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GUE STCOMMEN TÄ RY gclobe/15. ¿QQ4 by R otv T uoR i’t The IN publication for the OUT population No regrets V o l. 21 N o . 2 4 Will you wake up Nov. 3 and wish you’d done more? FEATURE A V0IEU4: Just O ut's queer-friendJy election guide A F ounded 1983 • J ay B rown and R enée L a C hance i A f i f n c r\T n / / \ r L ‘ m r r t ' / M u a r i I f n i c r r A / A f Y X r t r x f l n / 'f i I V iu fter m months of working toward this moment, »-* Election Day is here! rfp r You may he kx)king at your calendar and thinking I’m off a few weeks— or perhaps off my rocker— hut it is true. Ballots began to he mailed out across Oregon start ing just after midnight today, and people will start voting as early as today or tomorrow. Ask yourself if you have done everything you can to make sure we win the No on Constitutional Amendment 36 campaign. Will you wake up Nov. 3 with the knowledge that you were a part of this victory— that you have been a part of this historic moment, doing everything you could to help the campaign? Or will you wake up Nov. 3 and wish you’d done more? During the past several weeks, the proponents of Constitutional Amendment 36 have spent close to a million dollars running one mis leading, hurtful commercial after another— yet they have not gained any ground. They have sent out misleading mail pieces, and still they have not gained any ground. They have lied to voters by saying this amendment will not change the constitution. And still they have not gained any ground. But this week, we are turning the tide. Just as undecided and per suadable voters— the ones we need to reach most— began paying the most attention to this race, we are reaching them with a flurry of televi sion commercials, radio ads, mail pieces and direct voter contacts from volunteers across Oregon. On their televisions and radios, in their mailboxes, in their voters’ pamphlet and from friends and family like you, voters across Oregon are hearing how this amendment will change our constitution to hurt gays and lesbians. And the more they hear, the more they reject it. The tide has turned in this race, and we are more certain than ever that we will win. But we still need your help. In these final few weeks before Nov. 2, we each need to he doing everything in our power to defeat this amendment. Make no mistake— this election will come down to very few votes. We need to make sure that every N O voter we know is returning his or her ballot. We need to help walk door to door and phone voters who still haven’t made up their minds. We need to tell everyone we know— our families, friends, neighbors and co-workers— how this amendment will personally affect us and ask them to please vote against placing unequal treatment into our constitution. The rest of this campaign will be tough. There will he more hurtful ads from the other side as they become more fearful of losing. But we will he tougher. They will throw everything they have at us. But we know from experience that telling the truth about our lives, and how unequal treatment is hurtful to our families, will 2 move 0 our fellow Oregonians. REFLECTIONS There will he moments when everything seems to he going our way— and times when we feel like everyone is against us. But we will never lose faith. We will never stop working for victory. We’ve been down this path too many times before. But I hope you’ll he heartened by the knowledge that even though all those past ballot measures took so much out of our community, the truth is that they changed our culture in Oregon to bring us to this moment. Those strug gles mattered, and it mattered that we won, and that happened because so many people stood up and came out and took tremendous risks. Our polling shows us as starting at least 20 percent ahead of every other one of the 11 states facing an anti-marriage amendment this fall. T h at’s because so many people in this state have sacrificed so much, hut look at the difference it made. You don’t get civil rights by sitting around waiting for them to fall in your lap. You don’t get them without sacrifice and risk and pain. We are paying that price now. 1 know what it feels like to drive down a street with “Yes on 36” signs on all sides, or to find out that a close friend “just can’t go there” on this issue. But you know what? Those feelings were there all along— they aren’t being created, they’re just being given the light of day. And as painful as it is to see and experience, prejudice is like a vampire— daylight kills it pretty fast. And without that daylight and discussion and, frankly, some pretty offensive and hurtful things being said, we don’t have the oppor tunity to educate people about the truth of our lives. This fight is worth it. And when the dust settles on Election Day, we will have defeated this amendment. We are at a defining moment, not only in this campaign, but in the long-term struggle for equality for G L B T people. This is one of those points that we will kx)k hack on and remember for the rest of our lives. You will he an important part of this victory. Please go to www.noon36.com today to make a contribution, sign up for a volunteer shift and to learn how to answer difficult questions from undecided vot ers. We cannot defeat this amendment without the efforts of each and every one of us. Thank you for standing with us through thick and thin. Together, we can and will win! jm NORTHWEST • B asic Rights Oregon soiree fights for truth, justice and the American way PP 7-17 NATIONAL • M arriage vote exposes irreconcilable differences; group announces new legal challenge to “don’t ask, don’t tell” pp 19-23 WORLD • N ova Scotia becomes latest Canadian province to legalize sam e-sex marriage pp 2 4 -2 5 ARTS AND CULTURE Straight talk from gay scribe Augusten Burroughs pp 3 8 -3 9 CULTURE • DIY meets high art at the monthlong Enteractive Language Festival P 43 DIVERSIONS • Coronation 2004; Intersex Film Night; Playing Tom ; Pure G old Baby p45 FILM • Queer fest reflects evolving society PP 4 6 -4 7 WHAT'S PO PPIN 'T • Sex and gender ambiguity abounds in Stage Beauty p48 CULTURE • Just O ut presents your guide to queer Halloween fun p49 THEATER • Anthony Rapp brings refreshing candor to stage and screen; Boston Marriage On the c o v e r: Clockwise from top right: Portland City Council hopeful M U SIC • Queer sisters are doin’ it for themselves; Swizzle Chicks: One part lesbian, three-part harmony Sam Adams on the campaign trail; Howard Dean (left) stumps for m a y- oral candidate Tom Potter; the N o on Ginstitutional Amendment 36 campaign’s African American Action Team visits a local barbershop ADAMS AND POTTER PHOTOS BY BRYAN GRIMES; NO ON 30 PHOTO BY MOOF MAYEDA p 53 COLUMNS BEHAVIOR • Between a rock and a hard place te fjs a s g « H K |g ....... M ": VOL. 1 No. 24, S ept . 28-O ct . 26, • Phoenix R ising re ce n tly announced th e a p pointm ent o f P atricia J. C hance and R obert W em reich as c o -d ire cto rs o f its co u nsel ing service. The A m erican vo te r is facing an extrem ely d iffic u lt challenge in the ele ctio n s o f 1984. D oes one ca st a b a llo t in fa vo r o f co n science o r greed? If you are a m em ber o f a m inority, if yo u are black, gay o r lesbian, O rien ta l o r anything o th e r than a W ASP, you are in fo r tro u b le . A vo te fo r Reagan is an a ct o f tre a so n. 37 EPIQUEEREAN • Northwest Industrial eating P • The P ortland C ity C o u n cil w ill have hearings O ct. 3 on m aking P ortland a N u cle a r Free Zone. • The Lesbian Forum m eets O ct. 16 to discuss “ Lesbian P ro sp e rity ” W here's the m oney in P ortland’s lesbian com m unity? • Jam m in’ a t th e G ender G ap— a fe stiva l o f w om en‘s m usic fe atu ring Loose W im m in ', W e Three, Jo y fu l S ound. B an shee. Jane H ow ard, M o th e rio d e and Jazz C o n tn b u tio n — w ill be held O ct. 21 a t S ta rry N ight. H o sts fo r th e evening include R uth M cFariand, M a rga re t S trachan, M a rgie Hen- dnckson, R ebecca W ebb. B arbara R oberts and M argie Boulé. Tickets are sliding scale, $ 5 -$ 1 0 . • The d ire c to r o f the U .S . P ublic H ealth S ervice said la st w eek th a t a blood te s t w ould soon be available to determ ine w h e the r a person had been exposed to A ID S b u t th a t p o sitive te s t re s u lt^ “ w ill n o t n e cessarily m ean you have" the disease Christopher McQuain, Gary Morris, J.B. Rahin, Boh Roehr, Floyd Sklaver, Cori Taratcxrt, Roey Thorpe, Rex W<x:kner I • Larry Lewis I • Kari Tate, Ashley Austin, Cshea Walker ART RIRECTM • Bonnie Barrett PM N C T1IN ASStSlANT • Zanne dejanvier DISTRIBUTION • Kristine Ashton, Allison Benn, Lisa Benson, Brian Boucher, Boh Terry 41 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARC • Incurious George P • S ta te Rep. V era Katz. D -P ortland. w ill be h o lding tw o tow n h a ll/co m m u n ity m eetings dunng the m onth o f O cto b er. S ince 1973, w hen she w as firs t e le cte d to the H ouse o f R epresenta tive s, she has sponsored and w o rked fo r le g isla tio n to p ro h ib it discrim ination on the basts o f "sexual o rie n ta tio n in housing, em ploym ent, c re d it and p ublic services. " • A to ta l o f 13 candidates have file d so fa r fo r th e P ortland C ity C ouncil seat to be vacated b y C harles Jordan. O ne candidate em erges above the re st as the cle a r choice fo r the p o si tio n . S chool board mem ber, com m unity a ctivist and e d u ca to r H erb C aw thom e is the m ost p ro g re ssive candidate in the race. He fu lly supports the n g hts o f gays and lesbians to have p rotec tio n a gainst discnm ination in housing, em ploy m ent and public accom m odations Cohn, Jodi Helmet, Patricia L. 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