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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 2003)
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The letters about this store using an Aunt Jemima figure on a greeting card reminded me ot a debate Portland’s sexual minorities community I had in the 1980s. A white man dressed in black face as Aunt Jemima in the Gay Pride march because he said it was “funny.” He was chal lenged by a black woman, a crowd of onkxikers and myself. Security, after being confronted by the crowd, asked him to change or leave. He left. The debate raged in our community press. Many said, “You have no right to spoil our fun." Nowadays the line is, “ Humor is subjective.” Well, yes and no. Racism is an objective fact, with a history and consequences, for all who live under it or who tolerate it. Many others pointed out that fun at the expense ot people of color in our movement is not acceptable. The LG BT movement has a long way to go to reach equality. We are mostly working folk, many ptx>r. We have no universal health care, social services are under attack, and the fundamentalists have declared war against sexual minorities, Mus lims, women and all who are not RICH, white, male and Christian. Let's get together and defend each other instead of falling into the divide-and- conquer strategy that has worked for tixi long. A drienne W eller might, ought to he. This fight is going to get tmly ugly and violent, so all noastraights need to he pre pared for anything. Try to remember the bl;x;k sit uation in, say, 1965 in Selma, Ala. J ohn B oynton Vancouver, Wash. Sweet Tart To the E ditor : art was fabulous! I was happy to see that Just Out reviewed it; however, I think it deserves a better rating (“It’s Gixxl to Be Queen,” Nov. 211. What exactly is your measuring stick for a suc cessful lesbian cluh? Considering our current options, Tart blew the rcxifoff of the Portland les bian club scene! Portland is desperately in need of a happening, sophisticated place where lesbians can go to dance to cutting-edge hip-hop, dnnk fabulous cocktails in a smoke-free environment and enjoy beautiful women. Finally, Tart came along and provided Portland with such a club! T h e last DJ was incredible! Did Jixli Darby even notice that it was only when the last DJ started spinnin’ that the entire dance fkxir was packed? And no, no, it wasn’t last year’s Top 10 on 95.5 jam m in FM. Yes, Hokxrenc is a great space with an ixitstaixl- ing staff, hut that only contributed to Tart’s success; it was by no means the defining ingredient. It was the lesbians who created Tart, the hot lesbians who attended Tart and the DJs spinnin’ at Tart that made it a hoppin’ cluh and a gcxxJ time for all. Radical Women S haley H oward Equal protection To the E ditor : Portland Memory lane pon reading the Nov. 20 editorial "Civil Union: Prevent Civil War” in The Ore- To the E ditor : gimwn, I am stunned to read an opinion that is s a native Portlander now living elsewhere, simply wrong! lust Out serves to keep me current on Public opinion in the past and tixJay has activities hack home. Your 20th anniversary edi sometimes needed a nudge to remind ourselves of tion was a wonderful stroll down memory lane the laws of this land. We have not always moved [“Memories and Milestones,” Nov. 5|! Rtigcr forward without the intervention and mterpreta- i Vines’ letter about Windfire in your subsequent tion the courts have provided us in order to edition also brought hack a great deal ot memtv ensure equal treatment for all its members. ries ["Those Were the Days," Nov. 2I|. Remember, the 14th Amendment says, “No Windfire was a youth group that was formed state...shall deny to any person within its juris in 1983 for gay and lesbian teens and was one of diction the equal protection of the laws.” We do the pioneering organizations for that age gnxip. ; not grant one group or person a right without pro- Just Out was there to help it with publicity for its i viding it to us all. various meetings and events and to provide an I don’t believe anyone is asking for anything ixrcasional article about its progress. beyond equitable treatment under the law. I was the first Windfire member to turn 21 and “graduate" from the group, and this month marks M icheil M ac C utcheon the 20th anniversary of that ixzcurrence. I want to ! Portland wish everyone assoc iated with Just Out (and Wind fire) the happiest of anniversaries. While some of us have aged better than others, 1 think were all still holding together pretty well after all this time! This is going to get ugly To the E ditor : H S o p l e i * c 2 ^ s s • Pentium IV starting at only $699«* • Upgrade Kit to a Pentium IV only $399«« 'Ml C O M P U TER S and N ETW O R K S he editorial by Matt Foreman said exactly R obert H ansen what I h.kl said in a previous letter [“Promise Austin, Texas and Peril,” Aug. 15). The difference is that his arti- j cle was more concise and had three plaas of opera tion. I would add one more plan of operation: Boy- a n t any company, any corporation and any state To the E ditor : that openly is against gay marriage. \ ixi’ve been asking for stories regarding Just 1 will just briefly point out a few things I’m sure Out's influence on (xir lives; here’s mine (or hope) you know as reminders: [“Dear Just O u t..." Nov. 7|. 1. The United States is in the worst recession 1 1 moved to Portland to he with my partner in since the 1987 stock market crash. October 2001, and what with the moving and the 2. In had times, a “scapegoat" is wanted/needed. job hunting and the holidays and then the winter 3. While 10 percent to 15 percent might he gay, weather, we really didn’t get ixit tcx> much. I had 85 percent are not gay. left my family and friends hack in California and 4. A kn of the very same petiple with guas, with hadn’t had a chance to make new ones. homhs, with all sorts of weapons who absolutely With the coming of sunshine and warm days, believe in what they are doing agaiast abortion wc had begun to get exit and about, and one of the clinics will have the same mind-set agaiast non events we went to in June 2002 was the opening of straights being married. Jamison Square. I noticed, however, that there was Am I an alarmist? Maybe. What I am is a real this one woman who appeared to be trying to rake ist. I see what truly IS— not what could, should, our ph<xo withixit being intmsive. As we were Thank you, Marty
