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October 21.2005 We are family The jury S ummer C learance S ale at Paradise Video ALE ENO 14712 S.E. Stark St. Portiand^Z^MM SOON |F is still out on marriage equality . (including new releases) , Hurry, while supplies last!!] M While you’re here, check out our very friendly arcade. AS ALWAYS, OPEN 24 HOURS So many bars, so little time. (check out page 44) Put your bar on the map. Our friendly advertising staff awaits your call! 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Sitting with us in the front row of the pan eled courtrixim were our co-plaintiffs Kent Colby and Tim Smith of Eugene, lead plaintiff Juan Martinez and his partner, Willamette Week columnist Byron Beck. Defense of Mar riage Coalition attorney Kelly Clark (h<x>!) and Assistant Attorney General Charles Fletcher (hiss!) made the dangerous claim that voters have the right to expand liberties and to constrict them. off the coast of Venezuela in Curacao (or, I also went to BRO’s annual dinner, Studio should I say, Queeracao.7). [Turing the past nine BRO, where many attendees rummaged years, Diving for Life has raised more than through their closets (or thrift shops) for just $300,000 for AIDS-related charities. the right disco attire to match the theme. John Or imagine a space dedicated to queer Jerkovich showed up in a vintage ’70s flowered artists. Sure, plenty of queer artists regularly Qiana top, K.D. Parman showed off in lilac show their work (in fact, Froelick Gallery hell bottoms, and Heather Mole’s Nancy Sina owner Charlie Froelick had a number of very tra hxits were definitely made for walking. phallic mixed-media pieces by Paul Filmmaker Gus Van Sant and Oregon Ballet Arensmeyer at Affair at the Jupiter Hotel), Theatre’s Christopher Stowell joined the after but no gallery dedicates itself to using queer art party at Wonder Ballroom, as did luscious lip to teach about our culture. (Although Port stick lezzies Heather Ward and JoAnn Miller, land Art Museum curator Bruce Guenther has who let me feel their breasts. begun the conversation by including two sexu Speaking of costumes, Portland Institute ally charged Tom of Finland drawings in the for Contemporary Art brought back the Dada new Juhitz Center for Modem and Contempo Ball this year to celebrate the conclusion of rary Art. Check them out on the third floor.) the Time-Based Art Festival. As usual, 1 thought about all of this listening to the outrageous costumes abounded, most of them Q Center presentation and was so inspired on straight people. This is a terrific event, and that, without even consulting Marc, I pledged 1 don’t understand why more of us gay creative $25,000 to be a founder. types weren’t represented. But Dave Heater But the center won’t happen unless others heated things up in a bikini made entirely of step up to join us at the plate. Q Center needs Barbie dolls. your time, your ideas and your money. As exec Bluehour served up sumptuous starters to utive director Susan Remitters says, “This is an start up Portland’s Q Center, with City Com amalgamation of everyone’s dreams, and it’s missioner Sam Adams and Gwenn Baldwin going to depend on how much we can raise.” presenting months of research to a gaggle of Think about that the next time you’re Out gays including Celia Lyon, Bob Ball and Bill Going. jn Dickey. If you ever doubted that Portland needs a queer center, just thumb through this F loyd S ki . aver wants to know about your event. issue of Just Out and marvel at the breadth of E-mail him at floydsklaver@comcast.net. our community. There are hundreds of organizations and activities listed. And that’s just for two weeks. So why don’t we feel like a cohesive community? Part of the answer lies in the fact that we have no center. We rarely mix outside our mixers. For instance, I’ve attended every Salon Q event since its inception in March. These monthly gatherings at the hyper-trendy Aura (sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign) act as a magnet for white, g<xxl-kx>king, middle-class men with nice shoes. Men like Brian Johnson, Tom Barreto and the founder of the event, Portland Center Stage artistic director Chris Coleman. But few men of color attend, fewer blue-collar boys and even fewer females. I’m not criticizing Salon Q, the organ izers or Aura’s magnetic manager. Ron Mitchell, who (thankfully) insists on a no smoking policy. I’m just pointing out that, besides Pride Weekend, there aren’t times and places for all of us to mix and mingle. Now imagine a gathering ground for queer groups like Ruby Red Flippers, the IiKal chapter of Diving for Life, an organi zation of gay and lesbian scuba divers. At David Krause’s loftwarming party, Jim Mike Doolittle (left) and Dave Heater got all dolled up for the Dada Ball. McVittie told me the group recently dove ;■ TIM GUNTHER PHOTOGI 34 just out
