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Portland Community College Cascade Cam
pus’ queer group, United Sexualities, held a
meeting Nov. 20 to discuss the continuing strug
gle for marriage equality in Oregon.
A coalition of individuals and organizations
was launched to pursue actions in favor of mar
riage equality. As its first project, the newly
formed “Equality Coalition” will partner with a
group at Oregon State University on their “Yes
on Section 20” campaign.
The coalition’s next meeting will he held
• 4 p m. Dec. 4 in Room 104 of Jackson Hall
at 705 N. Killingsworth St. For more informa
tion contact Chelsia Rice at 503-756-1456 or
chelsiaarice@hotmail.com.
O regon S enators
S ecure M oney
for AIDS O rganizations
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Gor
don Smith, R-Ore., announced Nov. 21 that
Oregon will receive several hundred million
dollars in federal funding for key projects
throughout the state.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., scored pork
for three AIDS organizations in Portland
Wyden and Smith secured this funding in
the fiscal year 2005 omnibus spending hill,
which has passed the Senate and the House of
Representatives and expected to move shortly
to the White House for signature into law. The
measure will fund numerous Oregon agriculture,
energy, water, natural resources, transportation,
infrastructure, community development, health
education and. job training programs.
Three A ID S organizations in Portland will
receive funding. Cascade A ID S Project will
receive $50,000. Esther’s Pantry will receive
$30,000 to provide food and supplies to people
living with AIDS. Our House of Portland will
receive $30,000 for Medicare and Medicaid
services.
C A P executive director Thomas Bruner
says the money for his organization will help
fund its Working Choices program, which
helps men and women with HIV/AIDS re-enter
the work force.
“C A P first identified the need for hack-to-
work services in its 1999 Strategic Plan as a
response to people with H IV/AIDS living
longer and healthier lives, and created Working
Choices three years ago,” says Bniner. “Over 50
percent of program participants are now either
hack at work, enrolled in work training pro
grams or hack in schcx>l completing degrees.”
L ambda L egal
P uts I ts F oot D own
in W ashington
Same-sex couples must he allowed to marry,
according to a brief filed Nov. 24 by Lambda
Legal and the Northwest Women’s Law Center
at the Washington Supreme Court.
“Our clients pay all the same taxes as their
neighbors and co-workers, and they deserve all
the same legal protections,” said Jennifer C.
Pizer, senior counsel in Lambda Legal’s Western
Regional Office.
The brief asks the state’s high court to
uphold a niling earlier this year that said the
state’s prohibition on same-sex couples marrying
is a violation of the Washington Constitution.
The lawsuit was filed in March on behalf of
same-sex couples who were denied marriage
licenses in King County, arguing that the state
constitution had been violated. In a historic rul
ing Aug. 4, King County Superior Court Judge
William Downing said that the state constitu
tion guarantees basic rights to gay and lesbian
people and that those rights are violated by a
state law prohibiting same-sex couples from
marrying. Downing’s and a similar decision in
Thurston County were expedited to the state
Supreme Court, which will hear arguments
March 8, 2005.
“The characteristics embodied by these
plaintiffs are ones that our society and the insti
tution of marriage need more of, not less,”
Downing said. “Let the plaintiffs stand as inspi
rations for all those citizens, homosexual and
heterosexual, who may follow their path.” j n
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