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Learning from the Past
DVD documents ugly chapter in Oregon's history
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notes that gays are also citizens. He continues to talk
he award-winning 1995 documentary
in a confused circle trying to defend his position, only
Ballot Measure 9 will be released Jan. 29 on
to end up where he started: that it is OK to beat up
DVD, giving it new life and a new audi
homosexuals. MacDonald could hardly believe what
ence. The film tells the story of a 1992
she had just filmed. “The way he said that and his
ballot measure that would have stripped
total confusion about it was just very central to the
gay Oregonians of their civil rights (see sidebar).
film,” she says.
We are very fortunate to have this film. It is one
Another teenager later gives his solution to the
thing to read about an anti-gay ballot measure of
years ago; it is quite another thing to watch this homosexual issue: Put all the gays in one place.
Have them move to Illinois.
movie and relive those moments or perhaps to view
The film does not cover all aspects of the
them for the first time—seeing supporters of
No on 9 Campaign, but it does show the diversity
Measure 9 prepare for a rally; watching them receive
in the coalition that formed to defeat the measure.
their final instructions; having the camera capture
It also examines the violence that occurred. Mostly,
a woman excitedly waving a “Yes on 9” sign over her
though, MacDonald says she made a definite deci
head as she runs down the sidewalk.
sion to make a film that could be used as a model of
Producer and director Heather MacDonald
wisely lets people tell their own stories. She and the
how coalitions can form and work. And she was in
other photographers deserve a lot of credit for a hurry to make it.
“We picked what we thought would be the most
getting the trust of their subjects and putting them
useful, politically at the time, because there were so
at ease to tell their stories—whether they were
interviewing an Oregon Citizens Alliance support many other initiatives coming up in other states,”
she says. “So the idea was to show that you had to
er; filming gay activist Scott Seibert as he removed
the broken glass from his vandalized home; or
speak up. You had to step up. You had to come out
documenting the harassment that Cindy Patterson
and form coalitions and get to work.”
The film is as relevant today as ever.
experienced in Southern Oregon for her efforts to
defeat Measure 9.
There are so many touching scenes
in the movie, but perhaps none so
moving as listening to a teenage boy,
who was visiting an Anne Frank
exhibit, explain why it was all right to
beat up homosexuals but not Jews. In
his mind, it is not OK to beat up Jews
because they are citizens, yet he then
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If approved by voters, Measure 9
would have added the following lan
guage to the Oregon Constitution:
1. This state shall not recognize
any categorical provision such as “sexual preference,” and similar phrases that include homosexuality,
pedophilia, sadism or masochism. Quotas, minority status, affirmative action or any similar concepts
shall not apply to these forms of conduct, nor shall government promote these behaviors.
2. State, regional and local governments and their properties and monies shall not be used to
promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism.
3. State, regional and local governments and their departments, agencies and other entities, includ
ing specifically the state Department of Higher Education and the public schools, shall assist in setting
a standard for Oregon’s youth that recognizes homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism and masochism as
abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse and that these behaviors are to be discouraged and avoided.
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