Is Portland Really Like Portlandia?
23.05.12
(Sample song: The Boy I Fell in Love With is a Girl), a feminist cheerleading squad and even the Feminist Queer Science Fiction Book Group.
Jesse DeBey, a tattooed and almost shaven-headed lesbian volunteer, sat on a sofa at In Other Words as she sipped from a glass jar of lemon ginger tea and laughed. “It is just too Portland,” she said.
But In Other Words is not unusual for Portland, a city of 580,000 in America’s north west. While more conservative communities might blanche at public sex-toy making, in Portland it is a colourful part of life. The city is now the unofficial world capital of a hyper-liberal, artsy and environmentally conscious hipster lifestyle. It is one obsessed with everything organic and locally made. Bikes, trams and buses rule the roads, not cars. Its denizens are heavily tattooed, excessively pierced, and obsessed with local bands. They shop in co-ops and hate corporations.
So famous has Portland become as a bastion of everything
Source: PSFK