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tribute their tax credits. “We need you to lit
erally rush us your political donation at this
time,” the message says.
S afe S chools B ill
Executive director Lon Mabon is doing his
S talled in C ommittee
part to get Senate Bill 969 passed. The legisla
upporters of the Safe Schools Bill still are
tion, he writes, would require anyone submitting
waiting for the legislation to get a hearing by a voter pamphlet statement in an election to
the House Judiciary Committee. Basic Rights sign an affidavit swearing that a “yes” or “no”
Oregon spokesperson CM Hall says her organi argument is just that.
zation is lobbying lawmakers to take action.
The bill is stuck in the Senate Rules Com
mittee, chaired by Sen. Steve Harper, R-Kla-
math Falls. Mabon says the legislation is critical
to defeating the homosexual agenda in Novem
ber 2002.
According to the message, the bill came
about after a “pro-homosexual activist, in an
attempt to deceive the public, wrote and sub
mitted to the secretary of state ‘supposed’
Yes on 9 voter pamphlet statements, which
were, in truth, No on 9 arguments.” The satiri
cal prank was the work of M. Dennis Moore’s
Special Righteousness Committee.
The OCA recruited Sen. Charles Starr, R-
Hillsboro, to forward a bill curtailing such sub
missions. Mabon wants his followers to call lead
ers of the House and Senate and ask them to put
the legislation on “the fast track.”
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Rep. Max Williams
House Bill 3247 seeks to protect sexual
minority students and those who are perceived
to be gay. A recent survey indicated one in 15
Oregon high schoolers had been harassed during
the past 30 days because someone thought he or
she was gay. The students, the survey suggests,
are three times more likely to attempt suicide
than their peers.
Hall suggests supporters who want to help
should call the committee’s chairman, Rep.
Max Williams, R-Tigard, and “kindly request
a hearing.”
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AIDS A nniversary
.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., issued a
statement on the Senate floor to com
memorate the 20th anniversary of the AIDS
epidemic June 5. The date is noteworthy be
cause of the publication of a report by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in 1981.
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Proudly Independent
F orum F ocuses
on S enior C oncerns
he Lesbian Community Project will
launch “Options for Elders” during a
forum from 6 to 8 p.m. June 19 in the board
room on the third floor of Portland’s down
town YWCA, 1111 S.W. 10th Ave. The panel
will explore issues of concern to queer seniors
as well as envision and work toward creating
expanded options in building community
across the generations.
Helping arrange the event is a group of 13
women known as Old Lesbians Organizing for
Change. They meet on the second Wednesday
of each month in the homes of members.
The forum is part of the Conversations
Project, which will start holding discussion
groups led by professional facilitators in the
fall. Participants will include seniors 60 and
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith
older from the queer community and their
"Though the 553-word article only outlined
younger counterparts.
A $2,000 Equity Foundation grant made the a rare type of pneumonia, it also noted that the
effort possible. Kristan Aspen, LCP program same strain had struck five gay men in Los
director, initiated previous Conversations Proj Angeles,” Smith said. He added that one of
them was an Oregonian named “Chuck.”
ects under the sponsorship of Pride Northwest.
“Today’s Washington Post noted only a sliver
of
his
life—that he was from Oregon and that he
For more information about the forum call Mary
had a penchant for wearing cowboy boots,”
Beth at 503'286'3575. For more information
Smith said. "Chuck has been dead for 19 years.”
about the Conversations Project call LCP’s new
direct line, 503'294'7435.
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OCA S crambling
R aise F unds
to
P rotester R esumes
M edical T reatment
he Oregon Citizens Alliance recently
sent an e-mail to right-wing supporters
urging them to call legislators and to con-
T
he North Bend man who stopped his
1 anti-retroviral treatment in protest of
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