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WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2000
No . 69
Senate
RYAN WHITE CARE ACT
Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, I am delighted that last night
the Senate voted to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act, S. 2311. I
am proud to count myself as one of the cosponsors of this legislation in
the Senate and strongly support its swift passage by the House.
The H1V/A1DS epidemic continues to take a high toll on Americans
infected with HIV and their families. HIV/AIDS has affected Oregon
in many ways. Almost 5,000 Oregonians have been diagposed with
AIDS— resulting in almost 3,000 deaths. In addition, those infected
with HIV number up to 8,500 in Oregon. This epidemic has touched
people in every part of my state— rural and urban, rich and poor, senior
citizens and newborns.
Although the story of each of these individuals living with
HIV/AIDS is different, they all have one thing in common: They all
benefit from the Ryan White CARE Act. Oregon received almost 8.5
million federal dollars last year to fund programs through the Ryan
White CARE Act.
Passage of the Ryan White CARE Act will allow Oregonians living
with HIV to have timely access to life-prolonging medications and nec
essary health care and support services, regardless of income level or
insurance status. The Ryan White CARE Act will also improve access
for HIV-positive Oregonians to clinical trials, with the potential for
additional scientific breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
I call for the House to join the Senate in a similar quick passage of
the Ryan White CARE Act that will allow hundreds of thousands of
HIV-positive Americans to remain healthy, productive members of
their communities, while slowing the AIDS epidemic.
I would like to thank my friend Terry Bean of Portland, Ore., for
talking to me about the good things the Ryan White CARE Act does for
Oregonians living with HIV/AIDS. Terry is a longtime board member
of the Human Rights Campaign and has been a highly valued adviser
on issues affecting the gay and lesbian community in Oregon.
Terry’s thoughts and wisdom on hate crimes, ENDA and fighting
against all types of discrimination have provided me with an ethical
marker for doing what is right on the Senate floor for Oregonians. I do
feel lucky that Terry’s advice is dispensed on a golf course— though the
only criticism I may have for Terry is that he lacks the political savvy
to lose to a United States senator. I thank him anyway for his strong
support and good advice.
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith will receive the .Equality Award during the Portland Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner on Nov. 3.
Terry Bean also will be recognized for his many accomplishments and contributions to the gay and lesbian community.
For additional details, contact HRCPDXCOM@aol.com.
P helps P lans P ickets
A cross T own
ince Just Out reported Aug. 18 that Fred
Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church plans to
picket Newberg High School, one of his Web
sites, GodHatesFags.com, posted an update
about a pending visit to the City of Roses. Sept. 8
is going to be a busy day for these protesters.
Now, Phelps and company will demonstrate
at Portland State University, the Portland office
of Waddell & Reed and G rant High School, the
Internet site says. Protests in Seattle will follow.
PSU and Waddell & Reed are being target
ed because of the Gay Life Health Network’s
Tunnel of Love.. .Greatest Hole on Earth forum
held earlier this year at the university. Julie
Smith, a spokeswoman for PSU, had not been
notified about the upcoming protest. Waddell
and Reeds management recently was notified
by fax from the church.
Eric Brown, a Waddell & Reed district man
ager in Portland, independently sponsored Tun
nel of Love, but the company’s logo inadvertent
ly was included in an acknowledgment adver
tisement for the event’s program. “I made a per
sonal contribution in support of the communi
ty,” he says.
The company’s name was used without its
permission, a Waddell & Reed spokesperson
says. But Brown did not know about the ad
before the event, the company says.
Since then, producers of the safer-sex event,
attended by more than 600, sent a letter of apol
ogy to Waddell &. Reed. Brown says his compa
ny has been extremely understanding about the
mix-up.
But Phelps has not. He plans to picket not
only the Portland office of Waddell & Reed but
also the company’s headquarters right in his own
hack yard in Kansas during the coming weeks.
Phelps is after PSU President Daniel Bem-
stine as well. He claims tax money was used in
putting on Tunnel of Love.
S
Pride Northwest maintains that it held fair
elections and that it operates not only legally
but ethically. Attorney Brad Woodworth— who
was retained to review the situation—says he
doesn’t believe any of the complaints against the
organization have merit that would warrant
concern about possible legal action.
But Swan says enough is awry with Pride
Northwest that the Department of Justice already
has stepped in to take a look. She says an attor
ney with the agency recently read an e-mail
addressed to Just Out and subsequently called her.
Soon after, the two former board members
interviewed with four attorneys from the depart
G roup M eets with
ment, Swan says. They answered questions for
more than two hours.
C ommunity M embers and
An agreement was made before the meeting
D epartment of J ustice
that the department only would review the
embers of several sexual minority com information and would oversee mediation if the
lawyers thought such action
munities showed up at
was
appropriate, Swan ex
a special meeting Aug. 23 to
plained. The agency reas
speak their minds about
sured the women that their
Pride Northwest, the non
intent was not to dissolve
profit organization that pro
the organization but to
duces Portland’s annual
resolve the issues.
pride parade and festival. A
Swan says that the de
total of 25 people attended
partment is reviewing the
the three-hour gathering.
information and that she is
The meeting was organ
uncertain
of its next step.
ized when a group of com
She says they are waiting to
munity members requested
hear a response.
to meet with Pride North
Cliff
Jones
facilitates
Pride Northwest board
west’s board of directors and
the
community
meeting
chair Carmella Ettinger con
the board refused. At the
firms she has been contacted by the attorney gen
center of the controversy is the recent removal
eral’s
office. “We are ecstatic that a neutral party
of two board members and concerns about the
will be involved in reviewing the decision-mak
organization’s financial statements.
ing and financial status of Pride Northwest. ...It
Organizers invited Pride Northwest board
is our hope that their opinion will put an end to
members to the event, they say, but only one,
the lies that a few people are perpetuating."
Dana Oslund, attended.
The community meeting was expected to
Tamara Swan maintains she was removed
result
in a formal request to the current Pride
illegally from the board one week before the
Pride 2000 event. Jana MacAuslan also is fight Northwest board of directors asking for their res
ignations. But that did not happen.
ing her removal from the board.
“Freedom of thought and expression is the
bedrock principle on which all university activ
ity is based,” Bemstine said. “PSU supports the
right of every individual to seek knowledge,
exchange ideas and form opinions. We encour
age everyone to respect the right of freedom of
speech even when such speech may be offensive
to one’s personal beliefs.”
G rant High also likely will see picketers. The
group claims the schœ l is using “governmental
power to proselytize kids to sodomite shame.”
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