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BRO has Brought Bryan Boyd on as new communications coordinator.
GLSEN Keeps Quiet, Makes Noise
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network joins with national collaborators in the
Day of Silence and Night of Noise on April 26.
The Day of Silence is a student-led day of action
in which those who oppose bias against sexual
minorities take a daylong vow of silence to recog­
nize and protest the discrimination and harassment.
After the Day of Silence, there will be a Night of
Noise rally for youth to break the silence together.
Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition
and GLSEN Oregon are co-sponsoring this event
from 5 to 9 p.m. at 1126 S.W. Park Ave.
For more information visit www.dayofsilence.org
and www.glsenoregon.org .
BRO Welcomes New Hires
Basic Rights Oregon’s new communications
coordinator was drawn to the organization for one
specific reason.
“Measure 36 did it for me,” says Bryan Boyd. “It
was at that point my eyes were opened to the scope
and the straight-out hate of the anti-gay move­
ment. From that point on I’ve been focused on
what we have to lose, but more importantly, what
we truly have to gain.”
From his time as art director at eROl (Return
on Investment), an interactive design firm based in
Portland, Boyd brings a wealth of technology,
e-marketing and online base-building knowledge to
BRO’s team. He has used this experience to run a
blog called GayRightsWatch.com and to create
most of the No on 36 campaign correspondence
online.
Since March, Boyd has been busy preparing to
launch the first-ever online voter guide for BRO’s
Equality PAC. The guide, which will be available
soon at www.voteequality.com, will feature online
commercials based on BRO’s ad campaign “Vote
Out.”
Boyd doesn’t find much time to sleep. He says,
“1 have not worked for another organization where
1 am this passionate about the work I am doing.”
BRO also recently hired Karol Collymoore as
house party coordinator. She raises money for
BRO’s candidate PAC through volunteer-organized
house parties across the state. “1 feel there are some
wonderful candidates running for office, and I’m
proud to help raise funds to assist in their races,”
she says.
Born in Panama and raised in New Mexico,
Collymoore has always found it hard to understand
why people are not allowed to exist equally.
A straight woman, she feels a kinship to gay rights
and has always wanted ter help as much as she
could.
Collymoore’s political experience includes work­
ing for the Al Gore/Joe Lieberman campaign in
2000 and on a 2002 congressional race in New
Mexico. Once she moved to Portland and began
working as development director at Oregon’s
National Abortion Rights Action League, she knew
that the BRO offices were a few floors above and
that she wanted to get involved. She served on
BRO’s Equality PAC board but relinquished her seat
to become a staff member. Collymoore says, “I’m
thrilled to be able to meet more wonderful friends
and share the importance of electing candidates to
office who support equal rights for all Oregonians.”
Portland Activist Wins HRC Award
A Portland activist has won the Human Rights
Campaign’s national award for federal club co-
chairman of the year. Todd Canon, who has a
family medical practice in Vancouver, Wash., was
one of four volunteers recognized by HRC last
month in Washington, D.C.
HRC is America’s largest civil rights organiza­
tion working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender equality. A federal club membership to
HRC is a minimum of $100 a month. While feder­
al clubs around the country only make up 1 percent
of total membership, they constitute 25 percent to
30 percent of HRC’s funding. Canon has been a
member of HRC for 10 years, but when he became
a federal club member more than two years ago,
there were no organized club activities in Portland,
despite the area’s 40 members.
As co-chairman, Canon organizes social events,
such as annual holiday parties, wine tastings and
theater nights. He also organizes meetings with
politicians and visiting members of the national
organization. In May 2004 he organized a meeting
for federal club members with the four Multnomah
County commissioners who supported marriage
equality. His tireless efforts have definitely paid off.
Since he became co-chairman, federal club mem­
bership has risen to 100 people in the Portland area.
Canon views the organization as doing an
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