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Oregon governor signs transgender rights bill into law
Oregon’s Kate Brown is the nation’s first bisexual governor.
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Oregon governor forgives boy who stole pen & hazelnut
A fourth grader stole a few things on a trip to the state Capitol, but it’s all OK now.
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Oregon theater loses rights to this classic play after casting black actor
Director Michael Streeter says he is “furious and dumbfounded” that he cannot stage “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
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Connecticut is latest state to ban conversion therapy
You’ll cringe when you read the response from critics of the ban outlawing this shameful practice.
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Person in Oregon now legally without gender
A person in Oregon successfully petitioned the court to change their legal status from male to agender.
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Oregon lawmakers prepare to protect LGBTQ people, women from Trump
The proposed law would ban interference in terminating a pregnancy, and would ensure full reproductive health care coverage, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Attorneys general file brief in support of trans teen Gavin Grimm’s SCOTUS case
The friend-of-the-court brief, filed by 19 attorneys general, says that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender creates no public safety, privacy or financial burdens.
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Can you name the place with the highest percentage of LGBTQ people in America?
This place beat out Vermont, California, Massachusetts and Oregon. And no, it’s not New York!
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Bisexual Gov. Kate Brown leads Oregon lawmakers in fight against Trump
Gov. Kate Brown — the first out U.S. governor — is helping build a legal wall to shield Oregon from President Trump’s actions on immigration and other civil rights issues.
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Why Oregon is the number one state for post-election hate
“Both the harassment since the election and the energy on the radical right are the predictable results of the campaign that Trump waged for the presidency.”