THE BETTY PAGES The region’s most inclusive alternative-lifestyle entertainment tabloid
October 2011
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The Betty Pages - October 2011 Betty’s Corner
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By Betty Desire, The Betty Pages
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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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September 20th saw the end of the governments “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. There were celebrations all over the country including Bellingham. It is wonderful that now Military personnel who happen to be gay or lesbian no longer have to watch their back or be afraid of blackmail causing them to lose their chosen career. It was a long time in coming but we now as a nation join the rest of the civilized world who allow all their citizens to serve their country openly. There will still be inequities though. Until the poorly named “Defense of marriage Act” is repealed it is doubtful that same sex spouses of military personnel will be able to access the same benefits as their heterosexual neighbors. Even in States where same sex marriage is legal, Federal law supersedes State law. It will be up to the Supreme Court to fix that. Our local Drag organization crowned a new Mr and Miss Gay Bellingham! I am please to announce to you that Sydney Downunder and Confusion Desire will be representing Bellingham on the Drag circuit. You will see them at charity events and fund raisers all around town and out of town. I am certain they will make the entire City of Bellingham proud The Musical Rent is playing at the Lincoln Theater and there is an opportunity for those between 15-25 to receive free tickets and transportation to the Sunday 16th Matinee
showing. If you have a GSA at your High School Middle School, College, or University check with them as they are being contacted and will have information for you . There will be a bus for us in Whatcom County so transportation should not be an issue. Skagit PFLAG amd Washington State Gay Lesbian Straight Esucation Network is paying the tab. See more in this issue. Happy Halloween!
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October! The leaves have fallen, there is a chill in the air, and my favorite holiday is on its way! I enjoy all the holidays but Halloween my favorite. Why you ask? Well for one thing it involves costumes and make up and dressing up however you want and unlike Christmas you don’t have to buy presents. It involves food and drink but unlike Thanksgiving you aren’t required to have Turkey and all the trimmings unless you want to. It involves candy and kids, and still there are many Pagan folk who quietly observe it’s religious tradition without a lot of hoopla and fanfare. In short it can be as festive or low key as you wish. Unlike many of our other holidays you are in total control of how much you celebrate it. Cultural pressure is at its lowest. I love to head downtown and watch the kids trick or treat at the stores. I think it is the busiest day for downtown and all the little ones in there costumes are great to watch. Then the parties! Costume contests!
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I know, Poppets, I know. Every October, it’s the same thing from me. I’m a broken record. But every October, it’s still Domestic Violence Awareness month. When it no longer needs to be, I’ll write about something else. Until then, I’m going to keep writing about it and trying to break down some of the stigma that goes along with admitting a relationship is unhealthy. While you know I care about this issue every year, 2011 has been especially poignant for me. Back in January, two dear friends of mine recognized their relationships were abusive. What made it so difficult for both of them is neither was in a physically abusive relationship. Name calling, manipulation, belittling, psychological warfare, sure. But no hitting, no pushing, nothing that would have drawn that definitive line in the sand for either of my friends. The other thing that made it so hard for both of them was neither of them is a person who is “supposed” to be in an abusive relationship. You
know what I mean. We all have this idea of who a victim is, of who an abuser is. Neither of my friends fit that idea. The first one is an Alpha male, by any definition. Physically, mentally and emotionally strong; highly educated, with several degrees on his wall; a college professor type, along the lines of Rupert Giles, of Buffy fame. Not exactly your stereotypical victim. The other is a woman, also well educated, from a strong, loving home. Her husband is an ordained minister. Not a stereotypical victim, but not your stereotypical abuser, either. And that’s the way this works: we think we are immune because we aren’t a certain type; our abuser isn’t “one of those people;” we’re Queer, for God’s sake! Domestic violence is a straight problem. Only it’s not; neither of my friends mentioned here are straight. There is no “type.” There is no exempt community or group. There but for the grace of God, and all that. Which is why we must keep talking about it, writing about
it, shining the light on it. That’s where a couple really great organizations come in. Down in Seattle, the NW Network is an LGBT centered organization dealing with Queer and Transgendered domestic violence issues by working “to end violence and abuse by building loving and equitable relationships in our community and across the country.” To get help, offer help, or just to learn more, you can reach them Monday through Friday at 206/568-7777. Closer to home, the Skagit County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services is officially an LGBT safe zone. They offer a 24-hour hotline: 888/336-9591. Finally, the Washington state domestic violence hotline is available 24-hours a day, as well, at 800/562-6025, and its staff is trained to address the needs of our community. It’s not easy to admit your partner is hurting you. Victims leave their abusers seven times on average, before it finally sticks. But you do not deserve to be belittled or threatened or hurt. And your batterer
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Boarding a Korean Airlines jet on my way to India, I had every intention of finishing Gary Needham’s study of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (q.v.), but quickly discovered that the inflight entertainment (with free earphones) included Edward Zwick’s LEGENDS OF THE FALL (1994), with the omnisexual Brad Pitt. Not only does Pitt embrace more men and commune with nature more than Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall do in BROKEBACK, his performance, which has been called camp, reminded me of a Big Gay Party that I attended just before I left the U.S. At that party, on the fridge just beyond the margarita mix, were two photos, one of the two hosts in a standing bear hug, the second, just below of two actual bears in a similar hug. I’m sure the juxtaposition was intentional. In LEGENDS, after Pitt has embraced everybody in sight, married the wrong woman, and shot two government officials, he is said to have lived the rest of his life like an animal in the woods. He dies in a similar, real bear hug, rather than killing a bear. What, I thought, would BROKEBACK be like if Pitt had been cast in it? Perhaps he would have shot all those homophobes and died alone in the woods. Only LEGENDS’ music bothered me, adding to this elemental tale (its ‘fall’ perhaps from Eden) only syrupy, melodramatic violins.
entered and asked the first guard (they are dressed in khaki) I could find, “Ticket for Pune?” He and his fellow guard led me into the ticket office, and I took my place at the end of the line until the pair pulled be out and sent me to the ‘Enquiry’ line, where the clerk spoke English, had me fill out a red form with my US address and phone number on it, and issued me a ticket with a numbered seat for Pune, 150 miles away, for Rs. 550, at 5:45AM. If I had perhaps lost Rs. 500 to the cabbie, I had gained Rs. 1200 by not taking the bus. You never know. The two guards and their friend then led me to a Waiting Room. On the way there, the friend asked me, “Change money? I give you Rs. 48 for a dollar. What did Thomas Cook give you?” I said that I didn’t remember (but figured out later that it was Rs. 45.5 per dollar) and said “No.” (I assumed my contact, the ex-curator of the Film Archives in Pune, could make better use of the actual dollars that I still had, importing films or some such.) I was on my way there to study Indian film, particularly queer Indian film. (A good place to start is QUEERING INDIA (Routledge, 2002), with four articles on film, one by Thomas Waugh.)
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But the real fun began in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). There are signs all over the airport warning “Don’t be taken in by touts [cons],” but how do you tell one from the other? I was attacked from all sides as I left the terminal by young men offering taxis, with or without hotel rooms, and other rides here and there. They pursued me relentlessly until I asked a guard at the gate if I might reenter the terminal to seek advice from a Thomas Cook agent, where I had just changed money. Should I take a car with three other passengers directly to Pune (my destination) for 700 rupees? Or a taxi to Dadar Station, where I could catch a morning train? Or just wait outside and try to find a bus to Pune the next day for Rs. 1700? “Take a taxi to Dadar for Rs. 600,” was the answer, “but make the deal in advance.” (I was particularly leery of taking a car to Pune in the middle of the night with four men that I didn’t know.) The first taxi driver that I asked immediately brushed me off, but came around a second later, and we took off for Dadar Station, past the framework of an enormous new airport complex being built in front of the old one, where my driver stopped for a paan (rolled betel leaf with something inside to chew) and asked, “Smoking?” I said “No.” We raced down a wide highway that seemed to push the little old corrugated aluminum roofed storefronts onto by-lanes, almost hitting a man carrying 12-foot rods of something across the highway at 2:00AM. We first ended up at the Dadar bus, not train, station, where drivers slept outside in seats later reserved for waiting passengers, cab drivers stood around aimlessly, and others slept in doorways above a monsoon-filled gutter. I said, “No, I want the train station,” and the driver answered, “Rs. 700.” Reluctantly I agreed, partly because I didn’t want to get involved with his fellow drivers, and he drove me to the train station, where the outside steps were filled with more men, not necessarily prospective train passengers, sleeping as best they could. I handed the driver what I believe was a Rs. 1000 note, which he couldn’t change, and we drove back to the taxi stand where he tried to make change. Unable to, we drove onto a sidestreet where he found a man loading a truck who did make change, and returned to the taxis. He handed me five Rs. 100 notes. “But I gave you a Rs. 1000 note,” I complained. He said No, it was 500. We argued for awhile, and I gave him 600 (not his requested 700) and told him in Hindi that I would write down the number of his cab and his name and if I had been wrong I would later figure it out and contact him again. He seemed satisfied, and smiled as I dropped the cuff of my sports coat in the gutter. We drove back to the train station, where I
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The Waiting Room was dimly lit, with about 20 other guys lolling about, some asleep, several in what appeared as yellow T-shirts. I assumed the yellow shirts indicated some sort of team. I thought, “Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.” But when the rest of the lights went on at 5:00AM, the ‘yellow’ T-shirts were revealed as the more typical white ones (many people try to beat the dirt in India by wearing white), one T reading “The 99% of politicians who are corrupt give the rest of them a bad name.” One young Sikh, whose father sat next to him with his hand on the son’s knee, wore a green T that read, “I only know two languages, ENglisH and Bad ENglisH.” A matron had been installed at the door as the lights went up, checking in new waiting passengers, not bothering about the ones who were already there. People, some of them families, milled about, brushing their teeth in the bathroom, charging their cellphones (called ‘mobiles’ here) in the wall sockets, the men changing their clothes after tying a lungi (long towel) around their waist. A woman walked out of the bathroom, squatted, and deposited her toothbrush in a peacock-decorated bag. I shed a tear, either because of 30 hours of jet lag, or because this is what I wanted: to feel that I was in the middle of somebody’s family, even in a public space. You never know.
And what did I see in Pune? The first commercial film, at the Alka (Tibet) Talkies, wasn’t an Indian film at all, but an Indian-funded Pakistani film, Shoaib Mansoor’s BOL (SPEECH, 2011), on the consternation that the birth of a eunuch, Saifi, makes in the family of a conservative Pakistani, Hakeem Sahib, who already has too many daughters. Hakim refuses to let Saifi play and dance with his sisters, and the sisters won’t let him dress in drag, but because he is a good artist, the boyfriend of one of the sisters motorcycles him off to the countryside so Saifi can help paint the florid trucks that are seen all over Pakistan. Unfortunately, the fellow painters see this only as an opportunity to humiliate and rape the helpless Saifi, who also has a speech impediment. Found hogtied in a field, Saifi is returned to his home, where Hakeem refuses to sell him to a troupe of performing hijras (transvestites,
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some eunuchs, some castrated, some just gay) and instead smothers him with a plastic bag. And we’re only at the Interval (Intermission). So far, BOL reminded me of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. If Jack Twist is killed by unknown homophobes, here the queer lad is killed by his own father. Unlike BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, however, BOL continues for more than an hour. (BROKEBACK is already two hours and 14 minutes long, BOL two hours and 40 minutes). Now the story centers on the father, and the vicissitudes he faces as a result of his killing his own child. The police demand a bribe to sweep everything under the rug, large enough for the father to have to sell bangles in the street. Soon, he has to trade his old Indian rupees (from before the Partition of India into India and Pakistan) to a brothel owner for Pakistani rupees, or “launder” them. (We actually see the family washing and ironing the Pakistani rupees, in what couldn’t be a clearer metaphor.) But even that isn’t enough, and refusing to sell his havali (house), the old man is soon forced to father a child (a son this time) with a prostitute, to keep the brothel going. When the father expresses love for the child, now his only ‘true’ son,’ he’s thrown out of the brothel and returns home in great remorse, but no wiser. Soon, in the middle of the night, the prostitute disguised in a burqa brings the child to the father’s havali, to leave it with the family. When the brothel owner and his henchmen arrive to try to take back the child, the now totally humiliated Hakim tries to kill the son that he always wanted. One of the sisters thus kills the father, and his dead body falls on a bed next to the living son. A coda tells us that the daughter, Zainub, who killed her father, was hanged, but that the rest of the women raised the son the way they wanted to, and opened the havali as a successful, very modern cafe, named Zainub’s Cafe, in honor of their late sister. If BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN would have gone on like this, it would have put the onus on the homophobes who kept Jack and Ennis apart and killed Jack, and been a better film. After BROKEBACK, I felt remorse, or course, but during BOL I laughed (at the laundering of the money) and at the end, I cried. Or maybe it was the jet lag. You never know. More from India next month.⁂
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On the way to the train, on Platform 4, a man asked me a question, but I only understood one word,” ...Chennai?” (The new name for Madras.) I answered, “Not yet,” assuming he had asked me if I was on my
way there, of if he recognized me from 34 years ago, but I thought afterwards that he was asking if the next platform was for Chennai. I myself did go to the wrong platform first, and when I did board the right train, I was told I was in the Ladies Compartment. (There was also a Ladies Waiting Room). As the morning samosa wasn’t warm yet under the heat lamp at the platform teastall, I had a cup of chai (tea) and a packaged cake for Rs. 10, passed a beggar and child, and was off to Pune. Only a few of the 32 ceiling fans were presently working, as it was still only 6:00AM. The train gradually filled with men as we neared the Western Ghat, a huge cliff, green from the rains and jungly with exotic trees.
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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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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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