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OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE ? j MAY 29 2009 PAGE 3 b/ Marty Davis 3 IW [just out i VOL 26 NO. 15 A Time For Pride MAY 29. 2009 INSIDE» « » FEATURE here’s a lot of early this year. As I It’s a chance to get out with others who So, what are the peeps thinking about 16-31 GET YOUR PRIDE ON! Portland Pride, Black Pride, Latino Pride, write this column, summer has ar Pride this year? Here’s what one 23-year have similar feelings. It’s no different than Corvallis Pride, you name it, if it’s about rived early, making it unseasonably -old Portland State University student, when I attend the Jewish festivals or the Pride, we’ve got it. hot in Portland. Rose Festival 2009 started Omar N’Gadi, had to say: other celebrations relevant to me and my Just Out celebrates Katharine English early, in turn moving Portland Pride up to “Gay Pride means a lot to me. It’s a friends.” a one-week-earlier-than-usual start. This My favorite grouchy Bear, Mark Brown, place where Queers’ can come from all » will be good news for all those who have over to get together and simply be Queer. growls, “Pride is for visibility. A chance to bemoaned for years that the Pride Parade To some, that might not sound important, see everyone. A reminder that we’re here 5 LETTERS. TRANSITIONS always fell on Father’s Day. This year it but if you aren’t out or you aren’t out to and aren’t going to settle for anything less 7 NORTHWEST BRIEFS doesn’t meaning also that some of you will than equality. Remembering and honoring everyone, or if you feel that being Queer 12 BUSINESS be needing another excuse to escape the is impossible because you can’t be married, those brave homos who first fought back.” Two new ventures in town: Urban Farm trip home for Dad’s Day Dinner. or that the religious right is holding you Collective and Flying Cat Coffee down, Gay Pride means ‘everything. Gay If you haven’t already heard, Portland urning the topic to a more specific Pride is June 13-14 this year. That’s why 'Pride is your opportunity to embrace the local angle, there are still hurt feel 14 PERSONALITIES Jeff Fisher Goes Toots up authenticity of who you are in a world that you’re reading a special, late May issue of ings in the community over the Just Out. We timed our Pride coverage to wants you to be something you simply changing of the parade route several years » appear two weeks before the big event. We aren’t. ago. More than once I heard, “It still an will be in print again for Pride weekend, Gay Pride is about being honest about gers me that they moved the parade route 33 OUT 8 ABOUT with a June 12 issue. We’re then taking a who you are. It’s about having the oppor away from all the gay bars. Have they 40 ICONS tunity to share a part of your aqthentic forgotten why we have gay pride in June? lovely post-Pride week off and will return RuPaul's Drag Race winner with a July 3 issue brimming with Pride self with likeminded individuals. It’s a It’s called Stonewall. Not to mention that Bebe Zahara Benet cultural icon and ‘melting pot,’ it’s where photos and memories. We will be back on a great deal of the fundraising happens at 47 DANCE our regular first and third Friday schedule the Queer community meets and evolves, the bars and by moving so much of Pride Choreographer Jerome Robbins for the remainder of the year. year after year. Gay Pride is about stand away from those establishments it kinda re-visited at Oregon Ballet Theatre ing up against all types of oppressions; it’s feels as if that part of the community has Pride is a Thanksgiving Day kind of affair. It comes with preset conversations. about standing up and empowering those been put back in the closet.” 49 HAPPENINGS I’m going to conclude this with a mem Around the holiday table the topic invari who may not be able to do so. Gay Pride Stark Raving Proud on Stark Street ably turns to, “Uncle Burt, what are you is for everyone, by everyone who wants to ory from Dixie Rupt, of Portland’s Sisters 50 NIGHTLIFE DIRECTORY of Perpetual Indulgence. thankful for this year?” You don’t have to participate. Civic service, integrity, char 53 THEATER “My first Pride parade was in Rich go far during Pride season to hear some ity and authenticity are the pillars of the Meet Portland’s newest queer theater mond, VA over 20 years ago-it consisted one ask one of two questions, “Do we still yearly event.” company of a few people marching down the street, need Pride?” followed by, “What does with the rest of us running ahead on the n the heels of the California Pride mean to you?” 55 PERFORMANCE sidewalk just for them to have some spec Being the thoughtful person that I am, Supreme Court ruling on Propo PGMC singers have Mars in their eyes tators. Things have changed, but not to sition 8, many are feeling the I have gone ahead and taken care of this 57 BOOKS questioning task for you already. I’ve asked the point that many of us still don’t feel freshened sting of inequality. Portland Portland’s Queer Tales of the Rose City ‘different.’ For me, Pride is that one day a entertainer Jennifer Lanier believes that the questions about Pride; I’ve got the year when being ‘different’ is the best feel “Gay Pride is a time to remind folks that answers. You may now use the time you ing in the world.” we are good with who we are. To remem would have spent on Pride introspection 38 LIVING OUT LOUD Dixie’s Pride memory makes me smile. ber that equal rights for me never means for more pressing topics such as, “Should For me, that’s a good enough reason to fewer rights for you.” Adam Lambert take the Queen gig, or 43 SASSY GARDENER keep having Pride. Smiles, friends, sharing Beki Safar brings another perspec hold out for a celebrity boxing match 58 OUT GOING old memories while making new ones. tive to the dialogue with, “For me it’s a against that other second-place dude, Clay 64 MS. BEHAVIOR Have a good one. • celebration of community and who I am. 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