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iehruary 6. 2QÛ4 * Just out.2 g PHOTO BY MARTY DAVIS Lesbians with Degrees meets every first and third Sunday. (6.30 pm. 503-233-3557.) The Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents Vive la Compagnie! with just a cavalcade of special guests— Margie Boulé, Poison Waters Susannah Mars, Diane Syrcle and even more— at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. Proceeds benefit the group's travel to the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses International Festival in Montreal. (7 pm. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $12-$25 from 503-226-2588 or www.pdxgmc.org.) Find out what kind of crazy «shit qoe«s on at a Sandra Bernhard concert Feb. 12 and 13 at the Roseland Hazel celebrates its 12th birthday with queer dar ling Tara Jane O'Neil and Davies vs. Dresch at the Meow Meow. (8 pm 320 SE Second Ave.) Put on your dancing shoes and swing on over to Rose City Swing's i'll Take Romance Dance at Portland Metro Club, featuring vocalist Carol Reise and Misha's Make-A-Date. (8 pm. 618 SE Alder St. $10 from Gai-Pied.) For the more devilish, Rose Empress VI Marne hosts the 20th annual Valentines from Hell, Battered Broadway at Embers. Proceeds benefit the Pride of the Rose Scholarship Fund. (8 pm. 110 N W Broadway. $5 donation.) Every Sunday is queer night at Level. (8 pm. 13 N W Sixth Ave. $3.) It's Gender Bender night during In-flick-tion at Holocene with a showing of By Hook or by Crook. Breakdown’s queer DJs follow with hip- hop, electrónica and rock. (8 pm movie. 10 pm dance party. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5. $3 if you dress to theme, e_puppet@yahoo.com.) It’s Gay and Lesbian Audience Night at the Portland Center Stage production of 36 Views. directed by gay playwright Chay Yew, at Welcome Myshkin and The Dolly Ranchers to Alberta Street Public House for a lesbolicious country- rockin' good time. (8 pm. 1036 NE Alberta St. $5-$8 sliding scale.) Don’t be scared, someone's sure to hold your (ahem) hand during Blackout at Steam fea turing a midnight show by Unzipped magazine cover model Johnny Hazzard. (10 pm lights out. 2885 NE Sandy Blvd. $8-$25 membership plus locker or room rental, students half-price www. steamportland. com.) The Rocky H orror Picture Show every Saturday at Clinton Street Theater. (Midnight. 2522 SE Clinton St. $6.) 15 ) S unday Warm up that blood with some distance training or a trail run with the Portland Frontrunners any Sunday morning. (9 am. Gary info@portlandfrontrunners. org.) The citywide celebration of the 50th anniversary of Merce Cunningham Dance Company culminates in a Feb. 11 performance at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 224 N W 13th Ave. $25 from 503-231-5759 u or info@equityfoundation.org.) D innerG rrls-P D X hosts an introduc Burlesque, trapeze, fire eaters, body contortionists, DJs Carrion and Catalyst, two floors of vinyl-clad go-go dancers, play area, 1,500 people and music by Dismantle, Scar Tissue, Kandles at Nine, Popewyrm and Julian Tulip’s Licorice. Must be the Fetish Masquerade Ball at Roseland Theater. (8 pm. 8 N W Sixth Ave. $20 from Roseland Grill or TicketsWest. For help getting dressed, call 503-224-2604.) Out Dancing’s monthly Dance Social moves to the second Satur day of the month at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments included. (7-10 pm. Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503-236-5129.) Wieden + Kennedy, honoring Karen Keeney and Terry Bean (5:30-8 pm. Newmark Theatre. Art, artifice, a couple of Sapphic sisters and a courtesan’s erotic diary all get tangled in this tale of deceit in the Asian art market. (7.30 pm. 1111 SW Broadway. $27 50-$46 from box office or 503-274-6588 ) 16 ) M onday Dykes Do Crafts every Monday at Touchstone Coffee House. (6-9 pm 7631 NEGIisan St.) Bnng a nonperishable food item for Esther's Pantry to the Rosetown Ramblers' monthly Roller Skating Party (7.30-9 30 pm. 1 SE Spokane St. $5.) Breakdown every Tuesday at Cobalt Lounge with DJs and various impromptu shenanigans. Queer-O-Rama. (9 pm. 32 NW Third Ave. Donations.) Portland Polyamory Circle welcomes all Leave it to fate at Misha's Make-A-Date free every Tuesday at Boxxes. (9 pm. 1035 S W Stark St.) sexual orientations to this monthly discussion group. (7 pm. Laury 503-285-4848 ) 17) T uesday 18) W ednesday Revel in that bnsk winter air dunng your City Walk with the Adventure Group. (6:30 pm. Because It's Time! Lloyd Center Barnes & Noble's monthly discussion group for queers, discusses gay travel and looks at Damron guides for gay and lesbian travelers (7 pm. 503-249-0845.) 503-452 5680 www.adventuregroup.org.) Crystal's Coun try Jam at Port tory session to the women's networking organization. (6 .4 5 -7 pm introduction, 7-9 pm potluck. $5. Reserve at www.évité.com /portland® dinnergrrls. org/february. ) land Metro Club. Lessons, dancing, lassoing, etc. (8-9 pm lessons, 9 pm -1 am dancing. 618 SE Alder St. $5, $8 with lessons.) Acclaimed Northwest writer Barry Lopez reads from his own Vintage Lopez and presents the new Vintage Hughes, collected writings of queer Harlem Renaissance man Langston Hughes, at Powell's. (7:30 pm. 1005 W Burnside St.) Shake it up, baby, and join the Mardi Gras Bacchanal Cajun feast by Donald Falk and Harold Rains as part of Dinner at My House for Our House a fund-raiser senes for Our House of Portland. (6.30 pm. $100 For reservations or a brochure listing all din ners, call 503-736-9276.) The indefinably bizarre cabaret act House of C unt takes over Wild Abandon & The Red Velvet Lounge through Feb. 20. Dining, drinking, debauchery! Shows repeat Feb. 26 and 27. (8 :3 0 pm Thursday. 10.30pm Friday. 2411 SE Belmont St. $10 from 503-232-4458.) Queer artist R. Keaney Rathbun's work is part of Waterstone Gallery's massive group show through Feb. 29 Git on over to The best of all worlds Drag King Bingo K araoke N ight at the Egypt ian Club. Open format karaoke madness with bingo games in rotation. Costumes and drag attire encouraged. No cover. (9 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) It's Quarters Night at C.C. Slaughters, which appears to have become the Thursday night place to be. (219 N W Davis St.) F riday Don't miss nationally celebrated queer perfor mance artist Tim M iller in his new one-man show Us at Echo Theatre. Post-show recep tion benefits the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force. (8 pm. 1515 SE 37th Ave $16 from Gai-Pied. Gold Door. Music Millen nium or TicketsWest. $5 reception.) 22) S unday Join the women of the Forest Group on a snowshoe hike in Mount Hood's Barlow Pass. Dogs welcome. (503-659-2782.) Meet Nicki of the Lesbian Garden Club just inside the ticket booth for a guided tour of the Japanese Gardens. (1 pm. 611 SW Kingston Ave. $6.50 ) Always a good time, Church of the Poison Mind on Sundays at Silverado (4-9 pm. 1217 S W Stark St.) Kick o ff the 12th annual U niversity of O regon Q u eer Film Festival with a screening o f the Argentine lesbian film Suddenly in Prince Lucien Campbell Hall followed by an opening night reception. (7 pm. 14th Avenue and Kincaid Street $5 festival pass. Get a full schedule at www. uoregon. edu/~qff. ) Such nice boys, and what a good cause: Trebor Healey (right) and Jim Tushinski lead a Feb. 8 workshop for queer students in Eugene Say your piece at Blend coffeehouse during 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. (7:15 pm lesson, 8-10 pm dance 1036 NE Alberta St. $2.) J I What's brewin' with the boyz7 Find out during Young Men's Coffee Talk every Wednes day at 3 Friends Coffeehouse (8-10 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave ) 19 ) T hursday I Equity Foundation presents its fourth annual Investm ents in Dignity Aw ards at 2i) S aturday Get ready for spnng with the women at OWL Farm in Days Creek during a daylong work shop on fruit tree pruning (9 30 am 2 pm. Cory 541 -643 2565 or Renee 541 955 4 6 3 6 ) Queer Deaf & Hearing Coffee Night at 3 Fnends Coffeehouse. (7-9 pm 201 SE 12th Ave 503-235 0840 voice dhor@deafvision.net.) Warm up dunna the hot and spicy Oregon Bears annual Chili Feed at Gail s Dirty Duck (6-8 pm Chili Feed. 8-11 pm Bear i Bust 429 N W Third Ave $8 members. $10 nonmembers) The gay pinochle group meets every Sun day at Hobo's. Come play cards and meet the gang. (6 pm. 120 N W Third Ave Mike 503-203 8 4 2 6 ) Spin out those sequins and hook up your hot pants for TechnoDyke.corn's fourth annual birthday bash This sultry, spark ly Studio 54 tnbute party at Holocene fea tures DK PDX raffle pnzes, dancing and TheatErotica Red Hot Book Revue (7 pm 1001 SE Momson St $3 with disco garb. $5 without.) Check out more listings a t w w w .justout.com '
