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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 2011)
T H E Y E A R IN •community’ OREGON'S LGBTO NEWSMAGAZINE in Oregon; and Peacock After Dark’s fourth annual benefit yielded $10,000 in scholar ships to eight LGBTQ_ individuals through the Audria M. Edwards Scholarship Fund, for which Peacock is the gala event. • Representative Tina Kotek, the only openly lesbian member of the Oregon Leg islative Assembly, was elected leader of the House Democratic Caucus in June. • In LGBTQ_youth community headlines, the Living Room, a weekly drop-in program for queer youth ages 14-20 at Oregon City’s Atkinson Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, celebrated two years of welcoming ways in July. • The eighth annual Power of One Confer ence—a Northwest student leadership sum mit designed to encourage and empower LGBTQ_ college students, their allies and faculty—was held April 1-3 at Reed College for the first time. • Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus launched its new Queer Re source Center October 11, National Coming Out Day. • Portland State University hosted the first annual Queer Students of Color Con ference April 29-May 1, designed to provide resources, leadership, training and skills through a series of workshops. • The 30th Annual Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium focused on wide-ranging topics of progressive tolerance in the arts, politics and school bullying via lectures, semi nars, workshops and panels March 4 at PSU. World-renowned author, performance artist and gender theorist Kate Bornstein was a spe cial guest. • The second Oregon Queer Youth Sum mit hit PSU May 14, offering queer and trans-identified youth and their allies a full day of free peer-led workshops, caucuses and keynote speeches by local youth leaders. • A whole host of regional organizations— including CAP, PELAG of Southwest Wash ington and YWCA of Clark County—an nounced intentions to raise funds and community support for a queer youth center in Vancouver, Wash, in May. • SMYRC partnered with 100th Monkey DECEMBER 9, 2011 | Studios for a Youth Art f Show in early May. • On August 17, the Ken newick School District in Washington State unani mously approved a new policy creating limits for all non-curricular school clubs. The decision limited Gay- Straight Alliances (GSAs) and all other non-curricular student clubs from access to school bulletin boards, rec ognition in the yearbook or in student newspapers, and use of public-address systems to announce club meetings or events. • From July 28 through 31, the Old Lesbi ans Organizing for Change (OLOC) held their regional conference in Tacoma, Wash. • A surplus of Sisters descended on Port land for the “Nuns’N Roses” Sisters of Per petual Indulgence International Conclave August 15-21. • The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus took part in the 10th anniversary commemora tions of 9/11, and the 10th anniversary of Oregon’s Flight for Freedom efforts in Sep tember. PGMC performed “BraveSouls and Dreamers” during the Flight for Freedom- sponsored Peace 6c Unity Concert at New York’s Cathedral of St.John the Divine. • In more Pride news, Iris Pride took root 13 in Lincoln City for a superhero-themed event in September with performances by Glama- zonia and The Superstar Divas. In October, a small group of citizens in the coastal city be gan an attempt to shut down the annual event, which mostly fell on deaf cars at the Lincoln City Visitor 6c Convention Bureau. Statewide Pride events were rounded out by a salvaged pride celebration in Corvallis June 25; Mid-Columbia Pride in Pasco, Wash. July 10-17; Capitol Pride in Salem and the Umatilla Morrow Alternatives Multicultural Celebration in Hermiston, both August 6; and Eugene/Springfield Pride August 13. From August 5 through 14, Oregon Leather Pride week invaded almost every corner of Portland, packing 27 events into 10 days. • The Oregon Republican Party voted by a slim majority to remove some anti-gay lan guage from its 2012 platform following a push from younger delegates and a heated debate. • The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court crowned His Most Imperial Majesty Rose Emperor XXXVIII, The Endearing Athens Scities Foxx, and Her Most Imperial Majesty Rose Empress LIII,The Legendary Monica Boulevard October 15 for a yearlong reign. • The first annual Portland LGBTQ_Expo was held September 10 at the Portland Expo Center, connecting LGBTQ_consumers with businesses and nonprofits. Just a week later, the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus presented the third annual Gay Fair on the Square. JM ► 4 Lenington/manda/ BUI LDI NG WEALTH AND W E L L BEING Naughty or Nice? HAMLEY Got See JOEL Principal Broker, ABR ÜjO(\'ü¿ <hlow Good ùjou Look! Providing fee-only advice to the LGBTQ community. 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