The Next GLAPN meeting:
GLAPN's next meeting will be held at 7:00PM, Monday, March 22, 2010, at Q Center, 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue, Portland, Oregon.
Anyone interested in preserving local LGBTQ history is invited to attend.
Recent news: Our Stories, November 14, 2009:
Gender Variance (part 1 of 2) -->F
The Our Stories Series continued on November 14, 2009, with the first of two programs honoring the 30th anniversary of the Northwest Gender Alliance.
The event, sponsored jointly by GLAPN (Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest) and Q Center, was held at Q Center, 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue, Portland, Oregon, beginning at 7:00PM.
Gender Variance -->F will be a panel discussion focusing on the male-to-female portion of our trans/gender-variant community. (Early in 2010, the next Our Stories program will feature female-to-male members of the community.)
Five panelists, three trailblazers in Pacific Northwest trans/gender-variant issues and two in the 20s-30s age group, spoke about their personal stories, followed by a moderated question-and-answer period, and open questions from the floor.
Dave Kohl, northwest author, historian and artist, will be the MC/Moderator for the evening.
Portland QUEER WALKING TOUR, June 30, 2009
The Portland's Gay Walking Tour, sponsored by the City of Portland as a Pride observance, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Everyone is invited, and there is no charge.
Participants will meet in Lownsdale Square, between SW 3rd & 4th Avenues, Salmon & Main Streets, at the statue, at noon.
This year's walk is led jointly by Rob Douglass, president of the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, and Brad Fortier, an event manager for Portland Walking Tours.
Every generation has had its gay scene. In spite of repression and out-and-out persecution, that was as true 100 years ago as it is today. Learn the secrets of the past -- at lunchtime on June 30th!
Recent news: The "Our Stories" Series:
Pioneers in LGBTQ Civil Rights
Portlanders reflected on 35 years of gay activism on January 11-12, 2008, with back-to-back evenings jointly hosted by Q Center and the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest.
Q Center (69 S.E. Taylor) was packed for the Jan. 11 screening of Ballot Measure 9, and again for the Jan. 12 roundtable discussion with more than 20 leaders and activists from Oregon's sexual minorities community.
Just Out previewed the events in their Jan. 4, 2008 issue on page 12, and covered them in the Jan. 18, 2008 issue on pages 10 and 55. Those issues may be viewed on Just Out's website, www.justout.com.
GLAPN and the Q Center are planning a similar event for Spring/Summer of 2008 in conjunction with Pride celebrations, at a time to be announced.
March 29th: Our Stories: A Quarter Century of AIDS
Join us for another in Q Center’s ongoing series of roundtable storytelling events featuring in-person testimonials, Q&A, and community discussion. Come join us for an incredible evening of living history, reconnecting, hearing the stories of Portland’s LGBTQ community and what it has been like for LGBTQ Oregonians through the decades of living with AIDS — and share your own stories as well. It is important to know where we have come from and to think about where we are going. Hosted by Q Center, the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, and Cascade AIDS Project.
Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 7:30pm-10:00pm , Q Center, 69 SE Taylor Ave at SE Water Ave, Portland. Donations accepted at the door
The "Our Stories" Series:
Coming Out: Making Waves, October 4, 2008
Life-changing decisions effect individuals who make them, but may also have ripple effects on entire communities. Such are the stories that were shared October 4 at Portland's Q Center.
Eight individuals shared their own tales about coming out and making a stand on gay and lesbian rights. Their own lives were altered; but the actions they took with and for the GLBTQ community have made a difference to hundreds of other lives.
Designed to tie in with National Coming Out Month, the Saturday event was co-sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN), which collects and archives the memories and memorabilia of GLBTQ Oregonians. Speakers came from several sub-groups within the sexual minority community - urban, rural, disabled, racial minorities, parents, and activists.
Speakers included Frank Roa (Umatilla Morrow Alternatives); Betty Nelson (Lesbian Community Project and Metropolitan Community Church); Carla Remy (KBOO radio); Larry Smith (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network); Mehera Scheu (Sexual and Minority Youth Resource Center); and Don and Joanne Ross (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Introducing speakers will be Dave Kohl, author of the award-winning history of Portland's GLBTQ community, "A Curious and Peculiar People."
"Our Stories:" Out For Good - 40 Years After Stonewall
GLAPN and Q Center collaborate on the Our Stories Series, gathering history-making members of the queer community to tell their stories. This event was held at the NEW A Center, 4115 N Mississippi Avenue, Saturday, May 23, 2009, starting at 7:30PM.
As part of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, eight esteemed members of our community shared their stories of how this struggle forever shaped their lives. Come join us for an amazing evening of living history, reconnecting, and hearing shared the stories of Portland’s LGBTQ community.
"No one really expected anything radical from an essentially silent,
secret, secluded subculture which emerged mainly at night, to
congregate in mob bars...So when the spark did come, perhaps it should
not be surprising that it came in of those places, at one of those
times. Perhaps only in retrospect does it seem clear that this was
the logical way it would happen, that the last struggle for civil
rights in the 20th century would begin with a fight at a bar."
-from Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney, "Out for Good: The Struggle to
Build a Gay Rights Movement in America," Simon and Schuster, NY 1999
