Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, is considering launching a ballot initiative to overturn Oregon’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, reported the Eugene Register-Guard.

The Oregon Republican party has voted to the remove language from the official party platform that some members saw as needlessly hostile toward gays.

Police have arrested and charged 21-year-old Dillan Joseph Cashman with intimidation and assault in an early morning attack on a gay man after insulting him and his parter with gay slurs.

Two men have been arrested in Portland, Ore., in connection with an early morning attack Saturday on a gay man, and a good Samaritan who stepped in to help.

A proposal by Portland Mayor Sam Adams to give transgender city employees a new health benefit — sex-reassignment surgery — was approved by the city council this week.

An estimated 4,000 Portland area residents on Sunday gathered to hold hands on the Hawthorne Bridge as an act of solidarity with two gay men who were allegedly attacked on May 25 for doing just that.

Police in Portland, Ore., are investigating what they called a possible bias attack against two gay men.

Seth Stambaugh, the gay graduate student from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR -- who had been fired Sept. 15 after a parent filed a complaint -- has been rehired by the school district's superintendent.

[caption id="attachment_6657" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Delphine"][/caption] Marc Delphine, an Oregon financial planner, has filed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate Monday, seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. According to JustOut.com: Delphine [...]