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mental services such as housing, food and aid
for children,” chairwoman Gwyneth Gamble
Booth said.
FUN also announced Feb. 25 that it received
a donation of $37,000 from Nike. The money
was raised during December’s “Night of
Chance,” an employee involvement effort man
aged entirely by the company’s six diversity net
works: gay, lesbian, bi and trans; disabled;
African American; Native American; Asian
Pacific; and Latino.
“N ike’s employees have raised the bar on
investing in their community,” FUN executive
director Sean Cox said in a statement. “Their
contribution has made it possible for us to
serve more kids, more often and in more ways.”
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Attorney Donna Meyer will address legal
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ultnomah County sponsored a Communi
ty Speak OUT on March 20 in conjunc
tion with the first-ever National LGBT Health
Awareness Week.
The forum was held to raise awareness
about how queers are disproportionately
affected by health issues such as HIV, depres
sion, youth suicide and alcohol, tobacco and
drug use. Small groups focused on a broad
range of concerns: queer-friendly safer sex for
teens; senior care facilities; anti-bias work in Members of the sexual minorities community
schools; holistic queer men’s health; domestic speak out about health March 20; inset, April
violence and hate crimes; cultural competence Lewis facilitates the meeting
of health providers; comprehensive, compe
tent health care for trans people; and health
Lewis hopes a broader group eventually will
promotion efforts.
take interest in the matter. “I think it would be
April Lewis—a lesbian who manages the a good forum if we can increase the diversity of
county’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Affir the audience— if we’re not speaking to the
mative Action—facilitated the discussions. choir, kind of like we were that night.”
She says the meeting’s format allowed people to
address any topic that was important to them.
“I thought it went really, really well,” F U N n y M o n e y
Lewis told Just Out. “A ttendance was
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there, they were very enthusiastic.... It cer ety of resources and support to children affect
tainly was an expansion of LGBT health ed by HIV. The nonprofit organization offers
issues past HIV and the things that we nor small-group mentors and family activity days
mally think about.”
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dents and faculty.
The PGE Foundation announced
March 31 a $2,500 grant to help FUN pro
vide social programs for the youth it serves.
“In these tough economic times, the founda
tion board has redoubled its focus on sup
porting organizations in every comer of the
state, particularly those that provide funda
ecilia and Christy Danlin, the
lesbian couple profiled in the
Feb. 7 issue of Just Out, welcomed
three babies into the world March 8.
Jackson, Cole and Avery were bom
one minute apart between 11:31 and
11:33 p.m. Each weighed less than
four pounds.
The two girls, Cole and Avery,
are doing well, but Jackson had
emergency open-heart surgery
March 25 to repair a severe heart defect. The
Danlins report that the surgery went well and
that doctors expect him to make a full recov
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