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Ph.D.
P S Y C H O L O G I S T
2250 NW FLANDERS, SUITE 312 ■ PORTLAND, OREGON 97210
( 503 )
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January 20th, 8 pm — PSU Smith Memorial Ballroom
Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door • Available at A Woman’s Place Bookstore
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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.
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JoAnn Loulan offers
sexy weekend
for lesbians
• Massage Therapy
• Body Awareness
• Body-centered Counseling
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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
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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.
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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