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Back in the Ring
Attorneys Argue over Domestic Partnership Referendum in Federal Appeals Court
Gay rights group and foes take the fight for domestic partnerships to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Where He/She Belongs
Bigendered Person Wins Claims Against Portland Women’s Shelters
LEE/LISA IACUZZI and his/her three-legged dog, Rowdy, aren’t interested in fitting in. A bigendered person who was born a woman but now identifies as a “he” and a “she” simultaneously, Iacuzzi has won two gender discrimination claims against different Portland women’s shelters in the last six months. And Iacuzzi isn’t stopping there. Now, in a […]
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SISTERS OF THE ROAD could be on the verge of withdrawing from the mayor’s controversial Street Access for Everyone (SAFE) committee—which has been responsible for overseeing the enforcement of the sit-lie ordinance since it was enacted on August 30 last year. The nonprofit plans to hold a press conference on the steps of city hall—against […]
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God Loves Fags
Oregon’s Anti-Gay Initiative Effort on Verge of Failure?
LAST WEEK, Concerned Oregonians’ David Crowe sent out another email missive about his group’s struggle to put two anti-gay initiatives on November’s ballot. One—Initiative Petition 145—would repeal the state’s anti-discrimination law, and the other, Initiative Petition 146, would reverse the state’s domestic partnership law. But Concerned Oregonians’ effort, in partnership with former State Senator Marylin […]
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Concerned Oregonians—the con- servative group that hopes to gather enough signatures to put Oregon’s new domestic partnership and anti-discrimination laws on the November ballot—sent out a breathless email on Monday, April 21, indicating that the group’s wallet is virtually empty. “Of the 8,000 Oregonians on this email list, only 40 have made contributions toward our efforts, […]
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RACIAL PROFILING DIVISION Cop union boss Robert King is frustrated over an apparent reluctance in the mayor’s racial profiling committee to let him present a new report that suggests Portland isn’t collecting enough data to be able to tell whether or not cops are racial profiling. The report, by Brian Withrow, a criminologist at Wichita […]
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RAGING GRANNIES REDUX Portland’s anti-war raging grannies were arrested again on Good Friday, March 21, for daubing the army recruitment center on NE Broadway with red handprints. Cops arrested two grannies, one grandpa, and one 35-year-old woman. On Good Friday last year, six grannies were arrested for third-degree criminal mischief, after putting “bloody” handprints (made […]
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Appeal and Repeal
Anti-Gay Activists Appeal Federal Judge’s Ruling
ON MARCH 5, the group that earlier lost a court battle to block Oregon’s domestic partnership re-emerged, filing an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The documents filed so far don’t say much, other than the plaintiffs—folks who signed a referral measure aimed at putting the domestic partnership law […]
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Here We Go Again
Another Anti-Gay Initiative Filed
Less than a month after same-sex couples in Oregon started registering as domestic partners under a state law that lets them enjoy the same state rights and responsibilities as their married opposite-sex counterparts, anti-gay activists filed an initiative to repeal the law. State Senator Fred Girod (R-Stayton) and State Representative Sal Esquivel (R-Medford) filed the […]
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Domestic Problems
Oregon’s Domestic Partnership Law Runs into Murky Waters
When Sally Sparks and her partner, Heather Dugas, registered as domestic partners at the Multnomah County Building the day the new state law took effect on February 4, Sparks was overdue with their second child. “It was a good feeling that [the law] went through and we were going to walk into the hospital as […]