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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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!