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Is your life lacking direction? Take a cue from Cassie Manley,
a young activist with a dream, a plan and a head start by Grace Pastine
n July, 16-year-old Cassie Manley joined a measure of maturity. She turns a practical eye
hundreds of other queer young people at on the somber realities of adulthood.
“When you can do everything, you don’t do
the fourth annual Young, Loud and Proud
Youth Leadership Conference in San it because you have to go to work in the morn
Francisco, a gathering designed to help ing,” she says.
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 *
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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.
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