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JANUARY 20, 2006
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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