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JULY 18, 2008 justout 7 Coventry Cycle f/Works WomenStrength Program will intro duce a variety of self-protective op tions in a nonphysical discussion for mat. The workshop is open to adults who live in Portland. The class will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. July 24 at Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 S.W. Capitol Highway. To RSVP call 503-823-3131 by July 21. For more information call 503-823-9666 or kelly.hall@ ci.portland.or.us. Recumbento Folding Biked ...and More! Open Tuesday-Sunday (503) 230-7723 2025 SE Hawthorne 'Pregnant Man' Gives Birth The birth of the Beatie baby gar nered attention June 29 because a trans man carried the healthy baby girl. Bend resident Thomas Beatie came out to his community and the world in the April 8 issue of The Advocate. According to the first-person article, Beatie, who is legally married It's going to take an awfully big scrub brush to scour Club to Nancy, decided to carry their baby Portland into a McMenamins-suitable hotel and restaurant. because Nancy underwent a medically necessary hysterectomy 20 years ago. Beatie, 34, described his decision to carry the According to McMenamins, Gerding Edlen child as a “human desire.” He plans to publish a Development has already begun renovation on book about the experience in the fall. the building, which will house the hotel, brewpub As a trans man, Beatie took testosterone injec and restaurant. tions and underwent a double mastectomy but did “Having a full downtown property with all of not have his female reproductive parts removed. our offerings in one area has been something we’ve To prepare for pregnancy, he stopped taking hor thought about for a long time now,” McMenamins mones, his menstrual cycle returned, and he was marketing director Renee Rank said in a state artificially inseminated at home. ment. “This project is the perfect complement to Five months pregnant and several thousand our adjacent Ringlers Annex Pub and the Crystal dollars poorer, the Beaties told The Advocate Ballroom and will be a great connection between about discrimination and disapproval from doc the Pearl District and the West End." tors, family and friends. Health professionals have According to a release by McMenamins, “The refused to call Beatie by male pronouns or recog building itself has an incredible history since its nize Nancy as his wife. After a miscarriage be inception in 1911. Throughout its near-century, cause of entopic pregnancy in their first attempt, the site changed hands and names many times, Beatie’s brother reportedly said: “It’s a good thing offering a hotel (Hotel Alma, Hotel Georgian, that happened. Who knows what kind of monster Hotel Tait, Majestic Hotel), men’s bathhouse (Club Baths, Club Portland) and nightclub (Club it would have been.” The Oregonian ran an article about the couple Mecca, The Desert Room, Stark Street Station, March 27, but Beatie declined to be interviewed, Flossie’s, Silverado), among other uses.” saying he had an exclusive interview with another The new hotel (as of yet unnamed) will have media outlet. 50 rooms. This project is McMenamins’ first full According to The Advocate article, Beatie’s service establishment in downtown Portland. The masculine identity was unshakable during the company will commemorate, through original pregnancy. He said: “To Nancy, 1 am her husband artwork and historic photographs, the property’s evolution from pioneer residence to a tire shop carrying our child—1 am so lucky to have such along the city’s original Auto Row to a live jazz a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s club to—most recently and significantly—part of father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be Portland’s gay triangle. a family.” The first floor of the hotel will house a restau Beatie has reportedly said he will consider rant with a menu that celebrates seasonal ingredi having more children after he has experienced ents available throughout the Pacific Northwest fatherhood. • and will feature outdoor seating. The basement will offer a heated saltwater soaking pool, massage McMenamins Buys rooms and a Subterranean Cellar Bar connecting Former Club Portland with McMenamins Ringlers Annex pub. Although the dance-happy queens from the McMenamins purchased the property from “old Silverado” and the doped-up dudes lounging Gerding Edlen Development in June. "We in their birthday suits at Club Portland have only couldn’t have imagined a better use for this prop been gone from the building less than a year, erty,” said Patrick Wilde, project manager for Portland powerhouse pub factory McMenamins Gerding Edlen Development. “We purchased the announced July 11 it has purchased the complex building—with its unique triangle footprint and at Southwest 12th Avenue and Stark Street. location at the gateway to the West End—with The longtime infamous corner of Portland’s the idea that rhe right business could transform fast-gentrifying “gay district” will stxtn be home to a hotel and restaurant in the renovated build ing as early as winter of 2009. Continued on Page 8 DHARMA RAIN ZEN CENTER 2539 Southeast Madsion, Portland, OR 97214 503.239 4846 www.dharma-rain.org Want to make it safer to play? Test for STDs every 3 months. Mult. 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