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august 18.2000 » Ju st COMMENTARY F ounded 1983 • J ay B rown and by out 3 M a r t y D a v is R enée L a C hance Vo i . 17 N o . 2 0 A u g u s t 18, 2 0 0 0 FEATURE THE BURNSIDE TRIANGLE: Will Portland’s gay bar district vanish, or will it succumb to Pearl envy? NEWS NORTHW EST. Religious right said Fred; BRO hammers message home; Barnes & Noble leaves alternative newspapers high and dry; Pride Northwest explains bylaws pp 6 - 1 3 NATIONAL • Gore veep pick passes the test; there’s something about Mary Cheney; the end of the Rainbows pp 1 5 - 1 6 WORLD • Tokyo Disneyland: the happiest place on earth; judge clears man who went Down Under; Oscar Wilde vindicated; Canada censors cartoon rl7 ENTERTAINMENT & CULTURE F I L M * Come to your Senses-, be wary of Demented-, DVD divine—a DIY fest pp 3 1 - 3 3 DIVERSIONS* ISRC adds some crowned heads; fun with a racket and balls p 35 M U S IC * Sing out Louise—singing hordes descend p 36 BOOKS • Two novels for young and/or hip Voice mail and cell phones and e-mail and pagers ...these are a few of my favorite things event, meeting and organizational announcem ents. oice mail and cell phones and e-mail and pagers. We are accessible by mail, by fax and by e-mail. We work hard to All going, all the time. Sometimes bringing good news, gather as much information as we can, hut again, a partnership involve sometimes bringing sad news, sometimes just making me ment is required. shake my head with puzzlement. This is your paper. Use it. Monday morning brought a call of exciting good news. Puzzling messages came in last week from softball players wanting to An exuberant Tim Bias called from Toronto to announce the Rose City know why we hadn’t printed all the pictures we’d taken of the Rose City Softball Association just had been awarded the hid for the 2002 North Softball Association teams. “Why,” it was asked, “did you send that guy to American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance Softball Series Games. This event—often alluded to as the world series of gay softball—will take all those pictures if you weren’t going to use them.7” T he thing is, I didn’t send anyone to take those pictures, and this bring hordes of gay and lesbian softball players from around the nation to Portland in August 2002. To have won the hosting rights to these games, person who represented him self as being from Just O ut was not, in fact, associated with the paper. I have no idea on their first attempt, is an amazing victory for this who he was and would be interested in hearing team of teams to have accomplished. The organiza tion and planning that went into this effort deserve V/e are accessible b y m a il, b y fa from x someone who might. I’m not sure how this is to be avoided in the future. commendation from us all. 1 1 •/ li/ I L J 1 If you are contacted by people who say they’re A n earlier voice mail message from an aggriev- O flu b y B 'fT IO ll. )N& W OiK h Q iU tO ed reader took us to task for not publishing com- g a th e r QS ITIUCh in fo rm a tio n OS We from Just Out and you’re unclear as to why, please give me a call. 1 have voice mail and cell phones mitment ceremony announcements. She could 1 . . . 1 . and e-mail and pagers. not understand why we would not want to print CO/?, D U l Q & fJQ Ifl, f 0 I------------------------- p O itflB rS tlip 7 -------- -------- When not listening to voice mails or reading such information, especially since none of the in vo lve m e n t is req u ired. e-mails, I read other papers and magazines. Ballot major daily papers will print same-sex announce Measure 9 is getting a fair amount of press, and I’m This is y o u r paper. Use it. ments. Well, listen up, gang: O f course we print concerned about what I’m reading. commitment ceremony announcements. A commentary from Scott Lively in the Aug. But there’s a catch...you have to send them to 14 Oregonian was frightening. Consider the impact of these types of arti us. We absolutely 100 percent print commitment ceremonies, birth announcements, obituaries, career advancements and new business cles in papers in cities such as Medford, Grants Pass, Albany, Pendleton and Ontario, and you clearly can see a ballot measure with a gtxxJ openings...when such information is sent to us. chance of achieving victory in November. O n the other hand, we also print none of the ones we don’t receive. Our opponents know where their support lies. Do we? Huh? Finally, this issue o f Just Out is one of the first in many years that has We will print photos; we even will write the announcement for you. not been touched by the hands of Rupert Kinnard. W hile with us in spir We cherish such items. it and in heart, he is going to be absent in body for the next several issues We laugh, we dance, we frolic with happiness. We share your joy, so as he recovers from recent surgery and illness. Get well and get strong, please send us your information so we might present a glimpse of these lov Rupert, we miss you and need you. ing and meaningful moments in the pages of Just Out. Som ewhat along those same lines, another reader called to com Hi Call M a r t y D a v is at (503) 236-1252, fax (503) 236-1257, send e-mail plain th at late delivery of papers affects her social life because she to marty@justout.com or urite to P O . Box 14400, Portland, OR schedules her weekends around the Just O ut calendar. We actually 97293-0400. are well aware of the importance of the calendar to the community and again encourage you to forward, in a timely manner, all your gay guys p 37 CULTURE • Making magic on East Burnside p 38 COLUMNS M 8. BEHAVIOR • Teaching your dog to “leave it” p 29 ju s t o u t it p u b lish ed on th e first an d third ■ Friday o f each m on th . 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C' PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR • Marty Davis ADVERTISING DIRECTOR • Meg Grace OFFICE MANAGBI • Melissa Sayler ENTERTAINMENT BUTOR • Oriana Green ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE • Larry Lewis DISTRIBUTION «Jerilyn Adams, Michael COPY BNTOR • Jim Radosta NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE • Rivendell STAFF REPORTERS • Katy Davidson, Marketing Company Inc. (212) 242-6863 ART DIRECTOR • Rupert Kinnard PRODUCTION DIRECTOR • Kevin Moore PRODUCTION ASSISTANT • Melissa Sayler Albright, Linda Becraft, Kathy Bethel, Bonita Mattinson, Merid Schwartz, Ruth Traut, Larry Williams Jonathan Kipp CONTRIBUTORS • Meryl Cohn, Paul Findlay, Andy Mangels, Christopher McQuain, Amanda Smith, Glenn Williams, Rex Wockner, Pat Young
