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tion that is still much needed,” said Oules. “People
are still sick from AIDS, and they still die.”
Our House has expanded its services to include
Swan House, an adult foster care facility in
Milwaukie, and the Neighborhood Housing and
Care programs, which provide in-home services for
people with HIV/AIDS who are able to live on their
own. To continue to provide such services, Our
House works to raise money in a variety of ways.
Oules is busy promoting the “Dinner at My
House for Our House” series. Volunteer hosts and
chefs will throw dinner parties from July through
February to raise more than $90,000 for Our House.
Oules is also working on the grand opening of the
new Our House facility, which is scheduled to open
in early July. “There are a lot of people to thank for
their support of this project and a lot of people that
we’d like to introduce to Our House through the
reopening of this state-of-the-art building.”
A native of Portland, Oules is also the founder
of the theater company Live on Stage. He is
rehearsing singers and dancers for its upcoming
production of Night of 100 Stars May 18 to 20 at
World Trade Center Theatre.
“Live on Stage and Our House are a great
combination of work for me,” said Oules. “I’m
passionate about the missions of both organizations,
and both organizations allow me to work with
wonderful people.”
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Red Dress Party Makes Green
The sixth annual Red Dress Party attracted
nearly 1,600 partygoers April 1 and raised thou­
sands in the process. Nothing is better than a grand
party that benefits a good cause or, in this case,
three good causes. The Red Dress Party board of
directors, headed by party founder Jeff Hawthorne,
presented proceeds from the spectacular event
April 21 to Q Center, Camp Starlight and Our
House of Portland.
Q Center, the new queer facility located at
1028 S.E. Water St., received $6,000. Tim Healea,
Q Center board co-chairman, was delighted with
the contribution. “We really need the proceeds to
build the center and to pay for our new staff person,
Gene de Haan, who starts May 1.”
Camp Starlight, a program of Cascade AIDS
Project that serves kids with HIV by underwriting
the expense of attending summer camp and “gives
a child with HIV the chance to forget their treat­
ment for a week,” received $6,000. Helene Rimberg
said this year’s campers will be changing to a
“disclosure program," meaning that all participants
will know they have HIV/AIDS to “reduce the
stigma associated with the disease.”
Wayne Miya of Our House received the largest
donation from the Red Dress Party: $ 11,000. As
Our House is completing its capital campaign and
plans to reopen its new facility in July, the funds
help not just with the reopening but with opera­
tional expenses that are challenged as many donors
“have given to the new facility, adversely affecting
the operational funds that we normally receive,”
according to Miya. “We really need this money!”
All the organizations needed money, and a
board of 10 volunteers and nearly 1,600 queer and
queer-friendly folks donning wild, wacky, sexy and
outrageous red dresses made it happen.
Stand Up for SMYRC
Anyone who has benefited from the Sexual
Minority Youth Resource Center, used its services
or sees it as a vital component of the Portland queer
community can support the nonprofit organization
by offering public testimony at upcoming
Multnomah County budgeting sessions.
Now is the time to affect funding choices by
letting county commissioners know what types of
programs are important to you. Public hearings are
6 p.m. May 9 in the conference room at North
Portland Library, 512 N. Killingsworth St.; 6 p.m.
May 22 in Suite 175 at the Multnomah County
Building East, 600 N.E. Eighth Ave. in Gresham;
and 6 p.m. May 31 in Commissioners’ Boardroom
100 at the Multnomah Building, 501 S.E.
Hawthorne Blvd.
Organizers are asking participants to sport
SMYRC T-shirts and buttons in support. For more
information contact R.E. Szego at 503-784-5813 or
r.e.szego@cascadiahhc.org.
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The Northwest region of Parents, Families and
Friends of Gays and Lesbians gathered at Lloyd
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Red Dress Party's board of directors.