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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1988)
BARBARA G. C L I N I C A L ISAACS, Ph.D. P S Y C H O L O G I S T 2250 NW FLANDERS, SUITE 312 ■ PORTLAND, OREGON 97210 ( 503 ) 248-0775 'lisp _ and p re s e n t w o m e n ’ s rn d a c ttm STUDIES An Evening with Fem inist Comedienne mmm- í mm y W 11 111 \ s i Ä i k . /CATE c ' m r o f i/ ! January 20th, 8 pm — PSU Smith Memorial Ballroom Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door • Available at A Woman’s Place Bookstore £ Let your body speak its mind. JoAnn Loulan is in Portland December 9- II for a lecture, workshop and seminar to benefit A Woman s Place Bookstore. take our sexuality and suppress it down — at school, at work, with our families of origin, on the street," Loulan has said. She emphasizes feeling good about ourselves and our sexuality. Covering many topics which concern lesbians, such as incest, child abuse, drug oAnn Loulan, lesbian and psycho abuse, and lesbians and AIDS, Loulan delivers therapist, sex educator, and researcher will her message in an affirming, enlightening and present a weekend of lectures and workshops, humorous manner. The weekend begins on Fri December 9-11. The programs, presented by day with an evening of provocative humor and Girlfriend Productions and Portland State lesbian sex education at the Northwest Service University Women’s Studies will benefit A Center, continues on Saturday with a day-long Woman's Place Bookstore. workshop "Reclaiming Lesbian Sex With a Loulan is best known for her pioneering Passion," at Shattuck Hall on the PSU campus, books Lesbian Sex and Lesbian Passion: Loving and concludes on Sunday with a sexuality train Ourselves and Each Other. She has been active ing seminar for mental health professionals. in the field of human sexuality for more than Tickets for the separate events are available 15 years. at A Woman's Place Bookstore. 1431 NE ‘ ‘ We are raised as women in a woman-hating, Broadway, 503-284-1110. See Out About Town sex-hating, lesbian-hating culture. Most of us for particulars. • JoAnn Loulan offers sexy weekend for lesbians • Massage Therapy • Body Awareness • Body-centered Counseling J Book briefs mong the books in this month’s mail, three were particularly intriguing. From Banned Books of Austin, Texas, William Barber’s Diary o f a New York Queen and A | Herd o f Tiny Elephants by Stan Leventhal further explore the many facets of gay men’s 1 lives. Recorded in the Diary o f a New York Queen is a year in the whimsical peregrinations of a fashion queen who firmly believes that "any- >ne who can go from K-Mart to Bloomingdalc's tust be doing something right.” Our hero is an insecure, self-centered, tough, sensitive fashion statement. His world is copied with lovers — current and ex — and friends both gay and straight, including a fag lag girlfriend for whose child he becomes godmother. A confrontation between our hero and his :urrent ex-lover’s haughtily patrician mother is lilarious. In this short scene author Barber exhibits superbly his ear for gayspeak. While Stan Leventhal’s Greenwich Village lilieu may not be everyone’s ideal New York, lis stories of gay relationships are sensitively rawn vignettes of gay life in the ’80s. In the tie story, A Herd o f Tiny Elephants refers to A F <> ME OF MY LIFE year’s trophies given to the protagonist by a man with whom he occasionally tricks. Leventhal’s previously published Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square (Banned Books) reports on much the same environment as that in these stories. The third book is David Leavitt’s new novel, due out in February — and it is not set in New York. ^ to èenefitSoèerjair .in support of the ja y anijhsSicn cpnjmunity — Jay Brown he Lesbian SIM Safety Manual, edited by Pat Califia (Lace Publications) is a collection of articles and stories on s/m safety. The topics range from how to creatively dis cover your partner’s sexual desires, to s/m first aid. Particularly enjoyable are three clever vignettes by Dorothy Allison eroticizing safe sex (dental dams, rubber gloves, etc ). Pat Califia and Cynthia Astuto included an instructive article on “ How to make s/m feel good and get ’em coming back for more.” The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual is informa tive. thought provoking and easy-to-read. A must for the connoisseur or those new to the scene who want some good tips on playing it safe. r ‘Dance V o ^ 0 rf Northwest Service Center, DOOR P R IZ E S - P A R T Y soft drinks, juice, coffee $ 6 / p erson $ lO/coupl — Mitzi McMullen just out • 21 • December 1988
