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“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. About 15 people,
T he award ceremony will he held 2 p.m.
some of whom came from as far away as Penn
Dec. 16 in th e C ity C o u n cil C ham ber,
sylvania, gathered peacefully across from the
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