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hbruary 7, 2003 » eatingout eatingout eatingout • B I catini out S T R O • f* Portland’s Uniform Weekend showcases red-hot icons by G ary M o r r is Make your Valentine’s Day dinner reservations soon B reakfast , L unch & D inner 208 N W COUCH ( above J azz de O pus ) 503/827-5113 featuring Allann Bros coffees and teas Hs i an Ca f e WÊÊÊÊÊË ops, firefighters, soldiers and sailors have an iconic status, and not only because they protect us from, respectively, criminals, fires and those pesky terrorists peeping around every comer. Shine those insignias: Uniform Weekend is Feb. 7 to 9 There’s also the little matter of the uniform. Shiny pressed pants with a perfect fluidity, as the fetish responds to changing crease. Layered shirts and crisp, tight jackets. cultural trends. “ I suspect that the generation Spit-shined shoes and industrial rubber b<x)ts. of emerging gay people now growing up in Hard hats and seductively soft caps. the post-9/11 era will fetishize firefighters And, of course, the tantalizing flesh hidden above all else.” beneath all these alluring accouterments. The uniform community’s welcome trend Queers have been exceptionally broadminded toward inclusiveness and pansexuality has in celebrating these hypennacho images, given opened the public face of the phenomenon to the flip side of this sexy coin. After all, the cop women as well. Deb is an associate member you’re servicing one minute might decide to kick (Friend of the Corps) of a national group called your ass the next. And then there’s the old graffi Dyke Uniform Corps. She’s also a bootblack— ti about Marines: “He’ll suck you and you can a rarity for women in this realm. suck him. He’ll fuck you and you can fuck him. “ I have been taking care of my own boots But don’t try to kiss him, because that’s queer!” for several years,” she reveals, but went public _ But old paradigms pass, and yesterday’s at Portland’s 1997 Living in Leather XL "It’s a oppressive authority figure has become today’s combination of service and fetish for me, and a red-hot fetish icon. good way for me to get a chance to talk and Andy Mangels, organizer of Portland’s Uni- interact with folks.... It is a skill and a lost art fonn Weekend and owner of the prominent that has gotten revived in recent years." Weh site In Uniform, explains the phenome That’s g(xxl news for those who want their non’s resonance in the queer male community. stompers to sparkle. Deb will undoubtedly have “Uniforms represent a masculine cama her work cut out for her at Uniform Weekend. raderie... power, or the exchange of power. They bring with them storylines and fantasies, elehrating its 11th anniversary, Uniform which engage the imagination on an erotic Weekend starts Feb. 7 with a Uniform level for those predisposed toward that.” Meet and Greet from 9 to 11 p.m. (well, Mangels adds, not insignificantly, “The 2100 to 2300 hours) for a mere $2 at Gail’s majority of uniforms make the wearers Imk Dirty Duck, 429 N.W. Third Ave. It’s followed by a Men-Only Play Party and Clippers really g(xxl” Party, with a full dungeon and hot tub for $10. The writer and editor (and uniform wear er) traces his own interest to his father— a Feb. 8 features a Guided Uniform Shop ping Spree starting at 11 a.m. in front of the cop and hiker— and two sources that fed many a budding queer’s fantasies in the Washington Park Inn, 840 S.W. King Ave. Officer Hugh McMahon and football jocks Kip 1970s: the T V show CHiPs, with Eric Estra and Mike assist you in sampling the wares of da’s thunder thighs bulging out o f pristine Blumenthal Uniforms and Sports Warehouse. khaki, and that sexy satire of hutch iconography, the Village People. At 6 p.m. the Greek Cusina, 404 S.W. Wash ington St., plays host to the Officers’ Dress Mess In Uniform Webmaster Khevan Uniform Dinner featuring a buffet banquet for Zhydek attributes the sexiness not only $20. Next is a 9 p.m. Uniform Party at the Eagle to “the cloth, the colors and the PDX, 1300 W. Burnside St., followed by Uniform decorations,” hut to an almost & Leather Night at XES, 415 S.W. 13th Ave. alchemical prtKess that occurs Saturday night’s schedule also includes simply through a change of Lulu’s Pervy Playhouse Women-Only Play outfit. “When a uniform is Party. Be sure to attend Friday’s Meet and put on, someone who can Greet for details on this one. he a joker in real life tends Feb. 9 winds it all up with an 11 a.m. to sober up and becomes Uniform Buffet Brunch at C.C. Slaughters, part of the uniform.... It’s 219 N.W. Davis St., for $15, followed by a no almost like they wield doubt much-deserved At Ease Dinner 7 p.m. power over the wearer." in House of Louie, 331 N.W. Davis St., for Like any gtxxl fetishist, another $15. JH Zhydek has his favorites. "Some specific uniforms I find sexy would Visit wunv.inunifrrrm.net err e-mail uniformmatfQ) be the U.S. Marine Corps’ dress aol.com for details on all UNIFORM WEEKEND blue, most police uniforms and some firefighting gear." events, including which ones require reservations. Mangels points to a certain G a r y M o r r is is a Portland free-lance writer who Andy Mangels loves longs for the day when movie theater ushers had to a man in uniform wear fancy uniforms. Curries. Hoodies. 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