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SerTSMBEñ 2L 2027 JU$tPUt, ? northwest PBS Documents Gay Journalist The inspirational evening of music features choirs from Ainsworth United Church of Christ, First Unitarian Church and the Portland Gay Men’s Choir, among others. Emmy-winning singer and songwriter Faith Rivera is a featured guest. Donations are accepted. For more information visit www.welcomingcongregations.org. Reporter Peter Zuckerman had heard rhe rumors: Leaders at the local Boy Scouts chapter in Idaho may be participating in behavior unbecom ing of a Boy Scout. Zuckerman’s investigation for The Idaho Falls Post Register is documented in the two-part PBS series Expose: America’s Investigative Reports. The segment "In a Small Town" will air Sept. 28 and Nonprofits Shack Up Oct. 5 on PBS and will be available online after The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus has relocated Oct. 3. from its downtown office in the Galleria, which it The film features Zuckerman’s work in un had inhabited since 2001. Because of recent covering pedophilia amid the Boy Scouts and the upgrades, the building no longer houses several area Mormon Church and an attempt to cover it up. nonprofit organizations. His investigative series caused backlash both at PGMC has taken up new residence at the the Post Register and within the community. Stevens Building, 812 S.W. Washington St., Suite Zuckerman was outed by an advertiser in his paper 1050. In the spirit of community partnership and and says he and his partner were essentially run out saving money, PGMC is sharing the new space with of town. four other nonprofits: Oregon’s chapter of Physicians As a result of the series, however, some of the for Social Responsibility, Cite Educational Theatre, victims’ families came forward and launched a sue- ; Post Carbon Institute and Ceasefire Oregon. cessful effort to get the conservative state of Idaho The chorus has hired Terrill Grubbs as its to change its laws regarding child sex offenders. administrative coordinator. New office hours are Zuckerman, meanwhile, earned awards for his 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays expose. The former Just Out intern returned to and Fridays. The dixir is open to buy tickets for the Oregon and works for The Oregonian. next show, Evening with Friends, or for the new 28th To view the film visit www.pbs.org/expose. season, “A Season of Friends.” Musical Benefit Planned Buddha Speaks to Queers The Community of Welcoming Congregations will host Songs of Faith & Freedom, its first benefit concert under the direction of the renowned David York, director of New Thought Ministries of Oregon, 8 p.m. Sept. 28 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 N.W. 19th Ave. Buddhism has been described as an exploration of truth. Some of the tenets of Buddhism have resonated with Portland’s queer community. Those studying the philosophy are told that faith should be built on actual experiences; that masculinity and feminini- WELLS FARGO Take Pride In A Bank That Takes Pride In You The Next Stage’ Former Just Out intern Peter Zuckerman became the news when he faced backlash from a series he investigated for The Idaho Falls Post Register uncovering years of pedophilia in the local Boy Scouts chapter. ty harmonize to create whole human beings; and that there are no sins, only consequences. “We’re all responsible for what we do,” said Brad Larsen, a gay graduate student of psychology. He is a member of Soka Gakkai International, which has a community center in Southeast Portland. It is the first religious organization to appoint national leaders specifically for sexual minority practitioners. This group practices Nichiren Buddhism, which incorporates chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, studying Nichiren’s writings and debating philosophy. “Chanting helps me expand my capacity for my normal lite,” said Larsen. I Dharma Rain, the oldest and largest Zen Buddhist center in Oregon, has a membership estimated to be 25 percent queer. “Buddhism in the West is extremely inclusive, extremely GLBT-friendly. There is no judgment, no second-class status of GLBT folks of the Buddhist community,” said Thomas Bruner, a lay disciple at the Dharma Rain Zen Center. Sylvan Genko Rainwater, a lesbian priest ordained in January through Dharma Rain, concurred. “In most American Buddhist groups, there’s no concern, no discrimination," she said. 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