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event has some expressive component, have the
right under the federal Constitution to deter
mine and control the message presented at their
event,” said Auerbach. “We believe the
Supreme Court of the United States has said
that, and we are concerned that the injunction
requires us to violate the First Amendment
rights of people who obtain permits to hold
events in city parks.”
—J ay me e R. Cud
The city of Portland has responded by
appealing the injunction and making a recom
mendation to the City Council, prohibiting
certain conduct interfering with the event,
according to Chief Deputy City Attorney
Harry Auerbach.
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.
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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. She says she dreads fac facility, couples must prove their commitment
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Don’t lose your cool if you see protesters like these on the Pride Festival grounds: Though they
may be offensive, they are legal.
messages at an event intended to celebrate love
and freedom.
“I’m very' unhappy about it. I think it will
create an atmosphere of danger,” she said. “And
we paid quite a bit of money for this space. We
followed the procedure, and still we have to
allow these people into the event.”
Cary L. 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.”