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Portland's commitment to LGBTQ+ rights and advocacy is exemplified by an array of events throughout the year. The basement club’s ceiling is low, and the rack seating—the stage’s front row—is intimate.
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Stag
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In the years since, it’s grown a community that regularly shows up for karaoke, game nights, salsa and bachata dance nights, and dance parties spun by some of Portland’s best DJs.
Featured Events: Queeraoke, queer country nights
Back 2 Earth
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Judy on Duty
various locations
Queer women and nonbinary DJs spin each month in a sapphic heaven of impeccable musical and artistic taste. With its stunning natural beauty, the city provides ample opportunities for outdoor activities and exploration. Look out for art classes and open mics for budding comedians and baby queens.
Featured Events: karaoke, sapphic singles
Doc Marie’s
Est.
Most of the city’s dozen-plus queer bars opened in eras hostile to the queer community. This one directly traces its lineage to the ’80s club Flossie’s, which had multiple addresses but moved to Old Town in 2018 and set up shop as a street-level bar with a basement strip club.
Jacques Strappe
various locations
Christopher Sky founded this “trashy-chic” queer dance party weeks before the pandemic hit Oregon, but the party goes on.
Its current home, White Owl Social Club, has a wide-open patio perfect for mingling and smoking. The place is something of a passion project for Eagle owner Dan Henderson, returning a queer bar presence to the King neighborhood building that had housed Local Lounge for the past decade. 1981 | old town
Though technically on the outskirts of Old Town’s Entertainment District, CC’s is very much at the center of the queer downtown Portland scene.
Known as one of the most LGBTQ+-friendly cities in the United States, Portland embraces our community, providing a haven for individuals of all identities and orientations.
As the third-person narrative unfolds, the allure of Portland's LGBTQ+ scene comes to life. A mix of college students, tourists, barflies, and workers of all collar colors keep the place busy, as if the good old days have carried on uninterrupted.
2023 | king
Surreal queer paintings, starry sky projections, and a conservatory’s worth of plants make you feel like you’re in an alien jungle at this newish queer bar. Rainbow flags adorn the streets, proudly signaling a community that thrives on acceptance and celebration. The bar hosts a calendar of drag shows, game nights, and dance parties to unite the LGBTQ+ community’s full spectrum, like the Nu-Glitter queer comedy open mic and monthly tarot evenings.
After a change in management a few years back, the newest in Portland’s modest collection of mostly male queer strip clubs feels infused with fresh energy. 1981 | old town
Portland’s longest-running male strip club started life amid a string of ’60s gay clubs, one of them in the building that now houses McMenamins’ Crystal Hotel.
If a Portland movie night could give Carla Rossi a run for her box office, it would be the Eagle’s round-the-clock double feature of hardcore gay porn and TV movies routinely screened behind the bar.
For those who love the water, the city's waterfront along the Willamette River is transformed during the warmer months into a lively hub with joggers, cyclists, and rollerbladers.
2012 | Sumner
This queer oasis in the Parkrose-Sumner neighborhood—blocks from a popular bingo hall and the scenic Catholic shrine the Grotto—is the PDX airport’s closest destination for a long, gay layover.