Saturday, June 20

Ninth Annual Stonewall Youth Drag Show Extravaganza
At Ye Olde Capitol Theater
$5.00 admission for youth/ $10-$100 sliding scale- no one turned away for lack of funds!

Tickets available at the box office night of show only!

7:00pm doors/7:30pm show

Join us on a magical queer journey through the fairy tales you thought you knew ... and support your favorite queer youth organization at the same time.

Can the Fairly Gay Mother and the Pride Piper help Lesborella, Sleeping Handsome, and the rest find their way? Are they even lost? Part Variety Show. Part Original Play. Featuring local artists, community members, and, of course, the youth. One time extravaganza...don't miss out!

"Special guests, Tender Forever and Kimya Dawson will be performing as well!" - Kimya actually says "I am performing as unstoppable diva Jamoca Brown in the Stonewall Youth Drag Show tomorrow night!!! "

I attended Capital City Pride. I walked with Cheryl Crist, who was in attendance. Here are photos from today's Capitol City Pride celebration:

Here's an alternate access to the photos I took: flickr.com...sets/72157605762978504/.

Here's a link to photos tagged with "20080622capitalcitypride": www.flickr.com/photos/tags/20080622capitalcitypride

p.s. you can add photos to this viewer by uploading them to Flickr and adding this tag: "20080622capitalcitypride". -bert

Olympia's Pride parade begins at noon on Sunday June 22, leaving from the capitol building and traveling north on Capital Way through downtown Olympia. State Senator Joe McDermott of Seattle will serve as the 2008 Grand Marshal. The parade ends at historic Sylvester Park, where the day-long festival takes place.

There's still space available for entries in the pride parade and registration forms and more information is available at www.capitalcitypride.net. Festival booth registrations are also available.

Besides food and booths, festival entertainers this year feature headliners top-10 LOGO/MTV artist Brian Kent from New York City and hip-hop artist katastrophe from San Francisco. Other entertainers include Tuscon singer/songwriter Courtney Robbins and the Kim Archer Band from Tacoma.

Check www.capitalcitypride.net in the next week for updates and the weekend's full schedule, including a number of events Saturday, June 21.

Capital City Pride is accepting submissions for a call for talent for the 2008 Pride Festival. The festival is June 22, featuring a parade in downtown Olympia and a day-long festival in Sylvester Park.

Selected entertainers are compensated.

Please send a CD, print quality photo and biographical information to:

Capital City Pride
ATTN: Karola Longoria
PO Box 7221
Olympia, WA 98507

For more information, contact karola.longoria@capitalcitypride.net or go to www.capitalcitypride.net.

A CALL FOR TALENT for Capital City Pride, the second-largest GLBT pride celebration in Washington. Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sylvester Park, downtown Olympia

Please send CD, reproducible photo & biographical information to:

Capital City Pride Committee
ATTN: Karola Longoria
PO BOX 7221 Olympia, WA 98507-7221

For more information, contact: Karola Longoria at: Karola.Longoria@capitalcitypride.net

Deadline: March 28, 2007