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JUNE 17, 2011
Sure Shots
Announcing the winners of Just Out s 2011 Pride Amateur Photo Contest
It’s that time of year again— time to dust off the cameras o f all
shapes, sizes, formats and pixels and show us what you’ve got.
The following picture-perfect pages are yours. If by chance your
masterpiece isn’t among the images here, rest assured that your effort
And whoa, nelly, you’ve got a lot.
is by no means unappreciated— and won’t go unrecognized.Through
Entries for Just Out's 2011 Pride Amateur Photo Contest poured
out the month o f July, each and every contest entry will be on display
in, o f pets and places, queens and queers, the audacious and the just
during our annual show at Q_Center. Stay tuned for details on an
plain odd. You posed, you paraded, you pondered just what to put
closing artists reception, as o f press time set for July 28.
before your lens, you pushed— that button and, in some cases, it ap
pears yourself.
You’re all winners, and we thank you for participating. See you at
Pride— and see you back here July 1, when we’ll bring you a photo
And we pored over every last one o f them, hundreds o f them, se
lecting the tops in a handful of categories, individual staff picks and
a special honorable mention or two. (And yes, a few folks’ names
finish o f sorts for this year’s festival and parade, recaps of the various
citywide celebrations, and much more.
Happy Pride, people.
came up more than once—without our prior knowledge, o f course.)
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BY ATOM ION
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sun shot through the bathroom window
and showered him with pearlescent light.
All I had to do was be there to capture the
m om ent.... Pure magical bliss!
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“ My Friend at the
E-Room Before It
Changed Its Vibe, 2010”
BY ALYSIA ANGEL
This picture is from when I first moved to
Portland. My friend Kaki wanted to intro
duce me to the owners of the E-Room in
hopes of helping me obtain a deejay gig. As
she was knocking on the door, I noticed the
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awesome juxtaposition of her butch stance
and the chalk-scrawled sentiment on the
sidewalk. It was only a natural next step to
ask her to freeze in [the] spot so I could snap
a photo.