PSU Magazine Fall 1993

• • 0 mtnnacy erth O'Brien loved San Francisco becau e it wa , as she described it, "a community of commun– ities." For her, in 1981, it was a great place to be; a wonderful time to be young. Living in the Mission District during a break as a graduate student in psychology, she walked a few blocks to a street fair in an adjoin ing neighbor- hood. The mood was festive, as street fair should be. There was music, food, a buzzing of po itive energy. But then a man named Bobbi Campbell tepped up to a microphone and made an announcement to the crowd, like a call to action. "There's a weird thing happening here. A strange problem: a disease, and I've been sick," he sa id. How are gay and bisexual men in Portland coping with the AIDS epidemic? Article by John Kirkland Photos by Paul Dahlquist It was one of tho e chilling moments in history when suddenly you know that life will never be the same. This "weird thing" was AID : Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and it was so new that the name hadn't yet caught on. People were using the term GRID: Gay Related Immune Deficiency. The name was later changed to show that it was