Yep, Anne Coulter’s published another book and, as with each publication, comes an idiotic or deeply insulting statement, some obscene kvetch, the usual planned “controversy”.  I was surfing through some of the morning news channels on my 2nd cup o’ joe, and there she was, all hot n’ bothered and ranting at Harry Smith of CBS’s morning news show.  “Liberals are [horrible],” whatever, the usual crap.  I’m glad and proud to say I lasted somewhere between 40-90 seconds before I forced myself to move away from the channel.  Later, I noticed some online press report that her new “beef” is she was bumped this morning from NBC’s “Today” show and, of course, that’s evidence of the “liberal conspiracy” against her. 

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Game on!

Board Game Night is one of Q Center’s most popular events.
Come alone and make friends, or come with a group and enjoy a great social night of informal competition–sure to help you pass a rainy evening.

Cranium or Catch-Phrase?

Chess or Scattergories?

Pictionary in teams?

You make the call…and the first move.

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
7:00-9:00pm
Q Center
69 SE Taylor Ave at SE Water Ave, Portland (map)
FREE

Oh Mama What A Mess!

Quote ‘A steamy Mexican road movie with a now legendary diving board scene that can’t be missed, plenty of full-frontal nudity and a naked same-sex kiss that will blow you away.’ un-quote. Did I see the same movie as everyone else? This movie was marketed heavily to us gay folks, and yet, this is one of the most homophobic movies I’ve seen in my life! The one and only time we see the guys kiss (it’s only hinted there was a night of debauchery) is followed by one of them vomiting (ostensibly

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Different economists and “pundits” are making all sorts of different predictions about the economy and how soon or not we’ll recover.  What about the housing market?

Oh, if only I had a crystal ball.  Likewise with housing, I can’t predict how fast or what shape the “recovery” will take.  After a long time of all of us–including myself–thinking we had dodged a bullet with regard to home prices and activity, we have seen a serious decline in home sales, along with the fall of Lehman Bros. and the general “tanking” of the economy since September.  In many, many ways, all real estate is local, yet we have only to look around us to see that we, too, are affected by national trends.  Heck, this spectacular economic decline is more than national–this is a once-in-a-lifetime global event that few if any predicted.  So perhaps the most productive way to look at things is not to gaze into crystal balls or flip tarot cards, but to look at the facts at hand and search ourselves for how we want to act.

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Though he was elected to replace outgoing mayor Tom Potter back in May, Portland, Ore.’s gay mayor Sam Adams was finally sworn in at 12:01 a.m. on New Year’s Day. The Oregonian reports that about 40 people were there to witness the ceremony, including his partner, Peter Zuckerman.

Though Adams’s sexuality never became a factor in the race, before it officially began, he was the subject of a smear campaign from a would-be rival, gay real estate developer Bob Ball.

Ball attempted to link Adams to an encounter with an underage intern — an attempt that failed.

Portland is now the largest city in the United States with an openly gay mayor.

“This is a testament to how fair-minded Portlanders are that it wasn’t an issue. I spend my time on the basic issues of life,” Adams told the Associated Press. “A part of that includes equal rights, but that’s not even close to a majority of the time. My passions for public service includes promoting social justice, equality for all, but it obviously also includes finding good jobs for people, which is also part of my family’s background of not being able to always have economic security. Being gay is part of me, so is being Irish-American, so is being from a small Oregon town.” (SOURCE: Advocate.com)

Searching thru a cinematic database to find the top 5 must see lesbian films can be a fun, yet daunting task. There have been many wonderful lesbian - themed films that have been created; creating a list of the top 5 certainly has not been easy. One of the must see lesbian films that I highly recommend is If These Walls Could Talk 2.

If These Walls Could Talk 2 is based on a set of vignettes throughout the movie. The premise of the movie is that there is one house that has seen the likes of various lesbians and their living situations. In the first segment, two partners, Edith (played by Vanessa Redgrave) and Abbey (Marian Seldes) go about their every day lives in 1961. When Abbey takes a fall off of a

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This is a Darkover omnibus containing the novels The World Wreckers and The Planet Savers, as well as the short story The Waterfall.

The Planet Savers was the very first Darkover story and was published originally in 1958. The Trailmen, one of the native sentient races of the planet Darkover, have a childhood disease known as “Trailmen’s fever”. A pandemic sweeps across Darkover every forty-eight years, bringing mild discomfort for the Trailmen but a high mortality rate to the humans.

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Does this count as Furry love? (If y’all don’t know what Furry love is all about, Ah’m not gonna tell) “The Wolves of Kromer” is both a fairy tale and a Fairy tale - not to mention furry tail!

This sensuous and wonderful English fantasy of gay werewolves roaming an countryside of old houses, lakes and deep forests is a dark, funny tale of sexy gay werewolves, murderous old ladies and an old English town bent on getting rid of those not like

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For Seasoned Saucy Sapphists and… the women who love them!

Picture a dance floor packed with sexy women groovin’ to the sound of Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, Motown mixes, Cha Ka Khan and Blondie. Do you see a 70s club? Think again! You’ll also hear Janet Jackson, Madonna , Justin Timberlake, Usher and the newest from Beyonce.

This New Year’s, Hot Flash is throwing THE dance party for women. Full of perks like wonderful hor d’ouevres, raffles, keepsake photographs, and smoke-free dancing, you simply must be there.

And did we mention that a portion of the proceeds will be benefiting Q Center?

Click here for more information and to buy your tickets: www.hotflashdances.com.

Think I Do is a wonderfully wacky and sexy gay screwball comedy from the maker of Pool Days one of the many brilliant short films in Boys Life.

The screwball “who will marry who” antics of The Philadelphia Story are given a gay update in this deliriously romantic comedy. Bob (Alexis Arquette - more fabulous in drag than out!) and Brendan (Christian Maelen) are college roommates whose close friendship (and Bobâ€^TMs mad crush) is chilled after Bob is rejected by Brendan. Five years later, they and their college chums all reunite for the marriage of one of their former classmates. Among those in attendance

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