Basic Rights Oregon
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Achieving policy victories and shifting public opinion for LGBTQ2SIA+ Oregonians. 🌈 linktr.ee/basicrightsoregon
In case you missed it: Basic Rights Oregon is hiring!
Get more news updates, as well as events and calls to action, in our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter! We'll be taking next week off from the newsletter for the holiday, so we'll see you again in two weeks. 🌈
Get more news updates, as well as events and calls to action, in our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter! We'll be taking next week off from the newsletter for the holiday, so we'll see you again in two weeks. 🌈
Weekly Update: Prepping for the 2026 Legislative Session, Volunteer Opportunities, and We’re Hiring! — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In case you missed it: Basic Rights Oregon is hiring!
Get more news updates, as well as events and calls to action, in our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter! We'll be taking next week off from the newsletter for the holiday, so we'll see you again in two weeks. 🌈
Get more news updates, as well as events and calls to action, in our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter! We'll be taking next week off from the newsletter for the holiday, so we'll see you again in two weeks. 🌈
WE'RE HIRING! Basic Rights Oregon is now accepting applications for a Digital Communications Organizer to join our staff.
Learn more and apply at the link below. And please share widely!
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Learn more and apply at the link below. And please share widely!
www.basicrights.org/job-openings
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
WE'RE HIRING! Basic Rights Oregon is now accepting applications for a Digital Communications Organizer to join our staff.
Learn more and apply at the link below. And please share widely!
www.basicrights.org/job-openings
Learn more and apply at the link below. And please share widely!
www.basicrights.org/job-openings
HEADS UP: Tickets to our Carol screening are almost sold out, and going fast! Get yours today at the link below.
We also want to shoutout our event sponsor, PacificSource Health Plans! Thanks for supporting our work to uplift Oregon's LGBTQ2SIA+ community.
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We also want to shoutout our event sponsor, PacificSource Health Plans! Thanks for supporting our work to uplift Oregon's LGBTQ2SIA+ community.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
HEADS UP: Tickets to our Carol screening are almost sold out, and going fast! Get yours today at the link below.
We also want to shoutout our event sponsor, PacificSource Health Plans! Thanks for supporting our work to uplift Oregon's LGBTQ2SIA+ community.
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We also want to shoutout our event sponsor, PacificSource Health Plans! Thanks for supporting our work to uplift Oregon's LGBTQ2SIA+ community.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance is this Thursday, November 20.
Read our latest post for more info on TDOR, and view a list of Trans Day of Remembrance events happening throughout Oregon on Thursday, November 20. You can also find this at our link in bio. 🏳️⚧️🕯️
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Read our latest post for more info on TDOR, and view a list of Trans Day of Remembrance events happening throughout Oregon on Thursday, November 20. You can also find this at our link in bio. 🏳️⚧️🕯️
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How to Observe Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience on November 20 in Oregon — Basic Rights Oregon
Thursday, November 20, 2025 is the annual holiday Transgender Day of Remembrance, which some in community also recognize as Transgender Day of Resilience. As GLAAD explains it:
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November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Transgender Day of Remembrance is this Thursday, November 20.
Read our latest post for more info on TDOR, and view a list of Trans Day of Remembrance events happening throughout Oregon on Thursday, November 20. You can also find this at our link in bio. 🏳️⚧️🕯️
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Read our latest post for more info on TDOR, and view a list of Trans Day of Remembrance events happening throughout Oregon on Thursday, November 20. You can also find this at our link in bio. 🏳️⚧️🕯️
www.basicrights.org/news/s06bbla...
We had a great time at our Volunteer Appreciation Party last night! Check out our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter to learn how you can join our incredible group of volunteers—and get caught up on other news, actions and resources.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We had a great time at our Volunteer Appreciation Party last night! Check out our weekly LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter to learn how you can join our incredible group of volunteers—and get caught up on other news, actions and resources.
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The Supreme Court ruled this week that Trump’s anti-trans passport policies can go back into effect for now. Find info and legal resources, as well as more news and action items, in our week LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter:
Weekly Update: Big Wins for Pro-LGBTQ+ Politicians, Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Decision, and Ways to Party With Us! — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
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November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Supreme Court ruled this week that Trump’s anti-trans passport policies can go back into effect for now. Find info and legal resources, as well as more news and action items, in our week LGBTQ2SIA+ newsletter:
🎉We're in Give!Guide again!
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🥪Get a free sandwich from Addy's when you give $50!
🌈We've been educating, advocating, and legislating for queer and trans equality since 1996. With your support, we can make sure the next 30 years still bend toward progress.
❤️Donate: giveguide.org/nonprofits/bre
🥪Get a free sandwich from Addy's when you give $50!
🌈We've been educating, advocating, and legislating for queer and trans equality since 1996. With your support, we can make sure the next 30 years still bend toward progress.
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🎉We're in Give!Guide again!
❤️Donate: giveguide.org/nonprofits/bre
🥪Get a free sandwich from Addy's when you give $50!
🌈We've been educating, advocating, and legislating for queer and trans equality since 1996. With your support, we can make sure the next 30 years still bend toward progress.
❤️Donate: giveguide.org/nonprofits/bre
🥪Get a free sandwich from Addy's when you give $50!
🌈We've been educating, advocating, and legislating for queer and trans equality since 1996. With your support, we can make sure the next 30 years still bend toward progress.
Welcome ghosts, goblins, and gender-benders to the Halloween 2025 edition of Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter! Inside you’ll find news, actions, and the very thing fascists fear most: An unwillingness to abandon our queer and trans joy. ENTER… IF YOU DARE!
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Weekly Update, Halloween Edition: Ghoulish Gender Affirming Care Pending Rules, Frighteningly Fun Events, and More Treats — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Welcome ghosts, goblins, and gender-benders to the Halloween 2025 edition of Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter! Inside you’ll find news, actions, and the very thing fascists fear most: An unwillingness to abandon our queer and trans joy. ENTER… IF YOU DARE!
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Join us for a night of fun and fundraising for the Equal Rights for All Campaign at the World Famous Kenton Club! Featuring comedy by Mx. Dahlia Belle, beats from DJ Wildchild and more.
TICKETS: $15-40 sliding scale suggested donation. $5 option for QTBIPOC folks.
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TICKETS: $15-40 sliding scale suggested donation. $5 option for QTBIPOC folks.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Join us for a night of fun and fundraising for the Equal Rights for All Campaign at the World Famous Kenton Club! Featuring comedy by Mx. Dahlia Belle, beats from DJ Wildchild and more.
TICKETS: $15-40 sliding scale suggested donation. $5 option for QTBIPOC folks.
bit.ly/era-kentonclub
TICKETS: $15-40 sliding scale suggested donation. $5 option for QTBIPOC folks.
bit.ly/era-kentonclub
BOO! Or should we say… BRO! It’s one week until Halloween, and we’ve got both chilling tricks and delightful treats in this week’s update. 🎃 Check it out for all the LGBTQ2SIA+ news and ways to take action this week!
Weekly Update: A Victory for Inclusive Sex Ed, How to Protect Marriage Equality in Oregon, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
BOO! Or should we say… BRO! It’s one week until Halloween, and we’ve got both chilling tricks and delightful treats in this week’s update. 🎃 Check it out for all the LGBTQ2SIA+ news and ways to take action this week!
Join us this Sunday, 10/19, for a special Portland screening and panel discussion of HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a documentary about the US Supreme Court’s trans healthcare case Skrmetti.
Get more info in our newsletter, as well as all the other LGBTQ+ news and events you need for the week!
Get more info in our newsletter, as well as all the other LGBTQ+ news and events you need for the week!
Weekly Update: Travel Info for X-Gender Passports, Oregon Students Protest, and RIP Miss Major — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
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October 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join us this Sunday, 10/19, for a special Portland screening and panel discussion of HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a documentary about the US Supreme Court’s trans healthcare case Skrmetti.
Get more info in our newsletter, as well as all the other LGBTQ+ news and events you need for the week!
Get more info in our newsletter, as well as all the other LGBTQ+ news and events you need for the week!
Our weekly newsletter includes updates on gender-affirming care access, a remembrance of the late Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, and more news and ways to take action.
Weekly Update: Oregon Gender-Affirming Care Access Under Pressure, Remembering Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Our weekly newsletter includes updates on gender-affirming care access, a remembrance of the late Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, and more news and ways to take action.
🚨📢 HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY, 10/8! Join our community partners for a Community Update & Migra Watch Training. This is a great way to help keep our communities safer as ICE continues to be a presence in Oregon.
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🚨📢 HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY, 10/8! Join our community partners for a Community Update & Migra Watch Training. This is a great way to help keep our communities safer as ICE continues to be a presence in Oregon.
With all the news happening in Portland this week, you may have missed that the federal government shutdown could mean awful things for gender-affirming care access. Use our simple Contact Your Reps form in this week's newsletter to help keep that from happening!
Weekly Update: Tell Your Congressional Reps to Protect Trans Healthcare Amid Government Shutdown! — Basic Rights Oregon
LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here . To receive this newsletter as a weekly email, signup for email updates ...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
With all the news happening in Portland this week, you may have missed that the federal government shutdown could mean awful things for gender-affirming care access. Use our simple Contact Your Reps form in this week's newsletter to help keep that from happening!
Basic Rights Oregon joins state and city leaders in asserting that Portland does not need federal troops in our city.
Read the our update below for info on what you can do, and what you should know.
We're proud to be Portlanders and Oregonians!
Read the our update below for info on what you can do, and what you should know.
We're proud to be Portlanders and Oregonians!
Federal Troops in Portland: What to Know Right Now — Basic Rights Oregon
Today—Saturday, September 27—Donald Trump announced he is sending federal troops into Portland. As reported by local news , an influx of federal law enforcement and armored vehicles have been spott...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Basic Rights Oregon joins state and city leaders in asserting that Portland does not need federal troops in our city.
Read the our update below for info on what you can do, and what you should know.
We're proud to be Portlanders and Oregonians!
Read the our update below for info on what you can do, and what you should know.
We're proud to be Portlanders and Oregonians!
Check out our full LGBTQ2SIA+ update at the link below! And after that, try to take a break from your phone this weekend if possible. 😊
Love,
Team BRO 🌈
Love,
Team BRO 🌈
Weekly Update: Americans Still Oppose Trans Healthcare Bans, Understanding the New Trump Memo, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Check out our full LGBTQ2SIA+ update at the link below! And after that, try to take a break from your phone this weekend if possible. 😊
Love,
Team BRO 🌈
Love,
Team BRO 🌈
Dance party tickets are still on sale for IGNITE!
DJ KRIS and Charlie Henderson join us with tunes and moves to get us out of our heads and into our bodies. We'll also have an open bar (NA options), snacks, a photo booth and more.
8-11pm on October 11! Get tickets: bro.ejoinme.org/danceparty
DJ KRIS and Charlie Henderson join us with tunes and moves to get us out of our heads and into our bodies. We'll also have an open bar (NA options), snacks, a photo booth and more.
8-11pm on October 11! Get tickets: bro.ejoinme.org/danceparty
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Dance party tickets are still on sale for IGNITE!
DJ KRIS and Charlie Henderson join us with tunes and moves to get us out of our heads and into our bodies. We'll also have an open bar (NA options), snacks, a photo booth and more.
8-11pm on October 11! Get tickets: bro.ejoinme.org/danceparty
DJ KRIS and Charlie Henderson join us with tunes and moves to get us out of our heads and into our bodies. We'll also have an open bar (NA options), snacks, a photo booth and more.
8-11pm on October 11! Get tickets: bro.ejoinme.org/danceparty
Hello, you beautiful queer folks and our lovely accomplices! Check out this week's update to find out how you can help save PrEP access, why we want you to come dance with us, where you can donate to support LGBTQ2SIA+ in addiction recovery, and more.
Weekly Update: Save PrEP Access, Come Dance With Us, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hello, you beautiful queer folks and our lovely accomplices! Check out this week's update to find out how you can help save PrEP access, why we want you to come dance with us, where you can donate to support LGBTQ2SIA+ in addiction recovery, and more.
At this time when the federal government is vehemently anti-LGBTQ2SIA+, it's crucial we continue engaging with our local governments.
Click the link below to check out our full City Council Toolkit!
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Click the link below to check out our full City Council Toolkit!
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September 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
At this time when the federal government is vehemently anti-LGBTQ2SIA+, it's crucial we continue engaging with our local governments.
Click the link below to check out our full City Council Toolkit!
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Click the link below to check out our full City Council Toolkit!
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Weekly Update: Planned Parenthood Defunded, New Trans Legal Clinic in Portland, and More
Weekly Update: Planned Parenthood Defunded, New Trans Legal Clinic in Portland, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Happy Friday to our BRO community! Some of the breaking news this week might have you feeling uneasy or exhausted. That’s why Basic Rights Oregon is here: We’re cutting through the noise and deliver...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Weekly Update: Planned Parenthood Defunded, New Trans Legal Clinic in Portland, and More
The bad news machine continues whirring at full force, so we’re taking a quick break from the headlines and giving you an “Oops, All Action Items!” newsletter edition today. Because when times get tough, we can’t just turn away—we have to stay connected and empowered.
Weekly Update: Ten Actions YOU Can Take for LGBTQ+ Oregonians This Weekend — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
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September 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The bad news machine continues whirring at full force, so we’re taking a quick break from the headlines and giving you an “Oops, All Action Items!” newsletter edition today. Because when times get tough, we can’t just turn away—we have to stay connected and empowered.
This week's newsletter is full of back-to-school news and resources for LGBTQ2SIA+ students and families. Wishing you a fruitful and fruity school year! 🌈
Weekly Update: Oregon’s LGBTQ+ Sex Ed Targeted, Know Your Rights at School, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This week's newsletter is full of back-to-school news and resources for LGBTQ2SIA+ students and families. Wishing you a fruitful and fruity school year! 🌈
It’s officially Back to School Season! It’s a challenging time for LGBTQ2SIA+ and BIPOC students, families, and educators. It’s more important than ever that we keep showing up—because we belong in schools and school board meetings just as much as our neighbors do.
August 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s officially Back to School Season! It’s a challenging time for LGBTQ2SIA+ and BIPOC students, families, and educators. It’s more important than ever that we keep showing up—because we belong in schools and school board meetings just as much as our neighbors do.
This week's newsletter has info on the Pulse memorial crosswalk, what BRO's doing in DC, actions you can take to protect trans healthcare, more Supreme Court news, and more!
Weekly Update: Basic Rights Oregon Goes to DC, Pulse Memorial Rainbow Crosswalk Fight, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This week's newsletter has info on the Pulse memorial crosswalk, what BRO's doing in DC, actions you can take to protect trans healthcare, more Supreme Court news, and more!
If you’ve been paying attention to the news this week, then you might be feeling some anxiety about a new attempt to overturn marriage equality at the US Supreme Court. Learn why we don't need to panic right now, and get more news and actions, in our Friday newsletter!
Weekly Update: Quick Action for Trans Healthcare, Understanding the Marriage Equality News, and More — Basic Rights Oregon
Welcome to Basic Rights Oregon’s weekly newsletter, where we update you on the LGBTQ2SIA+ news you should know, things you can do, and ways you can help. If you have questions, reach out here ....
www.basicrights.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you’ve been paying attention to the news this week, then you might be feeling some anxiety about a new attempt to overturn marriage equality at the US Supreme Court. Learn why we don't need to panic right now, and get more news and actions, in our Friday newsletter!