7.2003»,
Cascade AIDS Project's
annual pledge walk raises
$275,000, a record that far
exceeds the $75,000 organizers
hoped to raise. More than 3,000 people participate, many wear­
ing “N o on 9” buttons.
The Portland-based nonprofit Research and Education Crimp
and Oregon Health Sciences University sponsor a two-day con­
ference on AIDS. Workshops include “How to Keep from Losing
Yimr Life Before You Die” and “An Apprixich to HIV/A1DS
Prevention for People with Serious Learning Problems.”
After 12 years, [democrats are hack in the White Hmise as
Rill C linton wins the presidential election. In Portland, Vera
Katz wins the mayoral race with a long history of supporting
Measure 9 is a main focus of
1992. The Oregonian prints hun­
U
Multnomah County becomes the
dreds of articles tin the issue, and
first public employer in Oregon to
Right to Pri­
Just Out keeps readers informed
extend health benefits to domestic
vacy’s Lucille
with its “O C A W atch.” Just Out
Hart Dinner,
also lists many ways individuals
partners o f county employees.
which raises
can help fight Measure 9.
funds for gay-friendly candidates, sells out with 1,500 people
Arguments flare about how to
attending the $100-a-person event. W ith less than a month
defeat the measure. The N o on 9
to go before the November elections, Measure 9 makes its
Campaign concentrates on getting
way into several speeches. Just Out reports, “W hen Gov.
out the vote, while other groups
Barbara Roberts got on stage to speak, she received a sponta­
emphasize building long-lasting
networks and educating the gener­ neous standing ovation. Portland Police Chief Tom Potter
al public about homosexuality. The was greeted with the same enthusiasm when he was intro­
duced at his table. By far, the loudest, longest applause was
measure is defeated hut leaves the
for Gail Shibley.”
community exhausted and hitter.
To this day, some people don’t
Tlie Oregon Court of Appeals overturns 1988’s
want to discuss or relive those days
Measure 8. Everyone is so focused on the current Measure 9,
of fighting Measure 9.
they almost miss the gixxJ news.
O n the other hand, because of
Measure 9,
some people
are politically
involved who
wouldn’t be
otherwise.
Many write
"coming out"
*
letters to their
friends and
families urg­
ing them to
vote no on 9.
Dozens of
organizations
spring up
statewide to
fight the
OCA; many,
such as the
Rural O rgan­
In the midst of covering M easure 9, photographer
izing Project
C
atherine Stauffer (inset) sues the Oregon Citizens
and Love
Alliance
after the group’s com m unications director
Makes a Fam­
physically removes her from a meeting. Stauffer wins
ily, are still
the suit, but receives very little money.
IL
active today.
F " ,
Gay activist Keeston Low­
ery dies of AIDS-related com­
plications. Lowery was a
founder of Right to Privacy,
aide to Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindhurg and friend to
former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Fred Neal says Lowery “did a
damn gixxl job. And he was out there in front. We used to go to
all of these fund-raisers about 13 years ago, and Keeston and 1
would he the only gay people in attendance. For a lot of straight
legislators, Keeston was their first introduction to a gay man."
1993
Wixxly Johnson, aka Lady Elaine Peaaxrk, dies. A few
months later his sister, Misty Waters, also dies of AIDS. Misty
was bom a man hut became a woman in her adult life. Both were
entertainers, and Misty was Princess XL
Tom Potter resigns as
Portland’s police chief. His
departure stuns the gay
community. Ten years later,
he’s running for mayor.
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“ 1 have an overriding need to have a positive effect on my
co m er of the w orld,” says George Eighmey, O regon’s first
openly gay man serving in the state Legislature
George Eighmey becomes the first openly gay man in the
Oregon Legislature, appointed to represent the 14th District
after Rev Stein moves on. “I’m pro-choice, pro-diversity and
pro-family," he tells Just Out. “To me, family is defined as a lov­
ing, caring unit. Two people, three people, four people, married,
not married, children, no children— it is a unit.”
“Celebrating 16 years o f teen-age gender-bend­
ing,” T he City Nightclub— Portland’s nonalcoholic
club for gays and other teens— holds its annual
Teenage Female Impersonation Pageant. Four years
later, the city clamps down after reports o f dmg use.
Owner Lanny Swerdlow closes the club and opens
another one at a new location.
“No, it’s not a nightm are,”
reports Just O ut. T he O C A “real­
ly did announce a new statewide
initiative assault on O regonians’
civil rights."
Lon Mahon makes gixxl on his
promise to come hack with a toned-
down version of Measure 9 as he
files for an initiative, which eventu­
ally becomes Measure 13 on I994’s
ballot. It would amend the state
constitution to prohibit govern­
ments from extending anti-discrim­
ination protections to homosexuals.
In preparation for Measure 13,
the O C A sponsors anti-gay ballot
measures in small cities and coun­
ties throughout Oregon. Voters
pass 26 of these “Son of 9" mea­
sures, and the O C A views this as
proof that Measure 1 3 will pass.
Opponents fonn Save Our Com­
munities Political Action Commit­
tee to fight the “Son of 9" initia­
tives. Liter, SOC-PAC becomes the
N o o n 13 Campaign. But opponents
are so exhausted from Measure 9
that it’s hard to work up the emo­
tion, energy and media coverage to
fight the latest OCA effort.
T he Oregon Legislature passes
House Bill 3500, stopping
"Son of 9” measures from taking
effect. It’s a different approach to
fighting the O C A as it invalidates
Mahon's anti-gay measures before
some of them even come up for a
vote. It’s an anti-O C A law, not a
gay-rights law.
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