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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Nightlife / Mailbag Break Out the Wedding Dresses and Tuxedos

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM

Calling all fags and their hags, dykes and their bikes, trans and their fans:

This Saturday, January 3rd, Café Metropolitain (1701 E Olive Way) will be hosting the Queer Ally Coalition's Drink for Equality. This will be a fundraising event to cover cost for the January 10th Repeal DOMA Protest. There will be specialty drinks, a movie showing, and prizes for best wedding attire. So break out the wedding dresses and tuxedos, as we tell the religious right were they can shove their hate and bigotry.

Cafe Metropolitain—Capitol Hill's surreal, incomprehensible simulacrum of the City of Lights—is totally weird and great.

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Am I alone in not being aware there was a January 10th Repeal DOMA Protest at all? I googled it and followed links and it's apparently planned as a couple hours of something at Westlake, the shopping place downtown. Scrolling down the page I see these folks also organized some protest in December at U Village shopping mall.

Hope this turns out okay.

Posted by tomasyalba on January 3, 2009 at 6:07 PM

Hey, Bethany? You may want to remove the link to the Cafe's website from the Stranger listing page. It seems to be redirecting to some Japanese squatter site or something. Maybe Cafe Metro forgot to renew their domain?

Posted by Dave on January 3, 2009 at 6:12 PM

This is getting way out of control. It's fine that everyone wants Civil Marriage equality, but every little group is having its own little event. Would not a HUGE event be more effective? I appreciate each group has its strength and those need to be brought to the fight. ERW might be worth contacting for something like this so that more people know about these things. More is better when you want a rally.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on January 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM

Don't forget bridesmaid dresses. You can't have wedding without stuffing 1/2 dozen of your nearest & dearest into hideous matching prom dresses.

Posted by yucca flower on January 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM

the event you mention is some Socialist thing ...

And totally off base in min winter ....

Posted by Art on January 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM

City of Light (singular), Bethany. Paris is known as La Ville Lumière because of its broad boulevards, relatively low buildings and, especially, its northerly latitude (giving it long, long summer evenings). Lights (plural) would be Vegas, or maybe LA.

Posted by Cornichon on January 3, 2009 at 10:51 PM

cha-ching!
don't be stingy!!
after all, our $38 million anti-Prop 8 was such a great investment!!!

Posted by !!!! on January 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM