JU LY 1, 2011
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raffle prizes, snacks and
activities for kids. Patrons
of the library can sign up to
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IOW also plays host to
the lesbian cowgirl musical
comedy Bunkin' With You
in the Afterlife Wednesday,
July 6 at 7:30 p.m. The
BroadArts
production
“tackles religious intoler
ance, tramples sexism and
celebrates love.”
For more information on
how to apply for the interim executive director
Strub said that Leonard’s piecemeal de
position at In Other Words, contact info@ fenses on the issue aren’t good enough.
inotherwords.org. For more information on
“Mr. Leonard’s comments were stigma
BroadArts Theatre and Bunkin’ With You in tizing and contribute to a public perception
the Afterlife, visit hroadarts.org.
of people with HIV as inherently danger
ous,” Strub wrote to Leonard’s policy advi
sor, Sara Petrocine. “He owes his commu
HIV Activists Still Looking
nity, and people with HIV everywhere, a
for Public Retraction by
clarification.”
Leonard
Kaplan said that while he feels Leonard
The maelstrom caused by Portland City is aware of the gravity of his gaffe, he
Commissioner Randy Leonard’s recent doesn’t expect anything more than what
comment that the city’s open reservoirs he’s already received from the outgoing
had to be drained due to the possibility of commissioner.
“A ID S’-tainted urine has been quietly
“I think it was a stupid comment, and I
pushed aside following his announcement wish he had not made it,” said Kaplan.
June 29 that he will not seek reelection in “Now that he has, I wish he would make a
2012. But for a sector of the community to public retraction rather than a one-by-one
whom HIV/AIDS stigma is of the utmost response. But we’ve shared our opinion
importance, Leonard isn’t off the hook.
with the commissioner on this and feel
The Global Network of People Living there are more productive places and ways
with HIV/AIDS North America (GNP+/ to extend our energy now.”
NA) immediately demanded a public re
traction from Leonard for “suggesting a
risk that does not exist” following his com
ments in an email to a concerned citizen.
But in the days to come, Leonard made no
public clarification or correction, choosing
to defer regret for the blunder in email cor • Queer Rising founder Alan Bounville
respondence with both Michael Kaplan, arrived in Portland the week of June 27
executive director for Cascade AIDS Proj for a weeklong stay on his 6,000-mile
ect, and Sean Strub, senior advisor for walking campaign to raise awareness of
GNP+/NA.
gender equality. Bounville left Seattle on
Just Out contacted Leonard’s office to in May 31 on his “Into the Light Walk” en
quire about any impending public correction route to Washington, D.C., which he says
on the issue, but was given instead a copy of should take nine to 18 months.
an email Leonard drafted to Kaplan, in
Along the way, Bounville is performing a
which he lamented his choice of words. one-man show, as well as holding vigils at
Leonard, for his part, insisted that his com locations where anti-gay violence has oc
ment was “not addressing whether or not curred, and visiting queer youth centers.
infections would be diluted by a large quan Bounville plans to hold a vigil at the Am
tity of water but, rather, rebqfting those who bassador Lounge (4744 NE Sandy Blvd.)
were saying urine was sterile.”
Friday, July l.The location is where Jacque
“I am so.ry I raised the example at all line Julita Anderson and Barbara J. Gilpin
because I did not need to,” read Leonard’s were murdered in 1998. He also plans a
email to Kaplan. “I am sorry I referred to vigil on the Hawthorne Bridge as a re
the infection as AIDS rather than HIV. I minder of the recent gay bashing in the
know better and should have caught that. I area. For updated information on Bounville's
am also sorry for any unintended harm I stops in Portland, as well as to donate, visit
may have caused to anyone.”
intothelightwalk.com.
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