Cited in JD Chandler’s book  Hidden History of Portland on page 167 which cites On the Main Stem, some of the Punks who arrived in town remained as sex workers. Places like the Monte Carlo Poolroom and the Fairmont Hotel on Northwest Sixth between Burnside and Couch became notorious for male prostitutes; some of them even dressed as women, becoming the first visible transgender community in Portland.  Per his book, he cites The Main Stem was the street in a city where the migratory community gathered. In the northwest, where most of the jobs were in logging, this street was often the Skid Road, where logs were skidded to the lumber mill…In Portland, the Skid Road was Burnside Street, but it hadn’t seen a lot of logging since the Stumptown days of the 1850s. On pages 170 and 171 he continued his story, A few months after the Vice Clique Scandal (1912), another arrest exposed the working-class homosexual community…Acting police chief Enouch Slover saw an opportunity when he received a tip that “Greeks” were engaging in illicit sex at the Monte Carlo Poolroom in the North End. Detectives Craddock and Goltz staked out the poolroom and hauled in five young men who confessed to prostitution and implicated several men as their clients. This was considered the “Greek Scandal”.

Page 13 of the June 1972 issue of The Fountain, PARRISH – An Interview with a Transexual [cannot copy as it is too light though ends with] “I went to the interview expecting to meet a man, almost pathologically bound to a stereo-typed feminine role.) Such was the case in my only other contact with transexuals.) I found a happy human being, committed to women’s lib and gay lib alike, but most important of all, to her own liberation. Right on, sister-and thanks.” Steve Fulmer

Nestor Perala in August 21, 1999 wrote a paper entitled, SEX HYSTERIA IN PORTLAND - 1965 VERY INTERESTING

In the July 1972 Fountain issue, there was an article about Some New Gay Books:

Behold, I am a woman Diane as told by Felicity Cochran, Pyramid Books, NY< 1971. Autobiography of a Canadian male-to-female transexual

Man into Woman, Dawn Langley Simmons; Macfadden-Bartel, NY 1971. A Transexual Autobiography Paperback

The Oregon Journal ran an article in September 1972 about Stephani, ‘Portlander Asks for Sex Change Surgery.”