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• 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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he Hamhleton Project, a 5-year-old non
profit organization that provides educa
tion and support to lesbians with cancer and
other life-threatening conditions, has
received $5,000 from Seattle’s Pride Founda
tion to teach Oregon doctors about “Rem ov
ing the Barriers: Providing Culturally C om pe
tent Care to Lesbians.”
The goal o f the curriculum, which is fund
ed by the Mautner Project and Centers for
Disease C on trol and Prevention, is to
increase health care practitioners’ under
standing and knowledge about lesbians and
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