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June/July 2013 print edition

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CLICK HERE to download the issue as a PDF. Have you hugged your activists lately? Where are you celebrating your Pride this summer? At a parade? A picnic? A party? The options are legion, as are the hours, days, years invested in planning...
A global perspective: LGBT equality around the world

Jun 13 • 239 Views • No Comments

By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly It’s easy to get impatient with the pace of progress for LGBTQ rights in the United States, but as older activists explain — and a June 4 report by the Pew Research Center confirms — public opinion is actually shifting rather...
Equality in the eyes of God: Two local ministries provide models of LGBTQ...

Jun 13 • 171 Views • No Comments

By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly Editor’s note: This is part two of three in a series on maintaining a sense of community. Read part one here. The queer community is at a point of critical transition. For LGBTQ spaces, businesses, and communities, the questions...
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ — a classic with a twist

Jun 13 • 198 Views • No Comments

By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly “I have been so moved by stories of closeted homosexuality, or closeted gender identification,” director Cassandra Schwanke says of her motivation for mounting a same-sex adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Antony and...
All Pride, all the time — festivals, parties, and more!

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By Daniel Borgen, PQ Monthly This year, more than any other, marks one of the most profound in terms of changes on the Pride landscape. Much of the old guard has stood down (or gone out of business), and new-ish veterans are leaving their marks all over our...

Claiming the spotlight: PHAME gives adults with disabilities the stage

Jun 13 • 264 Views • No Comments

By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly When Stephen Beaudoin first heard about Pacific Honored Artists, Musicians, and Entertainers (PHAME) — an arts organization serving adults...

Out loud together: LGBTQ choruses

By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly The first LGBTQ choruses emerged almost 40 years ago. While the movement began with the Anna Crusis Women’s...

Jun 13 • 245 Views

‘Antony and Cleopatra’ — a classic with a twist

By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly “I have been so moved by stories of closeted homosexuality, or closeted gender identification,” director...

Jun 13 • 198 Views

Arts Briefs: June/July 2013

Local photographer and national treasure Holly Andres presents “The Homecoming,” a retrospective of her large-scale photographic work...

Jun 13 • 159 Views

Production of ’8′ Raises Awareness and Funds for Marriage Equality Fight

By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly What was it like to be in the courtroom in August 2010, when some of the world’s finest lawyers argued...

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Queer Heroes NW 2013: Amanda Brings Plenty-Wright

Jun 15 • 138 Views • No Comments

By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly The second annual Queer Heroes NW, a collaboration between the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) and Q...