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
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^ 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.
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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
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Dave Barrett, storyteller
August 23,1986
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"Out of the Closet"
pays off
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bySWFVC.
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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
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