Het WASPS only?
Pacific Travel Mews, the official publication
of the Pacific Asia Travel Association, in its
Ju n e 1986 issue, ran an ad for Turtle Island,
Fiji. "Chosen by prestigious Harpers and
Queen as one of the 300 best Hotels in the
World and by Columbia Pictures for the movie
‘Blue Lagoon’ with Brooke Shields. 12 beach
cottages for m axim um of 24 guests (English
speaking mixed Adult Couples only.)
T h e agent listed in the ad is C.C. Marketing,
Inc., of Vancouver, WA.
W hat's
going on
here?
by Jay Brown
The case of the
missing spoons
Ju n k seems to be so popular with non-gay
singles that now few, if any, downtown bars
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and restaurants include spoons in their table
settings — even for the lunch trade. Reports
are that hypodermic syringes are still being
left daily in restroom wastebaskets.
A suggestion that educational materials
noting the connection between needles and
A ID S be made available to restaurant patrons
went over like a lead balloon. A representative
response: "Th e owners would never allow it;
because then they would have to admit it was
happening."
Shadbume recall
petitions filling up fast
After six weeks of meetings, a committee
of East County citizens filed a petition to recall
M ultnom ah County Comm issioner Gordon
S hadbum e on Ju ly 15.
In a prepared statement, Committee to Re­
call G ordon Shadbum e spokesperson Jan
Shearer listed some of the reasons for the
recall:
‘‘He has not been a good steward of public
funds. He has used county m oney and prop­
erty for the benefit of himself and his
associates.
He has utterly failed to appreciate the need
to cooperate with other elected officials in
providing meaningful representation for Dis­
trict 5.
He displays an arrogant and careless at­
titude toward his responsibilities by his
shameful attendance record and by his lack
of political skills.
He shows indifferent and unresponsive at­
titudes in representing large portions of his
district He often takes an adversarial role with
the cities in District 5."
T h e petitioners must gather 6514 valid sig­
natures by September 15 to place the mea­
sure on the November general election ballot
“People are finding it easy to get signa­
tures," said Franklin Jenkins, an East County
resident who is actively working with the re­
call committee. “People just don’t like Shad-
b u m e ’s hypocrisy.”
S o what’s going on here is that maybe
we’re finally winning one. G ordon Shadbum e
has been an enemy of hum an rights for longer
than m ost of us like to remember. If we can,
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Sick joke for the '80s
In what must be the sick joke of the year, a
m ove seems to be afoot to afford Ronbo the
opportunity of a third term in the White House.
G u y Vander J a g t a Republican Congress­
m an from Michigan and chairman of the
National Republican Cam paign Committee,
urged supporters to sign a petition asking
Congress to repeal the 22nd Am endm ent
which limits presidents to two terms.
T h e 22nd Am endm ent was passed by a
Republican controlled Congress in 1947; Re­
publicans had endured the four-term presi­
dency of Democrat Franklin Roosevelt
(1 9 3 2 -4 5 ) and never wanted to face such a
prospect again.
Vander Ja gt’s letter, mailed to 300,000
other Republican reactionaries, said in part,
“T h e 22nd Am endm ent is an absolute insult
to you and me and every other voter in this
country and it should be repealed.”
Back in 1947,1 remember thinking that the
22nd Am endm ent was indeed an insult, but
since history has thrown both Nixon and
Reagan at us, repeal of the 22nd Am endm ent
is hardly in our best interests.
W Y2000 conference
nears
W om en designing the future is the focus of
a W om en in the Year 2000 conference to be
held in Portland on September 19-21. Th e
conference agenda will include sixty work­
shop», panel discussions and other presenta­
tions covering a wide range of topics includ­
ing politics, social and econom ic policy, wo­
m en's history, health and fitness, educational
and career opportunities, family and parenting.
T h e Lesbian Com m unity Project, Th e Na­
tional Abortion Rights Action League
(N A R A L ), Native W om en's Caucus, North­
west W o m e n s Spirituality Network and Plan­
ned Parenthood are some of the groups
m aking presentations at the conference. Th e
registration fee for the 3-day conference is
$35.
Jo a n Perez Little, W Y2000 Executive
Coordinator, has announced two concerts to
be held in conjunction with the conference.
O n Friday, September 19, Holly Near will ap­
pear at Benson High School Auditorium and
on the following Sunday, September 21,
Sweet Honey in the Rock will appear in the
same auditorium at 3 3 0 p.m. Ticket prices
(Holly Near: $ 10 and Sweet Honey in the
Roclc $ 15) rise after September 5. Tickets are
available at A W o m a n’s Place Bookstore,
1431 N E Broadway.
F o r further information call the W Y2000
hotline, 235-0439.
Ken Kesey on
his gay friends
“I believe if you put a polygraph on people
and asked them, ‘Are you happy with life?’ the
homosexuals 1 know would say, ‘Yes, of
course I am! and the machine would say,
‘Y o u ’re lying.’
“ ‘Are you proud of your life?’
“ ‘Yes, we’re proud.’
“But the polygraph would say, Y o u ’re lying.’
“I d o n ’t have any way of knowing for sure,
because we only know what we see on each
other’s surface. But I’ll bet you water in hell
that when we tally up our beans at the end of
the game, our good beans and our bad beans,
that I’ve got m ore good beans than they do. I
mean, why not go down the road that gives
the m ost good beans?"
From Blows to the Spirit A dialogue
between Ken Kesey and Robert Stone;
Esquire, lb/. 105 No. 6, Ju n e 1986.
AIDS legal
pam phlet available
National G ay Rights Advocates, the San
Francisco-based public interest law firm re­
cently announced its publication of the na­
tion’s first pamphlet on A ID S and the law.
Entitled "A ID S and Your Legal Rights: What
Everyone Needs to Know ," the pamphlet will
be distributed free of charge as a public ser­
vice. T h e 8-page pamphlet is geared specifi­
cally towards non-lawyers, and is written in
clear, simple language. It covers a broad
range of legal issues involving wills, estate
planning, medical treatment, public benefits,
insurance, employment, the military, quaran­
tine, HTLV-III antibody testing, and other
matters.
A ID S a nd Your Legal Rights can be ob­
tained by sending a self-addressed, stamped
envelope to N G R A, 5 4 0 Castro S t, San Fran­
cisco, C A 94114.
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with Shadbum e as an example, convince
others like him that they cannot get away with
it any more they will not see gays and lesbians
as easy targets for slander.
T o be a part of the Gordon Shadbume
recall effort call 252-7886. O ne need not be a
resident of District 5 to circulate a petition,
but signers must be residents of the district
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