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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 2004)
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It’s so much nicer with two work and Directory (Q L A N D ) and plagued hy war and economic recession, Gavio hosted hy Poison Waters. tas is somewhat of a miracle of community QLAND outreach workers decked determination and cooperation— rain forest out in shawls and had wigs will make regrowth out of dry grasslands, solar kettles introductions between you and that guy boiling water under cloudy skies, kids on see wo of Portland’s you have your eye on. “Some people have saws pumping water. most outstanding a big problem with introducing them “It’s a story you almost can’t believe is real,” live performance selves," says party organizer Kurt Hunter. notes Lane, who is collaborating with Portland groups— Bodyvox and “We’ll be there to operate as icebreakers.” lesbian composer Joan Szymko and the Viridi- Third Angle New O nce the ice is chipped, Yenta will tas choir, as well as Los Llaneros, a hand from by Lisa B radshaw Music Ensemble— are let you gab for a moment and then hus eastern Columbia, where Gaviotas is located. collaborating for the tle you along. If you and Mr. Hottie Los Llaneros’ music sets the stage for the dance April 22 and 23 pre clicked, then you can reconnect later company’s sensual and moving spectacle that miere of Water Bodies. on your own. Your yenta will make sure tells the community’s hopeful story. Bodyvox dancers you’re well supplied with a mini safer- Weisman will be on hand to sign copies of and founders Jamey sex kit. So thoughtful she always is! his hook after the April 16 performance. Tick Hampton and Ashley Hunter says the matchmaking party ets to Entusiasmo! are $20-$26 from ortland queer women are m eeting each Roland choreographed is an example o f how Q LA N D strives 503-231-1232 or TicketsWest. oth er in droves now th at Tart and Diva the multimedia perform to model safer-sex behaviors, not have shaken things up at H olocene. ance, which blends preach about them. “Rather than just dance, live music, film saying, ‘Here’s what you should do,’ we e But you prohahly w on’t see Pauline and other projections. want to actually show them, ‘This is M iriam there. T h e new work is “a what you do.’ ” Being over 50, the cluh scene just isn’t fantasia on the theme T he fairly new organization “pro Miriam’s thing. N ot being exactly a shy flower, o f water,” says Daniel vides opportunities for gay m en .. .to either, she went ahead and started her own K irk, who dances in enjoy one another’s company,” Hunter dating service. the production along continues, “while also keeping in mind “N ecessity is th e m other o f in ven tion ,” with his partner, Eric health and wellness and making that smiles th e proud ow ner o f Cruise C ontrol Skinner, who also not something that has to he a chore Daniel Kirk and Eric Skinner PD X. H er first singles event is April 25 at helped choreograph. hut something you can do and he per You’d be disappointed if they H obo’s. Kirk and Skinner, fectly happy doing.” weren’t lovers “Having suddenly and unexpectedly who have been danc Q LA N D is also sponsoring Men So long cute boys of P laying It Straight found myself single at the ripe age o f 50, 1 ing together for 15 years, just fin Massaging Men the third Wednesday of every spent the past few years looking ished a tour o f Bodyvox s R everie at month beginning April 2 1 . This massage for avenues in w hich to find the Joyce Theater in New York. exchange combines intimacy and wellness, as datable older w om en,” says “T h e Joyce Theater is sort o f the participants will learn how to give and receive Portland’s new lesbian madam. apex of contemporary dance,” nurturing touch, to ask for what they want and N oting she found herself “dread explains Kirk. “It’s the equivalent of to set boundaries around what they don’t want. nd the queer television news just keeps ing yet one more potluck” (th at singing opera at the Met.” Q LA N D is seeking more members to plan rolling in. one cuts across the generations, T he couple have their own dance future events. Call 503-281-2076 or visit Apparently obsessed with proving just doesn’t it?) and needing to take a company, too: Skinner/Kirk Dance www.qland.org. how creepy gays can be, the Party Monster break from political groups, she Ensemble. “Eric and I have a chem writing/directing team o f Fenton Bailey and found her options “extrem ely istry,” says Kirk. “Part of it is just Randy Barbato premiere their latest documen lim ited.” because we’ve been dancing side by Pauline Miriam tary, T h e H idden F ü h rer: D ebatin g th e E nig Although Miriam’s ultimate side since 1989, and part of it is prov ides fun .stuff m a o f H itler’s Sexuality, April 20 on Cinem ax. goal is to provide meeting opportu because we’ve had this romantic rela lor the ('Id hroad> Based on the 2001 book The Hidden Hitler nities for older women, any queer tionship for 13 years. So there’s a con n another one-of-a-kind collaboration, Port by German historian Lothar M achtan, the gay woman 21 and older can sign up nection between us that is different land’s D o Jump! Extrem ely Physical T h e directors use recently discovered archival docu for speed dating and then you’ll he than I could possibly have with any other dancer.” ater premieres E n tu siasm o!: A Show About ments, film footage, photos and interviews with shuttled into your age group at the event. It’s not his imagination. Audience members H ope April 16 to 18 at Newmark Theatre. authors and professors to explore A dolf Hitler’s Here’s what happens after you register at see it, too. In fact, once after a show in which the W hen the company’s lesbian founder, Robin life before he rose to power in the 1930s. www.cru isecontrolpdx .com: couple performed a trapeze duet, Kirk “received Lane, read a book called Gaviotas: A Village to Meanwhile on a distinctly lighter note, Bravo 1. Bring $15 to Hobo’s at 4 p.m. April 25. one of the best pieces of feedback I’ve gotten in Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman, she was has plans to begin production on Q ueer Eye for 2. Hang out with a woman for eight min my career.” A woman approached him after the “so moved and inspired," she conducted more th e Straight Qirl. W e’re not making this up. Not utes— long enough to find out if she could be a show and said: “I’m not prying, but the whole research on the small Colombian town and content to have a meaningful, pioneering hit stalker or has six other girlfriends or whatever, time I was watching that, I was hoping you guys attended a conference featuring the man respon show where two groups who needed it— straight hut short enough to avoid running out of were lovers. In my mind, you guys are, and I’d be sible for creating a paradise from a pile of sand. and gay men— get together to bond, the network things to say. disappointed if you weren’t.” Gaviotas is an experimental community has clearly decided that saturating the audience 3. Move on to another woman and do the that has created ingenious solutions to envi W ater Bodies shows at Arlene Schnitzer with uninspired spinoffs is the way to go. Since same thing. ronmental problems, including power, hunger, C oncert Hall. Tickets are $18-$39 from the when do straight women need help shopping? 4. Continue moving on to spend eight m in box office or Ticketmaster. agriculture and employment. In a country A nd, finally, the somewhat homophobic utes with various women u n til.... yet strangely enter 5. M eet-and-Greet intermission. This is taining reality dating where you can talk to anyone you want— show P laying It maybe get hack in touch with one of your Straight has been “dates” you particularly liked. whipped off the air 6. G o home (or go drink at the bar with hat’s right, your yenta (aka Jewish grandmoth due to had ratings. some attractive woman) and wait for Miriam, er, not Barbra in drag) is coming to town. Fox promises to bring er, I mean T h e Matchmaker to e-mail you the it hack later in the names o f women who liked you. (Careful, your In fact, a whole army o f yentas will he on summer when every mailbox space could max out!) hand from 9 p.m. to midnight May 7 at C .C . one has forgotten Speed dating is not a new idea, hut this Slaughters what’s going on and ’ one is based in Portland, and Miriam won’t to help you nolxxJy watches T V let you forget it. Sh e plans to carry over the find a date. anyway. It was dating events into other social activities for It’s a Yenta replaced with what older women. “1 think that as a community, M atch are sure to he ratings we fail to provide for our elders. Being a making grabbers: Totally O ut recent elder, I feel the isolation, and 1 want to Party, spon rageous Behavior and see it change.” sored by the World's Craziest W ill Miriam he available at her own dating HIV/STD Videos J H event? I’m not sure you could keep her from it. prevention “I’ve always been a mover and a shaker,” she and wellness (Compiled hy concedes. “If Cruise Control succeeds, then I organization L isa B radshaw may be able to realize my goal of providing fun G et a little closer with Q L A N D Queer Love and M eg D aly D o Jum p! is back with its most ambitious production in 2 6 seasons stuff for the old broads!” j n during Men Massaging Men A ction N et It! T Old lesbians organizing for dates Ji P First Jeffrey Dahmer, now this A Do Jump! is selling hope. Are we buying? 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