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he Gay Life Health Network will co
sponsor The (Bad) Boy Next Door June 7
to 9 at Theater! Theatre! The group plans to
facilitate a brief discussion after each show
about the issues and questions the perform
ance raises.
Gay Life organizers hope this will help
audience members process the feelings and
issues presented during the play. Don Horn of
triangle productions! said the group has taken
out advertisements in the show’s program and
will have a table in the theater’s lobby to dis
tribute information.
The controversial play showcases the tal
ents of its author, Tony Valenzuela. His solo
performance uses comedy and brutal honesty
in dealing with some of the gay community’s
most taboo subjects:
unsafe sex, pom and
prostitution.
Although some
people will object to
the play’s content,
Gay
Life’s
Kip
Beardsley insists the
point of the discus
sion is not to criti
cize
Valenzuela’s
choices. “We need
to be able to discuss
with gay men the
realities of life and
love and the needs
that many men feel
for great intimacy
—Kip Beardsley and connection to
each other,” he says.
Beardsley thinks gay men need more open
discussion about the barriers that keep some
men from intimacy, the behaviors that result
and how they can find intimacy and connec
tion in more optimal ways.
"We need to be
able to discuss
with gay men the
realities of life
and love and the
needs that many
men feel for
great intimacy
and connection
to each other."
S e x u a l O r ie n t a t io n
T a k e s T o p S p o t in R e p o r t
A
ccording to Portland Police Bureau sta
tistics through April 30, bias crimes
based on sexual orientation topped the list of
12 categories.
The report says 19 crimes were determined
to be motivated by the victim’s real or per
ceived sexual orientation. A total of 18 racial
bias crimes were reported during the same
time period.
C o st a E l e c t e d
F o ru m C o - c h a ir
orm Costa, Sexual Minorities Round
table co-chair, was elected co-chair of
the C h ief’s Forum on April 2. He has been
attending the forum as a representative of the
roundtable and the Coalition Against Hate
Crimes.
The group’s other chair is Art Hendricks of
the Office of Neighborhood Involvement.
Costa’s term runs for two years.
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A fter C o n t r o v e r sia l P lay
the results, they decided to make Dine for
Basic Rights an annual event.
Restaurants in Aurora, Corvallis, Eugene
and Ashland also will participate. This year’s
date falls between Pride celebrations in Portland
and Lane County.
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ane County’s 10th annual Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Pride Celebration
will be held noon to 6 p.m. June 30 in Eugene’s
Washington Jefferson Park.
A total of 50 spaces are available for com
munity organizations and vendors. Rates
range from $25 for nonprofit organizations to
$60 for food vendors.
Organizers are seeking individual donations,
sponsors and volunteers. The celebration is an
alcohol-free event.
For more information call Amber
at 541'342-1490.
B R O P r epa r es
for F u n d - r a iser
B
asic Rights Oregon will play host to its
second annual Dine for Basic Rights on
June 21 at restaurants throughout Portland.
Participating eateries have agreed to donate a
minimum of 15 percent of each hill to the
organization.
The concept originally was met with suc
cess in 1992. Fund-raisers decided to give the
event another try during the N o on 9 C am
paign last fall. Organizers were so happy with
Norm Costa will move to the head of the table
as Chief’s Forum co-chair
The C h ief’s Forum brings members of
minority communities and different organiza
tions together to meet with Portland Police
Chief Mark Kroeker on the first and third Mon
days of each month.
P e a c o c k in t h e P a r k
V o l u n t e e r s N eeded
P
eacock in the Park organizers say that as
the annual event gets bigger and better,
more volunteers are needed. Increasing de
mands from the parks bureau also require a
bigger volunteer force.
To recruit people and to answer questions,
the event’s producers held a volunteer meeting
May 24. The usual 20 volunteers who help each
year just aren’t enough, they say.
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