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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. state of Oregon have the same legal rights as non-LGBTQ people. [1] Oregon became one of the first U.S. jurisdictions to decriminalize sodomy in 1972, and same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since May 2014 when a federal judge declared the state's ban on such marriages unconstitutional.
Oregon Bears representation at the Portland pride parade, 2015 Exterior of the Q Center, 2014 Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence outside Starky's in 2009. LGBT rights organization Basic Rights Oregon is based in Portland.
Portland, Oregon has a large LGBTQ community for its size. Notable LGBTQ people from the city include: Sam Adams – first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city [1] Matt Alber – singer-songwriter [2] Terry Bean – gay rights activist and political fundraiser [3] James Beard – chef and cookbook author [4] Byron Beck; Brett Bigham ...
In February 2013, Basic Rights Oregon formed the group Oregon United for Marriage to put an initiative legalizing same-sex marriage on the November 2014 ballot. [19] The initiative would have replaced the state's constitutional amendment restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples with provisions guaranteeing the right of all persons to marry ...
Pride Northwest was established in 1994, but Portland's first official pride event took place in 1975 when a group of approximately 200 people organized a Gay Pride Fair near the South Park Blocks by Portland State University.
Basic Rights Oregon is an American nonprofit LGBT rights organization based in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest advocacy, education, and political organization working in Oregon to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity . [ 1 ]
The Portland-based group was the first statewide gay rights PAC in Oregon. [5] [6] In 1989, Bean co-founded the Equity Foundation, a Portland-based philanthropic organization that gives grants to LGBT community groups and programs as well as academic scholarships. [6]
Zoe Piliafas met Oregon LGBT rights activist Kathleen Saadat at a bar six years before the mural's installation. Piliafas has recalled: I said, I know who you are. I'm going to be putting a mural up that's going to have you on it along with some other significant community members from the LGBTQ community.