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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.

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Fall has arrived! Here it is September already! As of the 9th my 5 year old Grand Daughter starts school at Lowell Elementary. We live in the York neighborhood so I was a bit confused that she was going to kindergarten on the south hill but I guess the free way is the boundary used. Mother and Grandpa couldn’t be more proud! (and pleased) she has to take a school bus. Gone are the days of walking to school...you remember up hill in the snow both ways? So I have cleared the refrigerator door and wait with great anticipation for the first of a mi rad of pictures from our blossoming scholar. She will learn everything she needs to know this year in kindergarten, how to stand in line and wait patiently, how to share with others, how to take a nap in the afternoon, how to drink warm milk and eat gram crackers without complaining. The rest of her next 13 years of compulsory education is just busy work. So here’s to Taylor! May you excel in kindness and critical thinking. That is

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Rejoice, Poppets! One of the greatest controversies of out time has been laid to rest: Bert and Ernie are not gay! I know; this has been keeping you up nights. Me, too! Or not. However, the issue has been put to rest. With the legalization of same sex marriage in New York, an online petition was launched demanding Bert and Ernie be married on Sesame Street. Personally, I think children’s shows should start addressing non-traditional families. Hell yes. Children need to learn that their families, and their friends’ families, are valid and valued, regardless of make-up. Given my deep and longstanding love and respect for Sesame Street, I hope they are the ones to do it. The human beings in charge of the show, however, have made the official announcement that, if they address the issue of LGBT families, it won’t be through Bert and Ernie. Because they aren’t gay.

I’m okay with this. Not because I think kids’ shows should be sexless; I don’t. We deal with mommies having babies and mommies and daddies becoming parents, as appropriate. Not that I think puppet characters can’t be sexual; I don’t. Kermit and Miss Piggy have had a thing for years – as have Gonzo and the chickens, which is far weirder than two gay Muppets, in my opinion. No, I’m okay with this because I do believe boys need to be taught that it is okay for them to have deep, meaningful, emotional, platonic relationships with other boys. We were kind of, sort of taught this in the ‘70s – I remember because I was there, learning it – but we lost sight of it somewhere along the line. We are back to needing to teach boys it’s okay to love other boys, regardless of orientation. Bert and Ernie are good for that. So Muppets, gay or straight, aren’t the issue I have here. The issue I have is with the petition itself. The fight for recognition and equality and

the petition that gets all the attention is about Muppets? If you believe same sex marriage is a major milestone within the community or if you believe it is a distraction from bigger problems, you have to wonder about this. Okay, maybe you don’t. I do, though. If we’re going to be discussing same sex marriage, let’s talk about it the context of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT). Because even once DADT is repealed later this month, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) still stands and because of DOMA gay partners of gay soldiers don’t get the same benefits as their straight counterparts. No, they don’t have to hide any longer. The partner just doesn’t officially exist. No legal standing, no i.d., no benefits, no housing or commissary access. Sure, the repeal of DADT is new and all the details haven’t been worked out yet, but DADT ends this month. There are still military families in limbo, in half-space, because without DADT they exist –

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but with DOMA, they don’t exist. If we’re going to talk about same sex marriage, why aren’t we talking about this? Why aren’t we yelling about this? Why are we focusing on a couple of puppets? Again, I love those puppets. I know first hand how important Sesame Street and the Muppets are. But come on. If we’re going to have the dialogue, let’s make it matter. Until next month, Poppets, take care of you.⁂

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Gay Film Bibliography: Approaching Bareback Mountain from Behind I Bichoo Vrischik So if “The relationship to the problematic of male narcissism and male homosexuality,” to Stephan Neal, is “always there in the western” what do we make of Ang Lee’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2006)? This isn’t a bibliography of just queer cinema, but of films of interest to the gay and lesbian community, of U.S., international, experimental, underground and ‘new queer’ cinema. Vito Russo’s THE CELLULOID CLOSET (Harper and Row, 1981) produced a film of that name. A similar film on British cinema, Andrea Weiss’ A BIT OF SCARLET (1977), but not book, followed. Robin Wood, formerly undeclared, came out in his essay “Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic” (1978), creating a gay film critic’s manifesto, personal and militant. The only essay, let alone book, I know to mention the only real male-love Western film before BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, THE SONG OF THE LOON (1970), accompanies the 2004 reprint of the Richard Amory’s novel of that name by Little Sister’s Classics.

kiss in Arthur Hiller’s MAKING LOVE and almost getting caught, really, in a Toronto bathhouse raid in 1982. Tired of gay parades mixed with commercial advertising, he now found anal sex was up for the Oscars. After Lee’s gay THE WEDDING BANQUET (1993) and straight western RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (1999), Lee’s “affection” for the lonely now favored passive top Ennis (Anus?), struggling in his marriage, over Jack’s crossings “down to Mexico for anonymous sex in dark alleys.” (An insult to Mexico, even in the story: Austin certainly had back alleys back then.) Jack watches Ennis (Anus?) in a rear-view mirror, their doom, and their tragic flaw internalizing 1960s Texas homophobia. B. Ruby Rich adjoins that Lee’s “longtime screenwriter and producer,

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B. Ruby Rich’s 1991 manifesto “New Queer Cinema” mixes festival celebrity panels, and parties with the films themselves, ignoring the gay foreign directors of the past, e.g. Cocteau, Fassbinder, Pasolini, even Jarman. Ruby opened a debate, discarding what was old and setting a framework for the new, but cheap New Queer Cinema remained a moment rather than a movement, suffering with a hangover. It bent queerness, bringing gay HIV+ gangsters in THE LIVING END and secret agent dykes in D.E.B.S. But ‘queer’ is not exactly ‘gay.’ Films preceding New Queer Cinema could be ‘gay’ without being necessarily by gay directors, e.g. of westerns, Howard Hawks, Sam Peckinpah, and Anthony Mann. And thus we must approach BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from behind. Annie Proulx’s short story BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is available in at least three editions: in her CLOSE RANGE: WYOMING STORIES (1999), in PRIZE STORIES 1998: THE O’HENRY AWARDS (1998), and a movie tie-in book, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: STORY TO SCREENPLAY (New York, Scribner, 1997). Jay Leno compared Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) to Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, Letterman 10-ed THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FABULOUS! and Richard Corliss in TIME (1/30/06) referred to “the BROKEBACK breakthrough.” “Gay visibility” is what FILM QUARTERLY (Fall 2007) called it, in a “special” issue of critiques by Robin Wood, B. Ruby Rich, Jim Kitses, and seven others. Here I can consider three of these critiques. To Wood, “Gay Rights” in it mainstreamed “for better or worse,” as he recalled the first all-male W W W. T H E B E T T Y P A G E S . C O M

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Jim Kitses quotes Thomas Wolfe on stoic and taciturn sheepherders, lonelier than cowboys, awaiting spring. To Kitses, Ennis is “the Western hero incarnate,” until Jack tells him, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Lee refuses to call it “‘a gay Western’ or ‘gay cowboy movie,’” attempting to depoliticize it, “dodging a conservative audience’s defensive radar,” making it as much about family as passion. Postmodern, perhaps, or “edgily realistic,” it has psychological, social, and economic depth, the lovers “the products of broken families and absent fathers.” Ennis, “on horseback framed like a John Ford hero,” is beyond his own depth, even more than rodeo performer Jack, neither “by no means ready for man-love.” The wilderness “and the utter loneliness of their lives both make possible the love that overwhelms these two men and also renders it intelligible, for us.” For Ennis and Jack, like sailors on an ocean, the fictional Brokeback Mountain, in the Wyoming Rockies (actually an other named Alberta peak), is ‘the backbone of the continent,’ like John Ford’s Monument

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Valley, naturalizing and nationalizing queerness, under government (Randy Quaid) supervision. Rather than steers, Ennis and Jack herd “passive” sheep – a job usually left for immigrants, minorities, and women. (Bob Hope and Bing Crosby stowawaying in a truckload of sheep in Norman McLeod’s THE ROAD TO RIO (1947), don’t have to quip to make ‘passive’ sheep funny.) “In the end” of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN there is gloom. Wilderness has been replaced by domestic drudgery. Mountains, broken as they are, trucks and sheep shrink into kitchens, trailers, and a postcard. Ennis, a trailer recluse, murmers to the (perhaps) queermurdered Jack, “I swear..,” in a “melodrama, [of ] both male and family varieties.” (But why does the pair never come home with any fish? They can’t spend their whole vacations f******!) There is no resolution: “As the years go by” they don’t age (as in the story), but their families get “their due,” quoting Jean Renoir, for “everyone has their reasons.” As Western melodrama, it’s no JOHNNY GUITAR, muting its emotions. Its action contains its emotions, “haunting,” and flashing back to Jack, repeating his complaint, “A few high-altitude f**** were not enough.” *

There’s also Gary Needham’s study BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and THE BROKEBACK BOOK: FROM STORY TO CULTURAL PHENOMENON (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2011). More on at least one of these books next month.⁂ W W W. T H E B E T T Y P A G E S . C O M

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James Schamus [had executive produced] such early New Queer Cinema films as” Todd Haynes’ POISON (1991) and Tom Kalin’s SWOON (1992), as well as Moises Kaufman’s HBO film THE LARAMIE PROJECT (2002). Concerned with the “uses … made of the film,” she notes that its poster resembles that of James Cameron’s TITANIC (1997), that George W. Bush “was cast opposite [Dick] Cheney in a cartoon parody of [the poster] on the cover of the NEW YORKER (26/2/06) and that its distributor, Focus Features (a division of Universal) “set up a ‘Share your Story’ feature on its website [where] thousands of anonymous writers told their stories.” Other websites, including AfterElton.com, did also, at least one writer “announcing he had come out to his family with the help of the film.” Gary Indiana in the VILLAGE VOICE (29/11/05), however, doubted the length of Ennis and Jack’s relationship, as “it’s rare for people to stay sexually interested in someone they love for much longer than two years.”

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GLBT Organizations in Whatcom and Skagit Counties ISCEE The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Evergreen Empire is affiliated with the International Court System and has been actively raising money for charity for over 30 years by sponsoring drag shows and pageants. The group is open to all regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation, seeking to provide social activities and community service opportunities for gays, lesbians, and their friends and allies in Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan Counties. Leather, Levi & Bear Social Monthly gathering of men who like Leather, Kink, and Unabashed Masculinity. Second Saturday of the month, Rumors Cabaret, 7:30 to 10:30. Info 360.380.6409 www.theslowlane.com This website includes a gay resource guide for Bellingham located at www. theslowlane.com/guide.html.

Triskeli Guild The Triskeli Guild is Bellingham’s BDSM group that promotes community and education for safe, sane and consensual play. They encourage participation by all sexual preferences, race and age 18 and up people. They meet monthly every 2nd Tuesday, at Pandora’s Box at 314 W. Champion St. at 7 m. www.triskeli.org Queries—triskeli@triskeli.org

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