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PABA and Q Center Team Up for
New PDX Gay Travel Portal, Seek
Logo Submissions
If you think Portland’s a gay travel mecca
now, just wait. Q_ Center and the Portland
Area Business Association (PABA) an
nounced plans for a new travel portal for Port
land’s LGBTQ_travelers, dubbed QueerNW .
com. The collaborative effort is designed to
highlight the Rose City and its surrounding
areas as a destination spot for vacationing
LGBTQjxavelers. The launch is scheduled to
take place in spring 2012.
The scope of the portal will reportedly he
directed at both personal and business trav
elers. The' Q ueerN W team is led by Marico
Fayre of PABA. Committee members include
Barbara McCullough-Jones, executive direc
tor of the Q_Center; Jill Nelson, president of
PABA; Bob Baskette, LGBT liaison for Trav
el Portland; Corey Eubanks, PABA member;
and Heather McDaniel, Q_Center liaison.
To get things rolling, organizers are seek
ing submissions from local artists and de
signers to create a logo or wordmark for the
QiieerNW.com website and for marketing
materials. Interested designers are encouraged
to submit their logos and contact information
to the QiieerNW.com committee by noon on
December 31.
Logos will be reviewed in January 2012,
and finalists will be selected and notified by
January 31. The chosen designer will receive a
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$100 honorarium and promotion on the web
site and on marketing materials. A complete
list of themes and rules for submissions can
be found by visiting pdxqcenter.org.
Submissions and questions can be emailed
to QueerNW @ gim il.com.
Friendly House’s Chamberlin
Invited to Speak at National LGBT
Housing Summit
Coordinators at Portland’s Gay &. Grey
program announced November 30 that
Friendly House’s director of Services for Se
niors and Homeless Families, Mya Cham ber
lin, was invited to speak at the U.S. Depart
ment of Housing and Urban Development’s
(H U D ) L G B T Elder Housing Summit. The
summit was held December 7 in Washington,
D.C., bringing together advocates and ser
vice providers from across the country dedi
cated to establishing safe housing options for
LG B T elders.
The D epartm ent of H ousing and Urban
Development, the Adm inistration on Aging
in the D epartm ent o f Health and Hum an
Services, and the National C enter for Les
bian Rights convened the summit to address
housing, health and long-term care issues
for L G B T elders, whom Cham berlin repre
sented on behalf of Gay &. Grey (formerly
known as the Elder Resource Alliance).
Chamberlin shared with other L G B T lead
ers nationwide the progress and success of
Friendly House’s director of Services for Seniors
and Homeless Families, Mya Chamberlin, was
invited to speak at the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s (HUD) LGBT Elder
Housing Summit.
the effort’s housing assessment program and
diversity trainings.
The summit was available via webcast on
the H U D site (hud.gov).
For your last-minute holiday party options,
Gay & Grey hosts its annual soiree Friday,
December 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Friendly
House (1737 N W 26th Ave.). The party is
free and no RSVP is needed.
On December 12, Gay &. Grey’s Diversity
Training team will hold a training recruitment,
again at Friendly House, from 1 to 3 p.m. The
team is looking for LGBT elder adults and
seniors to be trained as facilitators and/or pan
elists for the group’s Diversity Trainings, which
take place throughout the year and are given to
nursing students, social work students, medical
providers, housing providers and more.
Those interested in taking part can contact
Lauren at gayandgrey@friendlyhouse.org, or
call 503-224-2640
• Governor Kitzhaber proclaimed the
month o f December as “Transgender
Child Awareness M onth’’ for M ultno
mah County. The declaration comes on
the heels o f the City o f Portland’s similar
declaration for the first week o f December
2010, becoming the first municipality in
the nation to issue such recognition. M ult
nomah County became the first county in
the nation to issue such recognition.
• The results for the 2012 Jose Honorees
are in, and two o f the six are from our
very own Imperial Sovereign Rose Court.
Empress Stephanie Foxx and Emperor
Shelley H utchinson each received the
highest award given to members o f the
International Courts System for outstand
ing accomplishments within the Courts
System and in the larger community they
live in. The Jose Awards will be presented
during San Francisco coronation weekend,
February 24, 2012.
• A Facebook page has been created for
alum s, form er m em bers and friends
o f the now -defunct gay youth group
W indfire, as well as for its sp in -o ff group
for tw entysom ethings, the Bridge Club.
W indfire was started in the 1980s, and
anyone associated w ith it is encouraged
to reconnect via this new group page.
For more inform ation about Gay & Grey,
F in d the group by searching fo r “W indfire &
Bridge Club , Portland O R "on Facebook.
visit friendlyhouse.org.
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