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RTP picks Pack
Barry Pack brings energy to his new role as executive
director o f Right To Privacy
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Nora Isacson
by Inga Sorensen
ortland resident Barry Pack has been
named the new executive director of
Right To Privacy, an Oregon gay and
lesbian rights organization.
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According to RTP co-chair Lisa
Maxfield, Pack was a volunteer for the No on 9 and
No on 13 campaigns. The
25-year-old Pack, who gradu
ated from Lewis & Clark
College in 1992 after major
ing in theater, has been a vol
unteer for state Rep. Gail
Shibley (D-Portland) and he
spent the past 18 months
working as a fund-raising
associate for the YWCA of
Portland.
“I’m really excited about
this,” says Pack, who was
raised in Boring, Ore. “I got
some media experience when
I volunteered for the No on 9
and No on 13 campaigns, and
I got fund-raising experience
while at the YWCA, where I
Barry Pack
helped organize the YWCA’s
Women’s Leadership Lun
cheons. I think I’ve learned a lot and will be able to
apply that knowledge to my work with RTP.”
Pack was named to the RTP post following the
resignation of Greg Jackson, who left the organiza
tion in May to pursue other professional interests.
The 37-year-old former television news producer
served as RTP executive director for a little more
than a year. His resignation took many by surprise,
including Maxfield, who admits the move has
prompted RTP’s all-volunteer board to “reassess
its goals and priorities.”
“Our board is going to spend the next several
months taking a closer look at our goals. Quite
frankly, we don’t know if somewhere down the
line we’ll get rid of the executive director’s posi
tion altogether and just have a development direc
tor, or something like that,” she says. “We just
Right To Privacy PAC
unveils Lucille Hart agenda
Torie Osborn, former executive director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, will be the
featured speaker at Right To Privacy Political
Action Committee’s 14th annual Lucille Hart Din
ner slated for Oct. 14 at the Oregon Convention
Center.
Right To Privacy PAC is a statewide organiza
tion that raises and contributes money to candi
dates in Oregon who are committed to civil rights
for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Proceeds
from the dinner directly support candidates and
campaigns dedicated to equality.
Osborn is also the author of Coming Home to
America, which explores various facets of the gay
and lesbian community. She served as NGLTF
executive director in 1993 and headed up the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services
Center from 1988 to 1992. A o featured at the
dinner will be comic Mark Da s, who has made
appearances on Comedy Central s Out There spe
cials and A&E’s Evening at the Improv.
Dinner tickets are $ 125 per person, or S1,250 to
sponsor a table of 10. The evening begins with
cocktails at 5:30; dinner starts at 7 pm. Those who
wish to host a table may receive a Table Captain
don’t know what’s going to happen.”
She adds: “Barry is energetic and he’s very
good with people. We took him down to an event
in Ashland recently and he just jumped right in and
did a great job getting to know people. A lot of our
board members can’t do that.”
According to Maxfield,
Pack had previously applied
for the executive director’s
position, and was more re
cently brought to RTP’s atten
tion when Maxfield contacted
activist Julie Davis to see if
she knew anyone who might
be appropriate for the posi
tion. Davis is the executive
director of the human rights
group Basic Rights Oregon,
an outgrowth of the No on 13
Committee.
“Barry had worked with
Julie when she was an aide to
Gail Shibley,” says Maxfield.
Pack says he also shares Davis’
Northeast Portland home.
As for his top RTP priori
ties, Pack says he wants to
continue building a strong resource base to prepare
for the 1996 election cycle and develop coalitions
across the state.
“Electing progressive candidates from both
parties all across Oregon is more important this
year than ever. We must work tirelessly to gain a
majority of legislators who support full human and
civil rights for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals,”
he says.
RTP consists of a political action committee,
which raises and contributes money to pro-sexual-
minority candidates and ballot initiatives, and an
educational arm, known as Right To Privacy Inc.
Last year RTP PAC contributed more than $ 100,000
to gay- and lesbian-friendly state legislative candi
dates.
Packet by calling RTP at 228-5825, ext. 3. The
group requests that you call by July 10.
OBT raises thuusands
for CAP
The Oregon Ballet Theatre raised $7,000 for
the Cascade AIDS Project from patron contribu
tions at performances of the American Choreogra
phers Showcase in May.
“The performing arts community has been af
flicted by the spread of AIDS, with members of
OBT personally struck by this disease. Organiza
tions like CAP need our financial support for their
exemplary programs in AIDS prevention, educa
tion, direct service and research,” says OBT artis
tic director James Canfield, who made a short
announcement at the end of each performance
urging support for CAP.
"AIDS has deprived us too early of the talents
and gifts of too many,” adds CAP Executive Direc
tor Susan Stoltenberg. “It is the leading killer of
our nation’s most innovative and creative indi
viduals.”
For more information aboutCAP.call 223-5907.
For ticket information and a free brochure on
OBT’s 1995/% season, call 222-5538.
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