A group of friends cool off at the Portland Pride Waterfront Festival. Photo: Joseph Gallivan/Axios
Portland Pride Festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park was a two-day affair that started Saturday, when this picture was taken. A group of Portland women were cooling off, drinking slushies by the Battleship Oregon Memorial.
Executive director Debra Porta said they anticipated 70,000 attendees.
Drag queens strolled around taking selfies with children, medical companies handed out swag at their booths, and friend groups shopped for clothes and watched lip-synch acts onstage.
This was a place where someone could weave through the crowd, between nuclear families and furries, showing off their gender-affirming top surgery without threat or contention.
