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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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MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

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

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

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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.

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

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GAY PORTLAND, OREGON TRAVEL GUI

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GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS PORTLAND

LGBT people are also twice as likely to abe booze and what 's worth, gay men and lbians together dra most of the natn's vodka supply. Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., 503-234-7837, Mnelli was good to the gays, and now 's time for you to return the favor by bleedg your bt performance at the Q Center's Cabaret wh a Q. Stag PDX, one of Portland's two gay strip clubs, offers s weekly TESTIFY drag bnch that tends to reel yuppie gays om Northwt.

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

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.

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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. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

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

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.

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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.