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LOCAL Lezzbook.com founder and editor Elizabeth “Beth” Antoinette Darr, 34, passed away unexpectedly April 30 in her Seattle home. Darr had been suffering from complications from a 2004 auto accident. She created the social media site, which was on the...
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly At 3 a.m. on April 24, vandals threw rocks at the windows of Portland’s controversial Mars Hill Church, breaking 100-year-old stained glass and reigniting smoldering tensions between Q Center and members of the LGBTQ...
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly Students, administrators, activists, and churchgoers alike were brought together last month when the traveling activist initiative Equality Ride rolled through Portland, spreading the good news of “relentless nonviolent...
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By Sunny Clark, PQ Monthly Newly-appointed Pride Foundation Executive Director Kris Hermanns received an urgent phone call on her first day of work, asking if she could be in Olympia the next day for Governor Christine Gregoire’s announcement of her...
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Parenting can be a challenging and isolating job. All the more so when the parents are queer. Though Portland has groups for lesbian moms and gay dads, until recently there was nowhere for queer parents to connect with others...
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly John Brennan’s now-infamous nude protest at the Portland International Airport may have been impromptu, but that doesn’t mean it was a thoughtless act. The 49-yr-old web development manager flies frequently for business...
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By Daniel Borgen, PQ Monthly We’d put money on the following: we’re betting you didn’t know our fair city boasted a collection of ladies with such tenacity and athletic prowess that they formed their own football team. OK, maybe we’d lose that...
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Fred Karger knows his chances of winning the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are slim — his name is on the ballot in only six states and he hasn’t been invited to a single debate — but that hasn’t stopped him...
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By Neil “Nikki” Heilpern, PQ Monthly Why does one group of “religious” people wave “God Hates Fags” signs, while others display signs reading “My God Loves Everyone!”? Two concepts stand out in the message of author Jay Michaelson:...
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Compiled and edited by Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly Recent polls indicate that 83 percent of Americans identify as a member of a religious denomination, and a majority of Americans report that their religion plays a “very important” role in their lives....
