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OREGON S LESBIAN/GAY/BI/TRANS/QUEER NEWSMAGAZINE FEBRUARY 4,2011 Good Lookin’ Out A new year, a new look fo r o u r w e b site and m ore §m page 3 INSIDE i--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 I S REFLECTION • Watch Maria’s Show, featuring the only lesbian empress in the United States, at City Nightclub. • The East Vancouver United M ethodist Church exhibits a portion o f the Names Project Quilt through Feb. 18. Special benefit concert tonight by the Vancouver Men’s Chorus and a dramatic presentation by the REAL Kids. • Drag queens and kings wearing sequined gowns, wigs, tiaras and boas besieged the gates o f Buckingham Palace on Dec. 19, demanding entry to the Queen’s annual Royal Household Christmas Staff Ball. 18 THOSE WHO WALK WITH INTEGRITY Andy McQuery’s mission to usher welcoming ways to Oregon’s LGBTQcommunity 20 A DIFFERENT KIND OF SILVER ANNIVERSARY Silverado celebrates 30 “dirty” years in Portland 21 CRYSTAL VISIONS Bathhouse turns McMenamins hotel » ARTS & CULTURE 27 OUT & ABOUT 34 THE HAZARDS OF LOVE Profile Theatre continues season of Blessing with Thief River 36 ONE WORLD, TWO-SPIRITS An ongoing look at gender, identity and community 37 FROM HALF A LIFE TO WHOLE One person’s journey, from living en femme to writing it 40 GAY SPRINGS ENTERNAL Get your sun on—and your suit off— in Palm Springs 42 GETTIN’ DESI WITH IT Safety in Numbers goes Bollywood for benefit The members o f the London street-activist group OutRage! said they were protesting against Her Majesty’s decree banning em ployees’same-sex partners from the party. ' just out journalistic integrity can find themselves. To paraphrase, papers find themselves caught between journalism— which often requires the conveying o f uncomfortable news— ver sus boosterism, which makes everyone feel good about the community served. And there you have it. W ithin the wording ofJust Out's job description comes the obliga tion that we, when deemed necessary, convey uncomfortable news. Like it or not the gay community does not live within a lavender balloon o f loveliness. There are, gasp, gay- ’d like to remind all our community groups, owned restaurants that serve really bad food. organizations and nonprofits that tabling There’s a lot o f bad entertainm ent, bad drag, opportunities are available at Just Out's bad movies, bad plays and cranky event hosts monthly Gay Skate night at Oaks Park. Gay who should be called out for their boorish Skate is the third Monday o f each month, and rude behavior. Everyone has, or should Feb. 21 being the next. We generally draw a have, accountability for their actions. Just Out diverse and lively crowd o f about 200+ skat is a venue and tool for accurate and respon ers. The evening is all-ages, family-friendly sible community accountability. Be glad that and a good value at $6 per person. This you have us. monthly event is also our main collection time for non-perishable food and sundries for ometime today, tomorrow or maybe yes Esther’s Pantry. If you’d like to know more terday, depending on when you read this, about space at Gay Skate, please contact me Just Out will have launched our new website. at marty@justout.com. I’m not going to give an exact day, hour and Just Out will also be collecting food for minute because I do not understand these Esther’s Pantry at the Feb. 26 H ot Flash things. I do understand very well, however, dance in Portland. I’ll have further details on how complicated and complex the redesign that in our Feb. 18 issue, but for those who and launch process is. I can tell you with great like to plan ahead, start shopping. enthusiasm that the new site is amazing. It’s Now, in closing, for the women among neat, clean, simple and user-friendly. It also us looking at the cover and the feature and won’t be in its completely finished format shouting, “Hey, what about the hot ladies?” when it first appears. Websites are like chil — simmer down, my dears. Simmer down. dren; the work is never done. Please visit us W e’re simply saving the best for last.»X0] volume 13 number 7. februory 2. 1996 U soon at justout.com. It’s seriously good. Ku dos to Aimee Genter for her hard work and dedication to this project. vOL 28. NÖ. 5 FEBRUAR'' - - _. You’ll also notice here and there small changes in our print design. There are many more to come. As we shake off the burdens j of the last years o f the wretched “financial doldrums,” my staff has many exciting plans | for the future, in design and in content. Not » FEATURE the least o f these will be the hoped-for-soon 22 PUTTING THE Q IN CUPID addition of a seasoned news reporter to join Just Out celebrates Valentine’s Day with a our existing writing staff. My plan is, as tribute to Portland’s prime guys budgeting allows, returning Just Out to full staffing by April. This means the addition o f » NEWS /EVENTS one three-quarter to full-time writer/copy 5 LETTERS & TRANSITIONS editor, jack-of-all-trades newsperson. I’m not 11 NORTHWEST NEWS IN BRIEF yet officially posting the job, we’ve got to get through February and March first— but I’m certainly open to coffee and conversation with » COMMUNITY interested parties who’d like to know more. 11 M o w many times do we have to go I 1 down this road?” read the email from a clearly frustrated and annoyed Karl Wilgus, owner of the Portland gay bar Casey’s. Wilgus was writing in response to additional ques tions presented to him by Just Out staff writer Ryan J. Prado in reference to repeated com plaints regarding unpaid wages to employees. My response to W ilgus was simple: “As many times as it takes for you to answer and ad dress all the complaints against you— and the phone calls, letters and concerns stop being sent to us.” Just Out does not take any particular pleasure or delight in presenting the more difficult moments o f our G L B T community; nor, though, do we shy away from our re sponsibility to present in an objective manner assorted situations that arise around us. I am well aware that any time we write about an individual or business in this community in a manner that can be construed by anyone as less than cheerleading and back-patting there will be ramifications of various degrees and natures. Facing threatened lost revenues from advertisers is a constant. I would guess that the first paper ever published in the world faced this problem, as likely will the last. Now o f course, in 2011, the greatest “how-dare- you” from those unhappy with our reporting is to delete me from your Facebook profile. An article in the Jan. 24 issue o f The New Yorker profiling A O L C E O T im Armstrong provides a simple yet cozy summary o f the position in which local papers striving for 15 Years Ago in Just Out 3 called “Valentines from Hell:Tough Drags Do Disco...Again.” Proceeds will benefit the Pride o f the Rose Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance to sex ual minorities furthering their education. • Digital Queers Northwest meets in Portland. This organization of gay, les bian, bisexual and transgender high-tech professionals and aficionados focuses on computer support for queer community organizations. » COLUMNISTS 33 LIVING OUT LOUD 38 PANDA SAY WHAT?! 44 ASK A GAY 45 PETLANDIA 47 LADY ABOUT TOWN » BACKPAGES 54 Q CENTER WINTER GALA 55 SQUARE DANCING & MORE • The Clinton administration was back in court Jan. 16 defending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the policy that bans gay men and les bians from serving openly in the military. • Volunteers are needed to help organize the 1997 Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International Conference to be held in Portland. If you have skills in organiza tion, accounting, fund raising, outreach, program planning, housing, conference registration, or childcare please call. • The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court, along with Rose Emperor V Frank and Rose Em press VI Marne, will hold a Feb. 11 benefit • Rainbow is a positive peer-support group, primarily for sexual minority youth of color, sponsored by the Urban League of Portland. COVER PHOTOGRAPHER Aaron Bong is a photographer and native of Port land. He works with clients to create one-of-a-kind portraits that represent who and what they are. Bong also creates limited edition folios and cus tomized photography items for events in the com munity. He can be contacted through Facebook or aaron.bong@gmail.com.
