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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1988)
Just: news Psychological Services for Women, Men, and Couples G ay youth: a forgotten minority? As members of the gay and lesbian community, we must ask ourselves: what are we going to do for today’s lesbian and gay youth ? Ruth Bernhard The Eternal Body 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 breath taking as it is profound. Kristine L. Falco, Psv.D. Psychological Resident Supervisor ta w \ I un liner I’ll I) Photographic Image Gallery JOB SW First, Portland. OR 97204 654-9866 503-224-3543 Mihvaukie, Oregon • \rt ( /.illerv • Books <S> fosters •C ustom Framing BETTER HEALTH CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC "A Total Personal Health Concept " • Deep Muscle Work • Exercise/Prevention • Sportsmedicine Gays), and Phoenix Rising (a gay referral/ resource center). Also in attendance will be counselors from the Portland Public Schools ne of the most popular details in a coming- and representatives from the American Friends out story is how old one was when one knew. While we may marvel at those who came Service Committee. CUE urges gay parents, gay youth and other interested people to attend out at an early age. we need to think about what the evening’s discussion. Panel members have it might mean to be gay throughout childhood been asked to briefly outline their organization's and adolescence. Growing up isn't easy for perspective on gay youth. CUE hopes that ques anyone. Growing up gay means also confront tions and opinions from the audience will spark ing the challenges that face all gays and les discussion. bians. Many o f us would probably prefer to Some o f the issues likely to be discussed forget our childhoods. But as members of the include the following: gay and lesbian community, we must ask our • What resources are currently available to gay selves: what are we going to do for today’s gay youth? and lesbian youth? “ Gay Youth “ will be the subject of a panel • What are the concerns of gay youth? discussion sponsored by the Cascade Union of • How can the community respond to these Educators. CUE is a support and networking needs? organization for gay and lesbian teachers. CUE • What types of support can we commit to gay wants to provide the community with a forum to youth in the future? discuss the issues and concerns of gay youth. The event will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on The panel will be made up of representatives Thursday. March !f) . at MCC, which is located o f Windfire (a gay/bisexual youth group), at Northeast 24th and Broadway. • PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and B Y C E L I A F L O R E N O 222-2888 Rena Sandler, D.C. Doctor on 24 hour page for emergencies EAGLE lands in Portland 1130 SW Morrison, Suite 301 (by the light-rail turnaround) Workers’ Comp & Auto Insurance Cover Chiropractic Care Insurance Accepted US West employees form gay and lesbian support group B Y G A R Y L . W E S T mployees o f US West in Portland have formed a chapter of Employees Associa tion for Gays and Lesbians (EAGLE), the fifth company-sanctioned support group within Pacific Northwest Bell. Portland's EAGLE joins previously established chapters in Denver. Seattle Minneapolis and Omaha. FAGLE’s non-political mission is to strength en support within US West so that issues of gay and lesbian employees are addressed and resolved while furthering corporate goals. Andy Smith, president of Pacific Northwest Bell, has stated that discrimination in the work place will not be tolerated. For the past five years PNB has protected and supported the rights of all employees regardless of their sex ual orientation; employees with AIDS are to be treated the same as any other employee suffer- E m a m Quarterly Reso u ree Di recto ry Ç3 Pick up your FREE copy of Reflections 35,000 copies distributed at over 5 0 0 locations throughout Oregon and SW Washington. Includes ideas and choices for health conscious, socially responsible living in the BO’s and beyond. Ç ing from a catastrophic illness, with full rights and privileges to contractual employee benefits. There still are employees who are afraid to live their lives fully because of continuing pre i- udice, fear and persistent myths about who we are as a people. EAGLE exists to establish gay people as valuable and worthy members of the corporation and society and to create a working environment o f mutual respect between them and other members o f the corporate com munity. It seeks opportunities for members to improve their careers and personal lives and to do so with pride in who they are. Membership in EAGLE is open to any cur rent or retired employee o f the US West com panies. For more information, contact EAGLE, PO Box 8961, Portland. Ore. 97207. • Gary L. West is co-moderator o f the Portland chapter o f EAGLE. Advertising information or Graphic Design Services, call eB 1-4486 Or send $ 2 for sample copy to Condoms on campus P.O. Box 13070, Portland, OR S7213. SA N D R A K. PIN C H E S, P h.D . I HOD N.vv. Johnson, Sie. 7 Portland. ( >H97200 Specializing in issues of: Just Out • 8 • M aa h 1988 administration to request that the supplier remove all the machines, according to Roy letter to the editor in a recent issue of Lindsay, vice president o f administrative The Bridge , Portland Community services. C ollege's student newspaper, has prompted a Mt. Hood Community College, on the other survey on the availability of condom vending hand, is proud o f their record for several years machines on local college campuses. The letter o f providing condom machines in student writer defended the installation of condom dis restrooms, according to Joan Chronister, pensers in PCC-Sylvania restrooms, the availa purchasing agent for the school. Chronister bility o f which were under attack by a PCC acknowledged that this service was instructor. “ The spread o f AIDS is the real “ far-sighted.” issue, not the moral aspects of marriage." the Lewis and Clark College has installed con writer said. dom vending machines in all dormitory laundry O ur survey revealed that PCC has removed rooms on campus. The college sees this place all condom dispensers from the campus rest ment as non-sexist and instructional. Lewis and rooms; furthermore, the administration is not Clark makes a point o f stressing health care entertaining proposals to replace the vending perspectives and providing the best information machines. A dispute with the vendor of the and resources to its students regarding AIDS machines over profitability caused the college (Continued on next page) B Y A (.”>( )3) 227 7")-)H • Recovering Alcoholics • Codependency Condom vending machines on Portland-area campuses underscore the pressure being placed on dynamic instruction in halting the spread of AIDS Lesbian & gay couples Intimacy & commitment H A R O L D M O O R E