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JUNE 16, 2006 iUStjOUt 65 don valerio, md board certified internal medicine general adult healthcare new patients are always welcome. fanno creek clinic About 11 p.m., get ready for Crystal Waters, who is foxy and fine and brings with her some hot, hot, hot backup dancers. Best known for her megahits “Gypsy Woman” and “100% Pure Love,” the three-time American Music Award nominee will help you shake it on the dance floor. “Last year when Q Center needed funds, I wanted to do some thing,” says Mitchell. “So we put together an event in a few weeks and raised some money. This year Ultra Naté performs June 18 during Boxxes Pride Weekend. we want to raise even more money, and by partnering with Red Dress PDX, Pendulum Continued from Page 63 and the others, we believe we can.” • June 18: New York City’s DJ Keoki will spin This is a 21 -and-older event. Tickets are $ 12 for fune 17 and $5 for June 18. Or get the superduper some great music in the late afternoon outside deal of both days for, um, $17. No, really, $17 for Boxxes and Red Cap on Stark Street between 10th and 11 th avenues. both. Man, I crack myself up. The opening act is Anthony Antoine, an emerging recording artist from Flameboy Records. Boxxes Pride Weekend With a label like that, he’s gotta be hot. Last year Boxxes was asked, by none other than The headliner is the awesome Ultra Nate, best gay Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams, to known for her chart-topping blockbusters “Free” help raise money for the then-unopened Q Center. and “If You Could Read My Mind,” which So Ron Mitchell and the team at Boxxes and Red appeared in the film 54. Ultra Nate is ultra cool, so Cap Garage threw caution to the wind and held a come check her out. Expect her to he on stage late huge warehouse party. More than 700 attended in aftemoon/early evening. 2005—and more than 1,200 eager partygoers are All of the Boxxes events are 21-and-older expected for the second annual event. But every except the block party, which has limited all-ages one knows Boxxes does it big, so it is now throwing space on an outdoor patio. You can purchase June a three-day party June 16 to 18. Get out your 17 tickets for $ 15 in advance or $20 at the door. Be highlighter—here we go! extra-gay and pony up $60 for rhe special VIP • June 16: Join Boxxes and the Sweethearts package, which includes tickets to all three events, of Portland for their Underwear Party beginning at 9 p.m. Hooray for briefs, booty shorts, thongs drink tickets and VIP seating at the warehouse parry, access to above-crowd seating, two tickets for and boxers! Yippy yahoo! Cover is $5, plus bring an a bloody mary party June 18 and more. Tickets for article of clothing, as this event benefits Portland Rescue Mission. Note: This is an underwear June 16 and 18 are $5 a person. mandatory event, so all of you who don’t want to o, the story ends on the message that giving prance around in your skivvies, get over yourselves back, making a difference and having fun in and get on down—trust me, it’ll be fun (or you can rhe process is the bond that unifies many of the enjoy cocktails and dancing next door at Red Cap Portland Pride festivities. Our history of quibbling with your clothes on). • June 17: Check out the second annual ware and infighting has been temporarily (and official ly) suspended, and each nightclub, organization, house party at Northeast Ninth Avenue and nonprofit, business and individual has more Flanders Street. Or park at Boxxes and take its 40- options than ever before to participate. (Just foot Ford Excursion Stretch Limousine over to the remember that the day after Pride—for those who warehouse for free from 8:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. are so inclined—bitching and complaining may The event is sponsored in part by Red Dress resume.) PDX—you know, the guys who put on the super- But for the weekend, think happy thoughts, fab Red Dress Party! These boys know how to review the parties, and find a way to celebrate. party, and the proceeds benefit Red Dress PDX Celebrate with family, friends and those you and Q Center. haven’t seen in a long time. Most of all, remem Superb aerialist performers from Pendulum ber that Gay Pride is a movement that encourages Productions will also descend onto the party, and each of us to be proud of who and what we are and Gay Pride is just the excuse to see hot naked men that our sexual diversity as a community is a gift. hanging from the ceiling. 1 mean, they sure beat a So toss on a frock, slide into those chaps, delight ceiling fan, right? And ladies: Boxxes doesn’t want in your flannel shirts and Birkenstocks, show off to leave you out, so they have sexy female dancers as that hairy chest, or create your own personal way well, so there is plenty of eye candy for every taste! of celebrating. Now, go on, do it! © The warehouse party will kick off at 8:30 p.m. with an hourlong silent auction hosted by Poison JOSHUA R yan is an Emmy-norrunated performer and Waters. Admission is free, but if you want to stay unter and a former award-winning club owner and for the rest of the party, get out your purse and Las Vegas showgirl. You can write him at cough up the admission ($15 in advance or $20 at sashascarlett@msn. com. the door). 2400 sw Vermont, portland 503-452-0915 Call to schedule an annual check-up Rapid HIV testing now available. 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