She's coming to
get you: Ellen
DeGeneres
makes her way
into Keller
Auditorium on
June 1
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In case you didn't know, it's National
Masturbation Month, and Portland's sex
positive educator, Darklady, is getting in on
the "a ct" by sponsoring a Masturbate-a-
thon. Entertainment, door prizes and a visit
from the ThrillHammer Orgazmatron— who
can ride it the longest? Come alone or with a
partner. Proceeds go to Planned Parenthood,
Danzine and other nonprofits. (Noon-4 am.
$25 stag females. $50 stag males,
$40 couples. E-mail darklady@darklady.com
fo r tickets and location.)
Intercourse: A Sex and Gender
Spoken Word Recipe for Revolution is
Portland Art Museum opens its exhibit
Splendors o f Impehal Japan with a Grand
Opening Ceremony in its Grand Ballroom.
Includes guest speakers, an exhibition blessing
and Japanese dancers, drummers and jugglers.
Tickets are free from the museum box office.
(10 am-noon. 1219 S W Park Ave.
503-226-2811. www.portlandartmuseum.org.)
Jewish Family & Child Service is playing host
to a Shabbat potiuck for sexual minori
ty Jews. Bring a dairy or vegetarian dish.
(6.30 pm. Call David at 503-226-7079, ext. 14,
for location.)
an evening of performances and celebration of
the intersex and genderqueer communities at
Hollywood Theatre. (7 pm. 4122 NE Sandy
Blvd. $8 in advance from In Other Words or
www. eminism. org/intercourse.)
The Lesbian and Gay Immigration
Rights Task Force wants you at its monthly
social. Tonight it's downstairs at the Goodfoot
Pub. (8 pm. 2845 SE Stark St. 503-471-1568.
lgirtfpdx@hotmail.com.)
Are you curious about partner dance but
have never taken the plunge? Out
Dancing invites you for an evening of
socializing and fun. Practice patterns you
know, learn new ones or just find out what
the heck the rumba looks like. (7-10 pm.
C om er o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and
Ankeny Street. $8. 503-236-5129.
out_dancing@yahoo.com.)
The Lesbian Avengers and Red and Black Cafe
play host to the Dyke March fund-raiser!
Come to this if you want to go to that. DJ
Amber spins, dyke bands rock, raffle prizes are
given, and the hot grrlz of Portland help raise
money for the permit and accessibility vehicles.
And, what's more, there’s a kissing booth.
(8 pm. 2138 SE Division St. Call
503-309-5777 for cover.)
the Hult Center.
Includes percussion
and orchestral accom
paniment and weaves
traditional choral
sound with indigenous
chant. (7:30 pm.
1 Eugene Center. $15
from 541 -682 5000 or
tickets.com.)
unique running com
mentary of the annual
Portland event on
Southwest 10th
Avenue and Stark
Street. The Brig will
open at 9 am for
bloody marys, and
there's an Imperial
A woman who needs
no introduction: Ellen
DeGeneres brings
her standup to Keller
Auditorium. (8 pm.
222 S W Third Ave.
$31 50-$46.50 from
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
box office or Fastixx.)
ledge of the
Panorama at 11 am.
(www. themisha.com.)
Sovereign Rose
Court show on the
Aww, babies! It’s My
Pleasure and And
Baby magazine
play host to
A Nurturing
Experience Get
together with other
women to discuss
topics ranging from
surrogacy and insemi
nation to college
funds. (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave. Call
503-280-8080 to register.)
The Radical
Faeries invite you to
Men Dancing
Naked, a sub
stance-free, fun and sexy party at Opening
to Life Center. Proceeds go to the group's
southern Oregon sanctuary. (8 pm. 532 SE
Ankeny St. $15-$25 sliding scale. Call
503-234-1140 to register.)
Head to Red and Black
Cafe for the
Dena DeCastro of Sirius Astrology offers astrol
ogy readings every Wednesday at Touchstone
Coffee House. (6.30-8.30 pm. 7631 NE
Glisan St. $15.
503-262-7613.)
Portland
It's a Bear to Bare party at Eagle PDX and
Club XES. Hairy chest and hairy butt contests!
(9 pm. 1300 W Burnside St. Call
503-241-0105 for cover.)
M eet the fla m in g ^
Cole P o rter at
Hoagy C arm ichael
& Cole P orter:
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H eritage C abaret
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S unday
Ski or snowboard on sunny Mount Hood with
Ski Out. Meet at the Hollywood Fred Meyer.
(9:15 am. 3030 NE Weidler St.
www.skiout.org.)
Chow down with the truckers and the
Oregon Bears at Jubitz. (11 am.
33 NE Middlefield Road
www. oregonbears. org.)
0 T uesday
Washington County Parents and
Kids Group meets at Community Church
of Cedar Hills fo r dinner, support and fun.
(6 pm. 11695 S W Parkway Ave.
503-228-3892.)
SHARE— Senior Housing and
Retirement Enterprises — meets at
Friendly House to discuss future gay and les
bian senior housing. (6-8 pm. 1737 N W 26th
Ave. 503-286 3575.)
The Portland Frontunners hit the pave
ment for a three- to six-mile run. Optional din
ner follows. (6:30 pm. June 503 239-7705.
www.portlandfrontrunners. org.)
In Other Words plays host to The Last
Word, a literary open mike for women and
their friends. (7-9 pm. 3734 SE Hawthorne
Blvd. 503-232-6003 )
Q S aturday
Basic Rights Oregon and Dingos team up for
the first-ever Q-Ball. a “ casual-formal"
fund-raiser dance and silent auction
at Amegards Ballroom DJ Gregarious
spins, and you know the food will be good.
(7 pm. 1510 SE Ninth Ave. $40 from Dingos
or www.dingosonline.com.)
Queer musicians Jean Mann and Kristi
Martel stop off at Burnside Bean on their
West Coast tour. (7:30 pm. Donations.
2327 E Burnside St. 503-234-8610.)
Vancouver's Saturday in the Park
throws a dance party fund-raiser at
Northbank Tavern (8 pm-midnight. 106W
Sixth Ave. $2 gdhoggan@hotmail.com.)
Head east with the Forest Group for a
guided pictograph tour Meet in
UNDAY
Portland and carpool to The Dalles area.
(541-296-5806.)
Attorney Ellen Adler facilitates an estate
planning workshop. Open to individuals,
spouses and domestic partners and includes
information on wills, trusts, probate and plan
ning for possible disability. (11 am-2 pm. $10-
$20 donation. Call 503-289 1517 for location
and to register.)
Love Makes a Family sponsors a daylong play
event at Oxbow Park for sexual minority
families with middle school-age chil
dren (9 am-4 pm. Call 503-228-3892 or
e-mail simaplus2@yahoo.com for further
information.)
Help Georgena Moran get the operation she
needs! Attend the concert and silent auction
for Georgena's Journey: A Community
Confronts M ultiple Sclerosis at Trinity
United Methodist Church. A list of musicians
as long as your arm, including Galloway and
Luckett, Motherlode, Terri & Gwen and Chica
Marimba. (2-7 pm. 3915 SE Steele St. $20.
503-471-1555. www. georgenasjoumey. org.)
Soromundi Lesbian Chorus of Eugene
celebrates 13 years of music with its spring
concert Adiemus: Songs o f Sanctuary at
PHOTO
Bisexual
Alliance fund
raiser. Cool poetry, hot
music and a commitment to keeping
the group in action. (8 pm. 2138 SE Division St.
$10. 503-775-9717.)
O S unday
Breakfast with the hummingbirds—oh, and
with Lesbians Enjoying Nature and
Science — at Alice's Country House, 11 miles
east of Tillamook. Then onto Bay Ocean Spit
to let the dogs and women play. (10 am.
17345 Wilson River Highway. 503-735-1722.)
Portland lesbian Ginny Foster performs her
one-woman show Tears o f Resin:
A Logging Story at Coho Theatre. The play
centers on the conflict between brothers on
different sides of a timber debate in 1919
Centralia. (2 pm. 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Donations. 503-827-5267.)
Tonight's presentation of The Laramie
Project at Artists Repertory Theatre is spon
sored by Equity Foundation followed by a
reception. (7 pm. 1516 SW Alder St. $ 2 2 .
from 503-231-5759.)
M onday
The Rose City Discussion Club, a pansexu-
a l/B /D /S /M /fe tis h organization, presents
How to Survive Coming Out or
Being Outed: The Dignity of Sexual
Authenticity at the Portland Conference
Center. (7-9 pm. 300 NE Multnomah St
$5 $ 8 503 972-1869 )
Beaulieu Vineyard sponsors an evening of
The R osetow n Ram blers w ill
do th is on ro lle r skates M ay 20
food and wine at Bluehour. You get a wonderful
meal, and all of your money goes to the Human
Rights Campaign (250 NW 13th Ave $80
For reservations call 800- 749-1171, ext. 17.)
Eugene's
Rainbow
Wranglers are not
squares, but they do square dance
every Wednesday in Hall B of the Emerald
Square Dance Center in Springfield.
(7-9:30 pm. 2095 Yolanda Ave 541-912-4932.)
© T hursday
Brother to Brother and Cascade AIDS Project
kick off Black Gay Pride week at Klub Z
with "A Night of Flava"—a festive celebration
of pride, information and community building for
the younger set. Food, prizes, a raffle, DJ
Alex at the turntable, and it's all free of
charge. (10 pm-2 am. 333 SW Park Ave.
503-417-7991.)
The Brig plays host to the crowing of the new
Mr. and Miss Pride 2002 Proceeds go
to Pride Northwest. (7 pm. 1035 SW Stark
St. $5. 503-221-7262.)
The Five Dollar Soapy Hand Job
Car Show and Car Wash is an all
women's event at Garry Small Saab com
plete with raffles, music by Portland DJs
and refreshments. A photographer will take
pictures for the future publication Women
A Their K ick Ass C ars And you don't
have to wear a bikini.
(Noon-8 pm. 1940 SE 82nd Ave $5
fivedollarsoapyhandjob@yahoo. com.)
See On View and Onstage listings
on Page 32.
It's time for the Oregon Bears’ annual
Beards & Roses celebration' Four
days of nonstop bear action, beginning with
tonight’s Meet & Greet at Gail's Dirty
Duck, continuing Friday with the
Underbear Party culminating in
Saturday's dinner and selection of the new
Mr. Oregon Bear and Mr. Oregon
Cub and winding down Sunday with a
brunch, a Saturday Market tour and long,
s*J goodbyes. Whew! ($80. Register at
www. oregonbears. org.)
o F
riday
Learn to buckle it right at It’s My Pleasure's
strap-on class (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave
$10 a couple Call 503-280-8080 to register.)
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