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ju s t out s in ce 1 9 8 3 PUBUSHER AND EDITOR steppin' out contents Renee LaChance VOL. 9 N O . 8 CO-EDITOR JUNE 1992 Ariel W aterwoman Meg Grace FEATURES FREELANCE REPORTERS Teens get a chance Kris Shaw An interview with Virginia Uribe discussing Los Angeles' Project 10 CALENDAR EDITOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Linda Kliewer Linda Carter Ip. 16 ) ADVERTISING Now more than ever Amanda Colorado Meg Grace E. Ann Hinds The Oregon Citizens Alliance gets one o f its hate-filled measures to pass in Springfield CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds (p-11) PROOFREADER Kim White Profile TYPESETTER A gay father talks about his fam ily Amanda Colorado FORMATTER (P- 21) Meg Grace DISTRIBUTION Up Front Distribution SUBSCRIPTIONS Carol Steincl Chloe De Segonzac editorial DEPARTMENTS Letters (P- 4) CONTRIBUTORS Lee Lynch Dr. Tantalus Matt Bailey Marilyn Davis Rex W ockncr Sandra dc Helen Matthew Nelson Steve Warren Howard Dana Katherine Gleason Anndcc Hochman Jeff W illiamson Just Out is published on the first day of each month. © 1992. No part of Just Out may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. T h e subm ission of w ritte n an d g ra p h ic m a te ria ls is w elcom ed. Written material should be typed and double-spaced. Just Out reserves the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. We will reject or edit articles o r advertisem ents that are offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. 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Many races still too close to call. his was the first primary to give us a plethera of candidates who support lesbian and gay rights. It seems the Oregon Citizens Alliance needs to be given some credit for that. Since the OCA launched its petition drive last year, candidates have been coming out of the House, Senate and every other elected office door to denounce the OCA and everything it stands for. It was an issue that made candidates a Maypole for lesbians and gay men to rally around. This was the first primary in Oregon history to have an openly gay man and an out lesbian running for office. Jerry Keene ran as a Republican and won his party's nomination. Now he will run against Democrat, and long time supporter of lesbian and gay rights, Tom Mason, for the District 11 seat. Gail Shibley beat her opponents by a landslide for the Democratic nomination for the District 12 seat. She will run against Republican Susan Ward in November. The race between Kate Brown and Judy Bauman for the Democratic nomination for the District 13 scat remained neck and neck as o f press time. The absentee ballots left Brown only three votes ahead. If a recount shows Brown to be the winner, she will run against Republican Mike Erickson. Avel Gordley and Tom Novick caused many to pull their hair out before making a decision. Both are excellent candi dates, and each had their own seat until district restructuring pitted them against each other. Winning by just 145 votes, Gordley ended up on top and Novick is committed to helping her defeat Republican Marilyn Schultz for the District 19 seat. Bob Roth and Juanita Hernandez were both good candidates for District 5. Roth garnered more votes than Ilemanadez and will need our support to beat John Meek, assuming Meek makes it back from his Oregon Trail trek. The Oregon Citizens Alliance supported several candidates in this primary. In one district they actually won. Republican Mike Wiley, the man who had Lon Mabon's job during Ballot Measure 8. will run against Frank Shields for the District 16 seat. Shields will need our support to keep Wiley, the raging homophobe, out o f office. Les AuCoin and Harry Ixmsdale warmed up to each other during the days that their race was too close to call. AuCoin shut out I-onsdale to go after the big cheese Packwood. The Repub licans pumped $500,000 into advertising against AuCoin. theorizing that Lonsdale would be easier to pick off in the T general election. Fortunately it didn't work. Though Packwood has signed on to the Federal Lesbian and Gay Rights Bill, we need to back AuCoin in November. The attorney general's race is an important one because of the test cases the OCA's ballot measures will stir up. It is crucial to have Ted Kulongoski in the office, but he will have to defeat Republican Rich Rodeman to do us any good. Corvallis 1, Springfield 0 The OCA had two measures in the May 19 primary, one in Springfield and one in Corvallis. The Corvallis measure was resoundly defeated by a two to one margin, while the Spring- field measure won by less than 1,500 votes. Now the city of Springfield has 30 days to figure out how to implement the new measure that bars the city from facilitating, encouraging or promoting homosexuality, sadism, masochism, and pedophilia." Imagine the discussion the city commissioners will be putting forth. Do you think perceived queers will be able to drive on public roads, drink public water, use public bath rooms0 Is there a blood test to identify sexual minorities? Who will determine who is queer? Will there be a homosexual determining committee? Will lesbians, gay men and bisexuals be tagged, or merely tattooed? Pretty scary, isn't it? No matter what, we cannot turn our backs on Springfield. We have to go there by the thousands and be present at the rallies, marches, and demonstrations that will testthis new measure. We need to look around, feel how it feels to be outlaws in our own cities. This could well be our home, out neighborhood and our American dream after November if the OCA succeeds statewide as it did in Springfield. Anyone who has not done any thing to prevent the OCA's initiative from ge ing on the balk* needs to get up, dust themselves off, roll up theu-sleeves and get to work. There are plenty of groups organized agams, He OCA. -epresenung ev!*y ,fe community. There is one to fit you o . h « ^ Z . R, 1 Wm8kSayS’ ,0 of 7W , kn° W h° W scrious thc °C A is with its work There are too many people who think someone else is going to " W lose. 8 P e h a V C fnghr,ng of ‘b®work*wc will all World news (P- 5) National briefs (p .6) OCA watch (p.10) Local news (pp. 12-15) COLUM NS Amazon Trail (p.38) Just Think (p. 18) ARTS Cinema Five members o f the ju st OUt staff review Claire o f the Moon (p.34) Sandra deHelen reviews Waterdance, a movie about three men dealing with their different abilities (P- 31) Books The winners o f the Lammys (p. 35)
