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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 2008)
JULY 18 2008 • Portland Opera's Broadway Across America stages A Chorus Line July 29-Aug. 3. Gilberto Martin del Campo stars as d' Artagnan in The Three Musketeers throug~ Aug. 24 at Lakewood Theatre Company. Dames at Sea opens July 25 at Broadway Rose Theatre Company. Hot Flash presents Stardust, a ladies dance for women 21 to 101 featuring OJ Lauren playing swing, Latin and music from the '40s through the '70s at Boxxes. (5-9 pm. 1035 SW Stark St. $8.) clists and a series of secret interventions by an illustrious group of some of Portland's most compelling artists, including gay dancer Gregg Bielemeier. Picnics encouraged. (8 pm. South- west Moody Avenue and Curry Street.) Liberty Hall presents the Hot Pink Salsa Dance featuring dance lessons, professional performances, raffle prizes, refreshments and tamales. Proceeds benefit Code Pink Portland's ongoing fight for peace and justice. (7 pm. 311 N Ivy St. $5-$15 sliding scale.) Q Center presents College Movie Night. Re- Celebrate Christmas in July! The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court presents The Taint & the Ho-Ho-Ho Ball featuring a contest for the most creative costume at Embers. Pro- ceeds benefit Esther's Pantry. (7 pm. 110 NW Broadway. $5 donation.) Flash Choir performs new choral work by dyke musician and composer Sarah Dougher at Reed College Chapel. (7 pm. 3203 SE Wood- stock Blvd.) The South Waterfront Artist-in-Residence Program presents Promenade, an unrepeat- able event involving more than 30 performers: a dance ensemble, a pedestrian movement choir, an original score delivered via live bicy- peats Aug. 2. Tonight's film is Capturing the Friedmans . (8-10 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) Rotture presents Sluts and Squares, which becomes a solidly danceable monthly party with new disco lighting and no performance breaks. DJs Shimmy, Verse and Corban rock the house with dancers Nova, Violetta and Lul- laby. (9 pm. 315 SE Third Ave. $5.) The Egyptian Club presents Rose City Sirens, Portland's favorite all-queer bur1esque troupe, ev- ery third Saturday. (9 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) C.C. Slaughters throws a Blackout Party fea- turing a CO promotion giveaway for Love Is Dead by Kerli. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) BearBust at the Eagle Portland. (9 pm-mid- night. 835 N Lombard St. $8 members, $10 nonmembers.) Bringing the Dirty South to the Wet Northwest featuring a wet T-shirt contest, burlesque, belly dancing, drag and drink specials at Northbank in Vancouver, Wash. The first 40 guests receive naughty sex kits! Get $2 off with l!l pet item donation for the Oregon Humane Society. (9:30 pm. 106 W Sixth St. $7.) SUN• JULY 20 The Adventure Group takes a difficult hike to Salmon Butte in the midst of the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness. The view from the summit includes Devil's Peak, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Jefferson and all Three Sis- ters. Meet outside Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Ron 503-284-3345.) The Adventure Group takes a five-hour bike road trip. Meet at the north end of Northeast 33rd Drive. Repeats July 27. (9 am. 2900 NE Marine Drive. Dave 503-281 -4798.) In Other Words presents Homorobics ev- ery Sunday, physically strengthening our Burly Girl Productions presents Hot & Steamy: community in a feminist, queer and body-friendly environment with an emphasis on enjoyment, Rotture Goes Radioactive not weight loss! Bring a towel and The name may ound like a flaming Tran former who goe from robot to ho- hand weights if you've got them. (11 am. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $2- mobot, but the only thing that Faggottron changes is the normally hetero but $4 donation.) queer-friendly cene at Rotture into a gay dance party. DJ Solomon and DJ Rad of Rude Dude convert the lounge-a second- tory warehou elike venue located in indu trial outhea t Portland offering a pacious room for grooving and a generous outdo r patio overlooking downtown-into a radioactive hotspot for technocrats diggin' electronica and dance music. The gay DJs keep the tunes playing at high decibel for an optimal fab-factor. "Our mu ic i on the fly," Solomon says. "We play mixed genres with beats from modern and old. We like to bridge the gaps when we spin." Ghetto and electro are but a few of the type of music Faggottron pumps out from it pink-lit tage. Party people can al o head down tairs to Brame-a smaller but even wilder venue that ho ts outlandi h events like Sick-where the music isn't much dif- ferent but the people treat quirky as the norm. Kaetlin Kennedy, a straight ally and bartender at Rotture since its opening, enjoy Faggottr n and ee a l t of her friend from Portland's art community at the monthly queer night. "Rotture ha a lot of div rse how , like unu ual noise show ," he say . "It' has a great dance pace. Faggottron ha a really good turnout, and I've had a really good time. I alway I k forward t it." Kennedy' enthusiasm comes from her experience with the gay and lesbian community. "Queer pe pie tend to let loo a lot more," he ays. "They have more fun and are • II muc h mcer. - Julius Calasicas Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbians and Gays holds a meeting at Thien Hong open to anyone interested in good Chinese-Vietnamese dining and talking about the group's fu- ture. (6 pm. 6749 NE Sandy Blvd. RSVP to aplg_pdx@yahoo.com.) Q Center hosts Tranz Guys-a group for trans men and intersex, genderqueer and questioning people who were assigned female at birth- every third Sunday. (6-8 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) Manifest presents Beat the Blues, a men's support group to find practical strategies for dealing with depression. (6-8 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.mannest- pdx.org/calendar.) MON• JULY 21 Playfully explore the city , by bike with other men during Wander- lust presented by Manifest. Meet at Wild Oats. (6:30 pm. 3535 NE 15th Ave. $5-$15 sliding scale. Sordid Uves Is Behind the Times RSVP to org/cale1 in Los Angeles, winning a number of awards and finding a particularly enthusiastic au- dience among Southern queens who claimed to recognize their own experiences in the play's dizzy brand of dy functional camp. The movie version appeared in 2000, gain- ing new adherents and becoming a minor cult hit in the process. A miniseries seemed the next logical step: Logo will present 12 half-hour episodes, written and directed by Shores, starting July 23. For anyone who happened to miss it, Sordid Lives chronicles the misadventures of an extended family of Southern eccentrics in the late 1990s in Winters, Texas. The original story opened with the death of matriarch Peggy Ingram, an event that pulls the ragtag family together to uncover and spill secrets and sling the dish. The charac- ter included Peggy's pill-popping sister, Sissy, and daughters, La Vonda .a nd Latrelle; LaVonda's gay on, Ty; trampy singer Bitsy Mae Harling; horny neighbor Noleta Nethercott and her amputee hubby, G.W.; and Peggy's notorious son, "Brother Boy," who's been institutionalized for 20 years for his homosexuality and obse ion with Tammy Wynette, which includes dre sing up like his idol and performing for the other inmate . The fir t two episodes of the mm1serie intro- duce the character and the basic itua- tions. La Vonda and Latrelle pend time swilling pharmaceu- ticals, Bitsy gets out of jail, Peggy ( thi i a prequel) dance at Fans of the play or the movie will no doubt love Sordid the bar, Noleta fan- Lives: The Series. As for the rest of us .... tasizes about killing her hubby and tak- ing up with a hot soap tar, and Ty alternates between visits to an annoyed psychiatri t (Margaret Cho) and hooking up with new boyfriend Jacob. Brother Boy learns that Tammy Wynette i dead and freaks out; to add further insult, he's sent to a creepy female hrink determined to "dehomo exualize" him. Fans of the play or the movie will no doubt find much to love in this addition to the Sordid Lives franchi e, ince it appear to reprise the basic plot and situations. And they'll be happy to ee stalwarts like Emmy winner Leslie Jordan back as Brother Boy and newcomer Rue McClanahan (looking adly ravaged) as Peggy. Viewer who aren't entranced by hrill, second-rate acting, white-trash decor, "funny" names like Latrelle and Southern gothic caricatures, however, may find this tough going. 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