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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Three short films by women filmmakers
playing at the center may also be of interest.
W hile the shorts aren’t queer specific, their
exploration of female sexuality and gender
roles is fascinating. A Spy in the House that Ruth
Built follows filmmaker Vanalyne Green’s inter
pretation of the symbolism of baseball, uncov
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Aug. 27. The shorts begin at 7:30 p.m.
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