The City Nightclub : a community of queer youth in Portland, Oregon, 1977-1997

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The City Nightclub: A Community of Queer Youth in Portland, Oregon, 1977-1997 presents documents about an all-ages gay nightclub. The exhibit's twenty-six documents include videos from inside the c...

The City Nightclub: A Community of Queer Youth in Portland, Oregon, 1977-1997 presents documents about an all-ages gay nightclub. The exhibit's twenty-six documents include videos from inside the club, newspaper coverage about the venue, and a number of sources that document attempts to close down the nightclub. The club's history offers a vivid example of how different modes of state power seek to manage and control youth sexuality through familial frameworks and the criminalization of queer desire. This history also reveals that the club was not merely a safe haven for Portland's queer (and often homeless) youth, but a battle zone for the City of Portland and the club's proprietor, who was a fierce critic of state policing.

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