Dignity hosts
community dinner
Peter Watkins.
Dance against
destruction
The Student Alliance for Nuclear Aware
ness (S A N A ) presents a “ Dance Against
Destruction” featuring Billy Rancher and the
Unreal Gods. The event takes place Sunday,
February 19 at the Pine Street Theater. The
show opens at 8:00 PM with the Electric
Strawberry followed by the Usual Suspects.
Admission is $4.00 and the money will go to
the Watkins Project
Peter Watkins is an Academy-Award win
ning film director whose work includes The
War Game and Eduard Munch. He is cur
rently working on a feature length film which
takes a global view of the psychological and
social effects of nuclear war. The film will be a
drama featuring families from 10-12
countries, including one from Portland.
Money will be raised for the film in each of
the countries it will be filmed in. Noted Port
land filmmaker, Penny Allen, is in charge of
fund raising for Oregon. The "Dance Against
Destruction,” sponsored by S A N A , is one of
many benefits for the Watkins Project slated
for the next few months.
S A N A is a group of high school students
concerned about and active against nuclear
arms. It originated a year ago at the Catlin
Gabel school, and now includes chapters at
Wilson, Sunset Lincoln, Columbia River,
M.L.C., and Benson. S A N A is now the
largest organization of high school students
working for nuclear disarmament in the
Northwest
BHI y Rancher is well acquainted with Mr.
Watkins and strongly supports his efforts.
Billy agreed to perform at the “ Dance Against
Destruction” because of his enthusiasm for
Watkins’ project and his own strong views on
nuclear arms.
Dignity Portland, an organization of
Catholic gay men and lesbians and friends, in
a first of its kind for Portland, hosted a
com m unity-wide spaghetti dinner attended
by representatives from 28 gay and lesbian
groups and organizations.
Held Saturday, January 21, the dinner was
a very successful venture into community
outreach. Representatives from bars, politi
cal, religious, recreational and minority
groups and organizations had a chance to
m ingle and get to know "the person on the
other end of the phone.”
“A vast majority of the people who attended
com m ented that it should be an annual
event" said Glen Shrope, member of Dignity
and dinner chairperson for the event “ People
said they appreciated meeting the person
behind the voice on the phone. It was people
together, a com m unity forum."
And it was outreach to groups other than
gay white male, as representatives from
Black Lesbians and Gays United (BLGU), the
Lesbian Forum and A Woman’s Place Book
store indicated.
Some of the other groups represented
include Gay Fathers, Rosetown Ramblers (a
gay squaredance group), Knights of Malta,
the Imperial Rose Court, Gay Al-Anon and
Heroines United for the growth of Self
(HUGS, a bisexual women’s support group).
One of the participants suggested the
event m ight be a "coordinated effort in the
future,” according to Shrope. “ Or maybe a
potluck at more frequent intervals, with one
annual dinner.”
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