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traveling soon? living out BY SALLY SHEKLOW medical advice for global travelers t he t ravel c linic John D. Wilson, M.D. 1200 Hilyard St., Suite S-560 541/343-6028 www.TravelClinicOregon.com Questions? Email us at travelclinicoregon.343-6028@gmail.com Questions? Email us at travelclinic3436028 @ gmail.com Offi ce visits starting at $99 Same Day Appointments Justin Montoya, MD 1410 Oak St, Ste 102 in the Keiper Spine building 541-228-3270 • www.prohealthfamilymedicine.com SOROMUNDI LESBIAN CHORUS OF EUGENE PRESENTS Terra Omnis This Weekend! Saturday, May 19 at 7:30 PM SORENG— Tix: $20; Student, youth & senior discounts available Over 100 voices sing in the premier of Soromundi’s fi rst commissioned work, Terra Omnis, by local composer Audrey Snyder. MONQUI PRESENTS Jack White Monday, May 28 at 8:00 PM SILVA— Tix: $42.50 (sold out) Jack White, founding member of the White Stripes, is one of the most prolifi c and renowned artists of the past fi fteen years. EUGENE BALLET ACADEMY PRESENTS Alice’s Journey Through Story Ballet Saturday, June 2 at 5:00 PM SILVA— Tix: $15; Youth discounts available Students present a glimpse into the wonderland of ballet and dance with works from Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and more. ZAPP ACADEMY OF DANCE PRESENTS Fired Up Sunday, June 10 at 3:00 PM SORENG— Tix: $12 High energy, edge-of-your-seat electric entertainment for the entire family! Dancers age 8-32 showcase a variety of genres. MUSICAL FEET PRESENT Step By Step Friday, June 15 at 7:30 PM Saturday, June 16 at 7:30 PM SORENG— Tix: $15; Youth discount available Zapp Academy Fired Up Tap, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and contemporary dance styles set to music from the 1940’s to the present. We are the 49% Celebrating the unfamiliar errifi c news. Our country’s leaders came out in support of marriage equality. How cool is that? More good news, this morning’s email from Wifey: Abbe and Shelly heading to NYC today to get married. Making it legal! This is great. Our East Coast lesbo cousins — like everyone else who wants to give lifelong pair-bonding a go — should be able to get married. Legally. Shel and Ab fi rst exchanged rings and vows years ago in a lovely outdoor affair held on a bright autumn afternoon in Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park. Naturally Wifey and I were fi ne with the lesbian nature of the wedding, but something was weird. The couple had announced that the ceremony was to be a blend of Jewish and Quaker traditions. This raised a slight panic among us Jews, unaccustomed as we are to sitting in silence while bursting with joy and love and opinions. You know Jews and weddings. The canopy, the smashing of the glass, the dancing — these traditions I ‘I’m perfectly comfortable know and love. But a Quaker wedding? with men marrying men Turns out I can be tolerant of — heck, even celebrate — unfamiliar and women marrying interfaith marriage and risk no damage to my own. If you catch my drift. women.’ Shelly and Abbe’s wedding was a —Vice President beautiful and moving joining of hearts. Joe Biden 5/7/12 Luckily, the silent part was just long enough to affi rm the Quaker way (not that weird) and didn’t cause us Jews too ‘I think same-sex couples bad a case of shpilkes (the Yiddish more- or-less equivalent of ants in the pants). should be able to get The guests — a fortifying blend of married.’ queer and queer-friendly family and — President Barack Obama friends — did fi ne. The brides beamed they received blessings from their 5/9/12 as kids, cousins, co-workers, ex-lovers, aunts, uncles — everyone except Uncle Sam. Ahem. ‘Woo-hoo!’ Even getting a license now from — Me New York won’t grant Shel and Ab full marriage equality. That’s still reserved for opposite-sex unions — you know, those sanctifi ed marriages with the 51 percent divorce rate. Not that we homos and homettes are guaranteed better stats. In the few places without marriage discrimination, our divorce rate is approaching the bar set by hets. But doesn’t that speak to our ultimate equality? Nobody should be denied a chance to be in the 49 percent. Still, an actual marriage license is a big deal. Granted, it’s just one more big deal in the series of big deals we undocumented marry-ers must traverse on our long march toward equality. But Wifey and I should send fl owers or chocolates or wine, or maybe something less temporary, less destined to be consumed or to wilt. Something substantial to symbolize the signifi cance of being pronounced married by an offi cial offi ciant. I part ways with Joni Mitchell on not needing a piece of paper from City Hall. We do need it because legal marriage does mean something. If it didn’t, zealots wouldn’t be hell-bent on restricting who’s entitled to it. And I wouldn’t be sitting here wracking my brain for the perfect marriage gift. Hard to top the Prez and Veep giving the gift of real hope that we’ll see marriage equality in our lifetime. For our part, we could donate in their honor to FreedomtoMarry.org. That’d be a fi tting tradition. T Award-winning writer Sally Sheklow and her wife Wifey (not her real name) exercise their domestic partnership rights in Eugene. TICKET OFFICE INFORMATION BUY TICKETS ONLINE: HultCenter.org OR CALL: 541 .682. 5000 HULT CENTER TICKET OFFICE HOURS: Tue-Fri, 12-5 PM ; Sat, 11 AM –3 PM ONE HOUR BEFORE PERFORMANCE MON-SAT, TWO HOURS BEFORE ON SUN. UO TICKET OUTLET IN THE EMU: Mon-Fri, 9 AM –5 PM 6 MAY 17, 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
