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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
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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).
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