inside
Gay baritone
Grant
performs for
Portland Opera Page as
P ortlan d, O reg o n
Ail naturel
Queer sex worker follows her instincts
by I nga S orensen
f the nuns of St. Mary’s could only see her
now.
“A queer sex worker!” bursts Morgan
LeFey, an utterly fetching 22-year-old
who, had she been dedicated to any other
cause, would likely be gamering accolades
from Portland’s government and community
leaders for her civic-mindedness.
After all, this saucy girl demolishes the
hype about lazy, lackadaisical youths, those
supposed slackers who hang back and let life
skirt by.
“Mayor fVera]
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Katz is the only one
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who won’t see us,”
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says a slightly frus-
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trated LeFey, who on §
this Friday afternoon *
in late January has
just closed out a week
of fervent political
lobbying.
“I’ve been to City
Hall twice. W hen I
was younger I didn’t
Mor«an U F e V
realize how much power these people have.
Now 1 do,” she says, lighting one o f the many
cigarettes she will smoke this day.
Though Morgan LeFey is not her legal
name, she goes by that moniker most of the
time.
W e’re at LeFey s studio apartment, not far
from the Rose C ity’s center. It’s a small space
dotted with three or four pieces of elegant
wooden furniture and a purple loungey thing.
The walls, a funky wine color, are clearly a
work in progress. A busted computer is
plopped on the floor, poised for its sad exit.
“ I spilled something on it,” LeFey
explains.
Luckily, though, her granddad came to the
rescue with a groovy new Mac, which is a
good thing because, in addition to tussling
with her elected officials, LeFey is committed
to Danzine , a quarterly publication “created
by and for ladies in the biz.” The ’zine is a
nonprofit collaboration of sex workers whose
goal is to “share the information we need to
increase our options and make informed per­
sonal and professional choices.”
LeFey hands me a copy of the Summer
1999 issue, which features, among other
goodies, a piece dubbed “Moo-La” by Your
Mama, which offers some tips that would
likely spawn tizzies among more convention­
al financial advisors.
For example, counsels Your Mama, the
“Tax Man can handle it if you call yourself
an ‘entertainer,’ ‘performer,’ ‘consultant,’ or
whatever. Just tell them something and find
someone in the know to do the paper work.”
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