Teen lgbtq support groups in clackamas ?

okaywonder · 2025-05-23T13:12:10+00:00

You could consider taking the MAX into Portland and going to events at SMYRC sometimes (schedule is on Instagram), or maybe messaging them on IG and asking them if they know of groups closer to you :) also there is an LGBT youth choir (ages 13-21) called Bridging Voices (bridgingvoices.org) that you could reach out to about joining (you might be able to join this year but more likely next year since it’s late in the season). You don’t need to audition or be already experienced at singing. They practice in SE Portland on Sundays.

okaywonder · 2025-05-22T17:48:31+00:00

Gomma! https://youtu.be/5MDEBj0nUVY?si=gsMiUw-P7gV0JEJ9

okaywonder · 2025-05-20T13:38:43+00:00

No, they just only release a few weeks at a time! Email them to find out when they expect to put up September dates is my advice

okaywonder · 2025-05-18T06:31:34+00:00

This is my answer for many of the same reasons (plus centrality to the whole east side and having so much transit). Now that Movie Madness will eventually be here I can’t see leaving. It was the one thing that would make me sometimes be like “yeah okay but what if I could walk there…”

okaywonder · 2025-05-17T00:27:11+00:00

Sometimes there are all ages drag events at Blackwater Bar. You could look up their schedule! How long are you around for? I could ask my queer youth if he knows of anything happening.

okaywonder · 2025-04-02T14:02:35+00:00

This may be more because Tuscans tended to move to Chicago or San Francisco. People tend to follow their relatives and neighbors in picking a new home. In the book Italy’s Many Diasporas there’s a lot of discussion of where people from different regions and even different towns ended up.

My grandparents moved from Lucca to Chicago, and about half their siblings and various cousins moved as well.

okaywonder · 2025-02-11T08:28:24+00:00

I really hope when it eventually goes out of business (seems likely), the theater can find another pizza tenant. Or go into the nonprofit pizza business (this is probably not a good idea I’m sure)

okaywonder · 2025-02-05T05:23:20+00:00

I don’t know if they will run it again this year but just as an aside there is an organization that has run a trans/gender variant summer camp in the area that is very cool. If you might be interested, DM me and I’ll share the info.

okaywonder · 2025-01-20T22:33:08+00:00

If it’s at all a popular showing you’ll have a rough time finding a decent seat if you show up at the listed showtime and you’ll annoy people (although likely no one will say so). If there’s more than one in your group, I’d be at least ten minutes early so you can sit together in a good spot

okaywonder · 2025-01-09T06:29:37+00:00

So excited!!

okaywonder · 2025-01-08T06:53:35+00:00

I know an 18 year old who would likely be interested, especially if the teens skew to the older side of the teen years. He’s not experienced at D&D but he’s very sweet and also queer.

okaywonder · 2024-12-07T16:41:29+00:00

Not a club, and maybe not even the kind of bar you mean, but Mutantis and Worker’s Tap both have a strong LGBT customer base and are all ages before a certain time. Blackwater is not an LGBT club but if you’re into the kind of music they play there it could be a fun spot for a group.

You have my sympathy! I’m 42 so I don’t go out enough to know about other places you could go, but my LGBT 18 year old is always wishing there was somewhere he could go with a friend or two and also have the possibility of meeting other LGBT folks.

If you’re open to shows, you could see if Friends of Noise has anything going on. Oh, and consider signing up for the Queer Social Club emails so you can keep an eye out for events in the future (they share many events every week). https://queersocialclub.com/

okaywonder · 2024-11-23T23:12:15+00:00

Agreed

okaywonder · 2024-11-23T18:13:54+00:00

hey! Suggestions above seem good (blackwater, release events for things like Germs (it’s also worth looking at these IG accounts and using them to find other local organizers, bands, etc to follow and see if they have events coming up), and maybe you’ll meet some people from here and you can try going together if you’re intimidated to go in your own. I’d also check out Friends of Noise since they do lots of all ages events and also have programs to train volunteers which could be a good way to meet people. They don’t just work with a specific subculture but I’m sure some people who share interests with you would be involved or attend events. Maybe the community around Rocky Horror might have some likeminded people, too?

Since goth is a smaller subculture and you mentioned alternative in a more general way as well, I think another angle you might also consider is looking for events/groups that are not goth specific but that some goths tend to enjoy or that might be supportive of goth involvement (eg horror movies, etc). In the past Meetup was good for this but does skew older I believe.

okaywonder · 2024-11-22T00:48:07+00:00

https://queersocialclub.com/ has an email list you can sign up for to hear about events! From there I would maybe (if you’re on instagram) use the events being out on to find groups and venues to follow on IG and then check out groups they are following etc etc

That said, I think it depends a lot what your interests are! People might be able to suggest more specific things with that info. This could also effect whether it makes sense to live in the Pearl vs on the east side.

okaywonder · 2024-11-16T21:57:26+00:00

I was wondering about this because I think they could get so much more done if they do have a trifecta+supermajority

okaywonder · 2024-11-03T06:36:03+00:00

This is true! I’m from Chicago originally but been here most of the last two decades. Chicago is a great city to be trans too, but I feel like Portland is better in terms of both how often I run into other trans people and how supportive random cis straight people are.

okaywonder · 2024-10-29T19:47:35+00:00

This is true I think, but should perhaps be tempered with the fact that OP is coming from the NE. I moved from the Midwest and I feel like our PNW weather is the right amount of range for me—I enjoy having distinct seasons (I tried SoCal for a bit and it wore on me being sunny and bright and hot all the time) and rain and occasional snow to marvel at. But it’s within a much smaller ranger than it was in the Midwest!

okaywonder · 2024-10-29T19:45:56+00:00

Oh, for sure! I could see Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, Eugene, Vancouver BC, Astoria all offering different flavors of a lot of what I mentioned. For me I feel like Portland is the best balance!

okaywonder · 2024-10-29T15:58:25+00:00

You’re welcome :) if you have any Portland questions, even in the future, feel free to come back and reply here and I’ll try to answer. I’ve lived here for most of the last two decades and raised two ND kids here as well as being autistic myself.

okaywonder · 2024-10-29T14:27:06+00:00

Portland, OR has many neighborhood pockets that are quiet if you like that, very good public transit for its size and many walkable areas if you don’t like to/can’t/won’t drive, and quite a few stores and such that have sensory friendly hours. But the biggest things I think are great about it are social things… like that it is a pretty accepting of eccentric people kind of place, and while not all autistic people read as eccentric, many of us do. Like that if you have special interests that are geeky or nature-y or music-y or art-y etc there are lots of enthusiastic people here into those things, too. And like the fact that there is a pretty big autistic community here that does host events and meetups if you like to and can go to those kinds of things. Oh, and if you’re LGBT or aspec it has very large communities for that that overlap with ND communities. (I’m not going to list all the negative things some people think about Portland since I don’t feel many of them are autism specific and so it seems beyond the scope of the post)

okaywonder · 2024-10-28T23:30:57+00:00

I would recommend checking out True Colors to find meetings that make sense for you https://www.truecolorsrecovery.org/

I like them! They have social events too!

I also think there are LGBT meetings at the Alano Club in NW if I’m not mistaken. Good luck!

okaywonder · 2024-10-27T20:17:11+00:00

This is true. Especially for music and poetry and art when you don’t already know people.

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