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It was very spare and felt very small, befitting a relatively small and very closeted queer community of that time. First up is the Oregon Gay Pride Pageant (door@4, show@), then a sizzling edition of Calienté (door@7, show@), and then DJ Rosi keeps the party going all night long with a Remix Party!

Scot Nakagawa moved onto the paid staff of the organization led by that steering committee, the Campaign for a Hate Free Oregon CHFO , renamed No on 9 once the measure qualified for the ballot and received its numeric designation. It began with an election for steering committee members at a gay bar in Eugene.

The room looked just like you would expect a gay bar to look like in the light of day — a little cobbled together, stained black painted walls. Despite a vigorous campaign to defend the anti-discrimination ordinance, voters repealed it by a 29 percent margin. People were nominated or volunteered and then were voted on.

Watch the video of Eugene lesbians remembering the Measure 51 campaign in the Politics collection of the Outliers and Outlaws archive. Once this initial leadership body was elected, the Portland-based, primarily-male, predominantly-white gay donor base rejected the campaign.

Southside Speakeasy is our local gay club. This depended in part on the rise and fall of the influence in any given moment of paid organizers, national allies, and steering committee members. Beyond that there was the obligatory disco ball and not much else. In this context, what happened in that gay bar in Eugene was counter to all prevailing political norms.

Please join The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Willamette Empire for one or both of these fun and fabulous events!!!. From the standpoint of a conventional electoral campaign, the fundamental goal is to get 50 percent plus one of the votes. The title was a pointed and prescient forewarning — if voters in a notoriously liberal city like Eugene could be persuaded to endorse anti-gay bigotry, it could happen anywhere.

See Timeline. Among those nominated and elected were Scot, white lesbian Cathy Siemens founder of the Lesbian Community Project who had encouraged Scot to attend, and African American community leader Kathleen Saadat. The religious right was betting on gay rights as being an issue that could divide Democrats and recruit more people to vote conservatively.

The question of control, in some ways, was never really a question. Southside Speakeasy (37 reviews) $Closed until PM. The Gay District in Salem (Oregon) is the most popular area in town, there you will locate the finest parties and several events and exclusive activities related with the gay neighborhood.

All "gay bars" results near me in Salem, Oregon - July 1. That had certainly proved the case in Eugene a decade earlier. It would take 24 years for the City Council to reinstate these protections, a decade after Ballot Measure 9. Would they form a harmonious bouquet to decorate the stage on a victorious election night?

Epilogue (restaurant) and Infinity Room (comedy club/music venue w/ vegan kitchen) are the first two that come to mind. The meeting took place in the basement which doubled as the main dance floor and bar area. Terry Bean, a white fifth-generation Oregonian who attended University of Oregon, was one of the campaigners.

Oregon is the ninth largest state by area, covering nearly k square miles between Washington to the north, California and Nevada to the south, Idaho to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Many of the other organizations that formed or flourished through the long fight against Ballot Measure 9 lived to fight another fight.

Bob Ralphs facilitated the process. It was the first and only jurisdiction in the state that had enacted legal protection for gays and lesbians. You want to identify and turn out every one of the voters on your side your base and then persuade and turn out those most likely to move to your side from the undecideds in the middle.

The locus of gay political and financial power was firmly established in Portland by Not everyone in that room believed it was worthwhile to campaign against the OCA, believing the courts, elected officials, or Congressional action at the federal level were more likely to advance the cause.

We can't wait to see you! To understand the significance of this, and how much the eventual organization of the campaign veered from its origins, we need to look at the political and cultural geography of Oregon in The census counted more than 90 percent of residents as white, just under 4 percent as Hispanic or Latino, 2.

There was a fear of the many flowers blooming — the proliferation of multiple campaign entities, slogans, logos, messages, tactics. Or were these weeds starving the main harvest of the food, water, and oxygen it needed to thrive?