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Domestic violence can strike anywhere, at any
time—even within long-term, same-sex relation
ships. The sexual minorities community learned this
frightening lesson again June 5 when Portland
acupuncturist Brooke Winter was arrested on
charges including kidnapping with a firearm, harass
ment and domestic violence. Winter is accused of
tying her partner, Tawnie Potter, to a chair, putting
a gun to her head and threatening a murder-suicide.
Potter is the niece of Portland Mayor Tom Potter.
Winter, who was in jail on a $10 million bond, has
since plead not guilty to domestic violence charges
and awaits trial.
Melissa Adams, the sexual and gender minority
services coordinator at Bradley-Angle House, says
that warning signs of domestic violence are prima
rily the same as in straight relationships and that
additional harriers exist for queer survivors, who
might face societal and internalized homophobia or
transphobia.
“It’s a big warning sign if your partner is manip
ulative,” says Adams. “In a queer relationship, the
partner can use sexual or gender identity as a con
trol tactic in several ways.”
For example, if you are not out to everyone in
your life, your partner could threaten to “out” you.
Your partner can suggest that he or she is the only
person you have, which might trigger people who
have already been rejected by family or live in a small
community.
“They can threaten that you won't have legal
rights to your children—in most places, there can be
only one legal parent in a same-sex relationship—
or they can more easily ‘minimize’ the abuse
because so many people believe that abuse is
something that only happens in the straight
community,” Adams says. “Things like isolating you
from your friends and family; using jealousy to have
control over who you see, where you go and what
you do; making all of the financial decisions;
coercing you to do things you don’t want to do,
including sex; not respecting your boundaries;
belittling you; putting you down or things you val
ue down; telling you you’re not good enough, that
nobody else would want you or that it’s all your
fault...all of those are tactics that can be used in
any relationship, queer or straight.”
For more information about domestic violence
in the sexual and gender minorities community,
call Adams at 503-232-7805, ext. 3.
Club Portland Lost Steam
Months of rumors were laid to rest at the wrap
of Portland Pride weekend when Club Portland,
the city’s oldest bathhouse, closed June 17.
Club Portland announced through a note on
the door that, after 40 years in business, it had
“turned off the steam and closed.”
The legendary bathhouse, which boasted four
floors including a steam room, porn stage and base
ment military play area, was a staple in the gay
community’s hold on the comer of Southwest Stark
Street and 12th Avenue.
The question remains over whether Club
Portland will relocate. Dick Lawson, owner of Club
Portland and partial owner of its building, The
Continental, had not returned calls by press time.
The Continental Building, which also houses
the gay bar Silverado, was sold to developers
Gerding Edlin, the company responsible for
building mixed-use condominiums and retail
space dominating the Pearl District and South
Waterfront.
Gerding Edlin is also leading a $137 million
building project to create a 22-story building with
retail space on the first floor, 17 floors of urban
homes and four flexors of office space at Southwest
Washington Street and 12th Avenue. This facelift
threatens to transform the area from a gay destina
tion to a southern extension of the Pearl.
Club Portland is directing members to its Web
site, www.clubportland.com, for information about
refunds. It suggests that members donate the
remainder of paid membership dues to Cascade
AIDS Project, which supplied the club with free
condoms.
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Cascade AIDS Project—which has provided
community-based HIV services, including housing
and education, to Oregon and Southwest