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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1997)
2 ▼ O c to b e r 3. 1907 ▼ ju st o u t just out s in ce 1983 steppin’ out contents PUBLISHER AND EDITOR Renee LaChance ASSISTANT EDITOR Kelly M. Bryan VOL. 14 NO. 23 OCTOBER 3, 1997 NEWS EDITOR Inga Sorensen FEATURES REPORTERS Boh Roehr Rex Wockner The big taboo M illions struggle with clinical depression, but help is out there (p- 17) EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES Christopher D. Cuttone Will O ’Bryan Teaching by example CALENDAR EDITOR Kristine Chatwood PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer Out queer educators pave the way to explore our past and build our future (p- 19) OFFICE MANAGER Will O’Bryan INTERN Aimee Wilson DEPARTMENTS World news Gay and lesbian group wins discrimination suit in Tokyo (P- 4) ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Meg Grace ADVERTISING REP Marty Davis CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard One o f Portland’s newest cavities gapes where history stood: This downtown block was once home to such businesses as The Fox Theater, built in 1910, The Music Box theater, which opened in 1960for the debut o/Ben-Hur (thefilm’sgay subtext was discussed by its screenwriter, Gore Vidal, in The Celluloid Closet), and Hamburger Mary’s, which opened in August 1974 as a “multipurpose ” queer-positive restaurant (the popular eatery has since moved its eclectic menu and whimsical decor to 239 SW Broadway). The killer o f two Southern Oregon lesbians goes on trial (pp. 11-15) DISTRIBUTION Trina Altman Kathy Bethel Lynette Boatman Marcia Cook James Galluzzo Clancy Johnston Rhetta Offtnger Jeminie Shell Ju s t ewt is published on I be first and third F r id a y of each m o n th . Copyright O IW7 by Just aut No part ol Just aut may he reproduced without written perm ission from the publisher The su h m m o n of written and graphic materials is welcomed. Written material should he typed and double-spaced Just a u t leservcs the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length We will reiect or edit articles or advertisements that are olfeasivc, demeaning or may icsult in legal action le t t e r s to the ed ito r should be limited to .MU) words D eadline for su b m ission s to the editorial department and for the C a le n d a r is the Thursday before the first and thinl Friday for the next issue View s expressed in letters to the editor, columns and leaturcs are not necessarily those of the publisher The display advertising deadline is the Monday after the first and thud Friday for the next issue ( lassifird ads must he leccivcd at the Just SUt office by 3 pm the Monday after the first and thud Friday for the next issue, along with payment Ads may be accepted by telephone w ith V IS A or MastciC anl payment Ad pnliry No sexually exploitative advertising will be accepted Com pensation for errors in. or cancellation ol. advertising w ill he made with credit toward I u lure advertising S u b sc rip tio n s to Ju s t s u t are available for 117 50 for 12 issues First C lass (in an envelope) is $30 for 12 issues A copy ol Just sut is availab le for 12. Advertising rates are available on ropiest The mailing address and telrphonr num bers f,r Just S U l are PO Box 144(1). Portland. O R V72V3 0400. (503) 236-1252 The phone number for the advertising department is 236-1253 O ur fax number is 236-1257. O ur e-m ail address is JustOut2Vaol com Politicians posture on needle exchange while thousands become infected with H IV (pp. 5*10) Local news PRODUCTION Christopher D. Cuttone CONTRIBUTORS Tom Cook Jennifer Dziura Paul Harris Paul Hatton William J. Mann Jeffrey L. Newman Dave Nuscher National news COLUM NS In to be out The past 14 years are but a brief moment in queer time, but progress has leapt by eons V by Renée LaChance e are creeping up on our 14th year of publish When Just Out started publishing, Oregon seemed to be a ing Just Out. This being Lesbian, Gay and small community—there weren’t enough organized lesbian and Bisexual History Month got me thinking gay groups in Oregon to fill one of our pages. Now we run four historically, and our upcoming anniversary pages of groups listings in tiny print, and we only have the space nudged me to look back over that period of to do it once a month. time and contemplate the changes. And the times they have a- lesbians in the early ’80s were still making Musically, changed. Women’s Music—folksy tunes played at festivals where women I was joking with one of our freelance writers recently that went topless (some things never change)— and we were thrilled when we first started, there were so few books written by that the melodic love songs wafting from the stage contained the lesbians or gay men that it was easy to decide what should get correct pronouns. Gay men were into glamorous disco divas and reviewed and what shouldn’t. In those days there were very dancing the night away on recreational drugs (again, some few publishers that would touch a queer-oriented book or work things never change). with out authors. Not to mention the fact that there was only a Now we have Melissa Etheridge, the Indigo Girls and kd handful of bookstores in town that lang being queer role models in the would sell queer books. Musically, lesbians in the mainstream populace, and local grrrl Now we get several review copies bands are mauling each other on week early 80s were still making of books mailed to our office every end nights in every major city. We day; most every bookstore in town Women s Music and we were have straight musicians as widely di stocks queer books, and every main vergent in styles as Jewel and Garth thrilled that the melodic love Brooks singing gay-positive songs to stream publisher publishes them. Who can keep up? their predominantly heterosexual au songs contained the correct The year Just Out started you could diences. find a movie with a gay or lesbian pronouns. Gay men were into Television, .well,let’snot go there. theme or character maybe two or three Suffice it to say we are no longer glamorous disco divas and sailing on the fringe of the stream. We times a year, and they were usually foreign films playing at small art dancing the night away on are chic; being out is in. The visibility houses. It was a good movie if the is exciting and at the same time fright recreational drugs. queer character didn’t have to die at ening. the end. We must continue coming out and living out. We must record and teach our history so that we will Now there are films like In & Out, which grossed monster never forget how we got here and how many came before us. box office revenues on its opening night and is playing in every During this month we should celebrate our outness and our major theater across the country and getting good reviews by history as enthusiastically as we celebrate our pride in June. every major mainstream press. Go figure. W ’ View from here D ating tip f o r straight women: kiss a girl (P- 3) Stonewall baby I B reaking out o f generation traps (P 36) Amazon trail Sim plicity is com plicated (p. 37) Sports P ortland P ow er is revved f o r a second season (p. 38) ARTS Cinema Go f o r The Full Monty (P- 30) Entertainment C.C. Rae a n d Rita M ae are com in ’ to town (p 31) Books Take a trip through history (p. 32) Music Portland Taiko packs a wallop (pp. 33*35)