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Continued from Page 10 matching grant challenge that ended Sept. 30 to ber, with only a handful of specialists fund the relocation. continuing sporadic work to replace Straight Alliance. The Central Coast PFLAG chap —JRC ter meets 7 p.m. second Wednesdays at St. Stephen’s Church Episcopal Church, 410 S.W. Ninth St. in Newport. For questions call 541-265-7194. windows on the aging former bathhouse and gay dance club. And about that Julianna Jaffe Off to NYC! Out initial Jan. 1 open date.7 Well, it’s come Julianna and gone now, and the building’s shell Jaffe just announced that she’s resigning her kxiks essentially unchanged since last artistic directorship of critically acclaimed fall. But Daggett says they hope to get Insight Out Theatre Collective, packing up back to work on it stxm. “From what 1 her bags and leaving Portland at the end of understand,” he said, “we’re gonna start Favor Ellis of the Sexual Minority Youth Resource January to try her hand in every serious actor’s back up Feb. 1, and hopefully be done I Center put out an S.O.S. on Jan. 8, and the facility holy land: New York City. “I am so ready, my assume by May or June.” canceled its drop-in hours until further notice. spirit is just like go go go go!” the 30-year-old —JRC GOINGS SMYRC, Q Center Plan Moves lesbian Portland actress —SMB Why.7 “Our ceilings started caving in from thespian said via phone. “I’m ready to hit the roof leaks, and we started getting sick from the pavement and start running.” Chris Coleman, amazing amount of mold growing up and in the openly gay artistic director of Portland Center walls,” Ellis said. Stage, who has directed Jaffe in productions Democratic party booster and out Ellis told Just Out Jan. 20 that SMYRC is hack there, said it had “been an absolute pleasure spoken trans activist Laura Calvo has in action. An environmental engineer inspected to have Julianna grace our stages for the past ascended another rung on the Oregon the building after repairs were made and gave two seasons, and we wish her all the best in her political ladder. She was chosen Jan. 10 her clearance to reopen it. Staff provided off-site new adventure.” as the statewide Democratic Party’s new services to youth every day SMYRC was closed, —SMB including field trips to In Other Words bookstore and Q Center. Ellis aims to move SMYRC permanently to Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare’s Garlington Center in Northeast Portland at the end of May. Trans Activist Ascends Another Rank Actress Julianna Jaffe, who starred in smash productions like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is leaving Portland this month to take her career to the next level in New York. treasurer, a position that puts her in elite company: She is now among only a handful of openly sexual McMenamins Project on Hold for Now Case Closed Basic Rights Oregon’s hope for repealing Mea minority statewide political party officers across the sure 36, country. "It’s a pretty huge role,” Calvo says of her same-sex marriage, was stunted Jan. 14 when the An ambitious McMenamins hotel renovation new post, which includes managing campaign finance state Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs* peti a constitutional amendment banning project for the former Club Portland/Silverado com compliance rules, supporting county party organiza tion for reconsideration. This ruling in the lawsuit Q Center also has moving plans before its plex, at Southwest 12th Avenue and Stark Street, is tions and raising money for the state party. “It really Martinez v. Kulongoski upheld a November state lease expires Feb. 28, although executive director on hold, according to Pacific Crest Construction gives me a chance to roll up my sleeves and move Supreme Court decision and a May appeals court Kendall Clawson would not disclose its potential project supervisor Geoff Daggett. “The project has democratic issues forward. We still have the war in niling that Measure 36 is legal. 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