Q Center is an

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and non-profit organization located in

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, in the United States.

History

The community center was established in 2005, championed by then-city Commissioner Sam Adams. Kendall Clawson, an

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

lesbian, served as its first executive director. The center relocated to North Mississippi Avenue in 2009.

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Q Center
at Travel Portland
"Just Out and Portland Q Center form Strategic Partnership"
(September 12, 2012), ''

Just Out ''Just Out'' was an LGBTQ publication in Portland, Oregon founded in 1983 by Jay Brown and Renee LaChance. It ceased publication as a semimonthly newspaper in December 2011. In February 2012, Glenn-Kipp Publishing, Inc purchased the Just Out bra ...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: The Q Center's Winter Fundraiser Gala (and Afterparty)
by Marjorie Skinner (January 31, 2014), ''

Portland Mercury ''Portland Mercury'' is an alternative bi-weekly newspaper and media company founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon. It has a sibling publication in Seattle, Washington, called '' The Stranger''. Contributors and staff Editor-in-chief: Wm. Steven ...

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