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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.
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