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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 2009)
OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE OCTOBER 16. 2009 PAGE 3 by [just out M a r t/ Davis That's a W rap VOL. 26 NO. 24 A challenging year of publishing comes to a close os Volume 27 looks bright hank you for picking up and read ing the October 16, 2009 issue of Ju st Out. I appreciate each and ev ery reader of this publication. There are a couple of points to be made about this issue. First, a reminder that Ju st Out publishes, in print,'on the first and third Friday of each month. October is a month with five Fridays, so we won’t ap pear in print again until the first Friday next month, November 6. For the most part, the Ju st Out staff will be on vacation the week of October 19. Daily news up dates will still be posted at w w w .ju stou t. com. Ju st Out is sponsoring two community events to be held before we next appear in print, so I want to take a moment to invite you to them. Monday, October 19 is our monthly Gay Skate night, held at Oaks Park Roller Rink. October is Hal loween month and Gay Skate will be the kick-off event for all your festivities. We’ll be judging costumes, with separate prizes for adults and children. Gay skate is fam ily-friendly and everyone is welcome. Admission is only $6 per person; that amount gets you a pair of roller skates and an evening of fun and exercise. Bring us your Halloween best. Gay Skaters are a generous group and we fill several boxes monthly with do nated canned foods for Esther’s Pantry. W ith the onset of colder, wetter weather the need for food assistance becomes even greater. These are not the best of financial times for many; food bank donations can be gentle on your wallet while still allow ing you to make a valuable contribution to someone in need. I’d love to see Port land’s GLBT community work together to make many more of our events into collection points for food donations. If you are an event promoter or sponsor or perhaps a business owner who would like to work with Ju st Out and Esther’s Pantry on becoming a donation point, please get in touch with me. We’ll partner together to get the word out about your event and the opportunity for folks to bring food donations. Thanks to the women of Motherlode for making their November 14 concert available for food donations. Please contact me if you’d like your event to be next. The second event is the return of T Women Seeking Women Bunco Night, or as we call it at Ju st Out, “All The Single Ladies, All The Single Ladies.” Bunco was a popular event for many months un til suddenly, no one was single any more- —now what was up with that? Ah, time passes, relationships, um, alter, and new single ladies are now looking for Bunco again. So Bunco it will be. W e’ll meet at the new Q_Center at 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 24. This is a definite “the more the merrier” event, so if you’re single, looking to meet new friends and have some fun, join us for an evening of laugh ter and whatever. Admission is a mere $5 plus, you guessed it, a donation of canned food for Esther’s Pantry. No prior Bunco experience is required; all the single ladies are encouraged to attend. hat’s the second item of inter est about this issue? Well this almost escaped my attention, but this issue is Volume 26, issue Number 24 of Ju st Out. W hat does that mean? It means that with this issue Ju st Out has completed our 26th year of publishing, and with the next, we will begin our 27th. Exactly one year ago we were sending out invitations for the Ju st Out 25th an niversary party, hosted and organized by Ron Mitchell of Red Cap and Boxes, a man to whom I shall be eternally grateful for his kindness, generosity and incred ible organizing skills. One year ago, as we were planning what turned out to be the best anniversary party ever, I already sensed that the wolf was knocking at the door. I optimistically thought we’d scare him away with hard work and good in tentions. The wolf, however, had different plans. I don’t think I need to recap‘what happened to America financially in the last quarter of last year. Things got rough. Really rough. Following a tough year’s end, in Janu ary 2009, newly elected and openly gay Portland Mayor Sam Adams held a press conference and announced that he’d not been forthcoming with voters when ques tioned about a personal relationship. Ju st Out issued a call for the mayor’s resigna tion. All hell then broke loose.The follow ing months brought a nonstop barrage of threats, intimidation, vandalism and plain old nastiness from those with a differing point of view. In March the damn wolf nearly took down the door. Advertising income dried up completely. The business community drew its purse strings tightly shut. Stress levels in the office were high and unman ageable. Daily articles heralding the death of America’s newspaper industry added to the pressure. When I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. On March 1 3 ,1 arrived at work to discover that the editorial staff had quit during the night. This, finally, was too much. I gave up. 1 W 1M was done. Portland no longer had a news paper serving the gay, lesbian, bi and trans community. I had been beat. My self-pity lasted about an hour. Then I got up, kicked myself in the butt, along with a few others, and went back to work. I put out the'call for help. Help arrived, some unexpected, all appre ciated. Ju st Out did not mis& an issue. Experienced new staff was hired. Creative, enthusiastic, passionate new energy and ideas flowed into the pages. Late spring brought ad income trickling back in. Dear readers, if you think your job is difficult, try selling newspaper ads in a recession. It’s not easy; it’s not fun. Thank you, Larry, Justin and Lynda for doing nearly the impossible; you kept this paper going. ow, at the close of our 26th year of publishing, the future looks most definitely brighter. In re sponse to the quality of Ju st O ut’s content, new advertisers are entrusting us with their ad dollars. I ask you, our readers, to please spend what you can with Ju st Out advertisers. Seriously, they’re the nicest people around. Please, please, support our advertisers. In short, our 26th year kinda sucked. I can tell you, though, the new year is look ing marvelously better already. We start our 27th year as we have the previous 26, by being here. By being here every month, every week, and every day. By telling your stories, honoring your achievements, ar chiving our history and supporting events and community. Not now and then, not once a year, not just at Pride. Ju st Out, every day, every week, every month, every year, for 26 years, and many more to come. N OCTOBER 16. 2009 INSIDE» » FEATURE 16 TRACKS STARS Sound O ff on the Fun, Frustration and Future o f the Local Dance Scene • » NEWS 5 LETTERS 6 NORTHWEST BRIEFS 14 FOCUSING ON THE FAMILY Three October Q C enter Events Foster Community and Family Building » PROFILES 13 KOIN-ING AN IDENTITY It’s Sunny Skies for Openly Gay Meteorologist Tim Joyce 29 GENDERF**K. YEAH! New Organization. Elects to Help Those in Need o f Gender-Related Surgeries » ARTS 8 CULTURE 23 OUT 8 ABOUT 30 REANIMATING REBELLION The Wonderful World o f Abby Densons Dolltopia 31 STRAIGHTLACED A New Documentary Explores How Gender’s Got Us A ll Tied Up 34 OUT OF A COMA Surging Indie Trio Girl in a Coma Rocks Portland 36 THE SUM OF ITS PARTS Dancemakers Explore Surrealist Concepts in “Exquisite Corpse” There is no shame in deserved self-pro motion. Ju st Out is a damn fine paper pro duced by a dedicated, excellent staff. We are justifiably proud of the work we db. Thanks for 26 /cars. Portland. Here's to us all for making it through the last /ear. » COLUMNISTS 28 37 38 44 LIVING OUT LOUD LADY ABOUT TOWN REMEMBER TO BREATHE MS. BEHAVIOR » PHOTOS 32 PEACOCK AFTER DARK 46 AIDS WALK PORTLAND 09 47 BRO DINNER
