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The Betty Pages - February 2010 Betty’s Corner

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By Betty Desire

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The Month in Gay History Edited by Brian Spencer

Sudoku for Tom

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Gay Film Bibliography: Robin Wood By Bichoo Vrishchik

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In The Mix

Listening to Gay Music, Maybe?

By Bridget Adams

By Aaron Joy

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About our Contributors... Miss Betty Desire has been entertaining anyone who would listen in Bellingham for nearly 10 years, and is proprietor of The Betty Pages, the monthly publication that you are reading at this very moment. It is her hope that your perusal of the Betty Pages will enrich your life one chuckle at a time.

Managing Editor Brian Spencer is a title-holder and board member with the ISCEE, aside from his involvement with various community organizations and work in graphic design. His interests include men, computers, drag queens and politics. He wishes everyone a happy Mardi Gras! Live well, love much, laugh often.

Writer Bridget Adams currently resides in Washington State but that is always subject to change. Lucky enough to be a full-time, if poor, writer, she is most likely somewhere in front of her computer with a cup of coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

Queer Film Historian Bichoo Vrishchik (Scorpio Scorpion) has published in FILM QUARTERLY SIGHT AND SOUND, INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE, FILMFARE, YOUTH TIMES, MANSHOTS, and now THE BETTY PAGES. With a BA from Pacific Lutheran College (1959) and a MA from San Francisco State College (1968), he has also taught film at Western Washington University. His main interest is Indian cinema and articles on it are forthcoming.

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Contributor Mr. Nathan Perry Mattly What matters most in the end is: How well did you live? How well did you love? How well did you learn to let go? As much as I could say about myself, as stated above in that old Zen proverb in the end only certain things matter and it is in accordance with those things that I live every day of my life.

Contributor Aaron Joy owns a music label in Manhattan (www.romanmidnightmusic. org) with a growing list of “music...off the beaten path”, including planned releases by pianists, a hip-hop poet, a stand-up comic, noize and folk. Aaron spent a decade in Bellingham where he found a niche as a historian, thespian and writer. As a good historian, he can remember the old Rumors and has fond memories of Bellingham’s late ‘Triangle District’ of LGBT-oriented businesses.

Betty’s Corner Betty Desire

On another note, I have been keeping track of the federal trial on California’s Prop 8. It looks like no matter what happens, win or lose; the verdict will be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court. After that, it appears this trial may make it all the way to the Supremes. No not Diana Ross and the Supremes, although we’d have a better chance at winning there. This

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could be wrong of course, they could rule the other way and I would have to eat crow… hmm, what vegetable goes good with crow? Brussels sprouts! Speaking of Brussels sprouts, Betty has been ordered by her doctor to go to a gym three days a week. He seems to think 328 lbs is a bit too much for my diabetic body to handle. I suppose he is right, and have been obeying religiously. You can find me at Bellingham Fitness on Ellis Street most any day of the week. Just look for the old guy in the “Betty Desire Wants You” t-shirt, until then the position of Betty Desire’s Valentine is still open. Apply by sending a note to Betty’s Valentine PO Box 2724 Bellingham WA 98227. With Love,

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Ah the shortest month of the year has arrived! Let’s hear it for February! Many like me will be avoiding Valentines Day like the plague. The one day of the year when all single people are reminded of how single they are! I will be busy that Saturday night, however, as Carnival will be celebrated at Rumors. The celebration will be a fund raiser for a local non-profit that works with villagers in the Amazon Basin, hence the name Carnival rather than Mardi Gras. There will be Salsa dance lessons and then Salsa dancing, a Carnival King and Queen, as well as a costume contest all for a paltry $5 dollar donation! Your Betty will be there with her best bells on, so join me as we Rumba the night away!

case just may make it to the “Gang of 5!” You know, that non-activist group of conservative Constitutionalist judges that decided not to allow cameras in the courtroom for this Prop 8 trial, and later the same week decided that corporations are people too! This brings the score to legislation from the bench 2, strict interpretation of the Constitution 0. I guess they were thinking of ways to curb the population explosion and cut health care costs. Now couples don’t have to have children they can just form an L.L.C.! And guess what gay people can form an L.L.C. too! Don’t hold your breath for a fair ruling if Prop 8 gets to this bunch, and put on your seat belt for a wild ride, these boys have decided to rule on whether Washington State can release the names of the signers of the Referendum 71 (R-71) petitions. According to Washington State’s public disclosure laws, all petitions are public record and have been for, oh, 30 years or more, but signers of R-71 are afraid of reprisals from gay people. Apparently, they are afraid of roving bands of “Gay Marauders” fire bombing homes, businesses and churches! Can you imagine? Your favorite hairdressers in hooded rainbow robes burning pink triangles on people’s lawns! PLEASE!!!! When was the last time a straight person was beaten within an inch of his life with baseball bats by a mob of homosexuals and left for dead? Yet the “Gang of 5” may just side with them and give them dispensation. I

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This Month in Gay History Edited by Brian Spencer

Sudoku for Tom Written by Brian Spencer

»1892 February 22, Edna St. »1903 February 21, New York police conduct the first United States recorded Vincent Millay is born. She will raid on a gay bathhouse, the Ariston later become a popular, openly Hotel Baths. 26 men are arrested and bisexual lyrical poet. In 1923, 12 brought to trial on sodomy charges; Millay will be the first woman to 7 men receive sentences ranging from 4 ever receive the Pulitzer Prize for to 20 years in prison. Poetry. She will also be known for her unconventional, bohemian »1942 British-held Singapore falls to Japanese forces lifestyle and her many love affairs. following armed conflict during World War II. Although the Japanese occupation will be filled with numerous atrocities, homosexuality will become legitimized overnight as it was never criminalized in Japan. This will remain in effect until 1945 when Singapore is returned to British colonial rule following the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Ironically, the bomb is dropped by the U.S. Air Force bomber, the “Enola Gay.”

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»1981 The Canadian Gay Archives receives one of the first grants ever given by the Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal Foundation based in Toronto, Ontario. The $950 grant helps to raise awareness and promote the work of the Archives. »1998 Maine becomes the only state in the nation to repeal its law protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination in housing, employment and www . thebettypages . com

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»1977 Anita Bryant launches a petition signing movement to repeal a Dade County, Florida ordinance that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant leads the campaign as the head of the Save Our Children coalition. The campaign is based on conservative Christian beliefs regarding the sinfulness of homosexuality and the perceived threat of homosexual recruitment of children and child molestation.

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credit. The Christian Coalition of Maine ran a campaign that blanketed the state with pamphlets that asked, ‘’Do you want to send your children or grandchildren to day cares, preschools and schools that are forced to hire homosexuals?’’

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Robin Wood (1931-2009) was not the first film critic to come out of a closet. That might be Parker Tyler (1904-1974, q.v.), if he was ever in one. In fact, John Huston, as acting-teacher Buck Loner in Michael Sarne’s film of Gore Vidal’s 1968 novel MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (1970), asked, “Why are all film critics spinsters or gay?” In Vidal’s novel, Myra loves Tyler’s film criticism. From New Orleans, Tyler had led a dandy bohemian lifestyle in New York’s Greenwich Village before fellow ‘pansy’ Charles Henri Ford came to live with him in 1930. Together they wrote a

gay novel in the manner of Gertrude Stein. Tyler’s first volume of criticism, THE HOLLYWOOD HALLUCINATION came out in 1944, and his SCREENING THE SEXES: HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE MOVIES, (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston), considered the first gay study of film, in 1972.

“I am able to live happily and openly with another man, without fear of public harassment and without the least sense of social ostracism [but] I am well aware that my own relative freedom is dependent upon the circles in which, as a university lecturer and film critic, I move.” Yet in a 1977 lecture at the British Film Institute, “Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic” (available on-line), he still had to answer his own critics, particularly Phillip Strick in SIGHT AND SOUND (Autumn 1976). Siding with ‘out’ critics Richard Dyer and Andrew Britton (his former student), he shamed himself for having denigrated the lesbianism in Chabrol’s LES BICHES (THE DOES, 1968) and for praising Bergman’s homophobic, monogamous FACE TO FACE (1976), which masqueraded as ‘the human condition’ and lacked a political

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But Myra drops no allusions to Robin Wood. The British Wood’s first essay, on Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960), was rejected by SIGHT AND SOUND and printed by the French CAHIERS DU CINEMA. His first book was in fact HITCHCOCK’S FILMS (1965), when only France took individual directors seriously, followed by monographs on HOWARD HAWKS (1968), ARTHUR PENN (1968), ANTONIONI (1968, with Ian Cameron), INGMAR B E R G M A N (1969), CLAUDE CHABROL (1970, with Michael Walker) and Satyajit Ray’s THE APU TRILOGY (1971). By then Wood was married, with three children; in the most painful decade of his life, he divorced and came out in print in PERSONAL VIEWS:

EXPLORATIONS IN FILM (London: Gordon Fraser, 1976), four years after Tyler’s SCREENING THE SEXES. PERSONAL VIEWS is dedicated “For John, with Love,” and acknowledges nothing “would be quite the same were it not for my union with John Anderson.” In the first chapter, “Confessions of an Unreconstructed Humanist,” he confesses that his “intense personal involvement” with film makes him subjective, and that “usefulness,” not artifice or suppression, in the manner of Michel Foucault, is his creed. Citing Jean Renoir, a moralist yet “alive,” he goes beyond auteurism and semiotics, to him all art now “capable of sexual interpretation.” Not bourgeois, elitist, Marxist nor avant-garde, but an open-minded skeptic, he asks, What is art “for?” and How can one “live historically?

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dimension. He now better appreciated Howard Hawks’ anti-conformist comedies and adventures, with their gay subtext, from FIG LEAVES (1926) to RIO LOBO (1970), called even by Hawks “love stories between men,” five of them with John Wayne. Hawks’ constant role reversals, Wood pointed out, even include human and vegetable, in THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1952).

anxiety, he re-read Renoir’s LES REGLES DU JEU (THE RULES OF THE GAME, 1939) not as entrapment but as “generosity,” now seeing its romantic triangles as quadrangles, wondering Why not pentangles, or even twenty-tangles, in a society evolving perhaps rather than devolving. But his major re-evaluation came in Hitchcock’s homophobia, revising his HITCHCOCK’S FILMS three times, until it became HITCHCOCK’S FILMS Acceptance not of the homosexual by REVISITED REVISED (New York: society but of society by the homosexual Columbia University Press, 1989). became Wood’s goal. Marriage, or “legalized heterosexual monogamy,” and the nuclear The British critic Raymond Durgnat family seemed outmoded by birth control (1932-2002), author and women’s liberation. Wood rejected of EROS IN THE exclusivity for “permissiveness” (called CINEMA (London: “promiscuity [by] the dominant ideology”) Calder and Boyars, for women as well as for men. Wishing 1966), and three more to eliminate his own and everyone’s books on Hitchcock

(1972 1974, 2002), is quoted on the website ‘The Art and Popular Culture Wiki’ not on theorists but on critics that he found worthwhile, “I’m thinking of Pauline Kael, who I rarely agree with; Robin Wood, who I sometimes agree with … And Parker Tyler.” Personally, for light reading, I prefer Kael, who believed, “Surely there are no hard and fast rules. It all depends on how it’s done.”⁂ Get Involved with the stories and issues that matter to you! Share your thoughts and comments on this article at www.thebettypages.com

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Hi Poppets! Have you seen the movie Avatar, yet? I have a confession: I have not. Not being much of a fantasy geek, it just doesn’t hold that much interest for me, even if it is on track to being one of the top-grossing movies of all time. It seems everyone has something to say about it though, which is why I think I’m probably the only person in America who hasn’t seen it yet. Generally speaking, I don’t listen to

reviews much. As a writer, I know how subjective they are. However, one particular review (in fairness, posted on Facebook by the friend of a friend of mine) led me down some interesting paths.

but it was still a great movie.” When my friend, who happens to be a white woman, told me about this comment, she finished with the aside, “Mark’s gotten a little militant.” My response was “Actually, so have I.” And we both laughed and that was the end of it.

The FB post was written by Mark (not his real name) who happens to be a Only it wasn’t the end of it for me. black man. His comment was “once That line, Mark’s gotten a little militant again, the white man saves the day, has stayed with me. At what point did acknowledging subtle, culture-wide, frustratingly acceptable prejudices mean one was militant? Copies of The Betty Pages are available at these fine local establishments: •Bandito’s Burritos •Bellingham Public •Library •Cabin Tavern •Community Food Co-op •Evergreen AIDS •Foundation •Everyday Music •Fairhaven Laundry •Fiamma Burger •La Patisserie •The Love Zone •Lover’s Package (Meridian) •Lover’s Package (Telegraph) •Merch Bot •Mt Bakery •Pandora’s Box •Pel’ Meni •Public Market •Rocket Donuts

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Over the last several months, I’ve read bloggers and articles from people of color, women, members of the LGBT community, and yes, even some white, straight folks, who are pointing out these prejudices in everything from comic books to public policy. Movies where the supposedly strong woman still has to be rescued by her male counterpart. Comic books where the token gay character is nothing more than an animated stereotype. Policy that claims to protect one group of people, while throwing another group under the bus. And let’s not forget the justice of the peace at the end of last year who refused to grant a marriage license to an inter-racial couple because of the “emotional harm” society could do to any children resulting from the marriage.

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songs of freedom. We wrote letters to politicians. We wore ribbons and peace signs (back before they were in style again). Now, twenty-five years later, a black man acknowledging – with humor, nonetheless – the underlying theme of the white man saving the day is militant. I’ll be honest; I’ve never considered myself militant. I am an unapologetic rights activist. I write for the Betty Pages, even though I’m a straight woman. I write about the racism surrounding our President even though I’m a white woman. The Constitution still means something very important to me. I listen and I talk; I teach and I learn. Does that make me militant? Maybe. Apparently. But I can live with that. For me, it beats the alternative of silence.

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And, on an only slightly related note (so please forgive the bad segue), I don’t only call out others when I think they’ve been wrong. I try to admit it when I am, as well. Last month, I called out the President for not standing up more strongly for the LGBT community. Since then, Mr. Obama has appointed the first openly transgendered woman to a Presidential position. Amanda Simpson, formerly Mitchell Simpson, will be a senior technical advisor to the Commerce Department. This is the bravest step any president has ever taken on our behalf, don’t fool yourself. Thank you, sir, for proving me wrong. In spite of last month’s article, I still believe this man is a friend of ours and supports us. If I’m going to call out others, I should call out myself as well. That, too, beats the alternative of silence.

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Listening to Gay Music, Maybe? Aaron Joy

Have you listened to any gay music lately? If so, what exactly did you listen to? Sir Elton? Though his lyricist Taupin is straight does Elton play gay piano? If I play a John/Taupin song am I playing gay music? Are “Faith” and “Constant Craving” gay songs? Does RuPaul sing as a gay man or a straight woman? What about Judas Priest with their gay leather clad front man Halford who enters the stage on a motorcycle and started the metal

leather look? Then there’s spandex wearing 80’s hair rock... What the separates a gay love song and a non-gay love song? I believe what constitutes gay music has less to do with the song than the musician playing and what we want or think we hear. If this is the case, then I’m ‘proud’ to ‘out’ the record label I opened this year, Roman Midnight Music, which has made its first contributions to the gay music scene...maybe.

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Some of Betty’s readers may recognize the name of this former Hamster from my work in the theater or as a local historian, writing a history of Bellingham’s parks and contributing regularly to the Herald, Whatcom Watch and Betty Pages. Last year, out of work and depressed, I decided to follow a dream of owning my own music label featuring part-time musicians. I intended to focus on rock and metal, making it one of the few gay-owned metal labels. But, fate asked that I expand to “music...off the beaten path”, with my two flagship artists being (very non-metal) lounge pianists.

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decided it was time to record. “Now I know what a homosexual take on this love song sounds like.” This was a comment by a viewer on one’s of Albert’s arrangements of a well-known standard. An interesting comment...considering Albert’s music is instrumental solo piano. “Though formally trained, I play as I feel.” Albert writes on his website www.albertaprigliano.net, “I may not always adhere to the traditional execution of many of my pieces...but it’s the emotional content that has always driven my performance.”

music. I’m sure the fan felt educated at her new listening experience, but it shows how perceptions define our listening. Emotions are the same in all of us. What the separates a gay love song and a non-gay love song... particularly without the pronoun or even any lyrics being sung? And, if Albert’s gay than how can he play anything but…gay sounding chords…maybe.

This year Irving put I Dreamed a Dream into his repertoire because of Susan Boyle. While Albert has posted his arrangements of Motley Crue and Metallica. I never realized how gay or Jewish this music was... until I actually thought I listened to it. Take a listen and see what you … think!⁂ Get Involved with the stories and issues that matter to you! Share your thoughts and comments on this article at www.thebettypages.com

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The other artist on my current roster is 94 year old Irving Fields, who in 1959 released “Bagels & Bongos” which was the first fusion of Klezmer & Latin music. He followed this with Albert plays 4 nights a week at a a series of Latin albums for Decca 100% straight restaurant/bar, so featuring International sounds. he doesn’t even consider himself a Jewish music has been a fraction of gay musician, let alone playing gay

his repertoire. He was even asked to be in the Xavier Cugat band, which is as far from Jewish as you can probably get, but yet Irving remains a Jewish artist playing Jewish music. And, he works on the Sabbath… pounding keys and trading money!

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Warning: Rune Magick May Result In Increased Psychic and into a sleep-like state. An altered state of consciousness: most Paranormal Activity! likely a trance state; which appeared to look as though . . . he was asleep! Hence the title of: “sleeping prophet.” Cayce Salutations beloved (and “muggles”)! Since the anniversary of would lie down on a couch, close his eyes, fold his hands over Edgar Cayce’s death (Jan. 3rd ) has recently occured I thought his stomach, and after a few deep breaths he would speak (just we might explore a little something with divination. So I shall like going to the shrink ah!?). Whomever was providing Cayce attempt a crash course in rune magick. First for everyone who with information from the spirit realm, the favored subjects in doesn’t know who Edgar Cayce is (I say is because he hasn’t his readings were: diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived really gone anywhere of course. [First rule of physics: energy “once upon a time” [past lives], as well as prophecies of things can never be destroyed, only recycled / created.]) allow me to yet to come. explain. Cayce was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Who Was / Is Edgar Cayce? his psychic abilities manifested early [as is the case with the Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) often referred to as the “sleeping majority of “sensitives”]. As a child Cayce was able to see prophet,” some consider him to be the “father of holistic and speak with his late grandfather. Also from a young age; medicine.” He is perhaps the most documented psychic of the another interesting ability appeared. Cayce could somehow 20th century. Cayce gave psychic “readings” by putting himself memorize the contents of a book simply by sleeping on it (This is called sleep osmoses, or synthesis.). Notice the sleep theme? Hmm, gee I wonder why this man was called the “sleeping prophet?”

So this will be the “curve ball” for a lot of readers: Edgar Cayce was actually a devout churchgoer. He was also a Sunday school teacher. According to my sources, Cayce knew his Bible very well! This is no surprise to me, as I saw and spoke to my first ghost (or at least that I can recall) when I was five. And as my household was a Christian one, my first encounter with spirituality was influenced by Christian doctrine. I suspect the same was true for Cayce. As with the both of us, I am sure; we soon learned that Christianity simply could not offer sufficient explanation for so many of our experiences. So yet again, as for the two of us: we read. We read everything that we could possibly find, understand, or that took our interest; essentially anything that resonated. The result was a self formed spirituality based in experience. Once when Cayce was asked how to become psychic, Cayce replied, “become more spiritual.” In other words: only believing www . thebettypages . com

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I have here an early photo of Mr. Cayce. I found him to be rather fetching in his youth (Well I would have done him anyway!). I thought it would be fun to show a little more In October 1910, this charismatic side of him for once. He photograph appeared on the front page of The is usually published as frumpy stately New York Times after a gentleman in his late years. Plus the reporter stole it from the anecdote of how this photo was first home of Cayce’s parents to published is quite amusing! use for a story. Now! Since Edgar Cayce was a seer, as well as channeller, very much in a similar vein to Nostradamus. However, Cayce generally speaking did not have as much direct contact with divination tools as Nostradamus did. These psychic aspects / abilities still may be considered a form of the craft known as divination. Cayce however did coin the phrase “reading” or “personal reading” which deviationist reference to this very day. So though Cayce may not have been big on tools of the trade, many of us are! Also we still refer to the spiritual counsel that we provide [with or without tools] as a “reading.”

It’s ok though, the “force has great power over the weak minded:” I worked the mojo! The shop-keep ended up with the short straw. However, I still had to balance the scales and pay through the nose a little bit.) My stones really aren’t stones at all. They’re actually metal. The very finest quality, pure silver (the holy metal); all 25 of them (Hmm . . . 25 pieces of silver, 5 shy of 30?), and not one impurity in them! (I am so proud!) They really are an unrivalled beauty! My stones are literally from another time and place so they look as though they belong in a motion picture play. But enough of my vainglory! The point is that one can tailor one’s runes to their personality. There are so many forms of stones out there, as well as publications on how to use them! Everything

As one might recall, I mentioned Nostradamus. Well, that dude favored a divination tool or technique called scrying (or more specifically, water scrying). We won’t be discussing scrying today however. Or Nostradamus any further either. We will be discussing an entirely different form of divination. This form of divination is accomplished by the means of some splendid little objects called rune stones! My babies are rune stones! (Well they should be! The filthy little buggers! They cost me an arm and a leg! Especially for something that was mine in a previous incarnation anyway! www . thebettypages . com

from literally stone, to even wood, or clay, or even metal like mine! Just hop on the internet and google runes for sale or something; experiment with color and material. Find what works for your personality! Donâ€™t stop until the right ones have been found! It is important that the stones resonate with their owner! Without such a resonance readings will encounter a great deal of interference and insights shall be inaccurate.

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The 1st rune photo with each name To save me some time and effort, I shall spelled out: reads top to bottom, left provide visual aids! Behold the glory of to right, with the name of each rune the quick reference! underneath it; in the proper order of the runes; from first to last. Ok, so here is how it works:

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The 2nd rune photo shows the alphabetical, as well as the fonical value of each rune; below the symbol itself.

The 3nd photo: is of the infamous Easter Table! Back in the day, priests, monks, and the like, used to use this method to encode dates into a script. This was usually done in anticipation of someone

tampering with what was considered aspects per rune. Divinatory meaning, integral art or tomes. magickal use, [but most exciting of all] rune song. What ‘s a rune song one If one wishes to create an Easter Table: might ask!? Well you’ll just have to wait (all of their very own) think of it in and find out . . . won’t you!? terms of a multiplication table, or a business graph. Simply assign a specific Until next time beloved . . . I leave you thing to a rune (like a date), then create a with these words of wisdom. key table to reference the definitions that Wearing the color red promotes courage have been assigned. Then stash the key and willpower.⁂ somewhere secret! Study the Easter Table for a better idea of what to do. Now stay tuned to this bat-channel! Same bat-time next month; you don’t want to miss the exciting conclusion to Rune Magick! We’ll be covering 3

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3rd Annual

February 26 & 27, 2010

Friday, 2/26 7pm-9:30pm Straightlaced: How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up post-film discussion led by one of the producers, Brittney Shepherd Saturday, 2/27 10am-9pm Spoken Word Performance by MVHS GSA students Choose up to three workshops: Gender Identity, Healthy Relationships/Healthy Sex, Gay History 101, Queer People of Color, How to Address Homophobia in Daily Life or Being Religious & Being Gay also Fabulous Cake Walk/Auction. Many information tables from area agencies and organizations will be available. Fantastic Entertainment Mount Vernon High School, 314 North 9th Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Free. Suggested donation of $5 gladly accepted! Suitable for teens and mature pre-teens. Presented by the Mount Vernon High School Gay/Straight Alliance Sponsors include: Skagit PFLAG www.pflagskagit.org : The Pride Foundation: Doug Exworthy and Kent Poush contact information: Cathy Pfahl, MVHS GSA Advisor, 360.428.6100 or cpfahl@mv.k12.wa.us www . thebettypages . com

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Over The Rainbow Festival

Betty Desire Wants You! Now 2x a Week! For over 10 years!

The Betty Desire Show @ Rumorâ€™s Cabaret Every Wednesday 10:30pm 1119 Railroad Ave. www.rumorscabaret.com

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GLBT Organizations in Whatcom and Skagit Counties www.theslowlane.com This website includes a gay resource guide for Bellingham located at www.theslowlane.com/guide.html. There is also a Yahoo Groups at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ alternativebellingham/ Sean Humphrey House An apartment complex for people living with HIV/AIDS in Bellingham. For more information call 360-733-9357 Triskeli Guild TheTriskeli Guild is Bellingham’s BDSM group that promotes community and education for safe, sane and consensual play. They encourage participation by all sexual preferences, race and age 18 and up people. They meet monthly every 2nd Tuesday, at Pandora’s Box at 314 W. Champion St. at 7 m. www. triskeli.org Queries—triskeli@triskeli. org

Washington Gender Alliance A support and educational organization for anyone dealing with issues of gender identity or expression, and the people in our lives. We have weekly Open Support meetings in Bellingham and Everett. For more information, please write to us at info@ WashingtonGenderAlliance.com or call 360-445-2411, or visit our web site at www.WashingtonGenderAlliance.com. ISCEE The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Evergreen Empire is affiliated with the International Court System and has been actively raising money for charity for over 25 years by sponsoring drag shows and pageants. The group is open to all regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation, seeking to provide social activities and community service opportunities for gays, lesbians, and their friends and allies in Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan Counties.

PFLAG of Skagit County Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays’ Skagit County Chapter meets at the Central United Methodist Church at 1013 Polte Rd. in Sedro-woolley on the second Monday of every month at 7 PM. For directions and information all 360-856-4676 Counseling Line To connect with a licensed therapist in Whatcom County who is educated about kink, polyamory, and LGBTQI lives and lifestyles, call 360-756-0718. Individual, couples, and family and phone sessions are available. Lavender Light Meeting An LGBT Lavender Light meeting of Narcotics Anonymous meets at 1209 Girard Street every Wednesday and Friday night at 7 PM and Sunday at noon. This group has been meeting since June of 2001. PFLAG of Bellingham and Whatcom County For information about parents and friends of lesbians and gays in Bellingham and Whatcom County call 360-733-1500. Skagit Young Men’s Group A place for young, gay men (ages 2035) to meet new people, get support, make conversation and have fun. Meetings held at Central Methodist Church, Sedro-Woolley. Rumors Cabaret Rumors Cabaret caters to Bellingham’s GLBT and alternative lifestyle community and has done so since the 1980’s. An award winning dance club, Rumors provides a gathering place to celebrate party and mingle. From the Betty Desire Show at 10:30 PM on Wednesday nights, to Fetish Nite on the third Sunday of the month, to hosting foam parties and drag shows, there is something for everyone at Rumors. Go to rumorscabaret.com for info.

Evergreen AIDS Foundation Evergreen AIDS Foundation provides support services for people living with HIV and AIDS who reside in Whatcom or Skagit County. 1509 Cornwall Ave. 360-671-0703 Western Washington University LGBTA The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance at Western Washington University is a student organization which supports lesbians, gays, bisexuals, people who identify as transgender, and their allies; in the various stages of their coming out process, in the creation and affirmation of positive self identities, and in the promotion and defense of their human and civil rights. The LGBTA is located on Western’s Campus in Viking Union 515 and is open from the first day of Fall quarter until the last day of Spring quarter. For information call 360-650-6120. Whatcom County KINK is a group to help organize events, munches, help if you have items to sell, or just a way for people to get to know each other. Meetings are the 1st Tuesday of the month at Rumor’s Cabaret. Happy Spankings! Bellingham Radical Faeries Community of queerfolk interested in lifestyles celebrating queer sexuality, spirituality and sustainability of the natural world. 18+ recommended. Meet at Three Trees Coffeehouse, 118 W. Holly St, Saturdays from 11am-ish to 1pm-ish. http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/BellinghamRadicalFaeries/

Whatcom Community College’s Queer Straight Alliance is committed to supporting the GLBT community by promoting awareness of queer issues and entertaining and educating students and staff of WCC, as well as Whatcom County. We can be reached at wccqsa@gmail.com for more info or CRavenwo@whatcom.ctc.edu 4th Corner Poly A friendly group involved in or curious about non-monogamous relationships—people open to having more than one loving and honest relationship in their lives. All gender orientations and persuasions are welcome. This is a family, kid-friendly get-together for sharing experiences and desires—not a pick-up or swing scene. We meet every 3rd Thursday evening. For meeting information: http://groups. yahoo.com/group/4thcornerpoly/ Bellingham Leather Men is a community based organization dedicated to empower gay leathermen in Northwest Washington through social and educational events, and is open to all men who wish to better understand the gay male leather/fetish experience. We support support safe, sane and consensual play. Monthly Men’s Leather Social every second Saturday of the month at Rumors Cabaret, 7:30 until 10:30. For more information, contact President Rick Ruben at werebear100@yahoo.com Lesgo.com Is a website that helps connect the Whatcom County lesbian community with information on local and regional happenings.

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On Eagle’s Wings Counseling Sue Stackhouse offers counseling services to the GLBT community in Whatcom and Skagit County. For information call 360-599-2627

Gay and Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous Meets every Wednesday night at 7:30PM at St. Joseph’s South Campus.