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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!
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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.
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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!
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