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FEATURE
COMMISH DISH: Ju.st Out asks City Council
candidates about queer issues
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NEWS
NORTHWEST • Man sentenced for church threats;
Human Dignity Coalition throws another party
for Central Oregonians; counselors form
social group for sexual minority Jews
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NATIONAL • Democrat compares openly gay
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Republican to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler;
United Methodist Children’s Home accused
of discrimination; off his Rocker
pp 12-13
WORLD • Football fans follow full frontals;
Tory comes out of the closet; Sesame Street
will add HIV-positive Muppet
pp 14-15
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WORLD SERIES 2002: Portland plays host to
the biggest queer sporting event in the country
ARTS AND CULTURE
PEOPLE • Thomas Marks makes his mark
in music; local bi bikes Bolivia
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MOSIC • The next Chinese butch lesbian
Madonna?
pp 31
ART • Julia Waco can’t think straight
p 34
FILM • You’ ll want seconds of Second Skin
p 35
DIVERSIONS • Strombolli’s queer circus is here!;
Homowo Festival; unleash yourself
to the movies; street fairs galore
p 36
WHAT’ S PO PPM 'T • Don’t pay to see
Full Frontal or the creepy Tadpole
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COLUMNS
M S . OEHAVIOR • Fantasies: Are you cheating?
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARC • Gay men
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Field of dreams
Portland welcomes softball players as one City Council candidate hits a homer
Y
ou’re here. You’re finally here. Welcome all players and
coaches, partners and friends, spectators and sponsors to the
26th annual Gay Softball World Series.
After months and months of planning and anticipating,
it’s time to play some damn serious softball. Oh yeah, and
maybe, just maybe, party a bit. And shop. And eat. And explore. You
must take some time out of your very busy, event-packed schedule to
check out this extraordinarily beautiful, energetic, progressive and gay-
friendly city that the rest of us are lucky to call home.
It won’t take you long to see why Portland consistently pops up on
most, if not all, lists of cities with high “gay livability” ratings. While
not minimizing or overlooking the woes of ongoing legislative struggles
with a tedious minority-backed political/religious faction known as the
Oregon Citizens Alliance, Portland has much to offer, not the least of
which is an excellent selection of gay and lesbian Realtors, all of whom
will be quite happy to help you with your relocation process should you
totally succumb to the charms of our city.
For many of you this will be your first, and perhaps only, time to visit
Portland. You’ll be spending a lot of quality time downtown, on Stark
Street and in Old Town, but to get a more complete sense and overview of
our city, hop on a bus or MAX and check out a few of the outlying areas.
Neighborhoods like Hawthorne, Alberta, Broadway and the so-new-
it-s-not-done-yet Pearl District abound with gay-owned and gay-friendly
shops, restaurants, galleries and entertainment venues. Portland is rich
with entrepreneurial spirit, and gay and lesbian business owners are a
vital part of the revitalization of our city.
We all know you’ve brought some money to town with you. We all
know you brought it to spend. Competition is keen for your spending
power.
Please share your bounty with the sponsors of the World Series and
the advertisers of this paper, all fine establishments who support the gay
community year-round. It’s their presence, their staunchness, their com
mitment that makes Portland such a wondrous place for us to live and
for you to visit.
H
ere’s a startling news flash for you all. Sometimes things don’t work
out the way you had planned. Case in point: It’s time to elect a new
Portland City Council member to replace Charlie “Skateboard” Hales.
For a while this was looking like it was going to be a pretty simple
call. I endorse Sam Adams for City Council, wish Serena Cruz well
with her continued term at Multnomah County and spend the summer
idly pondering how exactly Kevin Mannix got nominated for governor.
Did it work out that way? Nooooooo.
Sam Adams waits to take a later bus, and 16— 16, mind you— candi
dates emerge to seek city office. To be truthful, though, while somewhat
ponderous, the prospect of so many candidates is promising and exciting
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to me. I think it’s just one more dynamic sign of the vitality of a city
when 16 citizens are eager to participate in the process.
And you know what else? All of them have something worthwhile
to say. And that surprised me.
With that many candidates, you sorta expect one or two might fall
into the, um, “back away from the candidate” category, but that’s not
the case this time. I attended a forum at Portland State University
where 14 of the 16 were present, and darned if they weren’t all intelli
gent, prepared and passionate about their cause.
And the causes they espouse are all important. Cleaning up the
Willamette River, police accountability, race relations, education, job
development, arts and culture, budget crises and future city development.
The thing is, though, that the person elected has to be passionate,
educated, versed and knowledgeable in all these areas. The person elect
ed has to be able to advocate for all citizens and not just a few. The per
son elected has to be an effective leader while still understanding that
the key to success is working cooperatively with the mayor and other
commissioners.
The person elected should be experienced yet not weary nor worn.
The person elected must fight tirelessly for civil rights and equality for
all people of all races, of all orientations, of all persuasions.
The person elected needs to hold as much promise for the future as
ties to the past. And it’s for all these reasons— for these exciting promis
es of the future, for the promise of continued proactive civil rights advo
cacy— that Serena Cruz should be elected to the Portland City Council.
D
ownsizing is a word with less-than-positive connotations. Usually it
means someone is losing something, most often a job.
Just Out, however, became the recipient of positive news this month
because of some personal downsizing by activist and former Just Out
photographer and contributor Linda Carter. She and household are
moving to smaller quarters and needed to find a new home for a mag
nificent photo collage detailing the community’s fight to defeat
Measure 9 in 1992.
This is a beautifully done piece of art and history, and we’re proud to
have it on display in our office, where it can be shared with others. So if
you were a foot soldier in this battle or are just someone with an appre
ciation of history, please feel free to stop by and take a look.
In 1992 Oregonians filled the streets of downtown Portland with
people of passion and unity. In November it will be 10 years since “the
real” No on 9.
Is the passion for the struggle still with us? Have we won? Are we
there yet? J H
PLEASE NOTE: August has Jive Fridays, so the next issue of Just Out won’t hit
the streets until Sept. 6 — an interval of three weeks rather than two.
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• New survey data have found lesbians might be at
higher risk than heterosexual women for breast, ovari
an and uterine cancer and for heart disease and
stroke. The poll found lesbians tend to weigh more
than heterosexual women, which, according to
researcher M ary M cCauley of the Howard Brown
Health C enter in Chicago, “increases the risk for
breast and endometrial cancer because estrogen is
manufactured from adipose tissue.*
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• Oregonians made their presence felt during the Log
Cabin Republicans national convention. State Rep.
Chuck Carpenter, the Oregon House's only openly
gay G O P member, was honored with the LCR Lead
ership Award for his tireless work this past session
to advance legislation prohibiting employment dis
crimination based on sexual orientation.
• Portlander Jerry Deas has been named secre
tary of Dignity/U SA , the nation's largest and old
est organization of gay, lesbian, bi and trans
Catholics.
• It's the Code Blue Lesbian Dance and sexiest
legs contest Aug. 16 (21 and older only).
PHBUSNBI AND MANAGING EDITOR • Marty Davis
NEWS a r m • Jim Radosta
ARTS A M C H O R E EDITOR • Lisa Bradshaw
CMTRIOVTMIS • Marc Acito, Kronda Adair,
Meryl Cohn, Cheyne Cumming, Meg Daly,
Timothy Krause, Sarah Leimert,
Patricia L. MacAodha, Christopher McQuain,
• Beyond the C loset, C entral Oregon's education and
advocacy group working fo r the civil rights o f gay, lesbian,
bi and trans people, plays host to “Coming O ut, Coming
Home: A Plaice for Lesbians and Gays in the Christian
Faith Com m unity.* The conference will be held Sept. 12
and 13 in Bend.
• Join the members o f M otheriode and other female
musicians for the annual Northw est W om en’s M usic C ele
bration. This weekend o f workshops takes place Sept. 5 to
7 at Y M C A Cam p Collins on the Sandy River.
• Contestants from all over the world w ii gather
Aug. 31 in the M ontgom ery Park Atrium to com pete for
the title of La Femme M agnifique Universal. Prominent
Portland citizens will select a winner from a bevy of the
world's most glamorous fem ale impersonators.
• Billed as a ‘ picnic potiuck with live performances and
displays of memorabilia from the e ra ,“ the Mountain M ov
ing C afe reunion is a gathering of folks who worked for,
performed in or attended events at the racked political
hangout that was the center of community activism in
Southeast Portland during the late 1970s.
Gary Morris, Courtney Perkins, Juli Roxx,
Melissa Sayler, Andy Simon, Tom Stevenson,
Rex Wockner
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