Keep Portland Queer!
1st edition won 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Best Anthology
At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life in one of the world’s greatest queer meccas. A waiter falls in love with a straight guy from the café next door. A young dyke discovers gay karaoke at the Silverado. A pregnant man prepares for new life transitions. An ambitious teenager finds her tribe at St. Mary’s Academy. A closet-case is confronted by his wife. A video-game addict takes a chance on love.
SUBJECT: Memoir / Pacific Northwest / Queer/Trans / Literary / Microcosm Published / Poetry
PUBLICATION: May 6, 2025
PRICE: $16.99
ISBN: 9781648414435
FORMAT: paperback, 7x5", 288 pages
WHOLESALE: $10.19
CARTON QTY: 48
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Marketing Notes
- According to The Williams Institute at UCLA, as of 2023, Oregon has more (out) LGBTQ+ residents per capita than any other state at 7.8%
- The 2019 census finds Portland, OR has the 2nd highest percentage of same-sex couples in the US
- Out in time for June’s Pride displays
Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the author of 10 books, including F*ck Happiness, and the creator of the zine Hip Mama, a winner of the American Alternative Press award. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. She lives and works in Portland, OR, and Santa Fe, NM.
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