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Dorothy Laoang

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Name: Dorothy Laoang, Dorothy C. Laoang, Dot Laoang
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Type: Fanartist, Fanwriter, Zine Editor, Tribber
Fandoms: Star Trek: TOS
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Dorothy Laoang is a fanartist, fanwriter, and zine editor that contributed to zines in the 1980s-2000s.

Laoang and Judith Gran were the creators of Kirk/Spock Questionnaire which was created in 1982, distributed in 1984-85, and results printed in 1985. The long runway of this project was because it was originally started by Bev Lorenstein and Judith Gran and was to have been published in the second issue of Organia, which never made it off the ground due to a falling out between these two fans. Gran and Laoang picked it up after that.

In 1996, Laoang was the co-founder of K/S Circle, the first exclusively K/S forum online.

In 2010, Laoang was one of the supporters to get Courts of Honor online.

Laoang's Own Words

1983

Dorothy C. Laoang replied to a personal statement in a copy of Universal Translator, the topic was the difficulty in reading/obtaining older zines, and the practice of fandom sharing:

I would like to offer some thoughts on the problem of zine piracy as addressed... First of all, I am saddened to hear about this practice, but I believe it is a symptom of a real problem in fandom that fan editors need to recognize. Like many others, I discovered fanzines long after Thrust, Nightvisions, and Companion, etc. went out of print. I have tried in vain to obtain copies of these and other zines to read, if only to borrow and return. Like a great many others, I cannot afford to pay auction prices of $50 and upwards per zine. I am acquainted with [names redacted] and I have repeatedly expressed to them a strong desire to read their zines.... AT NO TIME was I offered help in finding 'legal' copies at a reasonable price. With all this talk about 'the family of fandom,' etc., I have seen little evidence of it other than lip service... The only reason people buy pirated zines is because there is no other way to get to see them. Sadly, that is why the pirates will continue to do business. [1]

1991

In 1991, Laoang described her fannish journey:

When STAR TREK first aired, I was in my mid-twenties. On my own, I began picking up on a surprisingly deep feeling running between the captain and his "unemotional" first officer. Although I waited and watched, there was never anything more overt than the perfectly understood gestures, eye contact, touches and the implicit loyalty between them. But the case was soon firm in my mind that I as seeing a rare kind of love. At the time, the idea of a possible physical relationship between Kirk and Spock was an intriguing, though not central, speculation on my part. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who saw Kirk and Spock this way, until years later when I discovered fandom and K/S.

That was twelve years ago. Since then, I've contributed fiction, poetry and art to various zines, attended cons, joined a K/S APA, and edited my own K/S zine, AMAZING GRACE, the second volume of which is in its final stages. This one is that rare bird, a K/S zine full of continuing relationship stories.

[...]

I would like to see more variety in zine art. Although there is nothing wrong with pencil or pen and ink illustrations, I'd love to see some scratchboards, monoprints, woodcuts, serigraphs, lithographs, etchings, collages, or other graphic techniques. To that end, I hope to include some of the above in AMAZING GRACE 2 as a way of introducing fandom to the possibilities.

I'd also like to see another publication like ARTFORUM come on the scene. Fan artists really have no way of connecting except through a special-interest zine. It is a fine place to explore the different techniques and materials that can be used in doing zine illustrations. I would like it if more TLC readers commented on zine art. I do not think that there needs to be any different rules for LoCs on art than on fiction.

By far, the thing that I enjoy most about K/S fandom is the people I've met. My life is so much richer for the friendships I've found with people I'd never have met otherwise. [2]

Meta

Example Fanficiton

  • The Singer and the Song by Laoang, art by Al Laoang (her husband) (""When Kirk discovers Spock playing his lyre in the OD, Spock is reluctant to tell him the name of the piece he is playing.") (1984)

Zine Contributions

Example Art Gallery

1982

1984

1985

1986

1987

1989

  • from Within the Mirror #3 -- "Wonderful drawing, of Spock taking his shirt off, pulling it up over his head. Lovely lean body, perfect face; a special, intimate view of him. I really like the narrow vertical rectangle shape of the drawing too, as opposed to filling up the whole cover. I want to make a point here that with Dorothy's drawing talent, she ought to be giving us more, please." [3] "Wow. This is one of the most intense and dynamic Spock's I've seen in quite a while (not to mention erotic). There is an aura of menace to it that fits the mirror Spock perfectly. I'm most impressed." [4]. In 2014 a fan wrote: " Gaaawwwd, that body! The sinuous curve of his form as he removed his clothes....sooooooooooo SEXY! No wonder Jim is so attracted to Spock, ummmm...just gorgeous!"[5]

    from Within the Mirror #3 -- "Wonderful drawing, of Spock taking his shirt off, pulling it up over his head. Lovely lean body, perfect face; a special, intimate view of him. I really like the narrow vertical rectangle shape of the drawing too, as opposed to filling up the whole cover. I want to make a point here that with Dorothy's drawing talent, she ought to be giving us more, please." [3]

    "Wow. This is one of the most intense and dynamic Spock's I've seen in quite a while (not to mention erotic). There is an aura of menace to it that fits the mirror Spock perfectly. I'm most impressed." [4].

    In 2014 a fan wrote: " Gaaawwwd, that body! The sinuous curve of his form as he removed his clothes....sooooooooooo SEXY! No wonder Jim is so attracted to Spock, ummmm...just gorgeous!"[5]

  • from K/S and K.S. Kindred Spirits APA #38 (late 1980s)

    from K/S and K.S. Kindred Spirits APA #38 (late 1980s)

1992

1996

1998

References

  1. ^ from Universal Translator. #17
  2. ^ from The LOC Connection #31 (July 1991)
  3. ^ from Come Together #30
  4. ^ from The LOC Connection #13
  5. ^ ShatnoyKisses post to the K/S Zine Friends Facebook group April 25, 2014, quoted with permission
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