What to do about anti-gay ballot initiatives? Find out
and share your ideas on strategies to defeat these
threats with Radical Women at the Bread and Ros
es Center. Light meal with vegan option available.
(6:15 pm. 819 N Killingsworth St. $5-$8 sliding-scale
food donation.)
Learn presence, compassion and nonverbal com
munication by exchanging breema healing touch
sequences with other fully clothed men. Free in
troductory class presented by Manifest/Q-LANO.
(8:15-9:45 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.
qland. org/calendar.)
C.C. Slaughters throws a CD release party for One of the
Boys by Katy Perry. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.)
Gretchen Phillips performs at Mississippi Pizza Pub.
(9-11 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.)
WED •JUNE 25
Are you an elder who writes or likes literature?
Want to read your writing aloud for a friendly
audience or share writing by another author
who is special to you? Elder Resource Alliance invites
readers to Seniors Sharing Stories, Companions on the
Road at Friendly House. (2-4 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave.)
Cinemax premieres When I Knew. (4:30 pm.)
Crush celebrates its seventh anniversary by kicking off the
weekly event Gaym Show Bingo featuring wheels, doors
and suitcases full of cash and prizes. Gay owners Mitch
and Woody will strap on the pumps and wigs, just like the
good old days, to host as Sharmai and Carlotta. Afterward
some of Crush's favorite former employees will DJ—even
the ones who got fired! (7 pm. 1400 SE Morrison St.)
C.C. Slaughters throws a CD release party for Love the
Woman by Chants Moore. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St. $4.)
Relieve stress, feel calmer and improve creativ
ity during Men's Meditation Group presented by
Manifest/Q-LANO. (7-9 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822
or www.qland.org/calendar.)
Dexter's Famous Spoken Mic gives writers "rock
star status" by bringing beginners and more estab
lished readers together for inspirational rants and
performances every last Tuesday at In Other Words.
(7:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.)
Holocene presents A Benefit for Umbrella featuring Sad
Horse, Sarah Winchester, Sarah Dougher, Janet Pants,
Mattress, Rush-n-Disco, Tara Jane ONeil and OJ Mike
McGonigal. Proceeds also benefit Planned Parenthood
and the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. (8 pm. 1001 SE Mor
rison St. $5-$10 sliding scale.)
The Men's Wellness Center presents an informa
tional workshop about community acupuncture,
Sacket to Me
Sacha Sacket is really fucking damn sexy.
OK, great: Now that that’s out of the way, the Los An
geles-based singer-songwriter hopes you’ll look past his bed
room brown eyes, lean physique and tousle of dark hair and
see something a little more complex—a promising young gay
pop musician with something to say.
“You have an opportunity to say something" as a pop tune
smith with a stage as soap
box, Sacket says. “Where
I’m at right now is—what
am I here to say? And I
think I’m interested in
pushing buttons, too.”
The pushing buttons
part comes pretty easy
to Sacket, a 29-year-old
artist on the ascendant
whose third album, Lovers
and Leaders, he’s showcas
ing on a solo tour that
touches down this month
Sacha Sacket performs June
in Portland. Growing up at
the classical keyboard on a steady diet of Beethoven sona
tas and scale exercises, Sacket pretty quickly began asserting
himself, rejecting formal piano lessons (“I always hated what
I was being taught”) and playing his own way.
“I just teach myself nowadays,” he says. “1 have a prob
lem with authority."
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FRI • JUNE 27
Sacha Sacket performs at Alberta Street Pub. (9:30 pm.
1036 NE Alberta St. $8.)
The Adventure Group takes a moderate hike on
Eagle Creek trail. Meet outside Starbucks' at Holly
wood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Patrick
406-544-4143.)
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Mr. Oregon State Leather 2007 Ben Brown Jr. hosts
a Fourth Saturday Party for the men's community
featuring boot blacking by Shell at Eagle Portland.
Come in your favorite leather/Levi/bear attire. Free
raffle tickets to anyone who brings in canned goods
for Esther's Pantry. Proceeds benefit Central City Con
cern and Blackout Leather Productions. (10 pm-1 am.
835 N Lombard St.)
Indigo Girls perform at Secret House Vineyard
in Veneta. (7 pm. 88324 Vineyard Lane. $36 at
the door, $33 in advance from Ticket master.)
Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social is every last Fri
day at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments
included. (8:15 pm. Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny
Street. $8.)
That’s an understatement: His sense of personal and
professional identity is so strong that for a long while it kept
him from seeking out a relationship. “1 guess 1 equated love
with losing power, losing my aspirations,” he says. But after
falling for a gent a few years back, things started to change:
“I had never wanted to fall in love, and I wasn’t in control
of that, and I wanted to express that.” And so Lovers and
Leaders was bom.
The tour features
Sacket playing solo,
leaving behind the
uniquely
all-female
backing band that’s
part of his special
cache, and he prom
ises tunes from his
recent and next al
bums
mixed
with
some interesting cov
ers—Britney Spears,
U2, The Doors. But
28 at Alberta Street Pub.
as much as he says the
gay press has “over
sexualized” his smoldering image, he’ll be keeping his
shirt on.
“I like sex, sex is great, and I don’t mind people
thinking I’m attractive,” he says. “But I don’t want to do
anything in public unless I’m truthful to myself.”
—Stephen Marc Beaudoin
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Indigo Girls perform with Cowboy Junkies at Or
egon Zoo. (7 pm. 4001 SW Canyon Road. $25 from
Ticketmaster.)
Hey, what's your vice? Holocene presents Double Down,
the fab queer party where the player always wins, every
fourth Saturday. (8 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.)
Gay poet, spiritual teacher and Portland Classical Chinese
Garden volunteer docent Daniel Skach-Mills reads from
The Tao of Now at Q Center. (7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
THU • JUNE 26
theme is 'Behind the Velvet Rope at Studio 54...A '70s
Explosion!’ Proceeds benefit the Sexual Minority Youth
Resource Center, Q Center and the Pride of the Rose
Scholarship Fund. (6 pm. 615 SE Alder St. $20.)
The Eagle PDX presents Queer Bait's Freestyle Soul
with appearances by drag monsters Splendora and Fannie
Mae. DJs Olek and Jack will be playing mostly freestyle
hits from the '80s (Lisa Lisa, Exposé) along with some Italo
and high-energy disco. (10 pm. 27 NW Sixth Ave. $3.)
OPB airs Emile Norman: By His Own Design. (11 pm.)
TUE • JUNE 24
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an affordable and accessible practice model that can improve
the quality of life in mind, body and spirit Free sample treat
ments will be offered. (7-8:30 pm. 928 SW Stark St)
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Dance-party machines Atole,
Flaspar and Gay Deceivers
perform with queer DJs Jack
and Girlfriends at Kimono Fac
tory. (9 pm. $$$. $5.)
C.C. Slaughters presents the Or
egon Bears' monthly Double X
Dance featuring music by DJ
Peter Calandra of Studio 54
fame. (9 pm-1 am. 219 NW Da
vis St. $2.)
SUN •JUNE 29
The Adventure Group takes a moderate hike to Up
per Creek Falls. Meet outside Starbucks at Holly
wood Fred Meyer.
am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Rachel
503-789-1428.)
Explore old-growth trees and four amazing wa
terfalls during an easy Solstice Waterfall Eco-
Hike presented by Manifest/Q-LAND. (10 am.
$7-$15 sliding-scale donation. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or
www. qland. org/calendar.)
The Adventure Group goes kayaking for beginners on
the Tualatin River. Meet at the Alder Creek Kayaking
Store in Tualatin. (10:30 am. 5855 SW Nyberg Lane.
Landon 503-709-3750.)
Daniel Skach-Mills reads from The Tao of Now at
Moonstruck Chocolate Café in Lake Oswego. (6:30 pm.
45 S State St.)
SAT •
JUNE 28
TUE • JULY 1
Coming out, acceptance, re
jection... what is your story of
transition and transformation?
Elder Resource Alliance pres
ents Civil Writes, a workshop
in which you will have an op
portunity to tell your story
and receive an introduction
to narrative/poetry therapy
with techniques for memoir
writing, at Friendly House.
(12:30-3:30 pm.
1737 NW
26th Ave. RSVP to Rachel at
503-224-2640 or eracoordina-
tor@yahoo.com.)
Mr. Gay Oregon XXX-
VIII Chad Hammer,
Ms. Gay Oregon XVIII
Savannah Veronica Jackson,
Miss Gay Oregon XXXVI Candi
Wrapper and the Imperial Sov
ereign Rose Court present the
2008 Gay Oregon Pageant at
Melody Ballroom. This year's
O.1ÍH
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Leslie Jordan presents My Trip Down the Pink Carpet at
Newmark Theatre. (8 pm. 1111 SW Broadway. $37.75-
$48.75 from box office or Ticketmaster.)
FRI • JULY 4
The Rose City Softball Association presents
the Cascade Cup tournament through July 6.
(For a complete schedule visit www.rosec-
itysoftball.org.)
Out Dancing's intermediate salsa class starts tonight
and continues every Friday in July at Ankeny Street
Studio. Beginning cha-cha class follows. (6:15-7:15pm
salsa [$40 for month], 7:15-8:15 pm cha-cha [$32 for
month]. 975 SE Sandy Blvd. 503-236-5129. www.out
dancing, info.)
SAT • JULY 5
DJs Jack and DannyDamage play a mix of dance hits,
'80s pop, new wave, no wave, new stuff and old stuff
during Pleasure Boys every first Saturday at the Eagle
PDX. (9 pm. 27 NW Sixth Ave.)
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