Love Our Arts & Culture Coverage?
You can help fund it!

Posted inQueer Guide 2025

Be Gay, Do Portland

Gal about town Jenna Fletcher shares her favorite queer goings on in our gay little city.

Iย love this city. Oh sure, I could crow about its changes, its failures, and the complicated nature of what itโ€™s meantย to be a queer person of color living here for over 15 years (and I certainly have before!), but sometimes it feelsย good to take stock of all that it has to offerโ€”all of the pockets […]

Posted inTheater & Performance

A Double Feature by Mikki Gillette Offers Raw Trans Narratives

Tears and Glitter and Mimetic Desire invite audiences into Gillette’s humerous and urgent worlds.

All art, at its best, gives us the ability to transport ourselves and see the world from a new vantage point. The trouble is that sometimes the views we have access to are limited by the privilege of only certain voices being shared. Enter the rare opportunity of Tears and Glitter and Mimetic Desire, two […]

Posted inTheater & Performance

The Brothers Size Breaks the Fourth Wall, Fractures the Whole

Portland Center Stage’s production of a play by the co-writer of Moonlight is exciting but feels uneven.

With a bracing musical elegy, the three actors of The Brothers Size enter the Armoryโ€™s main stage, each announcing his own entrance and joining in song to build a rhythmic performance, invoking traditions of oral storytelling, old negro spirituals, and the echoed songs of a chain gang. “This road is hard, this road is hard […]

Gift this article