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t I 2 ▼ a u g u st 2 . 1 0 0 6 ▼ ju st ou t just out s in c e 1 9 8 3 PUBLISHER AND EDITOR contents Renée LaChance V O L 13 NO. 19 AUGUST 2, 1996 ASSISTANT PUBUSHER Ten Ventura FEATURE COPY EDITORS Kelly M. Bryan Karen Kantor State of the pandemic REPORTERS Inga Sorensen Bob Roehr Rex Wockner Good news from the AIDS conference gives optimists the edge after years of despair; getting tested more important than ever— now, knowledge is power CALENDAR EDITOR Kristine Chatwood PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer (P P - ADVERTISING DIRECTOR 15-19) DEPARTMENTS Meg Grace ADVERTISING REPS World news C. Jay Wilson Jr. Marty Davis The Netherlands steps closer to same-sex marriage CREATIVE DIRECTOR (pp. 4-5) E. Ann Hinds GRAPHIC DESIGN National news Rupert Kinnard Christopher Cuttone GOP convention to face demonstrators from without and within TYPESETTER (PP- 5-7) FORMATTER Christopher Cuttone Local news Activists collide; lesbian intendeds sue Oregonian; back to school in support of gay youth DISTRIBUTION Kathy Bethel Rachel Ebora Darla Meyer-Sims Barbara Robbins Donald Rogers Megan Weber (pp. 10-13) COLUMNS CONTRIBUTORS C. Jay Wilson, Jr. Christopher Kamera Will O ’Bryan The Boston AIDS Writers Group Lee Lynch Daniel Vaillancourt Just out is published on the first and th ird F riday of each m onth. Copyright © 19% by Just out. No part of Just out m ay be reproduced w ithout w ritten permission from the publisher. The subm ission «if w ritten and graphic m a te ria ls is w elcom ed. W ritten material should be typed and double-spaced. Just OUt reserves the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. 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Subscriptions to just out are available for $17.50 for 12 issues. First Class (in an envelope) is $30 for 12 issues A copy of Just out is available for $2. Advertising rales are available on request. T h e m a ilin g a d d r e s s a n d telep h o n e num bers for just out are PO Box 14400, Portland. OR 97293-0400; (503) 236-1252. T he phone num ber for the advertising department is 236-1253. O ur fax number is 236-1257. O u r e-m ail address is JustOut2@aol.com. Amazon Trail Realizing our friends (p. 32) Lackluster attendance at this year }s Oregon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival threatens its future Stonewall Baby Creating our families (p-33) T by C . Ja y Wilson, J r . ARTS Gallery hat’s to be the fate of the Oregon Gay and together a festival, or an interested community willing to Lesbian Film Festival? Will Portland audi support such an event? I would like to believe that the answer ences support such a festival, and, if so, will lies in finding the right set of dedicated, energetic individuals that support translate into enough dollars to who all share the same vision of a thriving festival that can sustain the group or individual interested in rival any other on the west coast. orchestrating the event? I would hope that the meager Should support such an organization emerge, it should be estab of this year’s festival is not indicative of Portland’s future lished with the express mission of putting together a film interest in Gay and Lesbian films. festival, pouring its energy into raising money and mustering Advocates for Gay and Lesbian Equality, a local gay and excitement to help build bigger and better future festivals. An lesbian service organization, assisted in producing and co opening night benefit should be an event that ignites enthusi sponsoring the film festival the past three years of its eight asm in the rest of the festi val and should be one of the “see and year history in hopes of eventually accepting the sole respon be seen” events of the year. sibility for the festival. Perhaps the festival should be moved to another time After a rather disappointing 1996 Oregon Gay and Lesbian period This year’s opening was in direct competition with Film Festival, with about a 50 percent drop in attendance from Lesbian and Gay Pride activities. But while this may have last year’s festival, the group has abdicated their organiza affected the attendence of opening weekend, it doesn’t ac tional role. It appears that the festival’s future is uncertain. count for the lackluster attendence at the rest of the festival. The film festival has been dropped completely into the lap Given the fact that Portland summers are ephemeral at best, of Cinema 21 owner, Tom Ranieri, and will remain there until June is perhaps not the ideal month in which to present an indoor film festival. another gay and lesbian organization emerges to shoulder some of the responsibility. Currently, the festival is safe in It certainly takes a lot of time and energy to plan and Ranieri’s hands as he has pledged to keep it going, but as a present a film festival, and Advocates for Gay and Lesbian non-gay man, it really isn’t in his interest, and if audiences Equality should be commended for understanding its signifi continue to significantly drop off as they did this year, it may cance and willingly accepting the challenge. It is a shame even be counter-productive for him to continue the festival at that, whatever the reason, the gay and lesbian film festival is his venue. not being supported. Is there anyone out there willing to give What comes first: an energetic group capable of putting it some energy? W “Let Them Eat Cake ”— interpretations o f the cake, as metaphor (p. 20) Visual Arts Imperial Tombs o f China in last weeks (p- 21) Interview Phyllis Burke, author of Gender Shock (PP- 27-29) Theater Party plays truth or dare, baring all at Mainstreet Playhouse (p. 30) Music Fabric of Life concert benefits month-long fundraising effort (P- 31)