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APRILS ZW7 lustout 9 Peis Parade at Pride If the memory card for your digital camera is filled with more rainbow-clad dogs at Pride.than people, you’ll understand the logic behind Portland Pride Pet Parade. Registration for the parade—sponsored by the Dove Lewis Animal Hospital, Pets on Broadway and the Portland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—began March 30. The parade will feature pet owners and their favorite animal near the main stage of the Pride Festival about 12:30 p.m. June 17. After the pet parade, participants and guests will be entertained by local and regional acts on the Pride main stage, including a German shepherd from the Portland Police Bureau’s K-9 unit. What makes the Portland Pride Pet Parade unique is that there are two prizes being awarded for “gayest dog and pal” and “gayest pet (nondog) and pal” in Portland. Prizes, trophies and bragging rights are awarded to the first-place finishers in each category. Entries must be operated by foot power only, unless special arrangements are made in advance. Groups are encouraged to identify themselves with a banner or sign. Pet owners who wish to march with their pets must report by 12:15 p.m. near main stage at the Pride Festival. Individuals and groups are asked to register in advance by calling Joshua Ryan at 650-810-4380 or visiting www.pridenw.org so that parade moderators can describe them as they march by. There is no charge to participate. Event Moves Youth Forward Tickets to p:earblossoms cost $75 each or two for $ 130. A “pear basket” package of 10 tickets can be purchased for $600. Tickets to the Caboose after party are $6. Reservations can be made at 503-228-6677 or www.pearmentor.org. “Moving Forward” is the theme for the fifth annual major fund-raiser for p:ear, an organization that builds posi tive relationships with home less and transitional youth Trans Library Finds through education, art and Permanent Home recreation. Portland transgender authors Momentum will be felt at Aaron Raz Link and Reid Vanderburgh the p:earblossoms event headline a celebration from 7 to 9 p.m.. through the venue, Staver April 20 marking the grand opening of Locomotive Building, which the Transgender Reference Library at contains an intricate model Q Center, 69 S.E. Taylor St. train, and live entertainment . The library is a collection of more by 10 Tiny Dances, produced / than ^p0 transgender-specific titles, by gay choreographer Mike including books, academic journals, Barber. The modern dance magazines, zines, films and videos. It performances, devised was created and developed by the "Train," a mixed-media image created by artist and p:ear youth Scribe, is uniquely for this event, were Portland State University Library part of the p:ear youth art series. inspired by p:ear youth, who System and the Trans/ Identity answered the question: What moves you forward? issues, according to Arend. Money raised from this Resource Centre, a program of Outside In. The The event, from 7 to 9 p.m. May 5 at 2537 N.W. event pays for approximately a third of its annual library is one of the largest transgender-specific 29th Ave., boasts an auction as well as appetizers and budget. collections in the country. wine provided by Pazzo Ristorante. This is the first year p:ear is throwing an after .The library left its original location at Outside “We like to create events that we would want party, Cabcxise, to make charitable giving available In because of concerns about accessibility. It to attend ourselves," said Pippa Arend, p:ear to everyone. 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