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JUNE 13, 2008 JUStpUtll3 northwest Continued from Page 11 and the festival’s sponsorship coordinator and president, Thomas outlined Curve’s requests as “a booth with canopy and table, print ad in our Pride Guide and perhaps hotel accommodations the weekend of the festival.” “It was shocking that they turned us down,” said Keskula. “What we were asking for was not all that ridiculous...compared to the value of what we were planning on offering them.” But Pride Northwest stands by its decision. Renfrow said while the market rate of the sponsor ship might be $7,500, the homegrown festival does not see the value in advertising to a national mar ket. “Everything they ask from us actually comes out of our pocket. There’s a hard cost to us.” According to Curve’s executive editor, Diane Anderson-Minshall, Pride Northwest failed to see what so many Pride festivals across the county know: A quarter-million Curve readers can bring tourism dollars to Portland Pride and the city in general. Keskula and Anderson-Minshall say they re gret being left out of Portland Pride, where they say they have a strong reader and writer base, and where Anderson-Minshall has a home and office. Still, they chose not to purchase a booth at the festival. “Everything we do is done through stra tegic partnerships. If Portland Pride does not want us there, we’ll be at San Jose Pride instead that weekend. They are giving us a booth and ad—everything that we wanted because they see the value in what we are of fering," said Keskula. Anderson-Minshall also referenced the cost of flying a staff and magazines to Portland Pride in addition to paying for a booth as cost- prohibitive. Neither representatives of the festival nor the magazine believe this year sets precedent for future relationships. Thomas indicated in the letter to Keskula, “We would love to revisit the opportunity to advertise with your magazine next year.” Keskula said Curve would “absolutely” con sider returning to Portland Pride. “It’s always been a very successful festival for us. Portland has a wonderful community of Curve readers, supporters and staff. In spite of this decision, I think we would still come up again.” BRO Wants You to Eat Out After winding down from Pride Weekend, Basic Rights Oregon wants you to have a good meal, or three. The ninth annual Bites for Rights is June 19, and a generous array of restaurants, nightclubs, delicatessens and coffee shops from around the state are participating. You can help raise money for BRO by patronizing any of the participating es tablishments, which will donate 15 percent of their day’s gross proceeds. For a list of participating restaurants visit www.basicrights.org. 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