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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1989)
1988 ▼ 1988, and the right wing marched on. The Oregon Citizens’ Alliance filed a petition to revoke Goldschmidt’s executive order. While gathering signatures, OCA members displayed a 10-foot banner reading “No Special Rights for Homosexuals.” ▼ In the heat of July, a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury decided that Priscilla Martin, longtime anti-abortion activist, would have to put money where her mouth was. The jury determined that Martin slandered Tim Shuck, an employee at the Lovejoy Surgicenter in Northwest Portland, by declaring publicly that he had AIDS. Shuck was HIV-positive, but did not have AIDS, and Martin was fined $175,000. NO SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUA Homophobe of the Decade Priscilla Martin strutted her stuff. .. t ▼ The company that oversees advertising on Tri-Met vehicles removed Cascade AIDS Project posters showing two men embracing and the slogan, “We Can Live. Together.” The Names Project Quilt came to the Chiles Center, and obituaries became a periodic feature in the pages of Just Out. ▼ The election brought sour tidings. Measure I 8, which revoked the governor’s anti- discrimination order, passed by a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent. Wfe can live. Together. Tine be« ck*s we have Htm a«£ AHJS w is each other , 1989 Tri-Met yanked CAP’s AIDS education poster following a negative editorial by The Oregonian's David Reinhard. The actions prompted demonstrations against Tri-Met and the newspaper. ▼ Summer, as always, brought the Rose Festival, but this time with a twist. The Margins to the Mainstream project sponsored a gay and lesbian float in the Starlight Parade, a city-wide first. T Nationally, courts began to recognize the various shapes of gay and lesbian families. In New York this past summer, the state’s highest court expanded the definition of “family” by allowing a man to remain in his rent-controlled apartment after his lover, whose name was on the lease, died. In Vermont, a probate judge awarded custody of a baby conceived through artificial insemination to his mother’s partner after the mother was killed in a car accident. Desert Hearts became the lesbian love film of the 'HOs. Camp icon Divine achieved stardom and died (literally) almost simultaneously. '* > * * ■ Governor Neil Goldschmidt addressed the seventh Lucille Hart dinner. _ ▼ In 1989, the Oregon Legislature gave the gay community reason for hope. A bill to count hate crimes against gays and lesbians as well as other minorities passed, as did a measure making it a crime to intimidate homosexuals. A bill that would have prohibited gay men and lesbians from becoming foster parents never got out of committee. ACT UP I Portland led an action at Federal Drug Administration office in Portland. Sev eral demonstrators were arrested and strip- searched. ▼ It’s the end of the decade, and a quick glance through the pages of Just Out shows how the texture of life has changed. Few bars advertise, and the “Groups” section includes 66 listings, including the Gay Hiking Group, Gay Men’s ACOA, Lesbian History Group, Newly Coming Out Lesbians, Women with Women and Children and Bisexual Community Forum. A small box on page 34 announces ‘Transitions,” naming Darren N. Roth, Darrell Robert Geisler and Keegan Christopher Floren Mohr. Two deaths and one birth. The 1980s circle around. And we continue. just out ▼ 21 ▼ December 1989
