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OREGON S GAY/tESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE just out Just Ahead VOL. 2b NO. 14 MAY 15. 2009 INSIDE » A recall. an update. and Pride » FEATURE n Thursday evening, May 14, a group and organization listings that those group of people gathered in a searching can find the heart and soul of the Southeast Portland tavern for complex and colorful diversity of the gay, the first official “kick-out” meeting in lesbian, the bi and trans community. campaign to recall Portland Mayor Sam People who are new to town, new to Adams. The tavern was small and quickly themselves, new to being single look to filled with recall supporters, media and a these listings to discover places of accep smattering of the casually curious. Con tance, friendship and welcoming activities. servative radio talk show host Victoria Over the years, the Outreach section has Taft broadcast live from the front corner so swelled in size that sometime back the decision was made to divide it between window booth. Barkeeps hurriedly filled the print and online versions of the pub pints of draft. It seemed like any busy night lication. Portland-area listings appear in in any popular neighborhood watering hole - until the speaker, Jasun Wurster, stood on print, in each issue of Just Out. Listings for other locales - Salem, Corvallis, Eugene a table and laid out, in easy-to-understand and throughout the state - appear at www. detail, exactly who, when and why an effort was being made to recall Adams. Just Out justout.com. The spirituality resources, attended the meeting, but with only min statewide and for metro Portland, have also utes to spare until deadline for this May been relocated to the web. 15 issue, our coverage of the event will be So, you’re wondering, what’s the pur found at www.justout.com and in the May pose of this little conversation we’re having 29 print edition. here? The point is, it’s time to clean up the Outreach section (pg.40-41 in this issue). This recall campaign might well be more organized than naysayers are willing Groups come and go; phone numbers to credit. Whatever your personal beliefs change; web sites switch addresses; items along the Sam Adams credibility spectrum, become outdated and useless. Material that you must consider the possibility that a re is not current or correct detracts from the call could actually happen. Everyone needs value of these pages. So each year about this to be aware of the facts and circumstances time, everyone with a free Outreach listing • that have brought Portland residents to this is asked to provide updated information. uncomfortable and sad place in our shared This is also an excellent time to send in your new listings for groups, organizations history. As I left the meeting, a television reporter or services. Outreach listings are offered as asked me if Just Out would be involved in the a community courtesy by Just Out, there is effort. The answer was then, is now, and will no charge to be included. remain an emphatic NO. Just Out will cover The plan is to have the pages cleaned up the Adams recall effort. We will gather facts and presented in a slightly revised format and opinion on all aspects of the story, and by the June 12 issue. This means we need to we will report back to our readers. Just Out hear from everyone with a current listing by Friday, May 29. All of you will be re will cover the story, not be a part of it. ceiving a phone call from Jack, the friendly' Just Out Outreach update fella. He’s going or 26 years, one of Just Out's main to tell you what to do to keep your listing stays has been our community in the paper. It’s pretty simple: Write out outreach pages. 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For many years 7-10 NORTHWEST BRIEFS now, Pride has fallen on the third weekend in June, with the parade on Father’s Day, 12-13 GREATER PORTLAND to the disgruntlement of many. For 2009, YWCA CUTS ITS Portland Pride happens a week earlier, with COUNSELING CENTER Waterfront Festival activities June 13-14 and the grand Pride parade on Sunday, » ARTS 8 CULTURE June 14 - not Father’s Day. What this means for Just Out is that 21-24 OUT 6 ABOUT we re publishing three times in May, with 29 BOOKS our special statewide Pride Issue hitting Lit for Girls Who Like to Read racks on May 29. We follow this with a about Boys-on-Boys June 12 issue, our annual Just Out Amateur Photo Contest edition. The deadline to 30 NIGHTLIFE submit your photos is May 29. Complete Where to be Seen on the Scene details and rules can be found on p.14 and 31 PROFILE online at www.justout.com. After Pride weekend we’re happily tak Bolivia Carmichaels’ Race to ing a week off and will return, back to a RuPaul normal publishing schedule (every first and 33 STYLE third Friday), on July 3. Nina Bingham, CHt, QMHA Now's the time! Dragon's exactly what you want, in 50-75 words, and email it to marty^justout.com. If we don’t hear from you by May 29, your listing will be deleted. BLAKE ELLIS * i ■\s u • 1 Specializing in condominiums and fine Portland properties ThePearlDistrictLife.com 503.473.5097 direct blake@ellisnw.com Wirk flix ,T( » < rwn A » toK
