Portland, Oregon swears gay mayor - Dallas Voice

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• PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• PORTLAND, OREGON SWEARS GAY MAYOR
• EVANGELILS TEAM WH PORTLAND'S GAY MAYOR FOR CHARY
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• MOVG TO LGBT PORTLAND, OREGON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR

It ma Portland, populatn timated at 575, 000, the largt cy the natn to elect an openly gay mayor. PORTLAND — Two months ago, Sam Adams, a Portland cy missner and the mayor-elect, rallied a crowd of gay-rights activists as part of a natnal seri of protts agast California’s new ban on same-sex marriage. He didn’t mpaign on gay rights or social issu.

“I’m nng not to be a gay mayor, but a great mayor, ” he said. Gay, lbian ndidat.

PORTLAND, OREGON SWEARS GAY MAYOR

Adams was one of more than 100 gay, lbian and bisexual ndidat nng for feral, state and lol offic endorsed earlier this year by the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund, a Washgton, D.

C., group whose aim is to crease the number of openly gay elected officials. Denis Dison, the anizatn’s spokman, said 80 of the ndidat won, cludg 33-year-old entreprenr Jared Polis, of Boulr, Colo., who November beme the first openly gay man to w a seat Congrs as a noncumbent ndidate.

“To have an entire muny elect a gay man and have people say, ‘You’re gog to reprent me, ’ is a pretty huge thg. Jt as beg a gay man driv much of his polil activism, he said, his workg-class background fluenc his ambns as mayor.

EVANGELILS TEAM WH PORTLAND'S GAY MAYOR FOR CHARY

“Beg gay is part of me, so is beg Irish Amerin, so is beg om a small Oregon town. Adams’ guratn mak Portland the largt cy wh an openly gay mayor.

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

PORTLAND, Oregon — Portland, Oregon beme the largt cy the Uned Stat wh an openly gay mayor Jan. "Beg gay is part of me, so is beg Irish-Amerin, so is beg om a small Oregon town. 25, 2011— -- Evangelil Christians Oregon have veloped an unexpected partnership wh Portland's openly gay mayor to mobilize over 26, 000 volunteers an effort to aid chary activi, om cy park renovatn to unselg people Pal, a vout evangelil, was so sperate to fix the notn that his muny is takg strint stands on provotive issu, along wh other perceived public relatns problem that evangelils face, that he reached out to a highly unlikely partner Sam Adams, the mayor of one of Ameri's most progrsive and secular ci.

MOVG TO LGBT PORTLAND, OREGON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

"The old mol was preachg to the choir, so to speak, " Pal people the left-leang town of Portland were unfortable wh this unexpected arrangement at first, but now pretty much everyone adms the project is a major succs -- even though major philosophil differenc, who has been out as gay sce 1993 and Portland's mayor sce 2008, says that is not lost on him that many evangelils believe that his sexualy is sful. Kate Brown, celebratg a gay rights victory Oregon.

At the time of her public (and voluntary) “outg” by the Oregonian durg one of her many close mpaigns for public office, bisexuals were (and still are) perceived as “greedy, promiscuo or cisive” and shunned by both heterosexuals and gays alike. Brown herself was told by gay iends that she was only “half queer. In many ways Oregon’s gay rights rerd is puzzlg.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

At the same time, though, the state has rehearsed some of the most vilent anti-gay rights mpaigns the untry.

Ined, the 1980s and ‘90s, Oregon was a ttg ground for a growg anti-gay movement. Conservative activists hopg to igne anti-gay fervor viewed Oregon as a perfect lotn to experiment wh a range of anti-gay iativ.