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Night of Noise: A Benefit for SMYRC, April 17th

A Night of Noise! Support our queer future with SMYRC!!

A Night of Noise! Support our queer future with SMYRC


I’m just gonna copy in this email I got. Support SMYRC. They are awesome! As a youth, I profited greatly from a group like SMYRC, and I personally know queer and questioning youth who are current SMYRC regulars.

Community “Night of Noise” Fundraiser for the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center Friday, April 17th @ the Jupiter Hotel

“Night of Noise”, an all ages GLBTQ community fundraiser to benefit the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center, will take place Friday, April 17 from 9pm-1am at The Jupiter Hotel on 800 E Burnside St. The event is organized by the Portland State University Queer Resource Center, SinnSavvy Productions, and local promoter Kaki Marshall. Additional sponsors of the event include Just Out, the Portland Mercury, KBOO 90.7 FM, the Associated Students of Portland Community College Sylvania, and the Portland chapter of the Human Right’s Campaign.

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Queer Pride Week at PCC Sylvania

There’s a lot of us queerions that make our way through the pathways of PCC Cascade on a daily basis, so I sometimes forget that the main campus is really Sylvania, even if it is all the way out in the ‘burbs. And this week is Sylvania’s Queer Pride Week, put on by their Women’s Resource Center.

Events include:

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Silverton, Oregon’s trans mayor, Stu Rasmussen, may get his own reality show

Photo by Danielle Peterson / Statesman Journal

Portlanders expect our hometown to be weird, and indeed, I think Portland could launch a thousand successful reality TV shows. What we don’t expect is to be upstaged by a small town neighbor. When the first openly trangendered mayor, Stu Rasmussen, was elected last fall, however, Silverton clearly got the best of us. Now they may beat us to the reality front as well.

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CAP U’s first lesson: HIV myths & stigmas

Cascade Aids Project is starting a new educational series intended for volunteers and community members who want to be informed HIV and AIDS. The series of discussions, led by professionals and community leaders, will take place once ever two months at the Q Center (4115 N Mississippi Ave).

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Oregon House passes anti-bullying bill by a wide margin

GBLTQ and genderqueer youth are some of the biggest targets for school age bullying so it is with great joy that Basic Rights Oregon reports that the Oregon House just passed HB2599, the Oregon Safe Schools Act, on a 50 to 9 vote.

Jeana Frazzini, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon says of the bill: “Bullying and harassment are far too common in Oregon schools. This proposal will help keep children safe.”

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Spring break hate crime in Seaside, Oregon

Two gay men, Samson and Kevin were severely beaten in a hate crime this weekend in Seaside, Oregon

Two gay men, Samson and Kevin were severely beaten in a hate crime this weekend in Seaside, Oregon. Photo courtesy KATU.

I am very privileged to almost always feel safe in Portland and I usually feel fairly confident that I will not be gay bashed in most of Oregon, certainly in our laid back coastal areas. But this weekend 2 young gay men, nursing students from western Washington, were beaten severely in Seaside, Oregon.

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Sneak peek of Beau Breedlove’s Unzipped cover

Beau Breedlove on the cover of Unzipped magazine

Beau Breedlove on the cover of Unzipped magazine

Though the print issue (as if anyone cared…you can print out the picture to put above your bed right?) will not be on newsstands until April 7th, Unzipped has released the cover photo of Portland’s infamous mayor canoodler Beau Breedlove. (Breedlove had an affair with Mayor Sam Adams quite near his 18th birthday, just in case you missed that…) And I gotta say, despite your feelings on the whole debacle, it’s pretty damn hot.

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Beau Breedlove interview on Logo tonight

Beau Breedlove

Thrust into the spotlight, the aptly named Beau Breedlove appears be navigating notoriety with skill, if not grace. A performer by nature, I’m not quite sure I believe his assertions that he dislikes the attention.

The young man currently embroiled in the Sam Adams sex scandal sat down with Ross Palombo of CBS News and will appear tonight on Logo.

From 365GayNews:

“What attracted you to him?” Palombo asked.

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