February 23, 2007!
GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
11
charlie'scalendar
To list your non-profit group or club's events, send the date, time, location and contact phone to P.O. Box 5426, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, or fax to 216-6311052, or e-mail to calendars@chronohio.com. Each week's calendar shows events in the upcoming week, plus selected later events. But it's never too early to send in a calendar item; listings for months into the future are posted on our web site, www.gaypeopleschronicle.com. Deadline for each week's calendar is noon on Thursday of the previous week.
To Sunday, February 25
Equus, play by Peter Schaffer about sexual confusion and longing, directed by William Roudeush, 8 pm Fri and Sat, 3 pm Sun, $28, $25 seniors, $17 students 22 and under with ID, Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood (Cleveland); 216-521-2540, www.beckcenter.org.
To Wednesday, February 28
Gigantic Book Sale, benefits the Cleveland LGBT Center, all books 50¢, 12 noon to 9:30 pm, 6600 Detroit Ave, Cleveland; 216651-5428, www.lgbtcleveland.org.
Friday, February 23
Celebrating Community, Diversity and Service, concert by Muse, Cincinnati's women's choir, and the Wyoming High School Student Chorale, to benefit the Wyoming Gay-Straight Alliance, Brothers and Sisters United, Project Lead and Help Our Planet Earth, $10, $5 students, 8 pm, Pendery Center, Wyoming High School, 106 Pendery Ave, Cincinnati; 513221-1118, www.musechoir.org.
Ember Swift, political lesbian singersongwriter, Crush at Union Station, 825 Main St, Cincinnati; 513-651-2667.
Saturday, February 24
Pink Pistols Shooting Range, first shooting event for the Toledo chapter of national group for LGBT gun owners and enthusiasts, 12 noon, 10306 Airport Hwy, Swanton (Toledo); 419514-9996, toledo@pinkpistols.org. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? annual fundraising event for BRAVO, guests gather at 6 pm in the Venue at Smith Bros., 580 North 4th St. in Columbus, then disperse to area homes for a sumptuous meal; 614-294-7867.
32nd Womyn's Variety Show, doors 6 pm, show 7:30 pm, $20, tickets available at the Nickel, Diverse Universe and the Inn on Coventry, women 18+ only, Temple Tifereth Israel, 1855 Ansel Rd. at East 105th St., just north of Chester in University Circle, Cleveland; 216375-0780, 216-798-0456.
Chinese New Year, celebrating the Year of the Pig, ten-course dinner and show presented by Asians and Friends Cleveland, $40 advance, $45 at door, 6 pm, C&Y Restaurant, 2222 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland; www.afcleveland.org. Stay Together, dance performance by the Joe Goode Performance Group about long-term relationships and the effect of AIDS on a neighborhood, 8 pm, $20-$47, Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Ave, Cleveland; 800-766-6048, www.tricpresents.com.
For a full year of events:
GAY PEOPLE'S
Chronicle.com
Breast Cancer Research Benefit, featuring Krystal Stone, Alexis Kennedy, Adrian Fox, Melanie Matthews and the Cleveland Kings, 11 pm, Muggs, 3.194 West 25th St, Cleveland; 216-398-7012. Ember Swift, political lesbian singer-songwriter, Friday, March 2 Union Station, 630 North High Street, Columbus; 614-228-3740, www.columbusnightlife.com.
Sunday, February 25
Pine Lane Hike with Cleveland Out and About, meet 11 am at Pine Lane trailhead off Ohio 303 just east of Peninsula in Cuyahoga Valley National Park south of Cleveland; 216556-4832, www.clevelandoutandabout.org. Winter Walk at Caesar Creek Lake with Moving Men, at Caesar Creek State Park in Waynesville, southeast of Dayton, meet at 1 pm at visitor center off Clarksville Rd. just south of Ohio 73, hike for an hour or two, then perhaps coffee and food in Waynesville; RSVP appreciated, Bryan, 937-603-9753 terranovamedia@hotmail.com; park info and
or
map at www.ohiodnr.com/parks/parks/ caesarck.htm.
Columbus Lesbian Softball League, managers meeting to organize the league's 14th sea4 pm, Stonewall Columbus, 1160 North son, High St, Columbus; 614-801-4204. Baldwin-Wallace College Brass Choir, free concert, light reception to follow, 4 pm, Brecksville UCC, 23 Public Square, Brecksville; 440-526-4364, buccoh@sbcglobal.net. Oscar Night America, annual Academy Awards viewing party, benefits Columbus AIDS Task Force, pick-the-winners contest, Ellen DeGeneres look-alike contest, 6 pm, $25, $7 students, $35 VIP includes goodie bag, Dexel Gateway Theater, 1550 North High St, Columbus; 614-545-2255, www.drexel.net. Academy Award-Watching Party, to benefit PACT Cleveland and the 2007 National Association of Black and White Men Together National Conference, Dream Girls theme, $25, $45 per couple, purchase tickets by February 22, 7:30 pm, A Better Place, East 9th and Rockwell, Cleveland; www.pactcleveland.com, 216-374-8961.
Monday, February 26
Sex Workers' Art Show, touring multimedia event featuring gay author Kirk Read and queer filmmaker Amber Dawn, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; www.sexworkers artshow.com.
Wednesday, February 28
Rita Mae Brown, author of the lesbian classic Rubyfruit Jungle, will sign copies of her latest book Puss 'n' Cahoots, 7 pm, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Legacy Village, 24519 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst (Cleveland), 216-691-7000; cosponsored by the Cleveland LGBT Center, 216-651-5428.
Thursday to Saturday, March 1 to 3
Out@Wex Film Festival, three days of new queer film and a salute to Strand Releasing, featuring 20 Straws, Wrestling with Angels, Wild Tigers I Have Known, Caravaggio, Love Other, The Man of My Life and Puccini for Beginners, Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 North High Street, Columbus; 614-292-3535, www.wexarts.org.
Full Moon Hike with Cleveland Out and About, meet 7 pm in Garfield Park Reservation Visitors Center parking lot off Broadway in Garfield Heights (Cleveland); 216-556-4832, www.clevelandoutandabout.org.
Tret Fure, house concert by lesbian singersongwriter, 8 pm, $12 advance, $15 door, Mansfield; 419-564-6394, cmoore@richnet.net.
Saturday, March 3
Campus Connection, college gay-straight alliance conference presented by the ACLU of Ohio, keynote speaker Shannon Gilreath, author of Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today, 10 am-5 pm, University of Akron Stu-
Early Girl, band formerly known as Slackjaw, at the Nickel, $3, 4365 State Road, Cleveland; 216-661-1314.
Sunday, March 4
How to Succeed in Persia Without Really Trying, original Purimspiel (play) by the Chevrei Tikva Chavura Players celebrating the biblical hero Esther's triumph over the evil Hamman, 1 pm, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd, Beachwood (Cleveland); 216464-1330, www.fairmounttemple.org.
Tret Fure, pioneering lesbian musician, 8 pm, $12, Canal Street Tavern, 308 First St, Dayton; www.canalstreettavern.com, 937-461-9343.
dent Union; campusconnection@acluohio.org, Highlights of upcoming weeks
www.acluohio.org/sga/CampusConnection.asp.
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, bimonthly meeting, 11 am, Northside Library, 1423 North High St, Columbus; 614-579-6021, aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com.
All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise, documentary of Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell's first allLGBT cruise, sponsored by Delaware Gay Straight Christian Alliance, free, 2 pm, Strand Theater, 28 E. Winter St., Delaware; discussion follows at Delaware Public Library, one block east of theater; 740-368-1629, http:// delawaregsca.tripod.com.
Pink Pistols, inaugural meeting of Toledo chapter of group for LGBT handgun owners and enthusiasts, 2 pm, McDonald's, 6555 Airport Hwy, Holland (Toledo); 419-514-9996, toledo@pinkpistols.org.
P-FLAG Cincinnati Scholarship Banquet, 15th annual event, features singer Chris Collier and the theme "That's Amoré!" 6 pm, $40, $25 students, the Madison, 700 Madison Ave, Covington, Ky. (Cincinnati); www.pflag cinci.org, 513-721-7900.
For a detailed list of events extending months into the future, see our web site: www.gaypeopleschronicle.com Friday to Sunday, March 9 to 11
Interpride Region 3 and 4 Conference, education and networking for organizers of LGBT Pride events in the Midwest including Ohio, Doubletree Hotel Dearborn, 5801 Southfield Expressway, Detroit, Michigan, $109 Interpride members, $135 others, 313-336-3340 hotel; 313-537-3323 ext. 104 for sponsoring Triangle Foundation; www.tri.org/events/ interpride.
Saturday, March 10
Keeping Pace with God's Grace, second annual Black Church Summit presented by the National Black Justice Coalition, $75, Mother Bethel AME Church, 419 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; www.nbjc.org.
-Compiled by Anthony Glassman
LOCAL DATELINE
ALWAYS FREE to Browse & Reply to ads!
Toledo
(419) 873 3000
Dayton
Mentor (440) 445 0445 Cleveland (216) 912 6000
Akron
(330) 315 3000
Canton.
(330) 437 0100
Columbus (614) 888-7777
(937) 395 9001
Cincinnati (513) 821 4500
you'll find it here
free trial CODE 6550
216.626.1111
440.325.9944
330.752.1212
419.776.7777
Find men near you: 1.800.777.8000
Text Chat to 55455 $4.99/10min or Dial #Male (#6253)
on your Cingular Cell phone interactivemale.com 18+
interactive male Connect Chat Meet "
50% OFF for new
members
FREE
CODE 4001
Great Dates are at 1-888-MegaMates.com
toll free 1-888-634-2628
24/7 Friendly Customer Care (888) MegaMates or MegaMates.com 2005 PC LLC:18