Judy on Duty (High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK) Portland’s longest-running dance that is monthly for lesbians and their fans celebrates a different sort of girl each month as their poster woman.

Temporary Lesbian Bar (Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi) Temporary Lesbian Bar acknowledges the space in areas prioritizing lesbians with a bimonthly dance party. Trans, queer, and people that are nonbinary additionally welcome, along side anybody who celebrates the queer ladies in their life.

Vampyros Lesbos (Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick) DJs Holding Hands and Vera Rubin’s big ass shemales bimonthly goth is “freak positive and creep negative, night”

Playing from an array of genres including post-punk, commercial, and italo. No body is turned away for not enough funds, just for being haters.

For QPOC, Their Friends, & Allies

Cake, Comprehensive Flex (Killingsworth Dynasty, 832 N Killingsworth) Two month-to-month queer-centric hip-hop party evenings from a number of the city’s best LGBTQ+ and ally DJs.

Latin Flavor Queer Dance Party (Whiskey Bar, 31 N 1st) Kaina Martinez’s weekly Latin Flavor celebration serves up take in discounts, pop-up drag, and an array of Latinx party music designs.

Legendary Mondays (Swift Lounge, 1932 NE Broadway) Artist, scholar, and DJ Bart Fitzgerald curates a regular get-together that lets you turn up or calm down to your heart’s content, welcoming guests just like a house party that is perfect.

Slay (Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Featuring a number of the exact exact same DJs as Comprehensive Flex and Cake, Slay is a month-to-month celebration celebration prioritizing LGBTQ+ individuals of color and people they know whom learn how to work appropriate.

For Guys with Beards & Body Hair

Bearracuda PDX (Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside) Bearracuda is component of an international community of more than 60 homosexual parties celebrating bears—you understand, big men with facial and the body locks. Lasers, lights, and all sorts of that body.

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Daddybone (Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy) This party that is seasonal less of a place to introduce your dad to homosexual activities, and much more of a celebration for folks who are yelling “Daddy” more than when just about every day.

Lumbertwink (different places) This party that is semi-regular been held at Tonic Lounge and Funhouse Lounge, and you will be held in the Star Theater with this year’s Pride week-end. In the event that you love dancing and seeing cozy garments on fuzzy systems of most sizes, that is for you personally.

Range, Comedy, Storytelling, & Bingo

A Diamond into the harsh (Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta) All-ages activities are unusual sufficient in Portland, yet Stefhannie Nichole Aria and Ava Cado placed on a monthly all-ages drag show, providing the under-21 queens to be able to cut their teeth.

BOYeurism, Whoopee! A sex-positive range show (Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside) Two body-positive queer revues under one roof! Isaiah Esquire and Johnny Nuriel’s BOYeurism is just a literally flaming, mostly male show perfect for the Burning Man bachelorette, while Amory Jane and Lady Coquine’s Whoopee! Prioritizes storytelling, comedy, and cabaret in their parties of intercourse positivity. Both programs have actually awesome raffle awards.

Having fun with Granny Bea (Harvey’s Comedy Club, 436 NW 6th) Honey Bea Hart cranks within the laughs and her age for a showcase that is weekly certainly one of Portland’s longest-running comedy groups, mixing a moving cast of drag queens, stand-up comedians, and musicians who perform both.

Incite: Queer Writers study (Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington) Kate Carroll de Gutes and Kate Gray LGBTQ+ that is prompt around a main theme and host a bimonthly parlor to allow them to read their works.

Killer Queen (Clinton St. Theater, 2522 SE Clinton) Violet Hex hosts a month-to-month all-ages drag revue, providing anybody who can’t or won’t head to pubs the opportunity to experience crazy, high-energy, and high-art drag in a movie theater environment.

Melange (White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th) Meaning “mixture” or “mixed” in French, Melange prioritizes the talents of queer performers of color in Portland and Eugene, and it is mostly of the spots in the city to see drag kings.

Outlandish (Kickstand Comedy Club, 16 NW Broadway) Belinda Carroll’s latest endeavor is really a queer-centric late-night talk show and variety revue, among the first programs to start at Old Town’s new Chicago-inspired comedy club.

Out Loud (Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington) a new, bimonthly display for local LGBTQ+ musicians, benefitting the Q Center.

Poison Waters & Friends’ Drag Queen Bingo (Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan) Poison Waters does get dressed up n’t to simply spin the bingo bucket. No, she brings her friends to hold a complete show for similar cost of admission as a bingo-only evening.

Queen-go (different areas) Nae Nae Dominatrix spends 1 week web hosting bingo during the community resort in Old Town, then a a few weeks across the river during the Night Light Lounge, that will be house to her regular drag brunch.

Sexy Bingo (Triple Nickel, 3646 Belmont that is SE you’ve ever desired Courtney like to host your bingo evening, Patrick Buckmaster’s monthly bingo evening is actually for you.

Slant! Live Queer Storytelling (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, regular) these people were gone for a moment, however the team behind Slant! Live Queer Storytelling has returned, celebrating the time-honored tradition of real time storytelling from throughout the community that is LGBTQ.

Smut (Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th) Portland Queer Comedy Festival co-founder Belinda Carroll hosts exactly what she calls an “XXX-ish” comedy show with R-rated LGBTQ+/ally humor and a featured dancer that is burlesque.

The Alliance, the Gay Agenda (Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta) Corina Lucas is among Portland’s funniest comedians, and she makes regular area for other LGBTQ+ comedians outside typically gay pubs along with her month-to-month Gay Agenda show, along with her weekly Alliance show (the latter of which can be co-hosted by Jake Silberman).

Thursgays (QuarterWorld, 4811 hawthorne that is SE Meet gaymers monthly for pinball and arcade games, or play bingo hosted by Flawless Shade, whom hosts karaoke at Capitol Bar, trivia at Victoria Bar, and drag at CC Slaughters.

Wacky Tacky Daytime Drag (Red Light Clothing Exchange, 3590 SE Hawthorne) Not only will the crowd that is under-21 drag, but anybody trying to escape the club scene can go to mostly of the alcohol-free shows in the city.