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Winners of Just Out’s annual Pride photo contest

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"Bliss" by Atom Ion

Sorry for the delay folks. I know these winners were announced over 2 weeks ago but I’ve been simultaneously recovering from and engaging in Pride both here and in Cali. But this year’s winners of the Just Out Pride Amateur Photo Contest were pretty amazing.

As far as I can tell there isn’t one Grand Prize winner this year but I’d like to highlight a couple of my favorite category winners. This year’s “Getting Graphic” winner was “Bliss” by Atom Ion, pictured to the right. This is what he had to say about it:

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Photos from the 2011 Portland Pride Parade

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So many great shots from Anna M Campbell Photography. There’s a goodly smattering below but you might just want to open the full Flickr slideshow to see all 364 amazing pictures of the Portland Pride Parade.

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Photos from the Portland Dyke March

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Pride weekend may be winding down but that just means it’s time for more pictures! You might have to wait a bit for the actual Pride Parade photos but it’ll be worth it ebcause they’re being handled by a real professional photographer instead of me. Yay! But here’s shots from last night’s Dyke March, which was actually pretty well attended, despite the rain and the eternal question…what time is […]

Photos from Gaycation

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Gaycation rocked Holocene last night as part of Portland Pride 2011 and we’ve got the pics to prove it. There’s also a couple snaps of Eric Sellers’ Party of Pride, but, you know, it was late by then I was just getting drunker. The camera work suffered…

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Photos from Crave’s Pride kickoff party at Crush

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The ladies were out in full force for Crave’s Pride kickoff party at Crush.

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Photos from the T* Party picnic

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A gathering of transfolk and allies filled Overlook Park yesterday with joyous grillin’ and chillin’.

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Photos from the Gayest Day of the Year bike ride

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Last Sunday SMYRC and others kicked off Portland Pride Week with a big gay bicycle ride featuring female bike dancing troupe the Sprockettes. Thanks to qPDX user Rhienna for contributing the photos.

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Pictures, video and news of worldwide Prides so far

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Drag nurses at LA Pride

Images, video and stories from Pride celebrations already happening worldwide just to get you psyched! (And one unfortunate story about riots and anti-gay protestors to remind us the fight isn’t over).

The West

Our friendly neighbors to the north and sisters in spirit Olympia, Washington’s Capital Pride – In the Name of Love
Photos and video from Los Angeles Pride in West Hollywood, plus Mya photos wearing naught but leather in celebration and Johnny Weir talks about being Grand Marshall
Salt Lake City, Utah – Thousands thronged the streets of downtown SLC to watch the largest-ever Utah Pride Parade

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Photos from Saturday’s Blow Pony vs. Double Duchess

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May proved another great Blow Pony and photo snapper extraordinaire Melody Awesomazing once again caught a lot of awesomeness with her camera. Here’s just a taste of the outfits, the joy and the wonderful nastiness of the Blo Po crew.

You can view the complete set on the photos page.

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Photos of swimsuit models from last night’s AIDSwalk fundraiser

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Host Poison Waters poses with a swimsuit model

Poison Waters hosted and DJ Chris Cox spun tunes as hot models strutted their stuff down Barracuda’s catwalk as a fundraiser for the Portland AIDSwalk. And lucky for us who want to ogle the men and women in beachwear (as well as fighting AIDS, of course) Garbero Photography was there to catch all the action and have been gracious enough to let us post the photos here.

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