Jul
22
2008
There are people in our community - and in any community - who seem to be offended by the slightest thing. I try to avoid being one of those people. The things that annoy me aren’t so much the outright attempts to offend me - it’s the things that people say that make me want to ask “really? Did you really think about that first?”
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Jul
21
2008
You know it’s ironic. My older brother is a total hetero-queen. The boots he wears have 3″ heels and he bought them because they click when he walks, he uses a hair iron, he wears ass tight jeans, he L-O-V-E-S fashion, oh, and he loves women. I know, I thought he was gay too, but au contraire. He’s just femme!
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Jul
11
2008
Though the dance-happy queens from the “old Silverado” or doped-up dudes lounging in their birthday suits have only been gone from the building less than a year, Portland powerhouse pub factory McMenamins announced today it has purchased the old Silverado/Club Portland complex location at the corner of SW 12th and Stark Street, a longtime infamous corner of Portland’s fast-gentrifying “gay district,” Southwest Stark Street, and plans to open an as-yet-unnamed hotel and restaurant in the renovated building as early as winter of 2009.
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Jul
09
2008
The new law allowing same sex couples to establish domestic partnerships was in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Oregon.
Or, more precisely, judges heard about an attempt to refer that law to the ballot, using Oregon’s referendum system. And as Rob Manning reports, the arguments weren’t really about gay rights — they were about the rights of people who sign election petitions.
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Jul
08
2008
Members of the Rose City Rollers have entered Red Bull’s Flügtag event all in the name of raising $10,000 for the Sherie Hildreth Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation. Two years ago, Rose City Rollers donated $3,000 to the foundation from the proceeds of their season championship bout. Continue Reading »
Jul
08
2008
(AP) — Oregon’s domestic partnership law came under legal fire again Tuesday, as opponents tried to persuade three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that elections officials had wrongly disqualified the issue from the November ballot.
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Jun
18
2008
Tradition is a powerful adhesive, as anyone who trifles with one, large or small, can attest. You’re up against the sticktoitiveness of human nature, the force that keeps us in our orbits, the one that makes the world go round.
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Jun
18
2008
In the past few days, I have been very fortunate to be emotionally moved by some closely related events.
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Jun
16
2008
Snippets of comments about Portland Pride 2008. Add yours below!
We could barely ask for better weather.
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Jun
16
2008
The (Gay) Rose City Softball Association All Stars defeated the Portland Police All Stars 19-4 in a charity game.
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