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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1988)
lust out • • • • • • • • • • • # • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Photo by Jay Brown Steppin’ Out -^ 1 f C O N T E N T S ('«-Publishers Renee LaChance ami Jay Brown Kditor Jay Brown Calendar Editor Staff Reporters Letters .................................. 4 What's going on here?......... 5 Just News ............................ 6 The Tribal D rum .................... 11 LCP .......................................12 Profile ................................... 13 Out About Town ..................18 Music ...................................21 Just Entertainment ................22 Cinema .................................24 Eating O u t............................. 25 The Amazon Trail ................26 The Roseburg Report...........27 Counsel.................................28 Comics .................................29 Classifieds............................. 30 Meg Grace Harold Moore Kamila Al-Najjar Advertising Representatives Jewel Murphy, Meg Grace. Jeff Fritz Production Director Renee luiChance Creative Director E Ann Hinds Typesetting Em Space Proofreading Marvin Moore («raphic Inspiration Rupert Kinnard Distribution Diana Cohen Contributors Lee Lynch Eric Rofes Dr. Tantalus Bill Struhhe Joel Redon Anudee Hochman Billy Russo M ichaels. Reed Kelly Masek Marion Miller Bradley J. Woodworth Gay Mont ever de Lisa M Mayfield Suzanne Stauss Eleanor Malin The language of sexual oppression Just Oul is published (he first of each month. Copyright I4XH No part of Just Oul may be reproduced without written permission of the publishers W ritten and graphic materials are welcomed for submission All written material should be typed and double spaced All graphic material should be black ink on white paper Material will he edited for spelling and grammar, with the exception of letters to the editor headline for submissions is the 15th of each month. Out About Town is a courtesy to our readers. 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The mailing address and telephone number (or Just Out are: P O Box 15117 Portland. OR 97215 <503» 236-1252 S A F E S E X IIIV. the virus which causes AIDS is trans mitted through direct contact with infected body fluids, i.e .. blood, semen, urine, feces and pos sibly vaginal secretions To insure that sexual activity is safe avoid contact with body fluids. U N SA FE SEX • Vaginal or anal intercourse without a latex condom • Fellatio without a latex condom • Sem en, blood or urine in the mouth • Blood contact o f any kind • Ond anal contact • Fist fucking • Sharing sex toys SA F E SEX • Massage • Hugging • Body to body rubbing • Voyeurism, exhibitionism, fantasy • Masturbation SH A R IN G NEEDLES IS UNSAFE IN ANY SITUATION Just Out 2 May I9HH To employ the words ‘ ‘deviate sexual intercourse'' is to perpetuate a divisive norm/other attitude. Deviate from what? It's insulting, it's oppressive, it’s damaging . BY L I SA M. M A Y F I E L D attended a group recently to work on my copulationism. A friend mentioned it one day at iunch; he thought I might find it “ stimulating.” I was intrigued. What might this be? Visions o f the possibilities flashed through my head. I didn’t know. But not wishing to sound ignorant. I said, “ Oh. no, I don’t think so— I’m n o t. . . oversexed. Or whatever.” “ What dries that mean?” he asked, baffling me. "W h at does what m ean?" “ O versexed." “ What does it mean?” “ I asked you first.” “ OK. what tim e?" I Across one wall o f the meeting room I entered the next evening was a blackboard emblazoned with this message: LOVEMAKING vs. DEVIATE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE MARITAL RELATIONS vs. SODOMY NORM vs. OTHER G(X)D vs. BAD I had arrived several minutes late and the meeting was already under way. The group of ten or so. including my friend, and someone whom I gathered to he a facilitator, sat in a circle, some in chairs, some on the floor. It was a motley crew, to all appearances. One handsome fellow, probably in his 30s, sat forward in his chair, his face in his hands, sobbing. A stem, sharp-hrowed woman orated. “ I ’ve just come from a meeting with a ’sym pathetic’ state legislator and I’m furious. The language o f these sex-offense statutes is patently copulationist and oppressive to the sexually other-oriented. I’m talking about the use o f the term ‘deviate sexual intercourse.’ " My friend, noticing my entrance, came over to greet me. “ Catching the drift?" 1 was. hut I was magnificently underwhelmed My consciousness had been raised so many times it was now seated on Cloud Nine, just inside the pearly gates. Also, rabid hypercritical fanatics nitpicking over minutiae irritated me. But not to seem impolite, I inquired, “ Why is that man crying?” “ Oh. Bill has been working on his sexual relationship with his wife, and he is grieving the loss he has suffered from his inability to play and experiment because of his own copulation ism. He’s having a tough time right now. Institutionalized copulationism leaves casualties in all walks of life.” Like the penis of a fourteen-year-old boy, in response to nuances of another's movements undetectable to the naked eye, my eyebrow arched in response to the presence of B.S. I said. “ Institutionalized copulationism?” “ The hegemonic attitude in our culture that says that genital copulation is the norm and all other sexual behavior is ‘other,’ unacceptable, bad. forbidden, naughty and wrong. Look at our sodomy statutes and sexual-misconduct sta tutes. They use the term ‘deviate sexual intercourse.’ Do you know what deviate sexual intercourse is?" He delivered his lines with a face as blank as a postal clerk’s, but his voice steadily rose so that by the end. the group was watching and listening. My face reddening. I shot a pained smile toward them and fairly whispered my response. \ eah. it means contact between the sex organs ot one person and the mouth or anus of another. And it isn't illegal. It’scriminal, basically, only when it's non-consensual or with persons 16 or younger. Oregon hasn't criminalized the ‘loath some crime against nature' for almost 20 yean>." He forged ahead. “ That’s beside the point. To employ the words ‘deviate sexual intercourse is to perpetuate a divisive norm/other attitude. IX v iate from what ’ It s insulting, it’s oppres sive, it's damaging. Have you read Hardwick?” I felt myselt becoming an object lesson, a living, breathing piece of physical graffiti in bas-rcliet on the wall of the counterculture. I rose to the occasion. "Yes.” I spat, “ and what s w rong with the Supreme Court acknowl edging the power of the states to pass reasonable law s articulating the opinion of the majority of P'ìÀl iV'i f c W 'f r w * 0 \l>' (•, ¿V': J v \ \ I rkt'rckncpi JXv'./TfsU) Illustration by E. Ann Hinds its citizens?” Was I really saying these things? I quickly checked my calendar watch; perhaps there was still time to register Republican before the primary. I thought I detected a note o f pity as he continued. “ W hat’s reasonable about labelling criminal a private, consensual activity that among married heterosexuals is acceptable? My point is that when the highest court in the land says ‘homosexuals have no right to engage in sodomy,’ it is evidence o f oppression so deep, so institutionalized, that millions learn to think themselves bad. And it starts so early and is so constant that we don’t even know it ourselves. We are all sexual cripples. You are a cripple." I heard the group’s astonished, collective inhalation. There was what seemed a long, gravid pause within which I imagined, in slow motion, myself — a black belt — delivering a swift kick to my friend’s solar plexus. It was the moment o f truth, was it not? Clapping my friend on the shoulder, I said, “ And you’re Dale Carnegie, right? I knew we could create a win/win situation if we tried. We can both have something we want! I. for exam ple, want out o f here. Although I’m not certain exactly what you want, I know this will help. I pulled a wad o f bills out of my pocket and tucked them into my friend’s shirt pocket. “ H ere’s $ 2 0 0 .1 was going to split that between the NRA and the Pit Bull Protective Society, but hey — they can wait until next month." My friend patted his bulging pocket and said. “ Money talks." " I know ," I said, as I opened the door to let m yself out. "S av e me a place, I may be back.