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Portland’s City Hall always bustles with
activity. The two elevators constantly are in
motion and the tap of shoe steps echo through
the hallways. Staffers move from office to of
fice. A city commissioner may be spotted on
his or her way to an event.
It had never been louder or more boister
ous than on Saturday, May 15.
Moving about the hallways and atriums
were 150 queer youth between the ages o f 12
and 23 gathered for the Oregon Queer Youth
Summit, an event offering workshops related
to sexual orientation, gender identity, political
rights and activism. Youth attended from all
parts o f Oregon and Southwest Washington.
The event provided a forum o f discussion
and political empowerment for queer youth,
as well as a means for networking and com
munity building. “One hope is that queer
youth ... can see that there are other people
like them,” said Ernesto Dominguez, 22, one
of the summit’s organizers.
As queer youth come out in larger num
bers, and at an earlier age, events like the
Oregon Queer Youth Summit help them not
only understand and accept their identity and
orientation, but create confidence and inspi
ration as they grow into the next generation
of politically active queer adults.
“They need the social support earlier,”
said Kerst Nelson, health coordinator for the
Sexual Minority and Gender Youth Resource
Center (SMYRC), one o f the organizations
that planned the summit. “W hen I was in
high school 10 years ago, people were rarely
coming out.”
“There’s a lot more consciousness now,
among youth, of homophobia and transpho
bia,” noted Zena Britadesco, the Oregon Safe
Schools and Communities Coalition’s (OS-
SCC) youth and advocacy coordinator. That,
she said, fuels a desire to become politically
active and involved with issues direedy affect
ing queer youth’s lives.
Amelia Wolf, 18, presented a workshop on
the civil and legal rights queer youth have in
Oregon and Southwest Washington. “I know
a lot of people who don’t know their rights,”
she said. Yet, knowing them is “one of the
most important things to have to advocate for
yourself.”
“[Queer youth] need the
social support earlier.
When I was in high school
10 years ago. people were
rarely coming out."
- KERST NELSON. HEALTH
COORDINATOR FOR SMYRC
Youth representing the OSSCC and
SMYRC organized the summit. Annual con
ferences for queer youth have been held in the
state in the past, but this was the first year the
conference took place as the “Oregon Queer
Youth Summit.”
The OSSCC, a nonprofit working to make
Oregon’s public schools safe for queer youth
and that oversees the Gay-Straight Alliances
in Oregon public schools, hosted the Gay-
Straight Alliance Summit from 2005 to 2009.
The Oregon Queer Youth Conference, a simi
lar annual event, was held between 2003 and
2008 and hosted by the Catlin Gabel School.
Britadesco said the organizations decided
this year “to focus our efforts” and “pool fund
ing” to create one queer youth-focused event.
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Mayor Sam Adams and Debra Porta, the
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