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1991: A look back
Gail Shibley was appointed to the Oregon House of Representatives,
the Oregon Citizens Alliance had nothing but homosexuality on their minds,
and Portland's City Council passed a gay and lesbian civil rights ordinance
This was a big year-here are a few of the highs and lows.
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by Linda Kliewer and Rex Wockner
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January
• Australian immigration authorities created
the category “relationships of emotional interde
• Gail Shibley is appointed to the Oregon
pendency” to cover various gay and straight re-
House of Representatives, and becomes the first * lationships that lack a legal familial link.
openly lesbian state representative.
• W ar is declared, ACT UP Portland splits.
• Ontario extends life, medical and dental
insurance benefits to lovers o f gay and lesbian
• Portland Police officer Katie Potter and her
provincial employees.
father, Chief Tom Potter, are on the cover o f Just
• Q ueen E liza b e th II k n ig h ts fam ed
Out. Katie comes out as a lesbian.
Shakespearean actor and gay activist Sir Ian
• First Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in
McKellan. Eighteen British celebrities outed
Washington, D.C.
themselves in a letter to a newspaper in support.
• Connecticut governor signs lesbian and gay
rights bill.
• San Francisco gives spousal benefits to all
domestic partners of city employees.
• A lesbian and gay Valentine’s Day kiss-in on
• Pentagon defends anti-gay military policy as
the University of Dlinois Campus leads to a riot.
reflecting “societal attitudes.”
• Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company o f
• Police are video-taped beating an African-
Washington, D.C. recognizes domestic partners
American motorist during an arrest in Los Angeles.
on homeowners' policy.
• OCA and Lon Mabon file initiative petition
• In San Francisco, 250 couples register on
listing hom osexuality, sadism , m asochism ,
Valentine’s Day as domestic partners.
pedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia as abnormal.
• FBI retains openly gay employee.
•The Oregonian, Willamette Week and KGW
• The famous lesbian kiss on “LA Law” be
Channel 8 come out with editorials against the
tween C J . and Abby is televised nationally.
OCA and in favor of civil rights.
• German gays and lesbians reported a wave of
• Guide Magazine stops publishing after five
skinhead and neo-Nazi attacks on gay establish years.
ments, a trend that continued all year.
• TV show “Northern Exposure” runs episode
where lesbian is said at least seven times.
• KOIN-TV airs three part series called “Look
ing for Love.” A lesbian is featured in part 2.
• Janice Wilson, out lesbian, is appointed by
• “Roseanne” introduces regular gay character.
Gov. Barbara Roberts as Multnomah County
* • The Russian gay movement founder Roman
District Court Judge.
Kalinin announced his candidacy for president of
• Gay activist takes seat in Texas Legislature.
the Russian Republic. He lost, but got massive
• Gay teacher wins Teacher of the Year Award
media attention.
in Philadelphia.
• New Zealand said citizens’ foreign gay and
• New York City M ayor David Dinkins
lesbian lovers could apply for residency.
marches with lesbian and gay contingent in
country’s largest St. Patrick's Day Parade.
• Susan Carney and Patricia O ’Scannell are
paid $25,000 by Central Point School District for
• A lesbian couple attend their high school
discrimination based on association with lesbian
prom in Manassas, Virginia.
play, “The Amazon All-Stars.”
• Lesbian and Gay Pride Portland brings out a
• Queer Nation comes to Portland.
record 7,500 people. Police Chief Tom Potter
joins the march.
• Ohio judge rules that a lesbian couple can be
• SB708 dies in the State House of Represen
considered as “living in a spousal relationship.”
• The Swedish government formed a parlia tatives, an informal, “illegal” public hearing is
called to hear testimony.
mentary commission to draft gay and lesbian
• LCP starts Homophobic Violence Reporting
marriage legislation.
Line.
• Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C. or
dains out lesbian Elizabeth Carl to priesthood.
• ILGA’s 13th World Conference was can
• Queer Nation asks Portlanders to be Queer
celled following threats o f violence from right-
For A Day.
wing groups and aggressive homophobic attacks
• SB708, the lesbian and gay state civil rights
from
government officials in Guadalajara, Mexico.
bill, passes out o f Senate committee with help
• One thousand homosexuals staged a “Queer
from Gov. Barbara Roberts and other top state
Wedding” in London’s Trafalgar Square.
officials.
• Former German President Walter Scheel’s
• Hawaii passes state lesbian and gay civil
daughter Cornelia came out of the closet and
rights bill.
presented her lover to the public. Germany was
• National lesbian and gay rights bill is intro
stunned.
duced into Congress for 16th year in a row.
• The Nova Scotia Legislature banned dis
• FBI invites gay activists to attend news
crimination against gays and lesbians province-
conference to announce Hate Crimes Statistics
wide, following the lead o f Manitoba, Ontario,
A ct
Quebec and the Yukon Territory.
•AAA W ashington state extends associate
• Nicaraguan gays and lesbians staged their
membership to domestic partners.
first
Gay Pride Day.
• Hqng Kong decriminalizes gay sex.
• The Dutch city o f Deventer began offering
gay and lesbian weddings even though there is not
provision for it in federal law.
• Twenty thousand people participate in the
• A survey found that nearly 40 percent of
first lesbian and gay pride celebration in the
Soviet citizens believe gays should be extermi
Soviet Union.
nated.
• British Prime Minister John Major announced
• Czechoslovakia’s parliament began study
that homosexuals may receive government secu
ing gay marriage legislation after several officials
rity clearances without any special problems.
made a state visit to Denmark.
May
February
March
June
April
July
• Germany’s National Homosexual Associa
tion began the battle for gay marriage.
August
• Pete Wilson, head Pentagon spokesperson, is
outed by The Advocate magazine.
• Jeffery Dahmer is accused of murdering and
mutilating at least 17 young men and boys, many
o f them gay and men o f color.
September
• Dr. Simon LeVay releases a study showing
that the hypothalmus in straight men is over
grown compared to the same part of the brain in
homosexual men.
• HB101, the anti-discrimination bill in Cali
fornia, passed both houses of the legislature and is
vetoed by Gov. Pete Wilson.
• Anita Hill is grilled by a Senate committee
about her past in relation to Supreme Court ap
pointee Clarence Thomas.
• Amnesty International reached consensus in
favor of adopting jailed gays and lesbians as
prisoners of conscience-after 17 years of lobby
ing by homosexuals.
• Sweden elected its first openly gay member
o f Parliament, Kent Carlsson.
October
• Portland City Council passes ordinance
guaranteeing lesbian and gay civil rights.
• OCA releases hate video.
• OCA files initiative to repeal Portland ordi
nance.
• Alternative Connection begins publishing in
Portland.
• South Africa’s second gay pride parade drew
2,000 to the streets o f Johannesburg.
• The Dutch Ministry o f Defense announced
that gay soldiers sent to foreign countries may
take their lovers with them.
• ACT UP/Cape Town, South Africa formed.
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Novem ber
• Lesbian Sherri Harris is elected to Seattle
City Council.
• Just Out celebrates eight years of publishing.
• “NightScene,” Portland gay late night TV,
produces 100th show.
• Sailor Clayton Hartwig is cleared by the
Navy of accusations he caused an explosion on
the USC Iowa that killed 87 sailors because he
was jilted by his homosexual lover.
• Gays in Nigeria made contact with ILG A and
said they’d held parties that attracted as many as
1,500 men.
• Gay-ghetto voters elected Toronto’s first
openly gay city councilor.
• Managua, Nicaragua’s first gay disco opened.
December
• Five hundred people call to complain to Fred
Meyer about OCA signature-collecting for Port
land anti-gay initiative.
•Twenty five Portland queer couples apply for
marriage licenses.
• Queer Nation goes to Foursquare Church.
• David Duke runs for President.
• The Canadian Radio, Television and Tele
communications Commission banned broadcasts
that abuse gay men and lesbians.
• Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski are
back together. Thompson is awarded guardian
ship for Kowalski in Minnesota Appeals Court
after an eight year battle.
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