told would happen because of what we were doing suddenly happened – and not because of what we were doing. It was totally coincidental. It was the end of some kind of a party that had been going on since Stonewall. There was a great deal of joy about liberation and getting a movement going and all that, and that came crashing down when people began dying. And ironically enough, that movement, because of the epidemic, became a real genuine political movement, which is as forceful today as it can be.”

BEHIND THE SCENES Vilanch was living in Chicago in 1970, working at the Chicago Tribune, when he met Bette Midler. She hired him to write jokes for her, marking the start of a successful collaboration that has lasted through the years. After moving to L.A., Vilanch began writing material for other famous comics as well, including Joan Rivers, Richard Pryor, and Lily Tomlin, and for television shows like ABC’s original Donny and Marie Show and The Brady Bunch. Vilanch

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Is that it? Is this all that is going on here?

Without a doubt, that’s a gigantic highfalutin’ No. Lee and Magee do their best to explore Martel’s ideas and concepts, crafting a visually audacious enigma speaking to who we really are as well as the best of who we hope to be. The journey is the point – whether it is true or not is nowhere near as important as you’d think it should be, the lines between faith, spirituality, pragmatism, religion, science, and nature blurring into one in the process.

For many reasons there wasn’t any way that Lee could have adapted Magee’s ethereal book in a straightforward manner. For maybe the very first time – maybe the only time – a filmmaker has found a way to use modern 3D technology in a way that actually services the story and propels the narra-

tive forward. Sure, James Cameron’s Avatar and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo looked fantastic, but they get the job done just as well in a standard visual format as they do in a threedimensional one. Life of Pi, however, needs this third dimension and in many ways thrives upon it, the way it kept drawing me deeper and deeper inside the frame key to allowing me to feel everything Pi was going through and understand his final comments, and potentially his unspoken truths, in a way I do not think I could have otherwise.

There is a slight pretentiousness to all of this that is sadly unavoidable, and I can’t say every element of the journey worked as well as I would have liked. But the way Khan tells the story and how Sharma in turn acts it out is something to behold, the latter’s interactions with the (mostly, but not always, and I couldn’t really tell which was which) CGI-generated Richard Parker bordering on astonishing. Even though neither actor shares a scene with the other – how could they? – the way they work in tandem is quite extraordinary, the pair together elevating the proceedings in a way I personally found stunning. They do wonders, both delivering performances ranking as two of the absolute best of 2012.

I’ll be curious to see how Life of Pi holds up on subsequent viewings, interested to see if it plays as well in 2D as it does in 3D (a statement I honestly thought I’d never, ever make). Lee once again proves himself to be a master director capable of handling material of any kind, in every genre, his latest achievement just as amazing as his prior classics have been. He’s a one-of-a-kind filmmaker who enjoys tackling one-of-akind projects, making his decision to dive into Martel’s supposedly unfilmable novel nowhere near as surprising as it potentially might have been.

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Tiger tale

around its authenticity.

And what is that story told by the older Patel? As a young man (Suraj Sharma) he and his family, zookeepers by trade, were traveling from India to Canada by ship, their entire stock on board to be sold to a new zoo when they arrived at their new home. But tragedy strikes and their vessel is sunk, Pi the only survivor cast adrift on a lonely lifeboat in the middle of the hostile Pacific Ocean.

Scratch that, he’s the only “human” survivor. Pi is joined in his boat by a Bengal tiger with the curious moniker of Richard Parker.

The pair engage in an uneasy battle of wills, each needing the other for survival but one knowing for certain that if he gets too close his compatriot will literally eat him for dinner. Together they travel across the ocean looking for signs of life, the ways of the universe colliding headfirst into them as their existence hangs by a tenuous thread.

Bruce Vilanch as Fezziwig in Scrooge & Marley

heard about the Scrooge & Marley project from his friend, the film’s co-director and co-writer, Richard Knight.

“I had done his radio show when I was in Chicago doing Hairspray, and we’ve been friendly ever since. He talked about making this strange Gay take on A Christmas Carol.

When you consider the film’s been done every other way – I mean, I’m waiting for the al-Qaeda version – I thought, how could I not be a part of it? It’s so original, so unusual.”

Vilanch also considered a Gay version of A Christmas Carol in its wider cultural context. “I think that the reason to do a Gay version of anything is to show that we’re all basically the same under the skin. Humanity is the same. We just have wildly different cultural perspectives and ways of expressing ourselves,” he observes.

“And Gay culture is just so much fun. It’s festive and everything is in quotes and overthe-top exaggerated, because it’s a culture

that had to live under the thumb of a straight culture for years. Its take on things comes from being oppressed and that’s always funny,” says Vilanch.

“I mean, I’m Jewish, too: we were oppressed for 5,000 years. That’s why so many funny people are Jews. When you’re at the bottom, you kind of have to look up and laugh, because you don’t see the sun a lot – but eventually, you do.”

Scrooge & Marley screens at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, December 5, at the Rendezvous JewelBox Theater (2322 2nd Ave., Seattle).

Tickets are $10 general admission and $25 VIP at www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/297234. Proceeds benefit SOSea, a Seattle LGBTQ and Allied social justice organization. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. The Scrooge & Marley DVD, Blu-ray, and soundtrack will be available this holiday. Visit www. scroogeandmarleymovie.com for more information.

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Satirically bleak Killing doesn’t tread softly

George V. Higgins, writer and director Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, his follow-up to the magnetic and ethereal The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, isn’t the Quentin-Tarantino-meets-Jules-Dassin crime thriller the ads and trailers make it appear. Instead, this movie is a hard-boiled, fitfully violent satire of modern America, an evisceration of consumerist culture and the financial maelstrom colored against a backdrop of wicked men doing evil things, all in a tireless crusade to get ahead any way they can.

Dominik introduces the trio of criminal masterminds (Vincent Curatola, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) behind the robbery in spirited vignettes, each revealing

ing out of their way to make each moment uniquely its own. They rip at the underbelly of the piece with relish, each playing their respective part making sure the whole always moves with pulse-pounding finality to the only place it can come to.

NO HOLDS BARRED The devastating element to all of this is that Dominik and company pull no punches and refuse to let the audience off the hook.

We are Jackie, we are the minds behind the robbery, we are the ones who want to see the games back up and running as well as Markie, the sad, beleaguered soul who knows his single moment of idiocy so many years prior will probably lead to his death. We are

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Pitt can play roles like this one in his sleep, always finding a certain sort of joy in portraying the seedier, if smarter, elements of the criminal underbelly.

layers of inspiration and regret I found remarkable. There is pain here – real pathos, real disappointment. At the same time all of it is colored by dreams of youth and the Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly promise of a better tomorrow that’s easy to relate to, and while the decisions they make

by Sara Michelle Fetters of the syndicate aren’t entirely certain what are not good ones in the context of the world to do. It’s obvious Markie is being framed they’re all operating in, they do make some SGN A&E Writer but at the same time, who’s ever going to sort of tragic sense. trust him again? And while it’s important to KILLING THEM SOFTLY PITCH-PERFECT PITT find those responsible it’s equally imperaNow showing Pitt is fantastic, his conversations with Jackie (Brad Pitt) doesn’t want to be in tive to restore confidence in the game itself, Jenkins and Gandolfini ripe with subtext town. Problem is, Dillon’s (Sam Shepard) so money can be made once again.

That’s where Jackie comes in. He’s the dripping in multiple interpretations. Grantsick, so when the syndicate’s representative (Richard Jenkins) calls, it’s up to Jackie to muscle, but he’s also got a brain, and he ed, he can play roles like this one in his deal with the situation. Thing is, said situ- knows what needs to be done to get the sleep, always finding a certain sort of joy in ation is an annoying mess – Markie Tratt- games going again and the steps required to portraying the seedier, if smarter, elements man’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes mob-sanc- find the men behind this harebrained rob- of the criminal underbelly, and from Snatch tioned poker game getting hit for a second bery. His solutions won’t be pretty and they to Ocean’s 11 to Inglourious Basterds to time, leaving a bunch of nasty men with won’t come cheap, but they will, in the end, Fight Club, Jackie is just the type of characmake those with the money happy again – ter the actor was born to play. guns extremely upset.

The rest of the cast is up to the chalWhy annoying? The first time Markie’s which is the only thing that matters, even if game was robbed he was the one behind it, a great deal of blood needs to be spilled to lenge of equaling him, McNairy and Mendelsohn particularly so. All grit, grim and Dillon giving him a good thrashing but the make it so. ethereal underhanded purpose, they lap up powers-that-be deciding to leave it at that, Dominik’s dialogue as if it were mother’s DEEPER TRUTHS certain he’d never try to pull such a scam in Based on the novel Cogan’s Trade by milk, reveling in every syllable and gothe future. So when it’s hit again the heads

the consumers, the takers, the ones who talk a solid game about the greater good but in the end are only truly interested in getting ahead for ourselves. It reveals truths we don’t want to consider, let alone hear, Jackie’s final blistering lines of dialogue making the sort of statement that sticks with the viewer long after the screen fades to black.

I imagine, because of all of this, that Killing Them Softly will have a hard time finding a large audience. Satires as coal-black as this one usually take time to resonate and develop a following, the truths they speak to hard for viewers to initially swallow as no one likes to think of themselves in the starkly staggering shades of grey depicted within. Even so, this is a movie that should stand the test of time as it speaks to the early days of this new millennium with a crystalline authenticity few films would attempt.

Dominik has crafted something important and well worthy of celebration, and as darkly disturbing as much of it can be, it’s nothing compared to the wreckage left behind when we leave our own moral code of ethics on the curbside in a dubious pursuit to come out on top. dreamworks

The other side of Santa Visually seductive Guardians rises to the occasion

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer RISE OF THE GUARDIANS Now showing When the happiness of the world’s children is in jeopardy, it falls to the Guardians to protect it. Selected for duty by the mysterious Man in the Moon, Santa Claus (voiced

by Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), and the Sandman have protected the hopes and dreams of little kids around the globe for centuries, doing whatever it takes to make sure that the little ones’ collective belief in the wondrous and fantastical never dies.

But now, a mysterious power is rising.

Banished ages ago, the Guardians’ long-forgotten enemy Pitch (Jude Law), otherwise known as the Boogeyman, has returned to wreak his vengeance. He wants to transform a child’s dream into a nightmare – to make their belief in all that’s well and good in the world vanish into the ether, knowing that by doing so the power his enemies use to battle him will slowly disappear.

JACK FROST TO THE RESCUE Enter Jack Frost (Chris Pine). A playful sprite, he’s spent the last few hundred years playing pranks and making kids merry, and even if they don’t know he’s around the smile on their faces as he brings forth an unexpected snow day has kept him moderately content. But now the Man in the Moon wants more from him, and tags Jack to become the newest Guardian – and while the others are not certain he’s up to the challenge, when push comes to shove this winter-loving spirit might be the only thing standing between Pitch and the happiness of the world’s children.

Based on the award-winning stories of author William Joyce, DreamWorks’ Rise of the Guardians is a joy-filled frolic through the holidays that is as whimsical as it is energetic, as thoughtful as it filled with action. It never takes its audience for granted, doesn’t speak down to kid and adult alike, bit by delectable bit revealing a story of sacrifice, understanding and togetherness that’s virtually impossible to resist.

OUT OF CHARACTER? Granted, seeing Santa and the Easter Bunny as yuletide, candy-colored, eggthrowing superheroes can be a little disconcerting. These are harbingers of peace and understanding, so watching them dispatch ghoulish black stallions with broadswords and boomerangs is something of a gamechanger.

Yet screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire and director Peter Ramsey don’t go out of their way to make these beings of light and joy akin to second-rate X-Men. No, they make sure each of them maintains the core of who they are, remains beholden to the childlike beliefs that have driven their collective narratives for generations. There is action, but it isn’t overwhelming or pointless – instead, it revolves around the idea that children are the driving force that keeps imagination and wonderment alive. The magic circling around this story is sprung forth from a place of love, a belief that fantasy and reality can combine together to become the most powerful of forces, this innate goodness a euphoric symphony of peace that permeates the proceedings start to finish.

The vocal work is universally excellent, but it is Law, Baldwin (who is unrecognizable), and Pine who stand out. They all dig

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Santa in Rise of the Guardians

inside their respective characters, making them come alive in a way that is continually surprising. Law in particular makes Pitch an odious yet pitiable villain, one you want to see defeated yet can’t help but feel somewhat sorry for in the process.

But the star is the Sandman. Without saying a word, with only an array of facial expressions and magical signals made with his trademark sleep sand to get his points across, there is a benign serenity, a strange, surreal, comforting calm to this supernatural figure that’s uniquely heartening. While the script’s center revolves around Jack, and it is his story being told, the heart of the picture is without a doubt the Sandman, and whenever he is not around his absence cannot help but be felt.

DREAMWORKS DOES IT AGAIN The animation is a stunning as ever,

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DreamWorks delivering a visual marvel that ranks right up there with their greatest achievements. In large part, I am sure, due to the help of executive producer Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and visual consultant Roger Deakins (Skyfall), the movie has a look and a feel uniquely its own. It casts a mesmerizing spell, and in a year filled to the brim with outstanding-looking animated motion pictures (Brave, Wreck-It Ralph, ParaNorman, and The Secret World of Arrietty immediately come to mind), this one might be the most visually spectacular of the whole darn lot.

Rise of the Guardians builds to a moving climax of emotion and heart, a sequence that speaks to the very best of who we wish we could be and the imaginative power that fuels our collective fantasies both as children and adults.

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Not too tragic Passion plays only a supporting role in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer ANNA KARENINA Now showing I’m not entirely sure what I think of Joe Wright’s take on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The Atonement, Hanna, and Pride & Prejudice director certainly tackles the material in his own idiosyncratic way. He and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) have centered the action within the confines of the proscenium, telling the story of Russian socialite Anna (Keira Knightley), her high-ranking politician husband Karenin (Jude Law), and her wealthy cavalry officer lover Vronsky (Aaron TaylorJohnson) on a lavishly designed and constantly shifting stage full of the usual theatrical artifices.

Yet not always. The story opens up into the wilds of a Russian winter, its protagonists walking off the stage into a widescreen landscape – only to go through a new door leading them back inside the theater. It’s oftentimes pretty darn spectacular, the visual resplendence of it all bordering on magic.

Seamus McGarvey’s (The Avengers) lush and lively cinematography is outstanding, as is Sarah Greenwood’s (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) eye-popping production design and Jacqueline Durran’s (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) marvelous costumes.

Dario Marianelli’s (Jane Eyre) score is arguably the chief standout, his operatic arias achieving an invigorating life of their own that kept me continually enthralled.

THE MISSING ELEMENT So why am I conflicted? As pretty as this movie is, as energetic and as lively as it is staged, the passion of the story is severely muted. By and large I hardly felt a thing with regard to Anna’s relationship with Vronsky and how it affected her societal standing and her marriage to Karenin. The emotional essence of this triangle felt muted and dulled to me, never came alive like I kept hoping it would, and as full-bodied and vigorous as some of the performances were, I never got the feeling that either Wright or Stoppard were as concerned with Tolstoy’s central narrative as they should have been.

Which is weird, because the subplot concerning Kitty (Alicia Vikander), the beautiful young sibling of Anna’s sister-in-law Dolly (Kelly Macdonald), who is married to jovial adulterous Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen), and her infatuation with Vronsky as well as her subsequent romance with down-to-earth and sensitive landowner Levin (Domhnall Gleeson), borders on remarkable. It’s overflowing with emotion that’s honestly earned and deeply resonating, and whenever the film switches gears and focuses on them it bounces with an energy that much of the rest bizarrely lacks.

I’m not sure what the reasons for this disconnect are – why Wright and Stoppard excel on one part of the human element of this saga but bewilderingly fail where it comes to the other part of Tolstoy’s tragic tale. They get right to the heart of the matter where it comes to Kitty and Levin, but only skim the surface as far as Anna and Vronsky are concerned, one love story ringing

Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina

VIKANDER A STANDOUT Why Vikander and Gleeson are able to overcome this during their subplot I can’t

exactly say, but the truth of the matter is that they do. Both actors have a melodious chemistry, speaking volumes in silence and using subtle glances and gentle asides to get the finer points of their blossoming romance across to the viewer. Vikander, so wonderful in the Danish Oscar submission A Royal Affair, continues to impress, the breadth and body of her performance staggering, Gleeson matching her beat for beat and note for note, every step of the way.

Wright is a gifted director – of that there is still no doubt – and I’m not quite ready to dismiss Anna Karenina as an immaculately designed, highly ambitious disappointment.

I want to – need to – see it again, as the portions of it I loved I did so deeply and without reservation. But the tragedy of Tolstoy’s epic is lost in all this visual stage-bound majesty, Anna’s journey a bizarrely empty one that sent me out of the theater feeling as if I’d been left out in the barren Russian cold.

MUSICAL BACKGROUND “I have been a musician since high school,” Lowell told Seattle Gay News. “I started performing in drag in 2007. Honey Bucket was actually created in 2005. She came about by a total fluke of circumstances.”

At the time, Lowell says, he’d been away from performing music as a male for a couple of years. “I contacted my producer and talked about doing music that was more electronic. So he sent me the music track for what became ‘My Connie.’”

“I thought it was a really cool track, but could not come up with a melody,” he explained. “As I listened to it, I could totally see it being a rap song, a genre I had never tried, and I couldn’t see myself pulling off rap/hip-hop as a male.”

“I thought, ‘why not try it in drag?’ I wrote the lyrics to ‘My Connie’ and recorded the song,” said Lowell. “The response I got from co-workers told me I was on to something, so I spent the next two years sporadically recording enough material to finally perform live.”

In other words, the character was built

around the music, which explains why Hon- usually get it,” said Lowell. ey Bucket performances are so strong.

Honey Bucket got her big break in Seattle performing in Sylvia O’Stayformore’s “BaHONEY’S TALE con Strip” at Re-bar.

According to Lowell, Honey Bucket’s “The performers are all very creative and style is ghetto-trailer-trash-ho. “When I supportive of each other,” said Lowell. “My first came up with the name Honey Buck- favorite show to perform in is “West Side et, I decided to write a back story,” he told Glory – A Queer Variety Show” at the SkySGN. “She grew up in Las Vegas with her lark in West Seattle. I love it because there mother in a trailer park on Boulder High- are lots of Bears who come to show, there way watching her favorite TV show, Solid are go-go Bears, and people actually tip the Gold. Her mother was a showgirl in Roll- performers. All of the shows I’ve done there ergirls, a roller-skating musical extrava- have been a blast.” ganza. Honey got involved in theater in high Drag entertainment is a serious business school, and dropped out to become a dancer on the Hill. Between the seasoned and notin Crazy Girls at the Riviera. Not long after, so-seasoned queens scraping and clawing to she made the switch to working the pole at get on RuPaul’s Drag Race, auditioning for Olympic Gardens. After blowing all of her the one slot or guest spot on a weekly show, money on blow, she decided she needed a getting booked regularly is not something change and moved to Kent, Washington, most Seattle drag queens are accustomed to. where she landed in Pine Terrace Village Honey Bucket, however, is an exception to trailer park.” that rule.

“And to make ends meet,” says Lowell, “I take the music very seriously as an art“she started turning tricks on Pacific High- ist, but Honey Bucket is lucky because she way and Aurora Avenue.” is not some fishy drag queen,” said Lowell.

So, if you haven’t yet guessed, Honey “Her makeup, wigs, clothing don’t have to Bucket is not a G-rated act. She is strictly- be perfect. She doesn’t need to be some thin dickly adult content. thing or cinch herself up in a corset. She can Seattleites aren’t known for tipping well. just let it all hang out. I still find it funny Needless to say, drag queens (even the re- when people see Honey’s ass crack showing ally, really good ones like Honey Bucket) and try to inform her like she doesn’t know.” don’t make a lot.

“Queens should either find a day sugar GIVING PROPS daddy (everyone should) or have a day job,” So who is Honey Bucket most impressed advises Lowell. “This shit ain’t cheap. Hav- with? “Jinkx Monsoon blew me away the ing released American Ho, I’m hoping I can first time I saw her perform,” admits Lowstart breaking even.” ell. “A true talent.”

“Sylvia O’Stayformore is a classic gem A SUPPORTIVE SISTERHOOD and perfect hostess,” he continued. “Colony Seattle is home to a robust drag commu- is a sick-and-twisted genius who amazes nity. Most queens Lowell says he’s met are me every time she performs. I am jealous of “very kind.”

Ade and her singing ability. I am so lucky “A lot of people, when they first see Honey to have had her sing on my track ‘Crystal Bucket before they see her perform are like, Queen.’ There are so many others that I ‘What the fuck!’ ‘Hot tranny mess!’ Once could mention. Seattle has an amazing drag they see her in the context of her music, they community.”

Lowell, 41, named The Killers and Morrissey as his favorite bands.

Most people, let alone most drag queens, could go a whole lifetime and never record a CD. Honey Bucket, however, was created around the music, so Lowell explains that the recording part for him is almost sexual. “When I started recording the album, I tried to think of themes that would reflect the type of character Honey is,” Lowell told SGN. “My producer would give me some tracks, or I would tell him an idea of the style of song I wanted to record. We didn’t meet weekly, it was just every month or so.

Most of the time we could record a basic vocal track and then I would spend a lot of time figuring out how to approach the song and find the true character of the song. Once we had a good number of songs, we then whittled them down to enough for a CD.” Earlier this month, Honey Bucket officially released American Ho to much acclaim.

Musically the album is good and vocally, Honey Bucket hit a home run. There’s a lot of camp, but also substance. I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of fun, Gay rap music. (Is that a thing now? I hope so!)

We know plenty about Honey Bucket. So I asked Lowell to tell me three things that might interest readers and boy, did he deliver. I, for one, never would’ve guessed that he used to be a middle school English teacher.

Currently he is an accountant by day, and the first rap album Lowell ever bought was when “I created Honey Bucket and wanted to research the genre.”

“Seattle Gay News readers, you can catch me at West Side Glory at the Skylark in West Seattle November 24, and Bacon Strip at Re-bar on December 1,” concludes Lowell. “Right now people can get my CD American Ho at my shows. I hope to have stuff available online once I get my website, mizzhoneybucket.com, going.”

Lowell wanted to end with a request: “Always tip your drag queens. Always!”

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by Patricia Routledge, is the main character in the celebrated BBC sitcom, which ran from 1990 to 1995.)

Honey Bucket is a rap star. This is not your typical drag performance because Honey is not your typical queen. She performs live, all of her raps are really her own, and audiences can’t get enough! The lyricist ladyboy is consistently booked for shows on the Hill and surrounding area. Honey Bucket never breaks character – she stays all “ho,” all the time. Channeling her best streetwalker ’hood rat, one almost gets the notion that Honey Bucket is not an act at all.

with truth while the other falls frustratingly flat.

This isn’t for any lack of trying on the part of either Knightley or, especially, Law (he’s wonderful, and the movie could use more of him). The former is unusually restrained, keeping herself in a state of control that’s mightily impressive. She’s got embers burning within her that flair up like wildfire at the most inopportune of moments, the scenes between her and Law dealing with their marriage having a fierce interpersonal ferocity the ones between her and TaylorJohnson sadly lack. Yet the artifice integral to the world the filmmakers have created has the unfortunate side effect of muting the human element, and as gorgeous as all of this is, if the characters don’t click none of the technical stuff matters.

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Cabaret returns to Ballard Charity benefits highlight opening of Sunday series at Egan’s (co-sponsored by SGN)

readers can Google her).

Marge retired and now “plays the grand piano with other legends in the Big Music Club in the Sky.” Her six children – including her hot, openly Gay son – bask in the memory of their beloved mother’s amazing $100,000 fundraising success. As do SGN, various Northwest AIDS charities, and hundreds of Living With AIDS survivors.

In a different economy, Thumper’s hosted live music every night in the elegant Oak Room. “Buzz” played jazz at Thumper’s every Monday night, often with a guest trio backing him up. Marge usually played Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and

You love all of us and most of us love you.”

Joanne’s show was an incredible triumph for the incredibly talented self-described “broad.” Everyone crammed into the soldout show. Jill, her twin sister, flew up from Los Angeles. The original “Lewd Fingers” from Angry Housewives crowded into the crowded table. Clayton and Suzanne Corzette, of course, as usual, were busy toasting Joanne and everyone. Joanne, resplendent in black chiffon, towering black patent fourinch heels, two tons of “diamonds,” and a new, smart hairstyle opened the show with “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” which went through the roof. The energy, the music, the emotion, the natural rush of jazz and cabaret never stopped. One could hear the voices of Jolson and Tucker and Durante and Garland screaming, “You ain’t heard nothing yet!”

Hours and delirious hours later, the overcapacity crowd had to be pushed out the door. Joanne kissed everyone. Moi included. Faye winked at me and whispered, “Do it.”

The intimate space at Egan’s Ballard Jam House – seating 50 at most – is perfect for cabaret.

by Milton W. Hamlin SGN A&E Writer A new cabaret club opens this Sunday at Egan’s Ballard Jam House (1707 N.W. Market St.), a long-established, highly respected music club that gives incredible support to Seattle’s young artists and diverse music, cabaret, jazz, and ethnic musical groups.

“Milton Hamlin’s Magical Musical Emporium & Cabaret Nightclub Venue” is the lifelong dream of ... well, of this long time Seattle Gay News arts and entertainment columnist. At the Seattle Celebrates Cabaret Month last year at Egan’s, this writer and cabaret fan attended all four shows, and incredible shows they were. The intimate space – seating 50 at most – seemed perfect for cabaret. Seattle has lost so many favorite spots, The Twin Teepees among them.

Cabaret at Crepe de Paris ended a legendary zillion-year run with the joyful retirement of the beloved Annie, a classy lady who called it a day after more than three decades. She took a cash buyout and now spends her days between her Seattle condo, her beloved sister’s Puget Sound home, and

her native France. “A woman after my own heart,” I have often said, celebrating my 23rd year of retirement as a high school drama and journalism teacher.

Cabaret at The Oak Room, the beloved and sorely missed musical series at Thumper’s Restaurant (15th and Madison), ended a zillion-year stay with the sale of the site to a new development. Nathan and Stephen, owners and loyal supporters of cabaret, the piano bar tradition, and the GLBT community in general, had the right to reopen as a new Thumper’s. They passed that right on to Ethan Stowell’s growing network of firstclass restaurants. He then opened the hothot-hot Anchovies & Olives in “their” spot.

The sale allowed the two to sail away, at least to the San Juan Islands, in their dreamboat of a dream boat.

MEMORIES OF MARGE Thumper’s once hosted the legendary Marge Starks’ live piano outings four or five nights a week. Her long, long-term “life goal” to raise $100,000 for AIDS-related charities and research was the subject of seemingly endless articles in SGN (curious

Saturday, and Barbara played more upbeat jazz on Sunday nights. Newcomers often took over on Tuesdays or Wednesdays as an openly open audition.

A chance encounter occurred between this scribe and Don Carrey, a former New York-based pianist in “the good days” in Greenwich Village where “every bar had a piano.” Bobby Short and Carrey were unknowns who dreamed of “better days.”

Short, now playing the Grand Grand in the Sky with Marge and others dearly departed, went on to international fame. Carrey owned his own club on the “Mexican Riviera” and had a long, long-term relationship “with a fabulous man, the love of my life.”

He retired, happily, to Seattle to be near “dear friends – a charming, straight married couple” and vowed to stay retired. Well, a casual mention from this cabaret/piano fanatic that Marge had a bad cold and was looking for someone to fill in for her led to Carrey stepping in for “one night only” – a “night” that lasted more than a decade.

Twenty or more years ago, Jayne Muirhead hosted a fundraiser for a then-new “feminist theater” she hoped to open. A good friend, the incredibly talented Joanne Klein, singer/actress/jazz vocalist/director/ instructor/jazz disc jockey/sweetheart of a “pushy, in your face, New Jersey, Jewish broad – get over it” gal, “gently suggested” that this writer “pay your 25 dollars, enjoy the show, write a rave review, and shut up, for once.” As usual with Joanne, I did just that. A music club in Ballard, The Ballard Underground (now a fitness center) hosted the sold-out event, and Muirhead was ecstatic.

Times changed. The economy changed.

FAST-FORWARD TO 2012 Fans, family, and friends joined together Labor Day weekend at a charming Mediterranean restaurant in Pioneer Square to see Joanne’s new show. Crossing the street, this writer waved at the incredibly talented Faye, affectionately known as “Fayzee” to a limited number of 6,591 fans and friends.

Hugs, air kisses, laughs in the middle of the street –the “usual” music/cabaret/jazz fan greeting – led to my asking, “Where are you singing these days?” Faye laughed “that laugh” and ruefully smiled, “Wherever I can ...” A pause, then the fateful, throwaway, oh-so-casual comment: “Milton, darling, why don’t you open your club for us.

IT’S DONE And, thus, Milton Hamlin’s Magical Musical Emporium ... opens Sunday at Egan’s.

The intimate, as in tiny, club is usually closed on Sunday and Monday.

Not this month. The first Sunday finds “25 Divas” singing their hearts out for women’s cancer charities. The next Sunday, AIDS charities get the focus. Then PAWS, then Real Change, the Seattle paper that hopes to make real change in the lives of the city’s all-too-many homeless. Everyone pays $25 – “or more ... we’re worth it.” Everyone, this writer/producer included.

A Monday night series, with a more modest $10 cover (pay what you can at curtain time), acts as an audition showcase for various Seattle groups. Titled, “Hey, Mr. Producer,” it features nine or 10 guest artists – “including monkey acts,” one wit snarled – in three-song “audition” tradition. Details on that series later – it includes a Cabaret at the Crepe and Cabaret at Thumper’s reunion (with the “I’m Still Here” Don Carrey as special guest – and, yes, that is a reference to Stephen Sondheim that anyone who has read this far knows all too well).

“25 Bucks for 25 Divas” is technically sold out with NO advertising. Word of mouth, the GLBT Mafia, the more powerful Cabaret Mafia, and good luck “in this economy” made it happen. Egan’s and Hamlin promise to seat everyone, even “if we have to sing all night.” Be there or be square, as they say (but no one ever has told this scribe who “they” really are). No reservations, few exceptions (the Tap Dancing Midget from Don’t Tell Mama’s in New York, Liza Minnelli, and Michael Feinstein are among those few exceptions).

(Full disclosure: This was written “with a little help from my friends”: Michael Halladay, former SGN writer; Khristopher Kamera, A&E writer, JUST OUT in Portland; Olivia Francis, freelance writer specializing in Lesbian concerns; and G.A.H., writer for Queen Anne News and the Northwest Asian Weekly, aka Number One Son. Miguel Hamlin-Gonzalez, writer for La Voz, the state Hispanic paper, contributed as well. Thanks to all. Kander and Ebb said it all when Sally sang, “What good is sitting alone in your room ... come to the Cabaret.” Good night, Elsie, and Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.)

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Happy trails Glen Campbell says farewell to Seattle with admirable performance

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer GLEN CAMPBELL PARAMOUNT THEATRE November 27 Glen Campbell’s music was the music of my papa. And if you thumb through your own father’s (or grandfather’s) vinyl, you might well come across a vintage recording from this man, who helped push country music into the mainstream. At the start of

ciatively, and then went back to work on a fantastic rendition of “Galveston” that featured a knockout guitar solo. Supported by a full band, which included his daughter and two sons, there were times Campbell had to look closely at the teleprompters placed at the edge of the stage to remember the lyrics.

Being the polite gentleman he is, he apologized sincerely to the audience for having to do so.

“I’m happy to be here,” he repeated into the microphone. “I’m happy to be

“I’m happy to be here.

I’m happy to be anywhere.” his career, he was a session musician for Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, the Monkees, Nat King Cole, and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.

Unfortunately, the legend’s career is now coming to a close. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, his recent appearance at the Paramount Theatre marked his virtually certain exit from live touring.

Normally, I would complain about a concert that was barely an hour long, but these were special circumstances, and in that hour Campbell was as brilliant and charming as can be. He opened with “Gentle On My Mind,” after the audience greeted him with a standing ovation. Wearing a dusty blue suit with sparkling rhinestones and a black shirt underneath, he looked the part of a tried and true cowboy.

anywhere,” he continued, and the crowd clapped loudly in response. He passionately sang a cover of the Don Gibson classic “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” and then attempted to tell a story about working alongside John Wayne, but couldn’t quite recall the experience.

Campbell’s vocals were stellar on “Lovesick Blues” – better than several top country artists at the moment. He and his daughter collaborated on a great instrumental piece before wowing us with “It’s Your Amazing Grace” and a gorgeous version of Jimmy Webb’s “The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress.”

Even more amazing was “Wichita Lineman,” also a Webb number, which drew another standing ovation.

rus. Excusing himself briefly, he returned to play “Southern Nights,” which got some folks out of their seats to dance. The show came to a finish with “A Better Place,” the leadoff song from his latest album, Ghost A FINAL ENCORE on the Canvas. Surprisingly, he omitted the He concluded the main set with his sig- title track from his set. nature tune, “Rhinestone Cowboy,” and got For fans of Glen Campbell, the ParaFAMILY SUPPORT “I’m happy to be here,” he said appre- assistance from the audience on the cho- mount concert was bittersweet. It had been

years, maybe decades, since he set foot in Seattle, and sadly, he’s not likely ever coming back. But despite his condition (and yes, it was heartbreaking to witness him introducing his band members twice), Campbell is still an incredible musician – a kickass guitar picker who’s had one hell of a career.

Hats off to you, sir!

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school music teacher Bonnie Mohan-Culp (with Will Ferrell as her husband) and Margaret Jo McCullen, a fake NPR host whose “muffin” sketch with Betty White is a YouTube favorite. After leaving the show, she went on to perform in the Broadway musicals Wicked and The Threepenny Opera, and did several more in Chicago, including Passion and The Rocky Horror Show. Gasteyer calls her theatrical career “the road less travelled” after SNL. In a quick phone interview with SGN, Gasteyer said that performing in theater and television (and movies, such as Mean Girls) are completely different experiences. “I love them in completely unique ways,” she said.

“Television is really fast and instant gratification and more lucrative, especially when you’re paying for private-school tuition.

Theater allows for richer understanding of the material, and if you’re doing it daily, you get better at it. The bone-marrow exhaustion is amazingly thorough. Of course, if you are an animal of live audience, it’s very intimate as opposed to television … even the biggest auditorium is more intimate.”

SUPPORTING EQUALITY Gasteyer is very happy about the recent voter approvals of same-sex marriage.

“I love to sing at a Gay wedding and have done so on many occasions. It’s really exciting what’s going on in the country these days. We’re around the corner. The fact that equality is being opted for on the voter level, not just on the court level, is a great sign of changing times. My kids are growing up in such a different world. My nanny is a Lesbian – that’s who she is. The community is so much more honest, my daughter knows kids who are out in her high school.

My kids have never been part of a conversation where it was a difference. It won’t be an obstacle with them and that’s where we’re going to see the change. Personal freedom should be a right.”

What does she want for the future? Her list is quick and sure: “I want Suburgatory to run for a really long time, and I’d like to record an album, and I want to bring a nightclub act to its proper glory. I want to be the Betty Hutton of tomorrow except for the alcoholism. I want to wear pretty dresses and have people sing great old fashioned songs.”

For tickets to her performances and the rest of the run of SMC’s Baby, It’s Cold Outside (through December 22), go to www.flyinghouse.org or call (206) 3881400. Information on Ana Gasteyer’s performances is online at http://anagasteyerinconcert.com. Follow her on Twitter: @ AnaGasteyer.

continued from cover fantastic impressions of Joan Rivers, Martha Stewart, and former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (of “hanging chad” fame) gained her a wide following.

She also originated the character of high

EXCITED TO SING WITH SMC Another part of her current career, when she’s not working on her current TV show, Suburgatory, is a nightclub act. She’s excited about performing with SMC because “I have a nightclub act with a band and the band sings along with me, and I’m excited to have real singers to sing along [with]. It’s prohibitively expensive to hire singers. I

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would never turn down 200 voices. The other really important thing is that they a really great sense of humor and that’s important to me.” She’s never fronted a chorus like this before, but she has sung choral music in college.

If you’re hoping she’ll do any of her famous characters, the answer is no. “This is a straight-up vocal show. No characters. In my own show, I do a lot of comedy, but I’m not really a wig person anymore.”

Gasteyer is married to Charlie McKittrick and has two children, Frances and Ulysses, and they are all coming with her to Seattle, she says. When asked if she would discourage her children from a career in show business, she replied, “I’d say go for it. My daughter played me, a few weeks ago, in flashbacks on Suburgatory. It was so cool to have her have that experience. They’re both very theatrical. The shtick is that actors say, ‘I’d never want my kids to go into show business because it is hard.’ But if you don’t mind being a gypsy, it’s a great life. It’s not lost on me how unique and fun it is that I get to do what I love to do.

“You have to really want it. But you have to stomach the real hardships, all of it. My kids live in one city and I’m constantly travelling and away from them. My husband has to run the household by himself. It’s very last minute. My extended family [misses me too] as I’ve gotten older. I’m always missing bar mitzvahs and weddings. That’s hard on all the people in your life, not just you.”

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continued from cover ring to the 1978 book by Larry Kramer] when I was 15 years old. I’m not a Gay man, but isn’t it great to understand more about the human condition?”

Of course, there is that – a book about 50 or 51 percent of the entire population of Earth – but sometimes readers might need more of a personal invitation to know what might be in it for them.

“It’s a great question and one that I’m surprised at how big an answer I have for that,” Wolf replies. “I thought it’d be Lesbian and straight women reading it and men who love them. A lot of e-mails I’ve been getting are from Gay men. The big answer to your question, the cosmic answer, from a lot of the readers who have read the book, so many Gay male readers say that it’s given them insight about the women around them. It’s only really transitively about the vagina – it’s also mostly about the female brain.”

THE PROBLEM WITH PORN Wolf reports that a lot of men are interested in what she refers to as the “porn chapter.” She writes about the ubiquitous industry that feeds addictive behavior in men and focuses on quicker, harder, more violent sexual behaviors – the kind of behavior that is only focused on “the first six inches” rather than on exploring intimate and deepened connections between humans. She describes the evidence medical doctors and scientists now have on what that does to the male brain and the pervasive Internet exposure that has transformed teenage sexual knowledge and coarsened adolescents’ early sexual experiences.

So, Wolf says, she has been getting emails that have to do with the porn chapter.

“I get questions from older Gay men about the potency problems they’re having in reaction to porn. I try never to be prescriptive, but in the porn chapter there is a lot of information about porn desensitizing male sexual response, so men need more and more extreme imagery and start to bond with the porn instead of their partners, and doctors are reporting an epidemic of difficulties with erection and ejaculation among healthy men who have no other medical problem.

“It’s not a moral issue, it’s a public health issue, and men deserve this information about the risks, so they can make their own decisions. In my view, it’s a giant industry that is exploiting a vulnerability in the male brain and there are really bad health consequences. Men are buying the book to give to their friends and male partners because of that male chapter.

reading the book] and stop dismissing the demeaning of women.

“There is such a gulf of understanding about rape. The men who have read that chapter [about rape], whether they work with women or are sons of women or friends with women who are raped, have reported that they understand better and there is not such a gulf when they try to talk about that issue. The new science of rape shows that there is no such thing as nonviolent rape, even when there is no physical violence – the fear alters a woman’s brain and even her physiological responses.”

are not verbally abusive, and where praise and validation is present. Mothers have a lot of influence on daughters’ sexual development and permission to have pleasure, when mothers take time to do things that make themselves happy or treat themselves well, take a bath – whatever, not neglect their needs, it’s good role modeling. Not tolerating disrespect.

“Fathers have a giant impact on development. It sounds paradoxical that a father who listens respectfully to his daughter talk about politics at the dinner table is helping his daughter feel good about herself.”

“Criticism and disrespect create a toxic atmosphere and consequences to self-esteem, male and female.”

PROACTIVE PARENTING Another area of conversation was about parenting, particularly when parents want to give their girls all the empowerment they can and prepare them to be proud, take-charge women. Wolf’s thesis is that none of us can expect our daughters to be all they can be unless they are given support for healthy sexual expression – since first comes, essentially, the erotic response, and second comes everything else!

“A huge piece of news for me in the book is the role of the vagina in boosting dopamine in sexual pleasure and the quality of dopamine in making women more feisty and goal-oriented,” Wolf notes. “So many parents do not give positive messages about female pleasure and female self discovery and sexual curiosity. Now that we know that sexual pleasure is so important to women’s leadership and productivity, it helps fathers and mothers be aware of how important it is to support female sexuality and not fall into embarrassment or shame or silence.

“It means talking to … girls about pleasure. For instance, in class teachers talk about Fallopian tubes, but not pleasure.

[But] they do talk about ejaculation and wet dreams.

“I talk to so many mothers and fathers who say, ‘Our girls are being encouraged to give blowjobs at 13.’ So an intervention might be to ask, ‘What about your pleasure?

What about reciprocity? What about your needs?’ That’s one way it looks [to support a daughter].

“In childrearing, in general, I would say … creating an environment where people

LEARNING FROM THE AUDIENCE At her Town Hall event, titled “The Science of the Brain-Vagina Connection,” Wolf expects to talk about the book and also allow for some vigorous and interesting Q&A time. She says she’s learned a lot from her audiences when she does these appearances. “People bring great questions to events like this. [I hear about] the use-it-or-lose-it of female desire after menopause and doctors who treat women after menopause; the importance of masturbation for women who are not in a relationship and how doctors never talk about that; the way that anti-depressants and birth control pills suppress libido. Men talking about how [usually heterosexual] women ask, ‘What’s in it for men to treat us this well?’ and men say, ‘My life is changed when I start treating my wife well.’ You know the phrase ‘happy wife, happy life.’ Men don’t learn a lot of information from porn or locker rooms, and

these kinds of manageable changes [that the book describes] have been transformative and made them happy.

“A lot of young people talk about the pressure of porn in relationships and having lost a partner to porn and coming off a porn addiction. What’s nice about the event is that people seem to feel comfortable and safe about quite personal things.

“I met a doctor last week and he was saying that my point about episiotomies cutting through a sexual center might explain why there is so much post-partum depression or loss of women’s sexual connection to their partner, and he says that it’s obvious now from the book, and he’s completely horrified about that level of lack of understanding.

“Doctors have been using vaginal mesh for prolapsed uterus issues, which has been pushed by the medical device industry with very little testing, and thousands of women are having horrific side effects and huge class-action suits, yet again. Doctors just didn’t know or ask questions, and the FDA didn’t ask questions,” she says about the more willful ways in which women’s health is ignored.

To sum up, Wolf says, “Criticism and disrespect create a toxic atmosphere and consequences to self-esteem, male and female.

“It’s all about love. But it’s also oxytocin.

Hugging is so important, pats on the back.

Physical affection turns out to be really important for human happiness and bonding.

Our culture doesn’t talk about love. But really, that’s my message: love, love, love.”

For more about Naomi Wolf, visit http:// naomiwolf.org. For information about her Town Hall appearance, go to www. townhallseattle.org. To see a clip of Naomi sparring with Stephen Colbert, go to www. colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/420015/october-10-2012/naomi-wolf.

RAPE AND RESPECT “There’s also a chapter on rape and on the power of language. My big answer is about respect, how to respect women. [Men are] told to respect women, but not how to do so. There are highly degrading ways to relate to women, and jokes that are told. The normalization of brutality against women is synonymous almost with the definition of masculinity in our culture. When men are making rape jokes or sexually demeaning comments in a woman’s schooling or workspace arena, it has long-term consequences on her mind. A lot of men tell me that they start to notice their language more [after

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FOR A CALENDAR LISTING: Send details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 3227188. E-mail: sgn2@sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization.

DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

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

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

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SATURDAY - December 1

Am I Doing Something? World AIDS Day Symposium. 1-4pm. All Pilgrim’s Church, 500 Broadway E. A FREE day of learning & engagement with local experts on HIV & living with HIV. Presented by Seattle’s HIV/AIDS organizations in recognition of World AIDS Day 2012.

Seattle Men’s Chorus Holiday Concert: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (11/30, 12/1, 12/9. 12/16/ & 12/2012/22). Fri 11/30 - 8pm; Sat 12/1 - 2pm; 12/9, 12/16 & 12/20 - 7:30pm; 12/21 - 8pm; 12/22 - 2pm & 8pm.

With special guest Ana Gasteyer 11/30 & 12/1 ONLY and Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse! Tickets $27-$77. www. flyinghouse.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.)

Northwest Bears Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6-10pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. www.nwbears.com.

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 Banquet of Poems: A Reading by Award-Winning Bay Area Author Nellie Wong. 7pm. New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S. The poet’s fourth book “Breakfast Lunch Dinner” serves up the flavors of Oakland’s Chinatown, infused with heart & spiced with a working class feminist attitude. A reception featuring an Asian Fusion Appetizer Buffet begins at 6pm.

Door donation $2, buffet $9. 722-2463, fspseattle@ mindspring.com Rainbow City Band “Quodlibet” in Edmonds. 7pm.

Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 4th Ave N, Edmonds.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit local organizations serving people with HIV/AIDS. General admission $20, seniors/youth $15. www.ec4arts.org It’s Not Over. 7:30pm. Cal Anderson Park Fountain. A candlelight vigil & walking wake to remember those lost & to celebrate those surviving with HIV/AIDS. Please join the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for prayers, blessings & sharing. Celebratory pub crawl to follow. www.theabbey.org.

Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/1 & 12/2, 12/612/9, 12/13-12/17, 12/19-12/24, 12/26-12/31). 8pm.

Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. All new holiday show featuring truly legendary songs, stories, costumes & audience gifts. (Matinees at 2pm 12/15-16, 12/22-23.) Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. www.brownpapertickets.com/events/271829 Quake Rugby Team Movember. 10pm. The Cuff Complex, 1533 13th Ave. Seattle Quake Rugby Club & Dr Shalit team up to raise prostate cancer awareness & raise money to help find a cure. The Quake will show off their awesome ‘staches from a month of growth.

SUNDAY - December 2

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/ Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride. 9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www. borderriders.com Seattle Sunday Bowlers. 10am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $4.25 + $1 shoe rental. 329-1515.

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

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6177, or Mike Chin (509) 990-0007. Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group via lotus.sisters@yahoo.com. www. dharmabuddies.org Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

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December 1 thru December 9 cussions will explore this radical economist’s famous pamphlet on whether capitalism is capable of evolving to a more humane system or must be replaced by a worker-run economy. FREE. Sponsored by Radical Women. 722-6057, www.radicalwomen.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 Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - December 4

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. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. To sign up visit www.raincity soccer.org Rain City Jacks. West Queen Anne/Interbay. 1st Sunday each month, 2pm; 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month, 7pm. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a friendly, sex-positive & 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.

Daring Divorced Divas. 3-5pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. A support group for Lesbian women dealing with divorce, separation & transformation. To attend this group please contact the facilitator at daringdivorceddivas@yahoo.com. SASG 322-2427; www.sasgcc.org PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

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

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

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Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/1 & 12/2, 12/612/9, 12/13-12/17, 12/19-12/24, 12/26-12/31). 8pm.

Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. All new holiday show featuring truly legendary songs, stories, costumes & audience gifts. (Matinees at 2pm 12/15-16, 12/22-23.) Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. www.brownpapertickets.com/events/271829 Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - December 3

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 Marriage Equality Explained. 6-9pm. Twon Hall, 1119 8th Ave. An event to explain marriage equality features David Ward of Legal Voice, ACLU attorney Hank Benson, Lambda Legal’s Shelbi Day & Jill Mullins of QLaw. For questions email jflodin@aclu-wa.org Speed Relationship Skills Class. 6-9pm. Gay City Theatre, 517 E Pike St. We cover it all, from navigating conflict, to expectations, negotiation, understanding cultural differences, boundary setting & more! www. nwnetwork.org Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.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.)

Reform or Revolution Book Group. 7-8:30pm. 1903 NE 82nd St. Every Monday 10/1-12/3. Discover one of the classics of Marxist thought, written by Rosa Luxemburg, a heroine of European socialism. Weekly dis-

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

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org GSBA Prime Time East. 5:30-7:30pm. Let’s Do Lunch, 1471 130th Ave NE, Bellevue. GSBA members $10, non-members $15, students $10. www. thegsba.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Community Drop-In Relationship Q&A. 6-9pm. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, 517 E Pike St. Feeling confused about what R-74 means for your domestic partnership? Have questions? Find out the latest info about marriage plus links to realted community resources. www.nwnetwork.org Gay Men’s Task Force of Snohomish County in Everett. 6-8pm. Snohomish Health District, 3020 Rucker Ave Ste 309A, Everett. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

Open to all Gay & Bisexual men in Snohomish County.

David, (425) 339-5238.

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 Queer Youth Space Adultism Training. 6-8pm.

911 E Pike St. Adults $10, youth FREE. josh.lowe@ queeryouthspace.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 Gay/Bi Prostate Cancer Group. 6:30-8pm. Gilda’s Club, 1400 Broadway. Meets 1st Tuesday each month.

For Gay & Bi men diagnosed with prostate cancer. A safe space for emotional support on issues of treatment, sexuality, relationships & topics specific to Gay/ Bi men. FREE. 709-1400, www.gildasclubseattle.org 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

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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 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. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

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WEDNESDAY - December 5

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. www.mature friends.org Women’s HIV+ Support Group in Tacoma. 1-3pm.

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

True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community.

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

(425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:15pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/ sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters with Arinna Weisman. 6:30pm.

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

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

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

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome.

This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. www.ingersollcenter.org PFLAG/Renton Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Wells Ave S, Renton. Meets 1st Wednesday each month. PFLAG/Renton: 425235-4139. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724. www. seattle-pflag.org.

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

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

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

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

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

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

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

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

THURSDAY - December 6

“We (Heart) Gay Love” Giveaway at the King County Courthouse. 516 3rd Ave. We won’t give away the bride, but we will give away a tote bag! Waiting in line at the courthouse is fun with the NW Network!

We’ll hand out FREE “We (Heart) Gay Love” totes & stickers. www.nwnetwork.org 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

Visit us online www.sgn.org

First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima.

Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm.

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

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

FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

Seattle Prime Timers Coffee Reunion - Trial Venue.

7pm. Starbucks at University Village. (There are three Starbucks in U Village - this is the big one at the Center of the Village.) www.seattleprimetimers.org Bishop Gene Robinson: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage. 7:30-9pm. Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave. A leading religious advocate for LGBT rights shares his religious argument & personal insights. Tickets $5. www.townhallseattle.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Pioneers & Warriors TM. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Friday. Peer support group for Gay & Bi men over 40 - honoring the past, accepting the present & embracing the future. Group attendance requires facilitator approval. Please contact Joel Davis at 261-6616. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/1 & 12/2, 12/612/9, 12/13-12/17, 12/19-12/24, 12/26-12/31). 8pm.

Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. All new holiday show featuring truly legendary songs, stories, costumes & audience gifts. (Matinees at 2pm 12/15-16, 12/22-23.) Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. www.brownpapertickets.com/events/271829 LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm.

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. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org

SATURDAY - December 8

Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Q Hour. 4:30-5:30pm. Orion Center, 1828 Yale Ave. 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month. A group for LGBTQ youth 13-21 & their allies. Sponsored by Youthcare.

FREE. 622-5555 x 212.

Engagement Party Open House. 5-10pm. Gay City Theatre, 517 E Pike St. Celebrate the first day samesex marriage licenses will be issued in the state of Washington. Sample wedding cake, get the latest info about the Gay marriage rollout & learn about community resources to support loving & equitable marriages. www.nwnetwork.org Happy Hour Meditation. 5:30-6:35pm. Gay City, 517 E Pike St. Every Thursday. Come unwind at the end of your day in a relaxed & welcoming environment. We will meditate for the first half hour followed by 20 minutes of open discussion. No admittance after 5:45pm to avoid disrupting the meditation. www.gaycity.org Come Out For Yourself (COFY). 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Peer support for people dealing with issues of sexual orientation. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Human Rights Commission. 6-8pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Meets 1st Thursday each month. SHRC is made up of 15 citizen representatives who advise the Mayor, the City Council, & all City of Seattle Depts in matters regarding human rights.

Meetings open to the public. 684-4540.

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

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 14-22. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

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

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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

ECSC is a confidential crossdressing social & support organization for Transvestite & Transsexual individuals. (425) 827-9494.

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

Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. 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 Dina Martina Christmas Show. 8pm. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St. (See Friday listing at 8pm.)

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.)

FRIDAY - December 7

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

A Gathering of Men in Edmonds. 8:15-11:30am.

Edmonds UUC, 8109 224th St SW, Edmonds. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Men gather monthly for drumming, singing, storytelling & sharing of life experience. www.agatheringofmen.org Free Mammogram Screeing. 9am-3pm. Wildrose, 1021 E Pike St. YWCA Health Outreach & Swedish Hospital moblie mammogram coach conduct no-cost mammogram & pap tests. You are eligible if you are 40+, have limited income, are uninsured or underinsured, have not had a mammogram in 2 years or more, are high risk, or are new to the Breast Cervical & Colon Health Program. For appointment call 461-4493.

Community Drop-In Relationship Q&A. 11am2pm. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, 517 E Pike St. Feeling confused about what R-74 means for your domestic partnership? Have questions? Find out the latest info about marriage plus links to related community resources. www.nwnetwork.org Between the Covers - Gay City LGBT Library Book Club. 1pm. Gay City, 517 E. Pike St. Meets 2nd Saturday each month. Informal group of Queer folks talking about Queer literature. Visit www.gaycity.org for monthly reading selection.

“Snowball 2012: Rise!” - Seattle’s Trans Community Holiday Celebration. 7-11pm. Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Seattle City Council President Sally Clark hosts with special guest Kit Yan, slam poet. $20 at the door or www.brownpapertickets.com. With Best of Seattle soup buffet. www.ingersollcenter.org/snowball.

Sistah Sinema - “The Journey.” 7pm doors, 7:30pm movie, 9pm discussion. Roy Street Coffee & Tea, 700 Broadway E (FREE parking). Queer women of color cinema. $10.

Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/1 & 12/2, 12/612/9, 12/13-12/17, 12/19-12/24, 12/26-12/31). (See Friday listing at 8pm.)

“Holidays with Isis.” Door 7pm, Show 8pm. The Grill on Broadway, 314 Broadway E. Raising money & awareness for LGBT homeless youth. $8 donation.

Presented by Social Outreach Seattle.

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

Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday & Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org Born This Way Kafe. 5-9pm. Cal Anderson Park Shelterhouse, 1635 11th Ave. Every Friday. A welcoming place where LGBTQ youth ages 13-19, friends & allies can gather, be themselves & have fun. 883-6110, randy.wiger@seattle.gov Community Drop-In Relationship Q&A. 6-9pm. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, 517 E Pike St. Feeling confused about what R-74 means for your domestic partnership? Have questions? Find out the latest info about marriage plus links to realted community resources. www.nwnetwork.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. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Griffin’s Chapel. 12:01am. R Place, 619 E Pine St. Weddings performed, Rev John Griffin officiating. Bring your marriage license & let us all celebrate your love!

722-1644, www.griffinschapel.com, ten-seven@att.net No Safeword Writers Group. 1-3pm. Meets 2nd Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. For info & location, NSWG@ sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafewordwriters group. org. (Also meets 4th Monday, 7-9pm.)

Free Group Church Wedding. 2pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Want a church wedding, choir & all on the first day that same-sex marriage is legal? Bring your marriage license and contact the church to reserve your spot. 325-6051.

Debut Book Launch: “The Jesus Injection” by Eric Andrews-Katz. Door 4pm, Reading 5-7pm. Vermillion Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave. Reading & Q&A with author. www.ericandrewskatz.com Filipino Community of Seattle Christmas Choir Extravaganza & Sing Along. 6-7pm, choir; 7-8pm, community sing-along warmed with arroz caldo soup.

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SUNDAY - December 9

Filipino Community Center, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr Way S. FREE, with $10 suggested donation. RSVP requested so there’s enough soup for everyone. Reni Roxas, 425-773-7465, reni.roxas@yahoo.com.

Seattle Men’s Chorus Holiday Concert: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (11/30, 12/1, 12/9. 12/16/ & 12/2012/22). Fri 11/30 - 8pm; Sat 12/1 - 2pm; 12/9, 12/16 & 12/20 - 7:30pm; 12/21 - 8pm; 12/22 - 2pm & 8pm.

With Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse! Tickets $27-$77. www. flyinghouse.org Dina Martina Christmas Show (12/1 & 12/2, 12/612/9, 12/13-12/17, 12/19-12/24, 12/26-12/31). (See Friday listing at 8pm.)

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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 Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html Bent Writing Institute promotes written & spoken word in our LGBTQI communities. 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.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 Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.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

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& 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 Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Washington State: 325-7724, www. seattle-pflag.org, with directory of PFLAG chapters in Washington State; www.pnwpflag.org; National PFLAG, www.pflag.org PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Project at the API Safety Center, April, 4679976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo.com, www.macctsea.org; 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, 3227061, 255-8951; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw. org; TwoSpirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164.

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

Resource & Referral Line: LGBT-friendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond. 323-LGBT MonFri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

Rosehedge/Multifaith Works - 324-1520; www. rosehedge.org

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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, 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 Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/ steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org Shanti - 324-1520; www.rosehedge.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.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 SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups. facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@ gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www. cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.different spokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.em-

eraldcitysoftball.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; Seattle Frontrunners: www. seattlefrontrunners.org; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam.org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www. quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www. seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@aol.com, www. teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www.theprideleague. com, Century 21 League; Seattle United Soccer League: www.seattleunitedsl.com; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www.teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

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

Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 741 St Helens Ave, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender 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.tacomalesbianconcern. org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenof westseattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealthywca.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; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace.com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 6712838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag.org; Plus One Queer Youth: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Bam Mendiola, 206-957-1665, bamm@llaa.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 1218 - Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@ rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschools coalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www.thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw.org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/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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Please fax weekly changes to (206) 322-7188 or email them to seattleGaynews@yahoo.com no later than 3 pm on Tuesdays!

FRIDAY

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

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Prime Rib Dinner $11.75 Live DJ 9pm-close Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

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

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

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

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

Neighbours Nightclub - House music with DJ Eric.

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

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

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm - 2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm.

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

Wildrose - www.thewildrosebar.com.

SATURDAY

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

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Free Pool, Free Darts and Free TouchScreen games all day and all night. Live DJ 9pm-close Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday

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

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-2am Karaoke with Black Nail Productions 9pm-1am Club Silverstone - in Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

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

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - NW Sports first on TV. Sound with early afternoon Mariners games. Pitcher special all day with free U-shell peanuts and pool.

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

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

PURR Cocktail Lounge - Noon-midnight. Happy Hour until 7 pm.

R Place - Happy Hour 2-7 $5.75 Wells $2.50 domestic drafts.

Wildrose - Free pool all day. www.thewildrosebar.com.

MONDAY

Bar Myx - Bacardi Game Night! $4 Bacardi calls all night long, plus $9 Bacardi Pitchers! Mental Masturbation at 7:30 (with bonus questions and a bar match for the grand prize), followed by Beer Pong! Evening is hosted by our sassy bartenderess Karee Jo! Changes - Happy Hour all day 12 pm-2am Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts.

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

See us at www.clubsilverstone.com.

The Cuff Complex - “Free Games” All Day - Table top games, pool, darts, pinball, Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily, Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30 pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Pint night with Happy Hour prices 8 pm-close. 9-Ball Pool Tourney at 7 pm.

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

PURR Cocktail Lounge - Happy Hour 4 pm-2 am.

Hamburger & Draft Beer $6.00 from 4pm -10.00 Black Nail Productions Karaoke 9pm to 1am.

R Place - Happy Hour 4-7 $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special.

Seattle Eagle - Radio Dept. $4 wells all night Dj HOTPLAY from 10 pm - 2 am.

Wildrose - Pool Tournament 7 pm w/Prizes!

TUESDAY

Bar Myx - 2 for 1 wells and $2 drafts all night long! Sliders 3 for $3, or 6 for $5! Either traditional or pulled pork!

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm- 8pm. Domestic Bottled Beer $1.25 All Day and Night, Super Happy Hour 4pm7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts. Burger Specials $2.50 Hamburger, $3.50 Cheeseburger $4.50 Bacon Cheeseburger.

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

Free pool all day - 2 tables.

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The Cuff Complex - “Free Games” All Day - Table top games, pool, darts, pinball, Happy Hour 2 pm-8 pm, Peanut Night, Bearoke 8 pm- 12 am w/Jonathan Jones Diesel - Size does matter! All drinks are doubles anytime. Happy Hour 2 pm - 7 pm, $4 wells, Buck off taps & calls.“full service” food menu. Get your grub on!

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. Daily drink specials at $3, Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. til 4:30pm. Free Wi-Fi. Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. 8-Ball Pool Tournament starts at 6:30 pm.

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. Black Nail Production Karaoke 9 pm-1 am.

R Place - HAPPY HOUR 4-7. $5.75 wells $2.50 domestic drafts. Daily drink and bottle special.

Seattle Eagle - IN HEAT $5 Long Island Iced teas Dj KINGOFPANTS from 10-2 Wildrose - Taco Tuesday. No cover.

WEDNESDAY

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

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts Trivia Night 8pm Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

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

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

Julia’s - www.juliasrestaurantseattle.com. $3 daily drink specials. Happy Hour 3-7 pm daily; Late Night Happy Hour Sun.-Thurs. 9-11 pm: $1.50 Miller Drafts, $2.50 micro brews, $3 well cocktails. Breakfast/brunch served Sat. & Sun. till 4:30pm.

Madison Pub - Happy Hour 6-8 pm. Dart Tournament starts at 7:30 pm.

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

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Gelliphish 7 pm-midnight.

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

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

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

THURSDAY

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

Changes - Happy Hour 12pm-8pm Super Happy Hour 4pm-7pm $1.50/$3 Well Drinks $1.25 PBR Drafts Club Silverstone - In Tacoma. Happy Hour till 7 pm.

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

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

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

PURR Cocktail Lounge - 4 pm-2 am. Happy Hour until 7 pm. DJ Thomas from 7 pm-midnight.

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

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

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