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incidents were categorized as hate crimes
against sexual minorities this year, three of
which occurred in June. These numbers are
comparable to last year’s figures, which reported
two hate crimes against sexual minorities in
June 2004 and 11 from January through June
2004.
“We’re on track with where we were last
year,” said Wheat, who has been an officer in
Portland for more than 12 years.
The bureau plans to have a hate crimes
information hx>th at Pride 2006 to increase vis­
ibility and help prove that officers will take
reports against queer people seriously.
“There is a preconceived idea that the offi­
cer that shows up at your door is going to have
a prejudice against you, but 1 have not found
that to be the case,” said Wheat. “I’m openly
gay, and I’ve been treated really well."
A
lesbian
couple are work­
ing with Wheat
to catch the
man who as­
saulted
them
outside a South­
east
Portland
Saturday in the Park was a raging success
July 9 in Vancouver, Wash.
Revelers showed their pride at Esther Short
Park hy enjoying live music and entertainment,
meandering through various vendor and infor­
mation hxtths and imbibing in the beer garden.
“It went great! It was our biggest year ever,”
said event organizer Brett Battling.
Battling estimated between 1,200 and 1,500
attendees, many from out of state. After Satur­
day in the Park, he counted visitors from 11
states at a local bar.
Besides more participants at the 11th annu­
al event, more vendors had a presence, too. Sat­
urday in the Park bestowed recognition awards
to Hewlett-Packard and the Pride Foundation
for their continued sponsorship.
Linda Traeger, executive director of Equity
Foundation, staffed a b<x>th at
Saturday in the Park and was
impressed.
“It was a very nice event,"
said Traeger, who has attended
Pride ’05 events in Portland,
Corvallis, Ashland and Vancou­
ver and plans to attend Capitol
Pride on July 23 in Salem. “It was
more family-oriented than Port-
Lind Pride.”
Traeger
noted a qual­
ity sound sys­
tem
and
great musi­
cians at the
venue. She
also enjoyed
mixing with
the hetero­
sexuals who
wandered
over from a
nearby pro­
duce market.
“There
was a lot of
establishment after a
mixing
of
friend’s
party.
He
straight peo­
approached the women,
ple with our
called them dykes, yelled
community,”
profanities and beat them
she said. “It’s
up, resulting in a broken
a reminder of
nose, gashes, bruises and
what the rest
an unresolved fear.
of the world
“Now she gets really
is like.”
hesitant to hug or kiss me
Equity
in public because she
Foundation Pride participants convene in Vancouver for Saturday
thinks someone is going
sponsored a in the Park.
$100 dona-
to see it and beat the crap
out of her again,” said the woman about her girl­
tion raffle to the charity of the winner’s choice.
Raffle winner and local drag queen Kitty Car­ friend, whose names are withheld because the
ryall chose to donate the $100 to Martha’s
investigation is ongoing. She described the offi­
Pantry, an organization helping people with
cer who arrived to take their report as “pretty
AIDS.
understanding.”
—Jaymee R. Cuti
Even heterosexuals can be the victims of
sexual minority hate crimes. Two straight men
P laying I t S afe : H ate C rime F igures
were approached July 10 by a group of “Aber­
S teady for 2005
crombie <Si Fitch-kxiking-frat-boy types” out­
The Portland Police Bureau had a visible
side a bar in Chinatown and beaten after being
presence at last month’s Portland Pride Festival,
called “fags,” according to reports. One man suf­
not just with uniformed officers on the street or fered a broken ankle, and the other required
staffing at a recruitment b<x)th, but by
stitches to his eyelid. The attackers fled the
approaching attendees to convey the message
scene before police arrived. Wheat said the
that they care about crimes against sexual
attack is being investigated as a hate crime.
minorities.
The bureau holds a Sexual Minorities
“We want the sexual minority community to
Roundtable from nixin to 2 p.m. on the second
know they can come to us,” said Detective Mary Tuesday of each month at 1111 S.W. Second
Wheat, who investigates violent assaults and
Ave.
hate crimes.
The bureau offers safety tips in literature and
The bureau tracks crimes against gay, les­ cards, including avoiding neighborhood “dan­
bian, bisexual and transgender people as well as
ger zones,” considering taking a self-defense
other minorities in a Bias Crime Report, which
class, leaving queer facilities with friends to
is passed on to the state and sometimes the FBI.
avoid being a “lone target” and being wary of
According to figures released in June, 11
men in mixed bars who claim to be gay but