Comments on: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:14:43 +0000

Holy shit, that is awesome! Did you come to our house (Tod was my roommate at the Dreary Biscuit) to do the shirt-making? I vaguely recall some sort of wildly disorganized affair with various sized shirts floating around and some kind of spray on paint (what I used to make my shirt) and stencils. I think Dana Schuerholz put the shirt thing together? (Of course you may have acquired yours via some other route, but it'd be hilarious if you were at the same thing.) At some point (e.g. when I find and scan the damned pictures) I'm going to put together a Flickr album from that first march, so if you have any of your own that you might want added to a pool (don't know if you have your own Flickr account or not, but I'd be happy to host them with all appropriate attribution if not) - let me know.

I've also thought about putting up a memorial page somewhere just for Tod. I miss him all the time, still. He was one-of-a-kind, and he saved my ass on so many levels there's no way I'll ever be able to account for it. Anyway, when I have time to set up something of that nature, if you have any specific memories to share, that would be welcome. You can contact me any time through this page: http://victoriamarinelli.com/main/contact or via email at vmarinelli AT gmail DOT com (<--lame effort to foil spam-bots).

Best regards - V.

By: lotustat

lotustat — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:30:36 +0000

Hi There! I was waxing nostalgic for the fun times to be had at Tod Streater and Kelly Hawks parties. Man they were weird!

Anyway, I was at that first Pride March in Olympia too and I still have my Olympia Queer tank-top. It's white with the Oly beer logo in purple, just spelled differently.

Those were certainly interesting times.

By: Southern Discomfort / Another Olympia queer history fragment, this time from the bottom of a box of files

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:06:35 +0000

[...] last one having been discovered in my underwear drawer (at which time I was delighted persons still in Olympia could shared in that [...]

By: Lost Clown

Lost Clown — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:47:31 +0000

I knew that logo looked familiar. That's really cool.

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:24:02 +0000

You worked on Plexus? That's so cool!

By: DaisyDeadhead

DaisyDeadhead — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:28:13 +0000

I still have a “Plexus” T-shirt (from the feminist newspaper I worked for), and it says “59 cents”–which is what women were then paid on the dollar (equivalent to the “male dollar”)… smart ass men used to ask me if I was worth 59 cents when I wore it.

I can't get rid of stuff like that…nice to see I ain't the only sentimental pack-rat around!

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:34:41 +0000

Ha! Totally blushing. Ain't you sweet?

By: EmilyBrianna

EmilyBrianna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:54:12 +0000

Oh, and er, if it is true, you make me look good, purty lady.

By: vmarinelli

vmarinelli — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:59:37 +0000

It could totally be true. Among the queers, I don't think we get a full six degrees of separation, do we? (Maybe 1 1/2?) And… oh sweet Lord, you're gonna make me play that Hole song now, aren't you?

By: EmilyBrianna

EmilyBrianna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:29:13 +0000

I honestly am willing to bet that I know people you know. Less likely, but still a possibility… that I *knew* people that you *knew*, if you know what I mean. Hmmm.

Of course, when you went to school in Olympia everyone looked the same and talked the same, as they say.