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Horse Bam, which is located at 1362 N.W. Naito
Parkway along the Willamette River.
Organizers promise a fun night out with
many restaurants supplying delectable treats;
refreshments of beer, wine, greyhounds, rum
punch and soft drinks; and a live band perform
ing tail-waggin’ dance music. Tickets cost $50.
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ampOUT—a family program for gay men,
✓ lesbians and their children— will he held
he Abdill-EUis Community Center will
from Aug. 14 to 17 at YW CA Camp Westwind,
hold a summer potluck barbecue from
a remote 500-acre site located six miles north of
3 p.m. to dusk Aug. 2 at Lithia Park’s Cotton
Lincoln City on the Oregon coast. The cost is
Memorial picnic area in Ashland.
$210
for adults, $145 for youth 7 to 12 years old
Attendees are asked to bring a dish to share as
and $105 for children 3 to 6 years old.
well as grilling fixxl for themselves and their guests.
The annual event brings together a unique,
T ie Lambda Community Center Association will
For more information call 503-285-7722, ext. 327.
supportive community and provides an enjoyable
supply the barbecue briquettes and condiments.
Organizers will be selling $5 raffle tickets for family experience. Westwind programs encourage
personal growth, appreciation of nature and cele
a k.d. lang concert Aug. 28 at the Britt Festival
bration of diversity.
in
Jacksonville.
Two
winners
will
receive
two
C o nference S uppo rts
Campers can participate in hiking, canoeing,
tickets each to the performance and will have
A b o l i t i o n o f P r is o n s
kayaking, horseback riding, crafts and campfires.
the opportunity to briefly meet the singer.
his month University of Oregon will play
An outgoing, friendly staff provides healthy
The drawing will be held about 10 p.m.
meals served family style.
host to a free conference dedicated to fight Aug. 21 at Ashland’s only gay bar, Abajo, 66 N.
ing repression, supporting prisoners and elimi
Pioneer St. Winners need not be present.
nating prisons altogether.
All proceeds benefit the center, which pro For more information about registration and
Break the Chains will he held from 9 a.m. to
vides a place for
Oregon
6 p.m. Aug. 9 and 10 at the Education Building, southern
1571 Alder St. in Eugene. By providing educa and northern C ali
tion, building on existing efforts, learning from
fornia queers to
veterans and initiating new campaigns against
gather and partici
the prison industrial complex, organizers want to
pate in programs,
use this conference to initiate a new era of height meetings and activi
ened prisoner support and anti-prison activism.
ties. The nonprofit
Queer speakers will include Rita "Bo" Brown,
agency also serves as
founder of the Out of Control Lesbian Commit a resource for ob
taining information,
tee to Support Women in Prison, and Chrystos, a
lesbian writer, artist and Native American land
referrals, peer sup
and treaty rights activist. In addition, straight pre port, leadership and
senter Ed Mead was the organizer of Men Against
advocacy for the
Sexism, a group that fought against homophobia,
sexual
m inorities
racism and rape behind prison walls at Washing community.
ton State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.
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For more information visit u u w .breakthechains.net.
For more information
call 541-4 8 8 -6 9 9 0 .
CampOUT will be held this month at an Oceanside retreat near Lincoln City
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ust weeks after the “ex-gay” Love Won Out
conference came to town, the Promise
Keepers will spread their anti-gay message to
thousands of men Aug. 1 and 2 at the Rose
Garden. “The Challenge: A Call to Action"
will feature music, comedy and a lineup of
speakers including Focus on the Family radio
host Joe White.
“Promise Keepers shares the same historic
stance taken by Evangelicals and Catholics: that
sex is a good gift from God to be enjoyed in the
context of marriage between one man and one
woman,” vice president Paul Edwards said in
1997 “We believe that the Bible clearly teaches
that the practice of homosexuality violates
G od’s creative design for a husband and a wife
and that it is a sin .... Moreover, the Bible states
that any form of immoral behavior, sodomy, for
nication or adultery is an abomination to God.
Therefore, Promise Keepers does not compro
mise its message to accommodate prevailing cul
tural norms."
The movement was co-founded in 1990 by
then University of Colorado football coach Bill
McCartney, who campaigned for 1992’s anti
gay Proposition 2. He said queers are "a group of
people who don’t reproduce, yet want to be
compared to people who do reproduce, and that
lifestyle doesn’t entitle anyone to special
rights.” j n
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