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So let’s keep this trend going, and discuss the big stories in the LGBT publishing world. First off, the bad news. […]'>– 5/10/12 : Sendek, Bechdel, and Irving…oh my!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/05/09/q-center-responds-to-president-obamas-support-of-marriage-equality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-center-responds-to-president-obamas-support-of-marriage-equality' title='Today President Obama said he supports marriage equality. By affirming marriage equality for lesbian and gay people, our President exercised leadership through his open and affirming words. Today, Mr. Obama recognized that America is better served when equality exits. The President now understands that protecting all families is an American value. Q Center a […]'>- 5/9/2012 : Q Center Responds to President Obama’s Support of Marriage Equality!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/05/02/my-day-at-the-capitol-the-war-on-women/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-day-at-the-capitol-the-war-on-women' title='I had the privilege of speaking at Oregon’s National Protest Against the War on Women on Saturday, April 28th. The purpose of the rally was to bring awareness to the many ways in which women are being attacked by today’s lawmakers, under-paid and abused in today’s society. Referred to as a “feminist dream team”, organizers […]'>- 5/2/2012 : My Day at the Capitol – The War on Women</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/30/listen-download-todays-think-out-loud-program-on-opb-featuring-q-center-mars-hill-church-here-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=listen-download-todays-think-out-loud-program-on-opb-featuring-q-center-mars-hill-church-here-now' title='Q Center’s Logan Lynn was the guest on OPB’s Think Out Loud today chatting with Pastor Tim Smith from Mars Hill Church about the past week, as well as the months which led up to it. Click HERE to stream or HERE to download an MP3 of the show. For a quick history of the […]'>- 4/30/2012 : Listen + Download Today’s “Think Out Loud” Program on OPB (Featuring Q Center & Mars Hill Church) Here Now.</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/28/recommended-reading-queer-activism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recommended-reading-queer-activism' title='It’s high time for some recommended readings from the Kendall Clawson Library. With what has been happening in our community, we thought we should start with books in our collection that discuss the work of successful queer activists. What follows are just a few of our titles, for a full list here is the link […]'>- 4/28/2012 : Recommended Reading: Queer Activism</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/26/q-center-executive-director-speaks-out-against-tuesdays-act-of-violence-to-mars-hill-church-and-threats-to-q-center/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-center-executive-director-speaks-out-against-tuesdays-act-of-violence-to-mars-hill-church-and-threats-to-q-center' title='Q Center’s Executive Director Barbara McCullough-Jones released the following statement today with regards to this past week’s attack on the Mars Hill Church and threats of violence to Q Center: Within any social justice movement there comes a time when divergent strategies emerge. From time to time groups have used violent civil disobedience as a […]'>- 4/26/2012 : Q Center Executive Director Speaks Out Against Tuesday’s Act of Violence to Mars Hill Church and Threats to Q Center</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/26/q-centers-health-wellness-program-presents-a-spotlight-on-lgbt-health-transgender-health-issues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-centers-health-wellness-program-presents-a-spotlight-on-lgbt-health-transgender-health-issues' title='Eliminating LGBT health disparities and enhancing efforts to improve LGBT health are necessary to ensure that LGBT individuals can lead long, healthy lives. Research suggests that LGBT individuals face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination, and denial of their civil and human rights. Discrimination against LGBT persons has been associa […]'>- 4/26/2012 : Q Center’s Health & Wellness Program Presents “A Spotlight on LGBT Health – Transgender Health Issues”</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/23/chulito-debut-novel-by-charles-rice-gonzalez-book-signing-and-tour-kick-off-at-q-center/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chulito-debut-novel-by-charles-rice-gonzalez-book-signing-and-tour-kick-off-at-q-center' title='Charles Rice-González’s novel Chulito has been praised by Junot Diaz, Sandra Cisneros and Jaime Manrique, it’s been included on several lists of best books of 2011 including the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights of 2011 and the Lambda Literary Review raved, “This dazzling debut takes the coming-out, coming-of-age narrative and gives it a [. […]'>- 4/23/2012: Chulito, Debut Novel by Charles Rice-Gonzalez Book Signing and Tour Kick-Off at Q Center!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/23/join-q-center-country-music-superstar-chely-wright-for-opening-night-of-qdoc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=join-q-center-country-music-superstar-chely-wright-for-opening-night-of-qdoc' title='Q Center has been proud sponsor of QDoc: Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival for 6 years this year! My, how time flies! Check out this year’s lineup of films HERE and please join us opening night as we host Chely Wright in person and screen her documentary “Wish Me Away”! Event info: Wish Me Away […]'>- 4/23/2012 : Join Q Center & Country Music Superstar Chely Wright for Opening Night of QDoc!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/20/thank-you-miranda-may-bon-voyage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thank-you-miranda-may-bon-voyage' title='Today marks Miranda May‘s last day as Interim Youth & Young Adult Program Manager at Q Center. We have been so lucky to get to work with her during the merger of SMYRC and Q Center and will miss her around these parts. The nation-wide search for a permanent Youth & Young Adult Program Manager […]'>Thank You, Miranda May – Bon Voyage!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/17/q-center-welcomes-white-house-chair-of-the-council-on-environmental-quality-nancy-sutley-to-inquisitive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-center-welcomes-white-house-chair-of-the-council-on-environmental-quality-nancy-sutley-to-inquisitive' title='What does the environment and the LGBTQ movement have in common? Nancy Sutley! This week, Q Center played host to the White House’s highest ranking out-lesbian as part of our InQuisitive series. For nearly an hour I had the opportunity to ask the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) about environmental policy, her […]'>- 4/17/2012 : Q Center Welcomes White House Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley to InQuisitive!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/16/review-cirque-du-soleil-ovo-under-the-big-top-in-portland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-cirque-du-soleil-ovo-under-the-big-top-in-portland' title='We went to see Cirque Du Soleil’s production of OVO last night in Portland and it was stunning. I had never actually been to any Cirque performance before (and neither had my partner). From the moment the lights went down under the big top, we sat with our jaws to the ground, completely taken by […]'>- 4/16/2012 : Review – Cirque Du Soleil “OVO” Under the Big Top in Portland!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/16/rhoda-london-the-absence-and-presence-of-all-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rhoda-london-the-absence-and-presence-of-all-life' title='We were sad to learn of the recent passing of Rhoda London, artist, teacher, feminist, thinker. Rhoda was one of the first artists to share her artwork and her vision with the Q Center family in the gallery of the old space on Taylor Avenue in a show she called “Absence / Presence” in the […]'>- 4/16/12 : Rhoda London: The Absence and Presence of All Life</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/10/4102012-national-library-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4102012-national-library-week' title='“A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.” – Henry Ward Beecher Happy National Library Week! Started in 1958, National Library week is an opportunity to celebrate institutions and organizations that fight for the ability to access information freely and privately – a concept that fundamentally tied to what makes […]'>- 4/10/2012 : National Library Week!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/10/fuse-theatre-ensemble-with-leland-hanson-q-center-present-shakespeares-sonnetscape/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fuse-theatre-ensemble-with-leland-hanson-q-center-present-shakespeares-sonnetscape' title='Venue: Q Center 4115 N. Mississippi Ave Portland, OR 97217 Dates: April 12-14, 19-21, & 26-28 @8pm; 15 & 22 @3pm Special Performance and celebration on April 23 @8pm in honor of Shakespeare’s Birthday (PWYW) (12 performances Total) Tickets: $20 at the door ($15 students/senior citizens) $15 in advance (visit www.fusepdx.org for more info) PWYW […]'>- 4/10/2012 : Fuse Theatre Ensemble with Leland Hanson & Q Center Present: Shakespeare’s “Sonnetscape”</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/10/lgbtq-health-survey-2012-please-share-your-voice-with-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lgbtq-health-survey-2012-please-share-your-voice-with-us' title='Q Center is participating in the Healthy Oregon Partnership for Equity (HOPE) Coalition. The HOPE Coalition is a regional partnership of communities of color, health advocates and policy-makers to develop a five-year policy and action plan to increase health equity in Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah and Washington County. As part of the process HOPE Coalition m […]'>- 4/10/2012 : LGBTQ Health Survey 2012 – Please Share Your Voice With Us!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/04/04/blog-follow-up-national-lgbt-health-awareness-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blog-follow-up-national-lgbt-health-awareness-week' title='One of the many reasons Q Center is a member of CenterLink, the national community of LGBT Centers is because they provide us great resources. In today’s email from CenterLink was a brilliant follow-up to my blog yesterday about National LGBT Health Awareness Week. Please take time to read through the SAMSAH report. From their […]'>- 4/4/2012 : Blog Follow-up: National LGBT Health Awareness Week</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/03/28/national-lgbt-health-awareness-week-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=national-lgbt-health-awareness-week-2012' title='This week is National LGBT Health Awareness Week 2012. So much has changed since I attended my first LGBT health coalition conference in the early 90’s. I recall a session on lesbians and breast cancer presented by a physician/researcher from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). This was a rare opportunity to have our government […]'>- 3/28/2012 : National LGBT Health Awareness Week 2012</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/03/27/32712-the-kendall-clawson-library-has-gone-digital/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=32712-the-kendall-clawson-library-has-gone-digital' title='Hello! My name is Turner Masland and I am very excited to be representing the Kendall Clawson Library here on Q Center’s blog through our brand new social media accounts. A bit about the library: You can find our collections online through LibraryThing, a social network where members catalog their books. We currently have three […]'>- 3/27/12 : The Kendall Clawson Library has gone digital!</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/2012/03/26/q-center-process-work-institute-summer-intensive-survey-for-lgbtqallied-youth-young-adults-ages-16-24/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-center-process-work-institute-summer-intensive-survey-for-lgbtqallied-youth-young-adults-ages-16-24' title='Q Center’s Education & Training Program is partnering with Process Work Institute, an international conflict resolution & process-oriented psychology school, on a youth & young adult summer intensive workshop. We would love to hear from you! Please spread the word. The more people ages 16-24 we get to fill out this quick 3 question survey, […]'>- 3/26/2012 : Q Center & Process Work Institute Summer Intensive Survey for LGBTQ/Allied Youth & Young Adults Ages 16-24</a></li></ul></div></div> <!-- end sidebar --> </div> <!-- The main column ends --> <div style="clear:both;"></div> </div><!-- end wrap --> <!-- begin footer --> <div id="footer"> <ul id="footer-menu"> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/about-q-center/board-staff">Staff & Board</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/about-q-center/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/renting-q-center">Rental Space</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/q-means-business/">Q Means Business</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/wish-list">Wish List</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/queer-aperture">Queer Aperture</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/featured-art">Featured Art</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/q-centers-calendar/public-calendar">Community Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pdxqcenter.org/our-libraries/">Our Libraries</a></li> </ul> Copyright © 2012 <strong>Q Center</strong> <span class="author-credit"><a href="http://www.rlhcreative.com">Website by RLH Creative</a></span> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/jquery.form.js?ver=2.96'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> /* <![CDATA[ */ var _wpcf7 = {"loaderUrl":"http:\/\/www.pdxqcenter.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/images\/ajax-loader.gif","sending":"Sending ..."}; /* ]]> */ </script> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.pdxqcenter.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/scripts.js?ver=3.1.1'></script> <!--stats_footer_test--><script src="http://stats.wordpress.com/e-201220.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> st_go({blog:'22559544',v:'ext',post:'6597'}); var load_cmc = function(){linktracker_init(22559544,6597,2);}; if ( typeof addLoadEvent != 'undefined' ) addLoadEvent(load_cmc); else load_cmc(); </script> </div>
