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Newspaper Page Textjust out s in c e 1 9 8 3 PUBUSHER Renée LaChance EDITOR Ariel Watcrwoman CALENDAR EDITOR Meroe Elahi contents steppin’ out VOL. 10 NO. 14 JUNE 1,1993 FEATURES New queer in the House REPORTERS Irene K. Hislop PHOTOGRAPHERS Linda Carter Linda Kliewer George Eighmey takes his seat at the table and becomes Oregon’s second openly gay legislator ADVERTISING Amanda Colorado Meg Grace E. Ann Hinds Jewel Robinson (pp. 14-15) Bias crimes The pain behind the numbers (pp. 18-19) CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds DEPARTMENTS GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard National news PROOFREADER Bclh Hyams Hawaii Supreme Court OKs same-sex marriage; Roberta Achtenberg becomes the highest-ranking openly gay member of the Clinton administration TYPESETTER Dee Star Dancer Fultz DISTRIBUTION Up Front Distribution (pp. 5-8) Local news CONTRIBUTORS Sandra de Helen Howard N. Dana Grant Michael Menzics Lee Lynch Dr. Tantalus Christopher Kamera Beth Hyams Just Out is published on the first and fifteenth day of each m onth. Copyright ©1993 by Just Out. No part of Just Out may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. The subm ission of w ritte n an d graphic materials is welcomed. 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 or advertisem ents that are offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. Just O ut consults the Associated Press Style Book and Libel Manual on editorial decisions. Letters to the editor should be limited to two double-spaced typed pages. Deadline far submissions is the 1st and 15th of the month proceeding publication. Views expressed in letters to the editor, columns and features are not necessarily those of the publisher. Display advertising will be accepted up to the 2nd and 17th of each month. Classified ads must he received at the office of Just Out by the 2nd and 17th of each month, along with payment. Ads will not be taken over the telephone. Ad policy. No sexually exploitive advertising will be accepted. Com pensation for errors in, or cancellation of, advertising will be made with credit toward future advertising. Subscriptions to Just Out arc available for $17.50 for 12 issues. First Class (in an envelope) is $30 for 12 issues. A copy of Just Out is available for $1 and/or advertising rales arc available on request The mailing address and telephone number tor Just Out arc: PO Box 15117, Portland, OR 97215; (503) 236-1252. Our fax number ts 236-1257. Dupont Circle was flooded with gay men, lesbians and garbage during the March on Washington last April. (p p .1 6 -1 7 ) COLUM NS Strategies Ashland adopts sexual orientation protections Get your heinies out of town The first wave o f ballot initiatives is sweeping through rural Oregon in June (p .1 0 ) Legislative update Civil rights bill stalled in committee (p. 12) \ by A rie l W aterw o m an Lesbian and Gay Pride re you and your friends wondering how to really wounded and still working to put our lives back together again. celebrate gay and lesbian pride this year? How It is difficult so soon after that exhausting fight to pick our about driving to a town in Josephine, Douglas, selves up and do it again. And people are needed, no matter Klamath or Linn counties? Grants Pass is lovely what state of healing you are in. There are many functioning this time of year. Think how much fun you could organizations working all over the state to make a difference. have. Remember when Queer Nation went to Troutdale They and just was need a few more people to help out during this June overwhelmed with the warm welcome they received? You’d be ballot time. surprised how happy people are to have us visit their towns. Contact Marcy Wcstcrling of the Rural Organizing Project During the month of June every gay man, lesbian, and at (503) 397-7110. She is in touch with rural organizations bisexual living in the city is needed in the rural communities on statewide. Oregon Speak Out, at 294-9260, is also set up to the weekends. Civil rights activists from these counties are work urban dwellers into its educational efforts. If you don’t calling for urbanites to come out and help them. Mail ballots have any time to invest, but you have some extra money, will be going out on June 9 and must be returned no later then contact Support Our Communities PAC at 222-6151. You June 29. These arc critical times for door-to-door contact and could also contact the Coalition for Human Dignity or the phone-banking to occur. Human Rights Coalition in the counties mentioned above. Many activists agree that the Cornelius measure passed In another vein, some political activists arc starting to meet because voters were confused by the wording and didn't and talk about submitting a pro-active initiative to the voters. It understand what they were voting for. The Oregon Citizens might be something as simple as affirming the constitutionally Alliance seems to go out of its way to make the ballot measures mandated civil rights of all Oregonians. It would be a positive as confusing as possible. M ostof us arc familiar with that tactic. proposition that we could all work on with hope for a real victory The rural communities need bodies to help go door-lo-door, to We would certainly present it clearly, in an easily understand clarify what voting “yes” or “no” will mean. These communi able format. It is high time we stepped out of the victim role of ties are large in area, but small in population. If enough reaction and into a powerful place of action. The vast majority of canvassers had gotten into Cornelius, the vote could have been Oregonians arc good-hearted people who would love a chance to remarkably different. come together in agreement on a positive initiative that would The fight against Ballot Measure 9 has left many of us promote everyone’s human dignity. Portland preps fo r its annual pride festival and parade A (p. 24) ARTS Theater Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland has enough talent and diversity fo r everyone (p. 29) Books A new book explores the culture o f gay men in the United States (p. 25) Music Dr. Tantalus reviews the Rose City Gay Freedom Band (p. 27)