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Just Out, longtime Portland media fixture, shuts down, cites recession | OregonLive.com

Newsmagazine Just Out is shutting down, according to a note on its website Monday.

The publication has served Portland's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer community since 1983. The online notice states simply that "three years of recession have taken their toll."

Publisher Marty Davis confirmed the closure in an email to The Oregonian: "Just Out has closed its doors and shut down its computers." She said in a follow-up email that there are no plans to continue online.

Local blogger Byron Beck broke the news on his site, linking to an 11 a.m. post on Just Out's Facebook page.  

"It is with great sadness that I have to announce today that Just Out newspaper, having put up a helluva fight against this dammed 'Great Recession,' will be unable to continue publishing. Our 12/9 issue was/is our last publication. Thank you for being our 'Friends' and for reading Just Out, these past 29 years."
 
By 3 p.m. there were 75 comments, most of them thanking the publication and Davis for writing about and for the gay and lesbian community.  

The publication was free and issued twice a month. Its editorial board called for the resignation of Portland Mayor Sam Adams in 2009 after the mayor lied about a relationship with Beau Breedlove.

-- Janie Har

OregonLive

THE QUEENS OF THE NIGHT PRESENTS... "A QUEENS CHRISTMAS"

• Wednesday
• Time

  8:00pm until 11:00pm
• Local Lounge (Official)
  3536 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland

Description

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!! THE QUEENS OF THE NIGHT BRING YOU "A QUEENS CHRISTMAS"! THIS IS NOT JUST YOUR TYPICAL DRAG SHOW THIS IS A GRAND SHOW WITH PORTLANDS TOP ENTERTAINMENT! DONT MISS IT... FEATURING: ALEXIS CAMPBELL STARR, TONI MONET, ALLIE MCQUEEN, SINDEL STARR, CHANEL IMON, COUTURA COUTURE, ARIES ST. JAMES, SCORPIO DUBIOS, ALIYAH MCQUEEN, KELLY JOHANNA AND MANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $3 COVER (WITH 2 CANNED GOODS) + GREAT ENTERTAINMENT + EXCELLENT FOOD AND DRINKS = A TIME U WONT FORGET!!!!!!!

 

Winter Solstice at FireWorks... and the last Open Mic of 2011

Today at 9:00pm until Thursday at 9:00pm

FireWorks Restaurant

1115 SE Third Street, Corvallis

Description

Come out tonight to perform or cheer on the winners of Southtown Talent Search! Great $5 pub food specials, Happy Hour drink prices. (FireWorks will be closed Dec 26, so the next Open Mic won't happen until 2012.) Southtown Solstice Celebration, Thursday, Dec. 22, 7pm - Celebrate the first day of Winter at FireWorks' Southtown Solstice. Enjoy a feast for the eyes as Wild Iris Troupe dances tribal. Contemplative music by Gabriel Surley and spoken word by Ocean. A special fire ritual at the end of the evening will release the cares of the last year and give birth the new year. Dinner reservations are always advised: 541-754-6958

 

Cedro Willie Band @ McMenamins White Eagle Saloon

• Thursday
• The White Eagle
  836 N Russell St, Portland, OR
• Time

  8:30pm until 9:30pm

Description

Tis the season for Merry Making, Magic and MUSIC.Join Lily, Megan and Lynn for an hour or so at the White Eagle for what may be our last show of the year. Our amazing friends Strangled Darlings to follow. Hope to see you there!

 

Tis' the Season for Letter Writing!

• • Monday, December 19, 2011
  • Time

    2:00pm until 4:00pm

• Where

  Portland State Office Bldg, Suite 1D, 800 SE Oregon, near Holladay Park Max Stop, Portland, OR

• Description

  Write a letter to the Editor, the Mayor, Obama, Your Congress Person, Santa, or even your friends! We'll offer Tea, snacks, stamps, and "old school" letter writing supplies and have volunteers representing a variety of causes. Join us for festive & fun political action!

 

Soromundi at the Holiday Market Stage

• Soromundi Lesbian Chorus Of Eugene
• Lane Events Center
  796 W. 13th Ave., Eugene, OR
• Saturday, December 17, 2011
• Time

  1:30pm until 2:00pm

Description

It's Soromundi's first appearance of the season. Come early for a good vantage point! But there's no bad place to be: with all 90-plus members on the Market Stage you'll be able to hear us from anywhere. Afterward we'll visit the Farmers' Market next door. Join us is supporting local artisans, plus a special treat: we'll have February LCC benefit concert tickets for sale that day, just in time for gift-giving. See you at the Market!

 

"Amalgamations" by Tracy Mackprang

The WAVE

547 Blair Blvd, Eugene, Oregon

• Friday, December 30, 2011
• Time

  6:00pm until 10:00pm

Description

Join us at The WAVE to experience the visually poetic work of Tracy Mackprang. Tracy's work is guided by studies and thoughts on sexuality, spirituality, anarchy, systems theory and quantum mechanics in science, as well as the feminine in nature. Her work displays a tug-of-war between abstraction and conceptual thought. This show consists of an accumulation of various works from 2005 to the present. Tracy received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. You are invited to join Tracy Mackprang at The WAVE, opening on December 30th 2011 from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. An artist discussion will be held at The WAVE on January 11th at 7:00pm. Free event.

 

Holiday Dessert Potluck

Oregon Central Coast PFLAG

• • Wednesday, December 14, 2011
  • Time

    7:00pm until 10:00pm

• Where

  St. Stephen's Church, 9th & Hurbert, Newport

• Description

  Come share Holiday desserts and Gay Holiday stories with your PFLAG Family. We'll even sing "Coming Out on Christmas Day!"

 

Women.....Who shoot paper...

• • Friday
  • Time

    6:00pm until 9:00pm

• Where

  Clackamas County Sheriff's Public Safety Shooting Range 12700 SE 82nd Ave

• Description

  If you are getting this a second time... sorry... but I have been told that some are not able to see it on the events calendar, and/or did not get the invite so I am sending it out again. .... Lets get together and do some shooting! Next Friday evening will be a great time for the experienced shooters or for the person that has never shot before and wants to learn to come on out and shoot some paper! We can take out our weekly frustrations... on... that piece of paper together... :)

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