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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 2000)
j 2 J n t MÉt * juoe lfi,2ÛQfl |7Tï7ïï7Tfflnnne'U>s RE/MAX First Congregational United Church o f Christ S ig n a t u r e P r o p e r t ie s ! D aily P ride Six good-spirited community members ore the Spirit of Pride's doss of 2000 1126 SW PARK AVEN UE 228-7219 M arching in Pride since 1992 ! F u n T h in g s Y a r d S a l e C om m unity fundraiser at I t ’s M y P le a su re N E 6 4 th and Sandy. Sunday, J u n e 26th , 1 lam - 4pm . T h an k s for you support! An open and affirm ing church in the liberal Christian tradition. W O R S H IP SE R V IC E Sundays at 10:25 a.m. Church School for Children during the worship hour. Tina Schafer, G R I, A BR M ulti-M illion D ollar P roducer RE/MAX Signature Properties Look for the A ID S Q uilt at First Congregational, Oct. 2 0 0 0 . 282-4000 X 122 (jSm/ Across from the A rt Museum. e-mail: rina@rmls.com D U V E T In Swiss and A ustrian Villages, townspeople used to save the soft down from the undersides of their geese and ducks, and when a young woman married, a sack of down provided by friends and family would be part o f her dowry. T h is* sack has evolved over the centuries into the duvet, one of the most practical and luxurious forms o f bedding available. Though duvets can be filled with synthetic material, the lightest and warmest are filled with down, which traps the body s natural heat under the covers. T h e best duvets are sewn into sections, or baffles , giving down the breathing room it needs, while also keeping it evenly distributed. 1 FRENCH QUARTER " " /u x u iy /a e ¿A e 6 e d , Aa/A a / t d A oc/y PEARL D IST R IC T EUOENE 1 4 4 4 NE BROADWAY 5 3 6 N W 1 4 T H AT H O Y T F I F T H S T R E E T P U B L I C MARKET ristan Aspen is a longtime Portland resi dent, having graduated from Marshall High School in the 1960s. After returning to Portland from Oberlin College and a brief trip to Cuba as a translator- activist, she was a mover and shaker in helping to found Bradley-Angle House, the Feminist Wom en’s Credit U nion and many other progressive feminist organizations in the 1970s. For the last 20 years, she has been active in Lesbian Community Project and was on the board of Pride Northwest until last year, when she left to develop the Conver sations Project and help out as interim director of LCP. She loves writing, Kristan A conversation of an intel lectual bent, and gardening in her not-so-spare time. K erissa Ediza, field organizer for Basic Rights Oregon, has run the successful legislative campaigns of the last two years to contain anti gay bills, elect progressive candidates, and to increase the membership base of the organization. She coordinated Oregon’s first ever by-youth, for- youth statewide confer ence on queer issues in the spring of 1999. Ediza has also volunteered her time with Clackamas Women’s Services and the Portland Lesbian Avengers. Her fa vorite activity is teaching people to eat fire! N ari Kruse is a Montana native who just fin ished her junior year at the University of Portland. She will graduate next year with majors in psychology and social work. Last year, Kruse launched Friends Kari Kruse United to Educate Lives, a group that promotes campus awareness of diver sity, including gay and lesbian issues. K / 2 \ N O RTH EA ST PORTLAND very year, on one weekend in June, hundreds of thousands of people storm the nations city streets to loud ly proclaim their pride. However, a few kindred spirits boast that kind of unyielding pride every single day, in the form of activism and support. These are the kind of individuals Pride Northwest Inc. has chosen to receive its Spirit of Pride Award since 1994. Here’s the class of 2000: 282-8200 223-3870 541-343-8904 { p l e a s e e x p l o r e o u r c a t a l o g at w w w . e u r o l i n e n s . c o m } T he first thing Renée LaChance would have you know is how to pronounce her name. It’s not as easy as it looks— la shauntz, not la chance like it is spelled. Always eschewing the limelight, LaChance has been a behind-the- scenes activist for lesbian and gay rights since Sister Paula Nielsen the early ’80s. Her greatest endeavor began in 1983, at age 24, when she founded Just Out, Oregon’s lesbian and gay newsmagazine, with Jay Brown. As the publisher and sometimes editor of Just Out, for 15 years she monitored and reported everything about the queer community. LaChance is an entrepre neur; she has juggled as many as four businesses at once, all benefiting Port land’s lesbian and gay com munity. Now she is learning to be a motel owner and operator since her acquisi tion of the See Vue Motel in Yachats, Ore., in November 1997. s p iste r Paula Nielsen is a v. ^native Oregonian, bom in 1938. She transitioned from Larry to Paula in the early 1960s, and she has been active in Portland’s gay community since the mid-’70s. She has served as secretary of Metropolitan Community Church of Portland, authored the column “Thoughts from Paula,” produced the cable access television program “Sister Paula, the Trans Evangelist” and has been a volunteer A ID S minister at Our House and the HIV Day Center. She has made numerous televi sion appearances in the United States and Canada and has been featured in various publications, in cluding People magazine. erek J. Travers has been an activist for a variety of causes since he was a teen-ager. After com ing out as a dyke at age 18, he revolutionized the queer student group at his school, helped start a rural chapter of the Lesbian Avengers, and worked with MEChA to gain recognition for youth of color. After com ing out as male at age 23, he began educating himself and others about trans issues. Derek currently works at the Sexual Mi nority Youth Recreation Center, and is one of the founding fathers of both Cocksure and G en der Machineworks, two Portland-area groups for transguys. ■ Compiled by K aty D avidson
