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Members of the Latino GLBT History Project, a local organization founded two years ago. (Photo courtesy of Jose Gutierrez)
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By: Rebecca Armendariz and Amy Cavanaugh COMMENTS
 
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will host an evening of performances and food beginning at Town Danceboutique Saturday.
The event will kick off with a cabaret show performed by Chorus members at 6 p.m. Afterwards, guests are invited to 20 different homes throughout the D.C. area for meals prepared by some of the Chorus’s chefs and hosts.
Home Cooked Cabaret is directed by Chorus members Tim Tourbin and Chris Cochran. Jeff Hamlin will accompany.
Guests will be assigned to hosts depending on locale unless the Chorus is notified ahead of time of a preference. Seats at $75, and a limited number of standing-room tickets will be available once the first 160 tickets are sold. For tickets, call 202-293-1548.
C.O.M.M.A.N.D. MC, Baltimore’s leather club, will celebrate its 21st anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the Mr. Maryland Leather contest Saturday.
Past Mr. Maryland Leather titleholders will serve as judges for the event. Emcees will be Charles Oswald, manager of Club XS in York, Pa.; and Shawnna Alexander, C.O.M.M.A.N.D. MC honorary associate member.
The event takes place at 1 p.m. at Club Hippo, 1 W. Eager St., in Baltimore. There will also be a meet-and-greet at Club Phoenix, 1 W. Biddle St., Baltimore, tonight from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
For more information, email commandmcnmd@aol.com.
Artists and couple Eric Markow and Thom Norris will present their woven glass sculptures in an exhibition at the glass studio that launched their career.
Beginning Wednesday, never-before-seen works of the pair will be on display at the Weisser Gallery in Kensington, Md. The exhibit runs through Dec. 6.
Works will include a piece from the Origami Sculpture Collection and a freestanding, life-size Autumn Sunset Kimono, which will be on exhibit for the first time. Peace Cranes, individual hanging works that weigh 35 pounds each, and an Asian Elephant wall sculpture, will also be on display.
An opening reception and artists meet-and-greet will take place Nov. 15 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. A walk-through of the exhibit with the artists will take place Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. RSVP appreciated at marcy@yellowskyagency.com.
The Weisser Gallery is located at 4080B Howard Ave., Kensington, Md. For more information, visit www.wovenglass.com.
The Latino GLBT History Project, the Office on Latino Affairs and the Historical Society of Washington is hosting “Dia de los Muertos — Heroes Latinos LGBTQ,” Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Historical Society of Washington, located at 801 K Street, N.W. (near the Convention Center Metro station).
A collection of 60 photos by Kevin Kenner, a local gay photographer, will be on display. Kenner shot the series of local Latino gay heroes, including Dilcia Molina, Marta Alvarado, Eva Young, Yajaira Arreaza, Sophia Carrero, Gladis Gonzalez, Diego Sanchez, Hector Zarate, Luigi Buitrago, Robert Giron, Jorge Delgado and others.
The name, translated “day of the dead,” is a reference to those in the local gay Latino community who have died. An altar in their memory will be on display at the exhibit, which runs through the end of the month.
Admission is free. For more information, contact Latino GLBT History Project founder Jose Gutierrez at 202-588-0067 or josegutierrezdc@aol.com.
Split, a new gay event at Lucky Strike in D.C., begins Nov. 11. There will be bowling, food and drink specials available, and a rotating DJ. Split is from 8 p.m. to midnight and there’s a $3 cover. The event will be held the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, with no dates in December. Lucky Strike is located at 701 7th St., N.W.
The AFI’s European Union Film Showcase runs through Nov. 24, and there are LGBT-related films, including “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.” It’s based on a popular novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, which won’t be released in the U.S. until March 2010.
In it, bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist to solve a decades old disappearance in a small Swedish town. It screens Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Other LGBT-related films are “Ander,” a Spanish film about a relationship between a sheep rancher and a ranch hand, which screens Nov. 16 and 18 at 9 p.m. and “To Die Like a Man” from Portugal about a drag queen with a junkie lover, missing son and leaking implants, which screens tonight at 9:20 p.m. and Sunday at ...
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