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April 9, 3-5 pm full schedule of events @ Milepost5.net the Queer Resource Center, Night of Noise brings LGBTQ_youth and allies ages 12-23 together to share stories and experiences around the national Day of Silence. Mo Kenny, SMYRC’s Satellite Program developer and Pride Project program coordi nator, reports that in the past, youth have ex pressed themselves and their thoughts on equality in the Night of Noise open mic by playing guitar, singing, reading an original poem, doing an interpretative dance, display ing a painting they made and much more. The open mic will he youth-focused, but the SMYRC youth steering committee voted to allow all ages to Night of Noise. The Domino Room in Bend, Ore. (51 NW Greenwood Ave.) hosts “That’s So Gay,” a Night of Noise celebration, also on April 15, from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Featuring an open mic organized by Queer Youth Space, stand-up comedian Chris Doucette from New York City and Portland drag-comedy duo ChiChi and Chonga, the event stands to be a loud response to LGBTQ_ harassment and bullying. The following day, Saturday, April 16 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight, Portland Community College’s Queer Club throws an all-ages, 90s-themed Queer Prom at Q Center (4115 N. Mississippi Ave.) to benefit Portland’s re vered LGBTQ^community space. Whether dressed as a goth, raver or grunge rocker, attendees will enjoy dancing to DJ Stormy Roxx and DJ Hufnstuf, and have the opportunity to give back not only to Q_Cen- ter, but also to PCC campus’starving students via the Rock Creek Canteen Project. Admis sion is $5 without your college ID, and a canned food donation with college ID. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. From one campus-led LGBTQ_ effort to another, PSU hosts the first annual Queer Student of Color Conference April 29-May 1. The conference is designed to provide re sources, leadership, training and skills through workshops that engage, stimulate and bring awareness to the unique issues that affect queer students of color and the communities they occupy. With a diverse lineup of workshops, film screenings and a speech by keynote speaker Elena Rose—there’s even a speed-dating WWW.JUSTOUT.COM | event—the QSOCC aims to create and maintain a safe space that will allow for the t exploration of white supremacy, patriarchy, heterosexism, trans-oppression, fat oppres sion and more to find out how they affect and restrict access to higher education, resources and connections to other queer students of color, white LGBTQ_students, heterosexual students and faculty and administrators of all backgrounds. While the conference’s focus is on queer students of color, heterosexual and white al lies are welcome to join in on conversations as participants. Registration is S10 at the door. In student scholarship news, Equity Foun dation recently announced the recipients of the 2011-12 Bill and Ann Shepherd Legal Scholarship Fund: Lauren Robertson at Willamette University School of Law and Heidi Wong at Lewis 6c Clark School of Law. Each school will receive $5,500 on be half of its recipient. Shepherd Legal Scholars are required to demonstrate a healthy balance of academic success and activist commitment to the LG- BTQ_civil rights movement. The scholarship is named after Bill and Ann Shepherd, who in the 1970s co-founded what would become the Portland chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). On Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m., the signa ture fundraising event for the scholarship, a classical music and dessert revue at The Old Church (1422 SW 11th Ave.) dubbed “A Class Act,” is expected to once again prove a rousing success. Composer and soprano The resa Koon returns by popular demand, and honorary co-chairs of this year’s Shepherd Fund include Charles Hinkle, Vera Katz, Norma Paulus, Cheryl Perrin, former Port land Mayor Tom Potter and Kathleen Saadat. Tickets to “A Class Act” are $40 in advance, $50 at the door. For more information about SMYRC’s Night of Noise, visit smyrc.org. For information about That's So Gay” in Bend on April 15, email ashxdoak@gmail.com. For more on the Queer Prom at Q Center, contact Dede Willis at 971- 722-5782. To register for the Queer Student of Color Conference, go to sites.google.com/site/ qusocc, or visit qrc.pdx.edu for more information. For tickets in advance to “ A Class Act, ” visit The Funny Bone (617 SW Washington St.) or head to ogalla.org/aclassact.html. “ Miss. Studios Auction and Concert to Benefit Local Film, Sexual Assault Re source Center A concert and auction at 7 p.m. Friday, April 8 at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mis sissippi Ave.) is slated to kick off Rid of Me, a film by Portland’s James Westby, as he pre pares to premiere the movie at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in April. The event will benefit the film’s journey, as well as the Sexual Assault Resource Center, with some high-profile performances by Storm Large, Grand Archives, Ohioan, Oracle and Part Time Pony.
