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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 2003)
juna 6.2003 cxxJ grief, it’s June again and Portland Pride 2003 is upon us. With or without the approval of the weather gods, hordes of us will make our annual migratory flight to the Waterfront Park festival site June 14 and 15. Here we will he presented with a superb opportunity to view the best our com munity has to offer. There will he representa tives from community organizations, health service agencies and providers, government U services and many others who cannot and should not he squeezed into a spe cific category. Also anxiously by and eagerly waiting M a rty Davis for you to view their PBiPE EDITION SPECIAL wares will be a plethora of booth vendors with retail items for sale. Shopping! What a great opportunity for you to celebrate Pride, exercise in the fresh air and stimulate the economy while supporting members of your own community. Wear comfortable shoes, drink lots of water and come visit Kith days. Saturday is the calm, comfortable day with lots of time and space to visit, browse and enjoy meeting new people. Sunday is mayhem— glorious, packed, Ktister- ous and crowded mayhem. As a preview for your visit— he it Saturday, Sunday or Kith— The Queer Profit introduces a few of the ven dors who are Itxiking forward to meeting you. Gender-bender vendors Burly girls and bejeweled boys welcome you to their booths THE QUEER PROFIT i Photographer Barb Reiber specializes in landscapes and intimate floral close-up shots arb Reiber is a Portland photographer hit with the crowds because of her combina who specializes in landscapes and inti tion of quality artistry and reasonable prices. mate floral close-up shots. Her work Her dragonflies can be found on jewelry, mag reflects her love for the mountains and the nets, hair clips and even hats and more. Prices are in the very affordable range of $ 1 to $40. unique quality of light and air that is found only at sunrise. Mountain heights bring an And if glimmering insects aren’t your array o f alpine wildflowers to the photogra favorite Kx>th, # B 1 1 also will have a tradi pher’s lens, and Reiber is skilled at capturing tional display of ankle bracelets, wrist tiny details. bracelets and necklaces, all priced under $10— and all Portland Pride 2003 will in proud rainKiw colors. he the artist’s first year as a vendor. Her images will he Now if you can’t go there— if you can’t buy one more available for you to take rainKnv item— then ask home on greeting cards, aKiut the specialty wooden magnets and matted and heads created by Williams framed pictures. If you own and a few other elfish head just aKiut every last rain — Linda Williams makers. These are very spe bow dcxxJad you need, cial items, and again the pricing is more than here’s a chance to take home a souvenir of reasonable. nature— and further the efforts o f a local les “My prices are affordable because 1 believe bian artist. in supporting the queer community,” Williams says. “Loving hands and imagina Iso from Portland is lesbian artist Linda tions have and will continue to make I>ag- Williams, designer and chief of staff at onfly Creations as unique and special as my Dragonfly Creations. She has displayed queer family.” her wares at several Portland Prides and is a R "My prices are affordable because I believe in supporting the queer community" P15 you have difficulty telling the difference between woolen clothing products and fine jewelry? It all seems rather odd to me. That aside, Pendleton Jewellers will have for sale an array of Pride-themed jewelry and will be happy to share with you their knowledge of commitment rings and keepsakes. Here’s another reason to stop by their Kxtth. A s a special benefit for Basic Rights Oregon, the jewelers will be selling raffle tickets at the very reasonable cost of $ 1 apiece. A lucky ticket will be drawn June 17, and the winner will receive a $500 gift cer tificate to Pendleton Jewellers. Tickets are also available at three other booth locations: BRO, the Portland A rea Business A ssocia tion and the official Pride Northwest staff booth. inishing up our quartet of profiles are southern Oregon business and life partners Colleen Callan and Cassie (K C ) Trujillo. Finding themselves jobless thanks to Oregon’s poor economy and deep cuts in the social service and education fields, the couple set aKxit to explore nontraditional employment and revenue-raising endeavors. An initial foray into the landscaping business gave birth to the Burly Girl concept, and that’s where we now join our heroines. Now called Burly Girl Gear, our intrepid entrepreneurs provide high-quality casual clothing for women, girls and babies. Callan and Trujillo embroider and screen-print their unique logo and specially created defi nition on pigment-dyed clothing and other accessories. In defining their concept, the creators say: "A Burly Girl is a person who is intelligent, courageous, determined, independent, strong and inspiring.. .with the addition of any other quality deemed important to their sense of self.” If you see yourself, a friend, a partner or a loved one as a Burly Girl, then these burly gals have just the Pride memento for you. For a preview visit WWW. burlygirlgear.com. This is merely a sampling o f the vendors you’ll have a chance to meet at Portland Pride. Enjoy them all, and have a great weekend! etting up shop at their first Portland Pride this year are Aaron Hall and Edmund Gaines of Portland’s Pendleton Jewellers. Note that Gaines’ full name is Edmund Pendleton Gaines and that he recently relo cated his 12-year-old business to Oregon from Georgia. Keep this in mind if you happen by their Kxtth and notice the fellas shaking their heads in consternation. This might be because o f a recent letter they received from venerable Oregon corpora tion Pendleton Woolen Mills. Seems that the blanket folks feel our intrepid jewel ers are infringing on the Pendleton name and causing confusion for their customers. Are you feeling Burly Girl Gear offers high-quality casual clothing confused? Would for women, girls and babies in Business news with a queer bent should be repented to M a r t y D a v is at marty@justout. com. Michael Paduano As a native Seattle resident. I have a full understanding of your Sunshine needs. Allow me the opportunity to reveal the beauty, warmth and value of Palm Springs arid the entire Coachella Valley. View my listings at www.michaelpaduano.com. 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