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MARCH 21, 2008
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outstanding
The opposition is back in action,
trying to repeal Oregon's domestic
partnership and nondiscrimination laws.
What's the best defense strategy?
Rocking in a Free Oregon
alem-born Linda Vogt has been writing, edu­
I am 58 years old. I feel 35 years old.
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cating and empowering women throughout her
lifetime. She recently retired from Clackamas
Right now, I’m retired from teaching and live in
Community College, where she headed the jour­ Gladstone.
nalism department and completed her 29th year
teaching journalism to college and high school students.
My childhood ambition was to be a writer and to have
She also produces and is a member of the band Motherlode,
lots of true friends. (Check! Check!)
which creates the annual Northwest Women’s Music Cel­
ebration. She will continue her work empowering women
My first girl crush was on my eighth-grade gym
by organizing a women’s tour of Europe, combining song­
e need to show these people
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everyone else. No one can legislate
away the rights for straight people
to have committed and recognized
relationships. How could we deny
teacher.
one section of the population
something that everyone else has?
writing and her sense of adventure.
I like to spend my down time playing music or enjoying
dinner and good conversation with friends—or just hangin’
My name is Linda M. Vogt.
that we’re the same as
C aitlin H ier
Recovering College Graduate
with Scout, my devoted, buff little dog. Oh, and watching
I am known as a journalist, concert producer, event
organizer musician and friend.
My cause is creating positive experiences for women
through music, travel and writing.
Brothers & Sisters and Boston Legal!
My proudest moment was performing my song “The
OCA, They’ll Get You Anyway” during the Ballot
Measure 9 rally in Pioneer Square in 1992 with my partner
and my Motherlode pals, in front of 10,000 people!
hreatening the nonprofit status of
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churches if they don’t stop doing
political organizing in their churches.’
B illy T aylor
Dog Walker
My biggest challenge is finishing the mystery
novel 1 want to get published.
A perfect day in Portland would be spent
walking along the river with a good friend, having
dinner with a view, then seeing a really good film or
play downtown.
emembering that this wasn’t
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a right given to us. By looking
to repeal this law, they are
My first job was picking strawberries on a platoon
in Salem when I was about 12. Then during high
school it was at the cannery, watching thousands of
looking for legal justification to
discriminate. We should put the
green beans go by on a conveyer belt. Ugh!
onus back on them.”
T racy A nn W halen
Northwest Gender
My vice is apple fritters and playing the slots at
Alliance Member
Spirit Mountain Casino.
My inspiration is women who make things
etting these people meet gay
happen and make the world better. Go, Hillary!
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people to realize our daily concerns
The last queer or philanthropic event I
participated in was single women’s Bunco night!
Thank you, Kendall [Clawson] and Marty [Davis].
are pretty much the same as theirs
and our relationships are the same
as theirs. That would remove some
of the ‘otherness.’ And we have
My highest hope for the cause is that one day we
to remind people that we have a
won’t need to raise money and spend time fighting'
separation of church and state.”
for rights we should have anyway.
Militant Hug Sniper
Linda Vogt's distinguished career in education has wrapped, but
her contributions to Motherlode continue.
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