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Cascade AIDS Project
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BIRKEHSTOCK
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January 6-16
Cascade AIDS Project to
stepping out of the conventional
pursue other career goals
cultural script of the mating dance.
Dec. 15 and wanted to
Fourth Monday, Jan. 23, will
inform community part­
feature a mask-making workshop.
ners
There are many characters and
and
colleagues
roles that people play throughout
about these changes.
lie will continue to be
our lives—student, parent, friend,
a part of the HIV/AIDS
lover, etc.—and often they can
education and fight, par­
change several times a day accord­
ticularly in the African-
ing to context or situation. All iden­
continue to support CAP’S
Men’s
Prevention
Activist John Garlington leaves CAP’S
Men's Prevention & Wellness
department to pursue new horizons.
"After talking with other lenders,
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bankruptcy. We'd met Christine at
the Pride Festival and decided to
give her a call. Unlike the others,
she worked with us to improve our
credit file and then came through
with financing where others told u>
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thankful to Christine and know that
she is our lender for life."
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on Selected Styles
the characters each person plays.
With this in mind, the group will be
Wellness department because, as he observes, great
rials and discussing their meanings and relevance to
things are happening, including the imminent opening
each person’s life.
of the Men’s Wellness Center.
In a letter sent to colleagues and community
Confidential HIV testing and counseling are avail­
able during Genderblendz.
members, he wrote, “It has been a pleasure working
TIRC is located at 1030 S.W. 13th Ave. For
with each and every one of you on a professional lev­
more information call 503-535-3895 or e-mail
el, and I will continue to beat the drum of prevention
tirc@outsidein.org.
and education either as a volunteer or community
advocate.”
Q Center Seeks Coordinator
Calling Queers for
Health Awareness Month Meeting
Breathe Free, Oregon’s LGBTQ Coalition Against
Portland’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
Tobacco, is holding a planning meeting for discussion
community center, Q Center, is gearing up to take on
with queer bar owners, performers and event plan­
its first permanent hire.
ners for LGBT Health Awareness Week in March.
While the Q Center board develops the vision,
The goal of the event is to provide space for an
guides the programs and defines the organization’s
open community discussion about smoking and
goals, a coordinator is needed to design, oversee and
secondhand smoke in queer bars and to gain
implement recruitment, screening, training, place­
community-based understanding of concerns and
ment, management and retention of volunteers. The
ideas about smoke-free events and venues.
coordinator is also responsible for basic fund devel­
opment and administrative work.
Breathe Free recognizes that bars have an impor­
tant place in queer history' and that smoking bans are
The position, which is open until filled with the
becoming increasingly common. High rates of smok­
right person, requires excellent oral and written com­
ing in the queer community and exposure to second­
munication skills, experience working with limited
hand smoke increase risks for smoking-related ill­
resources and knowledge about the queer communi­
nesses, including heart disease, stroke, cancer and
ty and support for Q Center’s mission. It pays $2 1,840
asthma.
Any interested community members are invited to
For more information visit www.pdxqcenter.org .
attend the first planning meeting from 5:30 to
To apply, e-mail a résumé and one-page cover letter to
7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at Haven Coffee, 3551 S.E. Division
info@pdxqcenter.org with "Q Center Coordinator
St. If you are planning on coming to this meeting,
Search” in the subject line.
RSVP
to
program
coordinator
R E.
Szego at
503-784-5813 or r.e.szego@cascadiabhc.org.
Trans/ldentity Resource Centre
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between Yamhill and Morrison
Barbecue Keeps on Burnin'
Each Monday, the Trans/ldentity Resource Centre
Russell Street Bar-B-Que celebrates a significant
invites the community to activities, discussions and
second anniversary this month after two years speck­
speakers beginning at 5:30 p.m. with general open
led with natural disasters yet seasoned with customer
house (chatting, HIV testing, information, resources,
loyalty and homestyle food.
check-in) at 4.
503.301.1941 Pager
hallc@teaglehornemortgage.com
tities could be seen as masks for
making masks from various mate­
&
annually for 30 hours of work each week.
SAVE 20-50%
gender-variant dating, relationships and sex, as well as
considering the positive aspects of
urges the community to
The
Mothership of
Yarn Shops
facilitated group discussion on the challenges of
John Garlington left
American community. He
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with all of this. Yet what happens when the genders
The restaurant, nestled on the comer of Northeast
Second Monday, Jan. 9, is Media Night, and the
Russell Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
group will be viewing Middle Sexes: Redefining He
marks its survival with an anniversary extravaganza
and She followed by discussion of the new II BO doc­
Jan. 5 and 6, offering full racks of Carlton Farms baby
umentary, narrated by author Gore Vidal. HBO’s Web
back pork ribs or Misty Isle Farms smoked beef ribs
site says, “Award-winning filmmaker Antony Thomas
for the price of half racks.
[HBO’s Celibacy] explores the controversial subject
The Paul deUy Trio, featuring Janice Scroggins,
of the blurring of genders, as well as the serious social
serenades diners from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5, and
and family problems faced by those whose gender may
Alan Hager and Katey Angel sing the blues Jan. 6.
fall somewhere in between male and female.”
Russell Street Bar-B-Que opened Jan. 5, 2004, as
Third Monday, Jan. 16, is the Discùssion Forum,
TYicci’s Q American Bar-B-Que. A conflict prompted
with the subject “Dating, Relationships and Sex!” For
the name change. The ice storm of January 2004
most of the world, the mating dance is fairly standard­
closed the restaurant for three days, and the barbecue
ized and scripted, with clearly defined roles, behaviors
joint was closed for two months after a fire struck
and corresponding bodies and genders to go along
July 15,2005.