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If You Lived Queer, You’d Be Home by Now: Supporting Local LGBTQ+ Portland

Where to go if you’re queer in Portland, including recs from the owners and workers of LGBTQ+ local businesses!

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

Sep 26, 2025

first person

Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada

I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.

Vanessa

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Feb 5, 2018

comedy

Every Hotel Breakfast I Ate On My Cross-Country Road Trip, Ranked

This isn’t the Saturday Morning Cartoon you were expecting, but it’ll probably be better than drinking a $5 cup of coffee with powdered creamer, you know?

Riese

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Dec 2, 2017

travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Iowa City, Iowa

Hey, we may be small – but that doesn’t mean we’re small-minded!

Queer Girl City Guides

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Oct 17, 2017

travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Asheville, North Carolina

It’s a little city full of odds and ends (and some queers) planted in the mountains.

Queer Girl City Guides

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Oct 10, 2017

travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Baltimore, Maryland

Although Baltimore is not known as a tourist destination or a LGBTQ vacation spot, the city has an abundance of culture and beauty to offer its visitors and residents.

Queer Girl City Guides

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Oct 3, 2017

food and drink

Liquor On Vacation: Where the Whiskey Comes From

On this small island, there are eight Scotch whisky distilleries. I visited three of them, all within a couple miles of each other: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig. Here’s what I learned.

A.E. Osworth

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Sep 14, 2017

travel

We’re Looking for More Queer Girl City Guides and to Update Our Current Ones!

If you live in or are moving to or visiting any of the cities that we have Queer Girl City Guides to, you’ve probably noticed that they’re pretty gosh dang…

Queer Girl City Guides

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May 9, 2017

travel

7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare

“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”

Carrie

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May 1, 2017

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If You Lived Queer, You’d Be Home by Now: Supporting Local LGBTQ+ Portland

Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada

Every Hotel Breakfast I Ate On My Cross-Country Road Trip, Ranked

Queer Girl City Guide: Iowa City, Iowa

Queer Girl City Guide: Asheville, North Carolina

Queer Girl City Guide: Baltimore, Maryland

Liquor On Vacation: Where the Whiskey Comes From

We’re Looking for More Queer Girl City Guides and to Update Our Current Ones!

7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare

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