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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-
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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
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arcelle XV, Portland’s premier drag queen,
will headline a Feb. 16 benefit for the his
toric Linnton Community Center, which is
hxated on U.S. Highway 30 about one mile
northwest of the St. Johns Bridge at Northwest
107th Avenue.
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.
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Queer activists mobilize against war Jan. 18
in downtown Portland
Q ueer A ctivists
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to protest the increasingly inevitable U.S.
war on Iraq. The peace rally included a large con
tingent marching with Pride at Work Oregon, an
AFL-CIO affiliate for queer unionists.
T he next day about 30 activists from Port
land’s sexual minorities community met at In
O ther Words fxx>kstore to discuss the co n
nections between radical queer politics and
anti-war activism and how to become more
visible advocates o f radical change. Partici
pants critiqued capitalism, linked cuts in
social services to escalating militarism, point
ed out the need for an active radical queer
voice and called for a practical organizing
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The group is open to all queer activists. It
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