Gay pride parade portland

Your Local Drag Queen Is Booked and Busy

Like so many of our wonderful small plates restaurants, Portland “does things a minute differently” when it comes to celebrating Pride month. The adj hoorah that is the Waterfront Pride Festival and Parade moved to July a few years back because of scheduling conflicts, including with the Rose Festival and Juneteenth celebrations. In doing so, the hope was to stretch the party across not one but two months. But in reality, the city has settled into a rhythm of celebrating Pride mostly in June, with the rest of the world, and then rallying for a big party and parade a few weeks later—more appreciate drag brunch the next afternoon than a single marathon menu. In any case, we advise checking out at least two to four events from the menu below, though ordering the entire thing for the table is best.

Friends of Dorothy: A Queer Cabaret

7:30PM WED, JUNE 18 | THE RESER, $25

The Reser’s Pride programming centers around Legends of Drag, an archival exhibition of the local drag scene, focussed especially on the wigs, gowns, and everything that g

Organized by Pride Northwest, the Portland Pride Festival and Parade are the largest visibility avenues for our region’s LGBTQ+ community. For many of our members, showing up as their authentic selves and hearing the cheers of the crowd is a transformative experience.

Tabling with PFLAG at the Waterfront Festival

This year, we will serve in the PFLAG Parent Café, next to a youth tent occupied by SMYRC (Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Resource Center) with GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network). We’re teaming up so that youth can participate in craft-making and other activities, hosted by SMYRC and GLSEN, while their parents/guardians talk to fellow adults (us!) at the same time.

In addition to helping spread PFLAG’s mission—creating a compassionate, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them—volunteers and board members will hand out stickers, mini-flags, and PFLAG literature. Thanks to everyone who has signed up for a two-hour shift.

Saturday, July19^th, noon-8 pm, and Sunday, July 20^th, 11:30 am to 6 pm at Tom McCall Waterfront Park

$10

Portland Pride

Every summer, Portland comes to life the week of Pride, a time of solidarity and celebration for the city’s vibrant LGBTQIA+ community.

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Portland Pride is a joyful two-day celebration complete with a festival, a parade, a makers’ market, great food and drink, and much more.

Known far and adj as a gay-friendly destination, Portland is open and accepting to visitors of all stripes. The Rose City gets friendlier than ever with the annual Portland Pride Festival and Parade, which accompanies LGBTQIA+ community celebrations all over town.

Portland Pride normally includes a weekend festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and an epic, joyous parade winding through downtown Portland. With live music, food, drinks, nonprofit information booths and other vendors lining the Willamette River, the festival is a excellent place to gather, mingle, celebrate gay pride and get more information about local LGBTQIA+ groups.

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Annual pride parade fills Portland streets with color, solidarity and community spirit

Every color of the rainbow was visible on the streets of Portland Saturday for the annual Pride parade.

Wearing colorful costumes, carrying flags and signs, marchers started in Monument Square and walked to Deering Oaks Park for a festival featuring food, music and vendors. Sections of Congress Street, High Street, and Park Avenue were closed to traffic.

Those who attended emphasized Pride's importance as the Trump administration calls for rollbacks on protections for trans and nonbinary people.

Lillian Crowley, a trans chick who marched in the parade with her live-action role-playing group, said that she was pleased to see the turnout this year.

“I'm extremely proud of this community, to still be resilient and holding on to what we all collectively hold dear,” said Crowley. “I think it's especially important now more than ever when our all of our collective rights are at stake.”

Several parade goers held signs protesting Trump