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Lawrence Falkowski, Ph.0. rector 1432 SW 13th Avenue • Portland, Oregon 97201 (503) 223-6424 ÏM ' Ï U 2 T & liV J M'iÜYJ' JJ ílUJiJCl 'J'D 4 J M Tiia .Ime Out aditurlal taarri catea on TffiJ Foreland Marcury ^carf during ' i N - U i C J oi T 'i & . .•£'X- •• ¿ ■ < ; yí * 4 .i ÙÎ&iCÜÛT: ;üJä- WiJü J£J toas?, you got A L io S00.ua in 1 i l ì J I 5 )1 1 1 ? 3.2. flav/siioriia Ellvd OIK SkfW iSSl “It’s the funnest eye exam I’ve ever had” R adical C atholics C ondemn J e su s to H ell theater on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. They were rather outnumbered hy the cheerful crowd going in to see the film. T he protesters also seemed curiously anachronistic, holding signs proclaiming their faith in the Blessed Virgin and Fatima. O ne protester claimed he would rather “drink poison” than actually view the film for himself. To view a trailer and hear sound clips of Jesus Has Two Mommies, go to www.htifilms.com/jh2m. The Sexual Minority Youth Resource C en ter held a holiday benefit screening of the ir reverent musical Jesus Has Two Mommies Dec. 1 at Hollywcxxl Theatre. The nonprofit organiza tion did it last year and had a great time. Lite last month, theater manager Richard Beer began to get so many e-mails of protest that it jammed their system. “There were over 1,500 e-mails calling for a boycott of the film and telling us ‘filthy Jews’ that we would he damned to hell,” he told Just Out. Q ueers E mbody In his holiday-themed farce, writer/direc- “ S pirit of P o r t l a n d ” tor/performer Faith Soloway turns her satirical lens inward, only to reveal a nerdy Jewish les Portland is a city that takes pride in its vol- bian on the edge of a total nervous breakdown. unteerism , and to show it, the C ity Council This feature-length “schlock opera” was filmed during a live perform ance at Boston’s Somerville Theatre. Jesus Has Two Mommies fea tures Boston’s finest folk singers, including Catie Curtis as Josephine, Jennifer Kimball (from The Story) as Mary, Sean Staples as Jesus and Merle Perkins as God, T he Chocolate Foxy Mama. This tongue-in- cheek, rock ’n ’ roll, gender- bending musical fantasy begins with Mary and Josephine, who are matched up hy Gcxl in a Nazareth gay bar called The Members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property protest Dec. 1 outside Hollywood Theatre Bum in’ Bush. It turns out that the source of the pestering e-mails was the somewhat obscure annually h o n o rs o u tstan d in g com m unity Catholic group the American S<x:iety for the members— individuals and organizations. Defense of Tradition, Family and Property. The This year’s “Spirit of Portland" recipients TFP was “formed to resist, in the realm of ideas, include Fanno C reek C lin ic , which was the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the selected as Small Business of the Year. Fanno times and proudly affinn the positive values of tra Creek is home to gay doctor Mark Valerio, dition, family and property,” according to its Web who was profiled in the Nov. 19 issue of Just site. Out. He has headed the clinic’s specialization Founded hy zealot Plinio Correa de Oliveira in treating STDs in order to respond to 44 years ago in Brazil, this radical Catholic increased rates of syphilis in HIV-positive organization now has locals worldwide, with the Portland men. U.S. branch established in 1973. Portland Lesbian C hoir member and long Its literature suggests a movement interested time resident Sparky Lindsay also received an in targeting social and cultural themes: “The award. She serves as chairw om an of the Buck- TFP was horn from the idea of a counter man N eighborhood Association. revolution, a movement that would embrace Lindsay has been instrum ental in working every field of action, especially in art, ideas and toward securing the now -defunct W ashington culture. TFP kx>ks, publications and newspaper High School for a com m unity center. T he advertisements help bring these views to the property had been earmarked for sale hy the public. Moreover, the TFP is not afraid to take school district, and she helped arrange a deal them to the streets with colorful sidewalk cam with the city to purchase a portion of it. paigns in major cities,” according to the ultra- “In my life, I wanted to do one really good conservatives’ Web site. thing for the com m unity,” she says. And protest they did. 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