SYMPOSIUM

spotted: couples, all out man/boy love at every pub and cafe in town. is there a new non-profit on the scene pairing stylish men in their twenties with men of late middle age for board game fun? are we witnessing the beginning of a new trend in geeky rent boying geared toward portland's black plastic bespectacled creative elite? they're playing chess and scrabble and some strange variation of go using pennies and dimes all across the city. and they're wearing their wedding rings. sometimes both of them. surely no one's fooled? ok. maybe it was just regular old go and neither the man nor his boy had yet decided to consummate the relationship with a proper board. but no. of course not! it couldn't be his father.