New owner decides to focus on a certain market and changes the venue. This has happened many times before, it will happen again. That doesn't make it discrimination. I would guess that they will have no trouble finding a new home given how big these events are.

For what its worth, Blow Pony has been a largely straight event for some years now, with a large chunk of the crowd being straight people who were only there "to see what the gays are wearing this month". At the time of its cessation (hiatus?) and eviction the event had little resemblance to its original form.

Glad to see new venues were found.

Question remains...why were the new owners and new promoter so sure EDM fans couldn't handle being in the same space where queer events were staged? As far as I know the EDM scene isn't a hotbed of Trump support.

For what it's worth RageManchoo, you definitely have not been to BLOWPONY. Your post is incredible false. BLOWPONY is and has been a mainly queer attended monthly. Yes of course some Hetero folk make their way in, but this small number of straight people do not make up a large enough number to back up your post.

The promotion company chose to focus on bringing international, headlining acts in on the weekends and wanted that to be consistent. That's not a popular decision with a large number of people, but it's still simply a business decision. The timing of it was poorly chosen and the manner in which the CURRENT club owner conveyed that to Blow Pony led to some pretty bad miscommunication. Paul Song reached out to Blow Pony to relieve that miscommunication and discuss options, but his efforts were ignored. Blow Pony's promoters, rightly upset, posted a very inflammatory Facebook blog that implied discrimination with their wording and making it sound like Red Cube "didn't want to confuse their EDM clientele." This is not accurate.

Paul's criminal record has absolutely nothing to do with this article. Why is it even in here? Is it true journalism to include details about his past to lead readers to a less-than-favorable opinion? Paul served time in jail and that was years ago. Since then, he's been married and recently fathered his second child, and has a very happy family life. Prison is meant to rehabilitate and, in the rare occasion that it's actually successful, why use it as a weapon?

The Mercury should be ashamed for having written a very one-sided piece that they've passed off as journalism. Red Cube's decision isn't one that I even agree with, but it's hardly reason to lead the Portland readers to a negative conclusion. They can watch Fox News for that kind of "journalism."

"I've been selling one product for 13 years". Anybody that has done anything with Redcube over the years knows exactly what that product is. It's not EDM events, lol.

#6, for those of us not familiar with Redcube...spill, please..

This article focuses on one club and one queer dance party when it could highlight the fact that most venues in town (including Holocene) have made it very clear they're only willing to have a limited number of queer events at their establishment so as not to offend or drive away their "regular"/straight clientele. Most venues in town don't want too many queer events and it's happening across the board. Many queer event producers can't find locations for their parties due to this.

For what its worth, Jizz, I've been to Blow Pony three times while it was at Euphoria/Rotture and about six times when it was downtown before that. Every time I went to the Euphoria/Rotture event the crowd was mostly straight. Maybe it was just coincidence and that was the way it happened to be on those nights.