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Portland Pride
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Every summer, Portland comes to life the week of Pride, a time of solidarity and celebration for the city’s vibrant LGBTQIA+ community.
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Portland Pride is a joyful two-day celebration fulfill with a festival, a parade, a makers’ market, great food and brew, and much more.
Known far and wide as a gay-friendly destination, Portland is open and accepting to visitors of all stripes. The Rose City gets friendlier than ever with the annual Portland Pride Festival and Parade, which accompanies LGBTQIA+ community celebrations all over town.
Portland Pride normally includes a weekend festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and an epic, joyous parade winding through downtown Portland. With live tune, food, drinks, nonprofit communication booths and other vendors lining the Willamette River, the festival is a great place to assemble, mingle, celebrate gay identity festival and get more data about local LGBTQIA+ groups.
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The Portland Event Experience in 2025
The Portland Pride Festival
LGBTQ+ Nightlife
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A bartender makes sparks at Local Lounge.
You'll find plenty of LGBTQ+-friendly places to visit when the sun goes down in Portland.
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Note: This section was produced in collaboration with ProudQueer.com, formerly known as PQ Monthly.
Portland has no shortage of LGBTQ-owned and queer-friendly bars and clubs. Whether you’re looking for a safe room 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 ground 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 summer crowd cruise by.
There are two all-male strip clubs in Portland. Silverado, locat
ABOUT US
Here at Eagle Portland, We are learning a lot. How to be a better safe room for all LGBTQIA+ people, how important it is we all unite, how to advocate for and support other queer groups than gay men which we previously and currently mostly consist of. We welcome everyone. We are unapologetically owned by a gay man and mostly operated by as such. We do not yearn to be a part of any continued divisions in the LGBTQIA+ society that can tear us apart. We want to work to make a safe, sexy, fun territory for all people.
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Portland’s homosexual bars are more than just hangouts. Most of the city’s dozen-plus lgbtq+ bars opened in eras hostile to the homosexual 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+ group should, in the foremost bars, feel safe and free to let loose, have fun, and maybe nibble on something tasty, on menu or off.
Not all queer gatherings have a permanent dwelling, 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 queenly 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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Upbeat Clubs
CC Slaughters
Est. 1981 | old town
Though technically on the outskirts of Old Town’s Entertainment District, CC’s is very much at the center of the queer downtown Portland scene. Part cocktail exclude and part dance club, it’s an approacha
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