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JULY 20. ¿007 jUStpUt 17 culture festival. Last year, the Gay Games faced an additional threat from a competing gay sports event, World OutGames. Held in Montreal just one week after the Gay Games, that competing event’s host organiza tion ended up losing more than $5 million Canadian. At the Gay Games VII closing ceremony July 22, 2006, Chicago passed the symbols of the Gay Games to Cologne, Germany, the host of the 2010 Gay Games. Anti-Gay Senator Cops to Sex Scandal U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who has built his political career around family values and railed against same-sex marriage, admitted July 9 to “a very serious sin in my past” after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the Cyndi Lauper performed during the closing ceremony of the so-called D.C. Madam. 2006 Gay Games at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Vitter admitted that he had sive annual film and television collection to the contacted a D.C. escort service sometime before Outfest Legacy Project, a partnership between 2004, apparently while serving in the U.S. House Outfest and the UCLA Film and Television of Representatives, and July 10, Jeanette Maier, the Archive. GLAAD announced the collaboration in Canal Street madam of a high-price brothel in New celebration of Outfest’s 25th anniversary, which is Orleans, told WDSU-TV that Vitter frequented being held through July 23. her establishment in the mid-1990s. In addition, "Each year, GLAAD monitors and archives The Shreveport Times reported that the former thousands of hours of film and television,” said chairman of President Bush’s Louisiana finance GLAAD president Neil G. Giuliano. “We are organization, Boysie Bollinger, said Vitter’s rela thrilled that this collaboration with Outfest and tionship with prostitutes was known to insiders UCLA ensures all of this important material will be when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004. made available to the public for generations to Vitter has touted himself as a “moral values” leader throughout his political career and ardently come.” In previous years, GLAAD donated its film and opposed same-sex marriage, saying: “I’m a conser television archives to One National Gay and vator who opposes radically redefining marriage, Lesbian Archives. In March, One deposited its vast the most important social institution in human assemblage of moving image material—more than history.” He has been a sponsor of the Federal 1,500 films and 3,000 videos—including GLAAD s Marriage Amendment, which seeks to preclude the collection, with the Outfest Legacy Project. The recognition of same-sex marriage. deposit nearly doubled the Outfest Legacy Project’s holdings, which had already comprised the world’s Compiled by J aymee R. C uti and M alka G effen largest publicly accessible collection of queer films. NW PROFESSIONAL L k DANCE PROJECT I ARTIS DIRECTOR / SARAH SUPPER “Best Bet for 2007” The Oregonian ILLINOIS Games Losing Trend Reversed FRIDAY / AUG 10 / 8PM SATURDAY / AUG 11 / 8PM One year after Chicago hosted nearly 12,000 athletes from 50 countries at the 2006 Gay Games, Chicago Games, the host organization for the event, announced July 10 that the event broke even. This positive financial result reverses a 20-year trend, not achieved SHOWING BY DANCE MAKERS since 1986. The 2006 Gay Games contributed $50 million to $80 million to the local economy. Some people estimate that another 10 years of positive gay tourism visibility will generate millions more dollars in the long term. Nevertheless, the past three Gay Games host committees lost significant amounts of money, threatening the future of the quadrennial sports and ALL WORLD PREMIERE PROGRAM Photo / Bteifw Cowart Lincoln Hall / School of Fine & Performing Arts / PSU I 620 SW Park Avenue (at Market Street) Tickets: S22 advance reserved seating / $25 door Relationships with a prostitute were a “known secret" during the 2004 campaign of U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La. Best seats available at www.nwpdp.com , I Also available at PSU Ticket center or Ticketmaster Info / 503.756 1912 ♦ Oancar / Ottvu Ancona
