THE EAGLE NEWSMAGAZINE

314SW 9th Suite 7 Portland OR 97205 503-222-1522

Years: January 1, 1985 –August 1985

Published Monthly

Prior The Eagle was the Cascade Voice before that Northwest Gay Review and before that The Fountain

History/Story: Per opening page of the Eagle Newsmagazine, January 1, 1985, Why did we change the name to The EAGLE Newsmagazine? In June of 1982 Neil Hutchins began the Cascade Voice to serve the contemporary needs of Portland, Oregon’s Gay, and Lesbian community. Many persons were involved in the many meetings held to create what and how the Cascade Voice should tackle the then current needs.

 David Porter’s paper, The Northwest Fountain, had been serving the needs of the greater Pacific Northwest by distributing from Vancouver BC to Eugene, Oregon yet Neil felt there was room for a more contemporary format which was determined to be a newsmagazine.

 The Cascade Voice enjoyed enthusiastic support from almost every segment of the community from the very beginning. It was obviously fledgling publication, but with some high goals and much ambition. Even though I was editor of the Fountain at that time I was recruited to be the Leather editor of the new CV. When I look back over the first year’s issues of CV it is amazing to see how it has been developed.

Porter sold The Fountain to a Canadian party in early 1983 and it didn’t survive two issues under the new ownership. For those of you who haven’t noticed (and I do get asked once in a while) the Fountain hasn’t been around for two years, folks. Meanwhile, Neil began a Washington Cascade Voice -based in Seattle. It is still there, although it was sold to the Seattle staff almost a year ago. The Oregon Cascade Voice was sold to the Portland staff last August. The similarity in the two papers is in name only. The Washington Voice is an 8 ½ x 11 formats while the Oregon Voice has maintained our larger size even though we instituted the expensive binding and trim that gives us more of a magazine presentation.

At the time that I assumed editorship of CV, in September 1983, Ed Kautzmann came on board in the art department. Together, and with the help of many people, we have developed the content and artistic presentation of CV to its present standards. [part of the article] by Robert Paul Dunn/Raunchy Robert.

History/Story

In the 3rd issue, March 1, 1985, a large ad was placed, “HELLO SEATTLE” With this issue THE EAGLE Newsmagazine moves into the space vacated by the Washington Cascade Voice.”

Editor: Robert Paul Dunn

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