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Reformed Aryan Nations
leader plans Oregon tour
Floyd Cochran, a former high-ranking official
with Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group
that espouses racist and Nazi ideology, will be
touring Oregon throughout April and May. The
tour is being organized by Beyond The Closet, a
Bend-based gay and lesbian organization, in co
operation with the Rural Organizing Project.
Cochran served as the propaganda and media
contact for Aryan Nations in the early 1990s and
organized youth-recruiting drives in Oregon,
Washington and Tennessee. He left the group in
1992 upon being told his son would eventually be
euthanized by the Nations because he had a cleft
palate, which the group viewed as a “genetic
defect.”
In his early days away from the organization,
Cochran was taken under the wing of members of
the Jewish and African American communities,
who helped shatter the racist and fascist stereo
types Cochran once held so tightly. He now tours
the country talking about the dangers of the radi
cal right, with emphasis on white supremacist
organizations.
Cochran will speak in Bend on April 20. For
further information, contact Beyond The Closet
at 317-8966.
1988; Frank Schreckenberger, founder of The
Brinker Fund; and Terry Voss, who is an active
member of the First United Methodist Church’s
committee on “Church and Sexuality.”
Tickets for the award ceremony are available
from EMO by calling 221-1054.
Conference celebrates
Earth Day ’95
To mark the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, a
group of Portland area organizations is inviting
the public to look beyond the nuts and bolts of
“reduce, reuse, recycle.”
Earth Day ’95: Native Cosmology and the
Emerging Culture, a conference slated to run
April 21 and 22, will explore the spiritual roots of
environmentalism and examine traditional Na
tive American spiritual practices and contempo
rary Christianity as they relate to environmental
problems. Native American leaders and spiritual
elders will offer their views on Native cosmol
ogy; Creation Spirituality theologian Matthew
Fox, Jesus scholar Marcus Borg, and Native
American scholar and author Paula Gunn Allen
will give presentations.
The event begins at 7 pm Friday, April 21,
EMO honors
HIV/AIDS leaders
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon has named
the award recipients for its Second Annual HIV
Honor Awards event to be held Monday, April 24,
at 6 pm at Portland’s Hilton Hotel.
The winners, selected from more than 100
nominations received from throughout Oregon,
will be honored for their outstanding work in
addressing the needs of those living with HIV/
AIDS. They include: Jack Cox of Portland, who
produces cable-access programming focusing on
people with HIV; William Jamison, a longtime
advocate for people living with AIDS, and pro
vided significant leadership in the development
of the ART AIDS benefit; Dr. Mark Loveless, a
physician who serves as director of the Infectious
Disease Clinic for the University of Oregon Health
Sciences University, who is known for his efforts
in treating people with HIV; and Kay Nelson, who
lost a child to AIDS and has served as president of
the Mid-Oregon AIDS Support Services.
Also being honored are: Thomas Redfield,
MD, of Eugene for his efforts to develop Acorn
House, an AIDS hospice care program in Eugene;
Billy Russo of Roseburg, who began working on
HIV-related issues in 1981 and is recognized in
particular for his development of Ruby House,
which has served more than 150 people since
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Our House gets new
executive director
Robert E. Leverenz has been named the new
executive director of Our House of Portland, a
residential care facility for people in the latter
stages of AIDS.
Leverenz, who started in the position on March
6, was the clinical supervisor at AIDS Foundation
Houston in Texas prior to coming to Portland. For
25 years he served United Methodist parishes in
Iowa before focusing on HIV/AIDS issues. In
1991 he joined the staff of AIDS Foundation
Houston Inc. where, as clinical supervisor, he was
responsible for overseeing the provision of social
services to more than 2,000 clients.
Leverenz succeeds Terry Voss, who directed
Our House for five years before leaving to pursue
new endeavors.
Our House is a nonprofit organization. For
more information about the organization, call
234-0175.
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Area softball association
joins national alliance
Portland’s Rose City Softball Association re
cently became a charter member of the North
American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, a na
tional umbrella organization with 28 member
groups. As a result of the membership. Rose City
Softball Association teams will be able to com
pete in regional tournaments and the annual Gay
Softball World Series.
Rose City Softball Association, formed this
winter by longtime veterans of organized softball,
draws players primarily from the Portland metro
area, as well as Cowlitz and Clark counties in
W ashington. The league com prises m en’s,
women’s and coed teams, plays slow-pitch soft-
ball according to American Softball Association
rules, and is open to players of all skill levels.
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continues into July.
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