This article is part of the Mercury’s 2020 all-digital Queer Week coverage. Dan Ryan dan Ryan campaign Portland City Council candidate Dan Ryan is the former CEO of All Hands Raised (a nonprofit dedicated to improving racial inequity in Multnomah County education) and is currently in a runoff with Loretta Smith for the council seat […]
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This Pride Month, Remember That Self-Care Is Work
This article is part of the Mercury’s 2020 all-digital Queer Week coverage. Olha Khorimarko / Getty images Portland, you’ve been doing a lot lately. You’ve been protesting. You’ve been donating. You’ve been researching. You’ve been having uncomfortable conversations about racism and white supremacy. You’ve been fighting the coronavirus. You’ve been social distancing. You’ve been overwhelmed […]
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This Pride Month, Watch the Films of Gus Van Sant
This article is part of the Mercury’s 2020 all-digital Queer Week coverage. My Own Private Idaho criterion Gus Van Sant remains Portland’s best known cinematic son. While he doesn’t live in our fair city anymore, it was during his time here that he made some of his most celebrated work (Good Will Hunting, My Own […]
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Q&A: Portland Protest Organizer Lilith Sinclair on Activism and Pride
This article is part of the Mercury’s 2020 all-digital Queer Week coverage. Lilith Sinclair (center). Alex Zielinski If you’ve participated in any of the Portland protests against police brutality in the last two weeks, there’s a decent chance you’ve heard Lilith Sinclair’s voice through a megaphone. Sinclair, a Black and indigenous nonbinary person, is a […]
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Introducing the Mercury’s Queer Week 2020!
Read all of our Queer Week 2020 content here. Bobby Roberts & Progress To Our Beloved (And Very Queer) Mercury Readers, Ever since the Mercury launched as an alternative weekly 20 years ago, we’ve put out an annual Pride-themed issue. But this year, our Pride coverage is going to look a little different. There are […]
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The Best Things to Do in Portland – PRIDE 2020 Edition
The OUTwright Festival Fuse Theatre’s annual series of performances and workshops highlighting the power of art to help comment on and change our surroundings goes online for 2020, with a specific focus on trans and gender non-conforming communities. Visit Fuse’s Facebook page from Wed-Sun, June 24-28, every night at 7 pm to watch readings, discussions, […]
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Where to Stream Portland’s Drag Performers for Pride 2020
The Mercury’s all-digital Queer Week 2020 officially kicks off this coming Monday, June 15—but we’re giving you a little sneak peek today with this roundup of local drag livestreams, some of which you can enjoy this weekend! Flawless Shade Courtesy of Flawless Shade. Portland’s 2020 Pride weekend is shaking its rainbow flag at the crossroads […]
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Nikki Kuhnhausen Was Killed By Transphobia. Now, Her Community Fights for Her Legacy.
When Lisa Woods reminisces about her daughter Nikki Kuhnhausen, one story makes her especially proud. Kuhnhausen was one of a handful of transgender high school students at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington between 2015 and 2019. She was known for being tough, and often got disciplined at school for fighting with other students […]
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If You Had a Fun Pride Weekend, Consider Donating to a Local LGBTQ+ Cause Today
MEG NANNA Hello, queer and ally Portlanders! Did you have a great time at this weekend’s Pride festivities? Because the Mercury definitely had a great time. Portland’s LGBTQ+ community has dealt with some serious shit in the last year, but it really was heartwarming to march in the parade and see so many happy queer […]
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Pride Parade Photos: The Mercury Celebrates Pride
Meg Nanna It was a gorgeous Pride day in Portland, and the Mercury showed up and showed out in the city’s funnest and most boisterous parade. The crowds were as thick and as positive as I’ve ever seen, and if there were any rando homophobes (I didn’t see any) they were buried alive by the […]
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Genderqueer Artist Maarquii Could Be Portland’s Next Rap Star
On a recent sunny afternoon at Townshend’s Tea House, Marquise Dickerson (AKA Maarquii) is dressed more lowkey than I’m used to. There’s no wig or makeup in sight, apart from some nail polish—just a black T-shirt paired with dark shorts, dad hat, and crossbody fanny pack. We order kombucha and get down to business: chit-chatting […]
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Black & Brown Stripes: Catching Up with Some of Portland’s Most Interesting Queer People of Color
For members of the LGBTQ+ community, there are numerous reasons to be proud. What follows are a series of discussions with five very different, but equally dynamic members of our complex community. Stephanie Duncker PRONOUNS: she/her and they/them ETHNICITY: Black AGE: 35 INSTAGRAM: @myalmedicinals I meet with activist Stephanie Duncker—a Black, vegan witch—at Townshend’s Tea […]