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OR: Gay Couple Sends Christmas Card to Neighbors: Talk About Marriage Equality

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Gay Couple sends Marriage Equality Christmas CardsAloha residents Dan and Marcos German-Domingues sent out a Christmas card with a special message this year.

The couple, with help from Portland-based nonprofit Basic Rights Oregon, sent out hundreds of letters to their neighbors asking them to take a moment during the holiday season to think and talk about an issue close to their hearts – gay marriage.

Dan and Marcos met while volunteering for rights organization. They fell in love quickly, they say, and now, Dan said, “In our hearts, we are as good as married.”

Full Story from The Portland Tribune

Click here for gay marriage resources in Oregon.

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Sumiche Jewelry, Walterville, Oregon

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Oregon Wedding Vendors

Sumiche Jewelry: Walterville, OregonSumiche Jewelry has more than twenty years of experience making beautiful custom wedding rings for customers around the world – beautiful symbols of your own enduring love for your partner.

We believe in using fair trade metals (including gold and platinum), recycled metals (including silver), conflict-free diamonds and fair trade gems – we believe in sustainability and in using precious gems and metals wisely, because we believe in lasting relationships with the planet, too.

We’re the only jeweler in the United States using Certified “Green” Gold and Platinum in all our jewelry – sustainably mined and fairly traded in Columbia’s Choco region by artisanal miners. Sumiche Jewelry imports these metals directly from Corporaction Oro-Verde. We use 100% recycled and sustainably mined gold and platinum and recycled sterling silver to create our beautiful, custom wedding rings.

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Sailing On Productions, Portland, Oregon

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Sailing On Productions - Portland, OregonPeriodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Oregon Wedding Vendors

Rocky Rhodes heads a company of high quality and personal integrity. Rocky began performing with live bands when he was just twelve years old, and has performed with Bob Kuban and the In-Men of “The Cheater” fame. He also worked ad a back-up singer for Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars touring show, and has appeared at the Whiskey A Go-Go, Where the Action Is and other ’60′s venues.

Rocky spent seventeen years touring Asia and Hawaii, working at a number of large hotels and lounges, including the Hilton, Playboy (Hong Kong), InterContinental, Outrigger, and more, and has also appeared on Japanese Television and Radio.

He has also done stunt work in Return of the Dragon with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris; Hawaii 5-O; Magnum P.I.; Barnaby Jones and Hart to Hart.

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Mon Amour Photography, Portland, Oregon

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Mon Amour Photography - Portland, Oregon

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Oregon Wedding Vendors

Rosemary is available for weddings and ceremonies of all kinds! She enjoys being part of the wonderful celebration of unions. Mon Amour Photography offers full service, boutique style photography at reasonable prices.

On your day, we will capture a mix of fun; emotion filled candid images and beautiful, fine art portraits. We have an unobtrusive style, so that you and your beloved can spend more time enjoying your day together than posing for pictures.

We offer many lovely ways to display your images and tell your story with custom album and book designs. You will get one on one service and artistry from beginning to end. Available for world wide travel!

“Oh my god Rosemary! These photos are stunning! Damn you’re good. Picking photos is going to be really fun. I am so in love with these shots. Can you tell I’m completely incoherent with joy at the moment?! Thank you so very much!” Kelly & Dolores

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Gay Marriage Events(Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, CA, Los Angeles: 11/04, Voter Canvass Training, The Village, 6:30-9:30 PM.
–USA, CA, San Francisco: 11/04, One Struggle One Fight Meeting, 209 Golden Gate Ave, 7 PM.
–USA, CA, West Hollywood: 11/04, Equality Network Meeting, TBD, TBD.
–USA, OR, Eugene: 11/04, Winning the Freedom to Marry, Eugene Public Library, 6 PM.

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OR: Gay Teacher Fired After Gay Marriage Comment Reinstated

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Oregon Gay MarriageJust Out has learned that Seth Stambaugh has been reinstated to the Beaverton School District. The Lewis and Clark College grad student and student teacher at Sexton Mountain Elementary School has drawn national attention after news broke that he was dismissed from his student-teaching duties and not allowed to return to his position or to any school in the district. Stambaugh’s official dismissal occurred on September 15, following a complaint by the parent of a student in Stambaugh’s fourth grade class at Sexton Mountain Elementary School.

Per Just Out staff writer Ryan J. Prado’s Oct. 15 story,

“The class had been working on a journal activity when a student asked Stambaugh if he was married. Stambaugh replied that he wasn’t, and when the student asked him why, he replied that it was not legal in Oregon, because he would choose to marry another man. A fellow student overheard the conversation and that student’s parent contacted Sexton Mountain Principal Don Martin, who in turn contacted the district to ask for Stambaugh’s removal from the school. The official cause given for the dismissal was not that Stambaugh came out to his class, but that his remarks regarding the legality of gay marriage were inappropriate and unprofessional in the classroom setting.”

Full Story from Just Out

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Oregon: Basic Rights Oregon Works to Change Hearts and Minds

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Thirty years ago, Candace Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunken driver while she was walking down the street near her Fair Oaks, Calif., home. Soon after, Lightner learned that the driver had previously been arrested five times for driving while intoxicated.

Enraged, Lightner, who had no previous experience in politics, decided she was going to change American attitudes about the dangers of drunken driving. Within three years, virtually every state in the country had a strict drunken driving law as a result of a hearts-and-minds campaign undertaken by the organization Lightner formed – Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

On an individual level, changing someone’s mind can seem nearly impossible. But in politics, experts say, given money, passion and patience, nearly anything is possible. That’s exactly what the people at Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s leading same-sex marriage advocates, are counting on.

When a federal judge ruled three weeks ago that a gay marriage ban passed by California voters in 2008 was unconstitutional, Basic Rights had fresh ammunition for a public education campaign it had begun last winter. The campaign includes direct-mail brochures to Oregon households, television and radio ads and hundreds of volunteers going door to door.

Full Story from the Portland Tribune

Click here for gay marriage resources in Oregon.

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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Starts 3 Week Ad Campaign

Monday, July 26th, 2010

If you live in Oregon and oppose same-sex marriage, gay-rights supporters will be trying to change your mind – and ultimately reverse a state ban on gay marriage – with a three-week advertising campaign. Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest gay-rights group, last week began airing 30-second ads on various cable television stations covering Ashland, Cottage Grove, Florence, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany and Coos, Clatsop and Washington counties. The ads are expected to cost several hundred thousand dollars and reach about 300,000 people.

In addition, the group is mailing 50,000 brochures to households within those areas that explain why gay and lesbian couples want to marry.

“Our hope is to reach many more people with the message and continue to inspire those one-on-one conversations that we feel are critical to building understanding and support for the freedom to marry,” said Jeana Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon.

Full Story from Basic Rights Oregon

Click here for gay marriage resources in Oregon.

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