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October 1988
The Portland Gay Men's Chorus announces its
ninth season: “ Strike the Harp and loin the
Chorus," with guest harpist Scott Grimes, in
December; "Song and Ballet," in April; and a joint
concert with the New York City Gay Men's
Chorus, in )uly. (Season tickets: $39, 53 1 and $20,
PGMC, PO Box 3223, Portland, OR 97208.)
Civil rights are under attack by Ballot Measure
8. Oregonians for Fairness has organized a
campaign to defeat this measure and needs your
time and money. (898 SE Stark St., Portland, OR
97214,231-3913.)
The Portland Lesbian Choir is looking for a new
musical director. Applications will be accepted
until Oct. 22, 1988. (284-9941.)
photo by Skip Roberts
Harvest Brigades are being organized to assist
with the coffee and cotton crops in Nicaragua.
Brigadistas live and work alongside Nicaraguan
workers, sharing in the hardship and the satisfac
tion of the harvest. Brigades are scheduled for
November through January, with a special student
brigade leaving December 21. (Portland Central
America Solidarity Committee, Nancy, 236-7916.)
Members of the cost of Steel Kiss are, left to right, Julian Rogers, Darren Lay, Eric Jones Darrow,
and Brad Cook. Opens October 13 at the Little Theatre off Broadway in Seattle.
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• SUNDAY
Northeast Portland lesbians: meet your
neighbors at a potluck brunch today. (11 am, 328 3
NE 85th Ave., 255-3487.)
The second annual Halloween Costume Sale
features the funkiest, funniest and scariest
costumes provided by local merchants and theater
companies. The sale benefits Echo Theatre, a
nonprofit theater arts center. (Noon-5 pm, Echo
Theatre, 1515 SE 37th Ave., 25 cents, 231-1232.)
Lesbian college and university faculty and
administrators are invited to a social and profes
sional networking brunch. (11 am, Banquet
Room, O ld Wives' Tales, 1300 E Burnside St.,
Holly, 282-1529.)
Doug Barnes, a longtimeTrotskyist, community
activist, photojournalist and Seattle Freedom
Socialist Party organize , gives a firsthand
account of the political changes sweeping the
Soviet Union and shows slides of his recent trip to
Moscow. (2:30 pm, Portland State University
Campus Christian Ministry, 633 SW Montgomery
St., call ahead for childcare, 249-8067.)
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• FRIDAY
Phoenix Rising presents Men by the Sea, a
three-day weekend retreat for gay men at a private
facility with a two-mile private beach, hiking
trails, canoeing, horseback riding, and rustic
cabins and lodges. (Friday through Sunday, Oct.
28-30. Camp Westwind, near Lincoln City, $75-
$125 includes all meals and lodging, 223-8299.)
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of Goddesses
in Everywoman, gives a lecture entitled "The
Heroine and Hero in Each of Us." (7:30 pm, Room
200, B.P. lohn Building, Mary I hurst College, $ 10
[tickets: Catbird Seat Bookstorel, 222-5817.)
The City of Portland Bureau of Parks and Recre
ation offers "Halloween Pumpkin Painting and
Decorating" for children ages 4 and up. (4-5 pm,
$ I , bring your own pumpkin, 796-5193.)
Slightly Bent News has produced a new
program to air in October and November. (8:30-9
pm, Rogers Cable Channel 11.)
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• SATURDAY
The Funny Ladies Afternoon Tea and Posey
Society hosts a Halloween Costume Party and
Dance. Gay women 35 and over are welcome.
(659-8778.)
KBOO 90.7 FM holds its seventh annual BOO
Ball tonight, with entertainment provided by the
Lloyd Jones Struggle. This is KBOO's largest fund
raiser of the year as well as Portland's best
costume party. (8 pm-?, Union Station, $ 15
general public: $ 13 KBOO members [tickets:
Music Millennium, KBOO], 231-8032.)
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• SUNDAY
Celebrate Hallomas/Sawhain at Portland's first
spiral dance. (6 pm, doors open; 7 pm, ritual, Echo
Theatre, 1515 SE 37th Ave., Melodie, 233-7923.)
C O M I N G
UP
Lavender Law: The National Conference on
Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues will convene in San
Francisco this fall. The conference will include
seminars and workshops on a variety of issues,
including family law, estate planning, employment
discrimination, sodomy law reform, civil
disobedience, military and immigration policy,
and AIDS. Lavender Law has been approved for
ten Oregon MCLE credits. (Nov. 12 and 13,
Golden Gate Law School, San Francisco, $30-$90
sliding scale, register: BALIF, PO Box 1983, San
Francisco, CA 94101, [415] 431-1444.)
Ariel Waterwoman offers a 20-week Women's
Herbal Study Group beginning this fall. The group
is limited to five women, who must be serious
about studying healing arts through the medium of
herbs. Ariel's blend of ancient Cherokee earth-
knowledge, Jewish wisdom and Welsh spirit
weaves an intricate fabric through her teaching.
Women of color are especially encouraged to
participate. (Projected starting date: Oct. 26,
Wednesdays, 6:30-9 pm, $5- $ 10, 6t>8-6946.)
Budding filmmakers may have their works
viewed by the public in the Oregon Art Institute's
Young People's Film and Video Festival in
November. Entries w ill be accepted from student
filmmakers, kindergarten through college age,
living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Alaska. (Deadline: October 21; entrv forms
available at Northwest Film and Video Center,
1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156.)
Women with Women and Children seeks
speakers for the October brunch; speakers should
be lesbians who are or have been foster parents,
or social-service professionals with experience
working with foster children and foster parents.
(Holly, 282-1529.)
Demonstrations will be held every Friday until
further notice on the sidewalks surrounding
Pioneer Courthouse by members of the gay and
lesbian communities to develop awareness of the
No on 8 Campaign and to protest the removal of
CAP posters from Tri-Met buses. (For information
and copies of the CAP poster, call Fred Menard,
233-7216.)
A separate legal conference on AIDS will take
place in San Francisco and has been approved for
seven Oregon MCLE credits. (Nov. 11, San
Francisco War Memorial Building, $50, register:
BALIF, PO Box 1983, San Francisco, CA 94101,
[415] 431-1444.)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The National Transvestite/Transsexual Hotline
is a 24-hour free information service for female
impersonators, transsexuals and transvestites.
There are over 22,000 members nationwide.
(|206| 329-TVTS.)
Ginny Vida, editor of Our Right to Love: A
Lesbian Resource Biwk, invites lesbian
photographers to submit photos of lesbians for
possible inclusion in the revised edition to be
published by E.P. Dutton. Photographs depicting
affection, friendship, outdoor scenes, indoor
scenes, lesbians at play, lesbians at work,
individual portraits, lesbians engaged in sports or
other activities, black, white, Asian American,
Latina, Native American, younger, middle-aged,
older, abled and differently abled lesbians, as well
as lesbians who are national or local movement
leaders, are being sought. (Ginny Vida, editor, Our
Right to Love, 45 Plaza St., # l-G, Brooklyn, NY
11217, J7/8| 789-0391.)
"A live and Thriving with H IV"
The producers of Slightly Bent News return with
a program in which three persons affected by
HIV talk about the up-side of the disease. (9:30
pm, Oct. 2, Channel 27; 9 pm, Oct. 6, Channel
27; 8:30 pm, Oct. 8, Channel 33; 8 pm, Oct. 9,
Channel 3 3, Rogers Cable.)
Three urban herb walks will be offered on
Sundays in October by Ariel Waterwoman. Get to
know the urban weeds and trees as they go
through their seasonal changes. (3 pm, Oct. 16,
Nature's, 3449 NE 24th Ave.; 11 am, Oct. 23,
Nature's, 5909 SW Corbett Ave.; 2 pm, Oct. 30,
Washington Park Arboretum Visitors' Center, $5
each, 668-6946.)
Healing Crystals presents Ghanaian drummer
Kpani Addy in an eight-week class limited to six
participants. Kpani Addy has toured the south
eastern United States, Canada and Japan with his
father, Yacoub Addy, and has performed exten
sively with his uncle, Portland's own Obo Addy.
(7:30-8:30 pm, Sundays, Oct. 2-Nov. 20, $ 15 per
class, 234-2224.)
Rose Court events
Friday, Oct. 14: David Perry's auction to benefit
Oregonians for Fairness. (7; 30 pm, Dirty Duck
Tavern, Dennis, 283-2161.)
Saturday, Oct. 15: All-Candidate Show. (7 pm,
Metropolitan Community Church, Rod, 233-8049.)
Sunday, Oct. 16: Voting for candidates. ( Noon-
8 pm, Darcelle's, Dennis, 283-2161.)
Sunday, Oct. 16: Tom Terrific's Turkey Bowl.
(11 am-2 pm, Powell Lanes, Rod, 233-8049.)
Saturday, Oct. 22: "Shipwrecked: Atlantis
Revisited" Coronation Ball. (6 pm, Masonic
Temple Grand Ballroom, Dennis, 283-2161.)
The Counseling Center for Sexual Minorities
operates a telephone hotline providing gay/lesbian
information and referral, supportive listening and
crisis counseling. (7-11 pm, every night,
228-6"G j , PO Box 4852, Portland, OR 97208.)
Men who like to sing are urged to audition for
the Portland Gay Men's Chorus. (Auditions, con
tact David York, 235-4241; rehearsals: Mondays,
6:30-9:15 pm, 453 Cramer Hall, Portland State
University.)
G R O U P S
All skill levels are welcome to play volleyball
fo r women every Wednesday. (7-9 pm Laurelhurst
Park, Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street.)
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
(PFLAG) provides love and support for all family
members and friends. (7 -10 pm, fourth Wednes
day, 233-5415.)
The Portland Lesbian Choir rehearses weekly
and welcomes instrumentalists, arrangers and
production people. New singing members will be
accepted in March 1989. (Marla, 245-1429 or
657-1125.)
Women With Woman And Children sponsors a
support network for lesbian mothers with infants
and toddlers. ( Patricia, 293-2822.)
The Metro Crisis Intervention Service seeks
caring, nonjudgmental volunteers to staff
Portland's 24-hour crisis hotline. A five-week
training program will cover counseling theory and
technique, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic '
violence, suicide, AIDS and other topics. (Begins
Oct. 8, 226-3099.)
Janet Peterson and Kathleen Fallon perform at
the First Tuesday Coffeehouse , October 4.
Community radio station KBOO 90.7 FM
broadcasts Bread and Roses, a weekly feminist/
lesbian public-affairs program; Womansoul, a
program of women's music; and Detour, an
international gay and lesbian public-affairs show.
(Bread and Roses, 9-10 pm, Tuesdays; Woman-
soul, 10 pm-1 am Fridays; Detour, 10-10:30 pm,
Sundays, 231-8032.)
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