Win Tickets ($38): World Forestry Center and McMenamins Present Forest Pub: Drag as a Doorway to the Forest @ Mission Theater | An Evening of Drag, Dialogue, and Connection with Nature
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Forest Pub: Drag as a Doorway to the Forest on July 13. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed July 6.
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Forest Pub: Drag as a Doorway to the Forest
July 13, 2026
7-8:30PM | $10-19.25 | Adult
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Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR
Kick off Pride Week with a Forest Pub that invites fresh voices and new ways of connecting to our forests, featuring Efemmera Gendera and Thespis D. Light of Drag Me Outside. Drag Me Outside, a Portland-based group founded by drag queen Efemmera Gendera and drag king Thespis D. Light, reimagines how we engage with the natural world. By blending drag performance with their nature-focused backgrounds, they open unexpected and inclusive pathways into environmental learning, creating space for curiosity, connection, and belonging.
This month’s Forest Pub celebrates Pride month and is all about expanding who feels welcome in conversations about forests, and how those conversations begin. Through performance, storytelling, and lived experience, Efemmera and Thespis invite us to see forests differently: as places of expression, community, and possibility.
Join us for an evening of drag, dialogue, and connection, and explore how new perspectives can deepen our relationship with the natural world.
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We’d love to go to this! We just attended their reptile lecture at Hisss and it was fabulous 🐍
Oh I need to do a forest pub walk for my passport!!
I love a campy canopy!
Count me intrigued! Would love to check this out.
Sounds like a great event
I’m down, let’s do it.
i would love to win these tickets because i love watching local drag artists perform especially since it’s the day before my birthday!
I love drag and I love nature. This would be really neat to see the two combined in a creative and educational way.
This sounds fun!
Thanks for a chance to win! Just met Efemmera at the Camas Pride nature walk (along with Ridya Nonsense (sp?)) and would love to learn more about Drag Me Outside.
I love creative events that connect folks to the natural world — this sounds like an amazing offering, and I’d love to check it out!
I’d love to win 2-3 🫣 for my family! Took my queer old ish man partner to his first pride last year not knowing it was his first. The parade accidentally ended a block early and being crowded didn’t get to see much.
This year I’ve been unemployed (looking! Hit me up!) and super tight budget so had to cancel our other annual tradition. This would help us have a good time and feel included in celebrating.
Happy Pride!!!
I’d love to go! I’ve not heard of this kind of nature and drag combo and would love to support.
I would love to go to this. I love drag and this sounds fun and interesting.
My wife and I will be in town that night all the way from the northeast corner of the state, Wallowa County. Would love to be part of this 🌈❤️🌈
You had me at Drag and the Forest!!
this would be so fun!
Wow, how cool. Let’s goooooo
Sounds amazing. Love nature, learning and drag. Need more of all in my life
What a wonderful blend of PNW culture. I’d love to win and take a friend! Thank you. 🙂
Would love tickets to this!