BLAZERS HOST FIRST EVER PRIDE NIGHT, HONOR OREGON OLYMPIANS AND PARALYMPIANS AT TUESDAY'S GAME

The Portland Trail Blazers are proudly hosting two special events at tomorrow’s game against the Chicago Bulls. Activities and tributes throughout the game will help celebrate the team’s first-ever Pride Night and honor the 2016 Rio Olympians and Paralympians with ties to Oregon.

Pride Night, with support from Alaska Airlines, is an opportunity for the team and its fans to celebrate diversity and inclusion. The festivities begin before the opening tip, when the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus performs the National Anthem. Tomorrow’s night’s Item of the Game at Rip City Clothing Co. is a sweatshirt featuring the signature “Rip City” wordmark in rainbow coloring.

Proceeds from the sweatshirt, 5050 Raffle in partnership with the Safeway Foundation, silent auction at the raffle booth and the group ticket link all benefit Q Center, which provides a welcoming and safe space to support and celebrate LGBTQIA+ diversity, equality, visibility and community building. The evening also supports Sankofa Collective NW, The Equi Institute and Pride NW.

The Trail Blazers are also saluting many of Oregon’s 2016 Rio Olympians and Paralympians during tomorrow’s game. Fans will not want to miss the halftime ceremony honoring each member of the Olympic and Paralympic teams in attendance.

The organization is anticipating 27 athletes who competed during the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio. Collectively, these athletes have won 31 Olympic medals (11 in Rio), and appeared in Olympic and Paralympic competition 56 times.

 

Do the Blazers really have that many demands for "nights" that they can't give the Olympians, Special Olympians, and the LGBTQIA communities their own individual nights?

 

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I didn't know what LGBTQIAA meant either but I'm glad I looked it up.

I'm an A in the LGBTQIAA!

Lesbian: A female- identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another female-identified person.

Gay: A male-identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another male-identified person.

Bisexual: Individuals who are attracted to both men and women romantically, physically, or emotionally.

Transgender: Individuals whose biological sex is different than the gender with which they identify. Sometimes the term “born in the wrong body” is used, however this depends on the individual’s preference.

Transsexual: Transsexual individuals have physically altered their body in order to better match their gender identity. It is a term that refers to biology, not to identity necessarily, and it is indicative of a change in one’s physiology.

Queer: queer is an all-inclusive term referencing lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transpeople, and intersex persons.

*It was previously a derogatory term in the 1980s, however, it has currently been reclaimed when referring to the LGBTQIA community. Queer attempts to reject the idea that the labels of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender are able to explain any one person’s identity.

Intersex: Someone whose physical sex characteristics are not categorized as exclusively male or exclusively female.

Asexual: A person who is not attracted to anyone or does not have sexual orientation.

Ally: A person who does not identify as LGBTQIA but supports the rights and safely of those who do.​

 

Really dude?

 

We have members of the LGBTQIA community that are also members of this forum. Can you just stop with the BS? I've already had to move the thread from the main forum to the OT because you feel the need to make fun of people.