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Sexual Minorities Roundtable members vote on proposed bylaws during a meeting Jan. 9
Oregon! for the past five years.
Buckwalter has worked with the city of
Portland and Multnomah County to institute
policies that respect the gender identity rights
of all citizens. As past co-chair of the Sexual
Minorities Roundtable, she also collaborated
with the community and law enforcement
officials to address issues of bias crimes and
public safety.
“Lori has diligently and consistently
fought for the rights of all Portlanders,”
Mayor Vera Katz said. “She was instrumental
in Portland’s recent move to provide greater
protections against discrimination based on
gender identity. Her dignity, determination
and quiet commitment to civil rights is some
thing we can all look to as an example.”
P eer O utreach G roup
R efuses to W ork with
M ultnomah C ounty
R oundtable E lects
C o -C hair , D ebates B ylaws
he Portland Police Bureau’s Sexual Mi
norities Roundtable elected longtime
member Roni Lang as its new co-chair during a
meeting Jan. 9. Norm Costa and Assistant
Chief Mark Paresi will continue to serve as the
other co-chairs.
Frederick B. Hayes II, who was also on the
ballot for co-chair, withdrew from the elec
tion just before the meeting. He did not
attend because of illness. Hayes said he hopes
to address the group during its February meet
ing to explain his change of heart.
The roundtable, a monthly gathering of
sexual minorities and members of the police
bureau, provides an opportunity for exchange
of information, concerns and suggestions.
The group meets the second Tuesday of each
month.
At issue during the January meeting was
the adoption of new bylaws. Since its incep
tion almost 10 years ago, the roundtable has
operated without any formal rules. But with
an increased interest in the group, spurred on
by last fall’s controversy concerning Chief
Mark Kroeker’s 10-year-old taped comments
about homosexuals, a committee was con
vened to draft new bylaws.
The discussion will continue during the next
roundtable meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Feb. 13 at the Justice Center, 1111 S.W. Second
Ave. All are welcome.
T
eer outreach workers at the Positive Com
munity Project announced that they are
ending their six-year relationship with the
Multnomah County Health Department.
The group claims the agency has ignored
community concerns about HIV names
reporting and is working in collusion with the
Oregon Health Division. The eight-member
grassroots outreach and advocacy organiza
tion struggled with the decision because most
of its financial support comes from Ryan
White CARE Act funds that are managed by
the county.
“In his recent strike on HIV medications,
Steve Henson has put his life on the line over
this issue affecting the lives of so many HIV-pos
itive Oregonians,” said Jack Cox, an organizer
and worker at the Positive Community Project.
“We can’t do less as an organization.”
Henson, an AIDS activist from North
Bend, issued a statement after the state’s
announcement in December to implement a
names reporting system for people who are
HIV-positive, saying he will forgo all anti
retroviral medications in protest. He said he
will continue to do so until the policy is
changed.
Reporting of those testing positive for
HIV will begin in July. Anonymous testing
For more information call Paresi at
will continue to be available throughout the
503
- 823 - 4636 .
state.
The group is urging all people of conscience
to distance themselves from working or volun
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teering with organizations supporting names
reporting. “We can’t maintain our credibility
with the communities we serve and remain in
the pay of Multnomah County, which has vio
lated all the community processes around this
issue and told frightened people that their fears
are not real,” Cox said.
The Positive Community Project is a peer
consortium of diverse outreach and advocacy
workers including African Americans, Asian/
Pacific Islanders, Latino/Chicanos, Native
Americans, women, youth, sex-industry work
ers, injection drug users and incarcerated, rural,
urban, gay and straight people. Since 1995, its
goal has been to provide information and
advocacy to HIV-infected people and affected
communities.
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