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Did you attend any Pride 2001 events? What did you enjoy?
What would you like to see changed next year?
being careful. It was intoxicating—I spent the
y partner and I attended the parade and
whole long, beautiful day naturally high and
spent most of Sunday at the festival.
This was my first Pride Festival, and the total
wanting more.
I walked away from the festival sad to
experience was incomparable.
see it ending but with two resolutions
From an organizational standpoint, every-
tucked firmly into my heart. First,
thing appeared to run smoothly, there was a wide
next
year I want to be one of the
variety of things to see and do, and the enter
folks who help make the festival
tainment was awesome. Those who gave of their
time and resources to put this together for the
happen.
Second, I want to live each
community deserve a huge round of applause.
From my personal viewpoint, the libera
day out loud, wherever I might
tion of living out loud in the company of oth
be. No one ever is going to
rush up and congratulate me
ers doing exactly the same thing is simply
for being queer, but I will not live silently.
addictive. My heart was warmed by the many
I want to carry the spirit of the festival into
expressions of love I saw and the wealth of
the world. It might sound comy, but if we each
tiny, intimate gestures that passed freely
don’t do it, it never will be any different.
between friends and lovers.
For one shining day I could hold my part
Suggestions for next year: Have sunscreen
available for those of us who come totally unpre
ner and love her as I always do but without
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pared. Start the dance earlier—some of us have
to work the next day—or just make it longer,
starting earlier in the day.
J ennie W right
Portland
attended the Pride Festival and partook in
the Dyke March. I really enjoyed myself
this year. I would like there to be more ameni
ties at the festival for disabled individuals and
more entertainment and food vendors.
I
he parade was too long; I would like so see
more colors, floats and sponsors. Could the
straight community pony up some sponsorship? It
was well organized, and the bands were terrific;
kudos to the stage crews and organizers. Nice to
see many new vendors this year. Let’s do it better
every year.
T
D ennis B ode
Portland
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To the E ditor :
’ve noticed in the past month or so Just Out
has run advertisements for events allowing
only “women-bom women." I must say this is
very confusing to me.
I don’t understand why a person assigned a
male gender at birth but who identifies and lives
as a woman should not be allowed in. I don’t
think I am a more "true" or "pure" woman
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because I was assigned a female gender at birth.
Also, most if not all of these events are run
by lesbians. In a society where women are sup
posed to be attractive and accessible to het
erosexual men, how are these lesbians not
challenging gender every day?
If I was bom female but identified as a
male, would I be allowed into these functions
if I didn’t tell anyone? There are plenty of
“dykes” who pass as men every day.
If I was bom female but identified as both
female and male, would I be asked to leave half
of me at home?
If I was bom a hermaphrodite but lived my
life as a woman, would I be asked to stay only half
the time? Better yet, could I get in for half-price?
Can you see how absurd all of this really is?
Are the people making these rules trying to
hold on to some sort of “gender purity”?
I value women-only spaces, but not includ
ing trans women is discrimination—pure and
simple. How is this any different from the reli
gious right wing trying to hold on to some kind
of “traditional family values purity”?
1 don’t support establishments or events that
discriminate against trans people of any orien
tation or identity. I do not support Breitenbush
Hot Springs for holding its Women in the
Woods event, and I do not support the Michi-
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Under my skin
To the E ditor :
t is with great interest that I respond to the
request in Marty Davis’ June 15 editorial l“If
You Must March Naked at Least Dress Warm
ly... It’s Been Chilly Lately”].
Who do I look up to and admire? What
would I like to be different?
Well, I am an aspiring, opinionated public fig
ure, and I am working on my skills of offending
people on many issues and being a divisive force
in the queer community. My hero, Marty, is you!
I strongly agree with your opinions of wom
en going topless during the Dyke March and
Pride. Women’s breasts are very naughty and
incite terrible things, and only men should be
able to go topless in the summertime! Without
your exposé on the “people...that actually
send or reflect a message of pride to our city,” I
might have made the mistake of believing all
dykes—even the ones who go topless during
Pride—were worthy of respect for being so out
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