Your Friday Columnist Roundup

Happy TGIF, all. There’s a piping hot issue of Just Out coming to your neighborhood stand/store/eatery/cafe/etc. righthisveryminute, if it’s not there already, but if you’re jonesin’ for your favorite columnist — and why wouldn’t you be? — here’s a handy-dandy roundup for your reading convenience.

Lady About Town Daniel Borgen considers an “autumnal guide to dating,” from Grindr to the Gym to the Cafeteria — and waxes euphemistic about high teas and routines.

Petlandia scribe Mary Mandeville weighs a relationship-based approach to training your four-legged companion with what she calls the “gotta-show-my-dog-who’s-boss” treatment.

Over at Ask A Gay, Kristin Flickinger responds to a few queries about bisexuality.

And Nick Mattos recounts his experience at the about-to-shut-down Occupy Portland. In the latest installment of Remember to Breathe, he begins,

3 a.m. Tuesday morning, and the man in the dirty gray coat shouts that something has gone terribly wrong. “I got stuck with a fucking needle!” he bellows to no one in particular, throngs of people shuffling past him with duct tape armbands stuck to their jackets. “I’m here trying to save this goddamned country and I get stuck with some junkie’s fucking dirty needle!”

A woman with a medic’s red armband stops beside us. “Are you okay?” she asks him.

No!” he shouts. “I’m going to get this damn thing shut down!”

Ha!” a skinny man with glasses says impetuously. “We’re Occupy Portland! There’s no shutting us down!”

Hmm… As it appears, there is, in fact… In any case, check ‘em all out.

And if you’re hungry for more, click here to learn what they’re reading these days.

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