Basic Rights Oregon’s Equality PAC has announced its endorsement for Oregon Governor, and it is . . . (drum roll) . . . (hope you’re sitting down) . . . (it’s a real shocker) . . . John Kitzhaber.
But why? According to an email from BRO Executive Director Jeana Frazzini:
Kitzhaber, with two terms of experience [...]

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As marriage equality advocates in Massachusetts and California are fighting against marriage discrimination in the courts, Basic Rights Oregon is working to change the hearts and minds of our coworkers and neighbors with a statewide TV ad campaign.
The ads, which feature a diverse cast of couples (hetero and homo) talking about marriage with the message [...]

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So far this legislative session in Oregon, there’s been only one bill introduced specifically addressing LGBT Oregonians: House Bill 2599, a bill designed to further flesh out the state’s existing laws on bullying and harassment for elementary, junior and high school students, and adds “sexual orientation” to the list of “protected classes” that the law is designed [...]

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You’ll be reading about this more in the Feb. 20 Just Out street edition, but here’s a heads-up: Basic Rights Oregon’s bi-annual lobbying day at the capitol is coming up next month – Friday, March 6 in Salem.
The focus of BRO’s big day at the capitol this year: queer youth, as they prime the pump for a [...]

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Lindsey Asher (in photo at right) is putting down the bullhorn. For now, at least.
Instead, the fast-emerging Portland gay activist – best-known as the organizer behind Portland’s “Join the Impact” rallies in November and December last year – is joining up with another activist and organizer, Basic Rights Oregon’s Thomas Wheatley, to lead a workshop on [...]

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Oregon’s far-right conservative anti-gay coalition, Concerned Oregonians, has picked themselves up after a round of legal defeats this year, and are charging ahead with a series of rights-stripping initiative petitions which may be filed as early as this month, Just Out has learned.
In case you missed the story in today’s issue, I wanted to post [...]

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Jeff Merkley was delivered to the United States Senate by 783,088 Oregon voters this week, as of the state election division office’s most recent count. That’s about 42,000 more votes than incumbent Gordon Smith’s total – so far, anyway.
In a press conference this morning at Portland State University announcing his definitive win, Merkley arrived to a cheering [...]

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Short on cash (I can’t imagine why) but wondering how else you can help to defeat California’s rights-stripping Prop 8 campaign?
Basic Rights Oregon has got your back. This Sunday, October 19, BRO’s stepping up to host a “No on 8″ phone-banking night in their Portland and Eugene offices, from 5 to 8 pm. According to BRO [...]

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Can we please wake up for just a moment here, people?
If the polls and the reported raw dollars raised are to be believed, then we’re currently losing the “No on Proposition 8″ marriage equality battle in California, and we should all be pretty fucking scared about this.
The thing is, I don’t see or hear mobs of LGBT and [...]

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Yes yes yes – Sarah Palin Sarah Palin Sarah Palin. I’m exhausted by her already, and she’s only been in the public eye for, what, six days? (three of them tucked away with McCain advisers, plotting last night’s angry screed, I mean, speech).
Anyhow, here’s what’s up in tomorrow’s Just Out September 5 street edition:
… IRIS [...]

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