Portland airport stripper says he was ‘nude but not lewd’
A man who took off his clothes at the Portland, Ore., airport says he was protesting the Transportation Security Administration.
Portland airport stripper says he was ‘nude but not lewd’
By Steven DuBois
The Associated Press
Published: (Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 04:25AM) Today
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John E. Brennan , shown Wednesday at his Portland home Wednesday, was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after he took off his clothes during the security screening process at Portland International Airport before a Tuesday evening flight to San Jose, Calif.
PORTLAND — A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being “nude but not lewd,” and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech. John E. Brennan, 49, of Portland was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after taking off far more than this belt and shoes during the screening process before a Tuesday evening flight to San Jose, Calif. The incident report from the Port of Portland, which operates the airport, said some passengers covered their eyes and the …
Airport stripper says he was nude but not lewd
PORTLAND, Ore. A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being nude but not lewd, and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.
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John E. Brennan, 49, of Portland was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after taking off far more than this belt and shoes during the screening process before a Tuesday evening flight to San Jose, Calif. The incident report from the Port of Portland, which operates the airport, said some passengers covered their eyes and the eyes of their children. Others laughed and took photos. The disorderly conduct charge was dropped at Brennans arraignment Wednesday.
Brennan, in an interview at his home, said he did not arrive at the airport with the intention of getting naked. He said the Transportation Security Administration crosses the line between privacy and security. He decided to protest after he was pulled aside after going through the metal detector and a pat down, he said.
It’s amazing, I’m just hanging out with my family. I have an album that I want to do, so I blocked out a bunch of months so I could do that. I really love Portland and I haven’t been able to hang out here for a year.
You were on tour with Girls in March. Do you have a favourite memory touring with them?
We went with the band to a strip club and kind of ended up really messy the next morning. When we were leaving the day after, I was throwing up while I was going down the elevator, forgot my jacket in the hotel room and had to explain to the concierge that my hotel room was upstairs while I was throwing up. At the time it was pretty dark but now I think it’s hilarious.
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Ross William Hamilton/The OregonianWith home prices low, some homeowners like Lisa Conway and Chuck Masi, have found they can’t sell the house for the price they need. Instead, they’ve reluctantly become landlords.
Lisa Conway and her husband twice tried to sell his old house when they moved in together, but they couldn’t get enough to pay off the mortgage. So they switched their for-sale sign with a for-rent sign.
The couple never wanted to be landlords. Like many of the Portland area’s newest landlords, they’re more used to cutting a rent check each month than cashing one.
And like many other accidental landlords of the housing crisis, they’ve learned being a landlord can have its pitfalls: in their case, a tenant’s stripper pole that replaced a light fixture in the living room.
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Rev. Linda Stewart-Kalen of Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church in Southeast Portland has worked with her congregation for seven years to make environmentalism part of their faith.
Wow. So much going on in Southeast Portland this week, we don’t know where to start.
The vegan strip club saga on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard will drag on for at least another two months.
A Portland opera singer who was critically injured in a mysterious shooting remains hospitalized.
A Southeast Portland church expresses its faith every time it plants a tree.
A trial started this week for a man who allegedly shot two police officers last year near Brooklyn Park.
Portland’s gang task force is scheduling additional meetings to involve more community members in fight against crime.
Welcome to the second installment of Revocation frontman Dave Davidson’s food column “Altars Of Fatness.” This time, Dave tips us to what sounds like an amazing pizza joint in Portland, Oregon — a city you should visit if only for the fact that it is home to more strip clubs per capita than any other city in the states.
Normally, when people tell me to check out their favorite pizza joint, I usually have some reservations due to the fact that a lot of pizza out there sucks. However, the owner of the pizza joint in question just happens to be the owner of Relapse Records, so I decided to trust his judgement and check it out. (Plus he was buying and you can never turn down free pizza even if it turns out to be shitty.)
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Homeowners in southeast Portland are fighting to keep a new strip club out of their neighborhood.
Concerned residents attended a hearing Thursday before the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which must decide whether to grant a license to a new Casa Diablo location on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard in the Sellwood-Westmoreland neighborhood.
After hearing testimony from both sides of the issue, the Liquor Control Commission decided to delay a decision for another two months.
Casa Diablo already has a location in Northwest Portland on St. Helens Road. Their second location would be next to another strip club already in existence, The Acropolis.
Neighbors who oppose the business say they worry about the potential for noise, crime and other problems related to alcohol and adult business, as well as its proximity to Johnson Creek Park.
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At ChildRoots’ Southeast Portland location, three dudes munch on fresh food together. ChildRoots is opening a second location in Northwest Portland this month.
Lots of news in Southeast Portland in recent days. Here’s what you may have missed.
An Oregon Liquor Control Commission meeting on Thursday afternoon will help determine the fate of a proposed strip club on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard.
Southeast Portland’s ChildRoots will open a second location this month in Northwest.
Want more Southeast news and events? Check out oregonlive.com/se-portland/ for new posts daily. And follow me on Twitter. Please?
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Strip club patrons, employees and dancers crowded onto the sidewalk on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard in September to stand up for their rights in a dispute between neighbors and a bar proposed for the area.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission will hear a staff report Thursday regarding the liquor license application by the owners of Casa Diablo, a vegan strip club that has sparked the opposition of neighbors in Southeast Portland.
The club has requested a license for its location at 8445 S.E. McLoughlin Blvd in the Sellwood-Westmoreland neighborhood.
But a vocal groups of neighbors have repeatedly protested, in writing and in person, arguing that the club would bring crime to the area.
The commission is scheduled to consider the Casa Diablo application after 1 p.m. at the OLCC’s headquarters at 9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd.
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