Portland Drag Clown Carla Rossi’s Guide to Dining in Portland

Anthony Hudson — the writer and artist primarily known as the horror movie loving, acerbic drag clown Carla Rossi — thinks about food all day. But the Gaylords of Darkness podcast co-host is quick to clarify that dining out is a hobby of Hudson’s, not Rossi’s. “Carla eats cigarettes and glass,” Hudson says. “I have more discerning taste.”

Carla Rossi, named for the “bitter, salty wine on the bottom shelf,” in Hudson’s words, developed a following for her LGBTQ+ film series at the Hollywood Theatre, Queer Horror, though Rossi has appeared in several pieces written by Hudson. Her critiques of Portland’s gentrification and white supremacy are often served with

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