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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
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Look for the A ID S Q uilt at
First Congregational, Oct. 2 0 0 0 .
282-4000 X 122
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Across from the A rt Museum.
e-mail:
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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.
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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.
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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