Friday at 4:00 pm
The Swallow is set to become White Center’s latest LGBTQ bar sometime this year. Photo: via Instagram
And, it’s official: the gentrification of oddball Seattle suburb, White Center is officially underway with the news that it’s about to get its SECOND LGBTQ night club. Michale Farrar and Nathan Adams opened The Lumber Yard Bar, 9619 16th Ave SW, in January of 2018 and has subsequently established itself as a popular meeting place for LGBTQ patrons on the Southwest side of Seattle and the King County area between Sea-Tac and the city.
But, The Lumber Yard is about to be joined by a second LGBTQ venue. Recent social media posts and scuttlebutt have indicated that former Pony Bar co-creator Marcus Wilson is opening a new venue called THE SWALLOW at 9608 16th Avenue SW in a space previously occupied by a bar called “Company Store” which recently closed.
And, searching the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board new applications list for King County turns up a March 5th request from a business named “Salty Sailors” for a “Nightclub” license at that address with Wilson and two other men, Barry Smith and Thai Tran listed as applicants.
Thursday at 3:55 pm
OK, my little Scooby Doos and Nancy Drews….WHERE is Melania going to visit this Monday on her first visit to Seattle?
We’re guessing it’s not Amazon.
KOMO TV (and others) have the poo that First Lady Melania Trump will be making her FIRST out of town official trip (after two years of being the first lady…) this Monday and Tuesday (March 4th and 5th) visiting Oklahoma and Washington State on Monday then Las Vegas on Tuesday. It’s all part of her First Lady project, in Melania’s case it’s her vague BE BEST! initiative to fight cyber bullying.
Because she is the most bullied person….EVUH.
Wednesday at 11:43 am
The last two weeks have played havoc with area venues and producers who put on shows and events in Seattle and Western Washington. Heavy snow, ice, wind and slush have made travel dangerous and difficult and there have been reports of damage to some facilities.
Over this past weekend from Friday February 8th through Monday the 11th, dozens of events and performances were cancelled all over the greater metro area resulting in serious amounts of lost revenue for area businesses and non-profit arts groups. While the 5th Avenue Theatre and Issaquah’s Village Theatre both went on with performances for their currently running shows (Rock of Ages and I Do, I Do respectively) most smaller theaters canceled performances. And, the weather kept former Queer Eye star/RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Carson Kressley from making his scheduled appearance at Queer Bar on Friday, the 8th. That appearance has been rescheduled for March 22nd.
But, the cancellations and rescheduling of shows continues with the announcement that A Sensible Theatre Company has pushed back their February 19th RUSH THE RUNWAY 2.0 show to March 19th. And, Lifelong has just announced today that their hugely popular drag bingo fundraiser, LOVE FEST GAY BINGO has been canceled for this upcoming Saturday, February 16th due to snow damage at the venue, Fremont Studios (which was also the venue for the Rush the Runway event). Lifelong’s press release:
Love Fest Gay Bingo has been postponed, due to the recent snowstorm causing damage to our event venue Fremont Studios. The safety of our Gay Bingo attendees, volunteers and vendors always comes first and until the venue is able to undergo inspection and repair, it is not available to host Gay Bingo.
Tuesday at 5:17 pm
Star Laura Linney and author Armistead Maupin, pictured here from San Francisco Pride Parade circa…the early 90s, reunite for an all-new “Tales of The City” series on Netflix for 2019.
For the many, many devoted fans of Armistead Maupin’s series of “Tales of the City” books which details the lives of a group of gay, straight and everything in between friends living in San Francisco over the course of several decades and nine novels, the news a couple years back that Netflix was ready to produce a brand new television series featuring the “Tales” characters, was very welcome news.
The first three novels in the series chronicling their lives in the late 1970s were produced and aired by PBS/Channel 4 (UK) for the first book/series and by Showtime for the second two books. There have been hopes that the subsequent novels would be produced for television, but nothing came to fruition until the era of streaming television came into play and the news that Netflix was ready to do a modern day series catching up with the lives of the characters in a very different 21st century San Francisco.
There’s been no news when the new series, which began filming in the fall of 2018, would air but today the San Francisco Film Festival announced that the first episode of the new Netflix Original Series Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City would open their 2019 annual festival on April 10th with a gala event at the Castro Theater in the heart of San Francisco’s gay neighborhood. Author and one of the producers of the new show, Armistead Maupin is expected to attend with show runner Lauren Morelli, director/producer Alan Poul and star/executive producer Laura Linney are all scheduled to attend the screening with a party to follow at the Regency Center.
Tickets are currently on sale for members of the San Francisco Film Festival (note this is not Frameline, the city’s annual LGBTQ film festival which happens in June). The public can begin buying tickets Wednesday, February 13th at 10am. Go HERE to try and snag them.
Monday at 3:23 pm
SEATTLE – Here comes the most outrageous drag show of the year. HATERS ROAST – The Shady Tour Feb 18, 8pm at Moore Theatre starring Jinkx Monsoon BenDeLaCreme Latrice Royale INC.Willam Trinity Taylor Monét X Change LADY BUNNY FOREVER! and hosted by the hilarious Darienne Lake Click here now for best available seats https://
According to the most recent social media posting from Murray & Peter, this is the line-up for the HATER’S ROAST: THE SHADY TOUR happening at the Moore Theatre on Monday, February 18th (which is also President’s Day). Our own local-ish gals Jinkx and Ben De La Creme will be on hand as well as very frequent visitors like Latrice Royale, and Willam but also Monét XChange and Trinity Taylor plus non-RPDR gal, The Lady Bunny and new hostess Darienne Lake filling in for the originally announced Ginger Minj. But, Ginger got an acting gig and needed to bow out for a number of shows so she got replaced by Darienne for the whole tour….(which annoyed Ginger Minj fans and led to a brouhaha on social media…why can’t people just be NICE!!!???)
They make it clear this is gonna be a raunchy insult comedy show…if you’re a tender soul who can’t handle that kind of humor….stay home and knit socks for children in nature. Technically, it is an all ages event, but let’s be honest….if your kid is under 13 or so, this really isn’t the place for them.
Tuesday at 4:29 pm
A lot of people in the country murmured to themselves, “who the hell is Pete Buttigieg?” last week after the out gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana made the bold announcement he was “exploring” the option of running for President of the United States in the 2020 election.
We’re also guessing they murmured that silently to themselves since they probably didn’t know how to pronounce “Buttigieg”.
Note: it’s apparently “But-uh-judge”.
The 37 year old is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes scholar, a former Naval intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan and married to husband Chasten Glezman since June of 2018.
Friday at 3:50 pm
The wanking gift for everyone who enjoys wanking to images of almost nude British white boys who all kinda look alike once you get their knickers off…
Sigh….they’re so vanilla.
So, I guess Warwick isn’t very diverse? Or, are British men of color too intelligent to strip down in that tepid climate?
Tuesday at 2:29 pm
Netflix has announced more casting news for the eagerly awaited brand new series of TALES OF THE CITY, the continuing story of a group of LGBTQ and allied friends living in San Francisco from the 1970s through today, and based on the 9 novel series by Armistead Maupin. The first three books in the series were successfully adapted for television in the 1990s but none of the latter 6 novels have been adapted.
The new “Tales” will be set current day but feature characters from the first book set which is set circa 1975/76…we’re not sure how that works since that first book was centered on a group mostly in their mid 20s which would put most of them around 68 or so today. Yet, actors in their late 40s and early/mid 50s are playing those roles in a 2018 setting, so……
THE MAGIC OF SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF I CALL ON YOU!!!!
Beloved original actors like Laura Linney as series lead, the naive Mary Ann Singleton and Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis as transgender land lady Mrs. Madrigal, the owner of the apartment building at 28 Barbary Lane where most of the main characters live and Barbara Garrick as lesbian heiress DeDe Halycon Day were announced months ago along with newcomer to the series, Ellen Page as Mary Ann’s estranged bisexual daughter.
Tuesday at 1:45 pm
Seattle Area Support Group’s annual Xmas tree lot will not happen in 2018. Photo via SASG’s Facebook page
Well, it almost made it to 30 years…sadly, the Seattle Area Support Group (SASG) has announced that their annual and highly beloved holiday/Xmas tree sale fundraiser will not happen in 2018. After SASG lost their longtime home at 17th & Thomas on Capitol Hill (due to their adorable home being torn down…) The owners of the former SASG House, Group Health Cooperative allowed them to continue the Xmas tree lot at the same location beginning in 2014 but Group Health got taken over by Kaiser Permanente and things have…changed. Kaiser told SASG in May of this year that it wouldn’t be possible for SASG to continue with the sale and since locations in gentrificated Seattle are hard (and expensive) to come by, the tradition is ending.
Which sucks.
SASG’s Executive Director Joshua Wallace released the news Monday in a letter posted on social media. Apparently, the loss of the fundraiser will NOT impact the group’s finances, which is good. But, if you feel compelled to send them a little donation now and then (at sasgcc.org ) then please feel free to do so!
The letter making the announcement:
Friday at 4:15 pm
Don’t let the very hetero banner image fool you…the one the makers of the scandalous new documentary SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD have been using to promote the film. It features a 1950s photo featuring the very handsome subject of this film, Scotty Bowers, a former marine turned gas pump jocked turned hustler to the stars and two female actresses looking very heteronormative.
But, Mr. Bowers, while he did service and procure for, the most beautiful and famous women in Hollywood and Society over his 50+ year as a hustler and “go-between” for sexual services, he was most utilized as a sex worker hired by the beautiful and famous MEN of Hollywood and High Society during that time….stars like Walter Pidgeon and Rock Hudson and Cary Grant and Charles Laughton and…
Scotty Bowers was a mostly well kept secret outside those circles though he was eluded to in many biographies of those stars as “the gas station hustler/pimp who serviced everyone AND their car” during Hollywood’s Golden Era, Mr. Bowers himself didn’t “out” himself until the publication of his tell all memoir, “Full Service – By Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedberg” appeared in 2012 and quickly became an infamous New York Times’ bestseller. Gossip fans of Old Hollywood loved the juicy book which either confirmed many rumors about top stars or shocked with all new revelations while more old school fans were horrified with many expressing disapproval AND disbelief of the frank disclosures about their beloved icons.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
Wednesday at 3:26 pm
Photo: Michael Strangeways for Seattle Gay Scene
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, this year’s annual Greater Seattle Business Association (aka, the GSBA) cocktail fundraising event is a bit different. It involves a whole week of boozing it up instead of the usual one night drinking signature cocktails event they usually have.
WOO HOO!!!!
A WHOLE WEEK OF CRAFT COCKTAILS!
It’s happening NEXT week (August 27 through the 31st) at five area venues known for their good drinks…though, none of them are actual gay bars, they’re all members of the GSBA.
Thursday at 5:27 pm
WOW!
The Seattle Police Department Blotter has the scoop on last night’s huge bust at Belltown’s Foundation Nightclub that we reported on earlier today. Working with Homeland Security, the sting resulted in the arrest of 12 individuals and the seizure of :
“829 grams of cocaine, over 1,000 grams of MDMA, 400 ecstasy pills, 800 Xanax pills, 190 grams of ketamine, 13 grams of DMT, 176 grams of GHB, 1200 Molly capsules, and additional prescription drugs, as well as two handguns and more than $60,000 in cash…”
A dealer bragged to an undercover officer about his close ties to the club’s owners and coached officers on how to dose women using GHB, frequently used in “date rape”.
Tuesday at 3:33 pm
SOOOOO, you could have colored us SHOCKED when it was announced that Netflix had given the green light to a new narrative television show to star mega drag diva RuPaul. It’s not that RuPaul isn’t talented; obviously the drag star/singer/actor/producer and Emmy Award winning host of the hugely successful competitive reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” currently filming its 11th season is VERY talented.
But, Ru hasn’t had many opportunities to showcase actual acting skills…small roles here and there and most of them fun cameos like appearing in the Brady Bunch movies back in the 90s.
But, the new show is called AJ and the Queen and it’s a 10 episode series featuring RuPaul as “down on her luck” drag queen Ruby Red who travels across America with an 11 year old sidekick named “AJ” in a busted ole RV. Naturally, they will get into kooky adventures and Ruby will perform musical numbers in every episode.
It’s “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” meets “BJ and the Bear” (old 70s tv show; RuPaul LOVES shitty pop culture from the olden days) meets…I dunno….”Punky Brewster”?
Monday at 3:13 pm
Yes, yes…I know it’s early to be thinking of Christmas shenanigans when it’s August and 8,000 degrees outside but the complicated scheduling and jostling of Seattle’s gay holiday shows demands we pay attention…especially in a topsy turvy year like this one where both the loss of a beloved local entertainer and some behind the scenes melodrama have added to the huge changes coming to Seattle Gay Holiday Show Season 2018.
We’ve already discussed the major changes coming to the “Holiday Show formerly known as ‘Homo for the Holiday’ but now apparently known as ‘Jingle All The Gay'”…the former show imploded after behind the scenes “stuff” led to long time performers like BenDeLaCreme leaving and wife/wife team of Kitten LaRue and Lou Henry Hoover taking the reigns to recon-jigger the very popular long running show which will return to Oddfellows Hall this year.
You can read about THAT drama, over here.
Thursday at 3:06 pm
Here’s a fun benefit to be a part of later this month…and, for a good cause!
It’s the Queen Pin Bowling Classic, the first annual drag queen bowling tournament, with 100% of the proceeds to benefit Burien Pride’s LGBTQ College Scholarship Fund and it’s happening Saturday, August 25th at ACME Bowl in Tukwila. (100 Andover Park West, Tukwila, WA, 98188)
100% of the proceeds go to Burien Pride’s new LGBTQ College Scholarship Fund, so your participation helps LGBTQ students get an education…and, there’s two ways to participate. As a bowler, or just come watch and hang out and drink beer and cheer for the bowlers along with your chief host, ALEKSA MANILA along with co-hosts, Miss U.T.O.P.I.A Seattle, Atasha Manilla; Empress of Seattle, Donna Tella Howe; Miss Gay API International, Tanya Rachinee and La Femme Magnifique International, LaSaveona Hunt.
You’re ENCOURAGED to drag it up, or at least be dressed festively, but it’s not required to participate.
Sunday at 2:56 pm
Some shocking news for fans of Barbie Roberts and her cocktail lounge, Purr. She just announced via her Facebook page that today, Sunday, July 29, 2018 will be the bar’s final day of business.
Via Facebook:
Letting Go is Never Easy……..
Friday at 6:07 pm
Bitchez are ON CRACK!!!!
That was my response after seeing Entertainment Weakly’s recently published ranking of all the winners of the various configurations of RuPaul’s Drag Race…both the winners of all 10 regular seasons plus the 3 All-Star competitions. And, while I entirely agreed with their top AND bottom choices, (apparently made by EW writer JOEY NOLFI, who I’m sure is a lovely yet deluded person), I have a LOT to say about all the ones in-between.
If you want to see the EW article, sadly you have to click on this link to go to their page full of fucking annoying pop ups….another thing that enrages me. Hey! Let’s do quick survey! If you go to a website and it’s full of too many pop ups and videos and nonsense that impede your user experience and slow your device down, do you GO BACK to that site very frequently? I sure as hell don’t….
Apologies for the digression.
Wednesday at 2:15 pm
Alaska Thunderfuck is coming to Seattle on June 23rd while her co-star in this naughty Men.com film is cumming on June 22nd…
Seattle gets to enjoy beloved drag superstar ALASKA THUNDERFUCK this weekend when she appears at QUEER BAR’s Pride Festival on Saturday, June 23rd but fans of naughty gay male erotic video entertainment can enjoy Ms T-Fuck on FRIDAY when her GAY PORNO VIDEO goes live to the WORLD!
Yes…P.O.R.N.O. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK…so, Alaska isn’t DOING anything involving the exposure of her/their/his genitals (which is probably a shame since Alaska has a rep for being a BIIIIIIIIIG boy….) but is making a fun celebrity, non sexual appearance in MEN.COM’s new ASS CONTROLLER 9 video getting released on Friday, June 22nd.
In it, Alaska plays a shocked TV news anchor who is shocked to discover her male co-anchor is a gyrating butt slut with an app-controlled butt plug in their no-no hole.
“Intersections 2” Returns To Celebrate A Variety Of Art From Queer, Trans, POC, Enby… goo.gl/fb/ZWKrnn
First Photos Released For New “Tales of the City” Series on Netflix goo.gl/fb/JQHd5J
Schitt’s Creek Is Coming To Seattle goo.gl/fb/iBhoLw
Seattle Shakes Announce A 4 Show 2019-20 Season Including “Macbeth” and “The Tempest” goo.gl/fb/SXJsvZ
Our Daily Pete: Our Favorite Candidate Dishes The Nitty Gritty on “Morning Joe” goo.gl/fb/Ny57eA
Review: “Sheathed” Is Proof That Maggie Lee Is A Superstar Playwright goo.gl/fb/hv5oMe
White Center To Get A New LGBTQ Bar: “The Swallow” goo.gl/fb/aevjKK
Gia Gunn Stars In HEYO’s “Big Queer Talent Show” at Vera Project goo.gl/fb/PB28UC
Kinky & Queer “Mapplethorpe” Biopic Starts Week Run At NW Film Forum goo.gl/fb/HHAC3S
Cher The Love With Seattle Men’s Chorus and Chad Michaels goo.gl/fb/K849tu
Seattle Seahawks Sponsor Cascade Flag Football goo.gl/fb/y86Un2
The 5th Avenue Announces 19/20 Season: Includes “Evita”, “Shrek” and “Sister Act” goo.gl/fb/4X4zXH
Review: Stand-Out Acting Propels the Marathon “Angels in America” At Lakewood Playhouse goo.gl/fb/vbPRsL
ACT’s “Romeo + Juliet” Has Energy & Teen Angst To Spare, Plus A Nurse Who Runs Away With… goo.gl/fb/rGUzJx
Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s “Good To Be Queen” Gala Is A Month Away….Start Preppin’ Those… goo.gl/fb/wUfG6p
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