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basis, often completely alone. The gath
ering is aimed at parents, kinship
providers, educators, caseworkers, men
tal health practitioners and anyone who
wants to make a difference in a young
cluld’s life.
One workshop will focus on legal
issues tor gay, lesbian, bi and trans par
ents, including adoption, assisted
reproduction and surrogacy. Other
queer-specific sessions will foctis on
talking to kids about sex and sexuality,
adoption and identity for teens, com
ing out as a gay parent and defining
parenting roles.
The conference will be held at the
Howard Johnson Hotel, 3105 Pine St.
The fee is $165 a person, $280 for par
enting partners and $150 for Attach Portland City Council candidate Sam Adams meets
ment Disorder Institute members.
Debbie Caselton, Sensory Perceptions development
director, after speaking at a Portland Area Business
For more information call 800-556-7829. A ssociation luncheon March 10
D e b a t e P it s
A d a m s v s . F ish
O
penly gay City Council candidate Sam
Adams will debate opponent Nick Fish
during City Club of Portland’s weekly Friday
Fonim from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. March 26 at
Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 S.W. Salmon
St. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Pundits have bemoaned how the two leading
contenders tor City Council seem to wear the
same pair of rose-colored glasses when lixiking
at Portlands future. From concern for business,
the economy and jobs to education and child
care, from affordable housing and safer commu
nities to more effective government, Fish and
Adams often take similar positions. Political sci
entist and Reed College professor Peter.Stein-
berger will moderate a debate to determine what
sets these two apart and how they will distin
guish themselves for voters.
Luncheon tickets are $16 for members, $18
for nonmembers. General seating is free for
members, $5 for nonmembers.
To make luncheon reservations call 503'228~7231
or visit www.pdxcitycluh.org by 2 p.m. March 24.
Congratulations
to All the Newlyweds
From the Doctors and Staff
at Eyes on Broadway
The results lend credence to previous studies
in humans that described anatomical differences
between the brains of heterosexual men and
asic Rights Oregon will hold its 11th annu homosexual men, as well as sexually unique ver
sions of the same cluster of brain cells in males
al Oregonians Against Discrimination
and females. “Same-sex attraction is widespread
Luncheon 11:30 a.m. April 14 at the Hilton
Hotel, 921 S.W. Sixth St. The event raises across many different species,” Roselli said.
money for the Basic Rights Education Fund,
Kay Larkin, who performed laboratory
which focuses on queer issues involving work analysis for the study, said scientists now have a
places, schools, youth, hate crimes and families.
marker that points to whether a ram may prefer
other rams over ewes. “There’s a difference in
The keynote speaker will be Matt Hennessee,
the brain that is correlated with sexual partner
Portland Development Gimmission chairman and
preference rather than gender of the animal
Quiktrak president and CEO. Tickets cost $50.
you’re looking at.”
For reservations call 503-222-6/51.
About 8 percent of domestic rams display pref
erences tor other males as sexual partners. Scientists
don’t believe it’s related to dominance or flock hier
archy; rather, their typical motor pattern for inter
S t u d y : B io l o g y C a u se s
course is merely directed at rams instead of ewes.
H o m o s e x u a l i t y in S h e e p
“They’re one of the few species that have
been systematically studied, so we re able to do
esearchers have confirmed that a male
very careful and controlled experiments on
sheep s preference for same-sex partners has
sheep,” Roselli said. “We used rams that had
biological underpinnings, the Oregon Health &
Science University School of Medicine an consistently shown exclusive sexual preference
nounced March 5. A study published in the Feb for other rams when they were given a choice
ruary issue of the journal Endocrinology demon between rams and ewes.”
The study is the first to demonstrate an asso-
strates that not only are certain groups of cells dif
ferent between genders in a part of the sheep brain ¡ ciation between natural variations in sexual
controlling sexual behavior, but brain anatomy
partner preferences and brain structure in non
and hormone production may determine whether
human animals. Scientists will work to further
adult rams prefer other rams over ewes.
characterize the rams’ behavior and study when
during development these differences arise.
“This particular study, along with others,
strongly suggests that sexual preference is bio They would also like to know whether sexual
preferences can be altered by manipulating the
logically determined in animals, and possibly in
prenatal hormone environment, for instance by
humans," said the study’s lead author, Charles E.
using dmgs to prevent the actions of androgen
Roselli. “The hope is that the study of these
in the fetal sheep brain. J H
brain differences will provide clues to the
processes involved in the development of het
erosexual as well as homosexual behavior.”
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