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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1992)
Robin I low or "...hot mandolin... strikes like lightning... Folk Roof s Nancy Vogl Bi A n y O th er N am e ks ,1 JHU1( ll th.it l(M.\es no m arks Inti ,m unforgettable impression. A book of bisexual visibility and bridge-building I i ßuil I inn's Robin Flower Til«« . V* mm » - » ’"■ ■ Host on _.»• ---* I ihln McLaren “J| "...u hose rie h, angelic tapestry ele\ alt's the album to pop heavon. Fv . Rollini• Stone Nancy Vogl Libby McLaren W ild Hearts! Progressive Folk and Wild Country Trio In a Special Benefit Concert for The Northwest Service Center # PM. TlllltS. July 2 by Anndee Hochm/n TIX: $10 ($12 2 door) at FASTIXX, ____________________ Artichoke Musk, ________________ Ladd's Edition, t Bokstore NWSC Off!*» t s m i O 228-6972 O tk .A o to Catbird Seat Bokstore, NWSC Offke. INFO* INFO: (503) NWSC is at 1819 NW Everett Bi Any Other Name, Loraine Hutchins and Lani The book does not stop with bisexuals’ plea to Kaahumanu, editors. Boston: Alyson Publica be seen. The contributors make a case for not tions, 1991, 379 pages. $11.95 merely adding bisexuality to a menu of sexual options, but questioning the distinctions them ditors Loraine Hutchins and Lani selves, the rigid either/or between men and women, Kaahumanu gathered an impressive gay and straight, body and mind, culture and range of 75 contributors for their an nature. thology of personal stories and essays The writers included in this anthology realize about bisexuality. These pieces, di that such an effort is radical-both to straight vided into sections dealing with psychology, spiri people who fear homosexuality and to gay men tuality, community and politics, emerge from a and lesbians who hold tight to nametags of sexual variety of viewpoints, age groups, ethnic back and political identity. grounds, occupations and economic strata. “Bisexuality threatens this unconscious ac Manycontribu- ______________________ ceptance of good and evil, us and them dualism by tors describe the throwing some grey in with the black and white, invisibility they by representing a continuum,” writes one con feel as bisexuals, tributor. “We are not fence-sitters. Let us strive scorned by a to be bridge-builders.” homophobic Despite some unevenness in the writing and a straight commu bit of redundancy (both the “psychology” and nity and rejected as “community” sections contain numerous com fence-sitters or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ing-out stories), Bi Any Other Name is an impor traitors by gay men tant book, certain to provoke serious thought from and lesbians. A handful of the pieces are poems, heterosexuals, gay men and lesbians and a ripple and these speak eloquently, showing rather than of recognition from those who take the name telling about the particular pleasures and frustra “bisexual.” tions of bisexuality. Ü ¡ SERVICE AH I CENTER E TW EN TY-TH IRD AVENUE • are you a man who’s doing it with other men? • are you sometimes unsafe? • want to do something about it? • ARIES offers weekly phone counseling groups. • no money—no names required • we’re a west coast program through the University of Washington call for details: 1015 NW 2 3rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97210, ( 503) 224-5097 Monday- Friday 9:30 am . 8 pm □ Saturday 10 am - 8 pm □ Sunday 11 am - 4 pm 1-800-999-7511 or (206) 543-7511 Monday-Thuraday 9am to 9pm, Friday 9am to 5pm ARIES .. men becoming sexually safer together...
