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Harvey M ilk Awards
Dinner hailed as success
An estimated 265 people turned out for the
sixth Harvey Milk Awards Dinner, sponsored by
After 8, a Corvallis-based educational and advo
cacy group that promotes gay, lesbian and bisexual
visibility and rights.
Corvallis Mayor Helen Berg offered the open
ing remarks during the Nov. 18 event, which was
held at the First Congregational Church. Tom
Ammiano, past president of the San Francisco
School Board and member of the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors, was the keynote speaker and
gave an address entitled “Comedy and Politics:
Surviving the Religious Right.”
Lois Van Leer, associate minister of the First
Congregational Church and a longtime sexual-
minority-rights advocate, says, “W e’re all so in
volved in such serious work around this issue that
it’s nice to be able and laugh about it once in a
while.... The dinner was a great success.”
Portland residents Barbara Bernstein and Elaine
Velazquez, creators of numerous video projects
that detail gay and lesbian civil-rights struggles,
and Ed Reeves, a Portland attorney who founded
Oregon Speak Out Project (which has evolved into
Northwest Speak Out Project), were honored for
their “outstanding contributions to the gay, lesbian
and bisexual communities in Oregon.”
A tribute was also given to honor Donna Red
Wing, national field director for the Gay and Les
bian Alliance Against Defamation. Red Wing,
who lives in Portland, is a nationally known grass
roots activist and is currently recovering from
surgery to remove a brain tumor.
Apply for HIV/AIDS
grants by Dec. 8
The Research & Education Group and Art/
AIDS is currently seeking applications for two
grants, the Paul Michael Starr Education Fund and
the Living with HIV Fund, totaling $60,000.
A Paul Michael
S tarr Education
Fund grant of
$10,000 w ill be
awarded to an orga
nization providing
HIV and AIDS edu
cation. The Living
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fund up to three pro
posals ranging from ? au^ $tarr
$ 10,000 to $50,000 for the implementation of out-
of-hospital programs and services.
Applications can be obtained by calling Anne
Clark at The Research & Education Group at
(503) 778-5694. Dec. 8 is the deadline for submit
ting proposals for either grant.
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Two receive honors
The Oregon Commission for Women has se
lected Bend resident Myrlie Evers-Williams and
Oregon lawmaker Kate Brown (D-Portland) as its
1995 Women of Achievement.
Evers-Williams is the chairwoman of the Na
tional Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People; Brown serves in the state House of
Representatives, where she is heralded as a hu
man-rights leader.
Page set to leave
EMO in April
The Rev. Rodney Page, executive director of
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon since 1981, will
step down from that position on April 12, 19%.
Page, who was very outspoken against anti-gay
ballot measures 9 and 13, will move to New York
City to serve as the deputy general secretary of the
National Council of Churches of Christ and the
executive director of Church World Service and
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Actor passes aw ay
Portland actor Rob Buckmaster, best known
for his portrayal of the title character in triangle
productions!’ version of Paul Rudnick’s Jeffrey,
died Nov. 2 at the age of 31. The cause was AIDS-
related lymphoma.
His other roles at triangle included Jeff in The
Sum o f Us and Whizzer in Falsettos.
Buckmaster is survived by his partner, Fred
Ross; parents, James and Corline of Montana; and
brothers, Jim of New York City and Brad of
Washington state. The family suggests that re
membrances be contributions to the Equity
Foundation’s Rob Buckmaster Memorial Fund.