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The Rev. Debbie Martin of Santa Rosa,
Calif., was elected to complete the work of
closing down the district. District clerk Susan
Van Houten of Gentle Shepherd was re
elected, and Dave Dishman of M CC Portland
was elected assistant lay representative.
A Mormon Church conference held the
same weekend was picketed by anti-gay minis
ter Fred Phelps. He did not find his way to the
M CC conference hut picketed churches
believed “to he sympathetic to gays and les
bians, such as the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints,” according to the Oct. 6 Salt
Lake City Tribune.
C ole R eceives
S hepherd ' s A ward
he Rev. Roy Cole, outgoing pastor at
Metropolitan Community Church of
Portland, was honored during the Out on
Broadway stage show Oct. 11 at the World
Trade Center The
ater. Proceeds from
the fund-raiser bene
fited Esther’s Pantry,
which provides food
and personal items to
people with AIDS.
Cole
officially
ended his seven-year
stint with his final ser
mon Oct. 14. He
plans to complete his
The Rev. Roy Cole
doctorate of ministry
at San Francisco Theological Seminary, then
apply for a Ph.D. in theology at University of
Oxford.
Cole received the Shepherd’s Award,
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which is named after Ann and the late Bill
Shepherd, who began supporting basic rights
and equality for all Oregonians in the mid-
1970s after learning their daughter was a les
bian. The couple founded the state’s first
chapter of Friends of Gays, which later affili
ated with the national organization Parents,
Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
A ppeals C ourt A llows
S eattle W aiter to S ue
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federal appeals court has overturned a
lower court ruling saying a waiter who
was taunted for walking “like a woman” can
sue the restaurant under federal laws pro
hibiting sex discrimination.
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Antonio Sanchez worked at a
5 Seattle location of Azteca Restaurant
8 Enterprises, where he says he was sub-
w jected to daily verbal abuse by
| employees and a supervisor. He said
he told several managers and the
1 human resources director about his
problem but did not get a significant
response. He was fired a few months
later for walking off the job in the
middle of his shift.
Sanchez filed suit in district court,
which ruled against him, saying he
had not been subjected to a hostile
environment based on his sex. The
9th Circuit Court of Appeals over
turned that ruling, saying the “unre
lenting barrage of verbal abuse” was
severe and pervasive.
The appeals court decision was a
departure from other rulings that
have made it difficult for gay men
and lesbians to obtain protections
under Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act because the law does not cover
sexual orientation. However, San
chez’s case never suggested the plain
tiff was perceived to be gay.
Rather, he was subject to harass
ment because he did not conform to
Out on Broadway host Rebecca Webb introduces
sexual stereotypes. The court based
PFLAG pioneer Ann Shepherd
its decision on a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court
ruling that barred discrimination on the basis
of sexual stereotypes.
I nstitute S eeks
W orkshop P resenters
he seventh annual Oregon Diversity In
stitute is seeking people to present work
shop sessions on gay, lesbian, bi and trans
issues from Nov. 7 to 9 at Red Lion Inn in
Salem. This year’s theme is “Voices of Diver
sity: Focusing on Personal and Institutional
Transformation.”
The keynote speaker will be Center for
Leadership Diversity founder and director
Victor Lee Lewis, who specializes in teaching,
inspiring and supporting individuals and
organizations to create communities of com
mitment that can heal and dismantle racism,
sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and
other “isms” undermining people’s ability to
live, love and work well together. He is best
known for his leadership role as the prophet
ic voice of The Color of Fear , a video about
racism that received the Golden Apple
Award for Best Social Studies Documentary
of 1995 from the National Educational Media
Association.
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For more information on registration, submitting a
workshop proposal err nominating an individual or
organization for a Diversity and Innovation Award,
visit the Internet site www.lanecc.edu/afirmact/div/
odi/2001 or contact coordinator Jim Garcia at
541 '747-4501, ext. 2852, or garciaj@lanecc.edu.
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