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Q BOXXES/FISH GROTTO/RED CAP
GARAGE
1035 SW Stark St. « 503-2264171
Boxxes/Red Cap Garage is the only two-in-
one gay club in the city.
EAGLE POX
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27 NW Sixth Ave. • 503-241-0105
Portland's onginal masculine men's bar.
THE EAGLE PORTLAND
835 N Lombard St. * 503-283-9734
Portland's masculine men's bar and leather
bar. Home bar of the Oregon Bears.
Q C.C. SLAUGHTERS
219 NW Davis St. * 503-248-9135
C.C. Slaughters is a great hangout. Come
feel like "Norm" or shake your booty all
night long to the best sound, lights and la
ser shows in Portland.
EGYPTIAN CLUB
O 3701
SE Division St. •
503-236-8689
The 7,000-square-foot Egyptian Club, lo
cated in a former milk plant, features three
different rooms.
QCRUSH
1400 SE Morrison St. •
503-2354150
Crush features specialty martinis and
cocktails and serves a full food menu.
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110 NW Broadway • 503-222-3082
Q DARCELLE XV SHOWPLACE
w 208 NW Third Ave. • 503-222-5338
World-famous female impersonators Dar-
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w 333 SW Park Ave. • 503-227-0830
Portland's only all-ages gay nightclub.
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audiences from all walks of life for more
than 37 years with Las Vegas-style cabaret
revues of glitz, glamour and comedy.
Q CASEY S
610 NW Couch St. • 503-224-9062
"All-inclusive* nightclub and lounge in Old
Town.
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439 NW Third
Ave. •
503-224-8446
Featuring pool, pin
ball, MegaTouch
and darts.
(R HOBO'S
w 120 NW Third Ave. • 503-224-3285
Hobo's has been an integral part of
Portland's dining and lounge experience
for more than 25 years. Located in the
heart of Old Town, it provides a friendly
atmosphere of casual elegance and
serves outstanding cuisine from both
its complete dinner menu and its lounge
menu.
(E) JOQ S
2512 NE Broadway • 503-287-4210
i Enjoy a good time and make a new friend
at this entertaining neighborhood bar!
NORTHBANK
106 W Sixth St., Vancouver •
360-695-3862
Southwest Washington's first and only gay
bar. Now smoke-free!
SCANDALS
W 1125 SW Stark St • 503-227-5887
Scandals, one of Portland's most estab
lished gay men's bars, has been a fixture
on the ever-changing Stark Street for go
ing on 30 years. It provides a cruisy
streetside setting with a seasonal side
walk cafe, great drinks and a "more than
friendly" bar staff.
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318 SW Third Ave. • 503-224-4493
SOUTHSIDE SPEAKEASY
3529 Fairview Industrial Drive SE,
Salem * 503-362-1139
Southside Speakeasy is the place in Sa
lem and the central Willamette Valley
for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans
gender community to meet and hang
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2913 SE Stark St. • 503-230-7980
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w 2885 NE Sandy Blvd. * 503-736-9999
Portland's hottest all-male experience.
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Upstairs, by the way, is the sprawling first floor
of Karl Wilgus’Casey’s complex. The addition of
bar-stomping strippers (if your cocktail tastes like
cock, don’t act surprised) and a postage-stamp
stage drag show added to the circuslike atmo
sphere. The only question 1 have is this: What
doesn’t go on at this bar?
Back at the Pleasure Boys scene downstairs,
my friend and 1 took a seat to watch silent Blond
ie music videos on a small screen and kicked back
vodka-sodas ($6 a pop). As another old-school
poppy dance tune hit the speakers, a group of girls
rushed in to bump uglies with their ambiguously
gay guy dates. That’s when 1 “got it”: Pleasure
Boys might not be everyone’s scene, but it’s a
crazy big-top event in a tiny space that is the very
contemporary definition of queer.
—Stephen Marc Beaudoin
This is not your daddy’s Eagle.
Skinny jeans, graphic T’s and Debbie Harry
on the screen. Punk dudes and horn-rimmed hip
ster girls in equal supply. And not a sling-riding
bottom boy in sight.
If you’re looking for a hardcore leather scene
more typically in line with the “Eagle” brand, you
better come back another night, because the new
Pleasure Boys party—the first Saturday of each
month—is all about danceable beats, egalitarian
crowds and pure pop pleasure. “We’re trying to in
tegrate a different crowd, as opposed to the typical
Eagle crowd,” says Danny Bidwell, who more usu
ally goes by the moniker DJ DannyDamage. He
calls the manic scene he’s creating “more edgy”
and “all over the spectrum as far as music goes.”
“Schizophrenic” is how a friend of mine de
scribed the whole scene
on a recent visit, and he’s
not far off. While early
20s Portland Mercury
reader types freak-danced
to Nirvana and Rihanna
remixes—courtesy of no
less than The Gossip’s
Nathan Howdeshell, aka
DJ Nightschool, a guest
spinner for the night—a
stream of disoriented
daddy bears sauntered
in, poked around (the
new Eagle leather shop is
closed on Pleasure Boys
nights, dang) and wan
DJ Danny Damage hopes to draw a different crowd to the Eagle for
his monthly party. Pleasure Boys.
dered back upstairs.
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