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Break hibernation for the
Bears Annual New Year's
Eve Party at Gail's Dirty Duck
(9 pm. 429 NW Third A ve)
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Ladies who paddle can welcome in 2004 with
a little outdoor fun when the women's Forest
Group takes an intermediate-level kayak trip
through Steamboat Slough (Call
503-681 3851 h r more in h .)
Face the day after with Poison W aters' sixth
annual Adventures in Hangovers Party
at Silverado Dnnk specials, door prizes, free
food, male dancers and drag queens. . . in other
words, the usual, but more of it! (Footnote:
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It's also Empress XLVI Lotta Marie Liquor's
birthday party.) (2 pm. 1217 SW Stark St.)
The Lesbian Community Project hosts
Coffee Night at Haven. (7 pm
at Ankeny Street Studio. Intermedi
ate fox trot follows (7-8 pm rumba,
8-9.15 pm fox trot Southeast
Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street
$25 a person. 503 236-5129
out_ dancingOyahoo com.)
3551 SE Division St.)
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Go gay the old-school
way during the Leather Night and Red
Hanky Social at Gail's Dirty Duck. (9 pm-mid-
mght. 439 NW Third Ave pdxsaltydgOaol com )
Fast or slow, just go. Move at
your own pace when Tess
Harden leads a G LB T group run/walk
every Tuesday from Portland Running & Walk
ing Co. (5:30 pm 800 SE Grand Ave.
503-232-8077.)
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S aturday
Learn how to achieve, enhance and multiply
when Evy and Virginia present the free work
shop Women and Orgasm at It's M y Plea
sure (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave Register at
5032808080)
Rosetown Ramblers and DJ Crystal's monthly
country western dance is at Portland
M etro Club. (930 pm -1:30 am 618 SE Alder
St $5 www.rosetownramblers.com.)
You really need to get out more! Join the
Portland Frontrunners for a three to six
mile run. (6:30 pm June 503 819 4626
www portlandfrontrunners.org )
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Deaf and Hearing OUT Reach starts beginning
Queer American Sign Language class
es tonight. Other levels begin this week, too
(7-9 pm. Sliding scale 503-235-0840
/TTY /voice! dhorOdeafvision n e t)
All you have to do is ask at Misha's
Make-A-Date every Tuesday at Boxxes
(9 pm. 1035 SW Stark St.)
2 F riday
tonight and continuing every Fnday in January
M onday
$15.)
4 S unday
Out Dancing offers beginning rumba starting
Queer Night every Sunday at Level
First and third Mondays at Touchstone
Coffee House bnng chair massages by
Amy Bean (7-9 pm 7631 NE Glisan St
(8 pm-230 am. 219 NW Davis St $10.)
january
location)
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C C Slaughters presents Platinum
Ball 2004 with special guest perform
ances and midnight champagne.
Division St. $10 in advance. $12 at the door )
Sundays (6:30 pm Call 503233-3557 for
(8 pm. 13 NW Sixth Ave $3.)
You can't go wrong any night at
Scandals but for New Year's Eve
the friendly little bar includes a
champagne toast, midnight buffet
and live DJ (1038 SW Stark St $5 )
The fun never ends at The Egyptian tonight
with DJ dancing, karaoke, a snack buffet, mid
night champagne, prize giveaways and an after-
hours continental breakfast (7 pm-4 am 3701 SE
Lesbians with Degrees meet first and third
Ethel M erm an is
just one of many
colorful guests
in Judy's Scary
Little C hristm as
through Dec. 21
at Theater!
Theatre!
It's a hoot, and it's for chanty. Go to the Fox &
Hounds to play bingo on the first Sunday of
every month. (3 30 pm. 217 SW Second
Ave.)
When the weather outside is frightful, the
Nude Review inside is delightful at the
Egyptian Club. (8 pm. 3701 SE Division St.)
7 W ednesday
Everyone’s got something to say. Queer owned
Blend Coffeehouse+Cafe invites all loud
mouths to its open mike every first and third
Wednesday (7-9 pm 2327 E Burnside St.)
Cascade Zydeco plays host to queer-friendly
zydeco dance lessons Wednesday nights at
Alberta Street Public House. (7 15pm lesson,
8-10 pm dance. 1036 NE Alberta St. $2.)
9 F riday
Dinner at My House for Our House, a
fund raiser series for Our House o f Portland,
stimulates the mind and the body when local
authors titillate your intellect at the soaring
KOIN Tower home of Betsy and Marvin
Kaiser Jake’s Grill chef Bnan Light cooks
up prime rib and Alaskan crab legs
Eugene lesbian group Women to Women
gets together every Saturday at Neighbors
(6 pm. 1417 Villard St.)
Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social moves
to the second Saturday of every month at
Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refresh
ments included. (7-10 pm Southeast Ninth
Avenue and Ankeny Street $5. 503 2365129 )
(6.30 pm. $150. To make reservations or
for a brochure listing all dinners, call
503-7369276.)
Fndays are Queer Night in the all
lounge at Heaven. (10 pm-4 am. 421 SW
10th Ave.)
Stretch your new year’s budget w ith a free
therapeutic yoga claee fo r queer people
and friends at Cascade Yoga Center. Ful
your resolutions to use yoga and ayurveda
to self treat chronic pain and other com
plaints. (7:30-9:30 pm. 4415 NE Sandy Btvd
#200 Bart or Arthur 503 734 6506.
Blessed be the Portland Radical
Faeries, who gather Saturday mornings
at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (9 30 am.
www. gayyogaportland com.)
201 SE 12th Ave. 503 235-0826.
otterOpcez.com.)
W hat's brewin' with the boyz? Find out during
Young Men's Coffee Talk every Wednes
day at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (8-10 pm.
Keep your new year's resolution by join
ing the Adventure Group for a brisk
morning CityW alk (9 am. 503-452-5680
201 SE 12th A ve)
www. adventuregroup. org.)
Come early to decorate a crown or
bring your own to
SisterSpirit's
Coffeehouse, hosted by
musician Tamara J.
Brown (7 pm. 201 SE
12th Ave.)
Portland prancers
Oslund ♦ Co. Dance
bring their urban and con
temporary, rigorous and
agitated work to the
stage of Portland State
University's Lincoln Per
formance Hall (8 pm
1620 SW Park Ave $12
$24 from box office or
Ticketmaster.)
Hear the gypsy torch-
punk music of
Myshkin's Ruby
Warblers at Produce
Row Cafe (9pm
201 SE Oak St $2 )
Women's Maiden.
Mother, Crone
Celebration for
women and children
(5:30 pm. Call
503-736-3297 h r loca
tion. $5-$10 donation)
Southern Oregon's eighth
annual Lambda Awards
Celebration is in the
Grand Ballroom of Med
ford's Red Lion Hotel, with
dancing, a dessert buffet
and performances by the
Rogue Valley Gay Men's
Chorus. Planned Parent
hood Teen Theater and
The Bad Street Gudz, a
W est Coast trans girl
band Keynote address by
Roey Thorpe of Basic
Rights Oregon. (6 pm.
200 N Riverside Ave $20.
www geocities com /
thecaucus)
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Sultry DJ dance beats, creative cocktails,
scrumptious bites and sweet girls at
Holocene's swanky Tart, every second Sun
day (4-9 pm 1001 SE Momson St. $5.)
Deal with the aay/gay-friandly pinochlo
group every Sunday at Hobo's. (6 pm
120 NW Third Ave Mike 503 203 8426 )
Out at tha Brig is a dyke night every Sun
day with DJ Mel and friends (8 pm -1 am
1035 SW Stark St $2.)
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at w w w .ju s to u t.c o m !