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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1998)
ENTERTAINMENT ▼ Soon we’ll be making another run he Southwest Washington Gay and Lesbian Socialites are preparing to set sail with their fourth annual cruise on the Portland Spirit. W ith a boatload of shipshape queer revelers, the Portland Spirit will set sail at 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, from its down town Salmon Street Springs dock. T he ship will return at 2 a.m. Admission is $20 and includes no host bar, hors d’oeuvres, dancing and door prizes. Voyagers must be 21 or older. Tickets are available from It’s My Pleasure and Gai-Pied in Portland, and A G entle Strength in Vancouver, Wash. For more information, call (360) 735-1901. T Idiot box is wising up? he Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement Aug. 19 giving moderate praise to the 1998 fall television lineup, saying it “marks a signifi cant year for unique and diverse images of lesbian and gay Americans.” G L A A D is particularly pleased with the new N BC show W ill & G race, starring Eric McCormack as gay character W ill Truman. G LA A D is also pleased that this season will present more queer characters of color, which they describe as previously having been “vir tually nonexistent on television." By G L A A D ’s count, of the 19 lesbian and gay characters appearing this season, nearly one quarter are people of color. Says Joan M. Garry, G L A A D executive director: “No longer are lesbian and gay char acters strictly peripheral on network televi sion, and G L A A D hopes to see these portray als continue to grow— reflecting the realities of diversity, family and faith.” T Let there be light embers of the touring cast of Rent lend their talents to charity Monday, Aug. 24, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Radiance, a new candle shop owned by Portlander Wally Schmidt and his partner Mark Tynan, stage manager for Rent. Cast members will be signing a mural, the Rent Wall of Fame, which will be auctioned off to benefit Friends of People with A ID S Foundation, Janus Youth Program and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AID S. There will also be a raffle to win Rent tickets and prizes donated by local merchants. Radiance is located at 1902 N.E. Broadway. For more information, call 281-2438. From Itoenty-five years of herstory omansource, an Ashland-based group dedicated to promoting women’s cul ture and spirituality, has reached the quarter century mark, which will be celebrat ed Sept. 11 to 13 at the 25th annual Womansource Gathering. T he gathering will be held at Camp Low Echo on the east shore o f Lake of the Woods in Winema National Forest. T he weekend includes workshops on top ics ranging from drumming to tribal dancing, an auction, entertainment and more. Organizers expect the gathering to attract nearly 225 celebrating women. Vegetarian or vegan meals are included in W the sliding scale admission. Admission is waived for all women who attended the origi nal Womansource gathering at Dead Indian Memorial Soda Springs Camp in 1974. For more information, call (541) 482-7416. Art in the Pearl MARKET STREET ortlands Pearl District will transform dur ing Labor Day weekend from blocks of sleepy warehouses and scattered galleries to a bustling arts festival featuring more than 120 artists, hours of scheduled entertainment, a beer garden and other vendors. The community stage is new this year. Entertainment starts at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, with the Donna Morris Ballet Company, and will include music, theater, poetry and more. The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus is scheduled to perform around 2:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7. The stage will be located in the Northwest Park Blocks, between Northwest Flanders and Glisan streets. P SONO Written by Harvey Fierstein • In-Home Catering 6,000 queers know the way to San Jose he Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses has announced plans to mark the new millennium with Festival 2000, the largest lesbian and gay performing arts event in history. If all goes according to plan, San Jose, Calif., will be the site for the July 2000 festival, which will showcase 125 choruses— equaling about 6,000 singers— from five continents. Planners expect the festival to draw an audi ence of roughly 55,000. T Fascinating films arlon Riggs’ classic, poetic documentary of the African American gay male expe rience, Tongues Untied, returns to the big screen at the Northwest Film Center. Tongues Untied, made in 1990, remains unequaled in its examination of an often underrepresented and oppressed community. Riggs, who died in 1994, is largely remembered for this masterpiece. M Weddings & Rehearsal Dinners • Commitment Ceremonies Previews Sept. 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. Opening Night - Friday, Sept. 4 £NS*Jsi> Show co m m e n cin g at 7 :3 0 p.m . FEATURING FRESH NW PRODUCE AND WINES Thurs., Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. Sunday performances at 5 p.m. 5 0 3 -2 8 6 -3 2 2 8 503 . 239.5919 1728 SE 7th • Portland. 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