Venue: Stag PDX
Town: Portland, US

Stag PDX, or simply Stag, is a gay-owned nightclub and strip club in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, in the United States. The club opened in May 2015 as the second all-nude gay strip club on the West Coast. The gay-owned bar at 317 Broadway in northwest Portland's Pearl District has been described as "more gentlemen's club than night club" and "Northwest lounge-meets-library-meets-executive locker room". Willamette Week said the original Christopher David-designed club looked "like the private rooms where today's grandpas once held stag parties, with brown leather couches, Victorian wallpapered sitting rooms, Edison bulbs hanging from nautical rope, and dark, aqua walls covered in snowshoes and ancient oars and framed kitsch-plus a taxidermal white buck behind the bar." Vendors used to design the interior were "part of the community", according to the original owner Jerrick Hope-Lang, who said, "They wanted to have a very masculine, Pacific Northwest feel - a gentleman's club-meets-hunting lodge-meets-hot boys dancing in thongs." Stag is the second all-nude gay strip club on the West Coast, after Silverado, which is located in downtown Portland. Unlike Silverado, which has a policy against bachelorette parties since 2012, Stag welcomes heterosexual patrons and bachelorette parties without "gaudy" accessories, in order to avoid distracting dancers and guests. Stag has hosted drag performances, including weekly drag-hosted brunches called "Testify". Hope-Lang and his business partner opened the club on May 1, 2015, in a building completed in 1912. He said of the club's origins: "I love the idea of other gay male clubs, but I didn't like the atmosphere. I wanted to create a space where I would like to hang out, a true gentleman's club. I talked with a couple of dancers from another establishment and the idea came about very organically." In 2017, Kim Chi hosted the second annual, three-day beach party as part of the club's pride celebrations. In his 2019 "overview