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12 Just Mit ' dacambar 17. 1999 IJhJii JÎIUJ4.4 Jnews RE/MAX A boveboard M eeting S ignature P roperties ! Lesbian Community Project board broaches tough topics at meeting with some current and estranged members by T.K. Mantese he recent departure of Lesbian Community Project staff organizer Deke Law has given the board of the 13-year-old organization an opportunity to reach out to those who were disaffected by the changes that occurred within LCP during the past year. Law, considered by some critics to be abra sive, left the organization for personal reasons in JUST LISTED! Gorgeous SE 3BR w/so many great features! New maple kitchen w/dishwasher, fridge & freezer, all oak h/wds, floor-to-ceiling glass bit- ins in DR, A/C, security system, tile bath. Extra large lot-fully landscaped w/arbor, pick et fence, sprinkler system. 2-car heated garage, full shop, potting shed, cute octagon doghouse. Charm inside & out on this one! $134,950 Tina Schafer Multi-Million Dollar Producer RE/MAX Signature Properties ¿fa* 282-4000x122 nf e-mail: tina@rmls.com BEV DOOLITTLE To appear at Gallery International Bev Doolittle teaches viewers to look beyond the obvious with her popular camouflage prints. Bev visits Portland to celebrate her newest work: “The Earth is My Mother” now fea tured at Gallery International. January 14,2000 5 PM - 8 PM Reservations needed for autographs. Only items purchased through the gallery will be signed. Gallery International 10024 SVV C anyon Rd Portland, Oregon 97225 503-644-9766 • toll free 800-776-9766 He adds that he wanted to be there to “put a face on the whole [trans] thing and try to talk to people about what is bugging them.” Jesse Jordan is an LCP charter board member who discontinued her affiliation with the group last year after a confrontation with Law, who opposed Women in the Woods’ stance against allowing preoperative transsexual women to participate in the mostly nude weekend celebra tion at Breitenbush Hot Springs. “It was just a very stressful even ing,” Jordan says of the Dec. 9 meeting. “But the more l think about it the more I am glad we were able to talk. It’s really important to talk about this stuff." O till a sore point O with many in the room that night was LCP’s position on Women in the Amazon Knightly (center) is an LCP board member Woods. The board mid-October. The board is in the preliminary maintains that the event violates LCP’s policy stages of developing a hiring committee and of inclusiveness. writing a job description for the full-time activist Pam Monette, a Women in the Woods com position, and members are hopeful that a perma mittee member, was among a “leadership team” nent staff organizer will be on the payroll by that a couple of years back worked from the March or April. basement of her home to help resurrect a finan LCP board member Amazon Knightly tells cially unstable LCP, subsequently dissolving a Just Out she invited several people from a cross $35,000 debt and raising enough money to pay section of the community to a recent meeting. Law’s salary for two to three months. “Not speaking for the board, but personally,” During the meeting, board members repeat Knightly says, “I want the input of the people edly inquired as to what others want from LCP. who have been around a long time, so that mov “Will Women in the Woods ever have a ing forward with LCP, I am going to be better place in LCP? ‘No’ is what we hear,” Monette educated to serve them.” responded. “So why would we continue to talk The Dec. 9 gathering of about 20 at Old about what we want?” Wives’ Tales in Portland was small enough to She added: “Some of us started this organiza enable everyone to speak and be heard. tion and those people aren’t coming [to LCP] Knightly says that as she watched one female- because they don’t feel served by LCP.” to-male trans person and an older lesbian (Women in the Woods, however, doesn’t exchange their feelings and thoughts, she “saw a need LCP, and vice versa. The two organizations wall come down.” can and do co-exist.) Henre Andosca, a self-described trans guy, The fact that LCP won’t support the defini says that, while the meeting was stressful, “a large tion of woman as being “woman-bom woman,” part of it felt good.” or agree that women under that definition have lojoy cooking in your Dream Kitchen HEFflCIHGi t I1EUI timniTS $400 OFF Kitchen Remodel with this ad. Fully Guaranteed 26 Years Experience Call for free in-home estimates Visit our showroom M-F 8-5; Sat 10-2 17643 SW P ilkington R d ., L ake O swego 699-9801 Licensed Bonded Insured #135156 CABINET REFACING • NEW CA8MET8 RENOVATI KITCHENS • BATHS • COUNTERTOPS Specialists in kitchen & bath cabinetry
