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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 2008)
Continued from Page 19 to “get out of the red zone!” He arrived in Portland in 1972 and almost immediately began to support and develop the sexual minorities community. In three decades, Fulmer helped numerous organiza tions become aware of issues facing gays and lesbi ans. During the late ’80s, he was the senior executive of Portland Public Schools and created the Sexual Minority Task Force to help queer students fight against discrimination. Fulmer has . also helped the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus become one of the leading men’s choirs in the nation. “I consider myself an organizer, and it has been great to use my skills and network to help numerous organizations and people during the last 30 years,” he said. LORI BUCKWALTER Claim to Fame: Helped pass the Portland Human Rights Ordinance; served as executive director of It’s Time Oregon from 1996 to 2006; brought transgender issues into the public eye. Who’s Next: Christa- Margaret Nelson, who worked as a youth outreach and program devel oper for trans issues with multiple organizations. helped create awareness for transgender issues. Her commitment to transgender visibility helped push Portland to the forefront of transgender equality. She has told her story to the media and helped advocate for trans-specific health services. At It’s Time Oregon, Buckwaiter traveled throughout the state, advocating for trans equality and putting a familiar face and voice to the relatively unknown issue. “I know how fortunate 1 have been to keep employment and receive insurance for my treatment, and that is why 1 have tried to be a voice for trans issues,” she said. Buckwaiter now lives in Washington. She is a programmer with community radio station KMUN and is writing music and a book. JERRY KALUOINEN Claim to Fame: The Snickers La Barr Show, award-winning cable access show from 1992 to 1999. Won lawsuit against Tri-Met and Obie Media and ended advertising discrimination on Portland public transportation. So They Say: “I personally view that charac ter [Snickers La Barr] as a job, as well as a theat rical creation.” (Oct. 21, 1994) Who’s Next: Kendall Clawson, execu tive director of Q Center. Raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Snickers La Barr has always been fabulous. In the late ’70s, she was the Portland Debutante and later a feature writer for Exotic magazine. In 1992, she hosted the popu lar Snickers La Barr Show, which won an award for the longest-running cable access show in the country. La Barr’s alter ego, Jerry Kallioinen, works in mental health treatment for gay and bisexual men addicted to crystal meth. He hopes to earn a Lori Buckwaiter entered Oregon’s political arena in 1996 and, for more than a decade, has Continued on Page 25 years iccess! HONORABLE MENTIONS When Kathy Oliver came to Outside In 35 increasing maturity and sophistication; Tom Cirillo, years ago, she thought she would diversify the a savvy music administrator with Portland Baroque funding as a grant writer, and be on her way. Orchestra, who could do well with any larger arts Today she leads the organization and prides her organization in town; Lindsey Asher, an eloquent self on responding to the community’s needs. young activist who made a strong impression at the Outside In pro recent Portland vides health care for rally she co homeless youth, 40 organized against percent of which she California’s says identify as queer. Proposition 8; The organization has and housing always had a program policy wonk/arts specifically for sexual supporter Jesse minority youth, such Beason, a former as Genderblendz or City Hall staffer Queerzone. on the ascendant. Oliver and —Stephen Outside In made Marc Beaudoin front-page news in The New York Times, So many The Los Angeles names come Times and The Boston to mind when Globe for creating I think of who a syringe exchange else could’ve program in 1989. made the list The organization in this edition: also briefly housed Bruce Carey, the restaurateur Oregon’s first cen ter for transgender behind hot spots Bluehour, Clar- people, the Trans/ Kathy Oliver's nonprofit organization Outside In Identity Resource klewis, Sauce benefited from filmmaker Gus Van Sant's Portland Centre, from 2002 premiere of Milk Nov. 14. box and 2 3 Hoyt; Karen Harding, to 2006. Under Oliver’s leadership, Outside In has a the restaurateur behind the Cup & Saucer em permanent home. She led a $5 million capital pire; Robin Lane, who leads the “actorbats” of Do Jump; Joan Szymko, who leads the women campaign six years ago for the organization’s of Aurora Chorus; Tom Spanbauer, the author new facility, which she describes as “youth who champions “Dangerous Writing” that per friendly” rather than institutional. sonally scares you in order to explore those fears —J ay me e R. Cuti honestly; Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club; and longtime Basic Rights Oregon staffers Five people I’m most excited about in the Dan Yonker and Cathy Abbruzzese, who have next generation of Portland queer power players: been toiling quietly for gay rights for years with Bryan Boyd, a first-rate writer at the blog Gay little fanfare. 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