The Portal

The Portal (located at 78°03′46″S 159°18′00″E / 78.0629°S 159.300°E / -78.0629; 159.300Coordinates: 78°03′46″S 159°18′00″E / 78.0629°S 159.300°E / -78.0629; 159.300) is the gap between the Lashly Mountains and Portal Mountain, through which the main stream of the Skelton Glacier enters the Skelton Névé from the polar plateau. The descriptive name was given in January 1958 by a New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 1956-58.

References

1. USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (http://geonames.usgs.gov)

The Portal (film)

The Portal is a Canadian sci-fi, fantasy, comedy short film directed and written by Jonathan Williams. The short film stars Tahmoh Penikett and Erin Karpluk. The short film has been adapted into an on-going web series,Riftworld Chronicles (see below).

Plot

A dimension-traveling wizard gets stuck in 21st century Toronto because cell phone radiation interferes with his magic. With his home world on the brink of war, he seeks help from Kim, a travel agent who he mistakes for a great sorceress. Without his powers to prove his identity, she has trouble taking him seriously, but finally agrees to reveal the secrets of our world in exchange for a lunch date.

Cast

Production

The Portal is a short film, but will be turned into a web series which will be shot in the fall of 2014. On June 20, 2014 the Independent Production Fund announced that they would fund The Portal along with 16 other digital drama series.

The Portal (community center)

The Portal is a Baltimore LGBT community center for LGBT African Americans in the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. It is owned and maintained by Empowering New Concepts, Inc. ENC, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) community based organization established in 2001 by current CEO Rickie Green. Intended as a safe place for LGBT people of color, they offer health and safety information including AIDS awareness. The Portal "promotes stronger, more effective same gender loving communities of color through access to quality healthcare and economic and educational services." They serve men who have sex with men as well as women who have sex with women.

It was first opened on August 19, 2002, at 302 Park Avenue, 1st floor, and was reopened on September 16, 2004 at 16 South Calvert Street, in the heart of the Financial District, and again on September 1, 2005, at its current location at 2419 Greenmount Avenue Suites 1 and 4.

In 2005 they participated in the amicus brief supporting "Right to Same Sex Marriage in Maryland" In October 2005 they were awarded a 2006 Annie E. Casey Foundation Families and Children Grant for their direct services program YBU (Why Be You), a "group level intervention for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth, designed to address homophobia in the schoolsystem".