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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 2001)
36 jMst aut ’ july fi- 2Q ûi omen in the Woods August 23-26, 2001 A lesbian cultural event and retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs 4-day/J-night - $250 Talk of the town 3-day/2 night - $ 185 Scholarships available EVERY BOOK OF GAY EROTICA ALWAYS IN STOCK! Contest! cgistradon to WIW 2001! _4ii 503 284-0722 for Information * 5 Continued from Page 1 1er al jpiints 4h forest Make new friends Experiment with your creaüv**- Pl.ìy VQB m M Read, wrif Re*gr<tr ition deadline Is August I. 2001 Fees must be paid In full at that time CaH 503-2 don form Dear Friends. Old photos of men together. Gay? Straight? Wonderfully ambiguous. $35. (@> Wendel All Together. All of Howard Cruse’s Wendel comic strips in one great book. $17.95. James Bidgood. Lush male photos by 60s filmmaker. Total camp! Reg. $40. Sale $19.99. DOWNTOWN @ 927 SW OAK • 226-8141 August 10-13,2001 Summer Camp for Gay and Lesbian families on the Oregon Coast (Children ages 3 and older) • Family, adult and children activities • Family style meals • Caring staff • Friendly, accepting environment For more information or to register call 503-294-7476 Financial Assistance Available FLAMBE QUEER NIGHT 8pm Funny, sexy and erotic, this wry look at modem lesbian passion tells the story of Chance, who is obsessed with Tara Gold, a pom star. But what happens when she gets an opportunity to fulfill and explore her desires to the very ex tremes of sexual fanta sy? An intimate evening of nouveau-noire per formance, The Dyke & The Pom Star explores the difference between public and private per sonas, lust, longing and intimacy. $17 Advance $19 at Door Shows contains Nudity Under 18 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS ritVENTM StASON Box Office: (503) 239-5919 • FASTIXX: (503) 224-8499 Email: trianglepro@juno.com www.tripro.org PRODUCTIONS! Summer Pride Series is presented by a generous grant from the Hoover Family Foundation. justrrn write that I live in France with my boyfriend in France because it's true. We should have reached the point by now where that reads the same as f live in France with my wife.1 ” ‘7 1101 NW 16TH • 21 & OVER • 503.226.1258 (Th, Fr, Sat) TRI NGLE ***** MONDAYS 9PM TO 1AM July 5 - 28 4 V @ LE HAPPY triangle productions! presents .. □ Sedaris makes it clear to me that being kind is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do—the goodwill he engenders helps sell his next book. He also disdains those authors who use their book tours as opportuni ties to get laid. He doesn’t mind picking up a few extra bucks along the way, however, and has been putting a tip jar on the table at his book sign ings. “Everyone else has one,” he says. “Why not me.7” Portland fans will be pleased to know that the $143 they donated (a record high for Sedaris) will be returning to the local economy. “I’ve been saving my tips for Mario’s,” he says. “It’s my favorite men’s clothing store in the United States.” The unapologetic smoker adds that he’s usually afraid to wear what he buys, however, for fear he’ll bum a hole in his nice new clothes. Equity Foundation (Kregg Amston A Theodore Fsttig Fund, Peter and Erica Goodwin Fund). Fantasy Video/Oregon Entertainment and Just Out. Glass first heard him and eventually put him on the radio to read his now-legendary account of working as a Christmas elf at Macy’s. The irony of being as famous for his voice as for his writing is not lost on Sedaris, who opens Me Talk Pretty One Day with his account of being tormented by an elementary school speech therapist trying to eliminate his lisp. “None of the therapy students were girls,” he writes. “They were all boys like me who • kept movie star scrapbooks and made their own curtains. ‘You don’t want to do that,’ the men in our families would say. ‘That’s a girl thing.’ Baking scones and cupcakes for the school janitors, watching Guiding Light with our mothers, collecting rose petals for use in a fra grant potpourri—anything worth doing turned out to be a girl thing.... When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up. ‘A policeman or a fireman or one of those guys who works with high-ten sion wires.’ ” When one considers the frankness with which Sedaris writes about his sexuality, his phenomenal mainstream success seems all the more remarkable, but he is unfazed by it. “I write that I live in France with my boyfriend in France because it’s true,” he told The Advocate recently. “We should have reached the point by now where that reads the same as ‘I live in France with my wife.’ Sedaris’ relationship with Oregon goes back Any doubts about Sedaris’ appeal certainly to his student days when, in a misguided were laid to rest after his recent lovefest with Grapes of Wrat/i-inspired fantasy, he decided to David Letterman. Not only was it the first time pick apples in the Hood River Valley, a story an author has read from his work on the show, he relates in his previous collection of essays, it might have been the first time any author Naked. Like most of his adventures, his career has done a late-night reading in decades. Let as a migrant worker proved a complete failure, terman, clearly a huge fan, even told Sedaris but it was during that time that he began keep that although it was good to see him, he’d ing a journal, a habit he continued when he rather the author was home writing more stuff. returned to art school in his native Raleigh, Critics are running out of superlatives to N.C. rave about his work and have compared him “We’d have these cri favorably with Oscar tiques in art school that Wilde, Dorothy Parker, h V » v f k f :• :»> <: x h £ S l S F. 1. 1. E k would go on for focking James Thurber, Mark hours, and it was like peo Twain and Woody Allen, ple talking to their thera to whom he bears a pists—it was so incredibly slight resemblance. His boring," he emphasizes in reviews are so uniformly his distinctive nasal tenor. ecstatic I’d say they “I didn’t really have any sound like his parents thing to say about my wrote them, but anyone paintings, so I started writ familiar with Sedaris’ ing little stories that were books knows his parents like a parody of critique never have had many talk, and I’d get up and nice things to say about read those.” him. The New York Post, The other students however, recently trum found Sedaris’ material peted that the only rea (and his delivery) so fonny son Sedaris isn’t the fun he frequently was asked to niest writer in the Unit <lavi<l give readings as part of ed States is because he other artists’ performance lives in France. pieces. It was under such a Much of Me Talk circumstance in Chicago Pretty One Day deals that NPR commentator Ira with that move. WiS: w ■ •
