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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1985)
^gPiF Vol 2 ... O ctober, 1985 No. 12 Classified ads must be received at the office of Just O ut ten days prior to publication date, along with payment STAFF Co-publishers Jay Brown Renee LaChance Editor Jay Brown Drawing by Te© Corrione Graphic Arts Director Rupert Kinnard Advertising Associates Eve Sicular Ed Hickey Contributors Cynthia Cumfer Wm. C. McCrae Billy Russo Ray Berger, Ph.D. Eleanor Malin Lee Lynch Written and graphic materials are welcomed for submission. All written material should be typed and double-spaced. All graphic material should be black ink on white paper. Production Bev La Belle . Deadline for submissions is the 15th of each month. Proofreader Out About Town is a courtesy to our readers. Items must be received by the 15th of each month. Anita Quiton Just Out is published the first of each month. Copyright 1985. No part of Just Out may be re- produced without the written permission of the publishers. Advertising Director Roger Hall Editorial policies allow the rejection or the edit ing of an article or advertisement that is offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. Just Out consults the Associated Press Styiebook and Libel Manual on editorial decisions. Views expressed in letters to the editor, columns, and features may not necessarily be those of the editorial staff of Just Out. Subscriptions to Just Out are available for $7.50 for 12 issues. A free copy of Just Out and/or advertising rates are available upon request The mailing address and telephone number for Just O ut are: P.O. Box 15117 Portland. OR 9 7 2 1 5 2 3 6 -1 2 5 2 Display advertising will be accepted up to five days before publication date, if camera ready, if not, then seven days prior. E D I T O R I A L M iscue results in positive step by Jay Brown Deputy Chief Tom Potter was formally introduced, on September 12, by Police Chief Penny E. Harrington as the Portland Police Bureau's liaison with the city’s gay and lesbian com munity. At the press conference announcing his appointment Potter remarked that the decision to have a liaison with the gay community stemmed from "miscommunication" which left the Lesbian and Gay Parade without a police escort It is to Potter’s credit that he refrained from saying that the "miscommunication” was not between Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee and the Portland Police Bureau but am ong factions in the gay community itself. One of the essential elements of the annua! Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade is possession of a permit to hold a parade which is issued by the City of Portland. For the past several years the permit had been issued to Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee, but this year the parade permit was issued to Oregon Community Pride Association, an organization established by som e members of Lesbian and Gay Pride ’84 Steering Committee and others. The announcement in the now defunct Eagle Newsmagazine, of Oregon Community Pride Association's plans for the traditional community-wide celebration caught many people by surprise and resulted in the formation of Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee '85. (Portland’s annual lesbian/gay pride celebration has been planned and executed each year by volunteers who have had little or no experience in such undertakings because steering committee members are rarely holdovers from the previous year. This situation may be changing soon, see story elsewhere.) In negotiations with Lesbian and Gay Pride '85, Oregon Community Pride Association failed to divulge the fact that the parade permit had been issued for 10 a.m. instead of 12 noon, which was the traditional time of departure. (According to Police Bureau reports, an escort did appear at the appointed place at 10 a.m., found no parade and went off to another assignment) CÄIHARTIC COMICS BOMBER ..1 SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT IN A SPASM OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY STORMED p a u n c h y B o b b y ' s o f f ic e a n d c a u s e d T h e d e m is e o f his n e w s p a p e r / The parade proceeded without the escort and, thanks to the efforts of the security volun teers, few people realized that anything was amiss. (Or if people knew the escort was not in attendance, they were not about to give up their parade.) Within a few days following parade "miscommuniation" Deputy Chief Potter stepped forward and volunteered to act as liaison between the Police Bureau and Portland’s lesbian and gay community. Potter’s action came after a group composed of Lesbian and Gay Pride ’85 Steering Committee members and other concerned citizens met with the Police Bureau to probe the origins of the “miscommunication." So why has it taken almost three months for a formal announcement of Potter's appoint m ent The answer lies, again, with the lack of communication among factions in the gay and lesbian community. Duri ng the past several months, a new group with political interests has been developing in Portland. The group, Spectrum o f Gay and Lesbian Concerns, became involved in the “ miscommunication” incident because some of the people who met with the Police Bureau were members of Lesbian and Gay Pride '85 Steering Committee and Spectrum of Gay and Lesbian Concerns. Since the demise of Portland Town Council there has been only one gay political organiza tion in the city — Right to Privacy Political Action Committee. For several years Portland’s gay community has been the exclusive turf of Right to Privacy PAC and the em ergence of Spectrum of Gay and Lesbian Concerns has caused no little consternation in Right to Privacy PAC’s forces. A Police Bureau press release, dated September 3, 1985, calling a press conference to announce Potter's appointment, included the following paragraph: “ Police Chief Penny Harrington will make the announcement and will be accompanied by Deputy Chief Potter, Keeston Lowery of the Right to Privacy Political Action Committee, and Gale Schmidt of Spectrum of Gay and Lesbian Concerns." Lowery cancelled. We believe that Potter s appointment as liaison between the Police Bureau and the city's lesbian and gay community is a positive step in the struggle against homophobia. We appreciate the efforts of all the people who brought it about Featuring THE BROWN BOMBER & DIVA TOUCHE FLAMBE OH, 1 HEAR h e ' s G o n e BEYOND THE I L e a t h e r s c e n e a n d h a s c r e a t e d A WHOLE n e w PHILOSOPHY AND MODEL OF BROTHERHOOD, i t ' s based on t h e IDEA THAT REAL MEN ”ONLY WEAR M A N j m a d e m a t e r ia l s ... l ik e P o l y e s t e r / . Y e 5* LEATHER, AS A LIFESTYLE,IS NOW P a s s e . Y ou k n o w h is p r e v io u s b a r .WAS C o m m o n ly REFERRED To AS n A i —r SYNTHETIC VAT FOR T H E S is s ie s o f our c i t y “? } Y ou d o n t SAY/ 3
