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Jayla Rose Sullivan is an American dancer, burlesque and drag performer, transgender rights advocate, and television personality. She was a contestant on the 2022 American reality television dance competition show Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls .
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.
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 ...
A transgender teenager was booed at an Oregon sports stadium after winning a race during the state’s high school track and field championship over the weekend.
Trystan Reese (born 1982 [1]) is a Canadian writer based in Portland, Oregon, best known for publicizing his experience with pregnancy as a transgender man. [1] [2] [3] He was one of many transgender men in the world to give birth during the 2010s. [4]
Before they were an author, an elected official or an out transgender person, Bunker was a longtime program director at WMPG, a community radio station in Portland, Maine.
The first transgender public officeholder in the United States was Joanne Marie Conte, elected to Arvada, Colorado's City Council in 1991. As of January 2025, the highest-ranking public official is Sarah McBride , who represents Delaware's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives .
Rainbow flag displayed in the Burnside Triangle, near the intersection of West Burnside Street, Southwest 13th Avenue, and Southwest Stark Street. The Burnside Triangle, also known as Pink Triangle [1] or Vaseline Alley, [2] was a triangular district in Portland, Oregon, United States, known for its relatively higher density of LGBTQ and gay-friendly businesses.