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Inside are drag stars, touring musicians, and sweaty bodies to dance against. The drinks are cheap, the greatest gay pop hits and deep cuts are on repeat. The all-inclusive club streams music videos on its dozens of screens and features drag bingo, Latin nights, karaoke, and late-night dance parties most days of the week.
Here’s hoping a fairy godmother will swoop in and save it at the last moment.
Featured Events: Towel Tuesdays, Underwear Wednesdays, Trans-uhh-Licious thursdays
Badlands
est. If you don’t meet the city’s coolest leather daddies, gaymers, leather-clad lesbians, or at least one person in a pup hood, go back and try again.
2022 | buckman
Doc Marie’s opened in 2022 as Portland’s first devoted lesbian bar in over a decade. If a Portland movie night could give Carla Rossi a run for her box office, it would be the Eagle’s round-the-clock double feature of hardcore gay porn and TV movies routinely screened behind the bar. Most of the city’s dozen-plus queer bars opened in eras hostile to the queer community.
Drag Dangerzone
various locations
Each month, DJ Aurora and drag queens Valerie DeVille and Marla Darling’s long-running comedy variety show takes audiences right to the danger zone with local drag, burlesque, and live music. Grab a great deal on your hotel stay when you book via GayMapper!
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Blow Pony
white owl social club
Blow Pony—Portland’s longest-running freaky monthly queer dance party—has been too big to contain since its grimy warehouse days. 1967 | old town
In its late namesake’s absence, Darcelle’s family runs the historic Old Town club Darcelle XV Showplace, and resident castmate-turned-city-treasure Poison Waters reigns as the club’s emcee and grande dame.
The place is something of a passion project for Eagle owner Dan Henderson, returning a queer bar presence to the King neighborhood building that had housed Local Lounge for the past decade. 2007 | piedmont
Eagle Portland isn’t related to the other gay leather bars called Eagle found across the country, but it might as well be.
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. 2023 | king
Surreal queer paintings, starry sky projections, and a conservatory’s worth of plants make you feel like you’re in an alien jungle at this newish queer bar.
A mix of college students, tourists, barflies, and workers of all collar colors keep the place busy, as if the good old days have carried on uninterrupted. When it is slow it is VERY slow.
ranch, bleu cheese, honey dejon, chipotle, ketchup, mustard, tarter, bbq, teriyaki.
Jacques Strappe
various locations
Christopher Sky founded this “trashy-chic” queer dance party weeks before the pandemic hit Oregon, but the party goes on. In the years since, it’s grown a community that regularly shows up for karaoke, game nights, salsa and bachata dance nights, and dance parties spun by some of Portland’s best DJs.
Featured Events: Queeraoke, queer country nights
Back 2 Earth
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