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O ID W O R L D C H R IS T M A S • C H R IST O PH ER R A D K O
Lifetime
Achievement
Award
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SLEIGHBELLS
Of SHERWOOD
A
special Lifetime
A chievem ent Award
will be presented in
honor of A nn Shepherd,
who founded the Portland
chapter of Parents, Families
and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays with her husband,
Bill. She died of complica
tions from heart disease
Jan. 4 at the age of 84.
Shepherd unknowingly
was enlisted as a civil rights
Ann Shepherd
activist in 1971— just two
years after Stonewall— when
her daughter Susie came out of the closet while
home from University of Oregon on Christmas
vacation. In 1976 she was appointed to a two-
year term as the “token parent" on Oregon Gov.
Boh Straub’s Task Force on Sexual Preference.
In 1977 the Shepherds teamed with C huck
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Ben &. Jerry’s co
founder Ben Cohen, who launched the Move
Our Money campaign to raise awareness about
the U.S. government’s neglect of educational and
social programs and wasteful military spending.
She also has offered her American Sign Language
interpreting skills to many speakers, including
Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and Presi
dent Clinton.
Hall’s final fund-raiser for BRO is the “Bites
for Rights” campaign June 19, when more than
100 restaurants throughout the state will donate
15 percent of their gross proceeds from breakfast,
lunch, dinner and dessert to the organization.
Immediately afterward she’s hitting the road for
Iowa, where she’ll serve as constituency director
with the John Kerry for President campaign.
Carol Gabrieli!
C
arol Gahrielli is being recognized for her
work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps:
Northwest, an organization sponsored by the
Jesuits, a Catholic order of priests and brothers.
She spent a year ministering to folks in the Port
land metropolitan area, hoping to transform
thinking and ways of acting. She reached out to
young gay men and lesbians who walked the
tenuous tightrope of wanting to serve but not
wanting to out themselves if it meant risking
their jobs or connections with other volunteers,
the community or the organization.
Gahrielli worked to challenge the norms of
the Catholic Church and the community in
which the 128 volunteers would live. She also
supported past members in their efforts to lead
authentic lives and tell their stories.
Upon the JVC’s denying membership to a
Grand Marshal
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his year’s grand marshal is the Sexual
Minority Youth Recreation Center, a n o n
profit agency that provides a drop-in center
for gay, lesbian, bi, trans, questioning and allied
people 23 and younger.
People come to play pool, use computers,
access resources, use the library, m eet people,
make art and just have fun. SMYRC provides
leadership opportunities through the Youth
Steering Com m ittee, plays host to support
groups such as Personal Deity Proxy and Trans
Youth Group and offers an American Sign
Language class in partnership with Deaf &
Hearing O ut Reach.
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and Rita Knapp to found the Portland chapter
of Parents of Gays, which later affiliated with
the national PFLAG. “Because of the solidarity
we have in our own family, we can be good
representatives to both the parents and their
children,” she said.
committed lesbian couple, Gahrielli began the
arduous task of challenging, pushing and fight
ing the hypocrisy and discrimination of an
organization she had defended and loved. She
left last July and took supporters, funders, friends
and the heart of the organization with her. They
lost the most dedicated employee and their
strongest, loudest spokesperson.
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S
ophia Lanza-
W eil’s activism
on gay, lesbian,
bi, trans, queer and
ally concerns at
both the local and
national level make
Sophia Lanza-Weil
her an honored
member of our community.
The teen-ager started a Gay Straight
Alliance at Franklin High School and kept it
active and played a leadership role throughout
her time as a student there. Earlier this year she
served as Western regional student organizer for
the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education N et
work’s Day of Silence Project and was instru
mental in connecting students across nine states.
“It is incredibly important to be constantly
pushing the message that harassment still exists
for queer youth and their allies,” Lanza-Weil
said. “Many people don’t realize that it still
happens or that we face verbal and physical
harassment every day because of our real/per-
ceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
“DOSP is also a unique project in that it
reclaims silence. Everyone has been silent in
the face of some sort of harassment. It’s very
powerful for students to use that same oppres
sive silence to change their situations to get to
a point that their silence is not necessary.
“My own experience with being silent for a
full nine hours is that it really makes a person
think about what they do say. Because you
can’t talk, you listen more closely. For me, it
not only made the normal barrage of ‘that’s so
gay’ stand out more, but it also made me won
der if I sounded like that to anyone. There are
all kinds of closets we put people in, and my
own silence gave me a chance to think about
what I might he perpetuating through my
actions/words in other areas.” j H
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