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Tavern owner Bud
Clark upsets incumbent
Frank Ivancie to become
Portland s mayor at a
time when gays and les­
bians are gaining more
political clout by endors­
ing and donating money
to gay-friendly candi­
dates through Right to
Privacy Political Action
Committee.
Right to Privacy
formed in the early ’80s,
and its annual Lucille
Han Dinner raises
money for political can­
didates. The dinner was
named after Hart, who at
the time was thought to
he a lesbian who dressed
like a man in order to
work as a doctor in Ore­
gon. Hart died in 1962.
Chester Brinker, also known
as female impersonator Esther,
dies of AIDS. Just Out notes he
is the first well-known person in the gay community to die from
the disease. His death has a direct impact on the community
when his friends fonn Esther’s Pantry to provide fuxl for people
with H1V/A1DS as well as the Brinker Fund to help with the
financial min that often accompanies AIDS. Five years later,
Brinker is still being remembered when Harold Mix>re writes:
“Let the work being done in his name multiply. And let the
life of one working-class drag queen 1 asp ire us."
Jim Schelot becomes the first mem ber of the Port­
land Gay M en’s C horus to die of AIDS-related dis­
eases. “W h en Jim died, it suddenly became real for the cho­
rus,” Scott Eckleman tells Just O ut. “It was no longer som ething
happening elsewhere or on the news. It was happening right
here, and it was happening to us."
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T h e Portland Gay M en’s C h o ru s (pictured here in 1997) loses
its first member to A ID S in 1984. By 2 0 0 3 , the chorus loses
116 members, a large percentage due to A ID S.
A total of 28 gay and lesbian groups, including Black Lesbians
and Gays United, Gay Fathers and the Imperial Sovereign Rose
G xirt, gather for a communitywide meeting sponsored hy Dignity,
the gay Catholic organization— an example of community building
and outreach that gays and lesbians desire, hut struggle with for years.
Lesbian, dyke, queer, fag, homo, hutch and lezzie are all terms
for homosexual men or women, hut they may not all he appropriate.
Just Out notes that labels are more than just words used for identity;
“they have history, tone and exclusivity.” Some minorities chtxxse
labels “as part of their process of liberation. Identity labels, when
picked with care, can say a gcxxl deal.” During the next 20 years, a variety of terms make their way
into the community’s vocabulary as the word “gay" transitions all the way to “GLBTQ.”
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crimination based on sex­
ual orientation. Without
delay, opponents threaten
to remove the ordinance
with a public vote. In
March, the commissioners
repeal the ordinance to
Steve Fulmer of the Port­
avoid an election. They
land Gay M en’s Chorus
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tion, Concerned Citizens
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of Portland, are the main
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opponents of the ordi­
with HIV/AIDS including the Personal A ctive Listener program,
nance. A handful o f gay
which offers emotional support.
and lesbian activists rally
Com m unity H ealth
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Cascade A ID S
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Project. In 1999,
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campaign stating,
anti-gay threats.
T he U.S. Fcxxl and Drug
A dm inistration approves the
first hlcxxl test for HIV. Argu­
ments flare up concerning confi­
dentiality. In Oregon, 1,400 people
take the test in 1985; 20 percent
of results are positive. People
struggle with the decision to even
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result is seen as an almost certain
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