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From cover to cover, this issues about
Pride.
Pride in a pioneering doctor whose
groundbreaking H IV research has helped
make a vaccine a possibility in the near
future. I t’s Pride in activism, and a brave
service veteran who is speaking up, out and
against “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” I t ’s Pride in
acceptance, and the warm and fuzzy em­
brace o f the Oregon Bears. I t’s Pride in
partnership— from block parties to modern
dance to ladies nights. I t’s Pride in busi­
ness— and a good bottle o f red. I t ’s Pride in
the performing arts, Pride in music.
And yes, it’s Pride in ping pong playing,
thanks to an aspiring table tennis virtuoso
with her sights set on this year’s Gay Games
in Germany.
Above all, this issue— and our June 18
edition— is about Pride in community, a
not-so-extended family o f bears and drag
performers, military personnel and wine­
makers and stand-up comics, authors and
artists, choreographers and party people and
health care providers and rock bands. Forty-
one years after Stonewall, it’s about the
milestones o f yesterday, the ones that could
happen at any moment— and with a simple
vote— and the milestones to come. I t’s Pride
in the community that has and will make it
happen. I t’s about finding the Pride within,
and celebrating with all.
H ere’s to the most colorful season o f the
year, and the community that gives us, now
more than ever, cause for Pride.
—Am anda Schurr
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W hat a difference a year makes. After
months o f planning, community feedback and
loads o f volunteer muscle, the 2010 Portland
Pride Festival is set once again to descend
upon Tom McCall W aterfront Park the
weekend of June 19-20. In a 40th anniversary
event commemorating the very first Portland
Pride celebration, organizer Pride Northwest,
now in its 16th year, aims to convey the over­
arching sentiment of pride in community
with this year’s theme: “Pride to the People.”
The mantra stands as a testament to the
continued teamwork of Portland’s LGBTQ_
community, a perpetual symbiosis that festi­
val organizers hope will deliver the best Pride
festival to date. But the whole shebang hasn’t
come without its share of criticisms.
Change is inevitable in an event as hyped,
and as important, as Portland Pride. This
year’s festival will include mainstays like the
Q_ Center living room, the senior tent, the
youth tent, the Bonnie Tinker family tent,
PABA village, as well as all o f the other ame­
nities you’ve come to expect from Pride. The
entertainment lineup— while drawing some
guffaws regionally for a supposed lack of
“wham!”— is still an impressive bill of head­
liner-quality acts, among them The Cliks,
Abigail and Hunter Valentine (story on pp.
16-17). There will be a food drive for Esther’s
Pantry/Our House o f Portland, a mini travel
expo on site, and new additions like the HIV