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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1990)
Survival hints not for the neurotic Having fun poking fun at lesbians The Lesbian Survival Manual. Cartoons by Rhonda Dicksion, $8.95 from the Naiad Press . !£ his is a compilation of Dicksion’s Lesbian Survival Hints. If you are neurotic enough to want them in ascending numerical order, you’ll be sadly disappointed. The book begins with Hint #30 and ends with Hint #69 passing the teens, twenties and a few. other numbers Q enroute. T THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS A N D O TH ER STORIES Oo SNUCfc HOT” DOGS IMrO THE WOMEN'S MUSIC f e s t i v a l . lh L E S B IA N SU R V IV A L HINT *10^- YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT T H E N O VICE ON H E R F IR S T T IM E OUT. \o®\ LESBIAN s u r v iv a l HINT THE ''LESBIAN pouce." SHOULD NOT 66 YOUR ONLY CONCERN Along the way we are given a mirthful look at Lesbians with Lesbians with Cats, Lesbians with Lesbians into S/M, and the politically incorrect lesbian among other lesbian things. If you’re into innovative party games, at the next lesbian potluck (see Hint #96) you could always pull numbers from a hat and see who could correctly quote the Lesbian Survival Hint from memory. Just be sure to do it in a politi cally correct fashion and watch out for the lesbian police. ALLEN BARNETT TWENTY THIRD AVENUE Invites You to Meet With K > 3 ALLEN BARNETT signing copies of his latest book The Body and It's D angers Tuesday, October 2, 1990 • 5:30-7pm 1 0 1 5 N W 2 3 rd A v e P o rtlan d , O R 9 7 2 1 0 (5 0 3 ) 2 2 4 -5 9 0 7 Half-Price Day of Show Tickets Thursdays - Sundays Main floor Galleria Infonmtlinn: '21 ! - PMHt Open book exam tests dyke knowledge Don t worry , though — quiz isn’t timed or proctored B Y C Y D A T H E N S her mother is attracted to you,” it is extremely likely that a case of the giggles (or just plain Who wears the tux? The Original Great uproarious laughter) will distract you from American Dyke Quiz (accept no substitutes!) racing through the book in record breaking By Julia Willis, Banned Books, $8.95. time. The scoring system comes with a “less than his multiple choice quiz, complete with zero” option for the careless. And there arc no pictures is divided into four parts: “How extra points allowed for coloring the drawings it all began,” “Falling in love,” “Staying in and staying inside the lines. love,” and “Living in your world.” The 101 questions here provide There are no warm-ups, nor is the exam A) Mire laughs than Mad Libs. timed or proctored. You’re on your own for this B) Great fun and hilarity. open book test. Actually, it’s impossible to take C) A chance to experience dyke humor it without opening the book. firsthand. Of course, with questions like “Are talk Please open your book to page two and lines a viable alternative to dating?” and such begin the test. answer choices as “Pretend not to notice that T DIGNITY/PORTLAND IS A CATHOLIC SUPPORT GROUP FOR LESBIANS & GAYS, THEIR FAMILIES & FRIENDS P.O. BOX 6708, PORTLAND, OR 97228 (503) 295-4868 Too much romance, not enough sci-fi Author should get priorities straight the prologue and is never seen or heard from again, unless we’re supposed, by some stretch Priorities: The Controllers Series By Lynda of the imagination, to believe that she’s the Lyons, $8.95 from the Naiad Press, Inc. narrator of this tale. A major pitfall is that there is too much his book is the first of what is planned as going on here and not enough sci-fi meat. We a series of science fiction novels based on are inundated with information about the the exploits of android-chasing future cops. fumblc-fingered secretary of Amelia Roberts, L l Valentine Hart is second-in-command at director of the Controllers, and the crush that the International Control and Registry Center Valentine develops of Amelia. There arc quite a (ICRC). The Controllers, as they are called, arc few folks who have a crush on the shy and an elite group of law enforcement personnel retiring Amelia. whose primary purpose is to bring down The intriguing question of whether or not renegade androids. Although human, Valentine Amelia is an android is never really ?r. v ¿red. seems much more android-like than the The “Bondian” adventures of our heroines androids she makes her living “killing.” serve as little more than a backdrop for sensual The book’s first line, “I am in love with innuendo. At best this soap opera tries harder to Amelia," is reminiscent of Moby Dick's “Call be a lesbian science fiction novel, than a good me Ishmael.” Jann, the woman who makes this science fiction novel. confession, sticks around just long enough for BY C Y D A T H E N S T just r+ o '& ó W im ‘wv
