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PHOTOS: 'It's all luck' at Ballard's Rainbow Bingo night

KNKX Public Radio | By Posey Gruener
Published May 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM PDT
Rainbow Bingo players blot out the numbers as they're called.
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Rainbow Bingo players blot out the numbers as they're called.
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Things get a little rowdy when Sylvia O'Stayformore (left) calls O-69.
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Things get a little rowdy when Sylvia O'Stayformore (left) calls O-69.
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Once called, the numbers are placed in a grid and a corresponding number lights up on the bingo board.
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Once called, the numbers are placed in a grid and a corresponding number lights up on the bingo board.
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A winner gets her picture taken with Sylvia O'Stayformore.
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A winner gets her picture taken with Sylvia O'Stayformore.
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Once a winner calls "Bingo!" the other players crumple up their bingo sheets and toss them at the winner. By midway through the night, the floor is littered.
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Once a winner calls "Bingo!" the other players crumple up their bingo sheets and toss them at the winner. By midway through the night, the floor is littered.
Posey Gruener / KNKX

This story originally aired on May 25, 2019. 

For almost five years, Seattle drag queen Sylvia O'Stayformore has been hosting Rainbow Bingo at Ballard Northwest Senior Center. There are colorful decorations, themed prizes, and a bar for beer and wine. And, of course, O'Stayformore performs a number or two.

Carlye Teel, director of the center, says they first heard about Rainbow Bingo through one of their groups at the center, A.B.L.E. (Aging Ballard Lesbian Exchange) and immediately thought, "yes, that's for us." Teel says the event fit perfectly with a value of the center: "everyone is welcome." 

In this story, listen in as O'Stayformore hosts a Cinco de Mayo themed night, and one unlucky player finally gets to shout "Bingo!"
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