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class="wpds-c-kgabfe wpds-c-kgabfe-ieEDlgV-css"><span data-ttid="display-date" class="wpds-c-iKQyrV">November 10, 2016 at 11:02 a.m. EST</span></div></div></div></hear></div><article class="grid-article mb-xxl-ns" data-qa="ma"><div data-ttid="le-art" data-qa="le-art" class=""><figure class="overflow-hidn relative hi-for-prt center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-to-ns mr-to-ns grid-mobile-full-bleed"><div style="filter:blur(10px);transn:filter .1s;le-height:0" class="w-100 mw-100 h-to" width="600" height="356"><img style="background-size:ver;max-width:1600px;background-image:url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; xmlns%3Axlk='http%3A//; viewBox='0 0 1280 853'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' lor-terpolatn-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGssianBlur stdDeviatn='.5'%3E%3C/feGssianBlur%3E%3CfeComponentTransfer%3E%3CfeFuncA type='discrete' tableValu='1 1'%3E%3C/feFuncA%3E%3C/feComponentTransfer%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage filter='url(%23b)' x='0' y='0' height='100%25' width='100%25' 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She is also the newly elected ernor of Oregon and the first openly LGBT person to be elected ernor of a state. Brown (D) was actually the cumbent Tuday: The former secretary of state stepped to the top job 2015 after Gov. John Kzhaber rigned amid sndal. But she had never been elected to the job until Tuday. The Fix ught up wh Brown the morng after to talk about her historic electn. 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But I will say, I jt met last week wh a gay stunt alliance om a number of schools Oregon, and stunts are very ncerned. There is much more work that we need to do here Oregon. We have achieved enormo victori: We have passed a ban on nversn therapy. We've created an LGBT office wh our partment of veterans partment of tn me out wh l to ensure the safety and secury of stunts high school and schools throughout the state.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But is very clear that we need to redouble our efforts to make sure that members of the LGBT muny have the support and the servic that they need on every level our tn system.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>Your w uld be nsired a bright spot for progrsiv an otherwise very dark electn for them. How, if at all, do you thk your electn fs to the narrative of a starkly divid Ameri?</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I thk as ernor, I'm really foced on my state and makg sure that my diverse muny has the support and servic they need.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I will say at a natnal level, you n't be what you n't see. It is important to have a diversy of voic at the learship table for a number of reasons. And I believe very strongly that by havg a diversy of voic at the learship table, the public policy we make is more reflective and more rpectful. And I will, wh my role at the Natnal Governor's Associatn and other anizatns like the Wtern Governors Associatn, ntue to e that voice and my experienc as a member of the LGBT muny, as well as my female voice to help ph forward as a natn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>What 's like to be a female, Democratic polician a natn that jt rejected the first female major-party ndidate for print?</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I thk the first job as the print-elect is to brg the untry together, and for me, one of the most important thgs that he n do is to une our untry and prerve the ials that make our untry great, and that is about jtice and equal rights for all people.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Those of who are at the learship table, we're gog to have to e our voic, and we're gog to have to reach back and pull up more women.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>Democrats <a href=" target="_blank">actually lost ernors' seats</a> Tuday. So same qutn: What's like to be a Democrat what feels like a Republin world?</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I thk the work we are dog at the state level is cril. I see the state as the thk tank, the petri dish of progrsive public policy, and unr my learship, Oregon we will ntue to be a progrsive lear for the untry. And I thk our work is even more important than was durg the last two years.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Example: We were able to pass the natn's first tomatic voter registratn law, and we saw other stat replitg that work.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sendly, Oregon beme the first state the natn to tentnally move away om al-generated electricy as we work to rce greenhoe gas. I see that legislatn as a role mol for the untry.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">We obvly don't know what our print-elect's plans are terms of global climate change, but is here impactg our enomi, and we need to addrs .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I'm also askg: Okay, we need to provi support and enuragement for people who are tly aaid, like for members of the Lato muny who are worried they are gog to be ported. How do we alce, how do we llaborate, how do we une and work together to make sure that don't happen?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>Your mpaign ma news for another reason. In a bate wh your Republin opponent, <a href=" target="_blank">you shared for the first time publicly</a> that you had been a victim of domtic vlence. Walk me through why you cid to share that.</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For me, was a moment of sharg a part of myself and my experienc to nnect wh basilly the 1 ln women and girls this state who have been victims of domtic vlence or sexual asslt. A report had jt e out talkg about the numbers of women and girls the state who are impacted by domtic vlence and sexual asslt, and that report 50 percent of the women and girls the regn had been impacted. That's a really crlo number on a number of levels, and I wanted the girls to know I had had siar experienc, and that I was standg shoulr to shoulr wh them and I would ntue to fight for them.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>It feels like sce this mpaign, women are more willg to talk about their experienc wh domtic vlence and sexual abe.</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There's absolutely no qutn. I thk that this mpaign kd of blew the lid off people keepg the experienc private, and women and girls feelg very strongly that they need to share, so that other women and girls unrstand that they're not alone.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">What was tertg for me was readg and hearg other women scribe their experienc, and how was siar to me. And maybe if we talked about more, we would be more prehensive our effort to bat .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><strong>Anythg else you want to add about this electn?</strong></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Y. I graduated om high school 1978. I have watched the femist movement ebb and flow over time. We have taken steps forward, and we have had to take steps back. I was tritely volved the fight for LGBTQ equaly this state. I know that the end, we will ntue to move forward, and we will ntue to move the directn of jtice and equaly. I know that my heart.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Correctn: This post origally had the rrect year Gov. 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GAY MUNY ON NEXT OREGON GOV. KATE BROWN: Y, SHE UNTS
BISEXUALY’S WATERSHED POLIL MOMENTFIRST BISEXUAL GOVERNORPOLLS SHOW THAT BISEXUALY IS THE LEAST ACCEPTED OF ALL SEXUALI. NEW OREGON GOVERNOR KATE BROWN, WHO IS OPENLY BISEXUAL AND MARRIED TO A MAN, ULD HELP CHANGE PERCEPTNS.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 14, 2015 7:45AM EST MICHAEL LLOYD/THE OREGONIAN/LANDOVON FEBARY 18, FORMER OREGON SECRETARY OF STATE KATE BROWN (D) WILL BEE THE FIRST PUBLICLY BISEXUAL ERNOR THE UNED STAT. BROWN’S SWEARG ON THE HEELS OF DEMOCRAT JOHN KZHABER’S RIGNATN OF THE ERNORSHIP FRIDAY FOLLOWG ALLEGATNS OF RPTN AND FLUENCE-PEDDLG LOBBIED AGAST BOTH HIM AND HIS FIANCéE CYLVIA HAY. BUT WHAT’S BAD NEWS FOR KZHABER IS GREAT NEWS FOR THE FUTURE OF LGBT POLIL REPRENTATN THE UNED STAT.AND ’S EVEN BETTER NEWS FOR BISEXUAL AMERINS WHO ARE SORELY LACKG PUBLIC VISIBILY AT A CCIAL MOMENT LGBT HISTORY.BROWN’S UNPLANNED ASCENSN TO THE ERNORSHIP IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD FOR LGBT POLICIANS, PECIALLY ON A STATE LEVEL. THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV HAS HAD OPENLY LGBT REPRENTATN SCE BARNEY FRANK ME OUT 1987 AND TOOK UNTIL 2012 FOR WISNS DEMOCRAT TAMMY BALDW TO BEE THE FIRST PUBLICLY LGBT U.S. SENATOR.BUT THE ONLY ERNOR TO HAVE EVER E OUT AS LGBT IS FORMER NEW JERSEY DEMOCRAT JIM MCGREEVEY, WHOSE G OUT SPEECH WAS EXTENSIVE WH HIS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WOULD RIGN THE ERNORSHIP THE FACE OF A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU. IF ANYTHG, WILL BE CHALLENGG FOR BROWN TO FARE WORSE THAN MCGREEVEY HER NEW SPOTLIGHT AS AN LGBT ERNOR. BUT KATE BROWN IS MORE THAN JT A TICK THROUGH A POLIL CHECKBOX—THE NSEQUENC OF HER NEW POSN GO FAR BEYOND OREGON.THE OCSN OF THE FIRST OPENLY BISEXUAL ERNOR OF THE UNED STAT IS A CULTURAL WATERSHED FOR BISEXUAL PEOPLE THE UNED STAT, WHO HAVE HISTORILLY BEEN BETTER REPRENTED BY CELEBRI LIKE BOWIE THAN BY POLICIANS LIKE BROWN.WH SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT—WHICH HAS TRADNALLY BEEN REPRENTED AS AN EXCLIVELY GAY OR LBIAN ISSUE—SEEMG ALL BUT EVABLE 2015 AND PUBLIC ATTENTN QUICKLY TURNG TO WHAT TIME HAS LLED “THE TRANSGENR TIPPG POT,” THE “B” THE LGBT IS AT RISK OF BEG LOST THE SHUFFLE. BROWN’S ASSUMPTN OF STATE LEARSHIP 2015 IS A PARTICULARLY FORTUO OPPORTUNY TO KEEP BISEXUAL PEOPLE THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG LGBT EQUALY, AS THE UNTRY’S FOC SHIFTS TO THE LAST TWO LETTERS OF THAT UBIQUO ACRONYM.BROWN’S ERNORSHIP AT A SURPRISG MOMENT WHEN BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MUCH MORE RELUCTANT TO BE OUT THAN THEIR GAY AND LBIAN UNTERPARTS. ACRDG TO THE 2009 NATNAL SURVEY OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND BEHAVR, OVER HALF OF ALL LGB PEOPLE THE UNED STAT INTIFY AS BISEXUAL. DPE THIS CLEAR MAJORY WH THE LGBT MUNY, BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MUCH LS VISIBLE.ALMOST HALF OF BISEXUAL EMPLOYE ARE PLETELY THE CLOSET AT WORK, AS PARED TO ONLY A QUARTER OF GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE. AND ACRDG TO A 2013 PEW SURVEY ONLY 28 PERCENT OF BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE OUT TO“ALL OR MOST OF THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE THEIR LIFE” AS PARED TO THE MAJORY OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS WHO ARE OUT.THIS UNRREPRENTATN OF BISEXUAL PEOPLE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SPHER IS EVEN MORE VISIBLE THE WORLD OF U.S. POLICS. IN 2012, THE ADVOTE ULD ONLY UNT FIVE OPENLY BISEXUAL STATE OFFICIALS CLUDG BROWN OUT OF THE THEN-90 OR SO LGBT STATE-LEVEL LEGISLATORS. THAT’S A LOT LS THAN HALF.SCE THAT TIME, FORMER ARIZONA STATE SENATOR KYRSTEN SEMA HAS BEE THE FIRST OUT BISEXUAL NGRSWOMAN BUT THAT’S THE HIGHT AN OPENLY BISEXUAL PERSON HAS CLIMBED UNTIL NOW, MAKG BROWN THE HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY BISEXUAL PUBLIC OFFICIAL U.S. HISTORY.GIVEN THE REPORTED PREVALENCE OF BISEXUALY RELATIVE TO HOMOSEXUALY, THERE ARE ALMOST CERTALY BISEXUAL POLICIANS WHO ARE STILL THE CLOSET. IN THE POLIL REALM, HOWEVER, WHERE SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS NOT JT A MATTER OF DISCRIMATN BUT A FACTOR ONE’S VERY ELECTABILY, ’S NOT SURPRISG THAT VERY FEW OF THEM HAVE CHOSEN TO E OUT.BUT WHY ARE BISEXUAL PEOPLE, PARTICULAR, LAGGG SO FAR BEHD TERMS OF THEIR WILLGNS TO E OUT?BROWN’S OWN STORY NTAS ONE POSSIBLE ANSWER: MANY BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN FEAR SOCIAL EXCLN OM BOTH STRAIGHT PEOPLE AS WELL AS LBIANS AND GAY MEN.IN AN SAY FOR A LLECTN ABOUT OUT ELECTED OFFICIALS, BROWN RELLS RECEIVG PHBACK OM ALL SIS WHEN HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN BEME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. HER STRAIGHT IENDS PERHAPS PREDICTABLY PERPETUATED THE STEREOTYPE THAT BISEXUAL PEOPLE JT N’T PICK A SI—BUT MORE ALARMG IS THAT HER IENDS THE LBIAN AND GAY MUNY “LLED [HER] HALF-QUEER.”EVEN HER PARENTS TOLD HER: “IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER FOR IF YOU WERE A LBIAN.”“SOME DAYS I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A FOOT BOTH WORLDS, YET NEVER REALLY BELONGG TO EHER,” BROWN WROTE AT THE TIME.FEELG EXCLUD OM BOTH SIS OF THE SEXUAL AISLE IS A MON EXPERIENCE FOR BISEXUAL AMERINS. IN FACT, ACRDG TO THE ABOVE-REFERENCED 2013 PEW SURVEY, LGBT AMERINS PERCEIVE BISEXUALY TO BE THE LEAST ACCEPTED SEXUAL ORIENTATN, ALTHOUGH BISEXUAL WOMEN TEND TO FARE FAR BETTER THAN BISEXUAL MEN.BISEXUALY IS CERTALY THE LEAST UNRSTOOD SEXUAL ORIENTATN A CULTURE ACCTOMED TO ONLY SEEG SEXUALY THROUGH A BARY LENS, AND REMAS SURROUND BY PARTICULARLY PERNIC CULTURAL MYTHS—ON PERPETUATED BY BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE.THE MYTHS HAVE LONG AFFECTED BROWN’S REER.WHEN BROWN WAS FIRST OUTED, FOR EXAMPLE, BILL MARKHAM, AN OLR LLEAGUE THE OREGON HOE REPORTEDLY JOKED: “GUS THAT MEANS I STILL HAVE A CHANCE?” WHILE WOULD BE EASY TO DISMISS MARKHAM’S ALLEGED MENT AS A FAIAR FORM OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, IS ALSO NOTICEABLY TGED BY THE STEREOTYPE THAT BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MORE PROMISCUO AND HENCE MORE APPROACHABLE.THE OREGONIAN ALSO REPORTS THAT, 2008, A PORTLAND LGBT MAGAZE ADVISED BROWN TO “BUTCH UP” IF SHE WANTED TO BE TAKEN SERLY AS AN LGBT PUBLIC OFFICIAL. FOR THE MANY BISEXUAL WOMEN WHO FEEL VISIBLE LGBT CIRCL BEE THEY PRENT “FEMME” AND ARE THEREFORE READ AS STRAIGHT, THIS JUNCTN TO “BUTCH UP” IS A FAIAR ONE, OFTEN EXPERIENCED AS A SUBTLE CULTURAL PRSURE EVEN WHEN REMAS UNSPOKEN.AND TODAY, THE FACT THAT BROWN IS CURRENTLY MARRIED TO A MAN, DAN LTLE, IS REPORTEDLY BEG RAISED TO QUTN HER ALLEGIANCE TO THE LGBT MUNY. BISEXUAL PEOPLE WH OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS—AND PERHAPS PARTICULARLY BISEXUAL WOMEN WH MALE PARTNERS LIKE BROWN—OFTEN FEEL EXCLUD OM LBIAN AND GAY MUNI, EHER BEE THEY ARE DISMISSED AS “STRAIGHT” OR BEE THEY ARE PERCEIVED TO HAVE TOO MUCH PRIVILEGE TO BE MEANGFULLY VTED THE E.BROWN MAY HAVE A LONG TRACK RERD OF SUPPORTG PRO-LGBT LEGISLATN OREGON, BUT SHE WILL LIKELY HAVE TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AS A LBIAN POLICIAN TO BE READ AS AN ADVOTE, SIMPLY BEE HER SPOE IS A MAN.BUT BY BEG THE FIRST BISEXUAL ERNOR, BROWN NOW HAS MORE POWER THAN EVER TO BE FLUENTIAL HELPG TO END THE SAME FORMS OF PREJUDICE. IN ADDN TO REPORTG THAT BISEXUALY SEEMS TO BE THE LEAST ACCEPTED ORIENTATN, LGBT AMERINS ALSO TOLD PEW THAT “WELL-KNOWN PUBLIC FIGUR WHO ARE OPEN ABOUT BEG LGBT” IS THE SEND MOST HELPFUL FACTOR “MAKG SOCIETY MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LGBT.” THAT’S SEND ONLY BEHD PEOPLE GETTG TO KNOW LGBT PEOPLE ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.SO FAR, THE U.S. HAS SEEN S FAIR SHARE OF BISEXUAL CELEBRI—GORE VIDAL, PETE TOWNSHEND, ANGELA JOLIE, MEGAN FOX, AND MARGARET CHO HAVE ALL BORNE THE LABEL—BUT BISEXUAL PUBLIC FIGUR OTHER SPHER ARE FEWER AND FURTHER BETWEEN. THE ONLY LGBT POLICIANS THAT PEW RPONNTS ULD POT TO AS DITORS OF PROGRS WERE EHER GAY OR LBIAN.THERE’S A DIRE NEED FOR MORE BISEXUAL PUBLIC FIGUR AND BROWN, HOWEVER UNWTGLY AND LERALLY OVERNIGHT, HAS BEE THE RIGHT WOMAN FOR THE JOB.KATE BROWN HAS JT BEE THE MOST WELL-KNOWN BISEXUAL POLICIAN THE UNED STAT. WHAT SHE WILL DO WH THIS NEWFOUND STAT REMAS TO BE SEEN BUT HER ERNORSHIP ULD NOT HAVE E AT A BETTER MOMENT FOR THE MANY BISEXUAL AMERINS WHO LOOK AT THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND SEE NO ONE LIKE THEM. SAMANTHA ALLEN

GAY MUNY ON NEXT OREGON GOV. KATE BROWN: Y, SHE UNTS

Jim McGreevey me out as gay 2004 and rigned months later.

She's also the only current openly LGBT ernor of a US state, and the send openly LGBT ernor US history (after New Jersey's Jim McGreevey, who announced he was gay shortly before rigng).

In an say for Out and Elected the USA, Brown wrote that, after she me out, some of her "gay iends" lled her "half-queer, " and an elrly nservative legislator said to her, "Read the Oregonian a few months ago you were bisexual. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey, who announced he was "a gay Amerin" 2004 on the same day he announced he would soon rign, is the only ernor to e out while office.

BISEXUALY’S WATERSHED POLIL MOMENTFIRST BISEXUAL GOVERNORPOLLS SHOW THAT BISEXUALY IS THE LEAST ACCEPTED OF ALL SEXUALI. NEW OREGON GOVERNOR KATE BROWN, WHO IS OPENLY BISEXUAL AND MARRIED TO A MAN, ULD HELP CHANGE PERCEPTNS.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 14, 2015 7:45AM EST MICHAEL LLOYD/THE OREGONIAN/LANDOVON FEBARY 18, FORMER OREGON SECRETARY OF STATE KATE BROWN (D) WILL BEE THE FIRST PUBLICLY BISEXUAL ERNOR THE UNED STAT. BROWN’S SWEARG ON THE HEELS OF DEMOCRAT JOHN KZHABER’S RIGNATN OF THE ERNORSHIP FRIDAY FOLLOWG ALLEGATNS OF RPTN AND FLUENCE-PEDDLG LOBBIED AGAST BOTH HIM AND HIS FIANCéE CYLVIA HAY. BUT WHAT’S BAD NEWS FOR KZHABER IS GREAT NEWS FOR THE FUTURE OF LGBT POLIL REPRENTATN THE UNED STAT.AND ’S EVEN BETTER NEWS FOR BISEXUAL AMERINS WHO ARE SORELY LACKG PUBLIC VISIBILY AT A CCIAL MOMENT LGBT HISTORY.BROWN’S UNPLANNED ASCENSN TO THE ERNORSHIP IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD FOR LGBT POLICIANS, PECIALLY ON A STATE LEVEL. THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV HAS HAD OPENLY LGBT REPRENTATN SCE BARNEY FRANK ME OUT 1987 AND TOOK UNTIL 2012 FOR WISNS DEMOCRAT TAMMY BALDW TO BEE THE FIRST PUBLICLY LGBT U.S. SENATOR.BUT THE ONLY ERNOR TO HAVE EVER E OUT AS LGBT IS FORMER NEW JERSEY DEMOCRAT JIM MCGREEVEY, WHOSE G OUT SPEECH WAS EXTENSIVE WH HIS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WOULD RIGN THE ERNORSHIP THE FACE OF A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU. IF ANYTHG, WILL BE CHALLENGG FOR BROWN TO FARE WORSE THAN MCGREEVEY HER NEW SPOTLIGHT AS AN LGBT ERNOR. BUT KATE BROWN IS MORE THAN JT A TICK THROUGH A POLIL CHECKBOX—THE NSEQUENC OF HER NEW POSN GO FAR BEYOND OREGON.THE OCSN OF THE FIRST OPENLY BISEXUAL ERNOR OF THE UNED STAT IS A CULTURAL WATERSHED FOR BISEXUAL PEOPLE THE UNED STAT, WHO HAVE HISTORILLY BEEN BETTER REPRENTED BY CELEBRI LIKE BOWIE THAN BY POLICIANS LIKE BROWN.WH SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT—WHICH HAS TRADNALLY BEEN REPRENTED AS AN EXCLIVELY GAY OR LBIAN ISSUE—SEEMG ALL BUT EVABLE 2015 AND PUBLIC ATTENTN QUICKLY TURNG TO WHAT TIME HAS LLED “THE TRANSGENR TIPPG POT,” THE “B” THE LGBT IS AT RISK OF BEG LOST THE SHUFFLE. BROWN’S ASSUMPTN OF STATE LEARSHIP 2015 IS A PARTICULARLY FORTUO OPPORTUNY TO KEEP BISEXUAL PEOPLE THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG LGBT EQUALY, AS THE UNTRY’S FOC SHIFTS TO THE LAST TWO LETTERS OF THAT UBIQUO ACRONYM.BROWN’S ERNORSHIP AT A SURPRISG MOMENT WHEN BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MUCH MORE RELUCTANT TO BE OUT THAN THEIR GAY AND LBIAN UNTERPARTS. ACRDG TO THE 2009 NATNAL SURVEY OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND BEHAVR, OVER HALF OF ALL LGB PEOPLE THE UNED STAT INTIFY AS BISEXUAL. DPE THIS CLEAR MAJORY WH THE LGBT MUNY, BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MUCH LS VISIBLE.ALMOST HALF OF BISEXUAL EMPLOYE ARE PLETELY THE CLOSET AT WORK, AS PARED TO ONLY A QUARTER OF GAY AND LBIAN EMPLOYE. AND ACRDG TO A 2013 PEW SURVEY ONLY 28 PERCENT OF BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE OUT TO“ALL OR MOST OF THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE THEIR LIFE” AS PARED TO THE MAJORY OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS WHO ARE OUT.THIS UNRREPRENTATN OF BISEXUAL PEOPLE PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL SPHER IS EVEN MORE VISIBLE THE WORLD OF U.S. POLICS. IN 2012, THE ADVOTE ULD ONLY UNT FIVE OPENLY BISEXUAL STATE OFFICIALS CLUDG BROWN OUT OF THE THEN-90 OR SO LGBT STATE-LEVEL LEGISLATORS. THAT’S A LOT LS THAN HALF.SCE THAT TIME, FORMER ARIZONA STATE SENATOR KYRSTEN SEMA HAS BEE THE FIRST OUT BISEXUAL NGRSWOMAN BUT THAT’S THE HIGHT AN OPENLY BISEXUAL PERSON HAS CLIMBED UNTIL NOW, MAKG BROWN THE HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY BISEXUAL PUBLIC OFFICIAL U.S. HISTORY.GIVEN THE REPORTED PREVALENCE OF BISEXUALY RELATIVE TO HOMOSEXUALY, THERE ARE ALMOST CERTALY BISEXUAL POLICIANS WHO ARE STILL THE CLOSET. IN THE POLIL REALM, HOWEVER, WHERE SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS NOT JT A MATTER OF DISCRIMATN BUT A FACTOR ONE’S VERY ELECTABILY, ’S NOT SURPRISG THAT VERY FEW OF THEM HAVE CHOSEN TO E OUT.BUT WHY ARE BISEXUAL PEOPLE, PARTICULAR, LAGGG SO FAR BEHD TERMS OF THEIR WILLGNS TO E OUT?BROWN’S OWN STORY NTAS ONE POSSIBLE ANSWER: MANY BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN FEAR SOCIAL EXCLN OM BOTH STRAIGHT PEOPLE AS WELL AS LBIANS AND GAY MEN.IN AN SAY FOR A LLECTN ABOUT OUT ELECTED OFFICIALS, BROWN RELLS RECEIVG PHBACK OM ALL SIS WHEN HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN BEME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. HER STRAIGHT IENDS PERHAPS PREDICTABLY PERPETUATED THE STEREOTYPE THAT BISEXUAL PEOPLE JT N’T PICK A SI—BUT MORE ALARMG IS THAT HER IENDS THE LBIAN AND GAY MUNY “LLED [HER] HALF-QUEER.”EVEN HER PARENTS TOLD HER: “IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER FOR IF YOU WERE A LBIAN.”“SOME DAYS I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A FOOT BOTH WORLDS, YET NEVER REALLY BELONGG TO EHER,” BROWN WROTE AT THE TIME.FEELG EXCLUD OM BOTH SIS OF THE SEXUAL AISLE IS A MON EXPERIENCE FOR BISEXUAL AMERINS. IN FACT, ACRDG TO THE ABOVE-REFERENCED 2013 PEW SURVEY, LGBT AMERINS PERCEIVE BISEXUALY TO BE THE LEAST ACCEPTED SEXUAL ORIENTATN, ALTHOUGH BISEXUAL WOMEN TEND TO FARE FAR BETTER THAN BISEXUAL MEN.BISEXUALY IS CERTALY THE LEAST UNRSTOOD SEXUAL ORIENTATN A CULTURE ACCTOMED TO ONLY SEEG SEXUALY THROUGH A BARY LENS, AND REMAS SURROUND BY PARTICULARLY PERNIC CULTURAL MYTHS—ON PERPETUATED BY BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE.THE MYTHS HAVE LONG AFFECTED BROWN’S REER.WHEN BROWN WAS FIRST OUTED, FOR EXAMPLE, BILL MARKHAM, AN OLR LLEAGUE THE OREGON HOE REPORTEDLY JOKED: “GUS THAT MEANS I STILL HAVE A CHANCE?” WHILE WOULD BE EASY TO DISMISS MARKHAM’S ALLEGED MENT AS A FAIAR FORM OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, IS ALSO NOTICEABLY TGED BY THE STEREOTYPE THAT BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE MORE PROMISCUO AND HENCE MORE APPROACHABLE.THE OREGONIAN ALSO REPORTS THAT, 2008, A PORTLAND LGBT MAGAZE ADVISED BROWN TO “BUTCH UP” IF SHE WANTED TO BE TAKEN SERLY AS AN LGBT PUBLIC OFFICIAL. FOR THE MANY BISEXUAL WOMEN WHO FEEL VISIBLE LGBT CIRCL BEE THEY PRENT “FEMME” AND ARE THEREFORE READ AS STRAIGHT, THIS JUNCTN TO “BUTCH UP” IS A FAIAR ONE, OFTEN EXPERIENCED AS A SUBTLE CULTURAL PRSURE EVEN WHEN REMAS UNSPOKEN.AND TODAY, THE FACT THAT BROWN IS CURRENTLY MARRIED TO A MAN, DAN LTLE, IS REPORTEDLY BEG RAISED TO QUTN HER ALLEGIANCE TO THE LGBT MUNY. BISEXUAL PEOPLE WH OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS—AND PERHAPS PARTICULARLY BISEXUAL WOMEN WH MALE PARTNERS LIKE BROWN—OFTEN FEEL EXCLUD OM LBIAN AND GAY MUNI, EHER BEE THEY ARE DISMISSED AS “STRAIGHT” OR BEE THEY ARE PERCEIVED TO HAVE TOO MUCH PRIVILEGE TO BE MEANGFULLY VTED THE E.BROWN MAY HAVE A LONG TRACK RERD OF SUPPORTG PRO-LGBT LEGISLATN OREGON, BUT SHE WILL LIKELY HAVE TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AS A LBIAN POLICIAN TO BE READ AS AN ADVOTE, SIMPLY BEE HER SPOE IS A MAN.BUT BY BEG THE FIRST BISEXUAL ERNOR, BROWN NOW HAS MORE POWER THAN EVER TO BE FLUENTIAL HELPG TO END THE SAME FORMS OF PREJUDICE. IN ADDN TO REPORTG THAT BISEXUALY SEEMS TO BE THE LEAST ACCEPTED ORIENTATN, LGBT AMERINS ALSO TOLD PEW THAT “WELL-KNOWN PUBLIC FIGUR WHO ARE OPEN ABOUT BEG LGBT” IS THE SEND MOST HELPFUL FACTOR “MAKG SOCIETY MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LGBT.” THAT’S SEND ONLY BEHD PEOPLE GETTG TO KNOW LGBT PEOPLE ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.SO FAR, THE U.S. HAS SEEN S FAIR SHARE OF BISEXUAL CELEBRI—GORE VIDAL, PETE TOWNSHEND, ANGELA JOLIE, MEGAN FOX, AND MARGARET CHO HAVE ALL BORNE THE LABEL—BUT BISEXUAL PUBLIC FIGUR OTHER SPHER ARE FEWER AND FURTHER BETWEEN. THE ONLY LGBT POLICIANS THAT PEW RPONNTS ULD POT TO AS DITORS OF PROGRS WERE EHER GAY OR LBIAN.THERE’S A DIRE NEED FOR MORE BISEXUAL PUBLIC FIGUR AND BROWN, HOWEVER UNWTGLY AND LERALLY OVERNIGHT, HAS BEE THE RIGHT WOMAN FOR THE JOB.KATE BROWN HAS JT BEE THE MOST WELL-KNOWN BISEXUAL POLICIAN THE UNED STAT. WHAT SHE WILL DO WH THIS NEWFOUND STAT REMAS TO BE SEEN BUT HER ERNORSHIP ULD NOT HAVE E AT A BETTER MOMENT FOR THE MANY BISEXUAL AMERINS WHO LOOK AT THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND SEE NO ONE LIKE THEM. SAMANTHA ALLEN

She said she found pecially hard to expla that she wasn't simply a lbian, enunterg skepticism om her fay, gay iends, and straight iends alike: "Some days I feel like I have a foot both worlds, yet never really belongg to eher. The natn narrowly missed havg s first openly gay elected ernor 2014, when Reprentative Mike Michd's bid to feat cumbent Pl LePage Mae fell ascensn may be a wele return to normalcy for Oregon's polil tablishment, which has been shaken by the bizarre sndal that brought Kzhaber down. Hoe Speaker Ta Kotek, who is gay, tmpeted Brown's work advocy and later ernment, addg, "I am also proud that Oregon has aga ma history as a lear equaly, wh Kate Brown now servg as the natn's first ernor om the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny.

"Brown is now Oregon's send female ernor as well as the first out lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr ernor the Uned Stat (New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey rigned after g out as gay). Jim McGreevey me out as gay 2004 while already office, but rigned months later.

But rapid advanc gay rights, cludg same-sex marriage, shiftg public attus (pecially among younger Amerins), pl the growg number of openly gay and lbian elected and appoted officials prompts a “no big al” attu among most Oregonians.

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