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Oregon Bears representation at the Portland pride parade, 2015 Exterior of the Q Center, 2014 Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence outside Starky's in 2009 LGBT rights organization Basic Rights Oregon is based in Portland.
Portland, Oregon has a large LGBTQ community for its size. Notable LGBTQ people from the city include: Sam Adams – first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city [1] Matt Alber – singer-songwriter [2] Terry Bean – gay rights activist and political fundraiser [3] James Beard – chef and cookbook author [4] Byron Beck; Brett Bigham ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. state of Oregon have the same legal rights as non-LGBTQ people. [1] Oregon became one of the first U.S. jurisdictions to decriminalize sodomy in 1972, and same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since May 2014 when a federal judge declared the state's ban on such marriages unconstitutional.
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Pride Northwest was established in 1994, but Portland's first official pride event took place in 1975 when a group of approximately 200 people organized a Gay Pride Fair near the South Park Blocks by Portland State University.
LGBTQ culture in Portland, Oregon (3 C, 28 P) Pages in category "LGBTQ culture in Oregon" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Depicted Oregonians include Rupert Kinnard, an openly gay African-American cartoonist who created the first African-American LGBT comic strip characters; David Martinez, a founding board member of the Q Center and a co-founder of Portland Latino Gay Pride (now called PDX Latinx Pride); and activist and musician Kathleen Saadat.
Basic Rights Oregon is an American nonprofit LGBT rights organization based in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest advocacy, education, and political organization working in Oregon to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity . [ 1 ]