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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. The organization’s
new location. “We have a space around which we
stalled,” Daggett told Just Out. “They couldn’t get the
Iraq, health care, marriage equality, [the Employment
next shot at marriage equality is a ballot initiative
are finalizing derails regarding contracts, so the
financing because of everything going on.” Daggett
Nondiscrimination Act], all those things that need to
in the 2012 election. No other legal challenges to
lawyers have it in their hands,” she told Just Out.
added that his crew had stopped working on the
be pushed forward on the national agenda.”
Measure 36 have been filed.
The center raised more than $200,000 in a 90-day
project, which began in July, sometime in Novem
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