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Portland’s
Uniform
Weekend
showcases
red-hot icons
by
G
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M o r r is
Make your Valentine’s Day
dinner reservations soon
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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.
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