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The first-ever North Portland Pride BBQ &.
Festival will he held from noon to 4 p.m.
June 12. This is a free community event wel
coming Portlanders from all neighborhrxxls.
The event will take place at the University
Park United Methodist Church Bell Tower
Lawn, 4775 N. Lombard St. The organizing
committee invites you to kick off Pride Week
with food, music, vendor tables and good com
pany. Vendors include North Portland
resources, neighbors, real estate agents, mort
gage brokers, housing developers and others.
P ortland B lack P ride 2005 P resents
E vent C alendar
African-American queers will celebrate
Black Pride 2005 with a series of events from
June 15 to 19:
6:30 p.m. June 15: Health Education and
Community Forum, “The Real Deal with the
DL: Women and Men Dispelling the Myths and
Exposing the Truths about HIV/AIDS in the
African American Community” at Portland
State University. Join community members,
leaders and advocates for an evening of engag
ing activities, a video presentation and a group
discussion on the topic. Free HIV testing.
Room 236, Smith Memorial Center, 1825 S.W.
Broadway.
5 p.m. June 17: Networking Social and
Fund-Raiser. Come meet and greet the Portland
Black Pride staff, community members, leaders,
volunteers and sponsors. There will be erotic art
on display, light snacks and beer and wine for
sale; 10 percent of all proceeds go to Portland
Black Pride. Hip Chicks Do Wine, 4510 S.E.
23rd Ave.
Noon June 18: Portland Black Pride b<x>th
at Waterfront Park. The booth will have music,
card games and HIV/AIDS resources.
9 p.m. June 18: Black Out Party. Live
entertainment, complimentary buffet,
cash bar and old-school, hip-hop and
R & B music. First 25 people get free raffle
tickets. Raffle prizes include an iPrxI Mini,
a mountain bike,.a DVD player and more.
$5. Moon Star Bar and Grill, 7410 N.E.
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Noon June 19: Parade. Contact
Brother to Brother to march and get a
T-shirt. The parade route starts at North
west Park Avenue and Davis Street. Ask a
Pride Northwest volunteer for Brother to
Brother/Portland Black Pride 2005 team
meeting location. For more information
call 503-417-7991.
4 p.m. June 19: Barbecue. A day in
the park filled with frxxl, games and music.
Feel free to bring a dish or beverage to
share. Site F, Columbia Park, North Chau
tauqua Boulevard and Lombard Street.
For more information about these or
other Brother to Brother events, visit Andrew Tuttle has returned to his hometown to work
for Commissioner Adams.
www.brotobroptlx.org.
S am A dams ’ O ffice
W elcomes S ummer I ntern
Andrew Tuttle is the newest member of
Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams’ staff.
Home for the summer from school, Tuttle is
interning for the office, working on a number of
projects. He has just finished his first year at
George Washington University in Washington,
D.C., where he is studying international affairs
and German language and literature.
After spending a year living in Düsseldorf,
Germany, as a junior in high school, Tuttle
developed an interest in international policy
making and has decided to test the waters in
Q ueer M utiny , N ot C onsumer U nity
Queer Revolution is holding its second
Altema-Pride, promoting anti-capitalism and
the complex queer identity, and it is calling for
volunteers.
Organizers ask: “Pride? In what? Pride in
being tolerated simply and solely as a consumer
community? Pride in being told by consumer
society that we have to pay to be gay?”
This year’s theme for Altema-Pride will be
“A Funeral March for Queer Resistance.” The
group will be carrying a coffin and signs about
the new queer eugenics and anti-corporatism.
Organizer eRuc comments, “Everyone will be
gothed out,” so get out your best basic black.
The organizers of Altema-Pride chide Pride
Northwest for “claiming, packaging and selling
the GLBT (leaving out the Q) image to the
highest bidder. It, along with most ‘Pride’ cele
brations, has commodified the queer identity,
establishing stereotypes to people outside the
community and building unrealistic expecta
tions for those in the community.”
To join the Altema-Pride parade, get more
information by writing to queerrevolution@
riseup.net.
municipal policy. He will be returning to Ger
many in late August to study at Humboldt Uni S outhern O regon C elebrates P ride
versity in Berlin and to further pursue his double in S tyle
major.
Come join communities in Southern Ore
Tuttle, who is gay, was bom and raised in ■ gon as they celebrate Pride around the region.
Clackamas but is residing in Sellwotxl. A true Events will be held in Ashland, Grants Pass and
native and lover of Portland, he is excited to Medford.
participate in and experience firsthand some of
• 6 p.m. June 3: Art Walk at the Abdill-
the inner workings of local government and Ellis Community Center, Suite 112, 208 Oak
how policies are made and implemented in such St., Ashland.
a diverse and dynamic office environment.
• 2 p.m. June 4: Stonewall Panel at Ash
Adams’ office is kxiking for additional sum land Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave.
mer interns. If you are interested, call David
•
Gonzales at 503-823-1120.
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