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media reporting, launch a globe-
trotting pop music career and land a
breakthrough b<x)k deal with a major
studio film option? Write for Just Out, of course.
It sounds that simple, anyway, from the way
Marc Acito tells it. Acito, a former opera singer
turned pencil-pusher, launched his gay humor
column, “The Gospel According to Marc,” from
Just Out into national syndication in the early
2000s. At a book reading with transgressive gay
novelist Chuck Palahnuik, Acito approached
the author for an autograph. He got one, but
also walked out with a new fan and supporter in
Palahnuik, who helped him land an agent, which
led to his first book deal.
“The only way Chuck would have known my
writing was in Just Out,” the award-winning au
thor says of his big break. “I owe my entire writ
ing career”—that’s two published novels and a
new play, Holidazed— “directly to Just Out."
Peter Zuckerman's experience was less
glamorous. After dropping by the paper’s office
to offer up his help as an intern, Zuckerman—a
Reed College student at the time—was handed
two plum assignments: fact-checking Just Out’s
OutReach page phone numbers, and delivering
papers on circulation day. A Just Out cover story
eventually emerged from the burgeoning journal
ist, and so did bigger prizes: Zuckerman went on
to win a major award for his work at The Idaho
Falls Post-Register, uncovering Boy Scout sex
abuse. He’s since returned to Portland, where he
reports for The Oregonian and is acting president
of Oregon’s new chapter of the National Lesbian
and Gay Journalism Association.
That jet-setting pop star, of course, is native
son Thomas Lauderdale, who contributed news
and columns to the paper prior to Pink Martini’s
stratospheric sail. Other early Just Out staff
ers, like Will O’Bryan (Entertainment Editor,
1995-2000) and Inga Sorensen (News Editor,
1991-1999), continued in the queer press. Some,
like Linda Kleiwer, Tim Joyce and Julie Saba
tier, left print for new media pastures: Kleiwer
for film and photography; Joyce is at Portland
KOIN-TV; and Sabatier podcasts and produces
for Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Although they’ve since left the gay press, do
Acito and Zuckerman feel gay media is still nec
essary in the gay 21st century? “Absolutely," they
both say, in separate interviews.
“1 find that the breadth and depth of cover
age is so much broader and deeper [in gay media]
than that which you’ll see in the mainstream me
dia,” erudite Acito says.
Zuckerman’s raison d’être for queer media
is much simpler: “Gay culture,” he says, “is so
fascinating!”
—Stephen Marc Beaudoin
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