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Portland is weird! And they’re rather proud of it. To the point that “Keep Portland Weird” is their unofficial motto, launch plastered around the city on street signs, street graffiti, and bumper stickers. Portland loves eccentricity, individuality, and creativity—that, and the fact that it's a gradual haven for hippies, bohemians, the dispossessed, and, of course, Gay people. Everyone and anyone is welcome in Portland—you don’t own to be weird, but it helps!
The quirky, offbeat city has a scenic location on the Northwest coast of the Joined States, just 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean, where the Columbia and Willamette Rivers converge. Framed by dense forests, fertile valleys, volcanic peaks like Mount Hood, and the dramatic Cascade Range, it's the perfect establish for nature-loving day-trippers and adventure sports enthusiasts. Nature doesn’t just surround it though—it’s part of the city’s core, with urban parks blanketing parts of the city, like the Portland Japanese Garden and International Rose Quiz Garden—not to
LGBTQ+ Nightlife
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You'll find plenty of LGBTQ+-friendly places to visit when the sun goes down in Portland.
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Portland has no shortage of LGBTQ-owned and queer-friendly bars and clubs. Whether you’re looking for a safe cosmos to enjoy a relaxing night with friends, a high-energy dance party or a drag show, Portland delivers.
North Portland
Florida Room is both queer-friendly and dog-friendly. Enjoy a drink with your favorite two-legged and four-legged friends on one of their two patios.
Eagle Portland is Portland’s leather bar and home anchor for the Oregon Bears. Guests who wear a leather harness, vest, chaps, or full drag with “significant effort,” get in free on Friday or Saturday nights.
Downtown and The Pearl District
Scandalscalls itself, “Portland’s Gay ‘Cheers.'” The relaxed vibe makes it a great place to appointment with friends, or encounter new ones. During warmer months, grab a seat outside and watch the summ
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Portland’s gay bars are more than just hangouts. Most of the city’s dozen-plus queer bars opened in eras hostile to the queer community. The city’s oldest surviving bars were havens in an openly homophobic era, while its newest venues join a chorus of voices against an increasingly transphobic national climate. The entire LGBTQ+ people should, in the best bars, perceive safe and free to let loose, have fun, and maybe nibble on something tasty, on menu or off.
Not all gay gatherings have a permanent home, so we’ve assembled a rundown of the city’s robust scene of recurring pop-up parties alongside our favorite brick-and-mortar establishments. From leather bars to drag dens to lesbian parties to trans cabaret revues to Portland’s “gay Cheers,” there’s always somewhere where everyone’s glad you came.
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CC Slaughters
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Though technically on the outskirts of Old Town’s Show District, CC’s is very much at the center
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The Silverado is obviously and stridently a gay bar. Rainbow tassels line the kitchen, attractive men in snug underwear sling drinks, and posters of shirtless guys adorn the walls. Also, after nine at evening male strippers perform in the Silverado’s basement.
The Silverado was established over four decades ago and today is one of Portland’s longest-standing gay bars. It’s now in its third or fourth location, depending on how you count.
“It started as Flossie’s, which was up on Burnside where the Fred Meyer is now,” says Trevor Wion, the Silverado’s exclude manager of nearly 25 years. He says that Flossie’s was “the alike as what we are now, which is a very queer bar, but much quieter. I don’t think they started having dancers until ’”
According to Wion, sometime in the early ’90s the owner of Flossie’s surprised everyone by announcing that the bar was suddenly moving to what is now Harvey Milk Street.
“Everyone picked something up. There was a procession of prevent stools, records, and bottles o