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6 JUStpUt JANUARY 20, 2006 out standin, < just asking Puppet Pulls Strings On the night Brokeback Mountain racked up four Golden Globe Awards, Just Out asked readers if they'd seen the acclaimed love story. hen she chose her DJ name a decade ago in San Francisco, Puppet had no idea she’d he pulling the strings in Portland’s queer night life scene. But after launching several successful queer nights at var ious clubs around the city, Puppet is very much in charge. Fueled by her mutual passions for bringing different groups of people together and for queer hip-hop music, DJ Puppet is one of the most innovative producers in Portland, Puppet has a master plan of attracting pairing a trashy queer night and a nonsmoking venue. national-caliber acts to the city and creating a climate where their music is welcomed gets hurt,” she said. Booty’s one drawback: too much smoke in a and appreciated. “1 wanted a place where everyone small venue. Learning from that fault, on New could come that’s not segregated,” she said. Puppet’s many DJ nights at Porky’s Pub in North Year’s Eve Puppet launched Swine, a smoke-free Portland—Booty, Swine, Queer Fetish and Wild night featuring an hour of live entertainment and, Card—cater to a mixed crowd of lesbians, gay men, of course, hip-hop, plus occasional funk and Motown records. genderqueers, transgender and straight people and “I smoke, and I practically have to burn my the leather and fetish communities. “1 really believe clothes after Btxity,” she said, explaining the impe in integrating communities,” she said. tus for Swine. Puppet, along with co-conspirators Jen Holland However, Puppet also hopes Swine will attract and Stormy, created Booty: Queer as Ye Be, tourfrig artists and draw a crowd that will attend a pirate-themed offshoot of the now-defunct Skervy, and the queer night has earned a reputa PeaceOut Northwest, a queer hip-hop festival she tion for drawing the outrageous. is scheming to bring to Portland in the fall. “Booty has that feeling that you can get away For more information visit www.puppdx.com. with anything. What are you gonna do? No one —Jaymee R. Culi M ax V oltage K ronda A dair The Accidental String Quartet Single “I thought it was really beautifully filmed and well-acted but depressing as hell.” “Yes, it was the best movie I saw this year. Gay cowboys are hot, and the film was very haunting and poignant.” C hris G reenaway B lake M artinez Mortgage Banker Local Homo “I thought the set ting was outstand ing, and I liked the small ensemble cast, but as a love story, it was not the best I’ve ever seen.” “It’s the best movie ever. If you didn’t cry, you have no soul.” O Wentworth SubaruCity BRAND NEW FACILITY + 6 ACRES OF SELECTION NEW 2006 SUBARU OUTBACK WAGON __ ___ ___ ALL WHEEL DRIVE $21,990 NEW 2006 SUBARU FORESTER MSRP: $25,680 Wentworth Disc.: $2,690 Factory Rebate: $1,000 SYMMETRICAL ALL WHEEL DRIVE .$18,990 Stock: #65622 MSRP: $22,751 Wentworth Disc.: $2,511 Factory Rebate: $1,250 Bring in this ad -Take a test drive in a I new 2006 Subaru & get a "Severe Weather Companion" Stock: #65590, #65684 MA ■■ . . Toll free (866)508-2389 East End of the Bumside Bridge 400 E. Bumside Pictures for illustration purposes only. Rebates in lieu of special financing. Subject to prior sale. On approved credit Expires 1/31/06 U Lu111 ;ÌH hu £. > > MM MM ___ M Included are items that provide warmth, light, water, first aid and the ability to signal for help. All packaged in a heavy-duty carrying case. Think. FeeL Drivi». <í> SUBARU