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Donna Red Wing, HRC’s national field director, says she realizes that some people ques tion the justice of a “national group coming into a local community and sucking out money.” “They wonder, ‘Where did the money go?’ ” says Red Wing, who lived in Portland for many years and still owns a home in the City of Roses. Like Glanville, she offers examples of how HRC’s labors holster the gay and lesbian com munity at the local level. She cites HRC’s con tributions—via both monetary and staff sup port—to gay-and-leshian-friendly congressional candidates, as well as HRC’s push for increases in HIV/AIDS-related funding. 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Nevertheless, Red Still, one may feel last year HRC pum ped nearly Wing, the former head of that dollars raised in a Portland’s Lesbian Com- local community should munity Project and a stay in that communi $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 into the (ultim ately longtime advocate for ty—especially if that grass-roots organizing, community is under fire. successful) campaigns o f gay- says local and statewide Oregon could fit the support is imperative for bill, given the three anti friendly congressional candidates national efforts to be suc gay referrals in the state cessful. Legislature aimed at from Oregon and southwest “We all have our role derailing a December and yet we all need each state appellate court rul other,” says Red Wing, Washington. ing that prohibits dis who recently helped crimination based on sexual orientation and finesse $5,000 from HRC for Basic Rights Ore stipulates that all state and local governments in gon, a statewide group that promotes gay and Oregon must offer spousal benefits to the same- lesbian rights. BRO is heading up the lobbying sex domestic partners of their employees. (The efforts in Salem this session. six plaintiffs in that case, Tanner vs. OH SU, as “We don’t normally do that,” says Red Wing, well as their attorney, Carl Kiss, were honored at referring to the contribution to a statewide the HRC dinner.) group, “because HRC focuses on the federal Meanwhile just days before the dinner, Ore level.” gon Citizens Alliance chair Lon Mabon and Red Wing was slated to personally hand the wife Bonnie resurfaced with a new anti-gay ini check to Jean Harris, BRO’s executive director, tiative. at the dinner, but was sidelined due to the flu If approved, the proposed constitutional and the American Airlines imbroglio. amendment would decimate the legal protec “But the money was approved and I just have tions garnered under the Tanner ruling. to send it," says Red Wing, still struggling to The draft ballot title reads: “Amends Consti quash the bug.