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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 2002)
PHOTO By MARTY OAVS It's My Pleasure plays host to queer sex educa tor and lesbian erotica editor Tristan Taormino. who will guide you through her work shop "The Ulttmate Guide to Women's Sexual Pleasure." (7 pm. 3106NE64th Ave $25. Call 503-280-8080 to register.) Drag King a Go-Go takes over the Egyptian Club. Dress in drag to win a prize; DJ Jenn spins. (9 pm. 3701 SE Division St. 503-236-8689.) O F R ID A fB H Galloway and Luckett play their eclectic blend of blues and jazz at the nonsmoking Monteaux’s Public House in Beaverton. (8-11 pm. 16165 S W Regatta Lane. 503-439-9942) Help Out Dancing celebrate its seven-year anniversary this month by learning to swing! Classes continue every Friday through March. The Portland Gay Men's Chorus delights with Vintage Voices March 23 and 24 (7-8 pm. Comer o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503-236-5129 out_dancing@yahoo. com.) V isit Arlene Schnitzer C oncert Hall to display your urban cool with Pink M artini as its dis tinctive blend o f classical, jazz and Latin com bines with the Oregon Symphony in a cav alcade o f beauty and chic. Tomorrow night, too. (7:30 pm. 1037 S W Broadway $28 50- $93 from 503-228-1353 or Ticketmaster.) You’re invited to socialize with members o f the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force for a fun evening of refreshments and meeting who our government loves most: foreign queers. (8 pm. Call 503-471-1568 or O S unday Take a road trip with Eugene’s OUTdoor Group for a Columbia Gorge Waterfall Tour. Have brunch with the Oregon Bears at the Monarch Hotel in Clackamas. We hear they eat more than nuts and berries. (11 am. SHARE— Senior Housing and Retirement Enterprises — invites you to Friendly House to become part of the organizing effort around future gay and lesbian senior housing. (6-8 pm. 12566 SE 93rd Ave. www.oregonbears.org.) 1737 NW 26th Ave. 503-28&3575.) Learn to waltz with Out Dancing every Sunday in March. (3-4 pm. Comer o f © S aturday Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503-236-5129. out_dancing@yahoo.com.) (9am. June 503-239-7705. www.portlandfrontrunners. org.) Join Lesbians Enjoying Nature and Science for game night. Bring a favorite game and that science experi ment growing in your fridge because it's a potluck. (6 pm. Suzanne m T uesday The Last Word open mike night at In Other Words invites women to read their own poetry, prose, meandering thoughts, whatever. (7-9 pm. (8 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $12-$20 from 503-226-2588 or Ticket Central.) Kukuva presents cosmic marimba at the Community Music Center. W orld dance music in a ravelike atmosphere. All ages welcome. (8 pm. 3350 SE © T hursday 0 F riday o M Lesbian violinist Monica Huggett performs and directs the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Mozart and Mendelssohn through April 6 at First Baptist Church. (8 pm. onday Queer American Sign Language class es — intermediate level starts today! Goes on every Monday night for 10 weeks. Sponsored by Deaf and Hearing Outreach. (7-9 pm. 2100 SE Belmont St. $55-$85 sliding scale. Call 503-235-0840 or e-mail queerasl@yahoo.com to register.) If the thought of sitting in a concert hall listening to classical music makes you want to slip into a coma, you might think about attending the Oregon Symphony April Fools' Concert at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, which satirizes classical music with vacuum cleaners, cell phones, a floor polisher and rifles Peter and the Wolf gets a sendup, too. (7.30pm. 1037 S W Broadway $19-$57 from 503-228-1353 or Ticketmaster.) & W ednesday Portland Community College sponsors “Journey to a Hate Free Millennium" at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. A film of the same name will be shown documenting the bru tal murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., followed by a keynote address from the producer and Judy Shepard Also included are performances by the Portland Gay Men's Chorus and Randi Driscoll (7 pm. 1037 S W Shop and pop Galloway and Luckett play blues, jazz and pop at Nature's in Gresham. (6-8.30 pm. Broadway. $5.50 from Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office or $7 from Fastixx.) 2077 NE Burnside Road. Free.) Bootscoot at DJ Crystal's hoedown any Wednesday or Friday night at C.C. Slaughters. Join Eugene's OUTdoor Group for a Spencer’s Butte Full Moon Hike. (9 pm-2 am. 219 NW Davis St. 503-248-9135.) aturday Rosebud and Thom Pageant. april (8:30 pm. 1320 Main St. 503-656-3031.) m S Klub Z presents the 26th annual Beginning classes in American Sign Language for queers starts tonight. 909 SW 11th Ave. $13-$35 from 503-222-6000 or www.pbo.org.) Lesbian singing icon Tret Fure offers an evening o f acoustic magic at Metropolitan Community Church of Portland. (8 pm. 2400 NE Broadway. $16 from It's M y Pleasure or www.tomboygirl.com.) 0 S aturday The cute young queers o f the urban folk trio Vivian's Keeper warm up Touchstone Coffee House. (7-9 pm. 7631 NE Glisan St. 503-262-7613.) © S unday The Portland Lesbian Choir presents A Musical Scrapbook: A 15-Year Anniversary Celebration at Hollywood Theatre. A dance with DJ Lauren will follow! (5 pm. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. $12 in advance from choir members. It 's My Reasure or In Other Words, www.plchoir.org ) looking ahead Bridges New Music Ensemble kicks off its Spnng Northwest Tour with a Spnng Tonic con cert April 12 and 13 at Echo Theatre The gay and lesbian vocal group will include selections from its soon-to-be released CD. (8 pm. 1515 SE37th Continues every Wednesday for 10 weeks. Ave. $15 from Gai-Pied and It's My Reasure. community, oregonkve. com/cc/bndges.) (7-9 pm. 2100 SE Belmont St. $55-$85 sliding scale. Call 503-235-0840 or e-mail queerasl@yahoo.com to register.) See On View and Onstage listings on Page 30. The very queer DJ Lauren spins at Dance for Life, an all-ages party at Echo Theatre to benefit the Amelia Gonsiewski Medical Fund. The 20-year old, whose mother is a well-known counselor to the gay and lesbian communi ty, needs a heart-lung transplant. the longest-running gay teen pageant in the world. The reigning Anastasia Dubois and Chance de Valmont crown the new royals. (11 pm. 333 S W Park Ave. $10. 503-241-1153.) The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Willamette Empire presents its 25th Coronation and Silver Anniversary Celebration at 503-241-0105 fo r cover.) 503-223-5907.) (5 pm. Dave 541-345-5531.) Francis St. $7. 12 and younger free. www.kukuva.com.) It's a W ild W est Bunkhouse P arty at Eagle PDX and C lub XES. S ponsored by lnUnifonm .net, y o u ’ll find c o u n try music, c o w b o y bondage and m ore Yowza! (9 pm. 1300 W Burnside St. Call Feeling chatty? Young Men's Coffee Talk meets at 3 Friends Coffeehouse every Wednesday. (8-10 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave. From the ashes o f Swamp Mama Johnson rises the funky Sistershake— Portland’s newest female-fronted sound machine. The bluesy chicks light up Trail's End Saloon in Oregon City for absolutely no cover charge. The Portland Gay Men's Chorus proudly presents Vintage Voices, a multimedia show honoring the lives of gay and lesbian senior citizens, through March 24 at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium. The program includes choral, instrumental, dance and video programs. (E-mail grcofyer@msn.com for time. 2809 Market St. NE $30.) O WEDNESDAY 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503-232-6003.) 503-254-8382) Salem’s Cornerstone Plaza W ho will Star Emperor Jack E. Devine and Star Empress Morgan LaFay crown next? Division St. $5-$10 donation. 503-236-8689.) (Kim 541-484-2147.) write lgirtfpdx@hotmail.com for location.) A three- to six-mile run is w hat you need on this brisk spring morning. D o it with Portland Frontrunners, who will even join you fo r brunch afterward if you so desire. Alt country rocker Patricia Ju plays the Egyptian Club before heading to Nashville, Tenn., for an official presentation to music pro ducers and labels. Help her get there by com ing to see this show. (8.30 pm. 3701 SE (7 pm-midnight. 1515 SE 37th Ave. $8 $12 sliding scale 503-234-4440) Run quickly to Touchstone Coffee House; Terra plays March IS The Washington County Parents and Kids Group meets fo r dinner, support and fun at C om m unity Church o f C edar Hills. (6 pm. 11695 S W Parkway Ave 5 0 3 2 2 8 3 8 9 2 .) If you want a date, just go to Embers Avenue and buy one The Rose City Softball Association is having another funky fund raiser in anticipation of W orld Series 2002. Portland's finest jocks will be sold o ff to the highest bidders in the Bachelor/Bachelorette Player Auction (6 pm preview. 7 pm auction. 110 N W Broadway Donations accepted www portlandgaysoftball com.) One of these boys is gay, but we're not going to tell you which one, so you'll have to flirt with them all March 18 at Blackbird
