MARCH 21, 2008
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IT'S Hi PLEASURE
Jeffrey
Payne—will come together
for the first time publicly as
Trio de Novo. The reception
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will showcase sinful pastries
from Portland’s finest sweeter-
business
for SALE!
ies, including Joseph’s Dessert
Company, Piece of Cake,
Holiday Essence Quality Cake
and Delightful, Delovely, De
licious, Portland’s newest ca
tering sensation.
The scholarship pays trib
Ann
Shepherd,
It's time to pass the torch!
f After 17 successful years
serving lesbians
\ owner Holly Mulcahey is
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selling this business.
Inquiries: 503-442-2415
Still open 7 days a week - noon to 7pm
3106 NE 64th near Sandy Blvd.
ute to the contributions of Bill
and
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who
founded what would become
the Portland chapter of Par
ents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. Their les
bian daughters, Jean and Susie
Shepherd, honor their memo
ry by producing the scholar
Queer artist Nation's Belladonna is being auctioned to benefit
Cascade AIDS Project.
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ship and benefit.
“Bill and Ann’s passion for justice continues
Shore is the youth HIV education coordinator
to be reflected in their belief that only through
at Cascade AIDS Project and facilitates the youth
education do people exchange their bigotry for a
peer education program Teen to Teen.
heart of love and acceptance,” the Shepherds said
Q Center is at 69 S.E. Taylor St. For more in
in a statement.
Honorary co-chairpeople are Charles Hinkle,
formation visit www.pdxqcenter.org.
Vera Katz, Norma Paulus, Cheryl Perrin, Tom
'Whimsical' Auction Benefits
Cascade AIDS Project
Potter and Kathleen Saadat.
Tickets are $35 at the door or $30 in advance
Portland’s premier art, food and entertainment
from Funny Bone/Balloons on Broadway, 617 S.
come together April 5 at the Oregon Convention
W. Washington St. Last year’s event sold out, so
Center’s Exhibit Hall C for the 2008 Art Evening
reserve tickets early and arrive on time. Call
&. Auction benefiting Cascade AIDS Project.
503-286-1752 for more information.
tions and fabulous hors d’oeuvres and desserts
from local restaurants and caterers. The event is
Following on the heels of January’s standing
being defined by its theme, “Cirque,” meaning
room-only history event at Q Center, the “Our
Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific North
“whimsical.”
In addition to the artwork showcased in a si
lent auction, 20 premier art pieces chosen by a
west. Q Center hosts the roundtable storytelling
guest curator will be highlighted in a live auction
event featuring questions and answers, personal
at a patron dinner. Some of these pieces include
testimonials and community discussions designed
contributions from queer artists Bryan E.
Schellinger, Leiv Fagereng and the late William
Stories” series continues in collaboration with
around a variety of topics.
The next event, “Our Stories: A Quarter Cen
tury of AIDS,” will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
March 29. The speakers will be Jack Cox, Khalil
Edwards, Judith Rizzio and Annika Shore.
Jamison.
The event is the largest annual contemporary
art auction of its kind in Portland. It is CAP’s
most successful annual benefit, raising $650,000
Cox has been an AIDS activist since 1987,
in 2007 and more than $4 million in its 18-year
producing AIDS Forum Live for cable, organizing
People Living with AIDS and providing infra
history.
All money raised supports the work of CAP
structure for new, diverse organizations such as
and assists people living with and affected by
the HIV Advocacy Council, Positive Community
HIV/AIDS in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Project, Q-LAND, the Imani Project and Chrysa
lis Ministries.
Edwards works toward HIV/A1DS prevention
Doors open at 5 p.m. for the patron dinner,
followed by an artist reception at 8. The Oregon
Convention Center is at 777 N.E. Martin Luther
as the program director for Brother to Brother,
King Blvd. For reservations and more information
a program focusing on gay black men within the
call 503-223-9255.
Unity Project of Oregon. The Unity Project of
Oregon is dedicated to serving the needs of queer
African Americans, their family and their friends
through social change, justice and equality.
Rizzio has been active in the Portland HIV
community for more than 18 years. She spent 16
of those at Our House of Portland and is the vol
unteer coordinator at Cascade AIDS Project. Her
first experience facing AIDS was in 1979 when
she watched her actor and activist friends of the
Samaritan Counseling Center
Has Gay-Specific Program
“Is pre-union counseling something queer
Portlanders are interested in?” asked Linda Simp
son, a lesbian licensed professional counselor
employed by Samaritan Counseling Center.
Project EQUAL, an acronym for Enhancing
Queer Understanding and Love, is a program
offered by Samaritan, a nonprofit established tn
United Fruit Company, a gay theater company
based in San Francisco, die from the disease.
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