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May 17, 13 •
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By Daniel Borgen, PQ Monthly PQ Monthly’s own Andrew Edwards, author of The Comeback Kid, had a chance to chat with Jinkx Monsoon fresh off her Drag Race win. As expected, The Monsoon was lovely, charming, easy breezy to talk to–and she remains...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly It’s been almost two years since Portland’s last lesbian bar went out of business — or longer, depending on how you view the E-Room’s last ditch rebranding as the more inclusive but still quirky Weird Bar. The Division Street...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Shaley Howard, PQ Monthly There is something iconic about the lone biker tearing down a highway, beholden to no one, but for many queer motorcycle enthusiasts, riding is about connecting with people of similar interests and sharing the on-the-road...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly When he first learned about gender transition in 2006 from a character named Max on “The L Word,” Kendon Fisher was a lesbian-identified teenager who had never met or spoken to a trans person. Seven years later, he has a large...
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May 16, 13 •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Chances are, you’ve heard the rumor. The gay bar is dead, dying, going the way of the dodo. Some blame assimilation, others, diversification. It’s hard not to believe. Four Portland-area LGBTQ bars have gone out of business in the...
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May 16, 13 •
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Community, May/June 2013, Photos, Queer Aperture Q&A •
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Through his Queer Aperture project, photographer Jeffrey Horvitz has spent years documenting the LGBTQ communities of Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver, B.C. He’s well aware that a picture paints a whole mess of words, but here he offers a few...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Community •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly When Natalie Marie was released from prison to a halfway house in January 2012, she’d been out of society for seven years. She’d gone in knowing she was queer, but started exploring her gender identity while incarcerated in a...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Community, Youth •
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly Queer youth, it’s your time to shine. The 2013 Oregon Queer Youth Summit wants your presence and your voice at Portland’s Jefferson High School on May 11. A conference by and for LGBTQA youth age 24 and younger, the OQYS...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Arts & Culture, Community •
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By Erin Rook,PQ Monthly After attending the 2011 Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Michael Nugent (aka Sweet Chi), 27, and Sister Bhakti Shakti, 52, started wondering why there weren’t more Radical Faeries represented in film. So they set out to create...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Community •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Three months ago, North Portland leather bar The Eagle publicized an upcoming performance by blackface drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor, an “ignunt” Southern Black mother on welfare portrayed by Chuck Knipp. Accusations of racism...
