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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1994)
3 0 ▼ d « c « m b « r 2 , 1 0 0 4 ▼ ju s t o u t AMAZON TRAIL HAL JONES AUTOMOTIVE JOY ENTERPRISES Bill Joy Pushing buttons Ron Jo y W e lo v e o u r Sorting through political memorabilia is like visiting an activist Disneyworld just out c u s to m e r s . See u s f o r y o u r a u to m o tiv e n e e d s . 5111 NE Fremont Portland, OR 97213 288-1130 f i \%'t My Resources supporting and empowering women A Lesbian Owned business O pen 7 days a w eek ! Monday thru Saturday 10am to 7pm Sunday 1 1am to 5pm (503) 236-0505 4526 SE Hawthorne Portland, O R 97215 (Right after 45th, on Hawthorne next to the 7-11) 3 $3X §5 É l xii , i ********* I epa I I - - i ‘ a 332 GODDESSES GODDESS REMEMBERED A stunning and poetic salute to 3 5 ,0 0 0 years of pre-history 8PM THE BURNING TIMES A beautifully crafted look at the centuries old European witch hunts 9 :1 0 ? » FULL CIRCLE A stirring exploration of women and contemporary spirituality 10 : 20 - A ll s h o w s a re Tu e sd a y , D ec e m b er 1 3 . OPB K ► F » 4 k> •» % * r I by Lee Lynch dyke” button, or "Don’t tease or feed the straight very now and then I shift my current people” (given to me by a woman who seemed to political button^ollection from a bul letin board that hangs, for lack of enjoy my unbridled glee when I read it). “Hate- free zone” got me in trouble with a local bigot who other wall space, in my bathroom, to felt offended. “Queer in America” was a promo an ancient fabric-covered cigar box tional pin for Michaelangelo Signorile’s book. decorated to hold such treasures. Sorting through “I’m one, too” compliments the assortment of the collection is kind of like visiting a Disneyworld pink triangles— the kind of accoutrement one of my activist generation, which declared its be does not leave home without. But my favorite of liefs on lapels and the pockets of quilted vests, on the gay and lesbian buttons is a tiny white one that hat bands and coverall straps. reads: “Does your mother know you’re out?” I Many of the buttons are not even political, used to like to wear that to work, where it was although perhaps there are those who would quar open to interpretations. I did not wear to work the rel with that assessment. I have, after all, worn the ones that say “Lesbian Herstory Archives” or little lavender museum pass button as a subtle “Dyke.” political statement on all sorts of occasions. Then There they are! My "Shirley Chisholm for there are specimens like my old “Dolly Blue’s president—Catalyst for change” pin, my “Stone Drag-a-Gram” button. Believe it or not, this was wall 10” and “Christopher Street Liberation Days a legitimate business in homophobic rural Or ’78” buttons, the Chicago “Stonewall 20” rain egon. It’s a photo button and he, Dolly, is wearing bow pin and my 1993 big blonde hair, ma- m “March on Washing jor earrings, a gold L ton” gem. “No on 8,” choker, and a lot of f r “No on 9,” “Refuse to feathers. sign the Son o f 9,” I think we sold “ C itiz e n s U n ite d these broken red Against D iscrim ina w om en’s symbols tion,” “Honor diver with a fist protrud sity,” and “Pray for ing from the top at Colorado” are sad sou the New Haven venirs from past dis W om en’s C enter crim in ato ry ballot back when Roe vj . measures. Wade was new and A m lclingingto my consciousness-rais ing was big. We all rabble-rousing youth wore the red fist, when I spear a “Stop the O C A ” (O regon were raging mad, H O N / O P thought of ourselves u '' Citizens Alliance) pin onto the pocket flap of as revolutionaries. A WERS/TY couple of others from my jean jacket? Al that era were the though they’ve stolen w om en’s sym bol every other trick the old with an equal sign in peace and leftist move the m iddle and ments concocted, the “Fem inist against radical right seems to an ti-S em itism .” I eschew such blatant ad picked up “Abortion vertising. I like to think is a woman’s right to that somewhere in their choose” at a march righteous hearts lurks a in D.C. some long- sm idgen o f sham e. past year. Here’s a button that My “Earth Day poked fun at the right 1990” button is, long ago: “Effete snobs oddly, square and for peace,” a quote from always makes me Spiro Agnew. Remem think it would be T H * . ber him, the vice presi kind of cool to actu dent forced to resign in l ìih ì ally be able to stand 1973? ■ at the edge of the W hat did the , ; ’ earth and peer over. “Presidio 27” do, that :>• * A nother en v iro n we wanted to “free” Æ mental tag: “Whenyon smoke I choke,” was from them? My small niece gave me “Some of my best the days when antismokers—not smokers— were friends are cats,” but where did this “Macho slut” the activists. “Partners in Flight” sought to protect pin come from? I almost wore out “I will survive” Neotropical birds. "CloseTrojan now” (the nuclear printed across a labyris. “Doing strange things in power plant)— that one eventually worked, didn’t the name of art” showed up during the Helms it? assault on the National Endowment for the Arts, Then there are the censorship buttons: “I read which is known to be rife with effete snobs. banned books” is from the American Society of Missing is the early 1960’s “Ban the bomb” Journalists and Authors. “Censorship is un-Ameri pin. And I used to have a great big old “I like Ike” can”—don’t we wish that were the truth. My button that I sported in 1952 at the ripe age of conservative county did not support the button seven. Many public school kids in New York City “Vote yes for libraries,” preferring privately received polio inoculations in a pilot program to funded libraries whose contents they could theo test the vaccine. I was a swaggering-proud little retically control. The most potent: “First they babydyke with my prize: “Polio Pioneer, 1954.” burn books, then they bum people.” Well, almost And the button I wear more than any other is the most potent. I’m still waiting for the right “ Your silence will not protect you— Audre Lorde.” occasion to wear "Fuck censorship.” Sometimes, especially when we are afraid to How could I resist wearing a “Warm fuzzy speak out loud, our buttons give us voice. E