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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 2003)
nTîTiUTÏÏTT^Tlnetvsbrte/s The Questions; Continued from Page 7 meetings have been held at New Hope for years. According to Parks, who attends serv ices at New Hope hut was unaware of its play ing host to an anti-gay conference, the church is one of only three sites in the area that can accom m odate the annual event, which includes a catered lunch, audiovisual presenta tions, department exhibits and display of county vehicles. Unlike Clackam as’ Monarch Hotel or Oregon City’s Abemethy Center, however, the church doesn’t specify event sup pliers, freeing the chamber to arrange for serv ices from among its membership. The church also provides the space rent- free, allowing the chamber to charge lower ticket prices in order to encourage higher attendance— though, Parks added, the public may always attend the presentations free of charge. She noted that the county does not share in the cost of the event, which is spon sored this year by Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Oregon. County and chamber representatives agreed the venue can’t he changed this year hut indi cated that future planning will consider context as well as finances and logistics. “I’m not just going to ignore it, hut I have to look at all those realistic factors,” said Parks, who added that she’d hate to hold the building responsible for what people have said within it. “These are legitimate questions, and Clacka mas County is about being responsive to both reality and perception," Parker said. “If some- Kxly perceives this as not being correct, then we want to talk to them about that, because that’s not what we’re about." area’s high number of registered party voters. Should Adams join the race for Washington, D.C., his opposition therefore might include a number of faces familiar to the sexual minorities community, including state Sen. Kate Brown, D-Portland, and Multnomah County Commis sioners Serena Cruz and Lisa Naito. If elected, Adams would make political his tory as the first openly gay man voted into office as a nonincumbent. “I’m very proud of the work I’ve done on behalf of the local LG BT community," Adams told Just Out. “I’ve played a key role in extend ing domestic partner benefits to city employees and in establishing the county’s domestic part nership registry. I helped to prohibit city con tractors from being able to discriminate based on sexual orientation, and I worked to extend local civil rights protections to include gender identity.” Adams also serves as chairman of the hoard for Cascade A ID S Project. He has served on the board of Basic Rights Oregon and recently helped launch Portland’s LG BTQ Community Center Fund. “ In Congress,” he added, “I would build on my local work on behalf of our community to extend federal protections for LG BTQ Ameri cans. 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A dams A nnounces C o ngressional C andidacy am Adams, former chief of staff to Portland v Mayor Vera Katz, officially announced Aug. 1 that he will seek the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Orc., should Blumenauer chtxtse to throw his hat into the Portland mayoral race rather than run for re- election. "Politics is about right and wrong...not just fixing things," wrote Adams, quoting President Abraham Lincoln in a fund-raising e-mail from his recently formed exploratory committee. “I will fight to address key problems facing our nation: The Bush administration still lacks a coherent joh-creation strategy, even though we have been shedding jobs for years; spiraling pre scription and health care costs force seniors to chose between paying " P olitiC S ¡S for their prescriptions or L i * Li J other basic needs; key about right ana environmental polic les are being shredded; and w rong... not basic legal rights are under attack.” just fixing ih in n e " Adams, 39, also had llllliy j been considering a hid — Sam Adams for the Portland City Council seat being vacated hy Commissioner Jim Francesconi’s run for mayor. However, Adams told The Oregonian that his congressional hid nixes any City Coun cil campaign. If Blumenauer decides to pursue re-election, then Adams would seek other forms of public service. Blumenauer, who represents the 3rd C on gressional District covering parts of Multnomah and Clackam as counties, is expected to announce his decision in September. The dis trict’s Democratic primary likely will reflect the Human rights activist Kathleen Sadaat (left) and Alyson Bolles of the Lesbian Community Project speak out about the Patriot Act on Aug. 5 at Portland State University ? * L IN N T O N F E E D & S E E D . NOT THE M ALL. J St. J o h n s & H ow can w e e n su re you get y o u r p ro d u cts w hen you need th em ? B y a S a tu rd a y d e liv ery to S t. Jo h n s! We w ill be m ak in g a w eek ly d e liv ery to the S t. Jo h n s are a to It's A D o g 's L ife d o g d a y care at 8 7 0 9 N . L o m b a rd in the heart o f S t. Jo h n s betw een 11 a m an d 2 p m e ach S atu rd ay . C a ll u s fo r d e tails. T h a n k s fo r su p p o rtin g lo cal b u sin e ss! t A P atriotic P anel he Lesbian Community Project co-spon sored a forum Aug. 5 at Portland State Uni versity on “The Uniting and Strengthening America Patriot Act and Those in the Minority." Panelists included human rights activist Kathleen Sadaat, librarian Kim Willson-St. Claire, civil liberties legal expert Carolyn Long and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ofre. The U.S. Department of Justice is pressuring politi cians to expand its surveillance powers under the sweeping “Patriot Act II.” T D ean R eturns to P ortland F ormer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will he back in town to hype his Democratic presi dential campaign 12:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at Port land State University’s Urban Center Plaza, 506 S.W. Mill St. A report released Aug. 4 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force reveals he is the first choice of a large sample of gay voters. 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