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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 2003)
tnhfiiary ?1, ?TKÌ1 | t — t(g rTîTî7î?ïï7nT3newsbrie/s • Infrastructure: Equity installed new computers and software systems to enhance customer service. • D onor advisers: C o n tributors are supporting inno vative efforts such as The Laramie Project, which recently was performed in Portland and will be taken on the road next month to T he Dalles, Pendleton, Bend and Newport. “I raised the visibility of the organization...and the next opportunity is to really engage major donors and to seek planned gifts," Nelson said. “ It’s a great opportunity for Equity to bring in someone who already has those skills at a high level.” The foundation already is interviewing candidates to Equity Foundation founding board member Karen Keeney serve as an interim executive wishes M atthew N elson a fond farewell Feb. 18 during director. After that person is the Investm ents in Dignity Awards appointed, the board of direc tors intends on conducting a national search for women who partner with women and to a permanent replacement. reduce harriers faced by these patients as they access services. The grant will help improve “Last year, even though it was a horrid providers’ skills and create systemic change so stock market and the economy was tanking, that lesbians can feel safe and comfortable in we gave out more money and we raised more money than we’ve ever raised before— signifi a hospital or other health care setting. cantly more money,” Nelson said. “That says Two trainers from the Mautner Project in to me that Equity is a very stable and growing W ashington, D .C ., will guide the initial organization.” workshops this spring. Hamhleton represen Looking back on how much Oregon has tatives as well as health care agencies, clinics changed since he moved here, Nelson reflect and colleges will receive an intensive “train ing of trainers” curriculum April 14 and 15 in ed on his work as an ordained minister with United Church of Christ. After the discrimi Portland. natory Ballot Measure 8 passed in 1988, he Half-day workshops then will he presented to helped put together a curriculum and traveled health care providers April 16 in Bend and across the state to convince churches to April 17 in Eugene. Hamhleton will replicate become pro-gay. these workshops July 15 and Sept. 18 in the “Today, more than 50 percent of our Portland metropolitan area. churches are open and affirming,” he said. For more information call 503-335-6591, e-mail "Nowhere else in the nation can top that— hamhproj@easystreet.com or visit the Internet site nowhere else." Nelson regularly spoke with groups in wunv.lght.org/hp. rural areas such as Klamath Falls and W hite Salm on, Wash. “Every place I went, the obby for asic ights defining moment was when someone locally shared their story as an openly gay or lesbian ueers and allies will have the opportunity to spend a day in Salem next month telling person.” representatives why they should vote for basic His most memorable encounter (xxurred in rights. The Citizen Action Lobby Day will be PiKatello, Idaho, where he initially encountered held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 26 at the a great deal of resistance from Bible hangers. Oregon State Capitol. That is, until the local chaplain came out of the Basic Rights Oregon will give participants closet. hands-on lobby training, then dispatch them to “Everybtxly was saying: ‘G ee, when I had speak with legislators about their right to a fair breast cancer he was by my bedside. G ee, when my mother died he was the one who kind of and safe Oregon. This session the state could become the 14th in the nation to ban discrimi nurtured me through that.’ And suddenly nation based on sexual orientation in housing, instead of ‘them out there,’ it was ‘G ee, our public accommodation and employment. chaplain here is a gay man, and maybe we should rethink this,’ ” Nelson said. “It was phe To register contact Jessica DuBois at nomenal to watch.” 503-222-6151 orjessica@basicrights.org. 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