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ohn Baker was elected chair of the
Right to Privacy Poltical Action
Committee last month, the eighth
largest political fund-raising group in Ore
gon. Baker, a Portland native, says he has
always been involved in politics. He first
began in the local campaigns for John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the
1960s, and later became involved in union
politics. After serving in the military, he
returned to Portland and helped start the
Portland Town Council (PTC), the ground
breaking gay activist group which provided
community leadership during the 1970s
and that largely defined the Oregon gay
movement. Baker left the PTC to co-chair
the PTC Foundation, now Phoenix Rising.
Baker was a founder of the Right to Pri
vacy PAC in 1981, and has remained a
member of its board.
As chair. Baker stresses that he is more
organizational in his approach to the job
than his predecessor, Keeston Lowery.
“ I’m not willing to stay up till 2 a.m.
every night,” says Baker. More of the ac
tivities will be delegated to other board
members and committees.
Baker will use the broadened focus to
increase the scope of the PAC’s activities.
The primary purpose of the PAC will re
main raising money. “ Money enables visi
bility,” says Baker, “ and it lets others
know how concerned we are about our
rights.” However, Baker admits that
fundraising through the annual Lucille
Hart Dinner “ is getting so easy.” The PAC
will continue to sponsor fundraising events
around politicians, as it did this year for
Rep. Les AuCoin and candidates Paulus
and Goldschmidt.
Baker also wishes to enlarge the scope
of the PAC beyond mere fund raising. The
PAC can maintain ties to elected officials
and serve to educate them further on com
munity issues and concerns. The PAC can
also help educate the community on politi
cal issues: Baker suggests inaugurating
monthly breakfast meetings with politi
cians as a forum for involving people in the
political process. Gays and lesbians can
also engage in voter registration drives.
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During his tenure. Baker says the PAC
will address AIDS issues more fully, in
part by strengthening ties between the
PAC and the Cascade AIDS Project.
(Baker is also on the board of CAP.)
Baker says he’s “ not interested in a
better job politically,” and considers
politics almost as a hobby. He intends that
the PAC, under his leadership, will
become involved in more issues, and at the
same time have responsibility for this
growth of activity shared among the board
and committee members.
he Right to Privacy PAC is going
through restructuring, according to
board member L.C. Hansen. New
ly-elected Chair John Baker and the board
are working to “ get more people involved,
and get more productivity.” The board has
recently been looking at the group’s by
laws to determine how best to engineer
these changes.
Hansen says that board members now
are going to be given specific responsibili
ties. Before, board positions entailed
“ nebulous” duties, which left most
responsibility to the chair and the treasurer.
The PAC is also going to establish two
major committees. The Political Affairs
Committee will work up candidate ques
tionnaires, interview candidates, gather
subjective information, and network with
other political organizations. The Fund
raising Committee will continue to orga
nize the Lucille Hart Dinner, and sponsor
other fund-raisers around political figures
or social issues.
Another goal for the PAC is to convene
meetings to increase communication
between groups and individuals. “ The
PAC’s goal is to follow the leadership of
other gay groups in their specific areas. We
need good communication between all ac
tivists. This is an important year for gay
rights,” says Hansen. “ We can’t let the
conservative movement stifle us.”
Greater involvement, however, is the
focus of the changes. Hansen stresses that
committee positions are open to non-board
members, and that anyone interested
should contact the board. There will also
be several new positions open on the board
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desperation of those shaking in closets and
the gratuitious punishment that leads so
many of our brothers and sisters to walk
crippled through life as emotionally dis
turbed. mentally tormented, and alcoholic.
More and more of us have the courage
and self-respect to recognize that if we do
not rock the boat we will be drowned. The
injustices we confront cannot be discount
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We are the people faced with the Dred
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And we have the time, talent, and vision
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The national Democratic party has re
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except with mushed-mouth lip service.
The time has come to push open the
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