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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Pride is about celebrating our authentic selves — a time to shed the daily drag of being who the world requires us to be and let our unique light shine through. Fortunately, the LGBTQ communities in our region...
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PORTLAND PRIDE THURSDAY, JUNE 14 PQ Monthly Press Party 5-7 p.m., Vendetta (4306 N. Williams Ave.) Free, 21+, PQMonthly.com Featuring: Music by DJ Tank Top, tarot readings by Tarot Chick, spa services by Emerge Medical Spa, and drink special PQ...
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Friday, June 15 6 p.m. Announcements/Emcees 6:05-7 p.m. DJ Dougalicious 7 p.m.-7:55 p.m. DJ Paul Song 7:55 p.m. Announcements/Emcees 8-10 p.m. DJ Tony Moran Saturday, June 16 12:05-12:20 p.m. Autry 12:20 p.m. Announcements/Emcees 12:25-12:45 p.m. Marty...
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Queer vandals target Wells Fargo; bank to remain in Pride Parade By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly A group calling itself the “Queer Attack Squadron” has claimed responsibility for throwing a Molotov cocktail into the window of the Wells Fargo bank...
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly A gay Portlander’s experience with a psychiatrist who attempted to change his sexual orientation has led a national advocacy group to file a complaint with local and national psychiatric associations. Max Hirsh, 22, sought...
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Marcy Westerling never intended to start the Rural Organizing Project. But in the early 1990s, as the reactionary right in rural Oregon began increasingly scapegoating LGBTQ people, she knew something needed to be done....
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By Nick Mattos,PQ Monthly In honor of Pride Month, PQ picked a small handful of LGBTQ folks in our fair city who make us proud to be queer. They’re a bit of an odd crew: businesspeople and volunteers, DJs and construction workers, atheists and...
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For this edition’s version of Opposing Viewpoints, we wade into the touchy subject of Pride parades. More specifically, sexiness in Pride parades. Not the kind of sexy that means showing some skin, but sexual innuendo. Is it appropriate considering our...
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By Khalil Edwards, Portland Black Pride and PFLAG Portland Black Chapter It has long been the narrative that Black folks are anti-gay and homophobic. This type of messaging is inherently problematic. The recent announcement made by President...
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By Sen. Jeff Merkley “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Forty-five years have passed since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered those now-famous words, but this Pride month, they ring as true as ever. In...
