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| CORONATION AND ASCENTION INVITATION Greetings and salutations! [Editor's Note: The following is an open letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community from the reigning Empress of the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle, Olympia XXXV Aleksa Manila.] On behalf of The Emperor of Seattle - HMISM Rainier XXXII Larry Stewart Ryan and The Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle and the Olympic & Rainier Empire, it is with pride and honor that I cordially invite you to Coronation 2007 : The President's Ball on Saturday, February 17 at The Red Lion Hotel On Fifth in majestic Downtown Seattle! This event is a celebration of the Court of Seattle's year of fundraising, social awareness and community involvement of Their Majesties and their Court, and honoring over 30 years of the organization's work in the LGBT communities of Seattle and beyond. We are proud to announce this year's Honorary Co-Chairs - Tina Podlodowski of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Ann McGettigan of Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities, LGBT activist Marsha Botzer, celebrity author Reichen Lehmkuhl, Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini and international recording artist Kristine W. The evening is highlighted with the announcement of this year's recipient(s) of the JC/Lady Graytop Memorial Scholarship Award and customary 'Command Performances' from The Visqueens of Seattle, Empress Lala Too de San Diego, Empress Taryn Thru-U of Sacramento, the Filipiniana Dance Company of Seattle, Miss Gay Seattle XXII - the legendary Miss Smokee and Seattle's cabaret sensation - Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse. And with special surprise presentations, the evening will prove to be spectacularly stellar and stunning! This year also marks a historical landmark event as Seattle hosts the Ascension of Empress Nicole The Great de San Diego AKA San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez as Queen Mother of the Americas. Her Majesty will be filling the role of Empress 1 Jose 'Mama Jose' Sarria of San Francisco, The Widow Norton, Founder of the International Court System, the world's largest LGBT organization with over 60 chapters in Canada, United States and Mexico. Most notably, 'Mama Jose' is the first openly Gay man to run for public office in the United States. As a drag performer at the Black Cat in San Francisco in the 1950's, 'Mama Jose' experienced intense police harassment, but he refused to buckle under and would lead the patrons each night in singing "God Save Us Nelly Queens." He ran for Supervisor in 1961, collecting an astonishing 5,600 votes and paving the way for the late Harvey Milk and others. Current San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty said in a recent San Francisco Chronicle article- "For more than half a century, José Julio Sarria, once dubbed the 'Nightingale of Montgomery Street,' nurtured San Francisco's and America's Gay communities through the periods of McCarthyism, the backlash against Gay rights and AIDS... Sarria backed Harvey Milk's political campaign for city supervisor, defying the fears of many Gay men and Lesbian political leaders that Milk's openness would antagonize the city's heterosexual progressive politicians." Bevan quotes from Michael Robert Gorman's biography of Jose, "The Empress Is a Man" (Haworth Press, 1998): "In 1963, facing ongoing police pressure, the owner of The Black Cat closed the bar. Within a week, police had closed five other Gay bars, and by 1964 only 18 of the city's 30 primarily Gay and Lesbian drinking establishments remained. "Sarria and the bar owners formed the Tavern Guild and put on San Francisco's first large, public drag ball. More than 500 Lesbians and Gay men bravely crossed police lines and faced the camera flashes of police photographers to attend this ball, during which Sarria was crowned queen. "The Tavern Guild began to hold an annual drag ball, marked by the election of a citywide empress to succeed Empress Jose. It developed the bylaws and functions for the Imperial Court of San Francisco, a local charity that raises money for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and other charities through drag shows and other functions. By the early 1970s, similar court systems had been established in Vancouver and Portland, and over the next 40 years individual courts have been established in 66 cities, states or provinces in the United States and Canada." This is just the gyst of the year's most historic and fabulous LGBT event in the Northwest! With our honored guests, join us and witness who will become the next Emperor and Empress of Seattle! I humbly urge you to attend and share with us this event! For further information, please visit www.imperialcourtofseattle.com. With love, health & prosperity, HMISM Olympia XXXV Aleksa Manila The Empress of Seattle - The Reign Of Love, Health & Prosperity The Imperial Sovereign Court Of Seattle And The Olympic And Rainier Empire REVEREND TED HAGGARD MOM, Ted's pulling a boner again ... ! Teddies overseer says "Ted is completely heterosexual." Imagine that, all in just 3 months. MYYYYY OHMY, this is fodder for South Park for eeeeeeeeeeons. In Ted's latest, God forgives me. In a I'm-a-fag-reformed letter to his church, he says "the sun is starting to rise in my life." That's Freudian for: the homo bone south of the border also rises. So, he has to think of Gayle as Mike for awhile. Hey, if I had this much riding on my life, I might just ask her how she felt about a trip to Denmark. If the e-scam-gelicals believe this latest chapter to the Haggard ho story, and some of them will, it will just be one more self-imposed dumb-ass ignorant nail in their proverbial coffin marked "wake up, you're over." Though it can be boring to watch a dyna-sour die, this last dance side show definitely has it's dime store dork-boy antics for a good morning chuckle. Anyone care for another cup of religion? Oh and umm, pass the cream please. Dave Wakefield Inscamigator |
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