2014 ANNUAL REPORT

Oregon Emerges as a Shining Example for LGBTQ Equality

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Dear Supporters,2014 will be remembered as a

transformational year for LGBTQ equality in Oregon.

This Annual Report touches on our visible campaigns as well as our more discrete, tactical work behind the scenes to secure LGBTQ equality for all Oregonians. Below are three notable examples of how we deployed your investment in Basic Rights Oregon.

The Freedom to Marry: After years of planning, 2014 was Oregon’s turn to play offense on the issue of the freedom to marry. We forged parallel strategies—either win at the ballot box with the Oregon United for Marriage campaign or win by overturning the ban in the courts. Ultimately, on May 19, a U.S. federal district court judge ruled that Measure 36 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the federal constitution. Oregon became the 19th jurisdiction to win the freedom to marry.

Transgender Inclusive Health Care: Oregon’s groundbreaking work on transgender justice had a major milestone in 2014. After years of education and advocacy, Oregon became the fifth jurisdiction to include transgender health care within the state’s Medicaid coverage, the Oregon Health Plan. This policy change is life-saving for many transgender Oregonians, who face significant levels of poverty, violence and high rates of suicide because of the discrimination they suffer.

Facing Religious Discrimination: When it became clear that Oregon would secure the freedom to marry, our opponents shifted their approach by moving on an Indiana-style religious exemption ballot measure specifically designed to hurt same-sex couples seeking to marry. Under the guise of “religious freedom,” the measure would have allowed businesses such as bakeries, wedding planners and photographers to refuse service to LGBTQ couples. The marriage campaign team quickly pivoted to Oregon United Against Discrimination and built a wall of opposition to the measure. In all, more than 400 elected officials, businesses leaders, people of faith, community organizations and leaders from communities of color took a public position against the measure, forcing the opposition to withdraw it. Oregonians once again said no to discrimination!

Your investment in our work made these victories possible. Thank you for your continued support as we work to ensure not only legal, but lived equality for all LGBTQ Oregonians!

Sincerely,

Jeana FrazziniExecutive Director

Basic Rights Oregon Leadership CouncilWe are pleased to recognize the

following foundations, businesses and donors who made gifts totaling $1,000 or more in 2014. The generosity of our donors made it possible to advance our work for LGBTQ equality. Thank you for investing in Basic Rights Oregon.

Liberty Circle $10,000+Adam & Rachel Albright

American Unity Fund

Anonymous

Arcus Foundation

Robin Castro & John Halseth

Civil Marriage Collaborative, a Proteus Fund initiative

Bruce Davis

Equity Foundation

Ford Foundation

Al Machemehl & John Harrell

Craig Hartzman & James John

Jeff Heatherington

Human Rights Campaign

Instrument

Kaiser Permanente

Moda Health

Vanessa Morgan & Robert Quillin

Nike Inc.

Northwest Natural Gas

Nurses United Political Action Committee

The Oregon Community Foundation

Oregon Education Association

Oregon Nurses Association

Penney Family Fund Common Counsel Foundation

Warren Rosenfeld

SEIU Local 503

The Standard

Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter PC

Transgender Law Center

Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

Henry van Ameringen

VOQAL Fund

Equality Circle $5,000-$9,999Christopher Bailey & Dr. Robert Lusk

Kevin McHargue & Chris Carter

Comcast Cable Communications

Committee to Elect Brad Avakian

Bill Dickey

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Family Care Inc.

Julia Felsman & Cynthia Ondrick

Fred Meyer

Robert Goman

Jim Hess & Robert Herald

Dennis Johnson & Steven Smith

Lane Powell

Legacy Health Systems

Curtis Thompson & Joseph Mitchoff

Nordstrom, Inc.

Northwest Health Foundation

Oregon Country Fair

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland General Electric

Powell’s Books

Schwab Charitable Fund

Val Solorzano

The Boeing Company

University of Oregon Foundation

Betsy Wessler

Wheeler Foundation

Jason Zidell & Crystal Lamb

Justice Circle $2,500-$4,999Bob Speltz & Dwight Adkins

AFT-Oregon Issue PAC

Kregg Arntson & Ted Fettig

Bakery Blocks, LLC

Michael Berman

Bolder Giving

Chuck Brimmer & David Robertson

Debbie Burke & Richard Durant

Davis Wright Tremaine

Merry & Harold Demarest

DHM Research

Steven Dotterrer & Kevin Kraus

Barbara Dumesnil

Rebecca Fleischman

John Grigsby & James Vegher

Hazelden

JP Morgan Chase

Neil Kelly

Robert Kennedy & Will Wishart

Jason Lim

Andy Mendenhall

MRG Foundation

New Seasons Market

Oregon AFSCME

Perkins Coie

¿Por Que No?

Port of Portland

Portland Fire & Rescue

Portland Public Schools

Portland State University Foundation

Providence Health & Services

Stoel Rives LLP

Tim Thunder

Tonkon Torp LLP

Travel Portland

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Warren Schlegel and Ed Miller were married on June 5, 2014, after more than four decades together.

Freedom Circle $1,000-$2,49976 Words LLC

Ace Hotel

Stan Amy & Christy Eugenis

Jennifer Anderson

Apex Real Estate Partners

William Apt & Grant Molsberry

Baaslaw

Mary Bachman & Bill Downing

Gwenn Baldwin & Judith Gray

Bank of America

Stephen Becker & Lisa Grove

Carol Jane Bernick & Mark Hackett

Congressman Earl Blumenauer

Moira Bowman & Diane Goodwin

Paul & Peter Bragdon

Anthony Carino

Chefstable LLC

Dave Corey

Nicola & Meg Cowie

Julie Davis

Mark Dedrick

Laura & Dirk Dellinger

Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP

Kathryn Dunning & Kari Szukalski

Elwood Group

Equilibrium Capital Group

Donald Falk & Harold Rains

Doug Fish

William Fish & Ed Reeves

John Forsgren & Dan Winter

Jeana Frazzini & Collin McFadyen

Friends of Chip Shields

Shannon & John Frysinger

Fun House Lounge

Lawrence Furnstahl

Gerding Edlen

Jennifer Gibson

Harold Goldstein

Mary Hallman

Marcia Hauer & Jeanne Knepper

Heritage Investment Corp

Mike & Sue Hollern

Hoyt Street Properties

Lisa Hunefeld & Ann Schatz

Sean Igo

Micheal Pickrell & Steve Isaacson

Kathleen & Louis Jaffe

Sabrina Rokovitz & Leslie Johnson

George Vranas & Peter Johnson

Thomas & Marcia Wood

Norm Kalbfleisch & Neil Matteucci

Peter Kallen & Jeff Stuhr

Tom Kelly & Barbara Woodford

Neil Kimmelfield

Marnel King & Patti Lynch

Steve Knox & Eric Warshaw

Stefan Krupelak & James Lowenstein

Margaret Lanfri

Larry Laughead & Steven Lien

Lever Architecture PC

Lester Lewis Jr. & Richard Watkins

Livingston Foundation, Inc.

Jennifer Lynch

D. Carter & Jennifer MacNichol

Grey Magauran & Skye McKay

Michael Marshall

Betty Massoni

McDonald Jacobs, P.C.

Harriet Merrick & Catherine Thomas

Metro

Marli Miller

Katherine Paullin & Emily Miller

Fred Miller & Karla Wenzel

NAACP Eugene Branch

The New World Foundation

Pacific Power

Pastini

Andrea Lynne Petkus

Nancy & Michael Phillips

Portland Business Alliance

Portland Timbers

Don Powell & Zhou Yintian

Pride Foundation

Marty Quandt

Radio Room

Patrick Reiten

Ringside Fish House

Russell Street Bar-B-Que

Salt & Straw Ice Cream

James Saville

Connie Seeley

Lisa Watson & Peter Shanky

Brian Shipley

Skylab Architecture LLC

Bryan Sohl

Donnie Tankersley & Mark Solon

Vanessa Usui & Kimberlee Stafford

Kevin Stahl

State of Oregon Department of Administrative Services

Samantha Swaim & Kristin Steele

Michael Stewart

Marilyn Stewart-Frank

Strictly Organic Coffee Co.

The Sweet Life Patisserie

Twist

U.S. Bank

UFCW Local 555

Mary Usui

John Von Schlegell

Rahul Vora

Jody & Jan Ward

Ronald Weber

Margarette Weller

Brian Wilson

Candace Young

Lieselotte & Mary Zorn-McCarty

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Election, Campaign, Policy Work Transforms Oregon

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Many LGBTQ baby boomers and retirees never thought they would see the day when they would have the freedom to marry. It feels like a monumental shift from where our movement was just a decade ago when many states, including Oregon, enshrined same-sex marriage bans in state constitutions.

For organizations like Basic Rights Oregon, which was entrenched in fighting for this change, this evolution was more than two decades in the making. Oregon became an important player in the final chapter. In 2008, the freedom to marry movement recognized it needed a major shift and Basic Rights Oregon’s team was at the center of this

new approach—working tirelessly behind the scenes with partners to test and retest new strategies and new messaging that would move voters on the issue of the freedom to marry.

In partnership with Freedom to Marry and national funders, Oregon launched educational initiatives called Marriage Matters, Our Families and Coming Out As a Person of Faith that proved pivotal in shifting public opinion.

In 2011, as Basic Rights Oregon was preparing for a 2012 ballot measure, the landscape around winning marriage remained uncertain. Our movement faced another challenging election cycle with four states readying for ballot measures: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.

In consultation with donors and supporters, Basic Rights opted to wait and support Washington’s 2012 campaign by helping with Southwest Washington’s field program and engagement with communities of color.

These states got a significant boost when in May 2012, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to express support for the freedom to marry, acknowledging that like many Americans, his views had “evolved.” The President used the “golden rule” message tested in Oregon in his remarks and LGBTQ equality prevailed in all four states.

Within a few months of these victories, Basic Rights Oregon joined state and national partners to launch a 2014 ballot measure campaign, Oregon United for Marriage. During this effort, the landscape altered once again when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban barring federal recognition of same-sex marriage, giving states like Oregon a second path to victory through the federal courts. Oregon’s constitutional ban was overturned on May 19, 2014.

Racial JusticeBasic Rights Oregon’s Racial

Justice team was engaged in Oregon’s marriage campaign, but that wasn’t the team’s only challenge for the year. Leveraging years of coalition work, staff engaged community and faith leaders, and small business owners as part of a larger effort to build a wall of opposition against the discrimination measure.

Religious Discrimination: One of the most memorable moments in the campaign came when civil rights leader and long-time LGBTQ activist Kathleen Saadat filmed a commercial linking the 1960s segregation efforts to this emerging religious freedom fight.

Measure 88: Basic Rights Oregon was also part of a successful legislative effort that helped pass SB 633 during the 2013 session. This law gave undocumented Oregonians the opportunity to apply for a driver’s card. Anti-immigrant movements in Oregon

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An advertisement featuring civil rights leader and LGBTQ activist Kathleen Saadat was critical in building opposition to an emerging ‘religious freedom’ measure.

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were able to gather enough signatures to postpone it’s implementation and place it on the November 2014 ballot.

Basic Rights joined Causa, a statewide immigrant rights group, to help defend access to driver’s cards.

Organizing staff worked tirelessly on this effort. Staff and volunteers registered voters, collected endorsements from organizations and faith leaders, contacted voters and supported voter turnout efforts.

The measure failed, marking the most challenging moment of the year for the Basic Rights team.

Leadership Development & Strategic Planning: Basic Rights program staff continued its in-depth work on leadership development, particularly within communities of color, and played a pivotal role in gathering data and feedback to help inform the 2015-20 Strategic Plan.

Transgender Justice National survey results

reveal the immense challenges transgender Oregonians face: y More than 40 percent will

attempt suicide. y Four times more likely than

others to live in poverty. y Significantly more likely to be

the victim of violence.

“Transgender people experience significant health disparities because we don’t have access to health coverage. Updating the Oregon Health Plan for transition-related care is critically important and lifesaving for transgender Oregonians.”

Identification Cards: Basic Rights staff members worked with the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles to reduce barriers for transgender Oregonians in updating their driver’s licenses or state identification cards. A new policy took effect Jan. 1, 2015 that allowed individuals to complete a standard form signed by either a licensed health or mental health professional, social worker or case worker. Having identification that matches a person’s gender identity is essential to gaining employment, housing and accessing bank accounts.

Corrections Reforms: In 2014, staff launched efforts with the Oregon Department of Corrections and Oregon Youth Authority to improve safety and living conditions for transgender individuals who are incarcerated. This work continues in 2015.

Basic Rights Oregon joined leaders of faith, elected officials and other coalition partners in supporting Measure 88, a ballot measure that would have allowed undocumented Oregonians apply for driver’s cards.

In this context, with the guidance of the Transgender Justice Working Group, Basic Rights staff worked with policy makers on three key issues: transgender-inclusive Medicaid coverage, removing barriers to updating an individual’s state identification, and improving safety and care for incarcerated transgender people.

Oregon Health Plan: Staff organized testimony from

physicians, policy experts and transgender Oregonians in favor of coverage under the state’s Medicaid program, Oregon Health Plan.

In August 2014, the review panel voted to include transgender health coverage in the plan beginning January 2015. Oregon joined California,

Vermont, Massachusetts and Washington D.C. with this coverage.

Every leading medical professional association supports increased access to comprehensive healthcare for transgender people, including the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association.

“We all need basic care to be healthy,” said Nico Quintana, Basic Rights Oregon’s Policy Director.

TRANSFORMS OREGONContinued From Previous Page

Basic Rights Oregon & Basic Rights Education Fund 2014 Consolidated Financials

Behind the Scenes in 20142014 Board of DirectorsVanessa Usui & Anita Rodgers, Co-ChairsAl Machemehl. TreasurerJon Isaacs, SecretaryCyreena Boston AshbyDebbie BurkeDave CutlerJohn HalsethCM HallNancy HaqueIzzy VenturaJackie Yerby

2014 Equality PAC Board MembersCM Hall, ChairDani BernsteinShelly CasteelRobin CastroAmanda HessDwight HoltonZach KlonoskiJennifer Lleras Van Der HaeghenTera PierceEvangelina SundgrenzMaggie Weller

Our Families CohortBuddy Becerra Cat Cheng Samuel DiazMonica Fields-FearsOscar Guerra-VeraAlexander HenriquezSam NhimHomero LunaHumberto Marquez MendezZack MohamedErika MosquedaBecca Naga

Trans Justice Working GroupPatrick CorneliusCurtis EspinozaGavin EverardKirsten KeithJoe LeBlancKopper MyersRyannah QuigleyDanny RosenAmanda SpencerLisa Summers

2014 Basic Rights StaffCathy AbbruzzeseDani AskiniKodey Park BambinoLakia DavisPeter Dakota MolofKhalil EdwardsKathy FormellaJeana Frazzini Aubrey Harrison Amy HerzfeldJohn Hyunwook JooJoe LeBlancAdrian MartinezJuan MartinezCameron MathewsEmily McLainDavid McElhattonCourt MorseJustin PabalateNico QuintanaAmy Ruiztash shatzKim SoggeKyle White

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Special Election Year TeamsA special thank you to the dozens of temporary staff and volunteers who served on the following election year campaign teams:

• Basic Rights Oregon Field Canvass• Oregon United Against Discrimination• Oregon United for Marriage • Safe Roads--Yes on 88

Sources of RevenueIndividuals

20%

Grants 65%

Events 15% Other .004%

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