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Celebrate Pride at Q Center
Q Center has a spread of events planned
around Pride Week that will attract visitors with
varying interests.
The week begins with Family Fun day from 3 to
5 p.m. June 11. Organizers will turn Q Center into
a kid’s zone and ask participants to bring education
al toys and games.
Nationally lauded North American Tupperware
top seller and theatrical performer Dixie Longate will
give two benefit drag performances, beginning with
a VIP event from 7:30 to 9 p.m. June 11 at Q Center.
Refreshments are available. Tickets are $75.
Longate will also perform during a party from
8:30 to 10 p.m. June 12 at the Jupiter Hotel, 800 E.
Burnside St. Tickets are $25. A dance party will
follow the performance.
A meet-and-greet Welcome Wagon event is
expected to attract approximately 20 queer-friendly
organizations to Q Center for fun and social
networking with refreshments and a DJ from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m. June 12.
Q Center Bingo is from 7 to 9 p.m. June 20,
hosted by drag sensation Poison Waters. Prizes will
be offered, and refreshments will be available.
Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the
Family Pride Coalition, will address an audience at
Q Center from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 29, speaking
on the subject “Real Families, Real Facts: The
Truth About LGBT Families and Politics.”
Donations are suggested.
Q Center will also have a presence at the
Portland Pride festival and parade, marking three
years since the concept of a queer community
center was floated and 1,600 attendees responded
to say they would support such a facility.
Q Center was awarded a $7,000 grant by Mayor
Tom Potter’s Visioning Committee last month for
outreach work to include queer Portlanders in the
drafting of the city’s vision.
Q Center, 1028 S.E. Water St., is open from
4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 1 to
5 p.m. Sundays. For more information visit
www.pdxqcenter.org.
Crowds Come Out
for University Drag
CLAIREESE KIMMONS
Western Oregon University held its 10th annu
al drag show May 11 in Monmouth.
Performers Thomas Bell, Rjay Carey, M. Mae
Dunn and nearly a dozen others strutted to a fairy
tale theme in front of more than 450 people.
“We had a great turnout for the show,” said
Dunn, a WOU student and director for the show.
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Dunn saw particular importance in staging a
large-scale drag show in Monmouth.
“A college drag show out in conservative hack
country U.S.A, is not exactly the event of the year.
However, to the few drag kings and queens out here,
well, this show is reason to celebrate,” she said.
According to Dunn, the kings and queens she
performed with gave professionals a run for their
money at the packed performance in terms of
entertainment value.
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Don't Miss the Prom
Queer youth are headed to boutiques, vintage
shops and dusty attics to unleash their style at
“Masqueerade,” a free all-ages queer prom present
ed by the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center.
“Masqueerade” is from 8 p.m. to midnight
May 27 at Q Center, 1028 S.E. Water St.
The drug- and alcohol-free prom is open to
.queers and allies. DJs, raffles, free HIV testing,
refreshments and more will make the evening an
event to remember.
For more information call Zan Gibbs at
503-872-9664, ext. 27.
Grants Made
to Queer Advocacy Groups
Pride Foundation, based in Seattle, made the
first grants May 4 from its new Advocacy Fund.
The fund was created to respond to specific
equality issues facing queer communities in the
Pacific Northwest.
Among the four organizations receiving a total
of $19,306 was Portland’s Basic Rights Oregon
Education Fund, which will support an aggressive
public education and power building campaign
called 5Q Voices Equality Project. Other recipients
included Interfaith Alliance of Idaho; Pride Inc. of
Helena, Mont.; and Washington Won’t
Discriminate of Seattle.
For more information visit www.pride-
foundation.org.
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Approximately 50 activists, parents and teach
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recruitment visits at Portland Public Schools.
Recruiter Watch PDX, a coalition of members
from Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak
Out, Code Pink, the G.l. Rights Hotline, Portland
Lawyer’s Guild and concerned parents, organized
the rally, which met at Holladay Park and ended at
the Blanchard Education Services Center.
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included
teachers
reading students’ testi
monials,
revealed
abuses and false prom
ises made by military
recruiters.
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looking for the schools
to set some uniform
standards and put
stringent controls on
recruiters,” said Kathy
Neary of Recruiter
Watch PDX.
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often target low-
More than 450 people turned out to see Fairy Godmother Thomas Bell (left)
and M. Mae Dunn as Prince Charming at the Western Oregon Drag Show.
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