Club Portland

Club Portland was a gay bathhouse in Portland, Oregon, United States. Located at Southwest 12th Avenue, the club was established by Richard Lawson in 1987. It operated 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year. Before closing on June 17, 2007, Club Portland was believed the be the largest bathhouse on the West Coast of the United States and was regarded as a "Stark Street icon of sorts". According to Willamette Week, the club was "often blamed by public health officials and other community leaders as partly responsible for new waves of HIV and STD infections, though those accusations were near-impossible to prove". Bette Midler may have performed there in the 1980s during her "bathhouse performance tour, to a sold-out, towel-clad crowd".