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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 2003)
tahriiaty 7 ^2ÛÛiï nTÎTTTÏÏTnnnewsbrie/s Injured? ...Call me Continued from Page 9 L et F reedom R ing hold its first meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 27 at Central Library, 801 S.W. 10th Ave. Pizza will be provided. The coalition will discuss the problem, what other groups across the country have done and fun projects it might want to take on. According to Cathryn Cushing of the Multnomah County Tobacco Prevention Program: • Gay, lesbian, bi and trans people smoke at almost twice the rate of the general population. • Smoking speeds the development of full blown AIDS. • Lesbians who smoke are at much greater risk for some cancers than other women. • The tobacco industry is targeting the queer population with notorious cam paigns such as Project S.C.U.M . “Our friends and family members are dying from tobacco- / ¿D M & S JíbíGof Org related illnesses— more than die from car accidents, suicides, homicides and AIDS combined,” Cushing says. “Wc can help.” n ethnically diverse panel of queers will attempt to answer the question “Does Freedom Ring for Our Gay Brothers and Sis ters?” from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 19 at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Road. Interested participants are encouraged to con tact Gary Coleman, who co-founded the Port land Gay Men’s Chorus, served as co-chairman of the host committee for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s recent Creating Change conference and works as a trainer for PCC. 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An Italian-style dinner will he served at 6 p.m. Darcelle will he joined at 7:30 by her entire performance troupe for a night of her leg endary “glitz, glamour and comedy.” Beer and wine will he served at a no-host bar. A dessert bar also will he available. The event will raise money for the recently reopened center, which has been a longtime focal point of neighborhixxl pride and activity. It has served generations of families who relied on the facility for children's activities including 4-H Club and Girl Scout meetings, skating, vol leyball, arts and crafts, a library, Sunday school and even a fully functioning weekday preschool. Walter Cole, aka Darcelle, has special roots in Linnton. He grew up there and has fond memories of the center being an essential part of the neighborhcxxl for generations of youth. The building and programs closed in the summer of 2001 because of embezzlement by a former center director who since has accepted responsibility. The facility needs about $30,000 in immediate repairs. Linnton residents and businesses have been working together to raise money. Now the com munity is galvanized to restore the center to full time operations. Already a morning preschool and afternoon after-schixil program have been re-established. The event, which is for adults only, costs $20 a person. Cash, checks and major credit cards will be accepted. Raffle tickers will be sold for $1 at the dtxtr, with 50 percent of the proceeds going to the winner and the other half benefiting the center. In addition, literary and history buffs will be able to place orders for the book Lmnfon, A Town Too Tough to Die. Proudly serving our community since 1989 in personal o R e su lts 503 / 233-3622 2 5 2 0 East B u rnsid e A member of the community that you can trust LGBT Pride is a celebration of community, and community is all about trust. 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