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I_ z r ZD May, 1986 Vol. 3 No. 7 STAFF and double-spaced. All graphic material should be black ink on white paper. Material wil! be edited for spelling and grammar, with the exception of letters to the editor. Co-publishers Jay Brown Renee LaChance Deadline for submissions is the 15th of each m onth. O ut About Town is a courtesy to our readers. Performers, clubs, individuals, or groups wanting to list events in the calendar should mail notices to Ju st O u t by the 15th of the month preceding publication. Listings will not be taken by telephone. Editor Jay Brown Features Editor W.C. McRae Production Director Renee LaChance Display advertising will be accepted up to the 20th of each month. Advertising Director Roger Hall Classified ads must be received at the office of Ju st O u t by the 20th of each month, along with payment. Ads will not be taken over the telephone. Advertising Associates Eve Sicular Jewel M urphy Julie Draper W illiam Youngren Eddie Hickey Contributors Lee Lynch Eleanor M alin Michael Helquist Eve S icular Jim A nctil Kate Zon David Gutierrez Sandra De Helen Julie D raper Rhia W einhaus Pat S cott Editorial policies allow the rejection or the edit ing of an article or advertisement that is offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. Just O ut consults the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual on editorial decisions. Views expressed in letters to the editor, columns, and features may not be those of the editorial staff of Just O ut. Subscriptions to Just O u t are available for $7.50 for 12 issues. A free copy of Just O u t and/or advertising rates are available upon request p h o to b y S allie Bird Just O u t is published the first of each month. Copyright 1986. No part of Just O u t may be repro duced without written permisison of the publishers. Production Bev La Belle E. Ann Hinds Graphic Inspiration Rupert Kinnard Written and graphic materials are welcomed for submission. All written material should be typed In Memoriam Simone de Beauvoir, a leading fem inist thinker, died in Paris on A pril 14th at the age o f 78. De Beauvoir, philosopher, left-w ing intellectual and long-tim e com panion o f existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, was a m ajor influence on the w om en’s m ovem ent th ro u g h o u t the w orld as the author o f The Second Sex. This work, published in 1949, critiqu ed the ideology and historical context o f w om en’s oppression, exploring the need fo r transform ation in the relations o f wom en and m en. De Beauvoir w ill also be rem em bered fo r her m any other books, essays, and plays. She is the subject o f an eloquent film portrait to be shown Saturday, May 24 at 8 pm at the N orth- west F ilm & Video Center, 1219 SW Park Avenue. This film , a 1979 B elgian/French co-pro ductio n, is part o f the ongoing C on tem porary W orden D irectors series. Jean Genet, playwright, novelist, and ico n o cla st died in France last m onth at the age o f 76. B om in Paris illegitim ately, by the age o f 10 Genet was in reform school, begin ning an odyssey through m any prisons th ro u g h o u t Europe. In 1948, after being sentenced to life im prisonm ent fo r sm ug g lin g and thieving, Genet was granted pardon when France’s m ost em inent writers, organized by Jean-Paul Sartre (who later w ould w rite the m ajor philosophical work S aint Genet) petitioned the French president G enet’s m ost fam ous works are his novels, O u r Lady o f the Hom ers and The Thiefs Jo u rn a l; Q uerelle o f Brest was made into a m ovie by Fassbinder. His plays, including The M aids and The B alcony are exercises in sardonic fantasy and evil. Genet’s consider able reputation as a w riter and thinker is due in part to his “ Aesthetic o f degradation.’’ The The mailing address and telephone number for Just O u t are: P .O . B ox 1 5 1 1 7 P ortland, O R 9 7 2 1 5 2 3 6 -1 2 5 2 sordid, the im m oral, and the hum iliating were fo r him opportunities w hich could, by the aestheticising capacity o f the brain, be turned into experiences o f beauty. G enet's lyric if idiosyncratic defense of hom osexuality has earned him one o f the m o st notorious reputations in m odem letters, and his stature as a thinker has increased recently after being cham pioned by French and Am erican Post-Structuralist theorists. TH* P u p * G roup fir a p lv c « CA1HARTIC COMICS Featuring THE BROWN BOMBER & DIVA TOUCHE FLAM BE Her: loo n r tuf fa te r u / tth , the cape ! roo hoo ... FM SS F/flPY, G/HL Just Out, May 1986 3