News No Native American tribe in Oregon has laws that makes violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members a hate crime, but a new legal toolkit released today by Basic Rights Oregon hopes to change that.The toolkit contains example wording and ways for tribes create new laws to give rights to LGBT members of their nation, says Se-ah-dom Edmo, coordinator of the Indigenous Ways of Knowing ...   More

News Via Byron Beck comes news that Just Out—"Oregon's Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Newsmagazine"—is ending publication after 29 years.A short letter from publisher Marty Davis on the Just Out website reads as follows: Effective December 26, 2011, Just Out newsmagazine, serving Portland’s LGBTQ community since 1983, is no longer in business.Three years of recession have taken their toll. Please direct ...   More

News Rainbow Vista in Gresham looks like any other retirement community. Austere facility on the outside, pastel floral wallpaper on the inside. But Rainbow Vista isn’t your typical old folks’ home   More

News Students at Southridge High School in Beaverton aren't the only ones taking action against Uganda's barbarous Anti-Homosexuality Bill. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stating, “I strongly urge you to communicate immediately to the Ugandan government, and President Yoweri Museveni directly, that Uganda's beneficiary status under ...   More

News Dear Oregon universities, We are pleased to inform you that you have been placed on the Honor Roll of the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. The index owned by Campus Pride and supported by the Campus Pride Q Research Institute for Higher Education ranks schools in terms of their level of inclusion and respect towards the LGBT community. And it turns out that five of the six listed Oregon ...   More