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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.