Will downtown's loss be North Portland's X-rated gain?
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Portland's queerest district, the Burnside Triangle, just got one more fist hammered up its...oh, never mind. Just know the Eagle will close its doors by the end of February.For those of you who don't ...
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Real gifts for famous queers who had to get real this year.
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It's been quite a year for all those much-whispered-about celebrities and politicos who've been forced to address their homosexuality publicly. Now, I'd love nothing better than to jump on top of the ...
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A new downtown store hopes to get in your drawers.
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Is Portland, and the rest of the nation, ready for a Victoria's Secret for men?Steven Lien thinks so.I'm not surprised. Twenty years ago, I worked for the now 50-year-old Lien at his used sporting-goo ...
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It's not every day a TV show changes queer men's lives
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It's strange that an '80s television show about four post-menopausal broads would have so much sway over gay culture. But ask queers what their favorite show of all time is. The likely answer? The Gol ...
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When asked who'd thrown up on outgoing Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn at downtown's Benson Hotel, some old guy quipped: "a Republican."Republicans weren't the only ones with nervous stomachs.Even t ...
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"You're an ASSHOLE!" screamed Janice Dickinson. The self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel" unleashed her lungs on a beefy hunk who had dropped his towel and was standing there completely naked, pe ...
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"Oh my god," I gasped. "It's her."I was walking by Balvo—the chic Italian eatery on Northwest 23rd Avenue—on Wednesday, Oct. 18, the day it morphed into 23 Hoyt. For local foodie folks thi ...
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Tuesday, Oct. 10, was a rough day.At 8 am, my mom, Sparkie, had surgery. She'd been run over at a supermarket, by a forklift. Her already bum knee needed a lot more work if she ever planned to walk on ...
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Getting on a Shortbus with director John Cameron Mitchell.
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Sitting in a downtown hotel with the diminutive queer director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, talking about his new film, Shortbus, I kept thinking John Cameron Mitchell reminded me of someone else. At ...
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What the world needs now is more Scissor Sisters.Well, not the world, just the United States. This pop-rock band, formed in '01 in NYC, is already huge overseas, especially in Great Britain—we'r ...
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