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The appeal will not be ruled on before Pride ’05, but Auerbach is hopeful commissioners will expand the city’s right to intervene if protesters I are preventing people from participating in MAC M embers M ust Pride. D ocument T heir L ove Britton has spoken with the event security The exclusive Multnomah Athletic Club chair and is asking Pride revelers to keep a cool swung its heavy dixir open to partners of gay head. “If we try to ignore them and enjoy our and lesbian members this month, ending a year day, maybe we can keep a lid on the festival,” long controversy. she said. Though the MAC will now extend mem Despite the encouraging words, Britton says bership benefits to partners of queer members, she is quite upset about the new freedoms Pride including full access to the 550,000-square-foot protesters were granted. 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Smith, a lesbian who has been attending Portland Pride events since 1991, has started an e-mail campaign encouraging volun teers to stand shoulder to shoulder with their backs to protesters, symbolically and literally bkxiking their messages. “The more people that are involved, the more effective it will be,” said Smith, who will aim to build a “wall of love” between protesters and Pride participants. The city, meanwhile, is steadfast in its oppo sition of protesters disnipting Pride. “We believe that people who take out per mits to hold events in city parks where the issued in the state. According to MAC general manager Steve Tidrick, neither pnxif of domestic partnership registration nor joint bank accounts are accept able alternatives. “As you may expect, we faced many of rhe same challenges society at large is facing when it cotpes to this issue,” said Skip Frank, a past MAC president, who presided over the board as same-sex partner membership was addressed. “Like the rest of society, we at the MAC have members on both sides of the issue, and we have members who are directly affected by it.” Same-sex partner membership came to a head in 2004 when two same-sex couples applied for family membership and presented Multnomah County-issued marriage licenses. At that time, the board appointed a com mittee to study the issue and “recommend poli cy changes necessary to recognize same-sex relationships.” The committee solicited responses from the club’s 20,000 members and received 180 responses. Of those, 70 percent expressed sup port for extending family membership to same- sex partners of members. “Board members considered the club’s posi tion on diversity, an important measure in accessing the need to adopt these rule changes,” said MAC president Dan McNeil. “Now that the legal questions about the definition of mar riage have been resolved, the board deemed that the time was right for the mle changes.”
