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• THE BEST PORTLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PORTLAND
•  MAE LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• ARE THERE GAY BARS MAE?
• 17 HISTORIC GAY BARS PORTLAND TO BE SHOWSED VIRTUAL TOUR
• GAYT PLAC IN MAE FOR 2020
• MOVG TO LGBT PORTLAND, MAE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• THE BEST MAE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MAE
• STYXX, PORTLAND’S BIGGT GAY NIGHTCLUB, IS CLOSG AFTER 35 YEARS
• GAY PORTLAND · HOTELS
• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

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Edor's note: This article was wrten by a Townsquare Media Northern New England ntributor and may nta the dividual's views, opns or personal of…We ed to have Styxx Portland but that closed down years ago and we really don’t have much to replace ’re no Portland, Oregon but if you walk down our streets you’d thk there would be a lot more gay-iendly plac given our those of you who are unaware, Ogunqu is actually where our ma gay-bar scene is. MaeStreetThis spot Ogunqu is actually one of the biggt gay bars and clubs New England and they regularly host drag ’s open seven days a week and hosts themed events to keep on our to and entertaed.

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Not a bad setup if you ask Front Porch Piano BarThe blog Travel Gay lists The Front Porch Piano Bar as a gay-popular bar Ogunqu. BlackstonNow, this is a Portland jot that pris self beg a gay bar.

We found 2019 at the foot of Munjoy Hill as a queer, lbian, and gay bar, welg folx of all creeds to our East End. You n get there om hereWe regnize that we exist on digeno land that was home to the Aucis, N'daka, and Wabanaki peopleHistory of Portland, Mae Lbian & Gay BarsCocktail Mary is proud to be a part of the leage of Portland, Mae's lbian and gay bars.

It may e to some people as a surprise that Portland Mae's first gay bar, Roland's Tavern, opened on Cumberland Ave. Acctomed to their own lol harassment by police and homophob, Roland's was unassumg and laid out a way that allowed same-sex dancg whout beg viewed om the ont entrance.

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One of Portland's longt-nng gay bar lol, Styxx (prevly Rumors, The Unrground, and Limelight) operated om 1980 to New Year's Day 2017 at 3 Sprg St near the Cross Insurance Arena. On the Wt End, Blackston, a gay bar, has been operatn sce 1987.

While this isn’t an exhstive history by any means of Portland’s lbian and gay bar scene, we thk ’s important to share some sights to our town’s past and acknowledge those that me before .

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Cocktail Mary ntu to hold space for trans, queer, lbian, and gay Maers as well as visors to our LGBT-iendly town. Women seekg women ma their way to the the Buick Café on 12th and Washgton, while gay servicemen home om the war would equent Rathskeller on SW Taylor Street.

Through the 1960s and ’70s, queer-centered gatherg plac ntued to flourish, spe an attempt by the cy, unr then-Mayor Terry Schnk, to shut down six gay bars by tryg to prsure the state liquor missn to revoke their the ’80s and ’90s, a stretch of what’s now Harvey Milk Street was home to many LQBTQ+ bars and gatherg spots.

That whole street was was our quote-unquote gay district or whatnot. 5, 2020, a long-time gay nightclub Portland, closed s doors October 2020, after 39 years of bs.

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“Those plac are reprentatn of their stggle, and their stggle at the time was jt creatg safe plac for their muni and visibily of the gay and lbian muny. ”Swanson poted out that a lot of inic downtown Portland bars didn’t necsarily even ter to a diverse queer crowd, but rather, to strictly whe, gay, cis-genred men. PORTLAND, Mae — The Augt 1976 edn of the Mae Gay Task Force Newsletter sported some outrageo, over-the-top and mpy headl.

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Its simple text only ad reads: “A fortable realy for gay people. The ads are jt what Megan MacGregor was lookg for when she spent months of her COVID-19 lockdown bg the LGBTQ+ archiv at the Universy of Southern Mae for rmatn about Portland’s historic — but long-gone — gay bars.

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In all, MacGregor was able to nfirm the existence of 17 historic gay bars. MacGregor is a queer historian and librarian at the Glickman Fay Library on the Portland Camp of the Universy of Southern Mae, where the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer+ Collectn is hoed.

Cred: Courty of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer+ Collectn at the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy Mae. MacGregor gave an -person, on-foot tour of the gay bar lotns last October. Bis the Mae Gay Task Force Newsletter, other papers the llectn clu the much more ser Our Paper, which began publishg the early 1980s, as well as the Communy Pri Reporter and Maely Gay.

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Though MacGregor found 17 separate gay bars, they did not all exist at the same time. Prently, Blackstone’s on Pe Street is Portland’s only explicly gay bar. An ad for Portland’s first documented gay bar appeared a 1970s issue of the Mae Gay Task Force Newsletter.

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“Bee gay bars were always more than bars, they were like big livg rooms. In 1990, McCormick beme the first openly gay member of the Mae Legislature and then the first openly gay nstutnal officer when she was elected State Treasurer 1997.