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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 2001)
21.2ÛQ1 BOOKS Listen for THIS WAY OUT every Tuesday at 6pm and these UPCOMING MUSIC SPECIALS: GMTEFI JL VM D ............ ▼ ............. The Fantasy Creature Store Sex and the citizen An interview with the author of a controversial new book by D r a g o n s - G a r g o y l e s - F a ir ie s J e w e l r y - I n c e n s e - C e lt ic 3 1 0 6 -B N E 6 4 th stirred, author Shane Phe Near the corner of 64th & Sandy Blvd lan has written a txx>k that takes a hard lixik at the 5 0 3 -2 4 1 -8 8 8 8 political realities o f the gay Thurs 12-6 • Frl 12-6 • Sat 12-7 • Sun 12-5 FELA KUTI 0 A V : f l ¥ l f 1 Thurs. Ort. Ilh, J j w\. I . \ _ 7pm - Midnight IIItA T IO V M 3 G D 9&7 and lesbian community. T h e remarkable, apathy Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbian and Dilemmas of Citizenship (Tem ple U n i shaking FLAMBE A I I I N i W h Friday28lh,9pm-^am Thursday Oft. 4lh, I lam - 5pm A B been profoundly Friday 28th, 7 am -9 pm «D Y LA N t a time when patriotism and other intense feelings have G ift s NEWS&PLBLIC AFFAIRS DAV “'JEFFERSO N T i m M il l e r QUEER NIGHT @ LE HAPPY MONDAYS 9PM TO 1AM SU P P O R T YOUR C O M M U N I T Y R ADI O STATION! 503/231-8032 20 SE 8th St.. Portland OR 97214 1101 NW 16TH • 21 & OVER • 503.226.1258 190.7 Portland • 92.7 Columbia Gorge 100.7 Willamette Valley versity Press, 2001; $18.95 softcover) asks us to face the question o f whether we real ly can he considered citizens o f the U n ited States, a country that excludes us from fundamental markers o f citizenship such as mar riage and military service. W ith laserlike clarity and honesty, the kxtk provokes us to peel hack the denial and internalized hom opho bia that keep us in a perma nent second-class citizen status in our own nation. U n til recently, Phelan was a political science pro fessor and the w o m en ’s studies director at U n iv e r The Hit Interactive Musical Phenom enon that took New York and London by Storm! sity o f N e w M exico. She is now at the Com m unity o f St. John Baptist in N e w Jersey, being NO W . ‘ The Classic Film W ith Subtitles - So Everyone Can SING ALONG! iz e n s h ip — it what her novice director calls a “ big is n ’ t — G re e k queer nun.” 1 caught up with her at male citizens the Episcopalian convent, and we were talked sex and citizenship. to be married— required but because we Tim M iller: O K , if you read the newspapers you quickly see the United States is bringing up the rear among Western nations regarding lesbian and gay civil rights: the only Western nation to have sodomy laws, the only Western nation to deny gay people the right to serve in the military and so on. D o you think gay people can be considered citizens under such conditions? Shane Phelan: N o , 1 d on ’t. M any people In my research 1 found evidence o f this link A Special Gala Premiere for Charity would argue that the right to vote and hold throughout European history and in the U nited office is the quintessence o f citizenship, hut that States perhaps most glaringly in the decision to is ttx) narrow a view. admit Utah and Idaho to statehixxl contingent favorite character, to Benefit THE HAVEN PROJECT, JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION, PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS. Thursday, September 27 at 6 :3 0 pm Tickets available at Cinema 21 Box Office or phone 503-872-9635 create your own costume featuring costume contest & prizes! (nightly prizes!), PLUS special guest Charmion Carr (Leisl) "One of the funniest and most extraordinary evenings of my life!" The Independent "A major phenomenon!" Time Out New York Dress as your or come as you are, pxtrJ: but get ready to sing a long! f m 102 Limited Engagement! Two Weeks Only! October s - October is Historically, citizenship hits been composed o f www.tkketmaster.com “ private.” But cases such as bina tional partners, where citizenship may be granted to some by marriage but not granted to others, make clear how closely entwined citizenship and mar riage are. upon their outlawing bigamy. T h e rhetoric of a number o f elements. It has been a status that the com m ittees and testimony before Congress both confers privileges and entails responsibilities. could have com e right out o f the 1990s. These privileges have included voting and W e are excluded from citizenship not only holding office, hut they have also included the by the bans on marriage and military service, right to own property, to work and free public edu however, hut also by the routine denial o f cation and (in Western Europe and Canada] decent health care and housing. T h e responsibili p olice protection and concern for violen ce against us. If the fundamental promise o f c iti ties of citizenship have included voting, serving on zenship is acknow ledgm ent o f one another and juries and military service. As women have found, com m on concern for one another’s physical being excluded from certain responsibilities that safety, then I would say that lesbians and gays are seen as central to citizenship is as much a arc not yet citizens o f the U n ited States. T h e y denial o f membership as exclusion from privileges. may he lucky enough to live in a jurisdiction Cinema 21 • 616 M W 21st Ave • 503-223-4515 Reserved Seat Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster and at the CINEMA 21 box office. Save with groups of 15 or more, call 503.223.4044. now think o f it as that has outlawed hate crimes against us, hut if 503 . 224.4400 tickotm aator. c o m 0.1.. be'e www.singalonga.com Meier ft Frank, lemb i T h riftrra y mn4 o th n r independenr location » www.cinema21.com T M : What are some o f the other systems of rights and responsibilities lesbians and gay men are excluded from in this way? SP: Marriage is an interesting issue for citizen ship, not because it is new to the definition o f cit- those laws are not actually enforced they are not afforded the protection due to citizens. T M : But does that really make gay people noncitizens or rather lesser citizens?
