Pride Northwest has announced that as it readies to celebrate its “sweet 16 anniversary” June 19-20 — and the 40th anniversary of the first Pride parade — the Portland parade route for this year’s main event is changing. After lining up in the Pearl District, the parade will kick off at Burnsid

All together, everyone: BOOOO, Republican Representative Stephen Precourt of Orlando!!!! The Florida politician wants to push for new legislation that would provide tax credits for the film industry, but would also deny those same breaks for films that include any “exhibit or implied act” of nontraditional famil

In the current issue of Just Out, home décor celebs Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams discuss how comfort is more critical now than ever before. The designers, busy promoting their latest how-to book, The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well For Less, were recently in Portland to mark the re-opening of [

Editor’s Note: Blog contributor Miles Bennette-Eaton served as Just Out’s ear/eyewitness at last night’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show at the Wonder Ballroom. His account follows: Hipsters, scenesters, and rockers alike gathered last night, all with the same thing on their minds: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. That&#

Per the recent Northwest News brief in the latest edition of Just Out (out now at a coffee shop, downtown corner, bar, restaurant or virtually any other business near you), for the first time in history, the 2010 U.S. Census will allow same-sex couples to self-identify as either married or unmarried partners. The data colle

In news that comes as a surprise to pretty much no one, Sean Hayes — aka “Just Jack” McFarland from TV’s Will & Grace — has come out. A handful of years after the series ended, the actor is this month’s cover boy for The Advocate. “I am who I am,” he tells the magazine. &#

Wanna get away from the bustle of Downtown and still shake your various things to some rad hip-hop, electro and Top 40 beats? Then hustle your buns down to Southeast’s cavernous gay club Crush for the monthly Trans Revolution Dance Party this Friday, March 12th. With a promise of “FREE guilt, shame and regret th

State Senator Roy Ashburn came out to radio host Inga Banks on her show on the KERN station in Bakersfield this morning. “I am gay. And so, those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long,” said Ashburn. Ashburn was charged with a DUI last week after apparently leaving popular Sacramento gay [

Turn the dial to 90.7 FM tomorrow for what KBOO’s Out Loud is touting as a “Queer Cornucopia.” Out Loud will pack in a dynamite hour of programming from 6 – 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 9th, with discussions ranging from porn, to comedy, to queer sex positivity. Details from KBOO: Host Carla Remey will talk

In the current issue of Just Out, home décor celebs Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams (pictured left to right) discuss how comfort is more critical now than ever before. The designers, busy promoting their latest how-to book, The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well For Less, were recently in Portland to

Though closing arguments have yet to be scheduled for the trial concerning the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, at least one thing is experiencing closure: a broadcast, in any way, of any of the proceedings! When the trial began in early January, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker initially made a request to broadca

But wait! There’s more! What’s, em, better than hell on wheels? “Sin on Heels.” Part drag, part burlesque, part cabaret, the Le Cabaret Noir production is making its way down the West Coast, stopping in Portland tomorrow night with its “tawdry blend of burlesque and gender-bending entertainment

If you haven’t seen Matt Damon do his spot-on, ridiculously fun(ny) impression of Matthew McConaugHEEYYY, he revisited it last night upon David Letterman’s request. Stick around to the end.

In the new issue of Just Out, writer Raymond Rendleman profiles the efforts of Bradley Angle House – and specifically, staffer Lupita Mendez – to reach out to LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence. If you’re not sure if you might be experiencing intimate partner violence, take a look at the following checklist – prov

Here’s a last-minute option if you’re wondering what to do this evening. Burlesque S’il Vous Plaît debuts tonight at Crush Bar (1400 SE Morrison St.). The all new monthly burlesque show — and lord knows, Portland loves its burlesque — is produced and hosted by the formidable Zora Phoenix and i

Open up today’s issue of Just Out to find a profile on local trans comic Whitney Streed, and a glimpse at the larger, thriving Portland open mic and comedy scene. But if the written word ceases to grab you by the lapels (the horror!), then you can always check out what we mean by going [...]

Equality Forum – a national and international gay, lesbian, bi and trans civil rights organization, has announced the launch of a Project 1138 Web site, along with Facebook and Twitter pages. Details: What Is Project 1138? Project 1138 increases awareness of the 1,138 federal marital benefits and protections denied

We know, folks… The hot-off-the-presses new issue of Just Out hasn’t made it online yet. We’re working on it, scout’s honor. Expect oodles of good stuff, and keep checking back here in the days to come for supplementary content that didn’t make the pages of our “Home, Hearth, and Hooch

As your weekend winds down (hell, before it even begins), here’s an overflowing bill worth making plans to check out. Beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday, March 7 at Mississippi Studios, “sassy PDX folkstress” Timmy Straw (right) celebrates the release of her CD debut. The show also features sets by local favorites

Wayne Bund, who in today’s new issue of Just Out profiled Portland artist Storm Tharp and his part in New York’s Whitney Biennial, is himself an accomplished visual artist. An exhibition of Bund’s new work, The Great Pan is Dead, opens tonight, March 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Lodge Gallery/Allied Work Arc

Microsoft has updated the Xbox Live Code of Conduct to allow gay, lesbian and transgender expressions on 360 profiles. 360 players can now express their sexual orientation in profiles or Gamertags as “Gay,” “Lesbian,” “Bi,” Transgender,” or “Straight.” From ComputerandVi

Seems those pesky “unidentified” sources claiming anti-gay Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn was at a gay club before his DUI arrest are becoming more and more identifiable. Openly gay West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon says Ashburn is a regular at gay nightspots throughout the city. “To live a secr

You can’t make this stuff up: a corruption investigation in the Vatican has uncovered a gay prostitution ring in which members of an elite Vatican men’s choir were pimped out to a Papal aide. Angelo Balducci (right) holds the dapper title of Papal Gentleman, or lay aide to the Pope, and is the former chairman of

And the latest reason we love the one and only NPH? He’s going to smurf in the smurfiest smurf of all smurfs! Er, Neil Patrick Harris has signed on for the big-screen version of the beloved blue creatures’ animated series. Smurfs: The Movie will be a live-action/CGI-animated hybrid. NPH will take part in the liv

Gay and lesbian couples descended upon government buildings in Mexico City today to register for marriage licenses as Latin America’s first gay marriage law took effect. The first weddings will take place within a week to 10 days after the paperwork is processed. Said the Associated Press: “This is great, it is

Factory Games’ Valet Hustle iPhone app game is purportedly a cross between Tetris and Diner Dash “multiplied by one thousand in terms of awesomeness,” according to the game’s Web site. From 365gay.com, the game “features two gay characters who run their own valet business. And their sexual orie

Democratic Senator John Kerry headed up a group of 17 Democrats and one independent in writing US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to urge the agency to lift the 1983 US rule that bans gay men from donating blood. The letter said that the ban was “outdated, medically and scientifically unsoun

Thursday is normally no laughing matter. It’s one day after you’ve supposedly hit the hump, and upon your confrontation of it, emerges as the dangling carrot toward the gateways of a weekend bursting with hundreds of other unknown veggies. But this Thursday, meaning today, but more specifically tonight, is an ex

Umm, okay. At about 2:00 a.m. on March 3rd, a vehicle was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving erratically. This in and of itself is not very uncommon (unfortunately). What is more than slightly interesting is that the driver of the vehicle was none other than California state senator and noted anti-gay

Remember last week’s post about an upcoming kiss between Kathy Griffin’s lesbian activist guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Mariska Hargitay’s lady cop Olivia Benson? It turns out the smooch hit the cutting room floor for last night’s broadcast. Homophobic much, NBC? Griffin did