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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 2008)
12 JUSt|OUt g/J»? NOVEMBER 21,2008 _-i_p3u%, J USlfUt v Congratulations • on 25 years to ,4. and many, many than^yforyour generous support of the Choir during our first 21 years. T he N ight the Q uilts R an O ut Congratulations to Just Out/ staff had an honored tradition of cloaking a recently he bleakest night was also one of passed resident in a quilt, which Rizzio remembers the longest. Judith Rizzio was working an over doing. Then, hours later, yet another resident passed. A second quilt was retrieved and laid over the body. night shift, one of many in those intermi Still later in the night, a third resident passed on. nable weeks back then, at the new residence for HIV/AI DS-infected people called Our House. She Our House staff went searching for another quilt, or remembers a night of high emotions at the height of anything to cover the body, but came up empty. the Portland pandemic when the facility, packed to “We had two, and all of us realized we didn’t bursting with needy residents on a cold night, was have another quilt,” Rizzio says, her voice choked so short of supplies that it simply ran out of quilts. with emotion. “And we all thought, this is insane. Rizzio can look back on this with clearer eyes This is just too much.” today. After burying one of her best friends who —Stephen Marc Beaudoin died from AIDS-related causes in 1979, she worked for Our House from 1989 to 2006 as the focus “went from helping people die to helping pei >ple... understand what it means to live with HIV.” She’s now in charge of vol unteer resources at Cascade AIDS Project, managing a roster of more than 1,200 volunteers for the largest H1V/AIDS service organiza tion in the Northwest. But as Our House’s direc tor of volunteers and then community relations man ager in the toughest years of the pandemic, Rizzio had a front seat to the “incredible brutal swell” of HIV infec tions in Oregon through the ’80s and early ’90s, watching mostly young gay men shrivel up and die a short time after contracting the disease. She recalls 1993, when AIDS- related deaths peaked, as “our worst, most difficult year.” That bleak and harrow ing night she describes was in 1993. Rizzio was staffing Our House when one of the Judith Rizzio recalls a grim night at Our House during the height of AIDS. residents passed. The facility Barbara Beletsky <•> Windermere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, Inc. “The Haven Maven" Serving Home Buyers & Sellers since 1987 beletsky@wmdermere.com 503.789.8007 Pamper Yourself! Come In To A Clean Home After A Hard Day Beary Clean 503.206.1222 « 503.644.6814 Homes • Apartments • Offices • Free Bids Move ln/0uts • Regular Schedule • Special Occasions Visit Aly Website: www.BearyClean.net FLOWERS & GIFT BASKETS www.jacobsens.com (503)464-1234 LINNTON FEED & SEED 10920 NW St. Helens Rd • Portland, OR 97231 • Phone: (503)286-1291 S DAY OLD CHICKS POULTRY SUPPLIES ORGANIC FEED GARDENING SUPPLIES ORGANIC FERTILIZERS BEDDING PLANTS HARDWARE FENCING PLUMBING Computer Problems? I1 X We can help, and we come to you! Repair - Upgrade - Consulting - Networking ■ Custom Computers Call or visit us on the web today! 503.866.3747 - Sunset Computer www.sunsetcomputer.net Your #1 choice 24/7/365 I 503.227.1212 • * • / » £ Murders avenged TZ^-± found puì L n nf fai. "Murders Avenged," April 15,1993 Recent bias crimes in Portland lal< have stirred up concern about how the passage of California’s Prop 8 might be fostering a new wave of anti-gay violence. In the charged Oregon Citizens Alliance- dominated atmosphere of the early '90s, queer Oregonians suffered a spate of brutal murders and attacks. Few were as atrocious as the killings of gay Salem residents Hattie Mae Cohen and Brian Mock. oír-o rouuiy ib Wred Mat Cohens and Brian Mock __ are iy murder, while one pleads guilty to in exchange for p chance at parole, by Renée LaChance wvnent of P Rnky 4<X *** kn*fc Edwwds and «i cut cut him him with with it it Cohem Cohem. « w „ 2ïure‘n‘er*f«d«dc.lmcdü*e.ltu.üondo^r I <45, died day. •nnenuof ' doth* IS h«PPcned w'bonhuma1|ygotdre1ncd Accord- "LÌ EdT*d‘- Co<ton U>M h,m Tucker »her. to find tome rap and bottle« that they forMoknovcodttaito Cotton wmtedS
