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Slay ( Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Featuring some of the same DJs as Full Flex and Cake, Slay is a monthly dance party prioritizing LGBTQ+ people of color and their friends who know how to act right.
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Legendary Mondays ( Swift Lounge, 1932 NE Broadway) Artist, scholar, and DJ Bart Fitzgerald curates a weekly get-together that lets you turn up or chill out to your heart’s content, welcoming guests like a perfect house party. Latin Flavor Queer Dance Party ( Whiskey Bar, 31 N 1st) Kaina Martinez’s weekly Latin Flavor party serves up drink deals, pop-up drag, and a wide range of Latinx dance music styles. For QPOC, Their Friends, & AlliesĬake, Full Flex ( Killingsworth Dynasty, 832 N Killingsworth) Two monthly queer-centric hip-hop dance nights from some of the city’s best LGBTQ+ and ally DJs. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, only for being haters. Vampyros Lesbos ( Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick) DJs Holding Hands and Vera Rubin’s bimonthly goth night is “freak positive and creep negative,” playing from a selection of genres including post-punk, industrial, and italo. Trans, queer, and nonbinary people are also welcome, along with anyone who celebrates the queer women in their lives. Temporary Lesbian Bar ( Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi) Temporary Lesbian Bar recognizes the gap in spaces prioritizing lesbians with a bimonthly dance party. Judy on Duty plays a crucial role in Portland’s nightlife, celebrating every representation of woman and femme. Judy on Duty ( High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK) Portland’s longest-running monthly dance party for lesbians and their lovers celebrates a different woman every month as their poster girl. Up ( Whiskey Bar, 31 NW 1st) Katya brings the extra-ness every month with Up’s go-go dancers, high-concept drag performances, and pop-up market. Every June during Pride, Scandals shuts down their section of street for an epic block party. You can order food from neighboring dive restaurant the Roxy and bring it over. Scandals features pool tables, a sidewalk patio, trivia, viewing parties, karaoke, and monthly live jazz. Scandals (1125 SW Harvey Milk) At 40 years young, Scandals is among Portland’s longest-running LGBTQ+ bars and is the last vestige of downtown’s long-gone Vaseline Alley gay district. It’s technically in the Pearl District, but is an easy walk from the Old Town gay bars.
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Santé Bar (411 NW Park) A piano bar offering cocktails, live jazz, TV musical viewing parties, and open mics with everything from storytelling and poetry to live music. While it shows LGBTQ+ artwork and serves brunch and tasting parties for restaurant pop-ups, Local Lounge has an unpretentious atmosphere with $1 tacos. Local Lounge (3536 NE MLK) This is a neighborhood bar with a calendar full of drag revues, variety shows, karaoke nights, and dance parties.