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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.
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