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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 2007)
juSt]OUt427 Homo Away from Home Getaways for gays men's vintage clothing vintage eyewear for men & women AUCIA ROSE ’m exhausted. I spent the entire summer working to make money, volunteering to fulfill my soul and socializing to write this column. So I’m heat, bleary-eyed and burned out. I need a vacation. But Marc and I aren’t ones to travel. Instead, we’ve chosen to save our money, squirreling it away for the day when we can use summer and winter as verbs. As a result, I wouldn’t know where to go, so I began asking around. At Salon Q (held at Vendetta in North Portland, a part of town I visit about as often as 1 go on vaca tion), C.J. Gabbe told me he likes Scandinavia-for the lifestyle, cleanliness, scenery and nice people. Camelot. Speaking of which, Portland Opera’s “It’s like the Northwest,” he says, “with a twist.” Broadway series presents Lou Diamond Phillips in (Although he might have been referring to the drink the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot from Oct. 2 he was ordering.) Others prefer warmer climates: to 7. Phillips gets honorary bold print for having Mark Haidle likes Mexico, and Jeff Pellisier just been married to the mother of Melissa Etheridge’s returned from Miami’s South Beach, where he sat children, Julie Cypher (who isn’t in bold because out Hurricane Barney with Gregg Suits and Hans i she’s no longer a lesbian). Bernard. Brad Phillips loves Rio because he has A few nights later, I found myself at the opening a built-in translator in partner Valerium Pereira, of New York performance and visual artist Larry who recently moved his hair salon to Northeast Krone’s show at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Krone, Sandy Boulevard. whose work is in the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, would only tell me that his fantasy vacation spot is on Lake Michigan: “I want to keep it secret so it doesn’t get crowded.” Robert Trotman and Bill Hetzelson enjoy Yellowstone National Park because the geysers were “more spectacular than we imagined.” And former flight atten dant Thom Walters had better sex than he ever imagined in the Greek islands, where he also goes for the cul ture, food, landscape and history. Portland Art Museum chief curator Bruce Guenther said: “1 don’t take vacations. Life is too much fun to vaca tion,” and Daniel Peabody said his favorite vacation spot was “wherever I’ve been invited.” Speaking of invitations, Marc and 1 would like to invite all of you to join us for a Big Gay Field Trip to Portland Center Stage on Sept. 30 for brunch in the atrium followed by a perform ance of Cabaret starring Storm Large and Wade McCollum. Tickets (the discounted $50 includes show and The Gender Fluids make Floyd moist. brunch) are available by calling the Klark Dunning told me he likes Italy for the food box office and asking for the Matinee Idyll. and wine. And David Dvorak still savors the Sarah Dougher served as co-music director for memory of the food in Vietnam, particularly the fish an idyllic opening performance in Pioneer Square of patties, spring rolls and grilled fish. While he was the 2007 Time-Based Art Festival. Afterward she there recently, David was at a gay club that was raid told me she goes to Los Angeles because “I find it ed by the police. weirdly relaxing,” particularly the smell. “Once you A few nights later, Carl Halvorson invited get a whiff of it, you’re transported." Kaj-anne a small group of opera buffs to his condo in the Pepper chooses Wolf Creek in Southern Oregon Benson, where Charlie Jones told me that Hawaii because it’s a Radical Faerie sanctuary, and Chad is the place to relax. Oregon Ballet Theatre’s “Pony” Tolsen fantasizes about Barcelona and Christopher Stowell heads to Europe whenever “drinking cava on the beach with beautiful boys possible, finding himself in Italy “more often than serving me." Kaj-Anne, Chad and Lee “Splendora” not.” He adds this advice to anyone planning to Kyle make up the Gender Fluids, who will be per attend the Verona Opera Festival: “Bring a cush forming downstairs at Wonder Ballroom during the last two weekends of September. ion, because your ass won’t survive four hours on I may be exhausted, but 1 wouldn’t pass up that 2,000-year-old stone.” opportunity to be Out Going. © Our host chooses Cap Ferrat in the south of France as his favorite vacation destination. Listening to Carl describe the beautiful beaches FLOYD S klaver wants to know about your event. E-mail him at floydsklaver@comcast.net. and equally beautiful men, he made it sound like HOLLYWOOD VINTAGE 28"* & S andy (503)233-1890 open til 8 most evenings IS Xtnfy M*attnai . Saturo^lStrvmber22ni 6pm until ¿aattiaru 22700 Sauvie Island <pirate attire is i encouraged proceeds 6 ene fit the Oregon Crusaders, a youtfi performing arts organization Ço to www.'PiratesOnTfieCoiumbia.com for more details
