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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1999)
m aji2L 1599 ? J u s t m A 2 3 1987 PIONEERING QUEERS © In Bend, The Other Side forms to help people with AIDS. Soon it grows into an organization that serves as a political and social base for les bians and gay men in the area. Continued from Page 21 © The Portland City Coun cil approves an ordinance stat ing that city employees cannot be fired solely because they are gay or lesbian. The ordinance pulls together all existing city personnel policies, including the resolution adopted on Dec. 18, 1974. © Deputy Chief Tom Potter becomes the Portland Police Bureau’s liaison to the gay and lesbian community. 1986 © The Portland Lesbian Choir forms and becomes the first choir with the word lesbian in its title. © Fifty-five athletes from Portland attend Gay Games II in San Francisco and come home with' more than two dozen medals. © The International Asso ciation of Gay Square Dancers meets in Portland, and 600 dance the night away at the Hilton. Metropolitan Community Church of Portland “small-town survival” to “substance abuse in the gay/lesbian community.” © Almost 600 people attend Portlands first lesbian conference sponsored by the Lesbian Community Project. The gathering looks at the changes, challenges and choices facing Portland lesbians. © The Defenders of Mithra, Portland’s leather-and-Levi’s women’s organization, cele brates its second anniversary with a dinner at Club 927 and a champagne brunch at the Dirty Duck Tavern. © Portland hosts the fifth annual PFLAG convention. Workshop topics range from P ride N orthwest © An enthusiastic crowd of 1,200 people participate in Cascade AIDS Project’s From All Walks of Life walkathon. The event raises more than $75,000. © Gov. Neil Goldschmidt signs an execu tive order that forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation in the hiring and firing of state employees. 1988 © More than 500 people attend the second annual Peacock in the Park benefit for the Audria M. Edwards Youth Scholarship Fund. The event raises $1,700. The scholarship, named after Lady Elaine Peacock’s mother, is for students in vocational education. © Queers United Against Closets, a politi cal action group, demonstrates in front of The Oregonian’s offices to protest the paper’s lack of coverage of the pride march. © The first annual Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Reel Proud, presents 12 films. ® Tri-Met pulls the “We can live together” Cascade A ID S Project ad from buses after receiving complaints that the ad promotes homosexuality. © After being rejected two years in a row, Phoenix Rising Foundation becomes the first gay and lesbian organization in Oregon to join United Way. The agency allocates $16,000 to Phoenix Rising for the following year. © Almost three dozen people attend the inaugural meeting of the Portland chapter of the National Leather Association. © Measure 8 passes. The Oregon Citizens Alliance sponsored the proposal, which repeals Goldschmidt’s guber- natorial executive © ACT-UP forms a chapter in Portland. The national organi zation formed two years earlier in New York in response to the A ID S crisis. The initials stand for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. fllEN(E=DEATH Continued on Page 24 1969 1999 presents C eleb ratin g Sto n ew all 30: R evolution/Evolution Volunteers are needed! ^yyiON - S H 0 YOU P R I D I for: barricade monitors, trash pick-up, security, set-up, tear-down, special event helpers, program distribution, posterers. I dean-up, parade assistants, and more. Contact Pride Northwest's Volunteer Coordinator, Jes, at 295-9788 or tribobutch®bigf oot.com Interested LGBT community members are invited to partidpate in Pride Northwest s Conversations Project, a posi tive community building activity. N e w groups are starting n o w and in the fall All conversations indude constituency group and at-large community members w h o are not identified w ith that group. Current groups are focused on Hispanic African-American, and leather/s/m constituencies Future groups will focus on trans, seniors, youth, and disabled queers Call 295-9788 for an application form. W atch for Pride N orthw est Benefits at clubs all over tow n in June. The first one is Friday, June 4, 9pm: Mr. Millennium auction at Scandals, 1038 SW Stark. Sponsored by: o EVO V Financial Advisors lu str im i A b s o l u t Pnr Booth or Parade Registrations call 295-9788 or visit out website at www.gaypdx.com/pride GayfWt Wet r
