Carlos Silva
Horace Long
Community
"Beautiful People"
was the theme of
this year's Pride
Parade. Organiz-
ers said that for
the first time the
parade sold out.
The event, featur-
ing LGBT march-
ers from all walks
of life, was made
even better due to
mild temperatures
and partly cloudy
skies. True story!
(PRIDE)
Pride Passes
More than 100 groups marched through
the streets of Portland in the Portland
Pride Parade June 17. Thousands of
spectators—from small children in baby
strollers to senior citizens seated in lawn
chairs—lined the streets and watched
bands, politicians, service and religious
organizations, and many more, make
their way along of the parade route that
ended at the waterfront Pride Festival. A
contigent from the Mormon Church, sup-
porting the LGBT community, received a
particularly loud and supportive ovation
from parade watchers.
Wells Fargo Bank cancelled their
part in the Portland Pride Parade
just days before the event. The
decision came just two days after
there was an attempt to throw a
molotov cocktail through the win-
dow of one of their local branches.
A gay rights activist group claimed
responsibility for the vandalism in
an e-mail to a local TV station, ex-
pressing disapproval of the banks
funding of a prison industrial com-
plex where they report a trans-
gender female is serving time in a
men's prison, placing her at risk of
sexual assault.
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Occupy The Pride Portland, an ad
hoc action group connected to the oc-
cupy Portland movement, showed
up as planned for a day of what they
billed as "educational outreach and vis-
ibility activities." They set up just out-
side the festival's main entrance gate.
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PDX Latino Pride
Year number seven for PDX Latino Gay Pride
(PLGP) 2012 kicks off on July 19 with an en-
tire weekend of events,
The centerpiece of the festivities is the
July 21 Festival; organizers expect 1,000 to
attend. The day has a lineup of of entertain-
ment, community leaders, public officials
and non-stop music.
This year's event moves to a new spot:
Pure Space. Just Out is a sponsor.
In 2011, Pride NW honored PLGP for the
positive impact and contributions to the
community. PLGP was selected to serve as
the official Pride Parade Grand Marshall, the
first time a Latino organization has been cho-
sen for this honor.
For more information about all of the events:
LatinoGayPridePDX.com.
To volunteer next year: pridenw.org.
But days later the bank reversed
course. Wells Fargo staff an-
nounced that they planned to go
ahead with plans to march.
Anyone
with
information
about the vandalism contact:
Arson Investigator Rick McGraw at
(503) 823-3797. kptv.com
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July 2012