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Article: Queer central: how Kendall Clawson found her bliss at the gayest job ever.(PRIDE)
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- Curve
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Imagine a world where your top workday priority is finding a replacement drag queen to call bingo numbers. Where the mayor of your city, with an out daughter of his own, pledges support to your fledgling community center. This is not a dream: The location is Portland, Ore., the building is the Q Center, and Kendall Clawson is its first executive director, an unabashedly straight-shooter just settling in for the long haul.
"My first day of work was during Pride," Clawson remembers, "It was awesome, like this big party to welcome me." Her infectiously blissful attitude was key to uniting Clawson and the Q Center in the first place. A year ago, Clawson reached a ...