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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 2005)
8 JUSt OUt • ocíete 21.2005 FTTTTTTTT^lne ws briefs H igh -R ise T opples T riangle Esquire Motors, Inc Complete Foreign Car Repair & Service • Quality Services Guaranteed • Serving Downtown Portland Since 1968 X < I Oregon Camera Everything Photographic We have a knowledgeable, friendly staff helping you find the right camera, binoculars, or photographic accessories. S issyboy and M ercury , I maginary F riends A ‘family' owned and operated business since 1997. it's all about visibility. 532 SW Mams Aram Corvallis. OR 37333 Don Valerio, MD (541)753 2553 www.orcgoncamcra.coni Board Certified Internal Medicine Sports Injury - HIV - HPV/STDs - Hepatitis - PSA/Prostate Cancer Dermatologic Problems - Physical Exams - General Adult Healthcare Fanno Creek Clinic 2400 SW Vermont St. Portland If you want to know who is hiding dirty secrets, go to church and see who is sitting up front. That was the sentiment from the sexual minorities community after The Oregonian reported Oct. 9 that Lou Beres, longtime chairman of the Christian Coalition of Ore gon, is under investigation for molesting three women in his family before they were teen-agers. The Oregonian staff may have missed the irony that horrifies Just Out readers: The accused incestu ous pedophile has been lambasting queers for years on their “deviant” sex lives. Beres was one of the main proponents of Measure 36, which banned same-sex marriage in Oregon. In 2CX)0 he hacked an initiative to cut the budgets of schixds that “sanction” homosexuality. WATCH www.esquiremotors.com 1853 SW Jefferson • Portland 503.226.6269 O regonian A irs C hristian C oalition ’ s D irty S ecret MARTY DAVIS — The yuppification of downtown Portland continues, hut this time it’s personal. The Oregonian reported Oct. 17 on the city’s newest high-rise, a 29-story tower assaulting the gay-friendly Buntside Triangle, described as a “seedy section of downtown.” The mixed-use tower—hoasting office, retail and apartment space, a' day spa and a $25O-a-night hotel— lands between Southwest 12th avenues and Stark and Washington streets. The Gerding/Edlen Develop ment Company will develop the $130 million tower, and the Gtxxl- man family will invest in the proj ect and continue to own the land. A 3,000-square-f<x)t strip of land between Jake’s Famous Crawfish and American Apparel was recently purchased, providing entry to the hotel from Stark Street, The Oregonian reported. John Carroll, developer of condos in the Northwest Pearl District, expressed pleasure to The Oregonian concerning rhe Pearl’s improve ment to the city and said the new high-rise would likely appeal to people “l<x)king to see a bit of culture and diversity and edginess.” Just Out wonders if edginess, diversity and culture aren’t the very things this tower will tear down. 503-452-0915 The Portland Mercury managed to offend one of Portland’s most irreverent, subversive and, well, offensive drag performance art groups, Sissyboy, with its style of imaginary reporting. Before Sissyhoys Brendan Morrill, Benjamin Porter and Lee Kyle Turner agreed to an inter view, they gmmbled about a previous Mercury review in which the writer hashed the act with out ever seeing the show. “It was immature, and unprofessional, and ignorant, and it offended me," Turner told The Mercury. Mercury writer Alison Hallett, who did not write the first review, plied the boys to gab about their “fatphobic, ciassist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, ableist” and “ageist” act with the catch-all apology: “It wasn’t me.” The Oct. 13 article did not wrap up before offending a distinct group within the queer pop ulation. Morrill told The Mercury that most Sis syboy critics are the stereotypical bastions of political correctness, the “super-left lesbians.” He added, “But then they don’t like, anything that doesn’t involve tofu, rice or organic, fair trade goods.” •• T hanks for N othing , K atie C ouric New patients are always welcome. ¿i> NBC anchor Katie Couric did nothing to quiet, quell or question hateful attacks against gays spewed from William Donohue, president of the far-right leaning Catholic League, during an Oct. 13 appear ance on the Today show. He called child molesta tion within the Catholic Church “a homosexual scandal, not a pedophilia scandal" and later claimed that homosexuals are responsible for the abuse. Since 2002, Donohue has exploited the church’s crisis to link homosexuality with child sexual abuse. By not challenging his outra geous claims, Couric let down the sexual minorities community and the vast majority of honorable gay priests. Is Lou Beres is an ironic advocate for the moral life? That year, Beres told The Oregonian that the gay rights movement had gone too far in per suading schools to present a one-sided view of homosexuality to students. He said, “Even liber als...don’t want their children to be taught that this is a normal lifestyle.” Yet his own “normal” lifestyle may force the holy roller to face criminal charges for one of the three alleged attacks that still falls within Ore gon’s statute of limitations. Beres posted a state ment on the Christian Coalition Web site deny ing any criminal conduct. jM The dirty boys of Sissyboy always take it one step over the line.
