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20 JUStlOUt APRIL 21. 200t Canine Veafc ^e^fManie Sports Medicine & Physical Rehabilitation Center • Post-injury • Post-surgery • Weight Management •Assessment of the Canine Athlete Carol J. Helfer, D.V.M. 4945 SW 77th • Portland, OR 503-291-7400 www.caninepeakperformance.com Buprenorphine (Suboxone®) TREATMENT STUDY * OHSU is enrolling participants who are HIV+ and addicted to heroin, oxycodone, or other opiates. Interested? Call Cathie, 503 494 6770. OHSU VALUES DIVERSITY ANO IS AN EQUAL ORRORTUNIT v / a FFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOVER HEALING & MASSAGE 5O3-235-54OÖ'PO,T'*"“ 20TH/DIVISION, LADD’S ADDITION, 7 CORNERS, CLOSE TO HAWTHORNE BLUESKYMASSAGE@YAHOO.COM AVAILABLE MONDAY - SATURDAY Erin LeFevre LMT #11249 Deep Tissue, Sports Massage, Trigger Point, Intuitive Readings Lisa Pool LMT #12516 Zen Shiatsu &. Swedish Massage, Reiki Healer IZ. T. TAVEY ING Profxtrty Management Services Residential and Commercial Properties in the Portland Metro Area 4326 S.E. Woodstock #528 Portland OR 97206 Phone: 503-553-9762 SERVICES OFFERED: - - - - - - Interview Prospected Tenants Reference Checks Credit History Checks All Aspects of FED Process Document Property Damage Locate Skipped Tenants contact@toveyinvestigations.com www.taveyinvestigations.com ’m always amazed when I talk to queers in this town Not long after The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon who are not familiar with the name Tom Spanhauer. was released, Spanhauer nearly died of AIDS complications, I mean, are you kidding? Spanhauer is no less than a and for a while it looked like the world was about to lose yet national treasure with a cult following that circles the one more incredible talent to that horrible epidemic. But glohe. He is a writer and a queer icon, and his works whatever trickster spirit-god it is who looks after queers and address the deepest issues of what being queer means using other the outcasts, well, he had other plans. Thanks to the boldest, frankest language imaginable. “cocktail” and other advances in health care, Spanhauer And he lives right here in Portland. recovered and thrives. Spanhauer is the author of four books, the newest being During his illness and recovery, he struggled to finish In the Now Is the H out , which will he released May 15. His most City of Shy Hunters, which finally debuted an agonizing 10 famous is the Pulitzer-nominated The Man Who Fell in Love with years after The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. Shy the Moon, which was named by The Advocate as one of the top Hunters is a dark, angry tale of the rise of the AIDS epidemic, 100 gay and lesbian novels ever written. The book has been in the Reagan-caused explosion in homelessness and one queer’s continuous print since 1991—no small feat in these publishing search for family and identity in 1980s Manhattan. It was times—and is considered by many to be one of the most origi released a few months before 9/11 and proved semi-prophetic nal, radical and beautiful pieces of fiction in the past 50 years. in its gritty, apocalyptic view of New York. Throughout the years, Spanhauer and several colleagues Since the release of Shy Hunters, Spanhauer has been very have also become well-known for developing an approach to busy: Love. Teaching. A new book. fiction they call “Dangerous Writing.” This approach, simply Spanhauer recently sat down in his Southeast Portland put, asks writers to dig deeply into the darker recesses of their home to discuss life, writing and his new novel, which experiences and write about these things with brutal honesty explores such themes as bullies, Catholicism, racism, rural life and without sentimentality. and, of course, being queer. I
