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May 21, 13 •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Andy Bell, one half of British synthpop duo Erasure (perhaps best known for the 1988 hit “Break These Chains of Love”), will headline the 2013 Portland Pride Festival, Pride NW announced today. Bell will perform Sunday,...
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May 21, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly Attending “The Children’s Hour” can feel like viewing four plays, not because it’s long or draggy — although it does run two and a half hours, plus an intermission — but because its tone and...
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May 16, 13 •
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Portland native Jinkx Monsoon took home the Season Five win of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Monsoon, née Jerick Hoffer, began performing in drag at age 16 at Portland’s Escape night club while attending Grant High School before relocating to Seattle in 2006...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly Pablo Cáceres knows that vulnerability is sexy. Cáceres, or Pablito as he is commonly known, creates whimsically sexy digital images of hirsute men enjoying themselves — and in doing so makes a poignant and transgressive...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Daniel Borgen, PQ Monthly Seattle’s resident superstar deejay has been very busy dabbling in Portland nightlife of late. He’s been seen at Love Ball, played Bridge Club, starred at Control Top, and — along with his Bottom Forty — headlined a...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly Triangle Productions, Portland’s longest-operating LGBTQ theater company, finishes its 23rd season with the original musical “Ari-Maria,” about the romance between Aristotle Onasis and Maria Callas in May, and an encore...
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May 13, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly A birthday party becomes an emotional bloodbath over the course of 100 minutes in Mart Crowley’s seminal play “The Boys in the Band” (produced by defunkt theatre, and playing alternating weeks through June 15)....
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May 6, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly An envoy from another planet is visiting a group of “foretellers” — psychics — on the planet he is visiting, Gethen. To test their powers, they suggest he ask a question, preferably one they could have no...
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May 1, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly “The Aliens” opens with two scruffy young men sitting on a picnic table staring broodingly into middle space for quite a long time. This motif, silent, unexplained contemplation, is repeated at the beginning and end of...
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Apr 25, 13 •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Performance artist Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) found himself near the epicenter of an intense debate after protests erupted in response to a local gay bar’s booking of the controversial blackface drag performer Shirley Q....
