Text of Ballot Measure 9:

If approved by voters, Measure 9 would have added the following language 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, including 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.

Timeline since Measure 9:

While Ballot Measure 9 was defeated, a similar initiative was passed that day in Colorado. The legal challenge to Colorado's Amendment 2 went to the U.S. Supreme Court (Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996)), where it was found unconstitutional. Justice Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion, "We must conclude that Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. . . . The amendment seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class that it affects."

Meanwhile, back in Oregon:

1992-1994.

The Oregon Citizen’s Alliance pass dozens of local anti-gay ballots, and the state steps in to prevent enforcement. The OCA attempts similar initiatives statewide in Idaho and Washington, and another ten states vote on anti-gay referenda.

1994.  

Oregon voters narrowly defeat Measure 13, the OCA’s milder version of ‘92’s Measure 9.

2000.   

A new Measure 9 is rejected again by a slight margin. It would have prohibited public school instruction that encouraged or sanctioned homosexual behaviors, and punished noncompliance with loss of state funding. 
2004.  

Oregon voters pass Measure 36, amending the state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman..
2007. 

In May, the state legislature passes a domestic partnership bill, giving the same benefits of marriage to same-sex couples, and a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. 

Petition drives are immediately started to repeal both laws, but they fail to get the signatures required to be on the 2008 ballot.

2008.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman, a Bush-appointee, placed a temporary injunction on the domestic partnership law that was to take effect on January 1, (Mosman will hear arguments on February 1.) 

In the United States today, only 5 states have neither a statute nor a constitutional provision prohibiting same-sex marriage (New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey and Rhode Island). Click for GLAAD Reference Guide.

Read More:

Oregon's 2007 Domestic Partnership Law:

Not Enough, wweek.com (includes timeline of same-sex partnership milestones)

Historic Gay Rights Legislation, Oregon Daily Emerald

Lesbian Life, About.com

Anti-gay Group Fails on Referendum, Gay Rights Watch

Basic Rights Oregon, blogspot

Oregon Senate Approves Domestic Partnership Law, Univ. of Pittsburgh JURIST

Links to articles about Measure 36 (Oregon gay marriage ban):

Measure 36 win returns marriage fight to court -- in-depth report
Wikipedia, Oregon Ballot Measure 36
CNN election demograhics for Ballot Measure 36
Voter Guide to Measure 36
ACLU report on Measure 36
Challenge mounted against Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage
Basic Writes:   New Civil Union/Anti-Discrimination Bill Introduced in Oregon House