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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
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years
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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.
Rights Watch and an enterprising entrepreneur;
—Jim Radosta
Holcombe Waller, an indie folksinger of
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