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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 2001)
2 4 ju st « r t *augusti 2001 file Continued from Page 23 heard: “If they don’t like me the way I am, then they don’t like me,” “If they judged it, I’d have to judge them, and trust me, they wouldn’t want that,” or my favorite, “Hell, my family judges me no matter what I do.” Young Chance tells me his roommate kicked him out when he started dancing because he thought that meant he was— you guessed it—a drug addict and a prostitute. In light of these pressures, if you don’t have fun as a stripper you won’t last. And the strippers at Three Sisters (fondly referred to as Three Blisters by some regulars, Six Tits by others) are determined to outdo their more well-known neighbor one block to the west. The crowd is more mixed (the place is not gay-owned), but the showmanship is impressive and fun. 1 must confess that before writing this story I didn’t even know Three Sisters was a bar. I assumed it was some kind of mission run by a trio of nuns determined to convert the sinners on Stark Street. Man, was I wrong. My buddy Buddy brings me. Buddy is one of those cute hard-bodied guys I mentioned earlier who stripped for a few months in the past just for fun. However, he’s been short on cash lately, so tonight he arranges to get on next week’s roster. Every time Buddy leaves his chair some queen rushes over to ask me if I’m his boyfriend, then gushes about how hung he is. He’ll do just fine, I think. And yeah, hitch, he’s with me, I tell them. We watch a dancer pick up a dollar bill by scooping it up with his penis like an elephant grabbing a peanut. By bucking his hips back ward at just the right moment he then can stand up, the money wedged between the frank and the beans, and proudly display the cash for the appreciative crowd. “It happened accidentally the first time,” he explains. “I was sweaty.” A number of the guys have mastered the art of picking up a bill using only their butt cheeks (you never know when th at’ll come in ••Si Ml m u tt jW tJoT w r& t& W & zP - m *U 0*f w T iff w u ts w i e v m ù m k il or fW s w \':è' >>>$#$ 9 t f ¿ a t e ,. K & • LLOYD TRAVEL 1026 NE Multnomah 503-288-5145 Mon. - Fri. 8:30 am - 5:30 pm ___________ Sat. 10 am - 3 pm____________ I , * » * » mm«*« ******* [ t . C W W P f AU. P tM n C C xa J K , A * M ' < W ^ r m s ito t \o. if t* pTtcew : *r m m m tz . Zi, / /. IF W 2. 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It also works, and I’m the first to tip him on his next set. “It’s not about what you do up there or even what you look like; it’s who you know,” one stripper complains downstairs. The manage m ent of both Silverado and Three Sisters encourage their dancers to conduct themselves as the club’s official hosts, buying regular cus tomers drinks, for instance, rather than the other way around. The best come by the skill naturally. “I don’t think of it as working the crowd,” Jewell says. “I love people. T h at’s just mingling.” So the next time you’re stuffing money in someone’s G-string, remember to say “hello” while you’re at it. There’s a person in that thong. “You can look at me like I’m a piece of m eat,” Kurt says, “but don’t treat me like I’m a piece of m eat.” J H B . MARC A c i t o couldn’t have written this article without the help— and permission— o f his partner, Floyd. 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