LGBTQ Portland

08/02/2024

Portland Housing Bureau

08/02/2024

This is in the St. John’s area I believe. Please correct me if I’m wrong!! It’s a fun time!! World Famous Kenton Club check out their August schedule!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

07/31/2024

Your Voice, Your name!!
Womanhood Looks

your voice, your name...


-via Womanhood Looks
[Image Description: A two-panel illustration by .

On the left, a smiling parent holds a baby near their face. Baby is wearing a green gingham one-piece outfit. Dialogue text from the parent says: I named you because you didn't have a voice.

On the right, the same duo, years later. The parent hugs the child, who is resting their head against the parent's chest in a comforting embrace. Kiddo is wearing a sleeveless shirt with thick horizontal stripes of soft blue, pink, and white.

Dialogue text from the parent says: Now that you found your voice, it's for you to tell the world who you are.

Text at the bottom says: Accept your kids for who they really are, not for who you want them to be!! End ID].

07/31/2024

Voters For Equality

07/31/2024

SPACE! The final frontier...

The final installment of this 2-year running show happens Saturday August 10th! Come on down for a night of magic and wonder 🌏 🌕

Saturday August 10th
Pre show Outdoor Makers Fair at 4:00 pm
Doors at 5:00 PM and show at 6:00 PM!

Tickets here: https://cstpdx.com/event/s-p-a-c-e-the-drag-show/
Clinton Street 🎭

SPACE! The final frontier...

The final installment of this 2-year running show happens Saturday August 10th! Come on down for a night of magic and wonder 🌏 🌕

Doors at 5:00 PM and show at 6:00 PM! Tickets here: https://cstpdx.com/event/s-p-a-c-e-the-drag-show/

07/31/2024

August 3rd is Pride in the Park!! Southern Oregon Coast Pride

We are so excited to see folks August 3rd!

07/31/2024

Hazel's House

This Saturday is our quarter collection competition with Puplandia Dog Rescue and The Boring Safe Haven Society! Who ever raises the most in donations wins bragging right for the year!! We lost in the last cats vs dogs challenge so this is our redemption.

We need your help in order to win though! Come down to Guardian Veterinary Care on Saturday August 3rd between 11 am - 2 pm for their open house and bring those quarters!!!! Only quarters count in this competition! Any quarter donation will be rewarded with kitten snuggles!! We will also have our brand new swag up for sale!!!

07/31/2024

Friday August 16TH Misfits Bar + Lounge

We Got A Full House Coming For DRAG OUT THE HOT Ones And A Few Twists + Turns For The Contestants + A Few Added Prizes Because …. We Like To Give Something Other Than A Constant Onslaught Of Hell. 😈

We’re:
18 Days From The Show
16 Days From The Song List Release
11 Days From The First Twist For This Installment.

The Contestants Are Stellar This Round! Surely, They Can Handle The Pressure, Chaos + Ridiculousness Of ‘Hot Ones,’ Right? 😏

We Have:

Jaden Maria Selena
Hairy Debbie
Kherry O’kay Holiday
Boogie Brickhouse
Noodle
Sin Cere pdx Cherry Mae
Luna Tik Hex
Jimothy Business
Comedian Jocelyn Boyer

WHO Will Choke The Chicken + WHO Will Be Named The Latest ‘Hot One?’ You’ll Have To Find Out Friday, August 16, 2024! Door 8:30 PM + Show At 9:30 PM. Ten Dollar Cover. Hosted By The Talented, Rising Star + Portland Star + Legend !

Mark Your Calendars - FRIDAY, August 16, 2024 … Be Square Or Be There … !

07/31/2024

Bury your g**s! Clinton Street Theater

Chuck Tingle will be in conversation with TJ Klune to discuss his latest release BURY YOUR G**S on Friday August 2nd, 2024

07/31/2024

Saturday August 21st Crush Bar

Stand-up Comedy Show at Crush Bar. Comedy, friendship, sketch - we have it all and each show just gets bigger! LGBTQIA show and safe space!

07/31/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-campout-weekend-tickets-896472692957?aff=ebdsshios

Meet Q***rs and Go Camping! ⛺️

07/30/2024

PinkNews Megan Thee Stallion -renaissance

07/30/2024

PinkNews

07/29/2024

Olympics

07/27/2024

Coming right up Pickathon 2024 August 1-4th
OPB

The large gathering has attracted concern from neighbors as Happy Valley has become less rural over the years. Earlier this year, the multi-day music festival received approval for a conditional use permit for another decade.

07/27/2024

Have you seen/read/hear about

07/27/2024

🙏🏽💕 PDX Cat Trapper

When the number of stray neighborhood cats has gone from cute to out of control, there’s PDX Cat Trapper (pdxcattrapper.org). At no cost to the caller, the organization will TNR—trap, neuter, release—cats in order to keep the population at bay. Last year, it serviced 1,000 felines in the Portl...

07/26/2024

p:ear

We need your help! Youth in our community rely on your generous donations to meet their daily needs. Your contributions make a huge difference in their lives, providing essentials that support their wellbeing. Please consider donating items and help us continue to support our community!

07/22/2024

Eugene Pride

Greetings Pride Community, **We are postponing our final planning meeting on Monday. This is an urgent request for the LGBTQ+ community to attend Monday night’s (7/22) Eugene City Council meeting and read a prepared statement (or create you own - talking points below). Continue reading for details. **

Planning this year’s festival has been extra challenging, especially around transportation. Kesey Enterprises booked a sold-out show at the Cuthbert Amphitheater over our festival, and they, with support from the City of Eugene, have taken away all control of traffic and parking in Alton Baker Park away from the festival and our community for the entire day. In addition, they are taking away 2/3 of the grass parking in the park and the entire paved lot behind the Cuthbert. This, despite the fact that the concert does not start until one hour after our festival ends.

Efforts are being made to mitigate this impact, including arranging shuttles and alternate parking areas, and you can visit our transportation page for more information. However, as you might imagine, this is creating severe challenges for our attendees, organizers, sponsors, vendors, exhibitors, volunteers, and community. At this time, we have entertainers pulling out of the festival as a result of these complications.

Additionally, the Eugene Police Department has given us zero details about how they will approach this year’s festival or the protesters that disrupt the event. Without this information, we cannot proceed with our final planning meeting on Monday night and are postponing

Finally, we received a Proclamation that will be read at Monday’s City Council meeting naming August 10th as ““Eugene/Springfield LGBTQ Pride Day.” The version that was sent to us contained typos, including an entirely repeated clause, with a statement that this was copied from previous years. As you all know, this is not the time for our leaders to phone in their support for our community with performative, poorly written language while those who would rather we not exist are literally organizing for our elimination.

As a result, we are organizing to have as many folks as possible attend Monday night’s City Council Meeting at 7:30pm to express our dissatisfaction with how we are being treated by our City. If you are able, we would encourage you to testify, and we are preparing a statement that we will read during public comment. Attendance is encouraged even if you do not feel comfortable testifying.

Please reply to this email or reach out to Brooks McLain, board president ([email protected]), if you are able to attend and would like to help coordinate a response. Not able to attend? Contact your City Councilor at [email protected] and let them know this is unacceptable.

Yours in Pride,
The Board of Directors and Planning Committee of Eugene Pride

Below are some talking points you can use if you would like to write your own statement. Please note, this is an evolving situation and we will update you if circumstances change prior to Monday night's meeting.

Public parks belong to the PUBLIC, not to private companies that are making a profit off our public commons.
Eugene's largest cultural festival should have unfettered access to the park where it will be held. It's unsafe for organizers, attendees, and the citizens of Eugene for Eugene Pride to be conducted without any control over access to the event. We have held this event for 30 years, 15 of which have been on the same Saturday every year in Alton Baker Park.

Eugene Pride has been working with the City for 10 months to address traffic, access, and safety for people using the streets around Alton Baker Park during this event. To proclaim your support for our community while at the same time implementing barriers to access to our most significant event is performative and not actual support - it's the height of hypocrisy.

100's of volunteer hours have been spent organizing alternate places to park, grants to pay for shuttles and advertising, arranging alternate transportation, and navigating City processes so that our community can attend their Pride event. Those are hours not spent organizing our festival and money that could be used for additional scholarships for LGBTQ+ youth. Where is the City's investment and what is your responsibility in educating the public about transportation in the City? What is Kesey Enterprises obligation to Eugene's public other than ensuring VIP access to the park for its concertgoers?

This is not happening in isolation. Eugene already this year has lost its two largest Black cultural events, Eugene Juneteenth Celebration and the Black Cultural Festival, proving that racism in Oregon is still more potent than homo/trans/queer-phobia, and the strain on Eugene Pride is incredible. Simultaneously, members of our community are having Pride flags ripped from their homes and their houses egged, and our own cutting of the original Pride flag was stolen. We will lose our baseball team, which organizes the second largest Pride event in Eugene; not to mention the loss of our hospital. Our leaders are allowing Eugene to be hollowed out of its cultural institutions and integral public services. Do better Eugene - you're failing us.

3 weeks out from our Festival, and we have no information from the EPD on how they will approach our event or handle the protesters that attempt to disrupt this gathering. This, after ten months of conversations. Will bigots from out of town using the guise of religion be allowed to roam rampant through festival grounds, step on people's picnics, and shout slurs at us over amplified sound that they don't have a permit to use? Will Pride staff be required to keep public safety while officers stand ready to arrest Pride-goers should the slightest movement go awry? This was our experience last year, which is unfortunately an improvement from EPD showing up in riot shields, helmets, and batons; however, what is Eugene's responsibility to keep its actual tax-paying citizens safe?

07/22/2024

mealsonus.pdx

Our power is back on and our kitchen is cooking! Our PWYC menu is turkey zucchini casserole!

Stop by 2818 NE Halsey St between 3PM and 7PM for a meal and some water regardless of what you’re able to pay 🫰

07/22/2024

XRAY.FM
DJ Action Slacks - the Swingin' Spinster

It's time for XRAY to own its signal. The one we're known by, the one that most people listen to us on. Help us broadcast citywide permanently. For the past nine years, we have leased 107.1 from its owner, MetroEast Community Media. They licensed it to us when their former station, KZME, ceased oper...

07/22/2024

Let’s go!! Portland Thorns FC

High Five Portland! That was fun 🤩

07/22/2024

Transplaining

07/21/2024

It’s back!! Out at the Fair

07/19/2024

Friday July 19th DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid

Anjali will be spinning a Spiritual Desi set for Ali Godil's Shower of DIVINE LIGHT Solo Exhibition Friday at Gul Gallery. 🌹 🌹 🌹 6-9PM House of Gul 2505 SE 11th Portland, Ore.

07/19/2024

Portland Pride Block Party! Old town!!
Featuring Darcelle XV Showplace

07/18/2024

****ns for = more Ivehaditpodcast