june 7 ,2 0 0 2
Ave., plays host to “Redefining Modem Par
plays host to Portland’s (over-21) gay and bi
enting,” a gay parenting workshop presented
African American crowd 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
by And Baby magazine at 7 p.m. June 12. Talk
June 13. Dubbed “ Ebony Knights at the Fez,”
about adoption, insemination, surrogacy and
this event of the first-ever Black G ay Pride
college funds with perfect strangers. (But at
features DJ Alex spinning old- and new-school
least they’re queer!)
grooves along with entertainment, food, drinks,
Radical Women serve up a Cuban buffet
prizes and more. Free admission; cash bar.
June 12 just before showing Qay Cuba, an
Lesbian photographer and all-around icon
insider’s view of Cuban society’s evolution on
Tee Corinne presents a slide show based on her
gay rights by San Francisco journalist and film
new book, Intimacies, at 7 p.m. June 14. Go to
maker Sonja de Vries. Only $6 for all this at
the Bread and Roses Center, 819 N.
Killingsworth St., starting 6:30 p.m.
The Africa: Peace with Justice Tour
arrives at Lutheran Inner City Ministries,
4219 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,
ffom 7 to 9 p.m. June 12 to present A ID S
and Debt: How U .S . Investments Con
tribute to the Health Crisis in Africa.
Sponsored by the American Friends Service
Committee, speakers include Dr. Molefe
Tsele, general secretary of the South African
Council of Churches, and Nunu Kidane,
Africa program director for the Internation
al Development Exchange.
Get in tune with the Portland Gay Men’s
Chorus Voices of Pride concert 7:30 p.m.
June 12 at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium,
The Portland G ay M en’s Chorus predicts rain June
3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd. The guys perform
music by gay composers, including Bernstein,
Mother Kali’s Books in Eugene, 720 E. 13th Ave.,
Handel, Schubert, Foster, Copland, Bourland and
and let this author of the Cum Coloring Book
Porter. Tickets are $12 to $20 ffom 503-275-8352
sweep you into her world of darkroom-altered,
or 503-226-2588.
tender and sexual black-and-white images.
On June 14, the Portland G ay Men’s Cho
Find Portland poet Diana Cohen playing
host to a Gay Pride Literary Reading 7 p.m.
rus spends the night shaking its collective
June 13 at Ebrders, 708 S.W. Third Ave. It’s an
bootie during the third annual Rainbow Ball
evening of readings by Oregon writers, including
at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W. Burnside St.
David Oates, Myra Lavenue and Amy Schutzer.
Awards go to best disco-era costumes. Those 21
and older are admitted starting at 9 p.m. for
The Fez Ballroom, 316 S.W. 11th Ave.,
$10. 503-226-2588 or www.pdxgmc.org.
The Rose City Softball Association All-
Star team plays its annual Grudge Match
against the Portland Police noon June 15 at
Delta Park’s Championship Field, North Den
ver Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boule
vard. $5 to see the fund-raiser, with proceeds
going to Camp Starlight.
Dykes, bi chicks, trans women and, really, just
all kick-ass girls who now, have or will in the
queer brand of standup to the all-ages venue at
8 p.m. June 16. $10 in advance from the club
or $14 at the door.
Like to write? Here’s your chance to share your
life’s story or at least the fictional mirage in which
you live. Gay, lesbian, bi and trans writers speak
out during the fourth annual Queer Scribbles
Open Mike 7 p.m. June 19 at the Lloyd Center
Barnes &. Noble. Readers sign up before the event
and can declaim up to five minutes of material
s ffom any genre (which, assumedly, includes
® your steamy memoirs, your manifesto du jour
5 and other assorted ephemera). Free, open to
the public and welcoming diverse voices.
503-249-0845 or crm2077@bn.com.
Gay men serenading women basketball
players? Now, that takes a lot of balls. See
for yourself when the Portland Gay Men’s
Chorus performs the national anthem at
the Portland Fire game 7 p.m. June 2 0 at
the Rose Garden. Special group discount
tickets are $8 to $30, with $5 ffom each
benefiting Pride Northwest. 503-797-9649
or kelly.clary@ripcity.com.
Before or after that Fire game, you have to
eat, right? Well, June 20 is Basic Rights Ore
gon’s Bites for Rights, during which a ton of
eateries statewide will donate 15 percent of
12 and 14, so you might as well attend its events
your bill to the political organizing group.
Visit www.basicrights.org/events.htmbbites for a
future like girls are invited to the Lesbian
Avengers’ annual Dyke March. Gather at 6 p.m.
complete list of restaurants.
June 15 in the North Park Blocks (Northwest
This just in: Word has it the city of Port
Couch Street and Park Avenue). The seditious
land is acknowledging Pride Month June 22.
The news is sketchy at this point, but go to the
Avengers have made signs for you, but feel free to
bring your own along on this trek through down
second floor auditorium of the Portland Build
town Portland that ends at the Pride Festival.
ing at noon to see what’s what.
Remember when your high school principal
He’s gay on Will & Grace and My Wife and
said you’d go to the prom with your partner
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