Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1997)
, fr % • 4 fr * 14 ▼ m a y 2 , 1 9 9 7 ▼ ju s t o u t i i iC U I E D A M P O i r * Sitting down with an estate planner shouldn't scare you. (Not planning. Now that's scary.) Wills. Trusts. Guardianships. Powers of attorney. Frightening thoughts? 1. Your telephone is answered at Answer America 2. Our operators take your messages 3. Your messages are delivered to: • your cellular phone • your pager • your fax machine or voice mailbox we provide What's worse is the thought of where your hard-earned assets will go if you don't plan. Let's sit down. My experience and "team of professionals" approach will give you a solid estate plan—and one less thing to worry about. Emphasizing the asset distribution of unmarried couples. Voice Mail • Answering Service Pager Dispatch • Order Entry Corinne J. Lai Live answering service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week \ Attorney at Law ( 503 ) 226-6945 (503) 223-1191 (503) 391-7270 (360) 693-3601 722 SW 2nd Ave., Ste. 3 3 0 Po rtlan d, O regon 9 7 2 0 4 cla i@ h e v a n é t.co m N e w li s t i n g s : Tim Five Bedrooms Two-t- Fireplaces H ardw ood Floors View Lot New G ourm et Kitchen Den Study Fam ily Room Walters does Alameda Mansion his Taking the hi road , Author educator and out bisexual Lani Ka’ahumanu brings her wit and wisdom to Portland by Will O’Bryan EASY AS 1-2-3!!! Portland Salem Vancouver local news $525.000 i v homework. (And yours too) Alameda English Four Bedroom s Fireplace H ardw ood Floors Two Baths N ew Kitchen Fenced Back Yard 2570 Square Feet $259,900 Tim Walters 5 0 3 -2 8 7 -8 9 8 9 ex.. 127 Pager: 303-301-7009 Platinum Club M em ber 0 tOUAl OfrPOWf o ir n i OMIT ▼ IB REALTOR* REALTORS» n the past few years bisexuality as a move spring, to mark Pride events, and the fall, to mark the coming out season. Portland will wind up her ment has gained momentum. Arguably, as a founding member of BiPol, the country’s spring tour, which has already brought her to first bisexual political action group, the Rutgers University, Bryn Mawr, the University mother of this modem movement may be of Pennsylvania and other campuses. While trav Lani Ka’ahumanu. eling through Oregon this season, she’ll also be making stops at the University of Oregon and Ka’ahumanu left the San Francisco suburbs, the PTA and Little League in the mid-’70s to start Oregon State University. down a path that finds her in Portland on May 9 Speaking to students about bisexuality is com speaking at Portland State University as a guest of monplace for Ka’ahumanu these days. She at PSU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Alliance. The topic tributes the increase of youth interest in bisexual will be “Beyond Binary: The Other Side of Other.” ity to organizing on the national level. “It broke The topic, as Ka’ahumanu defines it, refers to our isolation,” Ka’ahumanu says, recalling her bisexuals being difficult to categorize, even in the first meeting with members of bisexual groups queer community and from across the coun sometimes especially in try in Washington, D.C. the queer community. Apparently she tapped Lonnie R enteria, into a momentum that LGB A coordinator, says she not only fostered, Ka’ahumanu’s visit is but helped to unleash. particularly appropriate “W e’ve [bisexuals] for an academic setting, reached critical mass,” explaining that as a writer she says, explaining and editor Ka’ahumanu that there is a domino is paving the road for the effect, in that “visibil study o f bisexuality ity gives more permis within the broader field sion.” of queer studies. She co While Ka’ahumanu edited Bi Any Other is also recognized as an Name: Bisexuals Speak HIV activist and femi Out with L oraine nist, her Portland visit Hutchins, and her writ will likely concentrate ing has appeared in the on bisexual issues. “In Advocate, Utne Reader, a perfect world we Libido and numerous would not lock our anthologies. Much of selves in a category LGBA’s interest stems, box,” K a’ahumanu R enteria says, from says, conceding, “but Ka’ahumanu’s history of we don’t live in a per challenging academics fect world.” and their notions of bi Lani Ka ’ahumanu Ka’ahumanu will be sexuality, as well as her in Orlando in June for a aptitude at chronicling a sexual, political move convention held by members of BiNet USA, a ment. national bisexual network she helped form, as This will be Ka’ahumanu’s first trip to Port national coordinator emeritus. Her fall season, as land as a lecturer. “I’ve never been [to Portland] it stands, will take her to Maine, Vermont, New with this hat on,” Ka’ahumanu says, adding that York and Michigan. she’ 11 also have her literary cap on as she follows Considering Ka’ahumanu’s lengthy list of ac the lecture with a book reading and signing at complishments and public profile in the queer Laughing Horse Books, sponsored by the Port community— she was honored in the 22nd anni land Bisexual Alliance. versary issue of Ms. Not one for conventions, magazine, “50 Ways to Speaking to students about Be a Fem inist”— her K a’ahum anu’s reading list for Friday evening has bisexuality is commonplace Portland visit is sure to not been confirmed. And be lively. And what will she be signing? f o r Ka ’ahumanu these days. Ka’ ahumanu guarantees, Likely anything sh e ’s “It’ll be fun.” She attributes the increase handed. Renteria shares that PBA president expectation: “She’s very o f youth interest in and chair Adam personable [and] funny bisexuality to organizing W ills believes that as all hell.” K a’ah um anu’s visit on the national level. will lend support to Lani Ka 'ahumanu Portland’s bisexual com “It broke our isolation , ” will speak at PSU on munity. “We’re very ex Friday, May 9, from 3 cited that she’s coming,” Ka ’ahumanu says, recalling to 5 pm in Room 296 o f Wills says, comparing Smith Memorial Center. her first meeting with K a’ahum anu’s stature The event is free and within the bisexual com members o f bisexual groups open to the public; call munity to that of Urvashi 725-5681 fo r more from across the country. Vaid, director of the Policy information. Institute of the National Later that evening, Gay and Lesbian Task Force and author of Virtual from 7 to 9 pm, Ka 'ahumanu will speak and Equality, within the lesbian and gay community. sign autographs at Laughing Horse Books, “She’s a big name.” 3625 SE Division St. Call 232-9275 with Ka’ahumanu generally lectures throughout the questions regarding that event. I