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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 2005)
OuS^OUtynay 2Q. 2QÛ5 Kf "«Tiff« OUt he votes are in, and we now have a friend on the Portland Public Schixils hoard! Openly gay candidate Dan Ryan trounced the competition with just more than 50 percent of the vote out of a field of six candidates in the special election May 17. Just Out congratulates him on his victory! T Pride Northwest explains parade route change To the E ditor : t’s that time again in the Rose City. Pride sea son is upon us, and a dedicated yet small group of individuals has been hard at work ensuring Pride ’05 does indeed take place. It takes thousands of man hours and a willingness to work to put an event of this magnitude together well before the weekend itself. Every year, pennits have to be secured, entertainers contracted and routes proposed. Pride Northwest works with city officials and the police bureau on a constant basis to ensure everything that is required happens to keep the event out of jeopardy! There is nothing magical about making it all happen. Hard work and ded ication are the words for the day. A small board of five people is giving up the thousands of hours it takes to put this event together. Several changes have been made in attempts to take into consideration community feedback and issues offered by rhe various agencies we must partner with for Pride to happen. The major alteration is the parade route, which takes a different path this year. Due to manpower concerns, city projects Because of these growing numbers, we need volunteers. So now we’re turning to you, the community that has been so supportive through the years, to help us again. You could help in many ways. Have you wanted to be involved but just couldn’t find the M icheil M ac C utcheon right place? Do you like to manage fund-raisers? Portland IV) you have great ideas for fund-raisers that you just haven’t been able to do? Do you have the time to take a seat on a board, to direct the foun dation and guide it? Maybe you’d like us to call Friends of People you for short-term bursts of commitment when projects come up, or maybe you’d like to help with AIDS Foundation out at Tod’s Comer on a regular basis. thanks Portland Whatever level of involvement you decide To the E ditor : on, we need dedicated, caring people who want s chairman of the Friends of People with to make a difference for the community. You can AIDS Foundation, I would like to thank learn more about us at our Internet site, our citizens, business owners and sixzial organi www.friendspwa.org . zations for their generous support for 15 years. If If you are interested, please e-mail me at it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t be here, and if we chair@friendspwa.org or call the foundation at weren’t here, life for people with AIDS in Port 503-349-4699. T obin B ritton land would be considerably bleaker. Pride Northwest The foundation has been providing services K evin M. F riends for people with H1V/AIDS in the Portland area Friends of People with AIDS Foundation since 1990. Our most visible service is Tod’s Where is Comer, where we provide a safe, free “shopping” experience for people with HIV to get the cloth Pope John Paul II and Basic Rights Oregon? ing, house wares and personal products they Reagan no friends off gays To the E ditor : need. would like to know why the sudden push for The board of directors manages all aspects of To the E ditor : civil unions. They provide no support for rhe the foundation. We have one part-time con atthew Veritas Tsien presents some inter family beyond the limits of Oregon’s borders. tractor who is responsible for managing Tod’s esting points of view regarding Pope John They don’t provide the full range of benefits and Comer and dealing directly with case managers Paul II and Ronald Reagan, and in some other support a marriage provides. and clients. alternative universe they might have some rela Where is the educational program to reach AIDS is not over. People living with tionship with reality [“Log Cabin Republican out to Oregonians in order to promote the real HIV/AIDS are living longer lives. And with Weighs in on Pope, Ronald Reagan,” April 15]. ity of marriage equality and take back that, the need for services grows. Here’s a recent But not here. Measure 36 from the books? TTiis is the first and telling trend: Of the clients we see each I time an amendment has been passed to deny month, fully half are new to our system. Continued on Page 6 and police bureau issues, we at Pride Northwest felt it necessary to simplify rhe route. We also t<x>k into consideration suggestions from the community. We have heard concerns from some community members that the route bypasses Stark Street, and we understand rhe displeasure presented; however, this organization has to make some changes at times to ensure the event may go forward. We hope that the community can under stand rhe sometimes difficult decisions that have to be made in rhe name of the event itself. For those who wish to understand the process it takes to put an event of this magnitude togeth er, we invite you to attend a board meeting. Pride Northwest meetings have always been open to rhe public, and we welcome your sug gestions and assistance. This event is a community event, and it takes a community to pnxluce it! Get involved! It’s your Pride, Portland, own it! Every Fiber, Every Color, Every Sense. 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