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completed his third term June 12 as chairman
attend the organization’s fourth annual “Organizing
doors. Now, BRO wants people to order a
of the Multnomah County Community
Leaders: Students of Color Organizing Conference,"
Community Education Toolkit to begin educating
Health Council and was a member of the
which will be held from Jan. 12 to Jan. 14 in Atlanta.
neighbors and friends on the issues. The kit
county’s Citizen Budget Advisory Committee.
The conference will gather middle and high
includes a packet of Fair and Equal Oregon litera­
He also met annually with Pacific University
school students of color to provide networking
ture, postcards to legislators and a list of 10 ways
graduate students of occupational therapy to
and skill-building opportunities to empower
to educate rhe community in a way that best suits
help them become better therapists.
young people to become engaged in safer-schools
your needs.
The commissioners encouraged all com­
work. Students will create action plans they can
munity members to recognize the impact of
make into projects in their own schools and
AIDS and the progress that has been made on
communities.
Applications should be submitted by Dec. 3. To
World AIDS Day.
register visit www.glsenoregon.org.
Q Center Celebrates December
Q Center and Love Makes a Family are
throwing a holiday bash from 3 to 5 p.m. |
Dec. 16 at Q Center, 69 S.E. Taylor St.
The event is fun for all ages with delicious
treats, cookie decorating, holiday crafts and a
sing-along.
Activist Bill Hancock was honored by Multnomah
County commissioners for World AIDS Day.
Department’s administration office.
Hancock, 51, died of brain cancer June 29. He
developing its public policy priority list and some­
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force leaders
will be in Portland from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3.
A contingent from Confluence Chorus will
Holly Pruett and Amber Wilson are hosting
women’s travel writer Thalia Zepatos and Rodney
Dec. 16. The group will make an immediate impact
featuring artifacts, videos, stories and pertonnances—
explores queer family traditions, from the outrageous
To
RSVP contact Todd
Kimmelman
at
310-855-7383 or tkimmelman@thetaskforce.org.
Link and others in the queer community
define and create family on their own terms. His
exhibit helps make the diverse definitions of
family visible.
For more information visit www.pdxqcenter.org.
Register for GLSEN Conference
Basic Rights Oregon is searching for volunteers
to educate the community through Jan. 1, 2007.
BAJA
and the organizations that are
important to you.
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503-481-2935.
If you were considering making a donation to
PFLAG, the clock is running out. Any donations
made after Jan. 1, 2007, will not be tax-deductible
unions and ban discrimination throughout the state
for 2006.
based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
For more information call 503-232-7676 or
visit www.pflagpdx.org. ©
But the work starts now.
Project had volunteers knocking on thousands of
active lifestyle, your community,
wear leather-soled shoes and long sleeves and bring
Next year BRO plans to urge the Oregon
Education Network encourage local students to
2006 SUBARU
of road in Northeast Portland. Volunteers should
Legislature to pass a bill that would create civil
and Tri-County Safety Net Enterprises board. He
GRESHAM
PFLAG’s Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup Day is
gloves. Vests and tools are provided.
Join the Fair and Equal Campaign
Phase one of the Community Education
For a no hassle deal contact
attendees are required to bring a potluck dish.
on the state highway system by cleaning up a strip
Leaders at Oregon’s Gay, Lesbian and Straight
WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY.
give a special performance. The party is free, but
worldwide at 2338 N.E. Seventh Ave.
health. He served on the HIV Planning Council
We are proud to support your
Methodist Church, 1838 S.W. Jefferson St.
department to discuss the state of queer rights
times traveling to Salem and Washington, D.C., to
lobby legislators about issues concerning public
Friends of Lesbians and Gays is hosting a holiday
party from 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 12 at First United
Dec. 1. The interactive, multimedia exhibit—
to the ordinary, taboo to transgressive, foreign to
Hancock was policy coordinator for CAP,
Task Force Leaders
Hold Discussion
Link, opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
familiar.
representing the agency on a statewide committee,
The Portland chapter of Parents, Families and
McKenzie from NGLTF’s organizing and training
1995, and moved out June 22, 1996. Hancock, his
partner and a third resident where the first to leave
Join PFLAG for Cleanup
and Holiday Fun
A December art show, Family by Aaron Raz
moved into Our House of Portland on Dec. 5,
Our House alive and recovered.
To register for the campaign, visit www.basic
rights.org.
By J aymef . R. C utí and M alka G effen