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Opinion | My first gay roommate helped me address my homophobia

A CROOKED PATH FORWARD | We must take action to save LGBTQ+ lives I was 38 years old the first time I lived with a gay man. We were roommates in treatment. A counselor had taken me aside and asked if I was OK sharing a room with him. He was originally as ...

5 Jul 2020 - Dustin Dandliker
Where Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ pride intersect

Portland activists push for greater inclusion of Black trans and queer voices in the movement In June 1969, police clashed with Black transgender women and other LGBTQ+ groups during the Stonewall uprising, galvanizing generations of activists and inspiri ...

2 Jul 2020 - Hanna Merzbach
PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ camp opens in Portland in response to COVID-19

A homeless camp for people of color and another for the general population are also set to open over the weekend With Oregon residents ordered to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, houseless communities are at increased risk of infection because o ...

18 Apr 2020 - Celeste Noche
Trans and nonbinary storytellers to come forward and share

A Portland show, Igniting Voices, will explore an evolution of the experiences of presenters ages 16 to 76 Marilyn Lowles was 51 when she realized her gender identity. As someone assigned male at birth, she was living as a man at the time. Her wife sugges ...

14 Feb 2020 - Sarah Hansell
How housing laws fail transgender Americans

COMMENTARY | Trans people experiencing homelessness find few protections from HUD Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, made news last year for his statements about transgender people. In a September 2019 meeting w ...

10 Jan 2020 - Jonah DeChants
Cathy Abbruzzese says young LGBTQ+ activists are doing things right

The former Basic Rights Oregon fundraiser explains people power, the art of persuasion and ‘the right respect’ For 20 years, Cathy Abbruzzese diligently dialed the phone for Basic Rights Oregon, raising money the hard way: $20 and $50 at a time. Her effor ...

3 Jan 2020 - Emily Green
Grand Ronde Tribal member channels alter ego into a new play

Anthony Hudson’s full-length production, ‘Looking for Tiger Lily,’ follows the quest to find validation as a Native artist and be at peace with a complex identity July 21, 2020, update: The world premiere of “Looking for Tiger Lily" has been postpone ...

8 Nov 2019 - Danielle Frost
J Mase III lives life out loud

The trans queer poet and educator runs awQward Talent, which teaches the freedom to just ‘be’ On the lower level of Seattle’s Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, J Mase III stands in front of a small group of people eager to learn about artist sustain ...

23 Aug 2019 - Lisa Edge
Erased: How a transgender parent is being kept from his son

For years, his former in-laws have prevented him from being part of the boy’s life, in defiance of repeated court orders When Micah was first placed in his grandparents’ care at 6 months old, all involved agreed it was in the child’s best interest. His t ...

16 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
Prism Health answers demand for LGBTQ+ mental health care

Since it opened in 2017, the primary care clinic serving Portland’s LGBTQ+ community has seen more than 1,000 patients and has added two mental health providers Prism Health, Portland’s first allopathic health clinic focused on primary care for the LGBTQ+ ...

21 Jun 2019 - Ellena Rosenthal