Jackie Yerby and community advocates, along with a group of Catholic Oregonians, are leading a campaign to support marriage equality in Oregon. The group titled Catholic Oregonians for Marriage Equality was developed in response to Portland Archbishop Ale ...
26 Mar 2014 - Israel Bayer
When I was 15, my best friend killed himself. He was gay. Jack probably felt alone. He was not. In Oregon, one out of five gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender teenagers have attempted suicide in the last year, according to the Oregon Safe Schools and Co ...
18 Mar 2014 - Brett Bigham
I met my wife of 22 years, Dianne Rodway, through an advertisement in The Willamette Week. We met on Friday night, went bike riding on Sunday, and have been together ever since. We decided to get married about three weeks later while at a wedding in South ...
15 Feb 2014 - John Becker
My parents and the people I grew up around are kind, loving, caring people. Stereotypes are easy, but reality is always more complicated. I never learned hate from them, but there was a lot of fear. As Evangelicals, one of the things they feared most was ...
23 Jan 2014 - Peter Walker
Eugene Woodworth passed away Dec. 21. He was 85 years old. Before he died, he wrote this piece for Street Roots about his dream of marriage equality in Oregon. When I first met Eric, I got cold all over and couldn’t move. It felt like destiny: I’d just me ...
26 Dec 2013 - Eugene Woodworth
The first thing I fell in love with was her voice. We were at a party at Carefree Lounge in Southeast Portland. She was from Georgia, and she had a southern drawl that grabbed my ear. I had to talk to her. “No, honey, I can do this by myself,” she replied ...
17 Oct 2013 - Cece Barnes
The modern-day troubadour returns to Portland, no doubt with a story to tell Beaverton-native Todd Snider may just be the most honest person in the music industry. If you are a conservative, Christian, right-wing Republican, straight, white, American male ...
1 Aug 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Talking activism, faith and the face of southern poverty with Emily Saliers of the folk duo Indigo Girls Emily Saliers has been one half of the iconic folk duo, Indigo Girls for more than 30 years. In that time, her lyrics and musicianship have touched th ...
15 Jul 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Building the future of equality with Basic Rights Oregon By Stacy Brownhill, Staff Writer The ground on same-sex marriage is shifting. Last month, New York legalized gay marriage, despite a Republican-controlled Senate, making it the largest state where g ...
3 Aug 2011 - Street Roots