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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

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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

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We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!

As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than…

Kristen Arnett —

Jan 7, 2025

A Getaway House cabin, which looks like a small room with a bed, kitchen, and wood panel walls. It also has lots of windows.

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Consider Cabin Rental Company Getaway for a Lowkey, Short-Term Queer Vacation

Getaway is a great option if you’re considering a little queer, well, getaway — especially for couples!

Katie —

Oct 10, 2022

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Six Black Queer Travelers Share How They Attempt to Locate Community Around the Globe

As a Black queer traveler, there are a whole host of reasons why finding other Black queer communities can be difficult. Black Queer Travel Guide spoke to six Black queer…

Paula Akpan —

Feb 18, 2021

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This Just In: Going On Vacation Is Relaxing and Fun!

Have you ever asked your best friend to take photos of you naked in a bubble bath drinking wine and eating donuts as a fun vacation activity? Just wondering.

Vanessa —

Jan 17, 2020

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PHOTOESSAY: Meet Me in The Keys

Recently I got to adventure with five other queers on on behalf of the Florida Keys & Key West! If you’ve never been to The Keys, the little islands off…

Robin —

Aug 28, 2019

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The Travel Issue: Letter From The Editor

These are stories of risk and growth, building connections and realizing when they’re ending — all the places we think are worth moving toward and the things worth returning to.

Riese —

Aug 1, 2019

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Call For Submissions: The Travel Issue

Our summer issue is a broad look at traveling around and about this whole weird place, for all the right or wrong or baffling reasons. Submissions are open until July…

The Editors —

Jul 1, 2019

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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

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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 —

Feb 5, 2018

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Not Your Heteronormative Weekend Getaway: The Survival Guide

Qwear’s Sonny and Champagne just got back from Ptown’s “Ladies” Weekend and have a pocketful of tips – fashion and otherwise – for your next queer weekend away.

Qwear —

Jun 27, 2013

girl on world

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Girl-on-World: Aloha Spirit Fingers In The Hawaiian Sky

My girlfriend took me on her work trip to Oahu, where I ate and beached and learned and museumed and only suffered one major physical injury!

Riese —

May 31, 2013

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10 Things I’ve Learned About Flying and 5 Things I Never Will

“It’s like being an anonymous bear in an anonymous bearcave 30,000 feet in the air.”

taylor —

Feb 28, 2012

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