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the Providence Employees for Equal Rights
group, which initially brought the issue of equal
benefits to the table in 1999. “We wanted Prov
idence diversity to include benefits, and leader
ship has been very responsive,” she says.
E quity P resents G ay F inancial
P lanning W orkshop S eries
Equity Foundation is offering a financial
planning workshop series called “Gay Finances
in a Straight World.” The events are free and
open to the public.
Seating will be limited to the first 50 people
who register for each session. You may register
for one, two or all three workshops. Register by
contacting Amy Williams at 503-231-5759 or
amywilliams@equityfoundation.org.
The Nov. 14 workshop “Gay Finances in a
Straight World: Advanced Topics in Financial
Planning” will be facilitated, by Luna Jaffe,
financial adviser with Edward Jones, and lawyer
Eden Rose Brown. The workshop will take place
between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Para
mount Hotel, 808 S.W. Taylor St. A free lunch
will be included. The workshop will then be
repeated from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Studio 1050,
1050 S.E. Yamhill St.
The topics of this workshop include estate
planning and wealth transfer (living trusts, char
itable remainder trusts, life insurance trusts),
tools for transferring wealth and advanced char
itable giving (transferring securities, property,
creating donor-advised funds, family founda
tions). You can also mark your calendar for a
workshop on socially responsible investing,
facilitated by Jan Schorey, founder of Portlandia
Investment, on Jan. 26, 2006.
R ace and G ender R eading
and A ction G roup F orms
In Other Words Women's Books and
Resources, Talking Drum Bookstore and the
National Organization for Women have come
together to create the Race and Gender Read
ing and Action Group. The group will meet
monthly, after reading a txxrk on race or gender,
and discuss it with a hope for political action.
The first meeting will be held 7 p.m.
Oct. 24 at In Other Words, 3734 S.E.
Hawthorne Blvd., to discuss rhe controversial
How to Rent a Negro by Damali Ayo. The
author will speak 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at Talking
Drum, 446 N.E. Killingsworth St.
T raining C onference on Q ueer
D omestic V iolence S et
“A few years ago, I found myself presiding
over a case of manslaughter,” recalls Washing
ton County Circuit Court Judge Nancy Camp
bell. “The man accused had been in my court
room twice before on domestic violence
charges, having repeatedly beaten his older and
disabled male domestic partner, and had been
convicted both times. Now the partner, whom
I’d seen and spoken with in court, was dead, and
I found myself wondering where the system had
failed him.”
She decided to take matters in hand by plan
ning a daylong training conference.
“We began by forming a small group to iden
tify what services exist for sexual minorities hut
realized we really needed to begin a discussion
with the police, social workers, lawyers and
judges in our community to address the issue
effectively. Portland has the fifth-largest con
centration of same-sex couples in the country,”
says Campbell, “and domestic violence happens
in the same proportions in sexual and gender
minority relationships as it does in heterosexual
ones. The all-day training conference is a start
toward building awareness and creating the
potential for services, especially for sexual
minority domestic violence victims and perpe
trators. We have a legal, moral and ethical obli
gation to make appropriate services accessible to
all of our citizens.”
The training takes place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dec. 2 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center,
25425 S.W. 95th Ave. in Wilsonville. The con
ference will open with a special welcome by
Campbell and Portland Mayor Tom Potter.
Nationally recognized conference educa
tors include senior research fellow Gary Gates
and executive director R. Bradley Sears of
UCLA School of Law’s Williams Project;
Loree Cook-Daniels, executive director of the
American Society of Adult Abuse Profession
als and Survivors; and Delena Couchman,
domestic violence prevention coordinator of
family violence services at the L.A. Gay &
Lesbian Center’s Stop Partner Abuse/Domes-
tic Violence Program.
Participating local experts in the domestic
violence arena are Naomi Morena, senior
parole/probation officer with the Washington
County Department of Community Correc
tions; Jonathan Weedman of the Sexual
Minority Youth Resource Center; Shelagh
Johnson of Cascade AIDS Project; Jim Fun,
senior deputy district attorney for Washington
County; Jason Jones of the Portland Police
Bureau’s Domestic Violence Reduction Unit;
Emily Gardner, sexual and gender minority
services coordinator at Bradley-Angle House;
and Nancy Glass, co-director of the Center for
Health Disparities Research and assistant
professor at Oregon Health &. Science Uni
versity’s School of Nursing.
Register by Nov. 18 by contacting confer
ence liaison Linda G<x>d at 503-846-2774 or
1 i nda_g( x >d@co.wash ingti>n .or.us. jH
Compiled by
SARAH D o UGHER
and JAYMEE
R.
CUTI
Author Damali Ayos widely acclaimed book How to Rent a Negro kicks off the Race and Gender
Reading and Action Group.
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