TREKANDSHOOT/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Before we go there: I love my mom. My mom is different now than she used to be. And the world is different. Imagine being the parent of a newborn boy in 1980. The year he turns 1, they discover AIDS. Couple years later, they discover what causes it (the French beat us to […]
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Skate Gay Tonight!
Maybe you’re too self-conscious to break out your sparkles and jam-skating moves at the Oaks Park roller rink on the reg. But at the monthly Gay Skate night, no one gives a poop if you wear sequined hot pants (it’s encouraged!) or skate backward all night (go for it, hot dog!). Plus the music is […]
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“Technically, fictional mutants have more rights than real gay people.”
“Earlier this month at Dragon Con, Brian Parsley and his longtime partner George Lewis recreated the cover of Astonishing X-Men #51, where Northstar gets married to his partner Kyle Lindau in front of pretty much all of Marvel’s mutants,” writes Topless Robot’s Rob Bricken. “The only difference? Northstar actually did get married, but Dragon Con […]
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Red Cap Garage Is Closing
Sad news for fans of the Red Cap Garage: After an impressive 25 years, the queer bar that has been one of the last holdouts on what used to be known as “Vaseline Alley,” has announced via Facebook: Well, the rumors are true. After 25 fantastic years with the best customers and staff Red Cap […]
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Project Nunway: The Video
In this week’s Sold Out column I wrote about “Project Nunway,” the Project Runway-spoofing fashion contest that is the brainchild of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Nunway (which has taken place in other cities around the country) hit Portland for the first time over the weekend, and MOD writer Kayla Rekofke was there to witness […]
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Get Yer Gay Pride T-Shirts… at Target?
How long does it take you to word associate “Target” with “anti-equality”? Probably not very long. And the giant seller of All Kinds of Stuff knows it, having made a million headlines with their public support of Republican Tom “let’s ban gay marriage” Emmer. Even though the company’s excuse that they donated $150k indirectly, to […]
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Gay Skate Tonight!
Pretty gay people on roller skates? Hell to the yeah. Tonight is Gay Skate sponsored by qfabPDX out at Oaks Park to benefit Black Pride ($1 off every admission goes to ’em). I’m willing to bet my rainbow-striped skate laces there’s going to be some bumping music at the roller rink tonight. Roll Bounce Gay […]
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EMA’s New Single Raises Money for Antibullying Nonprofit
The globetrotting EMA (Erika M. Anderson) may have already left her temporarily adopted home of Portland for the green, green pastures of Oakland, but she’s still at the forefront of our thoughts as she drops this wrenching new single and video just in time for V-Day. “Take One Two” is just as raw as anything […]
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Feds Pursuing a “Vindictive Prosecution” of Dan Choi?
The trail judge thinks there’s enough evidence of that to issue a 10-day delay so Choi’s lawyers can put the government on trial for putting Choi in trial: The third day of the U.S. government’s trial of former Lt. Dan Choi ended with a 10-day delay for the government to seek an order from a […]
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I Don’t Care If You’ve Seen These Already.
See them again. Buzzfeed’s 60 Awesome Portraits of Gay Couples Just Married in New York.hat tip to my roommate, but I’m still not taking out the recycling.
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Gay Gamers, It DOES Get Better
For our Pride Issue this week, we took our inspiration from Dan Savage’s It Gets Better project, asking a handful of queer Portlanders to share their own experiences of how things got better once they reached adulthood. Some of the results are incredibly moving; I particularly like Brad Fortier’s account of coming out to his […]
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Portland City Insurance Will Now Cover Sex Changes
Ch-ch-changes: Big crowd to support sex change coverage In an unanimous yes vote this morning, Portland’s city council approved expanding the city’s public insurance to cover sex changes. LGBT advocacy group Basic Rights Oregon and unions packed the house with supporters for the big vote, which is one of only two times in the past […]