The internet is hard. It moves so fast. Yesterday’s memes are distant memory. But there’s one queer meme that you’ll want to know before hitting Portland Pride this weekend: The Babadook. If you’re unfamiliar, The Babadook is a 2014 Australian horror movie ostensibly about a hidden monster terrorizing a mother and her young son: But […]
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Fox News Commentator: “Gay People Only Care About Pop Music and the Beach”
Fox News In a shocking turn of events, a Fox News commentator has stereotyped those in the LGBTQIA+ community, asserting they only care about two things: pop music and the beach. Commenting on a vigil held at NYC’s famous Stonewall Inn for the victims of last year’s Pulse nightclub massacre, conservative journalist Chadwick Moore complained […]
This Week in the Mercury: Queers Illustrated
Sashiko Yuen Pride Week is here and that means the Mercury‘s Pride issue has arrived, AND IT’S ALL COMICS (mostly)! This year we asked queer artists from within the Pacific NW comics community to create something special just for you to celebrate, reflect, and be entertained by such as: Cover art by Sashiko Yuen, AKA […]
W3 THR33
Taneka Stotts is a queer little tumbleweed that stopped rolling somewhere in Portland, Oregon. As a founder of Beyond Press, she is known for editing and contributing to comic anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic Anthology and the creators of color anthology ELEMENTS: Fire. She edited Afar […]
Gender-fluid Hodgepodge
Experience a digital restoration of Funeral Parade of Roses.
Wuvable Oaf
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz-nominated series of comics and winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel. The first seven years of Oaf comics have been collected into two volumes by Fantagraphics Books: Wuvable Oaf, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal, and Wuvable Oaf: What […]
Wuvable Oaf Paper Doll
Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, a two-time Ignatz-nominated series of comics and winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel. The first seven years of Oaf comics have been collected into two volumes by Fantagraphics Books: Wuvable Oaf, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal, and Wuvable Oaf: What […]
The Mercuryโs Things to Do Pride Week Mega Calendar
Everything fun to do for Pride Week!
Pride Waterfront Mainstage Schedule
Pride entertainment on the Waterfront.
The Feeling is Multiplied
The Feeling Is Multiplied is both a comic and a podcast centering on non-monogamy, made by Blue Crow, Marco Padilla, and Matt Rainwater. The three have been living together for almost five years in a committed triad practicing what they describe as “ethical relationship anarchy.” Two years ago they welcomed a baby into their family, […]
The Heroes Inside
Superheroines from a transperson’s perspective
Once Upon a Time in Queer Oregon
Remembering Dr. Marie Equi
