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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
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