Issue 401
Letters
Hat Off to Jones Incredibly, I wouldn’t say that I’m not a big reader, or very open about what I’m experiencing emotionally, but after reading Justin Jones’s new “Through These Eyes” column [“The Once That Never Was,” Lavender, September 24], I can indeed say that he spoke on my behalf. His column has allowed me…
Coming Out At Work
A Demonstration of Pride Some people have referred to coming out on the job as taking a great leap of faith. I think it’s an exceptional demonstration of both courage and common sense. For many of us, coming out at work is that point in time when we say to ourselves, “I’m going to stop…
Patty Keegan
Jakeeno’s Proprietor Relates Her Experience Patty Keegan grew up in a family business that was GLBT-friendly. In 1975, her father, Jack Keegan, opened Jakeeno’s, an Italian restaurant, at 3555 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis. In the 1980s, he operated a branch at West 15th Street and LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, which closed after a few years. As…
Queer As Folks
Rexroad Named Family Equality Council Midwest Regional Senior Manager Melanie Rexroad recently was named Midwest Regional Senior Manager of the Family Equality Council, the nation’s largest organization representing GLBT parents raising children. She was a tutoring program manager for Bolder Options, a nonprofit one-on-one youth mentoring program. She and her spouse, who have 3-year-old twins,…
Hanging Together To Hang Us Separately
I’m appalled by the factionalism, hatred, adherence to party, and religious creed at any cost rampant in the country today. Crusades seek to “bring America back to its Christian roots”—when the “roots” were whatever gods the autochthons embraced for 10,000 to 12,000 years before the Puritans arrived with scarlet letters, stakes, and smallpox.
Big Gay News
National News Federal Judge Orders Military To Reinstate Gay Nurse US District Judge Ronald B. Leighton ruled that an Air Force nurse, Reserve Major Margaret Witt, who was discharged under the military’s ban on openly gay service members, should be “reinstated at the earliest possible moment.” In his 15-page opinion, he stated that she “was…
Remembering Justin Aaberg
Someone once told a colleague of mine that he stopped listening to my Big Gay News podcast because the stories were always so depressing. I wondered if perhaps he had unrealistic expectations of the word “gay.” Still, I understand his reaction. Clearly, regardless of all the progress over the last generation, the world is still…
On the Townsend
Sleep Deprivation Chamber Through Oct. 10 Penumbra Theatre 270 N. Kent St., St. Paul (651) 224-3180 www.penumbratheatre.org Urvashi Vaid writes of “virtual equality” as the illusion of equality for queer folks. Playwrights Adam and Adrienne Kennedy show the racial equivalent in this forceful true-life drama. Lucas Bellamy gives a bravely vulnerable performance as Teddy, a…
The Page Boy
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman Seal Press $16.95 A generation ago, author, playwright, and performance artist Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking Gender Outlaws gave voice to people whose gender and attitudes had not before found a venue for expression. Now, 15 years later, trans is not unknown, but it and genderqueer…
Jakeeno’s Serves Fabulous Home-style Italian Cuisine
The history of pizza is almost synonymous with that history of Mediterranean cooking, although the former wasn’t given much thought at first. Flatbread dough with assorted toppings merely was used to test the temperature of an oven. If the pizza baked correctly, then the “real” dishes could be prepared. Pizza didn’t receive any more epicurean…
