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says Leibowitz, who "did
a fag® foggy painting as
a gift for a friend and
liked it.... It was filled
with good karma and
positive thoughts—
haven’t been beating
myself up lately.”
It is somehow com
forting being sumxinded
by faggy faggies and
btxxn booms, especially
when the colors are
having so much fun
together. The title is
Cary Leibowitz is the new millennium’s Andy Warhol
reminiscent of what,
shall we say, rather sensi
tive boys used to be teased with back in junior
high. No one knows this better than Leibowitz,
who dubbed himself Candyass back in 1988 (a
ick of highbrow art? Then run, don’t
nickname that stuck with patrons and critics
walk, to New York gay artist Cary
alike for years) when he learned that was the
Leibowitz’s exhibit through Jan. 11 at
moniker one of his friends was assigned in his
Soundvision, 625 N.W. Everett St. #108.
more formative years.
The show is titled faggy faggy boom boom,
“He later gave me a rubber stamp,” remem
which, says gay gallery
bers Leibowitz, “and 1
owner TJ Norris, “sounds
started using it as a sig
like a carnival ride. And
nature ’cause my work
in some ways it is."
just needed that pretty
Leibowitz has been
little red in the lower-
doing solo shows in New
right comer. Then 1
York and around the
started to shew and it
world for 13 years, but
all took off. Weird,
this is the first time his
huh? 1 told people it
work has been seen in
was late 20th century
Portland. “1 was never
gay dada.”
invited," the 39-year old
Along with the
laments in a recent
faggy show, Leibowitz
e-mail to Just Out.
sent along some of
It’s in keeping with
his “multiples”—
his character. Leibowitz
manufactured copies
has a wonderfully well-
of his work you can
earned reputation for
buy and take home
being pathetic and
with you. There are
maudlin— the gay, Jew
white shopping bags
ish, victimized slacker
with “Sad Aint Bad”
artist of a new genera
in all caps and rain
tion. The work is
coats with “Liza Min
undeniably Warhol-
Soundvision displays faggy faggy boom boom nelli for President”
emblazoned across the
esque, which isn’t surpris- t h ^ h j a i i . "l'l
ing. Norris visited the
back (in a variety of
artist at home, noting he has “the biggest col
colors and, might we add, perfect for the rainy
lection of original Andy Warhols I’ve ever seen
winter‘season).
outside of a museum."
“When 1 was 10,” Leibowitz admits, “before I
The exhibit consists of a series of paintings
knew what ‘gay’ was, I wrote to Liherace and
that all carry the same text in a similar style
Liza Minnelli because I didn’t have any friends
but different colors. They hang around the
and wanted to get mail.”
front room at Soundvision, slightly tilted with
Taking up one whole comer of the back of
industrial-size silver nails.
the gallery are a stack of bright pink garbage
“I made a decision to make just faggy faggy
can/umbrella stands (you decide) with the
boom boom paintings for TJ at Soundvision,”
bold, yellow words “Gain! Wait! Now!” on one
side and a big, blown-up photo of a chubby, 13-
year-old Leibowitz in a white suit (looking a lot
like he’s enduring his bar mitzvah). The stand
out piece, though, is the white car dashboard
shade with big pink letters that read, "Please
don’t steal my radio, I’m Queer.”
Norris couldn’t be happier with the response
he s seen so far. “Everyone who’s come in here
has either laughed or smiled or said this makes
them feel good.. .his work is inherently academ
ic [butj the lighter side of academic art.”
Soundvision is open from 2 to 6 p.m. Fri
days and Saturdays or by appointment.
Get faggy with
Gary Leibowitz
It’s hip to be square
(dancing]
G
ay and lesbian square dance club Rosetown
Ramblers will celebrate its 20th anniver-
sary with a special night of dancing and
festivities Jan. 4 at the Portland Metro Club,
618 S.E. Alder St.
According to
president Karin Kel
ley, “the club hopes
to reconnect with
the many dancers
who joined the Rose
town Ramblers at
one time or another
over the past two
decades but whose
participation has
lapsed.” The evening
will include a Rusty
Squares hour early on
for the out-of-prac
tice. “ Maybe it’s been
years since you
square danced,” says
Kelley, “but it’s like
riding a bike; you
never really forget
Rosetown Ramblers celebrate 20 years of “ do-sa-do” Jan. 4
how to do it.”
The celebration will continue with a full-
in a long-term lesbian relationship; Julianne
fledged square dance under the direction of
Moore—already winning awards for her portrayal
world-famous Canadian caller Anne
of a smothered 1950s housewife in TxJd Haynes’
Uebelacker. Afterward the Ramblers’
Far from Heaven plays another smothered 1950s
monthly country western dance will com
housewife (though a far different type); and
mence with DJ Crystal.
Nicole Kidman plays the 1920s Virginia Woolf.
The Ramblers meet every Wednesday for
Already named Best Film of 2002 by the
club nights and dance lessons and on the first
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures,
Saturday of the month for square and country
The Hours has been nominated for seven G old
western dances. They also sponsor a monthly
en Globes, including Best Motion Picture
gay and lesbian roller-skating party at Oaks Park.
Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (both Streep
The 20th anniversary “do-sa-do” goes from
and Kidman), Best Supporting Actor (Ed Har
6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Tickets are $5 to $8. For
ris), Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best
more information, call 503-622-1525 or visit
Original Score.
www.rosetownramblers.com.
The Golden Globes, in fact, proved to be as
queer-friendly as the dishy Julianne Moore this
year with four nominations for Far from Heaven,
including Moore for Best Actress in a Drama.
our holiday purchase becomes a gift to
Camp Starlight as well as your special
someone when you mention former
Empress Poison Waters’ name at gay-owned
ollywcxxJ Theatre,
gift shop Radiance through Dec. 24.
4122 N.E. Sandy
Just make your selection from the store’s
Blvd., does gay Port
array of merchandise, including glassware,
land a service in showing
cards, soaps, ornaments, scented and unscent
the 1991 re-release of
ed candles (you can dip your own!) and wall
Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus
sconces, step up to the counter and tell own
on the big screen from
Scantily clad
ers Mark Tynan and Wally Schmidt that Poi
Dec. 20 to 26.
gladiators and a
son sent ya, and they’ll donate 10 percent of
Yes, it’s brawny gladia
restored homo
your purchase to the camp dedicated to chil
tors dressed in skirts fight
scene in Spartacus
dren affected by HIV/AIDS.
ing against oppression, but
Tynan says he "hopes that the endeavor will
also adding to the homo hook is the “bath
raise a lot of money for a worthwhile cause.”
scene” that was censored and snipped out of
Radiance is located at 1902 N.E. Broadway.
the original 1960 release. In it Laurence
Olivier tries to seduce his slave boy, played by
Tony Curtis— try not to notice that he’s mid
dle-aged. Do try to pay attention to the sound
in the bath scene,
which was lost and
t doesn’t open in
had to be dubbed
Portland until mid-
for the new release
January, but the buzz
30 years later.
is already out on the
You’ll hear an even
new film The Hours, an
older Tony Curtis
adaptation of gay writer
and one Anthony
Michael Cunningham’s
Hopkins, whose
Pulitzer-winning novel
voice replaces the
about three lesbian (or
deceased Olivier’s.
lesbian-leaning) women
You don’t find
of different eras con
this kind of overt
nected by Virginia
homoeroticism
Woolf’s beautiful 1925
much between th'e
novel Mrs. Dalloway.
1920s and the
All three of the lead
1970s, kids, so
women in the star-
hightail it to the
studded ensemble cast are
Hollywood. j n
being whispered about for
Oscar nominations, as is
Compiled by
director Stephen Daldry
L isa B radshaw
(Billy Elliot). Meryl Streep Yet another great queer movie hauling in awards: and M arie
plays a modem bisexual
The Hours packs an emotional wallop
F leischmann
—
Give the gift of radiance
Y
The Hours
is coming
Gay gladiators
H