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Thank you to everyone for making this year’s Portland Latino Gay Pride Celebration un EXITO! We wrapped the 5 days with La Lucha Festival at Jupiter Hotel. The rain and dark clouds did not keep anyone away, the festival was packed from start to finish.

Gracias to all the performers, artists, sponsors and community leaders who were in attendance. Special thanks to Portland Mayor Sam Adams, Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen, and State of Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler - for kicking off the festival and their support of Portland Latino Gay Pride!

La Lucha continua… look for us at Pride Parade and Festival, June 19th & 20th. Partnering with SOMOS, Poder Latino, and CAP’s Chicos Latinos…. we will be representing en puro Latino Style! Que Viva La Lucha!

Portland Latino Gay Pride is proud to present Chicas who Brunch and Ride! Saturday, June 5th, 11am - 2pm, Jupiter Hotel Courtyard. Featuring the 2010 Mariposa Award recipients and keynote address by local Latina leader Lina Garcia Seabold. Go to Chicas Who Brunch page for event details and to purchase your $25.00 Ticket!

MIRAME - Join Portland Latino Gay Pride and many others for una noche de cumbias, raza, y mas! Saturday, May 15, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm, 2817 NE Alberta st, (behind La Sirenita). Nos Vemos!

We are proud to announce, Portland Latino Gay Pride is awarding our first $1000.00 college scholarship! This year the planning committee unanimously approved participating in Portland’s Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Program. Since the start, our goal has been to give back to the community, supporting our future leaders is one way it can be done.

Visit the chambers website www.hmccoregon.com for a list of this year’s recipients (you can find our awardee - tenth one down). Congratulations to all the recipients and thank you to the Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber for all that they do.

We will present our scholarship at Tuesday’s, May 4, Chamber Scholarship Award Luncheon!

Be a part of this national survey - Social Justice Sexuality Initiative investigates the social and political experiences of Black, Latina/o, as well as Asian and Pacific Islander lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Go to www.socialjusticesexuality.com and get started!

Also, breaking news, a representative from the project will be at La Lucha 2010!

Gracias to our newest 2010 Gold Level Sponsors- Cascade AIDS Project & Washington County Health Department! Founded in 1983, Cascade AIDS Project is the oldest and largest community-based provider of HIV services, housing, education and advocacy in Oregon and Southwest Washington. With programs including Latinos Unidos Enfrentando el SIDA (LUES) and Chicos Latinos, CAP is making a difference in our community. QUE VIVA CAP y QUE VIVA LA LUCHA!

A team of researchers are mounting an endeavor titled the Social Justice Sexuality Initiative. A key part of this effort is a national survey that will investigate the sociopolitical experiences of Black, Latina/o, as well as Asian and Pacific Islander lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. This project is interested in better understanding how identity enhances or inhibits the experiences of this target population around four major themes:

• accessing health - and community - based services;
• participating in civic and social engagement; more specifically, organizing and mobilizing both within and across varying racial and sexual identity based groups;
• family formations and dynamics; and
• religious participation, experiences, and attitudes.

Take the survey www.socialsexualityjustice.com and be a part of this national effort!

Charlie Vázquez is a radical Bronx-bred writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction and essays have been published in various anthologies, such as the iconoclastic volumes Queer and Catholic (Taylor & Francis, 2007) and Best Gay Love Stories: NYC (Alyson, 2006). His writing has also appeared in print and online publications such as Advocate.com, Chelsea Clinton News, NYpress.com, and Ganymede Journal.

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