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Score Primary Wins
Sam Adams’ win as Portland mayor-elect,
although historic in its own right, wasn’t the
only big news out of Oregon’s primary election
May 20.
Among the contests of interest, bisexual can­
didate Kate Brown, a five-term state legislator and
Senate majority leader running for secretary of
to an easy win for another term in Seat 4 on the
council.
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Hospitals Rated
on Queer Competency
How well does your hospital rate?That is infor­
mation you and your family have access to, thanks
to the Human Rights Campaign and
the Gay and Lesbian Medical Associa­
tion, which released the results of the
second Health Equality Index survey
last month. Two Oregon hospitals re­
ceived positive results in the index.
“I’m encouraged that so many hos­
pitals are recognizing the need to put
policies in place that will help them
provide the best quality care to LGBT
patients,” said Joel Ginsberg, Gay and
Lesbian Medical Association execu­
tive director. He added that “there’s a
clear trend” that health care organiza­
tions are focused on sexual minority
From left, Portland City Commissioner-elect Nick Fish
patients in a “comprehensive way.”
celebrates his victory with former Oregon Gov. Barbara
Two of Oregon’s hospitals—Or­
Roberts, Terry Bean, wife Patricia Schecter and son Chapin.
egon Health and Science University
in Portland and Sunnyside Medical Center, a part
state, won handily against her competitors to grab
of the Kaiser Permanente network, in Clacka­
the Democratic Party nomination in the race.
mas—responded well in the five policy areas: pa­
The position is all but assured for Brown come
tient nondiscrimination, hospital visitation, deci­
the November general election, as her only major
competitor for the post, Republican Rick Dancer,
sion-making, cultural competency training and
employment policies. While the hospitals weren’t
is a former KEZ1-TV Eugene news anchor with
ranked with a number, Sunnyside’s response to
zero experience and a campaign platform nearly
as scant.
In other statewide races, Oregon House
Speaker Jeff Merkley clinched the Dems’
nomination in the U.S. Senate race, sneaking
by feisty first-timer Steve Novick to face off
against incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon
Smith in the fall. Lewis & Clark Law School
professor John Kroger clinched the attorney
general race, a primary win that also—as no
Republican candidate entered that race—as­
sured him victory in November.
In Portland and Multnomah County,
perhaps the most noteworthy win went to
three-time Portland City Council candidate
Nick Fish, who scored a lopsided 62 percent
victory for Commissioner Erik Sten’s vacant
Seat 2. Sten’s former chief of staff, Jim Mid-
daugh, although the only publicly financed
candidate in the race, limped away with 22
percent of the vote. The margin of victo­
ry—easily passing the 50-percent-plus-l vote
required to secure the seat—means Fish won
Joel Ginsberg, executive director of Gay and
the race outright and will assume his post as
Lesbian Medical Association, believes the Human
early as June 10, because of Sten’s midterm
Rights Campaign's Health Equality Index will shed,
light on the queer-friendliness of U.S. hospitals.
vacancy. Openly gay candidate Ed Garren,
a psychotherapist new to Portland politics,
questions could possibly equate to a score of 100
finished in last place out of the five candidates.
In the crowded six-way contest for Portland and OHSU to a score of 85.
“We are committed to creating an environment
City Commissioner Seat 1, second-time candi­
date Amanda Fritz sailed to an easy runoff this that is increasingly welcoming of LGBT patients,
their families and employees,” said Marianne Hy­
November, winning 43 percent of the primary
land, OHSU director of affirmative action and
vote against scrappy Ethos Music Center founder
Charles Lewis, who edged out a close second- equal opportunities. She added that she’s already
working to improve policies regarding domestic
place finish with just shy of 13 percent. The two
partner visitation rights and decision-making for
now go head to head in a November runoff.
With no serious opposition for his seat, in­
cumbent Commissioner Randy Leonard coasted
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