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by Marty Davis
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Shutter to Think
NEWSMAGAZINE
VOL. 23 NO. 16
JUNE 16, 2006
Congratulations to winners of the 2006 Just Out Amateur Photo Contest
elcome to the second issue of our 2006 Pride trilogy. In our
June 2 issue, we previewed Pride Northwest events, and in
this issue we showcase the winners of the 2006 Just Out
Amateur Photo Contest. Our July 7 issue will feature pages
and pages of images from all the festivities, so kxrk for your
self and your friends. Don't forget to take your own camera with you as you’re
out and about. Start now on compiling’your prize-winning photos for next
year’s contest. For 2007, we’re going to he more creative with our category
titles. Our old standbys of pets, people and nature are no longer sufficiently
challenging to your vast talents and abilities. For next year we might go with
categories such as:
• Things I Wish I Hadn’t Seen at Pride
• Elected Officials Behaving Badly (perhaps a field trip to the Multnomah
County Building?)
• Creative Interpretations of Lungs Damaged by Secondhand Smoke
(Photoshop skills required)
• Special Black and White Category (as so many seem unable to see in
shades of in-between)
As indicated, with this issue we are proud to share with you the winners of
this year’s Amateur Photo Contest. We’ve picked the best of the best. And in
featuring our staff picks, we provide some insight into the minds of the Just Out
staff. Lest you be one who thinks Just Out is all-Marty all-the-time, I’d like to
point out that my original caption on the photo I selected was vetoed by a cer
tain news writer. What I had thought to say was, “I chose this photo because
all my life I’ve been looking for a woman who will sit, fetch and roll over.” But
no, they made me be bland and nice instead.
could he march with BRO? Westlund’s staff says he’ll be around Saturday to
do handshakes and smiles. The wannabe candidate did attend Southern
Oregon Pride activities. I don’t think the governor did.
Back to Kulongoski: It really bugs me that he only shows up on election
years. 1 know that previous governors haven’t attended under any circum
stances and that we re supposed to be honored that he attends. But yet 1 don’t
feel honored. I feel pandered to. If you’re with us, be with us all the time, not
just when you need our votes. And in 2006, this governor is going to need our
votes. Especially if Westlund does make the ballot.
ith the annuaPretum of Pride comes the usual mutterings and grumblings
about anticipated boorish behavior on the part of celebrants. Mind you,
now, not all of this grumbling is from me. I made my position clear years ago
when 1 encouraged participants to “keep your pants on, grandma is watching.”
Years later now, I feel much the same. I still fail to see the correlation between
Pride and nudity/inappropriate sexual behavior. What has changed, however,
is the fact that I’m now far less inclined to empower the folks who engage in
this type of behavior to be reflective of the rest of us, to be reflective of the com
munity that I know us to be. A community of quality, merit and accomplish FEATURE
ment. A community not to be judged by a public smattering of boobs and but 28 THROUGH THE OUT LENS
Amateur Photo Contest winners exposed
tocks. If you, as an individual, set out to make an ass out of yourself, that’s
exactly what you’ll do. The rest of us will be just fine, thank you very much.
Pride is a time to celebrate accomplishments. Kudos to the organizers of the NEWS
first-ever Latino Pride, Noche de Familias y Mariposas. In staging their very 11-19 NORTHWEST
successful event, they brought together a culturally, socially and politically
Gay chef brings the meals to you; cleanliness
is next to godliness, which is in Sellwood;
diverse group. The doors have been opened to the building of strong and last
your
new “family" video store; the amazing
ing relationships. Congratulations on a job well done.
shrinking art show; thousands raised for
he start of Pride marks a month since all the fun of the primary election
Congratulations are also in order to Scott Montes as he publishes the 10th
scholarship; Mary Li joins Q Center board;
ended. Fading from memory are the once-daily media watch rivalries
anniversary edition of the Portland Gay and Lesbian Yellow Pages. He provides
Seattle boasts twice the Pride; Washington
between Diane Linn and Ted Wheeler, Erik Sten and Ginny Burdick, and financial support to many of our organizations and events and is to be thanked
initiative victory gamers praise; remember
dads;
hate crime investigated; arts grants
Emily Boyles and all signs of reality. But don’t start thinking it’s over yet.
and acknowledged for his many contributions.
available; BRO Struts its stuff; MCC pastor
There’s nothing like a Pride parade to signal that there’s a general election in
For my own personal accomplishment, I did survive Bill Dickey’s 50th
resigns; expelled from Brokeback High;
the fall. People we haven’t seen since, well, the last time they ran for office
birthday party bash in Las Vegas. One Matthew Lashua did not, however, do
smoking results are in; Pride honorees
show up to signal what open-minded progressive candidates they are. Oregon
so well. Poor boy. With this accomplishment also comes clarity that I am far
23-25 NATIONAL
Gov. Ted Kulongoski has indicated he’ll participate in the parade, the first time
too old now to go two nights in a row sans sleep.
Marriage Protection Amendment killed in
since he last ran for office. Apparently he’ll be aligned with the Basic Rights
Senate; gay performer attacked
Oregon contingent, which was quick to clarify that he’s there as the governor,
ust Out will be at the waterfront all weekend in booths M6 and Ml 2. We’ll 26-27 WORLD
not as a candidate. And what about that nice Ben Westlund, champion of
be proud until we drop from exhaustion Sunday, then we’re off for a week’s
Romanian Pride trashed by anti-gay militants;
Senate Bill 1000? Will he be marching with BRO also? Westlund isn’t an offi
vacation. We’ll return to the office June 26 and will publish next July 7. Check Costa Rica rejects same-sex marriage
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cial candidate yet, as he hasn’t completed his signature-gathering process. So
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ARTS AND CULTURE
reflections
49, 51 FILM
DVD collections free filmmakers from the
constraints of full-length features; The Omen
catches hell
10 Years Ago in Just Out... volume 13 number 16, june 21, 1996
• A search organization based in Portland is
offering its services to people with HIV/AIDS who
want to find family or friends they have lost touch
with. Seekers of the Lost helps people locate lost
relatives throughout the United States.
• Multnomah County Circuit Judge George
Joseph declared The City, an alcohol-free
nightclub catering to queer youth, a "specified
crime property" during June 14 court
proceedings.
• In an attempt to snatch some victory from
what seems to be the jaws of certain
congressional defeat, the Human Rights
Campaign has proposed amending the Defense
of Marriage Act to include the Employment
Nondiscrimination Act.
• Erik Sten, who was unsuccessful in his May 21
bid for the Portland City Council seat of outgoing
Commissioner Mike Lindberg, has announced his
candidacy for the council seat recently vacated
by Earl Blumenauer, who was elected to
Congress.
• Chicago will be the site of Outvote '96, the
nation's first lesbian and gay political convention,
scheduled for Aug. 16 to 18.
• Attend the dedication of the AIDS Memorial
Room and the Archives Room at Theater Theatre.
The Memorial Room will house a permanent
display of "life journals" representing Oregonians
who have died from AIDS; the Archives Room
will house gay and lesbian theater memorabilia.
• Lon Mabon, chairman of the Oregon Citizens
Alliance, seems to sense that his professional
future is on the line. "On July 5, we will ascertain
the health of our organization. I think we're still
there," says Mabon in the June 7 issue of The
Oregonian—one day after the OCA announced it
was abandoning its 1996 anti-gay campaign.
• Portland activist Suzanne Pharr reads from and
signs copies of her new book, In the Time of the
Right: Reflections on Liberatio. Music provided
by Thomas Lauderdale.
55, 57 BOOKS
Novelist reveals how an airplane disaster
changes and challenges the lives of a gay
couple; just in time for the 37th anniversary,
a riveting read brings us closer to The Riots
That Sparked the Gay Revolution
61-65 CULTURE
Portland Pride titleholders crowned at Fez
Ballroom; community comes together to
celebrate, make a difference
69 THEATER
John Waters’ campy comedy Hairspray hits the
stage in Portland; gay actor puts a modem spin
on Shakespeare; eclectic Drammy Awards
ceremony reflects last year’s diverse theater
season
COLUMNS
51 GET DIRTY WITH DAN
Taking Pride in the Outside
56 EPIQUEEREAN
Get Baked, Part One: Sweet Eats
70 JIM'S CLOSET
Folks as Queer