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The Betty Pages - December 2010 Betty’s Corner

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The Role of Critic

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By Betty Desire, The Betty Pages

Photo By Lea Kelley

By Nolan Dennett

Sudoku for Tom

Written by Brian Spencer, The Betty Pages

Ask Pharmacist In The Mix

By Bridget Adams

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Contributor Nolan Dennett is the Architect of the BFA/BA dance major at Western Washington University. His writing has appeared in Dance Magazine, Hispanic News and Four Arts Magazine. His novel “Place of Shelter” published in 1998 to favorable reviews was nominated for the Lambda award.

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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. Merry, happy holidays to you and yours! Live well, love much, laugh often.

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.

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.

Photographer Lea Kelley is a local artist, photographer, and writer. She is a recipient of the Mayor’s Arts Award for her local photography project, Faces of Bellingham. Her abstract paintings can be found on line at leakelley.com.

Betty’s Corner

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not believe that ones sexual orientation expels you from the community of the faithful. Many believers and Church leaders believe the loud babble of voices of condemnation has misinterpreted scripture and that Christianity is not anti gay.

the spiritual is between you and God as you understand It. If you are of Pagan persuasion, Celebrate Yule! If Jewish, happy Hanukah! If Hindu or Shik joyous Diwali! If you are an Atheist enjoy the time with family, and remember if your belief system includes a “judgment day” according to conservative Christian Most conservative churches will allow teaching it will be your loving Creator, you in their place of worship if you not a human minister, evaluating of are quiet about your orientation, they your lifetime on this planet. are a lot like “don’t ask don’t tell” they feel homosexuality is equivalent to Take back your Faith this Season! alcoholism. You can have the cravings Merry Christmas! just don’t act on them. If that is the tradition you grew up with nothing should stop you from going to church this Christmas season and being a December has arrived and with it comes “stealth worshipper” You know your one of the happiest and saddest times of true standing with God, enjoy the Counseling Education Programs service. the year. For many in our community Support Groups Children’s Services Christmas is a time to gather with We are fortunate to live in an area Parenting Classes Crisis Intervention friends and family and bask in the where there are many Churches that warmth of love and celebration. For allow Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Shelter Referrals Info and Referrals others this time of year is a season of people full participation in the life of Legal Assistance 24-hour support sadness and loss, a dreaded reminder of their congregations. You can do more broken family ties, lost loved ones, and than “sit in the “back bench and tithe” spiritual abandonment.

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The Role of Critic Nolan Dennett

sometimes a shouting match, always an exchangeâ&#x20AC;?. To put it bluntly, finding Cultural criticism is not easyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially in something of value or even coherent in the a small town. It is often an uncomfortable chaos of art is a thankless task. And yet at the undertaking that requires an enormous heart of any golden age of theatre we find the range of knowledge and a focused, neutral bobbing heads of critics dodging the arrows sense of judgment. Then there is the artistic and slings of enraged artists who believe merit of the critic himself. While reviewing their efforts are above reproach and that the efforts of others to have any credibility the pedestals they have placed themselves at all, the critical writer must develop his or upon should be considered sacred ground her own artistic skills. and remain inviolate from the slanderous Jeanette Winterson said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is a dialogue, slavering of any pompous self- absorbed or vindictive critic. In taking such a stance they deny themselves the clarion call of the good critic who holds up a mirror to the artist and '4* his work and says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look again. Consider this. You can do better. And here is how.â&#x20AC;? /<+ ;9/) <+8? .;89*'?!

5)'2 8:/9:9 â&#x20AC;˘ The treatise we call the '4* +2:/) ;9/) Poetics was written 50 /4* ;9 54: years after the death of Sophocles. Aristotle was a ++89 54 '6... 58+ 53/4- 554! great admirer of Sophocles 5<+8 ++89 :5 ).559+ ,853! and considered Oedipus the King the perfect 5::2+* ++89 '4* #/4+ 5 5 tragedy. His analysis of that /@@' â&#x20AC;˘ ;(9 â&#x20AC;˘ #/4-9 â&#x20AC;˘ 358+ play brought into focus and defined the nature of the Greek Tragedy and continues to provide a significant model for theatrical playwriting and play analysis to this day.

Reflections on Dance in Bellingham

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â&#x20AC;˘ Deborah Jowit recognized early on the genius of Mark Morris and her insightful writing surely helped to elevate his work to the

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status it now enjoys. â&#x20AC;˘ Arlene Croce who writes for the New Yorker would not see Bill T. Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Still/ Here because it was an expression of â&#x20AC;&#x153;victim art,â&#x20AC;? which she considered impossible to review. Arlene Croceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance criticism is informed by her ability to evoke in her writing beautiful and expressive images of kinesthetic movement. Her stance on Bill T. Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Still/Here, a work about AIDS and HIV stirred up great controversy because she claimed that it was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unreviewable.â&#x20AC;? In an article called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discussing the Undiscussable,â&#x20AC;? she labeled the work â&#x20AC;&#x153;victim art.â&#x20AC;? How can one criticize men and women on stage who were dying of AIDS? A local choreographer has drawn considerable attention by confronting audiences in just such a fashion. By placing deformed children, or a beloved professor with Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, or the family members of dead veterans on stage and having them move around and talk about their plight she wraps herself in a cocoon devised to protect her work from any real discussion. Who could say anything bad about a child with a cleft palate? Or feel anything but sympathy for the families of dead war heroes? Dance Therapy? Movement Art? Victim Art? You decide. The fact of the matter is some audience members were profoundly moved by the works. Others who saw them felt manipulated.

Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no Aristotle and I certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the stature of Arlene Croce or Deborah Jowit but the role of the critic is very clear to me and to anyone who has spent any time doing professional work in the performing arts. To provoke, to incite and to invite the artist to look again and to sometimes simply say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here is the impression you made. Take

the information and use it as you will.” The true artist will take the to her abilities as a technician and it shows in her performing. information and run, run, run, without hesitation or whining right Angela Kisser, Pam Kuntz’s long time prodigy also dances in the back to the studio to begin to work again. work. Pam and Angela could be twins in terms of phrasing and I was recently invited to a rehearsal of the up and coming local troupe: style. It is as if Ms Kuntz cloned herself to come up with the perfect Bellingham Repertory Dance. The company is an experiment in partner. What we end up with is a seasoned academic looking over artistic democracy. I ask myself, “Is it a noble experiment or simply her shoulder and sighing in admiration at her own creation. The a lack of vision that propels the company into its fifth season?” rest of the cast, Jenna Buska, Vanessa Daines, and Sylvia Graham danced admirably and are well worth keeping an eye on.

Lucas Hoving often said, “Art is not democratic!” Martha Graham put it equally bluntly when she said, “A foot is either pointed or The highlights of the concert were no doubt when Alona Christman, it isn’t and no amount of dreaming will make it otherwise.” The Kate Stevenson, Pam Kuntz and Diane Williams were on stage. repertory of BRD, the season, the rehearsal director for any given Audiences will be swept away by their dancing. If you didn’t see piece, even the dancers are chosen through a democratic process. these particular performances go see the next one. Vision or no And not unlike the politics of democracy the danger here is that the vision, high art or pleasant entertainment—with these dancers one with the loudest voice may be the only winner.

Bellingham Repertory Dance has the ingredients in place for a first rate company.

For many years the internationally renowned Utah Repertory Dance made a similar attempt at artistic democracy and failed. One last observation: I was once reviewed by a critic, in love with Pilobolus continues to try. Perhaps if the dancers of BRD were on the sound of his own rhetoric, who wrote for the St. Louis Post the level of the Pilobolus Dancers or RDT no one would care. The new members of the company still have a ways to go--the exception being Laura Ashley and Maia Erickson who I have seen dance with wit and charm.

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Hopefully, the experiment isn’t yet over. To provoke or simply entertain is perhaps the question. However, if the members of BRD continue to showcase only “audience approved” pieces as they suggest on their website the result is likely to be pleasant entertainment with little challenge for the paying public. If that is the goal then they should keep doing what they are doing--little risk is taken and audiences will be tranquilized by the agreeable evening they have had.

However--some may want more; because more is possible.

But as I say, the experiment isn’t over.

There is no doubt that opening night was not without moments of beauty and intriguing choreographic choices.

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Dispatch. He came to a preview of mine and then called me on the phone to ask if I would like to hear his review. I thought how lovely and said sure. He then proceeded to eviscerate me with a dull blade. When he was finished with his surgery he blithely asked me if I wanted to go out for a drink. I was too naïve to put it together that he wanted a date and that he would have changed his review if I had accepted his invitation. Duh! Two years later he reviewed me again and his remarks were full of praise. The point is I remember the bad review clearly and I have forgotten the good one and not because one hurt and the other didn’t--but because in the first review--whatever else his motivations were--he told me the truth.

the possibility of a critical review I say, “Buck up. Grow up. And welcome to the real world.” To those who invite the scrutiny I say good for you. You may actually have a career. To the rest of you I say, “Here’s to old desolations and new destinations……and Bellingham is where? I’m off to Montreal!”⁂

Nolan Dennett is the Architect of the BFA/BA dance major at Western Washington University He is currently on Sabbatical. He will be in residence with Montreal Danse in November and with the Nikolais Dance Theatre in February. His writing has appeared in Dance Magazine, Hispanic News, various collections of short stories and Four Arts Magazine. His novel “Place of Shelter” published in 1998 to favorable reviews was nominated for the Lambda award. He is And so for performers who might get their boxers in a twist over currently working on his fourth novel, “Making Clouds.”

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Bridget Adams Happy Holidays, Poppets! You know what this means, don’t you? Of course you do. It’s time for my annual column on giving. Honestly, I can’t believe it’s already time to be writing this again. It seems like only yesterday that I was writing 2009’s article. Last year so many people were in hard times that I wrote about critical mass. Guess what? For as much as things have changed over the last twelve months, not much has changed over the last twelve months. At least, not as much as most of us would like. So maybe we should talk about critical mass, again. As usual, if you aren’t giving this year, or can’t give this year, that’s okay. But if you are or want to but don’t know how, here are a few thoughts…

6. Still too much this year? Believe me, I get it; I’ve been there. Look at your own closet. Anything still in reasonable condition that you don’t wear any longer? Coats, sweaters, hats, scarves – all good options, so long as they are gently worn. Even backpacks and purses. Shelters will find use for them.

And maybe, there’s just nothing. There is nothing extra to spend, nothing extra to give. None of us want to be there and yet, it’s the way of the world sometimes. There’s still something. As you walk by someone on the street, holding up their sign, look them in the eye.

Acknowledge they are a human being. Tell them you wish you had something for them and that you’re sorry you don’t. Treat them as 1. Pick an organization or cause you care about and pledge to give the equal they are. Show them some respect. It’s so little, it costs us them…however much you can every single month of the year. Choose nothing, and yet it can mean so very much. And really, isn’t that what one of the suicide prevention organizations I wrote about last month. this time of year is supposed to be about?

Or a shelter you know about. Or the ASPCA. Whatever cause touches your heart. It can be five dollars. Seriously. It can be ten dollars. The Whatever you celebrate, Poppets, celebrate it well. Celebrate it joyfully individual amounts don’t matter as much as the twelve payments. and with thanks. Have a happy holiday, a raucous New Year, and, until next month, take care of you – and each other.⁂ Remember, we’re looking at critical mass, here.

3. Get those same people together and everybody pitch in for a single toy. Schools, Toys for Tots, hospitals, human services organizations…again, take your pick and give them one present from all of you. There is no such thing as too small a donation.

4. Every time you go to the grocery store between now and December 23rd, buy one unit of whatever nonperishable food is on sale. Or whatever toiletry is on sale. One. As you leave the store, drop it in the collection barrel that you know every single grocery in the area is going to have up.

5. Think socks. Or underwear. Or mittens. Are they glamorous and exciting? Aw hell no. But you can get them at the Dollar Store and at discount stores and on sale for very little money.

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Inclusive Places of Worship in Whatcom & Skagit Counties Bellingham Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship 1708 ‘I’ Street Bellingham, WA 98225 360-733-2301 Spiritual Contact: Doug Wadkins E-mail: uubellingham@nas.com Website: http://www.buf.org

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Center for Spiritual Living 2224 Yew Street Road Bellingham, WA 98229 360-734-4160 Website: www.csl-bellingham.org Contact: Rev. Marla Mason Faith Lutheran Church ELCA 2750 McLeod Rd Bellingham, WA 98225 360-733-3970 Spiritual Contact: Dick Christensen First Congregational UCC (ONA) 2401 Cornwall Avenue Bellingham, WA 360-734-3720 Lead Pastor: Kent French, kent@fccb.net Christian Education Coordinator: Sharry Nyberg, sharry@fccb.net Spiritual Contacts: Cindy Bauleke and Donel McClellan E-mail: cindy@fccb.net or donel@fccb.net Website: http://www.fccb.net

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St. James Episcopal Church 810 Puget Ave. Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 Located at corner of Puget Avenue & State Street (360) 855-0040

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Medical Marijuana in Bellingham

Lydia Ensley, owner of The Natural Way Wellness Center in Bellingham, Washington says “What we are doing is providing patients with legally defensible medical marijuana authorizations and a path to wellness. We are first and foremost, advocates for our patients and we are expanding our current operation to include patient support groups, classes for patients who wish to grow their own medicine and services for those who may have been accused of a so-called cannabis crime.”

dispensary and purchase marijuana as a prescription medication for their personal use.” Washington’s citizens deserve to have this right as well, and we are working diligently to move medicinal use of marijuana away from outdated myths that criminalize and isolate to its proper place as an effective pharmaceutical remedy.

“We are different,” Ensley said, “We literally meet our patients at the door and walk them through this process in a compassionate way that they may not have experienced in other settings. We actually take the time to educate them to be informed consumers “We are hopeful that we can follow in the steps of states like and if they wish, advocates in the medical marijuana movement.”

Colorado and California where patients who meet certain criteria are able to get legal authorizations based on a Health Care Provider’s The Natural Way Wellness Center was founded in August of recommendation” said Donna L. Davis, President of North West 2010 in Bellingham, Washington. Natural Way Wellness Center Simple Solutions, parent company of TNWWC. Davis says, (360) 318-7529.⁂ “Colorado and California’s laws allow patients to walk into a

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Gay Film Bibliography: Silent ‘Camp’ Fires Bichoo Vrischik

David A. Gerstner’s MANLY ARTS: MASCULINITY AND NATION IN EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA (Duke University Press, 2006) claims that early cinema helped consolidate a masculine ideal within American capitalism, equating democracy with masculinity, in a nation built on white, working-class norms, but inflected by American Indian and African American masculinities, and queer subjectivities. Gerstner

frequent in silent cinema, usually to establish an object in an important plot point, or to catch a star’s facial expression. But close-ups aided sound recording, because of the narrow range of microphones, and helped subdue a theatrical acting style. Gay Edmund Goulding’s MGM-glamorous GRAND HOTEL (1932), the first true all-star (Crawford, Garbo, Berry, and two Barrymores) extravaganza was criticized in the contemporary press for an excessive use of closeups. But why does that dead Indian in DeMille’s THE VIRGINIAN roll into close-up? Could it be DeMille’s fascination with sensual flesh that he demonstrated later on? It’s always the natives who get to run around seminaked, and the men who get to show their nipples. Thus began a tradition of fake naked movie Indians that found its finest frutation in gay Rock Hudson’s pectorals in Douglas Sirk’s TAZA, SON OF COCHISE (1954).

William J. Mann (q.v.) however puts a white spin on gay silent Westerns.

Gay J. Warren Kerrigan, a former Gibson ‘pretty’ boy, who later bared his barrel chest as SAMSON (1914), with his sister Kathleen as a (therefore) incestuous Delilah, was teased so much for his effeminacy making Allan Dawn’s Western THE POISENED FLUME for the American Film Corporation

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examines anxieties of class and race around masculinity as a defining characteristic of early American cinema and visual culture. Therefore, with the modesty of the white man never in doubt, American Indians and Africans were among the first men to appear semi-naked in American arts.

As early as 1909 ‘Indians’ (played by white men) appeared bare-armed, with one bare shoulder in D.W. Griffith’s THE INDIAN BROTHERS, and in his THE BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH (1913), naked to the waist, some even in loincloths.

Cecil B. De Mille’s THE SQUAW MAN (1914), the first feature film made in Hollywood, features no naked Indians, but DeMille’s version of Owen Wister’s novel THE VIRGINIAN (also 1914) does pit its no-name hero against them, including one dead Indian who rolls into close-up.

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rations), Kerrigan trying to regain his star twinkle. His “listless” (VARIETY 9/10/24) CAPTAIN BLOOD, the “lustier” John Barrymore unavailable, failed for Vitagraph, and relegated him to walk-ons.

against a portal heaving that bare chest like a starlet in satin in a 1940s film noir. O’Brien later swam naked in gay F.W. Murnau’s pool before being cast in their 1927 SUNRISE (1927). His nude photo, as an archer, can be found in F. Valentine Hooven But from THE COVERED WAGON, III’s BEEFCAKE: THE MUSCLE the biggest Western hit up to 1923, MAGAZINES OF AMERICA 1950sprang many imitations. Fox cast a 1970 (Taschen, 2002). newcomer, ex-Navy Light Heavyweight champ and stuntman George ‘The George ‘The Chest’ O’Brien made Chest’ O’Brien, to drive spikes bare- nine more films for Ford, the last chested in John Ford’s THE IRON as a character actor in CHEYENNE HORSE (1924), as he shuns the girl he AUTUMN (1964), as well as many left behind and Greco-Roman wrestles B-Westerns, descending from Fox the villain (brawny Fred Kohler) to RKO and below. Ford’s last silent disguised as an Indian (shades of James Western, 3 BAD MEN (1926), also Fennimore Cooper), and thus also starred O’Brien, and Ford’s first sound bare-chested. After a few classic holds Western, STAGECOACH (1939), was worthy of ancient sculpture, O’Brien his first to star John Wayne. The rest avoids Kohler’s pickaxe, knocks him is sound history. Sound movie history, unconscious and, exhausted, leans that is. ⁂

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in 1910 that, buying the company, he fired the director. To Mann, Kerrigan was “the first male superstar,” with a hefty girth, but twinkling eyes. After signing with Universal, his stagemother Sarah, his flower garden, his lover James Vincent, and gay Edwin August’s chicken ranch occupied him off-screen. His own production company floundered during World War I, when he declared himself a pacifist and PHOTOPLAY (8/1917) called him a ‘Beautiful Slacker,’ at Christmas with his mother wrapping presents for the “soldier boys and sailor lads.” He made a comeback in James Cruze’ THE COVERED WAGON only after his invalid mother died. In THE COVERED WAGON, Will Banion (Kerrigan, far too old and paunchy, with a limp), drummed from the army for stealing cattle, affirms his innocence (troop

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Whatcom PFLAG is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about advocacy and supporting our LGBTQ loved ones while promoting the health and well-being of those individuals and their families, friends and allies. Only through respect, dignity and equality for all will we reach our full potential as human beings.

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GLBT Organizations in Whatcom and Skagit Counties 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 30 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.

Leather, Levi & Bear Social Monthly gathering of men who like Leather, Kink, and Unabashed Masculinity. Second Saturday of the month, Rumors Cabaret, 7:30 to 10:30. Info 360.380.6409 www.theslowlane.com This website includes a gay resource guide for Bellingham located at www. theslowlane.com/guide.html.

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, kidfriendly get-together for sharing experiences and desires—not a pickup or swing scene. We meet every 3rd Thursday evening. For meeting information: http://groups.yahoo. com/group/4thcornerpoly/ 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.

Evergreen AIDS Foundation Evergreen AIDS Foundation provides support services for people living with HIV and AIDS who reside in Whatcom, Skagit, Island, San Juan and Snohomish counties. Bellingham: 115 Unity St. 360-671-0703, Everett: 2709 Wetmore Ave. 425-740-3000 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/ Sean Humphrey House A housing unit for people who need assistance living with HIV/AIDS in Bellingham. For more information call 360-733-9357 Whatcom County PFLAG Whatcom County Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays meets the 2ND Thursday of each month, 7pm at First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Avenue, Bellingham. For more information and events visit www.whatcompflag.com PFLAG of Skagit County Support meetings for Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people and GLBT individuals are held at the Skagit Valley Co-Op Bldg. at 202 S. 1st St. in room 309 (down town Mount Vernon) on the second Monday of every month at 7 PM. For directions and information all 360-856-4676 and for additional information and events check the website at www.pflagskagit.org.

Triskeli Guild The Triskeli 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.

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. We can be reached at wccqsa@gmail.com.

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!

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.

Mount Baker Planned Parenthood Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood proudly demonstrates its commitment to the LGBTQ community in all of our educational and service areas, by partnering with LGBTQ service organizations and through sponsorship and participation in Bellingham Pride. Our goal is to ensure that every individual has the information, services, and freedom to make healthy, responsible decisions about sex, sexuality, and parenthood. We offer comprehensive reproductive care, affordable STD testing and treatment and annual exams. Sliding scale available. Make an appointment online! http://www.mbpp.org Bellingham Clinic: (360)734-9095 Mount Vernon Clinic: (360)848-1744

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Lesgo.com Is a website that helps connect the Whatcom County lesbian community with information on local and regional happenings.

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

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