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
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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
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