1999 Portland Gay History Walkg Tour

Contents:

• THE BEST PORTLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PORTLAND
• THE BT GAY BARS PORTLAND
• THE SILVERADO - PORTLAND'S BT GAY MEN'S BAR
• GAY PORTLAND, OREGON TRAVEL GUI
• A COMPREHENSIVE GUI TO PORTLAND’S BT LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE
• EAGLE PORTLANDPORTLANDMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSGAY MAPEAGLE PORTLAND
• 1999 PORTLAND GAY HISTORY WALKG TOUR
• A GAY GUI TO PORTLAND
• GAY & LBIAN ARCHIV OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWT LGBTQ HISTORY
• GAY PRIDE 2019

THE BEST PORTLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PORTLAND

Longtime Metrosource rrponnt Sebastian Forto tak you to six of the bt gay bars Portland’s Alba, NoPo, Old Town Portland, Northeast Portland, and more. The cy is so diverse, and s numbers of LGBTQ people so large, that some claim there aren’t enough “gay bars” to serve the populatn.

THE BT GAY BARS PORTLAND

Yet, we are also so wele “straight bars” that others crics claim we don’t need the gay bars we have.

Neighbors sually e to play the lottery – not as if ’s a gay bar – but rather jt their public hoe wh ol mic and good beers on tap. ) Ftgly, the bar is on Harvey Milk Street, which was jt renamed honor of the late, great, gay civil rights lear.

THE SILVERADO - PORTLAND'S BT GAY MEN'S BAR

The crowd rang om younger men – still llege – to olr gents who’ll gladly provi an oral history of what Portland was like when there was still a real gayborhood downtown. The large venue Old Town Portland is currently Portland’s only “gay nightclub” – if by that you mean a place where you n dance, drk, and drag queen.

How to be a better safe space for all LGBTQIA+ people, how important is we all une, how to advote for and support other queer groups than gay men which we prevly and currently mostly nsist of. Wh the bar, men sport ornate Easter-spired floral headdrs, club kids arrive drippg luxury fashn accsori, tech gays chat wh stylish lbians.

When the DJ-centered club Maxwell closed, Buck nabbed the space, plantg LED gay and trans pri flags the wdows. Flourishg among many other gay bars and gay owned bs Silverado tablished self as the premier gay men's nightclub.

GAY PORTLAND, OREGON TRAVEL GUI

CC SlghtersCC Slghters is your prototypil gay bar, wh a dance floor that hosts multiple drag revu and party nights every day of the Open for takeout and de-.

EagleThis North Portland gay bar has pool, a vered smokg pat, and no-ills drks, and primarily appeals to gay men who like Tom of Fland and Robert Mapplethorpe, if you know what I Open for de-. It’s technilly the Pearl District but is an easy walk om the Old Town gay Open for takeout and de-.

SndalsAt 40 years young, Sndals is among Portland’s longt-nng LGBTQ+ bars and is the last vtige of downtown’s long-gone Vasele Alley gay district.

A COMPREHENSIVE GUI TO PORTLAND’S BT LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE

This is due part to the cy’s diverse queer muny, which aniz a variety of LGBTQ+ events throughout the year and matas several bars, clubs, venu, and other facili for lbian, gay, trans, ter, and queer people.

Spartac Gay Travel Gui: Rank 31 for the USA ( 2021)Wikipedia Gay Portland: LGBT rights PortlandWikipedia Gay Oregon: LGBT rights OregonLGBTQ+ Travel Portland: Events & Ftivals. Although Portland do not have a hotel specifilly signated as a gay hotel, most of the acmodatns the cy advertise that they wele all travelers regardls of them beg LGBTQ+, queer or gay. We hope that on a future trip to Portland, we will aga be able to look for a new tt property that we n then prent to you here on our blog as gay-iendly acmodatn.

CC Slghters Nightclub and Lounge, 219 NW Davis St, Portland, OR 97209LGBTQ+ Bar Csh Bar, 1400 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214Bear & Leather Bar Eagle Portland, 835 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97217Gay Bar Sndals, 1125 SW Harvey Milk St, Portland, OR 97205Gay bar and male strip club, Silverado, 610 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209Gay gentleman’s club/lounge Stag PDX, 317 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209Sports bar for women, The Sports Bra, 2512 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232Queer Bar Rebel Rebel Bar, 20 NW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97209Queer Show-bar, The Queen’s Head, 19 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97204Drag venue Darcelle XV, 208 NW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97209Lbian bar (new July 2022), Doc Marie’s, 203 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214. Gay bathhoe Hawks PDX, 335 SE 99th Ave, Portland, OR 97216Gay bathhoe Steam Portland, 2885 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97202.

EAGLE PORTLANDPORTLANDMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSGAY MAPEAGLE PORTLAND

In se we have fotten a bar, club, rtrant, sna, or gay beach spe tensive rearch, please email or ment below this post. Bund wants to make clear that the Queen’s Head is a queer bar—meang a space for everyone unr the LGBTQIA+ umbrella—not jt a gay or lbian spot wh an ocsnal night swgg the other way.

Both the Queen’s Head and Rebel Rebel’s clive tentns rmed where they chose to open, wh nearby bs like CC Slghters and Darcelle’s helpg foster a sort of gayborhood vibe that rells downtown’s so-lled “Vasele Alley” of the ’80s and ’90s. & SW 12th any venue, club, or rtrant; Sndals has adapted over the years to fulfill the needs of a muny that looks for a mon ground venue to meet new iends and much more… Sndals is Portland’s Gay “Cheers.

1999 PORTLAND GAY HISTORY WALKG TOUR

This gui to historic gay, lbian, and transgenr buildgs and lotns Downtown Portland borrows om a number of primary sourc, cludg Mut of the Portland Cy Council, Oregon Liquor Control Commissn rerds, Portland cy directori, Sanborn fire surance maps, and several early gay newspapers published the cy between 1970 and 1980 (The Founta, The NW Founta, The Northwt Gay Review, and The Cas Voice). Sendary sourc clu the first wrten acunt of Portland’s gay history William Holman’s “A Gay History: Lt We Fet, ” (The Northwt Gay Review, Special Issue, June 1977), hereafter referred to simply as “Holman, ” and Duane Frye’s acunt of The Mic Hall om the Gay Pri Program of 1993.

Hart, transgenr novelist and physician, see The Incredible Life and Lov of the Legendary Lucille Hart (1976) and Jonathan Katz’s Gay/Lbian Almanac (1983). S., see: The Queert Plac: A Natnal Gui to Gay and Lbian Historic S (Henry Holt Co., New York, 1997). Special thanks to the Oregon Historil Society, which provid many of the imag this gui, and to the Gay and Lbian Archiv of the Pacific Northwt for s fancial support.

It is que possible that may have had a gay clientele even earlier that the late ’60s, bee Robert Snrs, who also owned the very gay Tel & Tel Tavern on Oak, attempted to open this se unr the name of The Mombo 1960, but the applitn for a dispenser class license was refed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commissn.

A GAY GUI TO PORTLAND

Although we have no fe evince that this was particular hangout for Portland’s gay men of the day, would seem que likely that at least some of the vice sndal fendants and their iends would have equented this tablishment.

The tavern was formerly a gay bar unr the name of the Timber Topper (1970-1974), the Axe Handle (1974), and the Alley. This was the se of a popular gay bar the early 1980s, which featured a small dance floor and mezzane nducive to the cisg crowd. Origally opened by Johnnie Honegger (the owner of the Harbor Club) on June 3, 1965, is nsired one of the first gay bars tablished on Stark.

Lanny Swerdlow rells that, the begng months of the Gay Liberatn Front, the bar was targeted for s discrimatory practice of excludg women wearg pants. One of the highlights of Portland’s gay and lbian history is a vis to this wonrful buildg where, the late 1940s, followg World War II, many of the cy’s gay men and lbians me for entertament and socializg. The nightclub soon blossomed wh a lively mixed lbian and gay crowd that howled wh lghter at the double entendre and risqué nuendo of s entertaers.

GAY & LBIAN ARCHIV OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWT LGBTQ HISTORY

Acrdg to Kerson, the bar had already an tablished gay reputatn of nsirable years when he purchased the place. Th, the lotn evolved s own cisy history and, even years after the war had end, gay men ntued equentg the lotn.

The vice reports of 1964 noted that Derek’s Tavern was “equented by homosexuals of higher class and means” and Akerson remembers that Johnny Mathis and ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev ed to equent the bar when dog gigs the cy. It was Derek’s attorney Jim Damis who fend the nstutnal right of homosexuals to gather a public place. After Hoblt took ownership of the bar, certaly beme one of the most popular gay hangouts the cy, although later veloped a served reputatn for discrimate dg e.

Gay wrer Edmund Whe vised the bar and immortalized his famo travelog, State of Dire: Travels Gay Ameri. This dit that gay men the cy may have tsted the lbian Equi for nonjudgemental medil re that they might not have gotten om other doctors.

GAY PRIDE 2019

In the 1950s, when the homophile movement began publishg and distributg perdils such as Mattache Review and ONE magaze, Rich’s Cigar Store, which had been existence sce at least 1916, was the only newspaper/magaze stand the cy that would rry them. It might seem odd to honor a magaze stand as a signifint place our liberatn, but very few homosexuals would allow themselv to have such materials mailed to their hom those days. To unter this revolutn mor, he formed an extra-ernmental missn of lol do-good cizens to put prsure on the lol magaze outlets rryg the so-lled “filth, ” (of which homosexual publitns such as ONE and Mattache Review were clearly clud).

In December 1906, Kse purchased the elegant Louvre and turned to a “gay ’90s equivalent” of morn nightclubs and a “Bohemian” place (newspaper story’s terms). This lotn (first reference to the theater is the Oregonian 1908) is mentned repeatedly as one of the most noteworthy gay male cisg s Portland history.