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China, which has 1.3 billion
people, or India, which has 1.1 bil
lion, has the same infection rate as
sub-Saharan African countries by
2013, I calculated that there will
be more HIV-positive people
within each country than individ
ual citizens in America,” said
Maguire, who embarks by Aug. 1.
Learning as much as possible
about the HIV/AIDS education
being done in the countries
he’ll visit is Maguire’s main goal.
“1 want to figure out how effective
culturally specific education and
Insight Out, a theater collective co-founded by Wade McCollum,
prevention is in high-risk groups
was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
who may or may not be moral
very open-minded and therefore know all they
outcasts in their society,” he said. “My hypothesis is
need to [about queer health issues],’’ said Bosse.
that these will not be effective because the culture
Queers and Allies, which began in March and
is not something they feel a part of due to their out
participated in the nationwide Day of Silence, will
sider status."
launch a lunchtime speaker series to help educate
Maguire will be applying to medical school this
the entire student body. The club will also provide
summer and said he is interested in primary care,
information June 16 and 17 at Portland Pride,
family practice or pediatrics and internal medicine.
where booth visitors can receive coupons for the
“My ideal would be to have a private clinic that
school's student-staffed, sliding-scale clinics.
catered to HIV-positive people with secondary ill
“The administration and student government
nesses,” he said. .
are highly supportive of diversity and the club,”
said Malus, who sees the group as an important
Theater Group Receives NEA Grant
social opportunity for queer students at the college.
Insight Out, a mid-level theater collective
Bosse added, “More clubs like this will increase
founded by queer Portland actors Julianna Jaffe and
enrollment, as LGBT applicants would gravitate
Wade McCollum, was awarded $5,000 May 1
toward those schrxils, and it will improve the visibil
through the National Endowment for the Arts
ity of alternative medicine in the gay community."
amid top players Portland Center Stage and Artists
As a result, Malus predicted, “It will increase
Repertory Theatre.
the wellness of the gay community.”
The “Access to Artistic Excellence” grant will
The National College of Natural Medicine
help with the development and production of
Natural Health Center is located at 2220 S.W. First
a multidisciplinary interpretation of William
Ave. The Pettygrove Classical Chinese Medicine
Shakespeare’s The Tempest called For:Give. This
Clinic is located at 2232 N.W. Pettygrove St. For
inventive twist on the play aims to translate the
more information visit www.ncnm.edu.
original text through aerial choreography, height
ened movement, dance, song, film and sound in an
Student Leader Wins Fellowship
ensemble created work.
Recent Reed College graduate Jeff Maguire is
“Insight Out is honored and tremendously
one of 50 students to win the Thomas J. Watson
excited to have received this NEA grant,” said
Foundation fellowship for a year of independent Jaffe. “To have earned any funding at all with the
exploration and travel outside the United States. His
NEA is a huge step for us, but it really is the merit
project "From Drag Queens to Deities: Exploring
they found with our artistic offering and the
Cultural Responses to H1V/A1DS” will take him to
recognition that goes along with it that makes this
the Ukraine, China, India and South Africa.
a remarkable award for Insight Out.”
Maguire is not new to world travel. In 2004 he
volunteered with Uganda African Child’s
Pro-Choice Comedian Entertains
Foundation doing outreach and working in HIV-
at Darcelle's
related programs. Half a year later he was hack in
Planned Parenthixxl’s Sexy Tuesdays, a weekly
Africa, after he and his father raised $4,000 for a
event to build a new generation of supporters and
fund-raiser climb of Mount Kilimanjaro.
advocates for choiCe, is planning its biggest event
While at Reed, Maguire volunteered with
yet at Darcelle XV Showplace.
Cascade AIDS Project and the Oregon AIDS
Comedian Carol Leiter, who spent three years
Hotline. The experience he gained from starting
writing for NBC’s Seinfeld and was the real-life inspi
ration for the character Elaine Benes, will perform
his high school’s Gay Straight Alliance and serving
as treasurer of Boston University’s queer student
group helped him to land a leadership role in
Reed’s Queer Alliance and to co-found the Greater
Portland Intercollegiate Queer Society. Maguire
said he believes his continued involvement in the
queer community made him stand out among
fellow applicants.
Maguire’s project idea grew out of a final paper
he wrote for a Chinese anthropology class. He was
asked to find a problem plaguing,the development of
China that a specific organization was trying to
address with culturally tailored operations. “If either
7 p.m. May 22 at 208 N.W. Third Ave. Leiter has
paved a variety of paths in a field where not many
female comedians have ventured. Most notably, she
served as a writer and supervising pnxlucer on HBO’s
critically acclaimed The Larry Sanders Show.
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