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  Last year's Gender (Free) For All march. Photo by Heather Smith Gender (Free) For All recently changed its name to TransEnough, and it looks like the group may have many transitions on its plate, even in the midst of a summer full of Pride. This year’s gathering, which already splintered off from June’s Pride celebrations last year, has not been widely publicized and will not include a march at all.
This isn’t to say you shouldn’t go. At tomorrow’s rally in Unthank Park elected officials will assure us of their support and hopefully, give us examples of what they’ve accomplished and Amy Ruiz, LGBTQ Liaison from the Office of the Mayor, will read a proclamation establishing August 1-7 as Trans Week of Celebration. The lineup also includes speakers from Q Patrol, much loved Katie Carter and Amber Rollins from In Other Words, and comedy from Belinda Carroll.
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  Last year's Dyke March Confused by the various information circulating about the Portland Dyke March. Did you hit up their official Dyke March site only to notice that the information is from 2008?
So here’s the deal, yo.The Portland Dyke March will be happening again this year, after a change and leadership and the sort-of split from the Trans March that (mostly) became the Gender (Free) For All March last year. Last year, many of the organizers of the Trans March decided that a march was needed that celebrated gender freedom as opposed to strictly trans rights, and even though there are many trans dykes, the march felt “tacked on” to the Dyke March.
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I Love Your Stuff!
Tonight is a busy night! We suggest the following…
Start off at “I love your stuff S*express Y*ourself”. All proceeds go to support the Gender (Free) For All March.
DJ’s Freddie Fagula and No-No will be spinning and it’s a great pre-funk event.
Starts at 7pm @ The E Room. $5-$10 sliding scale.
Gaycation Turns 4!!
Then later, GAYCATION turns 4! 21+/$5 Holocene […]
Mayor Adams marches at the Gender(Free) For All August 1st
By all accounts I’ve heard so far, Portland’s first independent trans march was a wild success. Though qPDX was not able to make it a Q supporter and friend, Heat Smith, was able to snap a couple good shots (too little too late? Send us more!).
Smith was excited to be next to our intrepid mayor, Sam […]
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