works hard in her capacity as human resources
director to ensure that O PB is a good, safe and
fair place to work— for everybody.
Maynard Orme is at the helm of one of the
most diverse workplaces anywhere in Oregon,
I’d wager.
It is a shame to see a rare mention of O PB in
Just Out publicizing an isolated, negative inci
dent perpetrated by a single individual (it is
assumed), when the station does so much to
enrich and support diversity in our community.
S arah B o tt
Portland
Editor’s note: Bott is employed by Oregon Public
Broadcasting.
OPB not cool with me
To
the
E d it o r :
Some weeks ago, a documentary aired on
OPB concerning the history of the Castro in
San Francisco. [The Castro, which aired June
16], tastefully covered the late 1800s to the pre
sent. It ran one and a half hours and started at
11 p.m.
The only reason I knew this show was to air
was because of a radio broadcast on National
Public Radio in which the writer of the docu
mentary was interviewed. N ot a word was men
tioned promoting this program by OPB, let
alone any previews to whet the potential view
ers’ appetites.
Contrary to the popular belief that we
“diverse” folks stay up late swinging from chan
deliers, some of us do go to work in the morning
like everyone else. For a documentary this clean
and neat, an 11 p.m. starting time is outrageous.
The previous evening, O PB aired a show at
prime time about the most horrific and inhu
mane event of the last 60 years: the Holocaust.
Now, tell me why the history of the Castro is so
much “worse” than the Holocaust that it should
air at 11 p.m. and not earlier?
Once again, we are told we’re insignificant—
not important. EX) you suppose O PB realizes just
how much diverse people like us have con
tributed to the arts monetarily as well as artisti
cally? (I do recognize O PB as the offender, not
PBS as a whole— my father watched the very
same documentary in Fresno, Calif., where it
aired at 8 p.m.)
I feel I’ve been ushered to the back of the bus
and told where to sit. And you should too. 1 urge
everyone reading this to take a moment to call
OPB and tell them you’re dissatisfied with their
weak attempt to appear liberal; request they re
air the program at a reasonable time; make them
aware of your contributions. Be heard. Aren’t
you tired of being invisible?
K elley B egley
Portland
Editor’s note: Susan Thomas, O P B ’s director of
corporate communications, says mention of The
Castro tms included in the June issue of O P B ’s
member guide, Oregon Focus. An OPB ad also
appeared in our June 5 issue.
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I was shocked when I saw that you gave an
editorial to the president of the United States as
if he were some sort of friend (“Now, a few words
from the president,” Just Out, June 5]. While I
understand that you may be excited that he
wrote to you at all, I wouldn’t consider him a
friend of the gay community. He may have
signed it, but I doubt, seriously, that he wrote it.
Remember that this is the same president
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itary in his first 100 days in office, only to sell
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votes on his economic package.
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to dishonorably discharge military personnel for
being gay. This is also the same president who
supported the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act
and filed a brief to the Supreme Court in support
of Colorado’s Measure 2.
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people to important offices and made a few
rhetorical speeches, but in every instance when
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much less in a gay publication. I’m a gay man—
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