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January 2011
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The Betty Pages - January 2011
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.
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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.
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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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Photo By Lea Kelley By Bridget Adams Written by Brian Spencer, The Betty Pages
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Tips for Buying a Car in Winter Ex Libris: Holly Woodlawn Story By Peter Storm
Alternative Library Brings Revolution through Weirdness Gay Film Bibliography By Bichoo Vrishchik
Inclusive Places of Worship GLBT Resource Guide
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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.
Contributor Stephanie Kountouros is a local activist and organizer. She’s an active member of the Whatcom Democrats and Public Policy Coordinator for Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood. In her non-existent free time, she can be found at karaoke bars around town or collapsed on her couch with her two cats.
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Contributor Peter Storm has been an avid reader since he received his first stone tablet, Peter owns more books than any normal human would ever feel the need to read. A former contributor to This Week in the City of Honolulu magazine his interests include film, history and world domination.
Betty’s Corner
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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has been repealed, so now Gay men and women in the military can serve and die for their country without having to hide and lie, or worry about blackmail by a fellow service person ending their careers. This repeal won’t go into effect until 60 days after the military chiefs, Secretary of Defense and President agree that the change will not harm military readiness so wait a bit before you bring your lover to the Officers Club. Our States Domestic Partnership Law successfully survived a challenge at the ballot box in 2009 making it the first time voters at the polls refused to take away rights granted to our community anywhere in the country. Yea Washington! On a lighter note, if you can make it, come see me and the rest of our 35-year-old, loosely-knit drag organization (actually, it has come a long way in the last 10 years too, and is one of the leading LGBT non-profits in Northwest Washington) for Coronation 2011, CLUE, a Drag Murder Mystery, January 14, 15 and 16. I’ll be celebrating my 1-year and
10-year anniversaries as Empress of the Evergreen Empire, and we’ll be crowning the new Emperor and Empress for 2011. It’s sure to be a blast! You can get more information and tickets online at www. evergreenempire.org. As we begin this new decade let us commit to working for a strong Community. The recession has hit all hard and we must look to helping one another. Federal and State monies are drying up, but we can and will take care of each other locally. We must and will find ways to make the second decade of the second millennium the best!
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Welcome 2011! By now, all of you should be almost done nursing your hangovers and ready to tackle the second decade of the second millennium (this only applies to about half the world China and India are 2000 or so years ahead of us “late comers” to civilization) like a crazed hockey player on crack. Our community has come a long way in the last 10 years. Gay sex was still illegal in many states until the Supreme Court changed that 10 years ago. Recognized same sex marriage was merely a dream then. It wasn’t until May 17th of 2004 that the first legal same sex marriages were performed in Massachusetts. Today you can marry in 5 states, the District of Columbia, and at least one Tribal jurisdiction! Domestic partnerships or Civil Unions are available in 9 more states but only protect you within the borders of those States. (Probably done to help instate tourism) California legalized same sex Marriage, only to have the voters rip it away in November of 2008. A Federal
Court case is working its way up the snarled judicial system that holds some promise of overturning that “tyranny of the majority” vote. The Defense of Marriage Act which bars the Federal Government from recognizing same sex marriages performed in states or countries where they are legal is still the law of the land. A Federal Court case is seeking to change that and it has the support of the Obama administration, but the Justice Department didn’t read the memo and is actively defending DOMA in the case. (They say they have no choice, but there is ample evidence to the contrary)
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Happy New Year, Poppets! Have you recuperated yet? Are you ready to start fresh in 2011? Because that’s what new years are for, right? Fresh starts, resolutions, changing who we are, all that. Only…I don’t believe that. As I have written here before, I am all for making personal changes; I am not a fan of the pressure to make said changes based on the turn of the calendar.
fifth birthday, my gift to myself was to embrace my curves and be comfortable in my own skin. Years later, my friend still has the self-confidence she gained that Spring and to this day I rock my plus-size fashion with the sexiest of them. In other words, we can do this forgiveness thing and have it stick.
First, don’t resolve to change any specific, outward thing. Habits, patterns, actions, addictions can all wait for a bit. Second, forgive yourself for not having changed those habits, patterns, actions or addictions yet. You aren’t a failure. Whatever it is, we aren’t bad people. Not at our core. The forgiveness really can be the action this It kind of rocked me back on my heels. I’ll year. be honest; I had never thought of it that Because here’s what happens - once we’ve way. forgiven ourselves, we can start to see So this year, I have a suggestion. Let’s ourselves as people worth being healthy. make forgiving ourselves our New Year’s Physically. Emotionally. Worthy of not resolution. One year for Lent, a friend of self destructing. When we feel worthwhile, mine gave up self-loathing. For my thirty- any change we make is more likely to stick, even on a random Tuesday in March. Especially on a random Tuesday in March. Okay, yeah, this got a little touchyfeely. But you want the truth? I believe every word of it. I believe self-forgiveness is one of the greatest resolutions we can make. I believe we are more likely to make the changes we need to make when we like our core selves first. So, if you have to make a resolution in 2011, try this one. Until next month, Poppets, take care of you. ⁂
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When I worked in human services - a long time ago, in another life – we would often get people who had made it through the holidays, made it through New Year’s, but would show up in our offices sometime between mid-January and mid-April, horribly depressed because once again they had failed to lose weight, quit smoking, save money, whatever their resolution had been. They had used this time to try to stop being self-destructive even though there is no reason to think it will work any better now than it does on a random Tuesday in March. But they beat themselves up as if they had failed at something simple.
I was talking to David about this the other day, explaining why I don’t like New Year’s resolutions, when he said something that struck me. He said that there are people who hold out for this particular turn of the calendar with the hopes of not just making a change, but the hopes of forgiving themselves for the past year’s (even years’) sins. They use whatever resolution they make as a manifestation of that forgiveness. But the forgiveness isn’t really there, so the resolution doesn’t stick. When the resolution doesn’t stick, it just proves we don’t deserve to be forgiven. And if we aren’t forgiven, then why do we deserve to stop being self-destructive? It’s a cycle.
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Ramen Bonding Stephanie Kountouros
Ugh. We’re starting the new decade in some hard times. Either you or someone you know – or more likely you and someone you know – have lost a job, taken a pay cut, is barely paying bills or or won’t be able to see a doctor if our state’s Basic Health Care Plan is cut in 2011. Folks in the other Washington seem to think that the rich need more handouts than we do. Sometimes it seems like everything is a losing battle.
began his program one night asking people to call in with tips on how they were surviving. His first caller said that he ate a lot of ramen noodles, but gave them a kick with some hot sauce and added some frozen veggies. Another caller responded with her own recipe for ramen noodle salad. It wasn’t long before every caller was excitedly talking about ramen and suggestions filled the airwaves.
We stand to lose many of the services and community organizations we depend on during hard times, services that I can’t imagine us living without, like health care, disability aid and hospice. But what seems most irreplaceable to me is the loss of community, the loss of connection, the loss of each other. Computers and cell phones isolate us, depression and hopelessness can make reaching out to friends and family seem almost impossible. But surviving, and cheering and nurturing and even sometimes laughing together is maybe one of the most important things we can do to help ourselves and our loved ones get through this.
I don’t remember a single recipe I heard that night. What stood out for me was the way the conversation and tone changed through the evening. The callers became more and more animated and warm, the talk show host was laughing and amazed that his show had been hijacked by a package of noodles. But the dour subject A town hall meeting on ramen noodles of survival during hard times had turned I remember a radio talk show host who isn’t going to solve any problems. But getting together with friends, connecting and talking with others who are suffering and pooling resources as well as sharing stories, friendship and compassion can make us all Specials every day of the week! stronger. I encourage you to Monday: Microbrew Pints @ $2.50 Well drinks & shots after 10 @ $2.50 reach out to people around you 2 all-beef hotdogs @ $1.00 and create a gathering, or pot Tuesday: Top Shelf Bourbon @ 4.00 BBQ pulled-pork sandwich @ $1 luck, or games night--or just Wednesday: Top Shelf Tequila @ 4.00, 2 Tacos @ $1.00 have a conversation. And if you Thursday: Top Shelf Vodka @ $4.00 have tips for survival (or a really Friday: Jagermeister @ $4.00 Saturday: Top Shelf Gin @ $4.00 good ramen recipe) please send Sunday: $4.00 Brunch (Includes Biscuits and Gravy, Quiche, Cheesy Grits it in to thebettypages@gmail. & Eggs Benedict), Double Bloody Mary @ 4.00, Cap’s Coffee (Java, Whiskey, com⁂ Bailey’s) @ 4.00, Mimosas @ $3.00 and ®
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Thinking about what’s going on and how to handle it reminded me of another time when people where struggling: back in the the Regan era. A lot of programs had been canceled and aid reduced, and folks had a hard time trying to make it each day, feed themselves and their families and just be OK.
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is easier to drive in the cold snow. There are many damaging things about driving in winter such as gravel on roads, unseen obstacles and scratching from built up ice; but another major hazard is of course other vehicles. A fender bender on an older beat up car is quite often preferable to smashing up your favorite car. Once again slower traffic at dealerships and quite often a number of people upgrading their AWDs, this time of year is also a great time to find an inexpensive winter driving option. Just like people winterize their vehicles, think about winterizing your approach to buying a car. Winter is a great time to test traction, especially important on a used car. It is also the perfect time to see how fast they defrost and heat, every car is a bit different. Heated seats are a nice addition to your comfort on a frigid morning, but they do add extra expense and before leather heats up it can be very chilly. Focus more on tires than you would in spring or summer. Winter tires are a great addition but not always necessary in milder winter climates. If you are considering a vehicle with high performance tires you may also want to consider investing in snow tires for winter. Many cars now come with All Season tires so an addition of cable chains is sometimes all you need. Ask questions and check your traction. Remember, nothing will hold traction well on ICE. Typically the best winter cars focus on All Wheel Drive systems, heated seats and mirrors, engine block heaters and so forth. These features cater to physical need; however for many their car represents an emotional investment. Yes “getting there” is important, but you need to feel good about it as well. There are more options for winter than you may realize and this time of year any salesperson will be happy to help find the perfect one for you. Bundle up and have fun! -Stacy Harris and Sam Baylasy, The Northwest Honda Girls
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Ex Libris: The Holly Woodlawn Story - A Low Life in High Heels Peter Storm The Holly Woodlawn Story - A Low Life in High Heels by Holly Woodlawn with Jeff Copeland. St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
“Holly came from Miami, F-L-A, hitchhiked her way across the USA. Plucked her Since January is Bellingham’s [Drag] Coronation and eyebrows on the way. Shaved we will be hosting Nicole the Great, Queen Mother of her legs and then he was a she.” the Americas, it seems fitting to look at one of the most from Lou Reed’s great hit Walk on the Wild Side. famous and infamous of drag queens. Born in Puerto Rico as Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl, Woodlawn moved with her family to Florida. But, it was in the early 1970s, in New York, that Holly Woodlawn became legendary as one of Any Warhol‘s Superstars and the star of the cult movie Trash.
A side note - one of the book’s photos shows Holly and a very young and handsome John Sex in the production of The Sound of Muzak, before his mile high hair.⁂
Her story provides a fascinating insight to the early “Pop Art” culture and underground entertainment industry. Woodlawn discusses Warhol, Devine (they were in a number of off-off Broadway shows together) and Max‘s Kansas City with real honesty and candor.
Holly Woodlawn, Today Ms. Woodlawn as seen in 2007 photo by Angela George
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A Low Life in High Heels covers her transformation from Haroldo to Holly (named for Holly Golightly from the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and her subsequent carrier as a cabaret and film star. Woodlawn doesn’t quite tell all, but she doesn’t gloss over the drugs, sex and wildness that made her notorious.
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Alternative Library Brings Revolution through Weirdness! Future Man, Grace Wischerth, and Dark Lord The Bellingham Alternative Library is an educational cooperative which offers progressive and counter-cultural books and other media for checkout to its members. It has been running for over 3 years from a residence at 717 N. Forest St. about a block from WWU. Our continually growing collection at this point includes well over 3000 high quality books, which are handpicked by the library patrons. All books are purchased for the library from a request list, assuring that the books we carry are all things that will be checked out and not sit
idly on the shelves. In choosing which books will be added to the library collection, we are actively trying to redefine the mainstream and support progressive thinking in all venues.
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Forming and strengthening diverse communities is one of the primary purposes of the Alternative Library. On top of being an educational center, we also function as a community hub. We play an active part in Bellingham’s Food Not Bombs, serving free food in front of the Federal Building every Friday at 4:00 PM. Our library and
We strive to bring social justice and environmental concern into a conscious focus through our workshops, in cooperation with other Bellingham groups. It is important for us that the library is an inclusive space for people from all backgrounds and ways of life. We endeavor to make the library a safe space for all ages, cultures, gender identities, sexual orientations, political backgrounds, and spiritual understandings. Recently our social and cultural studies sections have experienced a lot of growth, as well as our literature dealing with gender identity and LGBT experiences in America and around the world. We believe in sharing the diverse experiences of all peoples, not just the elite segment of society featured in mainstream media. The Alternative Library offers an easy opportunity for motivated self-educators to find radical and progressive resources to expand their mind. When information is made more readily available and we create more common spaces dedicated to bringing people together for education, we will become a more knowledgeable community capable of cooperating to solve the problems of our constantly changing world.â ‚
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One of the largest draws of the library has been its huge collection of comics, among them not only the standard superhero fare that comics are so well known for, but also many alternative comics – everything from non-fiction to surrealist art narrative and wordless woodcut novels. Our collection features prominent American comic creators like Art Spiegelman, Phoebe Gloeckner, Joe Sacco, Gary Panter and Chris '4* Ware as well as Europeans like Alan Moore, Lorenzo Mattoti, Grant Morrison, /<+ ;9/) <+8? .;89*'?! and Neil Gaiman. Rather 5)'2 8:/9:9 than pushing all the comics '4* +2:/) ;9/) into a corner, regardless of /4* ;9 54: genre, like most bookstores or other public libraries, the Alternative Library works to ++89 54 '6... 58+ 53/4- 554! normalize comics through 5<+8 ++89 :5 ).559+ ,853! sorting them along with our 5::2+* ++89 non-comic books by genre. '4* #/4+ 5 5
our reading room is one of the few common spaces in Bellingham which is open free to the public every day of the week. We host workshops and group meetings throughout the week, including a recent informational meeting for the South Fork Community Forest Initiative. We’re also connected with Bellingham’s Books to Prisoners and assist in filling book requests of prisoners from all around the country. In reaching out to people from marginalized communities, we aim to build solidarity by integrating these silenced voices with the much heard voices of dominant culture.
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Gay Film Bibliography: Through Iron Eyes Bichoo Vrischik Real, if painted Indians, Sioux braves to be exact, appeared in front of Thomas Edison and William Dixon’s Kintoscope as early as 1894, performing a GHOST (or SPIRIT) DANCE and a BUFFALO DANCE, along with Annie Oakley and a bucking bronco, only the last photographed outside Edison’s little studio. All four items were by then part of ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” show. The banning of the Ghost Dance, Christian-influenced and by 1890 danced to fight the White invasion of Sioux land, had brought the arrest and death of Sitting Bull, the Sioux hero of Custer’s Last Stand, aka Little Big Horn, aka Wounded Knee Creek.
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Presses, 1983), in 1911 members of the Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Chippewa tribes “demonstrated on the steps of the Capitol building [in Washington DC] in protest against the image of their race presented by silent films.” Homogenized as “painted warriors” of the Plains, feathers stuck in their inauthentic headbands, Native Americans (or white men) often played members of tribes other than their own, employing means of warfare unlike their own, based on white men’s misconceptions. Sarf decries the use of George O’Brien’s Army Colt .45 ‘Peacemaker’ in THE IRON HORSE (1924), set in 1869, but not issued to the public until 1875. Able to shoot six ‘Indians’ at a time, thereafter it was anachronistically used by DeMille et al, allowing gunfighters (themselves improbable before 1869) to wear reverse quick-draw holsters, uncommon before 1900. (Dewey Martin’s rotating cap-and-ball double long-barrel in THE BIG SKY is more accurate, if less efficient and less phallic.) Also anachronistic are the Winchester rifle and Gatling gun before 1866, Nobel’s dynamite before 1867, and the gambler’s Remington .41 before 1871. Sarf decries inaccuracies in white men’s civilian and military costumes, but nothing below Indians’ headdress, ignoring their often semi-nakedness – or George O’Brien’s, for that matter. Unlike in his younger brother’s THE IRON HORSE, in Francis Ford’s 41-minute THE INVADERS (1912), on the breaking of treaties via Union Pacific’s railroad surveys, seen partially through Sioux and Cheyenne eyes, it’s the white men who are the invaders, not the Native Americans cast from the Miller Bros. Wild West Show. Sicilian Iron Eyes Cody’s (Espera DeCorti’s) autobiography IRON EYES: MY LIFE AS A HOLLYWOOD INDIAN (Everest House, 1982) begins as a bit-player, 24-year old Gary Cooper, in a loincloth, one chilly morning is sprayed with bole armenia (burnt umber), make-up used
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Some early films were actually directed by Native Americans. Pathé Frères, to stem the criticism of in-authenticity in their European Westerns, opened a studio in New Jersey, hiring a Winnebago, James Young Deer (nè J. Younger Johnston), already an actor, writer and director, to direct the 11-minute WHITE FAWN’S DEVOTION (1910), an interracial romance. Modestly loin-clothed, none of the ‘Red Indians’ get anything like a close-up, except a jealous, unidentified male who tackles a white man, and who mysteriously alone wears dark Long Johns. Again I ask, why, because he’s not Indian? Or because in 1912 even Native flesh so close to white eyeballs would be forbidden? And what’s the difference? If he’s Indian, then the fear of Native flesh must keep this brave inside his all-encompassing underwear; if not, it’s the same thing. An advocate of Indian rights, Young Deer changed the end from tragic to reconciliation. But his RED DEER’S DEVOTION (1911, now lost), shot in California, by reversing the sex of the lead couple, an Indian male and his ‘white’ bride living happily ever, enraged critics. Consequently, Young Deer directed films in the U.S. only through 1913.
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Cody wrestled voodoo snakes in gay James Whale’s African GREEN HELL (1940), with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., continually bailing his
drunken friends out of jail. He saw Hughes fire Hawks on THE OUTLAW (1943): “From now on I’m directing this picture,” Hughes said, ignoring its equilateral, male triangle for Jane Russell’s breasts. Olympic gold medalist Bright Path (Jim Thorpe) dug WPA ditches, like bareback Burt Lancaster in Michael Curtiz’s JIM THORPE -- ALL AMERICAN (1951), and in reality as a drunken bit-player flattened drunken Errol Flynn. Flynn then flattened his own bigoted stand-in, thereafter casting manly Thorpe in THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, a new CAPTAIN BLOOD, until THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON. Flynn wasn’t gay, but perhaps anal and necrophiliac: “I’m just telling you what I observed and felt.” Clashing with DeMille on teepees in THE PLAINSMAN (1937, Gary Cooper) before its success, Cody peyoted as a cowboy, grinding his hips against senoritas to marimbas alongside bi-Tyrone Power, gay Cesar Romero, and sometimes Jay Silverheels at the Zarape club until, exhausted, my little chickadee (1940), he ran away to Barnum and Bailey to wrestle Hopi snakes at Madison Square Garden. Later, Cody found Disney as conservative as “Buffalo winters are chilly,” and Sidney Salkow’s SITTING BULL (1954) made him a “star.”
But in gay George Sidney’s ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1950), “Sitting Bull was portrayed by Chief Thunder Cloud [as] the same old stereotype.” The real Sitting Bull had war-painted a hotel mural of Buffalo Bill kneedeep in buffalo shit, “squatting and crapping.” “The hotel painting scene was [in] the script, but [Sidney had it rewritten] to show Sitting Bull shooting out all the lights with his sixshooters.” In A MAN CALLED HORSE, Cody got to hang masochistic Richard Harris by hooks under his (fake) exposed pectorals from a cottonwood tree, as late as 1970. He cried for environmental conservation in a famous TV ad. After his wife of 42 years, Birdie, died, Iron Eyes placed an eagle feather in her hand, and drunk and on pills attempted suicide by lying naked in snow, awakened by angry geese pecking at his body. He sobered up, married again, a massage therapist, Sandy Redfeather, and began to refuse projects that were “not fair to Indians,” like David L. Wolper’s “bloody” Dakota 5-hour miniseries HANTO YO (THE MYSTIC WARRIOR, 1984). In the next life, Iron Eyes knew, he would see Sandy again, with a feather in her hand.⁂
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to make white men and light-skinned Natives more ‘Indian’ (Cody endured it himself, and James Cagney), for George Sykes’ THE VANISHING AMERICAN (1925). Coop, from Montana via London, lean, had blue eyes, fluttering eyebrows, the beginnings of a limp, decidedly not what DeMille called a “Red [Indian] Beer Belly,” rode, shot, and learned to fall off cliffs. Real Sioux and Arapahoe appeared in THE COVERED WAGON (1923), and buffalo were imported from Yellowstone Park to Nevada for long-shots. Also shot in Nevada, THE IRON HORSE advertised O’Brien as “A Man’s Man and an Idol of Women.” Cody drank with John Wayne before Wayne’s “swagger, rolling hips,” and dropped “gs” of STAGECOACH (1939). He played Mohawks, partied in Tijuana, and toured Western-crazed Germany. Gene Autry’s campy Western musical METROPOLIS serial, THE PHANTOM EMPIRE (1935), first cast Autry as Autry; later Autry held fancy Roy Rogers at gunpoint, forcing him to sing, at Republic, their sidekicks Smiley Burnette, Gabby Hayes, or Andy Devine.
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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 www.buf.org Beth Israel Synagogue 2200 Broadway Bellingham, WA 360-733-8890 www.bethisraelbellingham.org Center for Spiritual Living 2224 Yew Street Road Bellingham, WA 98229 360-734-4160 www.csl-bellingham.org Faith Lutheran Church ELCA 2750 McLeod Rd Bellingham, WA 98225 360-733-3970
Garden Street Methodist 1326 N Garden Street Bellingham, WA 360-733-7440 www.gardenstreetumc.org On Eagle’s Wings Ministries A Special Work of the UFMCC (Bellingham) PO Box 425 Maple Falls, WA 98266 360-599-2627 Woodside Church of Religious Science 2224 Yew Street Road Bellingham, WA 98226 360-734-4160
Blaine Free Church Unitarian 1218 Harrison Avenue Blaine, WA 98230 360-332-4781 or 360-332-5563 www.uublaine.org
Skagit County Central United Methodist Church 1013 Polte Road Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 360 856-6412 www.gbgm-umc.org/cumc-sedrowoolley St. James Episcopal Church 810 Puget Ave. Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 (360) 855-0040 Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ 2802 Commercial Anacortes, WA 360-293-5675 www.PilgrimUCCSkagit.org Celebration Lutheran Church Worship at The Depot Arts Center 611 R. Avenue Anacortes, WA 98221 360-299-3225 Christ Episcopal Church 1216 7TH Street Anacortes, WA 98221 (360) 293-5790
Mount Vernon Skagit Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (WEL) PO Box 1203 500 West Section Mount Vernon, WA 98273-1203 360-419-9014 www.skagituuf.com Center for Spiritual Living 1508 N. 18th Street Mount Vernon, WA 98273 360-355-9029 www.cslmountvernon.com St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 415 South 18th Street Mount Vernon, WA 98274 (360) 424-1822
Island County Langley United Methodist Church Located at 3rd & Anthes PO Box 374 Langley, WA 98260 www.langleyumc.org
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First Christian Church Disciples of Christ 495 East Bakerview Road Bellingham, WA 98226 360-734-6820 www.bhamfcc.com
First Congregational UCC (ONA) 2401 Cornwall Avenue Bellingham, WA 360-734-3720 www.fccb.net
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Mission Statement
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.
Programs, Services & Activities
• Bellingham Pride Festival each July • Monthly support meetings • Local scholarship for high school seniors • Distribution of materials on coming out and family outreach • Movie & literature library • Confidential support phone-line and e-mail
Get Involved! Help Make a Difference! Monthly Support Meetings 2ND Thursday @ 7pm (excluding July) First Congregational Church 2401 Cornwall Avenue (in basement) Bellingham, WA
For more information on PFLAG or Bellingham Pride contact info@whatcompflag.com
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Make Check or Money Order Payable to Whatcom PFLAG and mail to PO Box 28704 Bellingham, WA 98227 Whatcom PFLAG is a registered 501(c)3 organization & all donations are tax deductible.
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.
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. 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. Sean Humphrey House A housing unit for people who need assistance living with HIV/AIDS in Bellingham. For more information call 360-733-9357 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 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.
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 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
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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4th Corner Poly Polyamory is the practice or acceptance of having more than one loving, honest relationship at a time. We’re a friendly, welcoming group for people involved in or curious about polyamorous relationships. Our group consists of and welcomes diverse sexual and gender identities . This is a family, kid-friendly get-together for sharing experiences and desires—not a dating or swing scene. we meet every 4th Thursday evening at alternating locations. For more information: http://groups. yahoo.com/group/4thcornerpoly
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
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