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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1985)
CAP Receives AIDS grant Th e Cascade AIDS Project has been awarded a grant from U.S. Conference o f Mayors, to assist in educating the gay com munity regarding AIDS and what measures can be taken to decrease the risk o f transmis sion o f the AIDS virus. O f the sixty applicants that petitioned, CAP was one o f eight selected to receive $19,860 o f the available $145,000. The purpose o f the grant is to help CAP’S implementation o f a program specifically developed for the Portland metropolitan area. The plan addresses several misconceptions about AIDS, such as the com m on belief that AIDS is not a current health problem for gay men in Portland and that O regon is a safer environment than other well-known areas. This leads to a lack o f knowledge am ong gay m en and thus increases the risk o f transmis sion o f the AIDS virus. it is the goal o f CAP through the use o f this grant to dispel beliefs and attitudes that con tribute to the spread o f this disease. There is the need to increase knowledge about AIDS and its transmission and at the sam e time introduce prevention techniques aimed at re ducing the risk. CAP recognizes that com munity support is also needed to achieve the values necessary in prom oting safer sex The biggest undertaking to date for CAP be in conducting a volunteer training program for over 500 gay community m em bers who will deliver information about AIDS and safer sex on a formal and informal basis to their peers. This endeavor will not be possi ble without the continued support o f the gay community. Throughout the past year, CAP has shown why it was chosen to receive the grant CAP continues to believe that safer sex in the gay com m unity is the responsibility o f everyone and the success o f the four Safe Sex Work sh op « have been invaluable in displaying that CAP has the force behind it to do the job. Harrington names Cross Cultural Communication Committee nights in an effort to m eet the deadline o f fall training sessions. Lowery, who also serves on the Metropoli tan Human Relations Commission, said. T h is is a rare opportunity to help create a long lasting shift in attitudes am ong individual police officers and the general public. It ap pears that the appointment o f Chief Harring ton by Mayor Clark has opened many doors in the police bureau that were previously closed to gays and lesbians. It’s my hope that the training sessions will help institutionalize the open doors." Spectrum sets deadline Portland Police Chief Penny Harrington has nam ed Right to Privacy PAC Chair Keeston Lowery to the recently established Cross Cultural Communication Committee. Lowery joins thirteen other Portland citizen appointees to the com m ittee, charged with developing an eight hour training program for police officers. Tire Cross Cultural com m ittee was form ed in response to public outcry around the sleeper-hold death o f Lloyd Stevenson in April, and was an outgrowth o f m eetings with the North-Northeast Neighborhood Coalition. Th e group has met weekly on Wednesday Deputy Chief Tom Potter o f the Portland Police Bureau recently volunteered to be police liaison to the gay community. At open • m eetings held on August 12 and 13, m em bers o f th gay and lesbian community cam e together and discussed their concerns re garding the police and how a liaison from the police could be o f most benefit to the com munity. The input from these meetings, which were facilitated by Ed Reeves and Gail Schm idt o f Spectrum (aka the Library Group), will be consolidated into a statement o f purpose and published in the gay press and distributed to groups and individuals in the community. Several people volunteered at the second meeting to serve on an open com m ittee to organize relations between the lesbian/gay communty and Potter. The com m ittee set itself a 30-day deadline to organize a public press conference announcing the police liaison. Anti-gay referendum stayed Last year the County Com m ission voted to adopt an ordinance to extend em ploym ent nondiscrimination to county em ployees re gardless o f sexual orientation. However, at the sam e tim e that sufficient signatures were being gathered to force a referendum on the ordinance, the County Com m ission itself re pealed the ordinance and replaced it with a resolution which would not be subject to a referendum. Last month, however, Judge Donald L Kalberer o f the Circuit Court found that since the signatures had been gathered and filed before the ordinance had been repealed, the electorate had been denied its rightful access to the referendum process. This finding would allow a referendum to take place, but it would be a referendum on an ordinance that no longer existed. In a further hearing on July 30, Judge Kalberer granted the county a stay, which post-poned the referendum indefinitely. The case is automatically referred to the Appellate Court in Salem. Sandwiches are back! Accent on FO O D S >$& ■/ We are committed to good food at reasonable prices! Happy Hour 4:30 - 7:00 DAILY And Stay For D inner. . . Try our Iced Coffee Specials!! (Non-alcoholic ones too!) OPEN M IKE w ith M.C. Steam ed Clams Oysters Gourmet Sandwiches Filet Mignon Chicken Breast with Superb Sauces Specialty Salads Pastes tossed with S p ed al Sauces Candy C a rr 9th and 23rd fe r m 1 . Think of us for your meetings ond speciol occosions. the pRirmRy ôomain 1 0 3 3 N W 16th air c o n d i t i o n e d ! ! 224-4135 Just Out. September 1985 < 5 hvr ieK'i'v<etnec* »00