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The event is free and open to all interested
people 23 and younger. However, adult trans
youth advocates and allies may attend with
prior approval and registration.
The event is sponsored by SM Y R C ’s Trans
Youth Group, a social, support and empower-
ment group for trans, genderqueer and question
ing youth. It meets from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tues
days at SMYRC.
For more information e-mail Christa-Margaret
Nelson at transyouthgroup@smyrc.org or visit
unvw.smyrc.org/transyouthgroup.
Jacobowitz and Mary Beth Kurilo. Salem
meetings, held every other Tuesday evening,
are facilitated by Victoria Heilman and Kay
Peterson.
Hambleton has been working for six years to
provide services to lesbians with cancer and
other life-threatening conditions. In addition to
the support groups, it helps with home and hos
pital visits, transportation, cooking, cleaning
and yardwork.
Hambleton also places a major emphasis
on educating health care providers about how
to provide culturally sensitive care to the les
bian community. “ Removing the Barriers”
workshops directed at providers begin in
April.
Teri B unker,
F N P
H oard C ertified Fam ily N u rse P ractitio n er
Chronic and Acute Health Care Needs
Family Practice/Primary Health Care
for Women. Men and Children of All Ages
Most Insurance Accepted
503 / 460-0405
2821 NE 58th Avenue • Portland, OR 97213
C ross street at Sandy Blvd.
For more information or to volunteer, call
503-335-6591, e-mail hambproj@easystreet.com
or visit www.hambletonproject.org.
HILLSDALE VETERINARY GROUP
L.A. O fficials O rdered
to R egulate B athhouses
Nicki Eybel and her furry friend invite you
to check out the queer-friendly Rainbow
Preschool during an open house Feb. 21
R ainbow P reschool
H olds O pen H ouse
he queer-friendly Rainbow Preschtxd is
having an open house for children and
families from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at 1244 N.E.
39th Ave. It is located in but not affiliated with
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, which is a wel
coming congregation.
The schcxd for 3- to 5-year olds opened in
October and has two teachers with masters
degrees in early childhood education. Lesbian
co-founder Nicki Eybel believes young chil
dren are active learners, and her goal is to cre
ate an open-ended environment that allows
them to create community and make sense of
the world.
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For more information call 503-284-1739.
G roups S upport
G rieving W omen
HI he Hambleton Project, which serves lesbians
I with cancer and other life-threatening
diseases, is sponsoring three free support gnxips
led by professional therapists.
A bereavement group for lesbians and bisex
ual women who have lost a loved one will start
in April. This educational/support group will
meet in the Hollywood District on Thursday
evenings for eight consecutive weeks. It will be
facilitated by Beth Ruml, who has worked in
hospice for more than 12 years and has exten
sive experience in grief work. The group will
help provide insight and hope for the future and
allow participants to leam about the process of
grief and feel the support of others on a similar
journey.
Two groups sponsored by Hambleton offer
support to lesbians and bisexual women who
are living with cancer. Both also welcome
partners and other caregivers. Many lesbians
believe they benefit from talking with other
lesbians about their experience with cancer.
Southeast Portland meetings, held every other
Sunday, are led by professional therapists Kim
hortly after a similar idea was floated in
M ultnom ah County, the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors voted unani
mously Feb. 3 to require public health offi
cials to strengthen S T D prevention efforts
am ong men who have sex with men at bath-
i houses and sex clubs, T he Associated Press
reports. T he motion, sponsored by Supervisor
Zev Yaroslavsky, gives workers 90 days to rec
om m end improvements for programs and
guidelines for how the county and cities can
coordinate licensing and permitting for the
clubs.
The motion cited a 2002 study that found
11 percent of men at two Los Angeles-area
bathhouses tested HIV-positive, compared with
5 percent of men who had been tested at a pub
lic clinic or community-based testing center.
T be high rate of HIV among queers in bath
houses “suggests that our HIV/A1DS and ST D
prevention and treatment efforts must be
strengthened to address the environment in
which high-risk sexual behavior occurs," the
motion stated.
“Serious infectious diseases continue to be
transmitted at these venues while we sit here
today, while we wait for this report to be com
piled,” said Karen Mall, A ID S Healthcare
Foundation prevention and testing director. “I
urge this body to act quickly to develop a
sound public health ordinance in order to
ensure clients have consistent, accessible pre
vention and HIV and S T D screening services
in these venues.”
Just Out reported in January that Cascade
A ID S Project wanted the Multnomah County
Health Department to consider regulating
commercial sex establishments in response to a
spike in syphilis, gonorrhea and HIV among
queer men.
“ I don’t know if gay men are going to be
able to change these norms without some pres
sure from the health department,” said Philip
Knowlton, C A P men’s prevention and well
ness coordinator. “I’m not saying close down
the clubs or send in the sex police, but I am
saying we all have to get serious about stopping
barebacking in public spaces and promoting
safer sex.”
T he suggestion resulted in a flurry of angry
letters to the editor, and C A P eventually set
tled on encouraging sex clubs to adopt volun
tary standards for restricting barebacking.
Knowlton has since tendered his resignation,
but executive director Thom as Bruner says
the decision is unrelated to the bathhouse
brouhaha.
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