CULTURE
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MOST EXPOSED
PORTLAND
HARD BODY
Eric Eberhart,
who also tends bar
at Silverado, put his
life and his body
online at EricEx-
posed.com.
Another round of applause
Looking back over the year in entertainm ent
as seen in the pages of Ju st Out
by
BEST EFFORT BY 25 MUSCLED LESBIANS
T h e Am azon Dragons made us all proud
w ith th eir really hard training and appear
ance in th e Rose Festival D ragonboat Races.
BIGGEST COUP BY GUYS IN TIGHT PANTS
O riana G reen
T he Rose City Softball Association once
again beat the team fielded by the Portland
Police Bureau during the Grudge Match, held
every year during Pride.
HARDEST-
WORKING NEW
GAY GUY IN
PORTLAND IAND REST USE OF A TURKEY
RASTER OY A RIAN)
MOST COURAGE DISPLAYED IN TELLING
THE HARD TRUTH
Gigi Gordon shared her story of weight loss
surgery and bravely told us what numbers came
up on her scale.
Tony Stroh, the first-ever executive director
of the Portland Gay M en’s Chorus, who
devised an especially probing way to promote
the holiday concert.
BEST USE OF A DRAG QUEEN IN A PLAY
LONGEST DISTANCE TRAVELED TO PUT
ON A PLAY
Poison W aters was a n atu ral as Jacob in
this year’s p ro d u ctio n o f La Cage A u x
Folles.
N o contest! Stephanie M ulligan of Artists
Repertory T h e
atre spent three
m onths in
Vietnam
spreading con
cepts o f W est
ern theater and
helping stage
Tennessee
W illiams’ The
Glass Menagerie
and a bilingual
production of
W illiam
became a theater ambassador
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream.
MOST QUEERIFIC COLLABORATION
James C anfield, O regon Ballet T h eatre
artistic director, team ed up w ith com poser
and Pink M artini frontm an T hom as Laud
erdale to create a new dance work, Leaves
Pas de Deux, the centerpiece o f James C a m
field Signatures.
WHERE NO ROMO HAS GONE BEFORE
Portland writer Andy Mangels finally con
vinced the sci-fi powers that he to let him add
some gay intrigue to his Star Trek novel Section
31: Rogue.
BEST USE OF A QUARTER-CENTURY
Calyx, the nonprofit publisher of women’s art
and writing, and founder Margarita Donnelly cel
ebrated 25 years of fine outpourings in Corvallis.
AUTHOR WHOSE NEXT BOOK WAS MOST
WORTH WAITING 10 YEARS FOR
Portland gay icon Tom Spanbauer finally
FRISKIEST SENIOR WHO USED TO PACK
A GUN
Melinda Pittman exposed the truth about feminist history in Wonderbroads
delivered his much-awaited novel In the City of
Shy Hunters (a decade after publishing the highly
regarded The Man Who Fell in Love with the
Moon) to rave reviews.
BEST SHOW WORTH BLOWING
A W EEK'S PAY ON
M adonna only cam e as close
as Vegas and O akland, hut
devoted O regonians made the
trek to worship H er Buff
ness— and tell us all
about it.
BEST SHOW WITH
OUT A PERSONAL
TRAINER ON STAFF
C loser to hom e,
M elinda P ittm an won
acclaim and the O regon
Book Award for Best Drama
w ith her ahfahulous
Wonderbroads.
BEST NEW ARTIST IAND
GUTSIEST PRODIGY]
Jordan Blumberg-Enge, the
young phenom who wowed
the crowd with her original
songs at Eugene’s Pride cele
bration and came out to the
world at 13!
THE PHOENIX AWARD FOR BEST
MIRACLE TO RISE FROM THE ASHES
The plucky dykes out at We’Moon recov
ered from a disastrous fire and loss of materials
and managed to re-create We’Moon '02: Gaia
Rhythms for Womyn in record time.
MOST FUN AT A PLAY YOU WOULDN’T TAKE
YOUR PARENTS TO
Naked Boys Singing! lived, er, up to its
nam e as part of th e triangle productions!
Sum m er Pride Series.
BEST PLAY WITH NAKED
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BOYS NOT SINGING YOU
COULD TAKE YOUR
PARENTS TO
Chris Coleman made a splash directing Flesh
and Blood at Portland C enter Stage. The open
ing night crowd got to check out gay icon
Edward Albee in attendance.
Fanchon Blake, an 80-year-old lesbian
ex-cop from Eugene, w ho sued th e Los
A ngeles Police D epartm ent and won a g en
der discrim ination case— and w ho’s still in
th e m arket for a honey.
FRISKIEST NAKED
SENIOR WITH
A BIG STICK
W alt C urtis cele
brated his 60th
birthday w ith a
show at the
Mark W ooley
Gallery. T he
prom otional
postcard featured
the artist and
raconteur out in
the boonies au
naturel w ith a
strategically
placed walking
stick.
BEST USE OF A BELLY BUTTON
W ho knew there were gay belly dancers?
Randy Brown, th a t’s who. He dances
regularly w ith Sharita.
BEST REASON TO GO TO ROOD RIVER
To see the wonderful artwork of painter
Mark Nilsson, whose murals adorn walls
all over town, including the gay-owned
hangout H olstein’s Coffee Company.
MOST FUN WITH MAILING TUBES
Marc A cito and his cohorts snagged the
Best Costum e prize at the opening night of
Sing-a-Long Sound of Music. Had something to
do with sizable brown paper packages. j n
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