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may justput, WINE SHOP & BAR Enjoy local and European artisan-style wines. Red Without Blue profiles identical twins Mark and Alex (aka Clair), then and now. FREE pool made baroque, glittery underground movies using patron saint dropped “a bagful of queers” on it. We Bocks magazine and videos like How to Fuck in trash and his own teeming imagination, he’s best should all have such a bag. The citizens here not Heels (with juicy excerpts). The interviews in this known for the 1962 underground feature Flaming only tolerate but welcome gays, celebrating their irresistible doc are sharp and often hilarious. Diana Creatures, banned for its Dionysian orgies and male contribution to the culture and even announcing on Cage: “The good ’80s lesbian didn’t enjoy penetra and female nudity (nicely sampled here). The film a loudspeaker that people shouldn’t hate us. The tion because penetration was simply mimicking makes a convincing case for Smith as a modern film features colorful drag festivals, a local teacher heterosexual sex; you were just a tool of the patri William Blake, the visionary godfather of perform who seduces a confused straight man (“You can’t say archy. But secretly we were sticking as many things ance art, the sexual revolution and even the you’re a man until you’ve fucked a fag!” says the in as many orifices as we possibly could!” (4p.m. counterculture. A master at conjuring beauty from teacher) and a charming tranny hairdresser who June 3.) nothing (his outfits, all feathers Another kind of liberation is and festoons, were legendary), he the subject of closing night’s was also deeply self-destructive and Saving Marriage, a spectacular always “bit every hand that could look at how same-sex marriage feed him,” as John Waters says. came to Massachusetts. The film The film features extensive footage is a white-knuckle ride through of Smith in action, along with the complexities of a process no contextualizing commentary from one would have believed possible friends, for a memorable biography a few years ago but that now of a genius who was queer in more seems inevitable. The film cap ways than one. (9 p.m. June 2.) tures the intensity of the grass On a darker note, Freeheld tells roots movement by unstoppable the story of dying police Lt. Laurel activists who work to dislodge Hester’s battle with New Jersey homophobic legislators, and the county officials—the Freeholders— challenges that lie ahead. Along to get partnership benefits for her the way it stops to etch powerful lover. Shortish at 38 minutes, the Juehitan, a small city in southern Mexico, celebrates queer culture. ly emotional stories of individual film nonetheless packs a wallop as activists, simpatico legislators a wrenching portrayal of a monumental injustice. longs for Prince Charming but is OK till he arrives. and couples who do get hitched, showing exactly Luminous scenes of Hester and her lover, Stacie Book your flight today! (2 p.m. June 3.) what’s at stake here. Saving Marriage rs a rousing Andree, are balanced with sequences of Hester’s What better way to spend a languid Sunday end to a worthy addition to Portland’s festival scene. (7 p.m. June 3.) © tragic decline and riveting moments of combat in afternoon than with 1960s muscleboys and 1980s the Freeholder meetings, where Hester’s policemen red-hot dykes? The double bill Hot and Bothered peers and other supporters try desperately to move starts with Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & the Age QDOC: P ortland Q ueer D ocumentary F ilm the blank-faced, unbudging bureaucrats. Bring of Beefcake. Honoring the gifted photographer who FESTIVAL runs from June I to 3 at Clinton Street a hanky. (Noon June 3. A panel discussion on the documented the unclothed charms of Montreal’s Theater, 2522 S.E. Clinton St. For information status of marriage equality in Oregon, featuring Basic working-class hunks, the film contains lots of fetch about tickets, the opening night party and the closing Rights Oregon and Equity Foundation members and night reception, visit www.queerdocfest.org. ing flesh (in posing straps), winsome smiles and others, follows the screening.) some thoughtful cultural context. Next up, Lesbian Set in sunnier climes, Juehitan, Queer Paradise Sex and Sexuality : The Evolution of Erotica riffs on G ary M orris edits and publishes Bright Lights engagingly profiles a Mexican town that, according the lesbian pom movement and sex-positive dyke Film Journal, located online at to folklore, became extra-gay when the town’s lifestyle by highlighting the history of On Our www. brightlightsfilm. com. No Secret Anymore pays tribute to Phyllis Lyon (left) and Del Martin, then and now. FREE foosball FREE WiFi www.badgirlwines.com _ _ 2929 SE Powell Blvd. (503) 231-VINO
