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Contents:

• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS PORTLAND
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MOVG TO LGBT PORTLAND, OREGON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY PORTLAND, OREGON TRAVEL GUI
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS PORTLAND
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS PORTLAND

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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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And the gay newspaper down there is the Bay Area Reporter.

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RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

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Step up to the wdow of Portland’s Red Sce Pizza and you’ll be greeted by a sg staff member wearg a “Gay Pizza” shirt. This gay-owned rtrant and bar picked up the 2022 LGBTQ Venue of the Year by Bar and Rtrant Expo and is dited to creatg a safe space for the LGBTQ+ muny and iends to enjoy year round.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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Beg gay is often a soberg experience, but are gay people really that sober?

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MOVG TO LGBT PORTLAND, OREGON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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Stag PDX, one of Portland's two gay strip clubs, offers s weekly TESTIFY drag bnch that tends to reel yuppie gays om Northwt. Hawks and Steam are Portland's last two gay bathho, and Sunday nights are bisexual nights.

Related: I Spent a Night One of Portland's Last Gay BathhoComg Out. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

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He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Flawls Sha, Miss Gay Pri of Portland 2023, is exced for the muny to gather for the ftivi — pecially after the COVID-19 panmic. The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier  the fall of 2012.

Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat. They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall. They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste.

The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, therefore they mt rec. A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci? A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April.

That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt. The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance. Manford was famo for publicly gog toe-to-toe wh the cy’s mayor orr to get the police off the gay muny’s back.

Gerald Talbot to troduce a gay rights plank the state Democratic Party platform. The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers. “We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said.