OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE
OCTOBER 16 2009
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BRO's 27th A n n ua l
Dinner a n d Auction
was a h u g e success.
With 700 supporters.
the fu n ctio n raised
over $200.000 for the
o r g a n iz a tio n
Storm L a rge e m c e e d
the e ve nt Senators Ron
W yden S Jeff M erkleg
Secretary of State
Kate Brown. P o rtla nd
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The theme o f “love” was in the air on
Saturday, October 10, when Basic Rights
Oregon threw its 27th Annual Dinner
and Auction at the Oregon Convention
Center. “The event was a huge success,
attracting over 700 supporters and raising
over $200,000 to help ensure that all
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Oregonians experience equality,” BRO
Executive Director Jeana Frazzini said via
press release.
The final number “[beat] expectations,”
according to Organizing Director Thomas
Wheatley—as did Storm Large’s stint as
emcee, thanks to a couple o f high-profile
kisses, including a heated, good-humored
smooch with Oregon Secretary o f State
Kate Brown at Brown’s request. Brown was
one o f several officials to take the stage,
including U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, city
commissioners Nick Fish, Dan Saltzman
and Amanda Fritz, Multnomah County
Chair Ted Wheeler and Mayor Sam Adams.
Later in the evening, Fighting Spirit
Award honoree and U.S. Senator Jeff
Merkley told the assembled crowd that
President Barack Obama, in his own
address at that night’s Human Rights
Campaign’s Annual Dinner in Washington
D .C ., pledged his commitment to end
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Merkley’s an- *
nouncement drew cheers and applause.
Frazzini told Ju st Out that BRO
adjusted the event’s budget and economic
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slight decrease from 2008 in funds raised,
the drop was “not like anything we had
anticipated,” she said, expressing “incred
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generously and who brought such amazing
energy to the event. We certainly couldn’t
have lived up to the theme any better.”
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Relocation to New
Facility in Northeast
Portland
On Saturday, October 24, The
Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center
(SM Y R C ) will celebrate its move to a
new facility in Northeast Portland (3024
N E Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Local
performers, food, raffle prizes and more are
on tap from 2 to 6 p.m., with a 6-9 p.m.
youth open mic.
SM Y R C — the only community
resource center in Oregon devoted exclu
sively to the needs o f sexual and gender
minority youth—joins Cascadia and North
by Northeast Community Health Center
at the Garlington Center, a clinical hub
serving the area. The center, which has
fostered safety and support for more than
1,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
queer and questioning (L G B T Q Q ) youth
in Oregon annually since 1998, had been
located on SE Belmont.
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