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A salute to Pride
treet Roots vendors,
staff, volunteers and
friends donned
rainbows and ribbons to
march in the 2015
Portland Pride Parade,
celebrating diversity,
education and
development in the
LGBTQ communities.
Portland’s pride festival
and parade happen every
June to commemorate the
Stonewall Riots in New
York. This year, it brought
together more than 200
community organizations,
businesses and vendors to
celebrate Pride over the
June 12 weekend. The
event is produced by Pride
Northwest.
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Street Roots » June 19-25, 2015
K.H.: (laughs) No, are you kidding! When I
got the email from Time magazine last April,
my family had the worst case of the stomach
flu I have ever seen in my entire life. For days,
all I had been doing was cleaning up
unspeakable things. It was awful. So in the
middle of these days, I was sitting down at the
kitchen table just for a second to try and
check my email, in Vomit-splattered jeans,
having barely slept for three days, and I get
this email saying, “Congratulations. You’re one
of the most inf luential people in the world,”
and 1 think, “That’s got .to'-be spam,” and I
delete it. Fast-forward a week, everybody had
recovered and I’d washed my jeans and I went
back to the university to work, and I check my
mailbox for the first time, and there is this
very formal card asking me to attend the Time
gala event, arid I thought, “Oh my goodness!^
Is this real?”
E.G.: What do you wish people would ask you
when they interview you that they don’t? S
K.H.: One of the most important things I
wish everyone knew was that we don’t have to
be a super green person to act on climate.
We often assume that if we are already a
person who hugs trees, who eats granola, who
bikes to work, then we have the values and we
have the lifestyle we need. But for the rest, of
us, even if we agree with the science, even if
we think it’s a problem, we feel as if we just
don’t have the values, it’s not on our priority
list and there isn’t much we can really do
about it. I think that is one of the most
pervasive and harmful myths that most of us
have bought into today.
I’m convinced that nearly every single one |
of us already have the values we seed to care
about climate change. If we live on this planet'
and we have not signed up for the trip to Mars
that 100 crazy people have apparently signed a
up for, then this is the only planet we have. It
just makes sense for all of us to want this to
be a good hörne for ourselves and for our
children, no matter what religion, political
party of country we come from. .