What's Happening

Sunday, February 7, 3:00pm

LCC Performance Hall

BENEFIT CONCERT for the Lane Community College Women in Transitions Program

Featuring:
Soromundi: Lesbian Chorus of Eugene
and
In Accord Community Choir, a peace choir

Join us for an eclectic afternoon of choral music, featuring everything from old standards to contemporary arrangements. We will have music for every ear! All proceeds go to the Women in Transitions Program.

Tickets $10.00 general public $8.00 seniors/student.
Available now at www.lanecc.edu/tickets.

For more information call 541-463-5202.

February 11, 2010-7:30 PM

Pageant (2008; USA; 95 minutes)
PAGEANT takes you behind the scenes as 52 ordinary gentlemen go to extraordinary lengths to be crowned Miss Gay America®. PAGEANT follows five of the most talented and beautiful female impersonators as they prepare to dominate in this underground competition. The contest is about the art of illusion, so enhancements such as hormones are forbidden. Instead, the men work their magic using makeup, costumes, and movement. Interviews with the competitors, their families and support teams reveal the hopes and dreams that motivate these men, while stunning musical numbers show off their amazing talents. (from www.amazon.com).

Critic s Pick! Astonishing! MetroWeekly Entertaining . . .polished. . .colorful acts and personalities are well-captured! Variety A+... It has so much heart, love and acceptance. Pegasus News Touching! New York Times Heartwarming! Minnesota Daily Lively . . . uplifting! The NYC Guru Expertly shot and edited . . .slick! Orlando Weekl Wonderful and Touching Documentary Corey Scholibo, The Advocate Insider Pageant points out that Slamdance has a knack for picking docs that are wackier and more human than the ones at Sundance. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times --Wolfe

Hosts and Location: Ken Hindes and Ron Wold (541-345-4057). 1409 W 5th Avenue in Eugene. Directions: We're on the northwest corner of 5th and Taylor. For additional information or directions, please call 541-345-4057. If you have trouble finding the location, please call and someone will direct you. If the line is busy, try again soon.

What: Coming Out Party (2003): Seven gay and lesbian comics tell you hilarious personal stories about "coming out" and living a gay lifestyle in this uproarious program.
Who: Interweave and PFLAG Gather for Potluck and Movie and Fun
When: February 12 (Potluck at 6pm Movie 7pm)
Where: UUCE 477 East 40th Eugene, OR 97405
Questions: Nisco Junkins 541-915-0097 or niscohappy@comcast.net

HOT FLASH IS HOT HOT HOT AND
GETTING EVEN HOTTER THIS VALENTINE'S DAY!

Our numbers are up and we are riding the wave to our February party. We packed Diablo's in January and there just wasn't enough room to hold us all. Since we anticipate a huge crowd for Valentine's Day, we had to find a place to hold us all for this special event.

Hot Flash Eugene presents:
CRAZY LOVE:
A Valentine's Extravaganza!
Saturday, February 13, 2009
6 to 10p $8

THE CITY NIGHTCLUB at Kowloon's
2222 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Eugene 97401

with Portland's Own DJ WILDFIRE!
Stay tuned for more info on Valentine's Drink Special, Dinner Specials (Kowloon's serves Chinese food), Cruise games for singles, Olivia Cruises Giveaways, Valentine Games and a Night of Absolute Crazy Love!

GIRLS ALOUD SECOND ANNUAL VALENTINE’S DAY EXTRAVAGANZA!

A Benefit for Ophelia’s Place - a nonprofit organization committed to helping girls in Lane County, Oregon make healthy life choices through prevention, support and education. Ophelia's Place believes in offering programming based on best-practice models that are evidence-based and specific to the challenges, issues, needs and learning styles of girls.

So help us help Ophelia’s Place – they do great work – right here – for OUR SYSTERS! C’mon now! How can you say no???

We’ll have raffles and giveaways – and will have it all purty and Valentine-ey – just like you like it.

Saturday, Feb. 13th from 8 pm to Midnite.
COME BEFORE 9 PM WITH A BRACELET OR STAMP FROM THE CITY AND 100% OF YOUR COVER GOES TO OPHELIA’S PLACE!!!

February 18, 2010-7:30 PM

Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo)(1987; Spain; 102 minutes) (In Spanish with English subtitles)
This bold tale of passion's dire consequences is one of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's most smoldering films. Antonio Banderas stars as Antonio Benítez, an obsessive fan of writer-director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela), a cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist whose last boyfriend, Juan (Miguel Molina), has just moved out. Antonio and Pablo have a few passionate nights, but Antonio's obsessive love soon proves hard for the noncommittal Pablo to escape from. Meanwhile, Pablo's transsexual sister, Tina (Carmen Maura), has problems of her own, including a closet brimming with dark sexual skeletons and Ada (Manuela Velasco), her unofficially adopted daughter. Pablo writes a play for Tina to star in, but when Antonio stalks and murders Juan in a fit of jealousy, the police end up suspecting the character Tina performs in the play. Pablo winds up with amnesia after a car accident, and the troubles just get weirder from there. For American audiences unfamiliar with Almodóvar's style, this film may prove a shocking experience, but his fans know that beneath their transgressive exteriors, his films throb with a palpable love of humanity, life, beauty, and art. This is a fine example of that art, with great music and memorable performances all around. (www.buy.com)

Hosts and Location: Ken Hindes and Ron Wold (541-345-4057). 1409 W 5th Avenue in Eugene. Directions: We're on the northwest corner of 5th and Taylor. For additional information or directions, please call 541-345-4057. If you have trouble finding the location, please call and someone will direct you. If the line is busy, try again soon.

February 25, 2010-7:30 PM

Outrage (2009; USA; 90 minutes)
Filmmaker Kirby Dick’s fine balance of documentary rigor and muckraking returns with Outrage, a blistering investigation into closeted gay politicians who push anti-gay legislation to hide their own sexual impulses. You might expect such a documentary to collapse in a heap of strident accusations, but though the hypocrisy is appalling--particularly when it squashed funding for AIDS research and contributed to thousands of deaths--Outrage skillfully avoids hysteria, finding humor and even compassion in its examination of the lives of Republican Senator Larry Craig, New York Mayor Ed Koch, and others. The documentary also explores other facets of the issue, including the abundance of gay journalists who help maintain the cloak of secrecy and the wives who, sometimes knowingly and sometimes in denial, provide the illusion of conventional heterosexual harmony. The testimonies of politicians who came out while in office, like Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe and Democratic Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey, is particularly moving and illustrates the complexity of the American political scene. Outrage is most damning of the Bush/Cheney administration, which used gay marriage as a hot-button issue to manipulate social conservatives. All in all, a compelling example of fervent but intelligent journalism, applied to what has become a core issue of this political moment. (Bret Fetzer, www.amazon.com)

Hosts and Location: Ken Hindes and Ron Wold (541-345-4057). 1409 W 5th Avenue in Eugene. Directions: We're on the northwest corner of 5th and Taylor. For additional information or directions, please call 541-345-4057. If you have trouble finding the location, please call and someone will direct you. If the line is busy, try again soon.

Complicated
March 6th (Cozmic Pizza) at 8 pm
Paul and Do Mi kick off at 7pm
$5-$8 sliding scale

LCC BSU Dance Party
Club Kid meets Raver
Saturday, March 13, 2010
8-12am
Eugene Hilton
Tickets $10 each or 2 for $18

The LGBT Community is specifically invited by the BSU President

(BSU = Black Student Union)