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may 17.2ÛÛ2 • ju s t M L 3 | U S t [ ' l l 11 The IN publication for the OUT population F ounded 1983 • J ay B rown Vol. 19 N o. 14 and R enée L a C hance May 17, 2 0 0 2 FEATURE BURNIN' UP THE COURT: Portland Fire basketball has some hot new talent blazing into an exciting new season p 26 NEWS NORTHWEST • Gay student banned from prom pp 8 - 1 5 NATIONAL - H IV witch hunt in South Dakota pp 1 6 - 1 9 WORLD • Dutch leader assassinated pp 2 1 - 2 5 CULTURE THEATER • Artists Repertory Theatre presents The Laramie P roject ; take Emi Koyam a’s Intercourse pp 3 6 - 3 8 FILM • Borstal Boy, The Business o f Fancydancing p 39 BOOKS • Richard Rodriguez in Portland; Lesléa Newman misses the point; Alison Lurie's Fam iliar Spirits p41 CROUPS • Soromundi Lesbian Chorus o f Eugene sings loud and proud p 43 WHAT’S POPPIN’ T • Spider-Man is better than Attack o f the Clones p 45 DIVERSIONS • The Q-Ball; Portland Community Dance Festival; Dyke Night Portland sizzles; rugby reunion; Jamie Anderson teaches Women in Harmony; on the air with In the Life and HBO; Melissa Etheridge in the Gorge pp 4 9 - 4 1 COLUMNS M S. BEHAVIOR . Boy goes out with psycho, gets, what he deserves p 48 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARC • Find out why Marc and his partner live in the 'burbs P 49 COMMENTARY M arty D ams Check, please Oregon voters can make a difference by supporting Bev Stein the question that was posed by members of my own staff. They wanted ay 21 is the deadline for Oregon voters to return their - to make sure 1 was not blurring the lines between advertising and spon mail-in primary election ballots. Unfortunately, they sorship dollars and editorial content and journalistic integrity. are responding with lackluster interest and low returns. In short, was I “selling” an article to the Portland Fire? After all, it’s Be it the economy, the state of the world or simply apa- not gay and lesbian in nature, there are no “out” players or staff to be -JL* thy, citizens are not strongly rallying to support and featured or held up as “role models,” and, as noted, in the first two years elect candidates. of the franchise there’d been no discernible welcome mat presented to With mere days left until the deadline I am asking you, statewide, to our community. « take last-minute and deeply needed action to help secure the Democrat Valid arguments all. My counterpoint, however, is that the team ic nomination for gubernatorial candidate Bev Stein. She has a proven merits coverage for the social activities and value that it brings to the history of working with us in a strong advocacy role. lesbian community. I firmly believe Stein is the only candidate for Oregon’s top job who Other arguments aside, the venue presents a desirable and elusive will keep a watchful and proactive eye on her gay and lesbian con nonsmoking, economical, entertaining, something-for-everybody stituency. As our staiggle continues to achieve full civil rights, we can place to meet friends and while away a pleasant summer afternoon or count on her to he there with us and for us. evening— and all while watching some pretty dam But before she can help us we’ve got to get her on the good basketball, mind you. S o yes, while the team, general election ballot. Her campaign needs three things: I firm ly believe the sport and the game might be lacking in content • First, your timely returned ballot with a vote for Bev criteria for Just O ut , the combined energy, interest, Stein. Stein is the only enthusiasm and force of the fans are reason enough to • Second, even as the final days approach, the cam candidate for provide coverage. paign needs more and more people to help draw in the The Fire has made inroads in establishing more open last of the ballots. Please, take an evening, an hour, what O r e m 's top job who relationships with the gay and lesbian community this ever you can to volunteer. A call to 503-220-0100 will will keep a watchful season. Previously it’s been a sponsor of Sensory Percep get you campaign headquarters. tions, which puts on the gay and lesbian film festival • Finally, money. There’s always a need for money, ads an d proactive eye on each fall, and efforts are being made to work with other and media messages to sway the last of the last-minute voters. Again, call the campaign office for info on where her g a y an d lesbian community groups and organizations this year. For example, Pride Northwest will receive a portion to send your check. constituency of the proceeds from tickets it sells for the June 20 home Be a part of the process. Invest in your future by help game. And as a special added bonus— something really ing elect those candidates who have earned your support to be proud of for Pride Week— the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus will be and will support you in the future. singing our national anthem. I say let’s come out in force and make The electoral process is an amazing thing. We control our destiny. June 20 serious Pride Day at the Rose Garden. We have the means by which to elect strong and powerful allies as our leaders. We must do it now. emorial Day weekend approaches. In Oregon this is a festive time traditionally taken up with honored rituals such as soggy picnics, he Portland Fire opens its third season of professional women’s bas damp camping and rained-out softball. This year, try something new. ketball May 29. Its first two seasons went largely unnoticed in the Unpack your Pentex, manage your Minolta, corral your Canon and pages of Just Out. There was no particular reason for this; by and large head out to take pictures of pets, people, places, plants— any damn we didn’t know anyone up there and perhaps with the shortness of the thing— and submit your creative masterpiece to the second annual Just season just never quite got around to meeting the new neighbors in Out Amateur Photography Contest. town. They didn’t knock on our door; we didn’t knock on theirs. Complete details are right over to your left on Page 2. Do it now, This new 2002 season is starting off with more cordial and open rela please. J H tions between the Fire management and the gay and lesbian communi ty. For starters you’ll notice players featured on the cover of this issue PLEASE NOTE: May has five Fridays, so the next issue of Just Out won’t hit and an article on Page 26. the streets until June 7 —an interval of three weeks rather than two. So, why would we even want to write about the Portland Fire? That’s M T REFLECTIONS SPECIAL 10 years ago in i l I !f l • Black Lesbian and G a y Pride Day— the second such African American G a y Pride celebration— is scheduled for M ay 24 in W ashington, D .C . JHST FRIENDS • Free voice personal ads p 50 ju st ant U published on the first and third F ri day of each month. Copyright © 2002 hy Just Out. N o part • Steve Michael, a member of the A C T UP/Presidential Project and a resident of Seattle, plans to run in the W ashington state presidential preference primary M ay 19. of Just Oui may he repnxjuced without written permission from the publisher. The submission of w ritten and graphic m ateri als is welcomed. 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Visit our Internet site at www.justout.com. by • Although gay and lesbian activists were unable to disrupt the 64th annual Academ y Awards show as promised, their widely publicized protests against Hollywood’s negative portrayals of gay men and lesbians helped make the event more political than expected. • Heckling from a person with A ID S caused presidential front-runner Bill Clinton to fly into a rage during an address to lawyers at a supper club in Manhattan. The N ew York Post said he "exploded in an angry P U B LIS H » A M MANAGING BNT0R • Marty Davis HEWS BUTOR • Jim Radosta CULTURE 9 1 1 OR • Lisa Bradshaw C0NTRM 9TM S • Marc Acito, Meryl Cohn, Cheyne Cumming, Els Dehhaut, Susan Detroy, Shanna Germain, Patricia L. MacAodha, Andy Mangels, Christopher McQuain, Gary Morris, Boh Roehr, Hadley Scott, Rex Wockner ADVERTISING O IH EC TN • Larry Lewis ADVERTISING RtPRESENIAIIVE • Markie Acevedo NATIONAL A IV B m S IM M H • Rivendell Marketing Company Inc., 212-242-6863 GRAPMC Om fC TM • Kevin Moore outburst" when his speech w as interrupted. • M em bers of the Oregon Citizens Alliance might be feeling a little blue these days after discovering its boycotts of retailer Fred M eyer and tw o newspapers, the Salem Statesm an Journal and the D aily Astorian, have not resulted in the apocalyptic downfall of all three. • The community is cordiafly invited to the memorial service for Sanford Director on M ay 3 at the Inter mediate Theater at the Center few die Performing Arts. • The Gays o f O ur Lives, a soap opera spoof by Claudia AHen. opens at the Portland W om en’s Theatre Com pany. Th e re ’s som ething for every gay spirit: adventure, civil disobedience, sex, politics, vegetarianism and more. • D on’t miss the world premiere M a y 28 of Claire o f the Moon, a lesbian feature film produced and filmed in Oregon. PMMCTNN ASStH AN T • Melissa Sayler OFFICE MANAGER * Erin Sexton NTBN • Nadia Cannon MITIMmON • Ed Carder, Ian Drake, Ron Geer, Kelly Keigwin, Stephanie Munly, Becky Sawyer, Merid Schwartz, Melissa Weigand, Carla Wright
