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Club owner Lanny Swerdlow says he fears Joseph’ s action could lead to his eviction from the building, which is located on Northwest 13th Avenue just o ff West Burnside. “ L et’ s just say that I ’ m not in the best o f spirits right now,” Swerdlow tells Just Out. “ I ’ m putting up the best fight I can, but I ’ m up against a lot.” The City Nightclub is heralded by supporters as a lifeline for many queer youth, particularly those who come from difficult circumstances. Detractors, however, view The City as a haven for unrestrained drug activity and other illicit hap penings. The City o f Portland has taken aggressive action to close the club down. This past Decem ber, Nancy E. Ayres, senior deputy city attorney, filed a civil suit against the building’ s owner, AD S Investment Limited Partnership, which is controlled by the Schnitzer family. (For a detailed look at the controversy, see “ A Tale o f T w o ‘Citys,’ ” in the June 7, 1996, Just Out.) The suit maintains the club violates the city’ s Specified Crime Property Ordinance, more loosely known as the “ drug house” ordinance, which prohibits the use o f a building for the distribution o f a controlled substance. Joseph’ s declaration essentially makes that charge official. “ I have two-and-a-half years left on my lease,” says Swerdlow, who believes he may now get evicted because his lease stipulates there is to be no criminal activity on the premises. “ I ’ m not sure what w ill happen at this point,” he says. Other motions for summary judgment are slated Epitope HIV test receives FDA approval The federal Food and Drug Administration has given Epitope Inc., a Beaverton biotechnol ogy company, approval for the final piece o f its oral H IV test, known as Orasure. The approval clears the way for SmithKline Beecham, a drug company that is Epitope’ s part ner, to sell the test to health professionals nation wide. Orasure can screen and test for H IV antibod ies from a single oral specimen. The test is viewed as a safe alternative to drawing blood for tests because H IV is not transmitted through casual contact with saliva or other oral fluids. Orasure is the first approved product in the United States that can confirm the presence o f H IV antibodies without blood tests. Men’s conference to be held in Portland The 21st Men and Masculinity Conference is to be held July 25-28 at Lewis & Clark College in Southwest Portland. The theme is “ Women and Men: Visions o f Justice.” The gathering will feature several workshops and panel discussions. Keynote panelists include human rights activists Roberto Reyes-Colon and Kathleen Saadat, Multnomah County Chair Bev Stein, Portland Police Chief Charles Moose, and openly gay state Reps. George Eighmey and Gail Shibley, who is running for Portland City Coun cil. On July 26 at 7:30 pm a debate and dialogue entitled “ What N ow for Men: Converging and Diverging Paths” will feature Robert Bly and Michael Kimmel. to be heard in mid-July. A trial is scheduled forf August. Swerdlow, a longtime neighborhood and com munity activist, has been operating for-profit so cial venues geared toward queer youth since the 1970s. He estimates that thousands o f sexual minority youth have passed through The C ity’ s doors during the past 13 years and have experi enced there a sense o f safety and community not found elsewhere. “ I would feel so badly for the kids i f The City Nightclub closed down,” says Swerdlow. “ They would have no place to go.” When asked whether he would simply open up another club for queer youth i f city officials are indeed successful in their bid, Swerdlow replies: “ I don’ t know i f I ’ ll have the resources to do it [because] the legal costs may be so high.” Inga Sorensen The National Organization for Men Against Sexism, the parent organization o f the confer ence, describes itself as pro-feminist, gay affir mative and anti-racist, and strives to enhance men’ s lives. Sten announces council bid Erik Sten, who was unsuccessful in his M ay 21 bid for the Portland City Council seat o f outgoing Commissioner M ike Lindberg, has announced his candidacy for the council seat recently va cated by Earl Blumenauer, who was elected to Congress. “ W e ’ ve shown that in Portland, politics is a lot more about people than money,” says Sten, who was a dark horse in the previous race and relied heavily on grass-roots/volunteer support. “ It’ s clear from this campaign that people see better schools, affordable housing and safer neighbor hoods as critical issues that affect our quality o f life, our families and our children’ s future.” Walk for Healing held Supporters o f the struggle to protect Native American sacred lands and spiritual sites held a Walk for Healing on June 1 in Warm Springs, Ore. The First Nations Survival Support Network helped organize the event, which was designed in part to protest recent logging activity in and around the Anpo Native American Cultural Youth Camp and Ceremonial Grounds, and Enola Hill forest. Group members charge that the U.S. Forest Service has “ continued to stand by an arbitrary definition o f what is scared and spiritual, and has shut Native Americans, environmentalists and the public out o f all legal recourse.” Compiled by Inga Sorensen I