Silverado, Portland's only gay strip club, after the closure of
Three Sisters Tavern in 2004 and prior to
Stag PDX's opening in 2015, has existed for nearly 30 years. Formerly called Flossie's, it was originally located below a
gay bathhouse in what is now the
Crystal Hotel. This was in the area of
downtown Portland known as
Burnside Triangle, or "Gay Triangle", for its many gay and gay-friendly businesses. The club relocated to 318 Southwest 3rd Avenue, in January 2008. In March 2018, Silverado confirmed the business would leave its location at 3rd Avenue on March 31, after ten years. The bar relocated to 610 Northwest Couch Street, in the
Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, in December 2018. In his 2019 "overview of Portland's LGBTQ+ nightlife for the newcomer", Andrew Jankowski of the
Portland Mercury wrote: "The Pacific Northwest's longest-operating male strip club moved last winter, setting up shop next to the Star Theater in a former sports bar. It doesn't look like much on the surface, because the real party is in the basement. There aren't as many poles as the previous location, but there's no shortage of sexy male dancers." ==Policies==