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Trial lawyers honor BRO
Basic Rights Oregon was awarded a 1996
Public Justice Award by the Oregon Trial Law
yers Association during OTLA’s annual conven
tion held Aug. 11.
Basic Rights Oregon was formed as an out
growth of the No on 13 campaign and is currently
focusing on a program known as the Fair Work
place Project. It is
designed to educate
O regonians about
workplace discrimi
nation based on
one’s actual or per
ceived sexual orien
tation.
“Three out of four
Oregonians
believe
OREGON
that discrimination
is wrong. Unfortu
nately, an almost equal number don’t realize that
it is currently legal to discriminate against a
person based on their actual or perceived sexual
orientation. The message of Fair Workplace is
simple: Discrimination is wrong, it’s real and it’s
legal in Oregon,” says Julie Davis, executive
director of Basic Rights Oregon, who accepted
the OTLA award “on behalf of all the Oregonians
who refused to allow the mean-spirited and divi
sive rhetoric of the Oregon Citizens Alliance to
further divide Oregonians.”
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OSU celebrates Queer
History Month
Oregon State University will celebrate Queer
History Month in October with a full schedule of
events aimed at providing people of all sexual
orientations with historical perspectives on the
social status, political movements and cultural
context of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered people.
In July 1995, Gov. John Kitzhaber officially
proclaimed October Lesbian and Gay History
Month, and the upcoming OSU events mark the
second year the Corvallis-based university will
celebrate Queer History Month.
Scheduled events include a speakers’ series,
National Coming Out Day festivities on Oct. 11,
and a Halloween party. Speakers will include
Oregon state Rep. George Eighmey, executive
director of the Lesbian Community Project
LaVeme Lewis, OSU professors Drs. Mina Carson
and Laura Rice, and Jessica Xavier, a transgender
rights activist.
For more details, call (541) 737-6357 or
(541)737-6360.
Pride Northwest wants
you to come out
Pride Northwest Inc. will celebrate National
Coming Out Day on Oct. 11 with a rally at Pioneer
Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. The
program, which takes place from 5 to 8 pm, will
include speakers and an open microphone.
The public is invited to share their stories and
show support for lesbian, gay and bisexual people
“for refusing to hide or lead double lives.” Pride
Northwest encourages people to “celebrate the
courage and honesty it takes to join the ‘out
community’ and leave the closet behind.”
For more information, call 295-9788.
Portlander earns
national design kudos
Portland graphic designer Jeff Fisher received
a 1996 American Graphic Design Award recog
nizing his logo design for the Main Street Play
house. Sponsored by the publication Graphic
Design.usa, the awards are considered one of the
most prestigious in the field of graphic communi
cation.
Fisher’s design for the Main Street Playhouse,
home of triangle productions!, incorporates a
graphic image of Portland’s historic cast-iron
streetlights and the familiar comedy/tragedy masks
associated with live theater. The traditional “Main
Street USA” imagery of the symbol reinforces the
theater’s actual Main Street location in the Port
land Art Museum complex.
Race for the Cure
includes LCP team
The Lesbian Community Project, a social and
advocacy organization for lesbians, sponsored a
team in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation’s Race for the Cure, a major fund
raiser benefiting breast cancer research.
More than 20,000 women, men and children
participated in the Race for the Cure run and walk,
held Sept. 8 in downtown Portland. LCP team
members wore an LCP logo on their shirts during
the race.
A Team
You Can
Depend On.
Jim Bean
Scott Bottaro, GRI
Craig Everitt
Donald Falk, GRI
Deborah Betron
CRB, GRI
Broker/President
Jude Watson, GRI
Broker
John Terrill. GRI
Associate Broker
Laurie SantaMaria
Chris Bonner, GRI
Associate Broker
Bill Galvin
Associate Broker
Robin Grimm
Gerry Federico, GRI
Carolyn MacMurray
Phoenix Rising receives
Equity grant
Equity Foundation has awarded Phoenix Ris
ing a $1,100 grant to help fund the first phase of
a project to develop additional services to seniors.
As part of the first phase, Phoenix Rising
Executive Director Allanya Guenther will attend
the Fifth Annual International SAGE (Senior
Action in a Gay Environment Inc.) Conference in
New York. During the four-day conference,
Guenther will learn how SAGE administers so
cial services to meet the unique needs of older
lesbians and gay men.
Phoenix Rising is a Portland-based organiza
tion providing mental health services to the sexual
minorities community.
AIDS Ministry nets
Fabric of Life grant
AIDS Ministry, a program of Catholic Chari
ties, has received a $10,000 grant from Fabric of
Life, a nonprofit group that raises funds to help
support AIDS organizations. AIDS Ministry was
one of 12 agencies that received grants.
The grant will provide $5,000 to support grief
counseling and pastoral visitations, $2,000 for
emergency services, and $3,000 earmarked for
the AIDS Prison Ministry program.
AIDS Ministry works with people affected by
H1V/AIDS without regard to their religious affili
ation, race, age, sex or sexual orientation.
Cathy Martine
Jan Martin
Julie Yoho
Gary Sadleir
Val Thorpe-Galvin, GRI
Kathy Tysinger
Robert Ambes
Kathleen Ira
Anita Trudeau
Greg Washington
Sandy Mort
Philip Beausoleil
Linda Welch
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Jay Pevney
Bridgetown
Realty
MRG celebrates 20 years,
issues honors
The McKenzie River Gathering Foundation,
founded in 1976 by Charles Gray and Leslie
Brockelbank of Eugene, recently celebrated its
20th anniversary as a catalyst for social change in
Oregon.
The celebration, held Sept. 6 in Portland,
featured comedian Marga Gomez. MRG also
presented its annual Grassroots Victory Awards
to the Lakeview-based Hispanos Unidos of Lake
County, which works on behalf of Latina/os, and
Oregon Housing Now Coalition in Portland, ini
tially established to address the affordable hous
ing crisis in the state.
Since its founding, MRG has provided nearly
$4 million to organizations working for progres
sive social change.
Karen BiLsing
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