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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1986)
Safe Sex IS working, says CAP To the E ditor: The Cascade AIDS Project was quoted in the last issue of Just Out as saying that the increasing num ber o f diagnoses in O regon is an indication that gay men in O regon are not practicing safer sex. In actuality, CAP knows fo r a FACT that gay men in O regon are prac ticin g safer sex, m ost o f the tim e. M ultnom ah C ounty reports that cases o f sexually trans m itted diseases am ong gay men, other than AIDS, have dropped by up to 70% in the past five years. The rising num ber o f AIDS cases in 1986 and 1987 reflect the behavior o f gay men three to five years ago. We are confident that the change from high risk behavior to low risk behavior in m any gay men this year will mean that the rate o f increase in diagnoses o f AIDS will slow over the next five years. Over 100 people w ill have been diagnosed with AIDS in O regon by the end o f the sum m er and even with the “safer" attitude and behavior o f gay m en today, we can expect that the num ber o f diagnoses o f AIDS in O regon w ill exceed 2,000 by 1991. The only way to stop the spread o f AIDS and to prevent this im pend ing catastrophe is fo r a ll gay men to practice safer sex a ll the tim e. And we can do it CAP has been running a series o f safer sex w orkshops called "N EW A im CIDES" since January. 94% o f the participants report that they are m ore encouraged to practice safer sex and 100% say they would recom m end "N E W A T! 11 CIDES" to their friends. If you need the support o f others and want to talk about practicing safer sex with other people com e to the "N EW A l l 11 CIDES” workshops starting up again in September. "NEW ATTITUDES" is very non-threatening, sup portive o f your lifestyle and, surprisingly, a great deal o f fun for the participants. Many m en return again and again just to meet new people and to talk. Gay men are not fated to get AIDS. AIDS is com pletely preventable. The prevention, however, is totally up to you. For m ore in for m ation about AIDS, CAP or our sum m er BIKE-FO R-LIFE. contact CAP at 223-5907. The first step of any oppressed m inority struggling fo r an equal place in society must be self-affirm ation, the shucking-off of years, som etim es centuries, o f internalized oppres sion. I am saddened to learn of people like Shadburne so fixed in self-hatred that they are w illing to becom e the active agents of the ir own oppression. Marvin Vann Sincerely. Brow n M cDonald. Executive D irector Cascade AIDS Project Shadburne's attacks reprehensible To the Editor: Like m ost m em bers o f Portland’s gay com m unities, I am infuriated by Gordon S hadburne’s cowardly and m alicious hypo crisy concerning homosexuality. I am both pleased to have his hypocritical attacks on the gay com m unity and its efforts to achieve equal rights revealed fo r what they are, and disturbed that there are still people like S hadburne so dom inated by the prevailing anti-hom osexual prejudice that they are w ill ing to turn against themselves and against a co m m u n ity to which they properly belong. W hether G ordon Shadburne is hom osex ual, bisexual or ju st m ildly attracted to the sam e sex, those feelings are a part o f him , and they matter. By attacking a com m unity w hich is struggling to achieve an equal and ju st recognition in society o f those feelings, he is negating a part o f him self. Alpenrose loses another customer never again, knowingly, consum e any Alpen- rose D airy products. W hat you probably do not know is that three o f those daughers are lesbian in their sexual orientation, and, in lig ht o f your dis taste fo r the Food F ront G rocery using the Alpenrose name in th e ir advertising in Just Out, a Gay p u b ''ca tio n , I’m sure you w ou ldn’t want Alpenrose products to be sul lied by being consum ed by any persons whose sexual orientation is other than heterosexual. We used to be so proud o f the Alpenrose activities fo r children — school visits to the dairy farm , Little League games, Santa’s Lane, the L i’l Britches R odeo— what a shock it w ould be fo r you if the 10 to 15 percent of those children who are hom osexually oriented were to com e back now and thank you fo r your constructive program s when they were young! W ould you eject them as ‘‘undesirable visitors / You have the rig ht to choose your advertis ing m edia. Your (fo rm e r) custom efc have the rig h t to choose the products they nurchase. Ann M arcotte Shepherd Carl Cadonau, President Alpenrose Dairy 6149 S.W. Shattuck Rd. Portland, OR 97221 Mr. Cadonau: A fter 26 years o f being a happy Alpenrose Dairy custom er, during which tim e my husband, our five daughters and I drank A l penrose m ilk, consum ed quarts o f Alpenrose cottage cheese, and enjoyed gallons o f A l penrose — and Baskin-Robbins — ice cream , we now cancel, imm ediately, our hom e delivery service with you. And — none o f o u r fam ily, and many o f our friends, will Books Robert Mapplethorpe. Dianora Niccolini, Cynthia McAdams t Posters Paul Dahlquist. David Hamilton Färber, Skrebneski, Scavullo .Q\Cfc C A pD s ^ The Gallery Marsha Bums, Shedrich Williames, Imogen Cunningham, Teresa Airey Photographie Image Gallery 208 S o u th w e s t First • (503) 224-3543 • Portland 4 Discover the healthy you! S \ m illio n unit wemht-loss conn set in a. immune svs’tem evaluation, uop-smokma programs, non-sexual massaae. fiomeo/hiitiv 8 Saturai therapies tor. chrome lutnnie. lim it blood pressure, diabetes, hack pain, prostate problems, ulcers, alterales. alcoholism and mane more. 1 naiurofHithu physician spends more tune with Ins patients - to talk, to listen, to explain, to help von learn better wavs to care tor vour health. Please c a ll 244-8476 ■ 'V/.VS H. J5th Avenue, dortland OR V?222 Ju*t Out July. 1986