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This weekend in LGBTQ Alaska (7/29/11): Fairbanks Ducal Ball & Hedwig’s last weekend

Friday, 29 July 2011 – 11:05 AM | Comments Off

This weekend’s big events in Fairbanks are a late morning bar-hopping float down the Chena River and the Fairbanks Ducal Ball at the Blue Loon. In Anchorage, it’s the very last weekend to see Out North’s production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Those events and more, plus a preview of what’s coming up next week.

This weekend in LGBTQA Alaska (7/21/11): Fairbanks Pride 2011, a Toyota for 4A’s, Summer Osborne, Hedwig, & Raja

Thursday, 21 July 2011 – 2:35 PM | Comments Off

Fairbanks celebrates Pride 2011; Four A’s needs your votes to get a Toyota; Summer Osborne performs in Fairbanks and Anchorage; and RuePaul’s Drag Race winner “Raja” appears at Anchorage’s Kodiak Bar & Grill. Those events and more, plus a preview of what’s coming up next week.

This weekend in LGBTQ Alaska (5/27/11): 3 Pride fundraisers & annual Memorial Day picnic

Friday, 27 May 2011 – 12:33 AM | Comments Off

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means it’s time for the Imperial Court’s annual Memorial Day picnic! But with Pride Month almost upon us, it’s also a weekend dominated by several fundraisers for Identity and Alaska Pride Fest 2011. Those events and more, plus a preview of what’s coming up next week.

Illusions of Delusion — Anchorage’s newest drag show

Friday, 29 April 2011 – 12:30 PM | Comments Off

The Crazy Horse Saloon: most people probably think of Anchorage’s oldest female strip bar. But now it’s even crazier, with Illusions of Delusion, Anchorage’s newest drag experience, every Friday & Saturday night beginning at midnight.

Femme Fatale 2011 in Juneau: Benefiting the Four A’s

Thursday, 7 April 2011 – 10:23 AM | Comments Off

The Drag Queens from Anchorage are back and its better than ever! Femme Fatale takes over Juneau this weekend in three shows to benefit the Four A’s. Don’t miss out! — a different performance each night!

April’s Trash Drag Spectacle in the Valley

Friday, 1 April 2011 – 9:24 PM | Comments Off

Aprils Follies, the Mat-Su Valley spring drag extravaganza, is back by popular demand, this time with two shows: 6 and 9 pm on Saturday, April 2.

Aprils Follies 2011 “A jammed-packed night of singing, dancing, and live entertainment from performers around Alaska and beyond, including mini fashion shows sponsored by Mila’s Gowns and Alterations and The Younique Boutique. The line up for the night is EPIC, with MC’s April Rains, Daphne DoAll LaChores, and Kristara!”

This is a fundraiser for the West Lakes Fire Fighters, and other charities that will be chosen by the audience.

“A MUST SEE VALLEY TRASH ALASKAN EVENT!!”

Aprils Follies: “A Valley Trash Drag Spectacle”
Time: Saturday, April 2 · 6-8pm and 9-11pm (doors open at 5:30pm and 8:30pm)
Location: The Rock Cafe (the old Mile 49 Cafe)
Parks and Pittman, mile 49 at the BJ Center
Meadow Lakes, AK
Tickets: $15 at the door

The first Aprils Follies in the Valley was in 2009. Read April’s adventures On The Way to the Follies.

Watch: Drag Queen Bingo & Alaska Pride Parade (videos)

Friday, 2 July 2010 – 8:24 AM | Comments Off

Drag Queen Bingo story on KTVA Channel 11

Thanks to KTVA channel 11 for airing several stories throughout the week of Alaska PrideFest this year. Here are KTVA’s stories on the annual Drag Queen Bingo at Snow City Café, a benefit for AMP; and at Anchorage’s annual Pride parade and festival.

Drag Queen Bingo at Snow City tonight

Thursday, 24 June 2010 – 5:23 AM | Comments Off

The 3rd annual Drag Queen Bingo is on Thursday June 24 from 6-9 p.m. at Snow City Café in downtown Anchorage, and it’s a fundraiser for the Four A’s Anchorage Mpowerment Project (AMP). This PrideFest event is bigger and better than ever, according to Identity’s The NorthView.

"Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" at Mini Film Fest for Anchorage Pride

Saturday, 12 June 2010 – 2:16 PM | Comments Off

The Bear Tooth is hosting a GLBT Mini-Fest for Anchorage Pride Week with three movies: City of Borders (an Israeli documentary), The Big Gay Musical (a romantic date movie) – both showing on Monday June 21 – and the 1994 classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert showing Thursday June 24.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Thursday, June 24 at 10 PM, tickets $3

This is the tale of two drag queens and a transsexual who embark on a road trip to a remote resort town in the Australian desert on a bus christened Priscilla. When Anthony “Tick”/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) is invited to perform in Alice Springs, he recruits flamboyant young stud Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce) and the legendary, refined Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to join him. Mitzi, however, fails to disclose one important fact to his friends: his wife is the one who invited them to Alice Springs.

With one big secret about to be revealed and another one up his sleeve, Mitzi is a little stressed. With long hours on the road ahead of them, the trio lip-synchs campy songs on the bus, creates fabulous costumes, and meets a multitude of colorful characters along the way. They party with friendly aborigines, are confronted by judgmental townspeople who are averse to drag queens, and meet Bob (Bill Hunter), a warmhearted mechanic and drag fan who joins them for the last leg of their trip when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere.

Fantastic costumes and fabulous makeup abound, and fine performances are delivered all around. But perhaps most important are the implicit messages that families come in all forms, that friends can make a family, and that love really knows no boundaries.

It’s the Australian film that blitzed overseas box offices. It caused a near riot at the Cannes Film Festival. It won an Academy Award®. It’s fun, daring, over-the-top and unforgettable. It’s a road movie with attitude and the occasional frock. (Australia 1994, Rated R)

The other two trailers will be posted separately. For more information, visit the Anchorage Pride Mini GLBT Film Festival, and see the full Pride Week schedule at Alaska Pride 2010.

Femme Fatale returns to Juneau

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 – 10:52 AM | Comments Off

The Drag Queens are Back! The Anchorage divas will perform in Juneau on Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2, for two unique performances of Femme Fatale, the annual Juneau show to raise money for Four A’s. The Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association (Four A’s) provides AIDS prevention, education, and client services.

The Femme Fatale 2009 performers include Rosie Rotton, Kristara, Jovi, Mariquita, and Ashley.

Femme Fatale has been a tradition in Juneau for almost twenty years. Mikey LaChoy, Emperor 25 of the Imperial Court of All Alaska (ICOAA) is the coordinator of Femme Fatale.

This year’s show follows an unusually tense legislative session. Last year, the show raised nearly $3,000 for Four A’s, despite the lack of electricity during Juneau’s energy crisis.

Tickets for Femme Fatale are available at Four A’s-Southeast (174 South Franklin Street, #207), Marlintini’s, The Rendezvous, or UAS. The cost is $15 per show.

Femme Fatale: Friday, May 1, 8 p.m. at the Rendezvous, and Saturday, May 2, 9 p.m. at Marlintini’s.