News Before I turn in my Queer Window column, as a general rule I check EVERY name. It's just what you do in this line of work. So there's no excuse for me misspelling someone I consider "family." Cascade AIDS Project Executive Director Jean Ann Van Krevelen does not have a "e" on Ann. Oops. When I called her this morning to apologize for the error, all Jean Ann said was: "What's an "e" ...   More

News I just got off the phone with Fat Cobra/Eagle Portland owner Pat Lanagan. Lanagan called to share with me and readers that David Anderson, the founder and co-owner of a gay bathhouse on NE Sandy Boulevard called Steam Portland, had died peacefully last night. Lanagan and Anderson were friends and long time business associates (they used to share a real estate office at Windemere Real Estate ...   More

News 4/4/08, 11 am: Tyler Wiese returned WW calls from his hospital bed today. Wiese confirmed the story below and told WW that he had suffered two broken legs from the fall. He would not name the person who was driving the car that he had fallen from but did confirm that he was planning on talking to a social worker today to decide whether or not he would pursue legal action. “No, Sam Adams, ...   More

News Oprah is promoting the hell out of tomorrow's episode with Thomas Beatie.                  var so = new SWFObject("/images/tows/flash/towsdated_284x218.swf", "datedplayer", "284", "218", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addVariable("slate", "http://images.oprah.com/images/tows/200804/20080403/20080403_a_284x218.jpg"); ...   More

News I was supposed to ask her questions like "where are you most likely to disagree with your mom or your dad?" or "did you ever call your mom at 3 am and how did she react?" But all I could think of was that: "I am...standing in front of Hill and Bill's kid...in a red Mary Kay Cosmetics Collection dress...I'd just bought that day at the Goodwill...how weird is that?" Yes, Chelsea Clinton made ...   More

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News This is what was staring at me from my local supermarket checkstand today: In the latest edition of The National Enquirer Beth Ditto, the lead singer of the Portland-based band The Gossip, "reveals" in HOLLYWOOD'S DEADLIEST DIETS! how she can eat a bucket of chicken and two cartons of ice cream in one sitting (she's in the short mini-dress on the left). Now, is that news, really? Truth is, I ...   More

News If you missed (and I nearly did because I didn't get there until the event was nearly over) the 10th Annual Furball—a benefit for the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon which attempts to humanely reduce feral cat colonies around our state—then you missed what surely was one of the highlights of the Spring performance season. On Saturday night at the Staver Locomotive Building in Northwest ...   More

News First it was here. Then it was here. Then it was everywhere: Gawker, Queerty, Towleroad, Advocate, WOW Report. And then it was on EXTRA. And, as noted by one its organizers, Jeff Hawthorne, the Red Dress Party, with a little help from the First Lady's daughter finally made for good TV. [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9102992554670833423[/googlevideo] And in ...   More

News How do you follow up helping to raise over $600,000 in one night for a worthwhile agency you just so happen to lead? Well, if you're the executive director of Cascade AIDS Project, you do it by looking for a new job. For the last two years Jean Ann Van Krevelen has been the Executive Director for Cascade AIDS Project, the oldest and largest community-based provider of HIV services, housing, ...   More