Lewis & Clerk

Exploring good design isn't hard. Just jump into Canoe.

Queer Window Canoe sits on this town's gayest retail strip—Southwest Alder Street between 11th and 12th avenues—next to a wig shop that caters to drag queens and the Pretty in Pink nail salon. That mig ... More

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Byron Beck

Gluttons For Punishment

The wack-happy world of Queer Fetish.

Queer Window "Spittles, the Punk Rock Clown" is the creation of 34-year-old queer local writer Charlie Vazquez (Buzz and Israel, Fireking Press, 238 pages). Vazquez created Spittles to transform the fear many peop ... More

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Byron Beck

Justice For All?

The battle over Oregon's gay marriage ban isn't over—not by a long shot.

Queer Window The three most difficult words I've ever said to my partner, after more than a decade together, came last Friday.Most readers of this column know by now that Juan and I are lead plaintiffs in Martinez ... More

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 Byron Beck

Just Say Cho

Comic goes off deep end in the name of queer rights.

Queer Window Comedy isn't pretty—or funny. At least not in Margaret Cho's latest book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (Riverhead Books, 240 pages, $23.95). In it, the popular stand-up comic, who also happen ... More

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 Byron Beck

Whose Q Center Is It Anyway?

Queer Window It isn't every day I go to a gay soiree and feel completely left out. But that's the sentiment I came away with after attending last week's super successful "Spooktacular" event.But, what should I hav ... More

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Byron Beck

Cock Of The Talk

Queer pioneer rises above his own airwaves.

Queer Window John McMullen's queer radio station sucks.But it's not his fault. The broadcast veteran is just the guy who created it. That is, he was a key player in the formation of "OutQ" the nationally broadcast ... More

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Byron Beck

JUDGMENT DAY

It ain't over until Measure 36 is overturned.

Queer Window The Oregonian pisses me off.My partner, Juan, and I are the lead plaintiffs among other same-sex couples in Martinez v. Kulongoski. That's the legal challenge against the constitutional amendment Oreg ... More

Wednesday, October 5, 2005 Byron Beck

Savage Shove...

Or when push comes to love.

Queer Window Dan Savage is one busy queer.Beyond penning his sex advice column, "Savage Love," for several alternative newspapers (not WW), he edits Seattle's The Stranger and runs around the country speaking at c ... More

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Byron Beck

IN THE LIFE

The Works at TBA was TB-GAY

Queer Window I have a confession to make: I rarely see any of the prime-time shows in the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's annual Time-Based Art Festival. But I always drag my partner, Juan, to all the la ... More

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Byron Beck

Goodbye To All That

Singing those old disenfranchised blues.

Queer Window It was the gays, according to the right-wing nut jobbers behind Repent America, that finally coaxed a scourge of epic proportions to smack our Southern shores into smithereens."Although the loss of li ... More

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Byron Beck