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Kick Off Portland Pride with the Portland Mercury and Diva Drag Brunch

Celebrate the Queer Issue launch on June 14 at Swan Dive!
Avatar photo by Mercury Promotions

Bring your singles and get ready to mingle at the Mercury’s Queer Issue launch party on June 14 at Swan Dive, 727 SE Grand. We are celebrating all things queer with drag, burlesque, acrobatics, singing-out-loud, and more joyous visual stunts. The party is open to all Mercury fans 21 and up (OLCC’s rules, not ours—sorry!). […]

Posted inCulture

Who’s Playing Portland Pride 2026?

Pride Northwest announces three drag artist headliners playing its July waterfront festival this summer.
Avatar photo by Andrew Jankowski

Say it loud; say it proud: Portland’s Pride parade is in July! Since the hot idea dropped in 2023, Portland Pride celebrations have come to feel like two months of intensifying queerness that eventually explodes into the biggest annual parade in the whole state and a weekend of events and performances in Waterfront Park—all of […]

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