Queer-Owned Directory
Queer-owned bars, kitchens, shops and services around Portland, chosen by our team. Spending your money here keeps queer Portland open, visible and thriving.
Bars & Nightlife
Where Portland Goes Out
The dance floors, drag stages, and dive bars keeping queer nightlife alive across the city.
Badlands Portland
110 NW Broadway, Old Town/Chinatown
A gay video and dance bar with 40+ screens, DJs, drag shows, karaoke, and trivia nights — LGBTQ+-owned by TJ Bruce and helping pull Portland's queer nightlife back downtown.
CAMP PDX
1125 SW Harvey Milk St, Downtown
Portland's newest gay bar, billed as the "Gay Cheers" — themed hot dogs, cocktails, karaoke, and drag bingo in the historic building that once housed Scandals.
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St, Piedmont
Portland's home base for the Oregon Bears — a no-frills leather-and-Levi's bar with a pool table and covered smoking patio, unapologetically gay-owned.
The Peacock
1400 SE Morrison St, Buckman
An LGBTQ+ cocktail bar and restaurant pouring Oregon-spirit drinks alongside a comfort-food menu — their words: "also, we're super gay."
Scandals East
827 NE Alberta St, Alberta Arts
The next chapter of a 46-year Portland institution, relaunched on Alberta Street by longtime owners David and Lyle — karaoke, drag, and live music in a converted historic convent.
Silverado
610 NW Couch St, Old Town/Chinatown
A two-level Old Town fixture and one of the longest-running gay bars in the Pacific Northwest — a dive bar upstairs, a stage downstairs, open late every night.
Stag PDX
317 NW Broadway, Pearl District
A gay nightclub with a hunting-lodge-meets-gentleman's-club feel — nightly shows, drag brunch, and amateur nights, seven nights a week.
Darcelle XV Showplace
208 NW 3rd Ave, Old Town/Chinatown
Portland's legendary drag showplace since 1967, and the first LGBTQ+ site on the National Register of Historic Places. Now owned by Jeremey Corvus-Peck — a drag performer himself — who stepped in to keep the lights on and the show going.
Food, Coffee & Drink
Eat & Drink Queer
Tacos, comfort food, coffee, wine, and beer from Portland's queer-owned kitchens and bars.
Taquería Los Puñales
3312 SE Belmont St, Belmont
An "unapologetically gay" taqueria serving roughly 25 varieties of braised meats and vegetables on fresh tortillas, opened by David Madrigal and Brian Aster in 2020.
Friendship Kitchen
2333 NE Glisan St, Kerns
Vietnamese and Singaporean comfort food from wife-and-wife team Trang Nguyen-Tan and Wei-En Tan, former flight attendants who started cooking together on layovers.
Mis Tacones
1670 NE Killingsworth St, Concordia
A queer-owned taco spot from Carlos Reynoso and Polo Abram Bañuelos — the name is a nod to drag heels, and they offer free food to trans people of color on request.
Tin Shed Garden Cafe
1438 NE Alberta St, Alberta Arts
A longtime Alberta Street brunch spot with a dog-friendly garden patio, run by Christie Griffin and Janette Kaden since 2002 — a warm, LGBTQ+-friendly neighborhood favorite.
Either/Or
4003 N Williams Ave, Boise
An all-day coffee shop that turns into a cocktail bar and dinner spot Thursday through Saturday nights, built by founder Ro Tam to be a place where "all marginalized populations feel at home."
Hip Chicks Do Wine
4510 SE 23rd Ave, Brooklyn
Portland's oldest urban winery, run by wives Laurie Lewis and Renee Neely since 1999 — unpretentious tastings and an annual Pride wine release that benefits LGBTQ+ organizations.
TPK Brewing
5051 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Richmond
The country's first tabletop-RPG brewpub, majority queer- and women-owned, pairing house-brewed beer with live-run campaigns and Filipino/Hawaiian eats from Hapa Barkada.
Shops & Services
Shop Queer
Books, style, and self-care from queer-owned Portland shops.
Always Here Bookstore
4555 N Williams Ave, Boise
A queer- and trans-owned bookstore for all ages, run by married couple John and Rafael Hart as much a community gathering space as a shop.
Bishop & Wilde
2601 NW Thurman St, Slabtown
A proudly queer-owned independent bookstore tucked inside the Tin House building in NW Portland's Slabtown neighborhood.
Midslumber Media
1609 NE Alberta St, Alberta Arts
A queer-woman-owned horror bookstore and video store on Alberta Street, run by Michaela "Mick" Granger for Portland's horror-loving community.
Greenhouse Hair Collective
2574 NW Thurman St, Suite 101, Slabtown
Formerly Gold + Grit Barber Co., now an LGBTQIA+-owned salon-meets-barbershop from owner Nathan Colby — fades, mullets, gender-affirming cuts, and traditional barbering, with a welcome for every chair.
WILDFANG — West End
404 SW 10th Ave, West End
A queer- and women-founded clothing brand's Portland storefront in the West End, offering gender-expansive fashion and in-store styling appointments.
Great Neighbors
Right Around the Corner
Not queer-owned businesses — just great neighbors in Old Town/Chinatown who've always been good to us.
Old Town Brewing
226 NW Davis St, Old Town/Chinatown
A few blocks from our front door — house beers and pub food in the heart of Old Town.
The Society Hotel
203 NW 3rd Ave, Old Town/Chinatown
A boutique hotel in a restored historic Old Town building, with a rooftop bar and deck right around the corner.
Know a queer-owned Portland business we should add to this list? Suggest it — we're always looking to grow the community.