Per Just Out December 17, 2004, page 35 “NEW QUEER EVE” There will be Wall to Wall Women at the annual bash, where you can eat, drink and be merry from 7p.m. until! 4 a.m. Take your lady by the hand and sing her a karaoke song, swing her around the dancefloor, escort her by the snack table, toast her with champagne at midnight and feed her treats at the 2 a.m. continental breakfast. At least through New Year’s Day! Advance tickets are a mere $8 from the club or www.the egyptianclub.com. Admission is $10 at the door, 3701 SE Division ST. 

The Egyptian Club was a lesbian bar located at the intersection of Southeast 37th Avenue and Division Street in Portland's Richmond neighborhood.[2] It had a "labyrinthine three-bars-within-a-bar" layout and featured a medium-sized dance floor, pool tables, and video poker.[4][5] Lonely Planet called the Egyptian Club "Portland's main lesbian hangout, where guys are (barely) tolerated and girls are (most) butch dykes. It's hardly fancy, heavy on the hip-hop and full of chain-smokers, with karaoke and pool tables to distract."[6] NewNowNext described the Egyptian Club as a "staple lesbian bar with three rooms: a front lounge perfect for mingling, the other a game room for settling those brawls, and, the last but not least, a dance bar for special events and poker!"[7]

Before Kim Davis purchased the club in 1995 and converted the business into a "dance club for women", the Egyptian Club had operated as a strip club.[2] According to Davis, upon its opening "people threw eggs at the building and assaulted the women bouncers outside the door".[8] In 2001, she purchased the 8,000-square-foot building which housed the club.

In 2009, GayCities.com named the Egyptian Club the best lesbian bar in the U.S.

The announcement that follows offers a compelling, heart-felt explanation by bar owner Kim Davis about the devastation brought by the sour economy and its affect on one business:

“The economy has taken its toll on our community and on our bar. It Is with a heavy heart that we must announce the limited future of the Egyptian Club. Without a miracle, we will be having our closing party on Oct. 9, 2010,” the website says.

“Reason? We have always struggled to keep our doors open. Keeping an establishment of this type and size open requires an incredible amount of business just to pay the bills. It does not appear as if our community is able to support our efforts at this time, and we are not able to float until this is able to happen.

Closure and re-opening as Weird Bar

The Egyptian Club operated for fifteen years as Portland's only bar targeted specifically to lesbians, until it began having financial troubles in 2010 however, Weird Bar closed one year later. (SOURCE)