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Pioneering activist honored at gala
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This 25th anniversary event will
honor a dedicated activist who traces his
first brush with the gay civil rights movement to 30
years ago. Terry Bean will be presented with the
Fighting Spirit Award.
Past recipients have included Roey Thorpe,
BRO’s former executive director, and Ramon
Ramirez, president of Northwest Treeplanters and
Farmworkers United.
always comes through. If he says he's going to raise
the money, he raises the money,” said Weller.
“With his sparking personality, he really knows
how to get people to want to give.”
Bean’s reach has extended past the Oregon
borders.
“Terry’s had an impact that affects both Oregon
and this entire country through his work to secure
protections on the state level and nationally,” said
Jeana Frazzini, BRO’s development director, who is
overseeing the event. “The tribute video will
capture voices from all aspects of his work.”
DAVIS
undreds are expected to don masks and
Mardi Gras beads at “Masquerade,” Basic
Rights Oregon’s annual fund-raising gala.
From left, gay civil rights giants George Eighmey, Oon Powell, Julie Davis and Gail Shibley embrace
in Salem at the historic signing of Senate Bill 2 and House Bill 2007.
The gala aims to raise $225,000 for general
operations and for supporting equality-minded
candidates. The masters of ceremony are Thomas
Bruner, regional executive of the American Red
Cross for Oregon, and Jacky Thomas, a general
marketing manager for Nike.
A film crew converged on Bean’s West Hills
home Sept. 10 to record interviews with his friends
and colleagues. The footage—including interviews
with longtime gay rights supporter Bill Dickey,
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, former Oregon Gov.
Barbara Roberts and pioneering activists Jerry Weller
and Don Powell—will be edited into a three- to four-
minute tribute video that will be screened at the gala.
Weller first collaborated with Bean in 1977 on
a referendum in Eugene.
“A lot of people call themselves major fund
raisers in the gay and lesbian community. Terry
Former state Rep. Gail Shibley, D-Portland, had
a cache of memories about Bean from her years in the
Legislature. She recalled an evening in 1984 when he
and Powell “wined and dined” her into accepting
what proved to be an impossible challenge.
“Somehow—only smooth-talking Terry could
do this—somehow they got me to take the bait and
head up lobbying the gay rights bill—it was a non
discrimination in state employment bill that year—
for a very specific, very swing Democratic senator
from my home district in Linn County because of
my connections there."
That legislator was Mae Yih.
“She was never with us,” said Shibley, who expe
rienced a cathartic moment when she realized that
state Sen. Frank Morse, R-Albany, who so resolutely
advocated for gay rights in 2005, was Yih’s successor.
A separate crew is filming interviews in
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