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O ▼ ju ly 1 9 . 1 9 9 6 ▼ j u s t o u t national news CALIFORNIA New on the market... The Bender Properties real estate team welcomes the talent and promise of our newest associate, Gail Davis. Buying or selling a home? Come take advantage of our encyclopedic knowledge. office (503) 653-8378 residence (503) 651 515 fax (503) 786-1227 4725 Southeast Washington Street Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Conservatives are wild about director Cheryl Dunye’s new movie, The Watermelon Woman. Dunye does not even have a distributor for her lesbian love story, but members o f Congress are up in arms because she received a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts grant o f $31,500 for the film. The cost of making the movie was approxi mately $250,000. The Watermelon Woman won the Teddy Bear award for best gay film at the 1996 Berlin Film Festival, reports Variety. It was the opening film at this year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Serving the entire Portland metro area since 1979. 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Horton’s agenda for the coming year includes actively campaigning for passage o f a $2.4 billion bond measure to pay for the maintenance and construction of local schools. He also intends to push for the expansion of LEARN, the district’s educational reform program, to include more schools. ▼ ▼ ▼ And you thought 1-5 The Judicial Commission of the Cincinnati Presbytery voted in June to annul a layman’s ordination as an elder at Knox Presbyterian of Hyde Park because the elder is gay, stated a Reuter report. The action was taken after another Knox elder complained about the gay man’s ordi- n a t in n A presbytery official stated that this action marks the first time in the United States that a Presbyterian judicial body has overruled a local church on the issue. TEXAS The state Republican Party finally won its battle to exclude Log Cabin Republicans from the state GOP con vention. 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The vote by the Unitarian Universalist Asso ciation makes support o f same-sex marriage the official policy of the church. Each congregation will decide whether to endorse same-sex mar riage and whether to conduct such weddings. OHIO Investors seeking to put their money in com panies with progressive policies toward the gay and lesbian community now have a way to do just that. Meyers, Sheppard & Co., LLC, an investment management firm, has introduced the Meyers Sheppard Pride Fund. The diversified mutual fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by in- was the vesting in undervalued, fundamentally sound com panies— companies that have specifically stated gay- and lesbian-friendly policies. That group of companies currently includes approximately 325 blue chip companies. 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