Arts & Recreation

Tqual was founded by Tuffi Dolan, 3 Time Washington State Disc Golf Champion who defeated the Current 2007 United States Open Disc Golf Champion Elaine King in 2004 at the Fort Steilacoom Supertour Event in Tacoma, Washington.

Send me an email, leave me some comments, or send me a picture of you that I can post here.  I'd really like to reach alot transgender and gender variant people.  One of my  goals  for Tqual is to join forces with straight-allied disc golfers and their friends.  If you would like to have a disc golf clinic or training, let me know.  We can order some discs, learn the basics, and go out and have some fun throwing frisbees and learning how to keep score.  It's alot of fun.  The benefits of playing disc golf include better health, and loss of weight and learning a sport that you can play all your life.

Contact:  Lowell Shields is a 9 time Washington State Disc Golf Champion and is a nice person to order disc golf items from:  (425) 670.2548.

a community chorus that welcomes everyone. Memebers are lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, transgender and queer. All levels of musical ability are welcome:)

We started out as an informal group of bike enthusiasts in the late
1980’s, but we adopted a more organized structure with an elected
board, written bylaws and membership dues as our ranks grew through the
1990’s. In 2002 we incorporated as a non-profit. Today we have about
100 members, a third of whom are women.

Our website replaced our monthly paper newsletter in April 2005 and
this innovation has facilitated communication greatly. At any hour of
any day members can post/access bike rides and social events on our calendar, discuss club activities on our message board, and share photos.

Volunteerism is the basis of Different Spokes. Everyone—from ride
leaders to social coordinators to board members—gives her/his time and
effort without pay. The membership dues we collect go solely toward the
maintenance and upgrade of our website and to fund social events, such
as potlucks and parties.

Since 1995 we have been affiliated with Team Seattle, Seattle’s gay
sports network and it is through Team Seattle that Spokesters have
participated in Northwest Gay/Lesbian Summer Sports Festivals and the
Gay Games. We are proud that our members have competed in and won
medals at Gay Games V (1998-Amsterdam) and Gay Games VI (2002-Sydney).
Chicago hosted Gay Games VII in 2006.

Our diverse, international membership of over 45 men hails from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Composed of seasoned riders as well as novice, we come from all walks of life and professions.

The Border Riders Motorcycle Club promotes motorcycle safety and education, on safe and legal machinery, following all applicable laws and regulations. We welcome any motorcycle capable of sustained highways
speeds.

Bent began as the dream of a queer poet longing for a bigger community of queer writers. Tara Hardy took action and in August of 2000 the first queer writer's class began in her living room. The supportive and empowering collective has blossomed ever since. Five classes filled up quickly, and soon the institute was too big for Tara's living room.

Formed in 1979, our organization has grown to house not only the two choruses, but a thriving publishing arm and concert performance series that presents groups and individuals from around the world. We are Washington state's largest and most influential choral organization. Flying House Productions ranks third among the state's music organizations in terms of budget, audience exposure, and ensemble size.

Seattle Men's Chorus is the largest community chorus in America. It is also the largest gay men's chorus in the world! Seattle Women's Chorus made its world premier on stage April 2002 and has quickly grown to over 200 singers. Each chorus has a base of over 80 volunteers and associate members that support both choruses.

More than 40,000 people attend the subscription series annually. Thousands more see each chorus in other local performances every year. Since 1994, over 2.5 million viewers have seen Seattle Men's Chorus in their award-winning television program "Swellegant Elegance" which continues to air on PBS stations across the nation.

Flying House Productions publishes its own programs and lifestyle magazine. Flying House also presents gay and lesbian positive performers like Margaret Cho, Cris Williamson, Lea DeLaria, Bruce Vilanch, Kate Clinton, Holly Near, Scott Thompson, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and David Sedaris.

Full-time professional staff includes the executive director, director of marketing and public relations, director of development, director of finance, special events manager, assistant artistic director, advertising sales representative, box office manager, multimedia designer, accounting assistant, database administrator, company manager and administrative assistant. Dennis Coleman has served as artistic director since 1980.

The mission of Diverse Harmony, a gay/straight alliance youth chorus, is to create a safe, affirming environment where everyone is accepted for who they are. We use our passion and the power of music to inspire the celebration of differences in our homes, community and world.

Our guiding values are:

• Musical excellence
• Fun and friendship Safety and support for being true self
• Inclusiveness
• Courage
• Self-responsibility
• Community service

We proudly invite all gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual and trans-gendered youth (ages 13-22) to participate in a choral community of their own.

Since the late 1980s, ArtsWest has presented works throughout West Seattle in various locations. In November 1999, the community worked together to help finance a 149-seat, 3/4 thrust theater and visual art gallery. In the years since that opening, ArtsWest has presented over 400 different performing arts productions and gallery exhibitions, to over 200,000 visitors, offering a positive economic impact on West Seattle of over $4 million. For the 2007-08 Season, ArtsWest presents "A Year of Premieres" - 5 Seattle premieres of award-winning plays and musicals, all of which further the mission.

ArtsWest is proudly supported by hundreds of individual donors and volunteers, the city, county and state arts commissions, foundations, and corporate.