The NOH8 Campaign will receive a Stumptown boost this Wednesday at Vault Martini and Jinx Lounge (226 NW 12th Ave.) during a benefit for marriage equality.
Enjoy potent drinks with friends while raising money for the legal battle that lies ahead in the campaign for marriage equality. Fifteen percent of all sales from the evening will [...]

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Put your money where your mouth is Thursday, June 24 when the 11th Annual Bites for Rights event tempts your taste buds throughout the entire state of Oregon. Presented by Basic Rights Oregon, this year’s event – dubbed Feast on Fairness – aims to pair your palate with your pocketbook.
This statewide culinary communion will take [...]

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OPB News reported three days ago that former Oregonian, and influential gay rights critic, Scott Lively, who was one of the many evangelist-type morons  colonialists presenters who attended the conference in Uganda last year that sprung the current “Kill the Gays” bill facing Uganda’s parliament, is crying foul against the death penalty provision his visit [...]

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Starting with tonight’s rally at PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union building, room #338, Basic Rights Oregon is officially kicking off the first phase of a “public education campaign,” with the aim being to begin discussion for a 2012 ballot initiative to end the constitutional ban on gay marriage in Oregon, The Oregonian reports.
Evan Wolfson, founder [...]

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This week’s Double Down dance party at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St.) will be a farewell of sorts, but that doesn’t mean you need bust out your tissues. Instead, we’d suggest you bust a move (come on…Young MC!).
From the organizers:
DJs Automaton and Girlfriends will host in a special farewell even to one of PDX’s hottest [...]

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Today is the last Monday of the month to revel in potent drink AND support Basic Rights Oregon at the same time.
On every Monday of the month, for the entire month of September, Vintage Cocktail Lounge (7907 SE Stark) has been donating 10 percent of its revenue to Basic Rights Oregon. What better way to [...]

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The first of a trinity of weekly summer bus trips begins this weekend, July 25, when Politicorps, the Bus Project’s leadership boot camp, sets out in the name of education and progress.
Here’s their schedule:
July 25: Family Matters Bus Trip.
Meet in Salem or Portland to jump-start the effort toward marriage equality with Basic Rights Oregon. [...]

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Being billed as “My Big Fat Gay Wedding,” tomorrow evening’s Brewhaha, Democracy & Drinks sounds like a fabulous way to address the issue of gay marriage.
Sponsored by Basic Rights Oregon, New Deal Vodka, and Saint Cupcake, among others, “My Big Fat Gay Wedding will serve up cold microbrew, delicious democracy cake, the past and future [...]

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The vote on whether or not to rename 39th Avenue to Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard will take place next Tuesday, June 23rd at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
Basic Rights Oregon has issued a statement with regard to the impending vote. Read it after the jump!

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As per the details expelled via my Pulitzer-worthy blog on the 10th Annual Bites for Rights in Oregon last week, today is the day to step up to the dining table for equality!
Bites for Rights is hitting over 65 pro-equality eateries and bars today across the state, with 15 percent of the proceeds going to [...]

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