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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 2003)
ju st Pm The IN publication for the OUT population pop F ounded 1983 • J ay B rown Vol. 21 N o. 1 COMMENTARY and R enée L a C hance N ovem ber 7, 2003 FEATURE MBMNB AM M fS T M t Al 20. Out is P 22 NE WS NORTHWEST • G ay city councilor convinces Lake Oswego to ban discrimination; Sam Adam s announces candidacy for Portland City Council 11-15 NATIONAL • Tennessee Republican believes homosexuality needs to be “controlled" PP 1 6 - 1 9 WORLD • Let the G ay Games catfight begin! PP 2 0 - 2 1 ARTS AND C U L T U R E FILM • Van Sant finds the Elephant in the room p 43 WHAT'S POPPIN'T • Fresh performances in The Human Stain ; still time to catch Bubba Ho-Tep p 45 THEATER • Love at triangle is a Beautiful Thing ; BroadArts Theatre tackles fatphobia PP 4 7 . 4 9 MUSIC • D yke musician Ellis captures both heart and mind; Hed-heads rejoice! Local boy produces new Hedwig music pp 5 1 , 53 BOOKS • How to win a man in Portland p 55 DIVERSIONS • Opera even more gay; Barbara Sjoholm at In Other Words; Nickel anti Dimed at ART; Bat Boy takeover p No longer a teen-ager As Just Out turns 20, we need your feedback to bridge the generation gap old enough to know fear, but young enough to be queer » in M aria D ams 57 PEOPLE • Genderqueer activists Kate Bomstein and Katastrophe turn identity into entertainment pp 5 8 - 5 9 COLUMNS MS. BEHAVIOR • Good sex cun be taught sary, and there have been interviews and discussions and lots of ques ou’re holding in your hands a symbol of 20 years of gay and tions asked of me. One frequent question has been, “What are you lesbian culture and history from Portland and our greater proudest of at Just Out!” There are several answers that come to mind, readership area. You’re holding in your hands our proud hut two stand out now as the most important. accomplishment, the 20th anniversary issue of Just Out. The single biggest accomplishment of the past five years has been The images on our cover reflect many, though far from bringing together the current staff. Editorial, production and sales— all all, aspects of our personal and community lives as presented in the aspects of the paper are staffed by seasoned, dedicated and accom pages of Just Out during the past two decades. And while there are plished employees. The quality of their work is reflected in every issue symbols of sensuality and sexuality and frivolity, no single image is of this paper. Each first and third Friday you are presented with a noble infused with the power to grab you, pull you in and sear you with the accomplishment. pain, grief and suffering caused by 20 years of AIDS. Secondly, I’m proud of the fact that I work in a segment of the media And while there are buttons and stickers that bring back memories of that does not fall prey to such manipulations as November “sweeps." I’m our political wars and our hard-won victories, no image speaks to the emo proud that the cover of the 20th anniversary issue of Just Out did not have tional and financial tolls that these battles extracted from our community. The images on the cover show where we’ve been ... . * to feature the likeness of Ward Weaver to ensure good rat- and, to some extent, where we are now. But these I ft6 need to know ings and ongoing sponsorship dollars. I’m proud that Just images can’t look forward for us and can’t show us whnt'c wnrLinn fnr i /nil sink to the depths of Average Joe in order to where we’re going. We can look hack together, hut the WllOI b W UiKlIiy lUF yOU jure rcaj ers |’m prouJ that my audience ikies not require question now is, “Do we still have the ability to look Ond Whot ¡SO t. If VOU pandering to the lowest intellect level possible. I’m damn forward and to plan and to grow together?’ proud of this paper, the staff who pnxluce it and the read don't read us now, This question brings us to where we are today: the ers who perpetuate it. celebration of 20 years of Just Out. 1 can’t speak to, or Not being held prisoner of a ratings system does what will it take to for, the first 15 years of the paper, as 1 wasn’t here. But not, however, imply that Just Out is unaware or unsolic- I did faithfully read Just Out, and it was an important bring you to our pages? itous of the needs and interests of our readers. To the part of my own personal coming-out process and matu contrary, we are deeply vested in the concepts of responsiveness, growth and adaptability. As such we look to our readers ration. So important, in fact, that five years ago when the offer was presented, 1 went against all logic, advice and sense to become the to tell us what they like and what they don’t. We need to know what’s working for you and what isn’t. If you don’t read us now, what will it publisher and owner. Pretty much every day since, my waking thought has been, “Gixxl God, what have 1 done?’ To say it’s been an interest take to bring you to our pages/ We realize that at our 20th anniversary ing five years would he quite an understatement. Indeed, the highs we are straddling the generation gap between our original readers and those who are new or waiting to he won over. Now we need to bring in have been high and the lows have been, well, pretty damn low. the next generation of readers— the ones who’ll take us to and through Where an astute businessperson might have brought skills, experience the next 20 years. It’s our task— our mission— to bridge this gap. and knowledge to his or her new investment, I lugged in instead temper, inexperience, insensitivity and false bravado. Boy, talk about your lesbian And this brings us to the Just Out reader survey insert that is lurk baggage. At the 15th anniversary party for Just Out, my first public event, ing in the pages of this very paper that you’re reading, unless of course it’s fallen on the floor. (Over there by the umbrella stand, perhaps?) I recall then news reporter Inga Sorenson pointing ixit to me that Sam Anyway, we are very serious about wanting to hear from you. It’s easier Adams was prominently seated in the first row. My response: “Who’s than in the past. No envelope required, no newsprint on your hand— Sam Adams?’ Shortly thereafter I was summoned to lunch by Adams, and if you want to save the 37-cent stamp you can complete the sur who expressed a clear interest in knowing exactly who was I and what vey online at www.justout.com. my plans were for this vital community asset. I’m pleased that in the Thanks for being with us all or part of the past 20 years. Now tell ensuing five years he hasn’t felt it necessary to call me hack in. us what we need to do to keep you around for 20 more. | H The community has shown great interest in our milestone anniver- J i i i i 'i . i î Ü _f J ! P 41 EPIQUEEREAN • Burger battle bonanza! p 44 OUT WITH IT! • The last girl standing p 57 THE 60SPEL ACCOROINC TO MARC • I pledge allegiance to the fag... p 61 Ju st ou t is p ublish ed on the first an d third F ri day of each m onth. Coj'ynuhl © 2005 by Just Out. N o p.irt of Just ()iif may hi- repnxluced without written permission from the publisher. 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