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Manley also manages to find time to study lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning for the General Education Diploma, and she youth access resources and become leaders in and Lucero are spearheading a new queer youth their communities. Manley attended with her mentor, Kathy theater group. To keep it all flowing, Manley gets some Beige, a case manager for the youth counseling assistance from the likes of Beige, with whom service Roots and Branches, and three other young people from the Portland area, including she meets to discuss her goals and problems, as well as a potpourri of other matters. her best friend, Crystal Lucero. The Equity Foundation, a Portland-based At the conference, Manley and Lucero led a foundation that provides funding to queer well-attended, high-energy, interactive theater workshop. The lively group got so rowdy that supporting projects, recently gave Manley a folks attending the leather discussion next door grant to attend the Power of Hope Conference, another conference for youth leaders. Manley had to ask them to quiet down. In addition to Manleys presentation, the says she also received a scholarship to study at conference—which was sponsored in part by the Portland Actors Conservatory, but has had the National Youth Advocacy Coalition—host to take a leave of absence because she has to ed more than 60 workshops, a resource fair, art work so much. Manley has been involved for more than projects, numerous discussion groups and a three years with Gorilla Theater, a youth theater dance party. Workshops spanned an array of topics, from sexuality, racism and | grass-roots organizing, to writing a * S resume. For Manley, one of the highlights _J o was the acrobatic stilt-walking work p shop she attended at the Mission High School athletic field. There was also a movie room playing queer movies and television clips all day, and a “chill room” that was available for anyone who want ed to relax and just, well, chill for a while. In Portland, Manley likes to go to raves, decorate her room, and hang out with her best friend. She wants to marry Tori Amos, and her taste for the theatrical extends to her wardrobe—Manley has five wigs in colors such as purple and bright orange. With creative flair, she craft ed a backpack out of a pink Mr. Bubbles soap box, attaching shoulder straps and decorative pink feathers. “Make sure you write [that] 1 love glitter,” she adds as she gives me a tour of her tidy, eclectically-decorat ed room, complete with a Masters of the Universe bedspread and a blue bike in the comer. “Glitters really fun.” But there is also a serious side to Cassie Manley Manley’s life. At 13, she ran away and was group organized by Outside In, a Portland-based homeless for a brief spell. (Manley prefers not to agency that provides assistance to at-risk youth. discuss the details of why she left home.) She hopes to combine her love of acting with Although for some time her parents didn’t know her desire to reach out to other queer young peo where she was, these days she talks with them ple. regularly. She says she’d like to see an alternative to “1 love them, 1 just don’t want to live with the clubs, coffee shops and drop-in centers that are currently available to queer youth. them," Manley says candidly. Still, she admits the responsibility of being Eventually, Manley wants to study theater in self-supporting at such a young age has its draw college, live in a loft, have a dog, and run a backs: “Maybe I’m kind of cheated because I clothing store where she would sell, among didn’t get to live like other kids,” Manley says, other wares, glitter and funky jewelry. “but that’s what I did.” For now, however, she’s looking forward to Manley works 40 hours a week between two moving out of the large house she shares with jobs—about 35 hours a week at a fast-food seven other young people and into her own restaurant, and the rest of the time as a youth apartment. She’s already planning the decor: worker at the Youth Services Consortium, Although Manley loves hardwood floors, she is where, she proudly mentions, she has her own considering covering the floor with Astroturf. desk, nameplate and telephone extension. “It’d be scratchy, but I think it would be Manley says supporting herself has given her cute,” she says. I 503/ 698-5429 V_______________________________________________________________________________ S Why settle for 2nd best when you can have the original? F ollow the L eader Available Exclusively NORTHWEST ?