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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1996)
r ^ * 5 * 1 "K* I*: 1 V S i V a ' 0 ▼ O ctob er 4, 1006 ▼ ju st out Sr» at ru llìi)* Listili! i l n r T h e fall c r u s h is o n at national news :;v:; E d g e fie ld W in e r y a n d y o u ’re wrkMI' c o rd ia lly in vited http//www. StanWiley.com to get in u p to y o u r e lb o w s . Our special Fall JEWEL A. ROBINSON Multimillion $ Producer Crush Package OFFICE (503) 281-4040 includes lodging for two. breakfast 1730 N.E. 10th Avenue Portland, OR 97212 at the Black Rabbit, a bottle of our fine wine, and a fruit tray. Prices range from $85 ~ $120. VOICE MAIL (503) 323-2221 E-MAIL Jewel2U @ teleport.com And while you ’re here, visit our four pubs, take in a movie, stroll our peaceful gardens or just kick back and enjoy the good life at Edgefield. JrtcMenamins * lEDGEFIELDl Its am azing w hat y o u ’ll find. Just 20 miles east of Portland. 2126 SW Halsey Troutdale. Oregon 97060 (503)669-8610 - 1(800)669-8610 Beaverton 646-3824 4000 SW 117th Corbett 244-3934 5909 SW Corbett Division 233-7374 3016 SE Division Fremont 288-3414 3449 NE 24th Hillsdale 244-3110 6344 SW Capitol Highway Marketplace at Mill Plain (360) 695-8878 8024 E. Mill Plain Vancouver, WA Wilson ups anti-gay ante In a move that favors the traditional family, California Gov. Pete Wilson has acted to prevent unmarried couples from adopting children. Wil son is pressuring social service agencies to rec ommend that courts deny requests for adoption that involve unmarried couples, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. In addition to the de facto exclusion of lesbi ans and gay men, the proposal also reduces the pool of potential adoptive parents and puts more strain on the state’s overcrowded foster care sys tem. Many opponents of the proposal, like Shannan Wilber of the Y outh Law Center in San Francisco, suggest that it’s a political bone being thrown to the religious right. The move targets homosexual couples and other nontraditional partnerships while still allowing single parent adoption. The state’s Office of Administrative Law is expected to decide some time next year whether to turn the policy into a regulation. In either case, judges reviewing adoption cases would still have the option of overruling the agency recommenda tions. Bus driver attacks rider Off-duty bus driver Wardy Joubert has been arrested and charged with cursing at two gay men and assaulting one of them on a public trolley in San Francisco in July. Joubert apparently became angry when he saw the two men kiss, verbally challenged them, and later physically attacked oneof the iner. Adventures, accommodations and events in the largest conservation area of HAWAII * jf KALANI « & C9 ' ^ . - ^ » % %» - IQeâw it "th e kind o f lo w key p arad ise th a t m akes ' you fa ll in love w ith H a w a ii." — £ Guthmen. AdvOttto, The driver of the trolley reportedly did not intervene, but another passenger managed to stop the assault. Joubert faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and simple assault, with the possibility of a lengthened sentence because his alleged crime was motivated by hate. The fate of his job is unclear. AOL adds new queer forum »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Great anytime getaways and special events: (call for brochures) ««<«<«<«<«<«««<«<«<«<«<«<« Oct 2 5 -2 7 BODY ELECTRIC presents C elebrating the B oot E rotic . Playful, sacred, energizing, transform ative energy Hike to seduded beaches, spelunkle lava caves, kayak stream s into the sea. swim under waterfalls, feel hot lava, plunge in crater lakes and thermal springs AY SPIRIT America Online recently announced the launch of PlanetOut, an interactive on-line resource for gay men and lesbians. Along with AOL’s Gay and Lesbian Community Forum, the new service caters to the social, entertainment, educational and political interests of queer net-surfers. PlanetOut features the usual chat rooms, re source library, activism networking and ubiqui tous product advertisements; it also offers enter tainment reviews, daily news and interviews, and Dec 2 0 -2 6 A fun and soulful alternative to the holidaze BODY ELECTRIC C elebrate the Feb 7-14 B oot E rotic through conscious breathwork and sacred rituals l-MEN Mar 2 4 -3 0 I nternational M em E njoyino N aturism presents a splash of delicious activities, au natural ^w am m am m om Explore traditional dance, chant, myths, crafts, language; and attend Hawaii's premiere cultural exposition, the M errie Monarch Hula Festival. RR 2 Box 4500. Pahoa (Beach Rd). HI 96778 _ _ ^ jm ___ m K A L A N I Sea - E-m ail;kh^ILH aw aü net FAX 806-965-9613 WEB pages http://randm .com/kh.html TReOant 800 - 800-6886 « 808 - 965-7828 a guide to lesbian and gay film and video. The mission of PlanetOut, says high-tech ac tivist and company founder Tom Reilly, is to make the Internet “the first medium where the gay and lesbian community can participate instead of being invisible.” Names of HIV-infected Floridans leaked to press On Sept. 19, Florida health officials con firmed that a confidential list of the names of nearly 4,000 HIV-positive St. Petersburg-area residents was illegally acquired from a county health department office and mailed to the Tampa Tribune. State law requires doctors to report the names of those who test positive for the purposes of tracking the spread of the disease. The Tribune also received a letter accusing a drunken health department employee of attempt ing to distribute the names to customers in a gay bar and later dropping the list, at which time the letter writer was able to obtain a copy. Breaching the confidentiality of the list is a second-degree misdemeanor. The health department worker ac cused of publicizing the list has been placed on leave with pay pending further investigation. In an effort to control the damage already done, the state Department of Health refused to verify the list’s authenticity, but the Tribune noted that the list included the names of several people who have already publicly acknowledged that they have AIDS. Trial AIDS drug offered free of charge Agouron Pharmaceuticals plans to give away its experimental AIDS drug Viracept, reports The Wall Street Journal. The drug is a protease inhibi tor which, although it has not yet been approved by the FDA, has already shown promising results in clinical trials. The free treatment offer is available to patients in advanced stages of AIDS who have stopped using three commercially available protease in hibitors due to adverse reactions or lack of results. Company president and CEO Peter Johnson esti mates that “somewhere between several hundred to probably several thousand” will be eligible to receive Viracept free of charge. Robert Schooley, head of the infectious-dis ease division at the University of Colorado, told the Journal, “People like [Viracept], they don’t feel bad on it, and it seems to have good [antiviral] activity.” Gay youth told not to wear dress disappears Matt Stickney, the Burlington, Vt., high school student who made national news by fight ing a principal’s decision to stop him from wear ing a dress to school away with city police, according to a story in the Boston Globe. A representative of OUTright Vermont, a sexual minority youth support group, report edly told a local radio station that Stickney is in hiding. The controversy began when Stickney started to wear long black dresses, a black wig, lip stick and eyeliner to school, saying, “I’m 15 and I’m gay. This is how I dress to express my personality.” The school’s principal contends that Stickney’s attire disrupts the classroom learning environ ment. A meeting between Stickney and school officials was scheduled, but never occurred be cause of Stickney’s disappearance. Stickney had vowed to take his case to court if necessary.