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Triumph of
the Dragons
named hy the
Lambda Book
Report as one of
the decade’s 50
he Amazon Drag
most influential
ons showed what
queers.
they’re made of at
Intim acies is
the Rose Festival
j a retrospective
Dragon Boat races June 8
covering work of
and 9. After two qualifying
the past 27 years.
heats Saturday aftemixin in
Some images will
which they placed third and sec
he familiar, others
ond, the lesbian team went into the
during the Rose Festival Dragon Boat races
are totally new,
next day in the top-seeded position for
according to
Women’s Division B.
Corinne, who
Bears president Doug Watson: “If it weren’t for
On Sunday they won the semifinal race
notes all of them
the sweat, I don’t think we could have all
with a time of 3:06.69. In the nail-biting finale,
are “intensely
squeezed through the crowd.” Wow.
the Dragons paddled home for the win, edging
sexual.”
The weekend culminated in the Saturday
out the Tsunami Sisters by just 56 hundredths
The first stop is
night election of Mr. Oregon Bear 2002 Steve
of a second to the deafening screams of Bench 9
O ’Quinn and Mr. Oregon Cub 2002 Mike
June 27 for a
team supporters and a huge waterfront crowd.
6 :3 0 p.m. book
Christman. O ’Quinn wants to grow the Oregon
The winning team must not only finish first
signing and discus
Bears organization a bit, while Christman will
hut also capture the flag at the finish line. First
sion at In Other
work on expanding venues for hear activities.
time flag catcher Shannon Graham performed
Words, 3734 S.E.
“The Oregon Bears membership really
flawlessly, giving the Dragons their first Rose
Hawthorne Blvd.,
wowed some hunky out-of-town hears hy
Festival win in its 11-year history.
where, she says,
immediately making them feel at home," Wat
“Our feet haven’t touched the ground since
she’ll talk about
son says. “Trey of San Francisco told our new
Sunday afternoon,” paddler Eilien Van Patten
“the importance of
Mr. Oregon Bear...‘You guys don’t just have a
commented. The following weekend paddlers
books and about
hear club, you have a hear family.’ ” Aww.
celebrated their win with a triumphant march
having lesbian-
in the Portland Pride Parade.
identified and
If you missed the excitement (or just want
bisexual-identified
to verify rumors about how cute the paddlers
images— portraits
hen Hell Freezes Over: A Queer Prom
arc), witness their next performance all day
and sexual.”
has been moved hack a week from
July 20 at Vancouver Lake. To catch the wave
The following
June 22 to June 29 because of a mix-up
and join the Amazon Dragons Paddling Club,
evening the dykon
at the Mississippi Ballnxim, which had appar
call Van Patten at 503-762-4742 or visit
Renowned lesbian artist Tee
moves on to Port
ently double-booked.
www.amazondragons.org.
in Portland June 27 and 28
land State Univer
— Kronda Adair
If you missed this announcement and
sity’s Smith Memorial Center, 724 S.W. Harri
showed up to a riximful of decidedly nonqueer
son St., for a 7:30 p.m. slide presentation in
young people, take the opportunity to dress up
Room 327. At this Lesbian Community Project-
two weekends in a row, hut don’t miss the
sponsored event, she will talk about “how I got
actual prom, which promises dancing,
started making sexual images and about some of
d(X)r prizes and fcxxl for queers 23 and
the other lesbian photographers.. .whose work
younger. It’s free of charge, and
has inspired me," noting some of those are Ore
anonymous HIV testing is available.
The fun happens 8 p.m. to midnight
gon artists. Corinne herself lives in southern
Oregon.
at 833 N. Shaver St. For more infor
Thanks to In Other Words, LCP and PSU ’s
mation call 503-872-9664.
Women’s Resource Center, both events are free
of charge.
Prom calamity
Get intimate with Tee
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New faces of Pride
avis Krause and Annie Otis were selected
to represent Portland as Mr. and Miss
Pride 2 0 0 2 June 9 at the Brig.
The annual pageant began in 1998 and is
gender oriented rather than a drag title. C on
testants go through an onstage interview, a per
formance piece and a swimwear and club attire
competition, all hosted hy the incomparable
Misha Rockafeller. It’s always a lively evening
with entertainment provided hy past and visit
ing titleholders and the Imperial Sover
eign Rose Court Empress and Emperor.
Krause and Otis opened Portland
Pride 2002 the very next weekend
to a throng of 20,000 visitors.
D
hotographer, activist and all-around dyke
icon Tee Corinne makes two stops in
Portland this month to promote her new
hook Intimacies.
The author of the infamous Cunt Coloring
Book has been shaking things up in lesbian and
feminist publishing for three decades. In the
’70s she began a series of solarized photographs
of labia and of women going at it, posters of
which continue to he mainstays of feminist
retail outlets across the land.
The artist and historian was a speaker at the
second annual Women in Photography confer
ence, received the 1997 Women’s Caucus for
Art President’s Award
ust Out announces the best dam lesbian
singles event of the year, Vagina Night at,
of all places, Unleash Yourself, that
adorable new doggie day care center opened by
the cool but canned ex-KBBT lesbo disc jockey
Gina Micciulla. Not only does this mean you’ll
meet single women, you’ll also meet their dogs
to find out if you’re really compatible.
Come to the pooch palace at 1211 N.E.
Alberta St. anytime between 6 and 9 p.m.
June 27, when you face excellent odds of win
ning tickets to the July touring prtxluction of
The Vagina Monologues at Newmark Theatre.
Hip Chicks Do Wine provides the libations.
You provide the vaginas. And the dogs.
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More lesbians
et another big lesbian event is the annual
Lesbian Community Project Tournament
of Choice, scheduled this year for Aug. 9
to 11 at Prairie Fields in Brush Prairie, Wash.
Softball teams from around the Pacific North
west travel to this event, which concludes with
a championship game Sunday.
Even if you don’t play, show up for the bar
becue, raffle and bcxiths of community vendors
and organizations or to cniise the 400 ball
players all in one place. There’s camping, too.
To register your team or volunteer to help
out, call 503-227-0605. T h e registration
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New faces of bear
few hundred extra hears
added to Portland’s eclectic
imix of visitors during the Rose
Festival on June 8 and 9 for the annu
al Beards and Roses celebration.
The weekend kicked off with an Under
bear Meet and Greet at G ail’s Dirty Duck.
Apparently, the event was well attended judg
ing from the charming comments of Oregon
Don’t forget your vagina
The Oregon Bears sashed up a new
Mr. Oregon Bear and Mr. Oregon
Cub June 8 during Beards and Roses
Corinne will talk about her new work Intimacies
deadline is July 1, and the sliding-scale fee
starts at $300.
Film events we like
T
he American Friends Service Committee
presents Queer Film s...in Color! 6 p.m.
June 29 at HollywixxJ Theatre.
“Issues around queer communities of color
are often ignored or marginalized,” committee
member Cecil Prescod says. “This event will he
a great way...for people to he able to identify
with other positive queer figures of color in the
community.”
Organizers selected four films: Brincando El
Charco: Portrait o f a Puerto Rican follows a les
bian confronting her identity in the United
States; the documentary Honored by the Moon
explores gay and lesbian Native Americans;
Fated to Be Q ueer presents four gay Filipino men
sharing personal perspectives about being gay in
San Francisco; and Black Nations/Queer Nations?
is a compilation of interviews from cultural crit
ics discussing gender, politics and sexuality.
Entrance to the film night is a more-than-
reasonable $2. Call 503-230-9430 for more
information.
Also add to your movie to-do list the Sum
mer Camp Film Series at Guild Theatre,
which runs at 11 p.m. every Friday from
June 28 to Aug. 16.
One film will screen each night, including
Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson’s outrageous
debut; Air Force O ne, during which you can
relive Harrison Ford’s rescue of the entire world
from the clutches of evil; The G oonies, in
which a young group of Oregonian outcasts
searches for the lost treasure of One-Eyed Willy
somewhere off the coast of Astoria; and Show
girls, which we don’t have to remind you about
because you have, no doubt, not forgotten this
inexplicable Paul Verhoeven mess of celluloid.
The Guild is at 829 S.W. Park Ave., and
admission will cost you $6.50. JH
C om p iled by LlSA BRADSHAW