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'Pregnant Man' Gives Birth
The birth of the Beatie baby gar
nered attention June 29 because a trans
man carried the healthy baby girl.
Bend resident Thomas Beatie
came out to his community and the
world in the April 8 issue of The
Advocate. According to the first-person
article, Beatie, who is legally married
It's going to take an awfully big scrub brush to scour Club
to Nancy, decided to carry their baby
Portland into a McMenamins-suitable hotel and restaurant.
because Nancy underwent a medically
necessary hysterectomy 20 years ago.
Beatie, 34, described his decision to carry the
According to McMenamins, Gerding Edlen
child as a “human desire.” He plans to publish a
Development has already begun renovation on
book about the experience in the fall.
the building, which will house the hotel, brewpub
As a trans man, Beatie took testosterone injec and restaurant.
tions and underwent a double mastectomy but did
“Having a full downtown property with all of
not have his female reproductive parts removed.
our offerings in one area has been something we’ve
To prepare for pregnancy, he stopped taking hor thought about for a long time now,” McMenamins
mones, his menstrual cycle returned, and he was
marketing director Renee Rank said in a state
artificially inseminated at home.
ment. “This project is the perfect complement to
Five months pregnant and several thousand
our adjacent Ringlers Annex Pub and the Crystal
dollars poorer, the Beaties told The Advocate
Ballroom and will be a great connection between
about discrimination and disapproval from doc
the Pearl District and the West End."
tors, family and friends. Health professionals have
According to a release by McMenamins, “The
refused to call Beatie by male pronouns or recog
building itself has an incredible history since its
nize Nancy as his wife. After a miscarriage be
inception in 1911. Throughout its near-century,
cause of entopic pregnancy in their first attempt,
the site changed hands and names many times,
Beatie’s brother reportedly said: “It’s a good thing
offering a hotel (Hotel Alma, Hotel Georgian,
that happened. Who knows what kind of monster
Hotel Tait, Majestic Hotel), men’s bathhouse
(Club Baths, Club Portland) and nightclub (Club
it would have been.”
The Oregonian ran an article about the couple
Mecca, The Desert Room, Stark Street Station,
March 27, but Beatie declined to be interviewed,
Flossie’s, Silverado), among other uses.”
saying he had an exclusive interview with another
The new hotel (as of yet unnamed) will have
media outlet.
50 rooms. This project is McMenamins’ first full
According to The Advocate article, Beatie’s
service establishment in downtown Portland. The
masculine identity was unshakable during the
company will commemorate, through original
pregnancy. He said: “To Nancy, 1 am her husband
artwork and historic photographs, the property’s
evolution from pioneer residence to a tire shop
carrying our child—1 am so lucky to have such
along the city’s original Auto Row to a live jazz
a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s
club to—most recently and significantly—part of
father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be
Portland’s gay triangle.
a family.”
The first floor of the hotel will house a restau
Beatie has reportedly said he will consider
rant with a menu that celebrates seasonal ingredi
having more children after he has experienced
ents available throughout the Pacific Northwest
fatherhood.
• and will feature outdoor seating. The basement
will offer a heated saltwater soaking pool, massage
McMenamins Buys
rooms and a Subterranean Cellar Bar connecting
Former Club Portland
with McMenamins Ringlers Annex pub.
Although the dance-happy queens from the
McMenamins purchased the property from
“old Silverado” and the doped-up dudes lounging
Gerding Edlen Development in June. "We
in their birthday suits at Club Portland have only
couldn’t have imagined a better use for this prop
been gone from the building less than a year,
erty,” said Patrick Wilde, project manager for
Portland powerhouse pub factory McMenamins
Gerding Edlen Development. “We purchased the
announced July 11 it has purchased the complex
building—with its unique triangle footprint and
at Southwest 12th Avenue and Stark Street.
location at the gateway to the West End—with
The longtime infamous corner of Portland’s
the idea that rhe right business could transform
fast-gentrifying “gay district” will stxtn be home
to a hotel and restaurant in the renovated build
ing as early as winter of 2009.
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