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PIONEERING QUEERS
based on sexual orientation in housing,
employment and public accommodations.
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1992
© NightScene, a cable television show that
calls itself “Gay T V for Everyone,” celebrates
its 100th show on Jan. 7.
The organization brings a confrontational
style of politics to Portland— in sharp contrast
to groups such as Right to Privacy PAC and
Cascade AIDS Project, which work within the
system. Michael Petrelis, a founder of the Port
land chapter, claims the city is ripe for the con
frontational style of politics, especially with the
passage of Measure 8.
EQLJITY
F O U N D A T I ON
1989
© Equity Foundation is established, and
within eight years the organization distributes
more than $430,000 in grants and scholarships
throughout Oregon.
© Finally, there’s a gay and lesbian float in
Portlands Rose Festival Starlight Parade. It’s
part of the Lesbian Community Project’s “From
Margins to the Mainstream Media Project.”
© A new state statute requires law enforce
ment agencies to report statistics on crimes
motivated by hate— including hate directed
toward gay people.
sach other
© In May, voters in Springfield pass an
OCA-sponsored ballot measure that prohibits
the city from offering human rights protec
tions based on sexual orientation. Voters in
Corvallis reject a similar measure.
© An estimat
ed 8,000 attend
Portland’s pride
parade.
Other legislation adds sexual orientation to
the categories protected under Oregon’s intimi
dation law, making acts of intimidation based
on bias against sexual orientation a misde
meanor and/or felony.
1990
© Unable to recover from a large debt
and the debate between ideals and profit,
A Woman’s Place Bookstore closes.
1991
© Gail Shibley becomes the first out les
bian to join the Oregon Legislature. She is
appointed to fill the vacancy in House District
12, which includes much of Southwest Port
land.
© Just Out publishes a cover story on Port
land Police Chief Tom Potter and his daughter,
Katie. The story marks Katie s official coming
out as a lesbian on the police force. The fol
lowing month, The Oregonian runs a story on
the Potters, and Tom marches in the pride
parade. The OCA calls for his resignation.
© Multnomah
County becomes the
first public employer
in Oregon to extend
health benefits to
domestic partners of
county employees,
effective July 1, 1993.
© Several employees at Oregon Health Sci
ences University sign up their partners for
health insurance by scratching out the word
spouse and replacing it with domestic partner
on the insurance forms. The act leads to the
Tanner vs. Oregon Health Sciences University
lawsuit.
O C A Chairman
© In November,
Lon Mahon
voters reject Measure
9, an OCA-sponsored measure that links
homosexuality with pedophilia, sadism and
masochism, bestiality, and necrophilia. It
sought to require governments and schools to
recognize homosexuality as abnormal, and
would have prohibited governments from
extending anti-discrimination protections
based on sexual orientation.
© The Portland City Council approves a
civil rights ordinance that bans discrimination
© The Oregon Court of Appeals strikes
down 1988’s Measure 8 as unconstitutional.
Different Drivers. Different Roads. One Car.
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