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July 5.2QQ2 * iu s tr r m COMMENTARY BY M arty D 3 a v is w Ê The IN publication for the OUT population F oun d ed 1983 • J ay B r o w n and R V ol. 19 N o . 17 en ée L a C hance Ju ly 5 , 2 0 0 2 FEA T URE READ M il Just Out introduces you to three queer Portland writers and tells you what to read this summer P 28 NEWS NORTHWEST - Kulongoski campaign returns contribution; second annual Just Out amateur photography contest winners » 7 - 1 7 , 24 NATIONAL • University of Washington study reveals grim statistics about queer runaways; New Jersey couples demand the right to marry HP 1 9 - 2 1 W O RLI • Namibia president can’t make up his mind PP 2 3 , 2 5 CU LT U RE COLTORE • Peacock in the Park rakes in the dough while having a great time p37 PEOPLE • Slam poet Alix Olson invites you to join her in Cunt Cuntry P 41 DIVERSIONS • A midsummer night’s dance; toga!; golf for charity; eat for charity; a Bowie/Moby concert event; new cable dyke; Ellen plays a Fish P 42 WHAT'S PO PPIN'T - Cirvuit sucks P 43 MHSIC • Imperial Teen grows up P 45 THEATER • Cirque du Soleil showcases cute gay men; triangle productions! gives good Hed in its best production to date pp 4 8 - 4 7 COLUMNS M S . REHAVIOR • Tired of hearing about her rolls; tired of losing to the lesbians p 39 LIVINS OUT • Anniversary o f obsessive- compulsive behavior P 48 THE 60SPEL ACC0RDIN6 TO M ARC • His BIG G EST column ever! Let freedom ping The 2002 election should worry you. A lot. H M y friend and partner in anti-tobacco work, Catherine Cushing, appy post-Independence Day holiday. As this supposed takes exception to the photos on the cover of our June 21 issue. celebration of independence and freedom vies for the title (Read her letter to the editor on Page 5.) I understand her concerns, and of white-trashiest holiday ever, lets stop and consider they crossed my mind as that cover was being prepared. where the past few hundred years of independence have But my decision to use the photos was based on the belief that you brought us to in Oregon. don’t solve a problem by hiding from the reality of it. It is my duty to With the primary election behind us, summer is the calm before the present the community as it is— not to manipulate it to make it appear storm as we await a barrage of post-Labor Day campaigning for the gen the way we’d like it to be. eral election in November. While looking ahead to the election, please It’s an undeniable truth; our community smokes too much. And consider the following points: smoking kills people. • It’s 2002, and Oregonians have nominated Kevin Mannix as the How do we bridge the gap between these two truths? W ith all due Republican candidate for governor. Presumably there are people out there respect, not by denying that it is happening or by “prettying up” the who actually want and expect him to win. This should worry you. A lot. actuality of the situation. Smoking is a killer. Hiding it from view is not • It’s 2002, and Oregonians have a third-party candidate running for the solution. U.S. Senate. This candidate is Lon Mabon. While I can’t imagine that Never has the evidence of a smoking epidemic been more obvious there’s anyone anywhere who thinks he actually might win, again, do than at this year’s Peacock in the Park. Everywhere I looked, people not overlook the simple fact that there are people out there who want were smoking. And aside from the stench, the disease and the death him to. This, too, should worry you. A lot. associated with this lovely habit, the culture of filth and littering is • Ted Kulongoski, the Democratic candidate for governor, recently mind-boggling. returned $15,000 in campaign money because it was I so appreciated the messages from Poison Waters linked to gay pornography. My concern here, and it’s Stop and think as she implored the crowd to clean up after them lessened by the knowledge that most will have long for selves. I regret I didn’t stay long enough to capture gotten by November, is that there might be a reactionary about the idea o f that truth on film— the truth o f the incredible messes movement to punish Kulongoski by not voting for him Governoer M a n n ix- that smokers mindlessly leave behind, with the expec in November. Don’t do it. Voting against one candidate is no different than voting for his opponent. This is how kinda sticks in your tation that someone else will come along and clean up after them. Portlanders came to elect Bud Clark mayor one day. throat, doesn't it? They weren’t voting for Clark; they were voting against vents like Peacock'in the Park are the fun and easy the incumbent. Stop and think about the idea of Gover parts of my job. Dam it, though, the job comes with nor Mannix— kinda sticks in your throat, doesn’t it? hard parts, too. I think the hardest of all is saying goodbye to valued and • W hat if a candidate for U.S. senator called a meeting and nobody cherished employees when it’s time for them to move on. came? Well, it pretty much happened June 28. Bill Bradbury called Now it seems it’s time to say goodbye to Melissa Sayler. She has together leaders of the sexual minorities community to discuss campaign been trying to back out the door for several months now, and the time concerns and— guess what?— the meeting was attended by three repre finally has come to let her go. sentatives from Basic Rights Oregon and two from Just Out. Excuse me, Not unlike Buck in Call of the Wild, I’ve got to let her be free to but what kind of a message did we send to this candidate that day? run with the wolves— well, OK, there’s not actual wolves involved; she “Hey, Smith will do just fine as senator, no problem, we don’t need you, simply wants to start her own house-painting business— but now I need you don’t need us. Please don’t bother with us anymore.” Good grief. some new folks here. So while lucky Portlanders shall flourish and shine with beautiful homes, Just Out is left with not one but two job open etting politics aside, let’s move on to photos, specifically the second ings. You know you’ve had a valuable employee when it takes two oth annual Just Out amateur photography contest. The winners can be ers to replace her. Please glance over to our “help wanted” ad on Page 2 found on Page 24. Thanks to all who entered. (Please note: I wasn’t a judge). and join us if you can. And now take off those lens caps, and let’s get started on entries for next year’s contest. You see, there seems to be a movement afloat to nd finally, in closing, a thanks to the Portland Fire, who you’ll drop the “gay” from “Gay Pride.” note in the photo below acknowledged Just Out and Pride N orth I don’t much like this idea, and so the contest theme for 2003 is sim west at their June 20 game. W hile I generally am about as spiritual as ply “Gay Pride.” Let’s visually celebrate all the glorious, colorful, humor a garden hose, attending this year’s Fire games has left me with a ous, touching and truthful moments of the most absolute gayness that heightened perspective of the value of simple blessing. You see, no can be found. matter how hard my day, no matter how pissy the phone calls, at the And next June for Gay Pride we’ll have a wonderful display of gay, end of each day I get to leave work with all my teeth firmly intact. gay, gay. Don’t send in the photos yet; we’ll talk about this again in Count the simple things. J H April. E S A P 49 REFLECTIONS Jm t out to published on the first and third Fri day of each month. Q ipyricht © 2002 by Just Out. N o part o f Just Out may he reproduced without written permission from the publisher. The submission of w ritten and graphic materi als la welcomed. W ritten material should he typed and dou ble-spaced. 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