The 2015 Pride Parade March Map Sat June 13 Voz Alta: La Gloria Celebrating the Latino American experience through poetry and song, Voz Alta features the stories of Latino LGBTQ community members and allies. Performed by actors and orchestrated live with Latin American folk songs, this Joaquin Lopez production is funded by the Regional Arts […]
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Our Top Ten Picks for Pride Weekend!
Illustration: Molly Mendoza FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS I’ve tried to find Pride offerings that weren’t entirely focused on getting wasted and laid for this top 10 list. Those efforts stemmed from a belief that Pride is about more than just partying and hooking up with strangers, and it might be an opportunity for us […]
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Irish Paper Shop Turns Anti-Gay Hate Into Pro-Gay Confetti
Towleroad: There are times when you just want to bathe in the tears of your enemies. Obtaining said tears is much easier said than done, but Daintree, a paper company based in Dublin, Ireland, is working to provide its customers with the next best thing. In anticipation of Ireland’s controversial upcoming referendum on marriage equality […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Forbids City-Funded Travel to Indiana
Steve Morgan Just when there’s finally a reason to visit Indiana (more on that in a second), Mayor Charlie Hales is telling city employees they mayn’t visit the Hoosier State on the public dime. Hales announced today he’s using his perch atop the city’s Office of Management and Finance to temporarily forbid city-funded travel there. […]
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Brain Surgeon Apologizes for Being an Idiot
Fox News: Potential 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson apologized Wednesday for saying homosexuality was a lifestyle choice. “I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation,” Carson said on his Facebook page late Wednesday afternoon. “I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that […]
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False Hate Crime Report Lights Up Twitter
I got a DM on Twitter late last night from a friend in Ohio. A friend of my friend—Adam Hoover, a young LGBT rights activist in Cincinnati—had been kidnapped. My friend and the rest of Adam’s friends were desperately trying to get #FindAdamHoover trending on Twitter. Would I please help? Here’s how Hoover’s friends learned […]
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The Moreland Market Owners Who Vocally Opposed Same-Sex Marriage Are Now Flying Rainbow Flags?
It’s a miracle in Southeast Portland! Last year, the co-founder of the Moreland Farmer’s Pantry sparked debate and derision, when it came to light she’d vocally opposed same-sex marriage in the past. Additionally, owner Chauncy Childs’ Facebook page linked to an article supporting a business owner’s right not to serve gay people. Those revelations would […]
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Scenes from the Portland Counter-Protest that Drove Off the Westboro Baptist Church
Portland’s propensity for the cute and strange and clever is usually cloyingly annoying. But then, sometimes, it’s absolute pure genius. Take Saturday night, when a couple of hundred people showed up outside the Moda Center to shame the anti-gay trolls from the Westboro Baptist Church—who’d decided to try picketing the Portland Trail Blazers for their […]
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Here’s the New DMV Form for Changing the Gender on Your Driver’s License
Illustration by Kalah Allen Way back in December, the Mercury broke some welcome news for Oregon’s transgender community. After months of quiet discussions with advocates, the Oregon DMV had decided to make it easier for people to change the gender on their driver’s licenses. That meant scrubbing a list of therapists—just 110 statewide—who in the […]
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Reading Stone Butch Blues with a Highlighter: The Legacy of Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg LESLIE FEINBERG Feinberg, in a self-portrait here, wrote revolutionary words. Monday morning, my Facebook feed exploded with tributes to author Leslie Feinberg. Maybe yours did too. Feinberg, who died over the weekend from complications due to multiple tick-borne illnesses (one of them Lyme disease), was a trans activist and a prolific author, whose […]
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Saturday at All Jane No Dick: Queer Zone and The Worst Books You’ll Ever Read
Pat Moran THE ACTUAL FUNNIEST DeAnne Smith. There’s only one day of All Jane No Dick left! How did that happen? For the past couple days, I’ve been ugly-laughing like a boss at jokes told by women and non-binary comedians. Yesterday’s Queer Zone showcase of LGBTQ performers at Alberta Street brought up my laughter quotient, […]
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Mary Bonauto, Genius
I just want to second what Andrew said: Let’s be clear: there would be no national surge in support of marriage equality without ten years of civil marriage equality in one state, and then several others. There would be none without Mary Bonauto. Federalism was essential in helping us prove that, with this reform, the […]