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D ozens of students rally against M easure 9 on O c t. 17 across from C leveland H igh Sch ool
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A gainst M easure 9
bout 100 C leveland High students, staff
and supporters protested the O regon C iti
zens A llian ce’s Measure 9 on O c t. 17 at Powell
Park across the street from the school in S o u th
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east Portland.
O n e by one, students took the stage and
addressed the supportive crowd. Som e speakers
raged against the O C A , some spoke o f their
experience in schcxil, and some shared their per
sonal and often m oving stories.
O n e story especially captured the crowd’s
attention. A transgendered youth told o f her expe
rience growing up in a rural area. Sh e said she was
n ’t allowed to be openly queer in her small town.
W h e n her peers found out she was different,
seven people in the schcxd’s locker room raped
her. “S ile n ce is death,” she said before walking
away from the m icrophone and into the arms o f
her partner.
Kary A lo v eah , a te a ch e r at C lev elan d ,
warned o f the consequences that would follow if
the measure passes n ext m onth. But even if it
does, she said she won’t acknowledge it.
“T h ere is no way in hell I will change what
I’m teaching in the class,” said A loveah, who
teaches stKial studies, m ath and philosophy. “A
lot o f teachers feel the same way.”
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H er colleagu e S te v e P eter is upset becau se
he th in k s th e public on ly hears o n e th in g
about C lev elan d H igh: teach ers supporting
M easure 9 and expressing op p osition to P o rt
land Public S c h o o ls p olicies o n sexual o rie n
ta tio n . “People all over th e co u n try know
about C le v e lan d H igh S c h o o l, but th ey d o n ’t
know about th is," he said, referring to th e
sch ool s support o f sexual m inority stu dents
and staff.
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O f th e original six teach ers w ho w ent to
th e m edia and expressed th eir outrage about
P ortland Public S c h o o ls, on ly four rem ain at
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C le v e la n d . T h e grou p, led by S p a n is h
in stru ctor Jose S a la n o , says th a t h o m o sexu al
ity is a c h o ic e and th at th e d istrict is keepin g
scie n tific ev id en ce supporting th eir claim
from students.
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Peter said these teachers are an absolute
minority. He has been out o f the closet as a gay
man since 1988 and has found full support from
the adm inistration, staff, students and parents.
"A ll th at you hear about C lev elan d High
Sch ixil is not true," he said.
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C oincidentally, Peter’s classroom is n ext
dixir to Salano s. Before Salan o stepped out in
defense o f Measure 9 and challenged the gener
al acceptance o f hom osexuality in the schools,
K ary A loveah , C leveland H igh teach er
the two m en got along fine, Peter said.
“It’s uncom fortable but not antagonistic at
all,” h e said. “I h av en ’t spoke to any o f them
since this cam e out— sadly.”
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itin g th e
necessity o f c o n fro n tin g the
^ hom op hobic brainw ashing o f young peo
ple, Q u eer M en ace disrupted a m eeting planned
by Jose S a la n o and o th er C lev elan d High teach
ers O c t. 7 at th e Portland C o n v e n tio n Center.
T h e instructors claim Portland Public Schools is
keeping scie n tific p roo f from students that
hom osexuality is a c h o ice and can be changed.
A district spokesman said th at the teachers
know the channels they need to take to get Hxiks
admitted to school libraries and that they have
not followed those channels. Portland Public
Schools does not prom ote homosexuality, he said.
“W e had to let these people know that they
could not sit com fortably and spit their mind-
control rh eto ric,” a Q u eer M en ace press release
said. “T h e se people are cruel and dangerous.
T h ey want to underm ine my self-w orth and
brainwash me in to being som ething I’m n o t.”
T h e con feren ce was called to address the
issue o f reversion therapy for gays and lesbians.
Q ueer M en ace said th e “cure” includes forced
electric shock, m ed ication and hospitalization.
“W e do not w ant tax m oney funding extremists
preaching h ate to child ren in public schixils,”
the statem en t said.