Soft folk, gritty country, dance rock and hip-hop blasted from a stage on the EMU East Lawn
Saturday, echoing off the brick walls of the surrounding residence halls.
From noon to 10 p.m.., the ASUO Women’s Center and the UO Cultural Forum hosted the Out/Loud Queer Women’s Music Festival in front of spectators including punk-rockers, families on lawn chairs and shirtless frisbee-tossers. The event took place in conjunction with the Queer Women’s Expository Entertainment Film Festival (QWEEFF), also put on by the Women’s Center.
The acts included music by Annie Vergnetti, Kate Mann, Stefani Crabtree, Nicole Sangsuree, Emily Herring, Demimonde Slumber Party, Homo^2, Vermillion Lies, Ms. Su’Ad, Scream Club, Gina Young and Katastrophe.
University students Dakota Witt and Opey Freedle emceed the event, cracking jokes about a candle vendor at the festival who offered a queef-scented candle. A queef is vaginal flatulence.
“They don’t stink – they just smell like sex,” Women’s Center spokeswoman Stefanie Loh said.
At one point, Witt came on stage in a full body vagina costume and joked about the comments she received while wearing it at the Eugene Saturday Market.
Freedle said off stage that the queer community is marginalized.
“To have our own space at the University is actually a rebellious act,” Freedle said.
Music festival celebrates queer community on EMU lawn Saturday
Daily Emerald
May 14, 2006
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