Allies welcomed & encouraged 🖤🏳️‍⚧️🖤

Masked event open to the public, gays & ghouls who are 18+ & over are welcome!

Click HERE for tickets!

Click HERE to sign up for Volunteer Shifts!

Vibrance

vī-brən(t)s - noun

1. the state of being full of energy and life
2. striking brightness of color
3. strength and resonance of sound

Vibrance: Trans Day of Visibility Banger!

Join Lady V in a day long banger celebrating the vibrant visibility of our trans siblings at this Fundraiser for The Marie Equi Center, & Sex Positive World’s Rising STARS Fund!

Doors open at 12 PM with programming throughout the day until 6 PM.

Enjoy live performances in the Bloom room, the chill art space, facilitated platonic touch-positive space, on-site harm reduction supplies, drag, & MORE!!!

Featuring a Day of:

1. Art spaces & supplies!
2. Drag Bingo by Dykes on Bikes PDX
3. Vegan Meals provided by Meals4Heels
4. NW Gender Alliance’s Archives & Archival Service (more info below)
5. Social Mediation & Co-Regulation by Inventive Wellness
6. Spicy prizes & Silent auctions by SheBop, Adam & Eve PDX, Nerdy Keppie, Oregon Sex Work Committee (OWSC), Bi Brigade, Brick House, Iridescent Daydream, Northwest Gender Alliance (NWGA), & Trans Relocation Project!
7. On-site Electrolysis

Services Include:

1. Name & Gender Marker & Systems Navigation Support
2. On-Site STI Testing & Insurance Navigation by Cascadia AIDS Project
3. Peer support & Certified Recovery Mentor support
4. Queer AF Haircuts
5. Booths for various resources & outreach from local organizations

Performances by:

1. Drag & Burlesque by: Bambi Beatzit, Karla Marx, Miss Gender, Marquis de sade, Hans Oliver
2. Sir Tobin, Ryval Theology, Will Dyker, Luciano Verinotti, Charlotte, Carlee J. Phoenix
3. Standup Comedy by: Nicole Spann & Ally J. Ward
4. Stories of Hope by: Lady V, Novice Sister Starra Bethlehymen, Iden, & the Trans Relocation Project
5. More performances by: ElectraShock, Mx. Bliss, & Azaela Jane
6. Electrolysis Demos by Alice of the Northwest Gender Alliance

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!!!

Proceeds from raffles will benefit The Equi Center's services & Sex Positive World's Rising STARS Fund. Both organizations are 501(c)3 non-profits & donations & tax write off deductible.

Accessibility Information:

The Marie Equi Center is committed to ensuring an accessible & inclusive space for all visitors & is:

1. ADA compliant, including high-weight limit seating (including armless chairs) & accessible pathways for mobility devices.
2. Includes neurodivergent friendly & lower-stim spaces
3. Equipped with 4 ADA-accessible & gender-neutral restrooms.
4. Located near public transportation: The #17 bus stops a half-block from our entrance, & the Yellow Line MAX (17th & Holgate) is .4 miles away.
5. Limited on-site parking is available on the north side of the building, including one ADA-designated parking space.
6. A mask-required space to protect our immunocompromised community members. Masks available if needed.
7. Several HEPA Filter machines on loan from Portland Clean Air Committee (PCAC)

Share Your History & Explore Others with NWGA’s Archives! 🖤🏳️‍⚧️🖤

Join NW Gender Alliance in Celebrating 45 Years of Visibility and Resilience!

This year, the NW Gender Alliance (NWGA) proudly celebrates our 45th anniversary—a testament to our enduring presence and advocacy. In a time when transgender rights face relentless challenges and our community is threatened with erasure, we believe it is more important than ever to stand tall, be seen, and make our voices heard.

For Transgender Day of Visibility, we invite you to explore the NWGA archives, a rich collection documenting decades of our history and achievements. We also ask for your help in preserving this legacy—bring your photos, flyers, posters, and memorabilia to share. We'll digitize these pieces to create a comprehensive, lasting record of our collective journey.

Together, let’s honor our past, celebrate our present, and ensure our stories live on for generations to come!

Learn more about the NWGA HERE!

How does The Marie Equi Center serve you?

The Marie Equi Center strongly believes in your right to accessible and informed health care. The Marie Equi Center build our programs around the philosophy and practical application of the theories of cultural and gender affirming health care, Health at Every Size, Racial Justice, Economic Equality, and Non-Violent Communication, with a focus on community advocacy, education, and positive sociocultural change.

Through our Community Health & Recovery Programs, our team of Community Health Workers and Certified Recovery Mentors work one on one with unhoused and insecurely housed LGBTQAI2S+, BIPOC, and disabled folks providing culturally specific peer support, services and systems navigation, harm reduction, and wound care. We provide this care through a person-centered and holistic lens. Through our advocacy work, we aim to uplift and spotlight the lived experiences of LGBTQAI2S+ folks in a way that creates tangible systems change.

Founded in 2014 by Dr. Angela Carter & Katie Cox, The Marie Equi Center (formerly the Equi Institute) was established with a mission to empower & improve the health of LGBTQIA2S+ folks in the Pacific Northwest. Following the legacy of our namesake Dr. Marie Equi, The Marie Equi Center found our voice as a bold, radical, and unapologetically queer advocate for the communities we serve.

Click HERE to learn more about The Marie Equi Center!

How does Sex Positive World serve you?

Sex Positive World is an umbrella organization that encourages and supports worldwide sex-positive communities. We are an entirely volunteer-run non-profit committed to changing societal ideas and values around sexuality through education and empowerment.

Our umbrella covers all aspects of human sexuality, including gender and orientation (LGBTQIA2S+), relationship styles (monogamy-polyamory), and sexual expressions (kink, tantra, lifestyle). We focus on consent and boundaries, how to have a sexy safer sex talk, body-positivity, healthy touch, sexual health, reproductive freedom, trans rights, anti-racism (yes, this is a sex-positive issue!), sex-positive parenting, and more.

This organization was founded in 2009 as a single chapter in Portland, Oregon, and we have since expanded to more than 5,000 members and 10 chapters in cities across the US and Europe.

You can learn more about Sex Positive World HERE!

What is the Rising STARS fund?

Sex Positive World is making anti-racism and intersectionality a priority and part of that is by supporting more voices within our community who may not have the resources to volunteer their time or energy to the sex positive movement, but who have valuable knowledge and ideas to contribute.

This fund was collaboratively created by Dr. Evelin Dacker and Sex Positive World to financially support leadership within Sex-Positive World that identify as Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC); or transgender, gender-variant, or intersex (TGI - this includes anyone who doesn't identify as cisgender).

This can be for anything from facilitating core classes, developing curriculum for SPW or SP chapters, or gaining sexy leadership skills at conferences or trainings.

Click HERE to learn more about the Rising STARS fund!