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2 ▼ Ju ly 3 . 1 9 9 7 ▼ j u s t o u t just out since 1 983 PUBLISHER A N D EDITOR Renée LaChance steppin’ out contents VOL 14 NO. 17 JULY 3, 1997 N EW S EDITOR Inga Sorensen FEATURE CO PY EDITOR Kelly M. Bryan Bring on the rainbow REPORTERS Bob Roehr Rex Wockner Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans - gender Pride shone through some especially thick liquid sunshine CALENDAR EDITOR Kristine Chatwood (p PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer 19) DEPARTMENTS OFFICE M A N A G E R Will O ’Bryan World news Namibian gays organize, find labor laws are on their side (p. 4) ADVERTISIN G DIRECTOR Meg Grace ADVERTISING REP Marty Davis National news CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds GRAPHIC D ESIG N Rupert Kinnard FORMATTER/TYPESETTER Christopher D. Cuttone DISTRIBUTION Kathy Bethel Lynette Boatman Rachel Ebora Jim Galluz/o Karyn Leek bee Donald Rogers CONTRIBUTORS Kelly M. Bryan Darice Clark Christopher D. Cuttone Kerry Hart Lee Lynch Jeffrey L. Newman Will O’Bryan M. 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And a sun day it was, thanks to the "sun circle ” rituals that planners did during the week leading up to the event. “We’re going to patent and sell that sucker, ” jokes organizer Kimberlee Van Patten. Emcees Maria and Poison Waters shepherded the performers, who came from as far away as Denver, Co. The event drew in $5,000 (before expenses) from tips and concession sales, to be given to the Audria M. Edwards Scholarship Fund. Edwards was the mother of Elwood “ Woody ” Johnson, a ka Lady Elaine Peacock, whofounded both the fund and the event. guest editorial Fcantasyland Federal panel issues draft guidelines for HIV treatment; proposed Medicaid changes threaten health care for people with HIV/AIDS; Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day draws 5,000 to D.C. festival (pp. 5-14) Local news Local cyclists take part in Ride for a Reason; Right to Pride hosts its Garden Party on July 12; ENDA is on death row in Salem (pp. 15-17) CO LU M N S Stonewall baby Happy New Year— it’s 28! (p- 33) Amazon trail The Southern Baptists who are boycotting Disney would like to take the country back to a ‘simpler time T To prospective homebuyers, grass is worth green (P- 34) by B o b R o e h r ARTS ’ alking down the street 1 spied a fellow com notice if her cute little stuffed Lion King just disappears. But ing the other way, shaking his head and Momma won’t be able to watch that Regis and Kathie Lee every carrying on an animated dialogue with some morning.” That jolted him to a stop. “God, she loves that Regis.” invisible demons. Another crazed street per A taxi horn blared, and he jumped back onto the curb. His son beset by alien mind-control radio waves? face brightened, “Oh well, there’s still lots of good stuff on TV, Probably not, I thought, he was freshly scrubbed, like the polyester that Jerry Springer fella, he’s from Cincinnati. And that faintly gleaming with the artifact of “springtime freshness” Mafia miniseries with all the shootin’. And reruns of Married known only through the magic of industrial chemicals. with Children. Now that FOX, they’ve got some great family “Boycott,” he muttered, “Snow White.” “Homosexual entertainment. agenda." “Yessiree, them folks in Dallas got it right. It’s not poverty, I caught only half-phrases. Intrigued, I turned on my heels or drug abuse, or crime that’s important; we’ve got to make sure and fell in, a half pace behind. those ho-mo-sex-uals go back into the closet. And then it will be “Ellen, it’s Ellen’s fault,” he grumbled. “If Disney hadn’t the 1950s all over again.” His face was radiantly beatific. “Now allowed her to come out of the closet, then the American family that’s the Christian spirit. It makes me proud to be a Southern would be safe from divorce and child abuse and all the other Baptist.” elements of the ho-mo-sex-ual agenda.” We parted ways at the next comer and my mind slipped He spit out each syllable with measured disdain. decades back, to an image of Tinkerbell. She would flit around “Imagine, treating them like ordinary people. Letting them and, with a pinch of fairy dust, change drab black and white to wear a Mickey Mouse shirt just like the one my little Bobbie a whole new world of vibrant Technicolor. Disney told quintes wears. Or letting them wait, and wait, and wait in the same line sential American stories then, of Daniel Boone, and Mousketeers, that I did to ride the roller-coaster. Or giving their employees’ and Goofy. America has changed since my youth, and so has Disney. But it still tells the most American of tales, only now queer partners the same health benefits that my Lureen gets, that is, if the company hadn’t cut mine. It’s just too much. they include you and me. We’ve got to stop those gay activists. We’ve got to boycott It seems the Southern Baptists have developed an allergy to fairy dust. They want to go back to a supposedly simpler and Disney. definitely blander time. They want to play the game of “let’s “I know it’s gonna be hard, but we can do it,” he said to pretend” and imagine us away. But ya can’t, Blanche, ya can’t. himself, his jaw flexing with tension. “Maybe Arleen won’t W Music You ’ve heard of drinking songs, now k.d. long brings you smoking songs (P- 27) Books Portlander Rodger Larson tells a boy's story that will appeal across generation lines; Death in Equality is unbalanced; short reviews of recent work by Nicola Griffith, Sarah Van Arsdale and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (PP- 29-31) Entertainment La Femme Magnifique sets the stage asparkle at Darcelle IV; NLA Portland harnesses the power of leather pride (P- 32)
