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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1987)
L E The Great March Letters Project To the Editor: I was so emotionally moved by the March on Washington for love and life, October 10-11, that I must thank you. my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, our friends and relatives, for coming to my home and making my city so beautiful with your love and solidarity. I will carry the experience with me always and it will nourish me in a million situations. I want to honor and enhance the love and communion we created in Washington by keep ing the spirit of the March alive. I want to do this by publishing a compilation of letters expres sing the feelings, thoughts and experiences of those of you who came to Washington and par ticipated in the March. The March was a unique experience in all of our lives and it will make our community stronger if we know how the other hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people, their friends and T relatives felt about the March It will be more than a souvenir, it will be a tangible reminder of our individual and collective aspirations. Please write legibly on white paper, using ty pewriter or dark ink. Please include where you live, your age and whether you are a gay man, a lesbian or a friend or relative. Include only your initials on the letter if you do not w ant your name published. If you have other cor respondence. please include it on a separate sheet. 1 do not have the resources to respond to inquiries but I will place an announcement in this paper or bookstore when the Great March Letters Project is available. Stephen Westfall POBox 11509 Cleveland Park Station Washington. D C. 20008 T E R lenges faced by the gay/lesbian community. Previously. I suppose. I had shrugged my shoulders and said. “Oh. well, it doesn't con cern me.” Thanks. Expanded awareness = new attitude and greater level of caring. We are all human beings, after all. Brenda Damaskos Portland Write Neil a letter To the Editor: This is an urgent reminder to all of you who have not voiced your support to Governor Neil Goldschmidt for signing the executive order prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He is receiving many letters of dis- We are all human beings To the Editor: I loved the current issue [November]. It gave me a better understanding of the issues/chal For the first time a collection of Bernhard's finest nudes in a single elegantly bound monograph. . . A unique and personal vision of the human bodv that is as breathtaking as it is profound. Photographic Image Gallery 208 SW First, Portland, OR 87204 503-2 2 4-3 5 43 Karen Brodine, poet-revolutionary , dead at 40 KAMILA (Á ★ • A rt G tillorv • Books & Posters • Custom f r.tmm^ \ i vive.'« lU ••.Si'À. AL-NAJJAR In 1974 Karen received an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State * >sit; aren Brodine, poet and national leader of tnd taught in the creative wiitinc and extended Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party, died on October 18 at the age of 40 from education departínents Shr jKoleu numerous poetrv workshops for •• metastatic breast and liver cancer. writing groups in the Bay area. Karen believed in equality for women through Karen was also a typesetter and graphic artist out the world and devoted her life to the arts and and had an understanding of the plight of the revolutionary politics. woman office worker. She helped organize a “ Karen was a Fighter.” says Adrienne Wel union at Communication Arts Inc. in San ler. member of the Radical Women and Free Francisco and wrote extensively about race, sex dom Socialist Party in Portland. “ She could and class oppression of women on the job. ignite a room and bring it alive with her depth of From 1982 to 1984 Karen coordinated the Merle feeling. She was an extraordinary person that Woo Defense Committee, enabling Woo. a poet would speak out whenever she felt something and instructor, to win a multiple discrimination was wrong.” lawsuit against UC Berkeley. Karen was raised in Woodinville, Washing Karen's major works include three books of ton. during the McCarthy period and spoke with poetry. Slow Juggling (1975). Workweek (1977), much pride of her grandmother. Harriet Pierce. and illegal Assembly (1980). Her fourth book of Harriet Pierce was hounded by the FBI and poetry. Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking. blacklisted by employers for “ un-American” will oe published soon. Her essays and poetry union activities and feminist convictions. have been printed and reviewed in national and In 1968 Karen moved to the San Francisco international literary, feminist and gay publica Bay area and graduated from l ;C Berkelev tions. Karen has read her poetry nationwide, with a B. A. in humanities and «I'-amatit. art. including the 1985 Portland Poetry Festival. She taught dance in the Richmond and Berkeley Portland’s International Women's Day Cele school districts for five years and was pan of the bration in 1986. and at Reed College. Movable Feast Dance Group. The Karen Brodine Memorial Publications In the earlv "70s. Karen co-founded the Wo len Writers Union in San Francisco, whose Fund has been established to finance the publish ing of ner writings. Contributions may be sent members combined creative writing with politi to Nellie Wong c/o Valencia Hall, 523-A cal activism. She was also founding co-editor of the Kelsey Street Press in Berkeley and editor of Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. For more information call (503) 249-8067. • the Berkeley Poet Co-op from 1979 to 1980, K approval, so let’s show him how much we ap prove of his courage in this action. Please take five minutes to write to Govern« >r Goldschmidt. He needs to hear from us. Kelly Xtasek Portland Ruth Bernhard The Eternal Body In Memoriam BY S futons/ iji'- sr tri*.-.. ' Luxurious &. Affordable Futons. All cotton, cotton/foam core, ivool/cotton. All sizes are available. • Platform &. Folding Frames. * Beautiful Futon Covers &. Pillows. Fine Art Ceramics, Hand-Woven Rugs &. 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