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THE YEAR IN community BY RYAN J. PRADO DECEMBER 9, 2011 EAGLE EYE OPTICAL M elaina Catabay, Optician Together, let’s create a personalized strategy for your goals and dreams, whether 3333 SE Belmont phone: 5 0 3 .3 3 5 .7 1 7 3 It was a buzzing year for the LGBTQ_ for the city’s QJPatrol came when Portland community, both locally and across the Police were investigating three possible country. From the landmark July ruling by bias crimes that occurred in June and July, Oregon Chief District Judge Ann Aiken including the July 3 assault of 21-year-old that the denial ot health care benefits to the queer musician and activist Kayla Stone in same-sex partner of Oregon court employee Old Town. The rise in bias crimes ignited Q_ Margaret Fonberg constituted unlawful dis- Patrol and Pride Northwest to host a Corn- crimination to the September creation of munity Safety Forum to discuss strategies Portland’s Office of Equity and Human for visibility and safety; and community Rights and beyond, the past 12 months have members also facilitated the We Are Not been a productive, and sometimes contro- Afraid march July 13 through Old Town, versial, year in queer. The assault of Pivot staff member Brad • Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the first Forkner and boyfriend Christopher Rose- openly gay serving member of Congress, an- vear May 22 near the Hawthorne Bridge nounced his retirement on November 28. inspired a showing of community-wide soli- For 30 years, Frank was an instrumental and darity with more than 4,000 people partici- powerful Democrat, an outspoken critic of pating in Hands Across Hawthorne a week “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the Defense, of later. The event was forged because Forkner Marriage Act (DOMA). and Rosevear were walking hand in hand • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and when they were assaulted. President Barack Obama took charge De- Dillan Joseph Cashman was arrested July cember 6 on the global promotion of LG- 25 and charged with intimidation in the BTQrights by U.S. agencies. Clinton’s now second degree and assault in the fourth de- widely heralded speech in front of the United gree following a reported anti-gay assault in Nations in Geneva condemned discrimina- the 200 block of SW Harrison Street at tion against the LGBTQ_community, saying Lovejoy Park, that it cannot be excused by cul ture. Clinton and Obama both stopped short of making foreign aid contingent on a nation’s LG- BTQ_ rights record, threatening sanctions for abuses or calling out specific countries. • The Sexual and Gender Mi nority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) lost its leader and di rector Favor Ellis, who an nounced plans to move to the East Coast in August. The move put SMYRC in a precarious po- MARTY DAVIS sition, prompting potential part nership rumors to swirl around the commu- • An assault on a gay man June 25 was nity to keep the center running. stopped short when Newport’s Andrew As of press time, it appeared that Q_Cen- Smith stepped in to defend him. The Good ter could play a pivotal role for the future of Samaritan told KOIN 6, “I stepped in to SMYRC’s operations. help the man because I thought to myself, “Q_ Center and Cascadia Behavioral ‘What if that was my little brother?”’ The Health are in discussions about the most ef- perpetrators were both charged with third- fective ways to deliver services to high-risk degree assault. sexual minority youth,” said center executive • Cascade AIDS Project’s Pivot program director Barbara McCullough-Jones. “Sev- launched a new billboard campaign June eral plans are under consideration including 27, in part as a response to the anti-gay at- moving SMYRC under the umbrella of Q_ tack on Pivot coordinator Brad Forkner and Center. We expect more details will become his boyfriend Christopher Rosevear in late available in early January.” May while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge. • Former Q_ Center executive director The couple’s attack sparked a photo shoot Kendall Clawson was tapped in earlyjanu- campaign dubbed “Love is Courageous,” ary 2011 by Governor Kitzhaber’s incom from which the images used on the hill- ing administration as its Director of Execu boards were chosen. • Blake McCune—a 23-year-old Van tive Appointments, necessitating her departure from the center. A nationwide couver, Wash, man—was found guilty of search for a new leader resulted in the sum- interfering with a police report but was mer hiring of Barbara McCullough-Jones, found not guilty on the much more serious an experienced figure in LGBTQ^equality charge of intimidation based on sexual ori- advocacy and community outreach. entation during a trial January 18 at the McCullough-Jones assumed leadership Multnomah County Courthouse. 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