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6 ▼ fo bru ary 2 , 1 9 9 6 T ju s t o u t Great hair is closer than a day's ride. A T T E N T I O N RENTERS LET ME SHOW YOU HOW EASY IT IS TO OWN YOUR OWN HOME! regardless of past credit history This special government backed program could work for you! ¿Juice Q etibui B a y Network HIV Therapy Services Individual. Couple, and Family Therapy Support Groups: • M ale couples w ith HIV a n d HIV A d u lts, M ixed G ender D isabilities a n d HIV Ryan While Funding Available Accepting Medicaid / Oregon Health Plan, Medicare. Private Insurance and Private Pay Mfllatrir HAIR-SKIN-COSMETICS 281-7831 Ü 4016 NE Fremont For information call: 238-5251 Portland's first non-tipping salon. home V ALABAMA The fifth annual Southeastern Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual College Conference is scheduled to be held Feb. 16-17 on the University of Alabama campus at Tuscaloosa, unless Alabama state Sen. Bill Armistead (R-Columbiana) has his way. Citing a 1992 state law forbidding the use of public facilities to “promote lifestyle or activi ties” prohibited by Alabama’s sodomy and sexual misconduct laws, Armistead insists that the uni versity is violating the law by providing low-cost, on-campus housing for conference visitors. G \ e e h 1 - 8 0 0 - 9 9 3 - & 1 9 4 Qary Luckey national briefs Call me today at 2254115 David Anderson Whdermere hfts Windermere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, Inc. a5S 225-1115 • VM 497-5211 • 2078 NW Everett St. • Portland, OR 97209 CALIFORNIA Sid Sheinberg, former president of MCA/ Universal and partner in The Bubble Factory, will be honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Sheinberg will receive a Vanguard Award at the seventh annual Media Awards, to be held March 10 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The Vanguard Award is given to an enter tainer or member of the media who has made a significant contribution to equal rights for lesbi ans and gay men. Previous honorees include Roseanne, Aaron Spelling and Steve Tisch. In 1991, Sheinberg and Barry Diller co-founded Hollywood Supports, an entertainment industry project that provides workplace education about AIDS, HIV and sexual orientation. The project was instrumental in persuading over 40 compa nies and unions to adopt domestic partner benefits for employees’ same-sex partners. "From his involvement with ABC’s landmark telefilm That Certain Summer in 1972 to his enactment of domestic partner benefits at MCA/ Universal in 1992 while president, Sid Sheinberg has set the standard for the entertainment industry to follow in ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive treatment and portrayals of gay men and lesbi ans,” said GLAAD Los Angeles co-chair David Huebner. ▼ ▼ ▼ Jim Mangia, national secretary of the Patriot Party and longtime gay political activist, has been appointed to the board of directors of the newly formed California Reform Party. The Reform Party, which was started by Ross Perot, recently qualified for major party perma nent ballot status in California by registering over 120,000 voters who declared their party affilia tion for the Reform Party. The Patriot Party, founded in 1994, helped the Reform Party’s drive for permanent party status by encouraging its members to re-register as members of the Reform Party. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A new guide for parents and educators who work with adolescents was released by the federal government in January. Several HIV-related re sources are included in the manual, which was published by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Groups and programs aimed at youth are listed. The manual includes information from di verse materials and seven studies on HIV, as well as from three studies on sex. The studies were checked for accuracy, appropriateness and con formance with public health principles by DHHS. HAWAII One way to resolve the issue of same-sex marriages would be to simply stop issuing mar riage licenses to anyone. That is an idea recently proposed by Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano. Instead of the traditional state-sanctioned and -issued marriage license, Cayetano is suggesting a system of domestic partnerships that would apply to both homosexual and heterosexual couples, reports the Associated Press. "The institution of marriage should be left to the church. The government needs to explore its role in marriages,” Cayetano said through his press secretary. “The government should not be in the role of sanctifying marriages. That’s when they run into problems.” It is not known if Cayetano will propose and push for legislation to replace marriage with do mestic partnership agreements. NEW YORK CBS Sports has dropped Ben Wright from its golf coverage, according to the Associated Press. Wright, who joined CBS in 1972, was quoted last May in a Delaware newspaper as saying “lesbians in the sport hurt women’s golf,” and women golfers “are handicapped by having boobs.” Wright denied making the remarks. CBS stated Wright’s termination was due to the controversy surrounding those alleged com ments. A series of armed robberies at gay bars in Manhattan and Queens may be linked, the New York Police Department has said. Six robberies are known to have been committed since July. At least three were committed by a single man; three men working together committed at least three other robberies___* Commenting on a list of the robberies com piled by the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Deputy Police Commis sioner Thomas Kelly acknowledged that a crime pattern had been established. All the robberies occurred around either opening or closing time at the bars. The robbers seemed to be knowledge able about the bars’ business procedures. Patrons of gay bars have been cautioned that they may be in danger. ▼ ▼ ▼ A former employee of the New York Stock Exchange who has charged the exchange with firing him because he is gay, will get his day in court. The exchange’s request that Peter Degan’s complaint be dismissed without a trial was denied by state Supreme Court Justice Stuart Cohen, according to The New York Times. Cohen dis missed several of Degan’s claims, but permitted him to proceed with his charge that the exchange had violated the New York City Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. WEST VIRGINIA After several months of searching in central Virginia for property on which to build its retreat and conference center, Maat Dompim, Womyn of Color Land Project has located 120 acres of land for $85,000. The group is now in need of cash gifts and donations, as well as long-term low- and/or no-interest loans from individuals in the commu nity. The group has a $ 15,000 grant and $7,000 in pledges. It needs an additional $23,000 for the down payment. For information contact Maat Dompim, Womyn of Color Land Project, Auto Road, Auto, WV 24917, (304) 497-3737, (804) 263-8363, or voicemail: (703) 992-0248. Compiled by Kristine Chatwood