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JÄ -JO THE YEAR IN DECEMBER 9. 20)1 review L a w O i i k ’K o r yà x f lr o f v ç f f j f lo t R uben M I- W W W .J U S T O U T .C O M e d in a an i n j u r y la w f ir m Been off the planet for the last 12 months? Here’s your crash course in queer. Y our g u ié a Io q u i e t a r » h ip p in g a n ä c o p in o BY AMANDA SCHURR Need a gift lor that speeial person Personal Injury Car A ccidents W e will pack it up & ship it for you so all that love goes hom e.. B ike/P edestrian A ccidents Sex A buse by Clergy W hile you stay & play in Portland!! 4784 N. 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We persevered with another year of community service from Q_Patrol and In Other Words; we “Made It Happen” during an expanded Portland Pride; we remembered life is a pag eant, from Latin Look to La Femme Mag nifique. We Dined Out for Life and kept it close to home at the inaugural Market Q_ and at local businesses. Gnerds united in comic book revelry, alternative publishing thrived, and Siren Nation and the Portland Ore gon Women’s Film Fest made their voices heard, their visions seen. We got schooled, from Q_ Center’s Telling Stories: The Art ' vívala * of Fact to Disjecta’s Queer R evolution * Academy, Jeffrey Horvitz’s Queer Aperture at Pivot to The Portland Gay M e n ’s Chorus traveled to NYC to sing at the 9/11 Philip Iosca’s debut solo exhi Memorial Concert. bition at Pacific Northwest College of Art. We scored: BRIAN ROBERTSON Oregon universities received A governor took office, again, a mayor an high marks for its LGBT-friendly campuses. nounced he would not attempt to. Portland Portland lost the bid to host the 2013 Gay got an Office of Equity, and trans-inclusive Softball World Series, but we still played health care for city employees. We watched hard, be it the Rose City Rollers, the Fight as December was declared “Transgender ing Fillies or the Amazon Dragons. We Child Awareness Month” in Multnomah camped OUT on the coast for the 35th year County, and we shook our heads at the latest thanks to the YWCA. Thomas Lauderdale bias crime headline. played Grieg, Kaia Wilson and friends From community discussions to a live played Sinead O ’Connor. music series, Q_Center continued its evolu We represented: BearTown, statewide tion, with one executive director departing Leather Pride, the Rev. David Weeldey and for the governor’s office and another return the Rev.Tara Wilkins to HRC’s Clergy Call ing to Oregon to replace her. We looked to in the nation’s capital, the Portland Gay the future with new and burgeoning youth- Men’s Chorus to New York City. We led events and resources. And with archival mourned community figures who passed efforts and art exhibits by organizations like away—Ed Caduro, Don Drees, Gregg Ruf Cascade AIDS Project, the Gay and Lesbian fin, Jean Harris, Anthanasios “Saki” Kat- Archives of the Pacific Northwest and the savopoulos, Kent T. Magionos, Richard Imperial Sovereign Rose Court, we revisited Ludt,Jose Israel Ornelas and Donald Baker the past. Ross, to name but a few. We came out, we Occupied, we were Gay Lady Bunny and Joey Arias came to town, 6c Grey and Red Dress all over. Old Lesbi so did George Takei and Kate Clinton, Big ans organized for change, the Sisters of Freedia and Erasure, and John Cameron Perpetual Indulgence converged for Con Mitchell and his Mattachine party, twice. clave, and a new Stark Street institution We made movies and music and wrote books Crystallized. We made a day of it: Repeal, and plays and established record labels and Coming Out, World AIDS, Trans Day of organized new dance and performance Remembrance. We made a Night, too: nights and arts festivals. Poison Waters got SMYRC’s Night of Noise, BRO’s Ignite. roasted, “Team Darcelle” became a local We were farm-fresh for the Human Rights mantra—its namesake, the grand marshal of Campaign and tipped our hats with the the Rose Festival Starlight Parade. Portland Area Business Association. And that’s just for starters. In long, 2011 We moved (Triangle Productions!) or just wouldn’t quit—and in these pages you’ll prepared to (Our House of Portland). We find a rundown of the best and worst of the stood our ground (Seth Stambaugh) in one year in queer, with much more to be found of many “teachable” moments in the ongo on a local, national and global scale at jus- ing fight for LGBTQ. equality. We held tout.com. hands across bridges and reached out to See you for another 12 in ‘12. JÜÍ