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V \ Ju t out ▼ N ow w A f 1990 V 9 Just new s AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed M ore than 2,000 panels of the was first displayed in Washington, D.C. three Names Project AIDS Memo years ago, the quilt had 1,920 panels.New panels rial Quilt will be displayed are continually being added. Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 at the David Lemos, executive director of the Oregon Convention Center.On Names Project,said the project is hosting the Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, the Portland national display display because the quilt is an uncom will be the largest display of the mon quilt and in the inspiring response to the world. epidemic.“Instead of forcing people to be silent Panels from the quilt will also be displayed at about their loss and suffering, the quilt encour the Oregon Art Museum on Dec. 1, as part of A ages them to express their grief and celebrate the Day Without Art life of someone they’ve loved,” he said. The focus of World AIDS Day 1990 is There will be an opening ceremony Nov. 30 women and children.The Portland display will at 7 pm.The unfolding of the quilt begins at 7:30 contain memorial panels for women and children pm.Closing ceremonies begin at 5 pm on Dec. who have died from AIDS. 2.The display will be open for viewing at 9 am James Bryson, president of the Oregon chap on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 and will close at 10 pm on ter of the Names Project, said more than 500 Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Oregonians have died of AIDS in the past nine People wishing to submit a panel to the Port years.“Many of these people will have quilt pan land display should send them to The Names els which will be part of the display,” Bryson Project, 2140 SW Jefferson Blvd., suite 100, said.“The quilt provides a positive and creative Portland, OR 97201, before Nov. 20.There will means of expression for those whose lives have also be a panel check-in booth at the Convention been touched by the AIDS epidemic.” Center during the display Those wishing to have Bryson said the quilt provides a means for their panels included in the opening ceremonies public education by illustrating the impact of the need to have them at the Convention Center be AIDS epidemic and showing the humanity be fore 6 pm. hind the statistics. As in all other cities, all donations collected The entire Quilt has 12,592 individual 3-foot at the display will be distributed to local agencies by 6-foot panels, each representing the life of providing direct services to people with AIDS/ someone who has died of AIDS.When the quilt HIV and their loved ones. memorate the achievements and contributions of Harvey Milk and to honor those persons who live out his legacy of activism on behalf of the les bian and gay community. Sally Gearhart is a professor in Speech Com n Saturday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 pm in the munication at San Francisco State University.She Unitarian Fellowship Hall 2945 NW is the author for numerous short stories and ar Circle Blvd., Corvallis, After 8 will ticles on feminist theory. She labels herself sponsor the Harvey Milk Awards Din “White Southern Christian Water-Treading ner. Sally Gearhart, author, professor and activ Middle-Class,” a “Radical Lesbian, Feminist, ist, will be the featured speaker and “So- Animal Rights Advocate, Speaker, and Activist.” romundi,” the Eugene Lesbian Choir will pro She is featured in the film. Word Is Out, a docu vide entertainment. “Harveys” will be awarded to mentary on lesbians and gay men. She also ap individuals who have made outstanding contribu pears in the Academy Award winning documen tions to the lesbian and gay community. tary The Times of Harvey Milk. She will read part After 8 formed following the passage of Bal of the eulogy she gave at Harvey Milk’s funeral lot Measure 8 in November 1988. After 8’s goals and share her reflections on where the lesbian are education, advocacy, and direct action to and gay community is now and where it is we create conditions which ensure that all persons need to go. are protected form discrimination based on sex Tickets for the dinner are $25 (tax deductible) ual orientation. Harvey Milk was the first openly and are on sale at Grassroots Bookstore in gay elected official in this country and served Corvallis, Mother Kali’s Books in Eugene, and at briefly as a city supervisor in San Francisco un Artichoke Music in Portland. The event is wheel til his assassination on Nov. 27, 1978. The Har chair accessible, and will be interpreted for the vey Milk Awards Dinner was created to com- hearing impaired. For information call 753-1114. Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders and Related Problems • • • • • overeating, binging, purging anxiety, depression substance abuse, codependency relationship and sexuality concerns life transitions and goals " ... 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Detective Bill Law of the Portland Police Bureau said all of the tenants of the building were gay men. “There has been some speculation that he may have been sexually involved with some of the renters and not told them he was HTV-posi tive," Law said. He said that were checking out the possibility that someone was angry that the owner had exposed him to AIDS. He said they were also other possible motives. The building, which was occupied by tenants when the fire was set, sustained about $43,000 in damage. No one inside the building was injured. As a Crime Stoppers case, any information will remain confidential and you need not give a name. There is a reward of up to $1,000 for in formation leading to an arrest in the case. The Crime Stoppers phone number is 248-HELP. 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