The Betty Pages Aug 2011

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August 2011

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The Betty Pages - August 2011 Betty’s Corner

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By Betty Desire, The Betty Pages

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In The Mix

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Benji and Co.

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Ex Libris: Tales of the City

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By Bridget Adams

Comic by Johann-Octavius X. Gans

By Peter Storm

The Comics!

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Gay Film Bibliography

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GLBT Resource Guide

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Comics by Cafe Noir Studios for The Betty Pages

By Bichoo Vrishchik

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About our Contributors...

Miss Betty Desire has been entertaining anyone who would listen in Bellingham for nearly 10 years, and is proprietor of The Betty Pages, the monthly publication that you are reading at this very moment. It is her hope that your perusal of the Betty Pages will enrich your life one chuckle at a time.

Managing Editor Brian Spencer is a local GLBT community member who, in addition to The Betty Pages, works with Evergreen AIDS Foundation, the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Evergreen Empire and Bellingham Pride. As always, remember to “Live well, love much, laugh often.”

Queer Film Historian Bichoo Vrishchik (Scorpio Scorpion) has published in Film Quarterly Sight and Sound, International Film Guide, Filmfare, Youth Times, and Manshots. With a BA from Pacific Lutheran College (1959) and a MA from San Francisco State College (1968), he has also taught film at Western Washington University.

Writer Bridget Adams currently resides in Washington State but that is always subject to change. Lucky enough to be a full-time, if poor, writer, she is most likely somewhere in front of her computer with a cup of coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

Contributor Peter Storm has been an avid reader since he received his first stone tablet, Peter owns more books than any normal human would ever feel the need to read. A former contributor to This Week in the City of Honolulu magazine his interests include film, history and world domination.

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Betty’s Corner

Betty Desire, The Betty Pages

August already! Summer is almost over and we have barely had any sunshine! Here’s to normal Washington weather.

Hope you are all ready because it’s primary time again! Tuesday August 16th is Primary day in Washington and we will be choosing representatives for City and County offices. The top two finishers in each race regardless of party affiliation continue on to the general election. This is a bit confusing to us old folks who remember Washington’s blanket primary when the top finisher in each party advanced to the general election but thanks to the “wisdom” of the US Supremes that way of selecting your leaders has been relegated to the ash heap of political history..If all this primary stuff seems to be happening earlier than usual, don’t worry, your not losing your mind, the legislature moved the primary date from September to August . Why you ask? Who knows!

There is some backlash happening in California over their new law requiring the inclusion of Gay and Lesbian people of merit in the social studies books. The new law requires teaching about the accomplishments of gay and lesbian citizens like Harvey Milk, the nations first elected gay man to public office, who was assassinated by fellow San Francisco supervisor Dan White in 1979. The same people behind Prop 8 that made same sex marriage illegal are mounting an initiative challenge to this law as well.

Speaking of unheralded heroism, during the recent terrorist attack on a youth camp in Norway by a self-described

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Same sex marriage in New York is happening as we speak!

The law granting same sex marriage rights in New York passed last month and now after a 30 day wait wedding bells for lesbian and Gay couples are ringing from Niagara Falls to the Jersey border. Did you know that Washington State recognizes same sex marriages performed in jurisdictions where they are legal? Time to travel to the big Apple with your lover get married, catch a Broadway show and fly home to where apples are king.

“fundamentalist Christian”gunman who killed 76 teenagers. Married (yes same sex marriage is legal in Norway) lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Tori Hansen upon hearing the cry s and gunshots from the camp on a small island got in their boat and sped to the island under gunfire and made four trips back and forth to the mainland rescuing 40 teens who had run into the water to escape the gunman’s bullets. To date the mainstream US press has not reported this focusing on whether the insanity defense will be used in the case and right-wing media mogul Bill O’Reily decrying the use of “fundamentalist Christian to describe the gunman. (the gunman uses this term in his facebook postings and tweets that’s what the term self-described means Bill) You can read more about the heroic acts of these woman at:www. edgelosangeles.com.

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In The Mix Bridget Adams

Hi Poppets! I have a news flash: Gay men aren’t a fashion accessory. This should be obvious but apparently, for some straight women, it’s not.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you I am a fag hag to my dear friend, Rob, back in Massachusetts and I wear the title of fag diva proudly for my friend, Don, down in Florida.

Here’s the thing though: we worked on our relationships. First and foremost, we are friends.

The labels are secondary and partly tongue in cheek. And I have many gay friends with whom it wouldn’t dawn on either of us to use the term at all.

There is a debate around the term “fag hag” – is it derogatory, is it complimentary, is it a way of life or single relationship? Its very definition is in question. Regardless of how anyone answers those questions though, my issue is the same.

Somewhere along the line, a gay friend has become

a favored trophy for a straight girl. And I have a problem with that.

A friend of mine recently had to change his email address and shut down his blog because of a cyber stalker. Her justification was that she was a fag hag so it was all okay. He was supposed to ignore the numerous, lengthy, needy emails that flooded his inbox daily. Ignore her sending mail to his place of business addressed to “My Pickle.” Pretend she wasn’t looking for instant intimacy simply because she was a fag hag. Ummm…no.

There are numerous web sites that women can join proclaiming their fag hag status. Most of my gay friends have at least one horror story of being approached at parties or bars by near strangers asking to be, in essence, instant best friends. Sure, we all have communities where we feel more comfortable than in others. Sometimes, that’s

the LGBT community for straight women. I get this. Trust me. But, ladies, just because you are comfortable there doesn’t guarantee every man in the room wants to help you shop, dry your tears or pour out his soul while you eat ice cream tomorrow night.

If you consider being a fag hag a title for a single relationship, the way I do, or if you consider it a way of life, it still requires the agreement, consent and affection of the other person. You have to be friends first. You have to get to know him as a person, not as a token. And save the unrequited crushes for movie stars, please. A gay friend isn’t the way to avoid intimacy, isn’t a surrogate boyfriend, isn’t going to love you the moment you walk into his life just because you walked into his life. If that’s what you want, get a dog. Seriously.

Until next month, Poppets, take care of you.⁂

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Tales of the City by Armisted Maupin.

One of the ultimate classics of GLBT literature is Maupin’s, Tales of the City series. Tales of the City was originally published in serial form in the San Francisco Chronicle which drew rave reviews and boosted the Chronicle’s circulation dramatically.

Set in early 1970’s San Francisco the story follows a group of borders in a rooming house at 28 Barbary Lane, on Russian Hill. It was during this time that San Francisco was becoming famous as the center of the “Gay Movement” following the Hippie and Flower Children era.

Adding to the cast are Edgar Halcyon, Mary Ann and Mona’s boss at Halcyon Communication’s; Halcyon’s debutant daughter Dede; Beauchamp Day, Dede’s bisexual playboy husband; Mona’s ex-lover D’orothea Wilson and Dr. Jon Fielding, who has more parts than Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Cornets.

Since the series was run as a serial and printed as they were written, Maupin was able to reference to current events which gives a sense of reality (now

In addition Maupin’s use of San Francisco as the stage allows the story to take place in actual places - the Castro, the Endup, the Club Baths, Gibb Memorial Church and Grace Cathedral adding to the story’s realism.

Tales of the City spans eight novels: Tales of the City (1978) More Tales of the City (1980) Further Tales of the City (1982) Babycakes (1984) Significant Others (1987) Sure of You (1989) Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) Mary Ann in Autumn (2010). With several characters appearing in Maupin’s novel Maybe the Moon.

The later two novels show the characters facing life in middle age with all of the challenges time brings but with their core 1970’s values intact.

The series is so popular because of Maupin’s incredible ability to create such human believable characters. Reading the story will make you laugh, cry and dream; of which no higher praise can be said of any book.⁂

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Anthony Mann switched from Broadway in 1938 to Hollywood, and began directing films in 1942. Before his first Western, in T-MEN (1947) and BORDER INCIDENT (1949), an undercover agent silently endures the murder of a secret partner. Paul Willeman in FRAMEWORK (Summer 1981) finds in his westerns a “love/hate rapport of charming ‘villain’ and near-psychotic ‘hero,’’’ who is in danger of becoming that villain. To Mann, a hero is “A man who could kill his own brother” if he had to.

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James Stewart, who had worked with Mann in New York, was unable to ask his father “about girls and other people who would approach me in a funny way in the woods or at the toilet.” Meeting the bisexual Joshua Logan at Princeton, they roomed together, and both with Henry Fonda in New York. Mentored by the gay Judith Anderson, and coveted by Katherine Cornell’s husband, he roomed again with Fonda in Brentwood, both MGM-mandated double-dating female stars. (Twenty pages from Cole Porter’s diary covering this period are missing.) MGM’s Mayer, having fired the gay Ramon Navarro and William Haines, worried about Jimmy and Robert Taylor. Cary Grant crushed on Jimmy on the set of George Cukor’s THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940), and Cukor rehearsed as Katherine Hepburn his love scenes with her. Jimmy did not marry until forty-one, long after his mother had chided, “You’ve been living with men too much.” Cukor later complained of “all that overmasculine [sic] posturing Jimmy insisted on with those Westerns Tony Mann put out.”

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After World War II service as an Air Force pilot, Stewart decided, “I have always enjoyed the company of men.” He and Fonda appeared together in George Stevens’ ON OUR MERRY WAY (1948) the same year he made ROPE for Hitchcock, and hoped to travel the world with Spencer Tracy. His bride, Gloria, “got a little uneasy over Jimmy’s constant attentions to director Anthony Mann; and Laurence J. Quirk in JAMES STEWART (Applause, 2000) quotes a friend, “That’s why she went on location with him. She knew that Jimmy had a complicated makeup – and I’m sure the Mann thing made her nervous.” To Quirk, he was “almost femininely diffident,” before becoming a freelancer and demanding a percentage of his films’ profits.

With Mann, “an intense male bonding set in,” Stewart’s ‘sensitivity’ refined Mann’s technique; Mann’s “masculinity reinforced Stewart’s own emergent macho self-image.” In their first film together, WINCHESTER ’73 (1950), Stewart wanted to show his “inner facets … or at least as many as I cared to,” and to Cukor the Stewart-Mann interplay became “one of the great romances of his life, regardless of whether it was platonic or not.” Mann to Stewart “would probe and push [a] new and fresh [performance out of me].” In a story by Stuart Lake, rewritten by Borden Chase (the author of the basis of

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RED RIVER), Dodge City is run by an effete, chubby Wyatt Earp (Will Geer, a real life lover of Henry Hay), who twirls a handkerchief in the air on the Fourth of July, the city surrounded by phallic, rifle-like saguaro cacti, in a “jamboree of sado-masochism. Its eponymous rifle a “thinly disguised phallic symbol,” its thief is named Dutch Henry Brown (Stephan McNally), splicing together those of two legendary desperadoes, Dutch Henry and Hendry Brown. Dutch is revealed to be Stewart’s brother just before one shoots the other off a Deleuzean Arizona peak.

In THE FAR COUNTRY (1955), the fourth Mann/Stewart western, again written by Chase, shot in Alberta’s mountainous Jasper Park, Stewart’s cattle and gold-claim are stolen by John McIntire.

He is shot in the hand and almost drowned before he shoots McIntire. Their last film together, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955), co-scripted

by Philip Yourdon without Chase, shot in New Mexico, is a version of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR. Stewart avenges the murder of his brother (reversing the repeating WINCHESTER ’73) by rifles sold to Apaches after being “jerked down,” according to the dialogue, by Mann’s “perverse puppet-strings” through a fire (by horses), his hand shot again, this time while restrained, his agonized face in Cinemascoped close-up. A halfblind old man falls off a cliff, his gunrunning son (Alec Nicol) is killed by his adopted son (Arthur Kennedy), and the rifles are destroyed by Stewart before the Apaches kill Kennedy. John Ford, the next year, countered this vengeful image of

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In John Schlesinger’s MIDNIGHT COWBOY, Ratso (Dustin Hoffman) tells Joe Buck (Jon Voight), an innocent in cowboy drag, “that cowboy stuff [is] strictly for fags,” and Joe answers, “John Wayne – you want to tell me he’s a fag?” You can join that Internet discussion by Googling ‘John Wayne gay rumors.’

TIME (12/14/53) did note, in John Farrow’s HONDO, that Wayne “slow walks away from the camera, rolling his muscular buttocks like a male Marilyn Monroe … on five separate occasions.” TIME did not mention that he did so in 3D, with dust swirling around him.

“The relationship to the problematic of male narcissism and male homosexuality,” to Stephan Neal, “is always there in the western in any case, providing one of the bases for its cinematic specificity [, but] inscribed differently from the female.”⁂

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On BEND OF THE RIVER (1952), scripted

by Chase, to Mann Stewart became “a true friend … like one’s other self,” and Stewart regained some youth as a former outlaw scouting a wagon train to Oregon. Arthur Kennedy, not his brother but his partner-in-crime, whom he saved from hanging (reversing the classic THE WESTERNER), drives Stewart “by betrayal to demonic fury” to battle Kennedy and let his body float down the Columbia. Stewart demanded Mann for THE NAKED SPUR (1953), and as a bounty hunter has Robert Ryan push his fingers into his face as they hang from the Naked Spur, a Colorado Rockies peak. Almost hysterical, diabolical, the difficult shoot gave Stewart “a semblance of footloose freedom, reminiscent of

his bachelor days,” crying at the end with Ryan’s body roped on his saddle. Between Mann films, Stewart (no longer ‘Jimmy’) worked with other directors, returning to Hitchcock in 1954 for REAR WINDOW, a film Quirk claims “had nothing to do with homoeroticism.” At least one critic disagrees, even unto the title.

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Bellingham Radical Faeries Community of queerfolk interested in lifestyles celebrating queer sexuality, spirituality and sustainability of the natural world. 18+ recommended.

Meet at Three Trees Coffeehouse, 118 W. Holly St, Saturdays from 11am-ish to 1pm-ish. http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/BellinghamRadicalFaeries/

Whatcom County PFLAG Whatcom County Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays meets the 2ND Thursday of each month, 7pm at First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Avenue, Bellingham. For more information and events visit www.whatcompflag.com

Whatcom Community College’s Queer Straight Alliance is committed to supporting the GLBT community by promoting awareness of queer issues and entertaining and educating students and staff of WCC. We can be reached at wccqsa@gmail.com.

Whatcom County KINK is a group to help organize events, munches, help if you have items to sell, or just a way for people to get to know each other. Meetings are the 1st Tuesday of the month at Rumor’s Cabaret. Happy Spankings!

Western Washington University LGBTA The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance at Western Washington University is a student organization which supports lesbians, gays, bisexuals, people who identify as transgender, and their allies; in the various stages of their coming out process, in the creation and affirmation of positive self identities, and in the promotion and defense of their human and civil rights.

The LGBTA is located on Western’s Campus in Viking Union 515 and is open from the first day of Fall quarter until the last day of Spring quarter. For information call 360-650-6120.

Mount Baker Planned Parenthood Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood proudly demonstrates its commitment to the LGBTQ community in all of our educational and service areas, by partnering with LGBTQ service organizations and through sponsorship and participation in Bellingham Pride. Our goal is to ensure that every individual has the information, services, and freedom to make healthy, responsible decisions about sex, sexuality, and parenthood. We offer comprehensive reproductive care, affordable STD testing and treatment and annual exams. Sliding scale available. Make an appointment online! http://www.mbpp.org Bellingham Clinic: (360)734-9095 Mount Vernon Clinic: (360)848-1744

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4th Corner Poly Polyamory is the practice or acceptance of having more than one loving, honest relationship at a time. We’re a friendly, welcoming group for people involved in or curious about polyamorous relationships. Our group consists of and welcomes diverse sexual and gender identities . This is a family, kid-friendly get-together for sharing experiences and desires—not a dating or swing scene. we meet every 4th Thursday evening at alternating locations. For more information: http://groups. yahoo.com/group/4thcornerpoly

Evergreen AIDS Foundation Evergreen AIDS Foundation provides support services for people living with HIV and AIDS who reside in Whatcom, Skagit, Island, San Juan and Snohomish counties. Bellingham: 115 Unity St. 360-671-0703, Everett: 2709 Wetmore Ave. 425-740-3000

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