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E llg ib llty : • H IV p o s it iv * • 2 0 to 4 8 y o s r s of • H a v * ■ T 4 count b o tw o o n 1 0 0 an d 800 • H a v * a t le a s t 20 to o th P a r tic ip a tio n : • D e n ta l e x a m s thr*« tim a s e a c h y e a r To participate in the Oral Care Project call: P o s s ib le c la s s in g o v a ry tw e m o n th s M elody Scheer Russell St. Clinic/ P a s s ib le d ally u s * of a s p e c ia l m outh Project Dental Health (503) 494-6300 All participants will be paid $15.00 for each examination and a $ 2 5 .0 0 bonus for the final exam. Participants will help in efforts to improve the quality o f life for people with HIV. DsDsvM I OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY 0HSU is an equal opportunity, affirmaitre action instUuHon V 8 ft • * t •*» *• III ♦*! • * l l t t r t / t i t M M I M i'll % % • è 1 I t l M I t t l Nearly 100 South Asian lesbians, gay men and bisexuals gathered in San Francisco last month for Pride Utsav ’95, reported the San Francisco Bay Times. This year’s conference, which drew queer South Asians from around the world, was spon sored by Trikone, a Bay Area-based group for gay and lesbian South Asians. Lesbian activist Urvashi Vaid gave the keynote address, and Pink Peacock awards were presented to filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Trikone founder Arvind Kumar in recognition of their contributions to the South Asian gay and lesbian community. Trikone can be reached at PO Box 21354, San Jose, CA 95151, (408) 270-8776; e-m ail: trikone@rahul.net. Kristine Chatwood All participants are asked to fill out a consent form and give a sample of blood for DNA sequenc ing. The brothers are also asked to fill out question naires on early childhood sexual orientation and family life. That should take less than an hour. Volunteers will not be paid, but NIMH will pick up lab and shipping fees associated with the project. Gershon hopes to recruit at least 100 sets of brothers within the next six months. For now, he will collect and freeze samples. He will not process them until he has enough groupings to achieve economies of scale and to offer up scientifically valid conclusions. He hopes to have results in about a year. Potential volunteers are encouraged to contact Elliot Gershon and his NIMH team for further details. The e-mail address is GQZ@CU.NlH.gov and they will accept collect calls at (301) 496-8977 during regular business hours (Eastern Time). Bob Roehr Portlander leads GLAAD W indy city activists Local lesbian activist Donna Red Wing has been appointed act ing executive direc tor of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defama tion. Red Wing has been GLAAD’s na tional field director since O ctober 1993. Prior to w orking for GLAAD, Red Wing was the ex ecutive director of the Lesbian Community Project. She was also active in the campaign to defeat Oregon’s Ballot Measure 9. Red Wing replaces Ellen Carton, who had served as GLAAD acting executive director since November 1994. Kristine Chatwood form black gay PAC South Asian queers gather in San Francisco fUN MT | national news i r * i « * \ Gay gene study seeks volunteers A group of Chicago activists has formed a political action committee to raise money for gay- and lesbian-supportive candidates running in local districts with large African American populations, according to The Washington Blade. Known as “The Committee,” the group is believed to be the first of its kind in the country. In addition to sexual-minority-supportive can didates, The Committee plans to endorse candi dates based their positions on issues affecting people of color. The Committee will also support openly gay and lesbian candidates who are people of color. Kristine Chatwood Union fights workplace homophobia The Service Employees International Union developed and is now distributing a new brochure to help union m embers and workers fight homophobia in the workplace and in unions. En titled “Don’t Discriminate: Lesbian and Gay Work ers Have Rights, Too,” the brochure is published by SEIU’s Civil and Human Rights Department and is an outgrowth of a 1992 SE1U International Convention resolution. The resolution is part of the union’s continuing support for civil rights legisla tion, local union civil rights programs, and partici pation in progressive social reform coalitions. For information and free copies of the bro chure call Wyatt Closs at the SEIU Civil and Human Rights Department at (202) 898-3354. Kristine Chatwood The search for the “gay gene” continues with researchers recruiting volunteers into a new study looking for genetic links to homosexual orienta tion. The scientists are building upon research pub lished by Dr. Dean Hamer in 1993, which strongly suggests a correlation between certain genetic pat terns on the X chromosome of males and being gay. This study will try to confirm those results and then move on to look for other possible genetic cofactors. Elliot S. Gershon, M.D., heads up the investi Phoenix gay man gative team at the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health in abducted, shot Bethesda, Md. Mark Sauer, a Phoenix man active in the gay “We are interested in the genetics of human community, was abducted and shot three times in behavior,” he said citing his own work in uncover the leg June 4, reports the Western Express. Ac ing genetic roots to manic-depression. “This new cording to Sauer, he was driving out of a parking study is the first normal variance of human behav lot when he stopped to answer his beeper. A man ior we are looking at. It is terribly important...a window into all human sexuality.” pulled open the passenger door, aimed a .22 caliber revolver at Sauer’s head and told him to drive The study will look first to the X chromosome “slowly and carefully” down the street. The man of males to replicate Hamer’s results, which Gershon assumes will happen. Then they will threatened to kill Sauer, and reportedly said, “We don’t want you people around here, we don’t like sequence the entire DNA of each sample, looking what you do.” After driving through side streets for common patterns at other parts of the genome to see if they can establish other statistically sig with the gun at his head, Sauer was told to stop in nificant relationships. a deserted parking lot. The man then robbed and shot him. Gershon is recruiting biological brothers (sets of two or more) who self-identify as gay. “But if Sauer was treated at a Phoenix hospital and has been released. one is gay and one is bisexual, we won’t turn them down.” He would also prefer that one or both of Phoenix police are reluctant to classify anti their biological parents participate so that he can gay crimes as bias crimes and are even more reluctant to discuss them, according to the Western look more deeply at patterns of genetic transmis sion over generations, but parental involvement is Express story. not mandatory. Kristine Chatwood i »> M