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OREGON S LGBTO NEWSMAGAZINE FEBRUARY 18.2011 she had any notion of sitting on the Metro Council either. Should my bordering-on-the-obsessive search for potential mayoral candidates be taken as hits toward current mayor Sam Adams? No. I have no idea if I willAvould/should/could support Adams in a bid for reelection. It’s not a given that I would not support him, nor is A s I’m writing this column, last minute, it a given that I would. Most of all, I want AAper usual, comes “breaking news” from to see a fair, decent, honorable race with two Facebook. W E’RE ALL G ETTIN G A or more credible and qualified candidates. FREE IPAD! Wait, no? That’s not the news? I want options for leadership in Portland’s Sorry. But there is good news for those who City Hall. Gov. Roberts could be one of those place value on accurate, complete and up-to- candidates. So could Secretary of State Kate the-minute status update capability. Effective Brown, whom I believe lives in Portland? Ad right now, Facebook has added “In a Civil ams says he’s going to wait until the end of Union” and “In a Domestic Partnership” op the 2011 calendar year before he announces tions to user profiles, now available for users his decision to run—I want an answer sooner. in the United States, Canada, the United Sam, tell us in September what your plans Kingdom, France and Australia. Lesbian are, please. It’s kind of important. readers, it is suggested that these two options not be utilized until at least 24 hours after the J ust Out has a few events coming up soon at which I hope to see you. Saturday first date. As one Facebook user immediately noted, “You must use the code printed on night, February 19, I (and my camera) will be at Candy Shop, hosted by Ecstasy Inferno your U-Haul rental receipt to access...” Giving Facebook its due comes this state at the Red Cap Garage. This is a high-energy ment from The Gay &c Lesbian Alliance night of music, dancing and entertainment— Against Defamation (GLAAD): “Today, which certainly explains why I’ll be there. Facebook sent a clear message in support of Actually, I’ll be there in my never-ending gay and lesbian couples to users across the quest to bring Just Out to the next generation globe,” said GLAAD President Jarrett Bar of readers. The show starts at 11 p.m. I’ll be rios. “By acknowledging the relationships of the one in pajamas. Monday, February 21 is monthly Gay countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook Skate night at Oaks Park. It’s Presidents’Day has set a new standard of inclusion for so so many of you will have the day off. This cial media. As public support for marriage is our largest monthly collection event for equality continues to grow, we will continue Esther’s Pantry, so please donate generously to work for the day when all couples have whatever canned and nonperishable food the opportunity to marry and have their items you can. Next up for donations for Es relationship recognized by their community, ther’s Pantry is Pauline Miriam’s Hot Flash dance on Saturday, February 26. This month’s both online and off.” dance has a drag king theme. Event sponsors n local political news comes the expected will be hosting costume contests, and I’ll be announcement that the Metro Council has giving away great prizes, too. I look forward selected their hand-picked candidate for the to seeing all the women at Barracuda. And, in mere weeks, months we’ll be recently vacated District 6 seat. This “news” would be of little interest to most were it not seeing you all at Portland Pride activities. for the fact that it’s former Oregon Governor What?! Pride—it’s snowing out, what’s she Barbara Roberts who has reentered political talking about? Yeah, well, it’s really almost life. When it was first announced that Roberts spring, which means summer is not far away was interested in this seat, a flurry of specula and neither is Pride. Everything you’re going tion was set off—not the least of which was to know about Portland Pride this year you’re “Will Roberts be a candidate for the Portland going to find in Just Out, starting with page mayor’s seat in 2012?” Apparently the answer 11 in this issue. See you at justout.com until then is “no,” but I doubt that a few months ago 3 J V We’ve Only Just Begun No white lace, but plenty of promises 28. NO. 6 INSIDE page 3 ust Out has a new website! Or as one reader somewhat indelicately put it, “Welcome to the 21st century.” Testy bunch, these website folks. Another designer, feeling compelled to provide her list of dissatisfac tions, responded with “I hope you get what you pay for” when I somewhat jokingly sug gested that Just Out was looking for an intern to help with the massive amounts of work still required to continue this project. Gosh, in terns at a newspaper—what a novel and new concept. If I should find myself in the market for a website designer, I’m sure I’ll head right to the rude ones first. Nifty idea, huh? Aside from the designer types who all think they could have done better, reaction to the new site has been very positive. The appearance is tingly good, the functionality is top-notch and the opportunities ahead are virtually unlimited. Please pop on over to justout.com and check us out—and then come back often as we restore old and add new features. We will restore the five-plus years of digital archives. We will have the most complete photo archives of Oregon’s LGBTQ_community to be found anywhere—archives, by the way, that grow constantly in size and scope. We will have the complete contents of each issue avail able in PDF format. W ith the photo gallery, we have switched over to a Flickr account, allowing us—and you—to now tag and comment on photos. As the designer said, welcome to the 21st century. So are we done with the site? Did we meet all our own internal deadlines? Is that all there is? Oh, hell, no. “We've only just begun to design. No white lace but many promises. A kiss for luck and we're on our way. We've only just begun ... with or without an intern, dammit. ” Truth is, our website will never be done. But it will continue to get better—and far more complete. It probably won’t get any prettier, though, because it’s beautiful already. 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