Meanwhile, the bureau cuts off her disability payments, forcing Harrington and her husband to sell their home and live in a trailer. No Children Allowed. The Portland City Council passes an ordinance to ban the firing of city employees because they are gay or lesbian. Conservative activists Joe Lutz and Drew Davis spearhead a petition drive to repeal the ban. Meanwhile, Lutz begins organizing an obscure conservative Christian political group known as the Oregon Citizens Alliance .
Friends say the troubled boy's death was essentially a suicide.
Reaction to the downtown architectural pastiche is mixed. Glass staircases help connect two theaters, a five-story lobby, a restaurant, a rehearsal hall and a raft of dressing rooms. Unfortunately, there's no money left over to operate the thing. The boat-shaped brick building that had stood vacant since Finley Mortuary relocated to Sunset Hills in 1979 is demolished to pave the way for a Portland State parking structure. 1987 saw the closing of the Jazz Quarry, one of the city's most venerable clubs, in part because of a wave of huge liability-insurance premiums that battered the downtown scene.