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on the squad and at school hasn’t been
affected at all.
He won the All-State individual cheerlead-
ing championship for the past two years in the
4A division. He was the first male student ever
to achieve such a victory.
Walker also was actively involved in the
bowling team and honor choir. Meanwhile, he
managed to keep up with his studies, graduat
ing with a 3.45 grade point average.
This summer he will be an instructor for the
National Cheerleaders Association. In the fall
he plans to cheer on a competitive college squad
and eventually become a teacher and coach.
ate last year Damon Woodcock received a
precedent-setting settlement after enduring
i harassment when he transitioned from
female to male at the Portland Police Bureau.
T ie Rose City
native, bom Debo
rah, joined the
ranks as a full-time
officer in October
1991. He began
the process of tran
sitioning during
the summer of
1997.
During a 1999
investigation of
Central Precinct
misconduct,
Damon Woodcock
Woodcock says he
was subjected to witness intimidation and
death threats by a co-worker, subsequently
going against the well-known “code of silence”
by turning him in. His locker also was vandal
ized, and he later learned his fellow officers had
been making derogatory
comments such as “a vagina
should not be in the penis
locker room."
When supervisors
ignored the problems, he left
work and filed a stress dis
ability claim. The case
recently was settled out of
court for $205,000.
j atherine Stauffer proba-
. bly has had a greater
; effect on the sexual
ninorities community than
my other person during the
last year.
The lesbian photograph
er’s lawsuit against the Ore
gon Citizens Alliance— an
ittempt to collect more than
HO,000 owed to her for a
Catherine Stauffer
1991 assault— led to the imprisonment of Lon
Mahon in February. Now, he reportedly is way
behind on collecting signatures for his latest
anti-gay measure, which— fingers crossed—
might not make it onto the fall ballot as an
indirect result of Stauffer’s actions.
“Lon Mabon and the O C A have been sym
bols of terror to the gay/lesbian/bi/trans com
munities in Oregon for 12 years," she says. “My
greatest hope is that my lawsuit to hold the
O C A accountable for what they did to me will
send a message to the queer community that
we can fight back and we can win."
fatie Potter helped convince the Portland
City Council to approve an ordinance in
tFebruary
extending
Portland Fire
and Police
Disability and
Retirement
Fund benefits
to members’
same-sex
domestic part
ners. The les
bian cop was
concerned that
if she or her
partner, a fel-
Katie Potter
low officer, was
•
killed in the line of duty, they would be emo
tionally and financially devastated.
She has been a visible presence in Port
land’s queer community ever since the early
1990s, when her father, Tom, served as police
chief. Still, she remains modest about being
honored by Pride Northwest.
“1 definitely passionately
believe in justice and equal
ity, but 1 don’t spend every
minute of my life fighting
for it,” Potter told Just Out
in January. “I think that
there are a lot more people
who probably have done a
lot more for our community
than I have.”
Regardless, she says she
feels truly honored to have
been chosen. “I just can’t
even believe it, really.
Wow!" j n
The S pirit o f P ride
A w ards will be presented
3:25 p.m. June 16 on the
Unity Stage at Waterfront
Park. Catherine Stauffer will
be honored at 3:50.
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