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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1986)
Lesbian Community Project Update by Cathy Siemens Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, we've changed our conference dates to November 8th and 9th. Be sure to mark your calendars. We ll see you there — on the Portland State Campus. Conference Planning LCP Receives Grant! LCP submitted a grant proposal, request ing funds for a full-time temporary (6 months) organizer, to the Chicago Resource Center. The check arrived in the mail June 30th awarding the full amount $6,750. We put Cathy Siemens to work July 1st She’ll be working on the Fall Conference and other Lesbian Community activities. Cathy can be reached at 238-0135 or 233-9079. New Conference Dates Because of a potential conflict with the A Woman's Place hit by robber On Monday, July 14 at approximately 2 p.m., A W om an’s Place Bookstore was rob bed at gunpoint No one was injured. At the tim e of the robbery there were 15 women browsing in the store, yet the robber felt safe enough to draw a gun and ask the volunteer for the money in the till. He made off with approximatey $180 in cash. Minutes later the police were dispatched. One police car ar rived at the store, while another was cruising the neighborhood looking for the culprit While scouring the neighbor hood women recovered the weapon and the robber’s jacket which he had discarded while making his escape. The police took the items as evidence. AIDS is preventable by Claudia L Webster AIDS Is Preventable is a major theme of the new education program at the Oregon State Health Division. There is much known about AIDS, or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syn drome, in relation to what causes it its trans mission, and how to avoid exposure. In December 1985, Robert O. McAlister, Ph.D. and Claudia L Webster joined the staff of the Oregon State Health Division as the AIDS Program Coordinator and AIDS Health Educator, respectively. The educators are available to assist in community education Committees are now forming to work on specific aspects of the conference. Do you have skills or interest in publicity, workshops, caucuses, child care, new games? We are also soliciting proposals for workshops. Call LCP now to get involved, 233-9079,238-0135. Newswatch: AIDS anxiety & homophobic backlcish The news has been quite alarming lately— the Supreme Court upholding Georgia's Sodom y Laws, a California petition, gamer ing more than 640,000 signatures, might lead programs. At the present time, there is no cure for AIDS. But we think that AIDS can be control led in Oregon if people learn about protec tion from the virus and make personal life choices to prevent exposure. The prevention program is based on education with first em phasis with the groups at highest risk of expo sure to the AIDS virus. Work has already be gun with many gay organizations in Portland, Salem and Eugene. The educators are very interested in working with as many gay or ganizations as possible to disseminate accu rate information on AIDS transmission and prevention. AIDS is spread by a virus called Human T-Lym photropic Virus III (HTLV-III) or Hum an Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This virus preferentially infects the T-helper lymphocyte. In some persons, the infection leads to reduction of theT-helper cell popula tion, thus impairing the cellular immune system; Infections and cancers can thus m ore easily proliferate in the body. The HTLV- III virus is carried in body fluids such as blood, semen and vaginal secretions. Other body fluids, including saliva, have also been shown to occasionally contain the virus. Since we now that the virus which causes AIDS is carried in blood and semen, people can make personal choices to avoid expo sure. Prevention of semen being shared is possible by safer sex practices. Many gay organizations are offering workshops on safer sex practices. AIDS IS PREVENTABLE is the message. To get this information out will take a major effort, not only from the Health Division, but from all community organizations, gay and straight mm ^ V pa,hic “Out of the Closet ”, the Gay/Lesbian thrift store opened by Phoenix Rising Foundation to benefit all non-profit organizations in our community, announces the first quarter disbursements. Checks were issued to Cascade Aids Pro je c t Phoenix Rising, Metropolitan Commun ity Church, Portland Gay Mens Chorus, and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, in an outdoor festival of traditional and folk music from around the globe, featuring concerts, workshops, dancing, children’s events and ethnic food and drink FESTIVAL PREVIEW Rare jazz films at Berg- Swann Auditorium August 21 Discover the healthy you! Nutrition and weight-toss counseling, immune system evaluation, stop-smoking programs, non-sexual massage, homeopathy. Natural therapies for: chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, diabetes, back pain, prostate problems, ulcers, allergies, alcoholism and many more. A naturopathic physician spends more time with his patients to talk, to listen, to explain, to help you learn better ways to care for your health. - 7912 S. W. 35th Avenue, Portland, OR 97219 school. Sometimes supportive, sometimes painful and scary. Many of the young women told their com ing-out to parents stories. Even as adults, many of us are still faced with this dilem m a. The Lesbian Community Project hopes to include young Lesbians in the Novem ber conference. We can ill afford a generation gap. Mailing list The LCP mailing list continues to grow. Contact us to get your name on. Our mail ings are discreet Also, if you move, please give us a change of address. Now that we use bulk mailing, the P.O. doesn’t forward or re turn letters. amounts ranging from $5.00 to $374.00 per organization. The size of payments is deter mined by the quantity of merchandise donated in the name of each organization. All donations are tax-deductible. The store was operating for two of the three months in the first quarter with several one-tim e expenses. Still needed are a cash register, use of a truck one day a week, and volunteers to staff the store. Call Fred Menard at Phoenix Rising — 223-8299, if you can help or have any ideas to share. FEATURED ARTISTS Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band, good time cajun music 4 C. Utah Phillips, “ golden mice of the great southwest" 4 Boh Moses, jazz drummer from hoslon 4 Mr. B., blues and boogie uvejgie piano ^Y at Sing Music Club, Chinese chissicul musu 4 Krishna Bhatt & Zakir Hussain, north Indian ragas 4 inly Raymi, south american folk & contemporary 4 The Love Congregation, gos/>ei ihoral ensemble 4 Puck Fair, eclectic celtic flute, bohdrun c- piano 4 Michéal O’Domhnaill, Trîona NI Domhnaill & Skip Parente, traditional & original celtic music 4 Phranc, feminist singer songuriter 4 Connie Kaldor, canadas lihntnt singer 4 Seattle Taiko Drummers, traditional japanese percussion & acrobaties 4 Phoung Phan, camhndhut folk dance & music ^Hester Street Klezmer Band, hot yiddish jazz 4 Ken Butler, hybrid’ string instruments 4 Slam Stahl, storytelling, puppets, masks 4 Kevin Shay Johnson, political singer songwriter 4 > Dave Barrett, storyteller August 23,1986 11 am to Dark « 9ATVH0AY m ivu w u -W s Just Out, A ugust, 1986 "Out of the Closet" pays off cosponsored bySWFVC. ,r vC CAPL/9 . Please call 244-8476 to the quarantinng of suspected AIDS patients, and a ruling that employers have the right to fire workers they suspect might con taminate co-workers with AIDS. How are we, as Lesbians, affected by all this? LCP feels like it’s time to start talking am ong ourselves about these issues. How do we feel? What do we think? What do we need to do? We’d like your input Call us. Watch for upcoming events. Special thanks to the Portland Frontiun- ners for their generous donation of $94.00 — one-half of the proceeds raised by their 1986 Stonewall Commemorative run. The other half went to Phoenix Rising. The July Lesbian Forum on Young Les bians, ages 14-21, was a great success. These young women showed remarkable spunk and sense of humor as they shared their experi ences being both “out” and closeted in high TICKETS Advance ill) SO At the gate SI2S0 Senior Cuuen* $S Children under 12 far Ticket* available Juh 22 at Earl A Chile* Nix office Inivrrsity of Portland. Artichoke Music. Mu*«. Millennium, (i I joe * Ticket price subject to service charge at some outlet* For more information call K1.V2.19-02^9 ( o sponsored by KOAP9I FM Fred Meter. Horizon Air. Pepu< nia Company. Young Audience* of Oregon. Miller Brand*. Oregon Art* (.ommtssmn. Metropolitan Art* CommisMon. Oregon CommtsMon for the Humanities (jjun Cafe Music Millennium 7