Willamette Week

What Do You Think Local News Should Be Covering More Of?

Our favorite looks on Portland’s streets this week.

Making History, the Portland Police Bureau Promotes Transgender Lieutenant Stephanie Lourenco to Rank of Captain

“Since it is Pride Week,” Chief Outlaw says, “we wanted to highlight her accomplishments, but do not want to diminish the fact that this promotion is based solely on her skills and abilities.”

Goodbye Southwest Stark Street, It’s Harvey Milk Street Now

City Council today voted to rename a section of Stark in honor of the San Franciscan gay rights icon.

When I Had No Place Else To Go, I Lived in One of Portland’s Last Bathhouses

“It became a place where the pressure and pain of the outside world seemed to melt off my back whenever I stepped inside. “

Daniel Girón Is Teaching Portland How To Vogue—and Carving Out a Space For Queer People of Color in America’s Whitest City

Daniel Girón is Portland’s only active vogue dance instructor.

Portland Still Has Work To Do in Meeting LGBTQ Mental Health Care Needs

Portland is known for being queer-inclusive. But it still has work to do.

Eleven Years and Multiple Venue Changes Later, Blow Pony Remains Portland’s Wildest LGBTQ Dance Party

In its punky spirit, and Blow Pony quickly became one of Portland’s most welcomingly freaky gatherings.

Portland Is a Haven For LGBTQ Families. Local Couples, a Fertility Doctor and a Surrogacy Lawyer Explain Why.

“We don’t feel ‘non-traditional’ here.”

Portland-Area Private Schools Are Warring Over a Policy to Reject Children of Same-Sex Couples

The policy raises questions about how far private, religiously affiliated institutions can go in making faith-based policies that discriminate.

Oregon High School Principal and Resource Officer Fired For Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination, Including Telling Gay Students They Were Going to Hell

North Bend High School is on watch after accounts of repeated discrimination against LGBTQ students were made public earlier this month.

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