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10 december 9, 2011 Law Office of Ruben Medina an injury law firm Personal Injury Car Accidents Bike/Pedestrian Accidents Sex Abuse by Clergy Workers Compensation Social Security Disability Call for FREE Consultation: 503-775-2334 www.rubenmedinalaw.com Follows us on Facebook or Twitter: attorneypdx PABA Member Been off the planet for the last 12 months? Here’s your crash course in queer. 2011. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—okay, so maybe not the worst of times, but our year in queer has had its share of highs and lows unlike any other. National marriage equality victories, regional advances, local realities. The end of “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” the reintroduction of ENDA to the Senate, the move away from DOMA. The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus traveled to NYC to sing at the 9/11 Memorial Concert. THE YEAR IN review A governor took office, again, a mayor announced he would not attempt to. Portland got an Office of Equity, and trans-inclusive health care for city employees. We watched as December was declared “Transgender Child Awareness Month” in Multnomah County, and we shook our heads at the latest bias crime headline. From community discussions to a live music series, Q Center continued its evolution, with one executive director departing for the governor’s office and another returning to Oregon to replace her. We looked to the future with new and burgeoning youthled events and resources. And with archival efforts and art exhibits by organizations like Cascade AIDS Project, the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest and the Imperial Sovereign Rose Court, we revisited the past. We came out, we Occupied, we were Gay & Grey and Red Dress all over. Old Lesbians organized for change, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence converged for Conclave, and a new Stark Street institution Crystallized. We made a day of it: Repeal, Coming Out, World AIDS, Trans Day of Remembrance. We made a Night, too: SMYRC’s Night of Noise, BRO’s Ignite. We were farm-fresh for the Human Rights Campaign and tipped our hats with the Portland Area Business Association. We moved (Triangle Productions!) or prepared to (Our House of Portland). We stood our ground (Seth Stambaugh) in one of many “teachable” moments in the ongoing fight for LGBTQ equality. We held hands across bridges and reached out to BY AMANdA SCHuRR those on the opposite side of the pew. We persevered with another year of community service from Q Patrol and In Other Words; we “Made It Happen” during an expanded Portland Pride; we remembered life is a pageant, from Latin Look to La Femme Magnifique. We Dined Out for Life and kept it close to home at the inaugural Market Q and at local businesses. Gnerds united in comic book revelry, alternative publishing thrived, and Siren Nation and the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Fest made their voices heard, their visions seen. We got schooled, from Q Center’s Telling Stories: The Art of Fact to Disjecta’s Queer Academy, Jeffrey Horvitz’s Queer Aperture at Pivot to Philip Iosca’s debut solo exhibition at Pacific Northwest College of Art. We scored: Oregon universities received high marks for its LGBT-friendly campuses. Portland lost the bid to host the 2013 Gay Softball World Series, but we still played hard, be it the Rose City Rollers, the Fighting Fillies or the Amazon Dragons. We camped OUT on the coast for the 35th year thanks to the YWCA. Thomas Lauderdale played Grieg, Kaia Wilson and friends played Sinead O’Connor. We represented: BearTown, statewide Leather Pride, the Rev. David Weekley and the Rev. Tara Wilkins to HRC’s Clergy Call in the nation’s capital, the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus to New York City. We mourned community figures who passed away—Ed Caduro, Don Drees, Gregg Ruffin, Jean Harris, Anthanasios “Saki” Katsavopoulos, Kent T. Magionos, Richard Ludt, Jose Israel Ornelas and Donald Baker Ross, to name but a few. Lady Bunny and Joey Arias came to town, so did George Takei and Kate Clinton, Big Freedia and Erasure, and John Cameron Mitchell and his Mattachine party, twice. We made movies and music and wrote books and plays and established record labels and organized new dance and performance nights and arts festivals. Poison Waters got roasted, “Team Darcelle” became a local mantra—its namesake, the grand marshal of the Rose Festival Starlight Parade. And that’s just for starters. In long, 2011 just wouldn’t quit—and in these pages you’ll find a rundown of the best and worst of the year in queer, with much more to be found on a local, national and global scale at justout.com. See you for another 12 in ‘12. BRIAN ROBERTSON www.justout.com
It was a buzzing year for the LGBTQ community, both locally and across the country. From the landmark July ruling by Oregon Chief District Judge Ann Aiken that the denial of health care benefits to the same-sex partner of Oregon court employee Margaret Fonberg constituted unlawful discrimination to the September creation of Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights and beyond, the past 12 months have been a productive, and sometimes controversial, year in queer. • Rep. Barney Frank (D–Mass.), the first openly gay serving member of Congress, announced his retirement on November 28. For 30 years, Frank was an instrumental and powerful Democrat, an outspoken critic of “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama took charge December 6 on the global promotion of LG- BTQ rights by U.S. agencies. Clinton’s now widely heralded speech in front of the United Nations in Geneva condemned discrimination against the LGBTQ community, saying that it cannot be excused by culture. Clinton and Obama both stopped short of making foreign aid contingent on a nation’s LG- BTQ rights record, threatening sanctions for abuses or calling out specific countries. • The Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) lost its leader and director Favor Ellis, who announced plans to move to the East Coast in August. The move put SMYRC in a precarious position, prompting potential partnership rumors to swirl around the community to keep the center running. As of press time, it appeared that Q Center could play a pivotal role for the future of SMYRC’s operations. “Q Center and Cascadia Behavioral Health are in discussions about the most effective ways to deliver services to high-risk sexual minority youth,” said center executive director Barbara McCullough-Jones. “Several plans are under consideration including moving SMYRC under the umbrella of Q Center. We expect more details will become available in early January.” • Former Q Center executive director Kendall Clawson was tapped in early January 2011 by Governor Kitzhaber’s incoming administration as its Director of Executive Appointments, necessitating her departure from the center. A nationwide search for a new leader resulted in the summer hiring of Barbara McCullough-Jones, an experienced figure in LGBTQ equality advocacy and community outreach. McCullough-Jones assumed leadership during trying times. A decline in volunteers THE YEAR IN community bY RYAN J. PRAdo for the city’s Q Patrol came when Portland Police were investigating three possible bias crimes that occurred in June and July, including the July 3 assault of 21-year-old queer musician and activist Kayla Stone in Old Town. The rise in bias crimes ignited Q Patrol and Pride Northwest to host a Community Safety Forum to discuss strategies for visibility and safety; and community members also facilitated the We Are Not Afraid march July 13 through Old Town. The assault of Pivot staff member Brad Forkner and boyfriend Christopher Rosevear May 22 near the Hawthorne Bridge inspired a showing of community-wide solidarity with more than 4,000 people participating in Hands Across Hawthorne a week later. The event was forged because Forkner and Rosevear were walking hand in hand when they were assaulted. Dillan Joseph Cashman was arrested July 25 and charged with intimidation in the second degree and assault in the fourth degree following a reported anti-gay assault in the 200 block of SW Harrison Street at Lovejoy Park. Hands Across Hawthorne mARTY dAvIs • An assault on a gay man June 25 was stopped short when Newport’s Andrew Smith stepped in to defend him. The Good Samaritan told KOIN 6, “I stepped in to help the man because I thought to myself, ‘What if that was my little brother?’” The perpetrators were both charged with thirddegree assault. • Cascade AIDS Project’s Pivot program launched a new billboard campaign June 27, in part as a response to the anti-gay attack on Pivot coordinator Brad Forkner and his boyfriend Christopher Rosevear in late May while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge. The couple’s attack sparked a photo shoot campaign dubbed “Love is Courageous,” from which the images used on the billboards were chosen. • Blake McCune—a 23-year-old Vancouver, Wash. man—was found guilty of interfering with a police report but was found not guilty on the much more serious charge of intimidation based on sexual orientation during a trial January 18 at the Multnomah County Courthouse. The ruling seemingly closed the chapter on an alterca- EAGLE EYE OPTICAL Melaina Catabay, Optician 3333 SE Belmont phone: 503.335.7173 EagleEyeOpticalShop.com Mariska Cirera-Probst, O.D. 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