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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 2004)
Cascade (a subgroup of the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus) has invited Confluence: The Willamette Valley Mixed GALA Chorus to join them for A Summer Soirée, Our Bon Voyage Celebration at Hollywood Theatre, featunng music to be performed at this year's Vile Festi val International GALA Choruses in Montreal. Hors d’oeuvres, no-host bar, raffle and silent auction. (7:30 pm. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. $20 from 503-226-2588 or www.pdxgmc.org.) Queer foot-stomping fun with Sneakin* Out and Ashleigh Flynn at Mississippi Pizza Pub. (9:30 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave. $6.) ■ Mississippi Pizza Pub hosts hottie gay pop-rocker Brian W. Spencer (7 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.) Bodyworker Bart Church facili tates Men Touching with Heart, a Q-LAND workshop on nurturing touch every second Tuesday of the month. (7-9:30 pm. $10 from 503-223 8822. www.qland.org.) Bad Giris host their Kinky Women's Welcoming ji) Laura Love joins the dyke extravaganza otherwise known as the Oregon Country Fair July 9-11 in Veneta tonight, including Binary Dolls, Vive Voce, The Minders and The Forth. (7 pm-1 am. 320 SE Second Ave. Free. www.pdxpopnow. com.) PDX Pride queer bowling league meets every Friday at Hollywood Lanes. (7-9 pm. 4030 NE Halsey St. Kathy 503-774-3042.) Majesty brings her royal presence to Haven. (8 pm. 3551 SE Division St.) I io S aturday Make like a duck and paddle Silver Lake with OutKayaking Northwest. (503-231-2632. www. outkayakingnw. com. ) Pick up a few bargains at the Camp Starlight Garage Sale through July 11 at Sweetbriar Elementary School in Troutdale. (8 am-4 pm. 501 SE Sweetbriar Lane. www. campstariight. org.) Take a summer morning stroll dunng your CityWalk with the Adventure Group. (9 am. www. adventuregroup. org.) /O\ PDX-POP Now! music festival wffiy continues at The Meow Meow with 19 bands including The Divided, Sarah Dougher, Corrina Repp, Wet Confetti and Sunset Valley. (Noon-1 am. 320 SE Second Ave. Free, www.pdxpopnow.com.) The theme is “Our World Is Your World: Freedom, Faith, Equality” for this year's Saturday in the Park, southwest Wash ington's Pride celebration. Entertainment by Colorfield, De'Zhon Fields, Amy Wells and the Rose City Swing Band, as well as a beer garden, food, retail and informational booths at Esther Short Park in Vancouver. (Noon- 5 pm. West Columbia and Eighth streets, groups, msn. com/sitp2004.) It wouldn't be Pride without the Gay Vancouver Pageant Funky Town. Boogie the night away with the current and new imperial graces at Northbank Tavern. (7 pm. 106 W Sixth Ave. $7 or $5 with two cans of food items to benefit Martha's Pantry.) Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social is every second Satur day at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments included. (7-10pm Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street $5 503-2365129) S unday Elder Resource Alliance hosts Silent Auc tion and Games Day for the older queer community at the Volunteers of Amenca Velma Joy Bumie Center. Bingo, edibles, music and art. (2-5 pm. 537 SE Alder St. www. elderresourcealliance, org.) PDX-POP Now! music festival wraps up at The Meow Meow with 16 bands, including Mirah, Tara Jane O’Neil and The Joggers. (2 pm-1 am. 320 SE Second Ave. Free. www.pdxpopnow.com.) Whoever said Playgirl is just for girts didn’t know any gay men. Former Portlander and June centerfold Rick Dinihanian signs pho tos at Silverado as a fund-raiser for Camp Starlight. (4-6 pm. 1217 SW Stark St. www. silveradopdx. com.) Tart says, "Fuck the Defense of Mar ley riage Coalition! ” The fab girt cabaret at Holocene is donating all profits to Basic Rights Oregon to fight the state's latest anti- gay ballot measure. (4-9 pm. 1001 SE Morri son St. $5.) Reigning femme Paola welcomes you to Dar- celle XV for LaFemme for All Seasons: Portland Regional La Femme Magnifique Pageant (8 pm. 208 NW Munch at Dingo’s. For all kinky or questioning women 18 and older. (7-9 pm. 4612 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503-972-2233. www.pdxbadgirls.net.) Pink Martini and Sneakin* Out play the Portland stop of Concerts for Kerry at Crystal Ballroom. Every dime is donated to John Keny's presidential cam paign. (7:30 pm. 1332 W Bum side St $15 from box office or www. concertsforkerry. org.) How can you escape the heat when the All-Nude Revue is at the Egyptian Club? (8 pm. 3701 SE Division St. $5.) Make-A-Date is free every Tuesday at Boxxes. (9 pm. 1035 SW Stark St.) 14) W ednesday The Portland Area Business Association holds its monthly meeting at the Embassy Suites, with a presentation by executive coach Richard Kent Matthews on “You vs. You: Cre ative Self-Management at Home, at Work, in Life.” (11:30 am-1 pm. 319 SW Pine St. $7-$23 from 503-241-2222.) Third Ave. $10. www.darcellexv.com.) 12) M onday David Boyer, author of Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom, presents a slide show of promgoers from the 1920s to the present at Broadway Books. (7 pm. 1714 NE Broadway.) 13) T uesday In Other Words hosts the authors of Girls Rock! a look at women’s rock ’n' roll identities, determination, motivation and history. (7 pm. 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd.) Meet one of the country’s best les- ŒSW bian authors during the Dorothy Allison Garden Party at Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. Followed by a dinner reception at La Calaca Comelona. All proceeds benefit Bradley-Angle House. (Reading: 7 pm. Southeast 28th Avenue near Woodstock Boulevard. $20 sliding- scale donation. Recep tion: 2304 SE Belmont St. $50 [includes read ing] from 503-238-1672.) c * ijte £ Her last show sold out, so get to Mississippi Pizza Pub early to hear folk-rocker Ellis fea turing songs from her forthcoming CD. (9:30 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave. $5.) J 17) 15) T hursday Check out Acoustic Thursdays at Wild Aban don & The Red Velvet Lounge with gay Port land musician Richard Colombo (8-10 pm 2411 SE Belmont St ) 16; F riday Pink Martini headlines the Wild wttfv Kingdom Rhumba party at the Hult Center in Eugene, joined by the Latin Expression Salsa Orchestra and Lions of Batucada for power salsa, samba, marching percussion, jazz. Latin and Cuban music (7 pm 1 Eugene Center $12-$20 from box office. 541 -682 5000 or www hultcenter.org.) Girls still want to have fun and so does Cyndi Lauper who plays at the Huit Center in Eugene (7:30pm 1 Eugene Center $24 $42 from box office. 541 -682 5000 or www. hultcenter. org. ) S aturday Eugene’s OUTdoor Group sponsors a four-mile hike up Iron Mountain for some amazing wildflower viewing. Meet at the Beanery (9 am. 152 W Fifth Ave. Hank 541-484-6259.) Love Makes a Family presents a workshop on Speaking Out for Same-Sex Marriage at First Unitarian Church to teach nonviolent communication and public speaking skills. (9 am-2 pm. 1011 SW 12th Ave. $25-$50. no one turned away. Relive your Cecil Prescod own teen-age 503-228-3892 tragedies with cecil@lmfamily. org. ) t Author David Boyer presents a slide show from his book Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom at Reading Frenzy. (7pm. 921 SW Oak St.) (7-10 pm. 503-235-0840 voice. dhor@deafvision. net.) Bear Bust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm. JR Radical Women presents Freedom Under Fire, a discussion about the growing movement against the Patriot Act, at Bread and Roses Center. (6.30 pm buffet f$61, 7 pm program. 819 N Killingsworth St. 503-240 4462.) Queer Deaf & Hearing Coffee Night k I 8 author David Boyer during the slide show presentations Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom July 12 and 14 Radiant The- p atre presents Emergence 429 NW Third Ave. $8 members, $10 nonmembers.) You can’t stay a virgin forever. Go see the perennially perverted Rocky Horror Picture Show at Clinton Street Theater. (Midnight. 2522 SE Clinton St. $6 www. clintonsttheater. com.) is) S unday The indomitable Indigo Girls fill the Oregon Zoo with songs of environmentalism, idealism and, of course, heartbreak. (7 pm. 4001 SW Canyon Road. $22 from www oregomoo.org or TicketsWest.) Take flight to Metamorphose queer night at Madame Butterfly. (8 pm. 403 SW Stark St.) its second annual Women's Play wright Festival through July 20 at C0H0 Theatre. Free admission to plays about reality televi sion. betrayal, manipulation, earth-shattering sci entific discoveries, women's underwear and the no doubt compelling Romeo & Juliet Part II. (2 pm Saturday and Sunday. 7:30 pm Monday and Tuesday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. Visit www radianttheatre.org for complete schedule.) If Sandra Bernhard and Ani DiFranco hooked up, musician Amy Steinberg would be their bastard child. Find out for yourself at Mississip pi Pizza Pub. (7 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.) Looking Ahead Step spritely to A Spiritual Gathering of Radical Faeries July 24-Aug. 1 near Wolf Creek. (Register at ww jaydigory com/faene/ gathenngs/wc2004/wc2004 htm.) Check out more listings at www.justout.com!
