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for our community. Just Out provides to sexual
minorities the same leadership the Oregonian
provides to the people outside our community in
Oregon arid southwest Washington.
L inda D u g g in s
Turner
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’ve noticed and appreciated Just Out articles
about people and events in Eugene, Corvallis,
Bend and Portland because I’ve spent time in all
of these cities. 1 would miss this if you have to
focus on Portland for financial reasons.
It is fallacious to look at the profitability of
Just Out for each city in northwestern Oregon
because most people in this region regularly go
to Portland for entertainment and to buy things
after seeing advertisements in Just Out. I am sure
many Portland advertisers are profiting from
Eugene customers rather than “subsidizing”
them.
However, 1 would guess you have fewer than
1,000 qualified readers in Eugene, and Marty
Davis says it costs $15,000 a year to reach them.
How much does it cost to reach 1,000 readers in
Portland? If reaching 1,000 readers in Eugene
costs much more than in Portland, then I would
understand why you would stop distributing in
Eugene.
Just Out wouldn’t have survived this long
if it hadn’t been willing to change with
the times and make these types of tough
decisions. I hope the right choice is
made.
by choice or by circumstance, has the ability to
read about what is going on outside their con
straining and often frightening closet. It’s
invaluable; it gives hope of a better tomorrow—
something we all need.
Just Out was there for me in my time of need
to supply me with the information I craved to
move on with my life. I ask you to ignore the loss
of profit and continue to supply Just Out to the
Eugene area; you never know how many people
you are helping by simply making available this
paper, which might be their best or only
resource.
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I
’m writing in support of continued distribu
tion of Just Out throughout the valley. The
paper has done a great job of covering activities
in places other than Portland this year.
f, for one, have noticed and appreciated the
effort. Broader coverage will encourage more
people to read the paper.
I know many who live in rural areas depend
on Just Out as a link to the sexual minorities
community and would be much more isolated
without easy access to it. I also suspect the
papers distributed in Eugene often are
picked up by people who
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lease keep covering as much of the state as
possible. If it wasn’t for Just Out we never
would know what was going on in the valley
area.
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city and who travel there from surrounding
areas.
If Just Out was distributed only in Portland
and covered only Portland events, it would be
much less available to those who need it most. I
hope your concern about the cost of distribution
in Eugene will alert business owners there to
advertise in the paper.
Just Out provides a great service to the com
munity. It is needed, so let’s do what it takes to
support it financially!
W endy W oods
Willamette Valley
know those of us who live in “the rest of Ore
gon” need to have a contact point for things.
I am not sure re-creating your paper is the way
to do it.
It is hard enough to keep track of what is
happening in P-Land. I don’t suppose you would
consider the nightmare of regional coverage
(something akin to Nickel Ads)!
Another thing to look at is the distribution
of your paper. Are there distribution points in
Salem and other cities? I sometimes can find
your publication but not consistently.
I would love to have a publication that cov
ers my area, and I always have had fun with Just
Out. I wish you luck!
E lizabeth D uell
Salem
s a citizen of Eugene, I
always have been grateful
to Just Out for distributing a few
miles south of its base. As you
know, we have no gay publication
of our own, and I have grown
dependent on your paper for local
queer-issue news.
I’m sorry there’s been such little
response from the Emerald City to
your efforts, but I hope you will
know they are appreciated. More
than that, as the only prominent
gay paper in the state, it’s important
to be inclusive of all of Oregon.
Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide
what is best for the paper and how to be
the most effective. However, I confident
ly can say we Eugenians like having you down here
(even if we’re a little too quiet about it).
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Eugene
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he Rose City is where most people who
read this mag live, so 1 would have to say
keep the content mostly local. A few statewide
things are fine just as long as it’s mostly about
local news.
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T homas K raemer
Corvallis
’m sure many people get their Just
Out from the Web site. So why
not save the money for printing and
distribution for areas of least
return?
If you spent some of that sav
ings on expanding the Web site to
make it look more like the paper
and then advertised that to the
smaller areas, you could continue
to offer an Oregon paper instead of
a Portland one. Local advertising interest might
pick up because you’d have the ability to cover
these areas in their own sections. Good luck!
talked with) we really have become integrated
with the rest (that would be straight, bi, trans,
questioning...) of Eugene’s community. As one
friend said, “Every day is gay day." *
Back to the paper. If it will save Just Out to sac
rifice the drive to Eugene, I guess it’s worth con
sidering. However, it really would be missed, and I
do think your efforts are appreciated very much.
I
N atalie F oglio
Clackamas
arty Davis spoke of me as the “high school
senior whose parents rejected her upon
learning she was gay,” which is true.
I know that in order to remain in business
one needs to make a profit. However, I believe
supplying the Eugene area with this paper is
serving a bigger purpose: education. Just Out is
an irreplaceable resource that informs people
about what is going on in the gay community in
Portland, in Oregon, in the United States and
in the world.
Through its pages a person who is closeted,
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ugene, the mystery city, obviously has raised
your curiosity! I decided to take an unoffi
cial poll of about six to eight gay friends regard
ing Just Out. Everyone reads it. And, yes, it is
viewed as a Portland paper, although we still like
it very much.
We all laughed at Jerry Harris comparing us
to Mormons. We are here, so much so that we
don’t parade it because there are too many of us!
No one would be at work!
Seriously, there are a lot of us, single and cou
pled. There are especially a lot of women; it’s
practically the Sappho city.
We’re so comfortable (at least who I’ve
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