mne 3. 2005 • jUSt OUt
The Rétros
Benjamin Ruppert
awesome feeling to be able to go out
and share that.”
For more information visit
www.mollipaige.com.
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Shout Out
(Jouit
Seattle band 669 (8:20 p.m. June 18) will
move the crowd with elements of new wave
and pop from the ’80s and ’90s, wrapped in an
alternative rock blanket.
The band identifies as having a “mixed” sex
uality, but vocalist and bass player Shane Rooks
has boys on the brain.
“We expect all the hot guys to be getting
naked and throwing their underwear on stage,”
he says, adding that a dancing crowd would be
gratifying as well.
Rooks sees a changing Pride as a reflection
of a changing world.
“Many of the changes I’ve seen in Pride
have been part of the evolution of how the
GLBT community interacts with and places
itself within the larger social and political land
scapes of the cities and states they live in,” he
(11:30 a.m. June 19) will
turn into a marching hand
Lynn Frances Anderson
for tfs annual transforma
tion at Pride. The group just
celebrated
its 25th anniver
says. “To me, Pride has
k
sary
and
has
performed in
I always been a celebration of
more than 10 Portland
| freedom of personal identi-
Pride festivals through the
I ty...but also a time to rally
years.
the troops and address politi
“Every parade needs a
cal issues relevant to our
marching
hand, and better
i community.”
yet to have a gay marching
669 will perform new
band in rhe Gay Pride
I material being recorded for
Rose City Gay Freedom Band
parade,” original member
its next album. The band
Brenda Dworschak says.
also promises to play crowd
The band consists of gay,
pleasers from its first album, Touch the Sky, and
lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and
a kickin’ cover of “Chapel of Love."
their allies.
For more information visit
Rose City Gay Freedom Band is the parent
www.669band.com.
of Rose City Swing, a 17-piece big band playing
classics of the ’40s and '50s. Rose City Swing
will not perform at Pride this year.
The Rose City Gay Freedom Band-
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