AMERICAN THEATRE: Where can you go where it feels safe to sit with relaxed shoulders? When I first moved to Seattle in 2005, it was Bauhaus, a coffee shop on the corner of Melrose & Pine. My first visit was spent upstairs, reading Daniel Clowes’s Ghost World straight through. I left feeling exposed, as if Clowes had read the most private entries from my Livejournal and put them to print. A few months later, a friend and I stood in line to order, eyeing a barista perched on a counter, changing an LP in the record player. My friend turned to me and said, “I’m going to be the mother of his children someday.” By 2007, I was nannying their firstborn.
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I had a conversation with my history teacher in my Senior year about how certain industries have always been “safe havens” for different groups, and how theater, entertainment, and the arts have always been that for queer people. And while this is historically true, the entertainment queer people produce has often been censored and held back from expressing queerness. You see actual, queer theater a lot less than you’d think you would. So, these productions are super cool to me! I’m from Portland, and I’d never actually heard of Fuse before, but I’m definitely going to check them out now. I’m proud to say that queer performance is everywhere in Portland, and the more I travel the country the more I feel like its true. Presenting this history and actually performing it is such a time honored tradition throughout like all of humanity, and its important that queer people continue to do that.
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