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Attention, friends of Dorothy! New Moon Productions stages free outdoor
performances of Tha Wizard of Oz through July 28 at Washington Park Amphitheatre.
followed by some time at Gillette Lake to cool down. Meet
outside Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (7 am.
3030 NE Weidler St. Craig 778-847-1096.)
Men, grab your best dress, wig and high heels and strut
downtown to Pioneer Courthouse Square as the Sexual
Minority Youth Resource Center tries to shatter the
Guinness World Record for the most number of drag
queens in a chorus line. Just one song—and the memo
ry of a lifetime! (2 pm. $20$100 donation. Register at
www. dragqueenchorusline. com.)
Make a big summer splash) Fat Action Troupe
Portland (F.A.T. PDX), known best for its popular
event FatGirl Speaks, presents Chunky Dunk,
Portland's only fat-positive group swim, at Peninsula Pool.
(5:15-7:15 pm. 6400 N Albina Ave. $5.)
Mamma Mia! —the hit musical based on the songs of Abba—returns to town July 25-29.
MON • JULY 23
Learn about opportunities to help during the Q Center
Volunteer Orientation. (6-7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
Q Center hosts the Queer Trying to Conceive discussion
group for people interested in conception and pregnancy
every fourth Monday. (7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
TUE • JULY 24
Portland Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays hold their board meeting every fourth Tuesday at
Q Center. (7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
Theatre. (8 pm.
Ticketmaster.)
1932 Second Ave.
$35-$45 from
Blues musician Margo Tufo performs with Portland’s
finest female musicians every Tuesday this month at the
Candlelight. Tonight's guest is Lady Kat; next week's guest
is Carlee Smith. (9:30 pm-1:30 am. 2032 SW Fifth Ave.)
WED • JULY 25
Q Center presents Coffee with Kendall, a month-
ly meet-and-greet with executive director Kendall
Clawson. Relax, enjoy a cup of coffee, and share
your interests and ideas for the facility every fourth
Wednesday. (5-7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
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Down series atop Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure, start planning
Musician/promoter/producer Tamara J. Brown hosts Suck
My Open Mic every Wednesday at Alberta Street Public
House. All forms of performance are welcome: music,
poetry, monologues and the sometimes unexplainable!
Come to participate or just watch. (9:30-11:30 pm.
1036 NE Alberta St.)
now to make it happen this summer. Enjoy 360-degree, moonlit
THU • JULY 26
Erasure performs with Young Love at Seattle's Moore
Rooftop Cinema
If you’ve never been to the Northwest Film Center’s Top
views of Portland while sipping beer and watching classic cult
Basic Rights Oregon presents Immigrant Rights Are Basic
Rights, an interactive workshop focusing on immigrant rights
as they relate to the queer equality movement on a local and
national level, at Augustana Lutheran Church. (7 pm.
2710 NE 14th Ave. RSVP to julieatbasicrights@gmail.com.)
cinema. The evenings begin at 8 p.m. with live music and refresh
ments, and the screenings start about an hour later at 729 S.W.
15th Ave. Bring a portable chair or blanket and 7 bucks for admis
Q Center hosts Gender Queery meetings every second
and fourth Thursday for all genders that toe the line, sit
somewhere between, vacillate, fluctuate or otherwise.
(7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
Acme presents Booty: Queer as Ye Be, Portland's queer
party for the piratecore, every Thursday. (9 pm-2 am.
1305 SE Eighth Ave. $3 before 10 pm, $5 after.)
FRI • JULY 27
The Adventure Group takes an easy two-night backpack
trip to Bird Creek Meadows, famous for its wildflowers.
Bring a stove. (Chris 503-329-3916.)
Elder Resource Alliance presents a barbecue
potluck picnic at Wallace Park. ERA Supplies tasty
burgers, a vegetarian grilling option and cold
drinks. Bring a potluck item to share. (11 am-2 pm.
. Northwest 26th Avenue and Raleigh Street.)
Keshet holds a Shabbat potluck for all who identify as
queer Jews as welt as their spouses, partners, significant
others and good friends and family, whether Jewish or
queer or not. Bring a dish and a beverage. (6:30 pm. David
503-224-7075.)
Pink Martini performs with Sneakin' Out at the Oregon Zoo.
(7 pm. 4001 SW Canyon Road. $24 from TicketsWest.)
sion. Here are this year’s selections:
• Westworld (July 26): A futuristic amusement park becomes
a deathtrap when the androids begin to run amok. This 1973
camp classic features a stoic performance by Yul Brynner as the
whacked-out android sheriff. Musical guest: Charlie Girl & the
Big Package.
• The Killing (Aug. 2): After spending five years in Alcatraz,
Johnny Clay decides that if he’s going to commit crimes, the risk
had better be worth the punishment, so he masterminds a brilliant
scheme to steal $2 million from a racetrack. This 1956 classic
heist film was directed by a young Stanley Kubrick, who will be
the subject of a Northwest Film Center retrospective through
August. Musical guest: Bright Red Paper.
• Heroic Trio (Aug. 9): Hong Kong’s hottest action heroines—Anitia Mui, Michelle Yeoh and
Maggie Cheung—star as the ass-kicking Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher) and Ching
(Invisible Woman), who team up to defeat an ancient monster that is stealing children of royal blood in
an attempt to find a new Chinese emperor in this 1993 film. Musical guest: Dirty Mittens.
• Sullivan’s Travels (Aug. 16): In 1941 the king of screwball comedy, Preston Sturges, spun the yam
of John Sullivan, a fellow film director of highly successful and frivolous fare who experiences a sudden pang
of social consciousness. What the world needs, he surmises, is a serious epic examining the grim state of the
extra-cinematic world: O Brother, Where Art Thou! will be his masterpiece. Musical guest: Hurah Hurah.
• Kansas City Bomber (Aug. 23): Roughhousing roller derby diva K.C. Carr—“the hottest thing on
wheels”—is reluctantly traded by her Kansas City team to slam for the “Portland Loggers.” This 1972
action film features old glimpses of the Rose City and the seedy world of a once-hot but dying sport.
Bomber boasts a standout performance from Raquel Welch (who did her own skating, and even broke her
wrist!) and an early glimpse of a 9-year-old Jodie Foster as her daughter. The Rose City Rollers will be
in attendance! Musical guest: Sexton Blake.
• Beach Party (Aug. 30): Surfing teens Frankie and Dee Dee (Frankie Avalon and Annette
Funicello) sing, battle bikers and dance the summer away in this 1963 family film featuring cheese and
beefcake in equal measure, with quick cameos from Vincent Price and Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Musical
guest: Blue Skies for Black Hearts.
—Jim Radosta
Splendora and the Gender Fluids join forces with Felina's Arrow on July 27 at Someday Lounge.