September 2.2005
OUT Standing just asking
• jUSt OUt 7
A people’s history
Just Out attended the Rose City Softball Association end~of*
by Jaymee R. Cuti
season picnic and asked players a softball version of a tradi*
tional game question, “If you were stranded in a deserted
softball field, who would you want with you, and why?
n getting to know
Dave Grant Kohl, one
learns more about a
history of queer Port
land, a growing of the
Metropolitan Community
Church and a little art histo
ry than they do about the
biographer himself.
“I’m fascinated by how
things come to be what they
are,” he said.
Kohl, a retired art and art
history teacher who has
lived in lower West Linn for
25 years, throws pottery for
his Mug Man business,
writes and researches for
Fxxiks about Portland’s gay
history, grows bamboo, vol
unteers for the Chinese Gar
dens and sings with the
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus.
His interest in Asian cul
ture stems from a seven-year
teaching stint in Hong
Kong.
Kohl’s work as a histori
an of gay and lesbian Port-
land began as a project in celebration of MCC’s
upcoming 30th anniversary. A 10-page paper
expanded into a 200-page local history text
called A Curious and Peculiar People.
“It wasn’t very long into the research that I
discovered the history of MCC can’t be separat
Photos by Marty Davis
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T im B ias
RCSA Open
Division Com'
missioner'elect
C arrie
G undermann
RCSA Women’s
Division
Commissioner
“1 would want
a lesbian with
me—I’d need
someone
butcher than
me to save my
ass.
“My girlfriend—
because she
knows how to
play a lot of
games besides
softball.”
D aniela
H ugelshofer
Outfielder,
Dykes on Spikes
C hris M idlam
Tim Bias’ new
boyfriend
“I’m a pitcher,
so I’d want a
catcher with
“I’d want an
outfielder with
a nice snatch.”
ed from the history of the gay community,” he
said. “The book is turning out to be a history of
gay and lesbian Portland as mirrored through
the Metropolitan Community Church.”
The book will be available in January
2006. jn
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