2 ▼ O c to b e r 3. 1907 ▼ ju st o u t
just out
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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)
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Politicians posture on needle
exchange while thousands
become infected with H IV
(pp. 5*10)
Local news
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Christopher D. Cuttone
CONTRIBUTORS
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Paul Harris
Paul Hatton
William J. Mann
Jeffrey L. Newman
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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
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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)