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m a rc h a i. 2003 COMMENTARY in M a r i y D av is The IN publication for the OUT population F o u n d e d 1983 • J ay B r o w n a n d R enée L a C h a n c e Vol. 20 No. 10 March 21, 2003 FEATURE CUT OUT: How the state’s weak economy is affecting the sexual minorities community p 26 NEWS NORTHWEST • Organization advocates for prevention of domestic violence in the sexual minorities community; students take action to expose injustice pp 8 - 1 9 NATIONAL • Michael Savage loses sponsors PP 2 1 - 2 3 WORLD • British MP shacks up with “rent boy” pp 2 4 - 2 5 ARTS AND C U LTU R E FILM • Portland indie filmmaker Gus Van Sant talks about his new Damon/Affleck adventure P 37 FILM • The Academy Awards go gay P 39 MÜSIC • Third Angle New Music Ensemble celebrates Four Tall Women P 41 MUSIC • Come to the cabaret P 43 THEATER • Co -founder of Theater! Theatre! Myra Donnelly starts Vanity FYoductions P *7 THEATER • Dave Jenkins comes home queer p 48 DIVERSIONS - Tara Jane O’Neil at the Blackbird; ski dykes make good; lesbian chorus update; don’t miss the Red Dress Party! p 44 WHAT'S POPPIN'? • The Hunted finally opens! p 45 COLUMNS MS. BEHAVIOR • The proper amount of wanderlust p 35 OUT WITH ITI • What’s up, Ellen? Duct tape fo r the soul W ith apologies to Homeland Security, the Red Cross, Mayor Katz and the guy who wrote the real books uring the late 1960s and early 1970s I was a hippie Vera Katz would have us think that our future comfort and safety wannabe. Hippie as in the flower power, free love, sex lies in stocking up on supplies of duct tape, flashlights and peanut and rock ’n’ roll generation. I never made it past butter. W hile these items no doubt are valuable and tangible “solu wannabe status because my desires to he free and fanciful tions” to unsolvable scenarios, I’d like to suggest a more spiritual, if kept crashing into conflict with my previous, far-too- you will, application for these emergency supplies that we are many years of good old Christian Sunday school instruction. advised to keep available in our homes. To my unending consternation, this dichotomy of values can The days and times upon us, and those that lie ahead, speak to still, to this very day, pop up unexpectedly and cre me less of plastic sheeting and lidded buckets and ate chaos in the inner battlefields of my mind. I’ll The days and times more of the need for a duct tape for the soul, so to he going about my normal daily life, happily filled speak. But not ordinary tape— no, we need an upon us, and those with lustful and lascivious thoughts, when—crash, empowered duct tape, a mystical, magical tool to bang, boom— I’m hearing “thou shalt not covet that lie ahead, speak mend and heal the rifts and pains and wounds that thy neighbor’s wife.” Worse yet, said unwelcome we all bear and, more sadly, inflict upon each to me less o f plastic message will always he accompanied hy something other, intentionally and unintentionally, on an all- like all four verses, and chorus, of “Blessed Assur too-frequent basis. Idealistic? Sure. But isn’t that sheeting and lidded ance, Jesus Is Mine.” better than the cynicism of war and bombs and the This can he very offsetting. First of all, I’ve never buckets and more of threats of terrorist attacks that slam us from all even so much as looked at my neighbor’s wife (hon directions on a daily, if not hourly, basis? Forget the need for a duct est!), and secondly, do you know how damn hard it is the peanut butter— how do we really comfort our to get rid of the chorus of a hymn once it’s weaseled selves, how do we care for others in these stressful tape for the soul, its way into your head? times? How do we make some good out of all this? so to speak. But not A popular wall poster from the ’60s, cherished How do we use our magic tape to create a better hy hippies and wannabes alike, set forth the notion world ? no, we We’ve got to patch things up. Instead of bombing that “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” ordinary tape — This poster was almost always hung, crookedly and need an empowered and burning our world to hits and pieces, we’ve got to lovingly, next to the one displaying a soaking wet, work to heal old and new wounds. Beyond soulful duct tape, a mystical, first aid, we’ve got to learn new ways to avoid making scraggly, howling little kitten perched on the edge of a toilet seat. This kitten’s fury would no doubt the same mistakes over and over. magical tool to mend he heightened hy the knowledge that these many And instead of today being the first day of the years later I can’t begin to remember the message ana heal the rifts and rest of your life, what if today was the last day of to he gleaned from his pathetic misery. W hat is your life? W hat would you do differently? W hat there to he learned from falling into a toilet? Don’t pains and wounds that would become your priority? Would your behavior do that again? we all bear and, more he different if it were the last day? How would you Now it’s no longer the ’60s, hut once again live it? Is there a difference between the first day of sadly, inflict upon each there are protesters in the streets. Vietnam is a his the rest of your life and the last day? Should there tory lesson, a lesson unlearned perhaps— and what he? W hat if the bombs were falling here instead of other, intentionally and there? W hat tears would you rush to mend? W hat once was, now is again. The bombs and missiles are starting to fall upon Iraq. As uncertainties of unintentionally, on an wounds would you hurry to heal? the future hang heavily upon us all, perhaps now is It will he two weeks before I write again in this all-too-frequent basis. the time to look back at lessons of the ’60s and re- space. In these ensuing two weeks our world could embrace the notion that, indeed, “Today is the first become a different place. Our world could become day of the rest of our lives.” And while I can’t bring myself to a better place. Our lives could become changed forever by the believe that a missile laden with smallpox is headed for Portland, I wounds of war. Or they could become changed forever hy powerful do see value in acknowledging that lean and hard times could lie healing actions. So, for now, grab hold of your tape, and take care ahead. of yourself. Take care of each other. Homeland Security, the Red Cross and our very own Mayor And use that tape. J H p 44 * ' vis?i EPIQUEEREAN • New food column! p 46 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARC • So long, Mr. Rogers • On April 2, Susan Stoltenberg steps down as executive director of Cascade AIDS Project, which provides myriad services related to H IV /A ID S . p 49 ju s t o u t it p ublish ed on the firtt an d th ird F ri d ay o f each m onth. Copyright © 2001 hy Just Out. No part • State Rep. George Eighmey and political new comer Barbara Wilier, both openly gay candidates, face runoffs in the May 19 primary. 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