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The Un mentionables proliferated. Their lairs numbered eight, maybe even Clubs and bars did a quiet business. Rainbow flags fly everywhere. Almost, bar given certain ideologies prominent in national politics, not quite. Customers asked at the counter. In the years after World War II, a small crescent of pdx spaces evolved along our rainy streets.

The Harbor Club stood out: prominent and, perhaps, notorious. The navy once declared it off-limits to sailors ashore. Anything in the world went on in there. The bars, as now, needed licenses from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Kennedy testified against him. Most riotously, 1 a. From then on, all activities, such as males openly kissing each other, fondling each other, with no attempt to cover these activities.

After a senate of hearings in November and December, the city moved to shut down six bars, pressuring the OLCC to revoke their licenses. Damis and other attorneys pressed their arguments to the liquor commission. The denouement, then, was classically Portlandian: no billy clubs, no bold riots in the streets, just two rival bureaucracies and a well-framed legal argument.

Schrunk sputtered. He wrote the governor, who ignored him. The only casualty, in the end, gay the Harbor Club. When the city pulled its food license, the waterfront redoubt shuttered. Lesbian bar. Drag bar. No one cared. By then, it was pretty open.

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But quick or slow, it got better. Inthe city formally recognized a gay pride day. We can go everywhere. Top Image: T he Harbor Club—off-limits to sailors, and at the center of the gay bars brouhaha photograph courtesy the Oregonian.