News Melanie Davis, owner and publisher of El Hispanic News, has announced she will start an LGBTQ-focused monthly magazine just weeks after Just Out, Portland’s gay community magazine since 1983 closed its doors in December.According to the magazine’s website, it will be called PQ Monthly and will put out the first issue Feb. 16. (Blogger and former WW "Queer Window" columnist Byron Beck broke the ...   More

News Via Byron Beck comes news that Just Out—"Oregon's Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Newsmagazine"—is ending publication after 29 years.A short letter from publisher Marty Davis on the Just Out website reads as follows: Effective December 26, 2011, Just Out newsmagazine, serving Portland’s LGBTQ community since 1983, is no longer in business.Three years of recession have taken their toll. Please direct ...   More

News In this letter to Just Out, former Mayor Tom Potter may have breathed some life into the effort to recall his successor, Mayor Sam Adams. Potter, a former police chief, may not have lit the city on fire during his one term that ended in 2008. But he retained a strong reputation for integrity. And he has also, until now, refrained from commenting extensively (he did announce his support for the ...   More

News Beau Breedlove is back in Portland and he sat down for a lengthy interview with Just Out. Breedlove's return may present another headache for Mayor Sam Adams, the politician whose name will always be linked to Breedlove's because of the sexual relationship they had in 2005, right after Breedlove's 18th birthday. As Adams tries to navigate the controversy swirling around the Aaron Campbell shooting ...   More