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......... n, -»nrn DIVERSIONS v ................ ................ Salt Lake City bans gay Mormon film N othing like a little censorship to stir up intrigue. The gay romantic drama Latter Days, from screenwriter C . Jay Cox (Sweet Home Alabama), recently met with rave reviews and packed houses during its first weekend of screenings, despite the fact that it was banned in Salt Lake City. Audiences in New York and California got hate it when holidays are on the weekend, because then you’re an even big the first peek at the new drama about Christian, ger loser if you don’t have something to “do.” a party boy who convinces Aaron, a Mormon For example, Valentine’s Day. Not only should you have some kind of missionary^ to face up to his sexuality. Billed as a date, hut look! It’s on a Saturday! Now your date has to be bigger and better touching story about self-discovery, hearts in than ever before. It’s a Saturday ! Salt Lake City will not be opening up to Latter Stephen Fry’s new film Bright Young Things screens Feb. 13 D )n’t despair. Because 1 love you (it’s Valentine’s Day, after all), I have compiled Days — its Jan. 30 screening was canceled at the and 15 as part of the Portland International Film Festival Lisa Bradshaw’s Top Ten List of Things to Do on or About Valentine’s Day. You last minute by theater owners, who claimed the don’t have to have any big date, either; you can just go with a friend. I won’t tell. film did not meet their standards o f “artistic quality 10. The Portland G ay Men’s Chorus in Vive la Compagnie! Feb. 15 at and integrity.” Reed College. This show, starring Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale and vocal Filmmaker Cox responded by saying, “I find it quite ists Margie Boulé, Susannah Mars and Diane Syrcle, is a fund-raiser to send our ust when your winter fantasies of vacationing in for sad that any conservative group would attempt to take little troupe off to this summer’s Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses eign lands were getting the best of you, along comes such a choice away from the people of Salt Lake City." International Festival in Montreal. the 27th annual Portland International Film Festi The film should open in Portland later this year. For 9. The Dolly Ranchers with Myshkin on Feb. 14 at Alberta Street Public val Feb. 13 to 28. more information, visit www.latterdaysthemovie.com. House. Myshkin is a wonderfully soulful Portland queer singer, and Santa Fes Top among the dozens of features and shorts is Bright The Dilly Ranchers provide good old-fashioned backwoods country wrapped in Young Things, which screens Feb. 13 and 15. Gay a delightful dykey package. British actor Stephen Fry’s directorial debut is an adap 8. The sixth annual Fetish Masquerade Ball on Feb. 14 at Roseland Theater. tation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies and tracks ou’d better hurry if you plan to get tickets to the You don’t necessarily have to be a freaky pervert to visit this largest fetish event in the antics of a group of 1930s English bons vivants as touring company of Oklahom a! Feb. 17 to 22 at the Northwest, but it sure won’t hurt. Burlesque, trapeze and a bxxly contortionist looming world war, drug addiction and sodomy laws Keller Auditorium. Daniel Robinson’s mom might flit between bands with names like Scar Tissue and Dismantle. Two floors of go-go threaten to more than sober their lavish lifestyles. just buy up the lot. dancers sandwich the play room. Bolivian director Rodrigo Bel- “Every day she calls [the box office], and she’s like, ‘I 7. Storm Large & the Balls lott’s frank and unsettling Sexual need two more!’ ” Robinson laughs. “She’ll call people Sweetheart Cruise on Feb. 13 Dependency, which screens and she’s like, ‘Didn’t you know Daniel when he was in aboard the Portland Spirit. A 6-foot- Feb. 20 to 22, weaves together the third grade? OK, well he’s in Oklahoma! and it’s tall, gorgeous, buxom blonde gets vignettes of five teens trying to coming to Portland....’ ” together with Everclear’s bassist and make sense of their sexuality. Well, who can blame an Oregon mother for being pianist to croon heavy-metal-tumed- Two U.S.-made shorts of queer proud of her gay son in musical theater? Robinson, 22, lounge tunes. It’s one of those things note screen Feb. 19 and 21 as part has quite an impressive list of productions already you wish you’d thought of first. of Short Cuts II: Stephen Nadel- behind him: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Music 6. Portland Center Stage’s man’s “ Terminal Bar,” which Man, Grease, How to Succeed in Business Without Really 36 Views Feb. 13 at Newmark The paints a portrait of the New York Trying. When he was a teen-ager, he did several local atre. This work, staged by gay direc City venue, and the music video productions before studying dance at University of Ari tor Chay Yew, has a couple of “ Gay Boyfriend” by the Ukes of zona and then acting at New York’s American Musical women studying more than just Hazzard, who want to take fag- and Dramatic Academy. Asian art in an intriguing tale of hagging to a whole new level. He also has an impressive queer history: He came authenticity, value and deceit. Find a complete schedule at a out at 14 in his Hillsboro high school. “I grew up going Opening night includes a post-show coffee shop near you, but to The City nightclub. Daniel Robinson reception with tasty treats, dancing check www.nwfilm.org before I would take the MAX lassos himself a and mingling with the cast. you go, as lineups can change in every week,” purdv girl in 5. Shunga exhibit at Shogun’s without notice. he laughs. Oklahoma! G allery on Northwest 23rd Traveling with Now that’ Avenue. Whether you are a Robinson to Portland this acting. gallerygoer or not, it’s hard to say month is his boyfriend, Chad no to this Asian art and antique Allen, who you’ll no doubt store’s new display of erotic Japan remember as Matthew ese wood block prints and C h i ast month the annual Intemext Cooper from Dr. nese paintings. Banned in their adult Internet trade show and Qumn, Medicine ; day and “still not for the faint at the Adult Entertainment Expo Woman. A prolific heart,” warns the gallery, the was in Las Vegas to celebrate the television and film beautifully rendered pieces, some best and the brightest in the adult actor, Allen, who was online and video industries. Our homocroric, provide insight into featured on the Nov. 25, woman on the scene, Darklady, each culture’s time and place. It’s 2003, cover of The A dvcxate, It’s good to know our foremothers had the right equipment. noted especially the convention’s like an educational trip, really. was a bona fide teen-age heart- Visit Shogun’s Gallery w ith your valentine through Feb. 22 expanded “pink” presence. 4. Dinner at My House for throb. “When I met him, I had no “Although the mainstream pom industry long Our House on Feb. 12. This ongoing fund-raiser series for Our House of Port idea he was some teen idol,” admits land includes a Valentine’s Mixer in the Pearl at the home of interior designer ago realized there’s plenty of money to be made Robinson. “My sister even knew catering to gay consumers,” explains the Portland sex Paul Scardina in his nationally featured loft with chefs from Sungari Pearl. who he was. I guess she had a poster writer, “the Internet has been slower to embrace not 3. The Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport. If you and your valentine are itch of him growing up.” only the potential income but also the customer base.” ing to get away from prying eyes, visit t]iis romantic house where all the rooms In Oklahoma! Robinson plays Will are decorated after famous authors, including “family” members Tennessee This year’s event, however, included a welcome Parker, a kind of hometown hero who increase in the number of lesbian and bisexual indus Williams, Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, Colette and Willa Cathcr. (The Wilde has returned from Kansas City at the try women, as well as a number of booths featuring nxim only has a single bed—clearly, they didn’t know him very well.) The beginning of the musical to win the hunky gay male performers signing autographs and third-floor lounge has a wall of oceanfront windows, a fireplace and mulled wine hand of the young Ado Annie. “I real hyping their Web sites. As usual, Cybersocket, ly like my role in the show,” says every evening. Python and Bad Puppy were highly visible— and 2. House of Cunt cabaret Feb. 19 and 20 at Wild Abandon. The gay-owned Robinson. “He’s just fun.... All the hosted several fabulous parties both at nightcljbs and restaurant hosts the queerest (meaning <xld) yet funniest performance group in girls like him, all the boys like him." a private mansion. the city. Tickets to Oklahoma! are “As for the industry itself, insiders expect to see more And the N o. 1 Thing to Do on or About Valentine’s Day: The Portland $23-$63 from 503-241-1802 or interracial, toot fetish, underwear and reality sites,” Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor Feb. 12 and 14. A woman forced into an Ticketmaster. Darklady says. “Although twinks remain popular, it was arranged marriage goes mad and slices people up with big knives. What better agreed that the market is saturated with them and will Compiled by LlSA BRADSHAW, way to celebrate your chosen alternative lifestyle? probably not see a lot of new content added to it.” M eg D aly and D a r k l a d y Happy, happy Valentine’s Day. 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