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Jacquelyn Bond fuses politics and vintage-style sex appeal in the exhibit Pin-Up Propaganda this
month at Vorpal Space.
Urban cowboys and girls are in abundance during DJ
Crystal's country western dance at the Portland Metro
Club (PPAA). (9 pm-1 am. 618 SE Alder St. $5.)
Score a great deal on attractive homewares, gifts and
expert interior design services at affordable prices!
(3-6 pm. 8402 N Lombard St.)
Blues musician Margo Tufo performs at the Portsmouth
Club. (9:30 pm-1 am. 5264 N Lombard St.)
Get lucky during the Fox & Hounds' Monthly Charity
Bingo. (3:30 pm. 217 SW Second Ave.)
SUN • AUG. 5
The Adventure Group takes a difficult hike on the view-
packed Rock of Ages Trail. Meet outside Starbucks at
Hollywood Fred Meyer. (8 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Jeff
503-234-4800.)
Gay-owned John Patrick's Interiors holds an open house
featuring door prizes and a magic hat discount game.
Discuss feminist worldviews and the feminist lens during
the Portland Feminist Meeting every first Sunday at In
Other Words. This month's theme is “The 'F' Word: Why
Is Feminism Such a Dirty Word?” (6:30-8 pm. 8 NE
Killingswortn St.)
Dante’s presents a production of internationally ignored
song-stylist Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (9 pm. 1 SW
Third Ave. $10 from TicketsWest.)
Broadway Rose Theatre Company stages the musical-comedy thriller No Way to Treat a Lady
through Aug. 19.
MON • AUG. 6
In Other Words presents the Spanish class Espanol Sin
Fronteras! (6:30-8 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $5-$10.)
Red and Black Cafe's Queer Movie Night screens
The Iron Ladies, which tells the true story of
a Thai volleyball team that won the national
championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of
gay men, drag queens and trans women. (7 pm. 2138 SE
Division St.)
Laughing Horse Bookstore screens Hard Pill, a 2005 dra
ma about what it would be like if there was a pill that could
make queers straight. (7 pm. 12 NE 10th Ave.)
Win special prizes during Q Center Bingo with Poison
Waters! (7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St. $5 includes bingo card.)
A Queer Queer Couple
From Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
falling in love outside their conventional marriages, to
the more recent fluidity of self-identified “gender
queer” youth, the many manifestations of being queer
have always been hard to categorize.
Authors Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, a les
bian and gay man respectively, met in the pioneering
queer fiction scene of 1980s San Francisco that
included Kathy Acker, Robert Gluck and Dennis
Cooper. Then the unexpected happened: They fell in
love.
They’ve continued defying expectations with
their poetry, prose and criticism since then, emerging
from the “New Narrative,” a community-based proj
ect that tried to push narrative beyond the trap of
modernism by creating it as a postmodern conceptu
al art. Gluck often encouraged the New Narrative
idea to think locally and write globally.
For Bellamy, this has included writing frankly,
without innuendo, about sex. As such, Bellamy fre
quently confronts topics in her work like feminism,
cultural politics, queer culture, AIDS and body issues.
She’s particularly fascinated by the metaphysical
division between inside and outside she finds in
horror films with their focus on bodily and spiritual
possessions. As such, she’s best known for channeling
a vampire in the recently reprinted The Letters of
Dodie Bellamy (top) and Kevin Killian will
Mina Harker.
read from their poetry and prose Aug. 9 at
Killian is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright Clinton Corner Café.
whose interests range from pop culture princess Kylie
Minogue (an often-cited character in his poetry) to editing collections of short stories by the late Sam
D’Allessandro, to uncovering the poetry of former critic and editor Donald Allen, editor of The New
American Poetry 1945-1960 and The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. Killian won the PEN Oakland
award for fiction for Little Men, a book of stories.
Bellamy and Killian will read from their poetry and prose in Portland as part of Kaia Sand and Jules
Boykoffs Tangent Reading Series 7 p.m. Aug. 9 at Clinton Comer Café, 2633 S.E. 21st Ave. Their zine
is in its second year of bringing poets and writers from around the country together with the Rose City’s
vibrant literary community.
—George Winbom
House of Cunt entertainer Amber Martin returns from
New York City with the one-woman, many-characters
show Been on a Train and Other Lofty Tales, including
mostly new works, through Aug. 7 at gay-owned Wild
Abandon Restaurant and the Red Velvet Lounge. (9 pm.
2411 SE Belmont Ave. $20 from 503-232-4458.)
TUE • AUG. 7
Elder Resource Alliance takes a field trip to Multnomah
Falls. Pack your lunch and meet at Friendly House.
(9:30 am-4 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave. $10 transportation fee.
RSVP to 503-224-2640, ext. 152.)
Hilary Duff performs at Arlene Schmtzer Concert Hall.
(8 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $40-$52.50from Ticketmaster.)
In Other Words presents Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-
Peralba reading from The Black Madonna in Latin
America and Europe, an examination of the worshipped
cultural icon, which is a blend of the Virgin Mary and ancient
mother-goddesses from Eurasian, African and Native-
American cultures. (6:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.)
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Celebrated authors Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian read
from their poetry and prose during the Tangent Reading
Series at Clinton Corner Cafee. (7 pm. 2633 SE 21st Ave.)
The Men's Wellness Center screens Ma Vie En Rose (My
Life in Pink), a great Belgian flick about a little boy who
dreams of being a girl. It's about being true to oneself, and
the film deals with difficult themes in a whimsical and
touching way. Snacks provided! (7-9pm. 928 SW Stark St.)
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Rory Stitt— who has been frequently compared
to Stephen Sondheim and Rufus Wainwright—
performs new "theatrical piano pop" material at
Mississippi Studios. (8 pm. 3939 N Mississippi Ave. $12
at the door, $10 in advance from 503-288-3895.)
FRI • AUG. 10
Eugene/Springfield Pride, the region's oldest and largest
gathering for the queer community, kicks off with a dance
party sponsored by Hot Flash featuring music by DJ
Lauren, door prizes, drink specials, food and go-go dancers
at the Indigo District. (5-9 pm. 1290 Oak St. $8.)
Someday Lounge presents esoZone, an underground arts
and culture festival, through Aug. 12. (125 NW Fifth Ave. For
a complete schedule of events, visit www.esozone.com.)
WED • AUG. 8
The Portland Area Business Association holds its
monthly meeting at MacTamahan's Taproom. (11:30 am-
1 pm. 2730 NW 31st Ave. $7-$20 from www.paba.com.)
In Other Words presents readings from Jane's Stories III:
Women Writing Across Boundaries (6:30 pm. 8 NE
Killingsworth St.)
Holocene celebrates The Portland Funbook *2, featuring
80 pages of coloring and activities from more than 60 of
the city's best artists, with a release party featuring Old
Growth, Here Comes a Big Black Cloud, Mustaphamond
and the final performance by Show Me the Pink. (9 pm.
1001 SE Morrison St. $8.)
Musician/promoter/producer Tamara J. Brown hosts Suck
My Open Mic every Wednesday at Alberta Street Public
House. All forms of performance are welcome: music,
poetry, monologues and the sometimes unexplainable!
Come to participate or just watch. (9:30-11:30 pm
1036 NE Alberta St.)
THU • AUG. 9
The Adventure Group and The Salem Triangle take
a guided tour of Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch
Art: Treasures from the Riiksmuseum, Amsterdam at
Portland Art Museum. (1219 SW Park Ave Evan
503-701-7922.)
Elder Resource Alliance invites older members of the
sexual minorities community to meet each other, share
common interests and enjoy fun conversation every sec
ond Thursday at Niki’s Restaurant. (1-3 pm 736 SE Grand
Ave.)
World-class illustrator Matte Stephens is on display through
Aug. 26 at Office.