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STATE SEN A TE:
District 3 D - Bob Shoemaker (I)
District 5 R - Jeanette Hamby (1)
District 9 D - Frank Roberts (1)
District 12 D - Bob Johnson
District 13 D - Joyce Cohen (I)
District 14 D - Jack Elder
District 16 D -J im Hill (I)
District 17 D - Tricia Smith
District 18 D - Cliff Trow (I)
District 26 D - Jeff Golden
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community. No telling where this all will lead,
M eier & Frank should or if it will lead anywhere. I do know that the
emotional overflow I feel when reading Just
Out leaves me wanting to be an activist, a
be commended
helper, a tender shoulder, a friend, an enemy, a
person who does things to help others, a
To the Editor,
senator, a basher, a health-giver, a person that
I am writing in response to Jack Riley s
comments regarding ART/AIDS in the October lets life pass them by, and so much more.
Thank you. Just Out, for helping me realize
issue. First of all it should be noted that the
event is a Meier & Frank event to celebrate the that there are so many outside the gay commu
who have different ideals, beliefs and
renovation of their Lloyd Center store and that nity
concerns,
as well as the same within the gay
ART/AIDS will be the beneficiary of the event
Meier & Frank is the first major corporation in community. You have helped me formulate in
my mind, as I write, what is important to me.
the state of Oregon to step forward to raise
money in the battle against AIDS. In addition to That is why my wish is not just to help the gay
community, but to help humanity; thus,
funding long term care for persons with AIDS
through the opening celebration, the employees becoming a PAL. Isn’t that what God puts us
here for — to love one another and help each
of Meier & Frank have begun a fundraising
campaign that will be matched dollar for dollar other. May my tears, joys, disappointments and
passions help someone in this world, whether
by the parent organization, The May Co.
they are gay or straight.
Instead of putting the event and Meier &
Signing my name is my contribution to
Frank down as Mr. Riley did, I think that this
“Coming Out Day.”
company, its management and employees
should be commended for taking a positive
Patrick F. Campbell
stand, for its commitment to educating the
Portland
community and its willingness to raise dollars
to assist those in our community with AIDS.
ART/AIDS will sponsor an event of its own
next year which, like the two which have pro
ceeded it, will be accessible to all in the
community regardless of income.
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REPRESENTATIVES:
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D - Tim Josi
D - Hedy L. Rijken (I)
D - Kathy Morris
R - Ted Calouri (I)
R * Mary Alice Ford (I)
D - Vera Katz (l>
D - Tom Mason (I)
D - Phil Keisling (I)
D - Judy Bauman (I)
D - Beverly Stein (I)
D - Lisa Naito
D - Tom Novick
D - Mike Burton
D - Margaret Carter
D - Ron Cease (I)
D - Bernie Baker
D - Rick Kotulski
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District 58
R - David Cook
D - David McTeague (I)
D - Sharon Little
D - Jim Edmunson
D - Carl Hosticka (I)
D • David Dix (I)
D - Bill Dwyer (I)
D * Lynn Kahle
D - Sam Dominy (I)
D - Judi Pettengill
D - Jim Whitty
D - David Werschkul
D - Nancy Peterson (I)
D - Terry Edvalson
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To the Editor,
I recently started reading Just Out. I have
lived in Portland for 12 1/2 years, of which 11
1/2 were spent in a relationship. Through these
years of living in Portland, I have continually
become more comfortable with my sexuality.
As I read Just Out I become an emotional mess.
After the first two issues I read, I told a friend,
“I am going to have to stop reading this paper
because it depresses me in many ways.”
Each time I pick up the paper and read so
much about AIDS, I continuously have tears in
my eyes or running down my face. As I read
about other gays defacing property by spray
painting, etc., the unashamed love that two men
have had for 23 years, the memorials of those
that didn’t last for a cure, the discrimination
against gays in other countries, strides made in
gay rights, the sharing of others’ laughter and
tears, I find a power brewing in me.
I guess what I am trying to say is that Just
Out moves me physically, intellectually,
spiritually and emotionally. I feel mad, happy,
sad, tears, joy, love, loss, empathy, sympathy,
and a bottom-line image of who and what I am.
I want to fight, love, be loved, write rhetoricals,
lash out, protect and unleash power. It is like
going to a movie that makes me laugh, cry or
sad or happy, etc. I consider a movie that gives
me so many emotional feelings a “good”
movie.
Just Out has brought me closer to who I am,
and what is important in my life, and has given
me a feeling that I must provide something to
the gay community, whether it is standing out
in Pioneer Courthouse Square on “Coming Out
Day,” or choosing to help those less fortunate
than me. The latter is what I have chosen. I
have lost so many to the disease of AIDS that I
have called and asked for an application to
become a PAL (Personal Active Listener).
If it hadn’t been for Just Out, and, of course,
the guidance of God, I would never have
thought to reach out and help others in the gay
w ith child m olesters
To the Editor,
Frorrftime to time there surface in these
pages opinions about age-of-consent laws and
underage sex. It is important that we support
the right of people any age to explore their
sexuality, but we need to take care to avoid the
appearance of promoting exploitation or abuse.
Just Out runs onto dangerous ground when
it discusses the issue of sex between adults and
legally underage teen-agers. If a teen-ager is
sexually drawn to adults, he or she should be
free to seek adult partners. There are obviously
many adults who would like to have sex with
teen-agers (witness straight America’s
standards, Playboy and Penthouse, to see what
is desirable in a woman). On the other hand,
when an adult is sexually drawn to teen-agers
or pre-pubescent children, the adult does not
necessarily have to wait to find a willing
partner, because teen-agers and children
generally do not have the power or ability to
say no to a grown-up and defend that no.
Anyone, adult or child, can be sexually
exploited, but some people are better prepared
to avoid exploitation than others. For example,
a newborn can’t express itself as well as a 2- ,
year-old; a 2-year-old can’t express (or care for,
or defend) itself as well as an 8-year-old; and
an 8-year-old not as well as a 12-year-old.
There are many theories about when a
person is “ready” for sex. Some believe it’s at
adolescence — when your body is ready,
you’re ready. Others feel readiness comes
later, with mental or emotional maturity. Still
others say puberty has nothing to do with it and
that people are ready for sex at 8 years of age,
or 4, or 2 months. I’m willing to bet that most
Just Out readers believe it’s wrong to fuck a 2-
month-old. Chances are, most even think it’s
wrong to fuck an 8-year-old, maybe more so if
the other participant is, say, 15 or 30 or 50.
Just Out needs to do a little editorial soul-
searching before it prints articles, letters, Just
Briefs or anything favorable to those who want
to have to promote sex with “minors” — that
wide-ranging group of people that includes
little kids along with sexually mature teen
agers. Because when you defend grown-ups
who want to have sex with minors, just because
there are teen-agers (and chiltfrenll) who want
to have sex with grown-ups, in the eyes of the