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TUE • OCT. 16
The Feminist Film Society screens Alien at In
Other Words. (7 pm. 8 NE Killmgsworth St
www femmistfilmsociety blogspot com.)
WED • OCT. 17
In Other Words hosts the Nonprofit
Industrial Complex, a monthly discussion
and working group to explore themes raised
in the book The Revolution Will Not Be
Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial
Complex. (6:30 pm. 8 NE Killings worth St.)
/ go ^ The Men's Wellness Center presents
an informational session on Cele
brating the Body Erotic, Body
Electric's interactive workshop designed to
connect men to their deepest centers of
pleasure and help them discover how to give
and receive more fully using breath, touch and
movement. (7-9 pm. 928 SW Stark St.)
THU • OCT. 18
Wonder Ballroom presents an evening with
comic genius Harry Shearer, the actor and
voice behind some of America's greatest
characters, including Wayion Smithers (The
Simpsons), Derek Smalls (This Is Spinal Tap)
and Victor Allan Miller (For Your Consideration).
(8 pm. 128 NE Russell St. $32 from box office or
Ticketmaster.)
FRI • OCT. 19
In Other Words presents a spoken word
performance by Kimberly Dark, whose
writings explore gender, sexuality, abuse,
poverty and education by blending humor,
poetry, storytelling, education and social
research to stimulate critical cultural analysis.
(7 pm 8 NE Killingsworth St. $548 donation)
j Lesbian artistic director Monica
Huggett launches her 13th season
with Portland Baroque Orchestra
in a debut of four rarely heard solo violin
concertos by the first master of the form,
Antonio Vivaldi, through Oct. 21 at First
Baptist Church and Reed College's Kaul
Auditorium. (7:30 pm Friday and Saturday,
Amazing Race winner (and Lance Bass ex) Reichen Lehmkuhl joins the cast
of the gothic soap opera Dante's Cove Oct. 19 on Here.
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Sneakin' Out performs during Keep
Portland Weird: A Community
Festival featuring group ukulele
lessons, robots, zine-building, belly-dancing,
wild food foraging, cacaphony and much
more at Central Library. (Noon-4 pm. 801 SW
10th Ave.)
Q Center presents Cabaret with a Q. Portland's
newest "anything goes” monthly piano bar/
cabaret. Be the "singular sensation' you've
always wanted to be! (8-11 pm 69 SE Taylor
St.)
SAT • OCT. 20
Portland Sacred Harp hosts the 16th annual
Shapenote Singing Convention through
Oct. 21 at Mississippi Ballroom. Gay men will
harmonize with gospel singers, transgender
The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court presents
Coronation 2007 at Crystal Ballroom. This
year's theme is "Once Upon a Mattress:
A Night in the Monarch’s Bordello." (5 pm
1332 W Burnside St. $45450 from
Ticketmaster. For a complete schedule of
related events, visit www.rosecourt.org.)
The Eagle PDX presents the sultry new dance
night How Rude! Pants Off Dance Off featur
ing DJs Danny Damage, Olek, III Camino, Bdrm
Eyes and guests. (8pm 1300 W Bumside St.)
BearBust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm.
429 NW Third Ave $8 members, $10 non
members.)
Tip your hat to Crystal's Country Jam at the
Portland Metro Club (PPAA). (8-9 pm lessons,
9 pm-1 am dancing. 618 SE Alder St. $5, $8
with lessons.)
Someday Lounge throws the dance party
Golden featuring experimental disco/house/
electronic quartet Atole, Copy, Arohan and DJs
Linoleum and Mike Williams. (9 pm. 125 NW
Fifth Ave. $5.)
The Grass Is Always Greener
“The nature of my findings has been so difficult to prove,”
What do Leaves of Grass poet Walt Whitman, the Quaker
in part because of the Quakers’ “reputation of moral strict
religion and 19th century sailors have in common? If you
answered “gay marriage,” you would probably enjoy a conver ness,” Gould says. “It’s really challenged not only our under
sation with Mitch Gould.
standing of Whitman but of Quakers, too.”
Gould will give two presentations in addition to the
Gould, author of several scholastic articles on Whitman
exhibit.
“1 Call to Mankind: Leaves of Grass as Quaker
and curator of LeavesOfGrass.org, is presenting This Begin'
Testimony” is a dramatic reinterpretation of Whitman’s
ning of Vs: Walt Whitman and the Spiritual Origins ofQay
well-known “Song of Myself’ and will be delivered during
Marriage through Oct. 28 at Q Center, 69 S.E. Taylor St. It’s
a combination dramatic reading, lecture and exhibit of the exhibit’s reception at 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Gould will also
concept art from Goulds upcoming animated short, “This deliver a more in-depth summary of the exhibit at 2 p.m.
Beginning of Me.”
Oct. 7. For more information call 503-234-7837.
—Ben Nystrom
Although the focus of the exhibit is the link between
Whitmans writings and the current
struggle for legal recognition of same-sex
relationships, the heart of the event is the
role the Quaker religion played in shaping
his radical message of gay equality.
“It’s so different than what we all
thought,” Gould says of the gay under
tones in Whitman’s work. “There is a mys
tery here, and it’s taken me 15 years to
unravel it.”
According to Gould, the Quakers’
acceptance of Whitman’s “manly love”
concept allowed him to speak out
against the more conservative Puritan
views of homosexuality.
“If you break it down to the level of
theology, conservatives oppose gay
marriage because they believe love
between two men or two women leads
people away from God,” Gould says.
“The picture we get from Whitman and
the Quakers couldn’t be more in contrast
to that idea.”
Although the scribe’s work is no
stranger to queer lit theory, Gould says
he’s never seen queer Whitman criticism
paired with Whitman’s involvement
This month Q Center displays concept art from “This Beginning of Me,“ an
with the Quakers.
animated short by Walt Whitman scholar Mitch Gould.
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