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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1992)
• ▼ M y 1992 ▼ national briefs REPORT HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE TWENTY-THIRD AVENUE B O C ) • ] K-!5 1015 N W 2 3 rd A v e n u e , P o r tla n d , O r e g o n 9 7 2 1 0 , (5 0 3 ) 2 2 4 - 509 7 -• Monday' Friday 9:30 am - 8 pm □ Saturday 10 a^n - 8 pm □ Sunday 11 am - 4 pm ^ IF YOU BELIEVE IN PORTLAND ....... CHOICES! Choose a Realtor that will give you extra service at no extra cost CALIFORNIA Mobilization Against AIDS, California s old est and largest AIDS lobbying organization, is making an appeal to people with HIV/AIDS to meet with their congressional representatives on National AIDS Lobby Day (Monday, May 18). The event will occur the day after the world’s largest AIDS event, the ninth annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization, which is also coordinated by MAA. Candlelight Memorials will be held in over 250 cities world wide. Anyone interested in more information about National AIDS Lobby Day should call 1- (800) LOBBY. ▼ ▼ ▼ The United Way of the Bay Area said that it would no longer support the area’s six Boy Scout councils because of the youth organization’s na tional policy barring membership to homosexu als. Officials of the Boy Scouts of America said they were not daunted by the cutoff, which had been expected. The action was the latest in a series of protests against the Boy Scouts’ national policy barring homosexuals. ▼ ▼ ▼ Oliver Stone says he will not carry through with plans to direct “The Mayor of Castro Street," a film based on Randy Shilts’s book about Harvey Milk, the slain San Francisco city supervisor and gay folk hero. Meanwhile, Chicago Sun-Times file critic Roger Ebert says Stone told him, perhaps jok ingly, that he was afraid a CIA agent posing as a homosexual might assassinate him at the Acad emy Awards. “Oliver Stone [said he] had a few fears as he entered the Chandler Pavilion while gay activists picketed across the street,” Ebert wrote. “ ‘JFK’ was one of their targets, for the film’s depictions of gays. But what had Stone worried about was the possibility he’d be assassinated by a CIA agent disguised as a gay protester. Stone was joking, I think.” ILLINOIS While a dozen of their comrades shouted, “Stop waffling with our rights!” four QueeT Na tional members threw breakfast waffles at the Cook County Board of Commissioners during a meeting in Chicago. The four, who had chained themselves to their chairs, were arrested after police cut through the chains with bolt cutters. The protest was staged to dramatize a demand that Board President Richard Phelan follow through on a campaign promise to pass a county-wide gay rights law. Y Y Y -U bi '/ oa M BA have a Masters Degree in Business. 16 years of experience, and I am dedicated to giving you the Best Real Estate Service in Portland " HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT TRADING UP? WITH INTEREST RATES AS LOW AS THEY ARE, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SELL YOUR HOUSE AND BUY SOME THIN!; CLOSER TO YOUR DREAM FOR THE SAME MONTHLY PAYMENT YOU ARE MAKINC NOW. Call anytime ifie 2 2 0 -1 1 4 4 ReahvGwuD Jn c, The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to review a case in which a suburban Chicago les bian was denied custody of her 5-year-old daugh ter because the lesbian is not married to the loveT with whom she lives. Lower courts said sexual orientation was not the issue but rather the unmar ried status of the couple. ▼ ▼▼ The Physicians Association for AIDS Care (PAAC) recently distributed $470,000 in grants to 51 chapters of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). The funding, announced in Chicago, represented a portion of the profits from the sale of Red, Hot and Blue,” an album collec tion of popular Cole Porter tunes performed by pop/rock superstars including Sinead O ’Connor, Lisa Stansfield, Jimmy Somerville, Iggy Pop’ Blondie. U2, Ninch Cherry and David Byrne Gordon Nary, PACC’s executive director, em phasized the critical role that activist groups particularly ACT UP. perform in keeping the political and economic issues affecting access to appropriate healthcare at the center of public attention. The Pink Angels, a mostly homosexual anti crime group, has begun patrolling the largely gay and lesbian section of Chicago’s North Side, the scene o f a recent shooting police believe was motivated by hate against homosexuals. Dressed in black berets and jackets, volunteer members of the Pink Angels walk the streets and alleys, jotting down the license numbers o f hecklers, exchang ing information with police, and checking for trouble. Chicago police have been publicly sup portive o f the unarmed, nonviolent approach taken by the Angels. NEW YORK In an unprecedented show o f support for gays and lesbians, rock legends Lou Reed, Debbie HaiTy, and David Byrne will join other Sire Records superstars on a compact disc to be re leased this spring. The disc, titled Get Out, will mark the first time in history that major label recording artists have united to benefit gays and lesbians. It will be available only to charter subscribers of Out, a new national gay and lesbian magazine beginning publication in June. The 17-track CD, also featuring artists like k.d. lang, Marc Almond and John Wesley Harding, can be obtained by calling O ut's information line at l-(800) 876- 1199. From its New York City headquarters. Out will cover culture, current affairs, and people, as well as interests from fitness to fashion. Y Y Y Heckling from a person with AIDS caused presidential frontrunner Bill Clinton to fly into a rage during an address to lawyers at a supper club in Manhattan. The New York Post said Clinton “exploded in an angry outburst” when his speech was interrupted by Bob Rafsky, a member of ACT UP who has AIDS. At one point, Clinton report edly told Rafsky he was “no better than Jerry Brown” and to “go support somebody else for president” Later, Clinton shook Rafsky’s hand, which Rafsky discounted as “only a photo oppor tunity.” W A SH IN G TO N , D.C. AIDS organizations are protesting a new $15 million government ad campaign for not explic itly conveying how to prevent the spread of HIV. The three television ads, prepared by a private advertising agency for the U.S. Dept, of Health and Human Services, feature teenagers with AIDS living in small towns as part o f the government’s “American Responds to AIDS” campaign. How ever, the ads contain no mention of condoms, or other preventative measures. Instead, they advise viewers to call the federal AIDS hotline. “You don’t sell detergent by saying to call l-(800) DETERGENT if you’re concerned about dirty laundry,” said Jeff Levi o f the AIDS Action Council. Y V Y Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA), a mem ber of the House Subcommittee with responsibil ity for AIDS, today called for a full investigation into comments, attributed to senior Administra tion health officials, that Studds said amounted to "a death sentence for thousands of ill Americans. Studds requested public hearings, if necessary, regarding the assessment o f the federal AIDS effort by Department o f Health and Human Ser vices spokesman William Grigg, who reportedly said: “When you’re fighting a fire, you control it from the outside and let the center bum. The san* holds true for medicine.” “No tenet of modem medicine or science dismisses from care whole segments of the p°Pu lation,” Studds contended. “It is shocking M senior Public Health Service personnel-if ratcly quoted-have made such outrageous jud|' ments about people at highest risk for HIV d* ease.”
