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tion that occurred between McCune and Blow
Pony founder Airick Heater in April 2009
outside of Casey’s Nightclub and Lounge.
Despite the ruling, hugely disparate accounts
of who the aggressor was the night in question
continued to mount well after the trial.
• Human Rights Campaign president Joe
Solmonese announced he would leave the
organization when his contract expires at the
end of March 2012. During Solmonese’s ten­
ure, the organization has celebrated major
victories for LCBT equality including the le­
galization of marriage equality in six states
and the District of Columbia, the passage of
the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the repeal of
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” and the reversal of the
HIV traveLban.
• In March, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
cofounder Terry Bean joined Oregon Secre­
tary of State Kate Brown, Rhode Island Con­
gressman David Cicilline, Massachusetts
Congressman Barney Frank and others dur­
ing the fund’s 20th anniversary events held in
Washington, D.C.
• The office of Portland I lousing Commis­
sioner Nick Fish announced that $1.37 mil­
lion in new funding had been awarded to the
Portland I lousing Bureau to support home­
less people living with HIV/AIDS. The funds
come from the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD), and are ex­
pected to be available in early 2012. Portland
• com m unity’
was one of only eight com­
munities in the nation to re­
ceive funds through HUD’s
Housing Opportunities for
Persons With AIDS (HOP-
WA) program, part of the
Obama administration’s Na­
tional HIV/AIDS Strategy
and the Federal Strategic
Plan to Prevent and End
Homelessness.
• The Global Network of
People Living with HIV/
AIDS North America
(GNP+/NA) immediately
demanded a public retrac­
tion from Portland City Commissioner
Randy Leonard for “suggesting a risk that
does not exist” following his comments that
the city’s open reservoirs had to be drained
due to the possibility of “AIDS”-tainted urine.
Leonard announced shortly afterward he
would not be running for re-election in 2012.
• Esthers Pantry and Pod’s Corner an­
nounced plans to move from their Our
I louse of Portland Milwaukie building, after
it went on the market in July. The services
moved into the Providence-owned medical
offices after Friends of People With AIDS
took over for Metropolitan Community
Church in 2006.
• Seth Stanibaugh and the Beaverton
School District agreed to a resolution con­
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cerning Stambaugh’s dismissal—and even­
tual reinstatement—from a student-teaching
position at Sexton Mountain Elementary
School in September of 2010. The announce­
ment came February 11, following a series of
heavily mediated discussions.
The parties decided not to pursue formal
litigation and that Stanibaugh would receive a
payment from the school district for $75,000.
Stanibaugh said he would be donating a “sub­
stantial portion” of his recovery sum to Port­
land nonprofits p:ear and Outside In.
• In statewide Pride news, PDX Latino
Gay Pride expanded its traditional Jupiter
Hotel headquarters to the much larger East-
bank Esplanade for its 2011 festivities, allow­
ing for three times as many participants.
Portland Black Pride regrouped following a
2 hiatus of sorts, collaborating with the PFLAG
% Portland Black Chapter for a series of events
during Portland Pride mid-June.
Vancouver, Wash.’s 17th Annual Saturday
in the Park was “Bigger! Better! Brighter!”
after the city was named by The Advocate as the
country’s sixth most gay-friendly city. But in
Southern Oregon, controversy reared its ugly
head when Medford’s Pear Blossom Parade
board denied, then reinstated an application
to march by Southern Oregon Pride. By the
end of September, the air had cleared for SO-
Pride’s annual festival in Ashland.
• In community benefit news, the Fourth
Annual Soul Food & Gospel Show—pre­
sented by Peacock Productions and held at
Darcelle XV Showplace in May—raised
$2,300 for the Audria M. Edwards Scholar­
ship Fund.
The “Red H ot” 11th Annual Red Dress
Party raised $45,000 for Pivot, Q_Center and
YWCA of Clark County’s SafeChoice Pro­
gram; BearTown 16 generated $5,227 for the
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Re­
source Center (SMYRC); the 21st Annual
CAP Art Evening and Auction welcomed
more than 1,200 guests and raised an eye­
popping $525,000 to sustain its many pro­
grams serving the HIV/AIDS community.
The Basic Rights Oregon Business Leaders
Luncheon raked in more than $115,000 for
the org’s Education Fund to advance equality
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