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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1993)
ju st out T Ja n u a r y 1. 1993 T 9 BRADLEY J. WOODWORTH ATTORNEY AT LAW Artwork recreates isolation Portland artist David Olstein has created an installation designed to give the viewer the sense of the isolation felt by people living with HIV. The 140-square-foot structure features a vial of the artist’s HIV-positive blood, an X-ray of his skull and a five-by-three-foot enlargement of the HIV virus. Olstein wants viewers to actively participate and be integrated into the exhibit. Upon entering the structure, viewers are asked to wear surgical gloves, isolation masks and orange stickers read ing “Biohazard.” No more than six persons will be allowed into the structure at a time. “As a ‘positive’ person,” Olstein said, “I’ve come to understand a certain continual sense of shock, a loss of control over the world around me, as if alienated from my own body.” The exhibit opens First Thursday, Jan. 7, at Gallcri 8, at 314 SW 9th Ave.The opening recep tion starts at 6 pm. The gallery is also open Mondays through Fridays from 2 to 6 pm. This is Olstein's First major installation. The work utilizes his background as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pacific North west College of Art and as a journeyman electri cian. He has worked on many sets for the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus and Storefront Theatre. Bigots get boycotts for Christmas Citizens in Springfield, Ore., and Colorado are about to pay the price for voting to forbid civil- rights protection for their gay and lesbian resi dents. The Multnomah County Board of Com missioners has joined the cities of Atlanta, Ga., and Seattle, Wash., as well as countless individu als in boycotting Springfield and Colorado. The Multnomah County Board of Commis sioners voted Dec. 10 to forbid “the spending of any County funds for travel to or from or activities within any state or locality that has constitutional or charter provisions, laws or ordinances which prohibit the adoption or enforcement of laws or ordinances protecting the civil rights of individu als based on their sexual orientation.” The resolution, which was sponsored by Com missioner Pauline Anderson, passed unanimously. Anderson describes it as “very compatible with the philosophy of the present board.” That board also spoke out against Ballot Measure 9. Ander son said that although the boycott is mostly sym bolic, such boycotts are the most effective way to protest official bigotry in other states and cities. She points as an example to the boycott of Ari zona protesting that state’s refusal to declare Martin Luther King Day to be an official holiday. The resolution reads in part, “...it is incum bent on all citizens to take a stand against overt hatred directed at persons because of sexual ori entation, race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability or condition...the public good is best served by not spending money in states or municipalities which discriminate against certain citizens.” The commissioners decided to allow two ex ceptions to the resolution. Law-enforcement offi cials will continue to travel wherever they need to prosecute criminals, and four county library offi cials will be permitted to attend a January confer ence in Denver because their travel arrangements have already been made. Anderson says she has received only one call in support of the boycott and about a dozen opposed. The phone number for the Multnomah County Board clerk is 248-3277. Officials from neither Colorado nor Springfield have contacted the commissioners about the resolution. Seattle’s resolution also passed unanimously, but it exempts Aspen, Boulder and Denver. Those cities have pledged to uphold the anti-discrimina tion laws that they had before the election. Seattle Mayor Norm Rice has been directed to compile a list of places where gay men and lesbians are denied basic civil-rights protection in the United States. Atlanta’s resolution forbids the use of city funds for trips or conventions to Springf eld. Ore., Colorado and Concord, Calif. “Atlanta has always been in the forefront of civil-rights activism,” said Atlanta City Coun cilor Bill Campbell. “We felt this was something we just had to take a strong stand on.” Oregon Citizens Alliance spokeswoman Loretta Neet continues to insist that any money lost will be made up for by conservative “Chris tian” tourists. Springfield’s law might not last until summer vacations, though. 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