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Call now to schedule your free consultation $03.324.6611 Visit us on the web at mcvittic-law.com E squire M otors , inc . Mfe COMPLETE FOREIGN CAR SERVICE & REPAIR EUROPEAN & ASIAN Fish would like to be a resource and to help facilitate the coming-out process by encouraging community members to tell their stories. “My high est hope has to be when young people can come out in a community that is supportive, when young people don’t have to be afraid that the world will accept them,” she said. BRO’s communications department was support ed by communications coordinator Bryan Boyd, who has since returned to the private sector to work as an interactive designer and main contributor to the blog Gay Rights Watch. Gay Club Proposed at Catholic University Students at University of Portland applied for BRO Hires Communications Director : club recognition for a Gay Straight Partnership When Karynn Fish accepted the position as last month. According to The Beacon, a student communications director for Basic Rights Oregon run campus newspaper, the approval of the club in November, she’d already been on the job for will “end a history of the administration denying a couple of months. the official recognition of various sexuality clubs She was hired originally as interim communica due to their clash with the university’s Catholic tions director to fill the slot left by Melissa ideology.” Such clubs that failed official recogni Chernaik. tion include Up’N’Out in 1994 and Friends Fish comes with seven years of experience Uniting to Educate Lives in 1999. working on progressive political issues in Oregon. The university’s president, the Rev. William She worked with the Legislature in 2003 and dur Beauchamp, said that sexual orientation is not the ing campaigns in 2002 to 2004 on issues affecting issue but whether a person lives a chaste life. Democrats. “Because homosexuals are not allowed to marry,” “I’ve been really impressed with BRO’s mission, he said, “sexual activity between homosexuals so 1 jumped at the opportunity to come aboard,” would be inappropriate.” said Fish. The process of granting a club official status is Her first political job was with George Soros in not decided by the president, according to New York and Washington, D.C., in the field of Beauchamp. drug policy reform. The proposed Gay Straight Partnership club’s With that came harm reduction policy with an constitution was approved and recommended by emphasis on needle exchange programs and pain the student government, the Associated Students relief through medical marijuana. Some of this of University of Portland, before advancing to var policy affected people with AIDS. ious vice presidents. “All of these are causes the work of AIDS Zoe Zuschlag, a bisexual student at the univer activists brought to the fore and created some real sity, thinks an overarching mentality that it’s not change on in the early ’90s,” said Fish, who has also OK to be gay has informed decisions to reject done a fair amount of online organizing for politi queer-oriented clubs of the past. cal policy and advocacy. “Part of being in college is being part of a com She also volunteers for Friends of the Library, munity to learn and understand each other," she writes creative essays and studies dead languages. said. “People who are nonhetero can get the wrong She lives in Northwest Portland with her dog, impression that the world is against them.” Brooklyn, and her partner of 11 years, Adam Matt Santos is heterosexual and grew up Smith, whom she describes as a “top-notch politi Catholic. cal organizer in his own right.” “If you’re gay, you’re gay,” he said. “If you’re straight, you’re straight. It doesn’t matter as long as you are nice. I’d want [the Gay Straight Partnership) to pass because I think it’s time that the Catholic Church moves on with the times.” Approved clubs are given more resources than unrecognized clubs such as the ability to reserve rooms for meetings and events and funding from the student government. If approved, the club would meet twice a month, throw a welcoming concert and provide an educational inter active training that is open to all students at the university, according to the Associated Students’ spring budget. • «OSCI 503.226.6269 www.esquiremotors.com 1853 SW Jefferson • Portland Karynn Fish of Basic Rights Oregon has a background in progressive politics. By J ulius C alasicas , J edidiah C havez , J aymee R. C uti and J ulie S abatier
