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Eugene forum set for Dec. 6 Speak/OUT!, the second in a series o f com munity forums presented by O'BASIC, will be held Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Atrium Building in downtown Eugene. The event is designed as an opportunity for participants to discuss issues affecting the health and well-being of the local queer community. Representatives from Oregon’s Gay Health Advisory Committee, an official advisory body o f the Oregon Health Division, are scheduled to attend. GHAC was convened three years ago by OHD’s HIV Program to assist with strategic development o f HIV-prevention programs for gay and bisexual men in Oregon. The free forum will be held from 7 to 9 pm. A DJ’d dance event follows, from 10 pm to 2 am, the cost is $3-$5.For more information, call (541) 431-5369 or (541) 342-5088. Festive feminists cheer another year $ 5 0 0 DOWN O.A.C. 3 -B D R M 2 BATH local news Song, poetry and conversation will be abun dant at Radical W omen’s Holiday Social. Partici pants should bring a favorite poem or radical song to toast the highlights o f 1997 and the challenges awaiting in 1998. The gathering is slated for Dec. 10 at 7 pm at the Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center (for merly the Northwest Service Center) Community Room, 1819 NW Everett St. in Portland. A hearty Eastern European supper will be available at 6:30 pm for a $5 donation. For more information or child care, call 228-3090 two days in advance. The social is free, open to everyone and wheelchair accessible. Equity awards special grants As part o f its Community Outreach granting program, Equity Foundation recently issued a request for grant proposals that address issues relevant to transgendered or transsexual indi viduals. The objective o f this year’s Community Out reach grant cycle is to educate the lesbian, gay and bisexual community and its supporters about is sues o f importance to transgendered and trans sexual people. Equity specifically sought proposals for pro grams that: seek to eradicate prejudice and bias toward transgendered and transsexual people, work to include transgendered and transsexual people as accepted members of the community, and seek to transform program participants in a way that helps them embrace the dignity and worth o f all people. Two projects have been awarded the special community outreach grants. Pride Northwest Inc., will receive $2,000 for its Trans Conversation Project, designed to facilitate communication and build positive interactions between transgendered and transsexual people and the rest of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community through cycles o f small group conversations. The other grant has been given to Phoenix Rising Foundation, serving as fiscal agent for attorney JoAnna McNamara, who will receive $2,500 to fund development, production and dis tribution of a brochure for both the trans commu nity and employers, alerting them to protections the law provides for transsexuals, particularly in the workplace. Lesbians of color sought for study Dr. Jocelyn White and Lynn Hanson, Ph.D., who are affiliated with Good Samaritan Hospital, are conducting an interview study of lesbians who have positive relationships with their heterosexual physicians. The two are specifically trying to recruit lesbians of color for the study. Each par ticipant will be paid a small stipend. For more information, call 413-6713. Xmas trees for people with AIDS :. Unable to afford a tree this Christmas? N ot fe e lin g w ell enough to pick one up? A free Christmas tree giveaway for people living with AIDS has been organized by Robin Chavis with the assistance of local tree grow ers Dan and Debbie Fischer. The goal is to provide Christmas trees to those unable to afford them or too sick to ob tain a tree on their own. Free trees and delivery are available Dec. 13- 23 to the first 50 qualified callers. For more information, call Robin or Mike at 281-2841. Fanno Creek gives back The Fanno Creek Clinic has donated a total of $1,275 to Portland Public Schools and the Mult nomah County library system. The money was raised this past summer when Fanno Creek announced patients could choose to have the clinic donate $5 from their patient visit to the schools or libraries. “The majority...of our patients like the idea that we are giving something back to the commu nity. For us, being part of the community and contributing to it are very important values,” says Dr. Gregg Coodley, Fanno Creek’s director. Coodley says the clinic is looking for other ways to “give back to the community,” and in the interim will continue to focus on its commitment to “take care o f uninsured patients, who are very welcome at Fanno Creek.” Fanno Creek Clinic is located at 2400 SW Vermont St. in Portland. For more information, call 452-0915. Compiled by Inga Sorensen