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Call for a complimantary consultation in your homa. 503.885.8211 • 800.488.4558 • ww w .caldosats.com Visit our Tualatin showroom at 18862 SW Tat on N aw Saturday showroom hours 10am-2pm CALIFORNIA CLOSETS During the week “students, faculty and staff can talk about how queer students are a part of The demonstration will take place as part of their lives,” Charlton adds. “Queer people have made contributions to the world, and recogniz Affirmation’s “No More Deaths, No More ing that helps.” Silence” campaign and to coincide with The week also lets allies show support. “It National Suicide Prevention Week. It will pro vide a public opportunity to mourn the loss of helps to know that there -are people we can count on to help us,” Charlton says. friends and family members and draw attention Unless otherwise noted, all o f the events to social problems and religious teachings that will he held in the M emorial U nion, contribute to the problem. 2 301 S.W. Jefferson St. Here are some of the week’s highlights: For more information visit ivww.affirmation.org or • Interpersonal Violence in L G B T Q www.afsc.org. R elatio n sh ip s: Robin Keillor, O S U ’s sexual assault services coordinator, will lead this discus sion (4 to 5 p.m. May 14, Women’s Center). • In the Borderlands: This discussion will focus on race and sexual orientation (6:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 14, Black Cultural Center). • Breaking Through Stereo types and Building Bridges: Guest lecturer Jen Chen of Hewlett-Packard will lead this special session (2:30 to 4:30 p.m. May 16, Room 208). • Celebration: Past, Present and Future: This program will honor past and present < ueer lead ers (6 to 9 p.m. May 16, Ball room). • Magdalen Hsu-Li in Con cert: This popular performer on the college and club tour circuits is one of the first Asian American singer-songwriters to command the alternative college p!a,list (8 to 10 p.m. May 16, Ballroom). • Drag Show and Dance: Loren Cameron delivers the keynote -speech during Charlton predicts this free event InterSEXtions 2002 on April 27 at University of Oregon will be the most popular one of the week. “Last year we had so many people, we ! L oren C am eron had to turn them away at the door" (8 to 11 p.m. P r e sen t s P h o to g r a ph s May 17, Ballroom). nowledge is the antidote for fear," For more information contact the O SU Rainbow acclaimed trans photographic artist Continuum at 5 4 1 -737-6360 or . Loren Cameron said as he began his lecture April 27 at University of Oregon in Eugene. lghta@mu. orst. edu He presented more than 80 slides, comment ing on each one and telling stories and jokes , along the way. E v er g r een E x p l o r e s Cameron showed images completed in the past four to six years from his book Body Alche G end er a n d S e x u a l it y he first-ever Olympia Gender and Sexuali- my, which contains “graphic images of genital modification options for transsexual men.” The J ty Conference will take place May 3 to 5 at Evergreen State College and other locales slides included close-up faces, individual before and after transition photographs and clothed around the Washington state capital. The weekend will begin with a series of anti and unclothed studio work. The presentation was the closing event of oppression workshops. A concert will be held the evening of May 3. the five-day InterSEXtions 2002 symposium, Several 90-minute workshops on issues “The Queer Body: An Exploration of Identi- , ty, Culture and Politics.” Organizer Chicora ranging from drag and pornography to global Martin said Cam eron’s work “puts into pic- | ization and polyamory will take place May 4 tures what sometime we can ’t put into and 5 on campus. Other topics include sado words." masochism, fat sex, anal sex, how to latex your lover, tops and bottoms, queer youth and whore revolution. May 4 also will feature films, a fire dancing C a m pu s C eleb r a t es performance and an appearance by New York Q ueer P ride I City slam poet Alix Olson. The evening will regon State University students and staff end with a screening of Third Antenna, an will celebrate Queer Pride Week with a Olympia-made documentary on radical drag. series of events called “From Silence to Celebra The conference will conclude May 5 with a one-woman show by Carol Queen about her tion: It’s a Rainbow World After All.” According to chairwoman Andi C h arl experiences as a sex worker in San Francisco. ton, the goal is to bring together the C orval An art show will he on display throughout the lis campus in celebration of diversity. “I weekend, including an installation on gender would like to see us begin to build bridges of and sexuality by Mary Bryant of Eugene. acceptance and understanding with people j who don’t know much about the queer com- j For more information call 360-867-6144 or visit the Web site olynetwnrk.org/gendersexcon. munity," she says. \ . . J
