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A Time For Pride
MAY 29. 2009
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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
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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
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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
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NORTHWEST BRIEFS
doesn’t meaning also that some of you will
than equality. Remembering and honoring
everyone, or if you feel that being Queer
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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old memories while making new ones.
tive to the dialogue with, “For me it’s a
against that other second-place dude, Clay
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Have a good one.
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