Portland’s premier 80-year-old drag queen Darcelle XV was resplendent last night as she gave a show much different than her usual showtune-belting, assless chaps-bearing performance at her iconic Old Town club. On the fourth floor of Powell’s Books, Darcelle read from her new autobiography, Just Call Me Darcelle, which tells the story of how a […]
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Target: No Longer Donating to Homophobes!
Mayor Sam Adams took some heat last fall when he tried to woo Target to open a big box store in downtown Portland—both because he stridently opposed another big box store, WalMart, coming to town and because LGBT groups were calling for a Target boycott after the company gave a bunch of money to an […]
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Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father
Florida’s new Republican governor and the guy he appointed to Florida’s Department of Children and Families don’t think gay people should be allowed to adopt—a judge struck down Florida’s ban on adoptions by gays and lesbians and same-sex couples last year (which prevented gay couples from adopting kids out of the foster care system)—because… “Adoption […]
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Doing the Right Thing
This video of a Mormon woman speaking out for marriage equality is absolutely an example of a religious person acting on her beliefs, taking a stand, and doing the right thing. It was posted on Valentine’s Day. She explains: I put this video on MormonsforMarriage.com during the Prop 8 debate. At the time, speaking out […]
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Why I Can’t Blog About Glee Anymore
Last night I turned on the TV and something inside of me just said “No”. I don’t know what the final straw was but I can’t sit through another hour of Glee (sober, taking notes). I didn’t watch last night’s episode (though it’s called “Comeback” and I’m sure someone is gonna tell me I missed […]
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Ban Fat Marriage
An Iowa state elected official—can you guess which party?—trots out a tired, false, and repeatedly debunked stat to justify banning gay marriage: gay people have lower life expectancies than straight people. And since we don’t contribute as much to society as “normal people that do not enter into that kind of relationship,” we clearly shouldn’t […]
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Flossie
If you’re looking for someone interesting to talk to about weird Portland histories, that person is Tim Hills, McMenamin’s in-house historian. Hills surprised me this week when I called him to talk about whether McMenamin’s is going to incorporate the history of infamous gay bathhouse Club Portland into its new boutique hotel that took over […]
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Let’s Start Placing Bets On When the First Lady Will “Reveal Her Position” On Gay Marriage
From USA Today: Her husband has finally quit smoking, the first family does have a church and spiritual life, she’s not revealing her position on gay marriage, and she and her husband keep their marriage strong with laughter. First lady Michelle Obama answered questions Tuesday during an hour-long lunch with a dozen reporters… Her position […]
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Gleegasm: Tenderoni
After a holiday hiatus Glee is back on TV. Last night was the Valentine’s Day episode. What did you think? I thought it was boring. But what do I know? The world will never agree on what makes a good Glee episode so I’m just gonna tell you what I liked, what I thought didn’t […]
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Ban Poor Marriage
Will Wilkinson at The Economist takes down the “gay couples are bad—or less good—parents” justification for banning gay marriage: Let’s suppose, though, that there is a credible basis for the proposition “that gay people, on average, are less successful as parents”, and that this has something to do with the gay-marriage debate we have been […]
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The Gays are Counterfeiters!
Here, some old dude in a golf sweater uses “LOGIC” to explain why a gay marriage cannot possibly be a “real” marriage—because, you see, gays are counterfeiters! Or something! (Again, why do we keep knocking gays for being talented? It’s simply a fact they make the best 20 dollar bills and write the best showtunes.)