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mai ch 5. 2004 * J u s t o u t g ^•TTnTTWTTlnewsbne/s L esbian C laims V ictory A gainst OCA dents are placed with a member of their assigned sex, regardless of their personal gender identifi cation. Joe Petroni, United Sexualities coordi nator, told Just Out that this policy causes dis comfort for queer students, who are responding with a genderblind housing campaign. “Residence life programs at colleges world wide are behind the curve," he said. “In order to follow through with Lewis &. Clark College’s promise to accept all members of its community, our housing systems cannot any longer enforce a gender binary.” Students are demanding genderblind hous ing options by September. A college official said they might have to wait until the 2005-2006 school year. A fter more than a decade of legal battles with the Oregon Citizens Alliance, Catherine Stauffers latest lawsuit has finally succeeded in pressuring a board member to pay her despite the anti-gay group’s refusal to do so for years. The lesbian photographer has been waiting to collect more than $40,000 owed to her for being assaulted at an O CA event in 1991. Stauffers most recent suit, filed last year, alleged that the OCA, including leaders Lon and Bonnie Mabon and board member Joseph Chotard, fraudulently trans ferred assets to avoid her effort to collect the money. Chotard has agreed to pay Stauffer an un disclosed amount. Attorney Thane Tienson called the settlement “very satisfying.” “Catherine has pursued this judgment with a passion and dedication that is unbelievable, and it’s extremely exciting to see it finally pay off,” he said. “The O C A was obviously willing to do just about anything to avoid seeing Catherine get a dime, but their organization has paid a heavy price in credibility.” In 2002 Lon Mabon spent 42 days in jail for refusing to comply with a judges order to pro vide Stauffer with information about O C A assets. Since his imprisonment, attorneys say the organization has lost most of its credibility and is financially ailing. “It’s good to finally get paid, but it’s even bet ter to see that the O C A has basically self- destructed because of its homophobic fear of paying their debt to me,” Stauffer said. “All the O C A has done is spawn hatred and violence in the name of God. If my case helped expose how crazy the people who run the O C A are, then I couldn’t have asked for anything more.” S ymposium E xplores G ender in C onflict L Kestryl Lowrey of United Sexualities listens to students discuss genderblind housing March 1 at Lewis & Clark College C ollege S tudents D emand G enderblind H ousing A bout 50 people attended a forum March 1 at Lewis & Clark College to challenge the campus housing system’s gender binary. Queer students want residence halls opened to people of all gender identities, instead of male- or female-only rooms. For their first two years at the college, stu Time for a financial check-up or a second opinion? / G rjffon F inancial G roup . LLC I iiunci.il Planning & Imrnim-nl Management ewis & Clark College’s 23rd annual Gender Studies Symposium will explore gender in conflict March 10 to 12 on the campus, located at 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. All activities are free and open to the public. Parking costs $3 a day but is free after 7 p.m. The event includes music and performance art, readings, workshops and panels covering a wide range of gender issues. Several presenta tions will focus on queers: • Dividing the Church: Homosexuality and Religion: Syndicated columnist Marc Acito serves on this panel with the Revs. JoAnn Leach of Christ Church Episcopal Parish and Barbara Campbell of St. Mark Presbyterian Church (10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. March 10, Stamm). • SR S: Stations Remain Structure: This per formance explores the medical, cultural and psy C ELIA LYON TERRI POPEJOY ( 503 ) 345-9253 ( 503 ) chological endurance of a transsexual male process that is shown to parallel the stations of the cross (3:30 to 4:30 p.m. March 10, Council Chamber). • After D-Day: Lesbian writer Judith Bar rington reads her award-winning poem (12:30 to 1:30 p.m. March 11, Stamm). • Intersexuality: Learning from the Lived Experiences: Intersex Initiative director Emi Koyama leads this workshop (10:30 a.m. to noon March 12, Council Chamber). • Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece: Lewis &. Clark student Thu Ngo suggests “Men Are Pigs in Homer’s Odyssey,” while Christo pher Rivera of Rutgers University discusses “Plato’s Phtiedrus: Homosexually Loaded” (2 to 3:15 p.m. March 12, Thayer). • Harper’s Arrow: Queer musician and edu cator Sarah Dougher performs this folk and pop series inspired by Homer’s Odyssey that exam ines gender, the status of the veteran and the violence of war (3:30 to 5 p.m. March 12, Agnes Ranagan Chapel). For more information contact Kim Brodkm at 503-768-7678 or kbrodkin@lclark.edu. For a complete schedule of events visit wvuw. Iclark. eduj~ gender. G rants P resented E quity Foundation presented grants to 36 queer-friendly Oregon nonprofit organiza tions Feb. 19 during its fourth annual Invest ments in Dignity Awards. Equity, which was founded 15 years ago by gay men and lesbians, awarded grants in four categories: • A rts and C ulture: Artists Repertory Continued on Page 11 Buying or selling your home is on importont choice. 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