Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival begins Friday Oct 2 and movies run through Oct 8th.

All movies shown at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st St.

Movies after 6 pm are 21 years of age & older due to alcohol being served.

Another networking site? Another way to find other homos? Whatever your take on all your networking opportunities, many people are finding eachother online. That said, Out Loud Radio has finally entered the world of Facebook. Find Out Loud Radio as a group.

We recruit.

Find us in the Entertainment & Arts type, and Radio as the focus. A few other KBOO radio show also have Facebook pages, if you are so inclined to check 'em out....

What about myspace? Check out Out Loud Radio there too.

Trans & Womyn's Action Camp 2009 Needs Workshops!

author: TWAC e-mail: twac@riseup.net

We are happy to announce that there will also be a Trans' and Womyn's Action Camp gathering of eco-activists, who are also working to bring down patriarchy. This will be a 6 day training and workshop event in the Cascadia bio-region from June 20th-26th, 2009. We need workshop presenters!

As you may know, organizing for the Earth First! Round River Rendezvous 2009 in Cascadia has already begun.

Dirty Burly Bitch Show
Because independent media is sexy!

What do you get when combine professional burlesque with a dirty open mic?  A great show and a benefit to help keepBitch Magazine going strong!

Join the lovely and talented Sahara Dunes, of Burly Girl Productions, and Sossity Chiricuzio, of Dirty Queer, as together we bring you the Dirty Burly Bitch Show!     THIS Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Out Loud is preparing a literary feast for your ears and sharing important details on some upcoming events.  (more below)

The message below from In Other Words, the LAST non-profit, feminist bookstore in the country. Please repost widely, even to contacts outside of Portland. This community resource has touched many lives in her long herstory. Let us support those who have supported us for so long. Thank you, Carla

Dear friends,

In Other Words, like so many of our fellow bookstores, has fallen upon incredibly hard financial times.  With the decline in our current economy, we have experienced severely decreased revenue.  If we are unable to raise $11,000 by the end of December, In Other Words will have to close its doors.

Asian American LGB Identity Research
We are excited to be launching a new research project entitled: Negotiating the complexities of being self-identified as both Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB).

This project has two parts:
(1) a web-based survey that will be distributed widely through listservs and Facebook sites like this one, and

(2) about 10-12 open-ended telephone interviews about students' experiences.

The purpose of this study is to gather some preliminary, baseline data about the breadth of the community identified as Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual LGB), as well as some of your/their experiences in higher education. 

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in rallies around the country! And a huge thank you to all of our straight-allies who are now stepping forward in solidarity with us! What can YOU DO today to make a difference? Talk to your neighbors, talk to your family, talk to your child's teachers, and your coworkers about why this issue means something to you. When things become personal, opinions change......

Protesters turned out is scores of cities across America to protest the unprecedented stripping of rights from gays and lesbians with the passage of California’s Proposition 8, as well as the passage of anti-marriage amendments in Arizona and Florida.

Message from the Democratic Party of Oregon, LGBTQ caucus:

November 4^th election night has come and passed.  As Democrats, as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Oregonians and Americans we have much to celebrate.