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2 ▼ n o v e m b e r 7, 1 9 9 7 ▼ ju s t o u t just out s in c e 1 9 8 3 steppin* out PUBLISHER AND EDITOR Renée LaChance V O L. 15 N O . I NOVEM BER 7,1997 ASSISTANT EDITOR Kelly M. Bryan FEATURES N EW S EDITOR Inga Sorensen Getting the word out REPORTERS Bob Roehr Rex Wockner The rocky road to Just Out’s success (P- 22) EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES Christopher D. Cuttone Will O ’Bryan Black and white and lavender all over CALENDAR EDITOR Kristine Chatwood PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer A brief history of Oregon’s queer oress (p. 23) DEPARTMENTS OFFICE MANAGER Will O ’Bryan World news ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Meg Grace Japanese lesbians (and a few drag queens) stage the country’s first dyke march (P- 4) ADVERTISING REP Marty Davis National news CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds They held ENDA hearings in the U.S. Senate but the opposition didn 7 show (pp. 5-11) GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard PRODUCTION Christopher D. Cuttone Local news ed ito rial DISTRIBUTION Kathy Bethel Marcia Cook James Galluzzo Clancy Johnston Valerie Lutz Retta Offinga Jeminie Shell Robert Acremant gets death sentence (pp. 15-21) COLUM NS Reasons for hope Le a v e s of crass CONTRIBUTORS The AIDS Writers Group Tom Cook Lee Lynch Lisa McCormack Suzanne Sigmund Flora Sussely Ju st ou t is published on the first and third Friday o f each m onth. Copyright C 1997 by Just out No part of Just out may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. The subm ission o f written and graphic m aterials is w elcom ed. W ritten material should be typed and double-spaced. Just out reserves the right to edit for gram m ar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. We will reject or edit articles or advertisements that are offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. 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Contact Ju st ou t at PO Box 14400, Portland. OR 97293-0400; (503) 236-1252, advertising; 236-1253, fax: 236-1257, e-mail; juslnul(ri)j ustout.com. contents I Access HIV/AIDS information on the Internet (p. 13) Stonewall baby ’Tis the season of catalogs, whose glossy pages make promises that won yt deliver ▼ Be thankful you ’re not home for the holiday (p. 37) by Bob R oeh r Amazon trail t’s that time of year again, when catalogs fall through the mail slot even faster than leaves from the trees. They dazzle and seduce, photos gleaming from their shiny pages. Spend money, they whisper. With us, they im plore with faux friendliness. You will be sexy and have washboard abs if you just wear our underwear, they People will love you if you give them our products, they intimate. It all began quite simply. A friend once sent me a thank-you gift of English muffins for hosting him and his lover over the weekend. Mom indulged me with a particular sweater. And I subscribe to several gay magazines. From those small mail order seeds has grown an effluence that multiplies like gerbils in heat. Now l can deck the halls from L.L. Bean to Land’s End, selecting tasteful wreaths, button-down shirts and duck boots. The big news this year is in turtlenecks. There’s a new color— persimmon—to add to the rainbow of existing hues. But I’ll probably stick to my traditional anguish: choosing between white and oatmeal. “Uncut.” Yes, that italicized headline caught my eye. I’m being offered The Complete Arabian Nights, “Uncut, uncen sored.” And in leather too. Not “bonded” leather, but “genuine leather,” accented with 22kt gold. Each of the 17 monthly installments is only $49.75. Now that’s a fantasy. Perhaps my favorite catalog is the one schlepping a Christ mas tree ornament. It’s purported to be of Dorothy and Toto, in scintillating brown and beige. The bauble is only $44. Such a deal. And $5 is donated to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination. Now that’s the spirit of Christmas, forced philanthropy. I love it when people make decisions for me so that they can feel good about themselves. These products are made in a number of countries, including China. That’s a place where the leaders don’t believe they have coo. gay people. And they don’t allow the deluded ones who think they are lesbian or gay to meet in public. And they are likely to ship many such poor souls off for “re-education.” Maybe “Dorothy” was produced by child laborers making sub-minimum wages, or maybe in one of those Red Army prison camps. You know, the ones where people who are about to be executed have their organs “harvested” for sale on the interna tional transplant market. No, we aren’t in Kansas anymore, though a kidney or a cornea may well be. Personally, I can’t think of a token more expressive of the season or more representative of ending anti-gay discrimination and violence than this ornament. Because I’m a reporter somebody thinks I want a T-shirt saying, “Will write for food.” Silly direct marketer, that’s poets and novelists. Journalists write for beer or booze, and in the old days, cigarettes. Then there is the fruit-of-the-month club. Being a single gay man I have another type of fruit in mind, and judging from my recent sex life, once a month would be a vast improvement from the status quo. But alas, what I’m craving does not seem to be among the mass of dead printed and stapled trees before me. And if such a catalog should appear I probably couldn’t afford the shipping and handling, let alone the purchase price. I think I’ll go rake leaves. The coast is clear. For now. (P- 38) ARTS Books The legendary Quentin Crisp brings us his wilting wit; After Nirvana gets on your nerves (pp. 29, 36) Cinema A kinder, gentler trip to the movies (P- 31) Theater Say I do to Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding; brush up your Shakespeare at Theater! Theatre! (pp. 33-34) Entertainment PICA casts Pearls for Pigs before Portland audiences (p. 35)
