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J Â _ É _ transitions MARCH 4. 2011 rescue animals. “He was always into animal rights and helping out others, helping them get a leg up,” Nelson shared. “I remember one morn ing we were going garage saling, and there was a homeless man in one of the doorways and he was shivering. Ed stopped the car, went back into his loft down in the Pearl District. He came out with a coat, a blan ket, gloves and a scarf and went over and gave them to this homeless man. ... Ed said, ‘All I can do is try to help them. You can’t save the world, but you can try and help somebody.’” That philosophy brought him to (^ C en ter in 2007, when the queer community re source was searching for a permanent home base. Cauduro learned o f the center through Nelson by way o f his partner Hall and saw in it a resource he didn’t have growing up. “That’s why he loved it, because he saw the value in it to people who were just com ing out, or teenagers who haven’t discovered their sexuality yet or even older people who were just realizing or coming to grips with their sexuality,” Hall said. “It’s a way to get people started associating with people just like them.” Nelson said Cauduro, who in recent years split his time between Vancouver, Wash, and Palm Springs, told great stories about growing up in Portland, and a makeshift network of men who in the late ‘50s met after work at the Benson Hotel bar: “They’d sit there and have cocktails, and then they’d all run home, put on their jeans and t- shirts and tennis shoes, and there was a bar downtown, and the same 20-30 guys would show up at that bar, and that was the gay scene in Portland.” Cauduro believed in the hope that Q_ Center represented all the more because of those years, Nelson said. “There’s a lot of things I know about Ed, growing up gay and the challenges he faced as a young man knowing he was gay and not know ing it was okay,” he said. “He didn’t have the Q^Center to go to, didn’t have Just Out to read, didn’t have bars to go to and didn’t have the Internet. There are friends he has that today are still friends, and he’s known them from 50-60 years ago. Their commonality was being gay. ... Those were the people that got him through.” Cauduro loved the idea of a queer com munity hub, Nelson said— so much so that when he found out about the new building on N. Mississippi, he gave the center an initial $200,000, plus a $200,000 match, with one condition: He wanted the naming rights, but not for his own glory. It wasn’t about a plaque or any other recognition; he WWW.JUSTOUT.COM I- was adamant that no posthumous memori als or gatherings be held. (“For the longest time, Q_Center wasn’t even able to give out his name,” Nelson noted.) “This kind o f sums up Ed,” Nelson said. “He said, ‘I want the building to be named Q_ Center. It’s their center; I don’t want anybody’s name on it.” Hall added, “He was really humble; he didn’t think that way. He didn’t like to toot his own horn. He did it because he wanted to help people.” And he wanted to inspire others to step up and help in turn. Nelson presented the most recent $200,000 matching gift— the third on behalf o f Cauduro’s estate— at January’s Q_Center W inter Gala, in what Cauduro hoped would motivate others to contribute to a forthcoming Capital Cam paign to purchase the Mississippi building by early 2013. “This needs to be a thing like, ‘Listen folks, the Q_Center can go away,”’ Nelson said o f the urgency his friend aimed to instill in others. It’s no wonder that former Q_Center Executive Director Ken dall Clawson called Cauduro a “guardian angel”— and it’s doubtless many other local organizations would agree. “Ed knew he was gay from [the time o f being] a young kid,” Nelson said. “He knew he was different. He [knew] the challenges these young kids have today. He knew first hand what bullying was. ... He made it, he survived. But he realized that now is a lot different than the 1940s-50s. 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