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O ctober, 1985
No. 12
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E D I T O R I A L
M iscue results in positive step
by Jay Brown
Deputy Chief Tom Potter was formally introduced, on September 12, by Police Chief Penny
E. Harrington as the Portland Police Bureau's liaison with the city’s gay and lesbian com
munity. At the press conference announcing his appointment Potter remarked that the
decision to have a liaison with the gay community stemmed from "miscommunication" which
left the Lesbian and Gay Parade without a police escort
It is to Potter’s credit that he refrained from saying that the "miscommunication” was not
between Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee and the Portland Police Bureau but
am ong factions in the gay community itself.
One of the essential elements of the annua! Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade is possession of a
permit to hold a parade which is issued by the City of Portland. For the past several years the
permit had been issued to Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee, but this year the parade
permit was issued to Oregon Community Pride Association, an organization established by
som e members of Lesbian and Gay Pride ’84 Steering Committee and others.
The announcement in the now defunct Eagle Newsmagazine, of Oregon Community Pride
Association's plans for the traditional community-wide celebration caught many people by
surprise and resulted in the formation of Lesbian and Gay Pride Steering Committee '85.
(Portland’s annual lesbian/gay pride celebration has been planned and executed each year by
volunteers who have had little or no experience in such undertakings because steering
committee members are rarely holdovers from the previous year. This situation may be
changing soon, see story elsewhere.)
In negotiations with Lesbian and Gay Pride '85, Oregon Community Pride Association failed
to divulge the fact that the parade permit had been issued for 10 a.m. instead of 12 noon, which
was the traditional time of departure. (According to Police Bureau reports, an escort did
appear at the appointed place at 10 a.m., found no parade and went off to another assignment)
CÄIHARTIC COMICS
BOMBER ..1 SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT IN A
SPASM OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY STORMED
p a u n c h y B o b b y ' s o f f ic e a n d c a u s e d
T h e d e m is e o f his n e w s p a p e r /
The parade proceeded without the escort and, thanks to the efforts of the security volun
teers, few people realized that anything was amiss. (Or if people knew the escort was not in
attendance, they were not about to give up their parade.)
Within a few days following parade "miscommuniation" Deputy Chief Potter stepped
forward and volunteered to act as liaison between the Police Bureau and Portland’s lesbian
and gay community. Potter’s action came after a group composed of Lesbian and Gay Pride
’85 Steering Committee members and other concerned citizens met with the Police Bureau to
probe the origins of the “miscommunication."
So why has it taken almost three months for a formal announcement of Potter's appoint
m ent The answer lies, again, with the lack of communication among factions in the gay and
lesbian community.
Duri ng the past several months, a new group with political interests has been developing in
Portland. The group, Spectrum o f Gay and Lesbian Concerns, became involved in the
“ miscommunication” incident because some of the people who met with the Police Bureau
were members of Lesbian and Gay Pride '85 Steering Committee and Spectrum of Gay and
Lesbian Concerns.
Since the demise of Portland Town Council there has been only one gay political organiza
tion in the city — Right to Privacy Political Action Committee. For several years Portland’s gay
community has been the exclusive turf of Right to Privacy PAC and the em ergence of
Spectrum of Gay and Lesbian Concerns has caused no little consternation in Right to Privacy
PAC’s forces.
A Police Bureau press release, dated September 3, 1985, calling a press conference to
announce Potter's appointment, included the following paragraph:
“ Police Chief Penny Harrington will make the announcement and will be accompanied by
Deputy Chief Potter, Keeston Lowery of the Right to Privacy Political Action Committee, and
Gale Schmidt of Spectrum of Gay and Lesbian Concerns."
Lowery cancelled.
We believe that Potter s appointment as liaison between the Police Bureau and the city's
lesbian and gay community is a positive step in the struggle against homophobia. We
appreciate the efforts of all the people who brought it about
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