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Its current home, White Owl Social Club, has a wide-open patio perfect for mingling and smoking. 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. Inside are drag stars, touring musicians, and sweaty bodies to dance against.
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. at least, not right now.
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Hungry? 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. VIP bookings for groups up to 20 can be made online here. Enjoy the stage show from 9:00pm to close Monday to Friday, and from 4:00pm to close every Saturday and Sunday.
Though it plays nicely off the name of Portland’s favorite boots, the bar is named for Dr. Marie Equi, a turn-of-the-century Portland activist and advocate for labor rights and birth control.
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Christopher Sky founded this “trashy-chic” queer dance party weeks before the pandemic hit Oregon, but the party goes on.
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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 drinks are cheap, the greatest gay pop hits and deep cuts are on repeat. They still do today, entertained by a house cast of some of Portland’s best drag artists.
At venues like Statera Cellars’s event space and the subterranean cocktail lounge Voysey, drag queens and DJs keep the party moving while revelers drink magnums of champagne and slurp caviar.
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At the personal behest of Old Town club king Frank Faillace, queer nightlife staple Nikki Lev founded this weekly all-genders, all-bodies night to break the gender binary at strip clubs.
Communities here have been embracing gender and sexuality for centuries, and the city continues to be a hub for the whole queer community. Huge pride parades have been hosted here since the beginning of the gay rights movement, and in more recent years there has been an increase in everyday celebration as well. Long story short, it hasn't.
We were filming on-location a couple weeks ago when it came time to fly back to Portland to open for the weekend, but we were having a great time and wanted to continue.
Blow Pony
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Blow Pony—Portland’s longest-running freaky monthly queer dance party—has been too big to contain since its grimy warehouse days. 2015 | pearl district
Stag’s interior—dark leather and bordello velvet, antler trophies and graffitied antique paintings—feels like a gay après-ski chalet strip club.
Today, the upstairs lounge hosts biweekly karaoke and plays music softly enough to comfortably hold a conversation, but it’s tough to drown out the bass from down below. Most of the city’s dozen-plus queer bars opened in eras hostile to the queer community. 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.
Even resident straights are welcome for an infusion of brunch, drag, and board games. It hosts karaoke, drag shows, dance parties, art shows, jazz concerts, the odd TV viewing party—you name it.