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Salt Lake City bans
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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. JH
Your
valentine
valet
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