NYT: The first nationwide study to ask high school students about their sexuality found that gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers were at far greater risk for depression, bullying and many types of violence than their straight peers…. The survey documents what smaller studies have suggested for years, but it is significant because it is the […]
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Dan Savage to Daily Beast: Take Down Your Creepy Olympic Grindr “Exposé”
lazyllama / Shutterstock In recent years, the Olympic games have become synonymous with sex. And the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro are no different. Usually, the reports focus on the hundreds of thousands of condoms that are being handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village. But this year, Nico Hines, a reporter for […]
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NBA Moves All-Star Game Out of North Carolina
Suck it, bigots: The National Basketball Association announced Thursday that it would not hold the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte, N.C., in a reaction to state legislation passed earlier this year that eliminated specific anti-discrimination protections for lesbians, gays and bisexuals. The legislation also mandated that transgender people use bathrooms that match their birth gender. […]
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Kicked to the Curb
Queer Dance Nights Blow Pony and Bearracuda Were Kicked Out of Their Longtime Home. Here’s What Happened, and Here’s What’s Next.
Blow Pony and Bearracuda were kicked out of their longtime home. Here’s what happened, and here’s what’s next.
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Gay Republicans now Loathed Slightly Less by Their Colleagues
Nice to see young women getting the respect they deserve from the GOP. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com “Festering” is the word that the New York Times chose to describe the process of writing this year’s Republican party platform: Same-sex marriage and transgender rights are emerging as points of serious strain between social conservatives and moderates […]
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Baker Refuses to Make a Cake for a Same-Sex Couple
Romiana Lee / Shutterstock.com Not a wedding cake. A birthday cake: It certainly wasn’t the text message Candice Lowe was expecting to get on her honeymoon. She says it came from the owner of a local bakery, canceling the order for her wife’s birthday cake. Lowe says, “after she saw my Facebook page, she found […]
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Donald Trump’s no Friend to Gays, and his Advisors are Even Worse
This could easily be a shot from the end of The Shining. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com If you have your finger anywhere near the pulse of animated GIF culture lately, you’ve probably scrolled through at least a few responses to Donald Trump’s “ask the gays.” It all began after Trump decided to use the […]
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Meet the HOMOCATS: This Week’s Cover Artist, J Morrison, on the Gayest Cats Ever
Kill Guns, 2014, from “The War Continues” zine J. Morrison J. Morrison is a Brooklyn-based artist who created the project HOMOCATS to fight phobias, promote equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, and challenge social norms. We talked with him to get the lowdown on these extremely gay cats. MERCURY: On our cover this week, we’re featuring […]
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Things to Do: Sunday at PRIDE
Pride Parade Map 2016, Kickoff at W Burnside & Park Portland Pride Parade Don’t miss the Technicolor exuberance and thumping splendor of the annual Portland Pride Parade, celebrating the LGBT community in all of its varied splendor. Sun June 19, see route information this page, 11 am, free, all ages Bob the Drag Queen RuPaul’s […]
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Things to Do: Saturday at PRIDE
Courtesy Gaylabration Portland Pride FestivalGet out and proud for Portland’s annual LGBTQ-appreciation fest! Shop at Waterfront Park vendors by day, hit up dance parties by night. Sat June 18-Sun June 19, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 1020 SW Naito, noon-6 pm, $7 Stag PDX Block Beach Party Swimwear is “highly encouraged” at this sexy, outdoor beach […]
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My Encounters with ’80s Porn Star Al Parker
THE FIRST TIME I saw him was on a giant screen at a bathhouse in the summer of 1984. Sitting on a carpeted banquette, with only a white towel wrapped around me, I watched him climb a tree to rescue a skydiver tangled in a parachute. He and the skydiver had sex in the tree, […]
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Things to Do: Friday PRIDE Events
Carol Munro In case you didn’t notice, the Mercury has a HUGE PRIDE ISSUE this week, with loads of great writing and the best PRIDE weekend calendar in town. Here are the top things to do tonight, Friday June 17! Pride Glow RunBilling itself “Portland’s sickest night run,” the Pride Glow Run is back. At […]