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A town hall forum held the evening o f
Wednesday, October 5 for Portland’s LG-
BTQjzommunity sparked discussion on the
interplay between faith and sexuality.
About 60 people attended the forum at
the Process Work Institute, which was held
in response to the Q_Center’s dialogue with
conservative mega-church Mars Hill. Q_
Center and Mars Hill plan to hold monthly
discussions after the church encountered
opposition to its plans to open a location
in Southeast Portland. Mars Hill, like most
conservative evangelical churches, preaches
that homosexuality is a sin.
The forum was intended to foster dia­
logue between those who approved o f
C en ter’s actions and those who did not.
C enter spokesman Logan Lynn and psy­
chotherapist Stephen Karakashian spoke
at the beginning o f the event in support
of Q_ Center. Just Out columnist Daniel
Borgen spoke in personal opposition. No
representative from M ars Hill attended
the forum.
M ost o f the people who spoke during
the event supported Q _C entcr’s approach,
like Karla Ablack-M anning, who talked
about how her fundam entalist Christian
m other grew to accept her and her partner:
“W hen people get to know us as people, it
can change how they perceive us even if it
doesn’t change their beliefs,” she said.
Forum moderator Dawn Menken asked
three times for perspectives from the “other
side,” that opposed, and several stood up to
express their concerns.
“I don’t want a dialogue with them at all,”
said Myriam Rahman. “If they’re not going
to accept me, if they’re going to judge me, if
they’re going to think I can’t he who I am, I
don’t want to have that conversation at all.”
“I t’s so nice hearing that everyone’s so
open, hut I’m not there,” she said.
Many of the people in the room spoke
about their experiences with fundamentalist
Christianity and how it had hurt them in the
past as sexual minorities. At one point, a man
spoke up from to the crowd to apologize for
causing the same kind of pain as a pastor for
30 years. The man, who gave only his first
name, Dave, came out as gay one year ago.
“For 43 years I saw myself as the sexual
equivalent o f an alcoholic,” he said. As he
spoke, he leaned on a beach ball sitting on
his lap. He said he carries the beach ball
with him now as a reminder o f what it felt
like to be in the closet— like trying to keep
a beach hall below water.
Three weeks ago, Dave said, he went to a gay
bar and danced with a man for the first time.
“Was that what my high school prom was
supposed to feel like?” he asked, to resound­
ing applause.
He then tossed the beach hall into the air,
and everyone bounced it around the room.
Just Out will continue to cover the dia­
logue between Q_Center, Mars Hill and the
LGBTQ_community at large.
— Aaron Spencer
C onfluence R ecovers
Stolen Trailer in Tim e for
New Season
Thanks to the honesty and courage of one
Salem resident, the Confluence Chorus is
celebrating the recovery o f its stolen trailer
as it prepares to open its 2011-12 season.
The recently purchased cargo trailer was
stolen from the parking lot o f the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation o f Salem some­
time between Sunday, September 11 and
Thursday, September 15 and recovered dur­
ing the last week of September, said Conflu­
ence public relations officer Karen Winget.
“It was found in Salem loaded with ATV
equipment in the driveway o f a home,”
W inget said.
lire alleged thieves apparently offered to sell
the trailer to a neighbor for $200. Suspicious
of the low selling price, the neighbor went to
Trailers Plus with the vehicle identification
number to see if the trailer might be stolen.
“It amazes me because that takes cour­
age,” W inget said. “They live right next door
to this person.”
Confluence had purchased the vehicle
from Trailers Plus, so the information
turned up quickly and the dealer called cho­
rus members, who reported the discovery to
the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Insurance covered most o f the cost of
purchasing a new trailer, but the chorus had
to pay the deductible out o f pocket. The old
trailer has been impounded by police and