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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1996)
ju st o u t ▼ docom bor 2 0 , 1 0 0 6 ▼ 3 Vetters A decade of thanks To the Editor and community: Thank you for the last decade you have shared with me. A little over a decade ago I moved to Portland, started coming out and began growing. Like many of you, I have suffered the loss of my closest friends, participated in some of the intense political fights faced by our state, and survived the emotional battles within my blood family. I have volunteered with many of the existing orga nizations, as well as those that no longer exist. While it hasn’t always been a peaceful road in this community, it has stretched my abilities to love, accept and invest in others. Many of you have watched me grow physi cally, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. Many of you had a part in my growth process. I have had the privilege of volunteering with you, working with you, grieving with you and growing with you. I want you to know how much I have appre ciated your time given, our thoughts shared, your love shown and your honor bestowed. 1 have enjoyed most of the last 10 years within our gay and lesbian community. From leading Lesbian and Gay Pride to swimming in Gay Games ’90. From serving on No on Hate to founding Log Cabin Oregon. From worshipping at Potter’s House Ministries to addressing the financial planning needs of many of you through Waddell & Reed. From developing programs for gay youth, to pursuing my humorous 10-year search for someone special through dating. I love our community and pray the next 10 years will be easier and brighter for all of us. May we all have the energy in 1997 and beyond to grow, expanding our patience, love and accep tance as others grow with us. As the end of my 10th year in Portland comes to a close, I simply want to say to Just Out and all of my friends of this community, thank you. Eric Brown Portland GID diagnosis at risk To the Editor: Trans youth and adults in Oregon, Washing ton and across the country face the loss of their health care and civil rights—and this time the threat isn’t the Oregon Citizens Alliance or other right-wing groups, but national gay and lesbian organizations such as the National Gay and Les bian Task Force and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. These organizations have called for the elimi nation of one of the two diagnoses through which transsexuals receive health care and legal recog nition of their new gender. Elimination of child hood gender identity disorder is sought on the basis of claims that gay and lesbian youth are hospitalized under a diagnosis appropriate only to trans youth, in order to change their sexual orien tation. There is, in fact, no documentation to substantiate these claims. Elimination of childhood GID will prevent supportive parents of trans youth from obtaining treatment for their children, or from registering their children in school in the gender of their choice. Efforts to totally eliminate all diagnoses for transsexuals are being made by individuals work ing with and within NGLTF and NCLR. Loss of all diagnoses will end sex-reassignment surgery in the United States, end the legal availability of hormones for transsexuals, and eliminate existing legal protection from discrimination in the states of Washington and Oregon. Health care and legal protection for the dis abled shouldn’t be a matter of politics. If you agree, here’s what you can do: Write the listed organizations and tell them to stop the attack on the diagnoses of GID. CbmsTmas Special Old Vensian and Tmhal Rugs band- wade 100°/o wool. Gnear gijrr poR pawily and pm ends— a Lipenwe op wewomes. 60 mgs to choose pnow. All sizes. ( 503 ) 244-2153 By Appoimcnem Your Trust And Support Is The Greatest Gift. Vilien I reflect on my past nine years as a Waddell & Reed Financial Services Representative, I must say, I’m very grate ful. So many of you have relied on my knowledge and experience to fulfill your goals for the future. Thanks to your trust and your support. I've been recognized John D’Emilio National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 2320 17th St. NW Washington, DC 20009 as the top representative in the Portland office for the fourth year in a row\ I couldn't have done it without you. I sincerely Julie Dorf, Executive Director International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission 1360 Mission St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94103 Kate Kendell, Executive Director National Center for Lesbian Rights 870 Market St., Suite 570 San Francisco, CA 94102 Don Romesburg Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 1360 Mission St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94103 Jericho Knight Portland I don’t think so To the Editor: “It has always been a dream of mine to be a part of the lesbian community,” Lori Buckwalter is quoted as saying in the Dec. 6, 1996, Just Out. Somehow I don’t think my lesbian friends are going to feel like they are part of any “commu nity” with an individual who uses his hetero sexual male privilege to obtain what they are denied by law because they were bom female. Margaret Deirdre O’Haitigan Portland Disgusted with trick To the Editor: I’d like to thank you for your article “Here come the brides”; it was hilarious. I would like to know if anyone else saw the irony of a legal heterosexual marriage being pawned off as a same-sex marriage in a queer paper? I identified as lesbian at the age of 21—and never would have considered legitimizing my rela tionships using my legal male status. I don’t see how Buckwalter can enter into such a legal contract that so invalidates “her” self-proclaimed image. I will believe same-sex marriage is at hand when the government accepts two people who are both members of the same sex—not the bureau cratic sleight-of-hand Buckwalter is perpetrating. Rachel S. Koteles Portland WHEEL ALIGNMENTS & TIRES thank you and wish you joy and prosperity this new year. EID WALKER |5()3) 238-6036 J U S T POSSIBLY T H E BEST T A S T I N C SUBS, FRESH CHI PS A N D SALADS O N T H E PLANET! Multnomah Village In John’s Marketplace www.waddell.com fr Reed I Appreciate My Just Out Supporters! 500 NE Multnomah, Suite 278 Portland, OR 97232 Thanks to you all! Wishing you 8r yours Peace. 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