The Big GAY Dance Party — Equaly Communy Center

Contents:

• DOWNTOWN PORTLAND WILL GET NEW GAY DANCE CLUB FORMER EMBERS SPACE
• THE BIG GAY DANCE PARTY
• FRIDAY, JUNE 18PRI PARTY 2021 AT THE BIG LEGROWLSKILTLE LNS PRODUCTNS, WHICH GAVE A START TO MANY OF THE ROSE CY’S NEWBIE BURLQUE DANCERS AND DRAG KGS AND QUEENS, HOSTS A DAYTIME PAT PARTY WH POP-UP PERFORMANC, ALONG WH AN EVENG BARET SHOW GOG AS LATE AS LEGALLY ALLOWED. WCH PRCE, TOX!C AND OTHER ARTISTS SUPPLY LIVE MIC. THE BIG LEGROWLSKI, 812 NW COUCH ST. NOON. $10-$50. 21+.[VIRTUAL] CHASG RABOWSTHE PORTLAND GAY MEN’S CHOS, ACPANIED BY THE LOW BAR CHORALE’S HOE BAND, BUTS A NEW PROGRAM OF STANDARDS OM GAY POP HERO, CLUDG WHNEY HOTON, GLORIA GAYNOR, CHER, DOLLY PARTON, LADY GAGA AND CARLY RAE JEPSEN. CHASG RABOWS STREAMS AGA ON FATHER’S DAY AT 3 PM SHOULD YOU AND YOUR DAD WANT TO STAN THE GREATS TOGETHER. SEE FOR STREAMG RMATN. 8 PM. FREE. ALL AG.SATURDAY, JUNE 19
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

DOWNTOWN PORTLAND WILL GET NEW GAY DANCE CLUB FORMER EMBERS SPACE

After years of seeg bars close, downtown Portland's gay scene will get a big new nightclub as soon as this November, Portlanrs mourned when nightclub Embers announced would close after 48 years as a bastn of gay culture at the edge of Old Town—an unually sudn end that me about after the owner suffered what the club lled a "massive stroke.

"But the new bs owner the space, TJ Bce, says he plans to "rry on the tradn" the former Embers space at 110 NW Broadway by openg a new gay dance club lled Badlands, as soon as this summer—although timg will pend heavily on the level of renovatns is a 20-year veteran openg bars, wh another spot lled Badlands Sacramento, pl three different nightclubs lled Splash Frno, San Jose and Reno. His two-story, vio-screen-packed San Jose lotn was apparently the most popular Lyft lotn the Bay Area, potential good news for a Portland gay bar scene that hasn't seen a high-profile openg says was his lol ti that led to him takg over the former Embers space.

THE BIG GAY DANCE PARTY

All Metro Portland & Vanuver Wa Portland Dance Studs listed below are Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer iendly, and are open to and wele all people of genr and sexual orientatn.

We’re thrilled to be partnerg wh The Porthole Rtrant & Pub and Owen's Mixers to brg back the Saturday night party durg #priportland ’re shuttg down the Ctom Hoe Wharf Portland for The Big GAY Dance Party! Gaybaret! [VIRTUAL] Chasg RabowsThe Portland Gay Men’s Chos, acpanied by the Low Bar Chorale’s hoe band, buts a new program of standards om gay pop hero, cludg Whney Hoton, Gloria Gaynor, Cher, Dolly Parton, Lady Gaga and Carly Rae Jepsen.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18PRI PARTY 2021 AT THE BIG LEGROWLSKILTLE LNS PRODUCTNS, WHICH GAVE A START TO MANY OF THE ROSE CY’S NEWBIE BURLQUE DANCERS AND DRAG KGS AND QUEENS, HOSTS A DAYTIME PAT PARTY WH POP-UP PERFORMANC, ALONG WH AN EVENG BARET SHOW GOG AS LATE AS LEGALLY ALLOWED. WCH PRCE, TOX!C AND OTHER ARTISTS SUPPLY LIVE MIC. THE BIG LEGROWLSKI, 812 NW COUCH ST. NOON. $10-$50. 21+.[VIRTUAL] CHASG RABOWSTHE PORTLAND GAY MEN’S CHOS, ACPANIED BY THE LOW BAR CHORALE’S HOE BAND, BUTS A NEW PROGRAM OF STANDARDS OM GAY POP HERO, CLUDG WHNEY HOTON, GLORIA GAYNOR, CHER, DOLLY PARTON, LADY GAGA AND CARLY RAE JEPSEN. CHASG RABOWS STREAMS AGA ON FATHER’S DAY AT 3 PM SHOULD YOU AND YOUR DAD WANT TO STAN THE GREATS TOGETHER. SEE FOR STREAMG RMATN. 8 PM. FREE. ALL AG.SATURDAY, JUNE 19

Saturday, June 19Portland Frontnners’ Pri RaceI get that we’re not all back the gym and might want some social exercise opportuni, but nng on pavement is absolutely homophobic. Whether that’s bee of downtown doom mongers or the ongog panmic is unknown, but ’s at least a her take on a pre-rerd para than last year’s Zoom talent show and archival footage of the Gay Pri 1999 para.

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

We belong to the Internatnal Associatn of Gay Square Dance Clubs (IAGSDC), the Portland Area Council of Square and Round Dance Clubs and The Oregon Feratn of Square and Round Dance Clubs.

Started San Francis Augt 2006, Bearracuda is the largt attend bear dance party and most prolific gay dance event the U. )-- e jo the only Gay Square Dance club the Metro Area! We have a ep history Portland's Gay scene and love to dance Morn Wtern Square Dance together, om Social Square Dance (Mastream) to Challenge.

Flawls Sha, Miss Gay Pri of Portland 2023, is exced for the muny to gather for the ftivi — pecially after the COVID-19 panmic. Supreme Court lg that favored of a signer who don’t want to make weddg webs for gay upl and a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the untry this year, such as legislatn targetg drag performanc and genr-nfirmg health para-goer said was nice to see a posive si to thgs bee Pri is sential to show people ’s worth to live as their tt self.

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

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.