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DECEMBER 16. 2005 letters An Open Letter to Wells Fargo Family), raffle, hors d’oeuvres, no-host bar and music D ear M r . K ovacevich : by Pan Dolce, Galloway & Luckett and DJ Crystal. LCP behalf of the Portland Area just out J is also very grateful for the continued support of some Association, Portland’s GLBTQ chamber of commerce, this year’s dance sponsors, such as Pride Northwest, 1 would like to personally thank you for not bowing to Bridge City Medical, Eyes on Broadway and Mortgage PUBLISHER & MANAGING EDITOR Monkey! Marty Davis pressure from radically intolerant groups such as Focus on the Family. I’m sure you realize that they rep Please be aware that there are two separate events resent just a tiny percentage (significantly less than this year. The Portland Lesbian Choir is producing one 1 percent) of the total population of this country and at the Red Lion Shenanigans. Founded 1983 • Jay Brown and Renée LaChance NEWS EDITOR Sarah Dougher ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR Jim Radosta STAFF WRITER that their shrill “bark” is coupled with no “bite.” Honestly, we wish they would start to focus more on D onna L uckett their own families and not ours. Be assured that what D ebbie C aselton ever minuscule effect their threatened boycott has on A lyson B olles your company will be more than offset by the added D ory R owe business generated by your act of good conscience. B arbarita G ately AD DESIGNER Cat Cheng Lesbian Community Project Board of Directors ADVERTISING DIRECTOR We know that Wells Fargo has committed con Jaymee R. Cuti DESIGN DIRECTOR Anabel Ramirez siderable resources to national GLBTQ organiza Larry Lewis tions in the past and will continue to do so in the ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES future. For that we sincerely thank you. It is encour SometJiing for everyone on your list! NEWSMAGAZINE Business On jUStlOUt 5 TRANSITIONS Michael McDuffey, Kari Tate, Cshea Walker aging to all of us to see corporate leaders such as CONTRIBUTORS yourself standing up for what is right and rejecting Yvonne R Behrens, Stephen Blair, Meryl the vitriol that is geared solely toward grabbing Cohn, Timothy Krause, Andy Mangels, Gary headlines and publicity. Morris, Jenny Nguyen, Rebecca Ragain, Bob Roehr, Floyd Sklaver, Rex Wockner A aron H all DISTRIBUTION Portland Area Business Association President Allison Benn, Lisa Benson, Youme Inhofe, Pat Kilmer-Cramer, Chance Schwartz New Font Size Is Too Small Just Out is published on the first and third Friday of each month. Copyright © 2005 by Just Out. No part of Just Out may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. To the E ditor : I am a longtime subscriber and enjoy reading all the articles and news items in your paper. The new format of your paper is good except that the print seems smaller. Is this correct? I have trouble reading Editorial guidelines: Letters to the editor should be limited to 500 words. Announcements regarding life transitions (births, deaths, unions, etc.) should be limited to 200 words; photos are welcome. Deadline for submissions to the editorial department and for the Calendar is the Thursday 15 days before the next publication date. Just Out reserves the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. Views expressed in letters to the editor, columns and features are not necessarily those of the publisher. all the articles, even with my reading glasses. I am 63 years old, and I wonder if other older readers are hav ing the same difficulty. I think this kind of thing goes under the heading of age discrimination. Please con sider making the type bigger. I didn’t have trouble before the new changes. Thanks for listening. J emma C rae Roseburg New Year's Eve Dance with the Lesbians To the E ditor : * The Lesbian Community Project is approaching its 20th year of supporting lesbians in the community Peter Cancel, 1967-2005 Peter Jesus Cancel died of kidney failure Nov. 22 in Portland. He was 38. from all walks of life. LCP has gone through many Cancel was bom March 12,1967, in Puerto Rico. phases throughout the years, but we still remain a part After a challenging childhood, including family con of the community and a supporter of that. demnation to hell for being a homosexual, he lived a We are proud to announce our annual New Year’s courageously open gay life. Eve dance 8 p.m. Dec. 31 at the beautiful World Cancel’s loving nature is reflected in the care he Forestry Center, 4033 S.W. Canyon Road. LCP will be provided to terminally ill patients as a hospice certi donating half the proceeds from ticket sales and spon fied nursing assistant for more than six years in sorship to benefit the new Q Center (www.pdxqcen- Florida. He moved to Portland in the fall of 2004 and ter.org). Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the worked in customer service while completing training door and are available at Balloons on Broadway, In as a certified nursing assistant so he could pursue his Other Words and It’s My Pleasure as well as online at desire to care for the sick. www.lesbiancommunityproject.org. Cancel was spiritual, sharing his beliefs in the Q Center promotes the need to strengthen collab divine openly and welcoming others’ perspectives. He oration and relationships within the community, break was outgoing, easily making friends including Roger individual isolation and heighten our visibility in the and Harry, Ed, Carol, Kathy, Jennifer, George, Nick, broader community. LCP strongly believes this also. Keith, Robbie, (Jiff and Stacie, and many in the Radical LCP’s theme this year is based on “community,” and Faerie community. what perfect way to express this by not only endorsing Through his committed partnership to Steve the efforts of the new Q Center, but by donating some Hensler, Cancel gained a new family including Judy of the proceeds from this exciting community event and Tim, Mary and Rod, Patrick, John and Claudene, and celebration! Tom, Doug and Jane, and family patriarch Tom. This is an all-inclusive event, and no one will be Cancel departed his mortal body quietly and turned away for economic reasons. There will be a peacefully. 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