Pride in Portland is no small thing. | Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
Queer nightlife spots in Portland are expected to roar with Pride music and life over the next two months, as the culturally recognized June Pride Month bleeds into the Rose City’s mid-July celebrations — a shift that was adopted in 2023 to avoid overlap with June holidays such as Father’s Day and Juneteenth.
Among local losses, such as losing more than 20-year-old Crush, and attacks to queer spaces nationally, such as the Trump federal administration’s assault on non-binary and transgender communities, Portland continues. New-ish spaces like Back 2 Earth and Misfits Bar and
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