For more specific Pride events in Portland, check out this site. We’ve listed the best LGBTQ-friendly bars and restaurants for colorful drinks and some unexpectedly good food. She soon learns that there is a lot of rivalry between two groups: Chi Chi, Morgan, Aja, Thorgy and Milk seem to be unable to get along with Trixie, Kennedy, DeLa, Shangela and BeBe. of street Gays and drag queens' who'd long been angry about the plaque's limited wording. Holding her bedazzled torch high, the New York City drag queen glides with grace and technical talent. Milk dons a full sequined leotard, glam makeup and fishnets as she twirls on ice, performing as a modern-day Statue of Liberty. Most of Portland’s most iconic LGBTQ bars are set to be filled for drag brunches, dancing, and joyous festivities this summer. The next day would have been Harvey Milk's birthday. The intimate series gives us the opportunity to meet the people behind our favorite over-the-top drag queens. Still, amongst local losses and attacks to queer spaces nationally, Portland rides on with new spaces like Sissy Bar and Doc Marie’s, and city-wide events like drag icon Poison Waters appearing as the Grand Marshall of the Starlight Parade this weekend. In the past year, Portlanders have mourned the loss of queer diner The Roxy and its matriarch Suzanne Hale, new spaces like Rebel Rebel, Pinq, Fuzzy Navels, Opal’s Night & Day Cafe, and the Queens Head struggled to find their footing and closed within their first year, and the collective sense of the loss of Darcelle XV, our city’s most significant queer figure, has still only begun to be felt. Back in 1961, José Sarria, a part-time drag queen, became the first out gay candidate to run for office in the United States 15 years before Harvey Milk, the first out gay man to be elected. COVID-19 hasn’t put a stop to the celebrating for a couple of years now, but the local LGBTQ+ community has still faced many challenges since last summer. Queer nightlife spots in Portland are expected to roar with music and life over the next two months, as the culturally-recognized June Pride Month bleeds into Rose City’s new mid-July celebrations.
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