august 18.2000 » Ju st
COMMENTARY
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M a r t y D a v is
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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
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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.
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If you are contacted by people who say they’re
A n earlier voice mail message from an aggriev-
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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
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and e-mail and pagers.
not understand why we would not want to print
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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
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