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VOL 12 NO. 8 FEBRUARY 17,1995
Renée LaChance
EDITOR IN SPIRIT
Ariel Waterwoman
FEATURE
REPORTER
Dancing through
a century
of screen images
Inga Sorensen
CALENDAR EDITOR
Jann Gilbert
While there have been
lesbian and gay filmmakers
as long as there
have been films, most
have been hidden in the
closets of history
(pp. 13-15)
PHOTOGRAPHER
Linda Kliewer
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
Meg Grace
ADVERTISING REPS
E. Ann Hinds
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
E. Ann Hinds
DEPARTMENTS
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rupert Kinnard
National news
COPY EDITOR
A teenager is convicted in the
slayings o f two gay
Mississippi men;
Allstate agrees to issue
a joint liability policy to
a gay couple
(pp. 4-6)
Kelly M. Bryan
TYPESETTER
Jann Gilbert
DISTRIBUTION
Ambling Bear
OFFICE M ANAGER
Aaron Bong
Local news
CONTRIBUTORS
Olivia Alvarez
Kelly M. Bryan
Kristine Chatwood
Rupert Kinnard
Marvin Liebman
Margaret Deirdre O ’Hartigan
Richard Shumate
Steve Warren
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editorial
Whomped by
flu and snow
You can *t keep a good staff down, and our staff battled an epidemic and
a blizzard to get this issue to you in a timely manner
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by Renée LaChance
e have had issues in the past 12 years that
have been difficult to get to press for a
variety of reasons. Lack of staff, financial
crisis, inclement weather, attempted break-
ins, crashed computers, and other barriers
come to mind. This issue marked a first for
Our office became ground zero for the flu epidemic in
Portland. Or so it seemed. No sooner than the Feb. 3 issue
had gone to press, all but one of us got flattened by a killer
flu that put us out of commission.
The paper was delivered on time, but the mailing to out
of town readers got out several days late because no one
could get out of bed and down to the office to get it to the
post office.
We checked in with one another by phone and com­
pared symptoms. Fever, dry cough, exhaustion, clogged
sinuses, general fuzzy-headedness. Mudhead, I called it.
By the time we could crawl out of bed our production
schedule was off by two or three days, and none of us was
moving very fast or thinking very clearly. We were the
walking dead. It was almost comical as we trickled into the
office one by one, sluggish and exhausted, exchanging
stories of how we had to nap after simply getting dressed
and comparing how far we could get on five-minute bursts
of energy.
For me, it brought into focus the challenges people in
our community face daily with immune deficiencies and
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life-threatening illness. No matter how bad I felt, I knew
1 was going to get better. Yet, for too many others of us,
such physical debilitation is a way of life.
Then, as if the flu wasn’t enough to throw us com­
pletely off schedule, Mother Nature walloped us with a
us.
foot of snow, making it difficult to get to the office to do
the work that we were finally well enough to do.
We began to think this was a doomed issue, and maybe
we should give it up for Lent. But less-muddied heads
prevailed, and since you are reading this, we must have
finally gotten this restless baby to bed.
In the history of Just Out I can think of only one or two
times when the paper did not come out when it was
supposed to. For a queer newsmagazine that has published
since 1983, that is a phenomenal record.
I applaud the tireless effort and dedication the staff of
Just Out puts into each issue so you can get the news of our
communities. I hope you will, too.
A Bend group seeks to get
communities working
together; CAP’s director
draws criticism for
discriminatory remark;
Snickers LaBarr takes a ride
on Tri-Met
(pp. 7-11)
COLUMNS
Independently
speaking
Marvin Liebman finds it too
hot in the conservative
Christian Republican kitchen
(p. 3)
ARTS
Cinema
Boys On the Side has
Whoopi, but suffers from
overexposure;
the 18th Portland
International Film Festival
unreels Feb. 17
(p. 22-23)
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Correction: In the Feb. 3, 1995, issue of Just Out we
referred to the owner of It’s My Pleasure in our story
“Valentine Vignettes’’ as Holly Hart, when in fact her
name is Holly Mulcahey. Holly Hart is the owner of the
restaurant Old Wives’ Tales. We apologize for any confu­
sion this may have caused.
Books
A new anthology offers teens
a grounding in queer history
(p . 2 4 )