32 J u s t o u t • October
17.2003
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24) F riday
“ Our Big Fat Gay Wedding" is the theme of Basic
Rights Oregon's 2003 Dinner Gala fund
raiser at the Oregon Convention Center Lainie
Kazan (from My Big Fat Greek Wedding) hosts the
■22nd annual event honoring leaders who have
worked to advance equality (6 pm 777 NE Martin
Turn out the lights because Sensory Perceptions’
seventh annual Portland Lesbian & Gay Film
Festival continues through Oct. 19 (For com
Luther Kmg Jr Blvd $100 from 503-2226151.)
plete schedule visit www sensoryperceptions.org.)
The Queer Resource Center of Ashland's South
ern Oregon University sponsors the lecture
Shakespeare's Homoerotics in Room 124
of the Art Building. (7 pm 1250 Siskiyou B lvd)
Join gay Jewish group Keshet for a social
potluck dinner and short Shabbat service
(6 30 pm For location call 503 226 7079,
ext 14 www gayjewishportland com.)
Portland Bisexual Women meet to discuss
Lesbian novelist Carla Trujillo visits Powell s
to read from What Night Brings. (7 30 pm
“ Coming to Terms with Coming O ut" at the
Broadway Coffee Trader Living Room.
1005 W Burnside St.)
(7-9 pm 2130 NE Broadway $3 donation
portlandbiwomen@comcast. net.)
Seattle sm ger/songwriter Brandi Carlile plays
the Egyptian Club (8 pm 3701 SE Division St
DanceEpiphany presents Six Duets: A Con
$5 www.brandicarlile.com.)
tact Improvisational Dance Performance, explor
ing the "U nknown" when two people make con
tact, at Performance W orks NorthW est. (8 pm
For brazen bellows, bizarre performance and tasty
beast, joir Miss Murgatroid tor Revenge o f the
Night o f the Living Accordion at the Gotham Build
ing multiplex Tons of guest performers, including
the premiere of the Fabulous Polka Hoop Boys
4625 SE 67th Ave. $10.)
You're invited to a social thrown by the Lesbian
and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
(9 pm 2240 N Interstate Ave $7 21 and over.)
(8 pm. Call 503-4 71-1568 or e-mail
Igirtfpdx&hotmail.com for location.)
Right or left pocket7 Men's Leather Night and
Red Hanky Social it Gail s Dirty Duck ( 9 p m
Designed for people o f larger stature, the O re
gon Bears present the XX Dance at C .C .*
I Slaughters. (9 pm-midmght. 219 NW Davis St.)
midnight 439 NW Third Ave pdxsaltydg@aol com.)
G o for a late night cruise with Storm Large &
the Balls on the Portland Spirit. (11 pm-
1 30 am $15 $23 from 503 224 3900.)
monies is Just Out columnist Marc Acito
“ An Afternoon to Remember," a performance and
(8 pm. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd $20-$25 from
503 226 2588 or www pdxgmc.org.)
candlelight vigil to increase awareness of domes
tic violence Proceeds benefit Bradley-Angle
House. (4 pm. 1126 S W Park Ave. Donations.)
I
C ’m o n .g iv e 'em a big oT hug during the Oregon
Bears' monthly Bear Bust at Gail’s Dirty Duck
I is) S aturday
Rainbow Recovery Al Anon Group hosts Bridges
in Recovery a roundup for queers in 12 step
recovery programs, at Tnnity United Methodist
Church Potluck lunch (8 30 am-430 pm. 3915 SE
Join the Lesbian Community Project for a
out about LCP's Deaf
Awareness Program and
share ideas for future
events. (5-7pm.
Box: Songs from
and Inspired by
Hedwig and the
Angry Inch. All
3551 SE Division St.
503-227-0605
lcp@xprt net.)
album proceeds
benefit New York's
Harvey Milk
School for queer
students.
ers, fiction aficionados and queer poet freaks from
Seattle—rabble-rouse at the Red and Black Café
(8 pm. 2138 SE Division St. $5-$8 siding scale )
19 ) S unday
metncs. (7:30 9 30 pm 625 NW Everett St
4108 www tjnoms.net)
Community Church of Portland Toastmas
ters one-hour meeting for potential new members
Meet up with queer Mormon
group Affirmation for
Emergence Transgender Social Group
meets in Eugene the third Saturday of every
month (7 30 11 pm bceQefn org or
503-672-7787 or e-mal
alyson&saw net for details )
( 12 30 pm 2400 NE Broad
way 5033302706
www.mccpodlandcom.)
Aurora Chorus
Get ready, girls: Scream
at the Beach— Portland's
award winning haunted
. performs at First
Congregational
Church with
^ Sonrisa Fla
U s menca and
house attraction— turns
into Queens at the
Beach, a special gay
night for Halloween
fairies. (7-10 pm.
Trio Pan
Dulce m
ÜI
1300 W Burnside St. $2 members. $4 non-
members www pdxbadgids net.)
p
Lesbian indie rocker Melissa Ferrick brings
her acoustic passion to Berbati's Pan. Anne
k McCue joins her. (10 pm 231 SW Ankeny
^
St $12 50 from TicketsWest)
lessons. 9 pm 1 am danc
mg 618 SE Alder St $5.
$8 with lessons )
Bridging the gap
between burlesque and
bad taste is the Port
land Gay Men's Cho
rus adults only cabaret
Last o f the Bathhouse
Beauties, an evening of
low-level humor and
raunchy song at Reed
College's Kaul Audito
num M aster of cere
(5:30-7:30 pm.
2000 NE 40th
Ave
www paba com.)
Portland State
University's C on
tinuing
Education
L is te n H a rd to lesbian indie rocker Melissa
program brings
Ferrick on Oct. 19 at Berbati's Pan
Bad Girls presents
down-to-earth, in-
Dyke Night at the
your-face wnter
Eagle PDX with charity auction, raffles, live enter
and documentanan Michael M oore to M em o
rial Coliseum for a fresh and funny look at
tainment and free food. Proceeds benefit the
Sexual Mmonty Youth Resource Center. (8 pm
pissed-up politics and oversaturated society.
3832 N Interstate Ave
$10 from 503-407 6034
www pldo.org)
Better than the gay o f
opry i Crystal's Coun
try Jam at Portland
Metro Club Lessons,
dancing and plenty of
boot scootin (8 9 pm
G et down to busi
ness dunng the
Portland Area
Business A ssoci
ation’s After
Hours at
Chameleon
Jantzen Beach $3 $7
per attraction,
www screamatthe
beach, com/queens htm )
emg977@yahoo com.)
Witness the crowning of Ms. Gay
Poder Latino de Oregon fol
lowed by a Latin celebration at
the Polish Hall (8 pm
(5:30 pm. 203 SW
Ninth Ave.)
Queens at the Beach (see
below) (6 45 pm Call
Ghsan St.)
www deafvision.net/dhor)
The one, the only, the onginal Hedwig1 John
Cameron Mitchell visits Jackpot Records to
sign the new
release Wig in a
Or ATr i x —an all-chick collective of slam perform
Learn to communicate more effectively with co
workers, fnends and partners at Metropolitan
Haven (7 9 pm 3551 SE Division St
25) S aturday
Deaf/Hearing Social
Night at Haven Find •
Bid sad farewell to Soundvision on the last day
of its last show when the gallery presents a live
remixing of the newly released Tribyrd Instal
lation Soundtracks using samples from the
gay gallery ow ne r/a rtist’s solo exhibition Geno
Queer Deaf and Hearing Coffee Night at
T hursday
(8-11 pm 429 N W Third Ave $8-$10.)
Steele St $15 from 360694 4163 )
Guitarist Allyn Roberts serves up dirty blues
at Touchstone Coffee House. (7 9 pm. 7631 NE
j
M onday
You And you. And oh, yes, you, too.
Portland Polyamory Circle wel
comes all sexual onentations to this
monthly discussion group (7 pm Call
Laury at 503 285 4848 for location.)
Spin your wheels every third Monday
during Rosetown Ramblers Gay
— Skate Night at Oaks Park
DanceEpiphany presents Six D u e ts Oct. 24 at Performance Works NorthWest
(7 3 0 9 30 pm 1 SE Spokane
St $5.)
(7 pm 300 N Winning Way
$15 $29 from PSU box
office or Ticketmaster.)
i
Pick up the pace and join the Adventure
Group for a brisk morning CityWalk. (9 am.
503-452-5680 www adventuregroup. org.)
The glitz! The glamour1 The royalty1 Join Rose
Emperor XXIX Josef A. Foxx and Rose
Empress XLV Chloe Stone for the crowning of the
new titleholders dunng Coronation 2003: On
the Town at the Crystal Ballroom (6 pm 1332 W
Burnside St. $35 $38 from www rosecourt.org or
Ticketmaster.)
Salem's Marionberry Salon holds a potluck
discussion o f Lost Prophet: The Life and Times
o f Bayard Rustin. (6 30 pm. Cary 503-363-6036
manonberrysalon@aol. com.)
G et moving to Out Dancing's monthly Dance
Social at Ankeny Street Studio. Lessons includ
ed. (7-10 pm. Comer of Southeast Ninth Avenue
and Ankeny Street. $8. 503-236 5129.)
DinnerGrrls-PDX hosts its second Women's
Networking Potluck for career gals
(6 30- 7 pm introduction, 7 9 pm potluck.
www evite. com/portlandQdinnergrrls. org/oct.)
The largely lesbo (but everybody fnendly) Blue
Lightning plays a queer Halloween Dance
at the Ashland Community Center in Lithia Park.
(8 pm. 59 Winbum Way $10-$20 sliding scale.)
Bluesy-folksy jazzy Theresa Demarest and
Good Company make music at Mississippi
Pizza Pub (8 pm 3552 N Mississippi Ave $5 )
■
State o f D enial a film
by Elaine Epstein that looks
at AIDS in South Africa as
told through six intimate
portraits, screens at the
Guild. (7 pm. 1219 S W
Park Ave $6-$7.)
Through Oct. 25, W hite Bird
presents the Asian fusion
dance of Minh Tran &
Company with special
guests Portland Taiko
and David York Ensem
ble at Portland State Uni
versity's Lincoln Hall (8 pm
1620 S W Park Ave $12
$24 from PSU box office or
Ticketmaster.)
Deaf t Hearing OUT Reach invites you to sip a cup during
Queer Deaf and Hearing Coffee Night on Oct. 18 at Haven