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ore than 2,000 panels of the was first displayed in Washington, D.C. three
Names Project AIDS Memo years ago, the quilt had 1,920 panels.New panels
rial Quilt will be displayed are continually being added.
Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 at the
David Lemos, executive director of the
Oregon Convention Center.On Names Project,said the project is hosting the
Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, the Portland
national display
display because the quilt is an uncom
will be the largest display of the mon
quilt and
in the inspiring response to the
world.
epidemic.“Instead of forcing people to be silent
Panels from the quilt will also be displayed at about their loss and suffering, the quilt encour
the Oregon Art Museum on Dec. 1, as part of A ages them to express their grief and celebrate the
Day Without Art
life of someone they’ve loved,” he said.
The focus of World AIDS Day 1990 is
There will be an opening ceremony Nov. 30
women and children.The Portland display will at 7 pm.The unfolding of the quilt begins at 7:30
contain memorial panels for women and children pm.Closing ceremonies begin at 5 pm on Dec.
who have died from AIDS.
2.The display will be open for viewing at 9 am
James Bryson, president of the Oregon chap on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 and will close at 10 pm on
ter of the Names Project, said more than 500 Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Oregonians have died of AIDS in the past nine
People wishing to submit a panel to the Port
years.“Many of these people will have quilt pan land display should send them to The Names
els which will be part of the display,” Bryson Project, 2140 SW Jefferson Blvd., suite 100,
said.“The quilt provides a positive and creative Portland, OR 97201, before Nov. 20.There will
means of expression for those whose lives have also be a panel check-in booth at the Convention
been touched by the AIDS epidemic.”
Center during the display Those wishing to have
Bryson said the quilt provides a means for their panels included in the opening ceremonies
public education by illustrating the impact of the need to have them at the Convention Center be
AIDS epidemic and showing the humanity be fore 6 pm.
hind the statistics.
As in all other cities, all donations collected
The entire Quilt has 12,592 individual 3-foot at the display will be distributed to local agencies
by 6-foot panels, each representing the life of providing direct services to people with AIDS/
someone who has died of AIDS.When the quilt HIV and their loved ones.
memorate the achievements and contributions of
Harvey Milk and to honor those persons who live
out his legacy of activism on behalf of the les
bian and gay community.
Sally Gearhart is a professor in Speech Com
n Saturday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 pm in the munication at San Francisco State University.She
Unitarian Fellowship Hall 2945 NW is the author for numerous short stories and ar
Circle Blvd., Corvallis, After 8 will ticles on feminist theory. She labels herself
sponsor the Harvey Milk Awards Din “White Southern Christian Water-Treading
ner. Sally Gearhart, author, professor and activ
Middle-Class,” a “Radical Lesbian, Feminist,
ist, will be the featured speaker and “So- Animal Rights Advocate, Speaker, and Activist.”
romundi,” the Eugene Lesbian Choir will pro She is featured in the film. Word Is Out, a docu
vide entertainment. “Harveys” will be awarded to mentary on lesbians and gay men. She also ap
individuals who have made outstanding contribu pears in the Academy Award winning documen
tions to the lesbian and gay community.
tary The Times of Harvey Milk. She will read part
After 8 formed following the passage of Bal of the eulogy she gave at Harvey Milk’s funeral
lot Measure 8 in November 1988. After 8’s goals and share her reflections on where the lesbian
are education, advocacy, and direct action to and gay community is now and where it is we
create conditions which ensure that all persons need to go.
are protected form discrimination based on sex
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way. Officer Henry Groepper, Crime Stopper
coordinator, said at the time of the fire, the owner
was sick and “in pretty bad shape” so they were
unable to question him. The owner, who lived in
Vancouver, Wash., died of AIDS about three
weeks after the fire.
Detective Bill Law of the Portland Police
Bureau said all of the tenants of the building
were gay men.
“There has been some speculation that he
may have been sexually involved with some of
the renters and not told them he was HTV-posi
tive," Law said. He said that were checking out
the possibility that someone was angry that the
owner had exposed him to AIDS. He said they
were also other possible motives.
The building, which was occupied by tenants
when the fire was set, sustained about $43,000 in
damage. No one inside the building was injured.
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