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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1996)
4 ▼ o c«o b* r 4, 1 9 9 « ▼ just out Support, Education, and Outreach for Gay and Bisexual Men. Ken Kazel Sells Houses! First I listen, then we communicate. Whether buying or selling, rely on my 12 years of experi ence and top-notch customer service to guide you with surety, confidence, ease and a sense of humor. million-dollar producer Windomxye Join Us. Community Forum SNAP SHOT of Our Community Who we are, how we live, how we love. A discussion on the results of a five year survey of over 1200 gay men in Portland with Colleen Hoff from the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. VM 4 9 7 -5 4 1 9 2 2 1 -7 3 8 0 Wednesday, Oct. 30,7 p.m. 10140 SW Parkway Portland. OR 97225 o o ir€l«i To»<h T taw cl^ ii > A ir' Sea - Land Arrangements tailored to your needs Metro Council Chambers, 3rd Floor, 600 NE Grand. For info: 223-5907. Neighborhood Men Talk Find support & friendship with other gay and bisexual men. Ongoing monthly groups throughout Portland. Groups meet at 7 PM. For info: Doug at Ext. 145 Drop-In HIV Testing for Gav and Bi Men Confidential or anonymous. Results in one week. $20 Fee to off-set lab costs. 121 SW Morrison, Suite 270 Portland, OR 97204 Tuesdays, 6pm • 8 pm, at CAP office. For info: HIV Testing Infoline at Ext. 172. Clint Schrader Wade Moore M embers o f PABA and IG T A (503) 223-1062 • (800) 568-3246 Fax: (503) 224-4920 “ 223-5907 620 SW 5th Ave., Ste. 300 Portland, OR 97204 Fax 223-7087* V/TDD 223-0238 Home: (503) 452-8924 Speak to Your Brothers is a program of Cascade AIDS Project Science, Technology & S od etj/^ f Discovering the Titanic and Life at the Deep Sea Vents with Dr. Robert Ballard Woods Hole O ceanographic Institute < October 11th Portland ,V ' *». f ) Special Evening co-sponsor Oregon Coast Aquarium Global Dreams: Redefining Progress with Dr. David Suzuki PBS Host, University of British Colum bia November 6th in Eugene November 8th in Portland W hat is Life? with Dr. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan G aia T heorist - B iologist December 4th in Eugene December 6th in Portland A lso in 1997... ____________ The STS Scries is presented by the Institute tor Science. Engineering and Public Policy and is Co-sponsored by these Academic Co-Sponsors: University of Portland. University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Pacific University, Portland State l University. ( )rcgon Episcopal School «X the Community College Consortium. Jean-Mkhd Cousteau: “Designing CXir Future” January 10th Portland Only, I Dr. Keith Devlin: “A New Cosmology of Mind” February 12 and February 14 Corporate Co-Sponsors: Oregon Public broadcasting, the high-tech | Dr. (ieorge l>akoff “Mind Made Flesh” PR linn Waggcncr Edstrom, the time-critical March 11 and March 14 information source DA T Services. The I Craig Mundie, Senior VP Microsoft business Journal. CTK business S\ stems. Technology Furures" April 11 Portland Only Barnes and Noble, and Paulson Investment | Dr. Stuart Kauffman: “Evolution by Emergence” I Company. Thanks to the Deathman Hotel. May 14 and May 16 ____ For Season / Single Tickets Call FASTIXX 224-8499 f o r E u g e n e s e r ie s c a ll th e H u ll C e n t e r B o x O ff ic e 6 8 7 - 5 0 0 0 \ ¡sil « « w .is c p p .o r g world briefs . ARGENTINA The Statutory Convention that is drafting a new legal code for Buenos Aires voted unani mously Aug. 30 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Buenos Aires will be the only Latin American city outside Brazil with such a law. A few days earlier, the convention eradicated the infamous Police Edicts that have been used extensively against gay men and transvestites. The edicts allow police to circumvent the regular justice system and detain people more or less at whim. ▼ ▼ ▼ Gay leader Carlos Jauregui, 38, died of AIDS complications Aug. 20. He was president of the group Comunidad Homosexual Argentina in the mid-’80s and one of the nation’s first gay spokespeople. In 1991 he cofounded the group Gays for Civil Rights. Jauregui authored the book Homosexuality in Argentina in 1987 and contributed frequent ar ticles to mainstream newspapers and magazines. AUSTRALIA The state of New South Wales will likely scrap the so-called homosexual-panic defense under which straight men sometimes get away with mur der—claiming they were merely defending them selves against a horrifying homosexual advance. Following a nine- month review, a com mittee set up by state attorney general Jeff Shaw has reco m mended that judges be instructed that a ho mosexual advance is no more or less pro vocative than a het erosexual advance, according to a report in Sydney’s Capital Q. Shaw is expected to release final instructions later this year. AUSTRIA Austria saw its first gay church wedding Aug. 31. Two women, identified only as Jutta and Irene, got married in an Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Simmering neighborhood after the local preacher opted to ignore his bishop’s instructions not to perform the ceremony. The wedding and the debate within the church attracted major media attention. CHINA China will stage a national conference on AIDS prevention in October and will make HIV testing available nationwide, China Daily re ported on Sept. 4. HIV tests are available in only about half of the country now. Officially, China has 3,341 HIV-positive citi zens, 117 of whom have developed AIDS—but non-Chinese authorities doubt the accuracy of those numbers. GERMANY An administrative court in Hildesheim has revoked the refugee status of Oleg S., a gay man from Tajikistan, reports the International lesbian and Gay Association, citing the newspaper Frank furter Rundschau. Oleg was granted political asylum in Germany in 1992 on the grounds that homosexuals are persecuted in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic. But the decision by the Federal Refugees Office was appealed by the Federal Social Affairs Commission, resulting in the new ruling. The judges stated that the maximum punish ment for homosexuality in Tajikistan is a two- year prison sentence, which they said does not qualify as “persecution,” according to ILGA’s account of the story. JAMAICA Gay men and lesbians from 14 Caribbean nations gathered in Jamaica in August for the region’s first sexual minority conference. Funding and other assistance was provided by the government of The Netherlands. Attendees formed a steering committee to advance projects hatched at the conference, and a follow-up meeting will be held next year in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. JAPAN More than 2,000 people staged a lesbian and gay parade in the vicinity of Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park on Aug. 25. It was the city’s third annual gay march. The 90-minute parade was followed by a rally filled with activist speeches, observers reported. When the first speaker took the stage, a rival activist group stormed the podium alleging they had been shut out of the events, attendees said. There was a struggle for the microphone that almost degenerated into a brawl. The media ignored the march this year after giving it big play the previous two years. KENYA The Roman Catholic Cardinal of Kenya, Maurice Otunga, burned condoms and safe-sex literature Aug. 31, reported Reuters. The ceremony attracted about 250 partici pants who prayed and sang. According to the World Health Organization, one in every 26 Kenyans is HIV positive. NEPAL The United States announced on Sept. 5 that it will give $30 million to the nation of Nepal to improve health care facilities and fund programs promoting safer sex, contraception and family planning. Around 10,000 Nepalis are HIV positive, of ficials estimate. Without intervention, the num ber is expected to hit 100,000 in five years. SAUDI ARABIA At least one of the 200 people beheaded in Saudi Arabia last year was being punished for homosexuality, according to a Sept. 3 United Press International report that was based on an article in the Saudi newspaper Okaz. The brief mention of the anti-gay execution came at the end of a report about a man who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for wearing a dress to a wedding party. UPI said the man dressed as a woman “to get a surrep titious look at women he might want to marry.” Saudi women are kept veiled in the presence of males. SPAIN The Sixth Europe/Israel Regional Conference of the World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations is set for Oct. 31 -Nov. 3 in Barcelona. The program includes workshops, speakers, reli gious services, socials and sight-seeing tours. The cost is $150-$250 depending on lodging selected. For more inform ation, e-m ail 100736.1223@compuserve.com or phone or fax 011-44-181-809-0877. VIETNAM Vietnam has begun promoting AIDS aware ness and safer sex via radio, TV, movies, art performances, cultural activities and family plan ning clinics, officials said Sept. 4. There have been 4,200 reported cases of HIV infection; 353 people have died and 184 are living with full-blown AIDS. Compiled by Rex Wockner