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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1990)
JoAnn Loulan returns to Portland JoAnn Loulan, a nationally known psychotherapist, sex educator, author and researcher, returns to Portland on February 24 with her Evening of Provocative Humor and Lesbian Sex Education. Lou Ian’s appearance will be at the Northwest Service Center on Saturday, February 24 at 8 pm. Loulan specializes in the sexual and emotional concerns of lesbians. She brought 700 women to their feet at her last performance in Portland. Loulan’s workshop. Sex and Intimacy in Recovery, is a day long workshop for lesbians recovering from addictive substances and behaviors. The workshop will be held on Sunday, February 25, also at the Northwest Service Center. Recovery is a self-defined term and does not mean participation in a 12- step program. Topics to be covered include: co-dependency, sex and love addiction; alcohol and substance abuse issues; is this sobriety or just plain boredom?; singles, dating and AIDS. Lo ulan’s appearance partially benefits A W oman’s Place Bookstore. Tickets for the lecture are $10 in advance and $12 at the door and are available at A Woman’s Place Bookstore, Artichoke Music, Music Millenium, in Portland and Mother Kali’s in Eugene. Workshop tickets are sliding scale $45 to $75. Available at A Woman’s Place Bookstore, 1431 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, 97232, or through the mail. Call 284-1110. Team Portland forges ahead Team Portland is well on its way toward the goal of registering at least 100 athletes for the Celebration 90 — Gay Games HI, in Vancouver, B.C. Over 50 gay men and lesbians have completed the registration process for a wide variety of sports, including tennis, track and field, racquetball, basketball, softball, weight lifting, physique, marathon, triathlon, volleyball, swimming, bowling, and cioquet. Those interested in registering have until May 31 to do so. Team Portland has also formed a swim team which is holding regular practice sessions on Sunday mornings from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the downtown YWCA. The team is open to all levels of swimmers regardless of previous competitive experience. The team is also actively looking for a qualified swim coach who can organize the team and prepare it for competition in Vancouver. Interested persons should call Jay at 228-6971 or Jill at 228-1596. The Team Portland tennis team is holding regular practice sessions Sunday afternoons at the University of Portland. The team is seeking female players so as to be able to compete in all of the events available. Players of all levels are encouraged to turn out. The tennis team is also seeking a qualified coach. Call Richard at 245-5301 for further information. Other team sports are forming and will be announcing practice schedules soon. Team Portland representatives can place individuals desiring to participate in various team sports with others in the same sport. Call Tyler at 289-2226 for more information. Team Portland T-shirts are now available for purchase from any Team Portland Steering Committee member, at the Phoenix Rising offices, on weekends at CC Slaughters and The Eagle. The $10 purchase price will help defray administrative costs of managing Team Portland and go toward the purchase of team uniforms. T-shirts are also available at Impostors, 1833 NE 2nd. International Women’s Day events set The 15th annual International Women’s Day Celebration will be held on March 10, at Portland State University, Smith Memorial Center, from 10 am to 5 pm. Day activities include: food, film, performances, arts and crafts and women’s organizations. The political forum at noon will examine the impact and implications of pornography and prostitution on women’s lives. The evening activities include performances by Altazor and Casselberry-Dupree. Admission to day activities is $2 or sliding scale. The evening performance tickets are $12 and are available through A Woman’s Place Bookstore, Artichoke Music, and Portland State University Box Office. International Women’s Day celebrates cultural diversity, women’s history, art, and political struggle. Women interested in planning this event or who require more information may contact the Portland State University W omen’s Union at 725-4452. The Planning Committee is committed to cultural diversity and encourage women from all ethnic, racial cultures and abilities to participate in the event. International Women’s Day is wheelchair accessible, and interpretation for the hearing impaired will be provided, as well as free quality childcare. St. John to Speak at Atlanta Conference representatives of local, regional and national lesbian and gay organizations. Among the more than 30 presenters at the Conference will be Sabrina Sojourner of Etcetera, A. William S. Jones of the National Minority AIDS Council, the Rev. Renee McCoy of Faith Church in Detroit, Barbara Smith of Kitchen Table Press and Rev. Carl Bean of Unity Fellowship Church in Los Angeles. There has been considerable outreach conducted to make the final program as diverse as possible in the topics presented and to have the roster as geographically representative of the entire country. The Conference, which took place in Los Angeles the past two years, is being sponsored by the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum and is being hosted in Atlanta by the African-American Lesbian and Gay Alliance. w Lesbian Visibility Project Keith St. John, the nation’s first openly gay Black elected official, will be a keynote speaker at the third annual National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference. The Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, February 16-19. St. John joins other leaders from across the country for four days of workshops, receptions, cultural activities, a Health Institute and the second annual Leadership Rountable. The Health Institute, in addition to its annual offering of the latest in expertise for health care providers in the AIDS field, will be expanded this year to include special areas o f concentration on health issues for women and on chemical dependency. The Leadership Roundtable is a half-day strategy session for The planning group for the Lesbian Visibility Project has recently begun forming. Now is the time to get involved. First on the agenda is recruiting new members o f the Lesbian Community Project and forging a commitment to reflect as much of the diver sity of the community as possible. Secondly, after reviewing the positives and negatives of last year’s campaign, the course for the new campaign will be charted. The Lesbian Visibility Project is a great opportunity for individual input for influenc ing both the message and the method. All lesbians with a willingness to work hard and have fun along the way are invited to partici pate. Call the Lesbian Community Project at 223-0071. — Cathy Siemens Psychological Services for Women, Men, and Couples Healing & Education Center for Women • HIV + E nergy T herapy Club P o r t l a n d 3 0 3 SW 1 2 th 227-9992 F re e C o n d o m s (courtesy o f C A P ) M onday afternoons & evenings • ANCIENT GODDESS TEACHINGS W omen only Kristine L. Falco, Psy.D. • PRIVATE HEALING PRACTICE For Men 8i Women. Specializing in Abuse & Addictions Licensed Clinical Psychologist 3903 SW Kelly, Suite 210 Portland, OR 97201 223-8071 MACY BRADER & BONNIE K0VALEFF P.O Box 1402 Sandy, OR 9 7 055 6 2 2 -4 4 3 9 Congratulations! 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