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Portland to see. It was a huge event.
“We had to find women who were
willing to put their faces on a hillhoard,”
recalls Aspen. “And again, that was the
thing. These women are able to put their
faces out there when not all of us can. But
look, we represent every race, every age,
every style of person.”
In 1989, LCP sponsored a float in
Portland’s Starlight Parade. It was the
first time a group of gay men and lesbians
rode in a rairjbow-flag-decorated float.
The float even won the Queen’s Trophy.
It was a really big step to be out and show
Steve
Buchert
izing the Walk for
Love and Justice,
which started in
Eugene and ended
in Portland.
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Kristan Aspen led the Lesbian Community Project
through a tumultuous period when feminist and trans-
inclusive values clashed.
Portland that “we support the Rose Festi
val just like everyone else,” says Aspen.
Other highlights include National Coming
Out Day in 1991, when then LCP director Donna
Red Wing took five lesbian couples to the Mult
nomah Building so they could file for marriage li
censes. Needless to day, their request was denied.
As soon as Oregon had a state law requiring
law enforcement agencies to keep statistics on
hate crimes, LCP received a grant to help track
those crimes. In
1992, it was ac
tive in defeating
the anti-gay Ballot
Measure 9 by organ
justput 21
tunity to get to know each other by meeting in
small groups for eight weeks. They discussed what
it was like growing up and how and when they
knew they were different from each other.
clusively lesbian to queer. A rift occurred; some
members wanted the group to close rather than
change. Aspen stepped in to lead LCP through
this difficult time. She brought people together
to talk about their differences. In the end, they
decided to keep going and open it up to any self
identified woman.
“We felt that was a logical evolution from who
we were,” says Aspen. “Still retaining our femi
nist sense of ourselves, but also acknowledging
women who had previously been invisible as trans
women.”
Later Aspen would use her leadership skills to
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serving the community since 1975
As LCP closes its doors, Aspen recognizes that
other organizations in the community “support our
search for equal rights and support our social needs,”
including Q Center, Basic Rights Oregon, Live
A ttorneys at L aw
Serving Oregon & Washington
Makes a Family and In Other Words bookstore.
“There is so much
to choose from now
that LCP has sort of
lost its function,” she
says. “I think it is the
passing of a time. It is
just the evolution of
the community. Not
that lesbians are gone,
—Kristan Aspen but those of us who
mostly identify as les
bians, we’re able to be on our own two feet now.
We sort of don’t need LCP to hold us up.”
With its closing, LCP donated mongy to sev
eral nonprofit organizations, including Bradley-
Angle House, Sisters of the Road, Oregon Food
Bank and In Other Words.
"Those of us who mostly
identify as lesbians, we're
able to be on our own two
feet now. We sort of don't
need LCP to hold us up."
By the end of’
the 1990s, LCP was going through difficult times.
There was a push to change its focus from ex
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