Itching to start Pride weekend but still stuck at work Friday morning? Tune in to community radio station KBOO (90.7 on your FM dial baby, or live online) from 7:30, 9 and 9:30 for “Queer rights and pushing the envelope,” “Remembering Stonewall,” and “Queer Liberation: Where is it now?”
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Mere moments after finishing Byron’s Queer Window column on discerning gay from hipster in teh Portland men’s fashion scene I glanced over my my fellow MAX rider and chortled. If I had been drinking milk, it would have been out my nose I assure you. You see, Portland has other queer fashion characters. Were they women’s jeans? I couldn’t tell. But his fairly feminine hips certainly made them appear so. The jean jacket and polo shirt may have almost past muster on Byron’s hip scale but were in stark competition with a sloppy combover, cell phone hip pocket, small gold hoop in one ear and hiking boots. Now, the clincher. I rather trust my gaydar, and in light if said article, perhaps this guy was just an older Portland metro…But on his left hand he wore a rainbow ring, sealing the deal on the fashion no-no that is just another facet of Portland’s gay scene. Yes, this post, horribly judgemental, catty, yes. You can laugh at me the next time I’ve barely made it through another weekend and I dare to go out in public in my “Sunday best.” African-American queers have quite a series of events coming up, so Ill just plow through them. Boy, this town just keeps it rockin Wed the 15th 6p: Health Education and Community Forum The real deal with the DL: Dispelling the myths and exposing the truths about HIV/AIDS in the African American Community. @ PSU, Smith Memorial Center (1825 SW Broadway) Room 236. Fri the 17th 5p: Networking and social fundraiser. Meet and greet Balck Pride staff, community members etc. (Always important. Look your best) @ Hip Chicks Do Wine (4510 SE 23rd Ave). Sat the 18th 9p: Black Out Party. OMG, all sorts of prizes, good music and free chow. Could you ask for more? $5 @ Moon Star Bar and Grill (7410 NE MLK) Sun the 19th 4p: Barbecue! When the waterfronts winding down head northward for food and fun in the sun (or the drizzle) put on by Brother to Brother. @ Site F, Columbia Park (N. Chautauqua and Lombard). Black Pride is a project of Brother to Brother. For more information visit their website at http://brotobropdx.org. I may not be much of a theater goer but how can I saw no to a show billed as:
Thus describes Echo Theatres new play, Whatever girl. Plus, I heard from an inside source that the butch character is actually a super-femme receptionist at a hair salon that sacrificed her long long locks for the role. Thats dedication. At a $5-15 sliding scale, you really cant go wrong. Runs this Wed June 15th through Sat. June 18th @ Echo Theatre (1515 SE 37th off Hawthorne) It seems others were disappointed with the Dyke March’s new digs and so new organizers have taken up the old time slot. Now actually, I’m still all for Sunday’s Dyke March/Alterna-Pride, in fact, I wonder if the new and improved Dyke March will lose some of its edge…I guess we shall see. Commentary here is sure to follow… Back on track. Dyke March Saturday June 18th. Meet up at 6p, step off at 7. North Park Blocks. It seems the Doug Fir (830 E Burnside) is just not the place for homos. Jack collapsed mere months ago and tomorrow night (Wed. the 16th) will see the final Snatch. Poo, I’ve only been once! Ah well, though the decor is lovely, the too-cool-for-school atmosphere can get tedious and who wants to drop more than 2 bucks for each Pabst longneck anyway? I’m going back to Booty (Porky’s, 835 N Lombard @ Albina) to kick off my pride where pitchers are less than 5 bills. They seem to have some birthday themes going on for a couple weeks, random though they may be. Joyce Carol Oates this Thursday and Joss Whedon the next. Yes, a fabulous author of intricate coming-of-age novels (namely, Foxfire, rawr) and a campy WB TV show creator. OK, maybe it makes a lot of sense… Competing with Snatch for your evening’s entertainment are the Sissyboys, back at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) for Part I in a sure to be smash hit trilogy Sissyboy goes to Hollywood. They promise more bling than JLo, but we all know they’re still the boys from the block. The real question now becomes, where on the walk of fame will all the new stars go? The dyke march has never been as immense as Sunday’s pride parade, but the edgier Saturday evening stomp through town has always been noticed as well as giving visibility to any and all “ladies” and creating a great opportunity to hand out all the Saturday night event flyers. But whether its through our own negligence, a desire to thwart the system, or being snubbed by it, we seem to have lost our spot. Instead of getting our own space and time, there’s only a sneaky 11 AM rondezvous at O’Bryant part with partners in crime Queer Revolution, who will parade concurrently.
On the other, the Dyke March is bound to lose some women to the general parade who would probably have done well to be exposed to some of the more radical among us, not to mention those who just have several places to be at once. Secondly, I see the contingent easily lost in the throng. The numbers will clearly be smaller, the route unpredictable, and what queer is really able to roust themselves out of bed before 11 AM the Sunday of Pride weekend? On the whole I feel the lack of desire to drink a $3 mini-can of Gay Fuel and refusal to wear a rainbow muscle T have relegated us to a corner behind an invisible fence. Let’s hope this year’s theme of “The Second coming” amounts to a moan that can be heard from the Park Blocks to the waterfront. Meeting 11 AM at O’Bryant Park, SUnday June 19th. Fore more info contact dykemarchpdx@yahoo.com or queerrevolution@riseup.net.
So our first lovely theme will be Meat and Churches. This Sunday, June 12th, NoPo will host its first Pride BBQ at the University Park United Methodit Church Bell Tower Lawn (4775 N Lombard). Noon to 4p.
Firstly, I want to express my condolences that Alex has been disowned by his rather strict, Egyptian father (though how he could not have seen what all of us saw at 14 I do not know). In light of this sad addendum to an otherwise wonderful ride the Amazing couple has been I am hesitant to make commentary. And yet I must. Coming across this Ottowa Sun article brought the corporatization of gay culture to the forefront of my mind. I had no idea what was going on inTorontos City Hall at present but I certainly wouldnt want to serve as a distraction in a charged political climate. I would certainly think twice about promoting stores for free engraved rings and tailored wool suits. But I understand the lure of all this attention and I dont mean to pick on Mr. and Mr. Ali-Warren. But increasingly I feel queers are used to market, as well as asked to buy, many products that are far from having our best interests at heart. One place this is apparent is the increasingly consumer happy Gay Pride. My gay pride is not about beer advertisements, expensive cheap jewelry in rainbow colors, or forking over a fiver to get into a waterfront celebration that aims to get me to buy these and more, while excluding all sorts of queers that should also be able to enjoy pride. So I encourage you to check out and join in some of the discussions surrounding Gay Pride. San Francisco and New York have begun an alternate version theyre calling Gay Shame. And while I know this June I will be celebrating queer life in Portland, Im not sure Ill fight my way behind a fenced off and homogenized waterfront The Starlight run Saturday included these colorful characters who looked not only fabulous but familiar. I think they’re from Sissyboy or perhaps The Divided? Certainly superstars about town.
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On one hand this is fabulous. There’s always been considerable overlap between Dyke Marchers and Alterna-pride/Gay Shame marchers and my pride certainly embraces both. They’re open too all genders and sexualities. And Dyke March organizers have said:
So, I’m sure you all know that 
Another event that I wanted to highlight briefly has naught to do with Pride or meat necessarily (though you never know!). 
So there was this little theater boy that I went to high school with. We used to sing “La Vie Boheme” from rent in the hallways and go to the various incarnations of Portland’s infamous youth nightspot The City Nightclub. (Perhaps I romanticize a bit here. We may not have gone together until it moved and started its romp through the name game). But now it seems that he hails from West Hollywood. And I found out my using my remote control. Seems he landed a spot on CBS’s